Nickie saw the girls come in and made her way over to them. She grinned, she could see it in Lolly and Jetta, the mere sight of her seemed to take a weight of pressure off of them, they were her girls after all and they needed her. Jason was fine on his own, she always knew that, and she hated it at the same time, he was like his dad. Elly showed Nickie the pillow and she smiled "Daddy is going to love that" she said. Nicky kept the girls entertained while Nickie, Lolly and Jetta walked off to the side, "well the doctors said the transfusion went well, so they said they'd come tell us when we could see him" Nickie said, she saw a sigh of relief on the girls faces. "The doctors said he wasn't out of the woods yet...but considering everything he managed to come through, they didn't see any problems."

The room was a quiet murmur as they waited, going on almost two days now with nobody really having seen Jason. While news spread that he would probably be okay, there was till a seemingly gloomy cloud over the whole room...except for Nickie who managed to stay up beat somehow. Eleanor and Mireya had fallen asleep again, even Joey had dozed off leaning against Sonny, the waiting seemed unless.

Then the hush that seemed to fill the room was broken. "Somebody sign this thing so I can get the fuck out of here", a room full of heads snapped to attention as Jason's voice filled the room. At the entrance to the hall stood Jason, he already had his jeans and his cut on, with a trail of nurses behind him urging him to come back to his room. Lolly and Jetta jumped to their feet. "Mr.Walker you need bed rest, and you need to be monitored here at the hospital", "your food tastes like shit and I've seen the lady who gives the sponge baths around here...Doc you got nothing keeping me in this place" Jason said, "Mr.Walker I insist..." the doctor urged before he was cut off "how long have you known me doc? 2 days? I've known myself for a hell of a lot longer. Trust me doc...I got run over by a car and didn't even stay a week in the hospital..." he tapped his shoulder where the bullet had hit "trust me, I'm good", Jason then looked at the piece of paper on the clipboard "oh wait...I'm older than 18...I'll just sign myself out" he said grabbing a pen and signing the paper.
He then turned to Lolly and gave her a kiss "Miss me Mami?" he said as he kissed her again.

The girls hearing Jason's voice jumped to their feet and rushed to see their dad, who hugged them both as they wrapped their small arms around his neck. "What the heck are you doing here?" Jason said as he looked up and saw his mom, Nickie just grinned "If you weren't going to make it, I wanted to make sure before I started selling your things" she said with a grin.

Lolly was sleeping dreamlessly again until a familar booming voice shocked her to her feet. She smiled when she saw Jason storming out into the hall. Relief washed over her and she had to stop herself from jumping into his arms. She smiled as his scent filled her senses and his lips met hers. "No, tienes ni idea, Papi" She said and kissed him again. She had to stop herself before things got too heated. It helped that Mireya and Elly woke up and rushed over. "Daddy!" They shouted together as he scooped them up. Lolly smiled happily. 'Look, Jay decided to show his ugly mug." Joey said walking up with a grin, She leaned against Lolly "See, Toldja, They don't call him Roach for nothin." Joey whispered. She smiled at her.

Mireya and Elly went to give Jason their get well present. "They picked that out themselves. Elly saw it, Mireya grabbed it. She almost knocked over the kiosk." Lolly said. "Yea, Poor guy didn't stand a chance." Joey quipped. "You all better?" Mireya asked him.

After the whole incident with Rick and Jason getting shot, things seemed to calm down. There were a few clashes early on but most of the violent stuff was kept out of the town limits of Outlaw Creek, and after the shooting Jason made an intentional attempt to avoid the violent clashes as much as possible, as did Nicky.

Jason made good on his word to Lolly to not keep things from her...most of the time. Lolly herself knew she wasn't being told everything, but Jason wasn't shutting her out and that was good enough for her, she also debated whether she'd really want to know the stuff Jason didn't tell her. It took an intentional effort on Jason's part to force himself into more of an "office" role with the club, staying out of the hits or other violent missions the club took on early with their clashes with the Heathens. Eventually Texas was claimed, kind of. The Heathens and Knights somewhat settled on dividing Texas, the Heathens claimed the North East part of the state as their turf, and the KOA claimed most of the rest of Texas as theirs, however with the Heathens increasing hold out East, the desire to keep a storng presence in Texas slowly faded for them. Jason and Lolly focused on trying to form some sort of normal family atmosphere for Mireya, and Eleanor. Jason, Lolly and Nicky and Jetta eventually grew to be surrogate parents for each of the girls, it may have seemed weird on the outside but it worked, now that Jetta had Nicky Lolly was able to be comfortable and after some time grow to become close friends with Jetta, after all they had slept together once before.

Mireya and Elly grew up essentially as sisters. Instead of Jetta and Nicky moving out, the four of them decided on expanding the ranch house, Lolly and Jason had their "wing" of the house, as Jetta and Nicky had their own "wing", and the girls actually ended up sharing a room together. It was ironic that the weird setup was their attempt at providing a "normal" family atmosphere for the girls, but it worked. Mrs. Tammy also remained a staple in the girls lives as well, and for the rest of them as well, they all seemed to form a very odd, but still surprisingly functional family. Neither Jason and Lolly, nor Nicky and Jetta ever viewed marriage as an important step, it just seemed to be implied.

Nicky and Jason ran Outlaw Cycles as their "front" business, and actually become quite popular. The business itself became somewhat legit, with shops popping up in Dallas and Houston, then eventually in other major cities. "Outlaw" gear became popular among bike enthusiasts, and eventually that spilled into mainstream as well. Jason and Nicky managed to keep a somewhat low profile, but the popularity of their company and the brand helped ease their public image, the general consensus was that if they were "real" criminals, they'd never run a legit business like that, it played to the whole "stick it to the man" mentality, whenever issues with cops did come up, the general public viewed it as the cops just trying to unfairly shut down Outlaw Cycles. Sure there was a segment that still viewed them as criminals, but the "Outlaw" image appealed to a lot of people, not "conforming" to the government, rebelling against "unfair" authorities, it was gold. And of course Jason and Nicky made sure to not do anything to jeopardize that image either.

Sheriff Brown retired shortly after the incident with Rick and Jason. The new Sheriff came to an "understanding" with the KOA. They weren't paying him off, and he wasn't really "crooked" either, but the understanding was that as long as whatever the KOA did never affected the town of Outlaw Creek...the Sheriff's department wouldn't spend too much time or man power monitoring their actions.

-----

Elly had just turned 10 and Rey was almost there herself. Aside from trips to Malibu to see their grandparents, the girls never really went on too many big trips. Sure they had gone to Florida once, but that was about it. However the girls never really seemed to care either. But after learning about the rest of the world in school Elly started bugging Nicky and Jason to go on a big trip, and Rey seemed to think it was a great idea so she joined in. When the girls teamed up Jason and Nicky knew they were out-matched, and turned things over to the moms, as Lolly and Jetta were always the tougher eggs for the girls to crack. However this time even Lolly and Jetta had trouble keeping the girls calm on the subject. The topic came up one night as the four had gone down to the bar with Joey and Sonny to shoot pool and have a few drinks.

"You know...why don't we do it? KOA Madrid could hook us up with hotels and shit for probably free, we could pawn the trip off as a 'business' trip, spend like 30 minutes having a beer with Roman and the boys and chalk that up as a charter meeting...heck we could probably do this thing all expenses paid bro" Nicky said with a grin. Jason thought about it "you do bring up some good points....besides it'd be good make an appearance in Europe, haven't been over there in awhile and the next Global Conference isn't for another three years" Jason said as the idea gained traction. "The girls got a week off for spring break coming up, and they're acing their classes so the teachers probably would give them an extra week or so off" Jetta added. "I can take care of the shop and stuff for you guys" Sonny offered, Jason grinned "now how the hell are you going to do that when you and Joey are coming with us?" Jason asked with a grin. Both their mouths dropped. Lolly mentioned how they were pretty much part of the family, and that the four of them needed somebody to pawn the kids off on when they wanted to go fuck in the hotel rooms. Jason and Nicky both grinned, Joey had some comment for Lolly as she gave her the finger.

But the plan was set. And it worked out just how Nicky and Jason had planned...most things did after all. Because it was going to be a "charter visit", the club covered all travel and accomodation expenses, KOA Madrid used their connections and hooked them up at a 5 star resort. Nicky and Jason had their charter meeting the first day they got there...it consisted of 2 or 3 rounds of beers while Jason, Nicky, Roman, Franky (short for Francisco) and the rest of the "boys" caught up on the past few years and talked about the "old days", which weren't that old seeing as KOA Madrid was barely 15 years old.

The group did some sight seeing, KOA Madrid of course provided bikes for Sonny, Nicky, and Jason, and two Lexus SUV's for when it wasn't as efficient to take the girls out on bikes. Rey and Elly loved splashing around in the pool at the resort and things were incredibly relaxed. Joey and Sonny even took the girls when Jetta, Lolly and the boys decided they wanted some "nap time" as they called it.

Rey was always talkative and loved talking to everyone at the resort. She was telling people about the fancy cars they were driving in, and how her dad's company paid for everything on their trip. At one point they had heard Joey say something about being a nanny, they didn't understand sarcasm, so Rey told everyone Joey was their nanny, which just embarassed Joey, even though Rey knew it wasn't entirely true, she liked to tell stories.

Joey and Sonny had the girls out for a walk around the resort. They were on the beach and they passed by a woman from the resort who asked the girls if they wanted to go on a boat ride, which they agreed to. There wasn't room for Joey and the girls, but the woman from the resort told them they were just going along the beach and back, and Joey could watch them easily from there. Sonny had been like Jason and Nicky's protege', and he was learning a lot from them, like how to observe things...such as how the guy driving the boat wasn't wearing a resort shirt, but he wasn't Jason or Nicky yet, they'd have noticed the woman wasn't carrying the ID badge on her belt all employees had, and that it was rather odd the spotter in the boat was smoking...at a non-smoking resort, but then again Sonny wasn't them just yet. By the time they noticed something wrong it was too late, all Sonny and Joey could do was watch the boat speed away into the open water with Elly and Rey. As they were focused on the boat, the "hotel" woman had disappeared into the crowd. They both felt sick as they realized what had just happened, in a cruel twist of irony had Sonny been wearing his cut instead of being bare-back it may never have happened at all. Joey and Sonny eventually headed back to the hotel rooms. Joey couldn't bring herself to look at Jetta or Lolly, having felt guilty for it even happening. Sonny told them what had happened. Jetta went into shock as she heard what Sonny was saying....everything had been so perfect how could this be happening. Jason and Nicky took Sonny with them to see if he could identify any of the three around the resort, it was a long shot but still they had to try. Jetta and Lolly clung to each other, speechless as they processed everything.

As soon as they realized there was no point looking, they guys headed back to the room. Jason held Lolly as she clung to him, Jetta doing the same thing to Nicky. Sonny and Joey felt like throwing up, Jason looked at them "if either of you were to blame I'd have cracked both your skulls by now" he said, his way of reassuring them. Most people would call the police and their embassy, Jason called Roman, the conversation was short but the message was crystal clear, every KOA charter in Europe was to drop whatever they were doing and keep their eyes open for the girls. Sonny took a picture of the girls over to Roman and within the hour a digital picture copy of Rey and Elly had hit every European KOA charter with a simple instruction attached that the girls are to be rescued at any and all cost. There was a second instruction as well..."once safe, kill any and all responsible on sight".

Nobody in the group could sleep much, Jason and Nicky had the girls at their side almost around the clock for the first few hours. Jason and Nicky hated it, there was nothing they could do but wait, once they had a name, a face, something...they could move, but waiting was driving them insane.

As for the kidnappers, they had no clue what had just happened. They heard Rey's stories of fancy cars and a nanny and her daddy's company...to them Rey and Elly were daughters of a rich American businessman they could extort for ransom money. They had no way of knowing they'd just put a death warrant on their own heads....not at first anyway.

The next morning a package came to the hotel room. Inside it had Rey and Elly's passports they had carried with them along with a note that said "NO POLICE". No police was their way of getting the advantage...normally. No police now meant Jason and Nicky were free to resolve this with Outlaw justice instead. Shortly after the package arrived, the phone rang, Jason answered it.

"Is this Mr.Walker?" a voice on the other end said. "Yeah, who are you?" Jason said coldly. "Mr.Walker, we have your two girls, now if you ever want to see them again it would be in your best interest to follow our demands exactly as they are given to you" the voice said firmly. They had control, they had leverage, they were the ones calling the shots.....they thought. "Listen let's cut all the bullshit...which club are you with? Cause I gotta say this is a low move going after kids" Jason said. "Club? What club are you talking about, this is no game Mr.Walker I assure you" the voice said somewhat confused. Then it hit Jason...this wasn't about him, it wasn't about the KOA....this guy had no clue who he was talking with, it caused Jason to laugh for a moment, "Mr.Walker these is nothing funny here...or do you want us to prove how serious we are?", the laughing stopped...this guy, this voice, had just threatened his girls, this was a whole new level of anger Jason had never been to before. "My name is Jason Walker...look it up, Google it, find some drug pusher on the corner and ask him if you need to...cause it's crystal clear you have absolutely no fucking clue who you're talking to" Jason said over the phone. His tone was eerily calm, as mad as he was it gave Nicky a slight shiver....whoever this was had finally done it...Nicky was sure Jason had gone past that point, and he had no clue what to expect from here on in...not that he was in any state of mind to stop him, more likely he'd join Jason.

"Mr.Walker your business status doesn't concern us..." the voice was interrupted again, "I'm the fucking President of the Knights of Armageddon...world wide. Now it's your lucky day because I'm on vacation and it must be the relaxing beaches that have me in a generous mood. As we're talking right now...every KOA charter in Europe is looking for you, with very specific instructions I might add. You have 90 minutes to get both girls back to me without a single scratch on them....do that and you and your partners can walk away free and clear....I'll even throw in $10,000 dollars...just cause I'm i a good mood right now." The phone was quiet on the other end as the gravity of the situation sunk in to the captors.

"It's a good deal, and it's the best deal you get. Cause in 91 minutes...you become the most hunted person in Europe. Knights of Armageddon, Sons of Hell, Triple Sixers and anyone with connections to those clubs is going to be looking for my girls, and trust me that many outlaw bikers...they'll know every dark sleazy hole to look in." the phone was still quiet, "Mr.Walker threatening me is not advised...fact remains we have your daughters, we are in control" the voice said, to anyone else it would have sounded intimidating.

"Look you guys got in over your head. I'm giving you a way out and $10,000 dollars...trust me, it beats the alternative", the phone was quiet "we will call you back in 10 minutes Mr.Walker...if anyone else answers the phone...you will not see your girls again" the voice said then hung up.

Nicky looked at Jason, "you're such a fucking liar" he said with a straight look on his face, Jason looked at him "what?" Jason asked, "you're going to kill them all once you get the girls back" Nicky said, Jason had a look not even Lolly had seen before "with my bare hands too".

After having been out-agured by her girls which was a difficult feat. "C'mon on, Mom!" Mireya begged, having grown taller but pretty much looked the same. She had a mass amount of curly hair like her mother and the eyes she got from her father were extra bright in her doll eyes. "You said that Grandpa took you all over the world. Well we wanna go too." Mireya reasoned. Elly nodded. "We've got good grades and it'll be to good to see the places that we've seen in the text books." Elly said, having grown to look alot like her father and just as tough. Lolly and Jetta looked at one another. "Alright, We'll see."
Mireya jumped. "Yes, Haha!" she said as if she just made the winning shot.
Elly smiled with a quiet pride.

Later that night, the adults went to a bare and met up with Joey and Sonny. Joey had grown taller and calmer at 25 but she still as snarky and sarcastic as ever. Her and Sonny have been practical inseparable.
Sitting around the table, Everyone decided on heading to Madrid. Joey and Sonny's jaw hit the floor when it was Jason who suggested...well told they were coming too. The furtherst Joey's gone was Dallas. "Yea, It would be great actually to bring these two along. I mean they're practically family." She said and Joey grinned. Her and Lolly were like sisters. She never did offically adopted her but she took good care of her, even helped her find a place of her own to which she and Sonny shared. "Besides, We need someone to watch the girls when we want some alone time." She said cheekily. "Yea, So you all can have a baby born in Spain?" Joey said and Lolly flipped her off. Joey just laughed. She was glad she and Sonny were included in all this.

After a long flight, they were in Madrid. Having a wonderful time. Mireya loving the superstar treatment, dragging her big sister along everywhere. She lived it up. At one point when the adults were 'napping'. To which both Mireya and Elly knew what they were doing but they figured it was much less creepy for all of them to call it napping. That worked when they were 5. Mireya was 9 and Elly was 10. Though they both were much more mature then most.

They all sat by the pool and Rey was chatting it up,with some kids who came from more legit money. Rey went on to spin a grand tale about her family and money. She was a premium liar like her parents. "That's my nanny." She nodded toward Joey who was lounging in a bathing suit by the pool. The boys gawked at her. "That's your nanny?" said one, his spanish accent heavying in his voice. "Mhm." "Who're your gardener?" said one of the girls. Mireya and Elly laughed as Sonny walked up and planted a quick,kiss on Joey's forehead. "Right there!" Mireya said and they all laughed.

After a long day of play. Mireya, Elly, Joey and Sonny walked along the bench. The girls walked up ahead as Sonny and Joey enjoyed the romantic moment.
The girls were stopped by a woman. Mireya thought she seemed out of place here, pale blonde hair, fair skin that hadn't seen alot of sun which was rare to live in Spain and exspensive looking earrings. She told the girls about a boat ride and Mireya looked at Elly. "That could be fun." Elly said and Mireya agreed. "Hold on, We'll ask our nanny." She said, The whole nanny thing made alot of sense so she stuck with it.
Joey thought it would be cool. The woman said that the was only enough room for two so Joey nor Sonny could ride but she'd be able to see them as they were just going up a bit. Joey was a sucker for the girls begs. "Alright, Alright." She said thinking they'd have alot of fun.

All of that changed when Mireya and Elly boarded the boat. Joey watched them get farther and farther away. "What the fuck. Hey!" Joey said and took off into the water, but it was too late. They were gone. Joey felt sick. Her face had gone green.
"They took them..." she said as Sonny dragged her out of the water, looking green himself. "I let them..."

---

Mireya and Elly smiled as they boarded the boat. It was so cool to see the sunset on the water like this. Mireya smiled up at all Elly. "This is so cool!" She chriped but her smiled faded when cigarette smoke filled her nose. "Seriously, dude. Have you ever heard of second hand smoke?" Mireya asked with her usual snark. Elly tapped her shoulder as the boat picked up speed. Mireya gasped. "Hey, What do you think your doing?!" She shouted, her nostrils flared. She jumped at the driver but Elly held her back. The only person who could get her to see reason other then her parents. "What?!" She said and that's when she saw it. A gun.
The smoking guy had a gun.
"Great..." Mireya said. Not really afraid of the gun. Her mom had begun teaching the girls to shoot when they were 7, the same time she'd learned. They were good like Lolly yet but it was enough. Mireya narrowed her eyes but Elly could see what she was thinking. She whispered in her ear. "No. Not now." She said and Mireya huffed. "Wait til our dad finds you..."

Lolly walked up to Jason. Her expression was dark. "We will kill them the moment we have the girls back." She said and was serious. She saw just how undescribably livid he was but he could see the same in her face. She'd stopped crying and her fear turned into pure rage. Same thing that happen when Jason and Eleanor was shot all those years ago. Fear always turned to rage and it was never good for those involved. She would have no words for them. There'd be no warning. They would be in a whole lot of pain before they knew what happened.

---

Mireya and Elly were blindfolded for most of the ride with their hands ties. "Oh, Just you wait! My Dad is gonna beat you bloody! My Mom will skin you alive! If I get out I'll had ger the knives!" She barked. Elly was quiet. Elly had taken up martial arts while Mireya taken to gymnastics and dance. Mireya had been diagnosed with ADHD when she was two so to compensate for the mass amount of energy she had, Lolly put her in a bunch of extracurriculars instead of putting her on medicine.
Elly was always quiet but when she got angry she was scary, just like her father. So too keep that at bay, Jetta put her in martial arts. They both flourished in their activites. "Rey, Stop." Elly said calmly. "No! Wait till they come for them. The messed with the wrong-" Mireya's mouth was gagged and her words were muffled. "Rey?!" Elly couldn't see her sister or hear her. "Mhm!" Mireya huffed. "Shut up, Kid!" Someone said. "You keep your hands off my sister!" Elly warned calmly then she was gagged as well.

After a while, Their blindfolds were removed and both girls instantly scanned their surroundings as their dad taught them. They were in a warehouse. Mireya noticed the smell of moisture in the air. It was salty. So they were near water.
Soon a woman came over and reached for them, Mireya slammed her head into the woman's nose. "Gah! You little..." She grunted and back handed her. Elly growled through the gagged. They were back to back so she grabbed Mireya's hand. Mireya just shot the woman a glare and made sure she remembered her face. She'd make sure her mom got to her first. It was the same one from the beach. Mireya made sure to remember.

After a few hours, The girls untied but they were locked in a room with a small window and one flickering light. Elly turned to Mireya immediately after their captors left with their passports. "Are you okay?" She asked her, examining her face. It was a little brusied but nothing serious. "Yea, It doesn't even hurt." She said. "Why'd you do that?" Elly asked her. Mireya shrugged sheepishly "I don't know." She said and started walking around the room for no real reason other then that she hated to sit still. Elly sighed. Mireya was impulsive and once she got a thought in her head, it was hard to stop her. Only Elly could really do it. Even their parents had a hard time getting her to calm down without threatening to punish her and even then it was a struggle but Elly had always seemed to be able to talk her down. Elly walked over to her sister. "Rey. You have to stop and think okay. The last thing we need is for them to start hurting us." She said and Mireya blinked. "Mommy and Daddy are coming for us, So if they hurt us, It's just gonna make them madder." She said and started to walk away.Elly held her shoulders. "No, Mireya. This isn't one of your stories. Okay. They might seriously hurt us." She told her and Mireya looked down. "I know..." She said and it was then Elly knew she was scared. Mireya didn't do well with fear. It usually just made her react without thinking, more impulsive. Elly pulled her into a hug. "Daddy, Your Mom and Nicky and My Mom, they're gonna find us. Jojo and Sonny too." she said consuling her sister. Mireya wrapped her arms around her, her fingers found Elly's extremely long hair and she rubbed it between her fingers. It comforted her and calmed her.

Jason and Nicky went to Nicky and Jetta's room to talk while everyone else remained in Jason and Lolly's room. They sat down once inside with Roman and Franky, the President and VP of the KOA Madrid charter.

"So we managed to get our hands on the surveilance footage from the resort, our tech guy Skip is going over it right now to try and see if we can't get a clear shot of one of the kidnappers from the beach. If we can he can hack into the police database and use that to try and match the face and see if we can't identify one or more of them" Roman explained. He then looked at Franky a little nervously before continuing, "there's something else. This isn't the first kidnapping of an American here on European soil, with so many tourists it's a regular trade...you see most American tourists are kidnapped for one reason, money. The kidnappers will hold them for ransom, American families usually pay as well which makes it so lucrative....but that's not the most money they can make." Roman seemed nervous as he began to explain the next part "you see, the common practice is once they have the ransom...they then sell the kidnapped victims to traders for rather good money....they get paid twice you see. I can only imagine two young American girls would get them a fair bit of money" he said, as if expecting Jason to shoot the messenger with this news.

Jason paced around the room, "so these guys are fucked, and the easiest way out would be to sell the girls off, get some big money and try to disappear before anyone finds out who you are?" Jason said thinking out loud, Roman nodded "if it was me Roach...that's probably the strategy I would use" Roman said softly. Of course Jason knew about that risk and it had crossed his mind a couple of times. "You know maybe we don't have to find the girls if we know where they're headed" Nicky said putting in his two cents, Jason turned to him. "Maybe we just need to find the person the kidnappers would go to and watch him" Nicky said continuing his thought. "How many of those traders are in Spain, there can't be that many around" Jason said looking at Roman. "Not at all, slave trading is a highly lucrative business, but there's a lot of risk and everything about the business is rather advanced. You need serious money to run an operation like that, or have a backer. In Spain there is only one person who runs a trading ring, he has the monopoly, he's run out all other competition so if that's their plan he'd be the guy they have to go to." Roman said, then grinned "and now that you mention it, one of his thugs is in deep debt with us, we could easily get him to give us all the info we need on finding this guy."

Jason paced a bit more, his mind was working at it's peak level at the moment. "Is this guy linked with any organization, like the mafia or some sort of crime ring?" Jason asked. "No way, he's solo, completely on his own" Roman said. "I want to know everything about this guy, who he's connected to, who he does business with, everything, and I tap your guy and get eyes on this guy as well, the sooner we can watch him the better" Jason said.

Then Sonny popped into the room "hey, it's them, they're on the phone for you" he said as Jason and Nicky walked into the other hotel room as Roman and Franky took off to start working on those leads.

----

The kidnapper hung up the phone on Jason then turned to his two partners, they knew something was up cause his script had changed from what it usually was. "We have a serious problem...it turns out Helena didn't do her fucking homework well enough!" he said looking at the woman. "What the hell are you talking about Sydney?" the woman asked the man who was the un-official leader of their little group. "That was the father of those girls on the phone, but he's no fucking American business man! He's the world wide president of the fucking Knights of Armageddon biker gang!" he shouted glaring at Helena. The woman looked stunned, "the girl said she had a nanny...she said her father's company was paying for everything" she said defensively. "Yeah well congratulations, we just kidnapped the daughters of a guy who once was listed as one of the most dangerous criminals on the FBI's most wanted list! Fucking great job" he said in his Spanish accent. "So...what do we do now Syd?" the second man asked, "I don't know. He told me if we brought the girls back right away he'd give us $10,000 dollars" he said pacing. "The money is a fucking trap...we show up for the money we'll be fucking dead before you know it" the second man said, "yeah I know. But being hunted by these guys isn't going to be a vacation either! I mean they got clubs all over Europe!" Sydney responded, "it's true, you see those patches all over the place" Helena said, "let's return the girls and get away. We setup a meeting with them, have the girls there before they arrive and we take off. They find the girls, we're long gone...if they get their daughters back maybe they won't care" she said. "We're not exactly living in mansions here are we Helena? We know we can get a lot of money for those two even without the ransom. The guy I talked to said he could give us anywhere from 2 to 4 million dollars for both of them, I say we make the deal and get lost" the second man said. Sydney shook his head "if we don't turn those girls over to them you can guarantee there will be contracts on our heads!" he said, visibly agitated. "How are they going to find us? They don't know who we are, they don't have our names, and it'd take them days if not weeks to even start to find that information if they ever could. By that time, with that kind of money, we could be long gone. I phone the guy he can make the trade within the hour, we tell them to meet us in three hours...gives us time to get plane tickets and get out of Europe before they even realize the girls aren't showing up" the second man said, laying out his plan.

"Sydney this is a bad idea, I mean we're talking about double crossing the President of the biggest biker gang in the world. Think about that for a minute, for the rest of our lives we'll be looking over our shoulders, every time you hear a motor bike you're going to turn to see if they've found you. I've heard stories of these guys...they're not the type of people you want to fuck around with Sydney" Helena said arguing the second man's points. "Find out how much the man will offer us" Sydney said to the second man as he quickly pulled his cell phone out and dialed. "Sydney, you can't be serious, we return the girls and disappear...maybe they look for us for a short while, but with their girls back and unharmed, how much time would they waste doing that? If you actually go through with this...now they have every reason to get pay back on us and I can guarantee you that won't look pretty" Helena pleaded with Sydney, "I'm exploring all our options alright!" he snapped back. The second man came back smiling, "he says he has a buyer...he can give us $6 million dollars, and he can make the trade as soon as we want to meet" the second man said. "Sydney, you do this you sign all our death warrants" the woman pleaded with him. He picked up his phone, "I have to call him back" he said as he dialed.

----

Jason picked up the phone "you're late, it's been 7 minutes" he said coldly. "Mr.Walker you will need to up your offer of $10,000 before we can consider making a deal" the voice said on the other end. "It wasn't a negotiation, it was a take it or leave it offer...I don't know how smart you think you are, but you can't hide from me. I'll find you, I'll find your partners, and if I have to burn all of Europe down to get to you so be it" Jason said in a cold but calm tone. "Mr.Walker, we're talking about the lives of your little girls here...are you telling me they aren't worth more than $10,000" the voice said calmly. "Fine...but if you want me to offer more money you're going to have to prove to me the girls are okay" Jason said, "very well...one moment" the voice said, whoever it was on the other end wasn't stupid, but he wasn't smarter than Jason. Jason waited till he heard Mireya's voice on the phone "Daddy?", "hey Rey it's me" he could see Lolly almost jump when she heard Mireya's name, Nicky grabbed her arm gently to keep her from sprinting across the room, "hey babygirl, is the phone up against your ear?" Jason asked, "yeah" she replied, Jason smiled, it was scary how smart the girls were getting. "Can he hear what I'm saying?" Jason asked, "no Daddy" Mireya said, being careful to only give yes or no answers. "Okay honey...are you guys in a house?" Jason asked, "no daddy, we're not too scared" she said, "this kid is brilliant" Jason thought to himself. "Are you in a warehouse or building like that?" Jason asked, "yeah Daddy...I just keep thinking of fun times, like when we went to that place by the water, and you laughed at me cause it smelled funny" she said, "baby you're a genius just like your mom...don't worry, Daddy and Uncle Nicky are going to come get you real quick", the phone was pulled away "so now you know the girls are safe....for now" the voice on the other end said. "Alright...how much money?" Jason said, he wasn't paying this guy he just needed to keep him in one place. "$5 million dollars" the voice said over the phone, "it'll take some time to get that money together" Jason said, "I will call back in one hour" the voice said then he hung up.

"What time did you meet the woman with the boat?" Jason asked Sonny as he grabbed a pad of paper. "It was around 2:30 pm" Sonny said, Jason looked at his phone "they called us just after 3:15 pm" Jason said jotting some stuff down onto the pad of paper. He handed it to Sonny, "get that to Roman, tell them they're being held in a warehouse type building, somewhere near water and it's no more than 45 minutes from the beach where you guys were...see if he can narrow down a couple locations for us" he said. Sonny nodded grabbing the paper and he was out the door.

Mireya and Elly sat in the room for hours. Mireya began to get antsy.
"What if we jump the next person that comes in here? Make a run for it." She suggested. Elly glared at her. "We can't dodge bullets, Rey." She said pointedly. "Right." Mireya sighed heavily. "Ugh, I can't take this. I can't just sit here." She said exasperatedly. Elly just sighed. "I know but we have to be smart about this." She said and stood up from the small bed in room. She looked at the small window. Mireya was taller then her even though she was younger but she was lighter. "Rey. C'mon over here." She said and Mireya shrugged. "Okay." She said and walked over. Elly lifted Mireya on her shoulders and Mireya grabbed ahold of the small ledge and lifted her self up. She turned up her nose. "Ew, There's dead bugs!"
"Rey, Focus!"
"Sorry. Um. I see Boats an' stuff and the water." Mireya said. "I think that's called a Marina." Elly said and set Mireya down. "Okay." She said and then it was more waiting.

Suddenly, a man entered the room. Mireya and Elly stood up. "You." He pointed to Mireya. "You're coming with me." He said and walked over to her. She snatched away and Elly stood in front of her."No, I'm not." Mireya barked behind her sister. "Fine. I'll tell your daddy you don't wanna talk to him." He said and Mireya frowned. She didn't know why but she knew he wasn't lying. Elly did to. "Go on, Rey. It's okay." She told her and Mireya looked at her sister. She gave her a reassuring smile. Mireya looked up at the man. He reached for her arm. "I can walk by myself. Butt face." She barked and crossed her arms. Elly watched as sister disappeared out the door after being blindfolded again.

After a few moments. Mireya was brought back and Elly hugged her. "I talked to Daddy!" She chirped happily. "He said He and Uncle Nicky was coming for us." She smiled. Elly smiled back. She wished she could have heard his voice. "I told him where we were. Well that I could smell water. The bad guys, their so stupid. They didn't even know!" Mireya giggled. Elly couln't help but smile herself. "And I counted my steps from the door to where they took me. 14. Then there's a door. After that it was 26 to the table." She told her sister. "Then I could smell fish. It smelled really bad." She said and Elly nodded. She knew the Daddy and Nicky were coming so they should just sit tight but if what if they moved them. Then what? She remembered that from the movie she and Mireya watched when they were at Sonny and Jojo's. They'd fallen asleep with the tv on and Taken was on. Mireya and Elly watched the whole thing.
She couldn't let that happen to them. "Okay." She said and looked around. Mireya did the same thing. "Whatcha thinkin?" She asked her as Elly spotted some crates. "Maybe there's something in here we could use."
"For what?"
"I don't know yet. But If they try to take us away from here. We gotta make sure they can't." She said and Mireya shrugged. "Okay."

---

Lolly sighed. She was tried of waiting. She noticed Joey hadn't spoke since the girls were taken. Lolly sighed. "Joey." She called to her. Joey didn't blink. "Johanna." That snapped Joey back to reality. Lolly walked over. "It's not your fault." Lolly said and Joey looked at her. "Yes it is. They asked me if they could get on the boat. I told them yes. They came to me. You guys trusted me. I let them get taken." She said and dropped her head in her hands. Lolly roughly removed her hands and grabbed Joey's chin. "You did not take the girls. You thought you were showing them a good time. This is not your fault. I don't know that I wouldn't have made the same mistake."
"You wouldn't have, Lolly you see everything. You'da known something was up." Joey said and began to cry. Lolly pulled Joey into a hug. "I'm soo sorry, Lolly." She cried, her words muffled by Lolly's chest. "I let you and Jason down." She cried. "You did not. We still trust you. We don't trust the people outside of this place." Lolly told her. Lolly had become calmer as time went on. Less impulsive and more patient. A younger Lolly would be pounding the pavement with shotgun in hand but now Lolly knew, keeping her wits about her was the most important thing. "We'll find the girls and we'll get the sons of bitches who took them."She told her. Joey looked up. "I want that blond bitch." She said and Lolly nodded. "Not if I get to her first."

Roman and Franky walked into the hotel room a short while later with Sonny, they had a map in hand. "Roach, I think I may know where they're at" he said as he laid the map out. "Given everything you told me, this area right here would be one of the only places they could be in the time frame you said. Most of the buildings down here are all part of the shipyard, they wouldn't be in any of those...but this right here....this warehouse...this is where they are" he said. "You sure?" Jason asked, "completely. Skip got a face off that surveilance camera, it was the woman that spoke to the girls...her name is Helena Jonas...and her father's company was the one that used to be in this warehouse...and the family still owns the place, it has boat access...I'm telling you, this is it" Roman said. Franky's cell phone rang, he spoke briefly then turned to Jason, "I put two guys on that trader we were telling you about, my boys just called me, the guy's on the move and he walked out carrying a steel briefcase...the kind you use to carry lots of money in" he said.

Jason and Nicky grinned...the waiting game was over. "Franky, tell your boys to stick with him...if he gets to that warehouse before we get there, tell your boys to light him up" Franky nodded and got back on the phone, Jason looked at Roman "get everyone up and rolling.....I want us to own every street surrounding this place" Roman nodded "you got it boss, we're on our way" he said as both he and Franky went out the door. Jason and Nicky started heading out the door as well when Jason stopped and turned to Lolly and Jetta, "you two coming?" he said, bothe Jetta and Lolly jumped up, Jason handed a gun to Lolly and Nicky handed one to Jetta as well. Sonny spoke up "hey what if they call, what should I tell them?" Sonny asked, Jason looked at Sonny, "tell him I'm coming for him...and Hell's coming with me" he said as they left out the door. Jason, Lolly and Nicky, Jetta got onto the bikes and headed off towards the warehouse.

------

"Sydney you're making a mistake" Helena pleaded as he hung up the phone. "It's the best move, we get rid of the girls, we get enough money to disappear all while they're still waiting for us" he said as he and the other man began packing things up. "Dammit what don't you guys understand...we can't disappear, there's nowhere to hide, where AREN'T these guys?" she said pleading. "We'll be fine, get ready to go" he said firmly. Helena threw her hands up in exasperation, "hey Sydney, he's here" the other guy said coming from the door-way. He nodded, "go grab the girls...make sure you got them tied tightly...they've been a handful so far, don't need them getting loose now" he said, the other man grabbed his gun and walked to get the girls.

The second man opened the door and pointed the gun at the girls "both of you turn and face that wall right now" he said firmly. Mireya made a snappy comment to him, "shutup you little brat! Face the wall or I'll shoot you!" he said firmly pointing the gun at Mireya. Elly and Mireya knew it was a bad idea but the guy had a gun and they weren't tough enough to beat a bullet. They both slowly turned, for the first time starting to feel scared. The man quickly tied the girls hands tightly then put the blindfolds on, he then led them out to the main room.

Sydney and Helena were waiting, Sydney took Elly's arm as the other man took Mireya and led them out to the parking lot. The girls could hear the sound of another vehicle pull up somewhere close by where they were standing. Sydney walked up to the man to shake his hand when they heard the roar of two Harley engines revving at high speed, Elly recognized what was about to happen, "Rey get down!" she shouted. Sydney, the trader, and the second man turned to look to see the bikes....Helena taking her cue from the girls ran back into the warehouse. As it turned out the three men made a terrible mistake by looking. Two bikes came into the view and within seconds the sound of machine gun fire was heard. Elly screamed as she pressed herself to the ground as much as she could. She knew these were the good guys but she was afraid they might not see her and Elly. For about 25 seconds there was a steady stream of bullets flying through the air, it was Roman's guys that had been following the trader...Jason had given the order to light him up if they got there early....they intended to fulfill that order to the letter.

Helena hid in the small warehouse, she knew this had been a bad idea now she was trapped. She figured maybe if she remained hidden they may leave without her. The dust settled and shortly Mireya and Elly could feel the ground rumbling with the sound of a large number of Harleys making their way towards the warehouse, for Elly it was the greatest feeling in the world, as she knew her Daddy's bikes was one of them. Jason and Nicky hadn't even stopped their bikes yet and Jetta and Lolly were already off sprinting through the parking lot. Jetta's eyes had picked up her daughter on the ground immediately, and by Lolly's reaction so had she. Elly then felt her moms arms grab her tightly "oh my god Elly are you alright?" she gasped almost out of breath, "hey, give me that" she heard her mom say and then felt her mom cut loose the rope tying her hands, she took off the blindfold and hugged her momy tightly as she saw Mireya clinging to her mom as well. Jason and Nicky got off their bikes and quickly made their way over, one of Roman's guys stopped Jason, "hey Roach...there's still some breathing over there" he said pointing to the three men who had been gunned down in a hail storm of bullets. "Keep em alive" Jason said in a cold tone, he then quickly ran over to the girls with Nicky. The girls still clung to their moms as he gave them each a kiss, "you girls are going to end up causing way more trouble than your moms" he said with a grin. Nicky gave Elly a kiss too, "I knew you'd come Daddy, that's why I wasn't afraid" Elly said smiling.

They spent a few minutes hugging the girls till Roman tapped Jason, "so Roach...about these guys?", Jason looked over at them "take em to the clubhouse...I'll deal with them there" he said in a dark tone.

Lolly was silent the entire time. As soon as she saw the girls, she hopped off the bike. She didn't flinch as gunfire rang out around her. She fired thoughtfully. She didn't have time or the luxury of spraying the place as the girls were here. She made sure each of her shots were quick and precise. As she approached the girls. She saw that they were both down and but Mireya had somehow removed her blindfold.

---

Mireya had been doing handstands as a man entered the room. She dropped her feet to the ground gracefully and stood beside her sister. He ordered them to turn around. "Beat it, Meatface. I don't gotta listen to you!" She snapped back but she stiffened when the man held a gun at her. She looked to Elly who just shook her head. They both turned around.

After having had their wrists ziptied and blindfolded. They were lead outside. Mireya could smell the salt had gotten heavier in the air so she knew they were outside. Soon she heard a car pull up and then a bunch of bikes. Suddenly, Elly screamed for her to get down and Mireya dropped to the ground. Thinking quickly, she contorted her body so that she was able to slip both legs in between her arms and get her arms in front of her. She reached up and removed her blindfold. She was going to go after Elly's but soon she saw her mother walking up amist the gunfire, firing off herself. Mireya thought that was really cool. Her mother knelled down, cut her ziptie with a pocket knife. handed it to Jetta and then pulled her into a hug. "Are you alright, Mija?" She asked her. "I'm okay, Mommy." She said looking up at her. Her mother frowned. "What happened to your face? Did they hurt you, Mija." She asked her. There was an expression in her mother's face she hadn't seen before. "One did. It was a woman, The same one that told us about the boat. She hit me after I hit her in the nose with my forehead." She said pointing to the bruise on her forehead. Her mother's face was dark and kinda scary, Mireya had to look away and when she did, She noticed her father coming over. "Daddy!" She grinned happily. "Nick-Nack!" She chirped. She smiled at her Dad's comment even though she had no idea what that meant. She looked over at Elly when she spoke. "Me Neither, Daddy! I wasn't scared. I even hit one of 'em!" She said with a grin.
After a few moments of hugs and kisses. Mireya thought of something. She tugged on his vest as he finished talking to a guy she didn't remember. "Did I do good, Daddy?" She asked. She knew she did but she liked to hear it. She was always making mistakes because she was too energitic, knocking things over, breaking them. She'd even knocked over hid bike once because she wasn't looking where she was going. She'd never seen him so upset with her after that, He'd been telling her/teaching her to pay attention to her surroundings, know where she was going. This time she did. She paid very close attention.

The trader was lucky, he didn't survive the bullets, Sydney and the other man weren't as lucky as Roman's guys put them in a van and headed to the clubhouse. Both men could only pray they'd bleed out before they arrived.

Jason smiled down at Mireya, "you did great" he said kissing her forehead, he then looked at Elly, "you too, you were both great" he said kissing Elly.

Jetta was turning to carry Elly to the SUV one of the Madrid members was waiting in to take them home when Elly stopped her. "Mom wait...the lady...she ran back inside the warehouse" Elly said, Jetta put her down and looked at her "how do you know?" she asked. "I heard her footsteps go that way when the shooting started" she said "it's the lady from the beach, she hit Rey" Lolly's eyes flashed at that "and she choked me too until I got dizzy" Elly said. It was a lie but Elly knew it'd make her mom mad...she wanted the lady to pay and she was quite content to make up stories to ensure she did.

Jetta turned to Jason and Nicky "let the mommy's handle this one" Jetta said pulling her gun, as did Lolly. Nicky looked at Jason, he grinned "yeah the bitch is fucked" Jason said. "DADDY!" Elly shouted and kicked him in the shin "no swearing!" She said sternly, causing Jason and Nicky to laugh.

The guys took the girls to the SUV as Jetta and Lolly went into the warehouse, "so do we draw straws to decide who gets her first" Jetta said with a look that was as dark as Lolly's.

Mireya smiled happily when Daddy said she did good.
She turned to Elly when she said the lady choked her. Elly didn't typical tell stories but the woman did deserve it so she nodded. She looked at her mommy. She was too quiet. Her mommy always talked. Then Jetta spoke and Daddy cursed. Mireya giggled and then clapped a hand over her mouth when Elly kicked him.

Soon it was just Her, Elly, Daddy and Nick-Nack in the van. "Can get some ice cream? With the hard chocolate stuff on top and, and, and The sprinkles. Oo! No a Banana split!" Mireya said all in one breath. Everyone knew the last thing that little girl needed was sugar but given the circumstances..."You want some to right, Elly?" Mireya asked her bouncing in her seat.

---

Lolly looked over at Jetta. "Nah, We'll do this together." She said and pulled out her pocket knife. "I'm gonna skin this bitch." She said and Jetta told her what she was gonna do to her. "We've got to find her first." She said and scanned the area. There were plenty of places to hide but not at short notice. Lolly spotted a box of crates and motioned for Jetta to go one the other side. She also noticed some chairs. That must have been where Mireya had spoken to Jason. She approached the table as chairs while Jetta found the woman where Lolly told her to check. She heard shuffling and some pained cries. She heard Jetta say something about not being hurt yet. Lolly looked around. She found some cords and decided she'd use those to tie her up. Jetta dragged the woman over by her hair. She began begging for her life but neither of them heard it. Jetta forced her into the chair and Lolly tied her wrists and ankles. Jetta began talking to the woman, explaining who they were to the girls and how this was the last mistake she'll ever make. Lolly saw where Mireya hit the woman in the nose. That's my girl She thought and decided she'd reward her for that. Before Jetta was finished. Lolly took her knife, and slid it into the woman's arm under the skin, making sure to keep it away the veins. The woman screamed out, causing Lolly's ears to ring but she ignored it. She hurt her girls. She was going to pay.

Jetta and Lolly entered the warehouse looking around. Lolly mentioned how she was going to skin the bitch alive, "I want to see her bleed out, make her watch herself die and suffer with the pain" Jetta said. She wasn't as violent as Lolly but if somebody hurt her daughter, she'd kill them in a heart beat. Lolly motioned and Jetta around some crates and found Helena crouched down under them, she grabbed the woman by the hair, twisting her hair in her hand tightly and yanking hard on her head to pull her to her feet. She let out a cry and Jetta laughed "what's your fucking problem, this isn't even the start of us hurting you". Jetta dragged her over by the hair to chair Lolly set up, "please don't kill me, it wasn't my idea, I promise you, please oh god don't kill me" she begged, but it meant nothing to them. Jetta forced her into the chair and Lolly tied her wrists and ankles to the chair tightly. "Listen you fucking bitch, we're the mothers of those two girls you took and we're extremely protective of them when some kind of bitch like you wants to hurt them" Jetta said, the woman pleaded "please, it was a mistake, honestly" she begged sobbing, "don't worry...it's the last one you're ever going to make bitch" Jetta said coldly. The woman screamed as Lolly slid the knife into her arm, Jetta smiled. Lolly slid the knife slowly up the woman's arm causing her to scream some more. Jetta looked on the table and saw some metal bolts lying there, she grinned. She took two of them and walked over to the woman, "open your fucking mouth bitch" Jetta said, the woman was screaming so it was easy. Jetta placed the two bolts in her mouth, in between her teeth on either side in the back of her mouth. "Now close your mouth...clench your teeth tight, keep those there understand?" she asked, the woman sobbing nodded quickly. Jetta stood up and gave Lolly an evil grin, she then grabbed the woman's hair and pulled her head forward and brought her knee up hard into the woman's jaw. There was a loud cracking sound, and a crunch sound as well as Jetta's knee connected. The woman screamed in agony as blood ran from her mouth, her jaw was visibly detached as the combination of the bolts and Jetta's knee impact had broken her jaw, and also broken and cracked her teeth as well.

"We're just getting started you fucking bitch" Jetta said with a dark look on her face as she looked into the eyes of the woman who had kidnapped her little girl.

Lolly peeled a layer of skin from the woman's arm. The woman shook voliently and the shock from Jetta breaking her arm and Lolly removing her skin was too much and she passed out. Lolly rolled her eyes and checked her pulse. "She's still alive but not for too much longer. We forgot to grab a defib unit." She said as if she'd forgotten milk or something. Lolly decided to continue skin her. After a while the woman was skinless on her left side and the shock killed her.
Lolly made sure to keep blood from her clothes as best she could. She still had some on her but she had an extra shirt on. So she just removed the shirt. They were gonna set this place ablaze anyway so it didn't matter to her. Lolly reached in her purse, found a small can of hair spray. "Jetta toss me your lighter." She said and she did. Lolly and Jetta stepped back and Lolly flicked on the lighter and sprayed the hairspray. Fire engulfed the woman in seconds. "Ready to go?" Lolly asked feeling much better.

---

Mireya became bored. "Daddy, where's Momma, It's too small in here, can I get out?" She asked, never really a huge fan of small places.

Jetta wasn't used to violence like this but this woman had hurt her daughter, and was in the process of selling her to god knows who, that idea alone was enough to see this all as suitable punishment for the crime. "Yeah let's go" Jetta said as her and Lolly left the warehouse and walked towards the SUV. Jason and Nicky got out of the SUV, "you two alright?" Jason asked. Lolly made a comment, Jetta just nodded, Jason saw the blood on Lolly's shirt then looked at her "so you sort it out with the other one in there?" Jason asked, Lolly just grinned. Jetta and Lolly walked to the SUV as Jason and Nicky headed to their bikes, he looked back at Lolly "the girls are wanting ice cream so...good luck" he said with a grin "we got some business to take care of...see you back at the resort" Jason said as he and Nicky took off. Jetta and Lolly had their fun, now it was Jason and Nicky's turn.

----

By the time they got to the clubhouse Roman's guys were already there. They walked into the back shop and Roman's guys had the two men strung up in the middle of the shop, hanging by their arms from chains attached to the ceiling used to lift bike engines. Jason walked in looking at the guy, they were both hanging there in their jeans but their shirts had been ripped off. Jason stared at both of them, the thought of these guys touching his girls, or hurting them, all it did was make him see red as he stared at them. Jason didn't say anything as Roman's guys dumped a can of gasoline over both the guys. The second guy started cursing at them all, apparently figuring to go out in a blaze of glory, Sydney just stared at them knowing what was in store for them. He nodded to Nicky, who lit a match and tossed it at the second guy, as soon as the match hit him flames errupted. Jason slid his brass knuckles on, and smashed Sydney several times in the face, each time feeling bones crunching or cracking. He then took a match from Nicky and flicked it at Sydney and as soon as it made contact his body was engulfed in flames, but only for a few moments as suddenly he was doused with a fire extinguisher that stopped the flames. He hung there, his body burned severely. Jason repeated his process several more times before he finally died, by the end Sydney was set on fire 4 or 5 times.

Jason turned to Roman, "thanks for everything brother" he said as the two hugged. He and Nicky left after saying their goodbyes and headed for the resort.

Lolly and Jetta made their way back to the SUV, Jason and Nicky hopped out. Jason asked if they were alright. "Peachy." She chirped and she was feeling much better. She was a little peeved that the woman died before she could finish skinning her but oh well. Jason noticed blood on her shirt and she grinned sheepishly. The boy took off and she gave them a little wave. She would have kissed him but that would only calm him down so she didn't bother. She'd deal with that later. She looked in at the girls as she climbed in the Van. Mireya smiled up from her coloring book that Nicky gave her to keep her occupied. "Mommy! " She beamed and Elly said something to Jetta. "Can we get some ice cream?" She asked her sweetly. Lolly nodded. Mireya would probably be up all night but that was fine. The girls needed some fun. Lolly pulled out of the shipyard and headed toward the nearest ice cream place. They got an Ultimate Banana Spilt and the girl shared it. They made their way toward the resort and to their rooms. Mireya and Elly ran to Joey and Joey skillfully scooped them up with tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry, Girls." She said with a kiss to the top of their heads. "It wasn't your fault, Jojo." Mireya said and Elly agreed with a comment of her own. Mireya noticed Sonny. Joey set them down and they ran to hug him. "Sonny!" Mireya said happily hugging him around his legs. "Mommy got us ice cream! It was so yummy and, and, and, it had peanuts and, and Strawberry stuff and Hard Chocolate stuff and Bananas." She said happily. Joey couldn't believe how much she missed those two. Sometimes, Mireya's constant talking would drive her crazy but right now it was music to her ears. "Well, How about we get you some toys?" Joey suggested. Mireya's eyes widened. "Really?!" "Yea, But you gotta stay here. I'll go pick them up." She said still feeling guilty. Even though no one blamed her. she still felt responsible and wanted desperately to make up for it. Lolly placed a hand on her shoulder. "You don't have to, Joey. It wasn't your fault."
"I know but still. I wanna make up for the time they were gone. They were supposed to be having fun, not getting kidnapped and locked up somewhere." She said and Lolly touched her face. "Oh, Can we watch Spongebob?"Mireya asked. Lolly laughed. "Sure." She said and ushered the girls to the room. Joey and Sonny made their way out just as Jason and Nicky returned. He asked where they were going. "The toy store. To get the girls something." Joey said, she still had a hard time looking at Jason but she forced herself to look at him.

---

Months Later...

---

The fiasco in Madrid was a dark but far off memory as their lives had gone back to normal. With Jason and Nicky handling the club, Sonny having moved up from a Prospect to a full blown Member. Joey still worked at the Shop with Jetta. Lolly had gone from teaching dance to her first love gymnastics. Mireya and Elly still acing their classes and excelling in their extracurriculars. Everything was back to normal.

At one point, Lolly started noticing Jason seemed a bit off. Not in a bad way but as if there was something on his mind. She let it go for a while but it was plaguing her. He'd kept his promise to not to shut her out so she was beginning to become worried. So She decided to ask him about it one morning. "You okay?" She'd asked him. He gave a quick answer and with a quick kiss he disappeared out the door. She was stunned a bit. She didn't know what the hell was wrong with him but she decided she'd wait. How long she wasn't sure. Patience was allegedly a virtue but Lolly's never been particularly virtuous.

Jason was sitting in the clubhouse office, fiddling with a box in his hand. He had no clue how long he'd been sitting there, somewhat in a trance looking at the box he was holding. Nicky walked in and noticed the box in his hands right away, "what the hell is that?" he asked pointing to the box. Jason snapped out of his trance, looking up at Nicky "it's a fucking party dress" he snapped back at Nicky. Nicky grinned, "don't....no...you've gotta be kidding me.....that's not..." Jason looked back up at Nicky slightly annoyed, "did somebody hit you in the head to make you start talking like a moron?" Jason snapped, "fuck you dude, there is only one thing I know of that comes in a box like that" Nicky said with a grin, "then you fucking don't get out much dumbass" Jason snapped as he put the box back in the drawer. "Now did you want something, or are you just here to make my life miserable?" Jason said looking up at Nicky. He was trying hard to give Nicky the pissed off vibe, but unfortunately for Jason not too many people had known him as long as Nicky had. "Jason and Lolly sitting in a tree..." Nicky started in a taunting voice, "Fuck you asshole!" Jason snapped as he tossed a stapler at Nicky. Nicky just laughed as he dodged the stapler "Getting M-A-R-R-I-E-D" he taunted as he kept going, Jason just shook his head...having somebody who knew you that well and was that close to your personality could be a real pain in the ass sometimes. "Shutup and give me my stapler back" he snapped. Nicky grinned as he grabbed the stapler, then hit Jason in the arm with it "Oww...fuck....you are such an annoying asshole sometimes" Jason said as he put the stapler down and pulled the paper staple out of his sleeve.

"Yeah well you threw the thing at me first, so fuck you" Nicky said grinning as he sat down in a chair. "So...seeing as you've got the box...I'm assuming you haven't asked her yet" Nicky said, Jason, still annoyed, more so that his secret was discovered...by Nicky of all people, than anything else. "Wow you're some fucking detective aren't you" he snapped, still annoyed. "Think she'll say yes?" Nicky said laughing, Jason just flipped him the middle finger. "So what's the big deal...I mean you guys have been together forever...you got a kid together....wouldn't this just be more of a formality than anything else?" Nicky asked. "I dunno man...I just never saw myself being...married. I mean sure my dad and mom are, but that was before the club. I don't know, I mean it's nothing to do with her...I just gotta get my head around it" Jason said. "Wow, aint that ironic, isn't she usually the one trying to get around your head" Nicky said with a laugh, even Jason couldn't stop from smirking at the comment. "Will you quit being such a fucking pussy and ask your wife to marry you already" Nicky said point blank, Jason had to laugh, they were married by all accounts. They lived together, shared everything, had a kid together, and neither one was planning on leaving the other one...the only thing they didn't have were rings, a marriage certificate, and the Mr. and Mrs. title. "On second thought, maybe not...I mean then she'd be Lolly Walker...and that just sounds weird" Nicky said with a grin as Jason flipped him off again. "So, did you actually want something?" Jason asked, "probably, but hell if I can remember what it was now...so...later" Nicky said with a laugh as he walked out the door. Jason just laughed and shook his head.

Jason rode back into town, he knew Lolly was still at the studio and she'd probably be alone. He walked into the studio looking around, "hey baby you around?" he shouted

Lolly just finished up her routine. It's been a while since she'd done any gymnastics well...publicly anyway but she had gotten back into it when she was showing Mireya a few moves. She'd forgotten how much she'd loved it and didn't realize how much she'd missed it.
She's showered quickly, dried her hair that was trying to go back to her natural curls which she hadn't worn in years. She brushed her hair back into a high ponytail. Just as she finished packing up her things she heard Jason call. She smiled and walked into the main floor to meet him. "Hey." She said as she walked up to him. She gave him a kiss and looked at his face. "Finished early?" She asked him, curious as to why he was here. Usually she'd go see him at the club not the other way around. He said something about it and she cocked her head. "You okay?"

"Well I just had to come talk to you about something" Jason said. Lolly asked him if he was okay, "yeah I'm fine...it's just...well". Most guys had these wildly romantic stories about how they proposed to their wives, involving flowers, or chocolates, or some fancy restaurant, or something sentimental...but that just wasn't Jason's style.

"Look...you know better than anyone I'm no good at shit like this, so I apologize if this isn't the proper way of doing things or whatever" Jason said...he would ramble when he was nervous, which didn't usually ever happen, cause Jason was almost never nervous. He then got down on one knee, at least he got that part right, he pulled out the box he had in his pocket, and opened it. While it wasn't Jason's style, he had done one sentimental thing in the whole process, the ring. It wasn't a brand new shiny ring, it was an old ring, almost 40 years old, it was the engagement ring her dad had given her mom when they got married. "After everything we've been through...do you still want to marry me?" he asked looking up at her.

Lolly looked at him strangely as he rambled. He was nervous. Not only that he'd apologize for something he hadn't even done. She was confused. Then he dropped down to one knee and Lolly's mouth fell open and she felt dizzy. This was twice now, he made her feel faint. Each time is when he did something she didn't see coming. Which was an amazing feat in and of itself. He'd been able to do it twice. She looked Jason at the ring, then at Jason again. She couldn't move, couldn't think, couldn't even breathe. Jason called her and it brought her back to reality. Then tears came from nowhere and a smile slid across her face. "You sick of sonuva..."She said, wiping away her tears, that placed a horrified look on Jason's face. "Of course, I'll marry you!" She said and dropped down, wrapping her arms around him, laughing and crying a bit. She couldn't believe it. Jason proposed...to her no less. After everything that happened. All the fighting, the drama, everything. If there was any doubt in her mind about their relationship at all, It was gone now. With that, she smothered him with kisses.

Jason was about to ask "what the fuck?" when Lolly called him a sick sonuva...then she told him yes, women were crazy. Jason lay on the floor as Lolly smothered him with kisses, he had to say he didn't mind it too much at all. He wrapped his arms around her, kissing her back as they made out on the floor of her studio. Jason was usually the one leading things when it came to stuff like this, but this time Lolly was definitely leading the charge as he felt her pull off his cut and felt her hands all over as she continued kissing him as if it was the last time they'd see each other.

While this was all going on, neither one bothered to remember that the studio's front door was still unlocked and the OPEN sign was still on. As Jason and Lolly got caught up with each other on the floor in the studio, Joey suddenly walked in and caught them

"Whoa!" Joey said as caught Jason and Lolly in a comprising posistion. She turned right back out the door. "Jesus People. Lock the damn door!" She said. 'And she used to get on me about locking the door' thought to herself as she made her way back to her car. She'd forgetten why she'd came in the first place.

Lolly giggled against Jason's lips. "Oops." She said, and let him up. Suddenly, overwhelmed with a different sort of excitement. She was getting married. She pulled on her clothes and giggling. She pulled him into one more lingering kiss. She couldn't believe she was going to marry him of all people. Oddly enough, After her father was diagnosed with Cancer. She figured, Jason would be the one giving her away if she were ever married, not waiting for her at the end.

She smiled at him. She'd hadn't even let him put the ring on her she was so excited. She practically snatched the ring from him. Lolly wasn't a ring girl. They always threw off her balance when she shot or slipped off her finger during her routines. She looked at the ring and remembered where it came from. "This was my Mother's..." She breathed. She'd never seen it in person, she assumed it was buried with her. How did Jason get a hold of it? She felt tears sting her eyes then. Her father must have given it to him but when? When they'd finally gotten back together, he'd already passed. Lolly looked at Jason again, blinking back tears. The only person her father ever approved of.
Maybe for once in her life, she'd done something right.

Test