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Chapter 11 - Perfect Guy
Once Christmas Eve and Christmas Day had passed, Sutton had decided to finally go snowboarding with her two teenage cousins, and their four year old sister, along with their two year old brother, since they had never been around snow before.
Sutton had spent most of the morning building snowmen and snow angels with Jetson and Trina, and was thankful that she had brought her camera outside with her for pictures, along with including her parents in them who were outside with them, while their grandparents had been at the ski resort.
"Sutt, come snow board with us!" The oldest cousin, Chad half shouted, causing Sutton to look over to them, then back to her mother who was on the phone.
"Can you hold this for me please?" Sutton gestured to the camera for her mother and she gave a nod and took the camera, and watched as Sutton walked to meet Chad and Michael.
Sutton had to admit that while she had been in Colorado, enjoying time with her family, she didn't think much on the events in Charming that involved Happy. Of course, she had missed the tattooed man, but decided to push it in the back of her mind to focus on having fun with her family that she rarely got to see, since she had moved to the West Coast.
Sutton, Chad, and Michael had spent most of the morning and afternoon trying to snowboard, which basically consisted of them going a few feet, and then falling over, causing everyone to laugh at the sudden impact of falling. Then, Sutton had eventually gotten the hang of balancing the board and her weight.
That afternoon, Chad, the oldest had finally gotten the hang of balancing his weight on the board and looked around Annie and Rocky's backyard then spoke up, "Let's go to that small hill and try it." Chad stated to Sutton, since Michael hadn't gotten the hang of balancing, and decided to take pictures at Sutton's request.
Sutton examined the hill, which wasn't really anything major, and agreed.
Sutton and Chad had climbed the small hill with their snowboards in hand, and then hooked them back onto their boots, "You want to go at the same time or do you want to go seperate?" Sutton questioned from the top of the hill.
"We can go together if you want." Sutton shrugged not really caring either way and watched as Chad gave a nod.
"On the count of three?" Chad questioned, and Sutton gave him a nod, letting him count down.
Once they had taken off, Sutton couldn't help but to grin as she was going down the hill, and glanced up to see her mom smiling, and noticed two familiar figures approaching her mother from behind, causing her to narrow her eyes.
Happy and Tig.
"Sutton! Look out!" Michael shouted and pointed, causing Sutton to look to where he was pointing, and saw a few snow covered rocks that were slightly hidden from snow, and tried to move her board away from them, but ended up tripping over a small snow covered rock, and then fell, with her shoulder and forehead hitting a rock.
"SUTTON!?" Happy's voice boomed seeing the brunette fall and hit her head, and took off up the hill after her, noticing that she wasn't getting up, with Tig, and Annie running right behind him.
Once Happy had gotten close enough to Sutton, he saw the blood on the snow and some of the rock, and his heart sank into his stomach as her turned her to face him seeing her blink her eyes a few times.
"Sutton, you hear me?" Happy's voice was low with concern as he cupped her cheek.
"Y-Yeah.." Sutton stuttered due to the cold liquid on the snow, then went to touch her forehead and winced.
"We need to get you to a hospital." Annie stated, and Sutton tried to protest as Chad unhooked the snowboard from her boots, "Don't even try to talk me out of this, you're going and you're gonna keep your mouth shut." Annie growled, "About gave me a heart attack..." Annie's hand was on her chest trying to calm her heart rate as she watched Sutton's small body get lifted out of the snow by Happy.
"Think my shoulder is dislocated." Sutton winced at the pain.
"Come on, let's get her into the house for a minute." Annie stated, and Happy gave her a nod, then followed everyone into the large house with Sutton in his arms.
-SOA-
Sutton found herself blinking her eyes open in an unfamiliar room, with a splitting headache, and her forehead sore as ever, and her shoulder throbbing. Once her eyes were fully opened, she looked around, and instantly realized it was a hospital room.
"What happened?" Sutton questioned quietly, squinting to her mother, then felt a jump on the side of the bed and saw the familiar tanned hand holding her small one, causing her to look at the tattooed man, "Hap, what are you doing here?" Sutton questioned with furrowed eyebrows.
"Well, do you remember snowboarding?" Annie questioned.
"Yes mom. Fell, hit my head. But what am I doing in the hospital?" Sutton questioned.
"When Happy carried you inside you wanted to make sure I wasn't being dramatic, and ended up passing out seeing the blood on your face." Annie explained with a small chuckle, "Got ten stitches, the start of a black eye, and a cracked collar bone." Annie explained, "The doctor wanted to keep you for a couple of hours to monitor you just cause of you hitting your head." Annie added.
"Well, go get who ever, I want to go home." Sutton moved to sit up further in the bed, and winced at the pain in her shoulder.
"Sit still." Happy ordered lowly as Annie walked out of the room.
Sutton closed her eyes for a moment, then looked to Happy, "What are you even doing here? I thought I said I needed some space to think."
"I know. But, I can't go two fuckin' weeks without seeing you." Happy shrugged his shoulders, "Besides, your ma was the one to convince me to come here." Happy smirked seeing Sutton let out a laugh.
"Should of known she'd pull something like this." Sutton shook her head slightly.
"Ya know, bout scared the shit out of me." Happy shook his head, "Seein' you fall like that..." Happy frowned, hating that the brunette had gotten injured, "Your cousin wanted me to tell you that he got some cool pictures though. His parents made him go back to the house." Happy explained.
Sutton gave him a nod, silently thankful that Happy had shown up even without her knowing because she had missed him. The brunette knew that she loved the tattooed man, and had let fear and past issues dictate her judgement, and needed to allow him to explain everything before she had decided.
"How long you staying?" Sutton asked quietly as she tangled her small fingers with his long ones.
"Long as you want me to." Happy gruffed out, stiffling back a yawn, and watched as her mother and a doctor had walked back into the room.
"Glad to see that you're awake." The doctor stated, "Just want to make sure that you don't have a concussion and go over a few things." He added.
Sutton hated doctors even though she was one. It wasn't like she didn't know that she would have to wear a sling for her collar bone fracture, and if it didn't heal, she would need surgery, along with bruising that was going to happen. She also knew when to get the stitches taken out, along with making sure that if she expierenced head pain to go back to the hospital.
"Sutton, pay attention." Annie scolded her quietly.
"In case you forgot, I have a medical degree." Sutton stated, "I know what to do. And right now, I'd really like to go home and sleep."
"I'll write you something for the pain." The doctor stated, "I'd like for you to come back in a week to check on the fracture, so we can tell if you're healing or will need surgery."
"Actually, can you have them just give me the x-rays or fax them to Saint Thomas in Charming California, I live there, so if I have surgery, I'll do it there." Sutton stated and watched the doctor give her a nod before leaving the room.
"If you need surgery, I want you to do it here. I'll be able to take care of you."
"Mom, just please..." Sutton sighed, "I have a headache, I'm freezing and hungry, I don't want to argue about this right at the moment." Sutton added, thankful that her mother had stopped hounding her.
Sutton was thankful that Annie had stepped out of the room in order for her to get dressed with the help of Happy, after making sure that he had shut the curtain to make sure if someone had walked in, they wouldn't see Sutton.
Happy frowned seeing that Sutton's shoulder was already bruising as he helped her slip her shirt on and saw her wince slightly, making sure to not hit her forehead where the stitches were or making sure he didn't touch her shoulder.
After several minutes of struggling to make sure that he didn't hit either injury, Sutton had been dressed, and then the tattooed helped her put the sling on to make sure that her collar bone wouldn't get further damaged.
"Ready?" Happy questioned, knowing that Sutton was ready to get out of there, and watched her give him a nod, and he put an arm around her lower back.
"Why aren't you wearing your kutte?" Sutton questioned quietly as they walked out of the room.
"Thought it'd be best if I didn't." Happy spoke quietly. The truth was, since he knew that he was coming to Colorado at the last minute with Tig, he decided it was best to leave their kuttes in the van, and made sure that their guns were covered while they were in public.
Walking out of the hospital room, Sutton and Happy approached Annie who was talking to the doctor, with a prescription in her hand, causing Sutton to take it and examine it, and then waited quietly for the man to finish speaking to her mother.
"I've faxed the x-rays to Saint Thomas, if you're still in town in a week, I'd like for you to come back." The man explained.
Sutton gave a nod then turned to her mother, "I'm going to go call work to let them know what's going on, so someone can get the x-rays." Sutton explained, and watched as Annie handed her phone to her, then walked off with Happy following her.
-SOA-
Once Sutton was back at her parents home, she was thankful that Happy was there in order to help her instead of having to deal with her mother hovering over her as if she were a five year old.
After the brunette had gotten up to her old bedroom, she had gotten changed out of the out fit she wore snowboarding and into a pair of sweatpants and a tank top, then struggled to put on a zip up hoodie, then decided to just put her one arm in the sleeve, then just covered her other arm that was snug against her chest due to the brace and zipped it up.
"You need anything?" Happy questioned quietly, staring at her.
"No..." Sutton shook her head, stiffling back a yawn, "Will you lay with me?" Sutton questioned quietly, almost afraid that the tattooed man would say no because of how she had left things between then before she left Charming.
Happy kicked off his boots and laid on the side of the bed, allowing Sutton to move closer to him, and he put an arm around her carefully, allowing her head to lay on his chest as they laid in the large bed.
The tattooed man knew better than to start questioning the injured brunette about their relationship, along with if she had time to think about the things that he had told her. He felt terrible about her falling while snowboarding and blamed himself for just showing up without her knowing.
"Stop thinking..." Sutton mumbled, trying to snuggle further into his side.
Happy chuckled lightly, then turned to glance to her, "Try to get some rest." Happy leaned over and kissed the top of her head, making sure to avoid the stitches.
"Can we talk later?" Sutton asked quietly, "About us, and everything?" Sutton clarified.
"Yeah, of course..." Happy's heart instantly started beating fast in his chest, almost anxious to know what she would have to say, and knew that it was going to feel like forever until she woke up from her nap.
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