It was an unusually quiet evening at the clubhouse belonging to the mother charter of the Sons of Anarchy.

Wendy Case was sitting at the bar inside the clubhouse chatting and enjoying a drink with the matriarch of SAMCRO, Gemma Teller-Morrow.

The two women hadn't always seen eye to eye in the past but during the past almost fifteen years since Wendy had given birth to her daughter Skylar, both women had made peace with one another regarding their differences.

Being on good terms with the SAMCRO matriarch was something that Wendy was extremely grateful for.

She had come to view the older woman as a sort of mother figure seeing as her own mother wasn't really anything to write home about.

In fact, the blonde hadn't seen or really spoken to her mother but a few times since she had decided to leave her former hometown of Newark, New Jersey a little more than twenty years prior.

She had been just a few years older than her daughter currently was back then and after nearly a year of being on the road, she eventually wound up in Charming and ended up settling down in the small town.

"M-Mom?"

An emotion laced voice caused both women to quickly turn toward its source behind them.

It was Skylar. She was sporting a pretty fresh-looking black eye as well as a freshly split lip.

Both Wendy and Gemma could also see a dark spot on the teen girl's jaw that looked like it was quickly bruising.

Wendy got up from her spot on the stool she had been occupying for the past half hour and gently cupped her daughter's injured face in her hands to check it over. Her heart sank at seeing her baby girl flinch slightly at her touch.

The older blonde knew in her heart that her daughter had no reason to be frightened of her but knowing didn't make her heart ache for her baby girl any less.

"Oh, baby. What happened?"

The teen who at this point had tears in her normally bright brown eyes didn't speak but instead buried her face in her mother's shirt as she begin to sob uncontrollably.

Wendy quickly albeit gently wrapped her arms around her daughter, softly assuring the 14 year old who was still sobbing that she was safe and that she wouldn't let anyone hurt her again.

Gemma and the few club members who were currently at the clubhouse didn't speak but they were all fuming at the thought of Skylar being hurt like this.

The young girl was like their own personal ray of sunshine in their otherwise dark world.

They had all thought the world of Skylar for a very long time.

As they all silently stood watching her crying as she clung to her mother, they each vowed to make the person who had hurt her pay regardless of the ties that he had to some high people in their small town.

Damned be the consequences as far as they were all concerned too.

"You're safe now, baby. I promise, ok? I promise."

What Wendy and the others at the clubhouse didn't realize at that particular moment though was that Skylar was sporting wounds that were much worse than the ones that they could actually see.

A/N: I know that this is a bit of a short chapter but I really wanted to get another one out for this story!

Hopefully, the next one will be a bit longer.

So, any thoughts/theories about what exactly may have happened to Skylar prior to her showing up at the clubhouse?

Also, how do you think Wendy, Gemma and the guys will react when they find out what exactly happened to her?

Please feel free to leave a vote and/or comment below and let me know what you think of this chapter and this story as a whole so far.

Hope that you all have a great day/afternoon/night depending on wherever you may be, remember that you are all amazing, beautiful and wonderful just the way you are.

Stay safe out there, everybody!!
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