Prisoner

Chapter 8
The End of The Beginning of the End

Chapter Description: The conclusion of what has really happened to Seth.

Seth awoke the next morning to quite a change in scenery. The room was now a baby blue and covered with race cars and images of the planet Saturn. He looked to see he was now sleeping in a bed in the shape of a red sports card, with ’89’ plastered on the sides. His sheets were now Pokemon and so were his pajamas, he jumped out of bed, and looked around. Everything was so huge. But as he looked at himself, and said, “Oh, no,” he realized that the room wasn’t any bigger than yesterday. He was smaller. He ran into the bathroom, peeled off his clothes and stared at himself in the mirror. A young boy, no older than six, stared back at him. He didn’t have reddish brown hair anymore, but the light, mousy brown of his childhood. He was even lankier, you could almost se his rib cage. His pubes were gone, as if they hadn’t ever exsited and as if Seth had never heard the phrase, “Happy 13th Birthday,” before. He broke down, crying.

“Aw, what’s wrong little guy?” A female nurse with blonde hair said to Seth. He hadn’t heard her come in, and because of his new 6 year old mentality he felt no shame to be naked in front of her.

“I’m not bigger.” Seth said, sulkingly.

“Aw, you can’t expect to be big over night. Just you wait and see, I’m sure you’ll be big soon.”

The nurse brought Seth some new clothes to wear. They were just like his old uniform, but much smaller. The nurse also gave him some toys to play with. Power Rangers mostly. At first Seth wouldn’t touch the toys. But as the day wore on he found himself more and more intrigued by them until he was renacting an episode he saw as a child. Time flew by fast, he hardly remembered eatingf dinner. But as the sun fell, Seth could feel himself growing sleepier and sleepier, until he was out completely.

The next day, when Seth woke up everything was different again. The room was back it its original sea foam green, but something was wrong. Where as yesterday everything was bigger, today everything was huge! Seth had to blink a few times in order to see straight. He sat up, only rofind he was in a cage of sorts. He tried to say, “Help! Why am I imprisoned?”, but all that came out was a muffled, “MmmmmmMmm!” That on one could hope of hearing. But to Seth’s fortune and horror, the nurse from yesterday walked in. But she was different too. She was huge.

The Nurse towered over Seth and he finally understood. He had shrunk again. This time, he couldn’t be older than two. He could barely stand, mabye waddle if he was lucky. And it seemed like he couldn’t speak anymore. All of this stress on one little child burdened Seth’s new body, until tears were rolling down his face like a waterfall.

“Aw, whats wrong? Does baby Sethie not like being little?” Seth only stared at the woman as if this was all natural. “Aw, are you a shy little baby and you don’t want to talk to me?” The nurse playfully asked. Seth blushed and muffled another response.

“Oh so you do want to talk? Well you’ll have a better time without this, silly baby,” She reached over and plucked something from Seth’s mouth. A pacifier. Seth blushed even more.

“Wha you do da me?” Seth dememended

“Aw, silly baby. The doctor already told you want we’re doing. We’re gonna make you so itsy-bitsy that you won’t be able to remember anything and we’ll give you to a nice family to grow you up right.” The nurse said in a baby voice.

“NOO!!” Seth yelled.

“Silly baby, you should have thought about that before you stole that hardware,” the nurse said, “At least you won’t have a criminal record anymore. You’ll be nine months old and you can’t blame a baby for anything! Now its bottle time!”

“No!” Seth said. He would not be reduced to nursing from a bottle.

“Aw, silly baby. You need to eat. After all, if you don’t drink this you’ll shrink ’till you go ’poof’!”

“Wha?” Seth asked. He didn’t like the ’poof’ noise the nurse made.

“Yup. If the prisoners are baby babies and don’t take their roles, the aging formula will keep acting and regress them into a mommy cell and a daddy cell. Then ’poof’! No more Seth!” Seth couldn’t tell if he was more horrifed about what could happen to him or how the nursed referred to sex cells. Seth grabbed the bottle and gulped it down. The nurse smiled darkly.

A young woman of about 23 walked into a waiting room in a large, luxarious bulding. After about 2 minutes, the nurse called her name.

“Ms. Loyes, we are ready for you.” the nurse called.

The woman, wearing a smile on her face walked through the door. Plastered on the wall was a sign that read, ’Quite, children sleeping’.

“Here he is Ms. Loyes.” The nurse said. Ms. Yoles peered through the glass to see a bundled up baby boy lying on a dresser.

“Aw, he was such a cutie pie when he was little.”

“You mean he is a cutie pie,” the nurse said warmly, “Mr. Chillings would also like to thank you for offering your husband for this experiment. He would like you to parent the first child, if you’d like.

“But of course. I regressed my fiance because he didn’t want children. I don’t mind another as long as we’re still covered by your policy . . .”

“But of course,” the nurse replied using the same tone as Jenna, who was now holding her infantized fiance, Seth Yoles and another boy.

“What’s this one’s name?”

“Lawrence”

“Good, we’ll make a happily little family,” Jenna said, simling warmly at he two sleeping boys. She placed them into two-seater stroller and wheeled Seth and Lawrence out of one jail, and into another.

END