Long Day at the Daycare

Chapter 1
Long Day at the Daycare

Chapter Description: After a long shift at an understaffed day-care, Jimmy is feeling like a quick break is in order... but he gets a very different one than expected.

It had been a long day at Sunny Hills Day-care. Up and down the nursery floor, toddlers and babies were sitting down and getting in their afternoon playtime. Little mammals of all shapes and sizes doing block puzzles, cuddling plush toys and being taught their ABC’s. To Jimmy, it was just another weekday, another six hours of loud noises, bad smells and constant clean-ups. The wolf sat down on one of the small wooden stools in the corner of the toddler room and leant back against the wall, breathing out deeply as he let his legs rest. He got to do this twice a day, now when all the kids were doing their own thing, and nap-time, when everyone took the opportunity to grab some lunch. He ran his fingers through his ruffled hair and shook his head a little, trying to shake off some of the tiredness. His flopped right ear that so many toddlers loved to paw at when he was carrying them was feeling pretty battered today. The place was short staffed while they waited for a new caretaker to come in and thirty bottle feedings and uncountable diaper changes meant lots of carrying. One day he’d learn to wear a beanie or something, he thought to himself.

“Mr Jimmy…” he looked down, seeing a white bunny dressed in a cute pink dress. She was hiding behind a plush teddy bear, shyly trying to get his attention.

“Hey Mandy, what’s up?”

“I umm…” she glanced downwards. Jimmy immediately knew what that meant, not that Amanda could help it in any way.

“You need a change?” he gave her head a little pat and smiled “Come on, let’s get you on a flight to the changing table huh!” he lifted her up in one swift motion, the bunny giggling as she reached his shoulder, her thumb going into her mouth. Jimmy checked the back of her diaper as he walked towards the changing table. Could be worse, he thought. As soaked as the padding was, it wasn’t…

“M...Mr Jimmy”

“Hmm..? Yes Mand..” he didn’t need to finish the question. He could feel bunny tense up on his shoulder, her little grunts filling his ear as something he’d really rather not have to deal with filled the back of her Pawpers.

“Oh dear…” he muttered “Well… at least you were already on your way over to the table…”

A few moments later the wolf had untangled the toddler from his shoulder and had laid her down flat on the yellow, plastic covered foam of a nearby changing table. Collecting supplies from each of its many colourful drawers, Jimmy soon had all he needed laid out next to the bunny.

“Now, hold still Mandy” The bunny nodded shyly as Jimmy un-taped the two blue tapes on the waistband. With practiced hands he quickly balled up the diaper into a squishy sphere and made sure it was securely in a fragranced diaper bag before chucking it into a nearby pail. Wipes and powder were liberally applied to the little bunnies messy rear before a fresh crinkly rectangle of padding was wrapped around her waist again.

“There we go kiddo, what are you up to for the rest of the day?”

“Ummm… I’m gonna play dollies!”

Jimmy smiled down at her, ruffling her hair a little and patting her butt to get her on her way. With a quick skip she headed towards the playpen, dancing past other kids before arriving at the big box of blocks on the other side of the room.

As he looked back over the rest of the kids, Jimmy was pleased to see there wasn’t anything that seemed to need his intervention and he headed back towards his seat. As tiring as things were, this was a fun and rewarding job. When he reached the chair and sat back down in it, he leant back against the wall, feeling his eyes close as he breathed out deeply. He started to see shapes and colours appear in front of his eyes. The lights of the nursery almost seemed to be spinning in front of his vision, even as he could tell his eyelids were clamped shut. He could hear himself breathing, his head feeling lighter and lighter…

“Hey kiddo, you ok?”

Jimmy opened his eyes. Had he fallen asleep? His eyes shot open and started to dart quickly around the room, trying to check on everything.

“Whoa, looks like you were having a nap little guy. Nap-time isn’t until after lunch, so let's get you up and about hmm”

The wolf stood up… and he realised he wasn’t being helped up by another member of staff. He looked up, something that immediately struck him as odd, into the red eyes of a grey wolf, his red shirt and jeans stained from spit-up and juice accidents…

He was looking at himself.

“Shhh… don’t tell anyone ok” his doppelganger whispered to him.

“Buuhh?” he felt his tongue slap against the inside of his mouth. It felt like it was twice its normal size. “Wha happen?”

“Well, I thought you could use a break champ.” the wolf said, putting his arms under Jimmy's now pudgy limbs and lifting him up to his chest “You looked exhausted there. But you’re doing a great job of taking care of these little ones. And I think that deserves a reward”

Jimmy pushed back enough to look at his captor, staring him in the face with his mouth agape. He tried to think about what to say but nothing was coming, he was in shock.

“It’s ok Jimmy, don’t worry. To everyone else, you’re just another adorable little toddler” the wolf had taken him back over to the changing table. He felt strangely safe, secure in the arms of his copy, even as everything felt alien.

“Now, let’s get you properly dressed”

Jimmy fidgeted as he was placed standing onto the foam surface of the table. His adult self was pulling out a few bits and pieces of an outfit, all of them meant for the adorable charges in the daycare. At this point Jimmy finally got to take a good look at his new body. Baby fat was still all over his limbs, pudgy fingers feeling almost lazy as he tried to ball them up. As he looked over his back, he could see his shrunken tail flailing about with abandon, totally out of his control.

And he was wearing only one thing.

The diaper round his waist was the same one he used to regularly change the toddlers of the daycare. Couldn’t be for anyone older than two years. The thick padding was pushing his legs apart, while the cute designs stared back at him with reassuring smiles. The whole situation was starting to overwhelm him, his mind going to one thing. His thumb slipped its way into this mouth, which started suckling on it in earnest.

“Now, we’re not gonna need to worry about getting you to the potty are we?” adult Jimmy noted, poking the front of the diaper lightly “So I think a onesie ought to be enough for you!” The front of the garment was decorated with little ducks, yellow on a white background that was embarrassingly simplistic and babyish.

“Arms up little guy” Jimmy felt his thumb pulled from his maw with a quick motion that made him feel suddenly nervous. He pushed his arms into the air, feeling the fabric of the onesie start to come down his arms before his head popped through the hole it was meant for.

“There ya go, let’s get these poppers done up now hmm?” the larger wolf fiddled with the little metal buttons, snapping them shut around Jimmys padding before giving it a little pat.

“Now, I think someone needs to have a bit of playtime”

As Jimmy was placed down in the playpen with the rest of the toddlers he felt his thumb return to his maw. Something was instinctually making him return to this activity, he couldn’t stop it.

“It’s ok kiddo, everyone your age likes to suck their thumb” his older copy ruffled his hair, standing back up straight to tower over him “You be good! Go and play with some of the other babies, I’m sure you’ll be alright.”

Jimmy nodded in response. He couldn’t really focus now, he felt like he was floating. The whole situation was so overwhelming, his brain was trying to take in all the new feelings in his body. He stared down at his free hand, pulling his pudgy fingers into a fist. He tried to pull himself onto his feet, getting into a crawling position. But his legs wouldn’t respond as he expected, each time he tried to get to a squat, he felt like his little feet were slipping on ice. Eventually he conceded defeat, sitting back in a cross legged position. He took a look round, trying to scan for some of the others. He could still see Mandy, playing with dolls, over the other side of the playpen.

“Maybe she’d want to play?” he thought to himself. He managed to get his body into a crouch, pulling his thumb from his mouth as he pulled himself along with his hands as his knees moved behind him. He knew he was crawling, with his diapered butt firmly in the air, but he cared less about that than the sound of crinkling with every movement. A few moments later he was next to the bunny, looking at the various toys she was playing with.

“Hey” his voice sounded immediately foreign to him, the pitch not matching any expectations he had.

“Heya!” Mandy responded, not looking at him and continuing to play with the dolls.

“Umm… Can… Can I pway with you Mandy?”

That got her attention. The bunny gave him a look and then giggled to herself “You can’t play with these, you’ll get them all messy”

Jimmy felt indignance rising inside of him “I will not!” he huffed, sitting back down on his diapered rear “I just wanna pway”

Mandy looked at her dolls and then back at him, putting them down in front of the wolf “If you wanna play, we can do dress up!”

Jimmy didn’t like the sound of that. He was embarrassed enough as it was without giving himself over to an enthusiastic toddler.

“Ummm… I dun…”

“Oh! I know!” Mandy skipped over to a toy chest, rummaging through it before Jimmy could answer. In a second she’d pulled out two items that immediately made the wolf go wide eyed. In her hands were a pacifier, baby blue with Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh adorning its front, and a bonnet, one that was distinctly frilly and babyish. There was no way he was being put into that, especially not by a toddler.

“Maaandy no!” he started to crawl away, desperate motions of his little legs carrying him across the padded playpen floor. The bunny had a huge advantage in mobility, however, and she caught up to him and stood directly in front of his tiny form. He’d never felt smaller, one of his charges now felt twice his size as he looked up from his crawling position.

“You’ll look so cute!” he didn’t get a chance to respond as she popped a pacifier, baby blue and perfectly sized,into his muzzle. He immediately felt his body relax again, the feeling of the thumb sucking returning, but heightened to a new level.

“Now, the bonnet” Mandy carefully pulled the elastic of the dress up bonnet round his muzzle, leaving the wolf looking even younger than he had after his change. The slow suckling on the pacifier continued, every motion of it making him feel safer and more relaxed. Without thinking he let himself slide onto his front and rolled onto his back, his hands and legs curling up around him.

“Dawww! You can be my little baby!” Mandy went back to the toybox, leaving the wolf smiling behind the pacifiers mouthguard. A few minutes passed before she huffed and looked around, before shouting “Mr Jimmy, where’s the baby bottle?!”

The wolfs larger form came over to the bunny, a changing bag over his arm. He looked down at her with a smile “Oh, is it not in the box? Are you playing with dolls or..”

“I wanna play mommy with the puppy!” she pointed at the tiny form of Jimmy, curling up and gurgling behind his pacifier. His doppelganger looked over, his smile widening

“Well… if you’d like to feed a baby…” he pulled out a baby bottle from the changing bag “Here’s this one, your little guy is due a feeding soon anyway. And you’re a pretty big girl”

Mandy's eyes immediately glowed with happiness “Thank you Mr Jimmy!” she turned back to her wolf puppy, running back with the bottle in both hands. When she arrived she immediately pulled the pacifier free.

And Jimmy suddenly felt very wrong

In an instant he went from relaxed to emotional. He felt everything return at once, all the surprise and concern. With a rush of feeling he burst into a bawl, desperation taking over his sense as his little form started to uncontrollably throw itself around.

“Shhh… it’s ok puppy, I got your num nums!'' The bunny unceremoniously shoved the bottle's teat into his maw, the wolfs eyes quickly turning from tears to shock. His body began suckling again, relief pouring into him as milk touched his tongue. A little purr came from his mouth, the taste of the liquid coating the inside of his mouth was heavenly and every gulp he took he could feel running down to his tummy. Mandy started to rub his tummy, his legs curling up on the floor as she held the bottle over his mouth. She giggled a little to herself as she watched the wolf slowly drain the bottle, a little dribble of milk running onto the floor from the side of his mouth as his tiny teeth couldn’t hold back the amount he was trying to suckle down.

“Aww, he’s a cute little wolf when you feed him isn’t he Mandy?”

“Uh-huh! He’s my puppy Mr Jimmy!”

The wolf patted her head and looked down at his smaller self. The happiness and relaxation was clear as day on his face, all the fatigue of the day was washed away. He knew that the magic he was using would fade soon, leaving the wolf back in this body. He’d be tired, and a little confused, but he’d be happier for it. Another time he could always come back, give him this experience again. Maybe make him a little older next time…

Jimmy's eyes opened slowly as his feeding came to the end. The bottle was empty, his tummy was full and Mandy was carefully wiping down his mouth as she removed the bottle. He was feeling drowsy, his body seemingly desperate for a rest after such a meal.

“There, such a good baby!” she patted his tummy as she grinned from ear to ear. The patting drew Jimmy’s attention to something else. He could feel something in his tummy, maybe from the milk, something that was making him feel like…

“Oh…” he rolled over onto his stomach, using what energy he could to get into a crawling position. He couldn’t really tell what was happening but he felt like he could solve it if he just…

“MMMPPPHHH!” he groaned, his tail flagging with a quick flick into the air as his tummy decided it was time to solve the problem on its own. He’d never felt anything like it, a feeling of relief mixed with shame as a soft mess left his bottom and pushed against the back of his diaper. His bladder released at the same time, soaking his groin and warming his thighs and butt. He wanted to suck his thumb, he could feel his arm moving to his mouth, and as it did so the change in balance made him wobble. A quick correcting motion pulled his thumb to his maw and his butt to ground with an audible squish. The motion of sucking his thumb was all he needed right now, the mushyness of the messy diaper under him was just white noise compared to the glee he could feel just from that. His eyes started to droop again, his face one of a very sleepy and very happy baby.

“Uh-oh..” Mandy pulled at the larger Jimmy’s trousers “Puppy made boom-booms”

“Yes he did sweetie, it’s ok, I don’t think you want to handle that” she shook her head, looking back towards her dolls

“I’m gonna go back to my dollies” she proclaimed, skipping back over to them as Jimmy felt himself being picked up, thumb still firmly planted in his mouth.

“Heh, guess I let you get a little too relaxed hmmm?” his doppelganger lifted him over his shoulder, carefully ensuring there wasn’t going to be a blowout “Let’s get you back in this body now… but first, a diaper change is in order”

It was all Jimmy could do to nod in response as he fell asleep in the arms of the wolf.

A few minutes later, Jimmy felt himself wake up. He was sitting down in the same chair he’d left himself in earlier. He rubbed his forehead, the memories of the last hour still firmly in his mind. All the emotions felt distant, detached, like they belonged to someone else.

“Did… I dream all that” he said, pulling himself to his feet. He couldn’t be sure either way, but it had felt so… real. With a quick look back at the playpen clock he could see he’d been out for an hour, dream or not. Not the best thing to do, even at the end of the day.

“Gotta get this place cleaned up, can’t just…” he put his hand into his pocket and felt around, his eyes darting downwards as he looked at what he then pulled out.

He’d never been more happy to see Eeyore’s face staring back from the front of a pacifier...

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