Being Young

Chapter 1
Being Young

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Chapter Description: Be cute, be cuddly, be back in nappies - again. And maybe even have a tea party.

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*Part of my much larger Reality Of Fate: Beaumont series which I don’t submit here as a whole due to it’s content. The rest of the Beaumont series can be found on Deviant Art, look for user ReinaHW, that’s me*

Be Cute

Be Cuddly

Be In Nappies – Again

Yells, cheers and general noise surrounds her. The smells of where she is are familiar to her, and all round her.

Was this hell? Was this purgatory? No it was worse –

It was a day care filled with hyper active toddlers.

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“I thought you loved caring for kids” Naomi Alice Watt comments as she and Reina Harit Beaumont enter the day care, outside it had been a lot quieter than it was inside.

“I do, but two or three is fine enough, one is easy, but there are at least twenty toddlers here. Fighting a mass of Nosferatu was mild compared to caring for twenty hyper active toddlers” Reina replies as she tries to tune out the wall of noise from toddlers ranging from nearly two years to four years old, most of them in nappies, most in the potty training stage, and all of them playing happily in their own innocent way – with a lot of noise being part of their play.

Normally at least eight staff worked at this day care, but two of them were off sick and they needed anyone who was a parent and free to help. Naomi had offered to help, and talked Reina into helping.

Being a parent herself Reina is fine with caring for children, but only up to a limit. Caring for upwards of three children at a time was just fine, but more than that and it was simply asking for trouble.

“Surely seven staff would be more than enough to help” Reina remarks, Karen Linla Beaumont, Reina’s daughter, babbles happily in her stroller and reaches out to join in the play. At two years old she was clearly longing to get out of her stroller and play.

“Aye, they are, but you have said you would like to stretch your limits with caring for children a little, this is a good chance” Reina looks over to her friend with an expression that says – ‘You are plain evil’ – and looks back at the toddlers.

“Tonight you’ll be caring for two toddlers, think of it as revenge” Naomi puts on a face of mock fear and laughs, she was fine with caring for Reina when Reina triggered her medical requirement – becoming a baby girl of around 18 months old to two and a half years old – every two days as part of her emotional health needs.

“You could always be a child here and have some fun, you rarely let that part of yourself join in with the play of other children of the same age” Karen bounces in her stroller, she wanted to play.

“Because I don’t want to freak people out with my medical need, already had to deal with that recently” Three months ago a nosy neighbour had led an unsuccessful hate campaign against Reina when she had learned of Reina’s medical needs, Reina was accused of being something she wasn’t and her daughter had almost been taken into custody until Reina had proved that she was no danger to anyone and that her needs instead made her safe to everyone.

Kneeling down and undoing the straps of Karen’s stroller, Reina lifts her child up out of the stroller once down and looks around.

“What do you think, Karen? Want to join in and play?” Karen nods her head, her eyes twinkling happily. “I won’t be far, sweetie, you go play” Setting Karen down after giving her a kiss on the cheek and a cuddle, she sets Karen down. Squealing with delight Karen waddles over to the closest toddlers, plops down on her padded backside and joins in with the play.

“Let’s go introduce you to the staff” Naomi suggest, Reina nods, her eyes fixed on her daughter, then tearing her gaze away follows Naomi.

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The staff room was well lit and allows a good view of the well sized room the toddlers are playing in as well as the two doors leading into the hallway, if anyone came in uninvited they would be seen instantly and approached by any member of staff.

“So you’re the other Reina Beaumont. I heard about the accusations you were accused of, I didn’t agree with them. I’ve seen you around with your daughter many times and with other people’s children, with their parents close by, you’re a very caring mother who places the welfare of the child over your own feelings. That’s something that seems to be a rarity with many parents these days. Not all, but most, sadly. Welcome to the day care, I’m glad you and Naomi are here to help us out” Lisa Bately comments as she shakes Reina’s hand. Naomi had made the introductions, Reina standing back a little due to feeling a little shy and unsure if she would be welcome.

“I’ll help where I can, but there are more toddlers there than I’m used to caring for” Lisa nods in understanding, it could be a handful sometimes.

“Well six or seven are always more than enough staff, but extra hands who are good with children are always a great help” Reina looks over to the large gap in the wall that allows an excellent view into the room the toddlers are playing in.

“It must get pretty chaotic. Karen’s a handful at times, but twenty toddlers must be murder” Lisa chuckles.

“Aye, it can be. But the chaos is worth it. I get to see young children learning and growing until they reach school age, since I can’t be a parent myself then this is the closest I get to being a parent” Naomi’s eyes look a little sad when she hears that, she was also barren due to an accident in 2002 which had robbed her of ever being able to be a parent.

Caring for Reina when she triggered her medical requirement and caring for Karen while Reina was at work was the closest she ever got to being a parent, she treasured her choice to help them greatly.

“So anything I need to know?” Reina asks.

“You already know the basics, but if anyone uninvited tries to get close to the children, you have the permission to remove them from the premises. We do sometimes have the occasional person who tries to harm the children try to force their way in, we deal with them quickly” Reina nods.

“So anyone tries to harm the children do I have permission to smash a frying pan off the person’s head or rip their limbs off?” Lisa looks shocked, and hopes Reina is joking.

“Nothing so extreme, all you have to do just demand that they leave and block their way. Use non-lethal force if you have to, if they ignore you then the police will be called and we’ll protect the children” Reina looks over to Lisa, a slight smile on her lips.

“No frying pan off the head then? Pity, that can be one way of dealing with troublemakers. Well let’s get to work, twenty one toddlers, since my daughter is out there playing, to care for. May the cute and cuddly bundles of innocence and noise not drive us mad” Taking a breathe, despite not needing to breath, Reina leaves the staff room to begin working.

Lisa looks over to Naomi.

“She was kidding about the frying pan, right?” She asks.

“Reina is very protective of children, if she can’t find a frying pan, she’ll use her fists and feet, whatever it takes to protect a child from being harmed by anyone looking to cause them great harm. She may not have to do the things she had to do in her home universe anymore, but that doesn’t stop her from using her training to protect the innocent. And when it comes to children, she’ll go through hell itself to protect them”

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Two hours into changing nappies, tending to scraped knees and caring for the young children as a whole, Reina feels more at ease with caring for so many energetic children. She watches her daughter interacting happily with other children and she smiles happily at seeing how happy her daughter is, her return to infancy over a year ago was giving Karen a new life, a life that would have been hard to give her if she had been born in the Empire instead of being born decades before the Empire had been founded.

A slight tugging on her skirt breaks her attention and she looks down to see two adorable red haired toddlers, both female, looking up at her.

“Hello, is something wrong?” Reina asks, both of them shake their heads.

“No” One of them says, she had green bunches in her hair and she was wearing a soft green toddler t-shirt and light green toddler booties and a thick nappy on, while the other toddler had pink bows and she was wearing a pink dress with cute pink socks on and black Mary Jane shoes with a thick nappy peeping from underneath her dress. Both of them had double pony tails, the one with the green bunches was blue eyed while the other was brown eyed. They look to be around two years old or so, around the same age as Karen. “Why you no ikkle?” She asks.

Reina looks surprised.

“Little? Well I’m a grown up” The toddler with the pink bows shakes her head.

“No, you ikkle wike us, you onwy gwown up becau-becau-“ She looks down, clearly trying to say the word. “Because you no wan to scawe peopwe” Reina knew young children were observant, but not like this.

“They have a point” Naomi remarks as she walks up to Reina, she had clearly heard everyone. “Lisa and the others know about your medical need, almost everyone does, you shouldn’t be afraid of tending to it outside of the house. And you haven’t triggered your requirement for the past week, here’s a good chance to do so” The toddler with the green bunches nods in agreement, her eyes twinkling with the innocence of a young child.

“I can’t, I’ll tend to my needs later” Reina replies, although Naomi did have a point. For the past half hour she has been feeling her body tingle, the first indications that she was needing to trigger her requirement and soon.

“Tend to them now, I’m sure twenty two toddlers won’t be a problem to care for and the stroller is made to handle two young children easily. Go on, be little before your body does it automatically at a bad time” Reina looks at the two toddlers who are looking up at her, their eyes practically saying ‘Please?’. She sighs, as stubborn as she was she knew she wouldn’t win against a toddler using the ‘please’ eyes.

“Okay, fine. If you’re certain, I’m going to need a nappy as soon as I trigger my requirement” She says as she gets up.

“Not a problem, think you can control it enough to become the same age as them? You’ve managed it a couple of times before” The thought of becoming two years old comes to Reina’s mind, she pictures herself at that age, recalling pictures and scents. She feels her requirement getting ready to trigger as the memories settle.

“Better let them know that another toddler is incoming” The two red haired toddlers squeal with delight, hugging one another.

“We hav a tee pawtee when you ikkle!” The toddler with the green bunches in her hair says excitedly. Naomi smiles, picturing it.

“I’ll see if I can get you three some cookies and juice then, come on Reina, let’s get you back to being adorable and padded” Reina sighs again, knowing that she’s likely never going to win against Naomi when it comes to her needs.

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“Okay Lisa, watch this, it’s amazing” Naomi comments after she lays out a nappy, a purple toddler t-shirt and purple booties for Reina to wear. She had called Lisa to watch Reina’s requirement trigger.

“I hope it isn’t painful for her, I don’t want the children to hear someone screaming in pain” Lisa remarks.

“It isn’t painful” Reina replies. “Just different” Taking a deep breath and exhaling, Reina begins to glow as she focuses on the memories of being two years and five months old. The scents come to her first, baby powder, the scent of her mother – a fresh scent that made her feel safe and secure, clean nappies and baby milk.

The glow increases, coming from all over her body. Her nails glow, her hair glows, and as the glow increase Reina begins to shrink. As she shrinks her features soften, her adulthood melting away rapidly and as it does, her eyes begin to lose their sad look of centuries of experience as a look of innocence appears.

Her legs recede into her clothing, her clothing now too big for her, her arms also receding. She disappears into her clothing for a second as her adult development becomes that of a child, then even farther back into a young child. Then her clothing puddles around her and a young girl of around two years old looks up, her fingers and toes tiny and uncovered.

“Wow” Lisa gasps. “That was…wow” Reina blushes, her modesty still there for a short while, as she realises she’s naked.

“Nappee pwease” She asks with a lisp. Picking her up from the chair, Naomi takes her over to the laid out nappy and tends to her. Once she’s done, and giving Reina’s nappy a soft pat, she helps Reina get dressed.

“There we go, one adorable bundle all dressed and ready to play” Reina giggles, her mind now around half adult and half toddler. She wouldn’t become a full toddler mentally until she had an accident, which usually happened within an hour of triggering her requirement.

Reaching out Lisa gives Reina a little tickle under the chin, Reina giggling happily from the attention.

“Thank you for letting me see that” Lisa says, still amazed at what she had just seen.

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“Have fun sweetie” Naomi says as she sets Reina down next to the two red haired toddlers. “You’ll need a nappy change within the hour, but I’m sure you’ll let me know” Reina nods, she was sure to.

“Now you ikkle wike us!” The toddler with the pink bunches says happily.

“Yeth” Reina replies. Her adult side feels a little awkward at being so tiny and underdressed, yet knows that it’s for the best. “We pway?” The toddler with the green bunches points over to a small table, just the right size for toddlers to use, which has a plate of cookies on it as well as three small cups and a little teapot on it. Underneath it are three soft toys - a pink bunny, a teddy bear with a golden and dark brown fur, with some white areas, and a black kitten cuddly with a long tail.

“Tee pawtee!”

Karen watches as the toddler who looks like her mum, only smaller and younger, sits down and she waddles over to join in.

“Ma ma ikkle” Karen remarks. Reina nods, feeling a little uneasy about being as young as her daughter. It wasn’t the first time, but it was still a little on the awkward side.

“Ma ma ikkle, we hav tee pawtee” Karen smiles, hugging her regressed mother.

“Otay!” Naomi sees this and goes to get a few more cookies as well as another cup and more juice. The two red haired toddlers hug Karen, happy to have another join them.

“Me Sammy” The toddler with the green bunches in her hair says.

“Me Jennee” Replies the toddler with the pink bows in her hair.

“Me Weina” Reina says to Sammy and Jennie.

“Me Kawen” Karen says and she points to her mother. “Dis my ma ma, she ikkle now wike me” Sammy looks around and seeing what she’s looking for, waddles off to get it and returns with a box, around the table is one chair, one box and a stack of books.

Setting the box down, Sammy turns to the others.

“Me hav chair, Weina hav books, Jennie hav dat box, Kawen hav dis box” Each of the nod and sit around the table, Jannie and Karen standing since the boxes don’t give them a full reach of the table.

“Biccie?” Sammy asks to Reina, who takes one and samples it. Her eyes twinkle with delight at the sweet taste and her legs sway happily as she sucks on it, her teeth still a little too young to fully bite it without softening the biscuit first.

“Nummy” Reina says after she softens a piece just enough, bites and swallows, crumbs falling on her nappy and bouncing off.

Each of them then grab a cookie and suck away at it happily.

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After the tea party, and nappy changes for each one, the four new friends cuddle together with Naomi who reads to them. Each of them are cuddling a soft toy – Sammy cuddling her pink rabbit she calls Fish, Jennie cuddling her bear she calls Caramel, Reina cuddling the kitten with the long tail she calls Mewsoo and Karen cuddling her own soft toy, a brown and white rabbit her mother had given to her last year, called Bun Bun.

All four of them yawn at the same time, each of them tired and wanting a nap. Naomi finishes reading and gently lays each toddler down next to each other, where they cuddle up to one another closely, each cuddling their soft toys.

“Sweet dreams” Naomi says softly as the four toddlers drift into a dream filled nap filled with dreams of innocence and contentment.

The day nears an end and later that night, after returning home from the day care, Naomi tucks Karen and Reina in. Karen has always fallen asleep, happily suckling away on a baby dummy as she cuddles Bun Bun.

Reina is still awake in her crib, but clearly not for much longer. Her eyes drooping, Reina cuddles her own Bun Bun as Naomi gives her a soft kiss on the forehead.

“Did you have fun today?” Naomi asks her, Reina nods tiredly.

“Yeth. Me wike being ikkle” She replies quietly.

“That’s good to hear. Sweet dreams, cutie, savour your innocence while it lasts” Reina yawns again, a little drool falling on one of her Bun Bun’s ears. Feeling warm and comfortable, Reina coos happily and falls into a warm, comfortable sleep.

Be cute, be cuddly, let the inner child play.

 

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