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Chapter 10: She tickled me

"I wish you came earlier." Grace said while eating her toast, swinging her legs.

"What?" Hap asked as he sat down on the other side of the table.

"To watch TV with me, mom doesn't watch TV." She drank the juice. "But I like that you're here in the mornings. Mom never gives me toast and juice."

"Why not?"

"Says I get sugar rushes." Grace said with a huge smile and Happy laughed.

"Guessin' you don't need the extra energy."

"That's what mom says." She sat still for a while and by now he knew what that meant. Therewas a serious question on the way. "Can I ask you something?"

"You know it, Sugar."

"Why where you in jail?"

Crap. He had a hunch that it was coming, but he wasn't sure how to handle this. Ava had told him that simplifying the truth was generally the best way to answer Grace's questions. So, how do you simplify running into a church meeting with drawn weapons? "I did something bad."

"Why?" She kept looking at him.

"I needed to. Sometimes you need to do things, for others. But don't you go and do bad things."

"Ok." Grace said with a smile before jumping down from the chair and coming up to him, climbing in to his lap. He was in a tank top and he noticed her reading his tattoo. But just as her mom, she didn't ask about it. "Mom said she liked you best of the people at the garage."

"I hope so." Happy laughed. Then he saw her looking embarrassed. "What?"

"Nothin'." She said and jumped down from he lap but he caught her and put her back down in it.

"Don't you 'nothin' me."

"She tickled me."

Sometimes he was stunned at how much alike they were. She had the exact same expressions as Ava and she had done something she shouldn't have done. "Why?"

"She tickled me so I would tell our secret."

"What secret?" He wasn't sure what she meant.

"That you think she's very pretty and that you like her."

"Don't worry, Sugar. I think she knew that. And I think you wanted her to know that."

"She looked happy when I told her." Grace looked happier as well. "You should probably wake her up. Will you take me to school today?"

"You know it." She got up on her knees in his lap and gave him a hug. He heard the door to the bedroom open behind him and felt and arm on his shoulder.

"Morning." She mumbled in his ear before giving Grace a kiss. "What are you two plotting?"

"Happy is taking me to school."

"I had a feeling he would. Mary will pick you up, or Gemma if that's ok with you?"

"I like Gemma, so that's ok." Grace jumped down and ran out of the kitchen.

"Gemma?" Happy asked as he got up from the chair and walked up to Ava.

"Yes. She offered to pick Grace up now and then. Said she could take her to the garage or to her place."

He moved very close to her and noticed her pupils dilating. "Ever gonna tell me what you and Gemma are up to?"

"We're not 'up to', anything."

"You're a bad lier. " He mumbled as he pressed her against the counter. "There's something going on."

"Yes, but we're not up to something." She looked up at him. "Could you maybe..."

"Maybe?" He kissed her cheek.

"Trust me, that..." He was at her ear now and she trailed off for a few seconds. "Ok, I can't focus when you do that." She sounded very annoyed and he laughed.

"Good." He hugged her. "I'll trust you."

"It's nothing to worry about, really. And... I just... I can't talk about it." She mumbled.

"Ok."

"Ok?"

"If you give me a kiss." And she put her arms around his neck and gave him a kiss. He wouldn't have pressured her anyway since she would tell Gemma and Gemma would have his balls. But he wasn't going to tell her that. "And give me head at your work." He whispered in her ear.

Ava was stunned for a few seconds than looked at his smile. She laughed. "If we do it in the Government Print section."

"Kinky." He kissed her neck and she was extremely turned on by now.

"If the definition of 'kinky' is doing it somewhere where you haven't I'm sure anywhere in the library would be ok." She pushed him away and walked into the bedroom but smiled at him over her shoulder.

He followed her, "I've gotten head in a library, in high school."

"I'm sure that's the only reason why you were there." He

"Sure was. Still only the reason I go to the library. That and to get laid." He was searching the floor for his clothes.

"Well, we're going to have to have sex then. Need to be able to top what you did in high school."

"In the Government Print?" He put on his t-shirt and the cut.

"Yes."

"It's a date." He said and gave her one last kiss before taking Grace to school.

"The things I do to get people to read." She yelled at him and heard him laughing in the hallway.

-o0o-

She decided to see if she could find Tara during lunch

"Hi, everything ok?" Tara asked.

"I was going to ask about, ehrm, birth control."

Gemma just smiled at her. "Well, I see that's going well. I'm happy for you darlin'."

"What did I miss, why are we congratulating her to having sex?"

"Cause she didn't for quite some time."

"Oh, shit. I'm sorry." Tara said. "I didn't think about that. Do you think you need to see a gynecologist?"

"I honestly don't think I would be able to do that." Ava admitted, she might be ok with Happy there, but anyone else would probably freak her out.

"I can get you a female one."

That could work. Still a problem though. "Thing is, I'd prefer it if it wasn't on any records. But that's ok, I have people to contact for that."

"No, it's ok, I'll help you of you're ok with that. I'm in so much shit anyway, can't get any worse. Come back in a couple of hours."

"Wanna go shopping with me while you wait?" Gemma asked.

"Sure."

They were walking on, and around, main street.

"What did Hale want?"

"They had picked up Jonah in San Francisco, drunk, the PD had called here to let me know."

"He gets worse when he drinks?"

"To say the least."

"You know we'll keep you safe."

"Thanks Gemma." She suddenly realized. "I'm really sorry about Luann."

"Thanks sweetie." Gemma gave her a quick hug.

They went to the pharmacy and when she had made her purchase she went outside to wait for Gemma, drinking the cola she just bought. Suddenly she heard a voice behind her.

"Hi there, doll." Only one man had ever called her doll and she reacted without even reflecting on it and threw her cola in the direction of the voice. As soon as the bottle left her hand she realized it wasn't Jonah, it was Bobby and the bottle hit him right smack on his nose.

"Fuck!" He screamed and she ran up to him.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry Bobby! I freaked out."

"You don't say." His nose was bleeding and Gemma came running from the pharmacy.

"What happened?"

"He called me doll."

"A slight overreaction, don't you think?" Gemma said while pressing tissues to Bobby's face.

"No, no it's... Jonah used to call me that and..." She looked at Bobby, trying to stop the bleeding from his nose with the tissues Gemma had given him. "... I'm so sorry Bobby."

"It's ok. I didn't mean to scare you. Was just going to say Hi."

"She's a bit jumpy, Hale had some bad news for her as well."

"I understand. No worries. I need to get back to the club."

"I'll give you a lift." Ava said. "You won't be able to see properly with that, your eyes are going to tear up for quite some time."

"How would you know that?" He said and when she raised her eyebrows at him he just looked down on the ground. "Oh, sorry. I'd appriciate it."

She got into the car and Bobby got inot the passanger seat. "This is a really nice car."

"Thanks. I love it, she's my second baby." Bobby just laughed.

"I can relate, I have similar feelings to my bike."

-o0o-

Happy was sitting at the club, they had taken care of some whores and were waiting for intel on the crank place when Bobby walked in, holding blooded tissues against his nose.

"What the hell happened to you?" Half-sack asked

"His girl threw a coke bottle at me." He said, pointing at Happy. Happy got up from the chair.

"What did you do?"

Bobby held up the hand he wasn't pressing against his nose. "Hey, just a misunderstanding, I saw her and was going to say Hi, which I did, adding the word doll. She freaked out and threw the bottle at me."

"Why?" Clay asked.

"Apparently that's what that guy used to call her." He looked at Happy again. "She's a bit jumpy."

"She'll be fine."

Happy was pleased that she had reacted in a good way, even if it happened to be towards the wrong person.

-o0o-

He managed to get over to Ava's place early that day. He was very please to notice she opened the door with a gun in her hand.

"Good girl." He said and gave her kiss.

"You people are crazy, congratulating people and praising them for the strangest things." Ava laughed.

"What else have people congratulated you for today, good throwing arm?" He smiled

"He told you that?"

"It was hard to miss, he was bleeding when he came in." Happy said. "Did you get those pills?"

"Yeah, and I got an IUD." She said with a smile.

That was very good news, after having her twice without a condom he wasn't looking forward to going back to use one.

"Nice," He smiled back at her "How long?"

"About a week."

"Great." He smiled and pulled her towards him, kissing her.

"You missed our date." She had a fake pouty look. He liked that. She had been waiting for him.

"Didn't set a date. Wanna keep you on your toes at work."

"You smell like a bonfire." She said, eyeing him carefully.

"I'll take a shower, I brought some clothes."

He didn't want to tell her that the reason he smelled of smoke was that he blew up a trailer crank-lab. Or that he had kicked in doors on a motel where hookers with pretty much bare asses were giving blow jobs or getting fucked by fat old men. She didn't need to know that shit. Thing was, it wasn't a coincident that Grace always knew what was going on and when someone was lying or not telling the whole truth, she had it all from her mom. And while Grace was a kid and not always understood the significance of the things she noticed, Ava wasn't and she knew a lot more than she should or he even understood. He just wasn't sure how to deal with it.

If this thing continued, and that was what he was planning for, he would make her his official old Lady and then it would be ok to tell her everything. But he didn't feel ready for that yet and he was pretty sure she wasn't ready for it either. Didn't mean it wasn't going to happen.

The next morning he woke from his phone ringing. It was Jax, Cara Cara was burning. He got up there meeting Half-sack and Bobby. Jax came walking towards them, he was so pissed it looked like he was going to explode at any fucking second.

"Talk to Quinn, tell him I wanna transfer."

The shit just kept piling up. And he smelled like a bonfire again.

-o0o-

Ava was sitting in the office at the library when someone knocked at the door. When she opened the door there was a blond woman holding up a badge.

"My name is agent June Stahl, do you have a couple of minutes?"

"Sure, come on in." She held up the door and agent Stahl walked inside.

"Is this regarding Jonah?"

"No, it isn't." She smiled, "It's regarding Mr Lowman. Your... boyfriend?" She said the last word as if she at the same time was asking if it was correct. "And the Sons of Anarchy."

"Well, Agent Stahl," She said with a smile in return "I doubt that I would have anything of interest to tell you. But you are welcome to ask."

Stahl kept smiling, but it never really reached her eyes. "I can see why it would be... tempting, for a woman in you situation to get into bed with an MC-club."

Ava was feeling sick, this was a class A bitch, she had dealt with quite a few of them over the years. Dealing with authorities had thought her a pretty damn sad lesson, it wasn't the men who judged you the hardest, it was the women. Simply because they couldn't admit that you didn't have to be a complete idiot and extremely week woman to fall for the wrong man. They didn't want to admit that it could happened to anyone, because if it could, it could happen to them.

"Did you have a question?" She wasn't going to chat away with her, if she wanted to know something she would have to flat out ask her.

"Is it correct that your brother is working at HR Motors in New York?"

Why the hell did she want to know that? "Yes."

"Are you aware that the New York Chapter of Sons of Anarchy uses that garage on a regular basis?"

"No." She was genuinely surprised, she hadn't known that. She was even more surprised that Clark hadn't mentioned it. Not that it would have mattered to her.

"How did you and Mr. Lowman meet?"

Sly bitch, she probably had a pretty good idea but she couldn't say she had handed in her car, there was no records of that happening. With all the problems with the car insurance and addresses she hadn't bothered with it, it was damn near impossible to keep underground with an insured car.

"Need dating tip?" Still smiling, her cheeks were starting to hurt due to all the smiling.

"No, just curious how a librarian ends up as the Old Lady of the enforcer of a MC-club." Agent Stah was studying her closely when she said it. Probably to find out what she knew. If she was shocked.

Yup, her cheeks were hurting like a motherfucker right now. Ava wasn't shocked, she wasn't stupid and those smiley faces was keeping the score for something. And she knew what an enforcer was, she had never heard about old ladies though. Agent Stahl didn't stop there though.

"You know, event though being protected by the government doesn't means that you are obligated to help us, we tend to do a better job if we feel that the protectee is grateful."

That did it for her. Stupid fucking bitch. "Have you read my file?"

"Yes." She smiled, probably thinking she had won. Like the government had done anything for her, they kept fucking up and she got cut up for it.

"Then I'm sure you understand how grateful I am." Her cheeks were killing her by now so she got out of the chair and opened the office door. "I'm sorry. I have work to do."

"Of course you do. I'll just stop by some other day, if I have any other questions."

When she closed the door she needed a few minutes to collect herself. Then she got the prepaid from the bag and called Happy.

-o0o-

Happy was standing looking at a trunk full of bullets when the phone rang. It was Ava, she had never called him during the day, he called her, but she didn't call him.

"What's wrong?"

"I just had a visit from an Agent Stahl. Anyone you know?"

"Stahl! What the fuck did she want?" That got the attention of the people around him.

"Wanted to know about you and the Sons. Told me I should be 'grateful' for the things the government was doing for me." He had to give it to his girl, she was good at sarcasm.

"What else did she say?"

"Pretty much that if I didn't cooperate they might slip up and accidently tell Jonah where I am and that she understood how it was tempting for a woman in my position to become an Old Lady to and enforcer. Not flat out but I think that was the gist of it. I don't even know what the fuck an Old Lady is."

"Shit. I need you to come down here."

"I can't do that, Happy, I'm working."

"Tell them you're sick, you need to get down here."

"I'm not going to drop everything because of this. I just called to let you know. We can talk about it tonight." Why the fuck did she have to be so fucking stubborn?

"I'm not kidding. I need your ass here, so pack up you shit, get in the car and come here."

"And I'm telling you; we can talk later. I need to work."

"You're a fucking librarian, what could possibly be going on there that can't wait until tomorrow?"

"Fuck you!" And she hung up.

"She hung up!" He couldn't fucking believe her. "Annoying, stubborn, fucking woman!" He yelled to the phone in his hand.

"Smooth Killer, very smooth." Tig said. He just gave him a look, fucking prick.

"What did Stahl say?" Clay asked.

"That she needed to cooperate, that if she didn't they might accidentally slip up with Jonah."

"Fucking bitch!" Opie slammed his fist in the car.

"What else?" Clay wanted to know everything and he wasn't sure how he would respond to the question that was coming.

"She said she understood how it would be tempting for a woman in her position to become the Old Lady of and enforcer."

"Shit!" Half-sack said.

"How did she react to that?" Tig asked with glowing eyes, he just fucking loved this.

"She said she didn't even know what the fuck and Old Lady was." That hadn't been what he expected from her. He expected her to ask him if it was true not what an Old Lady was.

Clay and Half-sack started to laugh, he just looked at them, rubbing his head. They better not fucking ask.

"Out of curiosity." Here it came, Clay was going to ask him if he planned on making her an Old Lady. "What did she say before hanging up on you?"

"Fuck you."

"What? Just curious." Clay said.

"No, that's what she said." They all looked at him and then burst into a laughter. "I don't think any bitch has ever said that to me."

"Go talk to her, before I have another member with a coke-bottle in his face." Clay was still laughing. "Besides, we need to know what Stahl is up to and it didn't sound like she was coming here to tell us."

He just laughed and shook his head.

-o0o-

Ava was pissed as hell, bloody asshole, screaming at her to get her ass somewhere over the phone, dropping everything for him. She was stamping papers and books, it was a very relieving thing to do when you felt like hitting someone.

"Do I need to worry about that stamp ending up on my nose?"

She looked up and saw Tara, standing in the door. They would never let that coke incident go.

"No, sorry, I just screamed at Happy on the phone and some bitch ATF-agent was here, threatening me."

"Stahl?"

"That would be the one."

"Yeah, she's running wild again. Had a visit from her this morning. Be careful, she's a mean bitch."

"I noticed."

Tara sat down in one of the visitors chair and a smile spread in her face. "You screamed at Happy?"

"He was being an ass." She said but what she really wondered was how informed Tara was about life in the club. She wasn't Gemma but Ava would have guessed that she did knew quite a lot.

"Wow, wonder if any woman has ever done that."

"What on earth is an Old Lady?" She might as well ask.

"You don't know?"

"No, Stahl said it would be tempting for someone like me to be one. I don't even know what it is."

"It's the girlfriend of a member, means she's off limits for the other members. Has to be faithful to the man, the others needs to respect an Old Lady. That's the short version at least. They usually have a crow tattooed somewhere."

"You have one?"

"Yes, on my lower back." She almost looked embarrassed when she said it.

"What, like a skank-stamp?"

"Shut up!" Tara laughed.

Some thing else Tara said, or rather didn't say hit Ava. "The men doesn't need to be monogamous?"

"It's complicated."

"I bet."

"You can set your own rules, you know."

She didn't have energy to talk about this right now. Him having sex with others wasn't something she wanted to think about. They had never talked about it and her very limited experience with relationships made it hard for her to know what "normal" rules really was. But even with that limited experience she knew that it was the normal thing to accept cheating. And she didn't want him to do the tings he did to her to other women.

"I'm sure this isn't what you came for?" She couldn't think of a more subtle way to change the subject.

"No, It's about Gemma."

"What about her?"

"Has she talked to you, about what happened?"

"A couple of times." She had, not just the first time when she came home to her, they had a coffee and talked some and once she called her.

"Good."

"She'll be fine. Eventually."

"There's a lot of shit going on. Jax and Clay are fighting and Jax is talking about going Nomad."

"I didn't know. I'm sorry."

There was a knock on the door again, she got up and opened it, it was Happy.

"Hey." It was all he said. She opened the door wider to show him that she wasn't alone.

"I need to go." Tara got up and gave her a hug on the way out. "We'll talk later, take care."

"You too." She closed the door behind her.

"Tell me what else she said, and what you said. All of it." Happy said as soon as the door closed behind Tara.

She told him the entire conversation from start to finnish.

"Do you have any questions?" Happy said, carefully.

"Not really, Tara gave me the basic info about Old Ladies."

"And about me?"

"No, anything you want to ask?"

"Like what?"

"If I'm only with you because I think you can protect me?"

"I know you're not." He smiled. "You're with me because I make you come, hard. You're not going to ask me about what she said about me?"

"I'm not with you only because you can make me come." She smiled. "And I knew that about you, there have been some hints. To say the least."

"Like what?"

"The text on you bike, on your neckline and the smiley faces."

Happy just looked at her. It wasn't much she didn't notice. He would have to be very careful around her. He looked down on her legs.

"I do have one question." He said.

"What?" She looked at him.

"Did you really say 'fuck you' to me?"

"I did." She smiled at him. "And if you ever try to order me around like that again, I'll say it again."

Sassy, fucking bitch.

"So if I tell you to take off your fucking panties right now, you'll say it?" She would either have to follow his orders or she wouldn't get any. He felt very please with how he had turned that around.

She walked passed him, locked the door and walked back to were she had been standing. He could hardly wait. She hoisted up her skirt.

"Fuck you. If you want them down, you pull them down yourself."

For a few seconds he was startled and then he laughed. To smart for her own good, in so many ways. But he walked up to her, knelt down and put his fingers in the hem of her boy shorts and pulled them down. He got up and looked at her.

"So what you're saying is; instead of ordering you around, I should just do it?"

"You're always welcome to try."

He lifted her up and sat her ass down on her desk while kissing her. The things this woman did to him, he could be furious with her but the second he saw her, it disappeared.

"Condom, Happy."

"So what, now you're going to order me around?" He teased her. She just kissed him and he pulled out and condom, rolled it on and then sank into her.

It was a quickie, but really good.

"I still want you to fuck me in the Government Print section, would give me something to smile about when I went there." She said as she pulled her panties back on.

He laughed, stock raving mad, that's what this chick was. "You've never said 'fuck' before. I mean, that we're fucking."

"I'm pretty sure that what we just did was a fuck."

"Sure was." He kissed her nose "Don't worry about Stahl, or Jonah."

"Ok."

He went back to the club. Clay and Bobby met him.

"You two ok?"

"Yeah." He downloaded them with the conversation.

"She did good, your girl." Clay said.

"She did." He agreed.

"Don't worry about her, we'll take care of them." Bobby said. "We have a vote coming up, club only."

"I know."

"We'll see you tomorrow." Clay gave him a wave and they walked towards the Chapel.

He went into his dorm to pack some more clothes, he needed to have some extra at her house, there wasn't really any point in keeping them in the dorm. He never slept there anymore and he had no immediate plans on doing it.