The Gavel

Before The Gavel Finale : The Devil Wears Leather

The next morning Chibs and Tig rode their Harley's out to the Death Valley desert to meet with Bishop and Alvarez. When Chibs and Tig arrive at the desert Bishop is pacing back and forth, with Alvarez by his side staring down Chibs through his dark tinted shades.

Chibs and Tig greet the Mayan kings. But Chibs see's Alvarez's cold, expressionless face as they hug and immediately knows somethings up.

Chibs : "So what's this all about Marcus."

Bishop : "I sent 4 of my guys to Charming to pick up the shipment last week, and they never came back. Do you know anything about that?"

Alvarez watches Chibs closely, and observes his body language.

Chibs : "They picked up the guns from our warehouse as usual, but I'm sorry brother I don't know anything about something happening to them."

Bishop : "You sure about that?"

Tig : "What the fucks that supposed to mean?"

Bishop : "They were last seen in your town! that's what thats supposed to fucking mean! "(Bishop gets in Tigs face)

Tig pulls out his handgun from inside his Kutte holster and cocks it back. But Bishop is still nose to nose with Tig, clenching his fists as hard as he can, waiting for Tig to make a move.

Chibs : "Tig!! Put it the fuck away now!"

Tig obeys and slides his pistol back into his Kutte holster, and Bishop backs away from Tig unclenching his fists."

Chibs : "Do we really look that fucking stupid, huh? Why the hell would we shit on the truce?"

Alvarez : "If it wasn't you, then it was somebody at your table. The only ones who knew where they were gonna be were Mayans and Samcro."

Tig : "Maybe they just took off with the guns so they can sell em and cut you out of the profits."

Bishop : "They'd never betray their brothers."

Tig : "I said the same thing about a few traitors of our own."

Alvarez : "Mayans and Sons are two completely different animals esè."

Chibs : "That doesn't change the fact that every MC has had traitors in their ranks at some point, those boys could be in Vegas right now for all we know."

Bishop : "It doesn't make any sense man, their lifers, they'd rather die than betray us."

Chibs glances at Tig, and Tig nods at him.

Chibs : "Give us a minute."

Alvarez : "Yeah, ok."

Chibs and Tig walk back towards their Harley's away from Bishop and Alvarez.

Chibs : "Tiggy, who wasn't at the warehouse last week?"

Tig : "Uhhh...let's see...Hap, Rat, Quinn and Mont- oh fuck...Hap's crew."

Chibs : "It has to be, nothing else makes any sense."

Tig : "Jesus fucking Christ, if the Mayans find them first we're fucked, they'll think we gave the order and lied to their face about it."

Chibs : "Thats why we gotta get to them first. Call Gunner and T.O. tell em to stop by the warehouse to pick up some AR's and meet us at Redwoody. I'll handle Bishop and Alvarez."

Tig : "I'm on it, boss." (Tig pulls out a burner phone from his jeans pocket and makes the call)

Chibs walks back towards the Mayan Kings while Tig stays by his bike.

Chibs : "We think it was the Niners who hit your guys."

Alvarez : "Niners? why the fuck would they hit us?"

Chibs : "There's still a lot of bad blood between the Niners and Mayans, Tyler (Niners Leader) hates that we gave you our gun supply and not him. Let us do some digging and we'll find out who it was. You got my word on that."

Alvarez whispers something in Bishops ear.

Bishop : "Ok...we'll do it your way, but we need to be compensated in the mean time."

Chibs : "I got a shipment from the Irish coming in tonight at the Stockton Port. We usually only sell to you once a month but we'll give you this shipment early, and we'll even cut the price in half."

Alvarez : "Fair enough." (Alvarez shakes Chibs' hand)

Bishop shakes Chibs' hand as well. Chibs walks back to his Harley and gets on, Chibs and Tig both vibrate the desert grounds from their roaring engines as they pull away with a cloud of sand following them.

Bishop : "So, did you pick anything up?"

Alvarez : "He was lying about Tyler, there's no way he'd risk coming after us. Pope and August Marks maybe, but Tyler? Not a chance. He knows that's a war he can't win."

Bishop : "Fuck...so now what do we do?"

Alvarez : "Call your crew."