"I heard you" came the soft answer.

Daisy sighed softly, rubbing his back gently.

"Look..don't go thinking about changing doctors or anything like that till i've talked with Jaime alright...chances are she just needs to realize a few things."

Luke flushed a little annoyed that his cousin knew him so well. "I won't," he muttered.

Daisy nodded.

"Good...now you best get to bed and rest that foot...i'll go see Jaime.."

Luke sighed a little but nodded and pushing himself up on his crutches limped back to bed.

Daisy watched him go before looking out to the barn. She sighed a little and gathered some fresh baked cookies onto a plate along with a glass of milk and headed out to the barn.

Jaime was still crying in the hay.

Daisy bit her lip and called up to the loft. "Got some milk an' cookies here if ya know anyone who wants em..."

Jaime didn't answer, swallowing hard and sniffing as she heard Daisy. That was all she needed...now Daisy was going to call her selfish and a spoilt brat as well..all she needed with Jesse to say it too then she'd have the whole family turned against her.

Daisy didn't really expect her to jump at the chance so with the milk and cookies on a tray, using her waitressing skills she climbed the ladder single handedly and went over to Jaime sitting down beside the hay pile and handed her in a cookie. "I used to love to eat cookies under the hay when I was little...course usually it was cuz I didnt wanna get caught with em in the first place...."

Jaime bit her lip, smelling the fresh baked cookies and sitting up a little, taking one but toying with it in her hands more than anything, just staring down at her hands.

Daisy smiled. "It fillys ya best when ya actually eat it," she teased.

Jaime sighed and put it back on the plate.

"I ain't hungry...please just leave me alone..."

"Jaime honey...I think it's bout time you an I build this aunt niece relationship. Now havin a daddy's nice, but there's a time when a girl needs another girl around...I know I sure did. Uncles are great...but...I bet you found out that sometimes...well...they just don't understand us... and when they don't understand...they yell and act so childish."

Jaime swallowed softly and looked to her, biting her lip a little.

Daisy smiled at her. "I knwo I'm right...cuz you got Bo for an uncle...and he can act that way even when he does understand."

Jaime sighed and sniffed, looking back down at her lap.

"What's wrong sugar?"

Jaime shook her head with a sigh, trembling a little as she started to repeat what she was feeling like to Daisy.

Daisy nodded a little listening all the way through.

Jaime shrugged and wrapped her arms around her knees.

"I'm just selfish and spoilt..."

Daisy shook her head a little. "No...you're a girl who never had a daddy...an' is scared t' death that she'll lose the one she's got."

Jaime's lip wobbled a little and she turned her head away, resting her head on her hands.

"Hey now....I understand that...believe me..." she said as she put her arm around Jaime. "I used to get so worried when the boy'd go off with Uncle Jesse... I thought they'd steal him away from me."

Jaime sobbed again, shaking her head.

"But this is different...its a girl he likes...another girl..."

Daisy took a deep breath. "Sweetheart, he loves you. He ain't lookin' t' replace you...an' though you love havin' him all t' yerself ya gotta understand somethin... even though yer daddy is your whole world right now....an' you'd be perfectly satisfied for it just t' be the two of ya fer the rest of yer days, a day'll come when you'll want companionship that yer daddy can't give ya. Yer daddy is a normal man...an' he has the need for that companionship too. Now before you say anything let me tell you somethin bout your daddy. I grew up with Luke. And I ain't EVER heard him tal about ANYONE the way he does you. He thinks you're the best thing that's ever happened to him... in fact he told me as much just yesterday. An he ain't gonna do nothin' to hurt you...even if that means denying himself from pleasure. He loves you that much...he's afraid he'll lose you...he thinks he ain't a good enough dad Jaime...."