AN : This is my first fanfiction it's mainly AU but might have some of the storyline. I do not only anything SOA that belongs to Kurt Sutter. Reviews and Comments are always welcome. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1

Kate let out a big sigh as she pulled up to back entrance to her current place of employment. She never imagined a year after graduating in the top of her class that she would currently be employed at the dive bar the Hairy Dog. But beggars could not be choosers she needed the money and made good tips at the Dog knowing the scantily clad black booty shorts and cropped matching black tank top with the Hairy Dog logo of a dog howling at the moon with the printed words "Bitch in Heat" did a lot to help the 19 year old make her tips. Most of the customers were regulars and didn't mind spending most of their weeks' paycheck on Friday night to stare down Kate's top or watch her wiggle her ass as she waited on the tables and tended bar. The owner Harry had been one of Kate's Dad's old college drinking buddies and was around for most of Kate's childhood as Uncle Harry but after a falling out between Harry and her Dad over a loan had left Kate without Uncle Harry at the age of 16. Harry was all too happy to give Kate a job when she came asking for help a few months ago. Harry knew that Kate's uptight accountant father would blow a gasket once he knew where Kate was working. It's not as if the Dog was her first choice in employment but she needed to pay for schooling since her parents had essentially cut off her finances. While she was allowed to still live in their home they would not pay for schooling or anything else unless she agreed to go to school for what they considered a respectable profession. But what Kate's parents failed to understand was that she didn't want to be a business or accounting major and what they thought as just a hobby for her in high school was what she craved to do. Kate had taken her first photography class in 7th grade and fell in love, she had won countless awards over her years in school but even that didn't prove to her parents that she could make go of it. So with them refusing to fund her education she had no choice but to seek out a job to pay for it herself, with no experience she was left with little options and normal teenage retail jobs would not pay for the high priced books and equipment she would need.

The chill of the night air hit Kate as she got out of her beater of a car the door hinges of the 1990 Toyato Camry squealing as she closed the door. Gone with the tuition money was the new Cadillac she received for high school graduation. As much as she had loved that car she also loved the look on both her parents' faces when she refused to let them push her to a career she didn't want as well as the look of devastation each time she left house in her Hairy Dog uniform. Kate made her way quickly to the back alley entrance to the Dog throwing her first of many cigarettes of the night to the ground, squashing its flame with her lot top black converse as the cold fall air of Charming blew her perfectly curled chocolate brown shoulder length hair. Walking into the kitchen in the back Kate was greeted by her coworker for the night and friend Renee. She and Renee had gone to school together though Renee was two years her senior. Renee was the opposite of Kate she adorned her uniform with red stiletto pumps, pin straight blonde hair down to the middle of her back and tank top pulled so low that her nipples would threaten to pop out all night. While this was just a job to Kate to Renee it was a good time. Renee loved the extra attention from the guys and often went home with one or two of them. Renee was a bombshell, and Kate was just Kate, sweet and simple. Not to say that she wasn't attractive, she was comfortable with her short stature standing at 5'2", and weighing a buck 15 with a healthy C cup bra. Her sparkling bright blue eyes matched perfectly with her full pouty lips.

"Hey there Kit Kat" Renee said using Kate's most hated nickname with a smile looking up from washing that nights glasses.

"Hey Ray, Harry got you on dish duty already?"

"Yeah the working guys are starting to pile in it's going to be a long one tonight"

"Okay let's flip for tonight's duties," Kate said grabbing for a quarter from her bag to begin the weekend tradition. Mostly during the week Kate and Renee swapped between tending bar and waitressing but on weekends both wanted to tend bar, the tips were better and less groping was involved.

"You call it," Renee said as Kate tossed the quarter in the air.

"Heads"

"Looks like your out of luck Kate" Renee said with a huge smile as the quarter landed on tails.

"Dammit" Kate stated as she put her stuff away and walked towards the bar where Harry was.

"What's up Harry? Looks like the usual riff raff is here." Kate said ducking under the bar to join Harry.

"Yep, and it looks like you are waitressin tonight." He said as Kate grabbed her waitress apron.

"I lost the coin toss but with as packed as it is tips should still be good."

Harry was grabbing a bottle of beer when the front door opened letting light stream into the dark dingy bar.

"Hell," Harry said looking up "Look who the cat dragged in."

Kate turned towards the door to see Clay Morrow walk through the door followed by seven more of the Sons all wearing in cuts. The Sons were regulars at the Dog mostly Bobby and Tig but occasionally the others would join them but not usually Clay. Shit Kate thought to herself she didn't feel like catering to the Son's tonight knowing they would demand more attention than the other patrons being Harry's favorite customers. Well at least she hopped she could get a good tip out of them usually Tig was a good tipper but harassed her the most.

"Harry." Clay greeted "Give us a round and your best table."

"Sure thing Clay," Harry greeted back, "What brings you in tonight."

"Meeting with some business associates needed a neutral place."

"Kate show Clay to his table and start them off with a round."

"Right this way gentleman." Kate said walking from back behind the bar to a table in the back corner. She watched them sit taking inventory, Clay, Jax, Tig, Bobby, Chibs, Juice, Opie and a new member she hadn't met yet. She paused waiting for the unknown man to sit, he was bald, tattoos covering his arms, she could see the outline of his muscles under that tattoos and that had her wondering what he looked like without the clothes. As he sat he caught her looking, she could feel him stare right through her with his coal black eyes. She quickly looked away feeling the burning blush of her cheeks as he smirked at her.

"What can I get you guys?"

"Shot of whiskey all around and a beer chaser to start with sweetheart." Clay ordered.

"And none of that shite top shelf whiskey either love, we know where Harry keeps the good stuff." Chibs shouted as Kate made her way back to the bar to get the drinks from Renee.

"Oh My God I will totally switch you, you can tend bar." Renee exclaimed when Kate was within earshot.

"Why? Which one of the Son's do you want to fuck?"

"The question should be which one don't I want to fuck, but my current interest is Juice. Something about the tattoos on his head. That's Hot!"

"What about the other one the new one with the snake on his head?"

"Happy? He's not new just patched over from Tacoma to Charming and personally he kinda scares me, I heard from some of the other hang arounds he's a bit rough, biting and bruising and shit. Not really into that myself."

"They call him Happy, is that like when people call fat people slim."

"No, I think that's his real name, I'm not sure what his parents expected naming him that, musta had one fucked up childhood." Renee stated putting the drinks on Kate's tray.

"Thanks for the insight Ray." Kate said grabbing the tray of drinks.

"Why do you like him?" Renee said with a little too much enthusiasm in her voice for Kate.

"NO!" Kate responded turning to leave to deliver the drinks. Telling herself not to make eye contact with Happy again and make a fool out of herself.

"Here you go guys."

"Hey Kit Kat?" Tig piped up when Kate was setting down his drink. "When you gonna let me take you for a ride?"

"Maybe when you can tell me what my real is name."

"I know your real name!"

"Yeah, what is it?" Kate scoffed back at him.

The table went silent for a minute until Opie laughed "It's Kate you dumbass"

"Ooooohkay, Kate, when are you gonna let me give you a ride?"

"Never gonna happen Tig."

"What about your blonde friend?"

"Nah, she has her eyes set on Juice here. She said something about head tattoos being hot."

"Well what about Hap here he has a tattoo on his head too?" Asked Bobby.

"She said she didn't think she could handle him." Jesus Christ Kate thought as soon as those words left her mouth. She was always sharing way to much when most people would have just kept that bit of information to themselves she didn't have that filter to keep her mouth shut.

"What about you little girl you think you can handle me." The silent until now Happy quipped giving her that earlier smirk that had caused her to go up in flames.

"I don't think I could even handle sweet little Opie here." Kate said quickly recovering as she patted Opie on the shoulder.

The table erupted in laughter as Kate internally sighed as Happy's attention was diverted from her.

"Need anything else guys?"

"Nope but keep them coming Kate." Clay said.

Kate spent the next three hours running back on forth between the bar and the tables mostly to the Son's, she had her usually banter with Tig but nothing came from Happy's mouth.

"Hey Ray, I'm going to go take a break by feet are killing me."

"Sure thing" Ray shouted over the much too loud music that had started to give Kate a headache about an hour ago as she made her way down the hall to the woman's bathroom.

The bathroom was the one good perk about working at the shit hole bar. The women's restroom was never occupied and was only used by Kate and Renee. Kate sat on the sink counter as she lit her smoke, exhaling a sigh of relief to get off her feet for a few minutes. That fifteen-minute smoke break was pure bliss to Kate, she hopped of the sink and headed slowly to the door trying to prolong the inevitable. It was only 9:00 and she knew that she had another 3 hours to close and then at least another hour of clean up before she could go home, crawl into bed to catch a few hours of sleep before her 7:00 class in the morning. Kate left the bathroom only to bump right into Lou a regular at the Dog. He was one of her least favorite customers. He always a creep vibe about him, eyes lingering a little too long, hands that would accidentally touch her. Not the person she wanted to be alone with in a dim lit hallway right now.

"Hey Kate" Lou said blocking her path back to the bar.

"Hi, Lou"

"So Kate, when are you going to give up and just go out with me?"

"Lou, I told you before I don't date customers." Kate said, that of course not being the only reason. He was also a 40 year old has been jock currently unemployed and drinking his kids welfare checks away.

"Come on Kate, I'll show you a really good time." Lou said leaning into her, which allowed Kate to move to the right to try to get past him. But no such luck Lou pushed closer to her pushing her up to wall now blocking her in with a hand on each wall as he towered over her.

"Lou, I gotta get back to work."

"Renee has it covered, how about you and I go back into that bathroom." Lou said as he reached down to run his hand along the side of her face using his index finger to lift her chin up so she could look at him leaning in to her then forcing his mouth on hers. She could taste the cheap booze Renee had been serving him all night.

"Lou, please stop." Kate said moving her head to break away from the kiss.

"Come on Katey, you know you want it." Lou said as he grabbed Kate by the arms and then pinned her to wall and pressed himself against her.

As Kate felt his hardness pressed against her she felt the chicken wings she ate earlier start to come up. She didn't see salvation in sight, the music was too loud for anyone to hear her scream, and there was no way she could fight him off but she knew she wasn't going to make it easy. Kate brought her knee up as hard as she could hoping to knee the fucker in the balls as hard as she could. But with the height difference between the two and her unable to maneuver away from the way just caused her to knee him in the thigh. Ken let out a grunt when he felt the impact but it didn't budge him an inch.

"You little bitch, you wanna play rough?" Ken shouted in Kate's face and he brought up his hand preparing to slap her.

That's when the music stopped to change songs and in the silence they both heard the click of the gun.

"Fucking touch her and I'll put a bullet right in your head." Happy said while pressing the gun to Lou's temple.

Lou dropped his hand releasing Kate and turned to look at Happy.

"Sorry, Hap didn't know she was yours, but bitch was asking for it."

"She's not mine fucker, and it didn't sound like she wanted what you got. Now get the fuck out of here and if I ever see you within a mile of her I'll fucking kill you."

Kate slumped against the wall and Happy re-holstered his gun as the music restarted. Happy then grabbed Kate by the hand and drug her into the women's bathroom drowning out the music.

"You okay little girl?" Staring her dead in the eyes, no smirk from him this time and no blushing from her.

"Yeah, he didn't Um…. get to far before you came. Thanks."

"Here," Happy said handing her a lit cigarette. "Little girl," He paused blowing out a cloud of smoke. "If you're going to continue to work here you need to learn how to defend yourself. Next time punch him the nuts it's just as effective as a knee then go for the eyes."

"Thanks for the tip." She said as she let out a shaky laugh tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"Hey, your fine little girl, keep your shit together and get your ass back out there. Table needs drinks and Clay hates waiting."

"Yeah, Okay." Kate said turning toward the door to leave. "Thanks again."

"Don't mention it I don't normally do nice shit, no need to ruin my reputation." He grunted with a slight chuckle.

The next two hours flew by, Kate was still on edge from earlier and was relieved when she saw Clay and the rest of the guys get up from the table and start to make their way toward Harry for was she assumed was good byes.

"Hey Harry, why don't you close a little early tonight huh." Clay said as he leaned up against the bar.

Harry immediately went to the jukebox shut it off and shouted "Hey everyone, were closing for the night pay up your tab and get out." Instantly people started throwing money on the table downing the rest of their drinks and heading out the door.

After the last customer had exited leaving Kate, Ray, Harry and the Son's Clay reached into his pocket putting a wad of cash on the bar top. "Here Harry for your troubles."

"When are your business associates gonna get here?"

"Soon" Clay responded.

"Do I need to get the girls outta here?"

"Nah, not that kinda meeting but they shouldn't be within earshot."

"Okay, girls go start cleaning up."

Kate and Ray nervously started collecting glasses and wiping tabletops and putting up chairs. They had never seen Harry close the dog early so whatever his relationship was with the Son's it was important. A half hour into the cleanup Clay's phone beeped with an incoming message.

"Harry why don't you go to your office finish up your paperwork. Girls go outside and have a smoke break." Clay said. "Happy, Juice go with the girls make sure they stay out until we are done."

Kate's eyes instantly went to Harry's, Harry gave her a nod that everything was all right. So she headed out the back with Ray, Juice and Happy.

Once outside Juice and Renee walked of together leaving Kate standing next to Happy. She lit her cigarette hoping the smoke would ease the tension she could feel radiating off the man next to her. She couldn't tell if it was because he was stuck with her or if it was what was going on inside the bar. Kate hated uncomfortable silence as much as Happy was the type to revel in it.

Again the girl who couldn't keep her mouth shut just had to speak. "It's getting cold outside."

"Hmmmm." Was all she got as a response.

"Hope were not out here too long."

"You should have a jacket little girl."

"I do have one but it's inside and I didn't think I had time to grab it. Clay seemed like he wanted us out of there in a hurry."

"Whatever is going on inside is none of your damn business."

Okay Kate thought maybe silence was better than talking as it seemed her polite chitchat was causing the tension to increase. But unfortunately she just couldn't help herself. "So Renee says your real name is Happy."

"Yep." Was the one worded response as Happy pulled a long drag off his cigarette

"Is there a story behind that name, it's pretty unusual."

"Nope."

"So your parents just named your Happy for no reason?"

"Yep."

"Do you always give one worded responses?"

"Do you ever shut up?" Happy said finally turning to look at her "That one was five words, is that better."

"Sorry," Kate said in voice just above a whisper "Just trying to be polite."

Dammit thought Happy, first this girl blushes for him of all people he couldn't remember the last time he had made a girl blush. Then he has to save her ass and keep her from crying and now here she was standing in front of him with the biggest pout on her sweet lips. This is why he didn't do Old Ladies to many emotions involved. But he still felt like an asshole looking down on her.

"Your fine little girl, I just don't like talkin about personal shit. Okay." Happy said now feeling like the biggest pussy. Why did he even give a shit about if he offended this little bitch and then there it was the reason was staring back at him with her big blue eyes and a genuine smile on her face. He Happy Lowman had made someone, well happy.

"Okay so personal stuff off limits, How about them Bears?"

"What?"

"The Bears, football…. Usually when people have nothing to talk about they can talk about sports so they say How about them Bears."

"I don't do sports either."

"Okay so no personal stuff and no sports. What do you want to talk about?"

Happy was just about to either tell her to just keep her mouth shut or push up on her to get her to shut it, he wouldn't have minded a quick fuck up against the wall out here with her, but then again she didn't look like the type of girl who would go for a quick fuck, when Renee and Juice came sprinting back from wherever they were.

"Kit Kat, please, please, please do me a favor?"

"What Ray?"

"After we finish cleaning up come over to the Son's clubhouse with me. Juice invited us."

"No way Renee."

"Oh come on please Kate?"

"The answer is still no, I have an early class tomorrow."

"Sorry Juice, maybe some other time when Kate is not such a stick in the mud." Renee said with a whiney pout.

"Why don't you just come by yourself?" Juice asked with a glimmer of hope in his eye.

"Sorry no dice, I never go anywhere without me best girl."

The back door was flung open and Chibs could be heard shouting "Hey you two numb nuts lets go."

The four of them piled back inside. Kate watched the Son's leave through the front door and was a little miffed that she didn't even get a simple nod of the head as Happy left. She thought they had shared enough of a moment to get some sort of good bye. After helping Renee and Harry finish cleaning up and listening to Renee bitch at her for not going with her so she could fuck Juice, Kate once home crawled into her bed still wearing her bar outfit and immediately passed out.