Perry knocked on his dorm room door later that evening. "Hap?" She called through it.
"You don't need to knock Perry." He called back as she opened it.
He was sitting on his bed, shirtless, his sketch book in his lap and a pencil in hand when she entered.
"Hap we need to talk." She started as she closed the door behind her, leaning against it rather than approaching him where he sat.
"Then start talking." He almost growled.
"Hap please, this isn't any easier for me than it is for you. I'm scared as hell that this baby is going to be Nikolai's and what I don't need is you being such an ass about that possibility."
"I already said to you Perry that I'm not gonna raise that Russian pricks kid and I hate what he did to you. Hell I hate the thought of his spawn growing inside you."
"Don't you think I do too? It was hope that it might be yours that stopped me from getting rid of it."
"So what do we do when it's born and we find out that it's his? Can't very well kill it once it's here."
Perry sighed. "I don't think I would want to anyway. Even if he is the father it's still half me."
"Look Perry. I don't think this is gonna work between us while you're pregnant. I'm gonna keep being an ass every time I think about what's going on inside you and I'm gonna keep hurting you. Maybe we should part ways until it's born."
"Hap there's a way we can test before it's born. That's what Tara and I were using Juice's laptop for earlier. It's a new test and it's expensive but it would mean we could test in a few weeks and then in a little over a month we'd know once and for all whose baby it is."
"Thought you said we had to wait till after it was born?"
"I did but I asked Tara tonight about pre delivery testing and she told me that she doesn't usually recommend it because of how invasive it is and the high risks it entails. But then she mentioned this new test that she didn't know much about so we looked it up and it turns out we can purchase a kit that lets us gather DNA samples from both of us and send it off for testing. Then we get the results in a little over a week from then."
She could see his mood calming and the deep thought process that was going on behind his dark eyes. She still hadn't moved toward him at all and still stood with her back against the door.
"C'mere." He said putting his sketchbook aside and beckoning her toward the bed. She moved slowly and crawled across the bed toward him. She sat cross legged beside him. "Tell me how it works." He said reaching for her hand.
"Well there's trace amounts of the baby's DNA in my bloodstream so they test a sample of my blood against a sample of your DNA to find a paternal match. If it's your baby, then the DNA results will match yours."
"How accurate is it?"
"Near one hundred percent and they also offer another test once the baby is born pretty much just for peace of mind."
"And how much is it?"
"It totals just over a thousand dollars once you add in postage and costs for the collection of my blood sample."
He nodded slowly weighing it up in his mind. "And there's no risk to you or the baby?"
"None at all. It's no different to any other routine blood test during pregnancy."
"We're doing it then. When can it be done?"
"The ideal testing time is after 14 weeks so we have about five weeks to wait."
"And what if it's not mine?"
"I don't know Hap." She answered quietly, biting her lip nervously.
He placed his hand on her back and pulled her over to straddle him.
"I don't want this to come between us Perry. I want this baby to be mine just as much as you do but if it turns out that it's not would you consider aborting it?" he asked watching as she blinked back tears.
"I'm not sure Hap. Can we talk about that if we need to? Like once we have the results?"
He nodded placing his hand at the back of her head and pressing his lips to hers.
"I love you Perry." He murmured against her lips.
"I love you too." She murmured back running her hand across his naked chest. She moaned as he ran his hand up under her top and cupped his hand around her breast, his other pushing it up to expose her chest to him. He leant forward and took her nipple into his mouth as he pulled her top over her head. She moaned softly at the tenderness of his touch. He met her lips with his before flipping her off him to her back and moving over her kissing her neck, her shoulders and down across her breasts igniting her desire for him. He lowered her jeans down her hips while her fingers worked at undoing his belt. He allowed her to push his jeans down his hips before he moved to the end of the bed to pull hers the rest of the way down and drop his own to the floor. He prowled over her and met her lips drawing her bottom lip between his teeth and giving it a sharp nip.
He unclipped her bra and slid it down her arms before rolling one nipple between his fingers and taking the other into his mouth sucking it hard. The soft moan that escaped her lips sent him wild with desire as he ran his hand down the curve of her hip. She bit her lip and bucked her hips up against him letting him know how ready she was to have him inside her. He slid her panties down her hips and ran his hand up the inside of her thigh. Her breath caught in her throat as he dipped his fingers into her and back out spreading her wetness across her. He engulfed her lips with his own and plunged his tongue into her mouth. She scratched her nails across his shoulders and down his back and moaned as he pressed into her going hard and deep straight away.
She moaned at the hard and deep yet slow pace that he set and bucked her hips against him to meet each thrust. He curled his fingers through her hair and pulled at it hard growling at her movements and the increased friction it created. Her soft gasping moans grew louder and more high pitched as she slowly neared her climax. "Oh God Happy!" She moaned as it built. "Come with me baby." She gasped, her accent thick. He tightened his grip on her hair and pressed in harder thwacking his balls hard against her. She dug her nails hard into his back as she began to reach her peak. He felt her walls contract around him and pressed his lips hard against hers as he spilled into her as she gasped and moaned through her own release.
She ran her hand softly down his back to his side as she felt him soften within her and slide out of her, his lips still hard and hot upon hers and his fingers still curled through her hair.
He drew away and unfurled his fingers from her hair and rose over her on all fours. She gazed sex drunk back up at him pressed her hand against the back of his neck to pull him back down to her lips once more; their kiss soft and tender.
He crawled backwards off the bed once their lips had parted, pulling her up with him and dragging her toward the bathroom where they had sex again in the shower.
When they made their way back to his bed she was glad to lie at his side, her head against his chest, her fingers running delicately up and down his side. He placed his hand against her belly, she knew hoping beyond anything that it was his baby growing inside her.
"I love you Happy." She murmured quietly looking up at him.
"I love you too Perry." He said before kissing her forehead and hearing the sleepiness, not to mention relief in her voice.
She woke in the darkness to the ringing of his phone. While she was relieved that he was still at her side she knew that for his phone to ring at what must be such an early hour something must be wrong.
"Yeah?" She heard him answer once he'd fished it from the pocket of his jeans.
"Phil slow down." He barked down the phone.
"What'd he say?"
"Put her on."
"Wait. Wait. I'll put Perry on."
He placed the phone against his chest. "Perry, you awake babe?"
"Yeah what's going on?" She asked.
"It's Phil. He said Viktor was at your house. Talk to your mom, she speakin' a mile a minute in Russian. Find out what he said."
Perry sat up, nodding as she wiped her eyes of sleep and took his phone that he held out to her.
"Mama? Mama slow down. What did he say?" Perry asked in English for Happy's benefit. She knew however due to the fear and anxiousness she could hear in her mother's voice she would soon be switching to Russian.
"He asked me where you were Perina and got very angry when I wouldn't tell him. Furious in fact. I am sure he would have killed me had Happy's friend not been here." Alexandra said quickly in Russian.
"What did he want?" Perry asked seeing the scowl on Happy's face as she switched to Russian.
"He wants to speak to you Perry. He wants to know what happened to Nikolai. I didn't tell him anything that I know. But he knows you have American boyfriend. I think your father must have told him. And I'm sure he knows you and Happy had something to do with Nikolai's death."
"Does he know who Happy is, Mama?"
"He asked about Phil and his leather vest, if your boyfriend is in the same club. I didn't answer him but he's not a stupid man. I'm afraid he knows where you are."
"It's okay Mama. You know Happy said I'll be safe with him. You did good not telling him anything. Did he hurt you?"
"No Perina. Only scared me. Perina if he finds you with Happy he will kill him. You know that right?"
"Yes Mama. I know. I'm not going to let that happen. I have to tell Happy what you've said now okay?"
"Okay Perina. Be safe."
"I will be Mama." She said ending the call and passing it back to Happy.
"What was that all about?" He asked with a scowl as she passed his phone back toward her, she knew getting grumpy at not being able to understand what she had been saying.
"He was asking where I was. She said he knew I had an American boyfriend that was more than likely involved in Nikolai's murder. She didn't tell him where I was or anything about you but she knows he guessed that you're a son based on Phil's kutte."
"So he's guessed where you are?"
"Probably."
Happy looked at the clock on the nightstand. It was just after 5am. "Get dressed and meet me out in the clubroom." He said already pulling his jeans on and heading to the door.
She heard him pound his fist against a door further down the hallway. "Clay. We got problems." She heard him call through the door and a muffled grumpy reply back.
"What the hell is going on?" Clay asked eyeing Happy and Perry already dressed behind him as he opened his door, clearly shitty from being woken up so abruptly. Tig stuck his head out his dorm room door having been woken by the commotion also.
"Viktor Romanov paid Perry's mom a visit. She didn't tell him anything but he knew about me and has figured that Perry is here." Happy explained.
"He wants to talk to me about how Nikolai died." Perry added.
"Wake everyone up. Chapel as soon as everyone is up." Clay ordered.
Perry moved behind the bar to put the coffee pot on while Tig and Happy headed up the hallway banging on doors to wake everyone up. Clay once dressed approached Perry behind the bar for her to fill him in on what she knew.
Ten minutes later they all sat around the redwood table in the chapel, most blurry eyed with coffee in hand.
"So Viktor wants to talk to Perry. He rattled her mom up pretty bad from what I hear. Hap?"
"She was speakin' a mile a minute in Russian. Sounded terrified. I had to get Perry to translate."
"So what's the issue? We let 'im speak to Perry. She's not stupid enough to tell him anything." Tig said.
"Probably not but if he's as dangerous as Perry and her mom reckon he is then I'm not letting him near her." Happy declared.
"I don't think we have a choice Hap." Jax said from across the table.
"Look if all he wants is answers we set up a meet, we tell Perry what to say, he gets his answers and he fucks off outta town." Tig suggested.
"She's not goin' alone." Happy said.
"Of course not Hap. I wouldn't hear of it." Clay assured him.
"So we reach out and set it up and go from there?" Jax asked.
"All we can do if we're gonna stay one step ahead of him." Clay said.
"I don't like it. It sounds too fuckin' easy." Happy growled.
"Why can't we get her outta town? Take her up to the cabin or something?" Opie suggested.
"Go on Ope."
"Well if he can't find her he can't talk to her. We play dumb. Pretend we don't know 'er. None of the others are alive to tell him otherwise."
Jax looked around the table at the others. "It could work." He said. "We send her up there with a couple of us for protection till the shit storm that's surely coming blows over.
"I'm goin' with 'er. She's fuckin' pregnant for Christ sake." Happy graveled.
"Wait she's what?" Clay asked with surprise.
"You heard me right Clay. She's pregnant." Happy confirmed.
"Well I guess congratulations are in order." Clay said with a slight smile.
"Maybe not. It may not be mine." Happy said.
"Oh?" Clay questioned.
"That fuckin' Russian prick raped her when they took her from the hospital." Happy explained.
"So how you gonna tell whose kid it is?" Tig asked.
"There's a test we can do in a few weeks to find out." Happy answered.
"Alright. Well Perry's protection is paramount. We get her to the cabin with Happy and Tig. He wants to come find us he can but we tell him we don't know er? Is that the plan?" Jax asked.
"Wait. I'm not leavin' Kate here either." Tig said.
"Then take her up there too. Have a nice cozy little double date." Clay couldn't help but scoff.
"Should probly talk to Perry about it. She'll understand the way he works better than anyone." Happy added.
Clay nodded. "Hap's right. Bring her in here."
Happy nodded and headed to the door. "Perry." He barked startling her. "Here."
She looked surprised at being invited into the chapel but stood and followed him anyhow. He pulled a chair from the side of the room and placed it next to his own. "Sit." He ordered. She glanced across at him as she did so and knew that his shortness came from the immediate danger that she was in.
"Perry we're getting you out of town. You'll go up to the cabin with Happy and Tig." Clay said.
"But what about Viktor. It's me he wants to talk to."
"He can't do that if he can't find you." Clay explained.
"You have no idea who you're dealing with. If he can't find me here he'll kill everyone in his path until he does." Perry said an edge of seriousness to her voice.
"Perry you'll be safer up at the cabin." Happy told her.
"It's not me I'm worried about." She continued to protest.
"Perry. You are our main concern. Keeping you safe is paramount." Clay said with edge of finality in his words.
"Look Clay with all due respect you won't be saying that when half your club is dead. If he wants to talk to me then that is what he'll do. He knows I'm here so if you try to keep him from me he won't hesitant to kill anyone who stands in his way. Besides any meet you have with him you'll need me to translate."
"Perry I'm not letting him near you." Happy growled from beside her.
"You don't have a choice Happy. I can handle him." Perry said resolutely.
"So what do you tell him about Nikolai and Yuri's deaths?" Happy asked her.
"He knows what my father was capable of. He'll believe self-defense." Perry said.
Happy let out a short laugh before he spoke. "That ain't gonna float Perry. I put a bullet in the back of his skull. There's nothing self-defense about that besides how do you explain Nikolai and the rest of their men?"
"I don't know. I'll think of something." She answered him.
"We'll think of something. It'll be your job to feed it to him." Clay said.
Perry nodded. "When?" She asked.
"When he makes contact. We'll make sure you're not alone with him either." Clay said.
"Okay." She said slowly seemingly deep in thought. "And Hap?" She said turning to him.
He gave her a questioning look.
"You're not going to like this but you can't be there." She said.
"Not gonna happen Perry. I'm not leaving your side." He answered.
"No Happy. I'm serious. When you're around me your protective nature goes into overdrive. He'll pick up on that and know that it's you I was seeing while I was still married to his son. That's something he is not going to take lightly. He'll probably kill you on the spot, no questions asked."
"I hate to say it Hap but I think she's right. You'll have to sit this one out bro. Sounds like it's better not to piss this guy off any more than necessary." Jax said.
"That's certainly true." Perry said with a sigh.
"Alright Perry you can go. We'll figure out what you tell him then let you know." Clay said dismissing her.
Perry nodded as she rose and headed to the double doors. She cast a glance back at Happy and was met with the dark seriousness of his gaze. She felt fear and anxiousness rise within her as she went through the door and closed it behind her.
Most of the women had made their way into the clubroom now and Gemma fussed about in the kitchen making breakfast. Perry sat down on a sofa next to Kate and waited, hoping that Viktor Romanov didn't show up before a plan was hatched.
A/N: So Perry and Happy are on the same page currently as far as the baby goes. He has stopped being an ass for now and they will get answers on paternity soon however as you can see their are other problems afoot! Please let me know your thoughts. Happy reading!