Worked Up

Chapter 1
Bringing your Daughter to Work

The doors of the office were unlocked with a click as a woman entered bouncing a baby girl on her hip. Katherine was a financial assistant at a firm, and decided to take her daughter to work for the day.

Turning the key on an office door, Katherine Martin painted across it, she entered the personal office, placing the baby down into the playpen in the corner of the office that was set up the other day.

“Alright, just stay there and play with the toys while I get some work done.”

While she had its attention drawn to the toys sprawled around the playpen, the baby nodded that she somehow understood what she said. With the baby situated, the woman went to her desk and started going through the stack of paperwork.

“Alright, most of these are already filled out, so I just need to finish them out and it should be an easy day.”

A few hours go by, the woman was still at her desk, diligently filling out forms, while the baby girl in the playpen helped herself to a bottle Katherine had prepared earlier.

“Okay just a bit longer and I can leave for the day, but before that I need a cup of coffee.”

Leaving the her personal office, she made her way down the hallway to the far off break room.

“Why did my office have to be so far away from the break room of all places I do not know.” Katherine thought to herself.

“Hey, Katherine.”

“Oh, hey. Jeff, right?”

“Yep. Wished someone brewed a pot, looks like we’ll be waiting a bit.”

The hot stream of the coffee maker was the only thing that broke the silence of the break room, as the two stood silent.

“How’s your little girl doing? You know the one with that weird disease?”

“Excuse me?”

“You’re daughter, Kara I think it was? Doesn’t she have the disease Chro-Corno something?”

“It’s a condition, NOT a disease. Which Kara has been getting better at controlling if you must know,” she said sternly.

“Do think its okay for everyone else? I mean I’m sure she’s a good kid but I think she should just be put with the rest of the problem kids,” he said turning back to the coffee brewing.

The woman was fuming, anger was building inside her. As she was readied herself to unleash a fury, she noticed a peculiar sight in the corner of her eye.

As she was raising her hand to protest, her pointer finger was a drastically smaller than the rest of her hand, barely reaching the first digit of her middle finger. Before she could contemplate this, the rest of her hand shrunk in size to match, now more resembling a small baby sized fist.

Before Jeff could catch sight of it, the woman pulled her hand behind her back. With Jeff’s back turned, she used this opportunity to slip out of the break room.

“I’ve got to get to my office, NOW,” she thought frantically.

She began making her way down the long hallway, her small hand already shifted up the opening of her sleeve becoming completely enveloped.

“Oh, Katherine, good thing I ran into you. Could I talk to you about some of those reports you typed up today?”

The woman turned to Gladys, the receptionist. Gladys had the reputation of talking your ear off with mindless small talk. In any other instance, her talks would only be considered annoying, but this time Gladys

was practically giving the woman her death sentence.

The woman became ever more anxious as she gradually lost more height, her legs losing definition while gaining some baby fat.

"C-can we take this up another t-time, Gladys? I really has to go sees my mommy." she said her voice raising in pitch as she spoke.

"Your mother? Is everything alright, Katherine?”

The woman could feel her hair standing on end, which was becoming much more literal as she could feel her hair receding into her head. She couldn’t waste any more time, she had to get into the office now, before she looked like a bald dwarf to this woman.

"I-I’m fine. My mommi-mother is just not fewling that well. I need to go check on hew. NOW.“ she said, the pitch of her voice bouncing like a basketball, before rushing into the office quickly pulling it behind her.

She finally made it into the office, and after getting away from Gladys relief poured over her. It was this feeling of relief that gave her body the opportunity to collapse into itself.

In a few seconds, the woman’s body thinned and shrunk, exiting womanhood the visage of a teenager lasted ever briefly as she passed through puberty.

This had caught the attention of the baby at this point, standing up in the playpen.

A child no older than 8 fell against the door before falling with a thump to the ground, sight of a toddler’s head passing into the suit appeared ever so briefly. The baby was staring at the pile of clothes that once belonged to a grown woman, a minute passing in silence.

As a few minutes passed, something in the pile moved until the wispy head of a baby girl rose from the collar. She rised up and pulled hertself through the collar of the woman’s blouse, the baby in the playpen pulling the pacifier out as she did this.

"Couldn’t hold it together long enough I see, Kara.” Katherine said in an adult voice.

"I gots…worked up. If I didn’t rush back I would have had T Rex arms before I knew it.”

“Well in any case, I should probably put those clothes on. As much as I’ve enjoyed this baby day, I don’t want to spend the majority of it in diapers.”

The baby in the playpen started grow. Once tall enough to reach the top rail of the playpen, the real Katherine pulled herself over, the diaper popping off once her hips flared out. As she started to grab the suit that Kara once wore, she glanced to to the clock.

"Let’s see. It’s 1:38 right now, so that would be 5 hours and 38 minutes you maintained your age as an adult. Another hour and a half and you would’ve reached your goal for your game.”

"It’s not fwair. I’ve been waiting for that game for months now. Do I have to leave here as a baby?”

“Sorry, but one of us came here in diapers so one of us needs to leave here in diapers.”

Sometimes later, Katherine left her office, baby Kara in tow. After avoiding an awkward exchange with Gladys, the two made their way to the parking garage.

Once they got to the car, Kara changed to her normal age of 15, put on the change of clothes they packed beforehand, and got in the car. Katherine looked in the mirror to see Kara sulking in the backseat, clearly disappointed she didn’t reach her goal. Quietly thinking things over, she started the car up and exited the parking garage.”

"Shouldn’t we have taken 89th?" 

"Yes, if we were going home."

"But I wasn’t able to--"

"Get max points, yes I know. However, with the B- you got on your history test last week, I think I’ll let that split the difference.”

As she said this, Katherine shifted to a teenager, her business suit becoming baggy on her.

“Not to mention I want to go see Prince of the Pendants, which you are treating me to with popcorn after we get for your game. Deal?"

"Deal, but if we’re going to the movies you might want to wear something more age appropriate.“

“I’m sure we got something in the back. Think I’m too big for the diapers though.”

END