"But who?" Chibs asked, "Unless Bayley is living some double life, there's no reason for anybody to just want to kidnap her."

Clay rode into the lot to see the commotion. "What's going on?"

Gemma walked up to her husband, "Bayley's missing."

"What?" He acted like he was surprised. "Are you sure?"

"Checked her place, the old apartment, the cabin." Piney listed. "She's nowhere."

"Shit." he cursed.

"I can put out an amber alert on her. See if that would do any good." Unser suggested.

"That's a good idea." Jax agreed.

Rei started crying. "Mommy!" Her lip quivered, "Where's my mommy?"
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Bayley tried slipping her hands out of the rope that began to burn her wrists as she kept trying to break loose. She slammed her back against the tree she was tied up against in frustration. She tried pulling and tugging to weaken the rope but nothing worked.

She tried screaming for help but due to the gag in her mouth, not a peep could be heard. Her tears began to fall. She felt so betrayed.

"It wasn't Mayan's that killed Half-Sack... It was me."

"Wh....why? Why would you do that?!"

"He was threatening to tell the club about Jimmy and I panicked! I didn't know what else to do! Please, you have to understand why I did it!"

"You could have came out with the truth a long time ago..."

"Bayley, please I'm begging you. Forgive me."

"No.... I can't. Not only did you lie to me and your club, but you just let them kill innocent guys which led to Finn being killed! That also lead to Becky overdosing! Do you have any idea what you've caused, Juice!"

"Bayley, you have to keep this a secret. If you rat to them I'm gonna-"

"If I rat?! Juice, you are the rat! You're a lying, back stabbing, coward!... You deserve everything that the club will do to you once I tell them the truth!"

After that confrontation, everything went black. All Bayley could remember is waking up, tied against a tree.
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All of the guys went out on their own search again while the police searched the places that they had already investigated. "Somebody call up, Juice." Jax instructed. "We need all the help we can get."

"I already tried that about 5 times." Tig said, "He's not answering."

"It's fine." Clay told them. "There's enough of us to cover ground. One guy won't make a difference."

"It'll make a huge difference." Happy protested. He may not have shown emotion towards his daughter missing but he was worried.

"You lads go ahead. Jackie Boy and I will head to his house." Chibs volunteered.

Clay looked at his club. He hoped to God that Juice and AJ were as far away from Charming as possible. "Alright. Let's roll out."
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"Is there anything else I should know, Juice?" AJ asked.

He shook his head, "That's everything."

"What about that bruise around your neck? Bayley came over and told me where it came from... She seemed worried and said I should keep an eye on you."

"It was the guilt. I couldn't live with it anymore."

"Are you okay now?"

"I'm much better."

She smiled softly at him as he did the same. "Good. I'm glad your conscience is cleansed."

"Is there anything else I should know about you?"

AJ bit her tongue. There was one more thing. "Clay wouldn't keep my secret unless I did certain things for him. Which means exactly what you think it does."

"You fucked Clay?"

"No." She shook her head and scrunched her face in disgust. "I just blew him a few times to keep him happy."

"Please tell me that you didn't kiss me after you did that..."

AJ rolled her eyes and chuckled, "No, of course not."

He held her hand up to his lips and kissed it, "I don't know what I'd do without you, AJ."

"I don't know what I'd do without you, Juan." I'm going to have to find out though...
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Chibs and Jax pulled up to Juice and AJ's house. The car was gone but Juice's Harley was still there. They walked up to the front porch and knocked. There wasn't an answer.

They got tired of waiting that they just started shouting to open the door instead. "C'mon, open the damn door. We need to go now."

Chibs placed his hand on the knob and turned it slowly. The door was unlocked. They looked at each other then went inside. They walked up the stairs, into the empty bedroom. "Where are they?" Jax asked to himself.

"Jackie Boy." Chibs called him over to the closet. "A lot of Juice's clothes are gone. Same with the lass."

"Why the hell is everybody disappearing on us?"

Chibs sighed loudly. "I have to tell you something."

"What is it?"

"Juice... He killed Becky."

Jax gave the Scott a concerned look. He was shocked that Chibs found out. All he was waiting for was the part where Chibs would say that it was the VP's call. But that part never came. Juice had taken full responsibility. "I'm sorry, brother..."

"How can I share a patch with someone- someone who I called my brother and treated as a son... And they go a kill my little girl." He started crying and Jax tried to comfort him.

"Juice is in a dark place, Chibs. We were able to tell after Sack died. It hit him hard. But that's not a reason for him to kill Becky."

"This whole thing just doesn't make sense. Bayley goes missing, AJ and Juice are no where to be found. I feel like there's something going on there."

Jax took a moment to think, "Are you trying to say that AJ and Juice have Bayley?"

"Not exactly but..."

"It's a possibility." He finished the Scots sentence.

"Maybe Bayley knows something about them that we don't."
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Juice was falling asleep in the passengers seat. He looked so peaceful. That's how AJ wanted him to go. She slowly reached in her bag that was beside him and held onto her gun. Before even half of the weapon was out, Juice was staring at her with wide eyes.

AJ gasped. Juice reached over trying to take the gun from her but AJ had a firm grip on it. "No! Stop!" She tried fighting him as she still tried to control her car. He smacked the gun out of her hand and held onto the wheel when her other hand stopped steering.

The car hit a tree, making them stop. AJ unbuckled her seat belt and tried to make a run for it. "Stop running!" Juice yelled for her to come back. He grabbed the gun that was on the floor of the car and started shooting blankly at her feet.

AJ screamed, covering her head as she knelt down. "Please, please don't hurt me. I'm sorry." She cried.

Juice walked up to AJ. He stared blankly at his girlfriend who was sobbing and begging for mercy on the ground.

"You were gonna kill me? After all we've been through... I saved you! I trusted you!"

"Juice, I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do. No matter where I try to hide you- the club will find a way to track you down." she tried to explain, driving what she thought were good intentions into Juice's skull. "That was the only thing I could think of!"

"I told you the truth about what happened and you betray me like this?"

"I'm protecting you!"

"How?!" he yelled, "By putting a bullet in my head?" Juice held up the gun, "With the same gun that I killed Half-Sack with..."

AJ ran her shaky hands through her hair, "Looks like things came full circle, huh?"

Juice dropped the gun on the ground and backed away. "I don't want to die, AJ." Juice felt his eyes welding with tears. The entire ride out of Charming, he knew this plan was going too perfectly. Especially with him being the mastermind behind this, something was bound to go wrong.

AJ knew that this could only end in one way. The question was, which way the the best? Only Juice could answer that. "Would you rather go out quick by me or let SAMCRO get a hold of you?"

Juice let his head fall, "What does it matter? I'm a dead man either way. There's no changing that."

"I wish we could go about this differently."

Juice scoffed, "Looks like fate chose death as my calling." he knelled down and picked up the gun. He slid the magazine out and observed the full round. Cocking the gun, he held it out in front of him. "I'm sorry I brought you into this." AJ squeezed her eyes shut as tears streamed down her face. She never thought that Juice would be the one to put her down.

AJ was terrified. Not for her own life, but for Juice's. Now she'd just be a body added onto his pile of guilt. "Go ahead and do it."

"I'm not going to kill you."

"What?"

Juice held the gun up to his tribal tattooed head. With a shaky hand, he began to slowly pull the trigger. All he needed to do was to squeeze a little harder until a bullet would be nailed into his skull.

"No! Stop!" AJ screamed in terror.

*BANG*

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Bayley felt herself getting drowsy. She must have been tied up for at least four or five hours now. Her back was soar as well as her neck. She had given up on trying to squeeze her hands out of the rope cuffs. Her wrists had already started bleeding due to the rope burn she gave herself. The mosquito bites didn't make things anymore comfortable either.

"Hh-h-el-p..." she mumbled weakly through the rag tied over her mouth. Bayley coughed due to all the pollen and dirt. She felt disgusting. Her thick and now drying saliva was dripping down her chin. The walls in her nostrils began to close, making it feel like she was sucking air through a coffee straw. The limited oxygen made her feel light headed.

Her brown eyes shot open when she heard the rumbling motorcycles on the road that wasn't too far away. Bayley had hope that she'd be found.

Moments later, twigs and branches crunched during every foot step. Bayley tried her best to scream through the cloth that absorbed her sound waves, keeping her hollers from traveling into the distance.

Tig and Opie walked through the woods, hoping not to find a cold body. They both turned their heads west when they heard a trill, distressed cry for help.

"Bayley?" Opie called out. The yelping got louder as they crept her way through the trees. There she was. Bound up to a tree, terrified.

Tig ran over and flipped open his switch blade. "Are you alright?" he pulled the rag from her chapped, crusty lips.

The dry skin from the corners of her mouth ripped when she went to speak. "Get me out of here." she weakly begged.

Opie helped Tig cut the young girl loose, "Who did this to you?"

"Juice..." she leaned her head against the rough, hair pulling bark. "It was Juice."