A.N. Thank you so much everyone for the great fb. I was really nervous about posting this fic since it's my first Kay/Luis fic. Hopefully I will have the next chapter up next Monday.

Previously on Good Time and the Bad Times:

On their way out of the park Luis almost bumps into somebody, literally. Kay is shocked to see them here, although she shouldn't be surprised.

"Kay, what are you doing here with Luis?"

Part 3

"I could ask you the same thing. Aren't you two supposed to be at the cemetery visiting Charity's mother's grave?" She shifts Maria from one hip to the other.

"Yea, umm, we just finished and decided to come here." Miguel shuffles his feet under Luis' angry gaze. Since when do Luis and Kay hang out together, he could count on one hand how many times that the two had spent with each other just by themselves.

"Oh really? So instead of calling my cell phone saying 'hey Kay, Charity and I are done now so I'll be coming by to see Maria' you decide to go to the park with your girlfriend." She shakes her head. Kay remembers back to a time when her heart sped up at just the mere mention of Miguel. Now the only time her heart races for Miguel is when she's angry with him.

"It's not like that Kay." Charity tries to stick up for Miguel but it doesn't go as she hoped.

"Ok then, how is it? Were you cutting through the park and were just taking the long way to get to Tabitha's. Or maybe you already went by Tabitha's saw I wasn't there and wanted to check out the park hoping that Maria and I would be here?" Maria leans her head against her mother's chest watching her father whose no more than a stranger to her.

"No, that's not it either." Miguel sighs out. "Look I'm here now, can I hold her?"

Kay bites the side of her cheek and swallows the automatic 'no' that threatened to come out. She breathes in deeply calming her anger. Maria needed to know her father, if that means biting her tongue a whole lot she'll do it. "Fine, but don't be surprised if she doesn't want you to hold her."

"Why?"

"Maria doesn't like strangers and in case you need a reminder you haven't been around a whole lot. Hence the stranger part." She lifts her daughter from her hip and tries to hand her to Miguel, but Maria is having none of it and won't let go of her mother.

"Let go of Kay, Maria." Miguel's voice firm and demanding he be obeyed but it only serves to make his daughter hold on tighter to Kay.

"I told you, she doesn't like strangers." She eases Maria out of Miguel's grasp.

"You did something to make her not want to be around me didn't you?" He knows that it's a reach but he can't help it when his daughter doesn't want him to hold her.

"Whoa, little brother. What the hell are talking about? Maria doesn't want to be near you because she doesn't know you." He sticks up for Kay since no one else seems to be.

"Of course she did."

"That's b.s. and you know it. You're not spending any time with her it's not too much of a stretch to think she wouldn't recognize you. If you want Maria to know who you are maybe you should try and spend more time with her."

Kay watches Luis stand up for her and her heart warms. The fast beat of her heart that had been missing since Miguel had abandoned her and Maria was suddenly coming back but for a different Lopez-Fitzgerald. "Come on Luis I gotta get Maria home and I left her stroller at your place." Her palm rest against his strong back.

"You're right, lets go." Automatically Luis wraps his arm around her waist keeping himself between Miguel and Kay.

The younger Lopez-Fitzgerald male stares after the couple. "Ok so what's this? Are you and Luis seeing each other now? Is that why Maria's stroller is over there and you arms around each other?" His famous Lopez-Fitzgerald temper coming out.

Before Kay can deny Miguel's accusation Luis speaks up. "Maybe, it's not really any of your business. Your seeing Charity so why do you care?"

"I don't, but…"

"Then there's nothing to talk about." Luis simply says and he and Kay continue on their way to his and Hank's apartment.

The walk to Luis' was silent; Kay couldn't help it, when she's angry she tends to clam up. Not wanting to talk to anybody about anything. "Umm, thanks for not you know ganging up on me." It's hard for her to not think that everyone will turn against her. After all most people in her life have at one point or another turned their backs on her.

"Why would I gang up you? You're right, not Miguel." He comforts her with his words.

"Not a whole lot of people have stood up for me, in fact it's happened so often that I can count it on one hand." She smiles likes it no big deal but Luis can tell it's eating her up inside.

When they arrived at the apartment a taxi was pulling away from the household. Hank was back from his vacation. Kay's smiles genuinely, Hank was the only other person that never forgot about her or took someone else's side above hers. Granted sometimes he did but those were times when Kay was clearly in the wrong and even she knew it.

The two go into the house; Kay puts Maria back in her stroller before she runs into her Uncle's arms. "I missed you Hank." She hugs him tightly.

"Hey." He gives her a kiss on the forehead and lets her go taking notice of Luis behind her, he nods his greeting then focuses back on his niece. "What are you doing here? I thought I told you I'd call you when I got in?"

"Well, I got tired of hanging out at Tabitha's so I came over here, since you weren't home yet, Luis offered to take Maria and I to the park. That way we wouldn't be bored while waiting for you." Kay explains.

"I thought Miguel was taking Maria to the park today?" Hank frowns, he's heard every excuse that Miguel has told Kay about why he couldn't be there with his daughter, and frankly he felt it was time to knock some sense into his niece's baby's father.

"To make a long story short, he cancelled, again." She shrugs her shoulders. "It's his loss. He loses out on knowing a beautiful little girl. I decided after he cancelled this last time that I'm not going to try to get him to see his daughter. I've bent over backwards to work around his schedule, since he is working double shifts at the cannery and going to night school, but not anymore. I'm not going to call in sick when he calls saying he's going to be taking Maria out. I can't do it anymore, I have to focus on Maria and my life not his."

Luis and Hank are staring at her during her new empowered outlook. "Sorry I kind of went off on you, didn't I?" Kay blushes in embarrassment.

"I'm all for what you said." Luis smiles and Kay is ready to melt right at his feet. "You're right that's it's his loss, and you shouldn't bend your life around to fit him."

Her blush deepens and she chews on her lower lip. Hank notices the interaction between Luis and Kay and wonders whether or not something it happening between them. The three continue to catch up and talk and Hank tells Kay what he wanted to tell which was that he got her a new dress for the pictures that she was having done with Maria tomorrow.

The dress was the burgundy velvet strapless dress that fell down to above her ankles, which she had been eyeing for months. She saw it in a store window one afternoon while buying new shoes for Maria. Unfortunately the dress was over 300 dollars, and that was took expensive for her to spend on a dress when she had to put food on the table.

"Hank, thank you. But how did you know I wanted it?" She strokes the soft fabric with her fingers loving the texture on her fingertips.

"It wasn't hard, you had the dress circled in a catalogue and when I took you and Maria for ice cream one afternoon you were staring at this dress in the window. So it was a no brainer." He smirks. Hank wanted Kay to be able have something to wear besides jeans and a sweater. She's been saving up her money for months to get the Christmas pictures taken and a nice dress for Maria to wear in them, and there's going to be at least one of Kay and Maria together, she deserved to wear a nice outfit.

"I gotta go, get Maria cleaned up for tomorrow." She gets up off the couch and embraces Hank. "Thank you, this means so much to me."

"It's no problem, you're my favorite niece, I gotta spoil you every once in a while." Kay kisses him on the cheek and turns toward Luis.

"Thank you for today. I really needed to have some fun, and spending time with you and Maria really made my day a whole lot better." She hugs him and kisses his cheek. It's almost like an electric current jumps from her lips to his cheek. He coughs nervously.

"Your welcome. How about we make a regular date of going to the park with Maria…or wherever you want to go? That way I can get to know my niece a little." He offers.

"Really? You wouldn't mind?"

"No, of course I wouldn't mind. I offered didn't I? It will be fun."

"Great so umm, call me when you know what days you're free." Kay shrugs her jacket on, then lifts Maria back out of her stroller and puts her coat on. They leave the apartment and go back to Tabitha's.

TBC