[He finds the test in the trash, and don't ask what he was doing going through the trash, he thought he dropped his toothbrush in there and he grabbed the pregnancy test thinking it was that and yeah, no not brushing his teeth with that. A quick search for the box tells him what the little lines mean. Two lines means pregnant.
Well, fuck is the first thought through his head and shit, that sounds bad but it's not like that. Okay, it is like that but it's good he didn't say it out loud even to himself. Raleigh never really wanted to be a father, to be perfectly honest. Being a dad and having a family of his own sometime was Yancy's thing and Raleigh never put much thought into it, never met a girl that he really entertained those kinds of thoughts about for a very long because having a family to him means being in a long term committed relationship, getting married, and all that. That's just what he grew up with in his head, he's not really the kind of guy for one night stands or casual fucks and that's always worked just fine for him in the past, so why bother changing it.
Mako's obviously not anything like a casual relationship. She's his entire world, she's the one thing that could ever have made him turn away from the club, she's the reason he made that deal in the end and brought all of Chau's organization down, she's the reason he took the gamble and went against his own sense of loyalty, she's the one thing he insisted on when he signed the deal. He'll spill whatever they want but they had to protect her too. He'd go wherever they said, call himself whatever they wanted but she had to come with him. They had to be put together because fuck knows, she was going to have to disappear too.
Witness protection isn't glamorous, not that anyone would think that. It's literally uprooting from your previous life and cutting all the ties there. It's easier for Raleigh, who had nothing but a group of men like brothers that he betrayed and an estranged sister to leave behind but Mako has to cut contact with her FBI contacts, with her adoptive father and mentor and they never talk about it but Raleigh knows that's not an easy thing for her.
When he finds that test, his entire world shifts on its axis. They've been pretty safe in their new life, but that doesn't mean shit if the members of the club who managed to avoid prison find them, if Chau's friends hunt them down and there's guns stashed all over the house for this exact reason. Having a kid makes it more complicated, makes it harder, makes it so there's something else for them to lose if this all crashes down around them.
It would make the most sense to keep it simple, to get rid of it but Raleigh's mind immediately rebels against this plan the second he thinks of it. He doesn't care about sense, he cares that she's carrying his child and it might just be like an inch big right now but it's still his family. And he can't let anything happen to his family. He's lost so much of it that he'll cling to a baby that hardly resembles a person right now and fight to the death for it. Fuck, he wants a kid and don't ask where that urge came from, he's not sure either but he doesn't want her to get rid of it.
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Well, fuck is the first thought through his head and shit, that sounds bad but it's not like that. Okay, it is like that but it's good he didn't say it out loud even to himself. Raleigh never really wanted to be a father, to be perfectly honest. Being a dad and having a family of his own sometime was Yancy's thing and Raleigh never put much thought into it, never met a girl that he really entertained those kinds of thoughts about for a very long because having a family to him means being in a long term committed relationship, getting married, and all that. That's just what he grew up with in his head, he's not really the kind of guy for one night stands or casual fucks and that's always worked just fine for him in the past, so why bother changing it.
Mako's obviously not anything like a casual relationship. She's his entire world, she's the one thing that could ever have made him turn away from the club, she's the reason he made that deal in the end and brought all of Chau's organization down, she's the reason he took the gamble and went against his own sense of loyalty, she's the one thing he insisted on when he signed the deal. He'll spill whatever they want but they had to protect her too. He'd go wherever they said, call himself whatever they wanted but she had to come with him. They had to be put together because fuck knows, she was going to have to disappear too.
Witness protection isn't glamorous, not that anyone would think that. It's literally uprooting from your previous life and cutting all the ties there. It's easier for Raleigh, who had nothing but a group of men like brothers that he betrayed and an estranged sister to leave behind but Mako has to cut contact with her FBI contacts, with her adoptive father and mentor and they never talk about it but Raleigh knows that's not an easy thing for her.
When he finds that test, his entire world shifts on its axis. They've been pretty safe in their new life, but that doesn't mean shit if the members of the club who managed to avoid prison find them, if Chau's friends hunt them down and there's guns stashed all over the house for this exact reason. Having a kid makes it more complicated, makes it harder, makes it so there's something else for them to lose if this all crashes down around them.
It would make the most sense to keep it simple, to get rid of it but Raleigh's mind immediately rebels against this plan the second he thinks of it. He doesn't care about sense, he cares that she's carrying his child and it might just be like an inch big right now but it's still his family. And he can't let anything happen to his family. He's lost so much of it that he'll cling to a baby that hardly resembles a person right now and fight to the death for it. Fuck, he wants a kid and don't ask where that urge came from, he's not sure either but he doesn't want her to get rid of it.
And wait, shit--]
Mako!