Nymphadora's Curse

Chapter 7
Family Frustrations

When Dora came home, things were seemingly in chaos. Bellatrix was sulking as she breastfed Evelyn, and Cass was nowhere to be found. Her Mum walked up to her, dressed in nothing but a pink diaper and an apron. “Bella and Cass had a fight and she’s not letting me in. Would you mind talking to her?” she whispered.

Dora sighed. Cass was definitely Bella’s daughter alright. She trudged up the stairs, tired from the day's work. She knocked on Cass’ door. “Cass? Can I come in?”

A slight pause, then the door unlocked. She walked inside. Cass was lying on her bed in just a diaper and t-shirt, staring up at the ceiling. There was a torn up dress beside her bed, along with a pink pacifier. Dora shut the door behind her and sat down on the bed. “Wanna tell me what happened?”

Cass kept staring at the ceiling. “As if you can’t tell?” she muttered. Dora sighed. Bella had gotten her that dress resized because she used to love it as a child. She used to call Cass her little Black princess, which was written in glitter on it. The pacifier, a larger version of the one she used to use as well.

“I can tell what happened to the dress yeah. But I’m not omniscient… Not without the quill anyway” she said. Cass took a deep breath.

“Why won’t she let me grow up?” she whispered. Dora couldn’t say she wasn’t expecting that question. “She keeps insisting on me staying her little diaper girl… And then today she came in with that dress… I lost it”

“Cass… family means everything to your Mother. She probably just thought it’d make you happy to see them again” Dora said. Cass sat up on the bed beside her.

“But it didn’t! I want to be normal! Get a damn job, maybe even go on to teach if I’m good enough. I’m not like Eve, I don’t want to spend my life sitting in my own piss and shit!” she snapped. Dora’s eyebrow rose. “Sorry… didn’t mean to snap like that”

Dora wrapped her arms around Cass. “Cass, I promise you… Bella wouldn’t try to stop you from making your own decisions. Yes, she would probably prefer you be more like Eve but it’s not up to her what you want and she knows it”

Cass rest her head on Dora’s shoulder. “You want to be normal? Go ahead. None of us will stop you. Your happiness should come first” she said. “Personally, I’d recommend keeping the diapers for your NEWTs. I’ve known a few girls who wet themselves from the stress those blasted exams put them through. But there’s no reason she wouldn’t let you be like every other girl your age”

Cass sighed and reluctantly started sucking her thumb for comfort. “I… I jutht want to feel what it’th like… to not rely on thomeone for everything” she said. Her stomach grumbled.

Dora chuckled, memories of her own little rebellious streak coming to mind. “So then tell her that. Hell, since you’re hungry you should tell you’re you’re going out to the chipper instead. The only way you’ll be treated like a normal adult  is if you act like one”

Cass removed her thumb and walked out of her room with Dora. Dora walked over to Andromeda and Eve, watching silently as Cass spoke to Bella. “So?” Andromeda asked.

“Well I hope that’ll be the end of it” Dora said, taking a very sleepy looking Eve off Andromeda. “By the way, what’s with the outfit? Thought you’d be a little more reserved than Bella” she said.

Andromeda stuck her tongue out at Dora. “Because I felt like it.” she said. Dora stuck a pacifier from the table in Andromeda’s mouth.

“How did little miss ‘I promise I won’t like being babied’ become such a little brat?” she chuckled. Andromeda snorted and sucked her new paci. Dora looked back over to Bella and Cass. They were hugging so at least it seemed the crisis was averted for now.

She felt the seat of Eve’s diaper start to sag. “Aw, did you make Mummy a presie baby girl?” she cooed. Eve buried her head in Dora’s neck and nodded. Dora smiled. “At least one of them knows what she wants. Let’s get you changed pumpkin. Then you can go to bed”

Eve was probably the best behaved girl of the house. Bella and Andromeda could both be little brats when they were in the right headspace, and Dora wasn’t exactly an angel herself. A quick diaper change later and she was laying Eve down in her crib for the night. “Mummy?” Eve muttered. “Can Teddy come ovew thoon? Befowe we go back to Hogwart?”

Dora brushed Eve’s hair behind her ear. “I’m sure he’d love to babysit you pumpkin. Mummy will ask him tomorrow” she said, kissing Eve’s forehead and lifting the rails of the crib. Eve was already fast asleep. Teddy hasn’t even been in the country for months. Too busy with his apprenticeship to Newt Scamander. She’d definitely have to remind him to come home to see his baby sisters before Hogwarts started.

When she went downstairs again, both Bella and Cass were gone. “Did Merry feed you today Nymmie?” Andromeda asked. Dora nodded.

“But… I could really do with my own baby day” she said. Without another word, Andromeda scooped her up and shoved a pacifier in her mouth. Dora happily sucked it as she snuggled into her Mummy.

Her little diapered family was certainly dysfunctional, but that didn’t matter to her right now. All she cared about now was the feeling of her back being rubbed as Mummy cooed at her.