A/n sorry about the delay in uploading this. This chapter gave me some problems but with the help of the Freak Circle, special thanks to Ozzysgirl especially, I managed to work it out. So thank you for reading and if you feel like it leave a review.

Over a month.

It'd been over a month since Quinn had seen Megan, Annie or Lily. He was fucking done with this shit. The damn rat in New York had taken awhile to sniff out. Turned out to be the SAA. It was a hard vote to take to the table. Asshole not only stole from the club the fucker sold info to rival clubs also. The rat almost got half the charter killed. Shit like that could destroy a charter. Still Quinn had to tell them- charter needed the closure of the vote. The club could make the call themselves or he would have made it for them on Clay's orders. The club made the right choice. A bullet in the back of the head and a shallow grave later he was on his bike and heading back to Mobile. He broke the trip up into two days pushing nine hours a day. It was hell on the body but fuck it he wanted to get home to his family.

He called Annie every day while he was gone. She said she was fine and Megan never said anything otherwise. Still he worried. He missed them too. He'd gotten used to having the same bed every night and the same woman regularly. Hell he'd barely fucked any club whores while in New York. Just a couple of blow jobs really. He tried fucking a couple of the club whores that hung around- where there was a club there were whores- but he was man enough to admit he'd gotten used to having one pussy. He'd gotten used to knowing what buttons of Megan's to push while she knew what buttons of his to push in return.

He killed his bike as he pulled into Annie's drive way. It was late enough that he knew that Annie and Lily would already be sleeping. Still he'd wanted to get home that night and pushed through the last 90 plus miles to get there. He'd be able to crash in Mobile for two days before heading to see Megan Friday.

Quinn quietly slipped into the silent house. He saw Lily's toys still scattered in the living room and a book collapsed open on the edge of the couch. He eased his way though the house stopping at Lily's door to peer though the crack. The little girl started to have nightmares lately and could only sleep with her door cracked open and the hall light on. Right now the beam of light from the hall fell across her face showing Quinn she slept peacefully. Still moving impossibly silently for the giant he was Quinn also went to look into Annie's room. She might not need comfort from nightmares but he still looked in every night. He looked into his sister's room to see her curled in the middle of her big bed. She looked like a child so small and asleep. He could barely make out a small smile on her face. He shut her door happy that at least his sister got to sleep peacefully. He moved to his own bedroom.

Shutting the door behind him Quinn didn't bother to flick the switch to turn on the light even though the room was pitch black. His body while still in-shape protested loudly at the nine-hour days on the bike. Already his muscles began to ache and pull as he slowly stripped himself in the dark. He kept his boxers on just in case Lily decided to burst into his room before he fully woke up in the morning.

It had happened before, eight year olds did not know how to knock.

He rubbed the back of his neck as he made his way to his bed. Luckily his feet moved by memory because he didn't have near enough energy to try turning on any sort of light now. He just wanted to collapse into bed until he could get in to a hot shower the next day. He pulled back the sheets only to be met with a groan and resistance.

"Lily, I'll be there in a second." A voice mumbled from his bed.

"The fuck?" Quinn said forgetting for a moment to keep his voice down.

"Rane?" A familiar and slightly more awake voice came out of the darkness.

"Megan? What the fuck are you doing here?" Quinn asked. It was a Wednesday night. He knew Megan usually spent Wednesday's with her few girlfriends or doing books for the club. On top of that he couldn't think of a reason she'd be in his bed in the middle of the night thinking he was Lily.

"Mrs. Cobbs's great niece is getting married. She went to Boston for the week." Megan said reaching out in the darkness. She made contact with the hard flesh of Quinn's stomach and felt for his hand. Giving it a tug she made room on the bed for him to lie next to her.

"So you're here?" Quinn asked caught between being happy she was there and surprised that she dropped everything to come.

"Said I'd look out for them. Now shush I was sleeping." She said as she curled herself around his large frame.

"Not excited to see me?" He teased her settling into bed. As much as he'd like to bang her now he could feel his own body moving toward sleep.

"Very excited. Wake me up with your dick between my legs." Megan mumbled already falling back to sleep half draped across his body.

"Deal." Quinn said wrapping his arms around her familiar body. A far back, still partially awake part of his brain noted that her being in his bed when he came home felt right. The rest of his brain however pushed those thoughts until after he had a good nights sleep, morning fuck, hot shower and coffee. In that order too. For now Quinn let himself drift off to sleep surrounded by her warm, soft body.

The next morning Quinn woke up in his bed alone. His mind took a minute to remind himself that he was home now and that he hadn't gone to bed alone. He pushed his groaning body out of the bed and grabbed his jeans off the floor and pulled them on before heading out to find his girls. Quinn paused when the thought his girls ran across his head. He hadn't realized that in the last month he'd started including her in his girls. She was though. She stepped up to bat for his sister and niece he knew she came here every weekend.

He wandered out into the kitchen still thinking about the subtle change in how he thought of Megan. Once he reached the kitchen he found Lily and Megan mixing stuff on the counter. Megan added the ingredients while Lily stirred from her perch on a chair carefully pushed against the counter top.

"Uncle Rane!" Lily called seeing him, "Ms. Megan said you were back. But she said you needed sleep and I couldn't see you until you woke up and we're making pancakes cuz they're your favorite. Ms. Megan said I can stay home from school this morning because you've been gone a looooooonnnnnngggg time!"

"I didn't say you could stay home." Megan told the young girl. "I said that your teachers had a work shop so weren't you lucky you got to stay home until after lunch."

"Yeah that." Lily said as she bounced out of her chair to go hug her uncle.

"I think I'm the lucky one. I got all my girls in one house." Quinn said hugging Lily.

"Lily," Megan said, "Why don't you go play outside. I'll call you when breakfast is ready."

"You guys are going to talk about boring grown up stuff aren't you?" Lily asked.

"Yep," Megan told her, "We might even kiss."

"Icky!" Lily exclaimed as she ran to find her shoes so she could go play in the back yard.

"Adult stuff?" Quinn asked one eyebrow raised as Lily ran outside.

"Yep, after this." Megan walked up to Quinn and gave his beard a gentle tug so she could kiss him full on the mouth. He placed his hands on her hips pulling her closer as she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck.

"Missed you." She admitted as they pulled apart slightly.

"You too." He told her truthfully. He'd talked to her almost as much as he talked to Annie while he was gone. "How's Annie?" he asked.

"She's not good Rane. The bad days out number the good days." Megan answered honestly, "Annie didn't want me to tell you but it's getting harder and harder for Mrs. Cobbs also. Mrs. Cobbs is an old woman, it's hard for her to keep up with Lily while helping Annie."

"Fuck!" Quinn swore loudly. He was man enough to admit how much he depended on Mrs. Cobbs for everything.

"Annie has a doctors appointment tomorrow. We weren't sure if you'd be back in time but he wants to talk about a new treatment idea." Megan said still in Quinn's arms.

Suddenly it clicked in Quinn's head. How familiar Lily acted with Megan, how Megan talked about Annie's health with a confident familiarity. How she thought he had been Lily last night as if Lily coming to her in the night was a regular thing. He pushed her back to arm's length and closely studied her face. He could see slight bruised look under her eyes from lack of sleep and that her cloths were unwrinkled and clean. Thinking about it he hadn't seen an overnight back in the room last night or when he woke up this morning. Not to mention there was several times he'd called only to hear the phone ring and ring- she didn't have an answering machine.

"Megs, how often are you here?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" She asked for the first time looking anywhere but in his eyes.

"You said you were only going to come up on weekends. How often have you really been here?" He asked not letting her get out of answering.

"Lately most of the time." Megan answered honestly. Annie had insisted on not telling him while he was away. She said his focus needed to be on the job. What the job was Megan didn't know. He said he traveled for work and paid for his sister's health care. Either way not telling him how often she stayed in Mobile felt silly at the time. Still it was Annie's house and health. Annie made the calls while Quinn was gone. Now that he was back Megan didn't see the point in hiding it.

"Fuck who's running Heartlands?" Quinn asked. He knew how much Megan loved her club. After he told her about his folks kicking him out at sixteen for dropping out she told him how she worked her ass off to buy her club. She spent ten years dancing and turning tricks to get where she was. He knew she didn't take that lightly. He knew she would never let go of her responsibilities.

"Lola's been promoted to manager. She takes care of day to day shit now and I check in every night." Megan answered.

"You're letting a stripper run your bar?" Quinn asked unbelievingly.

"My strip bar yes." Megan said laughing, "Lola has a degree in accounting. She just makes more as a dancer and has more fun. Or she did. Decided she wanted to settle down in one place." Megan explained.

"Is Lola even her real name?"

"Nope it's Marcela." Megan said, "Plus I'm thinking of buying a second club. This is a good way to see if I can handle turning things over. A new club would need more direct over-site."

"Where are you thinking of opening?" Quinn asked surprised. She hadn't mentioned any plans in any of their calls. Not that she needed to, they hadn't had the what they were talk yet. Both knew they had to do so soon but both were more than comfortable putting it off for a while.

"Actually there's a bar here up for sale. Would have to do some remodeling before we could open. Add the poles and a couple of private VIP rooms. Stagger the floor so all the tables have a good view of the stage." Megan said hesitantly. The last month had shown her what Rane meant to her. It also attached her to Annie and Lily. Buying another club was good business. She'd been high in the black for over a year, Mobile had the right demographics for a new strip club with the city being big enough to support it. She wouldn't be majorly cutting into anyone else's business because there was a clear shortage of adult clubs in Mobile.

"And you would personally need to oversee the remodel?" Quinn asked thinking he wouldn't mind having Megan in Mobile on a more permanent basis.

"I could do it from here or from Baton Rouge. Would you want me here to oversee it, plus help out here?" Megan asked.

"Fuck, I'd like that. But are you doing it just for me?" Quinn asked.

"No. Not just for you. Mrs. Cobbs can't do everything that needs to be done here. Annie needs more help that that, help that I can give. I care about them two now, Annie and Lily. You and I, we could make this work if I stayed in Baton Rouge. Hell I'd still need to regularly go to Baton Rouge but I've been thinking of opening a second club for a while now. Just happens I found one here." Megan answered honestly. She hadn't been actively looking for something to bring her to Mobile but when she found it she did look into it.

"Fuck, looks like we're getting domestic." Quinn said running a hand down his face.

"But Rane." Megan said softly.

"Yeah?"

"I gotta know what you do. Annie didn't say anything but… it's something that if I come down here on a semi permanent basis I need to know."

"I know Megs. Lets get breakfast done with and settled. Then you and I'll go for a ride."

"Ok, I'll finish cooking, you go check on Annie." Megan said leaving Quinn's arms and walking back to the counter. "Oh and Rane," Megan said as he went toward the hall, "You still owe me a good fuck."

Quinn laughed as he walked down the hall to check on his sister. He was slightly pissed Annie hadn't told him how bad she'd gotten but he couldn't do anything about that now. He knocked quietly on her door before letting himself in.

"Annie girl?" He softly called as he walked up to the bed.

"Hey Big Bro." the mound of blankets replied.

"How you feeling?" He asked gently settling himself on the side of the mattress.

"Like hell." Came the blunt reply.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Quinn asked.

"Didn't want you distracted on the job. You wouldn't leave until it was done and I wanted you here as soon as possible." Annie replied forcing herself to sit up. Quinn fought the urge to say something. Annie had lost even more weight, weight she didn't have to loose. Her hair was all gone now leaving her pale head shining in the dim bedroom light.

"Shit baby sis, you look like hell." Quinn finally said.

"Already told you I felt like it." Annie gave a weak chuckle. "Megan's been amazing though."

"She mentioned that she'd been here pretty often." Quinn answered.

"Yeah, she has been. She's a great woman. Don't fuck that up." Annie demanded.

"Tryin' not to. You feel up to eating a bit?" Quinn asked.

"Not sure, help me up and we'll find out." Annie gingerly stepped out of bed and began making her way to the door.

"I was serious though, about Megan." She said, "Don't fuck that up."

"I don't plan to sis." Quinn assured her.

Annie looked at him carefully giving his face a slow once over before nodding satisfied. Quinn helped into the kitchen and into the chair at the table.

"Feeling up to pancakes Annie?" Megan asked standing in the kitchen over the stove.

"One plain one, we'll see how it goes." Annie said.

"No problem here you go." Megan said as she put a pancake on one of the plates.

"Annie, you going to be ok on your own for an hour or so?" Quinn asked, "Megan and I are going to go on a ride."

"Good." Annie replied, "I don't need a babysitter. Go have fun. Lily and I will be fine for an hour." Megan called Lily back into the house for breakfast. The four passes a quiet hour eating and listening to Lily tell Quinn about every little thing that had happened since he left. Two hours later the pair mounted the back of Quinn's bike and sped off.

Quinn drove her to a near by park before killing the bike. The pair got off before heading to an abandoned picnic bench.

"I don't really know how to start this." Megan said honestly once they sat down.

"Me neither." Quinn told her.

"Lets start with your work. What do you do?" Megan asked.

"How much do you know about motorcycle clubs?" Quinn asked.

"Not a whole lot." Megan said, "I get some bikers who pass though the bar on occasion. Some wear vests, some don't."

"It's called a kutte." Quinn answered, "You wear one for your club."

"And you're in a club." Megan said.

"Yeah, kuttes at home. Can't ride with it on in this area." Quinn said remembering he'd never ridden with his kutte around her.

"Why not?" Megan asked.

"The club I ride with, that I'm a part of, we don't do legal shit. There's other clubs that do equally illegal shit that don't like us. It's not safe to ride alone and in my kutte."

"What kind of illegal stuff?" Megan asked calmly.

"Cant go there, don't want it to be used against you

"Can I just ask anything with drugs?"

"No we don't touch them."

"Ok, is that it?" Megan asked.

"That's it." Quinn said.

"That's quite a bit." Megan said, "But I figured what ever you did wasn't exactly legal."

"Yeah, how so?" Quinn asked.

"Chemo's not cheap and Annie mentioned you were paying for the treatment. Plus you seem to have a pretty open schedule and some how I don't see you as a 9 to 5 business man." Megan answered.

"And you're ok with that?" Quinn asked.

"As long as you don't make any money on forcing women I don't care. I spent enough time stripping and hooking to have a skewed moral code. I care about you and I'm guessing you care about me or you wouldn't have told me this." Megan answered frankly.

"Yeah," Quinn said. The pair sat in silence for a time. Megan thinking about what he'd told her and Quinn relieved that she hadn't reacted badly.

"Rane?" Megan asked after a minute.

"Yeah?" Quinn raised his head.

"What are we?" Megan asked, "I know neither of us has wanted to talk about that but fuck Rane. You tell me about this and I'm practically moving down here for you and Annie. Shit, I think we have to figure out what the hell we are."

"You're as fucking close to an Old Lady as I've ever gotten. Shit, I don't know what the hell we are. We're kinda just figuring it out as we go."

"Alright. Ok, tell me what ever you can. If there's no clubs out here how'd you end up here?"

"It's a long story." Quinn said settling more comfortably on the bench.

"We got about an hour left." Megan said smiling.

"Yeah we do." Quinn nodded. "Bout nine months ago our president, he was chapter and national president too, died. Got dragged by a semi…"

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