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Post by luby2534 on Jul 23, 2006 1:20:16 GMT 10
Loved it
Please update soon!!
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Post by <3 LubyII <3 on Jul 23, 2006 1:24:41 GMT 10
Awesome!
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Andie
Duchess of Luby
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Post by Andie on Jul 26, 2006 5:53:33 GMT 10
You are killing me!!!! Please UPDATE ASAP!!! Please!!!
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Post by larue on Jul 26, 2006 11:24:37 GMT 10
I'm working on it...I'm working on it! It's frustrating the crap out of me!
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Post by crazylubyfan on Jul 26, 2006 12:32:18 GMT 10
Great story! cant wait for more!
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Post by *Natalie* on Jul 28, 2006 6:45:25 GMT 10
Hey just read all this and loving it!!
Hope theres more to come! natalie x
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Post by larue on Jul 28, 2006 13:46:02 GMT 10
Tuesday Trials
They both heard the noise from the monitor. Luka reached over without opening his eyes and nudged her. She pulled a pillow over her head. He nudged her again.
“Abby…” He sighed as Joe wailed from the nursery.
“It’s your turn, Luka,” she said from under the pillow.
“He’s hungry.” She pulled her head out from under the pillow, listened a second and then looked at him.
“No, he’s not. I’d know if it was a hunger cry. Believe me.” Luka groaned and opened his eyes. He crawled out from under the coverlet and stumbled around the bed toward the door. Abby smiled and snuggled down for an extra few minutes of sleep.
Luka made his way into the nursery with his eyes barely open. He blinked as he switched on the light and moved toward the crib. He stood for a moment and gazed down at his furious, red faced son. A smile crept across his face as he undid the lead lines to the monitor and lifted the baby in his hands to his shoulder. He shook his head when he felt the soggy diaper. He hated it when she was right...especially at this hour in the morning. He carried Joe to the changing table and undid the snaps of his stretchy sleeper and took it off him. He removed the diaper and dropped it in the diaper pail next to the table. Joe responded with a strong stream of urine that caught his father square in the chest.
“Ah!” Luka yelped and then grinned. He kept a hand on Joe’s soft belly and whipped the sodden tee shirt off. He tossed it into Joe’s laundry basket and used wipes to clean himself and then the baby. He replaced the diaper and then held the now whimpering baby to his shoulder. Luka crooned softly in Croatian and then settled himself in the rocker with his son nestled on his bare chest. Joe pulled a fist into his mouth and shuddered. Luka rocked slowly and caressed the baby’s back with his big hand. It wasn’t but a few minutes later that they were both sound asleep again.
She’d showered, dressed for work and Luka still hadn’t returned to their bed. Abby knew how she would find them. She leaned against the door of the nursery for a moment and watched them. Luka’s big hand spread across Joe’s back and held him securely against his warm chest. His head was back against the rocker and his dark hair fell across his forehead. His long lashes were closed and his mouth opened a little as he snored softly. She chuckled and moved forward to take the baby from his arms. Luka started and then grinned when he looked up at her.
“I was going to bring him in to you,” he said. “I really was.”
“Uh huh….” She nodded as she settled herself on the couch and unbuttoned her shirt.
“Remember when we BOTH used to jump when he even whimpered on that monitor?” she sighed. “He’s only been home for two months. What in the world happened to us?” Luka leaned forward in the rocker and shook his head. His elbows were on his knees and he cupped his chin in his hands as he watched her nurse Joe.
“We’re working parents now,” he grinned. Abby reached up and caressed his cheek.
“I feel like we hardly ever see each other,” she said.
“It’s just for a couple more months, Abby,” he said after he kissed her palm. “When he’s old enough and strong enough for the hospital day care center, it will be easier for all of us. Right now Lydia is working out fine.” Abby nodded and smiled down at Joe. His hazel eyes were fixed on her face and he stopped sucking for a moment and smiled up at her. Abby grinned. Lydia was working out fine. Haleh was the one that suggested asking her to take care of Joe. She was retired now and and bored and looking for something to do. She enjoyed coming in and taking care of the baby during the hours when their shifts over lapped. Most of the time they worked on opposite days anyway. As much as she loved her time with Joe, she missed Luka. He had promised that they would do this together….but it didn’t feel like they were ‘together’ much these days. Abby looked up at him again and shook her head. His eyes were closed and he was back to sleep. She really didn’t blame him. He had worked the night shift and had barely gotten home when he’d gotten up with Joe. She looked down at the baby and jostled him a bit as he pulled away from her.
“Are you going to cooperate with him today, kiddo?” she said as she refastened the nursing bra and buttoned the shirt again. “Go right back to sleep for a while, eh?” Abby stood up and carried Joe to his crib and slipped him into a clean stretchy sleeper. She kissed his cheek and settled him back in the crib. She glanced at her watch and shook her head.
“Gotta go,” she sighed as she kissed the top of Luka’s head. He opened his eyes and then stood up and stretched. He followed her out of the nursery and wrapped his arms around her in the hall.
“Have a good shift,” he whispered as they rocked together for a minute. She looked up and smiled and he bent his head to kiss her.
“Damn, I miss you…” she said softly. He grinned and kissed her. He lost his balance and fell back against the wall.
“Go to bed,” Abby laughed as she headed down the staircase. Luka watched her go and waved when she looked back up at him.
She loved the work. She really, really did. Abby couldn’t imagine working anywhere else in the hospital. She’d dutifully done her rotations in the different departments but felt more at home in the ER than any where else. It was fast moving. She loved the mystery solving of diagnostic medicine. She loved handing things off to other doctors knowing that they would be acting on her skills. Most of all…..and she never told anyone this…..it was easier not to have a long term relationship with any of the patients. They came and they were gone. At times they came back but hardly ever into her care again. It was better that way. It was..….safer. It was that way in her life….always. People came and were gone…Susan…Jake…Carter…..her father. Even her mother and Eric were here one day and gone the next. The only one that had ever really stayed for long was Luka. Oh, he had gone as well….but he came back. He was a friend before he was a lover….and a friend after as well. He was staying. No matter what…wasn’t he?
“Abby?” Chuny nudged her and Abby looked up from the little boy’s head lac.
“Oh…..umm……flush it with saline and I’ll have one of the interns come back with me to suture it.” She looked up at the anxious mom and smiled.
“He’s going to be just fine,” she said. “A couple of stitches and you’ll never know this happened. Next time, be careful around those picnic tables, kiddo.” The tearful little boy nodded and hiccupped. Abby smiled and turned to leave.
“How is your baby?” Abby stopped and turned back.
“The last time we were here you were pregnant,” the woman said. “Did you have a boy or a girl?” Abby frowned and then she smiled.
“A little boy,” she said. “And he’s just great.” The woman nodded.
“Congratulations,” she said as she grimaced toward her son. “Little boy world can be……exciting?” Abby laughed and left the exam room. She stopped short when she saw Luka standing at the admit desk chatting with Jerry. He stood up and smiled when he saw her.
“What are you doing here?” she asked.
“We have dinner reservations,” he said.
“We do?” Luka nodded. Abby gazed at him for a moment and then realized he was alone.
“And where is your son?”
“Spending the evening with Lydia and her husband,” he replied. “We may pay big for this one. They are going to spoil him worse than we do. Can you leave now?”
“I have to suture a head lac on a six year old and then I’m finished.” Luka nodded and glanced at his watch.
“Well……get to it then!” he grinned. “We’ll be late.” Abby laughed and glanced back at him in confusion as she headed off for a suture kit and a willing intern.
It had been a wonderful evening. She’d laughed when the dinner ‘reservations’ turned out to be for the bar and grill where they’d gone on their first date. He’d beaten her royally at the foos ball table this time…..and kissed her soundly at the bar when they sat for a drink. He had a beer and she had a club soda…..just as they had done so long ago. It was a wonderful release for them ...and a telling reminder of how far they had come.
Joe was sleeping when they stopped by Lydia’s to pick him up. He slept soundly through the ride home and didn’t even wake when they settled him in his crib. Luka tiptoed into their bedroom with a sly grin on his face. Abby looked up from the bed and laughed softly. He stretched out next to her and propped his head up on one elbow so he could look down at her. He cupped her chin in his hand a caressed her cheek gently. Abby closed her eyes and sighed. He reached over and picked up a strand of her silky hair and watched as it slipped through is fingers.
“You know, we might want to hurry just in case he doesn’t cooperate,” she said. Luka grinned.
“And what if he doesn’t wake up?” he asked. Abby frowned thoughtfully.
“We get to do it again?” she offered. Luka laughed happily and she studied his face as her hands slipped to the waistband of his pants. He leaned forward and pressed a kiss to her cheeks and to her nose and to each eye lid as she undid the belt and fumbled with the clasp on his pants. His mouth sought hers and he reached down to help her with her own slacks.
“This is crazy,” she mumbled. “It’s going to take forever.”
“You’re right,” he said. They separated and slid hurriedly to separate sides of the bed to finish undressing. Luka whipped back the coverlet and they sought each other under the dark sheets. Abby giggled as she pressed against him and felt his urgency.
“How long has it been?”
“I don’t know and I don’t care,” he said. “But I want it right now.” She laughed and wrapped her arms round his neck, straining to get closer to him as their lips came together. Luka rolled her under him and then suppressed a laugh.
“What?” she groaned as she pressed her head back into the pillows to look up at him.
“It’s nothing,” he said. “I just got this flash of you wanting to eat pop tarts all the time when you were pregnant.”
“What?!”
“I know…..it’s stupid and forget about it.” His lips covered hers and she pulled back slightly.
“There is a box of the new mint chocolate chip kind in the freezer,” she said against his kiss. “Just in case you want to get me one later.”
“Much later…….” Luka sighed and bent back to the task at hand. Abby laughed quietly and helped him along.
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Post by jaana on Jul 28, 2006 15:46:12 GMT 10
Update soon!
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Post by <3 LubyII <3 on Jul 28, 2006 22:39:59 GMT 10
Awesome!!!!
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Andie
Duchess of Luby
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Post by Andie on Jul 28, 2006 22:45:30 GMT 10
Thanks for updating Larue, that was totally worth the waiting!!!!!! I really love your stories and this one is great!!!!
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Post by lubyfan on Jul 28, 2006 23:18:20 GMT 10
Love it!
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Post by charlieluby on Jul 28, 2006 23:21:03 GMT 10
Awww! So sweet!
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Post by zelda on Jul 29, 2006 0:02:51 GMT 10
OMG, Larue, LYDIA is back!!! She is the first face we saw on our TV screen, all these years ago, in the first epi of ER!!! That's a great idea you've got! Also love the sleep deprivation of the happy parents of a healthy baby! . Can we have another nice surprise like this one in your next chapters, please??
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Post by maggie on Jul 29, 2006 0:11:54 GMT 10
oh, i really loved that! very sweet...please update soon.
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Post by sammiejm on Jul 29, 2006 3:29:27 GMT 10
I really, really loved this update Larue. The description of Luka asleep with Joe in his arms was lovely and the date...simple, but perfect.
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