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Chapter 11: Your girl knew

Grace was still up when he came to Ava.

"Hey, Sugar." He said when he caught her and picked her up in the hallway. "Got good news for you. Chibs is out from the hospital."

"Can I go to the clubhouse tomorrow?"

"Probably." He gave her a kiss. He followed Ava into the living room.

"Wanna watch a movie with me?" Grace asked and he carried her to the couch and sat down. She was still in his lap.

"Sure."

They watched a weird movie about monsters scaring kids for energy. The child in the movie reminded him of Grace.

A while after the movie ended Grace was in bed and Ava came back into the living room and laid down in the sofa with her book. He watched a movie and she read for a while.

"Do you think this is what normal people do?" She said all of a sudden and when he looked at her the book was face down on her chest.

"I have no fucking idea." He took her book, leaned over her and kissed her. "This is the most normal shit I've had."

"Shit?" She smiled. "Think normal people fuck at work?" It sounded like just another question. Like she honestly wanted to know.

"They should." He kissed her again. "I bet you worked better in the afternoon."

"I did. Loads of energy." She put her arms around his neck. "I should write a letter to the government. 'The beneficial effects on economy of regular fucks during work hours."

"Sound official enough." He laughed and slipped his hand underneath her sweater and pulled it up.

She pulled the sweater off by herself and helped him when he went for her jeans. In someways she was like a teenage boy. It was never enough for her and he wasn't complaining. He knew why, she wanted to make sure that it was still good. Not even mentioning that she had been years without, she had some catching up to do and he was very willing to help her with that.

Ava was naked and she was working on getting Happy's clothes of as well, he was sitting up leaning against the backrest and every time she tried to take of his cut he just smiled and took away her hands.

"Are you going to have sex with me while wearing clothes again?" She mumbled while unbuckling his pants. "You've already done that once today."

"Wanna watch you naked in my lap." He smiled and got up just enoug for her to pull down his pants so she could grab him. She watched him while she was stroking him and leaned over to kiss his face. He reached into his pocked for the condom and then nodded towards his dick.

"Get on there."

She did as he asked and was carefully moving up and down his full length while he was guiding her by holding her hips and kissing her everywhere, taking extra notice of her breasts and nipples. When she felt herself coming she put her arms around his neck and held him hard.

"Oh my God, Hap." She moaned. For some reason she liked it, being naked and him in clothes, smelling him and the leather, the hands all over her body, his jeans who was rubbing against the inside of her legs and his lips kissing her collarbone and up the neck. She finally stopped moving since it was overwhelming.

"Come on, Babe. Don't stop." She felt his hands grabbing her butt-cheeks and moving her over his dick. It didn't take that much and she came, biting down on his neck to stop herself from screaming.

He gave her a moment, turned her around on her back in the couch and was above her. Still kissing her body. "Done?" He asked with raised eyebrows and a teasing smile.

"No." She pulled him down and he came inside again. When he finally came, with a "Oh my fucking God." into her neck she was extremely satisfied.

They were still for some time and when he got up she noticed the bite mark on his neck.

"Oh shit! I'm sorry!" She was not proud of that. Actually felt really bad about it.

"What?" He asked while pulling up his jeans.

"I bit you." She said and drew her fingers over the mark.

"I know. I liked it." He gave her a kiss. "I'm usually the one doing the biting." She felt herself starring at him. He used to bite. "Not that hard." He said and touched her scars. "Just a nib, like the one you did."

"You liked it when I did that?"

"Oh yes." He pulled her up to her feet and put his arms around her waist. "Like I said. I'm usually the one doing it."

"You've never done that to me."

"No. I didn't think you'd like it."

She stood still for a while. "I don't know. Probably not if you hadn't given me a warning." She started to smiled, he liked it? "So you want me to bite you?"

"Babe, feel free to do whatever you can think of. I'm pretty sure I've done most of it at least once before."

She started to laugh. "You are such a cocky bastard!" She hit him in the chest and picked up her sweatshirt and he took it from her before she even managed to stand up straight.

"No." He smacked her ass. "Now, walk ahead of me to the bathroom."

"Wanna watch my ass?"

"Always." He smiled and she turned around and walked towards the bathroom, really slowly.

-o0o-

The morning after Quinn called and Happy went to meet with him just north of Charming. Jax had called Quinn and said he wasn't going Nomad and Quinn wanted Happy to be ready to ride out. He had some business he needed him to take care of, things he had planned to let Jax do.

"I know you have a girl in Charming, heard some rumors. I won't keep you long."

"It's ok."

"Maybe you should think about transferring permanently to Redwood."

"I might." He didn't want to talk about Ava.

"Anyway, let Jax know I'm not pissed or anything, and tell them to give me a call if they need anything."

"Sure, talk to you later, Prez"

He went back to Charming and they were all just then coming out of church. Clay motioned him to come inside.

"Just talked to Quinn, said to let you know that you could give him a call if you needed anything."

"We're gonna need him."

"So what's up, why did Jax change his mind?"

"Gemma told us yesterday that she wasn't in a car accident the night of Bobbys party. Weston and two other guys jumped her, told her to tell us to stop selling guns to color."

"Shit!"

"Have you heard anything about this?"

"What? No, why should I?"

"They raped her."

A thousand thoughts went through Happy's mind. Fucked up fucking people, he was fucking fed up with these men, threating their women, raping them. When he landed again he noticed Clay, looking at him.

"I'm sorry, Prez." What else could he say? "What's the plan?"

"Your girl knew."

"Ava?"

"Apparently she's been a great help to Gemma, they've talked."

"I didn't know. I knew they were up to something but..."

"I believe you. Don't worry." Clay held up his hand. "I just wanted you to know that I'm grateful. She's a god girl, Gemma thinks the world of her. I was always set on protecting her, but I need you, and her, to know, that whatever it takes, she's on our watch now. No matter what happens with the two of you."

"I'm not leaving her."

"I'm not saying that you are. I'm just saying that she's a friend of the club. I'll make sure that everyone knows."

"Thanks." That would help, in many ways.

Clay got up. "Gives you time to gather your balls and make her your old lady." He said with a smile. "Come on, I'll fill you in on the plan."

-o0o-

Ava got out of the car outside the garage later in the afternoon.

"Hey!" She heard behind her and turned around to see Bobby.

"Oh, hi. How's the nose?" It didn't look too bad, at least that's what she tried to tell herself.

"No problem, don't worry about it." He smiled. "You here for Sunshine?"

"Sunshine? She's getting a new nickname everyday."

"She tends to light up a room when she walks into it." Bobby walked next to her towards the clubhouse.

"Yes, she does."

"Clay wants to have a word with you." The statement made her halt. Bobby noticed that she was no longer next to her and turned around. "No need to worry, at all."

"Ok." She picked up the pace again. "Is Happy here?"

"Yes, but just talk to Clay first. You've got nothing to worry about."

They walked into the clubhouse and she saw Happy next to Jax, they both looked at her and Happy gave her a nod. All of a sudden she felt like she maybe should be really damn worried. Grace ran up to her and she gave her a hug.

"Hi, Sweetie. Have you had a good time?"

"Yes."She gave her a kiss. When she looked up she saw Clay standing in the door to the room she knew they called the Chapel. He motioned her to come and she put Grace down. "Could you wait here honey? I'll be back in a little while."

"Ok." Grace said but she studied her. "Are you going to be ok?"

"Clay just want to have a quick word with your mom, nothing to worry about." Bobby said.

"I'll be fine, honey. Don't worry." She gave her another kiss and then walked through the doors and heard Clay close them behind her.

"Have a sit."

She looked around in the room, the table was huge with the familiar reaper carved in the center. She pointed at one of the chairs. "Is it ok if I sit here?"

He smiled. "You can sit anywhere. This isn't church, we're just talking."

"Ok." She sat down and Clay sat in the chair at the end of the table.

"Last night Gemma told me..." He trailed off for a few seconds. "what happened." She could only nod. There wasn't much to say. "She told me about you as well. That you've been a great help to her."

"I just listened."

"Sometimes that's all it takes. But I'm guessing you know that better than me." He finally managed to look at her. "You helped my wife, the Queen. She means a lot to the members of this club and everything to me. I'm making you an official friend of the club."

She sat still for a while. "I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I'm not sure I understand what that means."

He smiled. "Seeing kangaroos?"

She laughed. "Yes, something like that."

"You're a friend of The Sons of Anarchy. Family. If you ever need help, whatever it is, we'll help you. No matter what. No questions asked. Not just in Charming, everywhere. They'll know who you are. I'm doing this, not only because you helped Gemma but because I know it's something you wouldn't use lightly. I know I can trust you to not take advantage of it."

This was high praise, she knew that and she felt very honored. She had no idea what Gemma had said about her but it meant a lot.

"Wow! I don't know what to say. Thank you." She smiled at him and eventually started to laugh. "I'm sorry I'm just so relieved. I wasn't sure what to expect when Bobby said you wanted to talk to me. And that I have even more people to turn to."

"We'll take care of you. Even if we go inside before we managed to solve... your situation, you'll be safe."

Ava wasn't sure if she wanted to know what 'solve' meant in this specific case.

"Thank you. You have no idea what that means to me. I've had people to help me but no-one to keep me safe. It's... a strange feeling." She put her hand on his. "So, thank you."

"Thank you. For being there for my wife when she needed you."

She squeezed his hand. "She'll be fine. She's a fighter"

"Oh, I know that." He nodded absently. "It's going to be hectic for a while."

"Anything I can do to help?"

"Keep your man in a good mood." He got up.

"There's a quote by William Blake that I never liked. It's starting to grow on me though. I can see another meaning of it now. 'Active evil is better than passive good'."

"Active evil is better than passive good." He nodded again. "I like it."

"Thought you would."

-o0o-

Happy kept looking toward the Chapel. He knew what Clay wanted, tell her that she was a friend of the club. As much as he liked it he would still have preferred to be in there with her, she looked so nervous when she came inside. But she wasn't his Old Lady and this was between the president and the new 'family'-member.

It took them a while and he could see her through the half open shades. Gemma came into the clubhouse and stood next to him and Jax.

"She in there?"

"Yeah." Jax said.

They got up but were still talking. Finally Clay put his arm around her shoulders and they came out. Tig and Bobby were the first who came up to them and they gave her a hug. Chibs had Grace in his arms but managed to give her a hug anyway. They all surrounded her and he realized how small she really was. Gemma gave her a hug and whispered something in her ear that made her smile and stroke Gemma's cheek. She turned her eyes towards him and he caught her in a hug and kissed her forehead. He just hoped those Crow Eaters noticed and stayed the fuck away from her.

"Mom, Tig is teaching me poker."

"Oh? Are you winning?"

"She's really god." Tig said. "Won quite a few hands, good at bluffing."

"She sure is." Ava smiled and looked at Grace. "Clark taught her poker about a year ago."

Tig looked startled for a few seconds and then he caught Grace as she tried to run away. "Oh you little rascal. I'm going to get you for that."

"Noooo!" She screamed and laughed. "Let me be or I'll bring a doll next time!" Happy laughed, she had found out that Tig was scared of dolls and she found it hilarious.

He gave Ava another hug. "Wanna go home?" He whispered in her ear.

"Yeah. I'll take the car. She'll probably wanna go with you."

"Cause a Dyna has more style."

"Shut up!" When they got out of the clubhouse she gave him a kiss. "I need to go by Mary's house. I was going to bring her..."

"I got her. I'll take her home. Take all the time you need."

"Ok."

He walked her to her car. "What did Gemma say?"

"None of you business." She smiled and bumped him with her hip. As they got to the car he pinned her to it.

"Tell me."

"She said 'welcome to the family'." She put her arms around his waist. "Are you pissed? For not telling you."

"No. You couldn't have done anything different."

"I know. Just wanted to make sure that you knew."

"I'll see you at home, Babe."

He watched the car drive away and went to find Grace. Clay was waiting for him. "She gave me a quote. Is that something she does often?"

"Reads a lot." He shrugged. She could probably find a proper quote for any situation. "What did she say?"

"Active evil is better than passive good." Clay smiled. "William Blake."

They stood silent for a while. "I like that." Tig finally said. "Sums it up."

-o0o-

Ava was running really late. She had called Happy and he said it was ok. They were watching some movie and Grace had eaten.

She came thorugh the door and heard the TV and snoring. When she came into the living room she saw Happy on his back, sleeping with Grace on his chest. She was sleeping as well. They both only had jeans on and Grace's back was covered with a snake, apparently they had done "tattoos" again.

Happy woke up when she gave him a kiss.

"We fell asleep."

"I can see that." She leaned over to look at the huge snake on Grace's back. "Tell me that's not waterproof."

Happy laughed and got up from the couch, still holding Grace and carried her to her room. "Come on, Sugar. To bed." He said when she woke up and whined.

"She needs to brush her teeth."

"They won't fall out if she skips it one night."

Ava sighed and followed into Grace's room, took off the rest of her clothes and pulled the cover over her.

"She needs to brush her teeth every night, Happy." She put her arms around his waist while pushing him out to the hallway. "Ok?"

"Ok." He gave her a kiss.

"Thank you. For helping me."

"You're welcome. And it's waterproof pen."

"I'm going to eat in bed now. Then I'll walk around the entire apartment while I brush my teeth. Just so you know."

Happy wrapped her hair around his fists and pulled her head back. "Naked?"

"Would it be more ok if I was?"

"If you're naked, all I can think of is you ass and tits."

"I'll keep that in mind." She kissed him and started to pull off her clothes.

-o0o-

Happy woke up in the morning with Ava wrapped around him. And he liked it. It still freaked him out sometimes, how he felt about her. At the same time he couldn't imagine her with anyone else without feeling furious. She was his.

He stroke the hair out of her face and she sighed.

"Babe."

"Mhmmm?"

"I need to get up."

"Five minutes." She mumbled and kissed his chest and hugged him tighter. "Please?"

"Come and have breakfast with me instead."

She sighed again, she sat up and pulled a t-shirt of her head. "Ok, but you're making the coffee."

He pulled her back down and kissed her neck, jaw and up to her ear before whispering. "Are you giving me orders?"

Her eyes had that shine, he was crazy about it, about all of her. She smiled and moved up to kiss him. That's when they heard bare feet on the floor in the hallway.

"Happy." He heard Grace say in a low voice. Another girl he couldn't stay pissed at for long, even if she was a total cock-block at times.

"Were both up." Ava said and Grace came into the bedroom and jumped into the bed. Ava gave him a quick kiss before she went to the bathroom.

"So I'm not getting toast and juice today?" She sighed.

"Doesn't look like it, Sugar." He said as he got up and put on his clothes.

They had breakfast together and Ava looked very tired. As he was about to leave he pulled her out of the chair.

"Go back to bed. I'll be back in a couple of hours, one hour if you're lucky."

"I'll do it if you come back to bed with me when you come back."

He leaned down and kissed her. "One hour." He said when he let go.

-o0o-

Happy had left about an hour earlier. Ava was half asleep, listening to Grace play in her room, it usually sounded like a bunch of kids playing and she liked to listen to it. There was a knock on the door and she got up and tried to rub the sleep out of her eyes.

"Back already?" she said with a smile when she opened the door.

A second later, a hand was squeezing her throat and she was looking into the same blue eyes her daughter had.

"Daddy's home." It wasn't Happy's voice.

-o0o-

They had stopped at a diner just outside of Charming. Waiting for some of the Nomads who were late when his phone rang. He looked at the screen but it wasn't a number he recognized. Not that he cared, these people changed phones like others changed underwear, so he answered in his usual way.

"What!"

"He's hurting mom!" He immediately knew who it was but he hand no idea how she got his number.

"Grace? Who's hurting mom?" Jax, Tig and Clay stopped all conversation and looked at him.

"Dad! He found us!" She was breathing heavily, he looked at Clay who was already on his phone, making calls.

"Grace, where are you?"

"I'm running, mom said that if he came I had to run to Mary's house." Why the fuck hadn't Ava told him that?

"Good sweetie, keep running, someone with a cut will pick you up at Mary's." He looked at Jax who picked up his phone.

They were all at their feet, walking towards their bikes, Tig held out his hand and he knew what he wanted. "Honey, I'm going to hand you over to Tig, he'll keep talking to you. Stay on the line the entire time, ok?" He wanted to make sure that she made it to Mary's safe.

"Ok, help her."

"There's already people on their way to her sweetie. Don't worry."

"Please hurry!"

"Here's Tig, keep talking to him." He handed the phone to Tig,

"Sunshine, I'm going to stay with you till Bobby comes, ok? You don't have to talk just keep running."

"They're on their way." Jax said and Happy looked at Clay who handed him a new phone.

"Take Tig's phone so we can keep you updated. They will take her to the clubhouse. Tig and I will wait here for the Nomads and Jax will be right behind you."

"Thanks Prez."

"Just go!" They didn't have to tell him twice.

-o0o-

Of all the things Happy had taught her, there was only one that had actually seemed doable, and it was smacking someone over the ears. So with the hand around her neck, she opened her eyes, cupped her hands hand and hit him as hard as she could over the ears. It wasn't a perfect hit but he screamed and let go of her neck. She started running inside the apartment and the second she saw him passing Grace's door, she took a deep breath and screams as loud as she could.

"Gracie, RUN!" Her door opened and Grace ran past her dad. He turned after her and with a "NO!" Ava threw himself at him, pulling his arm. He turned around and hit her in the face but when she opened her eyes she saw Grace grabbing her pink backpack and she was out the door. And that was all she needed, Grace was safe and it was all that mattered. He hit her again in the stomach, she completely lost her breath and lying on the floor she saw him walking towards the door, closing and locking it.

"What the fuck are you doing in a shithole like this, doll?" He said while pulling her up and carrying her towards the bedroom.

Fifteen minutes later she was tied up lying on the bed and he had already made two long cuts on her back and several small, cursing her, telling all the other things he would do to her before raping her and finally killing her.

"When that biker boyfriend of yours come here. I'll kill him too, right in front of your fucking whore eyes." He hit her twice and it felt like some ribs broke. The tape over her mouth stopped her from screaming and she preferred that. She didn't want to scream or cry in front of him.

Suddenly she heard the door break, Jonah jumped out of the bed and ran towards the hallway and she heard a loud clonk, seconds later Chibs and Opie walked through her bedroom door.

"Oh shit!" Chibs said and ran up to her and ripped the tape from her mouth. "You with us, love?" She just nodded. He turned towards Opie, "Is the doc on her way to the clubhouse?"

She couldn't hear Opie's reply. "Cold." She said while Chibs were cutting her loose. Her throat was hurting bad and she hoped that it wasn't more damaged to that nerve, she didn't know how much it could take before it stopped working completely. Or if that even could happen.

"I know, It's the blood loss. I'll wrap you up as soon as I've cut you loose. Opie, get me one of those covers."

He finally got her loose and wrapped one of her covers around her and then carried her out into a car, all the time talking to her, telling her she'd be fine.

"Grace?"

"She's with Bobby, she called Hap on the way, ran to Mary's and Bobby is taking her to the clubhouse. She's fine."

"Called?"

"Yeah, she had a mobile." Ava had no idea how come Grace had a mobile, but she could find out about that later.

They arrived and Tara was waiting for them, Chibs put her on down on the covered redwood table and unwrapped the covers. Tara looked her into the eyes.

"I'm going to sedate you, Ava." All she could do was nod and seconds later she was gone.