So here is chapter 7 :) I hope you are all still enjoying these little moments, I have a few more already written (or is it wrote? I should know that!) and a few more idea lined up :) This chapter is for GeorgeAndrews, Thank you for the idea :D
Sheldon Hawkes laid in Lucy's little toddler bed, he heard how Danny had slept In there with her a few weeks back, he couldn't work out how, it was small and uncomfortable. He guessed though that as a father it's just something that you do if your child needs you. He knew full well that once he and Camille have children, if anyone of them asked him to sleep in their bed with them he would do it in a heartbeat.
He heard the door to Lucy's bedroom open; she was back, his nurse. She approached the bed dressed in a pair of scrubs that Hawkes had got her from the hospital and shrunk down in his washing machine to fit her. She also had her doctors' kit in her hand, which had been a birthday gift from Sid.
"How's my patient feeling?" She asked as she knelt on the floor to undo the kit.
"I'm not too bad" he smiled at her.
She stood up with her hands on her hips "Uncle Hawkes, you are meant to be sick, so you gotta say 'I'm sick'"
Hawkes let out a little laugh at how much like Lindsay she was just then; he then faked a cough "I'm sick nurse Lucy, really sick"
"that's better, Right, let's see what's wrong" she bent down and pulled out a thermometer from her kit "open wide" he did as she asked, then she placed it in his mouth. After a few seconds she pulled it out, looked at him and then let out a dramatic sigh "Oh this isn't good, you are real sick"
"What's wrong with me Nurse?" he asked
"I'm nots sure yet, let me get my stephfiscope" she pulled out the stethoscope, placing the ear buds in her little ears she listened to his stomach. "I think it's your tummy is making you sick" she told him shaking her head. She got her touch out, flashed it in his ears and eyes with no warning causing him to wince slightly. She then pulled his t-shirt up and poked his stomach. "That hurt?" she asked, remembering that the doctor had done this to her last time she had a stomach ache.
"Yea it does a little bit" Hawkes replied
"Just a little bit, it's meant to hurt lots"
"Yeah, actually the pain is getting worse, oh it hurts so bad"
While this was going on, Danny had just got back from his trip down to the bodega to get some milk which he had forgot to pick up last night and had promised Lindsay he would get it today. He walked into the living room expecting to be greeted by his excited four year old, but she and Hawkes weren't on the couch where he had left then twenty minutes ago.
He went to the kitchen, placed the milk in the fridge and then he heard a groaning noise. What on earth was that he thought? He ran upstairs to where the noise was coming from. Then he heard talking coming from Lucy's room, he looked through the little gap in the door, Lucy was dressed in her doctors' outfit and Hawkes was laid on her bed, holding his stomach groaning.
Danny had to laugh at how Lucy could get anyone to do anything. She got that from him, one flash of that Messer grin and people were like putty in his hands. It was even worse with her as she had the grin, the friendliness from Lindsay and then the cuteness on top of that. She was a triple threat. Danny just stood there watching his daughter, he still couldn't get enough of hearing them two words 'his daughter' Never in a million years did he think he would ever be a father, he even remembered telling Adam once that he wasn't planning on having children as they were far too expensive. But then again, back then he didn't want love or marriage either.
He watched Lucy as she fed Hawkes some medicine, He couldn't believe how beautiful she was, with her blonde curls up in two pigtails which Lindsay had done this morning before she left for work. That gorgeous smile spread over her face, her shiny blue eyes and that cute button nose. He knew how much fun she was having playing with Hawkes and he wasn't going to go in there and disturb them, not when he was quite happy to watch from the doorway.
He remembered the day Lindsay had told him she was pregnant, it took him a while to get his head wrapped around the fact that he was going to be responsible for a tiny little person, a little person who was going to call him 'Daddy'. He remembered the conversation with Mac, telling him he was scared that he would disappoint them both, that thought was still at the back of his mind. He was trying his hardest though to be a good father and husband, to be the guy that they both needed and looking at the smile on his little girls face he knew he was doing something right.
Mac had been right in that conversation when he said that Lucy would be the greatest gift that life had to offer, she truly was. Danny remembered seeing her little face for the first time after Lindsay gave birth and right then she had stolen his heart.
He smiled knowing in less than 6 months' time, there would be another baby in the house, another little person that he would be responsible for, but this time he wasn't scared, he was excited. He couldn't wait to meet them whether they were a boy or a girl. He had so wanted Lucy to be a boy, refusing to even consider girls names but that was only because he was scared he wouldn't know how to bond with a girl, how to play princesses or dolls with her or even what to talk to her about. Lucy had taught him all that though, so this time he agreed with Lindsay, he didn't care as long as the baby was healthy.
Danny pulled himself out of his thoughts and went back to listening to the conversation that was taking place in his daughter's room.
"I know what's wrong" Lucy told Hawkes "You haves a bad tummy"
"That's it? No official name, not gastroenteritis or anything like that?"
Lucy looked up at Hawkes confused "Gasto what?"
Danny saw this as his cue to make his entrance, "Uncle Hawkes using big words again?"
Lucy nodded running over to her father, he picked her up and she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Daddy what is gastoitus?"
"It just means you feel a bit sick and your tummy hurts" Danny explained.
Lucy turned to look at Hawkes "See, I was right you have a bad tummy"
"Doc, you gotta remember she is only four" Danny told him.
"I know, I know, I find it hard, I knew what gastroenteritis was at four" he admitted proudly standing up from the bed
"Yeah, but you were a freaking genius baby" Danny laughed.
"Yeah I was, But Lucy is clever to" he smiled. "You know what Luce, I think I'm feeling much better, I really fancy something to eat, what's say you get changed and I'll treat us all to pizza"
"Yum pizza" Lucy said wiggling out of Danny's arms to get changed.
Hawkes laughed as she did "She is definitely your daughter Messer"
"Yea she is" Danny replied proudly.
a/n: I'm not sure scrubs can be shank down to fit a four year old but let's just pretend they can haha :) and I'm forever being told what to say/do in the imaginary games I play with the two little ones I babysit, so that's where that little idea came from :)
