A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, favorites and follows, it means the world to me. I do not own any of the SOA characters that will appear through out this story. Also, if you haven't checked out the new Happy/OC story I had started, go give it a read, it's called One Call Away , let me know what you think. Thanks!
Chapter 38 - Perfect Guy
Happy hated the fact that he couldn't keep Sutton from leaving, but he knew that she did need space, and some what understood that. It didn't help that the pain from surgery was too much to bare at times, and had to take pain medicine that made him extremely crabby, and he's snap at her without even meaning to.
Since Sutton and Penelope had left their home, taking Vito with them so Happy didn't have to worry about chasing the dog around, to keep him from destroying anything, and he hated the silence. He had some hope about his relationship due to the fact that Sutton had kissed him before leaving, and allowing him to spend a little bit of time with Penelope before leaving. It helped that the brunette had promised to text him to let him know that she and their daughter had arrived somewhere safely, since she wouldn't tell him exactly where they were going, because she didn't want him showing up, like he did last time.
He knew that regardless of what Sutton had said to him, he didn't need to smack her, and he regretted the instant he realized what he had done. He had promised her that he would never hurt her, and he ruined that. He knew that it would take a lot for her to forgive him for that, and hoped that they could work through it, because he didn't want to lose her or their daughter.
Two days had turned into a week, and the truth was, Happy was getting discouraged about them fixing their relationship. He had tried to FaceTime her a couple of times to see Penelope, and catch a glimpse of the brunette, but wasn't surprised that it went unanswered. He was thankful that the mother of his child did send a new picture of Penelope once a day, but wouldn't reply to text messages, causing him to grow frustrated as well.
Happy found himself glancing to the clock that hung on the living room wall and saw that it was going on eleven thirty at night, and he frowned, knowing that this had been the longest week of his life. Since he had slept most of the afternoon, he had been having trouble falling asleep that night, and decided to turn on the TV in hopes of finding something to watch to help pass the time.
Once he had made his way to the bathroom, and then the kitchen for something to drink, he had posted himself back on the couch, and noticed headlights entering his driveway, causing him to furrow his eyebrows.
Since Penelope wasn't wobbling around, he had decided to put his gun on the coffee table, and grabbed it, using his crutches to help him stand up, he made his way to the front door to see who his late night visitor was.
Narrowing his eyes out the window by the door, Happy saw the familiar black SUV parked, causing him to open the front door and head onto the porch to see Sutton getting out of the driver's seat, and then moved to the back seat to get Penelope out of the car seat.
His dark eyes scanned both of them, making sure that they were alright as they approached the front porch, and he noticed that Penelope was sound asleep.
"You guys okay?" Happy questioned lowly with concern written all over his face, because he wasn't expecting them to return.
"Yeah." Sutton flashed him a soft smile, "Let me get her to bed real quick. Vito's in the car, if you can get him." Sutton questioned.
"Yeah." Happy gave a nod, and watched the brunette disappear into the house.
Making his way carefully down the four steps, he headed for the back seat of the SUV and saw that Vito was sitting paitently to be let out, and grabbed his leash, and helped him out of the car, and made sure not to trip the dog with his crutches as he was trotting beside him.
Once Happy was in the home, he stood near the staircase, waiting on Sutton to return, and when she started to make her way down the stairs, Happy took in her appearence.
She had on short denim shorts, showing off her toned legs, and a black muscle tank top showing off her large chest slightly, and he noticed her skin was a little darker, but with a hint of red in it, and her face was make-up free, and she looked stunning.
Sutton stopped in front of Happy, and looked up to him, "How are you feeling?" Sutton questioned, referring to his knee.
"Okay." Happy shrugged his shoulders, "You?"
"I'm alright. Little tired." Sutton stated, "I need to get some stuff out of the car, but I was hoping we can talk, or it can wait until tomorrow?" Sutton questioned, and Happy took notice that her lip was healing well, and the bruising had gone away.
"Yeah, we can talk, can the stuff in the car wait?" Happy questioned quietly, trying to not show how nervous he was.
He watched as she looked out the door for a moment and then back at him, "Yeah, I can get it later." Sutton stated, going to close the door, and headed into the living room, allowing Happy to follow her.
Once they were sitting in the living room, Happy hated not being able to touch the woman, and hated her being so silent towards him, and watched as she looked around the large living room for a moment.
"How was the trip?" Happy rasped out, eyeing the brunette carefully, then watched as her eyes landed on him for a moment.
"It was alright." Sutton commented, "Went to a little place in Laguna Beach." Sutton added, "It was really nice."
Happy gave a nod, a little tug at his heart caused him to frown, because he had wanted to be with them when Penelope had seen the ocean for the first time, "P like the water?" Happy questioned.
"I didn't take her to see it. We stayed at this little place with a swimming pool that had a view of the mountains. Didn't think it'd be right to go without you." Sutton explained, "I'm not that big of an asshole Hap."
"Didn't say you were babe..." Happy sighed, not sure where the direction of this conversation was going.
Sutton was silent for a few moments, "Did a lot of thinking while we were there." Sutton started, seeing the tattooed man tense, "You know I love you right?" Sutton questioned, causing fear to take over Happy, but he remained silent as he gave her a nod.
"I thought about what it would be like without you, and if I left, what it would do to me, emotionally, then I thought about P, what it would do to her." Sutton sighed, getting up from the chair to move closer to Happy, and sat down beside him, causing him to turn to face her, "I thought about when you were locked up, and I hated it. I hated not being able to call you, text you, lay with you in bed at night..." Sutton explained, "If I were to walk out of this house and move on, I don't think I'd be truly happy."
"What are you saying?" Happy questioned, wanting her to get to the point.
"I'm saying that I want to be with you Hap. I want the good, the bad, all of it. I want us to fight, make up, to watch our daughter hit all of her milestones together." Sutton explained, and Happy let out a sigh of relief, "But...if you so much as ever lay a hand on me again, I will leave, and I will be taking Penelope with me. You lost that trust with me Hap, and it will be hard to get back."
Happy gave her a nod in understanding, letting her finish speaking, "I should not of put the blame on you about what happened to P. It wasn't really your fault, and I know that you would of done everything you could from stopping him, and I apologize for saying that." Sutton spoke calmly.
"I love you and P more than anything." Happy commented, "It kills me knowing that I couldn't do anything to save her from that piece of shit and I hate myself for laying a hand on you Sutton." Happy lowered his head for a moment, "This past week has been fucking hell without you two."
Sutton frowned seeing the man so vulnerable, and knew that she was apart of the reason why, and she wrapped her arms around him the best she could, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't of made you feel this way, but you needed to know that it's not okay to hit me." Sutton mumbled, "I hated being away from you, P hated being away from you."
Happy wrapped a tattooed arm around her, and buried his face into the top of her head for a moment, "Missed you too." Happy mumbled against her dark hair, "But we need to talk about the stunt you pulled." Happy added quietly, feeling her nod her head, and pulled away from him.
Running a hand over his face, he thought about his words carefully before speaking, "Don't ever do something so wreckless again Sutton." Happy started out, "Did you even think about what could of happened to you if Tara didn't tell me? What could have happened to our daughter?" Happy questioned in a stern voice, "I could have lost the both of you."
"I know..." Sutton gave a nod, almost feeling like a child that was being scolded, "I just...I went into mama bear mode, and I did what I had to do in order to get Penelope back." Sutton frowned, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
"Damn right it was mama bear mode." Happy grumbled, "I don't know what I would have done if something happened to you...to Penelope." Happy shook his head, and allowed the brunette to hug him tight.
Happy breathed in the scent of Sutton's shampooed hair, and kissed her head, then nudged her with his chin, causing her to pull away and look up at him, allowing him to lean down to kiss her softly, "Let's go to bed..." Happy rasped lowly, resting his forehead against hers, and watched as she gave him a nod, and stood up, then held out a hand for him, so she could help the man up the stairs.
-SOA-
The next afternoon, Sutton found herself in the backyard holding onto Penelope's little hands as they walked around the grass area trying to chase after Vito, who was chasing around a tennis ball while Happy had went to the doctor.
Sutton had tried to convince Happy to let her go with him, but he had decided to let her stay home with Penelope since the little girl would get bored quickly waiting around for the doctor to check out Happy's leg.
Hearing the familiar sound of a car engine, Sutton walked with Penelope holding her hand to the side gate to see Happy and Tig pulling into the driveway.
"Look baby, who is that?" Sutton smiled down to the little girl who had a huge grin appear on her face the moment Sutton opened the side gate, making sure Vito was a safe distance away, before shutting it behind them.
"Dadda!" Penelope practically slobbered seeing her father get out of the car, causing Sutton to glance his direction to see him smiling back at his daughter.
"Come here baby girl." Happy had used one crutch to walk with, while Tig walked along side him, and stopped a few feet away.
"Go to daddy baby." Sutton encouraged, knowing that the little girl was getting better at walking, "Come on..." Sutton grinned letting go of the little girls hand, allowing her to stand by herself, and her face scrunched causing the three adults to laugh.
"Come on P, I know you can do it..." Happy encouraged, watching his little girl take a couple of wobbly steps forwards, and then stopped and looked up to her mother.
"I got you..." Sutton whispered to her daughter with a smile, "Won't ever let you fall." Sutton added walking a few steps forward, allowing Penelope to mimick her.
Happy's heart swelled with pride watching Sutton encourage their daughter, and heard her whisper to the little girl, knowing that Sutton meant every word of it. Happy couldn't help but to chuckle the moment his daughter sat on her bottom, giving up on learning how to walk without assistance, causing Sutton to bend down and pick her up and headed towards him.
"Worth a shot, huh?" Happy chuckled as the little girl reached for him, causing him to lift her with one arm and held her close to his side.
"It's because she knows you'll carry her around everywhere if she asks you to." Sutton joked, "How'd the appointment go?"
"Fine. Go back in a couple days to get the stitches out, then start rehab for it." Happy explained as he watched Tig walk into the house, "Asshole just helps himself." Happy shook his head with a laugh.
"You might as well give him a spare key." Sutton joked.
"Absolutely not." Happy stated, "He would end up in trying to sleep between us like P does." Happy joked, as the couple began walking towards the front door.
"You hungry? I can make an early dinner." Sutton questioned, taking Penelope from Happy so he could make it up the porch stairs.
"We'll order take-out." Happy commented, "You doing okay?" Happy questioned quietly, referring to what had happened with Sebastian, since she hadn't talked about it.
Getting into the house, Sutton noticed that Tig had let Vito in and had made himself comfortable on the couch, causing her to sit Penelope on the floor near the living room, allowing the little girl to crawl into the room, then turned to look to Happy.
"Does it make me a bad person to say yeah? That I'm doing alright?" Sutton questioned, causing Happy to eye her carefully for a few moments.
"Nah. The shit he did to you, then taking P, I don't think it makes you a bad person." Happy stated honestly, knowing the difference between just killing someone to kill someone and then killing someone to defend yourself or people you loved, "Come on, let's have a family night." Happy added a few moments later, causing the brunette to grin at him.
-SOA-
"I feel like I'm at a sleep over." Tig grumbled from the chair he was reclined in, while Happy and Sutton were on the couch with Penelope.
"Hey, you're the one who wanted to stay. Besides, I fed you, the least you could do is keep your mouth shut during the movie." Sutton joked, causing Happy to chuckle, while Tig flipped her off.
"Watch the finger. We have wondering eyes." Happy glared to the man, then looked to his daughter who was staring directly at Tig.
"Like that is the worst thing she will ever witness." Tig chuckled, "Besides, with your mouth, she'll be picking up cuss words before she hits one."
"That's why you two are going to start watching what you say around the little ears." Sutton stated matter of factly, focusing on the movie that they were watching.
Happy noticed that the brunette was squinting a little at the tv causing him to furrow his eyebrows a little, "What's wrong with you?" Happy questioned to his girlfriend.
"Nothing, why?" Sutton questioned looking towards the tattooed man.
"You're squinting. Can't see the TV?" Happy questioned.
"I can see it..." Sutton mumbled, causing Happy to realize that she was having trouble seeing the TV screen, and knew that she had been complaining of headaches the past couple of months off and on.
"Maybe you should get your eyes checked out." Happy stated, knowing that he had the same issues before he had to get glasses for riding and a few simple things like watching TV, reading or drawing.
"I just had them checked right before I met you.." Sutton stated simply, causing Happy to chuckle.
"Suppose to get em' checked every year." Happy explained, watching the brunette lay down next to him with Penelope in her arms, sort of laying on his chest, and started to doze off, "I'll make you an appointment tomorrow. Better safe then sorry." Happy spoke lowly, and felt the woman let out sigh.
"Fine, whatever, pay attention to the movie or I'm kicking you and Tig out." Sutton joked, causing both men to laugh.
A/N: Thoughts?