Author's Note: Thank you everyone for sticking through the long update. I took some much needed time for myself and enjoyed every minute of it. Also, thank you for all the kind words. So let's get to this chapter shall we?
Early that morning Happy was woken up from a dead sleep with his large thick member in Charlie's mouth. He had tried to get the woman to stop so he could be buried inside of her, but she wouldn't allow that to happen and it drove him crazy. Once he had recovered from his intense orgasm, he had spent the entire morning buried inside of her and the cuddled against her until he was fully awake.
The tattooed man was now regretting that he had agree to have Tig tag along with him to do his Christmas shopping. He had been half asleep with Charlie laying on his chest and felt her plump lips against his neck and ear as her nails scraped against his scalp lightly when she had brougt up the idea. He knew that he hadn't said much to the man since Charlie was taken while with him, and was still trying to deal with not torturing the idiots like he had wanted. Charlie had made the comment that she didn't want their Christmas together to have built up tension, and he reluctantly agreed, because she had asked him to.
The two men had been shopping for nearly two hours until they had decided to stop for lunch. Happy had finished up with what he wanted to get, and had even gotten more than he needed because he was tired of just walking around while Tig took his time looking every single item in the stores over. He groaned and rolled his dark orbs when Tig had mentioned that there were a few more stores that he wanted to check out because he didn't get enough things for Charlie.
"You do realize that she's not 10 years old anymore, right?" Happy questioned after taking a bite of his burger and then shoving some fries into his mouth.
"Just wait until your kid is born." Tig commented taking a drink of his milkshake, "You'll be buying Christmas presents for him until he's fourty. If you two decided to have a girl, you'll buy even more until she's sixty." Tig added.
Happy couldn't help to laugh a little. He knew that Tig was right. He was going to make sure that his son had the best of everything. Since he didn't have a father growing up, and his mother worked numerous jobs to just put food on the table, he wanted to make sure that his kids would never have the childhood he had.
"Besides, I saw you buying things for the kid already." Tig commented and Happy chuckled lowly, "I think you might be worse than Charlie." Tig added and looked around the diner for a moment before narrowing his eyes for a moment.
"What?" Happy questioned looking up from his plate to see Tig tense for a moment and then relax.
Tig shook his head and finished off his burger, "I think that guy has been following us." Tig commented, "He was in like 3 of the stores we were at earlier, and now he is in the diner?" Tig questioned mostly to himself.
His bright blue eyes took note of the man's salt and pepper hair and noticed that he looked familiar but couldn't place where he had seen him before. He watched as Happy looked over his shoulder to spot the man and then shrugged his shoulders.
"I swear I've seen him somewhere before." Tig muttered to himself, but decided to let it go as he finished off his milkshake, and noticed the man looked towards his direction.
"Want me to say something?" Happy questioned seeing that Tig was bugged by the man.
"Nah. Don't feel like having Charlie bail us out of jail." Tig stated with a small laugh when Happy mumbled a good point and finished up his meal.
Once the two men had finished their lunches, Happy had decided to head to the restroom to relieve himself while Tig paid for the meals. When Happy was finished in the bathroom, he had headed outside in order to call Charlie to check in with her since she was spending the day with Gemma.
After a couple of rings, Charlie answered the phone as he leaned against the SUV and smoked his cigarette.
"Hey baby..."
"I might kill your dad. He is worse than you in a store." Happy replied earning a laugh from the brunette, "What are you doing?" Happy questioned.
"Just got to the store with Gemma. It's a mad house." Charlie replied, "I figured I'd stock up for Christmas dinner and then a few dinners so we don't have to fight these lunatics in the aisles." Charlie added, "How's shopping going though? You get what you needed?" Charlie questioned.
"Yeah, got way more than I needed. Got some extra stuff for mom, managed to get some shit for Tig without him being overly nosey." Happy answered, "Got way more shit for you than you deserve after the stunt you pulled this morning." Happy teased causing Charlie to scoff playfully.
"I should be loaded on presents for waking you up with a blow job." Charlie chuckled when Happy let out a growl.
"Still think the only reason you did that was so I'd agree to bring your dad with me." Happy commented.
"No, I did that because I was horny. The cuddling was to get my way."
Happy rolled his dark eyes, practically seeing the smirk on the beautiful brunette's face through the phone, "We shouldn't be too much longer. Just got done eating lunch, Tig said he had a few more stores he wanted to check out." Happy added as he glanced around the small parking lot to see Tig talking to the man he had pointed out in the diner and noticed Tig's face was getting red, "I'm going to jump off here and get this shit done though, alright?"
"Alright baby, I'll see you later."
Happy hung the phone up when he had saw Tig push the man back and took long strides to get to the father of his girlfriend. He quickly put a hand on the stranger's chest and pushed him back a few steps and glared at in him in warning to not even think of touching him.
"The fuck is going on?!" Happy growled to Tig who was furious.
Tig let out a small cold laugh and pushed Happy's hand away that was holding him back. He rubbed his jaw for a second before turning to look at the stranger, "Tell him what you told me." Tig pointed to Happy, knowing that as soon as the tattooed man found out who the man was and what he wanted, he was going to be just as pissed.
"Look, I don't want any sort of trouble." The man stated and Happy furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and dropped his hand from the man's chest and then crossed his arms over his chest, silently waiting for him to say what he had to say, "His daughter..." The man pointed to Tig and Happy took a dangerously close step to the man at the mention of Charlie, "She is my wife's daughter. We have a son who is sick and we...I was hoping to see if she was willing to get tested to see if she was a match. He needs a kidney." The man explained.
"Fuck no." Happy growled, his hands closing into tight fists.
"We are running out of options! He is only twenty five. He has his whole life ahead of him!" The man explained with urgency and Tig shook his head.
"The kid over-dosed. Apparently fucked his kidneys up popping pills." Tig explained with a laugh to Happy.
Tig wasn't laughing at the fact that the man had a sick son. There was a small part of him that even felt bad for the man, because if Charlie had been sick or gotten sick, He would flip the world upside down in order to try to help her. Tig was laughing because of the fact that Charlie's mother's husband was there asking for help from a child that they had wanted nothing to do with the moment they found out about her. He had been extremely lucky that neither of them had wanted to suffer through an abortion and had signed all the rights over to him the moment she was born.
"Please...let me just talk to her." The man begged and Happy immediately shook his head and was about to respond but Tig had cut Happy off.
"You and your wife wanted nothing to do with my daughter the moment you guys found out about her. Now you're here wanting HER help?" Tig questioned almost shocked, "You don't know my kid, she doesn't owe either of you anything." Tig added, "I'm sorry to hear about your kid, honestly I am, but I'm not letting you or your wife anywhere near my daughter. You both lost that right the moment she signed the rights over to me." Tig stated and turned to Happy, "Let's get out of here." Tig added and Happy gave him a nod not knowing what to say about the entire situation.
"Then I'll find her myself and talk to her." The guy announced causing Happy to stop in his tracks with narrowed eyes.
The large tattooed man grabbed the man's shirt quickly and pushed him against the outside building and snarled in his face, "You go near her, I'll fucking kill you."
"Come on killer, let's go." Tig clamped a hand on Happy's shoulder, noticing that they were starting to get a lot of attention from people walking by on the streets.
Happy glared at the man for a moment before letting go of his shirt and walking away with Tig beside him. He knew that he was going to have to tell Charlie about the man, but he wasn't sure how she would handle it since she knew the truth about her mother not wanting her.
"Tis the fuckin' season..." Tig grumbled as he plopped into the passenger seat of Charlie's SUV while Happy started the vehicle up to finish their shopping.
|SOA|
Charlie had been unloading all of the groceries with the help of Gemma while the dogs were outside running off some of their engery when she heard the front door open. Her blue eyes instantly furrowed hearing her boyfriend's voice along with her father's arguing back and forth.
"Wonderful..." Charlie grumbled with sigh following and glanced to Gemma who smirked in return, "Will you two stop it?" Charlie questioned walking into the living room to see Happy's hands full with bags, "What in the hell are you to bitching about now?" Charlie questioned as she watched Happy walk past her to put the bags in the spare bedroom.
"Don't worry about it kid." Tig answered as he walked into the kitchen with Charlie following him.
"If you put him in a bad mood..." Charlie warned with a pointed finger, "Christmas is coming up and I'd prefer for you two not to kill each other." Charlie added.
Tig got into the fridge and grabbed a beer and rolled his eyes seeing that Happy had walked into the kitchen glaring at him, "Don't give me that fuckin' look." Tig growled and Happy took a step towards Tig with a snarl on his face but Charlie quickly stepped in front of him.
"Alright. Enough." Charlie glared to her boyfriend, "What is going on?" Charlie questioned to Happy.
Happy's dark eyes glanced down to Charlie as she was looking up at him with concern on her face and was about to explain what had happened until Tig had cut him off.
"This doesn't concern you Happy." Tig stated out loud as he leaned against the counter and Gemma looked to the two men and then Charlie.
"The hell it doesn't." Happy growled, and Tig was about to respond but Gemma had stepped in.
"Stop acting like a bunch of women and just spit out whatever the problem is." Gemma stated and Charlie quickly agreed while trying to read her boyfriend's face.
Tig huffed with annoyance and ran a hand over his face, "You opened your mouth, so tell her." Tig stated to Happy.
The tattooed man raised his hand and flipped him off and grabbed Charlie's hand and took her into the living room to sit down. He wasted no time in sitting next to her and watched as Gemma and Tig walked into the room.
"Tig noticed someone following us while we were out." Happy started out, "Turns out it's your mother's husband." Happy added and Charlie furrowed her eyebrows.
"He stopped me when I was walking out of the diner. Said who he was, how he knew me. He said that he has a sick kid who fucked up his kidneys because of popping pills." Tig spoke up, "He said that he wanted to talk with you to see if you'd be willing to see if you were a match to him." Tig added.
Happy squeezed the woman's hand, not knowing exactly how she would act and he was slightly surprised that she had let out a laugh while Gemma bitched about him having the balls to approach Tig.
"Babe?" Happy questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Wait..." Charlie controlled her laughter, "You're telling me that the man who convinced my mother to not raise me is wanting me to see if I'm a donor match for their son?" Charlie questioned and watched Tig nod his head, "I hope you told him to fuck off." Charlie added.
"We got the point across." Happy added and leaned to kiss Charlie's temple.
Charlie couldn't believe it. She couldn't even wrap her mind around the fact that her mother's husband actually thought that it would be a smart idea to ask her for help. Granted, she felt bad for the sick guy, but that didn't mean that she would be willing to give up a organ for someone she didn't know. Even if she weren't pregnant, her thoughts would still be the same on the entire subject. He was nuts. The people she had never met were officially lunatics in her book.
Once Charlie was able to get over what had happened, she had went back to unloading the groceries and putting them away in the cabinets and fridge. She could vaguely hear her father and Gemma discussing what had happened and knew that Happy had disappeared ino the guest room to seperate her gifts from the rest so she could help him wrap everyone's gifts.
Charlie had let the dogs in once she was done and walked into the living room, "I'm going to order pizza for dinner, you guys staying?" Charlie questioned to Gemma and Tig.
"I can't baby, I have to head back to the garage." Gemma explained and Tig gave his daughter a nod that he was staying.
Charlie padded her way through the living room and to the closed spare bedroom door and gave it a soft knock.
"Yeah?" Happy questioned through the door.
"I'm going to order pizza for dinner. That good with you?" Charlie questioned through the door and laughed when she found it locked.
"Hang on woman." Happy growled hearing Charlie wiggle the door handle a few times.
He had seperated most of the gifts so Charlie wouldn't come across any of hers while she helped him wrap his mother and Tig's gifts, and reached for the door to unlock it once her gifts were in a bag out of sight.
"Yes?" Happy questioned looking down to the brunette who was eyeing the room.
"I said that I was going to order pizza for dinner. Is that good with you?" Charlie questioned as Happy wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on the top of her head.
"Yeah, that's fine." Happy gave a nod, "How you feeling?" Happy questioned, moving his hands down her sides and rested a hand on her small bump.
"Good, getting hungry though." Charlie commented, "I want to get these presents wrapped so we don't have to worry about it. I'm going to be busy tomorrow cooking for the next day, so we might have a long night babe." Charlie added.
"You didn't wrap your gifts yet did you?" Happy chuckled when he noticed the large grin on her face, "Of course you wait until the last minute." Happy shook his head, "Let's go order the pizza and get this shit over with. Tig said he needs help with wrapping his shit for Ma too."
Charlie shook her head with a laugh as she was gently pulled out of the room by Happy. She always loved the fact that Happy and Tig both wanted her help with wrapping Maria's presents so they were presentable. She had loved the fact that neither man wanted help making her presents presentable, so instead she accepted the messy wrapped gifts with a large smile on her face. Charlie had even been able to tell which man wrapped what over the years because her father used less tape than Happy. The tattooed man had been known to over tape to where she would have to use his knife in order to open some gifts.
Once the brunette had said her goodbyes to the Queen, Charlie had jotted down what kind of pizza she had wanted and had Happy call for the food. She knew that she was going to have to talk to her father about what her mother's husband had asked of her but she decided to just enjoy the holiday with her family first.