Chapter 15

"Darby..."

Nicole felt her heart race as she stood before the man that ruined her life. Yes she had gone to Darby to end her life but what he did to her was worse and now he was here, right in front of her, in a place that was her home.

Darby sighed. This was what he wanted to avoid.

He had always hated the girl in front him. She had destroyed his life when she had murdered his son, her actions had sparked the war between Nords and Samcro. Darby had wanted to kill her so many times, He had the chance once but it was to easy, instead he had wanted her to feel the same pain he had felt.

Darby was trying to get on the right path now so he wasn't here for her but he would be lying if those feelings were not bubbling underneath the surface right now.

"What happened here, that wasn't me. I'm out of the game." Darby spoke taking a step towards her. The action made her step back.

Nicole cleared her throat, her mouth suddenly dry. "Then why are you here?"

"People who..." He took another step forward causing her to take a step back again but this time her back hit the bar and Nicole knew that she had nowhere else to go. She watched as Darby took another step towards her.

"NO..." She shouted raising her hand to him. "Don't you dare come any closer."

Darby shook his head. His frustration was growing. He was out, he didn't want any of this shit but yet here he was, beaten, his wife in danger and scared and now he had to deal with Nicole Teller. Darby was at the end of patience with her.

"I DIDN'T DO THIS." He shouted moving towards her not caring that she was scared because he didn't do this, her family did this and why was he having to pay the price.

Nicole was shocked by his sudden advance towards and with nowhere to go Nicole was stuck and before she could do anything Darby was in front of her his hands coming to rest on either side of her trapping her even more. Nicole could feel his hot breath on her face. Her heart quickened

"I don't want to be here..."

"THEN LEAVE..." Nicole shouted. She went to push him away but Darby was quicker and caught her wrists. The anger between them almost exploding.

"Your family dragged..."

"HEY."

Darby and Nicole both looked in the direction of the new voice it was. Nicole recognised one of the men as Packer from Samdino, the other one looking at the badge was the VP.

Darby let her go and pushed himself away from Nicole knowing what the Sons were like when it came to the girl in front of him. So Darby went to leave but as he turned around he saw his wife standing there with a shocked expression and Darby knew that she must have witnessed him lose his temper. He bowed his head and walked over to her.

Nicole tried to compose herself but as she watched Darby walk away she noticed a woman she didn't know, but she became more confused as she watched Darby stand next to her his hand reaching for hers. She was shocked. Darby was dipping into brown, something she never thought she would see. But the biggest concern for Nicole was the look in the woman's eyes.

But Nicole's eyes along with everyone else's were drawn back to the door where Rat came rushing in, his eyes took in the scene before and Nicole saw him curse to himself.

Rat had fucked up, Nicole wasn't suppose to see him but she had been sleeping so Rat thought he could get Darby in while she was asleep and then he would wake her and slip her out without them seeing one another but his plan clearly hadn't worked.

Rat rushed over to Nicole "You ok?" Rat could see her shaking

"Why is he here?" Nicole asked making no attempts to make her voice quiet.

"Club needed his help..."

"We don't need his type of help." Nicole looked over Rats shoulder to Darby. "I know what his kind of help looks like, don't I Darby?"

"Ernesto what is she talking about?"

"Nothing sweetheart." Darby tried to usher his wife back down the hall but Nicole had other ideas.

"Nothing...NOTHING." Nicole spat pushing past Rat so that she was now standing infront of Darby. Rat quickly rushing to her side. "Are you with him?" Nicole looked at the woman.

"He's...He's my husband." She muttered.

"Do you know who he was, who he is, what he did to me?"

"SHUT UP." Darby hissed stepping up to Nicole.

"He tell you how he pumped me full of drugs...beat..."

"ENOUGH" Darby roared he went to make a move for Nicole but this time Rat blocked Darby from getting to her.

Darby looked around, there were 3 Sons all giving him the death stare, Nicole was angered. But as he looked to the side at his wife it was her face that reached Darby. Swallowing back his anger he looked back to Rat. "You know what we don't need this. We're leaving."

Rat watched as Darby and his Old Lady started to walk back down the hallway. Rat was confused, as he looked over his shoulder he could see Nicole shaking and right now he should drag Darby out of here but he knew that the club needed him and the club came first.

"Nic."

"No." Nicole shook her head. "I'm not staying here." Nicole turned on her heels grabbed her bag off the bar and headed for the door but was blocked by Packer. Nicole knew that he was the President of Samdino and that earned him a lot of respect but this was her home too and Darby had hurt her. She looked over her shoulder at Rat. She could tell that he was feeling torn but he gave a nod and Nicole looked back and Packer he moved out of her way.

And with that Nicole was gone.

"Shit." Rat muttered under his breath running a hand over his face.

Jax stood outside the warehouse leaning against his bike as he look out to the woods trying to contemplate what had happened here. Phil and V-Lin were dead, mutilated and it was all because of him. He kept trying to do the right thing but shit just kept turning upside down.

"All the guns are gone except for the KG-9s." Chibs spoke as Chibs spoke as he walked to sit on his on bike in front of Jax. "Both cases." Jax shook his head

"Call Belfast, lock it all down, UK charters too."

"Juice and Hap are putting them in the big crates." Jax nodded towards Tig who had now joined them. The words hit him. They had all just lost two brothers. "You think you could find Gerber's place again?"

"Yeah sure." Tig answered.

"Why?"

"We're gonna finish our Nazi hunt." Jax spoke as he started to pull on his gloves.

"I think this club needs a breather." Chibs spoke causing Jax to look at him. Jax could feel the anger, upset but it didn't match his.

"We've got two crates filled with hacked up members. What this club needs is to settle a score. Why don't you take a vote. I proxy Phil he says Yay."

Everyone returned to the clubhouse but the weight on them was heavy. Happy parked the van in the available bay. Today was hard for all his brothers but he knew that it was also hard for his girl.

He checked the lot, her truck was gone which was a good sign it meant Rat had got her out he just hoped it was before she saw Darby.

As he joined the rest of his brothers at the picnic bench. He just heard Jax telling Packer about Phil and V-Lin.

"Im sorry brother. If you need anything,"

"Put a call in ta Tacoma, there going head down." Chibs spoke from beside Jax.

"We could use you today. Need to tie up our Nazi problem."

"Course, but uh think you may have a Nazi problem a bit closer to home."

"What did he do?" Happy rasped before Jax could respond.

"When I went into the bar he had hold of your girl, both of them shouting." Jax looked over to Hap and could see the anger on his face, but before he let that anger boil over Jax stepped forward towards Packer.

"Where is she?"

"She left."

"And Darby?" Packer looked between Jax and Happy. He knew that Jax needed Darby but Nicole from what he had heard was Happy's old lady and he had a right on how he wanted to handle this.

"Inside."

Happy stormed through the clubhouse doors. Jax spared a look to Packer before he , Chibs and Tig followed Happy inside

Darby followed behind his wife. Darby was done, he had changed his life and he didn't need Samcro or fucking Nicole Teller ruining it.

As they walked into the bar his wife stopped when the door swung open. Darby instantly recognised the man. He pulled his wife back and whispered into her ear. When she was out of the way Happy lunged.

Everything happened so fast. Tables and chairs hit the floor. There were screams and Happy heard and felt his brothers trying to call him off and pull him from Darby, but Happy was to enraged. He threw punch after punch and even when Darby got the upper hand it didn't stop Happy.

With every hit even when it wasn't his own Happy felt a release .

Jax watched the fight unravel before him. He froze for a moment before he kicked back into gear. "Get her out of here." Jax demanded to Rat who had been in the bar waiting for Darby, as he pointed to Darby's wife who was screaming out his name trying to get involved.

Then Jax nodded to Chibs and Tig. They had already tried to pull Happy off but it hadn't worked so they tried again this time Jax getting involved and grabbing Darby.

Finally pulling the two apart, Jax pinned Darby pinned to the wall. Looking over his shoulder Happy was bleeding and he was breathing ragged as he continued to fight against Tig's and Chib's hold.

"Get him cleaned up." Jax ordered

When they were out of the room Jax turned back to Darby. He was breathing hard too but his face was much bloodier that Happy's. He shrugged off Jax's hold .

"I don't need this shit. I came here to help you." Darby seethed.

"Putting hands on my cousin isn't my idea of help." Jax spat stepping up into Darby's face.

"She started coming at me, blaming me for this shit, she's crazy..." That was it for Jax his patience had finally broken. He grabbed Darby buy the scruff of his now torn tshirt and slammed him back against the wall.

"YOU USED MY COUSIN, PUMPED HER FULL OF DRUGS BEFORE SELLING HER TO THE GODAMN CARTEL." Jax took a breath "You need to leave. Why you still can."

Darby, even though his was angry and pissed as he looked into Jax's eye he could see they were murderous. Darby had been waiting for this day. Once he knew that Nicole had returned to Charming and Samcro were working with the Cartel it would only be a matter of time before they put everything together and came for him. So he left the life to keep himself safe and now he had a wife he wanted to keep safe , so Darby nodded.

With one last shove Jax let go of him.

Gemma pulled her truck into TM. As she pulled up she locked eyes with Darby who was was just pulling out. She didn't miss the state of his face.

She had dropped Nero off at Diosa, he wanted to be there for the girls which Gemma understood.

Today had been chaotic. First Wayne, then Nicole, Nero and then Wendy Chase. After dropping Nero off Wendy came over and admitted that Tara knew that she had helped her, and that she was hell bent on taking her babies out of Charming. Gemma would not let that happen. Gemma would protect her family at all costs.

Stepping out of the car and closing the door behind her she walked over to her son who was having a smoke on the benches.

As Gemma approached Jax pushed himself from the bench meeting her half way. "How's Nero?"

"I've just dropped him at Diosa. This has hurt him Jackson, he would never hurt one of his girls.." On the way to Diosa, Nero was talking about maybe having to separate himself from the club, cut ties and although she understood she worried what that would mean for her son. So they needed to sort this.

"I promise Mom, I'll sort this."

"I know baby. Everything ok?" Gemma may be preoccupied with Nero but that didn't mean that she missed the sadness in her sons eyes.

"We lost Phil and V-lin today. It was the Irish."

"Shit. Jackson..."

"We're on lockdown. No guns. It's going to be long night for me."

"I can go to the hospital get Tara and the kids. I need to give Wayne a ride anyway."

"That would be good. Stay there though. I'll send someone as soon as I can to follow you all back. Can you also get stuff ready for the lock down."

"Of course I'll do whatever you need." As Jax lent in and gave her a kiss. Gemma turned her head and that was when she watched Happy storm out of the clubhouse. She noticed the cut on his face.

"What happened there?" Jax pulled away and looked in the direction that his mother was looking. He sighed and looked back at Gemma.

"Darby." Gemma frowned causing Jax to elaborate. "It's a long story."

"Nicole ok?"

"I don't know, haven't been able to get hold of her. Hap, he...he did the right thing, Darby had it coming."

"Hmm..."

"What?"

"He seem wound a little tight to you?"

"Mom it's Hap." Jax responded with a smirk for the first time but Gemma's face remained serious. "What is it?"

"You notice Nicole's been a little distant recently, acting strange?"

"When she left for Tacoma we didn't exactly leave on the best of terms. Why? You think somethin' up?" Jax asked glancing back at Happy

"I don't know but something doesn't feel right with them."

"As in?" He questioned looking back at Gemma

"Well we know her history with sons."

"Wait you think Happy is laying hands on her?" Jax shook his head. "Mom he wouldn't. I saw the anger he had for Ryan. Nicole's fine."

"She has bruises."

"Her car got slammed off the road."

"No." Gemma shook her head. Her frustration growing. "These were around her neck. Old bruises."

Jax ran a hand over his face before looking over his shoulder at Happy. The thought of Happy beating on his cousin made him sick. Not just because he knew what he was capable of but just again that he might have missed his cousin getting hurt. He looked back to his mother. Jax didn't need this right now, and he didn't need Gemma lighting a fire here.

"Look I'll speak to her." Gemma nodded. "I need Hap with me now." He looked over to Happy again, Happy wasn't laying hands on Nicole.

"Jackson..."

"I've got this mom." Jax knew he words came out sharp but he watched her nod. "We bury Phil and V-lin tonight. If you do speak to her, don't tell her about them, I'll go and talk to her, talk to her about Hap. But leave this alone." Gemma knew this was an order and although she didn't wear a cut Gemma respected her son.

"I won't." Jax nodded and kissed his mother cheek.