Hex

Chapter 4
Explanation

Chapter Description: Nikki explains Adam's new situation to him.

When Adam awoke from his nap, he could see Nikki putting on a witch’s costume. He could tell that she had dressed him in something too, but couldn’t figure out what it was. ’So now I’m a baby? The fuck’s up with that? None of this makes any sense.’ he pondered. He’d have dismissed it as a dream if he hadn’t woken up into this scenario twice already.

Adam tried to look around the room. It was a little bit easier to move around now, granted it wasn’t quite like his free movement in adult form. He couldn’t just sit up. ’Damn, this sucks,’ he thought to himself, ’how the hell did she do this to me?’ As he was trying to figure out his situation, he felt a pair of hands lift him up out of his crib. Nikki perched him on her hip and carried him into his bathroom.

Nikki had turned out the light and lit candles to make it look more dramatic. Adam saw a very pretty lady holding a cute kid in the mirror. A witch holding a cat. Adam thought it might have looked cute had he not been the (baby) cat. Nikki’s witch costume looked great, however. Adam would definitely have had pleasant bedtime thoughts about her tonight if she hadn’t ruined his entire day. He, on the other hand, was now very small in comparison to her. He couldn’t tell exactly how old he was, but he had to be less than a year. He started squirming. This was all too much for him. “Oh no, honey. I haven’t cleaned up in here yet, so I can’t put you down,” she said, hoping he would accept that, “here, this should help.” She plopped a pacifier in his mouth. Adam wanted to spit it out, but he couldn’t. Instead, he started to suck on it. It was relaxing. All the tension in Adam’s body released as his mind focused on the pacifier. Nikki jiggled him on her way back to his room, where she laid him down in the crib again.

Adam was warm. The blankets laid out in his crib were soft and fuzzy. If he were still an adult he would have had slow, relaxed breathing instead of cooing in response to feeling like he was back in his zone of safety. He did care that he’d lost his adult privileges for the day, but Nikki obviously hadn’t left any detail to chance and he supposed she only had his best interest in mind, so he slowly started to let it go.

“Now that you’ve calmed down a bit,” Nikki began as she continued to straighten her hair, “I’ll start filling you in on what’s going on... first of all, I’m a witch. I know I technically could have had any guy I wanted, but the other guys are really self-centered and you seemed nice enough. I feel like I know you pretty well, but I wanted to see how you would handle this. Just think of it as a test of character.” she told her him, as if talking to a wall, seeing as Adam couldn’t respond. Adam just looked around the room and tried to take it all in. ’… Nikki? … witch? …’ Adam was having trouble focusing on his thoughts. Nikki continued, “Anyway, the gist of it all is that during Halloween the barrier between the natural and supernatural is significantly lessened, so I can use magic more freely. The reason I haven’t turned you back yet is that I’ve used up a whole bunch of my magic reserves in your transformation. My magic will gradually replenish throughout the day, but I won’t have enough until tonight.” Adam tried to take all that in, but he started to urinate, and then he started to expel his late morning breakfast. Adam shrieked in response to the discomfort, which caused him to lose the pacifier and also interrupted Nikki in the process.

“Oh, I just got you dressed too... all right, come ’ere.” she said as she lifted him out. Once again, she took the changing supplies out of the top drawer. “So...” she continued again, “I’m gonna be visiting a few friends that I haven’t seen in a while tonight. I’ll be introducing you as my nephew. Some of these friends have kids and some don’t, but I want you to be on your best behavior for me tonight.” she said as she opened the tabs on his diaper, “Whew, this is definitely one for the books,” she joked. Adam had to laugh at that one. It was the joke, rather than the voice she used for it. He didn’t know what was up with that pacifier, but he could think better without it. He tried to recollect what she had told him during his trance, but all that he could remember her saying was that she is a witch. Nikki lifted his legs and started wiping him down. Within a minute she had him cleaned up, after which she slid the fresh diaper under him. Nikki pulled the front of his diaper to his front, secured it around his waist, and taped it shut. Adam felt warm and comfortable again. Nikki tossed the old diaper in Adam’s trash can which hadn’t seen much use before today. As an added bonus, she blew a raspberry on his stomach. Though Adam didn’t care for that, he shrieked with laughter. Nikki left him on the floor to finish getting ready.

Adam couldn’t help but notice that his legs were separated, so he tried to bring them together. To his dismay, he found that they weren’t strong enough. He rolled onto his side, but couldn’t go any further, so returned to his previous position. ’Damn, how do I move around?’ he wondered. After a few minutes, the answer hit him. He started crying again.

Nikki came back with a bottle of formula. “Look what mommy brought for you!!!” she chirped. That wasn’t quite what Adam wanted, but close enough, he could use a drink. Nikki picked him up, but let him hold it, which, to his pride, he was doing a good job of. “Good job holding that bottle!” she complimented him. Under normal circumstances Adam would have taken that as condescending, but he couldn’t help but smile at the praise. “Well, Adam, it’s just about time to go visit my friends.” she informed him as she took him out to her car.