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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 188 Mayhem
Jax checked in with each member of SAMCRO to make sure that everything was OK. The clown and carnival workers remained on the ground, moaning in pain and bleeding.
"Prospect," Jax called out. "Come here."
Jax scowled at him before smiling. He always liked to mess with the prospects.
"Good job with the girl. For your reward, go punch the clown a couple of times."
"Thanks," he said eagerly. He rushed off to follow orders.
The men could hear the sound of fists hitting a body and groaning from the clown. Half-Sack enjoyed himself, the clown not so much.
Jax could still feel the rush of adrenalin and the thrill from the battle. This was going to go down as one of the best days ever for SAMCRO. He took a certain relish that it had all happened without Clay and he had been the one leading the MC.
Jax called Clay, but he was prevented from joining SAMCRO in the woods by the newly arriving sheriff's deputies. They were setting up a perimeter.
Once the deputies took charge of the clown and carnival workers, Jax gathered the MC together. He explained the story they were going to tell about why they were in the woods. He emphasized that no one's name was to ever be mentioned to anyone. They all nodded that they understood.
The men were stunned by everything that had gone on while they were in the woods. Rumors about something happening in the woods had drawn most of the carnival goers. Not much happened in Charming, so this was a big deal. Something exciting might have happened in their boring little town. Rumors varied wildly from satanic rituals in the woods to a Big Foot sighting.
As they walked out together, the carnival attendees bombarded the men of SAMCRO with questions. Jax decided it would be better to get the story out now when he could control the narrative. He held his hands up to quiet the people. Tig whistled loudly. The crowd became silent.
"We were enjoying a day at the carnival when a friend of the club told me a child, a local child, had been taken into the woods by a clown and some carnival workers. We thought we better check it out," Jax paused to think through how he was going to phrase this next part. "We got to the child just in time to prevent a sexual assault. After some fighting, we were able to subdue the men. The child has been reunited with a parent. We also discovered Acting Police Chief David Hale had entered the woods after hearing a similar rumor."
There was a brief moment when everyone thought about the information Jax had given them. The crowd erupted in cheers. It was official. They were heroes.
Jax got a brief look at Clay's face before he was swallowed up by the crowd congratulating him. It was a mix of envy and pride. The MC could always use good press even when it was a result of his stepson's efforts.
A few minutes later, paramedics brought out the clown on a gurney. The deputies tried to push the crowd back so the paramedics had room to walk. The crowd didn't like it and they didn't like the clown who had tried to rape a child.
No one was sure whether it started by a deputy pushing a Charming resident out of the paramedics' way or if a deputy shoved a resident who wanted to hit the clown, but it dissolved into mayhem and anarchy.