[karana]

Ich hatte das hier erst als OS gepostet und dabei solte es eigentlich auch bleiben, allerdings wurde ich jetzt schon ein paar mal (bei FF.net) gebeten das doch wenigstens noch etwas fortzusetzen.

Man könnte das hier auch als Fortsetzung von "Madness in love" sehen, muss man aber nicht. Die Story hat eigentlich keinen plot, also sucht erst gar nicht danach

Spectacular

It was eight o’clock in the morning and already unbearably hot on this August day in Stars Hollow.
The streets were deserted because the citizens of the small town were either still asleep at home or at the opening of the new public pool in town, seeking relieve from the heat.

In the Danes house nobody was asleep anymore though.
“Luke, could you come and get Sam before he opens the child- protection gate again and will fall down the stairs?!”, Lorelai yelled from upstairs.

“Why don’t you pick him up, you’re closer?!”, Luke yelled back, but turned the stove off and walked towards the stairs.

“Because I am feeding your daughter as we speak”, came the prompt reply and Luke ascended the stairs and found his two year old son only in his diapers in front of the gate, trying to get it open.

“Hey, what do you think you’re doing buddy?”, Luke asked and stepped over the gate and Sam looked up to him with the big blue eyes of his, his dark hair still sticking out from his sleep.

“Daddy”, Sam complained when Luke picked him up and took him away from the gate. He tried to wiggle out of his father’s arms, but Luke held him tight and carried him into the nursery where Lorelai was sitting in the rocking-chair, breast-feeding her three month old baby daughter.

“No, you’re staying here, otherwise you’re going to fall down the stairs”, Luke told Sam after he had set him down on the floor and the boy tried to run out of the room, but Luke closed the door. Sam started pouting and then stomped his foot on the floor before he crossed his arms in front of his chest and turned his back towards his parents.

“You wanna continue”, Lorelai laughed and pointed with her chin to their daughter, who was sucking away contently on her mother’s breast.

“As if I could”, Luke smiled and stroked with one finger over his daughter’s tiny cheek.

“Mommy, Daddy”, Sam said and turned around, still pouting and pointed to the door.

“Two years old and you already perfected the pout, god I am so proud my son”, Lorelai smiled and switched baby Kaira to her other breast.

“I’m gonna change him and then take him downstairs with me to get the breakfast ready”, Luke said and picked up Sam again after another moment of silence, during which Sam tried to reach the handle to open the door.

“Yeah and don’t forget his trunks”, Lorelai shrugged. Luke, who had just turned to walk out of the room stopped dead in his tracks.

“I told you I wouldn’t go to the opening of this stupid public pool”, he said and turned around to face her again.

“And I told you that we would go alone then and you can sit here or in the diner meanwhile”, she replied.

“And I told you…” Luke started but was interrupted by his wife.

“I know what you said, I heard your speech about how unsanitary public pools are, several times over the last weeks, but we, meaning me and the kids, are still going. It’s so freaking hot in here and I won’t sit here with them all day long, sweating and stewing while you are in the diner”, she said. “Right Sam? Were are going swimming today?”, she smiled.

“Yay! Swimming”, the boy smiled and threw up his little arms in excitement.

“Great”, Luke muttered defeated and left the room. He took a turn right and walked into Sam’s room and found a packed back-pack with water-wings, towels and several toys on the armchair in the corner of the room and Sam’s trunks on the changing-table.

“Huh, how are we going to do this buddy? Just put them on over your diapers or does your mommy want to challenge her luck and you just wear the trunks?” Luke asked his son and opened his diaper. He took the baby-wipe out and cleaned his son, creamed him with the kids sun-block Lorelai had placed on the changing-table and threw away the dirty diaper before he put on a new one.

“Should we put this over your diaper?” Luke asked and held up the blue trunks with the teddy-bears and Sam nodded with a smile.

“Bears daddy”, he said and pointed to the prints on the trunks.

“And how are bears making?” Luke asked him.

“Uuuuaaarrr”, Sam made and scrunched up his face to look scary.

“Yeah, ‘uuuaaarrr’ they are making”, Luke smiled. “And how are bird making?” he asked.

“Peep, peep, peep”, Sam made and giggled when Luke joined him.

“You two are too cute for words, my little love-birds”, Lorelai laughed and made her presence noticed.

“Mommy was spying on us again. How are spies?” Luke asked Sam and laughed when the boy made “Ewwww”.

“Stop teaching him useless things and get him dressed so we can get going”, Lorelai said.

“Shouldn’t you be feeding our daughter?”, Luke shot back and raised his eyebrows.

“I only have to burp her and I can do that while walking around”, she told him with a duh- expression and walked over to the changing table.

“Such a handsome boy you are in those pretty trunks, gorgeous”, Lorelai smiled at Sam and placed a kiss on his forehead.


“How will this work? You let him go into the pool with his diaper on or will you take it of?” Luke asked her and got some shorts and a shirt for his son.

“I will take the diaper of whenever he goes into the water and put it back on when he comes out. As long as it will be clean of course”, Lorelai informed Luke and patted the back of her baby soothingly when a loud burp echoed through the room, followed by a gush of spit out milk onto her shoulder.

“And mommy can get dressed now as well, now that she has had her daily morning spit up”, she smiled at Sam, gave Luke a peck and walked into the bedroom to get dressed as well.

~*~

When breakfast was ready, Sam was dressed and eating in his high-chair and Kaira was back asleep, Lorelai came back downstairs wearing a black bathing-suite and nothing else.

“Luke, look at this!”, she said when she skipped into the kitchen and placed herself right in front of him.

“What?” he asked confused when he couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary.

“My boops look absolutely fabulous in this bathing-suit”, she smiled proudly and put her hands on her breast to push them up even more.

“They always look good”, Luke shrugged unimpressed and placed the plate with pancakes on the table and handed Sam one.

“Huh, he’s not impressed. I guess that’s the three years of marriage speaking. The spark is gone, the romance away, the flame is distinguished, the air is out…”, she sighed and looked down to her breasts again. “Why don’t you find them spectacular in this bathing-suit?” she asked him after a longer inspection.

“Might have to do with the fact that they are leaking”, Luke shrugged and pointed to the wet spots on her black bathing- suit.

“Oh… that”, Lorelai said, clearly embarrassed now and turned around to walk upstairs and get dressed, but Luke caught her by the arm and turned her around again, before she could walk away.

“They always look spectacular, but I like them best without the bathing suit.. or anything else for that matter”, he told her and kissed her.

“But they are leaking”, she repeated his words.

“Doesn’t matter”, he smiled and kissed her again. “But I guess you have to do something about it while you’re at the pool”, he said while he still held her close by her waist.

“I know, I have the nursing-pads upstairs, they will help to prevent that”, she smiled, the embarrassment gone, as well as the feeling of rejection.

“Daddy milk”, Sam interrupted and pointed to his empty cup in front of him.
“What’s the magic word?” Lorelai asked.

“Please”, Sam said and smiled brightly.

“Daddy will get you your milk and mommy better gets dressed now”, Luke said and playfully swatted Lorelai’s butt when she turned around and walked upstairs.

~*~
“Lorelai, sugar, there you are”, Patty greeted her when she walked through the gate of the new public pool.

“Let me help you dear”,Patty said and took the stroller with the kids out of her hands, while she left Lorelai with the heavy bags she had to bring. She needed one diaper bag for Sam, one for Kaira. Several bottles with tea for the kids, something to drink for herself, cookies for her son, toys, towels, a blanket…. She felt like she was moving into the pool and not just visiting it for one day.
Luke had gone to the diner, as he had said and decided not to join them at the pool. Lorelai couldn’t understand why he woulnd’t spend the day with them, but the again, it was Luke and he hated all town events, even the opening of the new public pool.

“Lorelai, over here! We reserved you a place in the shadow”, Babette yelled over the area when she saw Lorelai and Patty was already pushing the stroller towards her former neighbor.

“Where is that hunky husband of yours?” Babette asked when she saw that Lorelai had come alone with the kids.

“At the diner and please don’t make me repeat his rants about public-pools”, Lorelai sighed and dropped the stuff she held to the floor to spread out the blanket.

“But he is sexy as hell when he’s ranting”, Babette said.

“Isn’t he always?” Patty asked with a dreamy voice and Lorelai laughed.

“Patty, you know that it’s not right to lust after a married man and father of three kids, right?”she said, but Patty just waved her off.

“Mommy”, Sam called and held out his hands for her to take him out of the stroller.
She didn’t pick him up though, but crouched down in front of him.

“I want you to listen very closely now, little Mister, okay? Mommy will let you out now, but you won’t run away and you won’t go near the water. You will stay right here on this blanket and don’t you dare to set one foot off of it. Understood?” she asked and Sam nodded.
“Otherwise you will spend your time in the stroller, with Kirk as your babysitter”, she added.

“Mommy no! No Kirk”, Sam whined and clung to his mother when she picked him up, because he was scared of Kirk and his crazy demeanour.

“Then stay on the blanket”, she smiled at him. She took of his shirt and his shorts and placed his cap back on his head, before she handed him a book and then picked up Kaira and lay her down on the blanket as well.

“Mommy read”, Sam requested and showed her the book, but Lorelai was busy setting up the umbrella and the other things she had brought, so he turned to his sister and decided to “read” something for her, which meant he babbled something and she lay there and played with her feet.

~*~
“Oooh, it’s cold Kaira. Cold water. Uiiiii”, Lorelai cooed while she held her daughter and let her feet touch the water of the kids pool, while the baby smiled. She had bought a small pink bathing- suit for her and she looked just adorable in it, which she had been assured of several times by several people. The baby even wore he matching hat, but had started to get fuzzy when Lorelai had placed tiny pink sun-glasses on her nose, so she had taken them off again.
Sam was playing beside them with his tiny shovel and a tiny kids bucket, in which he shovelled water, just to dump it back into the pool when the bucket was full.
He wore his trunks without a diaper and Lorelai hoped that this wouldn’t turn out to be a very bad idea, but so far it had worked.
It was nearly two o’clock now and she needed to feet Kaira again before the kids were due for their nap.

“Mommy, I have to pee”, Sam suddenly said and dropped the shovel and the bucket.

“Oh”, Lorelai said and looked around for someone who could take Kaira. She saw Taylor standing not that far away in his usual grey vest and black trousers. She picked up Sam with one arm, hurried to Taylor and lay Kaira in his arms.

“Hey”, he refused and held Kaira away from him like he held a bomb.

“It’s urgent or Sam will pee into the kid’s pool”, she said and then hurried off with Sam to the toilets before Taylor could say something else. She reached the bathroom just in time and was glad when Sam had relieved himself.
When they stepped out she could already hear Kaira’s furious screams, so she picked up Sam again and ran to her daughter.

It wasn’t Taylor who held the screaming infant though, it was Luke, clad in flannel, jeans and baseball cap, who held his daughter and tried to calm her.

“Are crazy handing my daughter to that loon with a beard?” Luke asked her when she had reached him. “She was screaming like crazy when I got here”, he said and placed a kiss on his daughter’s head, who was still crying.

“She’s just hungry”, Lorelai shrugged and handed him Sam, while she took Kaira.

“Ah Jeez, he is all wet”, Luke said when the water from Sam’s trunks soaked through his flannel.

“Well, he was in the pool before”, Lorelai shrugged and sat down on the blanket and took out one of the white cotton diapers, they used as wipes.

“What are you doing?” Luke asked and placed Sam on the blanket and took of his flannel.

“Feeding Kaira, duh”, she replied and lay the diaper over the baby’s head and her own chest, before she pulled the straps of her bathing suit down.
“Here?” Luke asked and his mouth stood open. “In front of everyone…. In public… everyone can see….”, he stuttered and pointed to her chest.

“No one can see anything because of the diaper. And I think I already told you that we women lose all sense of dignity the moment we give birth anyway. So many people staring at your privates.. don’t get me started”, she said with an eye-roll and positioned the baby on her breast.

“See, princess, that’s better”, she smiled when her daughter calmed down and started to suck.

“Daddy, swimmin’”, Sam said and tugged on his father’s arm.

“Sam, honey, I think your father will swim with you after your nap”, Lorelai interjected and Sam started to cry and rub his eyes, clearly tired.

“No! Daddy now”, he cried and Luke only took him I in his arms, placed him in his lap and rocked him to sleep in no time.
While Lorelai fed Kaira, Luke changed Sam out of the wet trunks and into his bath-robe and then lay him down on the blanket and covered him with a towel.



~*~
Kayra had fallen asleep while nursing and Lorelai lay her down in the stroller and turned to Luke, who was still sitting on the blanket, still in his jeans and shirt.

“Luuuuke”, she pouted and sat down in his lap.

“Oh no, not the pout”, Luke sighed, but slung his arms around her waist. “What do you want?” he asked then.

“Undress please”, she said and buried her face in his neck for a moment.

“Dirty”, he whispered and chuckled.

“Please tell me you brought your trunks?!” she asked, still with the pout and looked him in the eyes.

“I brought my trunks”, he nodded and gave her a peck.

“So you’re staying?” she asked him and smiled like a child on Christmas-morning.

“I’m staying”, he nodded and placed her on the blanket and undressed, having his trunks under his jeans.

“Why the sudden change of mind?” she asked him when he was done and sat back down and she was able to snuggle in his arms, while he leaned against the tree.

“Well, I couldn’t get the image of you in this bathing suit out of my head”, he whispered in her ear and tightened his arms around her.

“So they really are spectacular, huh?” she smiled knowingly and Luke silently nodded, before he placed a kiss on her temple and they just relaxed at the new public pool along with their kids.

TBC