Going Home

Chapter 18

Edited

Tasha was the first one up the next morning. She used that time to gather her thoughts and get herself ready for the war that was about to come. They were going to "kill" her that morning and then get Hale to send the pictures to Lowen. Then it would be time for Jax and the others to meet with Lowen and hopefully end this mess.

It was all going to be over in a matter of a couple of hours, and she couldn't be more relieved. She headed out the door and sat back on the bench that sat on the porch, sipping her coffee and reflecting on all the shit that had happened for the last month. She closed her eyes and said a silent prayer to her mother. She knew that she needed to channel some of Gemma's strength for this.

Happy watched her pace out on the porch as he drank his coffee. He knew she was preparing herself for what was about to go down. Tig, joined him as he took a drink of his coffee. "You think she's ready for this?" he asked Happy.

Happy looked out the window and nodded his head. "She's ready. She's psyching herself up for it all." he explained. "She's gonna check her gun, for the fifth time. Then she's going to talk herself into it."

Tig smirked. "How do you know all this?" he asked with a chuckle.

Happy shrugged and gave his own smirk. "It's what she does. How she is able to do what she has to do. She has to get into a certain mind frame. She's not like us."

Tig nodded and watched her pull her gun out and check it, just as Happy had said. "You think she's going to be able to do this?"

Happy had no doubt that Tasha could handle it. She was one of the strongest people he knew. Hell she was shot and nearly died, but survived and came out wanting to get right back into the thick of shit. Lowen was a threat to not only herself, but to her family as well. "She's got this." he said as he walked out the door.

Happy watched as she mentally prepared herself. "You good?" he asked.

She turned and smiled at him. Her smile was one of the things he treasured most about her. She lit up a room with that smile. He watched as she placed the gun in the back of her pants and walked towards him, her confident strides, matched her attitude. She leaned up on her tiptoes to reach his lips, as his arm wrapped around her waist.

"I'm good. Just trying to get into the right frame of mind." she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "You know I love you, right?"

He furrowed his brows, "I know." he searched her face for any kind of tell as to what was going through her mind. "What's going on in that head of yours?" he asked.

She smiled and kissed his lips again. "Nothin'. Just wanted to make sure you knew." she said as she pulled away.

Happy watched as she went into the cabin and ran a hand over his head. He knew that woman to well to know that she just wanted him to know she loved him. She was planning something of her own. Something that was gonna get her killed and he was not going to let it go.

"Where the hell did you get this?" Tig asked Happy as they poured a container of blood out onto the yellowing dry grass.

Happy shrugged and continued on. "Don't matter." he said as he poured the last bit out. He motioned for the guys to bring Tasha over. He took the sight of her in and a chill ran through him. She looked like a walking corpse. "Holy shit!" he said as his breath caught in his throat.

She looked at him with a smile. 'Don't look half bad for a dead girl, huh?" she quipped.

"How the hell did you do all this?" he asked looking at the bullet wound to her temple.

"Juice got everything I needed from the halloween store in Lodi." she said and got into position. She took a deep breath and smelled the sick metallic smell. "Jesus! is this real?"

Happy just nodded and added the rest of the blood. She looked convincing. If he hadn't have heard her speak seconds earlier he would have thought she was dead. A thought he never wanted to think again.

Back at the cabin, Juice was running intel on the three judges that Lowen had in his pocket. He hit pay dirt when he pulled up their information. "Bingo." he said to himself. He had been digging deep and found the dirty connection of the three judges to Lowen and it was huge. He wondered if this is what Lowen had wanted Tasha dead for. He pulled out Tasha's laptop and went through all the shit she had dug up on Lowen. She had mentioned that he had officials and the like in his pocket before.

As he searched through her files he became well aware of the shit she had been doing while she was away. She was meticulous with the data she collected on the targets. Then he found it. The whole reason why they were in this mess to begin with.