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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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A/N: Let me know what you think about this chapter! For Bramty's POV I tried explaining the situation to show she understands what's happening to her and what the people who took her are capable of doing, but I tried to keep it so it was clearly the POV of an 8 year old. Let me know how I did!
Chapter 11
Bramty groaned loudly when she woke up, blinking a few times she tried to see where she was but nothing in the dark room felt familiar. She could feel the blood on her forehead was still wet and she knew she hadn't been sleeping a long time. Everything was quiet and she waited patiently tied to the chair as she tried figuring out how she got here.
The last thing she could remember was calling Happy daddy and then him saying she was his daughter. The thought made her smile a little before she remembered what happened when she got to school. She had gone to homeroom and then left the classroom wandering the school when she got bored of reading that stupid baby book... someone had stole her!
Oh, this isn't good!
The longer she sat in the room alone without knowing what these masked men who took her wanted, the more uncomfortable she got. Even though she never told her daddy this; she had dealt with a lot of scary men who made her do bad things or they did bad things to her. But she had always been able to see them and their faces. It had always happened in her house, the club or the warehouse that they went to a few years ago. Nobody had ever taken her from school before and that made her nervous!
The only comfort she had was knowing her Daddy wouldn't want anything bad happening to her like her mother does. When 3pm came around and he finds out she isn't at school he will come looking for her; of that Bramty was confident.
Taking a deep breath to calm herself she focused on just doing whatever she was told to survive until 3pm when Daddy started looking for her.
He kills people and he finds people for his club, he should be able to find her and then these meanies will have to deal with him!
Bramty's head snapped to the direction of the rusty door when she heard some noises on the other side. Holding her breath she watched as it opened and a man in a black mask walked in and crouched down in front of her.
"Who are you?" she asked him quietly
The man's brown eyes looked at her in the silence and she fidgeted uncomfortably. She should have known not to ask the meanies questions, they didn't ever like her asking them things.
"Not a friend of SAMCRO Kid" was all he said in response.
Bramty wasn't sure if this was good or bad news that he wasn't one of the bad guys who hang around Katherine, instead this meanie was one who knew Daddy. Her Daddy had told her what he did for the club and had told her all about the club's business. She knew that this man was a bad guy but she wasn't going to let him do anything to her Daddy.
Having had to lie in order to survive her whole life Bramty scrunched up her nose in confusion, "SAMCRO?" she repeated like she had practiced many times when she had to make the meanies think she was a baby who didn't understand grown up things.
Bramty knew exactly how to play dumb and keep secrets, she was scared but she wasn't going to let them hurt her Dad by tricking her into telling a secret.
The man stared at her before nodding "Who was that man that gave you a ride to school this morning?"
She scrunched up her face again "The one with the bike?" she asked and he nodded. "My mommy does tricks for him at her work for free if he and some of the other customers take me to school"
"You're mommy works at the clubhouse? the one with all the cars and bikes? TM?" he asked
She shook her head scrunching up her face in confusion again pretending to not know what place he was talking about. "My mommy works at a strip club with Ramon" she told him honestly remembering that the best lie was one which is mostly truth.
Bramty sighed the moment the man's eyes changed and she could see the anger in them. She was glad when he stood and stormed out of the room shutting the door behind him so hard the walls shook. She really hoped they believed her because she didn't want her Daddy to get hurt too!
Bramty didn't rat!
As far as Bramty could tell, it had been at least a day since the meanies in the masks had taken her from her school. They gave her water and a little bit of food every now and then, but they had been asking the same questions over and over again just phrasing them differently. She gave the same confused answers every time but she was getting worried.
Daddy hadn't come to find her yet but she was sure he would be looking for her by now!
He wasn't going to let anything happen to her; he promised. Bramty knew she just had to wait and answer their questions until he figured out who took her and how to get her back. At least they weren't hurting her like some of the other bad guys Katherine is friends with have.
As if her thoughts had summoned them, the door opened again and for the first time more than one man walked in. Three men walked in and one set up a camera right across from her. She frowned as she watched them, she had an idea of some of the things bad guys did when there was a camera and she didn't like that at all!
Bramty's eyes watered a little but she refused to cry, she hated to cry. She knew her Daddy would be strong and not cry if it was him, so neither would she. Bramty blinked them back quickly as her eyes followed each of the men waiting to prepare herself for the pain they'd cause.
"Look at me kid" one of them stepped to the side of her and she hesitantly turned to face him not liking the fact she'd be taking her eyes off the other two. The meanie backhanded her across the face and she felt her cheek stinging but she knew from experience that he wanted her to look at him still.
He hit her again and she scowled at the taste of blood in her mouth. "Fuck!" she cursed and spat blood onto the floor in front of him, she knew it was disrespectful but he deserved it.
The man laughed lightly and crouched down in front of her grabbing her chin in his strong grip and she winced a little but it wasn't the most pain she'd ever been in and for that she was a little relieved. "Your a bad little girl using that kind of language" he chastised but she held firm in glaring at him.
She knew better than to talk back right now and so she stayed silent.
"There ain't no way your not a SAMCRO kid" they chuckled and she made a confused frown but said nothing. "Now, I'm going to hurt you little girl... unless you start talking about your friends on the motorcycles"
But Bramty didn't utter a word.
"You mute now bitch?" He growled holding her chin tighter and it took everything in her not to cry out in pain. "You need another good smack to teach you?" he hit her again but she had braced herself for the blow to her face and this time it didn't snap to the side
"You used to getting hit then? huh? I see SAMCRO ain't all that family loving bullshit they claim then" the men laughed, "She's a pretty little thing, isn't she boys. I'll enjoy very much breaking her and getting as much info from her as I can"
Happy paced the room while his brothers sat at their seats in Church, he couldn't sit still, he had tried and failed at remaining calm. They had gotten an untraceable call a few hours ago with a taunting message from some unknown fuckers who have Bramty. He'd searched every inch of this goddamn town last night looking for her and they'd found no trace!
Juice had picked up some footage of her being taken out of the school. There were 5 men in all black to hide their identity who waited at the back gates in a van. Three of them had gone into the school but she had fought back and almost got away before the one around the corner caught her and knocked her out. Hard.
He'd almost be proud of how she'd managed to kick those fuckers in the balls before bolting if they didn't have her right now!
"Okay, I'm linked into the feed" Juice announced hurriedly as his fingers flew over the keyboard and then an image of a black screen came up projected onto the wall. The message had given them instructions to see Bramty by logging into a live video feed.
There was a rustling sound coming through the video as Juice started hacking it to try and find a location like the younger patch had told them he could try and do. Apparently, if these assholes were idiots then he would be able to find it a location easily. However, if they knew what they were doing with technology it could take days for him to find a location and that's only if he can stay tapped into the video feed.
Happy didn't understand that much of this technology bullshit but he understood enough to know tracking them online was either a hit or miss.
The black disappeared and they all saw Bramty with her hands tied to a chair in a warehouse type of room. There looked like maybe 2 masked men were in the room from what they could see. One was crouched next to Bramty while the other silently watched from the side of the frame.
Happy growled when the guy who looked like the leader, hit Bramty and continued pacing the room. He really did feel helpless and that wasn't a feeling he had experienced before.
Happy paused in his pacing when the fucker hitting her commented on how she had prepared herself for the hit. It broke his heart actually seeing this shit and he wasn't sure what would have been better; the fact she was used to this kind of thing and knew how to deal with it, or if she was a crying mess like he had half expected to see.
A few of his brothers looked at him warily and he glared in response making them look away, "I don't kit my kid" he growled with a clenched jaw, "That's all Katherine!"
Kozik who had been there in the room when Happy found out exactly what had been going on when he was in Tacoma, clapped him on the back with a wince when they heard the fucker hit Bramty again.
Happy was going crazy just sitting here!
".. as much info as I can" the masked fucker chuckled and Happy grunted, he hadn't lied to Bramty and she knew a lot of shit about the club. He hadn't thought anyone would be able to find her or connect her to the club and so he hadn't censored what he told her.
Clay must have caught the wince cause the president leaned forward and cleared his throat tensing when Happy's murderous glare snapped to him. Not even Clay was immune to Happy Lowman's glare. "Hap? brother, she doesn't know-"
"I told her everything" Happy sighed cutting off his President and all his brothers eyes widened in shock. Thankfully the feed was one sided and these fuckers couldn't see or hear them.
"You told a child everything?! Like EVERYTHING?" Jax stood up staring at him in shock and Happy sent the VP a mean glare but nodded.
"I don't lie to Bramty" he rasped in his defence, "She won't say shit to them" Happy sighed and slumped into a seat. If she was brave enough to go through this then he would man up and watch it.
"She's a CHILD!" Opie yelled
Happy glared, "MY child, not YOURS" he reminded them before turning his attention back to the screen and running a hand over his face. "There's no paper trail connecting me to her, they shouldn't have been able to find her... there's nothing connecting her to the club at all" he grunted
"Maybe someone saw you brother" Kozik cleared his throat and Happy raised a brow at Kozik but didn't comment on the matter-of-fact tone his brother had used.
"...this isn't going to be good for you sweetie pie, you just need to tell me about the men" the guy in the mask growled loudly while pulling out a pocket knife from his pocket. Bramty didn't say a word, she looked at the man and then the knife before sighing and rolling her eyes.
"Did she just roll her eyes!?" Bobby asked in disbelief, everyone in the room were all fuming. Even if they didn't know the little girl personally, they all believed in never hurting a child - it's fucked up shit they don't do.
Happy nodded, it was a very Bramty thing to do and he wasn't surprised but it made him feel like shit that she was used to this enough kind of situation to be able to roll her eyes. When the pocket knife was thrown down into her little thigh she let out a yelp in pain.
"Fuck you! tu gilipollas!" Bramty hissed back at the man
"She speaks!" the man laughed loudly before pulling the knife out of where he'd stabbed it into Bramty's leg and then brought it down again on the same leg only slightly over to the right some. Bramty whimpered in pain but she didn't cry.
"Can we make her do it again?" the man to the side of the room chuckled sounding like he thought the scene playing out in front of them was funny.
"I don't know who your talking about! please I don't know! I don't know!" Bramty tried as he twisted the knife in her skin.
Happy threw his fist into the wall, he knew from personal experience both on the receiving and giving end of torture that being stabbed hurt like a bitch. Twisting the knife in the wound made it 100 times worse. He could only imagine the pain being magnified for a small little girl. His baby girl!
Yet there was nothing he could do to stop it!
"¡Eres repugnante! Espero que te quemes en el infierno, hijo de puta" Bramty sneered lowly
"English Bitch!" the man growled and backhanded Bramty across the face
A slow smirk spread across Bramty's face before she let out a breathy chuckle, "Burn in hell" she grinned raising an amused brow at the man who growled and twisted the knife into her leg again. This time she did nothing but smirk and shrug a shoulder at the pain like it was nothing.
"Oh, She's defiantly yer fuckin' kiddo brother!" Chibs nodded with a wince and a few of the others mumbled their agreement but Happy didn't care because all he could focus on was the look in her eyes.
The look that told him it was taking everything she had in her to keep up that façade she was putting on. Bramty was a strong girl and she wasn't a push over, never afraid to use violence to protect herself but she wasn't immune to the pain. He knew that even if she concealed it well, she was hurting badly right now.
Happy found himself almost wanting Bramty to just tell them everything so it could stop, but he knew even as an 8 year old, she wouldn't utter a word about SAMCRO. Right now he wasn't sure if he should be okay about that or not.
"If pain doesn't work... I'll get some pleasure and see if that does the trick"
Bramty hid her fear that those words caused, this wasn't the first time that threat had been made or followed through on. She would rather it happen than ratting on her Daddy.
Her pigtails were pulled roughly and her head lulled back to look at the ceiling before a smirking masked face loomed over her as the other man who'd been silently watching lowered his lips to hers. Before she really thought it through, she flung her face up to connect with his and heard the distinct crunching of his nose bones.
That didn't sound very good.
She reacted quickly to the leader who was crouched in front of her by spitting blood in his face. It must have surprised him cause he fell onto his ass from his crouched position and she picked up her uninjured leg and slammed her foot down on his privates with all the force she had left.
A small squeak escaped her when the guy behind the camera stalked toward her and she pulled on her wrists cracking her thumb and slipping her hand out with a howl of pain. Without thinking about what she was doing, Bramty grabbed the knife out of her leg just as the third man reached her.
Bramty wasn't sure at first that she had got the man with knife until he stumbled back. Taking the chance to run she stood quickly trying to get her other hand loose. Her hands were shaking as she pulled it free and then darted towards the door. Grabbing the handle of the door, yanking it open only to come face to face with two more masked men.
A shriek escaped her just as they grabbed her arms and slammed her back into the wall behind her, hard. It made tears well up in her eyes but she didn't let them fall.
"You fucking little bitch! your gonna pay for that!" one of the men laughed in her face but she was slightly relieved to be out of view of the camera.
"Fuck you" she growled right back at them
"Mouthy bitch" and she was backhanded but she stood firmly against the wall they had her backed up against. "You should have just talked like you were told to!"
"I don't know what your talking about!" she yelled at him seething with rage that seemed to surprise the men. Bramty knew she had a mean sounding growl and a bad glare but since she was so small it didn't have the same effect her her Dads does.
"Yeah right, your not SAMCRO" one of the men scoffed
Bramty jutted her lip out and sniffled with wide green eyes, this would be her last chance before they really hurt her and obviously she had to do more to convince them. "Please" she let her voice crack and real fear show through, "I'll say whatever you want me to say... tell me what you want me to tell you"
They exchanged looks thinking they'd cracked her but Bramty had done this before and she knew how to play a man who always underestimated the little girl. The big men always think little girls are dumb, but they're wrong because she isn't dumb.
"Who are the members of SAMCRO?"
"SAMCRO" she repeated sniffling a little and looking between them all with wide eyes, "SAMCRO? is it people?" she asked looking to them for an answer and the two men holding her down frowned. "Do you want me to say that it's a person?"
"You know what SAMCRO is kid?" the man on her right side pinning her against the wall asked and she shook her head no adamantly.
"Tell me what it is" she pleaded with him hoping to make them think she was desperate to help them but just didn't know the information they needed. "I'll say anything you want me to"
"Do you know what the Sons of Anarchy is?"
"Are they people too?" she asked searching their faces pleadingly, "I don't know, I don't know what that means! I don't understand! Why are you hurting me?"
"You don't need to worry about that little one" the man to her right sighed, "Who is the man who took you to school yesterday morning?"
"The one with the motorcycle?" she asked looking up at him with teary eyes and he nodded, "He pays my mom for adult time, I'm not allowed to be there when my mommy's working in the strip club! She was running late with one of the men who needed to spend time with her! Mom told him that if he took me to school then he wouldn't have to pay! I don't know why he was paying her I promise but I miss my mommy!" she let tears fall despite how much of a lie that was.
These men weren't nearly as mean as the ones Katherine brings around the house sometimes and they looked like they were finally starting to think she was telling the truth.
"Fuck!" the guy hissed, slightly loosening his grip on her and the other followed his lead. Bramty stood against the wall not daring to move right now.
"She really didn't know shit! And the Sons weren't able to provide a name for the kid they claimed not to even know, Fuck!" the other yelled in frustration
"I thought you fucking said she looked like she knew the fucker?!"
"They didn't look like strangers, I promise boss! I swear it!"
"Well this fucking kid doesn't even know the SOA are people! You stupid mother fucker! Now what are we going to do? Her parents are probably looking for her, since they're not SOA they'll call the cops for sure"
"You stupid mother fucker!" one of the others yelled before she was pushed out the door and into the arms of a man without a mask who was glaring at her... this must have been the man who saw her with her Daddy!
And he did not look happy about his meanie friends not believing him!
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The fuckers on the other end had dragged Bramty out of the room and left the camera on since their camera guy was stabbed. Apparently they only had one camera guy because none of them stopped the feed once they left the room.
Juice had taken full advantage of that and managed, 2 hours later, to find a location; Lodi.
It was a small town just outside of Charming and every SAMCRO and Normad in the surrounding area who had been called in where all on their way. It took everything Happy had to not race ahead of Clay to get there, but he managed to stay in his place behind the VP, SAA and President.
They pulled their bikes to a stop a little way back as to not alert these fuckers to their arrival. The warehouse was isolated in abandoned area and there was no mistaking which building the signal was coming from since this one seemed to be the only warehouse for a mile or two.
There weren't any bikes out front but the van they'd seen in the security footage was there along with a few run down cars. Happy was ready to kill... but what was new is the stronger urge just to find Bramty. The kills that usually took first priority in his mind, were at second and he hadn't ever experienced that before. He wanted to get his baby girl out of there and away from the guys so he can figure out what to do next.
"Alright, let's split up and surround the building before going in" Clay announced and everyone stealthily walked up to the warehouse, separating to smaller groups and covering each exit and entrance.
On the count of 3 they burst down the doors and rushed in guns blazing.
There were a few men hanging around in the bottom level of the warehouse, the floor plans were relatively open which was both good and bad for them. Bad cause it meant you didn't have cover but good cause it meant you could see your brothers easier and these fuckers also didn't have cover.
Clearing out the building their silencers helped them get further without alerting these fuckers to their presence.
The murmuring of voices had Happy, Kozik and Tig turning towards the opposite room that Jax, Clay and Bobby were heading towards. Guns trained on the door Kozik pushed it open and the ran in shooting each of the men dressed in black masks. He got the feeling they were closer to his baby girl now since the guys on the first level hadn't been wearing masks.
"Keep some of them alive" Tig told Kozik who nodded, Happy knew his friends would have his back and so he didn't worry about getting the club information, only finding his baby girl. There was a smaller door that they opened only to find empty...
No, not empty!
"Baby girl, Jesus!" Happy cursed, his voice a hushed whisper when he spotted his little girl sitting curled up on the mattress, her little skirt hiked up and her school uniform dirty and torn. This was all his fault! He hadn't been here to protect her like he had promised so many times!
"Daddy?" she whispered opening her eyes and blinking up at him, she looked pale and weak. She didn't move and groaned loudly in pain when he picked her up instead. "Daddy!" she repeated in relief when she realised it really was him.
Happy looked at Kozik and Tig, they nodded at him but the looks on their faces told him they knew exactly what must have happened in this room. With his heart breaking for his little girl he carried her back down out to the van where Chibs and the prospect were waiting for them.
"Aye, yer found the little lassie... how yer doin'?" Chibs approached doing his best to smile after his eyes landed on the hand print bruises going up Bramty's thighs. Happy winced seeing the realisation on Chibs face despite the fact the Scotsman tried smiling through it.
"Christ" Half-Sack muttered shaking his head grimly, "We should probably get her to the hospital... she looks like she's got some blood loss at the least"
Chibs nodded trying to take Bramty out of Happy's arms but even in her weak and slightly out of it state Bramty was not releasing her arms from around his neck. The action made Happy's heart break that much more and he tossed his bike key to the prospect before getting in the back of the van holding Bramty to him as Chibs jumped in the front and Tig and Kozik jumped on their bikes to follow.
Happy wasn't really sure how it all went down, but somehow he found himself being ushered by Tara into a private examination room holding Bramty who wouldn't let go. Not that he blamed her or even wanted her to let go.
"Okay, honey my name is Dr. Tara Knowles and I need to take a look at you injury" Tara announced, her voice sweet and calm as she maneuverer Bramty in his lap so his baby could still be held with him while Tara was looking and dressing her injuries.
He zoned out as he held tightly to Bramty holding back tears for the first time in over 30 years.
Before Happy knew it Tig and Kozik were in the room startling him out of his thoughts, "Brother" Tig started sympathetically, "You have to let the doctors take her now... she needs-" Tig stopped himself awkwardly looking to Tara for help.
Kozik shifted on his feet and winced, "She needs to see a female doctor and brother, I don't think you wanna be there for that"
Happy felt like someone had hit him in the face and he must of looked it, because both Tig and Kozik nodded solemnly. Tara walked back over quietly and with teary eyes she held her arms out for Bramty who he handed over to Tara wondering if maybe he had been clinging to her just as much as she had been to him.
Bramty's green eyes followed his movements as he walked out the door and left her to be checked over by Tara.
He sat down into a chair just outside the room and held his face in his hands trying to sort his thoughts out before Bramty needed him again.
"How you holding up brother?" Kozik asked but Happy didn't even register the question.
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