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Thank you so much for the reviews, favs and follows on this story! For those of you waiting for the next Chapter of Crooked Rain, it's pretty much done and will be up soon. But I got all inspired since Quinn, according to rumors, will be in the next episode of SOA. So ready for that!


Chapter 4: Gun Street Girl

Quinn met Happy with the Tacoma guys; Lorca, Lee and Donut about an hour from Charming. It was really early so the guys had been riding most of the night but they were used to that. They were all going to take and Irishman and a girl on the run across the border. It would just be him, Happy and Junior the last bit of the way but they brought the others for security along the west coast.

Happy greeted him first. Junior had met up with them along the road and was standing just behind Happy.

"Heard he was leaving us for you," Lorca said and pointed towards Happy.

"Not saying no to a guy like that."

Junior gave him a hug as well. "Good to see you. How's my favorite Old Lady?"

"Doing good," Quinn smiled.

They got on their bikes and went back to Charming. When they rolled into the lot, Lisa was sitting outside with Gemma. Junior gave her a hug and the next in line was Happy. He saw them talking for a few minutes and Lisa pulled up her t-shirt to let Happy check the ink she had for the kids. He was probably checking to see how to fit in the next quote. Then he walked inside with the rest of the Tacoma-crew.

When he got Lisa's attention he waved at her to come over and she did. She always behaved in front of the other clubs and if she didn't he knew it was on purpose. She wanted him to punish her and it was never really disrespectful. Just teasing.

"Did you just flash yourself to Happy?" he said with a smile.

"I did but from what I've heard you're going to Canada in the next hour so what are you going to do about it?"

"I'll think of something." He gave her a kiss. "So how much shit is the queen giving you?"

"Not much, yet."

"Been to see Abel yet?"

"Yeah, he's a beauty." She had a big smile on her face. Now and then she claimed that the only kids she really liked were her own but that was bull. She got that sappy face every time she even talked about a baby.

The Tacoma boys came outside again and he gave Lisa another kiss. "I'll call you."

He put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her with him to his bike. She looked at Junior.

"Watch him."

"You know I will."

Junior and Marvin had been taking care of Lisa when Happy killed her stalker, since then he liked her. Quinn had asked Lisa about it and she'd laughed. 'He didn't say two words too me, got no idea why he likes me.'

Whenever Junior was in Vegas her crashed at their place and he always asked about Lisa when they met. According to Lisa he still barely talked to her. When he finally asked Junior a couple of years earlier he shrugged, 'she's a nice woman', that was it. Junior could make Happy appear talkative.

Junior was still the one of the Nomads who was the most frequent guest in the guestroom.

-o0o-

When Lisa was pregnant with Ruth they bought the house. She wanted a house with a garden for the kids and he wanted her to get whatever home she wanted. He didn't care.

Some of the guys came for to visit when Ruth's came home from the hospital, Lisa had mentioned that they had a guestroom, if anyone wanted to crash at their house the were welcome. Quinn hadn't thought for a second that anyone would. Stay at a house full of kids or one full of sweetbutts shouldn't be much of a brainer. That's what the thought at least.

A month later he came home and found Marvin in the couch. He wasn't worried, none of them would even dare try to hit on Lisa but he was still surprised.

"What are you doing here?" He said when he gave him a hug.

"She said we could use the guestroom and I needed some peace and quiet. Don't get that at the Vegas clubhouse."

He shook his head. "Getting tired of pussy?"

"Nah, man. That's not gonna happen but it's nice to get a couple of nights in a normal home and nice food."

"You know it's fake meat?"

"Yeah, she told me, it was still good." Marvin drank from the bottle. "Beer's real though," he said with a smile.

Two months after that it was Junior and pretty soon they all dropped by and stayed a couple of nights now and then. When he did time they all checked on her even more regularly to see if she needed any help. It was probably that Lisa didn't make a big deal of them stopping by. She pointed at the guestroom, called on them for food and that was it. If they wanted to talk, she talked, if asked if she needed any help she accepted it, if they wanted some time alone she stayed out of the way. Very Mi casa, su casa and they liked it.

To the kids it was just their uncles visiting and they didn't care much about them either. He'd thought they'd stop coming by the third kid but they didn't and Junior was the most common visitor He also made sure to always stopped by when Quinn was on a long ride. He knew why, he wanted to make sure that Lisa was ok and Quinn appreciated it. A lot.

-o0o-

Gemma came out to him when they were waiting outside the cabin.

"What's the hold up?" He asked and handed her his pack of smokes.

"The prospect and Cherry are saying their goodbyes."

"Noisy?"

Gemma gave him a crooked smile while lighting the cigarette. "From what I've heard she's got nothing on Lisa."

"The prospect is a small guy, can't blame him for that." He took the lighter when she handed it to him. He always lost his fucking lighters so when he remembered he tried to make sure to get them back.

"So," she blew out the smoke. "Another one?"

"Impressive, thought you'd be at my throat the second you found out."

"Nah, don't know what you two are doing but it looks like it's working."

"It is." He looked at Gemma, she was up to something. That would be the only reason why she agreed with him on this.

"I talked to Ruth yesterday."

"You did?"

"She is my goddaughter after all." There it was, her cunning smile. "She's very concerned about you not being married."

"Gemma! Stay out of it."

"What? I'm just saying, Ruth is a bit concerned."

"You admitted that it was working."

"It's just some papers and a ring, Quinn."

Quinn laughed, to Gemma it was not just 'some papers and a ring', not even close to it. They were interrupted by a truck pulling up outside the cabin

"Go and tell the prospect to pull it out." Quinn stood up but turned towards Gemma. "And leave Lisa alone. I can take that shit but don't use the kids against her. I'm warning you."

Gemma nodded, hopefully she understood how serious he was about that. Happy jumped out of the truck and Quinn stopped him.

"Give them a few seconds, the doc is checking on Cam and the prospect is giving his almost Old Lady a goodbye fuck. Gemma's getting them now."

"Gives good head," Happy leaned against the truck. It took Quinn a few seconds to understand that he was talking about the prospects girl.

"You've nailed her?" Happy was all about pussy but wouldn't touch someone else girl.

"She used to be in Indian Hills. Back when they were the Devil's Tribe. Been there a couple of times."

Quinn stood silent for a while. "Ahh, that's were I knew her from." He laughed, he remembered her. She did give good head and he remember her being one of the sweetbutts down there for quite some time. He shook his head and laughed again. "Jesus! She must've been driving Lisa insane. She hates those kind of girls."

"You left Lisa with her?"

"Not me. Gemma did."

Happy shook his head. "Gemma butting in again."

"She just told me that Ruth wants us to get married."

Happy shrugged, "Just a paper."

"Has she duped you too?"

"No. But it's just a paper. Why not?"

Quinn just shook his head...

-o0o-

While he was inside and missed Eli's birth he had made up his mind. He needed to make a mends, a proper one, he was feeling so ashamed over fucking up. Even if she said it was ok, that she understood... he missed his kids birth.

So when he was released he went home, they obviously had loads of sex and the day after he bough her a ring. Gold with a big diamond and then he went home. He found her in the kitchen, put his arms around her from behind and held out the ring in front of her and asked her if she wanted to marry him. Her reaction had been... surprising. She laughed out loud.

"Are you shitting me! You're laughing," he almost yelled, she really pissed him off. He'd bought her a diamond ring and all.

She turned around with big eyes. "Oh my god, you're serious!" She looked down at the ring he'd bough. "That's a real ring! For fucks sake, Quinn!"

"What?" Lisa took a deep breath but didn't say anything so he tried again. "What?"

"Does that look like a ring I'd wear?"

He hadn't really thought about that. He'd just walked into a shop and the woman had been very helpful. It wasn't one of the most expensive ones even if it wasn't cheap. He took a closer look at it. It looked like most rings the other... shit. It looked like most rings the other Old Ladies had.

He looked at Lisa and then back at the ring. She still had the same look in her face and he could tell she was doing her very best to not laugh or possibly to cry.

He'd bought her a very typical Old Lady ring. A 'show off'-ring. Lisa wasn't much for showing off. She grew up in a filthy rich family that was all about showing off and she hated that.

That's when she couldn't hold it in anymore and she started to laugh again. She threw her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek while still laughing.

"I'm sorry."

He shoved the ring into his pocked and hugged her.

"No. I'm sorry. I just wanted to show you how sorry I am that I missed Eli and all that." He kissed her neck.

"Next time you're sorry you can just go down on me or tie me up."

"I do that even if I'm not sorry. I though I should try something new."

She laughed a little again. "Try a different ring next time."

"Yeah. The ring was a bad idea."

"Very."

"Got any tip?"

"Talk to Hannah next time then maybe my gut reaction won't be that you're kidding." She kissed him. "But I wouldn't bet on me saying yes. It would have to be a spectacular ring for that."

"Talk to Hannah, got it." He took another kiss. "Won't happen in a long time though. Don't think I can take another rejection anytime soon. I'm still a bit humiliated here."

"I'm sorry."

There was no way in hell he'd go to Hannah though. Hannah would never keep quiet about it and if he ever asked again he wanted it to be a surprise, even if it could mean the she laughed her ass off again.

They'd talked about it, it was impossible to not talk about it since Gemma and Bobby brought it up all the bloody time. But Lisa didn't seem to want to. It suited him, he was going to find the perfect fucking ring before he tried again and he'd make damn sure that no-one knew he was planning to ask her. Not a great combination considering his first attempt of proposal.

-o0o-

That night they spent at a motel on the other side of the border. He, Happy and Cherry went out for some drinks later that night and it was very interesting. He almost felt sorry for the girl.

She was really nice and all but Happy was... Happy, he didn't talk to women, he nodded at them if he wanted to fuck them and that was pretty much the extent of his interaction with them.

And she was working so hard.

"I really liked Lisa. She was really nice, not like some of the Old Ladies," Cherry said with a bit smile. "She said you had kids."

"Yeah. Three, two boys and a girl."

"Wow!" She nodded a little. "She said you've been together for fifteen years."

"She did?" That didn't sound like Lisa. Happy laughed at the other end of the table.

"Actually, it was Gemma who said fifteen years." Cherry looked a little embarrassed. "How old is the oldest kid?"

"Almost nine."

That was how the entire conversation went, it was really awkward and the fact that they've chosen the emptiest bar they could find didn't help. After about two agonizing hours they went back to the motel. Happy was going to stay behind until the two fugitives was on their way to Ireland.

He called Lisa when he got back to the room, she was tired and they basically just said goodnight.

The morning after he went towards Happy's room to say goodbye. He halted when he saw Cherry walking out of it and shook his head with a smile. Once she was gone he knocked on Happy's door. When he opened Quinn smiled.

"Guess she wasn't technically an Old Lady anymore."

"What?" Happy looked surprised. "Oh fuck! No, she just came to ask when we were leaving."

"Sure."

Happy laughed. "Fuck you."

"Got a question for you. When you did Lisa's ink you checked up on all that steampunk shit didn't you?"

"Yeah. Liked some of it."

"Did you see any rings?"

"What, like for the finger?" Happpy's smile grew.

"Yeah, like for the finger."

Happy's smile got impossibly big. "Yeah." He shook his head. "Gemma got to you."

"No. It wasn't Gemma."

"Sure," Happy said it the exact same way Quinn had just a few minutes earlier. "We can have a look next time we're in Vegas."

"This is between you and me." He wasn't really looking forward to looking at rings with Happy. It would be like the circus coming to town but he didn't see any other solution.

"Absolutely." Happy would keep quiet about it. He was probably not that keen on ring-hunting either.

"Thanks. Take care and give me a call when they've voted."

He had realized it that day before, Happy'd done a great job on Lisa's tattoo. She loved it and said it was a perfect steampunk design. She'd comment on it more than once that Happy must've done a lot of research to be able to do it. He should be able to help Quinn find a ring that Lisa would like. At least one that wouldn't make her laugh her ass off.