A/N: So I hope you are all still with me here! I have been working on the next few chapters, and I hope you like them. I did take a small hiatus and read some of your guys work as well! I really appreciate the comments that you leave! So here is that lovely disclaimer once again: I do not own SOA or any of the characters this is simply a story of my imagination! Happy reading!

Chapter 11

Dinner and a job

They both went to the clubhouse later that morning and she got to meet all of the guys from both charters. But it was at church that Happy found out that they got a tip about a rat threatening the club and it needed to be dealt with swiftly, this was where Happy and his 'special abilities' were needed. The job would take place tonight before they all headed back to Charming in the morning.

Happy and Ara used the rest of the day for her to show him around New Orleans and when evening came Happy took Ara to Bree's house. He was actually excited to meet this tough bitch, when they pulled up on his bike Bud was waiting for them.

"Bud." Happy said as he was climbing off his bike.

"Happy. So I get the ladies tonight eh, well I hardly think they need us, one packs a bat and the other a glock and both know how to use them, I would feel sorry for the asshole that tries to hurt them."

Happy gave a small laugh, and the fact that Bud had decided to wait outside after he and Bree's last encounter made the situation even funnier. Happy found out after church this morning that Bree threatened to pop a cap in his ass just cause she felt she needed to hit 'straight up G' status and told him if he knew what was good for him he whould leave or she would play pin the bullet on the biker.

They walked up the steps and stood behind Ara as she rang the doorbell, a woman who was her height with tan skin and dark chocolate brown hair and green eyes opened the door.

"Ara! I was wondering when you were going to get here!" She leaned forward and hugged Ara in a tight embrace.

She prompted them into the house. As they followed her down the small entryway Happy noted that Bud was staring at Bree.

"What's up man?"

"She looked, I don't know..bigger the other night." He was giving an appreciative glance up and down of Bree as she and Ara stood in the dining room laughing.

"Off limits brother, your babysitting not hooking up tonight." Bud gave an innocent shrug of his shoulders and continued to follow Happy into the room.

Happy walked over to Ara and put his arm around her "Name's Happy, this is Bud." Bud walked up and nodded at Bree.

"Bree." They exchanged a few pleasantries. After awhile Happy excused himself to leave for the evening but when Bud did not get up Bree looked at Happy and than him.

"Uh, I think you forgot your friend." She watched as Happy turned around.

"Nope, meet your bodyguard slash babysitter ladies, compliments of the Sons." He turned again to leave.

Bree stood up "Your kidding right?" Happy turned back around and when he did not answer she retorted, "I think I am capable of taking care of us."

"Yeah, saw that the other night darlin' while you were threatening to go 'straight up G' on me with your glock." Bud said with a twitch of his lips.

"Oh those were happy times, what can I say, a gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone. But I think you gentleman are confused, we appreciate the gesture but we don't need a babysitter." She looked at both men with defiance in her eyes daring them to challenge her as she crossed her arms over her chest waiting for one of them to answer.

Happy quickly saw the traits that Ara and Bree had in common, starting with the smart mouth and the eyes of defiance to match, no wonder the two got along so great.

"It would make me feel better if you had the extra muscle." He turned to Bud "Do whatever they ask, and do not let them out of your sight." Not leaving time for any arguments from either party, he simply walked out the door.

ARA POV~

"Well, I see what you mean." Bree looked at Ara and turned back to Bud giving him a solid once over "And what are we going to do with you?"

Bud smiled and looked at both ladies watching as they smiled at each other than back at him.

"Ooh I know, lets give him a makeover!" Bree squeeled her hands were waving eccentrically in the air.

"Well I want to paint his toenails than." Ara said with a devilish grin.

"Lets pluck his eyebrows, there should be two!" Bud rubbed between his eyes.

"No lets wax, its more humane!" Ara said with a smile. "Oh who are we kidding we can always knock him out and shave them off completely!" Bree shook her head in agreement.

"That would definitely be a way to channel our inner barber! We talked about it at work a couple of times, but don't you worry Bud I used to shave dogs at the local dog groomers back in high school, I mean they turned out OK for the most part!" Bree said with a huge smile.

"No ladies, I'm here to protect you, not be your doll." He gave a menacing look and folded his arms across his chest.

"Ooh, tough one huh, my favorite to break."

"Go easy on him Bree, he might be tender on the inside." Ara had a look of sympathy as she looked at Bud.

Bree folded her arms across her chest and used one hand to tap a finger against her chin as she pretended to be thinking aloud "Hmm, Ara did we or did we not hear 'do whatever they ask'? Oh who are we kidding, we could always whip out the dart gun I got last year and drug him that way, than we can just do whatever we want anyways."

"You know there is two of us and only one of him we can stun him and than tie him to the chair and make him watch Justin Bieber videos while we throw popcorn at him." Ara's face was dead serious and Buds face went from smiling to utter disbelief. After one brief moment both of the women burst out laughing.

"Come on Bud, we're just fucking with you! Lets go make dinner, you can chop the vegetables with the interesting blade you got strapped to your thigh. And than we can all watch The Notebook together!" They both took off to the kitchen holding each others arms and laughing, leaving a stunned biker in the dining room, he prefered the glock and the bat.

"I can't believe they think you two are defenseless, defenseless my ass you two are trouble in sheeps clothing." He mumbled as he followed the two women into the kitchen regreting he did not bring someone else with him.

HAPPY POV~

The night was silent with the sounds of crickets, Happy came out of the small shack and lit a cigarrette. Taking a pull from it and letting out he looked around the area. Jax came out and stood beside him smoking a cigarette as well. His once white shirt was now splattered in blood, and he started to clean his hands with a rag.

"Think he'll talk?" Jax asked.

"They always talk."

"Yeah, how you have the stomach for this shit sometimes is beyond me. Where is your lady at tonight?"

"Her friend Bree's house, left Bud with them."

"The one she pulled the gun on? How did that blow over."

"They accepted it."

"Did you give them a chance to otherwise?"

"Nope, come on lets get this shit done." Happy walked in to the shack and in a chair was a bound and gagged middle aged man who was covered in blood. His head and shoulders were slumped over. Jax as well as Clay and two other members from the New Orleans charter were sitting around looking at the man.

"Time to wake up rat, round four." It was Clay sitting in a chair with his cigar.

Happy lifted the mans head and gave him one look before he punched him across the jaw for what felt like the one hundrenth time. The man's face spewed more blood and he barely let out a grunt.

"Wake up sunshine" Happy said with his low raspy voice, he removed his knife and brought it up to the guys face, the man twitched and tried to move away "don't you know what we do to rats?"

Using his knife and a pliers he cut out the tongue of the man who was in the chair, the man started to kick as best he could but was unable to move due to his restraints. Happy threw the severed tongue into the mans lap and continued to watch him as he writhed in pain.

"Well this has been fun but maybe we should wrap it up I want to get some sleep before we head out tomorrow, is the back ready?" Clay looked at Tiny Tim and Switch, both brothers from the southern charter.

"Ready when you are." Tiny Tim got up and started to open the door to the back where there were several alligators waiting.

"Time to go for a swim." Happy and Switch grabbed the now limp man out of his chair after removing his restraints. With no fight left he was dragged to the bag of the shack where the alligators were being tossed hunks of meat to entice them closer.

Happy and Switch brought him to a standing position and Clay walked up to the man lifting his head.

"Perhaps you should of thought twice before you fucked with the Sons." He gave a nod and the men tossed the man into the pool of awaiting alligators. The man gave out several horrific screams before he went below the surface and never came back up. Happy again took up the rag that was sitting on the railing and started to clean his hands as best he could while the others started to clean up the room they had spent the past three grueling hours in.

"You good brother?" Clay came up behind Happy.

"Yeah, great."

"I've been meaning to tell you, that Arabelle, she's a lovely girl. She seems like she will be good for you, been good to your ma?"

"Yeah, she has."

"Does she know what you do?"

"No, but I'm going to tell her." He looked Clay in the eyes and stood tall to address the president of his charter.

"You serious about making her your old lady, what happens if she can't accept the truth?"

"She will, she is tough, she has been through a lot. She can handle it."

"And if she doesn't?"

Happy stood in silence, he never contemplated what would happen if she didn't accept what he said or did for the club. Nor did he think of the consequences if it all backfired on him, this changed things. And now they were going to have a child together, and his mother was not doing so well.

She has to accept it, she has to accept me.

Happy got on his bike, with a whole new set of worries that he never had before. He had to tell Ara, and soon, to find out where they stood when the truth was completely out. He was not much of a praying man, but he hoped that it would turn out the way he wanted it too. He started his bike and headed back towards Bree's house where Ara was waiting.

He knocked on the door of the house to have Bud answer with his gun hiding behind the door.

"Hey man, glad your back." Bud said with a relieving grin.

"Have fun tonight." Happy gave a sarcastic grin and walked into the house, they started to walk into the dining room area where they had started the evening.

"Well they threatened to shoot me with a dart gun so they could drug me and shave my eyebrows off but they were torn between that option and knocking me out and tying me to a chair so I could watch Justin Beiber videos while they tossed popcorn at me. Than they made me chop vegetables for supper and told me we had to watch 'The Notebook' only to come to find out they had 'The Human Centipede.' Brother I heard about your rep but that was some seriously fucked up shit!" Bud rubbed his hand over his eyes.

"Where is Ara?" He continued to move through the house and heard some pop music playing from the back bedroom that he could only presume to be Bree's room.

"They both are in her room, something about girl talk, said the only way I was getting in was if I was hiding a vagina, wore a size 5 jeans, or let them paint my toes, I love you brother but I will not do that. But I have been outside the door, they like to laugh a lot. Once in awhile they open the door and Bree hands me her wine glass so I can get more wine for her highness, said something about medicinal purposes."

Happy gave a smirk. And continued to follow the sound of the music. As he got closer he heard Salt-n-Peppa blaring from the speakers in her room. And he started to listen.

"I'm just saying a man that fine has got to be something else in the sack!" It was Bree and he could hear her flitting about the room.

"Wouldn't you like to know. Tell me again how someone like you manages to remain single!" Ara started to giggle.

"What can I say, I like to keep my options open!" She said in a sing song voice.

ARA POV~

Ara watched as Bree did one of her classic traits, rearranging the room she was in while she drank wine. Twice she had made the self proclaimed 'He-man' come in to move furniture, reminding him that Happy did have him here as "extra muscle" and she intended to take full advantage of the generous offer from the Sons. Initially they had thought Bud was a burly type of man only to find out later that he was far from it. He removed his vest and sweater he had on during his course of 'slavery' and had quickly changed what they had thought of the man. His clothes gave a decieving appearance, he wasn't small or lean by any means, he had to be a solid 6'4" and weigh in at a good 230lbs of muscle and brawn, obviously able to handle himself in any situation. When he was done she would hand him her wine glass and remind him that if he did not have a vagina he could not be in the room or he was more than welcome to try and squeeze into her size 5 jeans but he could be a dear and refill her glass for her. Bud had been a good sport about it though, she feed him and had a steady supply of beer for the man to drink and she did give him a drunken hug as the night went on. As Bree did this she mentioned that she only treated him like this to 'make him stronger' and that had Bud laughing and compliant with the ladies demands. He did draw the line at giving them foot masages though.

"Bree, do you think it's a good idea that I got so close so soon?" Ara had turned serious, she looked at her best friend as she was sitting in the center of her bed.

"Oh honey…" Bree moved to the bed and placed her wine glass on the night stand "I told you this before, you are going to be fine. Now that I have met him, he seems very capable of taking care of you. He looks pretty tough and he really likes you. I can tell how he is always staring at you. And besides look at chewbaca he left in my house for protection so he could go 'handle business' something tells me he plays for keeps and sweetie he's got his sights set on you!"

Ara looked at her hands and had a small blush come over her face. "You know Bud isn't all that bad Bree. He actually looks like he could be pretty cute. I mean the beard kind of throws you off but you have to admit, he is pretty good looking."

"Oh I'm not saying he isn't but the whole me man you woman vibe can be hard to swallow. We should get my dart gun and shoot him in the ass just to see him jump! No drugs just a nice little dart." Bree had a twinkle in her eye when she said this.

"Happy would kill us!"

"Well there is that too." Both of the girls started to giggle in the bed and laid down and faced each other. "Bud isn't so bad, you know me, I just like to make them squirm. And by them I do mean the male population!" They had another round of giggles again.

"Oh Bree I cannot wait to see the man who finally tames you."

"You and me both babe, but so far no man has passed the test." Suddenly there was a knock on the door. And Bree got up grabbing her wine glass on the way and opened the door to a set of dark piercing eyes.

Happy walked into the room with Bud right behind him. He came up to Ara and hugged her. When he pulled away he noticed that he had just left blood all over her sweater.

Oh my god.

HAPPY POV~

He looked down to see her sweater and noticed that he had left spots of blood on her cream sweater. She just looked at him in awe.

Fuck. Shit, we need to leave now.

"Ok I take it our evening is over, so it was great having you all here, but I think you and Ara are going to want to get back to the hotel so you can both..uh..rest."

"Excellent idea Bree." Ara quickly moved passed them all and started for the front door with Happy quickly trailing after her. Bud followed and Bree behind them, they all gathered their belongings and as Bree was saying good night, Happy pulled Ara out the front door only to have Bud close the door behind them leaving Bree alone with the biker. Ara turned to go back and help her friend but Happy continued to pull Ara towards his bike.

"She's going to be fine he is just going to talk to her." He handed her a helmet and got on his bike, looking at Ara waiting for her to either get on or run back up on the stairs to her friend. She gave a concerned glance to the door, and than crawled on the bike.

The ride back to the hotel was a quick one, she did not look at him once till they were in the safety of the room and he went straight to the bathroom to shower and get rid of the soiled bloody clothes. When he came out Ara was sitting on the bed and when he sat beside her she got up and shuffled towards the bathroom.

"I'm going to shower." She shut the door and Happy could hear the lock turn.

Fuck, is she scared of me now?

After a half an hour in the bathroom Ara came out dressed in shorts and a tank top pulling her hair into that messy updo that he thought of often when they were at the springs together.

"Happy, lets not talk about it. I know you want to but tonight I just had so much fun with my best friend and I just want to curl up and watch a movie, can we do that, just worry about it later?"

Happy shook his head and they both laid in the bed watching a movie on TV, she rolled over and tucked her head into the crook of his neck and fell asleep. Happy stayed awake to watch her sleep for awhile longer feeling her breaths on his neck before he too fell asleep with the smell of Ara's hair in his nostrils wondering how this was going to work out now that he pretty much forced her to see what he did for the club.