A/N: I can't thank you guys enough for the reviews, favorites and follows. It means the world to me that you guys enjoy reading my stories. As always, I do not own any of the SOA characters that will appear through out this story. I will go ahead and state that the first several chapters will be rather slow in the club aspect since in this story, nothing has started to pick up yet.
Chapter 3 - Perfect Guy
"Sutton, can I talk to you for a minute?" Margaret Murphy questioned quietly, just as Sutton was about to clock out, and the brunette gave a nod.
"Yeah, is everything alright?" Sutton questioned, following the red head out of the break room and towards a quiet area of the hallway.
"Everything is fine." Margaret smiled softly, "I was wanting to see how you're adjusting to Saint Thomas." She added.
"I like it a lot. Third shift is a little slower compared to what I'm use to back in Maine though." Sutton laughed lightly, stiffling back a yawn.
"I was wanting to talk to you about that actually." Margaret commented, and held out a piece of paper for Sutton to exam, "We are wanting to switch you to first shift which would be six to six, but you'd also be on call, would you be up for that?" The red head questioned.
Sutton thought it over for a moment, then examined the paper fully, seeing that her schedule would remain the same for the most part, but she would still be making the same amount on her checks, and would have an extra day off.
"When would you want me to switch?" Sutton questioned.
"Well, we know that you've been here for a few months on third, so we decided that if you'd like to take the position we will give you two weeks off in order to adjust to the time schedule. Of course, since it's such short notice, we'll pay you for the days that you would normally work if you were on third." Margaret explained, causing Sutton's blue eyes to buldge out of her head almost.
"Are you serious?" Sutton questioned, almost in disbelief, causing Margaret to laugh lightly.
"Yes, I'm serious." Margaret smiled, "So, if you want, you can take a day to think about it, or if you know your answer, we can go ahead and fill your spot on third."
Sutton couldn't help but to nod her head at the offer, "Absolutely, I'll take it."
Margaret gave her a nod, and scribbled something down on the file that she was holding in her hand, "If you want to go ahead and clock out, then meet me in my office, we can switch over your scheduling, and then you can start on your two week vacation."
Sutton had to admit that she was looking forward to living life as an actual human instead of almost like a vampire. Since she had started working third shift, she hadn't gotten use to sleeping during the day, so by the time the hospital was dead in the middle of the night, she found herself nodding off. It didn't help that whenever she had walked out of the hospital in the morning when the sun was coming up, she felt like she hissed and covered her eyes like a vampire.
As the brunette doctor made her way to the break room to clock out, she caught a glimpse of the familiar leather kuttes, the exact same kind that she had saw Happy wear the day he had asked her to hang out.
Since her work schedule wasn't necessarily normal to someone who worked in a garage, they both found it hard to scheduel a time to hang out. It didn't stop Happy from texting her and replying through out the night, just killing time in a way to get to know each other a little before they actually hung out. Sutton had to admit that she was pretty impressed with how well Happy was communicating with her, and taking the time to ask her questions.
It was almost four days ago when Sutton was sitting behind the nurses station while a nurse was on her dinner break, and heard the elevator doors ring to reveal Happy Lowman holding a plastic bag containing Chinese food. She had never been so grateful that he went out of his way to surprise her with food, and ended up going to the break room with him to eat once the nurse had came back.
Sutton had to admit that the short amount of time that she had spent with the tattooed man, she enjoyed his company. Even though his voice was deep and raspy, his laugh was contagious, and his smile was infectious. She knew that he came across as intimidating, but she realized that she felt safe with the funny man. She had learned that his mother had passed away almost three years ago, along with learning that he was in a motorcycle club, and traveled some on runs, which meant charity events.
Once she was clocked out, she headed straight to Margaret Murphy's office to try to get through the paper work as quickly as possible because she was absolutely exhausted and running on very little sleep.
As Sutton was finishing up the paperwork, she felt her Iphone vibrating in her large purse, and assumed that it was Happy, considering that he'd text her whenever he would wake up.
"Need to get that?" Margaret questioned, laughing lightly at the sound of the phone hitting something in the purse.
"Sorry..." Sutton blushed, digging into her phone to glance at the screen then pulled it out to read the text message.
At the hospital with a few guys. You still here? - Happy
Sutton decided to wait to text back until she was finished in Margaret's office, and watched as she finalized the paperwork, "Well Sutton, we'll see you again in two weeks. Make sure you don't forget the meetings though." The administrator added.
"Alright, thank you." Sutton smiled, and stood up and grabbed her purse, and headed for the door. Stiffling back a yawn, Sutton went to reply to Happy's text message as she made her way through the hallway in order to give report to the day shift doctor.
Just as Sutton was about to hit send on the phone, she ran straight into something hard, causing her to stumble back, "Ow.." Sutton frowned as she hit her elbow on the railing of the wall but felt a large hand on her arm to stop her from falling on her butt.
"You okay?" Sutton looked up to an unfamiliar voice, to see a pair of blue eyes looking down at her, black crazy hair, and then the same kutte as Happy's.
"Yeah, sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking." Sutton gave a polite smile, and noticed how rough and crazy the man looked.
"It was my fault doll, wasn't paying attention either. Tig Trager." Tig stuck his hand out that was full of rings.
"Sutton Wilson." She shook the man's hand.
"Sutton..." Sutton turned to the sound of Happy's raspy voice, and then watched as he glared at Tig, "He bothering you?" Happy questioned, causing Tig to chuckle.
"Ran into each other, just meeting the new doctor everyone seems to love." Tig commented with a wicked grin, causing Happy to roll his eyes.
"Well, it was nice meeting you Tig, but if you'll excuse me, I'm ready to go home." Sutton smiled to the man, then to Happy, "I'll talk to you later?" Sutton questioned.
Happy gave a nod, "I'll walk with you..." Happy spoke lowly, and put a large hand on her lower back and pushed her lightly past Tig, knowing that he was going to start with inappropriate comments at any moment.
Walking to the elevator in silence, Happy pushed the button to go to the first floor, and the two didn't have to wait long until the doors opened, allowing them to step inside, and then the tattooed man pressed the button for the first floor.
"Stop to visit Abel?" Sutton questioned as she leaned against the elevator wall.
Happy shook his head, "Saw your car in the parking lot, wanting to make sure you were alright." Happy stated, "Tig and I are getting ready to head out of town for a couple of days." Happy added.
"Oh, a charity run?" Sutton questioned.
"Nah, going to go visit some friends of the club." Happy stated, and leaned forward to stop the elevator causing Riley to raise an eyebrow.
"What are you doing?" Sutton questioned, seeing the man stand in front of her, almost towering over her as he placed his large hands on her hips.
"Wanted to do this." Happy stated, then leaned down and capture her plump lips slowly, testing the waters to make sure he didn't get slapped by the woman, and was surprised that she opened her mouth slightly to allow his tongue in.
Sutton found her head floating in the clouds as Happy pushed his body against her as he deepend the kiss for a brief moment before pulling away, and then starting the elevator back up, causing her cheeks to blush slightly.
"When I get back, I'm taking you on a date." Happy announced, glancing to the dark haired woman, trying to fight his jeans from getting tighter with just one kiss.
"O-Okay.." Sutton breathed out, shaking her head with a small laugh, "Oh, I'm getting switched to day shift, so I'll have two weeks off to get back on track with sleeping."
Happy gave a nod and heard the elevator door ding, making them both realize that they had reached the first floor. Happy allowed Sutton to walk out first, and then followed her through the hall and then out of the hospital to escort her to her SUV.
"I'll call you when I can..." Happy stated, as Sutton got into the driver's seat.
"Alright, have fun." Sutton smiled and started her car, allowing Happy to back up before she drove out of the parking space, and glanced into the rear view mirror to see the man pull his cell phone out of his pocket and headed straight for his bike.
Happy's dark eyes watched as Sutton's car disappeared after he had let Tig know that he was ready to hit the road. Since he was closest with Tig, he found himself opening up to him about the doctor who seemed to captivate his mind. The tattooed man was beyond grateful that Tig didn't make any sort of snide comments or judemental ones on top of it.
"Ready to go?" Happy snapped out of his thoughts to Tig's voice.
"Yeah." Happy gave him a nod and started up his bike, waiting for Tig to follow his lead out of the parking lot of the hospital.
When Happy talked to Tig about Sutton, the crazy haired man immediately wanted to meet her, but Happy was against it. He didn't feel overly comfortable with another patched member meeting Sutton, especially since he didn't tell her about what the club did, or what he did for the club. But once he had let Tig know, that Sutton was unaware of the Sons of Anarchy and what they did, he understood.
"Man, you're going to have to tell her or it's going to come around and bite you in the ass." Tig commented as he took a sip of beer as he sat in Happy's living room a few nights ago.
"No point in explaining anything if nothing comes from it." Happy grumbled as he was fiddling with his beer bottle. "Besides, it's not like she's my old lady or anything." Happy added.
"What's this mean for the crow-eaters?" Tig raised an amused eyebrow as he looked to the Tacoma killer.
Happy rolled his dark eyes, and decided to ignore the question because the truth wasn't he wasn't quite sure where that left him with certain things when it came to the club, like the crow-eaters. He had been with a few since meeting Sutton, but he found himself not really enjoying the women who would do anything as of late, and he knew that it was probably due to the brunette woman.
Once Happy and Tig had arrived at the Tacoma Charter later that evening, Happy had made his way to the dorm room that he would be crashing in for a few days, ignoring a few crow eaters that were approaching him, because he was in desperate need of a shower to get the dirt off of him.
As he stripped out of his clothes, he emptied his weapons onto the small table, and then his wallet, prepaid phone, along with his personal cell phone, and glanced at the time to see that it was going on nine o'clock, and found himself picking it up to call Sutton.
After listening to the other end of the phone ringing a couple of times, he was about to hang up when he heard her voice come over the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey girl. What you doing?" Happy questioned.
"Oh, just watching Bates Motel. Did you make it to Washington yet?" Sutton questioned back.
"Yeah, just got in a few minutes ago. Gonna take a shower and go to bed. Gotta long day tomorrow." Happy explained as he headed to the small bathroom and started up the shower so the water would get hot.
"Sounds like you're tired." Sutton commented, "But thanks for calling to let me know you made it safely."
Happy smiled to himself practically picturing the brunettes bright smile, "Yeah, I'll talk to you tomorrow sometime though, yeah?" Happy questioned.
"Yeah, good night Hap." Sutton chuckled lightly.
"Night Sutton." Happy ended the call and tossed the phone onto the bed from the door way of the bathroom, then stripped out of his boxers and stepped into the shower, trying to rid his mind of Sutton Wilson.
Sutton found herself laying on her large leather couch with a thin blanket over her as Bates Motel was playing, and kept thinking of how Happy had stopped the elevator to kiss her. It was like the images of that afternoon was replayng in her head, causing her to keep licking her lips.
Since Sutton had slept most of the day and well into the afternoon she wasn't able to even try to get her sleeping schedule on track, so she knew that she would have to pull an all nighter eventually, so she decided to enjoy catching up on TV shows.
The dark haired woman found herself picking up her cell phone, and going to the text log from Happy the night before, and hit the little space to start typing.
Would you want to come to my house for dinner when you get back to town? I haven't been able to properly use the kitchen since I've moved in. Just let me know.
Sutton placed her phone on the coffee table, and decided to heat up some left over Chinese that she had ordered when she had woken up earlier that evening, and then plopped back down on the couch and began to eat and focus her attention on Bates Motel.
-SOA-
The next afternoon, Sutton woke up on the couch, with the smell of the Chinese food from the night before lingering, causing her to scrunch her nose and cringe. Quickly getting off the couch, Sutton moved to open the living room windows to air the place out, and then moved to put the trash into the trash can and tied it up to take it outside.
"That's disgusting." Sutton muttered to herself as she walked outside to head dispose of the trash in the trash can. Sutton noticed mail in the mailbox as she headed back inside, and stopped to grab it, immediately noticing a 'care' package next to the door from her parents, causing her to chuckle.
Carrying the large box inside, Sutton dropped the rest of her mail on the small island that seperated the kitchen and living room, and then headed to the couch to open the box.
Once the box was opened, Sutton's eyes bugged out of her head, realizing that her parents had went to the extreme with small gifts for her, something they normally did every couple of weeks to brighten her day. Even though Sutton had tried to protest, explaining that she didn't need them buying her things, they argued right back. As she started out at the top of the packed box, she pulled out a picture frame of her parents and grandparents that was taken in Colorado when she went to visit before moving to California, causing her to smile, and sit it on the coffee table.
"Jesus Ma..." Sutton laughed, pulling out the two small boxes of Chai Latte coffee, along with two Pumpkin Spice boxes, and then a variety of different smells of wax cubes for her candle warmers. Then she noticed the little odds and ends of beauty supplies that she couldn't seem to find in Charming anywhere, but noticed that her mother had taken notice of the things she was missing, and sent quanties of to last her a couple of months, along with her favorite perfume.
Once Sutton was done rummaging through the box, she had decided to call her parents to thank them, and wasn't surprised when they answered right away.
"Hey hunny!" Her mom's voice came through the phone.
"Hey Ma, I got your care package." Sutton laughed lightly hearing her father's voice in the background telling her mom to put the call on speaker phone, "Thank you." Sutton added.
"It's no problem sweetheart." Annie smiled through the phone, "Did you see the envelope though? You're father decided to put it at the very bottom."
Sutton furrowed her eyebrows, "No, I'll check." Sutton stated, then dug through the box to the very bottom and saw the envelope, and pulled it out to open it, "Why did he put it at the bottom?" Sutton questioned as she opened it.
"Didn't want those damn carriers trying to hijack it." Rocky, her father, stated into the phone causing Sutton to laugh out loud.
"Dad, I don't think carriers go through the packages." Sutton laughed, and then stopped seeing the few hundred dollar bills in the envelope.
"I think she realized it was money, she's quiet." Annie commented to Rocky, "Told you that she would be shocked. Surprised that girl doesn't have a heart condition." Annie chuckled.
"I can't accept this guys, it's too much." Sutton tried to protest, "You guys, you act like I don't have a decent paying job or something." Sutton added.
"We know Sutton, but you just moved and haven't gotten completely settled. It's our way of saying how proud we are of you." Rocky spoke first, "Besides, you can use the money to buy yourself something pretty."
Sutton smiled, "Thank you guys, but seriously, you can't keep using the excuse that I just moved. It's been a few months now."
"Don't argue with your parents Sutton." She heard her grandma's voice through the speaker, "Besides, you always complain about not having enough clothes. You get that from me. You could have an entire walk-in closet, and still think you don't have enough clothes and shoes." Ellie, her grandmother added.
"Hey Grams." Sutton laughed, "Where's grandpa?" Sutton questioned.
"Oh, he went out fishing with a friend he met from the country club, but he sends his love dear."
"Tell him I love him too." Sutton stated, "While I have you guys on the phone, with Christmas, what are your guys plans?"
"Christmas? That's still like five months away baby." Annie commented, "Are you wanting to come here or do you want us to fly out there?" Annie questioned, "I know how you like to plan ahead, but five months is a little crazy."
Sutton smirked with a small laugh, "Well, it doesn't snow in Charming." Sutton started, "Besides, I don't want you guys traveling during the holidays, and it'd be cheaper for me to fly out there." Sutton explained further.
"How long are you thinking? Through the New Year?" Rocky questioed.
Sutton thought for a moment and knew that if she had put in for vacation time it would be accepted, but she was thinking about how long she wanted to be subjected to her parents large Colorado home and countless holiday parties, "I can probably stay to the New Year. I'll have to talk to my boss, put the time in and see if it gets accepted."
"It damn well better get accepted!" Rocky hollered into the phone, "Haven't seen my baby girl in forever, besides, I'm making your mother withhold on the usual holiday parties."
Sutton laughed and realized that she had a call coming in, "Guys, I'm going to have to get off here, I have another call coming in, but I'll let you guys know about the vacation time and flights." Sutton explained, "Thank you again for the package and money, I love you guys!"
"We love you too baby!"
Sutton couldn't wipe the smile off her face as she switched calls, "Hello?"
"What you doing?" Happy's voice rang out over the phone.
"Just got off the phone with my parents." Sutton explained, putting the items from the package on the coffee table to put them away.
"How are they? They're in Colorado right?" Happy questioned.
"Yeah. They're good. I'm thinking about going to visit them for Christmas." Sutton started to say, "I haven't seen them since I stopped on my way to Charming, so I kinda miss them."
"Christmas is still a few months away." Happy chuckled lowly into the phone.
"I know, but I have to request time off, then book a flight." Sutton added, causing Happy to laugh a little more.
"So, I got your text this morning, you're wanting to cook me dinner?" Happy questioned lowly into the phone.
"Yeah, I'd like to." Sutton bit her bottom lip, preparing herself for his answer.
"How's tonight sound?" Happy questioned, "We're heading back here to town here in a few minutes."
"But you just got up there." Sutton furrowed her eyebrows.
"Yeah well, our friends aren't in the mood for vistors I suppose." Happy joked, "They ended up having to cut the visit short, so we decided to just head back to Charming."
"Alright, well dinner tonight then? What would you like? I'm a pretty decent cook." Sutton was definitely confident with her cooking ability, and waited for Happy's answer.
"Anything girl. But look, I'm gonna get off here and head back to Charming. I'll come by when I get a shower and cleaned up from the road."
"Okay, I'm looking forward to it." Sutton smiled and ended the phone call, then looked around the room to see that she had some major cleaning to do, along with going to the grocery store, and preparing dinner, and showering. Sutton jumped up from the couch in order to get ready to spend the evening with Happy Lowman.
A/N: Thoughts?
So, to clear things up, Sutton's parents names are Rocky and Annie. Grandparents names are Ellie and Bob and they all four live in Colorado. Sutton still also doesn't know about the club, and won't for a while at least.
***I have the next 2-3 chapters finished (I can't remember which) annnnd it's a snow day! So that means that I am not leaving my house, and will work on this story through out the day, so if I get a few more chapters out this afternoon, check back for another update today.