4 months later....

Avery

Things finally settled down. I went back to work again, and after everything that had happened it just felt so normal, which was amazing. I hated how things had turned out in the beginning of this ride but now that everything was over it was the best thing that has ever happened to me. I knew things were hard for Johnny. Especially when we had to bury his father, but he didn't really show it.

After we got back to the compound that frightful day and decompressed, we had to face the worried crowd of friends and family. After all we couldn't avoid them forever. It was definitely hard to do especially with his grandparents and uncle but it had to be done. The funeral service we had held for Robert was very beautiful and lighthearted considering the circumstance in which he passed, but it was what he would have wanted.

After everything had died down we moved into the new apartment next to my old one and Lily and Jason went back to the one her and I had together. I was happy for them, their love had really bloomed.

I felt so happy for Johnny, he didn't want to be involved in 'the life' anymore and he quit the club. At first I was scared, I didn't understand why he would want to leave the club especially when there was no one to take over for him, but he said he didn't care. He had made one of the the Sgt. at Arms, the president. When Johnny left so had Jason, now Lily and I had two regular Joe's.

Johnny started going to college, because he wanted to be an engineer. I thought it was amazing that he would make such a complete 180 on career choices. He was working in construction to help pay the bills, even though he was going to college full time. I was very proud of him. I hated being the reason that he ended up leaving, though he told me countless times I wasn't why he left, it was seeing his father dying and putting his life in danger for nothing. He didn't want our baby to grow up fatherless. I could agree to that, but I still felt responsible for him changing his life around even if it was for the better.

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I was currently at work working on a case with an abused child when I started feeling very aggressive pains in my lower abdomen, and back. It was unlike anything I had ever felt before, it didn't come on constantly so I just ignored it. I had felt slight false contractions for the past few weeks, but they weren't nearly as painful as these ones were starting to become. I was five days past my due date, and I really just wanted the baby to come out. With the way these nine months had gone I just wanted to be done with it so I could see my son.

Working away on the computer trying the best I could to not think about the pain I was feeling, my water broke on me.

"Fucking hell," I whispered to myself. "You're choosing now to come out baby," I put my hand on my stomach and started rubbing it. I pushed my office chair over to my purse and pulled out my cellphone. Johnny would be pissed. He really hated that I wanted to continue working instead of taking my last month of my pregnancy off. I wanted to be able to spend as much time as I could with the baby after he was born so I refused to take off.

"Johnny, it's time meet me at the hospital," I said gasping through my contraction.

"Dammit woman I told you not to work, I'm on my way I'll be there as soon as I can. I love you darlin'," he said through the other end of the phone call.

"I love you too," I said breathlessly and hung up.

I walked over to my boss's office and opened the door. His eyes grew wide and his mouth popped open.

"Oh my god Avery we need to call the paramedics!" He exclaimed. I nodded. He picked up his office phone and dialed for the ambulance to come pick me up. Once they arrived I had a 20 minute drive to the hospital.

Johnny

I arrived at the hospital as soon as she had called. She looked so miserable, her face was all scrunched together and when she had noticed me she gave me a weak, defeated smirk. I felt so bad for her. The took me into another room so I could change into some scrubs so I could be in the room with Avery.

 I was ready for my baby. I needed to see him, and hold him in my arms. After all these long nine months Avery and I deserved him. We fought tooth and nail to get to this point in our lives, and boy was it a fight. After my father passing and Vincent kidnapping her I didn't want to be in a biker gang anymore. I didn't want to be a third generation fuck up. I wanted my family and I to be out of that equation. That's why I left the club to the Sgt. at Arms, Regan.

He didn't love anyone, he didn't care for anyone only himself, and that's why he would keep the club going the right way. Jason decided to leave after I had. I was glad for it, after he started going after Lily, I knew he wasn't invested in the club anymore, only her.

I half ran into the room so that I could be with Avery and help her, at least as best I could. When I got in the doctor was telling her that she was 6 centimeters dilated. I knew what that meant, she only had four more to go before it was time for her to push.

Avery

When Johnny came into the room, it was like a weight had been lifted off my back. I knew I could do it with him by my side. I still had a while to go before I hit the last four centimeters so the doctor told me to walk around to get me to dilate more. I got out of bed with Johnny's help, and started to walk up and down the hallway with him holding my hand. Every time a wave of pain hit I would squeeze his hand and hunch over using my breathing exercises. 

Every hour or so the doctor would come in and check to see if it was time to push, and after six hours of being stuck doing nothing and feeling pain it was time.

 Oh god I was scared. 

All these thoughts flooded my brain.

 How am I going to be as a mother? What will my son be like? Who will he look like?

I held onto Johnny's hand squeezing through the pain, feeling everything, screaming, until a cry filled the air and my son was in my arms.

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"What do you think we should name him?" Johnny asked.

"I think I found a good one for him," I beamed.

"Really? What is it?"

"Robert Alexander Laden," I looked down at him smiling. He looked just like his father. Same black hair, same gray eyes, but he had my nose, my ears, and my smile. He was a beautiful baby, and he was only ours.

"I think that's a perfect name for him," he said. Both of us could not stop staring at him. Even after everyone had come and left, we still watched him as he slept in my arms.

"You've had a busy day momma, I think it is time for you to go to sleep,"Johnny said.

 I looked at Johnny, his face full of worry.

"I just can't stop looking at him, he's so beautiful!" I said as I handed him over to Johnny to put him in his bassinet.

"Is this everything you had hoped for?" He asked as he lay him down.

"Everything and more," I said as I drifted off to sleep.

The End!