Author Notes: Happy 4th of July, hope you all have an awesome day! Co-written this with RedRose85, read her stories, she's an amazing writer and you will love her stories.
Carly screamed and bolted upright when she felt a bucket of ice being thrown on her, Jake jumping back when Carly screamed.
"Jake, you damn idiot! I was asleep!" Carly yells, the front of her racerback tank top sticking to her 3 ½ month pregnant stomach.
"Crap, tiny's hormones are going crazy, Scott!" Jake shouts outside.
"Well then run for your fucking life! Run like your ass is on fire!" Scott says, Jake bolting out of the room.
"Scott, whose idea was this?" Carly asks after coming back, changed into some dry clothes.
"It was Jake's, I got dragged into it." Scott says. "Hey you still coming to the river?" He asks.
"Yeah, just don't toss me into it like you did to Sam." Carly says, Jake sneaking back into the living room but Carly grabbing him by his shirt collar. "I don't think so, young man. Not without a talk." She says.
"Ha-ha, you're in trouble." Scott says in a sing-song tone.
"Midnight, help!" Jake shouts as Johnny and Midnight walk in.
"Do I even want to know what you did Jake?" Midnight asks.
"He threw a bucket of ice on me while I was sleeping!" Carly says, Jake trying to run… but stopping when Midnight aimed an arrow at him as Johnny walked over to Carly, hugging her. Jake started to nervously laugh.
"Look, it was harmless, I wouldn't hurt Carly or her and Johnny's kid, Midnight." Jake says.
"Just behave yourself Jake, no more of these wake-up calls." Midnight says, putting her bow and arrow away.
Carly grabbed her phone when it chimed, seeing a text from Ashley.
'Hey. Any idea what the gender is yet?'
'Won't know for another month but most of the LS Hunterz are betting that it's a boy.' Carly replied
'Yeah, that's because what Tex thinks it's going to be. Still all good for today and tonight?' Ashley texts back.
'Aside from Jake throwing a bucket of ice on me earlier, yeah.' Carly texts before seeing Trevor outside. 'Aw, fuck. Lunatic's outside.' She texts, Midnight seeing Trevor
'Want me to come over and deal with him" Ashley texts back.
'Aunt M is headed outside.' Carly replies, protectively rubbing her stomach as Midnight walks outside.
"Drop that knife!" Midnight says.
"No! She's not having a kid, not on my watch!" Trevor yells.
"You were okay with me having Jackson and Annie, so why can't you be happy for Carly?" Midnight asks.
"She's too fucking young, Midnight-" Trevor says, cut off by an arrow lodging into his left knee, making him scream and fall. Midnight looked behind her, seeing Carly holding a customized crossbow.
"Next one goes into your fucked up heart if you don't fuck off, Trevor!" Carly shouts, Midnight and Johnny carefully approaching her and trying to calm her down. "He's never gonna be okay with me growing up and having kids!" She says, tears running down her face.
Trevor tried to stand up, only to be knocked down again, this time by Ashley smashing a brick into his head.
"Ashley!" Trevor yells.
"Back off or the next thing I will do is break your neck." Ashley growled.
"Why am I being treated like a traitor?! Carly couldn't keep her fucking legs shut!" Trevor yells.
"Because you are a traitor! You've been trying to kill Carly and Johnny's baby! You lied about being happy for me and Clint when we first started to date or did you forget the fact that you cut the brake lines to his Impala?! Should I keep going down the list?!" Ashley says.
Trevor stood up and pulled the arrow out of his leg.
"It'll be a cold day in Hell before I let that mistake be born!" Trevor says.
"Then bundle up." Ashley says before walking into the house, closing and locking the door.
"Why couldn't someone had killed him after the Ludendorff bank job?" Carly says, her and Ashley hugging.
"Yeah instead Dave had to kill Brad." Ashley says.
Later at the river, Scott tried to set a firecracker off near Carly and Johnny only for Sam to smack him upside his head.
"Ow! Raven, what the hell?!" Scott says, calling Sam by his nickname for her. The sounds of Trent's boat caught their attention as it came around the corner, Tommy and Jake hanging onto the biscuit for dear life.
"Trent, head for that ramp and send Jake flying!" Carly shouts.
"Tiny's still pissed at you, Jake?" Trent shouts over the noise of the boat engine.
"I guess she is!" Jake shouts.
"Hang on for life Tomboy!" Trent says before turning the boat right, Tommy hanging on and Jake flying off the biscuit, bellyflopping into the water.
"That's gonna leave a mark." Clint says.
"Tiny!" Jake shouts after resurfacing, Tommy jumping onto him and sending both underwater again.
"Nice one Trent!" Carly yelled.
"You're welcome!" Trent yelled driving the boat back towards land. Ashley and Clint were next on the biscuit.
"Uh, guys?" Carly says, realising something was wrong. "Tommy and Jake should've resurfaced by now!" She says, startling Ashley and Clint. LS Hunterz members started to run into the water and swam out to where Tommy and Jake were last seen.
"Got them!" Lex shouts, him and Marcus resurfacing with Jake and Tommy, helping them out of the water.
Everyone's eyes widened when they saw a knife wound on Jake's left foot and one on Tommy's right leg… the wounds matched the pattern of Trevor's K Bar knife.
"That tears it!" Clint says, diving into the water and resurfacing with Trevor, bashing his face against the rock repeatedly until Trevor started trying to swim for it, Ashley and Clint chasing after him, Trent revving his boat and Scott, Chris, Derek and Luke jumped in, chasing after Trevor as well.
"Got him!" Chris says, throwing Trevor onto the shore and pinning him down.
"Fucking traitors, all of you!" Trevor rages, Johnny stepping in front of Carly as Sam, Rys, Jack and Immy also stayed near her.
"Get some rope or cable ties. We going to leave the military a present." Ashley says.
Derek ran to the truck, returning to the group and finding that Ashley was holding Trevor's knife to his throat.
"You attack my friends, yet you call us traitors, Trevor?! Carly's not betraying anyone by having a child!" Ashley shouts as Derek and Luke tied Trevor up.
"Fuck you, Ash! How can you do this to your own dad?!" Trevor yells.
"How could you repeatedly terrorize your niece because of her choices?!" Ashley demands, punching Trevor and knocking him out.
Ashley walked over to Carly, Johnny, Sam, Rys, Immy and Jack when the others left with Trevor.
"Maybe leaving him tied up for Fort Zancudo soldiers to find will finally knock some sense into him." Sam says.
"I doubt it. You know what? Let's light off some fireworks, it's dark enough out here now." Carly says, Ashley grabbing some M80s and a lighter.
"Wait, let's do the bonfire first." Ashley says.
"Alright." Carly says, Johnny and Jack going and returning with tree branches and stones, setting them up and Ashley lighting them, everyone sitting down around the fire.
Trevor woke up, tied to a utility post just outside of Fort Zancudo.
"The hell are you doing out here?" Mikey Klebitz asked after walking outside the main gates and approaching Trevor.
"My daughter's friends decided to protect Carly, who's pregnant with Johnny's kid!" Trevor growls.
"Safe to say you earned this, trying to kill my niece or nephew!" Mikey says, the fireworks going off.
"Aw, fuck! Now I'm missing my favorite part of the 4th of July!" Trevor shouts after Mikey blindfolds him and Midnight walks over to them.
"Now I missed you, M." Mikey says, him and Midnight hugging.
"I missed you too Mikey." Midnight says.
"Hey, at least take this blindfold off!" Trevor says, Midnight punching him.
"Midnight!" He shouts.
"You ain't been treating your family nicely, T!" Midnight says before looking at Mikey. "I assume that you will take care of this?" She says pointing to Trevor.
"Yeah I will. Go and enjoy the fireworks M." Mikey says before they hug, Midnight running back to Packie's car and climbing onto the roof.
"Trevor being taken care of?" Packie asks when Midnight climbed onto the roof.
"Yeah he sure is. We should get going back home. That poor babysitter will be wanting to get away from our little terrors." Midnight says. Packie wrapped his hands around Midnight's waist.
"Let's just stay out here for a while longer." Packie says, kissing Midnight's neck.
"Alright another 5 minutes." Midnight says.
"5 minutes? Is that all I get?" Packie asks, kissing her.
"Okay maybe 6 minutes." Midnight says, Packie kissing her. "7 minutes." She says.
"So everytime we kiss, it's another minute?" Packie asks. Midnight smiling.
"Don't push your luck Packie." Midnight says.
"Will I push my luck if I did this?" Packie asks, reaching for Midnight's indigo short sleeved shirt.
"Maybe we should move this to the backseat." Midnight says.
"You thinking of giving Jackson and Annie a little sibling?" Packie asks.
"Yeah I am. We've always wanted a big family." Midnight says.
A few minutes later, Scott was walking back to his Hexer when he saw the windows of Midnight's Dukes car fogged up and saw the car rocking back and forth, Scott shaking his head.
"Typical." Scott says.
"They trying for baby number 3?" Scott heard, looked behind him and saw Carly.
"Who knows with those two. I thought Midnight might be getting too old to have another baby." Scott says.
"Well, women have been known to have children later in life." Carly says, Scott seeing that Carly had been snacking on sour cream and onion potato chips, judging from the empty bag in her hand.
"Damn it, those my favorite kind of chips." Scott says.
"I usually favor jalapeno kettle chips but not nowadays, the little one doesn't like them." Carly says.
"She thinks they're too spicy?" Scott asks.
"Who started that betting pool anyway?" Carly asks.
"I think it was either Tommy or Jake." Scott says.
An hour later, Midnight bolted up as Benson knocked on the driver's window.
"Wake him up, get dressed and get on home, Mrs McReary!" Benson says, Midnight nudging Packie.
"Who's there?!" Packie asks, bolting upright and opening his eyes as Midnight tossed his clothes to him.
"It's Benson telling us to go home." Midnight says.
"Fuck, Jackson's gonna be pissed at us!" Packie says as they get dressed.
"Yeah I know. The babysitter is going to be wondering where we are as well." Midnight says.
The two ended up back home, finding that Camari was asleep on the couch, Jackson to her right and Annie to her left.
"I'll wake Camari up and take her home, while you get the little ones to bed." Packie says quietly.
Midnight nodded, Packie easily picking Camari up in his arms as Midnight took the kids upstairs. Packie put Camari in the passenger seat before getting in and driving off as Camari opened her eyes.
"Annie loved the fireworks but I think they hurt her ears." Camari says as Packie drove at a normal speed.
"Yeah she's a little bit sensitive to loud noise, doctor says it will get better as she gets older. Sorry that me and M were not home sooner, we just lost track of time." Packie says.
"It's okay… I was like that at her age, children are sensitive to loud noises." Camari says.
"Well something must have being wrong with Jackson, he was never as sensitive to loud noises." Packie says.
"Well, what were you like at that age?" Camari asks.
"I hated loud noises because my brothers would fight… but I felt worse for Katie. She actually witnessed a really violent one between Gerry and Francis when she was a bit older than Jackson… scared the hell out of her. She stopped being a kid after that." Packie says as he stopped outside Camari's apartment in Hawick, Camari hugging him before getting out and walking into the apartment.
The next morning, Carly was waking up and stretching her arms over her head as she looked down, Johnny wrapping his arms around her.
"Won't be much longer before I won't be able to see my own feet." Carly says, Johnny kissing her forehead. "Scott still thinks that you and I are having a girl." She says as they kiss, Scott walking into the room.
"Scarred for life, scarred for life!" Scott shouts, running out of the room.
"Come back with some strawberry pancakes, please?" Carly asks.
Scott ran outside, almost getting hit by Clint's Impala before Clint slammed on the brakes and got out, walking over to Scott.
"Scott, you alright, buddy?!" Clint asks.
"Yeah I'm all good." Scott says.
"Then why did you just run into traffic?! I could've killed you by accident!" Clint says.
"Because I was scarred for life, that's why." Scott says.
"No, it's because he's a bit crazy!" Carly says, in the doorway and still in her pajamas.
"Ah… you walked in on them kissing, pal?" Clint says, Scott nodding at the same time that Packie and Midnight's car was pulling up.
"What's going on?" Packie asks.
"Scott's freaking out again." Carly says as Johnny walked into the living room, dressed in jeans and a Los Santos Rock Radio shirt.
"Scott you really need to stop freaking out." Midnight says, helping Jackson and Annie out of their car seats.
"Yeah, Uncle Scotty!" Three year old Annie says, Jackson running over to Johnny and trying to crash tackle him to the ground.
"I may be getting old Jackson but not to the point where I can be tackled to the ground!" Johnny says, picking five year old Jackson up.
"What's my little cousin gonna be, Uncle Johnny?" Jackson asks.
"Yeah Uncle Johnny, do you guys know yet?" Annie asks.
"Not for another month, Annie… but what are you hoping it'll be?" Carly says as she and Annie hug.
"Girl." Annie says.
"No way, it's gonna be a boy." Jackson says.
"Girl!" Annie says.
"Boy!" Jackson says, jumping out of Johnny's arms.
"GIRL!" Annie yells.
"BOY!" Jackson yells back.
"Alright you two that's enough." Midnight says.
"No more yelling or we'll go home." Packie says.
"Oh, alright." Annie and Jackson say simultaneously as Johnny walked into the kitchen to start breakfast.
"Another 4th of July over with… what do we do for the next holiday?" Clint says.
"What we do best, party until the sun comes up." Scott says.
"You guys do that, Johnny and Carly will have to slow down." Packie says. "And probably me and Midnight will have to as well." He says.
"Sibling!" Jackson whispers.
"A boy, right?" Annie whispers back, Jackson nodding.
"What are two whispering about over there?" Carly asks.
"Oh, nothing." Annie says as Carly's phone rang, Carly answering it.
"Morning, Tomboy." Carly says, Tommy surprised at her cheerful tone.
"No hormonal rages right now?" Tommy asks.
"Shut that hole in your face, Uncle Tommy!" Jackson says, Midnight laughing.
"Jackson… did you learn that from Ashley?" Midnight asks.
"I heard her say it to Uncle Lex once." Jackson admits.
"I will be having a few words with her soon." Midnight says.
"I said worse when I was Annie's age and Madam Godzilla tried to move out and take me, Jimmy and Tracey with her." Carly says, startling Midnight.
"Wait until our little one starts mouthing off!" Johnny says after putting the freshly cooked pancakes on a plate.
"Oh yum! Pancakes!" Jackson says.
"You've already ate." Midnight says.
"It's alright, M. Plenty of food to go around." Johnny says as he walks into the living room with two plates, setting them in front of Carly and Jackson before Midnight walked into the kitchen, finding a box of herbal tea instead of coffee.
"No coffee here anymore!" Carly says after hanging up her phone, unaware that Tommy was in the doorway.
"What the-" Tommy starts to say.
"Don't start Tommy." Ashley warns him.
Tommy nodded, walking into the kitchen… deciding to try some tea.
"I don't know about this one, it smells funky." Tommy says.
"Just give it a try, I thought you like oranges and pomegranates." Carly says.
"Tommy's turning into a hippie!" Scott yells, seeing Tommy with the herbal tea.
"Shut it, Scott!" Tommy says before drinking the tea. "Hmm… that's actually really good." He says.
"Oh my god! My best friend has turned into a hippie! What is wrong with this world?!" Scott says, burying his hands into his face.
"Scott, drinking tea doesn't make anyone a hippie! I've drank it since I was 16 and look at how I turned out!" Carly says, drinking the tea that Johnny had handed her.
"There is a difference between you and Tommy. You don't look like a hippie, Tommy does. Before you know it he will be a vegan and sitting on his ass, smoking pot." Scott says.
"What's pot?" Jackson asks.
"Good one Scott." Midnight mutters.
"I'll… explain it when you're older, kiddo." Scott says, Jackson looking at Carly.
"Auntie Carly?" Jackson says.
"Wait until you're older, buddy." Carly says, the two hugging.
"I can tell you what pot is." Jake says walking into the room.
"Jake, he is 5 years old! Knock it off!" Carly growls, startling Jake.
"I wasn't really gonna tell what it really is." Jake says.
"Jackson, remember what I called Uncle Jake?" Annie asks.
"Overgrown man child!" Jackson says.
"How about calling him Uncle Dumbass?" Tommy asks.
