Juice ran into his house and jogged quickly up the stairs. He accidentally had woken up AJ who dozed off. He went into the closet and started packing his bag. "Juan? Baby? What's going on? What are you doing?"

"I have to get out of here." He zipped up his backpack and threw it over his shoulder. "I need you to help me get out of town." He proceeded to speed walk to the bedroom door.

AJ turned him around roughly by the arm. "We're not going anywhere unless you tell me what the hell is going on!"

"I'll tell you on the way out!" He grabbed her arm, trying to pull her with him.

She yanked away from his tight grip. "No! You're telling me right now or else I'm not helping you leave anywhere!"

"Fine!" He yelled back, taking her keys that were left on the dresser. "I'll go by myself." Juice and AJ jerked their heads when they heard another motorcycle rolling up into the driveway. He went to the shaded window and peaked through the blinds. "Shit! It's Clay. How did he find me this quick?"

"Calm down." AJ hushed him. "He said he was going to come by because he needed me for something."

"You're helping the MC now?"

"I'm just giving him info about other gangs that are interested in buying guns from SAMCRO."

Clay knocked on the door. AJ let him in and they got down to business. "Thanks." He said, "I owe you big time, sweetheart."

"All you have to do is keep that secret between us buried."

Clay smirked, "Deal."

"What secret?" Juice asked, coming down the stairs with his backpack. Clay squinted at him when he noticed that Juice wasn't wearing his cut.

"Where are you off to without your colors?"

"Nowhere." Juice lied.

Clay looked at AJ and she shrugged. "What the hell happened to your face?"

Juice ignored the question, not wanting to relive what happened with Chibs. He let his bag slide off of his shoulder as Clay stalked towards him. "I told Bayley that I killed Half-Sack... I knocked her out and tied her up in the woods to by myself some time to get out of Charming before she has a chance to tell the club." He admitted to the clubs President. "I don't want to die, Clay. I'm... I'm scared."

AJ covered her mouth. She didn't think Juice's secret would be this bad. Clay looked at Juice with sympathy. After all, he couldn't judge with all the things he's done behind the clubs back. He walked up to Juice and gave him a fatherly hug. Juice looked to the side in guilt.

"We've all done something to put us outside the patch." He told the troubled Son. "AJ, get him out of here. I'll send the guys on some bullshit run so Bayley can't contact them at TM."

AJ looked at the Prez then back at her feet.

This was wrong. It was so wrong. But she made a promise to herself that she'd protect Juice at all costs and that's what she was going to do.

"Thanks, Clay."

"You got it." The Prez drove off while AJ was getting her things to leave. She grabbed her checkered bag and keys before they left.
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Jax was in his mothers office looking for some forms. The phone started ringing and he answered it. "Hello?"... "I haven't seen her since this morning."... "She just wouldn't abandon her kid, lady."... "I'll call Rei's... 'Grandmother' to go pick her up."... "OK, thanks. I appreciate the call. Bye." He hung up the phone and called Gemma on his burner. "Mom. I need you to pick up Rei from daycare."... "Bayley's missing."
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AJ had passed a 'now leaving Charming' sign, a few miles back. Juice started to feel a little relieved. Safe. "You haven't said a word since...-"

"What do you want me to say? The first thing I told you was to let someone else rat you guys out. And right when it's going to happen, you kill the fucking guy who was your scape goat." AJ gripped the steering wheel as she got after her simple minded boyfriend. "Now I'm risking my life to help you."

He stared at his hands, not being able to look at his disappointed girlfriend. "I know. I'm sorry for putting you through this."

"I hate that you keep these things from me, Juice." She sighed, running her hand through her smooth, dark hair.

"I'll tell you everything from now on. No more secrets. I promise."

AJ glanced over at him. "Back at home. With Clay... The secret he and Gemma have been keeping for me. Do you still want to know?"

"Yeah."

"3 years ago." She breathed deeply, calming her nerves. "I took a pregnancy test that came back positive." Juice sat up from his slouching position. "I wasn't ready to be a mom..."

Juice stared at her in shock. "You got an abortion without even telling me you were pregnant?" He asked.

She squeezed her lips together. "Yes."

"And you told Gemma and Clay."

"I just told Gemma because I thought I could trust her. Then she tried talking me into having the baby and she'd take care of it."

"How is that a bad thing?"

"Because! You see how Jax turned out?! If I had a son she'd throw him into the arms of the club like she did with him! If I had a daughter, she'd probably train her on how to be a members Ol' Lady!"

"I wouldn't have let that happen!" AJ scoffed. "How many abortions have you had since then, huh? Or before that?" Juice started jumping to conclusions and AJ didn't like that.

"I'm not answering that stupid question."

"Why not? You know how different both of our lives could have been? Maybe I wouldn't have gotten myself in this situation if I actually had a family to care for."

"So now this is my fault?!" She slammed the breaks.

"What are you doing? Keep driving!"

AJ sat back and crossed her arms. "Apologize."

"I'm not going to ap-" his jaw dropped when he saw AJ applying her lip gloss in the mirror. She was serious that she wasn't going anywhere unless she heard what she wanted. "I'm sorry alright." He gave in. AJ didn't feel like it was sincere enough. "AJ," he held her hand. "I'm sorry... I'm not mad that you had an abortion... I'm just upset that... That you didn't even bother to tell me about it."

They both gave each other a reassuring look. This one situation in Juice's life made him understand Bayley in the most personal way. It's not the truth that people will be mad at, it's how long you keep it from them that'll make things worse.

"There's something else that you should know. Its about Becky." AJ started to drive again once Juice started talking.

"What about her? You knew what happened to her before anyone else did?"

"Yeah." He admitted. "I'm the one who killed her. It wasn't an overdose."

"Shit." She leaned her head back. "Why?"

"It was Jax's call. Not mine." He said softly. "You saw how she was, AJ. She was already dead on the inside and there was no bringing her back."

"I know better not to argue with what Jax says but... That was just a bad call. Does Chibs know?"

"That's why my face is all busted up. I told him it was all me though."

AJ understood why Juice left Jax out of things. This was for him to admit his wrongs, not bring people down with him. That didn't change the fact that Juice was in deep shit.
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Unser showed up in his cop car at TM. They felt he was the only cop they could call that would actually care about what was going on.

"I already told you." Jax threw his head back in annoyance, "The last time any of us had seen her was when she said she was going to the cemetery."

"Maybe she just decided to get out of Charming because she didn't trust your word, Jax." Bobby assumed.

Gemma shook her head as she held Rei in her arms. "No. Bayley wouldn't leave without Rei. She's not a selfish girl."

Tig pulled up on his motorcycle. He walked up to the group as he took off his helmet. "I checked her place. No sign of her."

"Is all her stuff still there?" The VP asked.

"Yeah. Everything." He dropped his hands to his sides.

"This doesn't make sense." Opie shook his head. "Bayley wouldn't run away without Rei. So that only means one thing."

Happy clentched his fist, "She was kidnapped."