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Little Toy Bikers and a Woman on the Run
Chapter 189 Tristen
Author's Note: I wanted to do a sort of wrap up of Tristen's storyline. While she wasn't sexually assaulted, that event changed her life.
I posted this earlier and realized I had made a major mistake when I wrote the section about Jax's son. The timing was wrong. I don't know why-no I know why-my brain is fried-I didn't catch this earlier. I deleted the chapter and this is the repost. It's all fixed. That's the beauty about writing; you just delete or rewrite something. No one dies or gets hurt. SORRY.
Tristen thought of the carnival with happy memories. The bad clown had tried to steal her Frozen clothes, but then the Angel, as her father taught her to think of Scarlett, sent an army to save her.
Jax pulled the bad man off her and another younger guy helped her up and said he was guarding her. They walked a short distance away. He hadn't wanted her to see the fighting so he had her stand with her back turned, but she'd gotten a couple of peeks. He told her funny jokes.
When Jax took her to her father, he gave her a ride on his shoulders. It was the first time she'd ever gotten to do that. That had been more fun than any carnival ride. He made car sounds and they played a game. He would say a letter, she would sing the alphabet song starting with that letter and then she would say a letter and Jax would sing the song. That had been a fun game. Jax was really good at the alphabet song.
She didn't understand why her father had tears in his eyes when he saw her. He couldn't have been that upset about her clothes getting torn.
It wasn't until she was older and learned about sex that the truth about the carnival hit her. That was when her carnival memories went from happy to frightening because she understood what the clown was really trying to do to her.
He wasn't trying to take her Frozen clothes because he wanted them. He wanted her naked before he had sex with her. He wasn't just going to rape her. He and his friends were going to take turns with her.
When she thought about that day when she was older, she was always struck by how many things had to happen at just the right time or she would have been raped and probably killed. At the time, she accepted her father telling her to say an angel helped her and not use Scarlett's name. Her father explained to her when she was older that he had done this to protect Scarlett.
It always came back to Scarlett. She was the key. If she hadn't met her earlier, Scarlett might not have realized that the clown was kidnapping her. David Hale was nearby and she went to him instead of trying to find her father. They saw the other men walk into the woods. If they hadn't seen that, David Hale wouldn't have instructed her to ask Jax and SAMCRO for help. If Jax and SAMCRO hadn't come to her rescue, she and David Hale might have both been killed.
Jax had tried to minimize the bad experience by giving her a good memory—the ride on his shoulders and the alphabet game—to replace the one with the clown on top of her tearing at her clothes. He had treated her with such care and gentleness.
More time would pass before she realized that she owed a lot to David Hale. He had been a true hero because he risked his life to delay the men from raping her. He could have waited for SAMCRO before entering the woods. When she was sixteen and got her driver's license she had driven to Charming PD and thanked him. It had been something she wanted to do for a long time, but it wasn't easy to talk about that day once she realized what the men were really going to do to her.
That became another turning point in her life because she met his son, Dan when she was at the police department. He had just moved to Charming after the death of his mother. She had been a college girlfriend of David's who got pregnant and didn't tell him. She wanted to raise the baby on her own and didn't want to have to go through visitation schedules, co-parenting and court fights.
Six months after first complaining to her doctor about bad headaches, she was dead from an inoperable brain tumor. A month before her death, she had contacted David to reveal they had a fifteen year old son and she wanted him to raise him after her death.
There's a misconception about living in a small town that everyone knows everyone. Everyone typically knows something about that person, but may have never met the person. She didn't meet Jared until a few months after meeting Dan.
She knew all about Jared, but she didn't meet him until her junior year in high school. He'd been dropped off at the clubhouse one day when he was ten. There was a letter that explained that his mother was tired of motherhood and a boy should be raised by his father. She claimed the father was a member of SAMCRO. She listed all the guys who might be the father. Fifteen paternity tests later and Jax Teller was named the father.
Tristen was torn between Dan and Jared. She always felt that it had something to do with what happened to her at the carnival and her feelings for the two men that had saved her that day. It seemed natural that she would have feelings for their sons. The lawman's son or the outlaw's son. Which one?
It had felt like an impossible choice, so when she went to college, she left town. She made a choice by picking neither.
Ten years later, she returned to Charming to live because she knew who she wanted to spend the rest of her life.
Getting him back wouldn't be easy, but she had a belief that her fate was with him. He was her destiny.
Upcoming Chapters: A balance of power shift, relationship games and Scarlett will suffer the biggest humiliation and embarrassment of her life. Of course, you know who was there when it happened.