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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Authors note: I am so glad people like my story. I have posted stories before but I always do it on a chapter to chapter basis and they never end up finished. Well good news! This story is completely done! It will be a three part series and this first one will be the shortest. Let me know what you think.

Melissa Richards1 - Thank you for reviewing! I like how my story turned out, specifically the bond between Happy and Bramty that only gets stronger as more happens. In my experience when a child goes through hard situations where they're acting as their own parent, looking after themselves, not allowed to just be a child... they're more mature for their age. I tried my best to do that justice through Bramty's character without making it too dark. Let me know what you think as I post more!

I love having feedback!

Chapter 6

1992

Happy age 41

Bramty age 7

It was thanksgiving and the clubhouse was full and busy. Happy had decided to make the trip up to Charming to stay with his Ma instead of joining Gemma's dinner.

Happy pulled up out front of Bramty's school, near the bus stop knowing she'd have to walk past him to go home. He figured he'd surprise her and take her to stay at his hotel for the next 2 days since she had a full week off school. Then they could go up to his Ma's house for Thanksgiving.

He knew she wasn't his kid, but damn if that wasn't exactly how he treated her and fuck if he was gonna stop.

"HAPPY! HAPPY!"

He looked over seeing her running his way and smiled despite his normally stoic demeanour. Aside from his Ma, Bramty was the only person to ever get real smile from him.

Happy caught her easily as she launched herself at him, her long pigtails swishing him in the face as he did so. She hugged him so tight he was almost worried she wouldn't let go but she did, pulling back to smile up at him brightly and kiss his cheek.

"How you doin' baby girl?" he kissed her forehead settling her on his lap as he sat sideways on his bike.

"Good! I missed you... how long are you staying?" she asked smiling

Happy laughed a little, "The whole week. Was hoping you wanted to sleep over at my hotel so we can watched movies and eat junk food. We can go up and see Ma for the holidays"

Bramty's green eyes were wide as she stared at him, "Really?" she whispered and he nodded which make her nod her head almost violently in agreement. "Yes! I can go with you again? Yeah?"

"Yeah baby girl" he nodded smiling, "Come on, you'll hold on right?" he asked gesturing to the bike and she nodded climbing on the bike and taking the helmet from him before fastening it all the way on her small head.

He smiled starting up the bike and heading for her new apartment she was living at. She always made sure to give him the new address when they moved which was frequently.

They dismounted and headed up to the second floor apartment situated above the Chinese restaurant to go grab some of her stuff. Once they were upstairs he grabbed her school bag and emptied it making room for her to fold some fresh clothes in the bag.

"Hap? can I bring these?" she held up a pack of markers and he raised a brow wondering why she wanted to bring markers with her but he didn't have a problem with it. "They're wash off markers and I can make my skin like yours"

Happy smiled and nodded, kid was drawing tattoo's on her skin with markers. He had done the same as a child especially when he was older and started thinking about getting a tattoo done. He wasn't surprised she was doing the same with the way she's fascinated with his ink. "Sure baby girl"

Bramty placed them in the bag and zipped it up shrugging it on her back and looking up at him expectantly. Happy took her hand until they got out to the main room and he spotted her blue eyed mother, "Run out to the bike and wait for me"

Bramty didn't question him but she eyed her mother warily as she took off for the front door.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" Katherine hissed at him

Happy had seen this coming, he couldn't take the kid without asking and he knew the only way he'd shut her up was giving her a little money. As dirty as it made him feel he threw a hundred dollar bill at her and watched disgusted as she smirked at him.

"Taking the kid for a few days. She'll be back when I drop her off alright?" he glared through gritted teeth and she was quick to nod not really looking up at him as she already started planning how much blow she could get with a hundred bucks.

Fuck he hated that woman!

Bramty was sitting on his bike and scanned him up and down when he walked out the door almost as if she was checking to make sure he made it out okay. Broke his heart to see the relationship and trust between mother and daughter was non existent. But he was glad at the same time because Bramty didn't need to be following Katherine's example.

"Ready baby girl?"

"Yeah" Bramty nodded smiling as she got on the bike

Happy was lounging on the bed in their hotel room while Bramty sat in a similar position next to him on the bed as they watched a Christmas movie. He remembered how 2 years ago he had nearly spat out his drink when she told him that the only movie she'd ever seen was the one he took her to for her birthday, as long as porn didn't count as a movie.

Now, they had been laying there in pyjamas all day watching movie after movie and she couldn't get enough of them.

"This one is the best, Hap!" she grinned when they were about half way through The Grinch Stole Christmas. He smirked, figures she'd like the the one with the grumpy Christmas hating bad guy the best.

"I know, 's one of my favourites too" he admitted honestly and she nodded cuddling into his side to continue watching it. He'd never told anyone this, not even his Ma, but he'd always been a sucker for cartoons.

Even as a teenager he'd secretly watched kids cartoons when his Ma wasn't home. The road runner, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester the cat... all his favourites.

When The Grinch finished Happy grinned as Bramty laughed happily like sitting here was the best thing she'd done in her entire life. "I always like this movie, Hap!"

"Yeah?" he smirked and she nodded, "Wanna watch regular cartoons?" she nodded again and he flicked on the disk he had in his saddlebag of his favourite cartoon shows.

The first episode of road runner came on and he watched Bramty fascinated by the show as she smiled and giggled at Wile E Coyote's attempts at catching the Road Runner.

"Oh my god Hap" she fell backwards into a fit of giggles as the bomb exploded on Wile E Coyote

Happy chuckled along with her, both at her reaction and the cartoon itself. He tugged on her pigtails until her hair was free of the elastics. As much as he liked her hair up he figured she'd be more comfortable with it down. Bramty turned to him with almost a shy smile as she held her wrist out for him to put the elastics on like bracelets.

"Love you Hap" she kissed his cheek

"Love you too baby girl" he wrapped his arms around her as they settled down for the next episode of Road Runner.

"...Meep, Meep..."

"Hap?"

Happy looked over at Bramty expectantly as they walked through the hotel room door from getting breakfast at the diner and a takeaway milkshake. "Yeah?"

"Can you draw me a tattoo?" she asked holding out her arm and pointing to the inside of her arm, "Right here with my markers"

He thought about it before nodding, "Yeah baby girl... go get your pens" he watched her smile and run over across the room to her bag fishing out her washable markers. He sat down on the bed and switched on the TV, cartoons starting up straight away.

Bramty jumped on the bed and climbed up next to him dumping the coloured markers in his lap. "What can you draw?"

"What do you want me to draw?" he asked knowing he could probably draw most things she'd be able to think up as a design.

"Can you draw cartoons?" she raised her brows at him, "Like Speedy Gonzales?"

Happy chuckled and nodded grabbing her arm and letting her get comfortable at his side before he started drawing.

"Oh, ducks it's that Speedy Gonzales again... I can't stand that music, it'll drive me batz" Bramty quoted in her best impersonation of daffy duck and Happy smirked as she corrected the word 'bats' to make it sound more like the characters lisp.

Happy did exactly what she'd asked for as he drew an accurate picture of Speedy Gonzales the mouse and Daffy duck chasing after him with a broom in hand. He even drew - like in the cartoon's - the air behind them both showing they were running at high speed.

"Done" he announced watching her face closely as Bramty turned to look at her arm. She beamed a bright smile up at him before studying her arm with nothing less than awe.

"I'm never washing my arm again!" Bramty grinned tracing the art with her fingers.

Happy laughed, "Gotta wash your arm girl" his eyes narrowed in warning when Bramty looked about ready to protest. The first time he'd done that he hadn't even realised what he'd been doing but she wasn't afraid of his dark look.

Bramty had recognised what it meant but she hadn't been afraid and had actually glared back at him.

Now, he didn't hesitate in giving her his usual glare cause Bramty knew she was always safe with him. It was just a facial expression he always made in response to things and she was the same way thankfully.

"You gotta wash your arm and I can just draw something new next time" he compromised and watched her little glare turn into a huge smile before she nodded rapidly.

He smirked seeing a concentrated look on her face, girl was probably already planning the next drawing she wanted. Happy shook his head laughing as he kissed her forehead.

"Can I draw for you?" Bramty asked looking up at him

Happy shrugged, nobody but his Ma would see it and he didn't have a problem with washable marker drawings as long as they were small. "Small" he said while nodding.

Bramty shuffled so she was facing him and sitting on her legs folded under her, a serious look on her face that had him biting back a chuckle.

"Where do you want me to draw?" she asked

Happy looked at his arms before holding out the inside of his left wrist that was currently a blank area. "There"

she nodded in response. "What do you want me to draw?"

Happy smiled, "You decide baby girl, you can pick something good for me" she giggled and nodded before pointing at the TV, a sign she didn't want him to watch what she was doing. He smirked but complied.

Happy could feel the markers moving across his skin as he watched the cartoons. Bramty was taking the job very seriously as she concentrated on drawing something good. Happy snuck a glance at her seeing her little tongue poking out the side of her mouth and and a frown of concentration as she drew on his arm.

"There!" Bramty pulled back smiling then rolled her eyes when she caught him looking at her already.

Happy tilted his head looking at his arm and was pleasantly surprised to see it wasn't even bad. It was a drawing of Elmer Fudd the cartoon character. He was realising that maybe letting her watch three days of cartoons was not the best thing he could have done but she was happy so he didn't care.

"Shit, that's really good baby girl" Happy smirked looking up at her and she beamed a smile at him of pure joy. He had been seeing a lot of that smile the past three days and he really liked it. He wanted to see it more and he'd do anything to make that happen.

"Love you Hap"

"Love you too baby girl"

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Happy watched the curtains in the front window of the house move and smirked knowing it was his Ma looking to see if it was him. As if she had any other visitors showing up on a bike. He rolled his eyes when the door was flung open and she rushed over towards them, even though she knew she shouldn't with her health being this bad.

He didn't say anything though, knowing how excited she was about him bringing Bramty up to see her again. They'd been coming up to see her every holiday when the club let him have that time with his Ma and Bramty was also out of school for a week.

Happy wasn't surprised when his Ma completely ignored him as they dismounted and headed towards Bramty.

Bramty was holding his hand and smiling brightly when she spotted Elena Lowman.

"Bramty! nieta!" Ma gushed scooping the giggling Bramty up into a hug before he frowned and took Bramty for his Ma. He held Bramty in the air so they were at eye level instead. He didn't want his Ma to over do it cause she was excited, Bramty would come to her and Ma didn't have to exert herself.

"Abuela Elena! ¿cómo estás? vamos a cenar aquí, ¿verdad? ¡Happy dijo que puedo! ¿es así Elena? Oh! ¡Mira lo que tengo!" Bramty was talking a minute a mile and Happy was at a loss of what she'd said but his Ma seemed to be following. (how are you? we're gonna have dinner here, right? Happy said I can! is that right Elena? Oh! Look what I got!)

Happy smirked when Bramty held out her arm showing the cartoon drawing he'd done yesterday. It was faded from her shower but it was still clear enough see.

Ma turned to him and smirked before nodding at Bramty, "¡Es muy hermoso, Bramty! ¿Te gustan los tatuajes? como tu padre, si? quieres ayudarme a cocinar la cena? Necesito un ayudante y tu padre no es muy bueno cocinando" (it's very beautiful, Bramty! You like tattoos? like you father, yes? do you want to help me cook dinner? I need a helper and your father isn't very good at cooking)

Again Happy was at a loss, something about cooking and fathers? he didn't know. He understood basic Spanish, enough to know when he was about to get in trouble and enough to known when his Ma was asking him to do something around the house - but that was it. Even then, it had been a long time since he'd used any of it.

Both women turned to look at him, his Ma smirked and Bramty giggled which made him groan.

Happy tugged playfully on the end of one of Bramty's pigtails, "Don't go ganging up on me baby girl" he narrowed his eyes at her

Bramty kissed his cheek with an audible pop noise and giggled as she held her arms tightly around his neck expecting to be carried the rest of the way. He rolled his eyes, girl was enjoying getting spoilt.

"Love you Hap" she whispered

"Love you too baby girl" he patted her back as they walked into his Ma's house and he looped both their backpacks on his arm.

Happy was content sitting at the dinning table just watching his Ma teaching Bramty her recipes and quizzing the little girl on what ingredients Spanish names were. While Bramty had helped his Ma in the kitchen on holidays before this year his Ma was slower cause she didn't want to be on her feet all day. so she still had more last minute cooking to do than she normally did.

Ma held up an egg with a raised brow and Happy pulled out his phone filming the pair.

"Huevos" Bramty answered and Ma nodded kissing her cheek

"Si, crack the eggs in the bowl of flour... right in the middle" his Ma instructed neither noticing him filming them. Bramty's tongue poked out in concentration as she tried cracking the egg on her own only for it to explode in her fingers splashing everywhere.

He bit back a laugh at Bramty's face of horror and shock before she wrinkled her nose at the egg that had landed on her face and gave his Ma a sheepish look. "It's okay nieta. Try again, hold it like this and then crack it... probar ahora"

Bramty frowned and did as instructed, a proud smile on her face when it worked and her head shot up to look at him, "I did it! Did you see me Hap? I did it all on my own!"

Happy laughed and nodded smiling back at her proudly, "Yeah I saw that baby girl" he laughed and ended the video before going back to watching them again as they cooked.

It took a few hours, and eventually he had been called in to help when his Ma got tiered. Happy had Bramty sitting in front of him on the counter top, his arms around her sides so he could reach in front of her helping need the meat in the bowl.

"You gotta do it like your punching it with your fists" he smirked watching her pat the meat with open hands awkwardly.

She tilted her head back to look up at him, "Like punching someone in the face? like you taught me with my thumb out?" she asked smiling and Happy nodded smirking when he heard his Ma snort saying something about 'of course the girl knows how to punch before she can cook' under her breath.

"Priorities Ma" Happy retorted watching what Bramty was doing in amusement as she curled her fists opened and then closed again.

He watched laughing as Bramty let out a small - almost war cry - noise and smashed her fist into the bowl of meat. His Ma was dead silent for a good few seconds before she burst out in laughter louder than he'd heard from her in a long time. Happy shook his head smirking in amusement before looking up at his Ma and grinning when he realised she'd got that on video.

The rest of the day went similarly as they finished the cooking, setting all the dishes in the fridge or oven for a little while until they were to eat when it was all done.

"Just in time for mi favorito telenova!" Ma cheered happily as they settled onto the couch for the next 45 minutes. Happy rolled his eyes but knew better than to try and interrupt his Ma from watching that goddamn Spanish soap opera shit.

"That's his BOTHER" Bramty gawked at the screen and Ma nodded looking over at Bramty, a serious look on her face.

Happy smirked shaking his head; it was like they thought this shit was real.

"Hap? that's bad isn't it? having sex with your husbands brother?" Bramty looked up at him for confirmation.

He nodded, "Yeah baby girl. You get married then your husbands the only one you have sex with" she nodded accepting that answer and returned her attention back to the screen.

Personally, he wasn't interested in finding an Old Lady or getting married but he didn't like people who cheat. If you were gonna get married then your committing yourself to that person. A person you should love enough to want to be with them for the rest of your life. So why would you go to someone else for sex? He didn't get that. The guys who had Old Ladies and went to sweetbutt's while they were on runs was one thing, but not when your home.

"Why they always cheating on each other Ma?" he asked exasperatedly

Ma glared and waved a dismissive hand in his direction, "Hush Mijo, Ramon is still alive!"

"But he's dead!" Bramty frowned looking at the screen then his Ma and then back at him. He laughed and nodded sharing in her confusion.

"Should of stayed dead" Ma hissed, "Good for nothing pendejo"

Elena sat at the table watching Bramty set out the plates as she had shown the girl while her son set the food on in the middle of the table. Once they were all sitting she blessed the food and smiled watching Bramty ask Happy a few questions, confused on why the food had to be blessed.

It was different seeing her son interact with the 7 year old. Happy had never been one who liked younger children growing up. Always wrinkling his nose when someone had a baby, or avoiding the cute toddlers, he hadn't even hung out with the neighbourhood kids who were 3 years younger than him.

And that hadn't changed as he got older like she'd hoped.

She had hoped that after her son had hit 30 that he would start settling down, even in the club there were men who had families and a wife or Old Lady as they call them. But he hadn't. For years he hadn't shown anything but dislike for the mere idea and by the time he had hit 35 she'd known he wouldn't be having a child or likely to find a woman to settle down with.

But Bramty was different.

Even Elena could see that. At 7 years old Bramty functioned and thought like a kid twice her age. Just watching her son and the girl interact was proof enough that she wasn't a normal 7 year old.

Happy didn't talk to Bramty like she was any younger than him. Sure he had to explain things she didn't know, but he didn't dumb anything down for her.

"But what if that's not right?" Bramty frowned up at Happy who shrugged, "If there's no proof then how do you know that's where you go after you die then how do you know it's true?"

Happy shrugged, "You just believe it, it helps people make good decisions, feel loved. It doesn't much matter once your dead anyway but even if it's not real you gotta respect it cause of what it helps people with in life"

Bramty nodded, a thoughtful look on her face as she ate a bread roll off of her plate.

Elena raised a brow at her son, then looked at Bramty. "Do you understand that Bramty?"

Bramty's green eyes looked up at her and the girl smiled, "Yeah, I get it. I just don't know if it can help me. I mean, all I know for sure is that I can protect myself... so if I pray to god to give me strength then I can have a little luck on my side if something happens, right?"

Elena was shocked at how well the girl really did understand what Happy had said to her. While she didn't agree with her sons so flippant view on god she could accept his doubt, especially with the things he does for that damn club. "Yeah, if that's what you believe then yes"

Bramty nodded happily returning her attention back to her food with a content sigh. "This is really good"

Elena smiled at the girl who picked the olives out of Happy's salad and gave him the broccoli in return. She bit back a chuckle as the pair started talking about tattoo's and when Happy would do one on her.

"When Its my birthday then?" Bramty tried bargaining when he said no to a tattoo for Christmas.

"Nah. 16 at least" Happy grunted

Bramty's mouth fell open, "16!?" she repeated and Happy smirked nodding, "pero eso es 9 years away Hap! That's like Mrs. Cho's cats whole life left before he dies!"

Happy paused, his fork halfway to his mouth before he looked at Bramty and then laughed loudly. "The rest of Mrs. Cho's cats' life?" he repeated chuckling and Elena shook her head.

That was something Happy would say.

Bramty nodded and rolled her eyes at him, her Latina roots showing through with that sassy eye roll she had going on. "Yeah, Mrs. Cho is the woman who owns the shop under out apartment... and cat's don't live more than 10 years normally, he's already 1 years old"

Happy smiled and nodded as if that was a completely normal example to use for measuring how long 9 years actually is.

Elena sighed contently, she liked Bramty and even if Bramty wasn't blood the little girl loved Happy like he was. while Bramty still called him Hap, Elena had no doubt that would change soon.

She is glad that her son has someone to take care of and love but also someone who will take care of him and love him in his old age. He couldn't have picked a better kid and she wasn't surprised that he and Bramty had bonded straight away since Bramty was a mini female version of her son.

Oh, the universe will pay him back for the pain that he caused her when he was a child for sure with that little girl!

And she was gonna love every second of it!

Best torture a mother can wish on her child without being a bad mother... if she had to experience the calls to the principles office then so should he.

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