A/N: As always, thank you so much for taking the time to read this story. You guys rock!
Chapter 20 - Perfect Guy
"Wait, what?!" Sutton shrieked, "Jax cheated on Tara?!" Sutton glared to the tattooed man as they were driving to the airport to pick up her parents and grandparents, "Why didn't she tell me?" Sutton asked, slightly hurt.
"Probably because you have your own shit going on." Happy stated, "Besides, it's none of our business."
"None of our business? She's like the only friend I have in this town outside of you, and you don't even count." Sutton stated, "I should castrate him." Sutton added, then turned to face him, "If you ever stick your dick in another woman, I will fucking strangle you in your sleep." Sutton warned with a serious look causing Happy to laugh, then felt her punch him in the arm.
"You don't have to worry about that, trust me." Happy spoke honestly. "You are the only one I want." Happy added.
"I don't care what you do for a living, if I can't fucking kill you, I'll hire someone to do it for me if that ever happened."
Happy took note of the serious tone and knew that she wasn't even kidding, "Babe, I promise you, you are more than enough for me. Hell, I don't even find anyone attractive. Haven't since I first met you." Happy stated as he pulled into the airport and headed for the pick up area.
"Good." Sutton smiled as she locked her hand with his, "We need to figure out what to tell my parents about you going to jail..." Sutton added as he parked the car, "I mean, they aren't going to be thrilled to begin with, but I don't want them to know what's been going on cause they will flip the fuck out."
"Yeah, don't want them to get involved with shit either." Happy commented, "We can just tell them that I have to go in for a bit for some past shit that I didn't know about or something." Happy stated, "Don't want them to think I'm walking away from you guys." Happy placed a hand on her baby bump, "We suppose to go in, or they coming out?" Happy questioned.
"Said that they would come out." Sutton stated as she glanced towards the doors, "Shouldn't be too long." Sutton added as she rubbed her stomach.
"I was thinking..." Happy started, causing Sutton to look at him, "Since the spare bedroom isn't that big, should we find a house together?" Happy questioned, "I mean like move in together?" Happy added.
"Uh..." Sutton hummed slightly, "What about your apartment though?" Sutton questioned, "Plus, wouldn't it be more like my house since you're going to be in jail." Sutton added causing Happy to roll his eyes.
"Why do you have to make shit so complicated?" Happy questioned with frustration as he laid his head on the steering wheel, "I get I'm going to prison Sutton, you don't have to keep bringing it up like it's a new fucking topic every time." Happy added, "I just want to make sure that you know I'm in this. I want a life with you and our daughter, and I practically live with you already."
Sutton let out a small sigh, "I know you have this idea of us being a happy family, but what happens if we drift apart while you're gone? I mean, it's not like I plan on anything happening, but you never know." Sutton explained, trying to seem rational, but she knew it was the hormones.
Happy's dark eyes grew several shades darker at her questions, "If you think that you will be with another man while I'm locked up, you're fucking delusional." Happy stated, "I'm not joking when I say if another man fucking touches you, or goes near our daughter, I will fucking kill him." Happy stated honestly.
Sutton's jaw dropped in shock, "I didn't mean it like that..." Sutton added quickly, then noticed how incredibly sexy Happy was with the dangerously angry look in his eyes, causing her to lean over and grab his cheek to kiss his lips.
Happy cupped the curve of her neck to kiss her with hunger, letting her know that he was serious, "I ain't fucking around Sutton..." Happy growled lowly, "You're mine."
Sutton gave a nod, then noticed Happy's dark eyes locked on something behind her, "Your parents..." Happy gestured his head towards the airport doors, "Where's your grandparents?" Happy questioned, causing Sutton to turn and look.
"I don't know..." Sutton pulled away from the man, and got out of the car to meet her parents, and was instantly pulled into hugs, and watched as her parents gushed over her baby bump.
"Where's grams and grandpa?" Sutton questioned.
"They are flying out in two days. Couldn't find workers to keep the ski resort open until then." Rocky explained as Happy grabbed their luggage and took it to the SUV.
"Come on, let's get to the car. You guys hungry? Tired?" Sutton questioned causing Annie to laugh as she stopped Happy from going towards the drivers door and engulfed him in a hug.
"Congratulations." Annie smiled up to the man.
"You too." Happy patted her back, thankful when she pulled away and moved to get in the back seat of the car with Rocky and Sutton already in the car waiting for them.
-SOA-
Later that afternoon, once Sutton and Happy arrived at the house with her parents, she had showed them around the house, and instantly regretted it since they were complaining how small the home was for a baby.
"Mom, seriously, please stop." Sutton sighed as she curled into Happy's side on the couch, "We know that the house is small, we're looking into buying a different one." Sutton explained and instantly regretted it.
"Let us buy you a home." Annie stated after whispering to Rocky for a moment, "Before you argue with us, just hear us out, we have the money. When you were a kid, we started saving money for college, but then you got the scholarship for college, so we never had to use it." Annie explained.
Sutton and Happy glanced to each other then back to her parents, "Let us talk it over, alright?" Sutton suggested and Happy gave a nod in agreement.
"Can I say something?" Rocky questioned.
"Yeah, sure." Sutton gave him a nod as she felt Happy's large hand rubbing her stomach.
"Let us buy you a home. When you become parents, it's the greatest feeling in the entire world, and I don't want either of you having to worry about house payments. We have more than enough money saved from your college fund that is not even being used, and it's for you anyway." Rocky explained, "It would help us sleep better at night knowing that you all are taken care of, and our grand-daughter has a room that isn't the size of a closet." Rocky added, "I know you want to think about it, but we're trying to help you guys out because we know how expensive babies are..." Rocky started to ramble causing Sutton to glance to Happy for a moment.
"We can afford it ourselves, but if you want them to, then it's your choice." Happy stated to Sutton.
"Please, let us do this for you guys." Annie piped up, and Sutton sighed, then finally caved.
"Fine, but nothing fancy." Sutton stated with Happy instantly agreeing, "I don't want you guys going over the top with this either." Sutton added.
"I would at least like to help." Happy commented, but Annie and Rocky immediately refused.
"This is our gift to you guys as a family." Rocky stated, "Please, keep your guys money for yourselves and the baby." Rocky added, "Have you guys thought of names?"
"We both like the name Penelope." Happy spoke up, "But she has a baby book she got from Amazon, so I bet she'll change her mind at least a hundred times probably." Happy added.
"He's probably right." Sutton agreed, "Are you guys hungry? I can cook something, or we can go out..." Sutton added.
"Babe, we can just order something or I can cook..." Happy stated, "You've been yawning non-stop." Happy added.
"I can't help that your daughter wants me to sleep." Sutton glanced up to the tattooed man.
"We can order food, we don't want to put you guys out of your way, I can tell your tired sweetie." Annie commented.
"I'll go get the take out menus." Happy spoke and moved off the couch to go to the kitchen to get the take out menus they had stored over the last few months, and felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, and knew that it was the pre-paid and let out a silent sigh as he walked back into the living room to hand Sutton's parents the menus while his phone was vibrating in his hand, "It's work." Happy stated to Sutton and he walked out of the living room and headed for the bedroom to answer the club's call.
Sutton grew anxious, knowing that their trip to Belfast was approaching at the end of the week, which would be in three days, since the club members that were going had to find a plane ride through a cargo plane from a local man.
"Everything okay sweetie?" Annie questioned to Sutton.
"Yeah, things are fine." Sutton forced a smile on her face, "Figure out what you guys want to eat, because I'm getting hungry." Sutton added and noticed Happy walk back out into the living room and sat down.
"Everything is good." Happy stated lowly to Sutton seeing her tensed as he moved back to his position next to the brunette, "Try to relax..." Happy added and Sutton gave a nod as they went through the menus.
-SOA-
Once everyone had ordered the food and eaten, Happy and Sutton were cleaning up and putting the left overs in the fridge, "We need to tell them babe..." Sutton spoke quietly. Happy sighed, knowing that the pregnant brunette was right. He had to admit that he was actually extremely worried about what Sutton's parents reaction would be, and was slightly worried that they would convince her to leave him.
"Think it's a good idea?" Happy questioned quietly, trying to not show how nervous he was.
"Yeah babe. Just don't tell them the actual reason why..." Sutton started to explain but Happy cut her off.
"I know. The last thing I need is your parents trying to convince you to leave me." Happy commented lowly, and followed the brunette out of the kitchen and into the living room and sat down beside her on the couch.
"Mom, Dad...we need to talk to you." Sutton grabbed ahold of Happy's hand and locked her fingers with his and played with the rings.
"Well it can't be the news that she's pregnant." Rocky chuckled to Annie, causing her to smack at his arm.
"What is it sweetie?" Annie questioned.
"Well, I don't want either of you freaking out." Sutton started, "We found out that Happy is going to have to do some jail time."
"What?! For what?!" Annie nearly shrieked, and Rocky instantly glared at the tattooed man and grew extremely silent.
"It's some stuff that came up from my past." Happy commented, "It's nothing really serious, just did some dumb things that came back to bite me in the ass." Happy added.
"How long?" Rocky questioned in a dangerously low tone.
Happy ran a hand down his face, knowing that this was going to turn extremely bad, and squeezed Sutton's hand knowing that she was getting nervous by her father's reaction.
"Uh, should be fourteen months or so." Happy stated and watched as Rocky shot up from the couch causing Sutton to jump, and the tattooed man moved to put Sutton behind his arm.
"Dad..." Sutton started to speak, but Rocky cut her off.
"No, absolutely not." Rocky shook his head, "How the hell could you get my daughter pregnant then get sent off to jail!?" Rocky shouted, "And you, how could you even be okay with this?!" Rocky pointed a finger to Sutton causing Happy to stand up immediately, and Sutton tugged on his hand.
"Look, this is on me, not her, so don't yell at her." Happy warned and felt Sutton against his side, "Trust me, I'm not thrilled about this but it has to be done." Happy stated thankful that Rocky had started pacing away from Sutton, so the tattooed man sat back down with Sutton following.
"I'm sorry..." Sutton whispered to him.
Happy watched the father of his girlfriend pace as he was cursing, causing the tattooed man to sigh in frustration, knowing that it wasn't going to go well at all. It almost felt like he couldn't catch a break with all the stress.
"Dad...we're just trying to get through this." Sutton spoke quietly, and Happy knew that she was getting upset with her father's reaction, while Annie had stayed quiet, "I've been putting him through hell ever since we found out, and he doesn't need it from you too, he already feels bad enough."
"I think he can speak for himself Sutton." Rocky growled, "You are going to be the one who is going to go through labor alone, taking care of a new born alone while he's locked up, have you thought about that?!" Rocky added.
"I know this Dad." Sutton sighed, wiping her cheeks.
"Look, we wanted to let you know what was going on because Sutton didn't want to be alone during the birth, we know that it's not the best situation right now, but I can't get out of it." Happy explained, "But I would really appreciate it if you cut the yelling out, you're upsetting Sutton."
"He's right babe, Sutton doesn't need to be upset." Annie commented, "Sweetie, just sit down and relax." Annie patted the seat beside her.
Rocky shook his head, "I think this is complete bullshit." Rocky stated, "I'm not going to buy a house for them when he can't even be responsible enough to keep his shit together." Rocky stated, "Look, I love you Sutton, and I will do everything in my power to help you and your daughter out, but I will not be apart of helping this relationship." Rocky commented.
Happy looked to Sutton and saw the tears pouring down her cheeks, and put an arm around her, "It's fine Sutton..." Happy kissed Sutton's temple, "Don't worry about the house." Happy added quietly knowing that she was upset because of how her father was reacting.
"I can't do this..." Sutton shook her head, "Dad, this isn't going to stop me from being with Happy, it's something that happened, he's handling it, he feels like shit about the entire thing, and he's already going to miss out on so much..." Sutton added as she wiped her cheeks, "This is already hard enough on me and I'm trying to deal with it the best I can, and I don't need the attitude from you, or you taking it out on him." Sutton stated.
"Sweetie, I think it's best if we leave for the night and head back to the hotel." Annie commented, "Gives your dad time to cool off." Annie added and Sutton nodded.
"You can take my car, Happy's truck is in the garage." Sutton stated, moving off the couch to get her keys, knowing that she wasn't wanting to leave, or even be in the same vehicle as her father at the moment.
"We will come by in the afternoon sometime, I'll talk some sense into your dad." Annie whispered as she hugged her pregnant daughter.
"Thanks mom.." Sutton whispered back, not surprised that her father had walked out of the house without saying anything, and even more surprised when Annie hugged Happy.
Sutton walked her mother to the door with Happy behind her, and then shut the door and locked it once her mother had started the car, and backed out of the drive way.
"Come on, let's go take a bath..." Happy pulled her hand, leading her towards the bathroom after making sure she had locked the door.
-SOA-
"You smell like vanilla..." Happy murmured against Sutton's neck as they laid in the large bed cuddled up against the woman with his large hand rubbing her stomach as they were watching some random TV show that Happy had picked.
"You smell like vanilla too." Sutton chuckled lowly, causing Happy to growl at her lowly, "Doesn't suit you at all." Sutton added.
Happy chuckled lightly, knowing that Sutton had been upset on how her dad had reacted towards the news of her being alone during the pregnancy and birth, and knew that he had the right to be upset, because he was just as upset himself. He knew that Sutton was trying really hard to avoid flipping out, so he had tried to take her mind off of it as much as possible.
"When are you going back to work?" Happy questioned.
Sutton thought for a moment, "I'll probably go back soon. Getting kind of ansy being home for so long." Sutton stated, "Might talk to Margaret to see if I can get switched out of the emergency room and into the urgent care." Sutton explained.
Happy thought for a moment, "What about the pregnancy though?" Happy questioned concerned.
"I'll work through it until I get further along and then go on maternity leave." Sutton explained, "I can't keep not working, it's driving me insane. Then once the baby gets here, I'll figure out something on a baby sitter." Sutton explained.
"I don't want a stranger watching our baby." Happy stated, "I want you to be with her." Happy added.
"We will figure it out when she gets closer to being here." Sutton let out a yawn.
"Would you be working with that dude?" Happy questioned with a slightly jealous tone.
"What dude?" Sutton questioned with furrowed eyebrows.
"Dr. Davis." Happy glared at the woman when she laughed lightly.
"Is that you being jealous?" Sutton questioned, "Trust me, you have absolutely nothing to worry about with him." Sutton added quickly.
"Better not." Happy growled and captured her lips for a kiss.
"Besides, I kind of already have my eyes set on this guy." Sutton murmured against Happy's chest as she snuggled closer to him, "And, we're going to have a beautiful little girl together, so that's where my attention is."
"Yeah, until you decide you want to be crazy again and break up with me." Happy joked cause Sutton to pinch his side.
"Well even if I did break up with you, it's not like you'd actually listen." Sutton stated.
"Damn right I wouldn't." Happy chuckled, "I ain't letting you leave me." Happy kissed her forehead, "Try to get some sleep." Happy added when he heard her yawn for what seemed like the hundreth time.
"Okay" Sutton murmured, "I love you..."
"I love you too..."
A/N: Thoughts?
Things will start getting less choppy within the next few chapters. And honestly, I've been binge watching Nurse Jackie on Netflix while I type out chapters, so my ADD kicks and I get side tracked. I am going to take a day or two to get back on track with the story, so let me know if you'd like to see anything.