Chapter 2

Happy parked his bike, he didn't give a shit where, and ate up the ground to the Hospital reception.

"Teller, Nicole." He rasped to the young girl behind the desk.

"One moment." He pulled a face at her, not that she realised she hadn't even looked at him yet. Happy didn't have a fucking moment, he had ridden all night even though he knew that V-Lin had wanted a break he couldn't take a break not till he had seen her not until her knew that she was safe, that his kid was safe. "Your relationship with the patient?"

"The fuck?"

"Hap…" Both his and the girl's attention turned to the new voice. Lee. Happy stalked over to him embracing his brother in a hug.

"Pam?" Lee nodded.

"Fractured wrist, some cuts and and bruises." Happy noticed the slight shake of Lee's hand as pulled out his smokes, this is probably where he had been heading when he spotted Happy. "Could have been worse."

Yes, it could have been worse, Happy just hoped that Nicole hadn't come off as the worse. "Where is she…"

"Second floor." Lee said cutting Happy off. "Doctors haven't told us much sept that she's stable. Told um bout the kid. Said the father was on the way." He watched Happy shift his weight. "Go up tell them who you are, they will probably tell you more."

Happy nodded and side stepped his former President and headed for the elevator but as he pushed the button he heard Lee speak again. "I'm sorry Hap." He looked over his shoulder at Lee. "She shouldn't have been off the lot."

Happy couldn't agree more. He had left strict instructions when he dropped her off, yes, he wasn't the Prez, but she was carrying his kid, that held some weight and he thought that meant that his demands regarding her would have been followed. However Happy also registered that Lee caught the blowback of letting her out by his Old Lady getting hurt. Happy could let this drop for now as he had major respect for Lee and Pam.

So he nodded and continued to head to where he needed to be.

Happy has stalked each corrindor and room on the second floor until he found her. His stomach sank when he saw her lying in the hospital ed but before he do anything a voice took his attention.

"Can I help you?" Happy turned his head. She looked like a nurse; skin like his that hinted to a mix race background, greying hair. She was definitely pushing late 50's maybe early 60's. He could see her eyeing him before sparing a look at Nicole.

Happy wasn't stupid he was wearing his cut; he knew what he looked like and he knew that details of Nicole's accident would have been sparse so that they could protect the club. So, he got that she was unsure, so he told what she needed to hear, the truth, just like Lee had advised.

"I'm the kid's father." Again, her eyes went to Nicole before curiously meeting his again. Happy ran a hand over his shaved head. "I'm her boyfriend. The baby's father." Boyfriend, not a term he was familiar with, however neither was Old Man.

"Ah, we've been expecting you." The nurse's personality changing instantly. If she noted the age difference she didn't show it. "She suffered a blow to the head which ended in some stitches." Happy eyes went to the gash on her temple that was covered in a bandage. The lady continued. "She has a mild concussion. She also lost some blood from the cut to her side and some bruising, but given her injures she seems to be responding well. She'll need to be monitored until we can decide when she will be fit for release. "

"The baby?" The woman smiled and walked over to the table beside Nicole. Happy saw her grab something, and when she handed it to him, he realised what it was. He was surprised by the sudden rush in his chest, a feeling he had never experienced before, but then again, he had never seen his kid before. There on sonogram was his baby, his eyes flicked to Nicole before looking back at the picture. They had made this.

"Heartbeat is good, your good lady will just need to take easy for a while, and as I said we will need to monitor her and the baby for a few days. But your lady is strong, she's fighting but no more accidents, or stress."

If this woman had lived her life in Tacoma, which he was sure that she had by the way she looked at him, then she knew the club. He slid the photo into the inside pocket of his cut.

"I'll take care of her." With a nod the nurse left.

Happy took the seat next to the bed the seat was comfortable which was good as he knew that he wouldn't really being leaving It until she was really ok.

Happy had spent 3 days watching her eyes flutter open but quickly close. The nurses kept telling him that this was normal, but for Happy nothing about this was right.

His Tacoma brothers had frequented the hospital but he had only managed a few mumbled words to them. When Pam had visited, he had no choice to speak more, seeing her all battered and bruised did something to him and he felt himself quickly apologising for her getting hurt and asking if she was ok. She had nodded and smiled at him before grabbing some home-made stew from her bag and handing it to him, insisting that he ate and not the hospital crap that they called food. Happy didn't argue with that.

Jax had been on the phone. Filled him. Tara had been arrested for accessory to murder. That damn necklace she had taken into the prison for Otto had linked her to the murder although all she had done was try and help the Sons get rid of the RICO against him. The call had just confirmed to Happy that women shouldn't be used for club business.

With each day that passed Happy found his eyes fixating on the tinniest of bumps that he could see from beneath the covers, which to anyone else would probably go unnoticed but to Happy, that bump was his kid. His hands were itching to take revenge but Lorca had confirmed that the men who ran them off the road were dead, and Jax had confirmed that there was to be no blow back on August Marks, so right now Happy had no one to take his frustrations out on. He had still been pissed at Nicole for even thinking about aborting his kid without telling him, but seeing her in this bed, seeing the bump, his kid- their kid, his anger towards her had vanished however that didn't mean that wasn't angry.

Her eyes fluttered open and she tried to adjust to the room. Her mouth was dry and her body ached all over. Her mind was foggy, where was she?

With her eyes adjusting to the lights she looked around the room and that was when the panic set in. She had been in enough rooms like this to know that she was in the hospital. She closed her eyes as the memories of the crash came rushing back.

She remembered seeing the two headlights hurtling towards Phil, she remembered seeing Phil get hit, she heard the crash of metal as the van collided into Pam's truck. She felt the fear all over again, and her thoughts went to one thing.

The baby.

With the panic rising in her chest, noticing that she was all alone Nicole needed to get of there. With the last thing she remembered being the crash she was scared. Were they still out there.

She was still flat out, no change, so Happy decided now was a good time to take a leak and take a breath. He kept his time away from her side short but he was starting to get restless just seeing her lying there, lifeless. And with that thought Happy decided to step out for a smoke but just as he snaked the pack of smokes from his cut V-Lin rushed towards him.

No words were needed, it was Nicole.

Happy ate up the ground that between him and her room, V-Lin hot on his heels.

He stopped in the doorway when he saw the nurse one side trying to reattach some wires to Nicole, Phil on her other side trying to calm her down but Nicole was trying to fight them both, well that was until her eyes met his. Then she froze.

The nurse looked over her shoulder, Happy knew she was following Nicole's eyeline to see what had caused Nicole to freeze. If she had any concerns she didn't show it instead she returned her attention to Nicole and reattached the wires that Nicole had pulled from her skin.

Nicole's eyes never left Happy's

Once the nurse was almost finished Happy looked back at V-Lin and gave him a look telling him to leave. V-Lin nodded in understanding and walked further down the hall. Happy looked back into the room and gave the same look to Phil. He too nodded in understanding but before leaving Happy watched as he spared a look to Nicole. She returned his gaze and Happy had to admit he didn't like the exchange. But it only lasted a moment before Phil left the room, Happy giving him a deathly stare as he passed him by.

Now it was just the three of them in room Happy moved further into the room.

"She okay?" Happy rasped.

The nurse who had always been good with him since he arrived suddenly seemed cold, Happy gathered it was the way Nicole was looking at him. And instead of answering his question the Nurse turned her attention back to Nicole.

"Now I need you to keep calm, you are safe here and you are ok. The doctor is on his way." Nicole nodded but before the nurse could leave Nicole reached out and caught her wrist in hers.

"The...um...I'm pregnant...is..." Before Nicole could finish the sentence or the nurse could answer Happy pulled the sonogram from inside his cut and walked over to her bed holding the picture out to Nicole which she took.

"Kids ok." Happy spoke and he saw the tears in her eyes. Happy looked back at the nurse and without any words being exchanged she nodded her head and left the room.

"I'm sorry." Nicole croaked as the tears finally fell.

Happy just looked at her. His anger towards her had disappeared since seeing her laid up in the hospital bed. But seeing her awake and crying as she took the sonogram from him Happy couldn't help but wonder if the tears were happy or sad tears considering she wanted to kill the kid, their kid.

But he also remembered the words she spoke to him before they left for Tacoma. She confessed that her fears about the kid was about the life, the life that she would be bringing there kid into and right now he could understand this fear.

She was laid up in a hospital bed, hurt and if the glass had been a few inches to the right there probably wouldn't be a kid. So maybe she had a reason to be scared. But to Happy it just proved to him that he was the only one who could really protect her.

Moving closer to her he dropped a kiss on top of her head as his hand ran over her dark hair. "You're gonna be ok." He rasped as Nicole lent into him as she continued to sob.

Day 5 and Happy found himself sat in the Tacoma clubhouse chapel. Nicole was insisting that she just wanted to leave. Happy hadn't argued with her in fact he couldn't agree with her more.

He had spoken to the Doctor. He had said that she wasn't fit to travel and needed further monitoring but Happy didn't buy it, not the way the doctor was eyeing him. Happy hadn't missed how he eyed his cut, his tattoos and also his brothers in the same way. So Happy sought out the nurse the one seemed to get the situation understand the club and just asked two questions , one was the kid good enough for the travel and two was his girl. She confirmed that Nicole and the baby were well enough to travel although she did warn him that it couldn't be a bike which Happy nodded in agreement. The nurse also advised that it would be worth a check in at the local hospital on their return, again Happy nodded in agreement. And the final words from the Nurse was under no circumstances was Nicole to suffer any stress. Happy nodded but something told him that wouldn't be as easy to promise as the other requests but he would do everything he could. So with that information he got Nicole to discharge herself.

Happy only wanted to know one thing. Why? Why was she was off the lot given his very clear instructions that she was not to leave. Lee had taken the full blame and explained everything apart from his Old ladies involvement. Lee knew that his brother was angry, it had been radiating off him since he arrived in Tacoma and there was no way he was letting any of that anger blow back on his Old Lady.

The explanation hadn't helped Happy he still felt the need to make someone pay, the urge to get his pound of flesh but Lee was a president and although he had crossed the line with his girl Happy knew the hierarchy and he also had a lot of respect for the man in front of him.

As they exited the chapel after sharing a hand shake Happy finally saw the opportunity he had been itching for.

At the bar stood Kozik junior. If he wasn't so obsessed with dealing with his grief of his brother death by staring down an empty Whisky bottle. Then Nicole would never have been off the lot, she would have never got hurt.

Without a second thought Happy lunged at Victor dealing him a right hook that send the young blonde straight to the floor. Happy didn't stop the anger pulsing through his veins and straddling Happy kept delivering blow after blow as the young blonde tried to protect himself.

Lee went to stop the beating knowing that the kid had no chance but Lorca stopped him. "He needs this."

Nicole placed the last of her belongings into her bag. She just wanted to be home. Opening the door she wasn't surprised to see Phil and V-Lin they had been constant around her over the last couple of days.

"Thank you." Nicole spoke as Phil reached out and took her bag.

Making their way into the bar Nicole froze when she saw Happy on top of Victor. She went to rush towards them, to Happy. but she felt a hand wrap around her arm stopping her in her steps. She looked back to see Lorca, who just shook his head silently telling her not to get involved. But this was Koziks brother and knowing Happy as she did she knew that he could easily get lost in that anger. The Kozik's had lost enough. So although she never moved she called out Happy's name.

Happy heard his name and he knew the lips they had escaped from. Nicole. Looking over his shoulder his saw Nicole standing amongst his brothers, worry in her eyes. He also noticed the hand on her that was quickly removed upon his gaze. Returning his attention back to Victor he grabbed his face focusing the kid to look at him.

"Your grief almost got my girl killed. Your pathetic. You endanger anyone else in this club, you'll be sharing the ground next to your brother. You understand me." Victor nodded frantically.

"I'm sorry." Victor managed to whimper before Happy got to his feet.

As he walked over to Nicole he exchanged a nod with Lee which he returned and both knew that everything was good between them.