Doc

by Harley McRide

  Fork grinned. “If it does, we swear we will not tell Harmony, she will lose her mind, ‘cause you know, the whole older man, younger woman thing. Which by the way, Creed and I are both giving you a high five for?”

  Fish rolled his eyes. “No, I can honestly say Gypsy does nothing for me. Listen, I just need to get out of here for a few days, there were a lot of changes in the last few months. I haven’t lived in a compound in a long time, not really used to it.”

  Creed stared intently and then he looked at Fork who shrugged and Creed finally said, “How about this, Jas’s new ride is done, all but the tank they sent off for. They were gonna ship it; I could probably get you a week if you went to New Mexico and picked it up. I will tell them I didn’t want it damaged.”

  Fish leaned back and nodded. “I can do that.”

  “But the deal is, someone needs to go with you. Harmony will kick our asses if we don’t take precautions, especially right now,” Creed said, and Fork nodded.

  “How about I ride with you?” Fork said. Creed grinned, and Fish shook his head.

  “Fuck I am not an old man, I can take care of myself,” Fish growled, and Fork shook his head.

  “We know that, but Fork wants to pick up something for Harmony in Colorado on the way. Some kind of baby thing she saw online,” Creed said.

  Fish looked at Fork. “You in hot water for some reason?”

  Creed laughed. “You could say that. The idiot accidentally answered her question when she asked if her stomach was getting too big.”

  Fish moaned. “Seriously? You always tell them they are hotter carrying your kid.”

  Fork frowned. “I did, that was after I had said her stomach was fine, but she needed some bigger pants.” Creed and Fish laughed loudly, and Fork growled. “I didn’t mean it the way it came out. I was trying to tell her those elastic waists looked uncomfortable. You know, it is like they dig into her stomach, I was worried about the kid.”

  Creed and Fish laughed harder as Fork tried to justify what he was trying to say. Soon, the plans were made, and it was decided they would leave in the morning. Fish sighed as he walked back to his room. Seriously, he needed to get his place built and soon. Living with these younger men just made him feel fucking old.

  Doc moved around the apartment she called home while her sisters all laughed and joked about moving. This was their last night in their place, tomorrow they would be in San Diego. She had mixed feelings about that right now. Until their apartment building was complete, which would take more time, they were going to be staying in four houses on the compound.

  “Hey, Doc,” Jacks called, bringing her out of her thoughts. Jacks was Marbles twin sister. They were mirror twins, which meant if they were facing each other it looked like they were looking in a mirror, but looks were the only thing identical, everything else was opposite. Marbles was outgoing and fun; she liked to walk on the wild side, while Jacks was the calm, level-headed one, who worried about all of them. She was their mother hen, especially when someone hurt one of them, then she was a complete bitch. Doc snapped her attention to Jacks; she needed to get out of her head anyway. “Think once we get down there, we are going to be able to get Dani with us instead of on the Ops compound?”

  She turned and looked at her sisters who already had been filled in by Gypsy on the fact Dani was remaining on the Ops compound, mostly because Jack-Jack and Slick refused to allow her off. They insisted it was the safest place, although Gypsy had argued to the point she pulled her knife on them when they pissed her off. It didn’t matter. Dani was staying on the Ops compound.

  “She stays there until she is awake and can make her own decision, which we all know will probably be to leave and come to us,” Doc said, and the others nodded slowly, obviously not happy about it.

  This last month had been hard on all of them, although all the Satan’s Sisters, except for Doc, had made trips down to San Diego to see Dani, as well as check out the Furies place since Doc had spent a fortune to have construction started on their building. Doc didn’t want to chance running into Fish. It wasn’t that the night wasn’t amazing, it was. But the problem was that it was too amazing. Hell, she had never had a man she wanted to actually learn more about, but with Fish she did. She wanted to learn everything about him, and it scared the shit out of her.

  She had worked her fingers to the bone getting everything set to move, most of the things she could have asked the other Sisters to do, but she had refused to do it. Doc needed to keep herself busy, and it was the way she chose to do it. The other women had noticed, but they had yet to confront her. Doc knew they were waiting for her to sort it out in her head as was her normal pattern.

  Doc had always been like that when something happened that bothered her, or a problem that needed to be solved, she would become quiet and focused until she worked her way through it. However, this time, Doc wasn’t sure she was going to be able to work her way through this. It was fucked up too because she really just wanted to get over the man who was stealing her dreams.

  “I am so fucking jazzed to get to San Diego! I swear I loved the beaches down there, especially the beach on Coronado, you know the SEAL training one?” Jugs said and rubbed her hands together. “Since we have our IDs as retired military, it means we can go on the beach and watch. Granted, we need to keep our distance, but fuck, all those hot bodies, working out on the beach. Shit, I could spend all my days off there.”

  Spat laughed and said, “Hell yeah, you know we could totally be one of the trainers for the SEALs, like training them up close and personal about hand-to-hand combat.”

  “We should totally offer our services; I wonder who is in charge there now?” Puddin’ asked, and Sunny winked and licked her lips.

  “I bet it’s not the Col who was there before. He was yummy.”

  Doc laughed loudly and shook her head. “Until we get things set up and ready there, I hate to tell you we are going to be a little busy getting our business restarted.”

  Mace shrugged. “Not really, Shadow already has started the ads. We just need a place to store the copters until the building is done.”

  Maverick stood and walked to the kitchen and popped some food in the microwave, “We will work it out.”

  Marbles stood up as Doc turned to walk into the bedroom. She only had two more things to pack and she was done. But when she turned, she felt her head begin to spin. Marbles had thankfully been close, and she grabbed Doc and steadied her.

  “Whoa, you okay, Doc?” she said, and everyone in the room paused and looked at her.

  Doc frowned. Shit, she had been having these spells for a few days, and Doc wasn’t sure why, and right now, she didn’t have time to figure it out. She had already found them a primary care doctor to transfer to in San Diego; she would have them check her out when they got there.

  “Yeah, sorry, just turned too quick,” Doc muttered.

  Maverick said softly, “Seem to be doing that more and more, Doc.”

  “What the fuck?” Jacks whispered, and Doc sighed loudly.

  “It’s nothing, but I’m going to get a complete checkup when we get to San Diego,” Doc said warily, and then Maverick opened the door to the microwave and Doc smelt Chinese food and her stomach instantly revolted. Fuck, she thought as she threw a hand over her mouth and ran to the bathroom.

  She heard the rest of the Sisters yell and then run behind her. As she hit the bathroom, she tried to close the door, but it hit Marbles who slammed her hand against the wood and knocked it back so hard there was probably a hole in the wall now. Doc didn’t care; she flipped open the lid on the toilet in just enough time to empty her stomach. Fuck, she hated puking, it was the worst thing ever.

  Doc felt Marble put a cool cloth on the back of her neck, and then she heard the girls murmuring to each other about her as she repeatedly heaved until she sank to the floor. Maverick flushed the toilet while Marbles knelt in front of her and wiped her face.

  “What the fuck?” Jacks said, and s
he turned. “Someone get the thermometer; maybe she has the flu.”

  Chapter Six

  Doc did not have the fucking flu, it would have been so much simpler if she had, but nooo, not her, she wasn’t so lucky. Her friends were currently staring at her sitting on the toilet staring at the small white stick in her hand. Doc grimaced. The Sisters were like this, when something happened to one it happened to them all, there were no secrets between them, although right now she seriously wished there were.

  “OMFG,” Gypsy yelled from someone’s cellphone. “Seriously, what the fuck did it say, I am sitting here on the phone, I can’t see, bitches!”

  “Shhhh,” Tae Tae whispered. “She hasn’t read it yet.”

  She felt the tears well up in her eyes, shit, how in the fuck? She didn’t need to read it; the damn thing turned bright blue right when she peed on it. Doc wanted to laugh, seriously, she never thought she would be a mother, ever. Mostly because there wasn’t a man alive she didn’t want to kill. They annoyed the shit out of her, which was why being attracted to Fish was bothering her. She didn’t want to kill him; she just wanted him, which was abnormal for her.

  She looked up and saw her family looking at her expectantly. Doc tried to smile, she seriously did, but she knew she looked like a serial killer. Especially when Maverick said, “Oh shit, she has the serial killer smile, but I don’t know what it means?”

  Doc rolled her eyes and held it up. “Yay me, apparently the rabbit has died.”

  “Oh shit,” Tae Tae whispered loudly. “She is thinking about boiling bunnies.”

  “Huh?” Marbles snapped as she turned.

  “Dude, that smile and talking about rabbits, she is gonna go Fatal Attraction on someone,” Tae said, and Marbles rolled her eyes.

  “You totally have the wrong name!”

  Just then Tiny walked in, “What is going on? And who has the wrong name?”

  Marble pointed. “Tiny Dork, switch names with Tae Tae.”

  “Um no, and it is not Tiny Dork, it is Tiny only you guys keep adding the dork, and it is not appreciated!” the small woman said.

  “Can we focus here!” Maverick snapped.

  “A BABY!” Mace screamed and then danced around the bedroom as she clapped her hands! “I’m gonna be in the delivery room! I call dibs!”

  Doc sighed and shook her head. Of course, Mace would be happy, she was happy about everything. It was a little disconcerting, especially when someone was wounded and bleeding, she tried to sing to them. She looked on the bright side of everything, just weird, but lovable.

  She stared at her family; they had been through a lot together, all of them. Hell, even the betrayal of one of their own. Doc refused to think about her right now; she wasn’t worth the energy she needed to use anyway. Pushing up, she moved to the doorway, everyone backed up but stayed close as she tried to figure out what to say.

  “Wait!” Puddin’ snapped, and Doc froze. Puddin’ was a wild card. You never knew for sure what would trigger her, she was volatile, but then, of course, she was also a fucking master at hand-to-hand combat. “When did you have sex?”

  Doc felt the heat on her cheeks, and then Marbles laughed loudly and said, “No fucking way!”

  “What did we miss?” Jacks asked suspiciously.

  “It was him, wasn’t it?” Marbles grinned.

  “Who?” Mav asked with her eyes narrowed.

  Doc groaned and put her hands up to her face. “What the hell am I going to do?”

  “WHO?” Mav yelled, and then Puddin’ pulled out her knife and smiled.

  “Right, who are we gonna kill?”

  Marbles rolled her eyes. “Puddin’, put the knife away. And I am talking about the sexy as sin biker I told you about. Fish.”

  “Why would someone have a road name like Fish?” Jacks wrinkled her nose.

  Gypsy yelled on the phone, “SHIT, it’s that crazy bitch’s father, isn’t it, Harmony? She is batshit crazy, man; her and the other Lady Riders. Fish comes in every day to check on me or bring me meals. I swear those psychos have this room tapped. Every time he sits down to talk, suddenly there they are, asking him to do something or another. Then when he leaves they glare at me. The one called Shady, she went as far as to tell me to stop sniffing around Fish, he was too good for the likes of me.”

  Doc groaned louder, “What am I going to do?”

  All of them knew she was talking about the father, not whether she would keep the baby or not. That wasn’t a question, they all knew that Doc wanted a family for a long time. This was just a surprise, and they were going to need to help her through this.

  “Back to the name, why Fish? I mean, does he go fishing?” Jacks asked again.

  Mav put a hand on her nose and pinched it. “Seriously, people, FOCUS!”

  “Hey, names are important!” Jacks said.

  Marbles looked at her twin and said, “Would you let it go?”

  Jack shrugged and said, “Whatever, now, Doc, what is the problem?”

  She turned and fell on her bed, bouncing a little and sniffing. “What is wrong? Well let’s see...we are moving to a new town, we are starting our business from the ground up, the place we are moving is attached to a biker club that doesn’t necessarily walk on the right side of the law. Their women are vicious; Shadow said one of their own crossed them, and she disappeared, I mean there is vengeance, and then there is fucking crazy. How do you think they are gonna take me having a baby with one of their fathers? I mean, I think this could be bad, like really, really bad.”

  “Are you crying?” Mav asked incredulously. Mostly because Doc never cried, like ever. She was a hard ass bitch, and they all respected her for it. Doc was brought up in the system, which was why she took care of this family. It was her first and only one; no one doubted her leadership, she would never do a damn thing to hurt them, ever.

  “No,” Doc sniffed, and everyone crawled on the bed around her, making noises, trying to calm her down. Thank God, she had a king-size, but even at that, they were still piled up around her.

  “It will be okay,” Tae said softly.

  “How? In what fucking world is this going to be okay?” Doc cried.

  Then Mav said, “We kill him and say you were artificially inseminated. Easy peasy!”

  “Would you shut up!” Jugs snapped. “Can’t you see you are not helping!”

  “I gave a viable solution, if she doesn’t like it, well, we can think of something else. But just saying, think about it hard ‘cause it would be the easiest really,” Mav said, and then Doc groaned.

  “Are you going to puke?” Tiny whispered. “‘Cause I have a weak stomach, and if you do, I will.”

  “Dork!” Tae Tae snapped.

  “Knock it off!” Mav snapped. “Come on, Doc, let’s go out to the living room and sit down and think this out.”

  Fish and Fork roared down the open highway, and for the first time in the last few weeks, he felt at peace. Now he could think clearly about what he was going to do. He knew by the time he got back that Doc and the rest of the Sisters were going to be there. Which was one of the reasons why he left when he did. He didn’t want to be there when they got there, mostly because it was obvious she wanted nothing to do with him.

  He wasn’t desperate, he thought with a frown, there was just something there, but it had been one-sided, and he wasn’t going to make a fool out of himself anymore. He did that once for Harmony’s mom, and he wasn’t doing it again for any woman. He was going to keep his dignity this time. Shit, he should have never thought it would be any different.

  He saw Fork turn on his blinker and he followed, pulling into the gas station behind his friend and got off his bike. “Hungry?”

  Fish looked around, there was a diner next to the gas station, so he nodded. “Yeah, sounds good.”

  They filled their tanks and then went to the diner to grab some food. After they had ordered and the waitress dropped off their sodas, Fork leaned back.

  “So, what is this
really about?”

  Fish had wondered when Fork was going to ask questions, it wasn’t like he hid the fact that there was something bothering him, but it was the first time he hadn’t gone to one of his brothers and talked to them about it. He sighed and sat back.

  “I don’t really know,” Fish admitted, and Fork frowned.

  “You mean it’s not about Doc, that Satan’s Sisters you fucked that night Fling gave her and her club their sponsorship?”

  Fish raised an eyebrow. “Shit, does Harmony know?”

  “Oh, fuck no,” the younger man laughed loudly. “Do you really think Doc would still be alive? More importantly, do you really think Harmony would not have chewed your ass out?”

  Fish sighed. “Yeah, you are right.”

  “So, this whole mopey shit isn’t about her? Creed and I figured it was, hell, everyone figured it was,” Fork said.

  “Everyone?” Fish asked, and Fork grinned.

  “Brother, you fucked her on the grass between the two clubs, did you really think no one was going to see you? Shit, I think four of the guys told us the next morning.”

  Fish groaned and leaned back. “I am too old for this shit.”

  “Oh please, you are forty-nine, that is not too old, heck, if we didn’t know Harmony was your daughter we would have never guessed you even had a grown kid. Come on, there is nothing you can’t tell me. I am not saying shit to Harmony, you are our brother, and besides, I like my nuts right where they are.”

  Fish chuckled. “My girl is scrappy.”

  Fork shook his head. “No, I love her, but Harmony is not what I would call scrappy. I think I would call her a stone-cold killer.”

  “Yeah,” Fish agreed and then took a drink of his soda and looked out the window. “I don’t think you ever met her mother. Her name was Shileen, Shi for short. Thought everything was good with us you know, thought it would last. But then she got pregnant, and her true colors came out. Hell, I practically had to pay her to keep Harmony, and as the months went on, I figured that she would change her mind. You know what I mean, after carrying a child for nine months and then going through all the pain of delivery, I seriously thought once she laid eyes on Harmony she would love her. Instead, the bitch handed her to me and asked for her money. That’s right, I paid her to give me Harmony. She doesn’t know; only I do, so don’t be spreading that around.”