"Fuck"

"Yeah, I would have said something sooner but I didn't know…"

He looked over at her, "You're an old lady, you shouldn't know, and Tacoma shouldn't have sent you."

"He thinks I might be able to help… don't know how though. I haven't had anything to do with them in nearly eleven years."

Happy wrapped his arm around her and urged her to lie down with him. "I'll take care of all this. 'Morrow you tell Clay everything about them, about us, no secrets."

"Yeah, ok."

They both laid there thinking, eventually Happy and Kate fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning, Tig was pounding on their door.

"Come on kiddos. Daddy wants to see you."

Happy got up and started rummaging through his knapsack for some new clothes. Kicking the ones from last night into a pile.

Kate just moaned and buried her head into Hap's pillow. "All my clothes are in the truck still and I haven't even had a shower." Happy tossed her one of his reaper t-shirts as she finally got up and got dressed.

"Still doesn't change the fact that I smell like you and sex."

He smirked and held the door open for her. Sniffing her as she walked by, "You smell good." "Again, like you and sex, Of course you like it."

Clay leaned forward in his seat, staring at her in disbelief. This was not information he expected. He and Jax had been sat down with Hap and his old lady for just a few minutes. The girl was nervous, a little twitchy, but was to the point. Happy just sat there with his hands folded, staring at the table.

"You tellin' me we had one of Ethan Zobelle's daughters stashed away and didn't even know it."

Kate was staring at the table, "Yeah, but he doesn't know it either."

"Explain now."

Sighing, Kate continued to stare at nothing, "For as long as I could remember my father was always talking about how great it was to be white, how we were better. My mom didn't buy into it as much but she never corrected his behavior. He got involved with LOAN when I was like ten. When I turned 17, that's when AJ started hanging around, working at the cigar shop, driving my dad around, that sort of thing."

She looked up at Clay, and he nodded for her to continue.

"I was having car problems one day at school. A boy from one of my classes tried to help me get the car started. AJ must have driven by and seen us, because the next thing I knew he was there wailing on the kid, just 'cause he was Asian and talking to me… He ended up killing him."

"When my father got wind of it, he told me I brought it on that boy. That it was my fault. He threatened me, told me that if I went to the police he'd stick me in an institution to treat my 'psychosis' and that others would get hurt because of me. That was when I decided to run. I found an article online about identity theft and started racking up bills left and right: going to the library and using the computer to buy things online and then sending them to various addresses, giving out my social to homeless people so they could seek out medical treatment, using bank accounts and credit cards at small stores with no surveillance so I could claim fraud . That sort of thing. The day I turned eighteen, I left. I filed a report and went through that process. I got approved for a new social security number in less than a year. Because of the nature of the case, the records were sealed and never made public. I moved around quite a bit for a few years, taking under the table jobs mostly, finally settled down in Tacoma. Started working nights in a local dive, that's how I met Hap."

Clay gave Hap a hard look, "Did you know about this?"

Happy looked up, "Not 'til last night. I…"

"He didn't want to know. I talked to the Pres in Tacoma 'cause I thought someone should just in case things went down and my father was involved. It looked like he was on his way up the ranks when I ran."

Clay looked back at her, nodding again. Then he looked at Happy, " This thing with you two. It serious?"

"Five years now. Marked her and everything."

"So I heard. Alright, let's here it. I know you women like to talk but try and keep this short. "

Kate looked at Hap with a small smile on her face and started talking…