The roar of Harleys brought everyone who had been waiting inside the clubhouse out into the lot. The club had just returned from the run to Tacoma and as per old lady protocol, Gemma insisted Lana be there. Despite Lana simply having a casual yet exclusive relationship with Happy and Kozik, the queen was bound and determined to marry her off to at least one Son it would seem. She sat on top of one of the picnic tables as she watched all the guys pull their bikes into their usual spots and she grinned when both her boys started towards her, Kozik grinning and Happy glaring, their usual expressions.

Hopping down from the table she wrapped her arms around Kozik's neck as he was the first to reach her. He kissed her on the lips, squeezing her ass at the same time. It felt good to have his arms around her again, even if he was taking the opportunity to feel her up like he was a horny teenager. She loved his playful personality though and she lightly slapped him in the arm as he pulled away and then looked at Happy who was waiting patiently, still glaring.

"Hey killer." She smirked moving over to him, her hands sliding up his chest under his cut. His arms went around her and she nuzzled his neck, kissing his throat. She loved how he smelled, like sunshine, the open road, and leather with just a hint of tobacco all mixed up with just the simply masculine scent of his skin.

She hadn't realized how much she had actually missed either of them until this point. She felt like she had a special connection to each of them. Her chemistry with Kozik was more carefree with a very relaxed and casual dynamic, but there was definitely a strong sexual attraction there as well. She certainly felt like she could be more intimate with Happy though sometimes, despite his quiet and somewhat closed off nature. Or maybe it was because of that nature that made her feel special that he seemed to not hold back with her, wasn't afraid to open up. Sure he wasn't the emotional, romantic 'I love you' type and she didn't ever see him being that way, nor did she want him to be, but he definitely seemed closer when it was just the two of them.

She definitely felt herself falling and was suddenly worried. She knew it was no easy feat to get a Son to settle down, let alone two. She didn't know what either of them wanted long term, if they wanted things to become more serious or stay as they were, or if they would become bored with her after a few more months. Fucking Gemma. The persistent bitch was fucking with her head, planting thoughts to make her heart dream up things that she knew were no good for anybody. Meddling bitch. She knew she meant well though and had to love her for it.

"Did you guys behave?" Lana asked, her morbid curiosity getting the best of her when she recalled her previous conversation with Gemma.

"Why would we do that? Behaving is no fun." Kozik said bending to kiss her neck.

She pushed him away slightly and looked up at him. "No, I mean the whole 'what happens on run…' thing."

She glanced between the two of them when she didn't get an answer right away. She could've sworn Happy's glare hardened for a split second, but he wasn't looking at anyone and didn't say anything so she decided not to read into it too much. She looked back at Kozik, who by then was grinning again.

"Of course we did."

"I know we didn't talk about that before, but I was thinking about it and I know this whole thing isn't that serious, but…" She hesitated, worrying her lower lip between her teeth. "I dunno, I guess I just, I don't want any fucking around." Her expression changed from hesitant to playful, matching Kozik's. "I'm starting to feel kinda possessive." She joked, although she wasn't joking.

"You're possessive?" Koz laughed. "Do you have any idea how dead any guy that had the balls to touch you would be?"

Lana laughed and turned to walk into the clubhouse to join everyone else. Before she got far though she felt Koz pull her back by the shoulders. He leaned down so his mouth was right by her ear and he lowered his voice. "I mean it Lana." He warned, his previously playful attitude gone now.

She turned around and looked up at him, then to Happy who was still glaring, but at her this time. "Relax. You guys don't have anything to worry about." She said before turning again.

SOA

It was nearing noon and Lana had been called into work early that morning. She was still half asleep when she got to the hospital so she went to get a cup of coffee first thing and now even on her lunch break she still felt exhausted. She was not a morning person by any means and the early wakeup call had seriously thrown her off her game. She'd been a mess all day and it had been insanely busy.

She headed for the small coffee shop inside the hospital to get what she could only guess to be her fourth or fifth cup that day. While waiting in line she felt a hand on her lower back.

"Hey sexy." She turned to see Sean, her friend, previously with benefits, standing very close to her. He was definitely attractive. Tall, built, toned, with classic, clean cut, masculine, features. But there was something about him that didn't even hold a candle to either Happy or Kozik.

"Hey." She smiled back up at him, casually moving away from his touch.

"Haven't heard from you in a while." He said.

"Yeah, I… uh, I've been seeing someone." She replied.

"Oh, well, my loss I guess." His hand slowly moved over her ass. "Guess I should've made a move when I had the chance huh?"

"Lana!" She jumped at Happy's angry voice, everyone else in the vicinity turning their attention to the two pissed off bikers who had just entered the coffee shop.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" She asked, trying to keep her voice low as she forgot about her coffee and walked over to Hap and Koz to keep them from beating Sean's ass right there in the middle of the hospital. She knew they would if they got within swinging distance of him.

"Who the fuck does that asshole think he is copping a feel?" Kozik complained loudly, obviously not sharing her concern about making a scene as Happy's jaw twitched. She pushed them toward the front door, urging them outside to finish the conversation.

Once outside, she looked at both of them. "Just calm down." She said to Kozik who she could tell was ready to storm back inside at any second and rip Sean a new one.

"Are you fucking him?" Happy asked quietly, but the rage in his voice was clear.

"No." She said , somewhat shocked by his accusation. "We had a… thing. But it's over now. I haven't even seen him in a couple months since before… this" She motioned between the three of them.

"This?" Kozik asked, confused what she meant.

"Yeah, this. Whatever the fuck this is." It had been a couple months since the three of them had begun their arrangement, and although Lana had started to realize after only a couple weeks that she would soon want more, she hadn't said anything. She didn't want to come off as needy or demanding so she just left it alone, hoping that one or both of them would soon give her some sort of sign that they felt the same. But neither of them did and it had slowly started to eat at her. Apparently more than she'd realized.

Standing here now having this conversation made her realize just how much she'd been bottling up her emotions about the whole thing, how frustrated she'd become over not saying anything. Especially with them leaving for another run every couple weeks or so and every time they came back she had a gut feeling that something was going on, something they didn't want to tell her. She couldn't help but wonder if one or both of them were fucking around on her when they left.

But there was no way to know for sure. No one was gonna rat them out and she wasn't their old lady, she had no right to demand answers. But that didn't help that gnawing pit in her stomach every time they pulled their bikes into the TM lot after a run.

Happy continued to glare as usual as Kozik backed her up against the outside wall of the hospital. "And what the fuck is this?"

"I don't know. Fuck buddies?" She honestly didn't know what else to call them.

"Is that all you think you are to us?" Happy piped in all of a sudden.

"Oh he speaks." Lana said sarcastically.

"You are ours. Any guy who gets any other idea is fucking dead." Kozik growled and turned back towards the entrance to the hospital.

"Koz!" She said to stop him. She needed to stop arguing and diffuse the situation before one or both of them ended up in jail for murder. She had no doubt they'd go back inside and take out anyone that got in their way.

She sighed in an attempt to calm her own nerves and walked over to him. She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him to her. "Just chill out. I'm not fucking anyone but you two. I have no interest in anyone else. Like I said, I haven't even seen or talked to that guy in months. He had no idea I was… more or less taken." She said unsure of how to say it. "Just let it go. Please." She finished, grabbing his face between her hands.

Kozik stared at her for a minute. "When are you off?" He asked, still clearly agitated.

"Six." She answered, breathing a sigh of relief and dropping her hands from Kozik's face.

"Come straight to the clubhouse." She knew now was not a time to argue so she simply nodded. "And stay away from that shithead."

Just then Jax and Chibs walked out the doors and looked over, calling for Happy and Kozik. "Gotta go." Happy said glancing toward Jax. Kozik nodded and leaned in to kiss Lana quickly then turned to follow Jax. Happy did the same, but as he was walking away he turned back to Lana. "We catch that fucker or anyone else near you again, there will be no letting it go." He warned and she nodded.

"Overprotective assholes." She muttered to herself as she headed back inside.

Lana did as she'd been told and headed straight for the clubhouse after work. Knowing they wanted her there for that night's party and there was little chance of them letting her go home to change, she took a quick shower and changed into a pair of shorts and a fitted black SAMCRO t-shirt she had kept there and then she braided her hair over her shoulder so she wouldn't have to deal with it getting all crazy when it air dried. Then she headed out to the bar.

Some of the guys were just getting in from Tacoma and Kozik had mixed emotions when he saw a certain sweetbutt walk through the door with them. He was a little shocked, slightly excited, and mostly pissed.

Rachel had always been one of his favorites when he'd been patched into Tacoma. She was sweet, attractive, and not as annoying as most of the other girls. She was average height, skinny, and had long light brown hair. He usually saw her when they'd make a run up to Tacoma, even recently after Lana had come along and even after she'd made it clear she wasn't ok with him dipping into road pussy. But what she didn't know wasn't going to hurt her and he knew he could count on his brothers to not rat on him.

Plus he liked having a girl all to himself for once. He didn't mind sharing Lana with Happy, but it did sometimes get to him. Sure he occasionally got her to himself, but not as often as he'd like and there were also the occasions where he would get his time with her, but then she'd pull Happy into it before he got her off. He knew it wasn't because he wasn't enough for her to get off, that it was simply because she liked to keep going. It was still kind of a hit to his male ego that he wasn't the one to finish her off every time. He also sensed the connection between Lana and Hap and sometimes felt like they were closer than he was with her. Something about that bothered him.

So he indulged a little while on the road and he really like Rachel. But having her here now did make him a little nervous. If Lana picked up on something she'd be pissed. He'd just have to stay away from the sweetbutt.

Unfortunately it didn't appear it would be so easy as the girl was making her way toward him now. He looked around and saw Lana sitting on the pool table, Happy standing in front of her with his back toward her and leaning back against the pool table so that she was wrapped around him much like she would be if she was riding on the back of his bike.

He glanced back at Rachel as she walked up to him and went to slip her hands under his shirt. He grabbed her arms to hold her off. "Sorry darlin', not tonight." He said quietly.

"What's a matter baby. We always hook up." She pouted.

"Yeah, on the road. Can't happen here." He said glancing back toward Lana to make sure she hadn't noticed the brunette in front of him trying to push up on him. Luckily it looked like she hadn't, but Happy was burning holes through his head with the look he was giving.

"You got an old lady?" Rachel narrowed her eyes.

"Not exactly, but kinda." He said.

Lana felt Happy's shoulders tense and looked at him. He was glaring daggers at someone. She followed his gaze to see one of the girls that had ridden down with the Tacoma charter flaunting herself in front of Kozik. He looked like he was trying to get rid of her so she wasn't too concerned, but the way Happy was staring at the two was telling her something was off about it.

"Hey." She said pulling Happy a little closer. "What's up?" She asked.

He hesitated for a moment and then looked away. "Nothin." He muttered. She heard the tension in his voice and felt it in his body.

Rachel watched Kozik with the girl with dark brownish-red hair from across the room a couple hours later. He hadn't talked to her or barely even looked at her all night, let alone touched her. She wondered what exactly his relationship was with the other girl. She was really pretty and Kozik had been around her most of the night, but she'd noticed Happy had been with her too. She would've just assumed she was another sweetbutt the way she interacted with the two Sons, but she hadn't seen her near any of the other guys and Kozik's earlier statement about 'kinda' having an old lady only added to the strangeness of the situation.

Was she fucking both of them? The idea infuriated Rachel. Here she had spent the last few years of her life hanging around the Tacoma clubhouse in hopes of finding her own old man, only to have the one guy who had been the closest she'd ever been to finding that leave to patch into another charter and hook up with some other bitch who it would appear already had some kind of claim on none other than the Tacoma Killer himself. What the fuck gave her the right to claim Kozik as well?

Well fuck if she was going to just lie back and let that shit slide. She might just be a sweetbutt, but she knew Kozik liked her and unless Kozik had inked his crow into that bitch's skin, Rachel had more than earned her right to say something.

"Hey hun." She said with a sweet smile as she walked up next to the girl she'd been eyeing from across the room. Luckily she was now standing alone, giving Rachel the chance to slip in and chat her up. "Rachel." She said holding out her hand.

The shorter girl looked at her curiously for a moment and then hesitantly took her hand. "Lana."

"Saw you with Koz… And Hap." Rachel said casually.

What was this girl doing? Lana wondered. She recognized her as the sweetbutt who had been all over Kozik earlier, well tried to be anyway. And now she was over here asking her about both of them? Something was going on. "Yeah…" She promted the brunette to get to the point.

"You fucking them?" Well she certainly wasn't shy about speaking her mind.

"What's it to you?" Lana was suddenly on the defense.

"Shit." Kozik said out loud when he glanced back to see Rachel talking to Lana. Both women looked relatively calm, but he could tell something was brewing under the surface. He moved over just in time to hear Rachel's next words.

"Well, Kozik and I kinda have a thing and I feel like you're in the way of that. If you and the killer got something going that's totally cool, but why do you need to have both of them all to yourself?

"Dammit Rachel." Kozik said, stepping in between the two girls.

"What the fuck do you mean you have a thing?" Lana asked, looking around Kozik. "What the fuck does she mean Kozik? You been fucking her?" She was suddenly outraged that her suspicions that something had been going on, her suspicions that she hadn't wanted to believe and thought she could ignore, were seemingly being proven to be true.

"No." He said too quickly, telling her it was a lie.

"Don't deny it baby." Rachel said taking hold of his arm and shooting a dirty look in Lana's direction.

The look the other girl gave her was it. The whole thing had pissed her off, but that was what made her lose any inhibition she might have had about killing both of them. She stepped forward and pushed Rachel backward away from Kozik. The other girl reached out and slapped her across the cheek.

Lana reached out and caught her wrist, her nails subconsciously digging into her skin as she balled up her fist and threw it at the skank's face. Rachel's hands immediately went to her nose.

Lana grabbed her by the hair and brought her head up so she was looking at her. "Get your skinny little skank ass out of Charming tonight or I'll break your fucking neck." She threatened, throwing the girl to the floor and turning to Kozik.

She looked at him feeling a lump forming in her throat. She wasn't sure how to react at first, wasn't sure how she wanted to react. She was hurt, but she didn't want to let him know that. She was also pissed and mostly wanted to beat the shit out of him, but she knew he was bigger and stronger and most likely wouldn't let her get even one punch in. Not to mention how much of a no no it would be to attack a Son. After all she was just a woman, not even an old lady, and the club still had that whole bullshit 'a woman should know her place' mentality. So she thought twice about it.

"Lana…" Hearing his voice though made all rational thought fly right out the window and she brought her fist up and let it connect with his jaw. That initial punch felt so good that she couldn't stop the second one. She briefly wondered how badly she had hurt her own hand after her fist bounced off his abs and she turned to walk away, but she heard him cough in response to the blow so she didn't really care.

She stormed out of the clubhouse, Happy close behind her. "Hey." He said when she was almost to her car. "Let me at least give you a ride home." He grabbed her arm and spun her back around.

Turning to face him she lunged at him and pushed him away from her. "You fucking knew didn't you?" She said angrily, tears now threating. "Of course you knew, you had to know. You fuck anyone? Did you guys fuck her together?" She came at him, ready to hit him next.

"No Lana." He looked her directly in the eyes so she would know he was telling her the truth. She had every right to doubt him right now. "I haven't fucked anyone but you." She stared at him, her breathing heavy. After a moment's hesitation he continued. "And yes, I knew. But what was I supposed to do? Rat on him?"

She didn't answer. She knew he was right. "Did you ever say anything to him?" She asked quietly.

"Once. Last month. He said what you don't know won't hurt you. I told him if you ever found out I'd kick his ass. That was the end of it."

"Well, it did hurt me." She said with disdain, heading toward her car again, ignoring Happy's request to let him give her a ride.

Happy watched her peel out of the lot and headed back inside. He walked right up to Kozik and grabbed him by the cut, dragging him outside and throwing him into the ring. Happy slipped his cut off and took his shirt off.

"C'mon you son of a bitch, get your shit off. I told you this would happen." He said climbing into the ring and waiting for Koz to get his shirt off as well.

Kozik looked at him and reluctantly shrugged out of his cut and pulled his shirt off. He had made his bed and now he had to lie in it. He knew he deserved the beating he was about to get, but he was more concerned with making it up to Lana. He felt like shit and had no idea how to even begin to apologize. He wasn't even sure she'd give him a chance to try.