Charlie was on cloud nine after spending the night curled up against her boyfriend and couldn't wipe the smile off her face as she pulled into the parking lot of the garage. She had planned on meeting Gemma there and telling her about the baby before the two went Christmas shopping. She also knew that her father had fixed the tranmission in her old car so she could sell it to have some emergency cash and was surprised that someone had wanted to buy it and agreed to meet at noon at the garage.
Walking across the parking lot and into the office, Charlie couldn't help but to chuckle lowly as Gemma was griping on the phone with someone and took a seat on the small couch that was placed beside the desk.
Gemma slammed the phone down and shook her head and turned the chair to face the younger brunette, "I feel like I haven't seen you in weeks." Gemma stated and eyed the woman carefully, "There's something different about you." Gemma added and Charlie shifted in her seat for a second.
"How have you been?" Charlie questioned casually taking a sip of her iced coffee.
She had nearly been absolutely embarassed when Happy had pulled up beside her as she was trying to get into her car and even tried to throw the coffee which earned him a hard punch in the arm. She had assured him that she was allowed to have caffenine but not a ton and she had been drinking water or herbal tea since she had found out. She had literally started crying and said that she would break up with him because she was actually craving the iced coffee and Happy had tried to throw it in the middle of the road which resulted in him apologizing profusely and kissed her forehead quickly.
"I've been good baby." Gemma gave a nod, "What about you? Tig said that you and the killa got a couple of dogs?" Gemma questioned, "I thought you didn't want any animals?" Gemma added.
Charlie chuckled and then smiled thinking about Rocco and Molly, they had grown on her a lot within a day of having them and found it hilarious that whenever Happy got up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom both dogs jumped on the bed and Rocco immediately took his place while Molly laid curled up against Charlie's legs. Happy was furious because Rocco wouldn't budge from his spot causing Charlie to wake up and begin to laugh. He had to literally pick the dog up and move him to the middle of the bed at the end in order to get back into bed.
"Yeah we did. Rocco and Molly. Rocco is a Sieberian Husky and Molly is a Dalmation." Charlie pulled her cell phone out to show Gemma a picture, "They are cute as hell." Charlie added and showed the picture to Gemma who actually 'awe'd'.
"So what's with getting dogs?" Gemma questioned.
"Well..." Charlie smirked as she grabbed her phone from Gemma in order to show her the ultra sound photo she had on it, "Happy didn't want me to be alone when he's out on runs." Charlie explained causing Gemma to raise an eyebrow.
"Why the hell not? It's not like you can't defend yourself." Gemma scoffed and shook her head.
"Well a pregnant woman can only do so much to defend herself." Charlie replied and waited until the words sunk in with Gemma and watched as she scrunched her face in confusiona and then her mouth dropped.
"You're pregnant!?" Gemma nearly shouted causing Charlie to laugh and nod her head.
"I'm due in June." Charlie commented as she showed the ultra sound photo to Gemma, "I'm a little close to 13 weeks now." Charlie explained and was suprised Gemma got up from the chair and hugged her.
"Wow!" Gemma smiled, "I knew something was different but I figured Happy just gave it to you good last night or something." Gemma joked and Charlie blushed in embarassment since she considered Gemma a mother.
"Please do not ever say that again." Charlie shook her head, "Happy's actually been really great. He did however about end up single this morning." Charlie added.
Gemma chuckled, "Should I ask why?"
"That asshole saw me at the coffee shop trying to get into my car and he actually tried to throw my coffee in the fucking road." Charlie huffed, "I actually started to cry and said that if he did that he could find somewhere else to live." Charlie shook her head when Gemma started laughing.
"Oh sweetheart, the cravings. It almost lets you get away with murder." Gemma joked, "Are you showing yet?" Gemma questioned.
Charlie sat her coffee on the desk and stood up and unzipped her leather jacket and then unbuttoned her blue flannel and lifted up the white tank top she had on and stood sideways for Gemma to look at the small bump.
"You're going to be all baby." Gemma chuckled and put a hand on her small bump, "How are you feeling?" Gemma questioned as Charlie kept her shirt ubuttoned and her jacket unzipped as she sat back down.
"I feel good." Charlie commented, "I do have moments where something smells delicious but then I taste it and end up throwing up. But I'm learning pretty quickly what causes it." Charlie added and then glanced at her cell phone to see that it was close to noon and knew that whoever was wanting to buy her old car would be there soon.
"Oh did Tig tell you about Christmas Eve dinner at the house?" Gemma questioned.
"Yeah. Is it okay for Maria to come? She's coming down to spend the night with us for Christmas Day." Charlie explained.
"Yeah, it's fine." Gemma nodded when there was a knock on the office door causing both women to look at the door.
"Sorry..." He commented as he entered, "I'm here to meet someone about a buying a car?" He added.
Charlie stood up to face the man, "That would be me..." Charlie paused for a moment and realized that she was standing face to face with her high school ex-boyfriend, "Ben?" Charlie questioned, almost hoping that she was mistaken.
"Ch-Charlie? Wow..." He let out a million wat smile and Charlie instantly felt awkward.
The last time she had seen the man standing in front of her was the day she had broken up with him to attend college in Washington. He had always been extremely nice to her and he was the total opposite of the men in the club which at the time she appreciated. So when she had decided to end things, it was an extremely heartbreaking moment for him but Charlie didn't take it as hard as he did.
"You look great!" Ben added, "I didn't know you were back in town. I just moved back a few weeks ago to help my parents out." Ben explained.
"Oh yeah, I've been back for a couple of years." Charlie replied. She had stayed in Washington once she was done with college so she could work at a local hospital as a nurse and then she had ended up meeting Happy in Tacoma and the two ended up staying there before he decided to go Nomad and then she had moved back to Charming with him, "Oh, the car is out back." Charlie added and walked towards the door and noticed that several motorcycles were pulling into the parking lot and instantly spotted the tattooed man.
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Happy was having an extremely rough morning since he had to kill two people for the Tacoma charter and was still trying to get out of his killer mode. It wasn't working too well because the man had mentioned things about Charlie. Almost trying to taunt him and even though he didn't let it show that it worked, it was unsettling to him because of the fact that their relationship was well known because of parties they had attended together at the club houses.
His dark eyes narrowed seeing his pregnant girlfriend walk out of the office with a dark haired man following her and noticed the man's eyes were on Charlie's ass as he parked his bike.
He glanced to Tig who was chuckling, "What?" Happy questioned as they both got off their bikes.
"That's Ben." Tig commented and Happy tensed, "Charlie's high school boyfriend." Tig added and Happy glared at her father.
He knew exactly who Ben was. He wasn't a jealous person for the most part when it came to Charlie because he knew that she loved him, but he was envious of Ben because he knew that he was her first for everything. He also knew that Charlie had broken up with the man to attend college even though Ben said that he would go with her to Washington.
"The fuck is he doing here?" Happy growled and narrowed his eyes.
"Must be buying her car. It's in back." Tig smirked knowing that Happy was going to go and make an ass of himself since he had decided to point out that the man was Charlie's ex.
Happy let out a growl and began to walk towards the back entrance of the garage and saw Charlie standing in front of her old car while the man was looking under the hood as he approached his girlfriend.
"Oh hey." Charlie looked up to see Happy and noticed that his jaw was set, "He's here to buy the car." Charlie added.
"It looks great." Ben commented and stood up from looking under the hood and turned to look at Charlie and was a little taken back by the man beside her, "It should be a good first car for him." Ben added.
Charlie noticed that Happy raised an eyebrow, "It's for his brother. He just got a licenses and he wanted to help his parents out..." Charlie quickly explained.
"Like I said earlier, I had some transmission problems but my father fixed it up once I got a new car." Charlie explained to Ben, "I don't think he should have any trouble with it. It's been pretty well taken care of." Charlie added.
"How much are you wanting for it? I think your dad said 5,000?" Ben questioned and Charlie gave a head nod in confirmation.
Charlie watched as Ben reached for his back pocket and pulled out his wallet and grabbed a piece of paper, "Is it alright if I write you a check?" Ben questioned and Happy was about to answer a no but Charlie cut him off.
"It's fine, I trust you. It's not like I don't know where your parents live if it bounces." Charlie joked and earned a hard glare from Happy.
Happy kept his hard glare on Charlie as the man dug into his blazer pocket and pulled out a pen and turned to the hood of the car and wrote out the check. A few seconds later he handed the check to Charlie and she glanced down and noticed the amount.
"Uh, you put seven thousand." Charlie commented, "It's only five thousand." Charlie added and felt extremely awkward at the gesture.
Ben shook his head with a chuckle, "I know. Is it alright if I have someone come pick it up later? I'm running late for work." Ben questioned.
"Uh, yeah. I'll just let one of the guys in the garage know that you'll be having someone get it." Charlie explained and noticed that Happy had stormed off and decided to walk with the man towards the front of the parking lot.
"If you aren't busy sometime, I'm sure that my parents would love to see you again." Ben commented.
"I've seen your mom once in a while at the grocery store but haven't seen her in a while. Will you tell them I said hello for me please?" Charlie smiled softly, "I've always loved them. They were really sweet to me." Charlie added.
"I will." Ben nodded, "If you ever need anything you can call the the station and they'll give you my number, I'd give you a card but I don't have any on me." Ben added lowly and Charlie furrowed her eyes.
"The station? A card?" Charlie questioned confused.
"Yeah, the police station." Ben chuckled, "I changed my major in college and decided I wanted to work with the FBI." Ben explained, "Since my parents are here my boss is allowing me to work out of the station."
"Oh." Charlie was speechless at the news of Ben being an FBI agent, "Well that seems really cool." Charlie added.
Charlie gave him a nod as he excused himself to leave and it didn't go unnoticed that he said if she needed anything to call him. It was like some sort of rumor that the men of the club treated their women like dirt and would beat them. Charlie had heard all sorts of rumors when she had moved to Charming with Happy and had even heard that she was in an abusive relationship with the man which was absurd.
"That's fucking weird as fuck." Charlie commented, deciding to not tell Happy that her ex-boyfriend was an FBI agent because he seemed to be in a mood.
She walked back into the office to see Gemma finishing up paper work and then glanced to the garage to see Happy working on a car and decided to go see if he was alright while she waited on Gemma.
"You okay?" Happy lifted his head to see Charlie.
"Fine." Happy grunted out.
"Of course." Charlie shook her head, "Well when you happen to find the sweet man that was at our house last night, please tell him that his pregnant girlfriend would like that side of him back." Charlie added, "I'm going Christmas shopping with Gemma." Charlie added and didn't bother to kiss the man as she left and left him glaring at her as she exited the garage.
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Later that evening when Charlie walked into the house, she was absolutely exhausted from Christmas shopping. She had managed to get what all she needed for everyone and was thankful she didn't have to go shopping again. She had even went ahead and bought wrapping paper and enough tape to last a life time.
She had her hands full with bags as she walked into the living room to see Happy playing with the dogs, "There more?" Happy questioned.
"Yeah, can you just put them in the guest bedroom?" Charlie questioned noticing that he was still in a mood, "Have you eaten?" Charlie questioned against as he got up from the floor.
"Nah. Figured we could just order something. Didn't know when you would be back." Happy added and kissed the top of her head and headed outside.
Charlie went ahead and took the bags she had in her hands into the guest bedroom and knew that she needed to hide Happy's gifts or he would snoop through them. So she decided to put what bags belonged to him in the guest closet in the room.
The brunette had decided to head into the bedroom to change out of her clothes and put something more comfortable on. She knew that she wasn't going to talk to Happy much tonight because it would lead to a fight and he was clearly still in a mood.
Once she had changed she headed out into the living room to see Happy walking out of the guest room and shut the door behind him.
"Chinese good with you?" Happy questioned as Charlie pet Rocco and Molly and then walked into the kitchen to make sure they had food and water, and then moved to the take out menus they had in a drawer.
"Yeah, if that's what you want." Charlie replied and looked through the menu to see what she wanted to eat.
Once Charlie had told the shirtless man what she had wanted for dinner, she had walked into the living room and sat down on the couch as he called to place the order for it to be delivered.
"How did shopping go?" Happy questioned as he plopped down on the couch and glanced to Charlie.
"Fine." Charlie shrugged as she sat Indian Style and began to rub her bare feet, "How was your day?" Charlie questioned and glanced over to him.
"Fine." Happy responded and Charlie almost scoffed but kept her mouth shut.
Once the food had arrived, Charlie had decided to sit at the kitchen table since she had an assortment of food and was slightly surprised that Happy had sat in the living room to eat his food. Her hormones were getting the best of her because any other time she wouldn't have cared but she started to feel like she had done something wrong and didn't know about it.
She had finished eating and put what was left in the fridge and walked to the door way and leaned against the frame and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Can I ask what has you in such a bad mood?" Charlie questioned as her eyes were locked on the tattooed man who took a drink of his beer and then looked to her.
"Nothing." Happy stated and Charlie didn't hold back the small scoff.
"You've been in a mood since this morning." Charlie pointed out, "So either you can talk to me about it or you can sleep out here tonight because I don't like all this tension and not know what is going on." Charlie vented.
"Charlie drop it." Happy warned.
"No, I won't drop it. I'm not going to sit here and walk on egg shells because you can't discuss things like an adult. If something is bugging you then just say what it is." Charlie commented.
"I said fucking drop it Charlie." Happy growled, "I don't have to run absolutely everything by you." Happy snapped.
"You should when whatever the fuck is going on is effecting us!" Charlie shouted and wiped her cheeks, "We had such a good few days and then all of a sudden you turn into an asshole." Charlie shook her head, "Why would you want to ruin the good days we've had by acting like this?" Charlie questioned.
"Why would you want to be fucking chummy with your ex?" Happy questioned back and Charlie narrowed her eyes.
"That's what this attitude is about?" Charlie questioned, "Because my ex who I hadn't seen in almost ten years bought the car off me and was just being friendly?" Charlie questioned again, "You're so unbelievable." The brunette shook her head and knew that there was more that was going on and knew that she wouldn't get it out of him so she walked to the bedroom to grab his pillow and walked back into the living room and threw it at him.
"Charlie..." Happy sighed.
Charlie had ignored him and moved to let Rocco and Molly outside and waited for a moment before having them follow her to the bedroom. She picked up the dogs and put them on the bed before climbing into the large bed and crawling under the covers and turned the lamp off and then grabbed the remote to turn the TV on. The brunette had decided to not speak to the man until he was able to realize that whatever had happened, it wasn't fair that he was taking it out on her with how he was acting.
AN: For those wondering Ben is portrayed by Josh Duhamel and no there isn't going to be a love triangle.