Little Sister Dear

Chapter 1
Little Sister Dear

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Chapter Description: Sibling love? More like sibling homicide

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*An alternate Reina Beaumont, not part of the main Beaumont story*

They say that family can be a wonderful thing, that despite it’s ups and downs, it’s pros and cons, your family can be more important to you than you realise.

So they say anyway.

Maybe they’re right.

Months of effort, of trail and error. Sweat, tears, blood and the non-stop effort. But now, at long last, she would have the upper hand.

"Got you now" She whispers as she positions herself, her opponent was going to do his trademark move and she was going to be ready to counter it, at last.

With a strong hit, and the sound probably the loudest thing she can hear as the watching crowd hold their breaths, her opponent makes his move and she reacts.

"I win" The ball heads towards her at a nearly impossible speed, her opponent was so much stronger than she was, but she had been putting in as much training as she could, this was going to be her moment.

Bringing her racquet up, she swings hard and hears the satisfying sound of the ball coming into contact with it, sending the ball back the way it came and her opponent was clearly surprised.

He hadn’t expected her to counter it like she did and he tries to counter her response, only for the ball to fly right past him.

"Game, set and match, Player One!" The computer calls out and Reina Beaumont whoops in delight.

"AT LAST!" She cries out in sheer delight as the tennis video game she’s been trying to finish displays her score, it had taken her months to finally beat this final opponent, the best of the best in regards of the game’s opponents.

"Not so cocky now, are you?" She mocks as the game finishes awarding her and then proceeding to the credits.

"Damn, that means I owe you a tenner" Naomi Watt, one of Reina’s oldest friends, remarks in dismay.

"Aye, now pay up, I won the bet"

A week after the game in question had been released, Naomi had challenged Reina to work her way up to the top of the game and beat the hardest opponent in the game, she hadn’t managed it and was certain that Reina couldn’t either.

In-between work and spending time with her family and friends however, Reina had taken the time to get in as much practice as she could with the game in order to prove her friend wrong.

It had finally paid off.

Handing the money over, Naomi looks over to the stack of video games and wonders if she should avoid making such bets again. Both of them loved playing video games and would usually bet one another, but only in small things like sweets or clothing, to complete a game they had problems with completing.

This was the first time that Naomi had made a bet with money and she had been sure that Reina wouldn’t manage it, so to say she was surprised would be an understatement.

"Jammy, that’s what you are, you got lucky" Naomi pouts.

"Maybe, maybe not. But that was fun" Reina remarks with a smile as she slips the money into her purse.

"Six months, Reina, it took you six months" The credits continue to roll and Naomi wonders if she should have just made a bet with some chocolate, it wouldn’t feel as humbling then.

As the two women chat and have a mock argument for fun, they don’t see that someone is watching them.

"Your sister will kill us, and my sister will either kill me or hug me happily if this actually works" A voice whispers.

"They can try"

"Come on, mum’s waiting for us!" Naomi calls upstairs to her sister an hour later, her sister Vanessa was friends with Reina’s younger sister, Annie, and had asked if she could head round to see Annie when Naomi had headed out to see Reina earlier in the evening.

They got along pretty well, unlike Annie and Reina who tended to be at each other’s throats most of the time.

"Okay!" Vanessa calls out and she heads downstairs, only to stop and look away as she sees her sister and her sister’s friend saying their own goodbyes. She thought it was gross to see them doing that, so she waits until they’ve finished kissing before resuming her way downstairs.

"Make me sick some more, it’s real fun to watch my sister getting frisky like that" Vanessa comments coldly.

"Love’s like that, you’ll find out for yourself when you’ve got someone in your life" Naomi remarks. Three years ago Reina and Naomi had finally made their feelings for one another known to their respective families.

At first there had been shock, anger and then an understanding and acceptance. Their friendship was deep and the love they had for one another even deeper, so although they got some pretty nasty insults directed towards them from narrow minded people, their parents from their respective families accepted that their eldest daughters were happy with one another and didn’t interfere.

"If you two are done with the daily tongue tussle then can we go home?" Vanessa asks.

"Aye, let’s get going. See you later, love" Reina nods, smiling, and Naomi and Vanessa leave the house to head home. Reina heads through to the kitchen and makes herself something to drink.

"Super sickening, Reina, really" Annie remarks from the kitchen doorway.

"Then if you ever get married one day I’ll say that to whoever you marry, maybe I’ll throw cake in their face too just to add to the features" Reina replies while making her drink, an apple and orange mix.

"I’ll never marry, all that fondling and kissing is gross"

"Is it? I thought your singing in the shower was worse"

"I’m a good singer!" Annie cries out in protest.

"Sure you are, that’s why the neighbourhood cats scream for mercy when you start singing" The drink made, Reina gives it another stir then looks for something to nibble on. While her back is turned Annie approaches the drink, takes out a small vial and while her sister isn’t looking, pours the contents of the vial into the drink and gives it a quick stir just as her sister turns round, quickly Annie backs away before her sister sees her near the juice.

"What? Is my choice of juice gross as well?" Reina remarks after briefly seeing her sister’s hand pull away from the juice.

"Why do you always mix flavours together? Can’t you just be normal?" Annie comments.

"Normal is an abstract term made by fools. I like mixing flavours together, never know what you like till you try it" Reina takes a sip of the juice, the flavour was clearly just right. "Sharp, just the way I like it"

"Gross"

"Sure, yeah, right. Going to bed, if I hear you singing I’ll dangle you outside your bedroom window by your feet. Night" Taking her drink and the biscuits she had found to nibble on, Reina leaves the kitchen and heads upstairs.

"Have a nice sleep" Annie remarks coldly.

~~

Next Morning: She couldn’t move, everything felt so heavy. She tries to kick and finds her legs are covered, she tries to reach out only to find that her arms are covered as well.

Tossing to and fro, Reina struggles to move and continues to have trouble. Then she jerks awake, and realises that something feels off.

"Good morning" Reina looks over to her left to see her twin sister Rena beside her bed, looking down at her.

"What do you want?" Reina asks, her nightmare already receding.

"Just for you to look in the mirror, something’s happened" Reina frowns, half expecting to see that Annie has written on her forehead again like she had done in the past. She looks over to the mirror and her eyes widen.

She brings her hands up in front of her face, then looks at her reflection again.

"ANNIE!" Reina screams out. "ANNIE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" The bedroom door opens and Annie enters, laughing.

"Who do you think you’re calling little?" Annie remarks coldly.

"What did you do to me? Tell me!" Reina struggles to get out of bed, her nightclothes falling off her. Somehow during the night Reina’s size had gone from the 5’3 grown woman she had been to around 2 feet, or less. Her nightclothes were too big for her and she seemed to be around the size of a toddler, maybe an infant.

"Oh just a little fun. Mum! Reina needs your help!" Annie backs out of the bedroom as Reina tries to lunge at her, but her feet get tangled in the bedcovers and she falls, bouncing a little on the bed. Rena grabs her before she falls off the edge.

"Sibling love, yeah right, more like sibling homicide!" Reina cries out as Rena finds a towel and wraps it around Reina’s body.

"Maybe it’s short term, like most of her other experiments" Rena suggests in order to try and calm her sister down.

"Better be, I’m still pissed at her for reducing me to an infant two years ago" Reina growls as she folds her arms, she felt a little babyish, maybe it was something to do with whatever her sister had made.

"Mum loved having a baby to care for again"

"Of course she did, for a week I was fed, burped, bathed, changed and more and mum was delighted, I’m sick of Annie using me as a test subject" Reina looks at her hands and notes how small they are compared to her sister’s, her sister was like a giant to her.

"Well you aren’t a baby this time, maybe we’ve got some clothes that will fit you"

"Hope so"

Sara Beaumont, Reina’s mum, entered the bedroom a few minutes later and practically squealed with delight when she saw Reina.

"Oh my-You are so cute! Rena, there are baby clothes and nappies in my bedroom closest, go get them"

"Mum, she isn’t a baby, don’t we have anything more adult?" Rena asks while her sister gulps.

"That’s the only things that will fit, dear, now please go get them"

"Mum, no! I’m still an adult!" Reina protests as Rena leaves to get the requested items. Picking her daughter up, making sure the towel that Reina’s wearing is wrapped around the shrunken adult’s body well enough, and holds her much like a young child.

"I knew Annie was working on something, but I didn’t know she was working on something like this. It’s a shame she wastes her talents on tormenting you"

"She’s always tormenting me! And you’re always telling me to just let it slide!" Swaying gently, Sara tries to calm her shrunken daughter down. She was annoyed at how often Annie tormented her older sister, Annie was intelligent and knew her science. But she needed to find a better outlet instead of tormenting her sister like this.

Although it did allow Sara the chance to care for a child again, even with her daughter just a lot smaller now, her maternal instincts were kicking in and she wanted to protect this tiny life and care for her.

"I’ll have a talk with her, but we need to get you dressed" Reina whimpers, an unexpected sound. Sara wondered if whatever Annie had made was having an unexpected side effect.

"I’m not a baby, mum, I’m grown up, I’m potty trained"

"I’m sorry, dear, but at your size you’ll likely fall into places you normally wouldn’t. I’ll have to place you back in nappies until this wears off, if it does"

"No mum, please!" Reina pleads, tears were appearing. "Make her grow me back!"

"I will, dear, but it won’t do you any good to be naked and the baby clothes and nappies are the only things that are likely going to fit you, I don’t have anything more adult like in design that will fit you" To her surprise Reina cries into her shoulder, her sobs loud. Rocking Reina gently, she notes that Reina seems a little babyish now and again wonders if it’s a side effect of Annie’s experiment.

"Me and your dad will talk to her, I promise. It will be okay"

It took some effort but eventually Reina is dressed. Although she didn’t hate nappies, if anything she liked wearing them, Reina had protested loudly but knew she had no choice as her mum had tended to her.

Now she stood there in front of her mirror, a thick nappy between her legs, a baby sized t-shirt for an 18 month old baby girl on showing a picture of an angel and the words ’Mummy’s Nappy Angel’ on the front, faded pink socks on her tiny feet and squeaky pink baby booties.

"I am going to kill Annie" Reina whispers. She looked, and she hated to admit it, cute.

"I have to take a picture, I can’t resist, Rena keep an eye on her, I’ll be right back with my camera" Sara leaves the bedroom and Rena looks down at her sister.

"Don’t kill me, but I have to say this – You look adorable" Rena comments as she picks her sister up, sitting down and placing her sister on her lap.

"I’ll kill Annie, I don’t care how I do it, if it means leaving used nappies in her bed or peeing on her lap or anything, I am going to kill her for this" Reina growls, feeling small on her sister’s lap.

"You have to calm down, for all we know your anger might be increasing any side effects"

"Like what?" Rena bounces her sister on her lap and stops when Reina slaps her hand.

"Well you seem to be acting a little emotional, it’s not like you to be so tearful, you’ve always had a pretty good grasp of your emotions. And when mum was dressing you, you seemed to zone out for a moment and started sucking your thumb. Too many emotional outbursts might be reacting with your smaller size" Reina gulps at the thought of it, while physically she was still a grown woman, she has been noticing slight blank points when her adult mind seems to slip away for brief seconds.

"Annie needs to reverse this, I can’t stay like this!" Sara returns and for a brief second Reina calls out:

"Mummy!" And then stops when she realises what she just said. Sara looks shocked for a second, then smiles and holds the camera up.

"Hold your sister, Rena, smile!" Rena smiles and despite herself, Reina does as well.

~~

Ian Beaumont, the father of Reina, Rena, Annie and Alan Beaumont, taps his fingers on the table as he looks at Annie. In the next room Rena was helping her sister happily, he was glad that they got along so well and that Rena was happy to look after her sister.

He knew how much Annie tended to torment Reina, Reina was always told to not lash out and Reina tried her best not too. With Reina’s house hunting going poorly due to a shortage of housing, then both Reina and Rena still lived with their parents, which they understandably weren’t happy with.

Annie also lived with her parents and was always stating that she wasn’t in a rush to make her mark in the world yet.

Alan had gotten lucky several years ago and had moved out, but his oldest daughter’s were struggling to find their own places. And now Annie had gone and used her talents at science on one of her older sisters, again.

"We warned you about doing this the last time, when you reduced Reina to an infant" Ian remarks sharply, Annie just looks down at her hands. Even though she was a grown woman now and could have a good job, Annie tended to be too immature for her own good.

"It wore off" Annie replies quietly.

"That is besides the point, you’re not a child anymore, Annie, you can’t keep doing this to your sister"

"Oh yeah, stand up for her, I’m the bad one. She’s Miss Perfect, well little Miss Perfect now" Annie remarks coldly, still looking down at her hands.

"You’ve shrunken your sister down to the size of a young child, according to Rena she’s showing almost childlike behaviour. Now you are going to fix it" Ian loved his children, although he was a little too manly to say so outright, he did love his family.

"And if I don’t? Reina should stay like that!"

"If you don’t, you’ll be out on your backside faster than you can say sorry. Reducing your sister into an infant was too much, but this is going too far"

"You wouldn’t dare leave me homeless"

"Just try me. Now unless you want to be begging your friends for a place to stay then you better find a way to restore your sister" Annie looks into her father’s eyes and gulps, this time she knew she had just crossed the line.

This time she was on her final chance.

"It will take me some time"

"How long?"

"Not sure, a few days maybe"

"Then you had better get to work. Now" Annie nods, jumping out of the chair and runs upstairs.

"A little harsh, dear, you aren’t really going to throw her out on the streets" Sara asks.

"To be honest I might, she needs a good swift kick up the backside. She has a keen mind, a strong intellect, but she misuses it" Ian replies gruffly, he didn’t want to throw Annie out of the house but shrinking her sister wasn’t something that could be forgiven easily.

"Mum! Reina needs help!" Rena calls out.

"I better go tend to Reina" Sara says as she gets up.

"Why does Annie hate her sister so much?" Ian asks.

"She doesn’t, she adores her sister. And like any little sister she picks on her"

"But Rena is also her older sister"

"Rena punches, kicks and generally fights back, Reina doesn’t, even though she threatens to. Rena is Reina’s more aggressive side, while Reina is gentle. Well unless she’s playing a video game then she’s a brutal opponent" Sara answers.

"So Annie goes for the one who won’t hit her" Ian begins to understand.

"Exactly"

"What is it?" Sara asks when she enters the small dining room where a play pen had been placed, it would be moved into the living room later. Rena was trying to calm her sister who was crying, as Sara approaches she sees the problem.

Reina had wet herself quite a bit.

"It might be another side effect, Reina felt dizzy and then she, well, you can probably see" Rena answers as she lifts Reina up, some liquid dripping down due to how bad the accident had been.

"I’ll change her, could you pop to the shops briefly, take the car, and get a few things? Reina’s becoming more childish the longer she’s like this"

"Sure, I’ll need some money to get whatever it is you’re needing"

"I’ll write a list as soon as Reina’s cleaned up. Annie’s been told to find a way to restore her sister, so don’t bother her" Reina keeps crying, she was looking a little different, almost younger and Sara takes her from Rena. As she heads up to the makeshift nursery she had made, it would have to do for now since this had been pretty unexpected, Rena goes to get her shoes and coat on.

As she passes Annie’s room Rena decides to pay her sister a visit. Not bothering to knock, Rena opens the door and enters.

"What?" Annie asks harshly, she was clearly upset.

"Cry me a river, you’ve turned my sister into an almost infant"

"She’s just smaller, not younger!" Slamming a hand down on her desk, Annie reaches for her notebook and Rena grabs her hand.

"She is getting younger, all of her adult aspects are slipping away, I’ve been watching her while looking after her. In the past hour Reina’s physical age has dropped fast, emotionally she’s becoming an infant, maybe a toddler. You didn’t just shrink her, you’ve made another youth formula"

"I only intended to shrink her, just for a laugh!"

"Well you’ve done more than that" Rena lets her sister go and goes to leave.

"Maybe some of the youth formula from before, if some of it is still in her system, is mixing with the shrinking formula. Oh no…"

"Oh no what?"

"Vanessa did the same to her sister as well, just for a laugh, Naomi loved it and it wore off. I gave some of the shrinking formula to her last night" Rena turns to her sister, anger in her eyes.

"You did what? You’re supposed to be so damn smart and you gave a powerful formula that mixes with another one to your friend? I have to tell mum and dad" Annie jumps out and grabs Rena’s arm.

"No, please, don’t! If dad finds out I’ll be thrown out!" She cries, tears in her eyes.

"Then you should have thought of that. For having such a great intellect you are pretty stupid. Annie Beaumont, the smartest idiot in existence"

"Shut up!"

"Big words, real big" Rena makes to leave and Annie grabs something, too something’s.

"Rena!" Rena turns and Annie splashes something on her. Wiping her face Rena snarls and grabs her sister’s throat.

"Reina might be all sweet and caring, but I’m something different. She’s my twin and for her I would do anything"

"Then maybe you two can play patty cake together"

"What are you on about?"

"I’m going to have two baby sisters now" Rena lets go of her sister and looks down at her wet hands. Her clothes were starting to feel a little loose.

"MUM! DAD!" Rena calls out, she runs for the stairs.

"It’s a little stronger than the ones I used on Reina, at the rate it’s working you’re going to be sharing a crib with her in, ooh, five minutes" Annie remarks coldly as Rena’s jeans become too loose and fall to her ankles, causing her to trip. Her features were changing, becoming smoother, younger.

"I’ll kill you!" Rena snarls, and she charges her sister only for her sister to grab her and lift her into the air.

"From five foot three to barely taller than her twin within a minute, that’s quite the formula I made. You aren’t so threatening now" Rena tries to claw at her sister, her hands developing baby fat as she enters her toddler years. The clothing that hadn’t fallen off now draped over her.

"Me hate you!" Rena cries as her vocabulary declines rapidly, Sara leaves the bedroom then and finds Annie holding her now baby sister in front of her.

"Annie? What did you just do?" She asks, already knowing the answer.

"I defended myself" Annie replies as Rena cries louder.

"You didn’t, not after what your father just said"

"I did, now Reina and Rena can play in the play pen together"

"Annie!" Setting the crying child on the carpet, Annie goes back into her room, locking the door behind her after slamming it closed. "Ian!" Sara calls out as she picks Rena up.

~~

Running a hand down his face, Ian wonders what he’s going to do about Annie. He didn’t want to throw her out, but she was clearly impossible to deal with.

Looking over to the high chairs he had found in the attic, Sara had suggested keeping them and keeping them in good condition after Annie had reduced Reina to an infant the first time round two years ago, he watched as his wife happily fed Rena and Reina, Reina still slightly an adult, Rena fully a child.

Rena clapped her hands happily, her face, hands and clothes messy in her clumsy attempts to feed herself. Reina was almost as bad, her coordination had decreased considerably in the past hour since her twin sister’s return to infancy.

He has tried to get Annie to talk to him but any attempts have resulted in her telling him to go away.

"Sara, Annie’s gone too far" Ian says, for about the fiftieth time in the past hour.

"I know, but we can’t throw her out, she’s our daughter. Here comes the shuttle, sweetie, requesting docking permission" Rena opens her mouth to accept the food, then Sara does the same to Reina, who tries to grasp the spoon. Reina looked as young as her sister.

"Then what do you suggest?"

"I don’t know, she will have to restore her sister’s eventually. But she’s feeling like she’s being targeted for trying to have fun"

"Fun? Soaking your sister with water is just having fun, not reducing them to babies" Wiping their faces and burping them, Sara takes her two babies out of their high chairs and holds them against her.

"Could you clean up for me please? I’m going to give the girls some motherly cuddling"

"Of course" Sara goes through to the living room while Ian cleans up.

After finishing Ian returns to the living room to find Sara cradling the twins happily, she was singing. Reina seemed to be falling asleep, Rena had already fallen asleep. Sara patted their padded bottoms as she sang.

Even though this was unexpected, Ian had to admit that Sara was a good mother and she loved caring for her children. As she sings to her regressed daughter’s, the doorbell chimes and Ian answers the door, to see Naomi’s mother, Alice, standing on the doorstep. She had a baby buggy in front of her with an adorable child in it, happily playing with the toys dangling from the buggy’s front bar.

Alice’s younger daughter was standing beside her, looking down. She looked ashamed.

"Hi Alice, what brings you round?" He asks.

"Annie. Vanessa gave something to her sister last night, and Naomi woke up about the size she was when she was a toddler" Ian runs a hand down his face again.

"ANNIE!" He yells out.

"I don’t mind having a child to care for again, it was surprising when Naomi became a baby again since waking up"

"Annie reduced her older sister’s into infants, you better come in" Stepping to the side to let them in, Alice and Vanessa enter, Naomi babbling away happily as she plays.

"Vanessa is blaming herself, she thought it would be just harmless fun like the last time. Naomi wasn’t even angry, surprised, but not angry. She wanted to come round and try to talk Annie into restoring Naomi"

"She’s welcome to try. Go ahead, Vanessa, try and talk sense into her"

Thank you, Mr. Beaumont, I’ll try" Giving her now baby sister a kiss on the forehead, Vanessa runs upstairs to try and talk sense into Annie while Sara and Alice coo over their regressed daughters.

Knocking on the door, Vanessa tries the handle without success.

"Annie, it’s me, Vanessa. Let me in please" No reply, she knocks again.

"Go away" A voice says on the other end.

"No, let me in" The sound of sliding metal and the door opens. Annie peeks round the corner, her eyes were red, she had clearly been crying.

"I’ve been right stupid, haven’t I?" Annie asks, her voice catching a little.

"If I say yes, promise you won’t turn me into a baby?"

"Promise, though you would look cute"

"Mum would probably agree with you, but you really need to restore my sister as well as your sisters. Let me in?" Opening the door a little, Annie steps back and Vanessa enters. She notes Annie’s work space, it looked cluttered.

"I got so angry with Rena, I didn’t want dad to throw me out and she was going to tell him that I gave you a sample of the formula" Annie says after closing the door and locking it.

"So you turned her into a baby? Not a very bright thing to do"

"Seemed like a good idea at the time. How did Naomi react?" Vanessa sits down and picks up a notepad, one of Annie’s many work pads.

"She loved it, should have seen her when mum put her back in nappies, she was jumping on the beds and running around happily. And then she became so childish, not just in behaviour, but in appearance. Mum didn’t mind, but she was worried. When Naomi wet herself suddenly, mum felt it was best that I talk to you about a way to restore her, not that mum minds caring for a baby again, she has stated that she isn’t as young as she used to be" The notepad was filled with diagrams and more, all explaining ideas, concepts and formulas.

"I could fix that"

"No, mum’s already said that as nice as it would be, she felt that it was time for Naomi to be the adult she is, to make her own way in the world"

"But my mum’s always going on about how much she loved being a mum, how much she enjoyed changing nappies and so on"

"Mum’s are like that, well for the most part. We’re always their little babies in their eyes, but they also know when their baby needs to take their first steps. You need to restore Naomi and your sisters, our mums may love being parents, but we can’t be babies forever" Annie paces, her room was more or less tidy most of the time, but this time there were notes scattered around.

"I was just wanting to have a laugh, reducing Reina to kid sized for a day or two, that’s all"

"There’s having a laugh and there’s doing what you’ve done" Vanessa remarks.

"So I should just restore them, apologise and hope I won’t get booted?"

"Worth a shot" Annie sighs, she knew her joke had gone too far.

"Fine. Going to need your help though" Annie unlocks the door. "Mum! Dad! Need to talk to you!" She calls out.

~~

That night after Alice had left, Sara tucks her two regressed daughters in, Ian had found the cribs they used to have.

"A few days like this" Sara whispers to her daughters, Rena reaching up, Reina doing the same. Both babbling tiredly. "I intend on taking as many pictures as possible so that you two adorable nappy bums never truly fade away" Kissing them softly on their foreheads, Sara sings softly and waits until Reina and Rena have fallen asleep, baby dummy’s in their mouths being suckled on, soft toys close to them.

"Sweet dreams, my little angels" She whispers as she switches off the light, after checking the baby monitor is on, and leaving the door slightly open, heads downstairs.

"Tell me about the side effects again" Ian asks, Annie had already said what they were several times, but he wanted to hear it again anyway.

"After they’ve all aged back there will be a lingering kind of infancy remaining, it won’t be serious. But at times they’ll want to play, they’ll want, make that need, to wear nappies for the comfort and security, it won’t be something that happens all the time, just occasionally. Usually when they relax or when they’re stressed, I’ve run all the tests and the results say that when they age back they’ll be, in a sense, newly founded adult babies or diaper lovers, or both. Though in Reina’s case it will be strengthened" Annie replies.

"And that’s safe?"

"Well somewhat, they won’t be too extreme, but the comfort and security will become a strong need for them. I know it sounds awkward, but it won’t be a phrase, it will be with them for a long time" Sara enters the living room as Annie finishes.

"Anything else?"

"Well they’ll look a little younger than the actual age they are, and they’ll age a tiny bit slower. And they’ll still be nappy dependent after being returned to adulthood for about a day or two until their bodies adapt to being adults again"

"So we should make sure that any supplies are waiting for them"

"Aye, I’m just waiting for the first element of the restoration formula to be ready, it should be ready in the next few minutes. But it’s going to take almost a week for this to be made"

"As long as it works. Go check on your work" Annie gets up and heads for the stairs.

"I am sorry" She says quietly.

"I would hope so" Ian remarks sharply, Annie looks down, then heads upstairs.

"The girls are asleep, do we have to age them back?" Sara asks after sitting down.

"We can’t keep them as babies forever" Ian replies.

"I know, but they are so precious. Couldn’t we keep them as babies for just a little longer?" Ian shakes his head.

"No, love, we can’t. They need to be living their own lives, we had our shot when they were born and we’ve raised them. Now it’s time for them to take their steps" Sara sighs, she was clearly loving the chance to be caring for her children again.

"Motherhood can be unfair sometimes. You carry them for nine months, nourish them, then you give birth to them and care for them, cater to their every need and love them deeply. And then they grow up and while you’re deeply proud of them, you still see them as those tiny, beautiful babies who depended on you for everything. It goes by so quickly, one moment they’re suckling from your breast, the next they’re grown up and living their lives" Ian places a hand on his wife’s leg, while he didn’t know what it was to be a mother, he loved being a father and still saw his children, his daughters especially, as the little toddlers with pony tails in just their nappies and t-shirts, sitting on his lap and reading to them.

"They’ll always be our babies, we just can’t keep them that way"

"I wish I could, even if it was just for a few hours a day or a week, or a month, even a year" Hugging her, he kisses her lovingly.

"That’s what memories are for"

~~

Six months later: Sputtering, it’s dying breaths a sharp whine, the synthetic attacker collapses to the ground, the bodies of it’s colleagues scattered around.

"Never mess with a woman with a rifle" Reina remarks as on the screen her character, a woman space marine, slips her assault rifle into it’s clip on her back.

"Are you sure it’s dead?" Rena asks, she wasn’t too fond of video games, but she liked to watch.

"Quite dead, did you see how brutal that slaughter was?" Naomi comments. A slight rustle and Naomi kisses Reina softly on the lips, her nappy felt wonderful on her skin. She moves a hand down to between her girlfriend’s legs and pats the thick nappy there, making Reina coo a little.

"So the story of this game is some ancient evil is looking to make munchies of the population of the galaxy and only one person, and the team she gathers, can stop them? Sounds really corny" Rena remarks, patting her own nappy without thinking about it. The nappy responds with a loud crinkle like sound.

Ever since their return to adulthood, the three friends had been angry with Annie at first for the side effect of being returned to adults, but they found that it wasn’t so bad after a while.

Their parents, while unsure of how their daughters would cope with this new thing in their lives, new for Naomi and Rena anyway since it had already been there for Reina, supported them and with help they each found places to live. All within minutes walking distance of each other.

At first it had been weird and awkward to have this sudden comfort need in their lives, but with supporting one another they found that it was a great help and gave them more confidence than they used to have.

"So what next? Take out more of those bug like aliens?" Naomi asks, cuddling with Reina.

"Not sure, maybe. And patting my nappy like that makes me feel young"

"Is that a bad thing?"

"No, it’s great. How about we just play instead? Or crawl around or something?"

"Sounds like fun, what about you, Rena?" They had come round to Reina’s place, Naomi wanted to spend time with her girlfriend and Rena wanted to watch her sister game. She was wondering about trying it herself one day, her flat was a little bare due to Rena having very few interests unlike her sister.

"Count me in" Saving and switching the game off, the friends spend some time letting their inner children have some fun, crawling around, playing with toys and generally having some peaceful playtime.

While the sisters and their friend play, Annie, now in her own place and adjusting well, finishes her latest project.

"Now to find a man to test it on" She whispers excitedly. "And then all men will find out what it’s like to be a woman!"

Now who would be a good test subject? You perhaps?

You know you want to be a test subject.

 

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