A/N: This is another new SoA story! I'm trying something a little different again. So enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own SoA!

Tig decided to go into the diner and get something to eat. He didn't feel like waiting until he got to the club house to get something to eat. He hasn't ate since last night before he left Las Vegas to get to here. He was a little tired but more than anything he was wired. He parked his bike and walked into the diner. He nodded at the owner and one of the waitresses that he knew but he didn't know the other one he saw. He took a minute to look her over. He decided that she was pretty in an innocent school girl way. Little did he know that he was about to find out that she wasn't going to stay innocent for long.

He sat in the booth he normally sat in when he came here to eat and waited on a waitress to come over and take his order. He smiled when he saw it was the waitress that he knew. She was a nice woman and had three kids. Anytime Tig came in he made sure to tip her well. After telling her that he wanted his usual he sat back and waited.

He looked up when the bell over the door sounded and he saw a man walk in and head straight towards the waitress he didn't know. He looked over at her and saw how she tensed up and looked frightened. He saw his waitress and the owner look at the other girl in concern as the man came to a stop in front of her.

"You think you can run from me little girl? I own you. You're coming with me." The man growled.

The waitress stiffened and turned her head towards the man and said "Earl I'm done with you. I'm not your little punching bag anymore. Now leave me the hell alone or this time I will go to the police."

Earl laughed and said "Dawn you don't have the guts to go to the police. If you did you would have went to them instead of coming to this little town."

Dawn shook her head. "No I came to this town to be near a brother that doesn't even know I exsist. Now get the fuck away from me."

Tig started to stand up but stopped when the man pulled a gun out and pointed it at the girl whose name he now knew as Dawn. He quickly pulled his cell phone out and made a quick call to Clay who assured him that they were on their way. There was no way in hell Tig was going to allow this man to kill this woman and neither would the club.

Dawn looked at the gun and paled. She wasn't sure if she could get to the gun she had holstered to her ankle that she had started carrying with her incase Earl found her again. She refused to be his punching bag ever again. She was only twenty three years old but she felt so much older. She wasn't going to give up though. She refused to go down without fighting this time.

She saw the guy that had come in earlier slowly making his way towards them from the corner of her mind. She didn't know who he was and if she did maybe she wouldn't have done what she was about to in hindsight. She only did it because she didn't want a bystander getting hurt because of her. Before the thoughts fully registered in her mind she lifted up her foot and kicked Earl hard right where it counted and then swiftly bent down and got her gun from the ankle holster.

As soon as she had the gun in her hand she leveled it at Earl and said "I'm done being your punching bag. Now either get the fuck out of here and leave me alone or I will shoot you where you fucking stand."

Earl laughed at that and said "You won't shoot me little girl. You don't have the guts. You're too innocent to shoot me."

Dawn cocked the gun and pointed it at him. She was proud that her hands weren't shaking even though the rest of her was. She wasn't sure if she would be able to shoot him or not but she had to do something. She was tired of getting beat on.

Tig stopped making his way towards Earl and Dawn. He stood there stunned that the girl had pulled a gun of her own. In the distance he heard the roar of bikes and sent up a prayer that the guys would get here before the girl's innocence was lost forever. He bent himself but did it slowly so that he wouldn't alert the guy that he was standing behind him. He wanted to get his gun in his hand. He looked over his shoulder at the owner and the other waitress who nodded at him in approval and he gave them a small smile before turning his attention back to the man who had a gun on a woman.

Dawn frowned a little when she saw the guy behind Earl bending down and decided that she needed to do whatever she needed to do before Earl caught sight of the guy and harmed an innocent bystander and she growled "You don't know me as well as you think you do Earl. You beat on me for two years and you thought you had me broken but I finally ran from you. It has taken you over a month to find me. Do you really think you know me? You know who I want you to know and what I want you to know is that I'm done letting you beat me. I deserve better than that. I deserve better than you, you fucking cock sucker."

Just as the Diner's doors opened there were two shots fired.