Chapter 8: AK-51

Bella POV

The next morning when I woke up, the events of the previous night were flashing through my mind. I sat up in bed trying to get my bearings when I realized that I was at the clubhouse. I looked beside me and saw that Ope was gone. I got up and went to take a shower and get dressed.

When I walked out into the bar room, all the guys and Gemma were standing around. "What's going on?" I asked.

The guys dispersed and Gemma walked over to me. "Lot of shit going on baby." She said. I could tell that there was something bothering Gemma. I walked around the bar, grabbed a bottle of whiskey and two shot glasses. I poured each of us a shot. I slid Gemma's to her. "It's 10 o'clock in the morning." She said.

"So what's bothering you." I said.

Gemma downed her shot. "Clay's road pussy followed him home. Then ATF showed up and took him in for questioning because of Piney's fuckup." She said.

"Dammit." I said, downing my shot.

"What're you gonna do about the road pussy showing up?" I asked her.

She shrugged. "I don't know. Gonna have to explain the rules to her I guess."

Jax POV - Garage

I couldn't believe this shit. Piney had made a stupid mistake. He set up a meet using the office phone. He claimed that he didn't know that Nate was gonna use the guns to hold up a prison transport. But now because of his mistake Clay was down at the police station being questioned by ATF. Laroy was refusing to take the guns that we had for him because of this shit. Now I had to figure out a way to get the guns out before ATF got a warrant for search and seizure.

Bella POV

Gemma had asked me to keep an eye on the office while she went to see LuAnn and clear her head. I agreed to do it because I knew that she needed it. However, she called me when she left LuAnn's to tell me that she had to run to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. I didn't think anything of it until Unser showed up. He told me that Gemma was sitting in a jail cell at Charming PD for breaking some girl's nose with a skateboard. Jax wasn't going to like this. As soon as he left, I ran across the lot to the clubhouse to find Jax. When I walked in, he was yelling at Piney, telling him to get to the cabin. "Jax!" I yelled getting everyone's attention.

"What!" He yelled.

"Gemma's been arrested for assault." I said.

"You've got to be fucking kidding me!" I knew that Jax was extremely stressed out right now. Ope pushed Piney out the clubhouse door behind me. I knew that I had to try and help somehow.

I walked over to Jax. "What can I do?" I asked him.

Jax ran a hand over his face. "I don't fucking know." He said. He walked over to the bar, grabbing the whiskey I'd had earlier and poured himself a shot, downing it.

That was when I looked up at the security monitors and saw the septic truck. Ding! "Jax." I said calmly. He looked at me and I pointed at the monitor. "What if you hide the guns in the septic truck. Pay the guy off?" I said. I looked at him.

"Bells, you're a genius. Close up and go see if you can bail my mom out." Jax said and I smiled.

When I got down to the station, Hale was the first person that I saw. "Which one are you here about?" He asked me.

"Not quite sure that I like your tone, Deputy." I said.

"With that attitude it must be Gemma." He said.

I rolled my eyes. "Well, I'm assuming that since ATF hauled Clay in here that he's not being released yet. So, yeah, I'm here about Gemma." I said.

"Come on, I'll take you to her." He said and I followed him to the back where the cells were. "You've got 5 minutes." He said leaving me alone with her.

"What the fuck happened, Gem?" I asked.

She sighed. "I was coming out of the pharmacy and I saw the road pussy, so I grabbed some kids skateboard and busted her nose." Gem said.

I sighed. "Dammit Gem. Jax doesn't need this right now. He's really stressed." I said.

"I know, I don't know what I was thinking." Gemma said.

"Yeah well, Jax sent me down here to bail you out." I said.

Gemma shook her head. "No."

I was confused. "What do you mean no?" I asked.

"Sweetheart, when you and Ope have been together as long as Clay and I have, you'll understand. I just - I just need some time to myself." She told me. I guess I could understand where she was coming from. I knew that 'what happened on a run, stayed on a run' but it doesn't help when the road pussy shows up at the clubhouse. "Just keep everything going at the garage."

I nodded. "Okay Gem." I said, turning and walking out.

When I got back to TM, Half-sack was sitting in the office. "Jax told me to take over in here till you got back." He said standing up and walking from behind the desk so that I could get over there.

He seemed kinda down. "You okay?" I asked him.

"The girl that showed up this morning?" He said and I nodded. "Well, she was at Indian Hills when we went. I spent some time talking to her when we were there. I like her. But Clay had overheard a stupid comment that I made before we went so he hooked up with her to get back at me." He told me.

"So, why is she here?" I asked. Was it because of him or Clay?

"I don't know. Then I heard that Gemma broke her nose with a skateboard."

"Yeah, she did. She's sitting in a cell down at the station." I told him. "Maybe you should go see this girl and find out why she's here." I told him.

He nodded making his way to the door. He turned back and looked at me. "Thanks Bells." He said.

"Anytime." I said. I was about to sit down at the desk so that I could get back to work when I heard sirens. I walked outside to see what was going on. I walked across the lot to where the police cars were and a blonde woman and a tall guy climbed out of the first car. "Can I help you?" I asked.

"Agents Stahl and Kohn ATF. We have a warrant." She said. I held my hand out for the warrant. "Well, they've trained you right." She said handing me the warrant.

I unfolded it and looked at it right as the guys walked out of the clubhouse. "What's going on?" Jax asked me. I could hear the calm in his voice now, which only meant that they'd been able to get the guns out.

"Mr and Mrs ATF here have a warrant for search and seizure." I said to him.

"You check it?" He asked me. I nodded. He looked at ATF. "Place is yours. None of our guys will stand in your way." He said. Jax, Opie and I walked over towards my car and leaned against it. I linked my arm with Ope's. "Where's Gemma?" He asked me.

"She refused to let me bail her out." I told him.

"What the fuck happened?" He asked. I told him about the girl.

Gemma POV

I was sitting in the cell when I noticed Clay walk in. "Hale says you don't want bail posted." He said.

"That's right." I said crossing my arms. "Just need a little me time."

"Well, uh, I'll stay at the clubhouse. I don't want you in here."

I rolled my eyes. "I don't give a shit what you want." I said.

"Right." He said. "I can't take back what happened. It should never have gone down like this. I'm sorry. Won't happen again. I promise."

I sighed. I watched sit on the floor. "What are you doing?" I asked him.

"You're staying. So am I." He said.

"I'm going through menopause, Clay. You know what that means." I said.

"Means things are changing."

"Yeah."

"You know what doesn't change. The love I got for you." He said. Well at least he was trying to be sweet.

"Go home. Just pick me up in the morning." I said.

Half-sack POV

I'd gone to see Cherry at the hospital. Despite the shit that been going on, I couldn't help but still like her. Her nose had been bandaged up where Gemma had hit her. She'd told me that she hadn't come for Clay that she'd come for me. She said that she wasn't going to press charges against Gemma which was good. Made things easier for me. Now I was heading up to the cabin after picking Clay up from Charming PD. I knew that now wasn't the time to talk to him about Cherry. He seemed off.

When we walked into cabin, the guys were putting the guns together. "Welcome back brother." Chibs said.

"Thanks man." Clay said.

"Well Feds trashed the clubhouse…but the search turned up nothin'." Chibs said. "We got the guns out. Oh, wait a minute. Jackie Boy got all the guns out."

"Good."

"ATF's got shit. It's all smoke." Jax said.

"Yeah they were onto the oil barrels." Bobby said.

"Yeah, well, we'll just have to find a smarter way… to get the guns in is all." Clay said.

"Mom home?" Jax asked.

Clay shook his head. "She wouldn't let me post bail." Clay said.

Everyone in the room except me and Clay started laughing. "Shit. She is pissed!" Jax said.

"You know Bells said the same thing. Gemma wouldn't let Bells bail her out either." Opie said.

"Well, we're handling Meineke and his crew. Piney set up a meet for tomorrow. We're gonna clean this up." Jax told him.

Clay nodded. "You know what? I'm tired. And my head hurts. And you'll handle it." Clay said getting up from the chair that he'd been sitting in. "I'm just… gonna crash here tonight. Talk in the daylight." He said making his way down the hall to a bedroom.

"In the daylight." Jax said.

"I'm gonna head back. I'll bring the truck in the morning." Opie said.

"I'll ride back with you." I said.

Jax nodded. "Ask Bells to check on the kid for me in the morning." Jax said to Opie. He nodded.

Bells POV

I knew that the threat of the Cullens wasn't over but for the time being I knew that I was safe. I knew that at some point Jane would send the others. The only way to prevent that would be to lure the Volturi and have the Sons ambush them. Problem was… I wasn't sure if I could get Jax, Clay, Ope and my dad on board with the plan. I knew that they had a lot going on with the ATF in town. Not to mention that the couple of times that I'd seen Tara she seemed like something was off.

I had just put Ellie and Kenny to bed and sat down with a glass of wine when I heard the front door. I heard the door shut and Ope toss his keys onto the table. "Hey babe." I heard as he walked into the living room.

"Hey." I said as he walked into the kitchen to get a beer before joining me on the couch. He leaned over and kissed me. "Some day huh?" I said.

He laughed. "Yeah. It's definitely been one." He said taking a drink of his beer.

"Get everything solved?" I asked him.

"It'll be finished in the AM." He said. I nodded, taking a drink of my wine. "Bells…" He said looking at me with soft eyes.

I looked up at him. "Move in with me."

A/N: Okay so that's chapter 8. I know, its shorter than the others. Hope you guys enjoyed it.