As always, I don't own Sons of Anarchy or any of the Characters, but I'm sure you know that by now.

Thank you for favs, alerts and the incredible encouraging reviews and messages!

Chapter 8: Almost Gold

They were in church, everyone around the table. It had been calm since they were released, the new dick cop had been bothering them, but not too much and it was starting to get to them all. When things were this calm, it usually meant a shitstorm was on its way, they just had to figure out from what directions. The good thing was that it gave them time to regroup, to figure things out.

"We need to take a good look at Hale Jr. and Charming Heights, we're going to have to deal with it." Clay said.

They all nodded.

"From what I've heard he's still looking for investors, there could be a way to get too him through those." Bobby, he tended to be able to see the economics in things. Happy didn't know shit about that, and he didn't really care, he stayed away until someone told him in what direction to shoot. That was his purpose, he knew it and liked it.

Jacob Hale Jr. was not a favorite among the Sons, for a lot of reasons, he's the one who invited Zobelle to the town, he got rid of Unser and he was just an all-around ass. But even Happy agreed that you couldn't just go up and shoot a mayor in the head, you had to be smart about that shit.

"Ok, we've got a run coming up, five days, I want you on it Hap." Clay said and looked at Happy, he just nodded, wouldn't dream of denying him. Chibs and Opie were coming with him as well and they were leaving at the end of next week. It meant he would get home just the night before Al was going to New York for Christmas. She probably wouldn't mind, she never hassled him about his work for the club. That was probably the only thing they never fought about.

When they got out from the Chapel the Crow Eaters had the bar ready for the party, he sat down and one of them came over with a beer, looking at him for a sign to hang around. He just waved at her to disappear.

"When's Al leaving for New York?" Chibs asked.

"23rd."

"What are you giving her for Christmas?" Juice asked, he had been thoroughly impressed with the lightsaber, he was the only one though, the other just shook their head when she had showed them with a huge smile on her face. As long as she liked it he didn't give a shit.

"No sure, got any ideas?" Juice would probably know, he liked the same nerdy crap as she did.

"I found an awesome webpage with loads of stuff she'd like. I'll show you next week."

"Thanks."

He emptied the beer and went outside to see if anyone was in the ring. He halted at the door when he saw Al and Tara sitting on a bench,

Alice was sitting on the bench with Tara, she was smoking and they were both drinking a beer. She hated this place on Friday night but Tara needed to find Jax for the keys to the house. As soon as they had entered the lot a guy had commented on her ass, asking her if she was spoken for. Tara quickly took him down, as the VP Old Lady she had learned to handle guys like that and they had respect for her.

Suddenly Hap was in front of her with a confused look on his face. "What are you doing here?"

"Nice to see you too." She said and stuck out her tongue at him.

"You never come here for this."

"Technically I'm not here. We're going out to eat but Tara needed to get something from Jax."

"You could stay you know." He said and pulled her up from the bench and now he was smiling.

"Nope."

"I'm going on a run at the end of the week, I'll be back the night before you leave."

"Ok." Typical, but she knew that it wasn't any point in commenting on it. It was Club business and she never argued about that. So she just reached up and whispered into his ear. "You'd better make it up to me."

"I will."

"You ready?" Tara asked when she came back.

"Yup." Alice gave him a kiss on the cheek but he caught her for a proper kiss which was surprising.

One of the prospects followed them outside. When she asked about it Tara said that Jax had asked him since that guy had been hitting on her. She turned around just in time to see Jax, next to Hap, pointing at the guy who had bothered her earlier. Hap had a very grim smile on his face and Alice just shook her head. She kind of felt sorry for the guy.

When Hap walked through the door later that night he had bruises in his face.

"Do I even need to ask?" She said when she walked up to him.

"You know that guy who was hitting on you, when you came to the club?" He said while taking off his clothes. He looked very pleased so she assumed that the other guy looked worse.

"You took him up in the ring." It wasn't even a question.

"Yeah." He said with a smile as he walked up to her.

"All he did was commenting on my ass. Tara talked him straight right away."

"It's my ass." He grabbed it while he said it. Alice couldn't belive him.

She said and pushed him towards the bathroom. "I'm not admitting anyhing. And admit it, you just wanted the fight."

She started to take off his clothes. She wanted him to take a shower before going to bed, she didn't want blood in the bed.

"Not only, any guy commenting on you will be beaten up." He said and started on her clothes

"I've already showered when I got home Hap."

"You're no fun, when I've defended your honor and everything you should at least lather me up." He was nibbling on her neck and she could immediately fell her body reacting.

"You're insane. You can't beat up every guy who's commenting on me or looking at me." She caught his mouth and kissed him.

He leaned his head towards her's. "I can try."

"This is why I stay away from the Friday night parties you know." He just spanked her ass. "And by the way, your seven days are up. I'm not admitting to anything anymore."

He had really put those seven days to use. But she kind of liked it, but not as much as she liked to tease him until he tried to force her to say it, usually buy making her horny. Admittedly, that didn't take much.

"Just get to bed, bitch and I'll be there in a while to show you all the parts of you that are mine."

"Hmm, I was thinking I should kiss your injuries and make you feel better." He just pulled her in for another kiss and then went into the shower. She was looking forward to this.

Happy got home at 3 AM the same day as Al was leaving for New York. Buster met him in the kitchen and he patted him.

"Hey boy, is she sleeping?" The only answer he got was a lick in the face.

He brushed his teeth, dropped the clothes in the chair next to the bed and got under the covers. She was naked and he pulled her towards him, kissing her shoulder and neck.

"Hey." She whispered when he turned around and put her arm around him. "I've missed you."

"Good." He had missed her too, and he pressed his nose to her and drew in her smell.

"Will you wake me up properly in the morning?" That meant she wanted sex in the morning, she claimed that was the only way to wake her up properly. And who was he to question that? He loved morning fucks, they weren't that common when you threw the bitch out the second after you had finished.

"Sure will."

And he did, very properly, he had missed her and her pussy like crazy. Nothing could compare to it. He was sitting with his legs crossed, she with her legs wrapped around him, riding him. He was controlling it with his arm around her waist. He loved it like that, her eyes drilled into his, until her head fell back when she came.

"I need at least once more before I leave." she panted, still leaning her head on his shoulder.

"I didn't plan on letting you leave without it."

She was on her way to the bathroom for a shower when she turned around.

"Mom sent you a Christmas present. She called and said you had to be alone when you opened it."

"Is it a bomb?"

"Doubt it, she absolutely adores you."

"Really?"

"No need to be smug about it." She said while picking clothes from the wardrobe, she had been doing it lately, probably just to prove him wrong.

"Why not, my mom loves you!" He said while taking a very good look at her ass. His mom did, but he liked it. And she had helped him to choose a present from the webpage Juice had found.

"It's because I'm a nice girl, my mom loves you because the thinks you can keep me in check."

"A nice girl, huh?" He said and threw a pillow at her. "Would the nice girl want some company in the shower?" He asked and got out of the bed.

"She would." So he went with her.

It was Christmas morning, he was going over to his mom house for lunch and then to Clay and Gemma's for the evening. He was in the kitchen, having coffee when he remembered Anita's gift to him and he found the envelope on the side table in the hallway.

He sat down at the table and opened it. There was another envelope inside with a note from Anita taped on it.

'Merry Christmas Happy. Since her ass is yours now I thought you should have this. Love, Anita.'

He opened the envelope and took out the picture and gasped. It was Alice, slightly from the side, in a something that looked like a wicker divan with a red cover, the only thing she was wearing was the striped stay-ups, her leg was positioned so you didn't actually see anything, her arms were under her chest, holding loads of red lollipops, enough to cover her breasts. She was looking into the camera, with her head slightly tipped back, and those fucking, full lips.

He just stared at the picture for a long time, her face, her thighs. Jesus fucking Christ, she was hot. He was rock hard and picked up the phone to call her, they were three hours after so she should be awake.

"Merry Christmas Happy!" She said when she answered the phone.

"Merry Christmas Katze!"

"Miss me?"

"Mostly horny, I opened your mom's present."

"What was it?"

"I think it's your latest punishment." He laughed, "You look really sexy on it."

"Oh shit, with the lollipops?"

"Yes."

"Hang on, mom want's to say something."

"Merry Christmas Happy!" It was Anita's voice.

"Merry Christmas, and thank you."

"I thought you would like it. It's the only printed copy. It seemed appropriate that you had it."

"She's beautiful on it."

"She always is." 'I'm always what?' He heard in the background, and he laughed. "Here she is, give my love to your mom."

"I'm always what?"

"Curious. That's what you always are." That wasn't true at all, she wasn't curious and hardly ever asked him questions. Which made club business easy, he assumed that she didn't want to know.

"Tease!" she wasn't done with him, he could hear that, she would try later again. "Will you pick me up from the airport?"

"Sure."

"I'll see you in two days."

"I'll call you tonight. Let me know when you're in bed."

"Ok, send my love to Mona and Vivian."

"I will." They hung up. He took another look at the picture. Yup, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. All his! How the fuck did that happened?

Happy, Juice, Chibs and Tara were standing at the airport waiting for Al and suddenly she came walking towards him and started to laugh when she saw the others.

"What the hell?" She said and the hugged the others before turning towards him. "Afraid I'd jump you at the airport?"

He put his hands on her ass and lifted her up. "More trying to stop myself from doing it." And then he kissed her. He noticed the necklace around her neck. The new pendant was hanging next to the lightsaber. "I see you liked your gift."

"Loved it, not sure if it's ok to have the Rebel Alliance mark with Darth Vader lighsaber, but I couldn't choose." She said with a smile.

"Come on Katze, we'll take you home." He said and put her down on the ground again. Chibs picked up her bags and they walked outside.

"Mia is coming the day after tomorrow." She said when they were in the car. "Why did you all come by the way?"

"Well, Tara insisted and we're here for security." Juice said and Happy just grabbed the steering wheel harder.

Alice noticed that Hap's knuckles were suddenly slightly white. She turned around and looked at Chibs and Juice. "Problems?"

"Nothing serious lass, not yet at least." Chibs answered.

"Ok." I was all she said and then she turned towards the road again. She didn't really want to know. She tried her best to stay out of it and didn't want info she didn't need. Happy seemed to like it as well, she hardly ever asked questions from the guys she was seeing, in all honesty mostly because she didn't want them to ask questions. In Hap's case he knew most of the embarrassing parts about her, but out of habit, she still didn't ask much. It was also the fact that she understood that there was parts about him she probably didn't even want to know. Like those smiley-faces on his torso.

They dropped the others off at the clubhouse and then went home, the second they were through the door he threw her over his shoulder and carried her into the bedroom.

"This is your mom's fault you know, that fucking picture has been driving me insane." He said before throwing her into the bed and started to pull off her clothes.

"Ok boys, let Mia show you how this is done!" Mia said while pouring tequila in the glasses infront of her.

It was New Year's Eve, still early in the evening but the club house was full of people, all of the Redwood Sons, Old Ladies, hangarounds and shitloads of Crow Eaters. There was also quite a few guys from other Charters as well, including Quinn who was standing next to Alice, looking at Mia completely turning the heads of guys when she was showing them how tequila should be drunk.

"Geez, she is still as crazy as ever." Quinn laughed. "She should be careful, she'll be piss drunk before midnight if she keeps that up."

"She's crazy, but she's also smart, as oppose to those guys, she's not drinking tequila." Quinn looked at her, surprised, before starting to laugh.

"Sneaky bitch."

Hap came up behind her and put his arms around her and kissed her neck. He usually wasn't very touchy in public, she assumed that this was his way of showing the new guys that she was off limits. Mia came up to them and gave Quinn a hug.

"Good to see you."

"Was it water?" Alice asked with a smile.

"Oh yeah, since the tits against car window episode I don't drink tequila."

Hap started to laugh, "You were just drinking water?"

"Sure, It positively kills guys when women can outdrink them, they never seem to understand that it's not that we can drink more, we're just smarter. I and Alice have been doing this for years."

"Shhhh, don't tell him our secrets." Alice said and felt Hap hugging her harder.

"You were with her and Tara when she pressed her tits against a car window?" Alice had hoped that he didn't pick up on that, but of course he did. She should have done the tequila trick with him, but he probably wouldn't fall for it.

"Not telling you anything." Mia smiled and then walked towards Tig.

Happy looked after Mia as she walked away. He had to give it to Alice, she had some loyal fucking friends. The only one who had slipped up was Alex and he was pretty sure that was on purpose.

"Does she know all of them?" He asked Al, she would know what he meant.

She turned around and grabbed her beer from the bar. "I've told her all of them, not sure if she remembers them."

"I'll see you at midnight." He said before giving her a quick kiss and then sat down with Jax and Juice.

A few hours later he was getting drunk and suddenly found Mia sitting next to him.

"So, how many of them have you picked off?" She said with a smile.

"Two."

She looked at him with a frown. "Just two? Oh, I had so much hope in you. You need to do better."

"I need to know what they are, I just now about not having kids and no way in hell am I doing that. And then it's the ink one. I'm working on that. You could tell me the others." He said with a smile at her.

"No, she'll kill me, she already warned me."

Tig came up to them. "Five minutes left." He took Mia's hand and pulled her up. "Al's over there." He nodded towards the corner of the room and Happy saw Alice talking to Gemma. He got up and walked over to them at the same time as Clay.

Four hours later most people were gone or passed out around the house, Al and Mia were drinking, and this time, it wasn't water. They were both piss drunk and finally Tig got tired of waiting for Mia and put her over his shoulder and carried her away towards the rooms.

"Oh Tig, you have no idea of the things I'm going to do to you." Mia laughed and Tig just spanked her ass.

"You ready, Katze?" Hap asked and when she nodded he put his arm around her waist, leading her towards the rooms as well. She was drunk as hell so he just took off her clothes and put her to bed, she was giggling the whole time. Well, he was obviously not getting laid the first night of the new year. She would probably make it up to him, something to look forward to at least. "Go to sleep."

He pulled of his own clothes and got into bed next to her. She turned around and looked at him, still giggling like a school girl.

"You're really cute."

"Cute?" No one had ever called him cute and he started to laugh. "You are piss drunk."

"Sure am." She yawned. "But I kept my clothes on, despite getting drunk with Mia." She could hardly speak.

"Very impressive." He said and put his arms around her.

"The room is spinning."

"I bet it is. Put your foot on the floor."

She did and looked amazed. "It worked!"

"I know." He had learned that trick years ago, worked every time.

"I should have met you a long time ago." She was almost sleeping.

"If you had, I would probably just have fucked you and then sent you out."

"That would have sucked." A couple of seconds later she was snoring. He agreed, it would have sucked.

A week later they were sitting in the bar waiting for the others, it was time for Church.

"So what's up with you and Mia?" Juice looked at Tig. Mia had left just two days earlier, and she had not been spending the nights at Al's house, not much of the days either.

"Nothing, man. Just fucking, she's good at it." Tig smiled. "Crazy fucking chick." He added.

Clay walked in "Church, now!"

They walked towards the Chapel, leaving their phones in the box outside and sat down around the table. Hap lit a cigarette.

"Ok, this is what we know. The Mayan are swarming Charming, we need a meet with the One-Niners and the Chinese to find what the fuck is going on in their areas." Clay said.

"We need to know if this is them fucking with us or just trying to expand." Jax added.

"Either way, we need to be fucking careful, no traveling alone, make sure the women knows shit are going on as well."

Happy needed to have a talk to Al, she was not going to and from work alone anymore. He wasn't sure how she would take that, not that she had any choice, but he would prefer not to have to have a fight about it.

He came home around midnight and found her in the couch, listening to music and reading.

"What the hell you listening to?" He thought it was German, but wasn't sure.

"Einstüerzende Neubauten, the song is called Stella Maris. It's beautiful, about two people trying to find each other in their dreams but keep missing each other."

"You speak German?"

"No, the English lyrics are in the booklet." She said and put the book next to her.

"I need to talk to you about something." He said and sat down next to her, pulling her up in his lap.

"Ok?"

"There's some shit going on, so you can't drive around alone. I'll go with you to and from work, but you need someone with you for the other things as well."

"My running, is it ok if I have Buster with me?"

"No, I can go with you sometimes."

She just looked at him, with disbelief and humor in her eyes. "You? You're going to go running with me?"

"Sure, I think I can keep up."

"I hardly believe you have the stamina for that, old man." She had been trying to provoke his age out of him, it wasn't working.

"Ok, that's it, I'm going to show you stamina bitch." He said and got up from the couch, carrying her.

"Ohhh, really? Wanna bet you'll say 'get on top of me' within twenty minutes."

He just spanked her ass and then started kissing her.

A while later she was on his arm. "So you ok with this, not running around alone?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"No."

"I don't fight about things I can't do anything about, I'll just be nagging about it the entire time."

He just kissed her forehead and got up to get rid of the condom, he was getting really fucking tired of them. Wasn't the point with a regular bitch that you didn't have to use them?

"Lights Camera Revolution!" Al screamed with her fist in the air when she stepped through the door. "Suicidal Tendencies."

"Kill 'em All!" Juice continued as they were walking inside the club bar to have lunch. Happy just shook his head. It was never easy to understand what those two were up to, but this was a new strange.

"What the fuck?" Bobby said.

"Best album titles." Al said as she sat down, as if it should have been obvious to everyone.

"Reign in Blood." Opie said between bites, "Slayer."

"Ohhhhh." Juice said with big eyes.

"Wow Opie! What a comeback after that embarrassing Daredevil-episode." Al said with a smile.

"Appetite for Destruction." That was Jax, "Oh, and Show no Mercy, also Slayer."

"I'm not a big fan of Metal, but some of the best album titles are from Metal bands." Al nodded.

"Amen to that." Juice said.

"Like Orgasmatron." Chibs laughed. "That's awesome."

"I do like Motörhead." She nodded.

"And; Killing is my business and business is good." Happy said, this was the first time he had said something in one of the nerd discussions. "Megadeath."

Bobby opened his mouth but both Juice and Al pointed at him and said in one mouth "No Elvis!" so he just closed his mouth again.

Kozik laughed and said. "You've missed one of the best though, considering that we're Sons of Anarchy and all."

"What?" Clay said.

"Kicking Against the Pricks." He answered. "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds."

"Any good?" Clay asked.

"It's just covers, not one of his best." Alice said with a shrug. "But it's ok."

"Isn't that from the Bible?" Tig said and everyone turned and looked at him. "What? I've been to church. A real one, I mean."

"Wow, one strange day. A nerd discussion that's not boring everyone to death and Tig recognized something from the bible." Piney said with a laugh.

The next afternoon when they just had come back from work, Alice was leaning against the bedpost and Happy was behind her. She was pushing against his thrusts and had reached the panting. He put his hands on her hips, trying to reach as far inside her as possible, slamming until and felt the familiar tingling along the spine. She really had the best pussy.

When they were done, she kissed him and walked towards the bathroom, he pulled off the condom and followed her to get rid of it.

"What are the chances that I get to fuck you without a condom?"

"None."

"What the fuck! Why?" What the hell was she saying?

"There's a reason I had that rule, the main one being that I know how this works, you get pissed at me for even talking to other guys and you fuck sweetbutts when I'm not around. And I know how the sweetbutts gets passed around, they're a portable STD-festival. There's not a chance in hell I'll let you fuck me without a condom."

"So what, I'm going to have to use a condom for the rest of our lives?"

"Are you planning to stop fucking sweetbutts?"

"What the fuck Alice!"

"I'll take that as a no. Let me know when you change your mind and we can have this discussion again."

"We're fucking having this discussion now!" He followed her and watched her tearing clothes from the floor, she was pissed but what the fuck was she saying, that he would have to use a condom with her forever. He was fucking fed up with them and he wanted to fuck her properly.

"Ok." She turned around after pulling a t-shirt over her head.

"Good! I'm not going to use a condom for the rest of my life every time I fuck you."

"So what's your solution then?"

"I use condoms when I'm with them."

"Fuck you, Happy!"

"What the fuck Al, what are you asking of me?"

"I'm asking you to use a fucking condom when we are having sex, that's all I'm asking for at the moment. And unless you want to knock me up you better keep doing it."

"You can eat fucking pills for that."

"No, I'm not going to do that, since you're more concerned about not getting me pregnant than not give me some fucking STD there is no way in hell I'm going to use any other precautions."

"I don't see what the fucking problem is."

"Well that's obvious."

She had that annoying fucking voice, when something should be obvious to him and the 'you're so fucking stupid'-face, he hated it. So, he didn't see the fucking problem? It was nothing and he tried to explain to her.

"It's not like I'm fucking anyone else around here and if you ever come with me somewhere I wouldn't fuck anyone there. And I'm not doing it that very often and not with the same girl, It's usually just them giving me head." He was trying to explain to her that this wasn't a big deal. That's when he saw it, something henever thought he would ever see. She was crying, and when he stopped talking and just looked at her she realized what was happening. Dried her eyes, turned around and walked away.

"Al!" He walked after her to the hallway, watched her grab her bag and turned around pointing at him.

"Do NOT fucking follow me Hap, I mean it."

A few seconds later he heard her car start.

"Fuck!" Happy screamed and hit the wall with his fist.

Alice was driving towards Charming but she had no idea who to go to. She didn't want Tara for this, she picked up the phone and made the call.

"Gemma."

"Hi Gem, it's Al."

"Hey, what's going on?"

"I just had a bad fight with Hap, I just need somewhere to... I don't know. I just need you."

"I'll be home in thirty minutes, coffee or alcohol?"

"Alcohol." She said and then just hung up.

She pulled up on the driveway forty five minutes later and met Clay in the door.

"She just sent me out, said you two needed girl-time."

"I'm sorry Clay."

"Just kidding. I'm going to see Unser." He said and the looked at her car. "Are you alone?"

"Ehh, yeah, I kind of forgot about that."

He just shook his head and walked off, waving at her. She walked inside and Gemma met her with a glass in her hand, it looked like scotch.

"Tell me."

"We had a fight, about condoms."

"Condoms?"

"He doesn't want to use them."

"You two are still using condoms?"

"It's been like two and half months! Besides, I know how this works, with..."

"Sweetbutts." Gemma said and they sat down at the kitchen table.

"He said it wasn't like he was fucking anyone around here, or with the same girl, mostly them giving him head." She put her head in her hands. "I lost it."

"Lost it?"

"I started to cry." She could hardly remembered the last time she did that.

"And then?"

"I left."

"Baby." She sat down next to her and put her arms around her and Alice her head towards her. "You can't let it get to you, it's nothing."

"It's not nothing to me. I'm sorry. I'm not judging you or any of the others. But..." She didn't know what to do. "I'm not sure I can deal with this."

"Ok, sweetie, I'm going to ask you some questions, you're not going to like it but you need to snap out of this shit."

Alice just sighed. "I guess this is why I went to you and not Tara."

She emptied the class and looked and Gemma, preparing for all those questions she had been avoiding. Gemma lit a joint and handed it to her. Alice just shook her head.

"Really?"

"No, I get fucked up enough from alcohol, I've decided to just stay away from other drugs."

"It'll calm you down."

"It really won't, trust me."

Gemma just shrugged, inhaled and then exhaled and then gave Alice a stern look. 'Here it comes.' She thought to herself.