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Killers Baby Girl

Summary: Happy Lowman - The Tacoma Killer, club Enforcer, ruthless man - never wanted family of his own others did. All he needed was his club and his mom. He wanted to do the one thing he liked to do most in life; kill for his club. On a trip to Charming Happy is asked to pull off a job killing James O'neily, a favour for the Irish. But not everything goes according to plan and that one kill will end up being the best thing that ever happened to him..

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Chapter 10

1994

Happy age 43

Bramty age 8

Happy had gotten calls from his Ma and from Bramty almost every day while he'd been back in Tacoma. A soon as Lee had mentioned that there was a small job in Charming, Happy had insisted he'd get to go instead of Vin. Ignoring all his brothers curious looks or comments Happy had taken off towards Charming not wasting anytime but was glad when Kozik was the one to follow him.

He trusted Kozik and if anyone was gonna know not to ask him questions when he disappeared, it was Kozik.

As they passed the welcome to Charming sign on the side of the road Happy pulled into the small gas station. "I'll be right back, brother" he waved off Kozik who'd got up to follow.

Walking into the gas station Happy pulled out his burner and dialled the number of Bramty's phone. "Hey baby girl" he smiled when she picked up the phone.

"Happy!"

He smirked always loving how excited she was when he called or stopped by, he knew she was going to like this news. "Guess what?"

"What?"

"I just got into Charming baby girl-" he was cut off by a giggle and couldn't help the smile on his face as he spoke. "I'll see when I can stop by later today, okay? Where's Katherine?" he asked knowing that Bramty didn't caller her mother mom because she hated the woman now that she realised Katherine wasn't doing what moms were supposed to do.

"Katherine's working today. Can you pick me up from school?! On your bike like you did last time!"

"Sure can baby girl" he nodded looking back at Kozik who was leaning on his bike waiting while subtly watching Happy on the phone. He knew he needed to be careful around Kozik.

Happy didn't want Bramty to get involved with the Sons of Anarchy and put her at risk since he couldn't take her with him. It was one thing to introduce her to the club if he was always gonna be around but he wouldn't risk it when he knew he'd be out of town all the time.

He also wouldn't risk loosing her if the club found out that he'd ignored a direct order from Jax. Jax is holding a grudge against anyone in the club who weren't fazed by killing. Since his kid was born the VP had been not so subtly against killing.

"I'll see you at 3pm?"

"Yeah. If business with the club gets us into trouble you'll be fine to walk home right?" he frowned as he walked over to the register slinging his backpack off his shoulders.

"Yeah if I don't see you I'll walk home... but will you come see me? for sure?"

"For sure baby girl. I just hope I don't have to help the guys for too long... when do you have to leave for school?" checking the time there is 45 minutes until school starts but he didn't really know how long it takes her to walk there.

"In 25 minutes"

"I can be there by then, want me to give you a ride to school?" he chuckled at her eager "Yes!" and they hung up.

Happy walked to the register throwing down the candy before adding one of the small little toy bears with glittery eyes onto the register. The man looked at him funny but didn't say anything when Happy glared. After paying he shoved the items into his backpack and walked back out to his bike where Kozik was waiting.

"Hey man, I've got something to do... you should head straight to the clubhouse" Happy said as he mounted his bike and pulled on his helmet.

"What the fuck do you have to do?" Kozik challenged and Happy glared not wanting to answer that question.

"It'll only take me 30 minutes" Happy rasped and then pulled out of the gas station speeding further into the main streets of Charming. He drove past the clubhouse watching Kozik ride through the gates before he took off in the direction of Bramty's new house.

He had barely turned the bike off when he saw the front door of the apartment was flung open and the little Latina girl run out with her hair in those two pig tails.

Happy smiled opening his arms up for her as she launched herself at him giggling.

He laughed before kissing her cheek and tickling his fingers into her sides as she squirmed and laughed louder. "You didn't give me a kiss little girl" he smirked when she quickly pressed kisses to his cheek knowing it was the only way to get him to stop tickling her.

"I missed you Daddy" she smiled hugging her arms around his neck but Happy froze - Daddy? she's never called him that before. Bramty pulled away when he didn't say anything, a heartbroken look on her face that vanished to embarrassment as she climbed off his lap and ran back inside the house.

"Fuck! shit!" he cursed realising what happened and he got off the bike quickly jogging after her, "Bramty?" he called when he didn't see anyone else in the home.

A blonde woman was leaning against the wall and looked up when she heard his voice. "How can I help-" she purred but her cut her off

"Where's the kid?"

The gash looked offended as she huffed and nodded to the stairs. Happy didn't spare her another look as he ran up the stairs only seeing one door closed. He didn't do this shit and was way out of his element but he knew that he liked being her father even if he wasn't blood related.

Hell he had considered her his kid since he met her at the strip club almost 4 years ago. He just never said it to her and he knew his reaction just then had hurt her feelings.

"Bramty?" he knocked on the door before opening it and seeing her laying down in bed with her back to him as she hid her face in pillows. His heart broke when he realised he'd made her cry and he crossed the room going over to her side of the bed and crouching down in front of her. "Bramty" he lifted her hand from where it was clutching the pillow to her face.

Her emerald green eyes looked up at him red rimmed as she sniffled and wiped away her tears subtly as if he wouldn't have been able to tell she'd cried.

It dawned on him then, that with all the shit she goes through, none of it made her cry. In fact she had told him that she hated crying and she never really spoke about her emotions other than simply stating that she felt them.

He liked that because it was the same thing he did, but realising now that he had the power to make her cry... it made him feel like a piece of shit for stiffening up.

"Bramty, you're my baby girl" he held her cheek as he brushed away fallen tears. "I love you and you're my daughter, I always considered you mine... I'm just a stupid dad and I didn't expect you to love me that much"

He caught her as she launched herself into his arms. Bramty's little face nuzzling his neck and her arms tightening around him to an almost painful point as he held her to his chest rubbing her back.

"I love you dad" Bramty whispered as if she were trying again waiting to see if he'd react differently this time.

Happy smiled "I love you too baby girl"

They stayed like that for another minute and Happy held Bramty in his arms as he walked back outside to his bike. Setting her down on the bike he jumped on and fired it up before speeding off towards her school.

They got there with 5 minutes to spare and he was glad to see that all her tears were gone.

"I got something for you?" he announced grabbing Bramty by the waist and pulling her from behind him to sit on his knee while he fished the candy and toy he'd bought, out of his backpack.

"Oh My God!" she giggled when she took them from him, her little face lighting up as she looked at him with nothing but love in those eyes. Happy didn't understand it. He didn't understand how someone like her could love someone like him, especially not when she'd seen him kill a man in cold blood.

Most people figured something like that out and then ran for the hills... yet a child managed to loved him for it? How the fuck that happened he didn't know.

When the school bell rang Happy smiled and kissed Bramty's forehead "Get to school kid. You can tell me what you learnt later today" Bramty nodded holding into the chocolate and the small little animal toy as she skipped off into the school.

Neither one of them paying attention to the looks they were getting from other parents, after 4 year they were used to it.

In fact, he was so used to people staring at him when he dropped Bramty off that he didn't notice the two sets of eyes that had followed him there.

Kozik officially thought his eyes might just bug out of his head.

Lorca had asked Kozik a while ago if Happy had found himself a piece of ass in Charming when they all started to doubt the reason for Happy's more intense behaviour was his mom.

Sure, the killah loved his mom but Happy had been dealing with Elena Lowman's MS for years and if the medicine was working like Happy said it was, then there shouldn't have been a problem. Kozik was the only one in Tacoma that Happy Lowman even considered a friend and even he hadn't been able to get the man to spill the beans.

Following Hap on this suspicious trip to Charming had been easy since they weren't currently allowed to ride on their own. He had known that even if Happy was mixed up in something he'd have his friends back but Kozik had not been expecting to follow after the Tacoma killer only to see him playing dad to some little girl.

Happy has a kid?

He couldn't help but scoff at the thought. Happy Lowman hated kids, it was a fact they all knew because the man would cringe every time you brought one near him. But here the killer was, sitting on his bike driving some kid to school? Well damn.

Kozik watched as Happy pulled out a toy and something else from the backpack and he realised it had been the reason they stopped at the gas station. The little girl's pig tails swished as she hugged and kissed Happy before rushing off towards the school while Happy sat on his bike watching her go.

"Holy shit" Kozik chuckled because what the hell else was he supposed to do with this information?

"Killer has a kid" he repeated slowly to himself as he quickly sped out of the street so he could get back to TM before Happy realised he had left again right after him.

He didn't know what to do now, he could understand why the killer would want to keep a kid away from the life especially if he was in Tacoma and she and her mother were in Charming. Without someone here to protect them keeping a distance was best... but it was still a huge shock.

SAMCRO wouldn't be too happy about it if they ever found out that's for sure, the mother charter were all big on family since they were one of the clubs with the most Old ladies and kids. Not like Tacoma where none of them had kids... well, everyone but Happy had kids apparently. Only two guys in Tacoma had Old ladies and those woman were more interested in their careers right now than starting a family.

The more he thought about it the more Kozik couldn't help but be a little pissed that Happy hadn't told him he had a kid or got a woman pregnant. It raised all sorts of questions in his mind about the kids mother. Did Happy love the mother of that kid? Did she have his crow? Why weren't they together? Why was her kid in Charming and not Tacoma? Was she a sweetbutt or a croweater that got knocked up?

Too many questions and too little answers, Kozik knew he had to get Happy to tell him about this shit but he wasn't looking forward to the beat down he'd get for spying.

Another thing everybody knew about Happy Lowman is that he's a private man. A man who doesn't like talking all that much and does not like talking about anything he does not want to at that. Kozik wasn't sure how this conversation with Happy was gonna go down but the beat down he knew he would get after was not something Kozik found himself looking forward to.

At all!

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Happy was drinking in the clubhouse with Tig and Bobby when the doors bust open and Katherine stormed into the clubhouse looking royally pissed off and making her way over towards him. Happy stood quickly grabbing her arm not wanting his brothers to hear anything about to come out of her mouth.

"Get you're hands off of me!" Katherine screeched and everyone in the clubhouse was now watching and wondering who'd dare raise their voice at him of all people. Katherine looked very much like a croweater and he was hoping they'd shrug it off as a pissed gash after his dick. After all, she's the the civilians equivalent of a croweater.

"Outside. Now." he growled and watched as she jumped a little but made no move to walk outside as three other bitches and a man walked into the clubhouse standing at her side. The women pulled Katherine outside the clubhouse and Happy shoved the guy out with them.

"You took her didn't you" the fucking guy he didn't fucking know accused him and Happy grunted pulling a gun and watching the 5 of them freeze. He didn't have time for this!

"Get the fuck outside" he shook his head when they stopped in the door way and waved off his brothers who stood to follow, letting them know he had this under control. When they were all stood outside near the car he sighed, "What the fuck do you think you're doing here?"

The guy spoke first, though the asshole stood behind the women as if they'd shield him. Fucking pussy. "You took Bramty. She was bringing in more money than a scum bag like you could compensate me for! I need her back!"

Happy froze, someone took Bramty? and what the fuck was she doing to earn him money? HOW THE FUCK WAS SHE EARNING HIM MONEY? there were too many questions in his head that he didn't even notice Kozik come up beside him until Happy heard his friends voice.

"You 5 need to get off of our property" Kozik clapped him on the back in support but Kozik was looking curiously between him and the fuckers in front of him.

Happy growled and grabbed Katherine by her throat before turning to Kozik and nodding to the guy "Bring him with us"

Kozik nodded confused but did just that. Happy's brothers all looked at him warily when he passed through the clubhouse dragging the bitch by her throat as she choked and struggled to breathe but none of them said a word about it.

When he and Kozik were both in one of the spare rooms Happy locked the door throwing Katherine to the floor. "Now. You're both gonna tell me what the fuck happened and I'll consider not killing you. Make it quick or your chances of leaving here get smaller"

"She's not yours to take! You don't have any right's to take her from us!" Katherine accused weakly as her hands shook in fear. She knew well what he was capable over the years but she had the veins of courage to prevent her from shutting the fuck up when she really should.

Happy sneered lowly, "The fuck she isn't. She's my kid and I'll gut you like a fish if you say otherwise" Katherine shrank deeper to the floor avoiding looking at him, she knew exactly what he'd do if she tried to intervene in his relationship with Bramty.

Bramty was his daughter in all ways that matter!

"We can come to an agreement" the guy - who Happy was now vaguely remembering as the guy he'd seen with Katherine at the strip club years ago - spoke up. That fucker was still around? What the fuck kind of arrangement did this mother fucker think he was gonna get?

"An agreement?" Happy sneered "Why the fuck would I make an agreement with you? How about I fucking kill you? that's an agreement I like" he nodded approvingly to himself very much liking the plan of killing both of them right now.

"Just tell me where my daughter is!" Katherine begged in a half assed attempted to play the concerned parent as she looked at Kozik instead of him. "I need her! I know you think I don't love her, but I do! It's - it's got nothing to do with drugs or money... I just, Uh, I need my little kid"

Happy frowned, he knew she didn't love Bramty and that this was an act but why they thought he has Bramty right now was what confused him. "She's at school" he told Katherine

Katherine and her sleezy boyfriend exchanged shocked looks "She's not at school" the man countered and Happy scowled.

"I dropped her off this morning myself, I watched her skip into the school before I took off when the bell went. She's at school" Happy argued hoping like hell there wasn't something more to make them think she wasn't at school.

"We went to pick her up at lunch time for a job and she WASN'T there! I need her back! It's just one tiny favour I need from her!" Katherine screeched desperately, "I need that kid! What am I going to do without her! There's only three of us working together now and Bramty brings in the most mone-"

Happy slammed Katherine's face into the wall breaking her nose and watching as blood poured down her face while she screamed in pain. "What the fuck did you make her do?! You pimping out Bramty? is that where those bruises came from or was that you when she said she didn't want to do what you asked? TELL ME!" he roared

The bruise on Bramty's arms had not gone unnoticed this morning but he had been distracted on fixing the fact he had screwed up when she called him dad. Happy was going to mention it sometime on this trip to Charming.

Happy looked back down at Katherine who was shaking in fear as tears ran down her face mixing with the flowing blood from her nose and lip, "Talk" he demanded

"She has 4 regulars that come to the house and at the club she costs extra if men want her to serve them beer instead of us. She has her own list of customers at the club too and she even watches sometimes if they don't want to touch the kid... She didn't get any marks from us! She's 8 years old Happy! She gives blowjobs and she takes their dick-"

Happy threw Katherine against the wall by her hair again before he remembered that if Bramty was in fact missing that's what he needed to be doing not beating the shit out of her junkie whore of a mother right now. Not that he didn't want to kill Katherine... but Bramty was more important.

While he knew the clubs rules against killing women, he personally could make an exception. Especially for Katherine after what he'd just found out. Happy was usually calm when he was angry and ready to kill but this was his baby girl and he just found out not only was she missing! But her mother had been pimping her out to pay for crank! And she hadn't told him!

He couldn't think about this yet.

Happy cracked his neck and stormed out the door back into the dead silent clubhouse who had probably heard Katherine's crying and screaming. Though he knew from experience they wouldn't have been able to figure out what was said from out in the bar.

He walked straight up to Clay who raised his brows at the seething look Happy already knew was on his face and not even his President could hide the slight fear in his eyes at seeing it. Stopping in front of Clay the whole clubhouse was eerily silent as they waited for him to say something.

Happy knew that what he was about to say was not what they were expecting but he couldn't just leave with no explanation. "My kid... I don't know what happened but she might be missing. I've gotta go talk to the school and see if this fucking junkie whore is telling the truth and then I'm going to kill her - club permission or not. She was pimping out my kid and she's gonna die. Like a lot"

And with that Happy stormed out of the clubhouse while all eyes were frozen in shock... no one ever did call him graceful after all.

He didn't care though, not right now.

If Bramty was missing and something had happened to her there would be hell to pay!

Reaching his bike he barely spared Tig and Kozik a grateful nod as they ran out of the clubhouse hot on his heels and mounted their bikes following him as he peeled out of the lot. If shit went down he might just need backup and thankfully it was the 2 people he considered real friends who followed.

Happy knew he would have to give them both, and the club, answers but for right now he would settle for just making sure Bramty is safe and deal with that shit later.

Happy followed quickly by Tig and Kozik walked into the elementary school office, a place the three of them could not have looked more out of place. The familiar secretary stood up when she spotted them approach. She hadn't ever not looked at him warily before, even now, but she remembered who he was and which ruggrat belonged to him. Fuck if he hadn't been in here too many times for her to forget!

"Mr. Lowman" she cleared her throat as her eyes flickered to his brothers behind him who both had raised brows at the fact she knew who he was. Happy made a point of ignoring them for the moment.

"Kids here at school today?" he rasped getting straight to the point

She looked back at her computer - in what assumed was her checking the rolls or some shit - before turning back to him with a small frown on her face. "Mr. Lowman, I'm not sure..." she shook her head and turned back to the screen checking it again. "It says she was here for homeroom and then not her next classes. I'll call her teacher now and see if she's in class but it might have just been a mistake"

Happy nodded and waited as she spoke to the teacher of whatever class Bramty was supposed to be in right now. The older woman, who's name he'd never actually bothered learning despite the fact she'd been working here for 4 plus years and the frequency in which Bramty is in the office for something. She turned back to him, "She hasn't been at school today. It must have been an accident Mr. Lowman, we'll fix the records up for Bramty... she has a meeting with the principle on Wednesday too because of the issue with the class pet"

"Class pet?" Tig asked and Happy sighed remembering the phone conversation about the class pet situation.

The woman nodded, "Yeah. She let the bird out of it's cage before lunch time and when they got back it was eating the pet fish" she looked like she wasn't sure how to feel about that and Happy was right along with her, but right now he had to find his daughter.

Without another word he nodded at the woman and stormed back out to his bike, "Fuck!"

Kozik was right behind him, "You don't think she could have gone off to a friends house on her own?" the blonde biker asked with a shrug. If this was any other kid he might have agreed, hell if it were himself as a child then yes... but not Bramty.

Happy sighed rubbing a hand over his face as he shook his head. "No" was all he said before sighing again and pacing the parking lot a little while he thought this all through. Katherine had though he took Bramty which probably meant the junkie whore wasn't the reason Bramty was taken. That left a long list of SAMCRO enemy's but none he could think of who'd know about the little girl. "We gotta find her but I don't even know where to start" he admitted

Tig's eyes widened but he nodded, "Yeah, uh, we'll, we'll call the guys and round everyone up and go searching for her" the SAA nodded more vigorously while glancing at Kozik who pulled out his phone and made the call back to the others. Tig stayed beside him, "Get us a picture of her, and what was her name?"

"Bramty"

"Right, Bramty" Tig looked back at Kozik again before returning his attention to Happy who sighed again as he watched his friends trying to help him.

"Hap, brother, we'll look everywhere and someone has to know where to find her, right? I mean, it's gotta be against the club" Tig said

"I don't know" Happy shook his head in disagreement, "No paper trail connecting her to me, no connections to the club, you guys didn't even know about her until now... nobody knew"

Tig sighed, "If not a club enemy then who? just some random sick fuck taking a kid from school? I mean, it's a hell of a coincidence they picked a SAMCRO kid, but I guess it's a chance - not sure which is better for us though"

"Club enemy" Happy stated frankly, if it was a club enemy they could negotiate her safety and they didn't deal with many people who'd actually hurt a kid. But a random? They'd only take a kid from a school with the intention of doing some seriously fucked up shit and that was way worse. At least a club enemy wouldn't be about her, it would be about what they could get from the club... that is if they didn't take her for revenge, an eye for an eye.

Oh shit, he was really starting to worry!

Happy had never felt this uneasy before. Sure, he's an enforcer, a club killer, a ruthless and cold hearted man... but fuck! This is BRAMTY! Happy had killed and tortured people in more grewsome way's than most could imagine and enjoyed it all. He had taken so many lives of the young and old, criminals and innocents, law-abiding and non-law-abiding people that violence and killing didn't bother him. But never once had he ever been so uneasy about a situation.

Now all he cold think about was the shit he had done in the past being done to his kid.

"FUCK!" he grunted running a hand over his face again

When Kozik got off the phone his Tacoma brother turned back to them, "Get us a picture of your kid, we'll look around for who's got her man. There hasn't been anyone contacting the club. Clay wants us to check anywhere she might have gone on her own, if there's a chance she'd just lost or ditching then we gotta find out"

Happy nodded with a sigh, he didn't think she was ditching school since it was her escape from being on her own 24 hours a day. Plus, he knew she wanted him to pick her up from school as well which would be reason enough for her to stay. Though he supposed that if she knew Katherine was coming to get her then she might have left so she wouldn't have to do whatever it was her mom was planning on forcing her into.

There was a chance she was alright at least!

"Yeah, yeah, Uh" he tried thinking of any place she'd go. There weren't many places since she usually just stayed in her room most days after school. "The book store near here, the park, maybe she went to the strip club Katherine works at but I don't know... she doesn't get to go anywhere else without me taking her"

Kozik nodded clapping him on the back firmly, "Let's go look brother, we're gonna do everything we can" Happy simply nodded and mounted his bike speeding off in the direction of the book store she had been going to since before he had met her.

This was worth a try.

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