The leaders as a group got up and walked quickly out the room. They saw all the clubs looking at them expectantly. There was no sign of the Sisters, Slick or Jack-Jack. Fuck, Doc thought, this could turn out very, very badly. She walked quicker, and Fish felt her mood change from excited to almost desperate to get to where she was going. As they walked into the clubhouse of the Ops, she knew why the yelling was loud. She could hear both the Sisters, Jack-Jack and Slick, shit, there could be bloodshed.
Doc pulled away from Fish, who refused to let her totally go, he just grabbed her hand and met her stride as they moved. When they entered the crowded room, Doc took in the situation quickly.
Dani had been sat up in bed, she noticed that the head was raised. Boo was in the corner, looking at the reading on the machines, as well as attempting to change a bag of fluids while the two men were pushing in, and Gypsy and Tiny were standing guard. The men were not dealing well. Fish saw the same thing, and then he yelled.
“Goddammit, can you all fucking get out of here until they get her stable and comfortable. You guys yelling is hurting Dani, you are fucking idiots.”
“I am just fucking trying to get her to understand Jack-Jack and I have rights to be here as well,” Slick snapped.
“No, you fucking don’t, the minute you and your idiot friend just left Dani…” Gypsy yelled, and Slick pointed a finger at her.
“Listen, you do not know dick…”
“And I don’t fucking want to know anything about your dick you man-whore,” Gypsy snapped, and Fish just raised his hand and whistled loudly.
“Did you hear what the fuck I said? Clear out!”
Everyone stopped and looked at Dani, who not only looked very confused but also had tears in her eyes as she watched the drama unfold. Doc moved behind Gypsy and looked at Dani.
“Hey, honey,” Doc said softly. “Can you look at me?”
Dani didn’t turn at first, not until Doc looked over her shoulder and saw Fish pulling out the guys, and then whispering to the girls softly and urging them to leave for a few minutes. When Fish closed the door, it was only Boo, Fish, Doc, and Dani in the room, and it felt less heavy. Dani turned her head and stared at Doc.
“W-W-What is…” she tried to say, but then burst into tears and put her hands on her face.
Doc looked up at Boo who was frowning, she pulled out her phone and hit the speed dial. Doc knew she was calling the doctor. She gently took Dani’s hands and pulled them down. “Come on, honey, it’s good, stop all the crying. Hell, we just got you awake for the first time in a while, I don’t want you to decide to go back to sleep.”
Dani lifted her eyes and she opened her mouth. “W-W-What is w-w-wrong?”
Doc kept her face from changing, she wasn’t going to show Dani how worried she was right now. Damn it all to fucking hell, why Dani? Doc thought and then smiled through her worry. The stuttering could mean she had a little bit of fluid still putting pressure on parts of her brain. Doc didn’t want to think about that right now, she was just happy Dani was actually sitting up and awake.
“Well, you have a head injury, and sometimes it just takes a while for it to reboot. How about for right now, you let me and Boo look you over,” Doc asked, and Dani looked at Fish and frowned.
“W-W-Why is F-F-Fish h-h-here?” Dani asked, and Doc looked over her shoulder.
“Well, seems me and the old man over there were meant to be,” Doc said, and Dani’s eyes went wide.
“R-R-Really?” she asked, and Doc grinned.
“Yep,” she said, and Fish smiled.
“I will step out and make sure everyone is behaving okay,” Fish said and looked at Doc and Dani, then to Boo who was hanging up the phone.
“Doctor is on his way,” Boo announced quietly and then looked at Dani. “You will like him, he is the one who really saved your life.”
Dani frowned as Fish began to walk away, and Doc said, “Babe, hang on.”
Fish turned and frowned and then walked back to the bottom of the bed and said, “You need something, Dani?”
The young woman had tears in her eyes and she took a deep breath. “H-H-How is e-e-everyone h-h-here?”
Doc shook her head. “Dani?”
Dani shook her head frustrated and then pointed to the pen and paper on the small desk. Boo grabbed it and gave it to Dani. The young woman was writing furiously. Finally, she stopped and handed the paper to Doc who scanned it, and Fish could see the frown beginning to form. His woman looked up at him with pain in her eyes and then she turned to Dani.
“Do you know where you are?” Doc asked slowly, and Dani looked at her confused and she nodded and pointed to the paper. Doc stood and walked to Fish and handed him the paper and then ran a hand over her face and motioned for Boo to come as well and read what Dani wrote.
She was going to need to deal with this, fuck, how the hell was she going to deal with this shit with everything going on? If they had been presented with this in the field, they would have sent the patient immediately home to deal with these issues, which meant, Doc had never really dealt with this. Gypsy was going to be pissed the fuck off.
Fish frowned as he read the message Dani had written.
How did everyone get to Germany? And why is everyone here? They will be transporting me stateside, right? I don’t understand, it was a concussion blast, I am fine, just shaken, the doctor said it was a precaution they were sending me home.
Doc was back sitting next to Dani, and she said, “Oh, Dani, I need to know where the blast happened?”
Dani took the clean pad that Doc had and wrote something down. Fish and Boo moved to see what she said. Doc tilted the page as she nodded to Dani.
Kabul
Doc sighed and then said, “Honey, you are in San Diego.”
Dani leaned back with a frown and she shook her head and grabbed the paper.
No, the doctor I spoke to was in Germany, Ramstein, you know this, you were assigned close to us. Dani looked at Fish confused. I know you, but I didn’t know you then.
Fish rubbed the back of his neck, well shit. Doc nodded. “You know Fish?”
Dani nodded and then wrote something.
He has a daughter, Harmony, she is a PI who called me a few times to ask some questions about some of the missions the Ops had. She was making sure their asses were covered.
Fish closed his eyes, he knew Harmony looked into that when she started being a PI. She hadn’t told the guys, though, and Fish had not known she went to Dani. He had met the woman a few times right when the guys all returned from their service, he had really thought that Slick and Jack-Jack were going to claim her right off the bat. But the guys had fucked shit up because of their PTSD. Those two had the worst of it in the clubs, hell, even Maxi wasn’t as bad as them, and that was saying a fuck of a lot. The day Dani left, Fish had been the one to take her to the airport because the club was all busy trying to handle Jack-Jack and Slick since they went on a rampage.
Doc nodded. “Okay, Dani, why don’t you rest while Boo and I talk to the others, and we figure this out.”
Dani narrowed her eyes, but you could see the exhaustion on her face. Fuck, she had been asleep a month and was tired again. The shit this little woman has had to go through. Dani finally nodded, but she didn’t look happy. After looking at her chart and whispering to Boo, the trio finally left Dani who had fallen asleep before they made it to the door.
Fish opened the door and held up a hand to everyone in the hallway. It was packed, and Fish said quietly, “In the main room, she is sleeping.”
Doc saw Slick and Jack-Jack both pause, they didn’t want to leave Dani, and she glared at the duo. She didn’t give a shit if they were here now, they hadn’t been there when Dani was such a mess that she could barely get up in the mornings. Doc and the other Sisters were there, and it was bad. She remembered the long nights of Dani crying, she had suffered a lot, but most of it was because of her issues as well, which the idiots had never talked to her about. They hadn’t made the time to get to know Dani. Instead, they had fucked her and cut her loose.
When they entered the large club room, Gypsy said quickly, “Tell us.”
Doc took a deep breath. “Okay listen, Boo and I are calling in another doctor, a specialist. We knew when Dani woke up we would need to see if there were any issues due to her head injuries, and there is.”
Gypsy nodded and said, “And?”
“She is having problems talking, she has a stutter, which I am sure they will be able to help improve. She also is having an issue with memory. Now, we are going to get the best doctor in the country for her, you gotta know that. At the current time, she thinks she is in Germany after the blast that took out the com center in Kabul,” Doc said, and everyone went silent.
“But,” Gypsy said slowly, “that was like what, six years ago?”
Doc nodded. “So right now, she needs rest and meds, we will deal with shit as we go, but seriously, you guys screaming and yelling in her room, so not good for her. She is confused, and she knows there is something wrong. Until we speak to a doctor, everyone and I mean everyone who goes in that room, does not talk about shit that will upset her.”
“She doesn’t remember anything?” Creed said softly, and Doc shook her head.
“Not right now, but it could be temporary, or it may be permanent.”
Fish was watching Slick and Jack-Jack who looked like they had been punched in the gut, he knew how the two men felt because when Doc wasn’t with him, it killed him not knowing what was going on. Now, knowing she was carrying his child, it was going to be worse, he knew it. The guys were going to need to understand.
“Jack-Jack? Slick?” Doc said, and both men stood up straight and nodded.
The room went silent as she looked at Gypsy who ground her teeth. “She doesn’t remember what went down with you guys. My suggestion, if you are serious about this shit, then this time you make sure you have an in before she remembers because I can guarantee if she remembers before that, you two are going to lose her forever. She had made up her mind years ago about that shit,” Doc said, and the men nodded and turned and left the room. Gypsy stepped close to her.
“You sure you should have done that?” Gypsy said, and Doc sighed and nodded slowly.
“We may be pissed about what went down, but you saw them with her, I did too. At first, I was against it, I know what they did to her, how much it hurt, but if they are serious now? She loved them then and if she still does...”
Gypsy cursed under her breath, “One shot.”
Doc nodded. “I agree.”
Doc stepped into the main room of the clubhouse and Harmony, Freedom and Shady stepped in front of her. Fuck, she didn’t need this shit right now. Folding her arms over her chest, she glared at the shorter woman and waited.
“So,” Harmony said slowly. “Hear my dad claimed you?”
Doc narrowed her eyes and she felt someone behind her. She stiffened at first until she realized it was Fish. “Not now, Harmony,” he growled, and his daughter shook her head.
“Sorry, pops, it needs to be now,” she said, and Doc sighed.
“Well, we are here, let it rip,” Doc said. “But before you go looking like a spoiled child, let me remind you that you are grown, and your father does not need protecting. So, pitch your fit, and lose your father’s respect.”
Harmony narrowed her eyes, and she snapped, “I was going to say that I understand my dad needs someone in his life. I was going to say, I was happy about it. And I was going to apologize because I realized I was shocked and didn’t handle it well last night. I mean, finding out my dad is going to be a father again, would throw most people for a loop, and therefore, I was going to apologize. However, you just being all bitchy has made me change my mind. I am not apologizing for shit, and guess what? I am a spoiled brat so get used to it.”
Doc laughed and said, “Well good, at least you are in touch with the fact that you are a raging bitch.”
Shady rolled her eyes and stepped forward. “What she is trying to say is that she is cool with all this ‘cause she loves her dad and wants to see him happy. And before we have bloodshed ‘cause both of you whores are being unreasonable. May I remind you that everyone and their brother wants to kill us, we don’t need to do it to ourselves.”
Fish stepped up and said, “Sweetheart, you know I love you.”
Harmony smiled at Doc with a scary kind of evil smile and then she looked at her father and Doc saw the tears in the woman’s eyes, and she relaxed. If his daughter hurt him in any way, Doc was going to kick her pregnant ass.
“It’s been a long time since I felt like this for any woman, you know that your mom was a bitch. It took me a long time to work that out, but with Doc, it is different. I would die for her,” he said quietly, and Harmony’s eyes widened.
Doc saw Freedom put a hand on her friend’s shoulder and squeeze and then Harmony moved and hugged her father as the first tear escaped her eyes.
“I just wanted you happy,” she whispered. “But in the club.”
Fish sighed and then grinned. “Honey, I am gonna be right next door.”
“But,” Harmony said, and Fish continued.
“And nothing is going to keep me from my grandbaby.”
Doc stared as the two hugged each other tighter, Shady leaned in a whispered in her ear, “Even with all the lovefest going on over there we still have a warning for ya. If you hurt him, we will gut you.”
Doc turned her head and stared at the leader of the Lady Riders whose eyes looked like cold steel right now. She narrowed her eyes and then leaned forward and whispered into Shady’s ear, “He is mine, and I will not hurt him. But you or your sluts threaten me again, we are gonna have a problem. And just to say, if you all hurt him by being demanding bitches playing the whole, ‘my daddy loves me more,’ I will let my Sisters loose on you.”
Shady leaned back with a grin, and she looked at Freedom whose eyes were wide and said, “We are cool.”
Freedom muttered under her breath, “I swear to God, you bitches are nuts and now we just added some more craziness to the group.”
Fish kissed Harmony on the head as she pulled back, and they heard the roar of motorcycles, then Shady turned. “Well shit, so much for a quiet night. Looks like Rebel and the others got the Blood Eagles in without a problem.”
Doc frowned. “You called in another club?”
Freedom shook her head. “Oh, hell no, see Rebel is one of our strippers for Bitches 2. Well, she is part of the Riders now; anyway, her dad is the President of the Blood Eagles and when they heard that Rebel was out here and while on a run searching for the man who killed her mom. She was targeted by our enemies who happened to have the same man in their club. While following the asshole, she crashed her bike into a car. Rebel ended up in the hospital where they found out she had scar tissue that may or may not be cancer, and was going under the knife. So, they decided to get their asses up here. She wanted to wait until her dad was here to start the chemo they were going to need to do.”
Doc frowned and looked at Shady. “Is she always like that?”
Shady shrugged. “Yeah.”
Doc looked back at Harmony and Fish. “We good?”
Harmony narrowed her eyes for a brief second and then she saw the way Doc was staring at her father and knew he finally found a woman who would stick. She nodded and then said, “Yep, welcome to the family.”