Chapter 19
A little later, we hear a knock on the door. "Lowen's here." Juice says and Happy moves to get up. I go to get up and run to the bathroom, emptying my stomach. Happy is right behind me. "You okay baby?" he asks. "Yeah." I tell him. "Head on out there. I'll be right behind you." I tell him. "I'm not walking out without you." he tells me and I just shake my head. I rinse my mouth and brush my teeth before I head towards the door. Happy grabs my hand and pulls me close and asks "Are we okay?" I look at him and say "We will be." I say and kiss him softly. We walk out to the main room and see Lowen sitting at a table with Jax. "What can I help you guys with?" she asks. "I fucked up. When we first got married, I hooked up with a croweater and as soon as we find out that Clara is pregnant, she starts telling me that she's pregnant and that it's mine. The thing is that it's a possibility." Happy tells her. "How are you wanting to handle this?" she asks. "Tara was telling that they can do an amniocentesis and that she's far enough along to safely do it and they can determine paternity but we know she won't do it especially if there's a chance that it's not his and seeing that she's been with most of the guys and half the hang arounds, it could be anyone's." Jax tells her. "So you need a court order to make her do the procedure?" she asks and Happy says "Yeah. All this stress is taking its toll on Clara, the baby and our marriage. I can't have that." Lowen looks at me and asks "How are you holding up Clara?" I shake my head before jumping up and running to the bathroom sick with Gemma following after me. "She can barely hold anything down because her nerves are so fucked up." Happy says. "I have a judge that owes me a favor. I'll file the paperwork and we should have it signed off and back in your hands by the end of the day." Lowen says. "Thanks Lowen." Happy says. "Just take care of her. All the shit she's been through, she needs a break." Lowen says and Happy nods. Gemma comes back out and says "She's laying down in your dorm. I'm going to get her some fruit and see if that helps." Happy kisses her cheek and says "Thanks Gem. That seems to be the only thing she can hold down." he tells her.
Later that evening, we are sitting at the clubhouse and Marley walks in. "God damnit." I say, getting up. "That's right. Walk away. He doesn't want you anyway." Marley tells me. I stop and take a deep breath before walking past her and heading outside, not saying anything. Gemma follows me out and I am walking towards the gate but she stops me. "Where are you going?" she asks. "This was a mistake. All of it. I never should have agreed to marrying him. I'm going home and packing a bag and I'm getting a motel room. I can't do this Gemma. I can't. She can have him." I say as I walk away. She grabs my arm and says "No you're not. That's your husband in there and he needs you." she tells me. "I'm sure Marley can handle him." I tell her. "Stop that shit right now. You're the one he wants. You're the one he loves. We'll figure it all out soon enough." she tells me and pulls me to her as I start to sob again.
Lowen pulls up and gets out of the car. "How's she doing?" Lowen asks softly. Gemma just shakes her head. "Clara? Hey." she says as she puts her hand on my back. I turn to look at her and get myself together. "I have the court order and once I find where she is, I'll have her served and Unser is on her way here to escort her to get it done. I've already called Tara and she will have the doctor on standby so they will be ready when we get there." she tells me. About that time, Unser pulls in. "Hey sweetheart. I know this is tough but do you know where we can find Marley?" I nod and Gemma says "She's in the clubhouse." We all walk towards the clubhouse and see Happy sitting on the picnic table outside with Jax beside him. When he sees us walk up, he walks over and pulls me to him and I let him. "I have the court order and Unser will escort her to make sure it gets done. Tara and the doctor are on standby." Lowen tells Happy and Jax. "She's inside." Jax says. "Do you want to be inside when we do this?" Happy ask and I nod my head yes. "She needs to see she didn't break us." I tell him. He leans down and kisses me softly and says "I love you." I whisper "I love you too."
We walk inside and Happy has his arms around my waist from behind me and his hands on my stomach. "Marley Lewis? You've been served. Chief Unser is here to escort you to St Thomas to have a paternity test done on your unborn child." she tells Marley. "How's that? The baby isn't here yet." she asks. "We have a doctor waiting for you to do an amniocentesis and they will put a rush on the lab work." Lowen says. "You can't force me to do it." she says. "We can. This is a court order. You do it or we take you to jail and it still gets done. Let's go Ms Lewis." Unser says and she follows them out. "Ride with Gemma. I'm right behind you." Happy tells me. "Okay." I say softly. I go to walk away but stop. I turn to Happy and walk over to him. I pull him to me and kiss him deeply and when we separate I say "I love you Happy." He puts his forehead to mine and says "I love you too baby. So fucking much." I kiss him one more time before heading to Gemma's SUV and we head to St Thomas behind Unser and Gemma reaches over and takes my hand and says "It's going to work out." I nod and say "I know."
We get to the hospital and they get the procedure done and we are sitting in the waiting room. Happy is in the chair next to me and holding my hand. Everyone is giving us our space while we talk. "I love you Clara. I don't want you to ever doubt that." he tells me. "I know Happy but I just can't deal with this shit anymore. I just want us to be able to enjoy being pregnant and being with my husband." I tell him. "I know baby and this is all on me." he tells me. "I wish they would hurry up." I say and Happy pulls me closer. I look up at him and kiss him softly and he pulls me into his lap and just holds me close. I nuzzle my nose into his neck and his hand rubs my stomach and it starts to growl. "When was the last time you ate?" he asks. "Earlier." I say. "Did you hold it down?" he asks and I shake my head no. Happy looks up at Juice and asks "Can you go to the cafeteria and get her some fruit?" He nods and heads out to get it. A few minutes later, Juice comes back and has a banana and an apple for me and says "That's all they had." I nod and Happy says "Thanks brother."
An hour later, Tara comes out and says "We did the procedure and put a rush through the lab. They ran it twice and it's 99.99987% not Happy's baby." she says. I look at Happy and wrap my arms around his neck as he picks me up and I sob into his neck. "We did an ultrasound after the procedure to check on the baby which is standard procedure and looks like she's not five months pregnant like she says. She's almost seven months but she's just not showing as much as most women do at seven months." Tara says. "Seven months? She's had only been here a couple of weeks when we started hooking up. That means she was already pregnant when she got here." Happy says. I run to the trash can and get sick again. "Tara, you think we can get Clara checked out? She's not holding anything down." Happy says. "Yeah. Follow me." she says and Happy picks me up and carries me down the hallway. Tara does blood work and then does an ultrasound. "Looks like here's the problem. Morning sickness seems to be worse with twins." she tells us. "What? How did we not catch this before?" I ask. "Sometimes one baby will hide behind the other and if their heartbeats are in sync then it will sound like there's only one." she tells us. "Holy shit Happy. Two babies?" I ask. "Yeah babe." he says before he kisses me. "I can give you something to take at night and it will help with the morning sickness." she tells me before handing us the ultrasound pictures.
We walk back out to the waiting room and Gemma walks up to me. "What did you find out?" she asks. "Morning sickness is worse with twins." I tell her. "Twins? Holy shit." Gemma says. "That's what I said." I say, laughing. Jax walks over to congratulate us and tells Happy "Take your Old Lady home and let her gets some rest." Gemma follows is out to give me a ride and Happy is on his bike. Once we get home, we walk inside and as soon as he locks the door I look at him and say "I need you to do something for me." Happy walks over and says "Anything baby." I take his hand and say "I need my husband to take me to bed." I say and he picks me up and carries me to bed where he makes love to me nice and slow over and over for the rest of the night.