Ain't No Easy Way

Eleanor pulled into the Teller-Morrow parking lot and parked her bike near Gemma’s car shaking her hair out as she pulled off her helmet. She opened the door to see Gemma looking with furrowed brows at the invoices on her desk.

“You okay Gemma, you look like those invoices threatened to kill your mama.” Eleanor joked as she stood in front of the desk.

“Please, If they threatened to do that I’d throw ‘em a party.” Gemma said smirking up at the girl.

Eleanor looked slightly taken aback by the light tone in Gemma’s statement better not ask I don’t want to end up on that list Eleanor thought to herself as she leaned on the corner of the desk crossing her arms over her chest. She looked out the window to the garage and saw Tig and Chibs stop what they were doing to peer into the office where she was. While Chibs looked away uninterested Tigs turned to face her fully smirking as he crossed his arms.

Eleanor rolled her eyes, “I still have the right to claim sexual assault here right?” She asked Gemma jokingly while she watched Tig approach the door connecting the office to the garage.

“Baby, trust me, if you’re here you’re probably asking for it.”

“Hey there razzle dazzle, I know you want to get close to me but all you have to do is say the word and I’m there.” Tig drawled to her.

“In your dreams you creepy old man, the only word you’ll get from me is NO.” Eleanor snapped back.

“I love when you get snappy, baby. It makes me think of all the great things you can do with that tongue.” Tig joked as went back to the garage.

Gemma laughed at the whole scene. It had been obvious to her that Tig was somewhat interested in the new pussy that was available to him and he wasn’t the sneakiest of people when it came to pussy. Gemma pulled out a Teller-Morrow garage shirt and threw it to Eleanor.

“You excited to start tomorrow? Tig specifically requested you set up right next to him.” Gemma joked knowing it would push Eleanor’s buttons.

“Is it too early to file those harassment papers?” Eleanor said pouting her lips.

Gemma was about to respond when Clay popped his head in the office, “We okay?”

Eleanor decided now would be a good time to go outside. She smiled as she saw Kip make his way towards her going to what she assumed the office.

“Where’s the fire, Kippy?” Eleanor said as she stepped in front of him.

“Oh hey Eleanor. There’s just a situation with the clubhouse bathroom.” He said slightly fidgeting.

Eleanor lifted a brow, “A ‘situation’ like someone took a huge dump and didn’t flush or someone tried to flush a dead body down there?” she joked.

“More like lace panties.” Kip said while shaking his head.

Eleanor blankly stared at the prospect then burst into a fit of laughter, “Well that’s… a strange situation. I would ask Tig. He seems like the kind to flush panties down the shitter.” Kip laughed and instantly stopped when he saw clay approaching.

“I gotta get this sorted, I’ll talk to you later Eleanor.” Kip said as he rushed past her putting Jax right in her view.

“Ah, Fabio, my life has been dull without you present these past couple of hours.” Eleanor said as she walked up to Jax giving him a side hug.

“Where did y’all disappear to during the fundraiser?” knowing full well they had handled Kyle.

Jax smiled at her, “Oh you know a little this, a little that.” Oppie had told him that Eleanor confronted him before the fireworks and he had to admit he was impressed with the little Gemma clone. He figured that if the women were together long enough they would be the ones running the club.

Eleanor pinched his arm and held a hand to her brow as she saw a truck with oil barrels roll into the parking lot and watched as Jax and Clay made their way to the truck. She started to walk back to the office to talk to Gemma when she heard Clay yell, “what the hell is she doing here?”

Juice muttered something in reply and was cut off by a woman’s voice, “It's not his fault, okay? I know I'm not supposed to be here. Let me go talk to someone.”

Eleanor turned around to face the scene that was unfolding in front of her. She saw a girl who looked to be about her age with red hair and wellies on. is that girl seriously wearing rain boots right now? she gave her a scrutinizing look.

Eleanor made her way to the office and stopped short when she saw Gemma sitting against the wall crying. Eleanor walked over and put a hand on her shoulder.

“It’s okay Gemma, she sounds like a stupid piece of white trash. You’re way hotter.”
Gemma gave a sarcastic laugh, “So you know Clay hit that?”

Eleanor nodded, “judging by his anger to see her step out of that truck with Juice and calling her a sweet-butt I put two and two together.”

Gemma pursed her lips and stood up, “This morning just keeps getting better and better, first I can’t get wet for my husband and now some young bitch is in my town.”

Gemma grabbed her purse and slid on her sunglasses, “Come on, we’re going on a field trip.” Eleanor knew better than to argue and followed Gemma to the parking lot and sliding into the passenger seat.

“So Eleanor, tell me about your club.” Gemma said focusing on the road and not on the thoughts floating in her head about Clay with another woman.

Eleanor shrugged, “There’s not much to tell really. We run guns and sell drugs they’re rowdy and we have about 15 members.”

Gemma nodded her head, “That’s a good amount of man power. Your dad married to your mom?”

“Yeah, she’s his third wife and currently his old lady. But my dad follows the pussy.” Eleanor said rolling her eyes.

“I know someone like that.” Gemma said laughing. maybe this girl has some daddy issues since Tig seems to follow the description of her dad.

The rest of the car ride Eleanor and Gemma talked about Old Men and how Eleanor said she had a thing for older men and that she been having a secret affair with her father’s sergeant at arms, Gemma told her about Wendy Jax’s ex-wife and that she didn’t trust Tara the woman she met the first day she was here. Gemma also talked about the clubs founding which Eleanor found particularly interesting. Eleanor felt her stomach drop slightly when they pulled up to CaraCara, Luann’s porn studio and followed Gemma as she sauntered through the door.

“Gemma! Ellie! What a nice surprise we’re just filming some more scenes for Naughty Naughty School Girls 2.”

Luann turned to Eleanor, “If you want Eleanor I’m sure we can give you a cameo.”

Eleanor looked at the set and saw two girls and a man and tried to hold back a disgusted face. She definitely did not want to offend Luann’s line of work and instead found herself nodding, “I’ll think about it Luann maybe one day you’ll get me.”

“I just want to add some milky chocolate to my enterprise. I even thought of the plot for your movie, Men In Black. It’s about a beautiful alien code named Black beauty by the federal government and when she’s captured, instead of the aliens doing the probing it’s humanity’s turn.” Luann smiled at them, she felt it would be a huge success.

“Wow, that’s… uh, graphic.” Eleanor stuttered slightly blushing. She was a sexual being, don’t get her wrong she loved sex but the mental image of the cover to that porn was not one she wanted to ever picture again.

Gemma looked at the woman and shook her head, “You kidding Luann?” she said as she moved them in the direction towards the director’s chairs so they could sit and talk.

A shocked Eleanor lingered behind with furrowed brows, She thought of a title…. Eleanor gave a shudder and walked towards the wall of props inspecting them with curiosity.

“Find anything you like?” said a voice. Eleanor turned dropping a whip she had picked up.

“Sorry. I just don’t think I’ve seen so many sex toys in one place before –if you exclude castle I mean.” Eleanor laughed.

“You interested in working in the industry?” she asked leaning against the wall.

Eleanor laughed, “No thank you but playing dress up is fun.” She said as she picked up a ring leader outfit. Eleanor wasn’t shy about her body and looked towards the direction Gemma and Luann were sitting in and walked into the dressing room slipping out of her clothes and putting the outfit on.

“It looks good on you! I would say you could keep it but its Luann’s to give away.”

Eleanor laughed as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. The two piece outfit left nothing to the imagination, the top half sat underneath her breast and if it wasn’t for the black sequin nipple pasties the woman had given her she’d be all out on display. The top stopped about mid stomach and had sleeves that fell off her shoulders. The skirt was a whole different matter –if you could call it a skirt. It consisted of a piece of lace material about four inches thick and came with a built in thong. Eleanor went outside and put on the ringleader hat and grabbed the whip she dropped on the floor and skipped over to Gemma and Luann.

“Look Gem, I’m a ring leader!” Eleanor yelled as she cracked the whip then struck a pose.

Gemma’s eyes went wide then she let out a chuckled noticing just what Eleanor had done. She took out her phone a plan instantly popping into her head.

“Smile baby.” Gemma said raising her phone up to take a picture.

Eleanor pulled the whip in front of her spread her legs apart in a power stance and making a kissy face at the phone.
“One more, let’s get the back of that built in.” Gemma joked.

Eleanor turned around presenting her scantily clad ass giving a peace sign as she looked over her shoulder and winked.

“You can send these to that Sargent of arms back home.” Gemma said waving her phone and slipping it back in her purse and I can send these to the Sargent at arms here.

“See, now I know you’re just teasing me Ellie, walking your pert ass out here like that.” Luann said in a mock pout.

“I couldn’t help it, it just looked too fun.” She replied shimming.

“Okay, Ellie, get out of those whore clothes we’re running another errand.” Gemma said as she stood crossing her arms.

In a matter of minutes Gemma and Eleanor pulled up to a little pharmacy in the center of Charming.

“So mommy menopause, are we getting you a prescription.” Eleanor joked as they walked into the store.

Gemma whirled around and threw her hands on her hips, “I swear to god you call me that again I’ll shove my fist down your god damned throat.”

Eleanor laughed at Gemma’s reaction, “I don’t think you mean that, it’s the menopause talking.”

The two women walked to the counter where Gemma self-consciously asked the man behind the counter for her medicine. Eleanor couldn’t help but giggle at Gemma’s obvious discomfort of getting older. Gemma gently took the prescription and put her sunglasses over her head. And as they walked out of the store Eleanor was trying to reassure Gemma of all of the positives.

“Like just think, now you can have all of the unprotected sex you want without having to worry about a bearded baby Clay riding around on a tiny tyke bike.” Eleanor said in a cheery voice as they started for the car.

“Watch it you little shit!” Eleanor screamed as a boy ate concrete in front of her causing his skateboard to bump her knee. Eleanor looked up to see the girl from earlier walking on the same sidewalk and then looked to Gemma as she saw the woman look down at the skateboard.

“Skinny ass bitch” Gemma murmured.

Eleanor picked up the board only to have it ripped from her hands by a fuming Gemma.
“Gem you should think about this your brains are all over-heating due to those hot flashes. Don’t-” Eleanor stopped mid-sentence and winced as Gemma swung the skateboard and hit the girl in the face.

“Damn! You just hit that bitch with a skateboard Gemma.” Eleanor shouted in a giddy tone and quickly took out her phone to snap a picture.

Gemma sat on the curb ignoring the girl’s cries of pain and Eleanor’s happy comments.

Eleanor noticed Gemma looking sullen and sat down next to her, “Do you feel a little better now?” Eleanor asked as she bumped the older woman’s shoulder.

“A little” Gemma replied with a smirk. She dug in her purse and handed Eleanor the keys.
“I assume I’ll have a different ride home.” Gemma said as a cop car pulled up.

“I’ll follow you to the station and make sure everything’s okay with you. Besides, it’s not like I have anything else to do.” Eleanor said as Gemma stood and a lady cop stepped up to Gemma.

As she read Gemma her rights and cuffed her Eleanor couldn’t help but joke, “Gem, those new bracelets really bring your outfit together.”

As Gemma was put in the backseat Eleanor hopped in Gemma’s car and followed them to the station.
“Ma’am you can’t go back here this is for personnel and charges only!” lady cop yelled as Eleanor followed Gemma.

“Eat me, bitch.” Eleanor replied as she jogged to catch up to Gemma and walked beside her.

Gemma turned her head and saw Clay in one of the interrogation rooms, “What’s he doing here?”
“Feds are grilling him” Replied the cop.

Eleanor stopped cold as she made eye contact with a woman she hasn’t seen since she was 18. She narrowed her eyes, put her hands on her hips and started in the direction of the woman.

“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?” Clay yelled.

“SAME THING YOU DID, NAILED SOME LITTLE TART FROM NEVADA.” Gemma yelled back
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By this time the whole station stopped and stared at the couple openly yelling about their sex life. The woman sent Eleanor a closed mouth smirk that made Eleanor want to bust her face in.

“LIKE I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SHIT OOZIN’ OUTTA MY EARS YOU GOTTA GO DO THIS?”

“SHOULD’VE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOUR DICK WENT ON A CHEERLEADER HUNT.”

“She’s not nearly pretty enough to be a cheerleader.” Eleanor said to no one in particular momentarily forgetting where she was and who was standing in front of her.
“I DIDN’T TELL HER TO COME HERE!” Clay yelled back at her.

“WELL SHE’S HERE.” Gemma sneered.

“WELL THAT’S NOT MY FAULT.” Clay said knowing he wasn’t in the wrong.

“AND THAT’S NOT MY PUSSY.” Gemma said before being taken to the holding cells in the back.

“And that’s why I’m single.”

“You’re single because you’re ugly cunt who has an Elektra complex” Eleanor said turning her attention to the agent.

“Now, I am a little surprised to see you here Eleanor. You seem to be a long way from home. Daddy know you’re here?” Stahl said approaching the woman with a smirk.

“I’m pretty sure it was comments like that, that got your smug little face an introduction to my fist, you pompous bitch.” Eleanor said inching closer to her.

Stahl stepped closer to Eleanor titling her head to the side as if inspecting her, “Things have changed since then and if you lay a hand on me that’s a couple of years, more with your assault record. I know what they do to pretty things like you in jail.” Stahl said while picking up a strand of Eleanor’s hair.

Eleanor smiled unintimidated and mirrored her movements, “only because I’m sure you wish it was you getting fisted in the community bathroom.” Eleanor tightened her grip on the handful of hair she held in her hand, “And my assault record shows I’m not afraid of jail time and especially not afraid of you.” Eleanor let go of her hair as a young looking deputy pulled her back.

“I don’t want to arrest you too. I think it’s time you leave.”

Eleanor wiggled out of his hold, not breaking her stare with Stahl, “Don’t come anywhere near me or I’ll skin you like buck.” Eleanor threatened pointing a finger towards the agent.

“Till later Eleanor” Stahl simply said turning her attention back to the people surrounding her.
Eleanor pulled into the Teller-Morrow garage and found all of the sons sitting outside smoking and drinking beers.

“Why are you driving my mom’s car, where’s Gemma?” Jax said swaggering up to Eleanor. She closed the door behind her while tossing the keys to Gemma’s car.

“We ran into that redheaded sweet butt from Nevada and Gemma hit her in the face with a skateboard.” Eleanor said sitting on the bench between Chibs’ legs and snatched the beer from him. The guys all hooted and hollered and Jax just shook his head mumbling ‘Jesus Christ’.

“That’s not even the best part, we got to the station and Gemma and Clay got into a yelling match about Clay sticking his dick where it didn’t belong.” Eleanor chuckled but quickly turned serious.
“But I do have some news I want to share with the club. When Gemma was dropped off I saw an ATF agent who looked like she was in charge, her name is June Stahl and she is bad news.”

Jax walked closer and stepped in front of Eleanor “How so?”

Eleanor lite a cigarette and inhaled, “She’s a sneaky rat bitch she’ll do anything to make sure she’s the one who ends up on top. She came to Austin to check into the gun running the club does and while she was there she managed to create collateral damage out of one of our prospects.”

“What happened lass?” Chibs asked.

“He was one of my friends from high school his dad was part of the club. I’m assuming she’s going to do here what she did back home which was look for the IRA connection. Her and her crew picked Seth up and threatened him with something nasty but when he came back to the club he was bugged up the ass. Claimed he didn’t know but that wasn’t a risk my dad was willing to take. So Seth had to go.” Eleanor said taking a drag.

“They kill him or what?” Juice asked curiously.

Eleanor shook her head, “excommunicated and under penalty of death if it was found out he ratted information he was privy to by having a dad in the club. After that Stahl came to the clubhouse knowing Seth’s fate and she said some smartass remark about my dad and the club –something along the lines of being a bunch of inbred shitheads so I punched her in the face.”

Bobby chuckled at her and while shaking his head said, “why am I not even surprised by that statement.”

Deciding since Eleanor shared a little bit of information with the club Jax would reciprocate the move, “word got out that they have a warrant to search the place –that truck that pulled up earlier this morning was carrying our guns.” The guys looked at Jax wondering why he was telling her this.

“Y’all are under heavy surveillance, how would you even manage to get them out of here?” She questioned motioning to the babysisters outside the lot.

“Luckily we had a bit of a sewage problem, if you feel me.” Jax said smiling.

Eleanor couldn’t help but laugh, “Very innovative however shitty the situation” she joked. “I guess you can thank Tig for flushing those panties, right Kip?”

Suddenly the blaring of sirens filled Eleanor’s ears as men from the black SUV jumped from the car. “Federal agents!”

One of the men roughly pulled at her arm making her spill her beer, “Is that how your mama taught you to treat a lady?” Eleanor said as he roughly pushed her on the ground.

“Ay! Treat tha’ lass wit’ some decency.” Chibs shouted at the man who responded by pushing down on Chibs’s back with a booted foot.

“Spread your legs” the same cop shouted to all of them.

“Wouldn’t be the first time I heard that.” Eleanor joked as all the men laughed.

Eleanor looked at the heeled feet in front of her and looked up to see agent Stahl, “This should feel pretty familiar, right Eleanor? Just like old times.” Stahl said as she squatted down in front of her. Eleanor felt rage brewing in her gut at just the sight of this woman.

“And exactly like last time once I get out of these cuffs I plan on bashing your face into a car hood.” Eleanor sneered.

“Ellie, knock it off. We don’t need you and Gemma getting in trouble in the same day for assaulting some gash.” Jax said.

Eleanor rolled her eyes and huffed, what a sight they must seem laying on their stomachs in the middle of the daytime; these big bad bikers and some random bitch who is exceptionally dressed if I say so myself.

“You should listen to the VP –but don’t you worry I’m sure we’ll be having many more lovely conversations –namely dealing with why a little girl from Texas is a long way from home.” Stahl gave a sickly sweet smile to her.

Eleanor responded in the calmest manner her psychology training allowed her –by spitting in that bitch’s face. “Go choke on a dick, you smelly old cunt.”

Bobby turned to face Eleanor, “You need to reel it in, you’re killing the vibe here Eleanor.”

“She started it. Stupid old bitch.” Eleanor mumbled as she watched from the corner of her eye Stahl walking around the rest of the bikers who were all laughing knowing they had nothing.

“You smell nice.” Juice laughed as she walked past him.

“You two certainly like to go at each other’s throats” Bobby said to Eleanor while chuckling. Eleanor gave what resembled to a nod, “I guess I just clash with certain personalities. It’s psychologically proven that-”

“Blah blah bull shit no one wants to hear your quacking.” Jax laughed.

“Well fine. I’ll keep that in mind while I psychologically analyze all you old fucks.” Eleanor pouted.

After about 20 minutes the search for any convicting evidence had stopped and the agents un-cuffed the gang taking only the oil barrels. Eleanor followed the guys into the clubhouse wanting to see how bad the damage was.

“They really went to town didn’t they?” Eleanor looked around noticing that somehow in all the chaos the laundry line of panties and bras that hung above the bar remained intact.

“It’s really a shame, they should’ve yanked this line of sleeziness down.” Eleanor said pointing to the line.

“No way, that’s many years of hard work and sleepless nights my sister.” Bobby said laughing at the disgusted look on her face.

Jax turned to Eleanor, “Look we’re gonna head up to the cabin you go home and get some rest. I really appreciate you looking after my mom today, El.” He pulled Eleanor in for a hug and kissed the side of her head.

“It was my pleasure to be taken under the wing of the mother of all crows.” Eleanor sauntered towards the door and placed a hand on it turning back, “By the way I’m just going to assume I’m not starting work tomorrow so I’ll swing by and start getting this dump in order. Night boys.” Eleanor gave them a wave and went to her bike wanting nothing more than to go home and sleep after a mentally exhausting day.

ring ring

“Yeah.” A gruff voice said into the phone.

“Hey daddy, it’s me.” Eleanor said closing her door behind her.

“what’s going on you okay?” Bones’ concerned voice came through.

“I just wanted to call you and tell you my best friend agent Stahl is here in Charming looking into the club for IRA ties. She hasn’t forgotten our last talk and is asking questions so I just wanted you to know.” Eleanor put pre pay on speaker and changed into one of Beau’s large t-shirts.

“You know how to handle it Ellie Bear. They find anything on the club about the guns?” Bones reassured her.

“Nah, just the oil barrels the guns came in. They need a new way to transport though so I have some ideas that I may give them. Okay, I’ll talk to you later daddy I’m way tired. You have no idea what I’ve been through today.”

“Alright keep me posted kid. Proud of you and love you Ellie Bear. Night.” Bones said then clicking the end button.

Eleanor all but fell into her bed sighing heavily and shut her eyes for a brief second. She then sat up and leaned against the wall and pulled open her end table drawer. Inside there lay a notebook and pen instead she took them out and popped the false bottom revealing a package of white powder. She picked it up and stared at it for a long while before pursing her lips and setting the bag back in her drawer in favor of just simply falling asleep.