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Chapter 37 - Perfect Guy
Sitting in the waiting room of Saint Thomas, Sutton was sure that she had the world's biggest headache. She managed to get about an hours worth of sleep once Happy had made his way downstairs to give her space, since she would not speak to him. The truth had been, she didn't even want to be around the man, but she couldn't leave him to fend for himself after his surgery.
Since she didn't want Penelope sitting around the hospital for the few hours that she would be in surgery, Sutton had Tara baby sit the little girl at their home, while she went to Saint Thomas for Happy.
"What the hell happened to your face?" Hearing an unfamiliar voice, Sutton blinked away her daze to see the concern look of Opie Winston and Tig Trager.
Sutton wasn't even sure what to say, so she just shook her head, and hoped that neither man would continue to question her, but knew the moment Tig shook his head and stormed off, Opie bent down in front of her.
"It wasn't like that last night at the cabin." Opie spoke lowly, gripping her chin to examine the busted lip and lightly bruised cheek.
"I'm fine Opie." Sutton snapped lightly, pulling her chin away from him.
"Yeah, and I'm not a criminal biker." Opie scoffed, "He do this?" Opie questioned.
Sutton breathed out a frustrated sigh, "I don't want to talk about it. Please..." Sutton nearly begged, not even wanting to think about the events of last night, especially with Happy.
Opie shook his head, and pushed himself up and sat across from her in the waiting room, and looked to the brunette in front of him for a moment, before they both heard arguing coming from one of the hospital rooms, causing them to furrow their eyebrows.
"Is that Happy?" Sutton narrowed her eyes, not being able to fully hear the man's voice who was shouting, and then definitely recognized Tig's voice, causing her and Opie to immediately stand up and rush out of the waiting room, and went straight to the tattooed man's hospital room.
"Holy shit." Opie breathed out the moment he got to the door, to see Tig and Happy both fighting around in the room, and two nurses shouting at them to stop.
Sutton watched silently as Opie rushed into the room to pull Tig and Happy apart, and watched as security guards pushed her aside to enter the room, to drag Tig away from the tattooed man.
"You ever touch her again, I will fucking kill you!" Tig pointed a finger towards Happy who was glaring at the crazy haired man as he was being pushed out of the room.
Sutton watched as Happy's dark orbs landed on her as he was helped to the bed, and had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep her emotions in check, "If there are any more outbursts like that, we will ban everyone from the hospital." A nurse threatened to Sutton walking out the door, causing Sutton to roll her eyes.
Happy watched as Opie walked up to Sutton and whispered something to her, and then watched the brunette nod her head in return, and then closed the distance from the door to the hospital bed.
"Try not to get into any more fights. I don't want to be here all day." Sutton stated, avoiding eye contact with the man, but making sure that he didn't have any cuts from Tig.
"Sutton..." Happy rasped out, grabbing her hand, but felt her pull away from him.
Without a word, Sutton backed away from the man, and turned on her heels and walked out of the room and headed straight for the nurses station to see an older woman that she had worked with before.
"Can you give him something to calm down?" Sutton questioned, "I can promise you that it will help him relax and there won't be anymore issues."
The older woman looked to Sutton but gave her a nod, "We are going to get him ready for surgery soon, so if you want to go in with him until we get him, it's fine, but we don't want any more outbursts."
Sutton gave the woman a nod, and turned to head back to Happy's room. When she looked to the tattooed man, she saw his eyes shut tightly and a few tears on his cheeks, and her heart broke a little bit for the man.
"They are going to give you something to calm down." Sutton stated sitting in the chair next to the bed, "You will be going down to surgery soon."
Happy blinked his eyes open, "Sutton, I'm so fucking sorry." Happy choked out lightly, "I should have never hit you."
Sutton knew that emotions were running high the night before, and knew that she had put the blame on him for not protecting their daughter, but she knew that if she didn't make some sort of impact after he hit her, then he would know that he could be easily forgiven. She knew that Happy was beside himself for what he had done, and that he would never intentionally hurt her, but she was devastated that he had done it.
"I shouldn't of said what I did, but that gave you no right to do what you did." Sutton started out, she took a breath, "Once the surgery is done, I'll stay at the house tonight and tomorrow, but I think it's best if we take some time apart." Sutton explained.
Happy's head snapped to her direction, feeling like the walls were closing in around him, "What? You're leaving me?" Happy questioned, "It was a mistake Sutton, I didn't mean to hit you..." Happy panicked slightly.
"Hap, I think we just need some time apart. I just...I need space to think." Sutton stated, and stopped when she saw a nurse walking in with something to help Happy calm down.
Sutton remained silent while the nurse was in the room, and when she had left, Sutton turned to look at Happy, "I love you Hap, and I think that this needs to happen. I'm not going to keep Penelope from you, but you need to realize what you did wasn't okay, and I need to make sure that I can trust you won't do it again." Sutton explained.
Happy shook his head, "I know it wasn't fucking okay Sutton."
Sutton crossed her arms over her chest and closed herself off some, and watched as the tattooed man's medicine began to kick in, causing him to start to doze off some.
"I love you Sutton..." Happy mumbled, his head rolling to the side to look at the brunette.
"I love you too Hap." Sutton spoke lowly back.
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Later that evening, Sutton and Happy were back at their home, with Penelope. Sutton had managed to get Happy to the couch where he would be staying for the night and most of the next day.
Since Happy had been sleeping off and on when they had gotten home, she was able to take Penelope to the grocery store with her while Kozik had decided to come over after the incident at the hospital with Tig.
Once she had returned home, she had decided to unload the groceries and get dinner started instead of bothering to wake up the tattooed man since she knew he was in pain from the surgery.
"You staying for dinner?" Sutton questioned to Kozik once he had walked into the kitchen for something to drink.
"I don't have to." Kozik spoke quietly, "But if you want me to, I can. I'm never going to turn down your cooking." Kozik added with a chuckle, causing Sutton to smile.
"You can stay. I'm making enough." Sutton commented as she cooked the chicken for Chicken Pesto Pasta.
Kozik leaned against the kitchen island and looked to Penelope who was sitting in her high chair watching her mother cook, "You doing okay kid?" Kozik questioned to the dark haired woman, and watched her freeze for a moment, "Noticed the busted lip, anything you want to talk about?"
"Not really." Sutton shrugged, "It was an accident." Sutton explained, "Emotions were running high last night, things were said that shouldn't have been..." Sutton commented lowly.
Kozik shook his head, knowing that Happy was beside himself not being able to stop Sebastian from taking Penelope, and then not being able to go after the man himself.
"You know, he loves you and Penelope more than anything in this world." Kozik spoke, "I have never seen him so torn up over something before. He hates himself for not being able to go after that fuck himself."
Sutton gave a nod in understanding, "Can you go try to wake him up, he needs to eat so he can take his medicine." Sutton commented.
Kozik paused for a moment, seeing that the woman was overly upset, and had every right to be, especially after the day she had yesterday, and having to take care of Happy after his surgery, "Yeah, alright." Kozik gave her a soft smile and headed out of the kitchen.
Sutton let out a sigh and focused on the meal in front of her, while stealing glances to Penelope who was banging a pair of toy keys against her high chair, "I know baby girl..." Sutton smiled to the little girl who began to babble.
Once the pasta was done cooking, Sutton drained the noodles and then put them into the pan with the pesto sauce and chicken, and let it warm up, and decided to set the table for them while Kozik was getting Happy awake.
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Sitting at the kitchen table, Sutton wasn't surprised that Happy wanted to get up and eat in there with her and Penelope instead of eating in the living room. Since Sutton didn't want him moving around, she told him that she didn't want him in the kitchen, which was partly true.
"It's not like you can't see me Hap. I'm sitting in your eye sight." Sutton stated after hearing Happy complain some.
"It's not so wrong that I want to sit with my family to eat dinner." Happy growled lowly, causing Sutton to roll her eyes with a heavy sigh escaping her mouth.
"Hap, man, she's had a rough day, cut her some slack." Kozik commented lowly as he ate some of his food.
"Don't tell me what to do with my old lady." Happy snapped, and that's when Sutton realized that the pain medicine was making Happy less than happy.
"Okay, that's enough." Sutton stood up from the kitchen table, and then grabbed her bowl and put it in the sink and then retrieved Penelope from her seat, and walked out to the hallway and headed upstairs.
Sutton was aware of Happy calling her name, but she had decided to ignore him, and headed to Penelope's room to get her pajamas, and wasn't surprised that Vito had trotted into the room a few moments later.
"Let's give P her bath, shall we?" Sutton cooed to the little dog, and headed to the large bedroom to let Penelope take a bath in her large tub.
Once Penelope was in the bath, and she had gotten herself situated on the bathroom floor, Sutton decided to add a little bit of bubbles to the bath for Penelope to play with, and dumped a few of her bath toys into the tub for her.
"Sutton? Babe?" Happy's voice rang out causing Sutton to furrow her eyebrows, and listened closely to hear the tattooed man entering their bedroom.
"In the bathroom." Sutton sighed, then looked to their daughter, "Daddy can't just sit, can he?" Sutton questioned to the babbling little girl.
"How's she doing?" Happy questioned, referring to the little girl as he carefully sat on the wooden bench that was near the bath tub.
"She's fine." Sutton stated, "What are you doing up here? You need to be laying down."
"Been laying all day, wanted to see how you two were." Happy commented, "I've been a real asshole today, it's these damn pain meds. Hate them." Happy added.
"No kidding." Sutton mumbled, "I think tomorrow, I am going to take P with me to do some shopping out of town." Sutton added, seeing Happy tense some, "Don't give me that look Hap, you know that I think we need to take a couple of days apart."
"Where are you going?" Happy questioned, running a hand down his face.
"Don't know for sure. Might go see mom and dad since our trip got cut short." Sutton commented, "Figure it would be a decent time to visit since the lodge is getting ready to close."
"You're going to take our daugther to Colorado because you're pissed at me?" Happy questioned, quickly panicking.
"It's not even like that Hap. I'm only going to be gone for a few days, maybe a week tops." Sutton stated, "Besides, you need time to think about what you did, and truthfully, I don't even want to be around you while your like this."
Happy shook his head, knowing that he couldn't talk her out of this, and knew that she needed time away, "You're coming back though, right?" Happy questioned quietly.
"Of course I'm coming back. It's just for a few days." Sutton spoke honestly, "Just let me have this time to think, I don't want you showing up."
"I won't..." Happy frowned, staring at his girlfriend and seeing the hurt in her eyes, and hated himself for causing it, "I'm going to make this better babe, I'll do whatever it takes." Happy whispered lowly.
A/N: Thoughts?