05 January 2008 same day as Chapter 17/18 Baby Anarchy.
Leah smiled towards the three infants chatting up a storm in her back seat. She couldn't contain the small bit of love she held for each one of her babies. She loved Abel like her own.
When Tara had made contact with her a few days ago explaining she was staying in San Fran until she finished her residency, she couldn't help but sigh in relief. It wasn't lost on her end that she would follow Tara and Abel anywhere.
With the small run in with Happy at Quinn's place in Reno over the New Year's period, Leah couldn't help but feel it wasn't gonna be the last time she saw the Tacoma killer.
Arriving in the driveway of the house she shared with Tara she inhaled deeply from the long ride from Reno and rested her head against her seat before a soft moaning told her one of the babies had woken up. Hopping out she got each child inside. Going through her own small routine of making bottles and placing each baby in their own built off area in the lounge. Nora played in the pack in play, Abel was in the jumper and Elijah was happily lying on his back fiddling with the soft toys hanging above his head. While they played she busied herself with emptying her SUV and unpacking all of what she had into three separate piles. Baby clothes, her clothes and dirty clothes. She put on a first load of washing while working to separate the clean baby clothes and neatly folding and packing them.
By the time her twins and Abel were down for the night she felt the weight of her house duties as she sat back on the couch with tense shoulders. The house was peaceful and quiet with the babies down so she decided on having a bath. Tara wasn't due back for another few days but she was good with having Abel. It gave the twins time to bond with their cousin.
Soaking in her nice hot bath with her hair tied up, candles lit around the room and a glass of red wine in her hands she felt peace at last. She could feel the kinks slowly breaking free. Slowly letting the heat of the water take over her feelings for a moment, she dipped under the water before coming back up at the sound of a hard banging downstairs.
Leah furrowed her brows thinking she heard wrong so she laid her head back in attempt to rid herself of the small headache slowly approaching. She snapped her head up hearing the banging again and groaned when the same pounding continued. Sighing deeply, that was the end of time to herself. She stood up and got out of the bathtub while reaching for a towel and drying herself off as best she could in the hurried state she was in to answer the door.
The pounding continued before the intruders voice boomed throughout the silence causing her to stop in her track.
"Leah, I know your fucking in there. Open this door before I knock it down" the voice of her furious ex husband demanded. It was enough for her to answer in the short time knowing with his anger that was rising by the second would no doubt wake one of the three babies sound asleep upstairs. Pulling the door open once she reached for it and stood glaring at him.
"What the hell have you been doing? I've been pounding on this fucking door for five minutes" Happy growled out.
"Not that it's any of your business but I was taking a fucking bath. What the hell are you doing here?" She spat out.
Happy closed his eyes for a moment needing to control his anger some. She could see some sort of resentment in his slumped expression but she wasn't giving in.
"I came to talk" he stated simply.
"You don't do talking Hap. That's one of the things I loved the best about you" she snapped. He couldn't help the low chuckle that came from him. Seeing as she didn't have any intentions of letting him in he nodded.
"The kids asleep?" He asked short.
She snickered in anger but nodded. "Not that you give a shit asshole" she spat once again before he pulled her outside forcefully by her hand. "Let go of me" she growled attempting to pull her arm from his hand but he applied pressure.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way Leah. Your choice but one way or another, your gonna let me see those kids" he growled out pushing her back against the wall out of the front patio light. He didn't give a shit if he caused nosy neighbors to look out their windows while he was pounding on the door and he didn't give a shit right now. It was none of their business what went on with him and his old lady.
"You don't have any right demanding shit from me so why don't you just go back to Tacoma and fuck that pretty little tart, that way it would make my life much easier without you in it" she spat out. Leah could see his chest rising and falling rapidly but she met his fury and shoved him back.
"Ain't gonna do shit babe. I'm here ain't I? I want to work this shit out" Happy rasped.
"Yeah well I don't. You cheating ain't exactly something I think I'd ever get over. You've lost my trust Happy so whatever else you came here for, your not gonna get" Leah stated the sorry truth but she needed him to know that she had no intentions of ever letting him back in.
She gazed into his eyes and could see a mixture of hurt with some other foreign feeling he was showing. It almost looked like regret but she wasn't sure.
"I ain't giving up on you Leah. Your the only woman besides ma that I've loved so your wrong if you think I'd let you go easy. I'll be back in the morning and I want to meet my kids" he rasped hoping she would agree with that.
"Whatever" she sighed shaking her head in surrender. As much as she hated him at this point in her life, she could let go of the anger for a few hours for the sake of her fatherless babies. Happy nodded accepting that and slowly retreated off the patio, making his way to his Harley then taking off down the road.
Leah didn't know how long she was standing outside for until she felt a cold gush of wind hit her bare skin where her robe had come undone. She quickly wrapped herself back up and looked out to the road where Happy had long ridden off before she slipped through the door and closed it behind her. She was thankful that the house was still silent and made her way upstairs to check on them before heading into her room and changing.
Once she got into bed with a few layers of clothes on she couldn't fall asleep. With the anticipations of the morning that kept rolling around in her head she couldn't seem to let sleep come. A soft wail from Abel made her throw in sleep altogether. It was two am and she no doubt knew the twins would be up in a little while for their early morning feed.