[karana]

Na dann will ich mal nicht so sein.. lustig dass du das mit Kirk als Bademeister ansprichst.....

Chapter 2:

They dozed for twenty minutes before whimpers from the stroller could be heard and soon turned into cries.

“I get her”, Lorelai said and got off of Luke and walked to her daughter. “Hey, my angel, what’s wrong? Aren’t you tired Kaira?” she cooed and took her daughter out of the stroller and rocked her softly. The cries turned into whimpering and fussing again and she stroked over her daughters cheek.

“What’s wrong with her?” Luke asked and wanted to get up, but Lorelai stopped him and sat down beside him.

“I don’t know. Usually she sleeps after I fed her, her diaper is clean and she is in the shade, so I don’t know”, Lorelai replied and turned her daughter around to look at her. She couldn’t find anything.

“Hand her over”, Luke said and Lorelai handed him the baby. He cradled her against his naked chest and stroked over back.

“Everything’s okay, sweety. Daddy is here and your crazy mother as well. Your brother is sleeping. No need to cry”, he said quietly with his deep voice and Lorelai had to smile at the picture. This tall man holding the small baby in his large hands as if she was the most precious thing he had ever seen. It always touched her when she saw him with their kids and it amazed her, what a great father he was. The gruff diner owner was gone and replaced by a soft and caring father the second the kids were around.

“Seems like she just missed her daddy”, Lorelai smiled when Kaira calmed down.

“Yeah, seems like it”, he smiled and placed a kiss on his daughter’s head.

“You’re such a softy”, she smiled and kissed him before she snuggled up to him and her daughter.

“Wait until we get home, then I’m gonna beat you up again”, Luke whispered back and winked at her.

“Kinky”, Lorelai giggled and Luke rolled his eyes.

“Is she sleeping?” she asked him and pointed to the baby when Kaira was suddenly quiet.

“Yeah, I think so”, he nodded and looked down at her.

“I’m gonna lay her down in her stroller”, Lorelai said and wanted to take Kaira from him.

“No, leave her. Maybe she’s just dozing and starts crying the second we lay her down”, he said and readjusted his daughter, cradled her in his arms so he could see her face.

“She looks nothing like Sam”, he stated, although he had said it so many times before.

“Sam looks like you with my hair-color. I think, and trust me, I don’t want to say this, but I think she looks a lot like my mother, just in blonde”, Lorelai said.

“Yeah, you’re right. Let’s just hope she won’t be like your mother”, Luke said and wrinkled his forehead.

“Nah, Kaira is such a gentle soul already. And I think it can’t hurt to inherit my mother’s legs though for when she’s older. My mother still has great legs”, Lorelai sighed.

“Why are you sighing?” Luke asked.

“The one thing I wanted from her, I didn’t get: I don’t have her legs”, she clarified and looked down at her own legs.

“Please tell me you’re not complaining about your legs. You have great legs”, Luke protested and ran one hand briefly over her thigh.

“True, but I can’t hear it often enough”, she grinned.

“Oh the work, woman”, Luke groaned and placed another kiss on Kaira’s head.

“Ladies and gentlemen”, Taylor’s voice suddenly echoed over the place, so loud that it made their ears ring and Kaira immediately started to fuss again.

“Take her, I’m gonna kill Taylor”, Luke said, handed the baby to Lorelai and marched off to find Taylor. When he reached the first speaker he pulled out the cable, so that Kaira could calm down and Sam would keep sleeping.
He found Taylor in the life-guard cabin, a microphone in the hand, talking about his responsibility for this pool, the building of the pool and so on and so on. The speaker on the other side of the pool was still working, so at least half the people could hear his speech, although he wasn’t aware that Luke had unplugged the cable of the other speaker.

“Hey! Taylor stop that noise!” Luke yelled when he reached him.

“Well Luke I have to welcome the citizens of Stars Hollow at the new public pool…”

“You’re waking up my kids with your annoying babbling”, Luke interrupted him.

“Luke, I am sorry to hear that, but as the town selectman I have to…” Taylor started again and a huge crowd surrounded the cabin already to see the show.

“You have to let my kids sleep”, Luke yelled and unplugged the microphone, took it out of Taylor’s hands and marched off again.

“You’re stealing my microphone! You’re committing a crime Lucas Danes!” Taylor yelled after him.

“If you don’t shut up I’m going to kick your ass around! THEN I will commit a crime”, Luke replied and walked away.

“You should have yelled louder, I only understood half of it”, Lorelai complained and pouted when he arrived back at their place, but then laughed.

“You took his microphone away?” she giggled.

“Otherwise he will wake up the kids”, Luke shrugged, still red in his face with anger.

“You’re one hell of a father Luke Danes”, Lorelai said and put her free hand over her heart, and cradled Kaira with the other.

“You betcha”, he smiled, threw the microphone to their stuff in the shade and then sat back down next to her and took Kaira again.

~*~

One hour later Sam and Kaira were awake again. While Lorelai build sand-castles with Sam Luke lay on his stomach on the blanket and played with Kaira. She screamed in delight and her arms and legs struggled whenever Luke put the cotton blanket down, behind which he hid his face.
Luke laughed as well and placed a kiss on his daughters belly whenever she screamed and gurgled, what brought him a few kicks against his chin.

“Huh, I think you need a fresh diaper, princess”, he said after a while and took off her pink bathing suit and her diaper.

“Lorelai, where is her diaper bag?” he turned to his wife and she pointed to the stroller without pausing her game with Sam.
Luke got up and got the diaper bag, then sat back down and opened his daughter’s diaper.

“Ah Jeez”, he exclaimed and took several baby-wipes out of the package.

“At least she doesn’t have a “lethal weapon””, Lorelai smiled and raised her eyebrows.

“You just have to hold down the diaper a bit longer, so that he can adjust to the cold air”, Luke told her and took the dirty diaper away and wrapped it up, before he threw it in the plastic-bag they had brought.

“So the cold air was the reason why I got peed at, at least once a day?” Lorelai asked.

“Who pees, mommy?” Sam asked, suddenly interested in his parents talk, when he picked up the word “pee”.

“You peed at mommy, my friend, when you were as old as Kaira”, Lorelai told him.

“No”, Sam said, shook his head and made a disgusted face.

“Yes, you did. At least once a day when I changed you”, Lorelai nodded.

“No”, Sam said again and shook his head vigorously. “Diaper, mommy”, he said and pointed to the diaper he was wearing.

“Yes, now you’re wearing a diaper”, she smiled and stopped discussing with him, knowing that he would start crying if she insisted that she was right.

“Lucas Danes!” Taylor suddenly showed up and pointed at him, Kirk by his side in wearing a lifeguard outfit, just like the guys in Baywatch.

“Aw Jeez”, Sam said and fled into his mother’s arms.

“What?” Luke grumped, but kept creaming and powdering Kaira.

“I want my microphone back”, Taylor said.

“No”, Luke said and shook his head.

“You are a thief! I will call the police and…” Taylor started again.

“I will shove the microphone up you’re a…” Luke started, but Lorelai interrupted him before he could say the word.

“You will get it back when we leave Taylor”, she said and smiled politely.

“I will take your word for it Lorelai” Taylor said haughtily. “I will never understand how you can stand this.. this man all day long”, he went on.

“Shut up Taylor!” Luke interrupted him once again.

“S’ut up Taylor”, Sam repeated and giggled.

“That is just great. You should really watch your words around your own children, Luke”, Taylor lectured him.

“Make him leave”, Luke said through gritted teeth to Lorelai, then concentrated back on his task of changing Kaira’s diaper.

“Taylor, I really think it would be better if you leave now”, Lorelai turned to Taylor.

“All right, all right, but I expect the microphone to be back tonight, otherwise I will have to sue your husband”, he said.

“I heard you Taylor”, Lorelai nodded obediently and was glad when he finally left before Luke would lose his patience.

“Hey, what did I miss?” Sookie asked suddenly and walked towards them with her children.

“Just Taylor bugging us again, nothing new”, Lorelai shrugged.

“Ah okay. Hi Sam”, Sookie shrugged also and waved at Sam.

“Hi Sookie”, he waved back .

“Aw, he’s so cute. I love it when he waves”, Sookie gushed and spread out her blanket next to Lorelai’s.

“Davey could you blow up the water-wings, please”, she turned to her son.

“I don’t need water- wings”, he said and threw his clothes on the blanket.

“I know you don’t, but your sisters do”, she told him and gave him a look, so he knew he shouldn’t fight her on this.

“Aw man, always me! Why can’t they blow up their stupid water-wings themselves?!” he muttered, but started to blow them up.

“What’s wrong with him?” Lorelai asked and adjusted Sam, who had sat down in her lap.

“He wanted to come here with his friends, alone, and I said no”, Sookie told her.

“Ah okay, that explains”, Lorelai nodded. “Hey Davey, but isn’t it nice to have so many beautiful women to accompany you? Martha, Karen, Kaira and you mother and me, of course”, Lorelai teased him.

“No”, he replied and threw the first blown-up water-wing onto the blanket.

“Don’t let them tease you, Davey. Sam and I are here as well”, Luke said and picked up Kaira to put on her hat again.

“Thank god”, Davey said.

“Aw, male bonding, how cute”, Lorelai giggled and Sookie joined her.

“Leave the boy alone”, Luke replied and patted Davey on the shoulder and gave him a nod.

“Where is Jackson?” Lorelai asked while Sookie undressed her daughters meanwhile.

“With his pepperonis. When it’s so hot he has to stay there and look after them”, Sookie replied and helped her youngest daughter to step into the bathing-suit.

“Mommy, I’m finished, can I go swimming now?” Davey asked and dropped the other water-wings onto the blanket.

“You can go into the kids pool over there where I see you”.

“But Mom, I can swim”, he protested.

“Yes, you can swim, but your sisters can’t and they will follow you like little puppies, so you have to stay here”, Sookie told him.

“But that’s so unfair mom! I can never do anything when they are around”, he yammered.

“Why don’t you take the girls to the kids-pool and I will take Sam and Davey to the normal pool with me. I could use some cooling of as well”, Luke suggested.

“You wanna go with Luke and Sam?” Sookie asked her son.

“Yeah!” he yelled enthusiastically and grabbed Luke’s hand.
“You really wanna take Sam?” Lorelai asked surprised.

“Yeah sure, just get him out of his diaper. We will stop at the toilets before and I’ll take his water wings with us so he can splash around a bit”, Luke said.

“Okay”, Lorelai smiled and took Sam’s diaper off before she put his trunks on.

“There you go, honey”, she said and swatted her sons butt playfully, before she handed him over to Luke, who pecked her lips and handed her Kaira before he walked of with Sam and Davey in tow and they heard him groaning annoyance when Kirk suddenly showed up beside them and accompanied them to the pool.

“There they go”, Sookie giggled.

“The fearsome foursome”, Lorelai laughed and wiped Kaira’s mouth with a towel when the baby drooled on her shoulder.

TBC