Kylie, spank you for all your help.
.o0 Friday, Seven Months Later 0o.
Lorelai and Rory had gone to Hartford on a shopping spree, Lorelai had stolen Luke's credit card and Luke had stayed up in his office with both boys, Luka was 11 months old and Jesse was seven. Before they left, Lorelai had placed a fluffy blanket on the floor and both boys on it. So that' where they were now, Luke was sitting on the floor with both boys.
"Come on, Jesse, you know you want to" Luke said, Jesse had been sitting down then he'd lunge forwards and rest on his hands as if he was going to crawl but stopped and drop to the floor. "See, Luka…" Luke pointed to the other sitting boy. "Come here, Luka, come to Daddy" Luke said in a bright voice, Luka smiled clapped a little and crawled to Luke. "You see, now you do it, Jesse" again Jesse lunged forwards but stayed there, only this time he rocked back and forth as if trying to talk himself in to doing it.
Luka used Luke's body to pull himself up, he let go and stayed up straight for a total of five seconds before falling on his tushy.
"Nuh-huh, no walking, I'm not ready to follow you two all day long" Luke told Luka but had a silly proud smile on his face.
"Dada" Luka said, he only knew that and 'mama', Luke smiled more. Feeling left out, Jesse took the final plunge and crawled a little before dropping onto his stomach a couple inches away from Luke.
"Hey kid, you're mobile now" Luke said and picked Jesse up sitting him on Luke's lap. "I bet your Mommy is gonna love having to chase you all around the house" for the time being they were still living with Luke and Lorelai, the boys shared the nursery; but Rory was working on getting her own place, not now but some time soon.
When Jesse was born Lorelai had made Rory call and tell Christopher that her was a grandfather, needless to say he had taken it badly. After insulting Lorelai, Rory, and Jess he had ended with a 'I'm already done with my parenting years, my kids are grown and its time for me to enjoy life again'. Lorelai had used very colorful language in her reply. From that day on, actually ever since Rory knew she was pregnant, they decided to tell Jesse Luke was his grandfather, and that Luka was… well that he was Luka, no need to get into the details of their relationship now, they would get into explaining once one of the boys asked full out 'how are we related' until then it was just Luka and Jesse.
.o0 Five Months Later 0o.
Almost four months ago they had had Luka's first birthday party over at the Crap Shack, where people brought presents for both boys even thought it was only Luka's birthday. Lorelai had rented a bouncy-moon for the party and Rory had gone in it with both boys; her son on her right arm and her brother on her left, she bounced with both of them for a little while until Lorelai had joined them, Luke had been busy with the grill. Luka was busy being passed around by everybody, and Rory was busy helping Lorelai and Sookie out, so Luke was telling Jesse the proper way of grilling a good hamburger. The boy seemed fixated on Luke's every word, must be because the three of them: Luka, Jesse, and Luke, spent most of the time together.
Now it was Jesse's birthday and Rory had asked Luke to have it at the Diner, Luke being Luke couldn't deny her, or Lorelai, or Jesse. Again everybody that had attended Jesse's party had also brought a present for Luka, those boys were getting spoiled and nobody seemed to care. With the both of them walking now it was harder to keep track of them, but more times than not, whenever they went missing they'd be standing right next to Luke tugging on his pants.
"Now it's Jesse's turn, remember it was your turn when it was your party" Lorelai told Luka when it was time for Jesse to blow out his candle.
"Come on, honey, blow" Rory said, she was sitting on a chair behind Jesse who was sitting on the table with the cake in front of him, the cake having a big 1 as a candle right in the center of the 'Bob the Builder' cake. "Like this…" and Rory blew, Jesse looked at her oddly. Behind them Luka blew, Lorelai was carrying him, she was standing next to Luke who was behind Rory. Kirk was playing as official recorder for both parties.
"No, honey, it's Jesse's turn" Lorelai said giggling.
"Mine" that had become Luka's favorite word.
"Mama" Jesse said, lifted his arms in the air, leaned forwards and let his arms drop on top of the cake making him giggle.
"Jesse, no" Rory said but it was too late. Jesse looked at his frosting-ed forearms and began licking them clean, mostly smearing the frosting all over his face. Lorelai was laughing; Luka was leaning forwards trying to get some cake also.
"I'll go get the spare one" Luke said and made his way to the kitchen, Luka had done the same thing at his party and they figured Jesse would do the same so they bought an extra cake.
"Here, honey, sit with Jesse" Lorelai said sitting Luka opposite of Jesse on the table, by the time Luke came back both boys were covered with frosting and smiling wildly.
"Lorelai…" he glared a little.
"Gampa" Jesse offered Luke his little hand, Luke thought about two full seconds before leaning down and taking a soft bite off of Jesse's arm making him giggle. Jesse's vocabulary consisted of 'mama', 'gampa', 'gama' and they were trying to teach him Luka but haven't been successful yet.
"Dada" Luka said excitedly and smeared the frosting of his hand all over Luke's face.
"Luka, your Daddy doesn't like facials" Rory said laughing.
"Geez, this thing is pure sugar" Luke groaned after making a face. "They're gonna be hyper all day, come to think of it so will you two" Luke told Lorelai and Rory.
"And now so will you because you ate some" Lorelai said with a 'ha' tone of voice and Luke just glared at her.
"Make yourself useful and help me clean them up while Rory cuts the cake" Luke said picking up Luka.
"What's the point? They'll just get dirty again" Lorelai asked picking up Jesse.
"The point is not getting the whole Diner sticky"
"You know, you have a strange fetish with stickiness" Lorelai said following him upstairs to the office.
.o0 Two Months Later 0o.
It was summer and the boys loved being outside, and with the track record both girls had of outdoorsy activities, Luke was the one to spend most of the time outside playing around with the boys.
Lorelai had bought a swing set, the wood type that had a small playhouse in one corner and included a small sand box also. So Luke took a weekend off to build the damn thing, Lorelai and Rory sitting on the porch swing looking at their three men at work. Rory had bought both boys little tool belts, although Luke didn't use a tool belt, but she thought it be more appropriate than buying them toolboxes.
While girls normally had little kitchenettes to play with, these boys had work benches, bought by Luke. So while he worked on the big swing set, they boys pretended to hammer and work over at their work bench.
With it being summer the boys were wearing shorts, jean shorts, but shorts none the less. They had a white t-shirt each and a backwards baseball cap, all in all they were dressed just like Luke because since it wad been so hot he had ditched the flannel and used a white undershirt.
"Look" Rory nudged Lorelai on the side and pointed towards her little brother; he was squatting just like Luke, with his head to the side 'reading' the instructions. Lorelai laughed and her eyes wandered over to her grandson.
"Umm, Rory…?" Lorelai just pointed to Jesse.
"Oh no" Rory said before giggling; Jesse was taking it upon himself to put all the screws and stuff like that together in a pile after Luke had so meticulously separated them by sizes to make the building experience that much easier. "Jesse, honey, come here" Rory said, Jesse turned to look at her and smiled.
"Luke, are you sure you can handle both boys?" Lorelai asked.
"We're fine" Luke called back, he looked to his right and saw Luka squatting next to him, and then his eyes wondered looking for Jesse. "Aw man, Jesse no" he jumped up and ran over to where Jesse was smiling proudly; Luke groaned.
"Still sure you can handle both boys?" Lorelai asked again, only this time she was laughing.
"You could've stopped him you know" Luke answered her.
"Nope, you said this was a man's job and that you would take care of you… men"
"Now she hears what I tell her" Luke mumbled.
"I also heard that!" Lorelai said, Rory was laughing at them.
It took Luke three days to finish the whole swing set, sandbox and all. Working with the boys, while good for bonding, it made the process go that much slower especially when Rory and Lorelai were just sitting there mocking him.
.o0 A Couple Days Later 0o.
Both girls were still sleeping since it was Saturday and they never got up before ten am on a Saturday; they did when the boys were babies but not anymore since Luke was almost always there to look after them.
Luke was outside mowing the lawn; the boys were riding their cars. Each boy had a car of their own, a recent present Luke had gotten them. Luka had a Jeep just like his Mommy, Jesse had a buggy. The boys drove around a little before going to park their cars by the new swing set, they'd take turns going down the slide before jumping back in the cars and driving around some more.
Luke took the mower to the garage and the boys followed him in their cars, he left the mower and took his tool box out; he was gonna give his and Lorelai's car a once over. A couple of minutes later you could see both little cars parks parallel to the truck with their little hoods lifted and the boys looking in them just like Luke was doing with the truck.
"Morning, Luke" the mailman called.
"Hey, Steve" Luke acknowledged.
"Morning boys, are you also having trouble with your cars?" Steve asked, Luke chuckled and shook his head a little, Luka saw his father so he giggled and also shook his head.
"Hey Jesse, why don't you show Steve your new car? Go get the mail" Luke told him; Jesse smiled, got on the buggy and drove over to Steve.
"Wow Jesse, you're a very good driver" Steve said while handing him the mail; Jesse smiled and drove back to Luke.
"Thanks Steve" Luke called while Jesse was driving back, with that Steve left. "Thank you, Jesse" Luke said when Jesse handed him the mail. "Why don't you both go inside and wake up Mommy?" he told both boys knowing each boy would go wake up each of their Mommies.
The whole town marveled at Luke's relationship with the boys. Especially when he had told Lorelai she should go back to work and he would mind the boys while she worked, and in the afternoons when Rory was back both girls would watch the boys while he was in the Diner. It had taken a while, and a lot of coffee, but Lorelai had agreed. Ever since then Luke would watch the boys from their waking moment until two or three when Lorelai would show up; jam hands or no jam hands.
.o0 Wednesday, A Little After Noon 0o.
The boys and Luke were watching a video; both boys had fallen asleep on the living room floor shortly after it had started. Luke had been sitting on the couch, feet on the coffee table, arms crossed against his chest and he had nodded off to sleep not long after the boys had.
Half an hour later Jesse's eyes fluttered open; he stayed lying down and looked around, next to him was a still sleeping Luka, and on the couch was Luke, who was by now, fast asleep. Jesse sat up and smiled a little; he got up and wondered the house. There was no threat to him or Luka around the house so it was ok for him to wonder. He found Luke's keys and stuck them into his pants pocket, because that's what Luke always did, he did the same with Luke's wallet. While walking back to the living room he saw a purse on the coffee table; he grabbed it, sat on the floor next to Luka and began struggling a little to open it.
Luka woke up to the rustling Jesse was doing, he sat up soon was going through the purse with Jesse. It didn't take them long to find the make up; both Lorelai and Rory had told them that 'makeup wasn't for little boys' that one time they had found them playing with it.
"Gampa" Jesse pointed at Luke with a lipstick. It took Luka a while but he got the compact to cooperate enough and opened it. Both boys climbed on either side of a still sleeping Luke on the couch.
Both boys had spent enough time seeing their respective Mommies to know what to do with makeup, something Luke didn't like because no boy should know anything about makeup… except maybe that it made women prettier.
"Ok, Luke I have twenty minutes let's get this family lunch thing going and…" Lorelai had burst through the door but stopped dead in her tracks once she saw Luke and the boys.
"Mama!"
"Gama!" both boys said excitedly.
"Guys what are you doing?" Lorelai asked laughing and taking the lipstick and compact from Jesse and Luka. It was too late though, Luke had a red scribbles all over his face but mostly on the right side, he had specks of powder all over his left side and his forehead. "Shh ok? I'm gonna take a picture, don't wake him up" Lorelai said and walked over to a drawer where they kept the camera, she took several pictures before the flash woke Luke up.
"Wha… what are you doing here?" Luke asked and rubbed his face.
"Saving your manliness" Lorelai stated, Luke frowned when he felt something slick and retrieved his hand to inspect it.
"What the…!" he saw the redness of the lipstick and the powder-ness of the compact smeared on the palm of his hand.
"You fell asleep" Lorelai said and couldn't help laughing, both boys following after her.
"You put makeup on me?" Luke got up and went to the mirror over the phone.
"No, they did, I just got here" Lorelai defended.
"Did you guys do this?" the boys kept laughing. "I'll take that" Luke said grabbing the lipstick from Lorelai and moved over to the couch, the boys climbed off and began running. Luke caught Luka and picked him up, cradling him against his body with one hand and using his other to scribble on his face a little, the boy couldn't stop laughing.
"Daddy, no, Daddy!" he said between gasps and giggles. Luke placed him back on the floor and turned to look at Jesse.
"Gama!" he ran towards Lorelai who was laughing hysterically.
"Is he jingling?" Lorelai asked while Jesse hugged her legs from the back.
"Jingling?" Luke frowned and walked closer to them setting the lipstick down. Lorelai turned and picked Jesse up, she shook him a little making him laugh and the jingling sound was still there. "Huh, he is jingling" Luke said and stuck his middle and index finger into Jesse's pocked. "These are my keys"
"No wonder your pants are falling off" Lorelai told Jesse laughing.
"And my wallet" Luke said fishing the wallet out of Jesse's back pocket.
"Hey, pick up Luka so I can take a picture of my guys and their makeup" Lorelai said with a big grin.
"No" Luke said, he picked up Luka and took him to the bathroom so they could take the makeup off.
"Your Grandpa's a grump, I don't know why you like him so much" she told Jesse.
"I heard that" Luke called; they were in that downstairs bathroom.
"Old grump and all but he still has good hearing" Lorelai mumbled.
"You do know that if I'm old you're old also, right?" he asked right behind her.
"Gah! Don't sneak up on people" she smacked his chest, the free side because he was carrying Luka, both were makeup-less now.
"But you're not people, you're my wife" he smirked and walked to the kitchen. "Bring Jesse please, I'm teaching them how to cook"
You've been LoVeLuKe-ized
Tell whatcha thunk, it's shaping up, this is not the chapter I had in my head (the one that started it all) but I'm getting there, in the mean time we have some good ol' fluffness.
