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Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Chapter 10 (20 August 2018)


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This is my first ever story about anything, really, so please be gentle with me, and my writing.  I've fallen in love with the Diaper Dimension universe, and after reading a number of tales, thought I'd have a go at my own little story. 

Comments and criticism is absolutely welcome.  I'm hoping to stay the course - I have a plan of where the story is going.  I hope that my readers get shocked, get mad, get cuddled, and hopefully also shed a few tears.

So, with out further ado, I give to you, a story about Meredith Henderson, a Little, and a Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension....

 

## Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Prologue


"Henderson, Henderson, and Stowe, how may I help you?", the receptionist answered into the phone with a tone of voice that belied the many thousands of times she'd spoken that same phrase before. After listening to the caller's initial request, a slightly more interested voice is emitted, "I can hardly hear you, hold on a sec, ... hold on will you! Slow down! .. yes, yes ...", furiously taking notes, "of course we do, I'll see if Miss Henderson is available".

"Meredith!", comes a scream from outside my office.

I'm buried in paperwork, and really not interested in talking to anyone right now. My desk is awash with scribbled notes on brightly coloured legal pads, printouts, paper forms, a few scattered law books. There's a desk phone here somewhere too. Forget about finding the computer keyboard, it's totally buried under all the crap.

"Meredith!"

"What?!", I exasperatedly respond, banging my fist on the table, which causes a ripple effect across the papers and books, eventually bumping the hidden keyboard to awaken the dark PC monitor from its slumber, itself precariously perched on a corner of the desk.

"Line 1, sounds urgent", came the reply from outside my door.

I look up from my work to view the rest of my surroundings. My office was large by my standards , but felt enclosed to an Amazonian. Suited me fine. It had everything I needed to conduct business.  Neat walls, covered in Certificates, a few University degrees, some photos of happy times, a wall clock which emits an annoyingly loud ticking sound, and one large painting.   There were a few single chairs in front of the desk for my visitors, a  bookcase with lots of books and a few of my favourite nappies (strategically placed so curious Amazons could see), and a large battered sofa in a corner, which was often filled by a hulking great Amazon.

I acquired an awesome high backed executive chair my own size, extremely rare in this Dimension, fairly expensive too, but the end result more than made up for the cost. It was in proportion to my physique, so when I had visitors, the fact I was a Little was often ignored. I wasn't a small body hidden within a giant object, which would be like a red rag to a bull for Giants, likely leading to ridicule of the Litte hidden in the chair.

Outwardly, I looked like a professional Lawyer/Littles Broker, my formal office attire accentuated my looks, and exuded comfortable wealth, my office added to that effect, and my Uni degrees on the wall stated in no uncertain terms that I knew what I was doing.

Amazonians sought my company, my consult, my advice. Also quite a rare phenomenon in this dimension, but because i was trafficking in the goods they wanted, they were quite willing to overlook the fact that I was dealing in my own kind.  Our company motto was, after all, "you find them, we hide them"

I had standards though. I didn't deal in misery. I wanted to make sure  the objects of my work didn't suffer, and were safe from harm. However, even I admitted, once they were out of our sphere of influence, I had no way of helping them if the shit did hit the proverbial. Well, that's not quite correct.

I made sure my work product and deliverables were airtight, legally. My reputation, and the Firm's reputation and survival, were underpinned by that fact - Littles found it difficult to extract themselves from the relationship we set up for them with their Amazonian parentage, and the giants loved us because we only traded good, healthy stock. Littles also found a (hopefully) loving family (if we'd done our work properly), one which they could trust. With the right paperwork, everyone parted ways happy and, of course, our HH&S bank account emerged just that wee bit richer.

Most jobs only required a deft touch with pen and paper (and maybe a few key presses onto a website or two), and a few rubber stamps, but there were always the odd ones from time to time which required the metaphorical hammer approach, or maybe the actual silent assassin approach.

For those odd jobs, Mum and I hired Stowe. He goes only by that name (I don't think he's ever told me his first name, actually, thinking about it now). He always loved his Little Meredith talking tough to him, or practicing her swooning tactics on him, or her attempts at seduction.

"Stowe! Are you mind fucking my daughter again?", I d often hear from across the hallway.

"No, ma'am!"

All Stowe had to do was stand in the door to my office, and I'd be jelly, incapable of returning to my work until he left, or sat down on the couch in my office reading a report. And sometimes, Id never even notice he'd be there, until I'd sense a "presence", look up from my work, and see his giant square chiselled face, deep in thought, or with an outrageously mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

"I so wish I was a giant, I'd absolutely do you right now", I'd tell him matter-of-factly. With a massively deep belly laugh, he'd simply wink and walk away, "come get in my belly, little girl", he'd be saying - always drove me crazy.

He was a hulking great Amazon man. Rippling muscles, exuding a very manly "don't fuck with me" attitude and look, honed over many years in Special Forces teams. With a long gun strapped across his back, pistol hanging off his right thigh, war paint on his square face, boonie hat and cammies, webbing, and combat boots, him standing with feet shoulder width apart, right hand tantalisingly poised over his pistol as if to quick-draw, his photo on my desk was enough to give me all the warm and fuzzies I needed, for the times I'd be missing him, and needing some security.

Curiously, his nameplate on his cammies was just a number. I asked him one day about it, not long after he handed it to me (framed and all). It was his service number (6510029). No one in the SF were outwardly identified by name - security he said. Weird.

Studying the photo, I could also see a gentle giant, a true gentleman at heart. His eyes exuded confidence, but also a touch of admiration for those around him, his team, his mates, his family.

Mum and I, we were his family. Mum discovered him one day on the street. She was off to an orphanage, and found him fighting a bunch of Amazonian thugs who were dragging a poor Little down the footpath. As mum approached, phone in hand yelling that she'd called the cops, a thug whipped out a knife, stabbed a distracted Stowe multiple times in the arm, turned tail, and ran off with the others.

When the cops arrived, they arrested and started to blame Stowe for the Little's injuries, but mum set the record straight, and escorted a bleeding-like-a-stuffed-pig Stowe and the badly beaten Little to hospital for treatment.

Stowe, being unemployed and living on the street after being dumped by the SF for being beyond his prime, was eternally grateful to her for saving him, and fixing the hospital bill. She offered him a room at our house, which was where he met me for the first time. She gave him an ultimatum though - get to work, or get out. Mum never tolerated freeloaders, but in him, she could sense something different, something great.  He took the opportunity to do something new with his life, studied for an Investigations diploma, got his PI ticket, and learnt a lot of stuff about doing jobs the old-fashioned legal way, and the oh-so-subtle illegal way.

We employed him as our Private Investigator, and I loved his company. Protection at law, and at gun, I could do anything with him around. Nobody could fuck with me.

Today though, his presence was not felt, not heard, not seen. The couch was empty.

I reached out for the phone, punched a flashing light, and spoke into the very old-school handset, tucked between my shoulder and ear.

"Meredith Henderson here", I stated.

"Hello, can you hear me?", a very quiet voice responded, with a  sense of urgency, and a dollop of upper-class, which prompted a raised eyebrow, and slightly raised heartbeat. "I don't have much time. "

"Yes I can hear you, so what's up?", impatience welling up inside me.

"Do you remember the Stonegate murders?", the voice whispered. I stopped fidgeting, and looked at the photo on my desk.

Stonegate was a rather large successful company which manufactured and managed the inter-Dimensional portals.  Because they were at all the ports, Stonegate demanded a fee for every traveller using them.

One would normally not hear about a company like this, unless one was a frequent flyer across inter-Dimensional space.

But about three month ago things changed, and Stonegate Inc was thrust into the news, first page even.  The CEO and Chairman of the company, William Stone, was charged with corruption, for attempting to buy off the port authorities after another company tried to push into the interDimensional portal business. The product was quite superior to the Stonegate product, so Mr Stone panicked. Stonegate's share price tanked.

Money talks to Amazons, so the port officials in charge of procurement accepted a heaping wad of cash from Stonegate.  Unbeknownst to all, some photos of the deal landed on the Federal Attorneys & Prosecutors desk not long after, and Mr Stone was done for.

Stone reacted by sending a goon off to a business meeting Stone had arranged with the other company CEO. The goon was to make it all look like a random hit - Stone called the meeting as a peace offering.

Stone walked away from that noisy and bloody meeting battered and bruised after being bitch-slapped with a pistol, the other CEO having lost his life, as  well as approximately $417 in change. The hit was supposed to be disguised as  just a stupid street robbery gone wrong.  So much for having a quiet meeting in a cafe.

What Stone failed to realise though, a significant shareholder in that company was none other than the  Ramon Family, long-suspected of being members of a feared interDimensional mafia syndicate.

Don Ramon took offence to having his hand-picked CEO gunned down, so he went after Stone in the most brutal way possible - attacking Stone's family.

In one crazed night of horrific violence, Stone was beaten and tortured to within an inch of death in front of his beloved family. He freely admitted in the end to his role in the murder, whereupon Don Ramon selected each of the family members in turn, marched them at gunpoint to stand in front of Stone, who was tied to a chair, breathing heavily, one eye closed from swelling and bruising, matted hair everywhere, and caked in blood and sweat. "Say goodbye to this one, Mr Stone!", Don Ramon would say, before squeezing the trigger, and sending brain matter, blood, and bone fragments all over Stone.

"I was there," the voice quietly stated.

I could hear almost silent sobbing, and could only imagine the tears flowing.

"How? The Stone family were all shot dead", I pointed out.

"Not me, I was taken as a hostage".

I looked up as my secretary walked in with a piece of paper - "call trace has started" plus some details. I nodded and she disappeared back to the main foyer.

"So, who are you?", I queried, slightly confused

"I'm Michael Stone, and I was adopted into the family a few years ago."

"You're a Little?  I didn't know Mr Stone had a Little."

"Yes, I am, and I'm now also the heir to the Stone family Estate".

I sat up at that bit of news.

"I need to be extracted from this situation, so you need to get me out of here!", Michael pleaded with me, with a panicked tone of voice.

"Ok, we may be able to extract you, but the price for this kind of job is not cheap"

"Aren't you listening to me?"

"Yes, you're Michael Stone. Tell me, why are they keeping you alive?"

I heard a frustrated groan through my handset.  "He's using me to go after the Stone Estate fortune.  He wants me to sign over the Estate, by the end of the week..."

Which gives us four days to plan and execute the snatch, I thought to myself

"... or else I'm toast."

"Doesn't give us much time. Risk goes up, price goes up", I openly mused.

"I'm at the Ramon Family home, if that's any consolation. "

"I don't know where that ...", and was interrupted.

An instant message popped up on my computer monitor, "trace completed".

"Ok, sit tight, keep hiding, and we'll come get you, likely Friday.  We know where you are. "

"I won't ask how you know where I am"

"Everglades Hills", was my response, after reading the message on my screen. Inwardly, I was scared for Michael, and for Stowe, who'd have to go in and do the snatch.

"Yes, that sounds familiar. There's lots of goons around. They keep me locked up in a room upstairs all night, but I've managed to pick the locks on the windows, and can slink around the house undetected."

"Umm, what phone are you using?", I enquired, after looking at the trace details in the instant message.  The phone number wasn't a Ramon number.

"Oh, I stole one of the goons mobiles. The guy's as thick as two bricks, so he'll never find it".

After a quick chat about the finances (HH&S were to be quite rightly paid for such a high-risk service), we hung up.

"Mum! I've got a hot extract Job for Stowe! Where is he?", I yelled, completely ignoring the option of using instant messenger - I still hadn't spied my keyboard.

Next minute, mum walked into my office.  She was a typical 50-odd year old Amazonian working mother, constantly on the go doing sales meetings, organising adoptions, attending Littles adoption markets, all the while being a fair and rounded mum to Little me.  She was a disciplinarian when I was younger, which I hated, but at the end of the day, I turned out ok for the experience.  She was an awesome Amazonian mum to a Little.

"What's going on?", she questioned, whilst sitting down into one of the chairs at my desk.

I told her the story of Michael Stone, a Little needing extraction from the Mafia.  She cringed at that bit of news.  So I told her the price Michael and I agreed to.  To sweeten the deal, I added expenses paid too. Mum finally relented, and gave me approval to proceed.

"Brief Stowe", she commanded, finally, as she stood up and started walking to the door.  "I'll start looking for a safe family to hide him in".

"Awesome, ok".  My excitement was growing - I was about to unleash the silent assassin.

After mum left, I was right back on the phone, contacting Stowe.  After a quick chat about the situation, Stowe came bounding through my door about an hour later.

"Michael's at Don Ramon's residence in Everglades", I briefed him.  Stowe took notes, as I told him all the details we had gleaned to date.  I added the GPS coordinates of the phone we tracked, wherin Stowe dug out his tablet PC and looked it up on a map.

"Hmm... ".  He was lost in thought for a long while, obviously looking at the contours and terrain features of his approach to the residence.  Prodding and poking at his tablet screen, flicking around maps and satellite images, He looked at me suddenly, with a dead serious face, "... do you want in?"

"What, as spotter?  Sure, so long as I don't have to go in there with you", I replied with some trepidation.  I was occasionally offered the role of spotter for Stowe, and enjoyed those intimate and dangerous moments with him. To tell the truth, I got a kick out of watching Stowe slot someone at long distance.

"Yup, I want you on this cliff here", and pointed out a sweet location on the map for me to set up an overwatch position.

"Yeah, I can get there, no worries, but when?"

"Tonight"

At about 11pm, I was dressed from head to toe in black, a black hoodie, black balaclava, radio headset on, black gloves, black cargo pants, and black combat boots.  No gun.  Usual white disposable nappy, but a dark cammie-print nappy cover (present from Stowe), to really get in the mood. A svelte lass, dolled up in black, ready to do business.  I was also quite dirty, as the ledge I was lying prone on was covered in muddy dirt, pebbles, moss, and dead leaf matter.  I'd selected a shelf of rock, under the main ledge, so as not to silhouette my outline against the blackish starry night sky - Stowe was a great teacher in the dark art of stalking.

It was a beautiful night, lots of light with which to work to.  Although I had a pair of night-vision binoculars up to my eyes, intensely scanning the scene below me, I could not see Stowe, could not discern movement, bar some guards wandering around the perimeter of the Ramon compound, which was dimly lit.

"I'm counting about 6 guards, four in each corner of the compound, two roaming inside the perimeter.  Wait one...", whispering into the mic.

"Ok, copy", was the silent response.  Stowe was not close enough to the compound, otherwise I would have heard just a click of his mic as an Ok.

"Yeah, one guard on the first floor.  I also see movement inside the one lit window on the second floor."

Click, in return.
I moved my binocular vision to the wall facing me, as I noticed movement.  It was Stowe.  I also didn't fail to notice the guard moving on the other side of the wall.

"Danger close, other side of the wall!"

Click, in response.

About ten second later, Stowe took a peek, and soon after climbed over the wall, and I noticed the guard suddenly but slowly sink down to  his knees, hands to his throat.  I watched as the guy desperately tried to stem gushing fluid from a slashing knife wound, but ultimately fail, and collapsed completely as his life ebbed away through the grass. Stowe quickly dragged the lifeless body to the shadows of the main house, stashing it behind a bush.

Looking around for a way in, Stowe found and slowly climbed up a downpipe to the second storey, and peered into a black window.  It was open, unlocked, and that was the last I saw of him, sliding like a cat silently through the orifice.

"We're supposed to be reconning the place, Stowe, not actually doing the rescue", I quietly pointed out.

"All good, no rest for the wicked", he replied, with an distinctly silent yet well-practiced voice.

Complete silence on the radio for about 10 minutes, then a sudden but quiet "we're coming out!" announcement.

"Roger, I'm seeing no alarm from any of the guards.  They're not missing the one you took".

Click.

Stowe emerged from a door at ground level, facing out towards the same wall he jumped over earlier.  I could see he had what looked to be a sack over his shoulder. 

Click, click, click.

Update time, "Ok, no guards moving along your wall.  Guards in the corners are looking out to the main road"

Click.  I saw Stowe quickly look around out through the door, then make his way to the wall, wherein the sack came alive, and he helped it up onto the top of the wall. 

The sack laid down along the top of the wall, Stowe jumped effortlessly over it, then helped the sack jump down off it, then both disappeared into the brush.  "See you in the car park!" I heard over the radio, and our night was almost over, one enemy dead, one Little extracted.

As I walked towards Stowe's battle truck (It was just a lowly van, beaten, bruised, rusted), I noticed Michael for the first time.

"Michael, how are you?", I enquired.

"Pretty good - he's insane though!", Michael responded excitedly, pointing to Stowe, who was taking a swig of water from a container.

Michael looked around for a second, but started acting quite alarmed, vigorously checking his pockets.  "Shit!"

"What?".  Stowe looked up at that comment.

"The phone, I've left the mobile phone behind!"

In my tired consciousness, I didn't grasp the significance.

 

 


"What the FUCK do you mean he's not here!". Don Ramon stood behind his desk, face red with anger, eyes bulging, fists clenched in front of him.

"He's not here, Boss, we've turned the whole house upside down!"

"He was in his room last night, yes?"

"Yes, Boss"

"Then FIND HIM!"

The Head of Security walked out of Ramon's office back to his own little room in the basement, wherein he found one of his goons standing near his desk.

"Sir, you wanted me?"

"Yes, sit down". The goon meekly sat on a chair in from of the HoS' desk with a shiver of nerves. "You were uncontactable last night, why?"

"Umm... I... I...I lost my phone, sir"

"When?"

"Umm, I think about three days ago"

"And when did you last see it?"

"In the lunch room, I think"

The HoS suddenly stood up and walked out of his little office, leaving a bewildered goon behind. Walking up to the lunch room on the first floor, he looked around for a few minutes, wondering where a phone might be hidden, then a thought occurred to him.

Retrieving his own phone from a pocket, he looked up the goon's name, and dialled his number, which end up ringing. At the same time, he heard a very faint noise upstairs.

Walking upstairs, he dialed the number again. Following the noise, he walked straight into Michael's room, and quickly located the stolen phone in a wardrobe.
 
Bingo.
 
Walking back down to the basement office, he threw the mobile onto his desk, which surprised the hell out of the goon.

"Thanks Boss"
 
"Before you say another bloody word, you'll be responsible now for finding that Little! Got it!?"
 
The HoS picked up the guard's phone, examined the call history, and quizzically stared at the number last dialled.  Looked slightly familiar. He rang it.
 
"Henderson, Henderson & Stowe, how may I help you?"
 
"Sorry, wrong phone number, I apologise"
 
The goon watched as his boss put down the phone, wrote something on a piece of paper, and threw it across the desk.
 
"... and you can start there!"
 
"My phone?", the guard tentatively asked, whilst reaching for his phone.
 
"FUCK OFF!", the HoS yelled, arm outstretched, pointed at the door. "Ring me when you find them!"
 
"How? You have my phone, Boss!"
 
"Idiot, that's what payphones are for! Fuck!"
 
 
 
 
The HH&S office was rather silent for a while, apart from the click-click-clickety-click of typing. I could almost hear the methodical tick-tick-tick of the clock on my wall. Looking up from my own keyboard (I'd never quite been able to get the hang of touch-typing), I noticed even Stowe was banging away with his fists of fingers on his laptop keys, probably typing up his after-action report on Michael Stone's rescue. We always produced those reports, for total transparency in case someone asked.
 
I sat watching him for a good couple of minutes before my focus was broken by the unmistakable sound of someone opening the office's front door and stepping into the reception area. Every time that damn door opened, a little bell above the door tinkled, and my concentration would disappear for a few seconds.
 
A few quiet mumbles between the receptionist and someone with a deep commanding voice, and things went quiet once more.
 
The morning was marching on, and I was hankering for a coffee and a snack from up the Mall. Toasted cheese sandwich, butter on the outside, I thought.
 
I noticed the visitor walk past my office door. He was a giant, very smartly dressed, tall even by Amazonian standards, fit looking too. He followed our receptionist into Mum's office.
 
As she came back past my door, I mouthed a "who's that?" at her.
 
"New client", she whispered. Stowe looked up from his laptop.
 
We all went back to work.
 
About 40 minutes later, I noticed line 20 on my phone begin to flash. Immediately I whistled to Stowe, and mouthed a "Mum's in trouble" warning to him. He's a hulking great brute, but he sprung up off the couch like an athlete, walked across my office to a cupboard, and retrieved his pistol, racking the slide, and cautiously exited my office towards Mums.
 
He knocked on the door, opened it, and was confronted with the guest pointing at Mum, anger written all over him. "You have one day to retrieve Michael, or you're in a shit ton of hurt, lady!"
 
Stowe stepped into the office, pistol hidden behind his back, but the guest seemed to know exactly what was going on.  Stowe openly wondered if the guy was a proper gangster.
 
"Oh, a tough guy?", the guest trolled, whilst looking towards Stowe, sizing him up.

"Out. Your time is up, sir", Stowe commanded.
 
Stowe stepped aside as the guest turned around, threw his hands in the air, and stormed out.
 
The little door bell on the front door didn't make a sound as it was forcibly ripped out of the door jamb, and fell to the floor, making a final little tinkle of doom.
 
 
 
 
It took Stowe and I a while to calm Mum down enough to get her to tell us who the guy was.  He'd introduced himself as John Stockton, and initially started asking about the work HH&S could do. After about 30 minutes of general chit chat, Mum was led to believe that Mr Stockton was looking for a Little to be rescued.
 
When he started asking about Michael Stone, Mum quietly hit the panic button (line 20 on the phone system), with the guy finally outright threatening Mum.
 
"He's got to be a goon for Don Ramon", Stowe surmised.
 
"Yes. Obviously a fake name.  So how are we going to handle the Ramon Family issue?", Mum queried, looking piercingly to Stowe and I, looking for answers.
 
"How th hell did they even trace Michael's disappearance to us?"
 
I had no idea, as I was being distracted by a feeling of increasing famishness. I needed food!
 
"Ok, executive decision time, lets retire to Bellamys for coffee and discuss this".
 
 


 
Its funny how slow time moves during a life-and-death situation.
 
As I took my first step off the kerb walking towards Bellamys for coffee, I was struck by a fast-moving car. The bonnet brushed across the front of my legs, my body's momentum causing me to begin falling forward, whereupon my head struck the windscreen, and I was soon tumbling diagonally over the car, legs and arms flying, my body acting like a rag doll, hitting my luckless head once more on the road pavement.
 
The car travelled about two metres forward, and struck Mum clean across the hips as she turned to see me striking the windscreen. She took the full force, denting the bonnet as she crashed onto it, and cracked the windscreen from impact with her shoulders and head.  Being much heavier than I, she didn't tumble over the top of the car.
 
The driver hit the brakes in that instant, which caused the car to skid to a stop, forcing Mum's damaged body to roll off the front of the car, landing heavily on the road, lying prone, bleeding profusely. The driver then hit the gas, running clear over Mum, crushing bones, ribs, organs.
 
Stowe was about 1m behind us, so wasn't hit. He was too shocked and angered by the drivers actions that he immediately ran off in a vain hope of catching (and possibly murdering) the driver.
 
As I lay on the road drifting in and out of consciousness, I was smothered in a huge hug from an Amazonian woman who raced over to me. "Are you ok?", the lady urgently asked.
 
"I ... hurtttt ", I weakly replied.
 
"What's your name?"
 
"Meredithhhh .... Hend...", I began to respond, but was quickly fading away.
 
"It's ok, you're ok, I've got you, you're safe now", I was quietly assured by the woman.
 
In my highly confused and pained state, I believed her. "Ok, Mummy ", I quietly stated, as I fainted, succumbing to my injuries and the dark unconsciousness.

 

Chapter 1 - Awakenings

My eyes slowly opened to a scene of almost pure white.

I could see a light, rectangular in shape, directly above me. It was bright, so I could discern little detail. It's edges were hazy, the fluorescent bulbs too diffuse and blurry.

Am I dead? Is this it? Am I seeing the "light"?

What the hell has happened to me?  Where am I?

A shadow passed slowly across the edge of the light, disappeared for a second.

A much brighter pinpoint of light suddenly appeared in my left eye, flicked away, came back.

I blinked.

The pinpoint of light persisted, and flicked across my right eye.

I blinked again.

I tried to move my body, arms, legs, but I could feel no movement in my limbs, and there was no shift in position of the overhead light. Hmmm….

I could think of no reason why I was feeling so paralyzed, foggy, so tired. Do I close my eyes, and hope this is just a dream?

BONG!

Oh, ok, my hearing  is returning to the land of the living, at least. That's a start!

Pip . . . . Pip . . . . Pip . . . .

What were those noises?

Muffled sounds of people in the distance, speaking of what, I couldn't discern.

My interest shifts back to my body. A command from my semi-conscious self to move fingers returns success, maybe, the answer to my question a bit diffuse, garbled through the narcotic haze. So tell me, Missy brain, did my fingers move, or not? I'd really like to know, you know!?

I try to lift my head, but it takes too much effort, I have no energy, and a dull ache results.

More weird sounds, a wheeze, a pop, some watery gurgling.

I feel something in my mouth, so strange a sensation… I can't close my mouth, it's blocked and forced open by this object, and I can't lift my arms to investigate this intrusion!

Pip.. pip.. pip.. BONG!  Pip.. pip.. pip.. pip..

My heart starts racing, panic rising, as I realise I'm totally out of control of my situation. Oh shit!

The shadow reappears, moves across my left side, fidgets for a bit, then leans over me, obscuring the light from above. What looks to be a little wand appears, which is emitting a weird sound. It finds its way into my mouth, where it begins to extract the mucous I can't seem to swallow.

After a few moments, it's withdrawn, the noise stops, and the shadow disappears.

The shadow returns to my left side, and I begin to discern features, Amazonian features.

“Hello, can you hear me?”, the Amazon queries softly.  A high Feminine voice.  

How do I communicate? I can't move my limbs, I can't talk, how to communicate a response?

I know!

I blinked.

“Excellent! I want you to calm down now, ok?”

I don't know how to answer that - I'm discovering more and more the situation I’m in of which I can't work out, and am fast approaching the point of totally freaking out, so how to calm down?

"Meredith, you need to calm down", the Amazon said gently, but with a bit more authority.

I felt something touch my right hand.

I tried to swallow, but that thing in my mouth extended down my throat.

It took a breath for me - I could feel my lungs expand, as slightly heated and humidified air was forced into them. Sweet, sweet oxygen.

My brain started to connect dots.

I'm alive!

Hello, but what the actual hell happened to me, to cause this much strife, that a machine seems to be breathing for me?

I closed my eyes slowly, to think more clearly, and fighting the urge to comfortably slip back into the dark unconsciousness.

"Good, good, Meredith, you're doing ok"

The Amazon disappeared from view, and started to fidget with something, pressing buttons, and typing on a keyboard.

In the distance, maybe behind me, I could hear some quiet music playing. Soothing music, maybe a popular pop song?  So I locked my focus onto it.

As the song came to a close, I heard an announcement. Ok, that thing is a radio, perhaps?

"... news coming up in about five  minutes time..."

A wave of narcotic-induced fog, nausea, a sense of complete imbalance and dizziness started to hit me, and I found it quite hard to remain awake, and focused.

"... it's Friday 5pm, almost the weekend peeps, and time now for the news.", the radio announced, matter-of-factly.  "Parliament today has voted to hold an inquiry on legislation passed late last year, which has snared thousands of Littles into forced adoptions, causing utter chaos for relations with the Little People. The inquiry will determine whether the legislation should be amended or repealed, after the interDimensional-UN raised objections to...", the voice droned.

A synapse inside my drug-hazed foggy brain suggested that I maybe should have had an interest in that piece of news, but it seemingly slipped through the memory banks, in one ear, out the other.

"... update on that terrible accident in the city centre two days ago which caused the death of a woman after it appears she was deliberately run over by a car. Police have arrested and charged a man with dangerous driving causing death..."

Hmmm... death is always a sad thing to happen to someone, but to be deliberately run over though is ... hmm... A synapse did fire, but I was too fogged up to decipher its meaning.

"... representations have been made to the UN regarding a proposed football match between the Sandown Giants, and the Liverpool Littles team ..."

Hope the Giants kick their asses, if they get the Visas necessary from the UN to travel inter-dimensionally - I could help with that! Must get HH&S onto …

Too much excitement and mental activity, and I was whacked by increasingly intense waves of dizziness and nausea sensations, so I couldn't help but succumb to the dark unconsciousness that I'd been fighting to stay away from.

As I slipped away I sensed another presence in the room.

"Nurse, is she ok?", that presence quietly asked, but with a touch of real concern.

"Mrs Bradley, she's fine. We're slowly weaning her off the sedation medication, so her waking up is a good sign!", the nurse reassured her, before returning to her fidgeting with medication pumps, and the vitals monitor.

"Will Meredith be ready for her procedure?"

"Oh, yes, absolutely"

"When?"

"Couple of days, maybe. Really depends on her recovery from her injuries, her head especially, and approvals from the surgeons.  They’ll assess her in a couple of days.“

"Right". Mrs Bradley went back to worrying about Little me, holding my right hand, stroking my very fine, long, fair blonde hair, which was still flecked with blood stains from the stitched-up head wound.

Her hand was twice the size of my right hand, yet her embrace was so soft and tender, I could barely feel it.

As she later brushed across my head with a finger, I felt pain flood me, causing my eyes to open and stare at the bright light, again.

I could sense movement around me.  As I tried to take notice of my surrounds, having no sense of time of how long I was asleep, I was startled when grabbed by my right shoulder and leg, and rolled onto my left side, facing someone who leant right over me, my head and chest covered by their work clothes. I could smell their body odour - unmistakably an Amazonian female - a nurse perhaps?

Moist warm sponges were rubbed up and down my back, over my bum, in my butt crack, and in and around my girlie parts and abdomen.  That's when I heard the crinkle of something being unfolded and placed on the bed behind me.

What seemed only a few seconds later I was rolled back onto my back.  The person who sponged me down used a cloth to wipe some cream all over my girly bits, in between my legs, my butt, and lower abdomen.  Forcing my legs apart, my nether region was carefully encased in a fluffy cocoon of a thick disposable nappy, taped up reasonably tightly, leg gathers checked and adjusted.

As I was moved about, I felt pain shoot around my body, my arms, my legs, my head especially.

Another warm, wet, cloth was used to carefully scrub my face, my arms, my chest, and my hands.  It felt good to be cleaned up so thoroughly, so I revelled in the help and gentle care I was receiving from this person.  A couple of warm blankets were draped over me with the edges tucked into the bed mattress, and I soon settled, and was lost once more to the dark unconsciousness.

 

Jennifer Bradley's phone started to vibrate in her handbag, so she reached into the bag blindly, and retrieved it.  Unlocking with a finger print, a message appeared, from a source called "Husband".

[Husband] How's Meredith?

She looked across at the sleeping Little, and started to type her reply

[Jenn] She's good, just had a wash and her nappy changed, actually.  Is still fairly out of it, but they're weaning her off the sedation now.  Her injuries are healing.  The Doc says she lost a lot of blood from her head wound, but that's stopped now.  He also says she should be good for NAP soon.
[Husband] Ok, have spoken with the bank, they've agreed to our request for a loan against the house.  I'm going back there shortly with the title info, so they can arrange to settle the funds with NAP.
[Jenn] Sweet, that's great! Love your work!
[Husband] You just look after our Meredith, ok.  Love you, Jennifer!
[Jenn] <3 n hugs - XOX -Jenn

Jennifer looked thoughtfully back at Meredith, who looked quite peaceful and at rest, if one could be at rest with all those wires and tubes and bandages, and all the associated bongs and peeps associated with machines keeping one alive.

She couldn't help but wonder whether she was doing the right thing by Meredith.  Thinking about the option of NAP started not long after Meredith arrived at the Hospital .  While Meredith was being prepped for theatre, a doctor took Jennifer into a conference room, and started asking some very interesting questions.

"Who is this girl?"

"Meredith I heard her say, before she passed out"

"Do you know her last name?"

"No, she never told me. Does that matter?"

"Not really.  You're in luck though."

"Oh, why?"

"We found an adoption chip in the girl.  Her mother was killed today in the accident."

"The lady killed was Meredith’s mum?"

"Yes, seems so”

“Oh, my goodness”, Jennifer was visibly taken aback from that piece of news. She sat down in a chair, and put her head in her hands, letting out a few quiet sobs.

“No matter though”, the doctor continued, “adoption status dies when the last parent dies, so you're free to adopt umm... Meredith, if you like". Mum never got around to adding Stowe as a "parent" on my chip, so... here we are.

"I'd love to adopt her, though I need to confer with my husband”, she advised, looking up at the doctor in front of her.

"Excellent, I will get some papers for you to sign, and we can re-program the adoption chip.  Now, have you heard about the NAP?"

"No, what is it?"

"Nano Adaptation Procedure, can be quite expensive, but it's possible to make modifications to Little people, to suit your lifestyle."

"Oh, really?"

"You don't need to make a decision right now, I'll ask Reception to hand you some info on the process to apply for NAP for your child".

Jennifer spent quite some time doing research on the NAP process, and the possible changes that could be done to her new child.  Sitting down that night with Keith, her husband, they both went through the myriad options, reviewing ones that they thought would align with their expectations for Meredith, and her new role within the Bradley Family.

"Meredith Louise Bradley".  Mum never gave me a middle name…

Jenn spoke those three words to her husband, looking into his deep blue and very bright eyes, which always seemed to glint and sparkle from reflected lights.  She had to dab at her own eyes with a handkerchief, wiping off the odd tear that would magically appear when thinking about her new little girl.
Jennifer's eyes were already red from crying for far too long.  The past few days had been quite stressful and sorrowful, mourning for poor Meredith's loss of her adoptive mother, the mothers terrible death, and for Meredith's injuries, but also feeling overjoyed happiness at gaining a new family member - a third go at motherhood.
Finally they both sat down at the computer in Keith's home office, to begin the application process. She looked at the computer screen, which was demanding answers to a set of very sobering questions, so after consulting with her partner, entered in the answers

> **NAME:** Meredith Louise Bradley
> **AGE:** 9 months
> **WARNING: Soul will be regressed to age < 1 year old.  Do you wish to proceed <Y/N>?** Y
> **OPTIONAL: Do you wish for body to match soul age? <Y/N>** Y
> **WARNING: Physical body attributes will be regressed in size and shape to match selected age.  Risks include possible physical stress, mental retardation, body deformities, possible death to subject during procedure.**
> **Do you wish to proceed? <Y/N>** Y
> **OPTIONAL: With age < 1 year old, do you wish to add Baby Brain? Feature includes changes to emotion states, mental capacity, attachment to objects / persons, bladder/bowel control, fine and coarse motor skills.
Do you wish to proceed <Y/N>?** Y

The questions kept coming.  Over several hours, and a number of arguments between the two parents, they finally submitted the NAP application.  The next day, Keith rang Jenn with shocking news - they'd have to mortgage the house to afford all the options, especially due to one particular option, which cost half the fee of the entire procedure.

Sitting in the ICU room, looking across at a silent Meredith, Jennifer wondered if that last decision was the right one.

> **OPTIONAL: AMAZON TRANSFORM THERAPY - Do you wish to transform your Little into an Amazon, with full rights and function that status confers? <Y/N>** Y
> **WARNING: There is significant financial cost, and serious side-effects imposed on the Little, by selection of this option. Do you wish to proceed? <Y/N>**

"Look at it this way, Jenn. Littles don't normally get any chance to grow up."

"Yes, I know that, Keith! I'd like her to have a life though, do things that she'd not be able to do if she stayed a Little", Jenn advocated, becoming more passionate towards a proper life for Meredith with every passing minute.

"Like what?"

"I don't know, maybe become a lawyer, work for Littles rights, or something like that?”

"Wishful thinking there", Keith retorted.

"Don't you want her to achieve something? Rather than remain a Little one for the rest of her life, forced to be a baby all the time by Amazons?”

"Of course I do, hon!  Let's at least get her to school and see if she's got some smarts and aptitude“.

Keith opened another browser window and began doing some searches for the serious side effects mentioned.

"Hmm... look at this", he pointed to a paragraph. Transforming a little into an Amazon was certainly possible, but it meant the body aged at half the normal rate. "If I'm reading this correctly, when she turns 20, she'll actually physically be 10?”

“Why is that?”

“Stresses on the body, it seems…”, he summarised, and continued reading.

"And so we'll be something like 60 years old", Jenn concluded.

"Oh, and there's also the issue of her current age too, so she'll actually be something like 35 years old. "

"Yes", Jenn said, and looked away, emitting a quiet sob. "Must be really hard on her body"

"Are we agreed? Give her a proper life, as an Amazon?”

Jennifer looked back at her husband.  He was very close to tears.  She could see that, although Keith had his reservations on transformation therapy, he was a softie at heart, and only wanted what was best for his children, Meredith obviously being no exception.  She handed him the handkerchief, and confirmed the final NAP option.


 

My weird technicolour dream was rudely interrupted by noise and voices and light.  It took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the brightness. Oh, a light was shining right at my head, with at least three people here.

"Oh, hi there!", a deep male voice spoke, off to my left.  “I’m very sorry to disturb you, just looking at how your head is healing up”, he upbeatedly stated.

A head wound?  Ok…

I could hear voices in the background again, and it took a few moments to realise it was that radio from before.

“… and it’s a wonderful, sunny, Sunday afternoon, time about 3:15pm, news at 4… “, it droned on.  I quickly lost focus in the radio when prodding and poking elicited a wave of intense headachy pain.  I heard a couple of phone-type loud beeps off to my right.

 

[Husband] Need you to sign some papers with me, Babe.  Consent, and legal liability forms these look like.
[Jenn] Oh?
[Husband] Yeah, from NAP.
[Jenn] On my way!!

Jennifer put her phone away, stood up, and bent over to kiss Meredith on the forehead, causing the doctor to stop his examination.

 

I studied this new face appearing in front of me.  Another Amazon female, not dressed like the others, kinda nice looking, gorgeous deep blue eyes, I was mesmerised.  I’d never seen this woman before, yet she bent over and kissed my forehead so gently, before whispering something incoherently, maybe “I’ll be back later”, before disappearing from view.

I could feel myself starting to struggle with the tube down my throat about an hour later.  I was starting to fight the machine which seemed really intent on forcing air into my lungs at the most in-opportune times.  Which prompted more BONGS! and BLEEPS!, so a nurse appeared above me.  

“Are you ok?”

I very cautiously shook my head.  Yes, I can nod and shake my head, but the pain is getting quite unbearable.

“Are you in any pain?”

I shook my head, before trying to lift my right arm, to discover it was restrained.

The nurse glanced at my arm movement, “You want the breathing tube removed?”

I nodded.

“Ok, I think we can do that”, she responded, and disappeared for a minute or so.

The male doctor returned, and told me what they needed to do.  Things were a bit messy for a few minutes, as they encouraged me to cough and vomit out the tube that extended right down to near my lungs.  I did not look a pretty sight, as my actions, strains, and movement caused immense throbbing pain through my skull.

Once the tube was out, they replaced it with a mask over my face, which was delivering 100% pure oxygen.  A few minutes later, the nurse used a wash cloth to clean my face up of all the excretions and vomitus.

I tried to say thanks to her, but only a croak was emitted.

“Don’t talk, your throat will hurt for some time - you’ve had that tube down it for a few days now!”, she warned me. Another croak in response, with a nod.

A couple of hours later, after a little bit of practice against the nurse’s advice, I asked for ice.

“You can only suck on this, don’t swallow it, ok?”, she instructed.  I nodded again.  

An ice block was given to me to suck on, which felt heavenly as the ice-cold water drops slid down the back of my throat.  “Thanks”, I croaked.

“Where’s my Mum?”, I eventually asked the nurse, after the ice block was devoured.

“Oh, she’s stepped out for a bit.  Will probably be back later tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning”, she replied without hesitation.

“Ok”.  

A synapse in my brain started to fire away, but the result for me was only one of confusion.  When did I last see Mum?  Another synapse, then another.  I remember crossing a street, was Mum there with me?  Damn this addled brain of mine, as waves of pain began hitting me, so I unconsciously began to stiffen my upper body.

“Are you ok?”

“My head hurts”, I croaked and cried out.

A few beeps later, and I was blissfully swept up in a wave of warmth and haze, drifting off into lala-land.

 


My consciousness arrived at a rush when I felt movement.  Looking up, the rectangular light began to move, my bed was moving, they were taking me somewhere.  The doctor’s face appeared directly above me, leaning over me.

“Hi, sorry to disturb your sleep.  I seem to have a habit of doing that, really sorry”, he  stated.

“What’s happening?”, I asked

“We’re transferring you to NAP”, he replied quite cheerfully.  

“Where’s my Mum?”

“She’s going to meet you in NAP”

“Ok”.  NAP must be another hospital or ward, I thought.  With all the movement, and excitement of a new location, I failed to notice my heart rate climb.  The doctor certainly didn’t, though, and pressed a couple of buttons.  I was soon back into lala-land once more, semi-comatose, semi awake, uncaring about what was happening, and certainly not noticing where they were taking me.

As we approached a set of closed doors, my bed stopped moving, and I gathered enough energy to fight through the narcotic haze to wonder what was going on.  The doors had some official looking signs on them, and a headboard stated “NAP Treatment Theatre”.  My panic started to rise, as my brain synapses began firing on all cylinders - this is going to be bad news.

The doctor leant over me, and adjusted my oxygen mask.  

“Where’s my Mum?”, I called out

“Right here, baby girl, I’m right here”, someone responded from behind me.

Except this wasn’t Mum, the voice wasn’t my Mum.  But those piercingly beautiful deep blue eyes I noticed, as an Amazonian woman came into view.  She leant right over my bed, staring at me, and grabbed my right hand.

I was terribly confused.  How could this woman say to me that she was my mother?  Wait.  What were my synapses telling me earlier, which I ignored?  

As I started to pull a weird questioning confused face, “You’re not my mum”, I exclaimed.

“Oh, darling, I’m so sorry”, she replied, shaking her head.

As I looked into those deep blue eyes, I could see tears of sadness, pain, and grief appear within them.  Bolts of nervous energy coursed through my body, the hairs on my arms stood on end, goosebumps broke out, as those synapses finally formed a picture.

I was lying on my side, on a road, smoke everywhere, dust and grit and stones flying every which way, people running everywhere, Stowe looking down to his left, fingers outstretched, arms rising to cover his face, so I naturally followed his gaze down.

Mum was lying spreadeagled across the road, blood all over her face, and arms, and legs.  A leg was pointed out, a foot pointed in.  Black soot discoloured bits of skin.  Clothes torn, some flapping in the breeze of the fast disappearing car.  

I could not see her face, it was blurring out in the vision my synapses flashed at me, and in that moment in time, I knew.

“Mummy!”, I cried out.

Pretty quickly, I felt a very tender warm embrace from the woman hovering above me, and a crying whisper into my right ear, “I’m here now, baby girl, I’m here.  I will always be here”.

A few beeps later, and I rapidly began to lose out to that dark unconsciousness once more, looking up to see the light above me begin to move once more, gently sliding through the double doors into NAP.

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There appears to be no template describing the diaper dimension

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7 hours ago, Little Christine said:

There appears to be no template describing the diaper dimension

The diaper dimension is extremely open ended.  The idea from "Princess Potty Pant's" original story was that it's a dimension that is all the ABDL stories and fantasies rolled into one.  Thus when your dealing with multiverse theory it can be anything you want, the only real "rule" is that there are Amazons and there are Littles and Littles can be adopted and treated like babies by Amazons.

 

As for the story it's off to a good start.  It had a good amount of cursing which for some reason felt a little out of place, maybe it was just because the f bomb was dropped like a machine gun not sure.  Will like to see where this goes in the future.

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I have one little criticism that most wouldn’t notice, but that mask that spews 100% pure oxygen is spewing out poison because the air we breath (I think it was 40% oxygen but correct me if I’m wrong) has some hydrogen, carbon, and a few other gasses mixed in on top of oxygen

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1 hour ago, jb666jb said:

I have one little criticism that most wouldn’t notice, but that mask that spews 100% pure oxygen is spewing out poison because the air we breath (I think it was 40% oxygen but correct me if I’m wrong) has some hydrogen, carbon, and a few other gasses mixed in on top of oxygen

The plastic oxygen masks they put over your mouth and nose do deliver 100% pure oxygen.  However, the rate that O2 is delivered is only a couple of litres/minute or so, and the masks typically have a few holes in them, which allows for the inhalation of surrounding air (the hydrogen/Co2/etc), and also allows for the exhaled air to be ejected back into surrounding air.  

Ventilators may or may not deliver 100% pure oxygen.

My mum was in ICU for a while many years back, which sorta prompted the scene in Chapter 1.  When we got mum home, she was on bottled oxygen, at really low flows.  It was medical-grade O2.  We soon replaced the bottled O2 with an accumulator(?) system (a big box which sat in one corner of the bedroom, sucking in air), which took the 02 out of surrounding air, and fed it in low doses through nasal prongs.

7 hours ago, Guilyn said:

As for the story it's off to a good start.  It had a good amount of cursing which for some reason felt a little out of place, maybe it was just because the f bomb was dropped like a machine gun not sure.  Will like to see where this goes in the future.

I spent a good amount of time debating internally whether to add such cursing/swearing/f-words.  In the end, I'd believe that bad guys would swear/f-bomb/carry on far more than the good guys.  It's all in context though.

Meredith might think about swearing to accentuate a point, but at the moment, verbalising those words might not be possible *hint*

Stowe, well, he's an SF dude, and they drop f-bombs as fast as machine-gun bullets :-)  Stowe's not really got such a potty mouth. 

Thanks for your comments too, very much appreciated. 

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Chapter 2 - The Making of Meredith

NAP started with my being completely undressed, stripped naked by a nurse, wherein I was attached to various life support machines via wires, medical drips, catheters.  As the pre-op preparations continued, I was given an anaesthetic, hooked up to another ventilator, wheeled into the OR, wherein the surgeons hooked up my main arteries through large bore tubes to more machines.

With a mechanically electric motorised whir, the machines came to life, starting the process of filtering, infusing, and nano transforming my blood. There were racks of blood bags behind the machines containing stem cells, infant blood products, some of my own blood DNA, and some of my new Amazonian parents DNA product. As my own blood was filtered, it was very slowly mixed with the matched blood in the bags. Over time, the ratios of original Little blood to new baby Amazonian blood would change.

The filtering process not only scrubbed my blood, but also was a conduit for modification of the DNA. The whole process started a day earlier in NAP, when the blood products being slowly infused into me were chemically mixed in a lab with my DNA, and my new parents' DNA. Thus, I really did become a Bradley child by blood, beyond what the Adoption chip digitally stated.

It was also at this point that my DNA was genetically modified to inhibit any further Little development, and introduced Amazonian traits, reinforced with even more stem cells loaded with Amazonian DNA/RNA from my new parents.   When this blood was re-introduced back into my bloodstream, body functions took control, chemically and molecularly being reprogrammed to biologically modify bone density and size, organ shapes, sizes, inputs and output levels, fat distribution, muscle sizes and strength.  Those cells lost through resizing were ejected into the bloodstream, and passed out towards the filter machines.

The whole chemical process took quite some time, a slow but steady pace.

A skull cap containing electrodes was gently placed over my head, with the myriad number of wires connected to a computer bank.  Even though there was now a chemical transformation process going on inside my brain and the rest of my body, this cap was to be the conduit through which the behavioural, memory, mental and emotional aspects would be tackled.

A technician flicked on his monitors, took a look at the health of the system, before finally executing a program.

> Booting NAP for Meredith Louise Bradley... please wait .............
> Learning physiological signs from Life Support, please wait..........

It seemed, even with ultrafast computing power, there was a lot of waiting the surgeons and technicians had to endure.

> Compiling NAP packages, please wait.........
> Randomising state values........ Done
> Normalising randomised values to reflect selected age........ Done
> Emotional and physiological age = 9mo
> Emotional and physiological state = changed per age
> Blood born age = 9mo
> Bladder state = changed per age
> Bowel state = changed per age
> Voice state = changed per age
> Human attachment = added
> Object attachment = added
> Fine Motor Skills = modified per age
> Coarse Motor Skills = modified per age
> Walking skill level = modified / disabled per age
> Crawling skill level = added per age
> Suckling skill level = set per age
> Feeding skill level = set per age

The list went on and on, the compiler output rapidly scrolling up the screen.

> Baby Learning skill level = set per age
> Baby knowledge = added per age

Hmm... the technician mused as those two items scrolled up in the list.  Shouldn't these settings be set to "modified"?  But the thought was fleeting, as the normal third item (Adult Knowledge) didn't appear this time.

> Basic life skills = changed per age
> Adult skills = deleted

The list kept scrolling. Adult skills means loss of adult knowledge, right? By the time the technician had the thought, the compilation was over.

Loading another program, the technician specified the newly compiled data file as input, and selected run. A progress bar appeared, and the techie sat back in his chair, looking across at the doctors, monitoring my life support systems.

Over eight hours, my body gradually changed shape. To those in the room, those changes were largely unseen, apart from the obvious changes displayed on monitors.  To an outsider, like Stowe, I'd be unrecognisable.

Once the brain reprogramming was completed, they removed the skull cap, disconnecting my body from the computer banks. Another doctor pushed a large bath-like container full of clear red fluid over to the operating table I was laying on, and locked the wheels.

Very carefully I was lifted by straps placed under me, and slowly lowered into the bath until I was completely covered. The fluid immediately went to work to resurface my skin, shrinking it to more naturally cover my much smaller, and still shrinking skeletal frame, with old layers of skin peeling off and dissolving away.

The hair on my head changed to a baby fine silky soft whispy blonde colour. My nose changed shape as the fat continued to be redistributed around my face. My slender cheeks started to plump out a touch, with tiny dimples appearing.

My adult teeth were dissolved away. Stem cells invaded my gums, to grow the buds of another set of baby milk teeth, and behind them a new set of adult teeth, which would eventually erupt normally years and years later.

Because my state wasn't meant to be water proof, the clear red fluid was allowed to flow down my throat, inside me, where it invaded my lungs, causing them to change shape, volume, and density. The nano treatments carried by the fluid also attacked my heart, reducing it in size, which caused it to beat faster and faster quite naturally.  I wouldn't see my fantastic Little resting 52bpm for many many years.

The red fluid started on my stomach, and eventually seeped into my bladder and bowels.

After about 12 hours, the drug and blood therapies were finally complete. Changes within my body were still well in progress, and would continue unabated for another day or so. But these changes were all internal, and my natural body functions to expel wastes were sufficient, so I was removed from the bath, gradually weaned off the bypass machines and filters. The large bore tubes were removed, and I was sewn back up, and wheeled out of the OR to an ICU isolation room.

 


"Mrs Bradley, will you come with me please?", a nurse asked as she approached Jennifer and Keith in the waiting room the following day.

Jennifer stood up, looked at Keith, smiled, skipped a few steps, and dutifully followed the nurse down a nondescript hallway to an ornately decorated and quiet room, containing a hospital bed located under a window, and a door leading to a bathroom off to one side.

"Oh, this is nice!", Jenn whistled.

"You have your supplies we talked about?"

"Yes, my husband does"

"Ok, I'll go and get him later, but let's get you ready", the nurse said with a smile. She walked over to a cupboard, and pulled out an hospital gown, passing it to Jenn. "If you can completely strip to just your knickers, put this gown on and hop into bed for me, would be good"

Jennifer, completely expecting this, quietly complied, and unbuttoned her blouse, unstrapped her bra, pulled down her skirt, and handed them to the nurse, who hung them in the cupboard.  Jenn then slipped into the gown, pulled back the sheets and slid into the bed, immediately adjusting the bed head position so she could sit up.

The nurse then started taking Jennifer's vitals, recording them on a chart at the end of the bed.

"All good, are you ready?"

Jennifer could feel her heartbeat rising in anticipation of seeing Meredith for the first time post NAP.

"Yes, absolutely", whilst unconsciously wiping her hands together and on the sheets from nerves.

 

I was fast asleep, happily dreaming away, until I began to sense some motion, and sound around me. For the first time in what i thought was a long time, I felt blissfully warm, smothered in a wonderfully soft blanket, totally relaxed with nothing to worry about, and not a pain in my body anywhere.

I tried to move, to stretch my legs and arms, but was quite constricted. Slowly opening my eyes, I involuntarily grunted, emitting a weird sound as a result. I could see I was laying partly over on my left side, with something firm against my back, inside a glass box, which was being pushed down a hallway.

I really wanted to stretch my legs, but there was little movement. I could sense my knees were bent, legs spread wide apart. I could feel my butt encased in an amazingly soft, but slightly warm nappy, which seemed to have a ridiculously high rise both  front and back, single taped, elastic waist gathers up on my rib cage almost!  God it felt good though. Must get more of what they put me in.

As my want to stretch and move my legs kept failing, I could sense frustration building. At that, I was highly surprised as I felt my face blush a cute red, I let out a yelp, and started crying, real tears beginning to fog my vision, and cascade down my cheeks and my button of a nose  My voice was emitting a high, but quiet crying waah, yet another startling discovery.

What is happening with my voice?  It's cute, but geez, what's happened here?

As my cheeks started to blush even more from the exertion of crying, I could also feel goosebumps building up. A thought thundered around my brain, am I a ....? No, impossible.

I sensed my glass box stop moving, and opened my eyes to see a nurse open a cover to lean in towards me. With one hand under my head, and another under my lower back and butt, she effortlessly lifted me out of the box.

The shock of going from a wonderfully warm box, to a much colder and far larger space, caused more tears. I closed my eyes, and really let out a balling cry for help, tears streaming down my face, nose all a mush.

My voice was a bit mousey, and I had to cough a few times to clear my lungs, in amongst the sobs.

"Here we go! Got her?", I heard, as I was being passed from the box to someone.

"Thanks", came the reply. Now I've heard that voice before, somewhere. It was soft, very feminine, and weirdly reassuring.

I was still in full cry mode as I was gently lowered onto Jennifer Bradley's exposed chest. My right cheek touched warm skin, which felt oh so inviting. Oohh, I nuzzled.

"Shhhhh now, baby, it's all over, no one will hurt you ever again", that voice quietly commanded. I could feel the blanket being unwrapped from me, more cold air wafting over me, more goosebumps, and the beginnings of a sweet sweet smell envelop me. Very distinctly Amazonian womanly smell.

As the blanket was removed, more skin to skin contact ensued, until I sensed I was completely naked except for my nappy, lying on top of this woman who also seemed to be naked, my arms out to my sides.  I could finally stretch my legs, and so began to calm down.

"Shhhhh", she bent her head to look down at me. I felt the blanket being draped over my back and legs, the cold air warming up around me once more.  More intense sweet and sweaty smells saturated my olfactory and brain, intimate and sensual touches of my skin from the Amazon, a massive hand cradling my head, fingers exploring through my hair, another massive hand slowly rubbing my back.  I started to revel in the body heat building up around me, on me, caressing my tired body.

My eyes opened slowly, as a calming influence started to grip me hard. My right ear was directly over the woman's heart, hearing (and feeling) the very steady and slow thump, thump, thump of her heartbeat through her chest. I could just sense my own heartbeat, which was racing with a much faster cadence.

How much more evidence do you need, Meredith?

The Amazon woman shifted my positioning on her chest,  as my cries finally whimpered out. Warmth and security will do for the moment. My left eye caught her attention, and I was again mesmerised by those deep blue eyes.

"Hi, Meredith!", she lovingly spoke, with a huge grin appearing.  A few seconds later, I could see tears forming in those eyes, but she fought back from whatever her pain was, to crane down and kiss me lovingly on the cheek, which immediately blushed red.

Feeling decidedly secure, comfortable and rosy warm, I closed my eyes, yawned, and fell off to sleep, with a final quiet whimper.

 


Jennifer looked up as Keith appeared in the doorway to the room.

"Are we all good?", he asked.

"Yup, all good", she responded quietly. "She was a bit upset for a while, but is very much asleep at the moment".
"Yes, I could hear her from the waiting room". Keith bent over the bed and delivered a nice sloppy kiss on the forehead of his wife. Jenn followed it up with a kiss on Keith's lips.

Keith looked down at the sleeping baby nestled comfortably on her new mum's chest. "Gee, what a change, eh! So small"

"Yeah, I'll say. She's perfect, Keith. Absolutely gorgeous".

After about a half hour of quiet contemplation between the two giants, with them carefully playing with Meredith's hands and feet, the nurse walked in, and smiled at the scene in front of her.

She quickly examined Meredith,  before asking Jennifer whether she'd been expressing.

"Oh, yes, absolutely, but why?"

"You might find Meredith will be hungry when she wakes up is all", the nurse advised.

"Ok, thanks.  Hey, Keith, can you hand the nurse those bottles I gave you this morning?"

Keith reached into the nappy bag, and pulled out a couple of bottles full of milk, handing them over to the nurse, before throwing the bag at the end of the bed.

He sat down on the bed's edge, and started to really examine Meredith's face. As he gently touched her button of a nose, she stirred, letting out a tiny rasp, and a yawn. Her fingers were tightly formed into fists, but occasionally would stir and extend, closing back up again at the slightest touch.  He extended his pointer finger as Meredith's hand relaxed, and laid it into her palm. Instinctively, Meredith's fingers curled around it, gripping hard, not letting go.

He stifled a giggle.

After another yawn, a blue eyeball appeared from behind a tired eyelid,  and looked straight at Keith.

"Hi there, Meredith", Keith cooed.

 


Well, at least they hadn't changed my name, I thought.
The Amazon man studying me had a squarish face, a well formed and groomed beard, Incredibly deep blue eyes that sparkled every time he moved them, with a dark brown mop of hair, combed neatly. Well dressed. He looked a tad nervous, but was smiling and giggling away. Overall demeanour was one of quiet confidence though.

My gaze moved to my arm, bent 90 degrees at the elbow, resting comfortably on the woman's chest,  and my hand, balled into a fist, gripping the man's finger tightly. Why was I doing that?

My brain registered that my fingers only just wrapped around his one finger. More goosebumps.

I grunted again, and autonomously began to bury my face into the woman's chest. My tummy started to really grumble at that, and I seemed to instinctively know what I needed at that point in time.  My arms and legs started slowly moving, stretching, squirming around. But my fingers hadn't lost grip of the man's outstretched pointer.

I lifted my head, and emitted another hoarse little sighing cry.

"I think Meredith is after something, Jenn"

"Ya, do we wait for the bottles to come back, Keith?"

"Try breastfeeding anyway"

I was effortlessly moved around by hands and arms from the woman I now knew as Jenn. My mum had a real bear of a time manhandling me, but this woman did it with ease. Either she's far stronger than Mum, or I'm totally ignoring the obvious signs, again.

After a few seconds, I was settled and cradled in the woman’s left arm, my head at her elbow, my right arm dangling down below me.  I felt something wet brush my mouth and lower lip, and I instinctively opened up, to discover a soft warm nipple pushed in.  Closing up my mouth around the nipple after a few attempts, another reflex took over, and I tentatively sucked in a small stream of a warm, milky substance.  I was instantly reminded of an amazing creamy vanilla malted milk shake I had at Bellamys once, but that was cold, and this… this was warm, yummy, tasty, and oh so filling.

I started to suckle harder, being rewarded with more milk each go.  My olfactory senses were flooded with a vanilla caramelly milky smell, which just added to the experience and satisfaction overwhelming me as I continued to nurse.

My arms relaxed, my left hand relaxed (and let go of the man’s finger), my legs relaxed, my back muscles relaxed, as I drank in the creamy liquid.  Closing my eyes was a done deal at this point, but I instinctively kept on suckling.  My brain quietly registered a spreading warmth across my butt.

What I thought was an age, but really only about 20 minutes, I’d stopped suckling, mostly asleep at this point, but I felt myself being moved again.  Starting to sense serious pains in my stomach, I fidgeted a bit and moaned, as I was brought up to Jenn’s left shoulder, and resting my head over it, my back was pounded rhythmically.  That pain grew to the point where I started to moan in complete disapproval, but the pounding on my back continued.

She shifted the focus of the pounding down to my lower back, and gradually raised the focus each time she pounded further and further up my back.
That strategy worked, as I felt a few bubbles of air and milk rise up my oesophagus, and erupt from my mouth in a resounding burp, followed immediately by a few mls of milk. It was not a pleasant experience.

“Oh, you good, good baby girl, Meredith”, Jenn cooed at me.

Wait, was I just burped?

That thought quickly subsided, as I was laid back down onto my left side, where another wet nipple was offered, and I instinctively latched on, beginning to suck more warm, sweet milk.

The stomach slowly filled with the nectar of the woman over time, and I slowed down the suckling.  My body was absolutely jelly at this point, and I drifted off to a wonderful deep sleep, completely oblivious to my surroundings, and what the two giants were doing to me.

 


“I think she’s finished”

“La la land of milk coma, this one is in”, Jennifer replied, as she relaxed, and prised Meredith off her right breast.  “But I think I should burp her, and then probably change her nappy”.

With the blanket over her right shoulder, she raised Meredith to lean her head on the blanket, and started to pound her back.  The girl didn’t whimper, or raise a sound, until about five minutes later, letting out a burp, a squeaky cry, then completely relaxed like a rag doll fast asleep.

“Hey, Keith, can you please get the nappy bag for me?”

“Sure”, as he went off and grabbed the nappy bag from the end of the bed.

Meredith’s new mum gently laid her against her chest, grabbed the blanket, and spread it out on the bed between her legs.  Laying Meredith onto the blanket, she then began to examine the hospitals nappy effort.

“Gee, these disposables that the hospital has her in are huge on her, and she’s soaked!”

Keith reached into the nappy bag, and passed Jennifer a Huggies size 2 cloth-backed disposable nappy, a plain pink PUL-based nappy cover, a new container of disposable wipes, and a tube of Desitin nappy rash cream.

Jenn unfolded the new nappy and put it to one side. Grabbing both of Meredith's ankles with one hand, she lifted them up and pushed them towards Meredith's head, forcing her legs to bend and her knees up to her chest. With her bum in the air, Jenn slid the new nappy underneath the used one, and gently lowered Meredith's legs back to the bed. For that movement, Meredith elicited a little protesting cry, but still stayed asleep.

With practiced fingers, the used nappie's tapes were both removed from the front panel. Jenn then grabbed the front panel, and peeled it away from Meredith's chest and abdomen.

"Awesome, just wet, no poopies to clean up!”, she mumbled to herself

Jenn opened the pack of wipes, pulled a wipe out, and proceeded to give Meredith's abdomen and bum areas a thorough clean.  She also took time, using a fresh wipe, to do an inspection of her new baby’s girly bits and bum, making sure everything was in place as expected.

Next step was the Desitin.  Squeezing a small portion out of the tube onto her fingers, she began methodically spreading the nappy rash barrier cream all over Meredith’s girly bits, bum, bum cheeks, and lower abdomen.  Happy that her girl’s tush was covered, she grabbed Meredith’s ankles again, lifted them up, and removed the used nappy, leaving the fresh one behind.

It was a quick process to close up the fresh nappy between Meredith’s legs to her abdomen, fastening the two tapes onto the front panel, and adjusting the leg and waist gathers.  The PUL nappy cover then was slid under Meredith’s butt, the front panel pulled up between her legs to her abdomen, and the wings wrapped around and fastened using velcro panels.

Keith rummaged through the nappy bag again, and pulled out a soft pink footed sleeper, and passed it to Jenn.  Within a minute, the sleepy Meredith was coaxed into the legs and arms of the sleeper, and Jenn carefully snapped up the legs and crotch.

“All done!”, Jenn announced at the end of the process.

“She looks good, Jenn.  Very happy with the outcome”.  Keith was beaming with pride, after being quite worried they’d made the right decision to transform Meredith.  It seemed to have been performed without a hitch.

“Can you adjust the bed head for me please, Keith?”

After adjusting the bed posture so Jennifer was about 10 degrees off lying flat, she picked up Meredith, and laid her again supine on her chest, left arm resting on and supporting Meredith’s butt, her right very lightly rubbing her back.

“Ok, darling, I’m off home, I will see you on the morrow!”.  Keith stood up, gave his wife a kiss on the lips, gave the sleeping Meredith a peck on an exposed cheek, picked up the used nappy and wipes, threw them in the biohazard waste bin, and walked out, waving goodbye at the door.

The nurse returned with the bottles and a warmer, plugging it into a power point behind Jenn’s head, and placing one of the bottles in it.  She took a look at Meredith, then asked Jennifer if she wanted to be covered by the blankets lumped at the foot of the bed.

“Oh, yes please!”

With a motherly glow about her, and a quiet relaxed sleeping baby on her chest, Jennifer let out a loving sigh, and drifted off for a bit of a nap herself.

 

I stifled a yawn as my senses came alive, opening my eyes to discover I was staring at my knees, with my feet tied together by a massive amazonian hand.   I couldn't help but groan, as my legs put pressure on my abdomen.

"Oh, sorry baby!", I heard as my legs were laid back down.

The woman in front of me I recognised as Jenn, glanced at me and smiled, before she returned to the task of finishing changing what I smelt was a soiled nappy.  She spread my knees apart, and pulled up the front panel of a fresh Huggies nappy to my belly button, and expertly taped the wings to the front panel.

"Have a nice sleep?", she asked, as she pulled down the crotch flaps of my pink sleeper, and fastened the snaps.

Another yawn, and I concluded that I'd just had some of the best sleep in some time. This elicited a stretch of my arms, out towards the giant, who took it as a sign I wanted up.

She grabbed my outstretched hands, and sat me up between her legs.

My hands were soon balled into fists, resting on my thighs. I  started to examine myself, and the woman in front of me. I raised my left forearm a bit, opened my fingers. A tad chubby, not at all my svelte self. My legs and feet were covered in the soft flannel of the sleeper.  Movement of my hips and legs invoked slight crinkle sounds emanating from my hidden nappy and PUL cover.  I smelt of J&J baby lotion, slight whiffs of Desitin, regurgitated milk, and the lingering after smells of the poopy bum.

Stifling yet another yawn, I looked past the Amazon to the window, the scene beyond being dark, with pinpoints of light in the distance.

Returning to the Amazon woman in front of me, she was studying me as intently as I her.  I looked up into those mesmerising blue eyes.

My brain connected the dots. "I'm a baby, aren't I?", I asked. Problem with this question? All I heard was total babyish gibberish sounds emitted from my mouth, with some amount of drooling and dribbling, which prompted a surprised expression flow across my face.

Jennifer looked intently at me, face contorted into a frown.  ”Can you understand me?", a curious Jenn asked quietly.

I thought about this question for a second, then nodded, though fine motor skills made it look like I was just bobbing my head. I tried to point at the window, and called out, "mum!?". More gibberish, but the word was mostly there.

I could sense Jenn sigh in response. "No, baby girl", she stated, whilst slowly shaking her head.

Looking into the woman's eyes, I could see tears forming, with the odd one eventually subject to gravity, and sliding down her cheek.

She pointed to herself, while looking directly at me. "Mum", quietly spoken, but with a pained expression.

I frowned at her, giving her a slow shake of my head. I tried pointing again at the window, my left arm wobbling around a bit.

Jenn took a leap of faith, as I was obviously attempting to interact on an adult level. "Do you remember what happened to your mum?". Tears were streaming down her face at this point, which was causing me to get a bit upset myself.

I could see this woman was hurting emotionally. One part of me was crying out with her, but a few synapses were wondering why I felt like I needed to ease her pain, and why I was following her lead emotionally.

I looked around the room, at the glass humidicrib next to the bed. It was tiny, certainly not a size which took a full-grown Little.

My mind was in overdrive, and so fuddy-duddy topsy-turvey.  Memories were disjointed and fuzzy, but one bubbled to the surface, for a brief moment.

I was lying on my side, on a road, looking straight at a woman with legs and arms all akimbo, knee pointing one way, foot another. Her face all bloodied, hair mangled. She was looking directly at me. I remember watching helplessly, as life faded from those eyes.

As my face distorted from the memory, growing a shade of red, Jenn sensed I was reliving the moment, so she picked me up and brought me to her chest in a loving embrace.  As soon as I was lifted, my emotions let go, and I cried my eyes out.  I cried so hard, I sometimes had to fight for breath, coughing and spluttering away. I could sense Jenn letting a few sobs go too, from the way her chest moved.

A nurse came in to check on us, but Jenn waved her away.

It took a bit of effort to settle down, but I think it was the realisation over time that I actually felt quite safe and secure, warm, and being equally loved and cared for by this woman as that provided by mum.  That, and I sorta forgot why I was crying in the first place. As I calmed down, my senses came back.  Jenn was tenderly rubbing my back, wiping the tears from my cheeks, and singing gently to me.

Once my cries died down, Jenn wiped my face with a cloth. She looked at me with a quizzical, but curious look.

"Are you ok now?"

I thought about the question for a bit, nodded, but kept sobbing.

She reached down to the end of the bed, and rummaged through the nappy bag.  After a few seconds, she showed me an NUK pacifier, with a pink guard and purple ribbon with a clasp at one end.

"I think this might settle you down, Meredith", she whispered as she offered it to me.

I instinctively opened my mouth, and started nursing on it, emitting the odd pop, hmmmphh, squeak.  She snapped the clasp over a small loop of fabric on my sleeper.

After about another 30 minutes of cuddling into Jenn, nursing on the pacifier, a cheek resting on her chest, her chin resting on the crown of my head, being shielded by her warm hugs, and suffering the odd kiss on the forehead or a cheek, I'd calmed right down.

Taking the time to introspectively think about my situation, I came to the conclusion that this Jenn and her husband Keith were good people. They seemed to have transformed me somehow, but otherwise I was safe, and being cared for appropriately. Well, maybe too appropriately, as most Littles were heavily babied by their Amazon parents, and sometimes heavily punished.

If I was safe, and being cared for, I could live with that for the moment, until I could work out how to contact Stowe, and get him to rescue me.

She sat me back between her legs, facing her once more.

Putting her hand against her chest, she quietly stated to me, "Baby darling, I am Jennifer Bradley.  I'm your new mummy, ok?", emitting a few tears at that question.

She poked at my belly, "And you are Meredith Louise Bradley, and I've fallen madly deeply in love with you, Meredith baby. Ok?".  More tears.

I sat and thought for a few seconds, concluding that yes, I can do this, so I reached out to her, and squealed out, "Mum!!”.

"That's right, my beautiful baby girl!", she cooed, as she pulled me up once more to her chest, to give some wonderfully warm loving hugs and lots of kisses.

 

 


Stowe sat on the couch in Meredith’s office in the very quiet HH&S office suite, contemplating life, the universe, and everything else.  In his right hand was a fresh glass of scotch on the rocks, and his left a photo of Mrs Henderson.  His world had been ripped apart in one crazy minute, with his motherly employer dead, and the Little love of his life missing.

He was kicking himself that he’d left the scene, chasing after the car.  Why did he always have to see red when shit like that happened, why on earth didn’t he stay back to support Mum and Meredith?  Stowe, you’re a bloody idiot at times, sheesh!

Taking a sip of the scotch, he looked up towards Meredith’s empty desk chair, silently wondering whether he’d ever see her again, whether she’d ever fill that chair again.  A wave of melancholy overcame him, and the quietness of the office was interrupted by a few quiet sobs, some hot tears rolling down his face.

Another sip of the sweet woody tasting scotch, and he looked at the photo of Mrs H.

Her funeral was that morning.  Meredith never appeared, even though HH&S advertised the funeral in all the papers and online sites.  Enquiries at all three city hospitals yielded nothing as to her whereabouts.  Privacy laws precluded them from telling him anyway whether a person (even a Little) called Meredith Henderson had been admitted.

For all his investigative prowess, he’d come up empty handed, bar the glass of scotch.

Fuck sake, man, get your shit together, you need to find Meredith, and deal with that stupid driver!

After downing the remnants of the scotch, Stowe opened the cupboard near Meredith’s desk, pulled out his pistol, racked the slide, placed it in his shoulder holster, and walked out of the HH&S office suite, turning off the lights, and closing the suite up behind him.

He at least knew where to start looking.

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Thanks everyone for your kind comments.  Please keep them up.

Now on to Chapter 3:

## Chapter 3 - Discoveries

It's nice to be swaddled tightly into the folds of a beautifully warm blanket. Laying on my new mother's chest, my right ear again resting directly over her slow beating heart, all I could do was stare into space, yawning on occasion.  I was tired, and still waking up from sleep.  I could so get used to this feeling, of quiet, being at peace within myself, and sensing maternal love.

I took unconscious suckles at the pink pacifier lodged in my mouth. Mum used to encourage me to take to a pacifier, but I never took to it, so Mum never forced it on me. Now, it seemed kinda natural, sensual. My tongue autonomously explored the angles, flats, and curves of the silicone NUK teet, feeling out the smooth ridges and bumps around my gums at the same time.

Jennifer was cradling my swaddled butt in her left hand, so I was going nowhere. The right side of her face was lit up by the morning sun's rays, which showed her soft face, and smooth fine skin. She occasionally stole glances down at me, but was otherwise preoccupied with her mobile phone, held in her right hand, her thumb slowly making the ubiquitous movements for scrolling of the screen. Reading a book, or messaging, I wondered?

That question made my idle brain start to critically examine my situation again, thinking about the circumstances of my new status.

My conscious thoughts started to throw up lots of questions like, who were these Bradley people?  Was it Jennifer cradling me whilst I was lying on the road looking across to my dead mum, because I was thankful for the care and concern the lady provided to me.

Synapses fired off - That's why I'm with her now - she must have claimed me as her Little.

But I had already been legally adopted into the Henderson family!? Surely, Jennifer had no rights?

My photographic memory vividly came to life with the mind suddenly teleported to my office in HH&S. The desk was spotlessly clean, and clear of everything but a single Book of Family Law opened to the page describing the intricacies of Littles Adoption.

Furiously scanning it, I remembered a section dealing with termination of legal adoptions, the kind that HH&S excelled at.

"Adoption of a Little is terminated upon, inter-alia, death of both Amazon Parents whom full names appear printed on the Adoption Certificate", I summarised whilst skimming through reams of text.

I vaguely remembered that only mum was recorded on my adoption certificate, and burnt into the chip implanted on the inside of my left butt cheek. Surely though, the hospital would have checked my chip, before handing me to ...

My body went stiff at the realisation that Stowe was not recorded as a parent anywhere.  The hospital would thus have no reason to deny a request for adoption by the Bradleys.

"Are you ok, sweetie?", I heard. "Yes, mum, I'm ok". Looking up from the book, there was no one in the office. Weird. Back to reading I went.

There was a clause about adoption transferring to living relatives, but the hope bubble burst upon further reading, “A Little may be firstly claimed by a non-relative having physical custody of the Little, in which case adoption rights transfers to the non-relative parents”. Mouth agape in the vision, mouth agape in the present.

Memories faded away as I suddenly noticed I was losing control of the paci - my tongue was valiantly trying to grip the teet to stop it falling out, but the silicone was slippery.  I felt the hand cradling my butt move up and gently push the paci back in, the palm resting just under my chin, fingers stretched out around my jawline, one resting on the guard of the paci. Ok, now the paci wasn't going anywhere. I resumed slowly nursing on it.

Jennifer’s right hand reached down and cradled my butt, mobile phone now sitting on the bed next to her right hip.

"Daddy will be here soon, baby, so we can go home", she whispered to me.

My nursing on the paci, and my new mum slowly and softly patting my butt soon had me back in a contemplative trance-like state. I tried to return to the vision, but no matter how hard I tried, it refused to return.

With the learned realisation that I could be adopted anew by the Bradleys, my mind began to wonder about the consequences.

I knew that adopted Littles were often forced into regressive forced-baby relationships with their Amazonian parents, but my situation didn't seem to fit this kind of abusive and controlling relationship.  Although I’d been physically transformed, I’d not otherwise been overtly punished or tortured, like other Littles taken agains their will by giants.
My care by the Bradleys so far had been, well, totally normal, and indeed quite loving and caring.  Jennifer had rarely left my side since that fateful day.  Why do I thus feel so content with this position?
 
Is this transformation some other form of punishment I’ve not seen or heard of before?
I've heard lots of stories during my time at HH&S of Amazons having their Little’s teeth pulled out as a form of punishment to stop them biting, or muscle groups in their legs deliberately cut to force the Little to crawl. Have my new parents done similar acts to me? What a frightening thought.

A synapse suggested that, quite ironically, I seemed to have no teeth, but at the same time there was no cause for concern either. Totally natural for a baby to have no teeth.
Did I even have any ability to walk, or even crawl?
 
Would the Bradleys keep their new Little in a perpetual state of punishment? Why do I not feel Little?

More synapses delivered messages telling me that my adult body was gone, with it largely transformed to be quite in proportion to a natural baby's body, fat deposits, cute chubby cheeks, dimples and all. If I was a baby then, does that mean my life starts from scratch?  
 
Would I still even be considered a Little though?  Would I grow up?

That thought shocked me for a few seconds, which quickly faded away.
 
Did I still have the ability to read, and write? Looking at the wall opposite me, I noticed something, a sign stuck to the wall above a small white porcelain sink. Through the haze of sleepy eyes, I could just make out some letters on the sign, a "P" and an "l" and an "e" and an "a" and an "s" and an "e", which made up the first block of text.

I couldn't verbalise the letters being together as a whole, so what's their meaning?

"Enjoying yourself there?", Jennifer suddenly asked quietly. I'd been unconsciously attempting to speak each letter, verbalising very strange little gurgles and squeaks from behind the pacifier.

My face contorted as I realised that although the letters were there, putting them together into a word, and interpreting the word's meaning was too high a skill for a baby.

Ok, I suppose I can't read or talk properly, but maybe I can form words like “mum”, or “dad”? Not sentences though, found that out last night...  But I’m able to understand my new mum and dad when they talk, follow their conversations so, that's a start towards learning to speak again, I suppose.

Looking at the bed I focused on the mobile phone - it seemed unlocked. If I had access to Jennifer's phone, could I understand how to actually interact with it?  Well, there's one reason I needed to at least be able to read.

Does my survival depend on reading skill?  How would I contact Stowe then, if I couldn't at least read.

Photographic brain took control of my conscious thought, and I was back in my HH&S office, sitting at my desk.  It was a mess, as usual.  The desk was awash with scribbled notes on brightly coloured legal pads, printouts, paper forms, a few scattered law books.  I knew there was a phone buried under all the crap too.  I could ring him.  Looking across the desk, I found the photo of Stowe.

Jennifer looked up as Keith walked through the door. He was in a light blue pin-striped shirt, dark blue trousers, black socks, black walking shoes, and carrying a baby car capsule in his left hand. Dropping the capsule on the floor at the foot of the bed, he leant over towards his wife and gave her a kiss on the lips, and planted a soft kiss on my exposed cheek.

The photograph of Stowe vanished in an instant, as I was yanked back into the present.

“Gee, you look mighty comfortable there, Jenn”, Keith stated, after surveying the room.

"Yeah, I'm loving this experience with Meredith“, she beemed back at him.  "Although, I think there's a problem we need to discuss ..."

At that moment a doctor walked in with a binder full of official-looking papers and forms.

Jennifer and Keith both looked up at the doctor.

"Hi Mr and Mrs Bradley, I'm Dr Greyson", the doc announced, shaking Keith's offered hand. "I see Meredith looks quite content there!"

I start to examine this doctor, whilst thinking that, oh, yes, I’m comfortable thanks! So, go away, leave me alone!

"Oh, yes, she's been good this morning, just woke up after her morning feed, actually", Jenn responded. "She seems to be quite susceptible to milk coma.”

"That's ok, it’s to be expected - a full tummy sends most babies to sleep".

Keith grabbed Jenn's phone as she moved to lay Meredith on the bed between her legs.

“May I examine her, please, Mrs Bradley?"

"Do you need me to strip her?"

"Just down to her nappy is fine"

After Jenn removed the lovely warm blanket wrapped around me, she proceeded to unsnap the crotch of my sleeper, and peeled it off over my head, being careful to extract my arms and hands.

Feeling suddenly quite cold and wide awake, I started to squirm with the new-found freedom, moving my arms and legs, stretching, and trying to find some warmth.  Moments later the stress of nakedness was unbearable, and I let out a cough, and started crying, emitting mousy waaahs, and the occasional hiccup for good measure.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, baby!", Jenn cried.

The doctor leaned over me, his face quite neutral, but non-threatening.  He unslung his stethoscope, and started placing it at random points on my chest.  The coldness of the stethoscope almost shocked me into silence.

“Yes, breathing sounds are clear. I must say, her heart’s rate and strength are very good given the scope of transformation she was subject to in NAP.”

Dr Greyson then listened through the stethoscope at my abdomen.  “Bowel sounds are not quite yet normal, but that’s expected.  Has she done a poo yet?”

“Yes, last night after her feed.  It was very sloppy, a bit oily, some chunks.  Very stinky too”.

“Ok, totally normal.  Her bowels will still be transforming, due to lingering traces of some ingested nano-fluids.  You’ll find her poo will slowly firm up, but just watch she doesn’t get constipated”.

I was looking up at this doctor the entire time, sobbing away, but amazed at the frankness of the discussion about my bowel movements.

A flash of recognition hearing the NAP word had me staring at double doors leading to the NAP Treatment Theatre.

I’m guessing I’ll find out about NAP later.

"She passing urine ok? No blood being passed?"

"She's had some very wet nappies, but mostly clear of blood."

"Excellent, her output should reduce to normal levels within a few days. "

“Thanks Doc”, Jenn said.

“No problem.  She looks alert, is moving all her limbs freely, slight tremors I can see, which is also expected post-NAP treatment.”

“I was wondering about those, but ...”, Jenn mused.

Keith interrupted, “Was this the problem you started to allude to just before, Jenn?”

“No.  Last night, Meredith was really unsettled, so I started talking to her.  As she stopped crying I asked her if she was ok, and she nodded back at me, Keith! I told her I was her new mum, but she fought against that idea for some time.  I think she was in mourning for her own mum”.  Jean looked at Keith with a tear in her eye, then looked at me.

I sniffled a couple of times, laying there on my back, exploring my new mum's gorgeous blue eyes, sensing her sadness.

I noticed Dr Greyson take a step back from the bed. “Hmm … There’s a step in the NAP process to compile all the options you specified, … into parameters used to shape Meredith’s brain and bodily functions, which map various character traits and skills she ends up with.  It is possible that that step might have missed something”, he inwardly mumbled.
Keith took the obvious mental step “So, you’re telling us there's a bug in your process?”

“Quite possibly, yes”.

They all looked down at me, so I did the only thing I could think of at the time - I blinked, and blushed with embarrassment at being the centre of attention.

Keith looked away, horrified.  Jenn started giggling, whilst looking at me the entire time.

"What's so funny, Jenn?", Keith queried through a pained expression.

Jenn scanned my face. "Nothing, dear, just a mother-daughter secret". She's already in tune with me, so I attempted a smile back at her.

"I'll make some notes to follow up with the NAP technicians", the doctor responded. He pulled an electronic thermometer from a pocket, and stuck it in my ear. After a few seconds, a soft beep was emitted. "Temp is normal", he mostly mumbled to himself, followed by some paper shuffling and writing notes.  "I need to look at Meredith's gums, Mrs Bradley"

"Sure". She reached over and pulled the paci out of my mouth, noticing that there was no resistance. Mother-daughter secret, remember?

Dr Greyson walked over to the sink, retrieved a pair of disposable gloves, put them on, and returned to his examination of me. Slipping his right pointer finger into my mouth, he began feeling the top and bottom gums.

"I can only juuussst feel her new milk teeth. They'll erupt probably in about four to six months. "

He kept his finger in my mouth, and stroked my cheek and under my lower lip with his free hand. I instinctively started suckling on the finger. "A tad weak nursing reflex, and suction strength“.

"Meaning?", Keith questioned.

"She'll just take longer to feed, that's all. No cause for concern", he stated, as the paci was rightfully returned to my mouth.

Dr Greyson went back to his paperwork, and made more notes. After what seemed about 5 minutes of note taking, and signatures between himself and Keith, he reached into his left coat pocket, and retrieved an ink pad.

He opened it up, grabbed my right ankle, and pressed the pad onto the sole of my right foot. He then retrieved his binder of documents, flipped it open, and pressed my foot onto a piece of paper full of gridlines. He then re-inked my foot, and flipped to the last page in the binder.

It was a very ornate official looking document, very old school, with gold leaf lettering, swirls everywhere, the embossed letters very decorative, and even included a red seal. He pressed my foot onto the document in the lower right corner.

"Here's your official adoption certificate. Meredith's imprint is proof of her status as an Amazonian child, if anyone ever cares to ask.  Congratulations Mr and Mrs Bradley!"

As the realisation of my being an Amazon sunk in, my skin went all goosebumpy, and the paci fell out of my mouth. A bit of fear started to grip me, and I sensed the release of wee.

Transforming me into a giant would either the ultimate gift, or the ultimate curse.

"You can take Meredith home now!"

"Thanks, Dr Greyson!"

With that, the doctor folded his binder, and walked out of the room.

Still in a state of shock at the bombshell delivered by the doctor, I was looking for a reassuring cuddle from my new mother. But Jenn had felt my nappy, and decided to change it. "My, you are quite wet, baby", she cooed at me whilst untaping the old nappy.

With a thorough clean, some more Desitin cream, a gentle massage over my body with some baby lotion, and my butt encased within a fresh nappy, Jenn picked me up and brought me to her chest.

Ah, I'm really beginning to enjoy these cuddles, hearing her heartbeat, feeling her subtle body movements, smelling her sweet scents. My arms hung down by my side, totally submissive.

"You smell nice, bubba"

She placed the blanket over my exposed back and legs, before rummaging through the nappy bag for clothes. Pulling out a plain yellow baby dress, yellow PUL nappy cover, and a yellow bucket hat, she lowered me back onto the bed.

I looked up at this woman, my new mother by legal adoption. This woman was my mum, and I'm ok with that, I concluded.

Mum lifted my legs into the air by the ankles, slid the nappy cover under my butt, lowered my legs, and pulled the cover up between my legs, quickly velcroing the back wings to the front panel.

Lifting me to a sitting position, she pulled the dress over my head, then threaded my arms into the short puffy sleeves, and pulled the hem of the dress over the nappy cover down to my knees.

I looked at my new dress for a few seconds. it was light and airy, so I started playing with the hem, grabbing it with my hands and quickly raising and lowering my arms a few times, giggling away, exposing the nappy cover each time. I stopped when mum pushed a bucket hat onto my head. Letting go of the dress hem, I instinctively reached for the brim of the hat, attempting a few times to remove it. I didn't want to wear a hat.

"You look just adorable, Meredith!", Keith said. I looked up to dad, and smiled. The pink pacifier was clipped onto the peter pan collar of my dress, and pushed into my mouth.

"Keith, can you take her, while I go have a shower and get dressed?"

Dad reached down to me, his strong  hands grabbed me by the waist, “Ya ready, bubba?”, he said, "weeeeee" and seemingly launched me into space by his speed and power, effortlessly lifting me and eventually resting my head against his right shoulder.  He was a tall man - 6 foot 4 or thereabouts in my Little scale, so I experienced a brief moment of weightless flight. I certainly could feel my stomach contents get upset, but thankfully no chuck chunder follow through.

He grabbed the blanket, and placed it over my back and legs, like a cape. Walking slowly towards the main door, closing it, then walking back towards the bed, he softly hummed a tune the entire time, so I began to relax against his body, and space out.

This was the first time he'd picked me up, so I wondered whether he was enjoying the experience as much as I was whilst getting a cuddle.
He was strong, muscles rippled. His body scent was muskish, but not overpowering to me. His left forearm was cradling my butt, his right hand planted squarely on my upper back.

Those hands and arms and muscles radiated security and safety. His calmness radiated comfort and control.

I stole glimpses of my mum, undressing out of the hospital gown, and walk off into the bathroom. She seemed to float across the floor, her steps so quiet, poised and effortless.  When she closed the bathroom door, I gave a small shudder of fear, and cried out for her. Now that I've a new mum, I wouldn't ever want to lose her too.

Sensing I was a bit unsettled,  I heard a reassuring "Shhhh now, princess."

More slight movements, and wiggles, and steps, and I closed my eyes. Emitting a couple of yawns, I turned my head towards him, burying myself into his neck, and gave up the fight to stay awake.

 

 

Jennifer opened the bathroom door and walked into the main room, towel wrapped around her torso, hair wet, but brushed aside. She looked at Keith, "Is she asleep?"

A beaming father responded "Yup"

"You've still got it, you sly dog!", she giggled back at him. "Unbelievable!", as she started getting dressed. "This is your first hold of her, and you put her to sleep"

In the Bradley family, Keith was the one Jenn and their two adult children turned to for calming unsettled babies, toddlers, and the odd Little. He just seemed to have infinite patience.

A giggle from the big man, he was really enjoying holding his new baby girl.

"Wanna put her in the capaule?"

"No, not just yet - and besides, you're not dressed, so plenty of bonding time". Keith did reach down for the capsule , and put it up on the bed, moving the harness straps aside.

Jenn kept her eyes focused on Keith and the sleeping Meredith. "She looks so so comfy there"

"Thanks" was the quiet response, just as a phone camera flash went off.

Once Jenn was dressed, shoes on, night bag packed up, and the nappy bag sorted out, she signalled Keith to put Meredith into the capsule.

Gently laying her inside it, straightening her dress and hat, he calmly buckled all the harness restraints together, adjusting each one to the right lengths. After Meredith was locked into the capsule, he laid the blanket over her, tucking it in around her sleepy and pliant body.

"Gorgeous", Jenn whistled as she looked in on the sleeping baby.

"Ready?"

"Yup! Let's take our baby home, Mr Bradley!"

"Your wish is my command, Mrs B"

 


I awoke upon hearing a resounding CLICK of the capsule sliding into the car frame. My arms reached up towards my face, as I emitted a quiet little scream of fear. I was blinking and squinting as the sunlight streamed through the open car door.

I quickly settled as Mum materialised in front of me, gave me a kiss on the nose, and popped my pacifier back into my mouth.

She closed the door, took a few steps, and hopped into the front passenger seat. Closing her own door, I heard the click of a seat belt.

"Ya ok, bubba?", Dad asked, looking diagonally across to me from the drivers seat.

I slowly nodded. Having nothing else to do, I looked around at the new environment I was in. The capsule was comfortable - I was lying within layers of soft padding, which was light grey coloured, supporting my head and torso. More dark grey padding towards the edges of the capsule, with the exposed plastic components a very dark almost black colour.   I was lying in a reclined position, facing the rear of the vehicle.

The window off my right shoulder had a sun blind stuck to it, so everything outside was a bit dark and blurry and diffuse.

I felt like I was in an SUV, high up off the ground, confirmed when the engine started up, and we began moving. That diesel sound emminating from the engine bay was unmistakable.

After Dad navigated out of the hospital grounds onto a main road, the bumps, shakes, sounds, and vehicle vibrations quickly spread a soothing warmth and peace within me. Quietly suckling on the pacifier, I zoned out, thinking of nothing at all, and with a sigh, closed my eyes, and succumbed to a deep sleep.

 

 

The interior of the Talley Arms Inn was modelled on a fictional Irish bar called Paddy’s, after the owner read a book about a long-lost world calling itself "Earth". Obviously the owner had never travelled inter-Dimensionally, or he would have discovered the book was non-fiction, and the world was quite real.

It was intentionally dark inside, through the application of subdued overhead lighting shining against dark wood-panelled walls, stained glass panels between rows of tables and bench seats, and a magnificent central bar made of solid oak beams.  The main bar area was quiet, with few patrons, and even fewer pints of beer being pulled.

The barman handed over two pints of beer to a scruffy customer, who threw loose change across the bar in return. Hair everywhere, dirt under his fingernails, scratches on his hands and face, Stowe stood upright with the new glasses full of beer, and walked off towards a table tucked into a corner of the Inn.

His visitor looked up at him.

"Ah, thankee there, Stowe", the guy said. "I can certainly use one of these after the day I've had". The visitor rubbed his face and hair, before emitting a weird "urrrrgggg" sound. He was tired, his white work shirt all creased, stress oozed from his skin pores.

"You look like you haven't slept in days, brother", Stowe pointed out.

"Mate, we're fricken run off our feet at the moment."

Stowe looked at the man blankly, obviously not taking the hint. He looked closer at the epauletes on the man’s shoulders - black with three white V's - the mark of a Sergeant. The nameplate on his left breast was engraved with "Jacksen". Next to it was a crest, a badge denoting the Federal Police Force.

Stowe had known Jac for many years, building a rapport and friendship during their time together in PI training. After graduating, Jac enlisted into the Feds, whilst Stowe started in HH&S as a business partner and in-house PI.

So it wasn't surprising to Jac when Stowe rang him out of the blue, after he’d buried his mum, asking for a face-to-face at Talley Arms Inn.

"Why? What's going on?", Stowe enquired.
 
"Urgghh, investigations, man. Lots a shit going down at the moment, protection details at the inter-Dim UN, that kinda stuff”. Jac took a gulp of the pint. “But… you don’t wanna hear about that stuff now, am I right?”, he looked across the table from behind his beer.

“You’re right, I’m after some info on someone”.
 
"Can you tell me who it is?”
 
"Some slimeball, name of, umm..., Jagon Fahr?"
 
"Name doesn't ring a bell, so what'd he do?”, Jan was scratching his head whilst running his mind through reams of crim names - The name Jagon seemed pretty unique though.
 
"Ran over my lady in the Mall a few weeks ago, drove off”, Stowe replied, without any emotion.  Now was not the time to get emotional.
 
Jac visibly reacted at that bit of news, sitting back on his chair.
 
"What? You look like you've seen a fricken ghost or something, Jac!”
 
"He have dark hair, scruffy, red shirt, looked foreign-like, right?", Jan enquired.
 
"Yeah"
 
"Shit!", Jan yelled out.
 
A few patrons looked across to the table with two giants, one obviously anguished about something.
 
"You gonna let me in on the surprise here, Jacksen, or what?"
 
“The bloke escaped last week from Federal Lockup“, Jac cried out. “We think it was an inside job, as the scumbag has completely disappeared off radar.  We’ve kept the escape totally on the down-low, in the hope that he’ll fuck up, we’ll nab him, and return him to the lockup.”

“Shit!”, Stowe mumbled, head between his hands, beer untouched. Shit, shit, shit.  Now what?

Jac looked at Stowe for a minute, before querying him for information that maybe the Feds didn’t have.

“I suspect he was a low-level goon for the Ramon Family.  I’d traced the rego of the car he used, and was about the pay the dude a visit, when he was nabbed by you guys”.

“The Ramon Family you say?”

“Yeah, my last job for HH&S was a snatch of a Little from one of Ramon’s properties.  Ever heard of Michael Stone?”, Stowe looked up at Jac.

“Stone Family murders.  Sure I do.  What’s that got to do with the driver though?”

“Well, the day mum was run over, we had a visitor, ostensibly looking to use our services to acquire a Little.  Except the one he wanted was Michael Stone.  He threatened Mum, to return Michael to Don Ramon.  About an hour later, she’s dead, run over.”

“The driver of the car was that same guy?”

“No”, Stowe shook his head in response.  “The guy who had the appointment with Mum was much smarter, different build, different hair style and clothes.  The driver of the vehicle who ran over Mum? I saw him when I snatched Michael from under Ramon’s nose”.

“Hmm…”

“I don’t believe in coincidences, Jac.  I’m betting that the driver panicked when he saw Mum, Meredith and I”

“And the bloke who threatened your mum?”

“No idea, never seen him before, but he’s a player”

“The driver may have been the chauffeur for the smart dude?”, Jac theorised out loud.

“Possibly, I’d not thought of that angle”

“So, what are ya gonna do now, Stowe?”

Stowe sat back for a minute in contemplation as to his next actions.  He’d already staked out the Ramon Family house in Everglades, but it might be worth a shot to head back there, knowing now that the driver may be in the area.

Looking at his hands, Stowe replied frankly, “I think I’ll go back to where I was scratched by a black cat”.

“Take care, Stowe.  I’ll contact you if I hear anything”

Stowe was about to stand up, but then paused.  “Oh, I almost forgot, there’s one more thing you could do for me”.  Stowe finally looked quite pained. “Can you quietly have a look through your databases for info on Meredith’s whereabouts?”

“I think I can do that.  You’ve obviously been out there looking for her too”

“The hospitals won’t tell me shit, Jac! So, umm…,  I’m kinda getting a bit desperate here”

Jac leaned across the table, and put a hand on Stowe’s right shoulder.  “I’ll see what I can do, brother”.

“Thanks”, and with that, Stowe downed the rest of his beer, stood up, and left the Inn.

 

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Nice new chapter. I like how Meredith is settling in with her new life slowly and her new family is adjusting as well. Stowe is in for a fun adventure and I look forward to watching both. I do wonder if the Ramon family ever finds out about Meredith’s new life? But I like it so far and enjoy looking forward to the updates. 

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This is becoming a great story. I am really enjoying all the action and soft sweet moments mixed in. I would have thought that Meredith would have put up a little more fuss learning of get regression. But then realistically it’s to late to do anything about it so she might as well go along with it. I will definitely be watching for more updates. 

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A shortish chapter today, and a challenge for you readers. How will Meredith contact Stowe? All the clues to how she's going to attempt contact are in the storyline so far (not necessarily this chapter alone).

Next chapter will be a few weeks away, as I'm finally going on Christmas break for a few days!

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Chapter 4 - Routine Events

The morning's golden sun streamed through the window shutters next to my cot, with light rays bouncing off the cot’s white painted bars and little plastic bunnies and bears hanging from a mobile above my head. Even at this time of the morning I could plainly hear musical twinkling notes as the mobile slowly rotated.

Lying on my back, I was enthralled by the little figures twirling around above me. Cute Beatrix Potter characters seemed to dance along with the music.  The mobile seemed so close, so I tried to reach out to it, grabbing thin air rather than the bunnies and bears.


I otherwise had nothing to complain about this morning - I was toasty warm covered up under a plain white sheet with little pink and brown and blue and green bear icons, under a soft and fluffy purple blanket with white stars all over it. The cot sheets smelt freshly laundered, with a hint of vanilla scented laundry detergent used. It didn't escape my notice that I could also smell fresh pee, some milk vomit, and maybe a hint of poo.

The headboard and foot of the cot I was confined to were solid panels of wood, painted a gloss white. Padding was attached to the insides of the headboard, the cot side against the wall, and the foot of the cot, extending half way up the sides, all to stop injuries, or arms and legs escaping the confines.

At the foot of the cot on top of my blanket sat a number of plushies in various sizes, a few dolls, and some toys for me to explore. One little bear caught my eye, with its short light brown fur, deep dark brown eyes, stitched nose and smiling mouth, and a very cute tartan bow tied around its neck.  Its paws and legs were stretched out, looking rather inviting. The bear seemed to be beckoning and calling out to me, "Come here, Meredith, come and cuddle up to me, please?”.

Unconsciously suckling on my pacifier, my thoughts were consumed with the risk/reward of snuggling up to that cute little bear - it could be my protector and confidante.  All my bad nightmares could be smited by that bear. Thus my mission this morning was to recover it.

First step was to roll over, so I rotated my shoulders. Through some exertion, grunting and groaning, I soon found myself on my stomach. Some more grunts and groans, with the odd cough and cries of frustration, I'd succeeded in wriggling out from under the blanket and sheet.

Next step was to see if I could lift up onto my hands and knees. More little grunts and groans, and I'd achieved exactly that, though I noticed my arms were a bit shakey.  One hand in front of the other, each knee following suit, and I started my journey down to the foot of the cot.

Well, at least I have some skills to lean on, they didn't completely remove all basic life skills, I thought. I don't have to learn how to crawl! Woot! Independence! Woot!

As I reached the foot of the bed, I was so proud of myself for the achievement, I started a little giggle fit. It was quite short lived, as I sensed movement in the room.

Just as I reached out and took hold  of the bear with my right hand, I was grabbed from behind, and hauled up into the air letting out a squeal, landing gently against mum's shoulder.

"Good morning, oh beautiful girl", Mum baby talked to me quietly, gently kissing me on the nose. "Found a friend, I see?". I looked at the bear still tightly clutched in my right hand.

Looking around the rest of my nursery whilst cuddling up to mum, so high off the ground, her rocking backwards and forwards on the spot, I noticed an elegant and well-built changing table butted up to the headboard of the cot, thick change mat padding and little rails on top, with shelves and drawers underneath containing changing supplies and a stack of nappies.  In one corner of the table, under the window frame, was what looked to be a little radio, but it wasn't emitting anything this morning. The sun's rays really lit that table up, standing right under the window like it did.

Near the foot of the cot were a pair of doors, presumably fronting an in-built wardrobe.

Next to the wardrobe was another door, opening up out to the hallway.

There was a toy box overflowing with more toys and plushies, and a rocking chair in the corner, a pendant light hung from the ceiling directly above it.  Between the rocking chair and the changing table stood a little bookshelf, full of children's books.

"You're very clever, learning how to crawl so quickly", she said encouragingly. "I was so afraid of issues with the NAP procedure transforming you too much for the worse”. She stopped moving, and I felt slender, but expert fingers unbutton the crotch snaps on my sleeper, and slip under the leg gather of my nappy. "Ok, you're wet, and maybe a bit else besides", she confirmed.

I didn't remember any release of wee this morning, or overnight. Wettings just happen these days. I've been finding I get a bit uncomfortable before a poo happens though. That was probably the most disconcerting part of my soul being so regressed - I had no control of my bodily functions, and almost no awareness either that stuff happened.  I had such good control before being adopted by the Bradleys, the nappies on the bookcase in my office were often just for show...

Mum placed me on the change table, and reached above my head to close the shutters, causing the room to darken.

I noticed none of this, however, as I found myself once again in my office, standing in front of and looking at the bookcase shelf full of nappies. I wore pull-ups most of the time, because wearing a nappy was what Amazons expected of a Little, but with a pull-up, I could still go to the toilet when I needed to.

Looking at my desk, it was a mess, as it always was - nothing had changed.

Stowe's photo sat within its frame, perched on the corner of the desk.  I walked from the bookcase to my executive chair and sat down.

"Meredith?", I heard

"Yes, Mum?", I called back

"Meredith?", I heard again, this time a bit more forcefully. The voice was close, so I looked up, but could see no one, and the office door was closed.  Weird.  The computer monitor was lit up, and I noticed it was displaying part of a document.  I touched keys on the keyboard, but nothing happened.  Hmm... there's something wrong here.

I began reading the document content, which was something about Michael Stone's adoption.  As I started to reach for the mouse to scroll the page, I was yanked back into Mum's arms, instantly screaming, and starting a crying fit.

"I don't know what's happening to you, but you're starting to scare me, baby!", Mum cried at me.  I noticed that I was completely naked, with mum trying valiantly to settle me down, by rocking me from side to side.  I gripped her clothes as hard as I could, burying my face into her neck.  "Shhh, baby, shush now, no need to be scared any more“.

As I started to calm down, she laid me back down on the change table, on top of the fresh nappy she'd already unfolded and had placed under me just before I'd started screaming, finally handing me my teddy bear, which I grabbed with both hands, and buried my face in its belly.

She went back to applying the Desitin cream and some baby lotion, folding the nappy between my legs and taping it all together, adjusting the leg gathers.

A plain white PUL nappy cover followed.

Mum stopped at that point, and leaned over the table at me, her hands gripping both side rails, examining my red flushed face.  "Are you ok, Meredith?", she asked in a very adult manner.

Of course, I couldn't respond in kind, so from behind the teddy bear, I simply nodded.

"But, are you really ok?"

Another nod.

"I'm, umm... I'm not hurting you am I?"

A shake of my head.

“… and you don’t feel sick?”

A shake of the head, as I lowered the bear, revealing my eyes.

In an instant, I could see Mum's face soften up, and she surprised me with the 'ole "Peek-a-boo" trick, squealing and giggling at me.  "There you are!"

Silly mum, I thought, I've been here all along, so I giggled back.

But I hadn't been here all along, and I was really curious now as to why I remembered the Michael Stone document on my computer.  But no matter how hard I tried to remember the rest of the document contents, as Mum was dressing me in a plain lemon yellow onesie with a teddy bear motif sewn into the front, I could not go back to it.

Mum picked me up, gave me a kiss on the nose, and then my cute little red lips, and laid me on her shoulder, walking out of the nursery, turned right, took about ten steps down the hallway, turned right again through a square-set opening in the hallway wall, emerging into the kitchen and living area of the house.

The kitchen was spacious, segregated from the living area by an island bench.  The living space had an elegant and formal six-seat dining table underneath beautiful double-globed pendant lights, a corner couch framing a large shag pile rug, which sat in front of a low TV cabinet, and a flat-panel TV mounted up on the wall.

In the distance, behind the dining room table, I could see some glass sliding doors, slightly ajar, through which I spied more shag pile carpet, and what looked like a toy on the carpet near the door.

Mum sat me in a high chair butted up against the island bench, and fastened a restraining strap around my waist and between my legs.  There was a single large red plastic cube on the tray, which I instantly picked up, looked at it for a second or so, and then attempted to eat it.  All I could accomplish, however, was suck on a corner, which resulted in a lot of drool, and my blubbering and cooing away, as I watched Mum make a bowl of oatmeal for my breakfast, along with a warm bottle of milk formula.

Placing the bottle into a warmer device sitting in a corner of the main kitchen bench, she grabbed the steaming bowl of oatmeal, and brought it over to me. She grabbed a bib from off the island bench, tied it up around my neck, and then began to slowly spoon feed the oatmeal into my randomly opening mouth.

I not once dropped the plastic block, placing a corner into my mouth to suck on each time Mum withdrew the spoon to load up with another scoop of oatmeal.  But after a while, I started feeling a bit full, taking longer and longer to swallow all of the mouthful of oatmeal.  I started to fidget about, dropped the block on the floor, and rubbed my ears and face and eyes with my hands.

"All done, bubba?”

I nodded, but Mum offered me one more scoop, the dregs of the bowl of oatmeal, which I squeamishly accepted, my stomach bursting.

"All done, beautiful girl!", she sweetly announced, setting the bowl down on the bench top, and reaching in to unbuckle the high chair harness.

Picking me up out of the high chair, she proceeded to retrieve the bottle of milk formula from the warmer, then took me over to the couch and sat down.  Mum nestled my head in the crook of her left arm, my upper torso supported by her left forearm and hand.  As she looked lovingly down into my eyes, she caressed the teat of the bottle against my cheeks and lower lip, which caused me to automatically open my mouth ready for it.

With warm, sweet tasting milk formula slowly being sucked out of the bottle, I quietly nursed whilst Mum held the bottle for me.  I reached up to it with both hands, but couldn't hold it.  "Thought so, you're just not at the stage where you can feed yourself, little one", Mum whispered to me.  "But one day, you'll grow up to be big, and strong, and be able to hold your bottle, and your spoon, and ... ", she breathlessly started talking to me softly.

But my eyelids drooped, as my stomach filled with warm liquid in addition to the oatmeal, and I found it hard to concentrate on what Mum was saying, about my growing up.  Littles don't get the chance to grow up, I thought, but a synapse reminded me that I wasn't a Little anymore.

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Stowe was lying prone under some clumps of tall grass, about 300m from the Ramon residence in Everglades Hills, in almost the same spot Meredith selected a few weeks prior, when they snatched Michael Stone.  He'd been in the one spot all day, silently observing the grounds, and the residence for signs of the goon driver, or the guy who hassled Mrs H.

On the ground beside him was a little notepad and pencil, and in front of him was a spotting scope.  No rifle this day, but he still wore his sidearm on his right thigh.

The plan was only to observe from a distance he thought the compound goons would not anticipate or care about.  Being in the one spot since sunrise was tiring, not being able to move around, stand up and stretch tired and cramping muscles, or go to the toilet to pee.  He pushed through the boredom and strain by thinking back to his SF days, when life was a lot more dangerous and harsh.  This observation post was comparable to a walk in the park.

With not a lot of movement within the residence, and no vehicles entering or exiting the place, his concentration started to lapse.  But he was immediately on point when he felt his mobile phone vibrating.  Reaching into his cargo pants side pocket, he pulled the phone out to see who was ringing - the security company for the HH&S office suite.

"Stowe here, what's up?", he quietly spoke into his phone's wireless remote earpiece.  Listening to the caller, he slowly grew more alarmed, with every word from the caller.

"Uh huh... Ok... you serious? When?  Shit, umm.. ok, I'll head right over there!"

Hanging up the call, he gathered his gear up, quietly backed away from the compound through the underbrush, ensuring he’d covered the hide, and headed back to the battlewagon.

Throwing all his gear onto the front passenger seat, he paused for a moment, and thought about what the security company told him.

It took about 20 minutes to drive to the underground parking bay owned by HH&S.  Stowe grabbed the notepad before hopping out of the van, stood for a few seconds to listen to his surroundings, before walking off to the fire escape stairs.

Once at the door, he pulled out his pistol, racked the slide, quietly opened the fire escape door, and slipped into the stairwell.  The HH&S office suite was up three flights, so he looked up through the middle of the staircase, seeing (and hearing) no-one on their way down.

Cautiously edging up the three flights of stairs, checking each flight for threats, he reached the 2nd floor fire escape door.  He placed his ear against the door, and heard not a peep.  Total silence, bar the building's air conditioning whirring away in the distance.  Deciding that the next course of action was to open the door, he carefully turned the handle, and cracked the door open enough to see down the hall towards the front door.  Clear.

He stepped through the door, and quietly closed it behind him.  No sound, bar the air conditioning still, and the pounding of his heartbeat.
Step by step, seemingly gliding over the tiled floor of the hallway like a stalking cat, he gradually eased up towards the glass surrounds of the office front door, which he observed to be slightly ajar.  Hmm.. a break-in, he surmised.  A little blue light was flashing on the roof above the door.

With his back against the hallway wall, crouching down low, he slowly peered around the window frame into the office reception area.  It looked untouched, but maybe some papers were disturbed on the reception desk.  More details emerged on observation, a filing cabinet drawer left open, some more papers scattered on the floor.  Still bucket loads of silence.

Stowe decided it was safe to shuffle up to the main door.  Before edging the door open with his left shoulder, he briefly stopped to examine the door lock, showing obvious signs of jimmying with a crowbar. He reminded himself that the little bell above the door was gone - it would not give his presence away to someone still in the office.  

Sliding into the reception area, he scanned the office space further, his pistol out in front of him at eye height, sweeping the open spaces, ready to pull the trigger at the slightest sign of a threat.

HH&S’s office suite wasn't a big space to secure, but he still needed to go through every room, securing them from threats.  He slid up to a wall leading to the central hallway connecting the offices to reception.  Glancing down the hall, he could see the three office doors open.  Total and absolute silence this time, as the building's aircon didn't include the office space out of hours.  Meredith's office was first on the right, then Mrs H's office on the left, then his own office next to that, and across from Stowe's door was one leading to the bathroom.  A closet door sat right at the end of the office hallway.

He shimmied up to Meredith's office door, which was fully open, and scanned her office.  As expected, it was a mess, with files ripped out of the filing cabinets, books hurled off the bookcases, her desk cleared of all her papers.  Stowe noticed that her keyboard and monitor were turned around - someone had sat in one of the Amazon-sized  chairs and attempted to hack through her computer.  The office space was otherwise devoid of any intruders.

He moved further up the hallway, and glanced into Mrs Henderson's office.  It looked just as messy, with the filing cabinets all opened, and documents thrown all over the floor.  It too was devoid of life.

Continuing his slow and deliberate movements up the hallway to his own office, he noticed the now familiar pattern.  People had rifled through his paperwork, and made an attempt to crack open his rifle safe, but it was obvious that his office was not the target for the intruders.

Carefully opening the door to the bathroom, he quickly scanned the room, and finding nothing of interest, closed it back up.  Likewise the closet was untouched.
Taking a couple of deep breaths, he started to come down from off the adrenaline high, reassured the office was clear of any threats.  It was time to start investigating why the  office was broken into.

Walking back to the reception area, he stopped in the middle of the open space, and looked around.  Reception desk had been given a going over, but there was not normally anything of value there, just the booking diary, the receptionist's computer, phone, few bits and pieces.  HH&S had a clear desk policy, drafted up by Meredith, who hypocritically never seemed to follow it.  But to the receptionist's credit, she always followed it.

The booking diary had a few torn pages, which seemed odd.

The filing cabinets out in the general office space never contained any client records, only general office and company documents.  It looked like the intruder(s) realised this, and quickly moved on - the office space could be viewed from the outside corridor.

He moved into Meredith's office, standing in the open door.  It too had been jimmied open with a crowbar, the door flying open with the handle causing a dent in the wall.  That would have made a bit of noise.

Files were everywhere, papers strewn all over the floor.  These guys were looking for something.  Stowe realised that he could never be able to find out if files were missing from the client filing cabinets sitting in the corner of the office.  All the drawers were open, with the files rifled through.

So he took a few steps towards her desk, and began examining it.  Her desk drawers had been jimmied open.  Meredith often hid a key to Mrs H's office in her desk drawers.  Corporate policy was to at least lock the office doors before leaving for the day, which everyone adhered to.  The key was gone.

He reached into a pocket on his shirt, pulled out a handkerchief, and touched the shift key on the keyboard.  The computer monitor slowly came to life.  Instantly, the document front and centre on the screen caught his breath.

The intruder had managed to get into Meredith's computer, and brought up a document which detailed Michael Stone's adoption to a local couple.  Stowe was never told by Meredith or Mrs H who had adopted Michael, but the adopter's name seemed distantly familiar.

Stowe looked across to the printer sitting on a little table next to the filing cabinets - it's tiny screen still lit up, awake and ready to accept print jobs.  Maybe the perpetrator had printed off this document, and taken it with them.

He whipped out his phone, scrolled through his contact list, and dialed someone who could find out.

"Jaccy boy, how are ya?", he queried to the other party.

"I'm pretty good, mate, and you?", Jacksen responded

"Not good, brother, not good.  Look, I'm investigating a break-in at the moment, and need a refresher on someone you might know."

"Hmm, ok, this sound's ominous."

"It could very well be, Jac.  The guy's name is Mark Bradley, does he ring a bell?"

After a few seconds of contemplation, and tapping on a keyboard, ”Yeah, he works as a civvy contractor down in the Computer Crime and Forensics Unit.  Why?"

“Ah, that’s maybe how I knew his name, from PI school.  Anyway, we need to give him a heads up, brother.  I need to speak to him, urgently!", Stowe couldn't hide increasing panic from his voice.

"Ok, calm down, bro.  Let me see what I can do to get you in touch with him.  I'll ring ya back.  But what’s this about anyway?”

"Thanks, Jac, but I can’t tell ya right now“, Stowe said, and immediately hung up without waiting for a response.
This was definitely about Michael, and Stowe had a reasonable idea who the perpetrator was.

He walked across the hall to Mrs Henderson's office.  Although it was trashed almost as much as Meredith's office, Stowe quickly realised that the perp was only after one thing in this office - to hide the fact he'd visited Mrs H.  After about 10 minutes of searching, Stowe came up empty handed on any evidence of the guy who met and threatened Mrs H.

Her office door was not jimmied, the key was still in it.

As Stowe was winding up his examination of Mrs H's office, his phone buzzed with a message:

[Jacksen] No go on contact with Mark Bradley - he's on leave until the end of the week, on a cruise apparently.
[Stowe] shit! ok, thanks!
[Jacksen] Have left messages on voicemail and email to contact me, will advise if he does
[Stowe] thanks bro!

Well, at least he’s safe for the moment.  Hopefully, Michael will be with the Bradleys in the middle of the ocean.  Still got time to track down the driver.

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I was lying on my back in the playpen within the home theater room, playing with my plush bear, giving no notice to the large TV screen affixed to the wall in front of me.  The double glass sliding doors were open to the dining / living / kitchen area, with the sound system turned down.  

Glancing out the windows off my left side, I could see the beginning of a beautiful, golden orange sunset.

Both Mum and Dad were lounging on the recliner seats, Mum with a coffee in one hand and phone in the other, Dad mostly asleep.  With the fading light from outside, and no overhead lights turned on, Mum’s face was being increasingly lit by the glow from the phone.  

Below the TV screen was a long narrow built-in cabinet, with tiny pinpricks of light twinkling away.  I could see the stereo HIFI system, driving the TV and speakers, a games console of some sort (a controller sitting on top of it), and a mini computer. Hanging off the bottom of the TV was a camera-like object.

“I wonder how the kids are going?”, Mum wondered aloud.

“Hmm?”, was the only response from Dad.

Kids?  Mum and Dad have children?  I was a bit confused as Mum, Dad, and I, seemed to be the only people living in this house.  

I stopped suckling on the bear’s increasingly wet ear, and just lay there concentrating on the conversation, keen to hear more about these Bradley children.

“I haven’t been able to contact Mark and Sue for days now”, Mum spoke towards dad

“Yeah, of course not, they’re in the middle of the bloody ocean, dear”.    

Just as Mum was about to respond to Dad’s wise crack, my attention turned to the TV, as a jolt of adrenaline shot through my body.  The evening news started broadcasting an article about a break-in to the Henderson Henderson & Stowe corporate office, the company that can find a Little for every Amazon family, or rescue a Little from an abusive relationship.  Cutting to a scene in front of the building, a reporter was talking to a police officer, who informed everyone that they were still looking for the culprits.  And… cut back to the studio. 

Just as fast as they announced the break-in, they were on to the next bit of news.

I was instantly back in my office, sitting in my executive chair, sitting at my messy desk, papers everywhere, with keyboard front and centre, mouse just to the right of the keyboard.  The computer screen showed a document, drafted by Mum, but in a state of being proof-read by Little me.  Scanning through the visible text, I could see it was about Michael Stone, a legal document describing in minute detail the terms and conditions for the adoption of Michael by an Amazon couple.

I absently tried to type on the keyboard, but nothing appeared on the screen.

Reaching for the mouse, I scrolled the document to the signature block at the end, where the adoptive couple were to sign.  

A jolt of adrenaline shot through me like a bullet, as I read the names in the signature block - Mark Adrian Bradley, and Susan Emmilee Bradley, married, etc, etc.

I looked up at the closed office door in total shock.

They’re in trouble.  What was I thinking, the whole Bradley clan were in trouble.  The Mob would stop at nothing to get Michael back, including going after the extended family if it came to that.  Fuck, where’s Stowe?

I reached for the phone, but couldn’t pick it up.  Handsfree dialing also didn’t work.  WHY DOES NOTHING WORK, I yelled!!

In a total state of panic, I was yanked back into the present by Mum picking me up out of the playpen.  I was screaming my lungs out, my face a deep crimson red, coughing fits, and a couple of episodes where I even held my breath, causing Mum to blow air onto my face.  My eyes screwed tight, I was so wound up, my body was stiff as a board, my face contorted from the exertion.  

“What the hey, Jenn?”, Keith looked at her with alarm.

“She had a similar episode this morning, Keith”, she informed him, whilst cuddling me tightly, rocking me from side to side.  I was clinging to her, with both hands firmly grabbing her blouse.  “She gets all spaced out and so so not with us, and ends up having a meltdown like this!”.  She tried popping my pacifier into my mouth, but I quickly spat it back out.

Neither Mum nor Dad connected the news announcement to my crying fit. By the time my meltdown started to peter out from pure exhaustion, the news hour was long gone.

“What do you want to do, then?  Take her to the doctors to give her a check up?”

“Yeah, I’ll call them first thing in the morning.  Right now though, I’ll breastfeed her, and put her to bed”.  As my cries were reduced to only little whimpers, she offered the pacifier once more, which I took, and started suckling on. Somehow I still managed to continue sobbing away, whilst furiously nursing on the paci.   

Keith disappeared out of the home theater room for a few minutes, returning with a blanket, and handed it to Jennifer.  

Mum laid me down against her left arm, pinning my right arm against her body, and supporting my torso and butt with her left arm and hand.  She unbuttoned her blouse, and undid the bra flap covering her left breast, cupping it with her right hand, and offering it to me.  Rubbing the nipple against my chin and lower lip, my sobs stopped as I latched on, and started suckling. She placed the blanket over my torso and legs.

I was so tired, I relaxed to the point where I was jelly in Mum’s arms, but continued slow autonomous nursing, extracting more and more sweet tasting milk nectar. 

Mum started stroking my cheek, my forehead, playing with my hair, running her fingernails down my left arm, all whilst softly humming a tune.  The sensual touches were absolute bliss, I was in heaven.  

After about a half hour, I’d stopped suckling, so Mum lifted me up to her left shoulder, and started pounding on my back with her right hand.  Each slam of that hand sent jolts through my entire body, but I didn’t stir from my milk coma slumber.  Feeling pain and pressure escalate in my tummy, I started moaning again, until the pain was suddenly released by a solid burp and some regurgitated milk.

Sensing my body relax again, Mum attempted to feed using the other breast, but I was gone to lala land for the night.  

I’d completely forgotten about the break-in, the contents of the document, and the impending danger to Michael and the Bradley family.

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  • ozziebee changed the title to Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Chapter 4

Yeah, aint it!  Maybe that's why Jennifer Bradley was nearby when Meredith was run over?  Maybe support her son with his adoption, and fate just happened...

Thanks for reading this far, am enjoying writing this story.

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Loved the new chapter.  Apparently I haven’t been paying close enough attention to the story because I don’t know for sure how Meredith is planning on contacting Stowe. I believe it might be with the use of a computer, she keeps going back to seeing her computer. I can’t wait for more. 

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So here is Chapter 5, in Meredith's adventure in the Diaper Dimension.  Please let me know if you enjoy reading it as much as Iv'e enjoyed writing it.

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## Chapter 5 - Communication

As I lay on my back, with my teddy bear gripped in the crook of my left elbow, looking up at the mobile slowly rotating above me, I wondered why I was so fascinated by it.  After all, it was just a handful of bears and bunnies hanging down from the mobile, endlessly tracing a circle.  But I think it was more the movement catching my attention, and the soft jingling music accompanying that movement.

The mobile held my attention until I began to feel pain in my tummy, with pressure slowly building up to the point where I started involuntarily squirming, grunting, moving and stretching my legs, and feeling my face turn red from exertion.  The point where it started to become unbearable, there was a release, and I could smell something horrid down there, under the sheet and blanket I was pinned under.

My exertions and cries didn't go unnoticed, and I was quite startled when I noticed Mum enter the room, drop the side of the cot, peel back the blanket and sheet, and lift me up towards her shoulder.

"Hehe, I know what your problem is, bubba!", she squealed at me, whilst setting me down atop the change table.

Mum's expert hands undid the snaps of my sleeper, and peeled back the material up to my stomach, to reveal a nappy cover.  As she undid the cover's velcro wings, we could both smell the issue at hand.  My night nappy was both quite wet, and also a bit poopy too, though I could see Mum take the challenge in her stride, cleaning me up, placing a fresh disposable nappy under me, rubbing in some Desitin rash cream over my butt and tush, closing the nappy up between my legs and fastening the tapes.  She reached into a drawer for a fresh clean nappy cover, quickly fastening it up, and adjusting the fit to cover all of the disposable, before finally closing up my sleeper.

She sat me up in the middle of the changing table, and leaned over, resting her head on her hands, elbows on the table.

"So today, girlie, we'll get some brekky, and then I'll take you to see a doctor, then maybe some lunch.  Does that sound like some fun?"

I was only interested in the breakfast, so I eagerly nodded, and started slapping my hands on my thighs.

Mum picked me up, and walked off into the kitchen, placing me in the high chair.  She handed me what looked to be a circular teething toy.  "Here you go, princess, say 'ta'".  The ring had little bumps and indentations all over it, and I let out a 'ba ba ba' as I took it from Mum, immediately stuffing it into my mouth.  It tasted a little plasticky, but was also quite squishy and soothing to my toothless gums.  Before I could start drooling all over my sleeper, Mum had tied a cloth bib around my neck.

I watched Mum make breakfast, giggling and baby talking away through the teething ring, occasionally banging it against the high chair's tray.

"Are you in a good mood this morning, Meredith?"

Uh huh, yes I was!  I had a good sleep last night, had an amazing dream about something, of which I didn't recall, but that didn't matter.

"Hey hey! Stop banging your toy, you'll break it!"

The ring went straight back into my mouth.

Mum grabbed a stool from under the island bench, and sat down next to me, placing the bowl of steaming oatmeal on the bench next to the high chair.  Grabbing a spoon, she loaded it up with some oatmeal, and offered it to me.

"Ok, deary, the choice is yours - either the ring, or the oatmeal?", she cooed at me, with a smirk and a raised right eyebrow.  I had no choice, really, so I dropped the ring on the tray, and opened my mouth, salivating for some food.

It didn't take long though for my stomach to pass on messages of fullness, causing me to hesitate before each mouthful.  But somehow I made it to the end of the bowl, and sat back in the high chair feeling full with some light-headedness from the food coma that was sure to hit me, watching Mum move around the island bench into the kitchen.  She retrieved a banana from a fruit bowl, peeled it, and cut it up into tiny pieces, placing them onto a plate.  She also grabbed a bottle of milk formula from the warmer, walked back to me, picked me up out of the high chair, and sat down on a couch nearby, placing me on her lap.

As I reclined back against her stomach, she offered me a piece of the banana, which I took with my right hand.  Although I knew that it was a banana piece, for the life of me I couldn't remember what a banana tasted like.  It felt soft and squishy in my hand, yet I had no hesitation in stuffing it into my mouth.

While my tastebuds were exploding with the new taste and smell of the banana piece, and forgetting for a moment that I had no space in my tummy for much else, Mum reached over to the coffee table, and retrieved her phone.

"Yes, good morning, my name is Jennifer Bradley, and I'm calling to see if Dr Greyson is available to examine my daughter, Meredith, today if possible please? ... Yes, yes, that's her, she underwent NAP therapy... Yes... Ok, excellent, 11am is fine, thanks! ... Ok, we'll be there! Bye!"

She looked at me, and handed over another piece of banana.  I was in culinary heaven, and eagerly grabbed the offered piece, pushing it straight into my mouth, though not without getting half of it all over my chin and cheeks and nose.

"Hehe, silly you, you're supposed to eat it, not paint your face with it!", Mum giggled at me, before cleaning my face with the bib.  "I'll need a wipe for this, actually", she mumbled to herself, leaning over to the coffee table again, and retrieving a wipe from a packet.

After cleaning my face and hands of the banana, she offered me the warm bottle of milk.  Though my stomach was telling me that I was already full, my eyes were too big for my stomach, opening my mouth once more for some liquid nourishment.

She supported my back with her left arm, her left hand cradling my butt, and offered the bottle's teat to my mouth.  No sooner had I started suckling the warm, amazing tasting milk, stomach messages told brain centres to slow down.  Food coma hit hard, my eyelids started obeying the laws of gravity, my eyes rolled into the back of their sockets, and I slowly nursed away into la la land.

 

I woke up with a start as I felt my body in motion.  Looking around I discovered I was strapped into the car capsule, with Mum carrying it across a car park towards some large buildings.  As she entered one building through a set of sliding doors, my olfactory sensed disinfectant, and I looked up to see big squares of fluorescent lights.  With the sounds and movements around me, I gathered we were in a hospital.

Mum placed the capsule on the floor, and leaned over a counter to speak to an unknown person.  "Hi, I'm here to see Dr Greyson, I have an 11 o'clock appointment?"

"Please take a seat just over there, Mrs Bradley, and Doctor be along shortly to see you"

"Thanks!", she replied casually, as she bent down to pick up the capsule.

Finding a seat, she placed the capsule on the seat next to her, so I could see her.  "Did you have a good sleep, Meredith?"

Yup, I did, so I nodded, and yawned, my paci falling out of my mouth.  Mum leant in and placed it back where it belonged.

After a couple of minutes waiting, with Mum texting away on her phone, we were called into the doctor's office.

"Hiya Mrs Bradley", Dr Greyson cheerfully greeted us, as we entered his examination room.  "And how is Meredith today?", he asked as Mum sat down at his desk, placing my capsule on the desk.  Dr Greyson looked in at me, and started to undo the restraints.

"Meredith is progressing quite well at home, Doc, but she has some very weird episodes from time to time.  Last night it took Keith and I ages to calm her down, it was the worst one yet"

"Describe them to me", Dr Greyson asked, as he lifted me out of the capsule, after wrapping me up in my blanket.

"Well, she could be interacting with me normally, but suddenly her focus changes, her eyes roll up and get really twitchy, like she's in the middle of a dream, her whole body twitches, arms and legs sometimes get a bit animated, she's spaced out, and largely unresponsive"

"For how long?"

"Oh, up to about a minute or so"

I was totally fascinated by this talk, about how I was reacting physically to my flashbacks.

"Is she convulsing during these episodes?", Dr Greyson enquired as he laid me down on an examination bed.  "I need to listen to her heart and chest if that's ok?"

"No, she doesn't convulse during these episodes, she would often be quite limp"

Dr Greyson unwrapped me from the blanket.  Mum had dressed me in a light yellow sun dress, so Dr Greyson lifted the hem to expose my little chest and tummy.  Placing the cold stethoscope on my chest caused an inhalation of breath from shock each time, and squirming of my legs.
"Yeah, her heart is good, beating strongly", he noted.  He lowered the hem of my sun dress, covering me back up, and grabbed my hands, looking at them, and then forcing my arms around.  He did the same with my feet, examining them, then moving my legs up and down, bending my knees.

He wrapped me back up in the blanket, then retrieved a tool to look into my ears.

"Does she scream at all during the episodes?"

"No, she's quite silent actually.  It's only when we wake her from them that she has a crying fit"

"And the one last night, what was she doing at the time?".  Dr Greyson pulled a penlight from his top pocket, and flicked a beam of light into each of my eyes.  I could do nothing but blink in response.

"Oh, you've got me there... let me think for a sec.  She was in the playpen in the home theater room, we were watching TV.  I think she was looking at the screen at the time too."

"What was on the screen?".  Dr Greyson stopped what he was doing, and looked at Mum.

"I think the news was on, yes, yes, that's right", Mum thought aloud

"Do you remember what the news item was about?"

"No, not really, but now I think about it, Meredith must have reacted to whatever it was"

I nodded slowly, looking at Mum the entire time.

Dr Greyson laid me back into the capsule.  I couldn't see either him or Mum, so I started to fidget, moving my arms and legs.
"Mrs Bradley, Meredith looks fine, there's physically nothing wrong.  However, if you recall, we did discuss an issue during Meredith's NAP procedure, and I subsequently followed up with the technician... let me see my notes here...".  He scanned through a ream of notes, finding the right page. "Yes, yes.  Initial stages of the NAP procedure involve compiling character traits.  The procedure is so invasive that we can turn individual traits on, or off, or augment existing traits as required by the specifications.  Looking at these notes, I'm led to believe that she has somehow retained her prior adult knowledge..."

"Which is why she can understand me!", Mum interjected, excitedly.

"Yes, indeed.  However, this is only temporary", he stated, and looked up to Mum.

"Oh, how so?"

"If you don't use it, you lose it, essentially.  So if she can't use that adult knowledge, it will fade away over time, quite sadly."

"How long?"

"Could be days, weeks, months, we really don't know, I'm sorry"

I was quite still by this stage, listening intently.  This was not good news.  My memory of Stowe and old mum would soon dissolve away.
"Oh, so she will get to the stage where she won't understand me?"

"No, on the contrary, she's constantly learning new things, as babies do, and will learn to interact and understand, also as babies do over time."

"So her episodes will gradually disappear?"

"Yes, she's probably recollecting old knowledge based on events or surroundings, so yes, as that old knowledge fades away, so will her episodes."

I started crying once I realised I was bound by an unknown timeframe within which I had to contact Stowe.


As Mum clicked my capsule into the car carrier affixed in our SUV, her phone started ringing, emitting a strange ringtone - "It's your daughter, that's right! You know the one, your d to the a to the u to the g to the h to the t...". She quickly reached into the capsule to finish arranging the blanket covering me, closed the door, and pulled out her phone. I started giggling at the silliness of the ringtone.

"Hiya Sarah!", I could hear Mum speaking away as she jumped into the drivers seat. "Wait a sec, and Ill set up speakerphone. "

Mum fiddled with the phone for a second after starting the SUV, and suddenly I heard a new voice over the truck's speakers.

"Mum! How are you?"

"I'm awesome, Sarah, baby, how are you?".

Sarah was the youngest of the two natural-born Amazon children in the Bradley clan.  I'd never heard her voice until now, a voice which seemed strong and vibrant.

"I'm great, Mum. Got your message, and yes, I'd love to do lunch today, and meet little Meredith."

"I was hoping you'd say that!  Is Kaitlyn with you? "

"No, Mum, she's in daycare today!"

"Aww, I was hoping that Meredith could meet her. Oh well"

"Sorry, Mum. Gotta keep working on her socialising skills.  Anyway, you did say lunch, and I'm starved!"

"Meet me at Bellamys in the Mall, 30 minutes"

"Righteo Mum, see ya soon"

Jolts of energy ripped through my little body when I heard we were going to Bellamys. I loved the coffee at that place, and those lovely toasted cheese sandwiches they made.  Synapses reminded me that we were on our way to Bellamys for coffee when Mummy Henderson and I were run over.  Surely, fate doesn't strike twice?

Ten minutes later, Mum found a parking spot for the SUV. She spent a few minutes cursing at the back of the truck, fidgetting with something, before appearing at my door with the stroller half of my baby capsule.  The capsule itself clicked into the stroller's frame, so Mum didn't have to undo any of the harness restraints, or remove me from the capsule.  I was faced towards her, so I couldn't see anything in front of us.  The capsule's sun shield was raised to cover me from the hot sun, so my visibility out to the sides reduced even further.

She threw a nappy bag into the bottom of the stroller, hung her purse across the stroller handlebars, and we were off into the Mall proper.

The Mall began as a pedestrian-only open-air street, blocked off to all traffic bar emergency vehicles.  With shops on both sides of the street, there were people everywhere, shopping, eating, and enjoying the fine sunny and hot weather.  Looking back past Mum, I caught a brief glimpse of the exact spot Mummy H and I were run over.  Within the block beyond was the HH&S office.  I wondered whether Stowe was still at work.

Looking around, I noticed that Amazons didn't care for an obvious natural baby in a stroller, taking no notice of me.  I did see some Littles in various states of regression, from a small group of very nervous adult Littles (a couple of them hiding what looked to be cardboard placards), to individuals who were confined to strollers wearing nothing but a nappy, to one perched on the hip of an Amazon mum, to twins who were led around by neck collars and tethered by leashes under control of their Amazon parents.  I really hoped some of those who were in states of distress weren't HH&S placed Littles.

As we waited to cross a road at the top of the Mall, I watched an adult Little, around 30 years old, who was strapped into a stroller.  His abdomen was encased in a very thick evening-weight plain white disposable nappy, which spread his legs wide apart.  The sleeveless shirt he was also wearing had no hope of covering the bulk of the nappy, so I had no choice but to see the yellow stains in the crotch, and a hint of brown skidmarks towards the seat.  He didn't look happy, as he squirmed and fidgetted, the hot sun streaming down across his exposed face, arms and legs, a silencing pacifier in his mouth, drool slowly creeping down from a corner.  His Amazonian mother looked none the wiser for his distress, which was sad. That Little would be in pain for days with the sunburn he was being subjected to.

That one reminder of how bad it could be for Littles made me start to appreciate how lucky I was with my own situation.  Being regressed into a natural-born baby's body and mind now didn't seem so bad, though I would have liked to have at least retained the ability to talk.  I'd not been otherwise mistreated by Mum or Dad.

A block up the Mall, the open-air space transformed into a proper under-the-one-roof major shopping centre. It was hot enough outside that, as Mum pushed me through the doors into the air-conditioned building, I inhaled the frigid air, and ended up holding my breath from the shock of the temperature difference.

I knew that Bellamys was near the centre of the building, overlooking a quite beautiful indoor fountain.  Give the Amazons credit where credit was due, they certainly knew how to lay out beautiful and functionally relaxing spaces for the population.

Mum selected a window table inside Bellamys, through which she could survey the comings and goings through the rest of the shopping centre, but more importantly, get all excited when her daughter appeared around the centre courtyard fountain.

I was thoroughly bored until I caught sight of Sarah Bradley for the first time.  She was almost the same height as Mum, but was much more petite, slim, but fit.  She wore a conservative plain knee-length dress with a stitched bodice which accentuated her perky, 22 year old youthful breasts.  Minimal makeup, with some lip gloss, as that seemed to be all she needed.

She noticed Mum, and glided across the tiled floor of the centre into Bellamys with ease, kissing and hugging her mum for a good minute or so, until she noticed me.

"My, oh my, aren't you the most adorably stunningly cute baby, Miss Meredith!", she cooed and giggled at me, her face not more than about a metre away from me.  "May I?", she asked, glancing across to my Mum.

"Sure!"

Sarah unhesitatingly extracted me from the baby capsule, and brought me to her shoulder, giving me a smotheringly great hug, which looked like it was crushing every bone in my tiny fragile body, but was executed really very gently and carefully.  She was as much a pro at handling me as Mum was, as I remembered that she had a baby of her own.

She smooth talked to me for a few minutes while Mum ordered the food, cooing and cuddling and giggling whilst tickling my belly and feet. "You've got such beautiful blue eyes, missy princess!"

"Here, be a kind mother, and give this to the impossibly cute princess in your arms there", Mum joked, as she handed Sarah a bottle of formula for me.

Sarah sat the bottle on the table in front of her, laid me down on top of my blanket stretched across her lap, swaddled me in it which surprised me, and then laid me across her arm (much like Mum did), before offering me the bottle.

I accepted the teat, latched on, and started to nurse and suck down my milk-based lunch with a sigh, disappointed that I wasn't in any position to taste one of Bellamy's wonderfully rich aromatic coffees.  The two women had ordered sandwiches and coffees, so I resigned myself to my fate, and began to embrace the milk coma sensations.

"Hey, Mum, has Mark contacted you yet?"

"No, why?"

"He's home tomorrow.  Their cruise docks about 6 in the morning."

"Hmm... So he tells his sister, but not his mother?"

Sarah couldn't help but giggle at that comment.  "Guess I'm special, huh!".  She looked down, and studied my sleeping face.

"She's like that all the time, Sarah"

"Very cute, but a very slow feeder"

Sarah had to keep jiggling the teat firmly latched within my mouth for me to respond with a few more sucks.
I was dead to the world as Stowe walked into Bellamys, stopping at the counter and ordering a coffee to go, looking around at those inside the cafe, including one sleeping Amazon baby with two unknown Amazon women.

 

I was wide awake when Mum opened our front door, and carried me into the cool and calm atmosphere of our house. Placing the capsule on the island bench, she released the harness buckles, and lifted me out of the capsule. With a kiss on the nose, she sat me on the rug in the living area, walking off to pack away some shopping in the kitchen.

I was initially quite confused, as she was ignoring me. Time to explore then, so I leaned forward, placing both palms flat on the rug, and lifted my butt, so i was on my knees. After a few shaky moments whilst I worked out my balance, and some tentative shuffles, I giggled away, causing drool to ooze out around the pacifier firmly lodged between my gums, dropping onto the tiled floor.

"Oh dear, I think you need a bib", I heard, looking up to see Mum bend over and fasten a cloth bib around my neck. "ok now, off you go and play".

She wanted me to explore, I realised.  Since arriving home from NAP, I'd not been given this kind of freedom, being cuddled, fed, trapped in my high chair, my cot, the capsule or the playpen.

So I decided to start with the home theatre room, where I knew some of my toys were located. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle across the tiled floors. The sliding glass doors were ajar, so I tried pushing one of them, which worked, their movement effortless and smooth.

My knees felt relief when I crawled onto the thick pile carpet in the HT room. Dad's recliner was folded up, with the playpen pushed in front of it. Under the window sill was a plastic crate full of toys, some of which I noticed were too old and used to be for me.

But there was also a handful of bright and glossy wood blocks, varying in shapes and sizes. Some plushies, teddy bears, a few little doll figurines, some rattles, a brightly coloured teething ring, some soft plastic tools, rakes, and little shovels. I grabbed a teddy bear, and put its ear straight into my mouth.

I quickly withdrew it, after feeling all that hair against my tongue. So I selected a safer option, dropped the bear, and pulled the teething ring out of the box, which felt squishy against my gums. Strangely soothing too.

I was sitting on my butt, contemplating why the ring felt so good against my gums, when I noticed all the little blinking lights behind a glass door in the TV cabinet.

Crawling across the carpet to the TV cabinet, my paci swinging wildly from side to side with each swish of my legs and butt, I tried to open the door, but it didn't budge.

Hmm, there's a computer in there, and I could see a keyboard too.  There was also a games console. I looked up at the TV panel perched high up on the wall out of reach, noticing the little camera lens hung from under the TV.  A synapse fired suggesting that the camera may be attached to the console to allow it to sense movement.

How could I contact Stowe, I wondered?

I was sitting up again, looking at the lens, when my consciousness was suddenly transported into my office.  Lounging in my executive chair felt good, but my happiness faded at the pile of documents, books, papers all over my desk. My computer keyboard was front and centre, the screen showing an email program.

But touching the keys did nothing, they were frozen in place, the email screen remained blank.

Maybe nothing worked in this reality because then I'd be modifying the state of objects, which could change my future, or others futures, and that's obviously not possible, even in this Dimension.

I glanced across the desk, my gaze falling onto the picture of Stowe. This is what I was after. I picked it up, and ran my fingers down the photo.  God he looked good, such a spunk, ready to rumble in da jungle!

My pointer finger rested on his name plate, remembering that it was just numbers "for security".

If I contacted him, I could use that number as identification of who I was! Stowe would believe the message was from me!

That was the point where my head hit the carpeted floor, I started screaming from the pain, and looking up at mum walking through the doors to the Home Theatre Room, a concerned look etched across her face.

----

Sergeant Jacksen suffered through working in an open-plan office, and found concentrating on his work hard during those times of crisis where the office seemed to be exploding with bodies and noise.  Co-workers would constantly refer to him, as their section leader, for advice on issues, cases, reports.  No matter the day or night outside, life within Federal Police HQ never stopped, but there were odd occasions when he could look around and see almost noone.

When the office was hushed, as it was this beautifully crisp clear Friday morning, he could do his reports, figures for those higher up the chain, or rosters for his team.

Occasionally, he'd escape the office, to walk the beat with someone else from the team, patrol around the city in a car, or skip off to lunch or a coffee.

Not on this occasion, though.  He was head down in a report on protests at the Inter-Dimensional UN, when he heard his desk phone ring.

"Sergeant Jacksen speaking!"

"Good morning Sergeant Jacksen, this is Mark Bradley returning your call?"

"Mark, Mark, Mark, oh yeah!", Jac mumbled as he took a few seconds to remember who Mark Bradley was. "I've been asked by a Private Investigator to get in touch with you to discuss a security matter.  Are you able to meet me in Interview Room ... lets see which one's available... Interview Room 5.04 in, say, 30 minutes?"

"I'm currently at home, unpacking, so can we make it in an hour's time?"

"Yup, we can do that!", Jac responded happily into the phone.

"Thanks, I think I can get up to Level 5 with my pass.  Is that room inside or outside the security doors?"

"Outside, you should be fine for access."

About 50 minutes later, Jac walked into the interview room, sat down, set up his laptop, and dialed Stowe's number through the conferencing system.

"Stowe here, talk to me"

"Stowe, bro, it's Jac, and you're on speaker phone, buddy!"

"Jaccy boy, what's up brother?"

"I've got Mark Bradley coming up in a sec, got some time to chat?", Jac enquired

"Yeah, I'll just shut my office door, wait one ..."

There was a knock on the door, and Mark popped his head in, "Sergeant?"

"Come in, I've got the PI on speaker phone", as a way of opening the meeting.

"Mr Bradley, it's Stowe from Henderson Henderson & Stowe, how are you?", a slightly metallic rendition of Stowe's voice eminated from the speakerphone in the middle of the desk.

"Oh, Mr Stowe, I'm quite refreshed after a bit of a holiday?  Say, how is Mrs Henderson these days?", Mark leant over the table.

"Mark, Mrs Henderson is dead. She was ... *cough* she was deliberately run over some weeks ago", Stowe said quietly.  "Her death is part of why Sergeant Jacksen and I have been trying to contact you"

Mark looked shattered.  Once Michael's adoption was registered, Mark and Sue had no requirement to maintain contact with Mrs Henderson or HH&S, and thus had no idea of the tragedy that befell HH&S.  Although they never met Stowe in person, Michael eventually told them all about him.

"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that news.  Mrs Henderson was very professional in her work, and we're so very grateful to her for setting us up with Michael."

"Thanks Mark", Stowe responded, trailing off into silence for a few seconds.

"Mr Stowe, you've alluded to her death being deliberate, and that I needed to get in touch because of a security issue, does this have anything to do with Michael?", Mark queried, his voice betraying some alarm and stress.

"Unfortunately, yes.  Mrs Henderson died whilst trying to protect the whereabouts of Michael from some very unsavoury people.  I initially thought her being run over was not related, but my investigations showed otherwise. But the HH&S office was broken into a few days ago, and the perps gained access to some documents detailing the adoption of Michael Stone...".
Mark looked up at Jac, who was furiously typing away on his laptop.  Unknown to Mark, Jac was in the middle of authorising an order for round-the-clock protection of Mark's home address.

"... which included your details, home address, and the like. From what I can deduce, both events are the work of the Ramon Family, who are after Michael in particular."

"Who are they?", Mark questioned.

Jac opened up before Stowe could answer, "Mark, the Ramon Family have long been suspected of having ties to an Inter-Dimensional Mafia, who are very dangerous, as you'd imagine.  We also believe Don Ramon, or one of his goons, were responsible for slaughtering Michael's family.  Has Michael ever said anything about what happened?"

"No, never, though I'll query him tonight when I get home!", Mark shot back.

"Mark, you work in Computer Crime & Forensics, did you ever do any surveillance / counter-surveillance training?", Stowe questioned.

"Yes, a bit of both.  I'm a techie though, Mr Stowe, I don't have a military bone in my body, so I can't slink around like a cat, or defend myself in a CQB fight, if you know what I mean."

"Ok, then you need to remember your counter-surveillance training, and ensure you're not followed to or from work.  You also need to tell your family to stay inside the house", Stowe coached. "Do you have a gun issued to you?"

"No, but I suppose this is as good a reason as any to chase one up", Mark quipped.

"Mark, I've arranged for protection of your family and home", Jac advised quietly, looking up from his laptop screen, "... it'll all be set up within the hour. I'll also send you the form required for you to be issued a departmental sidearm."

"Thanks, Sarge.  Suppose, Mr Stowe, I just give up Michael to this Ramon dude?"

Stowe whistled to himself, before answering, "Mark, you don't want to do that.  Ramon will still ensure there are no loose ends, so that means your entire family is in danger from him". Stowe paused, to let the gravity of the situation sink into Mark. "He will make a play at some stage, we just all need to be ready for when that happens.  I'm sure Sergeant Jacksen would like nothing more than to round up Ramon and his goons, and I have some unfinished business to attend to as well."

"And the rest of the Bradley clan? Mum, dad, sister? Will they be affected by this too?"

"I think so.  They all know Michael has been adopted by you.  So that alone would be reason enough for Don Ramon to go after them too", Stowe mused. "He doesn't leave loose ends dangling in the breeze".

"Great, excellent!", Mark exclaimed with some anger, before slamming the table and burying his head in his hands.

----

Mum, dad and I were relaxing in the Home Theatre Room late that evening, watching a very funny sitcom on the TV screen. I leaned right back against Mum's tummy, nursing quietly on my pacifier, my hands resting on her thighs, or sometimes fisted up and rubbing my tired eyes. Dad was alternating between tapping away on his phone, and watching the TV.

Every time Mum laughed, I couldn't help but giggle.

"Who you messaging, Keith?", Mum casually enquired.

"Mark!  They arrived back home this morning. "

"Sweet"

Keith leaned over and showed Mum his phone, which was displaying a photo of a cruise ship scene, with Mark, Sue, Michael, and two Amazon toddlers (Kerry-Anne being 3 years old and Thomas who was almost 5).

"Cute kids, nice photo!"

That was the first time I'd seen Michael since rescuing him. He looked healthy, and happy. The other two looked like bundles of pure energy and trouble.

"Yes, quite cute indeed!". Keith went back to his messaging.

"Hey, Jenn, Mark has suggested we have a BBQ tomorrow.  What do ya think?"

"Yeah, sure! I’ll have to go get some groceries though.”

Keith returned his attention back to his phone once more.

"Would be good if Sarah and her new Little came along too", Jen put it out there.

"Agreed"

"Ok, I'll let her know it's on. If she turns up, she turns up". With that, both parents were buried in their phones. The laughter buried within the sitcom went unnoticed, the jokes falling on deaf ears.

----

Stowe looked at his watch, which told him quite matter-of-factly that it was close to bed time.  With a couple of beers in the belly already, he called it quits rather than order another beer, grabbed his backpack from off the seat next to him, and walked out of the Talley Arms Inn into the coolish evening air.  

He reached into his pocket, and pulled out his car key, turning left to head up the hill towards the Battlewagon, parked about a hundred metres up the road.  Just as he reached the truck, an idea crystallised into his mind.

Jumping into the drivers seat, he pulled out his phone, set it into the cradle screwed into the dash next to the driver’s side A-pillar, pulled up the mapping software, and punched in Mark Bradley’s street address.  It was across the other side of town, about a 30 minute drive.

With the lack of traffic at such an hour, he arrived into the neighbourhood within about twenty minutes.  Stopping in a street three blocks from Mark’s house, he parked the truck, grabbed his pistol out of the glove compartment, racked it, then exited the truck, locking it behind him.

Walking briskly, but quietly, he walked up two blocks, then carefully edged up the side of a hedgerow to a 4-way intersection, looking left around the corner down the street towards Mark’s house.  

According to his calculations, the guy’s house should be second from the far end of the next block down, and the other side of the street.  His heart sank when he could just see through the gloom a number of cars parked, down both sides of the street.  

As his night vision picked up, and he slowed his heart rate, he started to see little details emerge.  The street itself dipped down into a bit of a depression, before gently rising back up and up into the distance.  Hungerford Hill it was called.  The end of the road, way off in the distance, disappeared into the heavy foggy moisture that hung around after the hot day.

Across the street from Mark’s driveway stood a car with a roof rack full of lights - cops.  They’d be the 24 hour security detail.  Not smart at all using a vehicle that was obviously a police car, but maybe that was the strategy - to scare away the bad guys.  

Stowe could see no other movement in any of the other cars he could see.  He laid down against the hedgerow, with just his head visible if one cared to look up the street.  

Stowe was a master marksman, a sniper in his SF days, so he knew all about patience.  Yes, his night vision was returning to him, but after a while, he was fighting ghost images, formed by the moisture hanging in the still midnight air, caressing the overhead street lights.  

His patience was rewarded when, about two hours after starting his stakeout, he saw a flicker of light in a vehicle on his side of the street, parked near the intersection between himself and Mark’s residence.  

Bingo.

With his tiredness all but gone through a much-needed jolt of adrenaline, he backtracked towards his truck, and combat-ran around the block, a big U shape, cautiously inching up towards the street corner nearest where he noticed the brief spark of light.  

Being much closer, he could see more detail of the target, a single body in the vehicle, the person’s back to Stowe, quietly smoking a cigarette, whilst intently studying the house through a pair of binoculars.  

Who was this person?

Just as Stowe was about to step out towards the street, he stopped, realising this was the same make and model of car that had run over Mrs H.  How stupid was this guy? Why didn’t he dispose of it?     

Stowe was conflicted - a pistol shot would attract the cops further down the street, and he had no knife to effect a silent kill.

At about three in the morning, Stowe pulled out his phone, and sent a message to Jacksen.

[Stowe] Jac! Wake up! I’ve got a lead on the driver!
[Jacksen] Don’t do anything, Stowe! Tell me where you are, and I’ll bring the cavalry.
[Stowe] Fuck that, this asshole’s mine!
[Jacksen] Think, bro, think! You cannot blow this guy away, however much you want to…

There really was only one option open to him - withdraw, bide his time, and continue to be patient.

[Stowe] You’re right
[Jacksen] Just don’t let that fucker out of your sight!

 

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  • ozziebee changed the title to Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Chapter 5 (10 Jan 2018)

Loved the latest update.  Meredith ending up in Michael’s family is almost too coincidental. Stowe is going to have to work at not stumbling across Meredith during his investigation. I am looking forward to reading more of this story. 

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Here's another installment in the mystery and mayhem, the yin and yang, of Meredith.  Enjoy.  And please let me know what ya think of the story, my writing. 

## Chapter 6 - The Camera doesn't Lie

One aspect of my life which started giving me comfort was simply waking up each morning. Cracking open an eyelid, and seeing the mobile above me continue tracing its lazy circular path, and hearing the tinny and tinkly music accompaniment, was wonderfully calming to my supple and curious mind.

I was invariably lying flat on my back in the cot for overnight sleeps, or propped on a side with a wedge against my back for my morning or afternoon naps. The freshly laundered cot blanket and sheets kept me warm, and often quite trapped if mum really tucked me in before kissing me on the forehead and retreating from the nursery to let me sleep. Turning off the overhead light before walking out, the only illumination in the Nursery would be a night light atop the bookshelf, and a tiny little green light on the radio device on the changing table.

If mum remembered, like last night, my bear would be lying next to me under the sheet.  I'd sometimes wake up with the bear on top of me with my arms wrapped its neck in a sleepy cuddle, or it'd be propped up against the side of the cot next to my head, waiting patiently for me to wake.

This morning I stretched and yawned, and immediately started fidgeting, arms and legs moving, sensing a release of wee into an already soaked overnight nappy. I sensed that mum was even resorting to adding a soaker pad into my night nappy. Of course, I didn't remember being changed for bed last night, as I was completely out of it after being nursed off mum's breasts.

Just the thought of breastfeeding made me salivate, wanting more. Littles often told me that Amazon mother's breast milk was addictive, but had side-effects which Amazons loved - the Little would lose their continence. Thinking about my own life as a Little, I was pretty sure that Mummy Henderson never breastfed me.

Sure, she babied me for a while, but then unexpectedly let me grow up, develop, attend Uni, become a professional.  

But so many other Littles never got that chance - there being an unspoken truth about Littles never being allowed to grow up.  I seemed to be an exception to that, but only for a short while.  

Many a time, I asked my HH&S Amazon clients whether they were willing to allow their prospective Little to grow into a functioning adult Little.  Even I (naievely) expected the Little to be babied by the new parents for a period of time, only to be "set free" to return to adulthood, though remain adopted.  Most parents obviously said yes, but surveys a few years post-adoption would often see the Little still in regressed states.

A few of our Littles had even disappeared, with their Amazon parents a bit cagey about their locations.  I'd heard through the grapevine that inter-Dimensional Mob gangs would drag Littles across Dimensions to use as incubators.  The offspring of those incubators would be free money to the Mob once they were sold to unsuspecting Amazonian parents.  After all, money talks to Amazons.

HH&S always vetted the Littles they were dealing, examining their life history, birth places, parentage, what they remembered of their childhood.  We dealt in pure-bred Littles.  Their own blood parents sometimes willingly gave them up for adoption through HH&S, considering voluntary adoption to a loving Amazon couple far better than forced adoption to random Amazons with dubious intentions.  Sometimes, success stories happened.  

I wondered this morning whether I'd be allowed to grow up, again.  

As I was wide awake, my body decided to continue its seemingly regular morning ablutions, with pressure building in my tummy, only to release on further squirming and leg movements, and a few little groans.  I could not stop whatever my body was ejecting into my nappies, my perfect continence gone completely for however many more years.

Somehow, Mum just knew I was awake, and in need of a change, soon appearing in the open doorway to the nursery.  Looking up into those beautiful blue eyes of hers, I could do nothing else but smile, and softly gurgle away at her.  

"Good morning, sunshine!  I see my little girlie is quite happy this morning!".  I melted at the sight of mum, looking down at me, my arms and legs moving excitedly, and seemingly quite randomly.

She dropped the side of the cot, and gently lifted me out from under the bedsheets.  "Oh oh!  Princess has given me a gift?!", she proclaimed, after sniffing the air around me.  Darn gifts, I thought.  So stinkey.

She laid me down on the changing table, and unsnapped the legs on my sleeper.  Expert hands had my sleeper up around my nipples in seconds, exposing a nappy cover over the offending overnight-weight disposable nappy.  As I was stripped of the layers of cloth and nappy paper, I could feel my lower body break out into goosebumps from the cool morning air.

Mum took her time to clean up my bum and around my girly bits, removing the last bits of fecal evidence with some big cloth wipes, that only made me feel colder.  She sensed my discomfort, "Sorry, bubba, almost done now".

She'd already slid a fresh new day nappy under the old one, so that my butt never touched the fabric of the changing table as she removed the old nappy from under me.  She added some desitin cream to my butt and girly bits, some baby powder, and closed up the new nappy, expertly fastening the tapes.  I was snug as a bug.  A fresh nappy cover from a drawer was pulled up  my legs, with the leg gathers adjusted to cover the disposable trapped inside.

Once re-fastened into my sleeper, she grabbed both legs, and dragged me right down to the end of the table, my legs hanging over the edge.  I lifted them up, and pushed them into Mum's chest as she leant over the table, her arms flat on it, cradling my sides so I couldn't roll over.

Here we go, I thought, intimate moment coming up.

"You remember what the doctor said yesterday, right?", she asked quietly whilst looking into my eyes, studying them.  

I nodded back at her, not sure where this was going.

"Are you ok with what he said?"

No, I wasn't ok with losing what knowledge I had as Meredith Henderson, so I shook my head slowly.

"I'm really sorry about that". She paused, studying my face and running fingers through my hair, picking a bit of snot out of my nose.

"We didn't think there'd be problems caused by your NAP transformation.  NAP transforms are permanent."

More goosebumps, realising I can't be changed back to a Little.  Would I ever want to, though?

"Again, I'm really sorry to put you through it, now.  But that doesn't matter. Because you know why?"

Slight confusion, my face a mix of emotion.

"Because your perfect, every little facet of you is perfect".

I had to be regressed to be perfect, apparently.  I sniffled and squirmed.

"I bet you'd love to be able to talk, though huh?"

Yeah, talking would be very beneficial to all of us about now, I thought.

"Daddy and I only did what we thought was best for you at the time.  Littles don't get to grow up, you know, but an Amazon baby does.  It'll just take time, and you'll learn to speak again, and read, and write, and go to daycare, and school.  Are you ok with all that?"

I nodded, tears forming in my eyes.  Mummy acknowledged I could grow up, be Meredith again, an Amazonian Meredith.

"Are you mad at me, for doing what we did?"

No, so a shake of my head.  How could I be mad?  

"That's good.  You know daddy and mummy love you so, so very much", spoken softly, as she started stroking and playing with my wispy hair.  "Do you love us?"

I immediately nodded, prompting Mum to lean over and kiss me tenderly on the lips, which I wasn't expecting, then my nose, then my forehead.  I started giggling, silly mummy.

"So today, my sweetness, we shall get us some breakfast, then go to the shops to get stuff for a barbeque this afternoon.  You'll get to meet all your brothers and sisters, and their kids too!  How does that all sound?"

I couldn't wait, so I giggled some more, waving my arms and legs with excitement.  

After a breakfast of warm oatmeal, some grapes, and a bottle of milk, Mum carried sleepy food coma'd me back to the changing table, for a change of clothes and a fresh nappy.  

I was in a sorta-sleepy mood when Mum lowered me into the baby capsule, and fastened the harness restraints together.  She handed me my teddy bear, covered us both in my comforter blanket, pushed my pacifier into my mouth, and set off through the house into the garage.  Daddy was there, so he gave me a kiss too before lifting my capsule into the truck.  A few minutes later, I had to squint and close my eyes from the bright sunlight as our SUV reversed out onto our street, and we were off.

I started watching the scenery slide by outside the window next to me, but the sunshade stuck to the window kept that view mostly blurry and diffuse. So I was stuck in a spot with not much to capture my attention. The SUV's movements, the quiet rush of the road noise outside, and the lingering effects of my breakfast were all enough to cause a yawn or two, and I soon buried my face in the bear, and nodded off to sleep.

 

I woke up when mum lifted me out of the capsule, feeling suddenly quite cold. She placed me into a padded seat which looked like a high chair,  but was black and dark grey canvas, with straps everywhere. She quickly fastened the straps holding me in place, put a yellow bucket hat on my head, and leant down towards me.

"Ready, bubba?"

Yup, ok, I think so, maybe?  With some trepidation, I nodded.

Mum grabbed hold of two big wide straps, and hoisted the carrier I was strapped into onto her chest, the straps going over her shoulders.  She took a few moments to tighten them, and one across her hips and lower back, and once more we were off to the Mall and eventually the shopping centre at the top of the Mall.  

We walked out of the parking garage, meandering lazily up the Mall, Mum peeking into the odd shop or two, my bouncing around in the carrier on her chest.  This was a totally different experience for me, but I was still a bit zoned out. Occasionally she'd start humming a tune or two, giving my forehead a kiss. I mostly just sat there, legs dangling out into space through legholes in the bottom front of the carrier, my arms down by my side, head turned to one side or the other, and resting up against Mum's chest.

It was another warm sunny day, so lots of Amazons and Littles were out and about, especially given this was the start of a weekend, and two days of glorious weather.

Littles caught my attention again. Some were regressed, some not. I noticed one family, husband and wife, with two Littles in tow, one a regressed Little in a stroller, and one who looked quite tween-ish. The two Littles were quite happily conversing and joking away, the baby of the two babbling away in baby gibberish. Neither of the parents admonished them, much to the chagrin of some of the other Amazons nearby. "You really should be punishing your tween Little for talking normally - they should all be talking like babies you know!", one said.

I had to stifle a giggle, but couldn't help but smile behind my pacifier. Mum sensed my happiness at the scene, and whispered to me, "Those two Littles are adorable, huh".

We walked into a butcher shop, famous for the most succulent and tender beef cuts in town, and the best beef sausages. I remembered that this butcher also catered for meat cuts in Little sized portions. Mum bought a few foil-lined bags of meat, and we were soon crossing the road at the top of the Mall, and into the shopping complex.

I hadn't moved for a bit whilst mum walked within the complex, and soon felt her lift my hat, to discover I was mostly asleep.

"Oi, baby girl, you awake?", she whispered.

Opening an eyelid, I could see her smooth facial features, her massive deep blue eyes looking curiously back at me.  "Too cute - I need to put you down for a bit here.  Time for a coffee, me thinks!".  It was only then that I realised we were in Bellamys, my favourite cafe.

Mum selected a table inside Bellamys, dropped the meat bags onto the floor, then gingerly removed the carrier straps, easing me to the floor too.  She rummaged around in a pocket below where I was seated, and pulled out a bottle of juice.

After ordering a single coffee for herself, she held up the bottle to my mouth, causing me to spit out the paci, and slowly nurse on the apple & blackcurrant juice.  Although it tasted nice, I was supremely jealous of the coffee Mum was sipping on.  Quite unexpectedly, after catching my inquisitive look, she retrieved my pacifier, unclipped it, dunked it into her coffee, and offered it up.  

"Don't tell Daddy, ok?"

As I laid back in the carrier, enjoying the few drops of precious coffee clinging to the pacifier teet, Mum sipped the last few mouthfuls.  I was so in heaven with discovering the taste again, I didn't notice Mum snapping some photos of me, in my own little world.

We were soon in motion again, towards the grocery supermarket.  As we entered the store, Mum grabbed a shopping trolley, dumped the meat bags into it, but kept the carrier with myself inside, up on her shoulders.  By the time we'd walked all the aisles, the trolley was almost full.

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Jacksen crept up to Stowe, who was lying prone under some bushes, intently studying the car and driver.  Stowe had been watching the car almost all night.

There’d been no other vehicle movement in the street for this time in the morning, which seemed a bit odd to Stowe.  Unbeknownst to him, Jac had arranged roadblocks, stopping vehicles from entering the streets in the area.

“Stowe, how goes things?”, Jac whispered.  

“Tired, mate, been watching this car for hours now.  Goon man hasn’t moved from that one spot, keeps chugging away on ciggies, drinking water, and studying the house with his binos.”, Stowe replied, emotionless, but betrayingly emitting his hopelessly tired voice. "He has to be peeing into his used bottles too."

“Ok, but gross.”

“Mate, the guy is as thick as two bricks, he’s not checked his six or anything”

Jac looked at the scene.  Around the corner, there were two parked cars between him and the target vehicle.  “You’re sure there’s no lookouts?”, he asked.

“No, mate, there aren't, I’ve been checking”

“You haven't been in this one position all morning?”

Stowe looked back at his mate with a tired, but cheesy grin.  “Obviously you don’t know me all that well, Jaccy boy.  I’ve checked two blocks in every direction, ok! A man has to stretch occasionally too, find a tree to pee on, ya dig!”

“Ok, ok, bro, but still gross.  I trust ya, though I do think you need a break.  You look totally stuffed.”

Stowe chuckled and returned to studying the driver.  "Ya certainly go that last part right, Jaccy boy".  A thought entered his tired brain, maybe his last clear thought of the stakeout. “Hey Jac, you got a tracker handy?”

“Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing, bro.  Jac turned away, crouch walked about halfway back up the side street, away from the target, and dug out his radio. “Herbie, you copy? … Yeah, can you bring up a vehicle tracker? … Thanks”.

About five minutes later, Jac returned to Stowe, and tapped him gently on the shoulder.  

Stowe turned around, and noticed that Jac had a Little with him, who was dressed in dark tactical pants and shirt, and holding a tiny box in his hand.  Stowe sat up, and held out his right hand.  “Howdy, I’m Stowe”.

The Little shot out his hand for a handshake, the offered hand tiny in comparison with Stowe’s chiselled massive Amazonian hand.  “Hey, I’m PFC Herbert”

“Didn’t know the Feds employed Littles”.  Stowe examined the Little with his eyes.  The guy was scrawny but looked quite fit, average Little height, he had a certain quiet arrogance about him, apart from the clear embarassment after Stowe's comment. "Ah, shit, sorry... My mouth doesn't know how to shut up when I'm tired."

“Herbie’s our best Electronics Intelligence specialist”, Jac countered.

Herbie laid down next to Stowe, and peeked around the corner.  After a few minutes of watching the driver, he shot out from under the bushes, and combat-rolled under the first car.  Stowe was impressed - Herbie had chosen the exact time that the driver lifted his binoculars to his eyes, so was blind to movement in the car’s mirrors.  

Stowe watched, as the specialist slowly crawled under the line of cars, to the rear bumper of the target vehicle.  Herbie’s movement slowed as he carefully edged under the rear bumper of the car, and went to work attaching the tracker.  Stowe could plainly see how having a Little worked for this team - there was no way an Amazon would be able to get under the vehicle enough to fit that tracker.

Herbie again slowly backtracked under the cars, and raised himself to a crouch behind the boot of the last car after crawling back the way he went in.  He looked back at Stowe, and hand-signalled him to tell when the driver was distracted.  Stowe had to wait a good ten minutes before Herbie was waved back to the bushes.  

When he returned to Stowe and Jac, he was covered in sweat from the exertion and stress of the situation.  Pulling out a handheld display, he switched it on, and played with the tracker application, handing it to Jac, before walking back to the rest of the team, hidden out of sight.

Another thirty minutes of silence and watching, Stowe groaned as he stretched his legs and limbs.

“Stowe, go and get a coffee and some rest, mate.  I’ll alert you if the guy moves”

“Righteo”.  Stowe backed out of his position, stood up, stretched, and leaned on Jac’s shoulder.  “Don’t let this fucker escape, Jac”.

“Nah mate”

“Call off the road blocks too that I know you’ve prolly set up, as there's been no traffic for hours now. This guy’s probably too dumb to notice that.  He’s only a lookout for Ramon, not a hitman.  I’ve not seen him use his mobile neither”.

“Good observations, bro”, Jac admitted.

Stowe punched him on the shoulder, then retreated from the scene back to the battlewagon.  Jumping in it, he laid his head on the steering wheel for a minute, then started the van up, and drove back towards town.  Yes, he needed a coffee, and he knew just the place to get it from too.

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Mum and I had completed the grocery shopping, with the trolley full of plastic bags and carboard boxes.  Mum had given me a treat as we walked out of the shop, a squishy biscuit-like teething stick to suck on.  In my mouth, against my gums, this too was heaven.  My gums were becoming increasingly sensitive, so any chance to cool them off was good in my books.  

Mum casually started our stroll back through the shopping centre, past Bellamys.  Both her and I briefly looked through the doors as we meandered by, Mum emitting a quiet chuckle.  Around the ornate fountain, back down towards the exit doors to the street, and the top of the Mall.  

Walking outside, we were hit with the increasing heat of the day.  Morning was fast disappearing, the sun climbing higher and higher into the bluebird sky.  "Gee, it's getting hot now, huh bubba!"

I was ok for the moment, so long as I had my yellow bucket hat on.  

We stopped at the pedestrian traffic lights, waiting to cross the street.  Mum turned to look at a disturbance a bit further up, a Little woman struggling against her harness restraints in a stroller, fighting to regain freedom from her captor, screaming and hollering away for all to hear, her young Amazonian mother clearly struggling to keep control of the situation.  

As Mum turned, I was able to look down the Mall, straight into the eyes of Stowe.  The big man, my hero, was walking up the middle of the Mall, towards the traffic lights we were at, his whole body posture screaming exhaustion.  Stopping at the lights on the other side of the street, I could study him more intently.  Gee it was great to see him.  He looked a bit disheveled, though.  I'd seen that look before in him actually, it was his post-stakeout fuck-off-I'm-too-tired-for-your-shit look.  I wondered who he was staking out, then a thought occurred to me.  He'd not been watching us, because he clearly wasn't recognising either Mum or I.  

But I was shocked when he seemed to look straight through me.  Could he not see me, Meredith Henders... err, oh...  Of course - He was still expecting a Little Meredith, not an Amazon baby Meredith.  I had to attract his attention, so he could see me.  I had the same hair, the same eyes, surely he could see me, deduce that I'm here, at last! I'm saved! I'll be back in his arms any second now!

My first instinct was to point and wave at him.  So I held out my hand in his direction, my arm unsteady, cooing and giggling quite loudly and excitedly.  Attempting a wave, I could only remember opening and closing my fisted hand, the one that held the teething biscuit.  Of course, as it fell towards the ground, Mum sensed this, and turned towards it, bending down in an attempt to catch it, causing me to lose sight of Stowe.

The next time I saw him, he was right next to us, bending down to pick up the biscuit.  "Sorry, Maam, your baby dropped this". He handed the biscuit to Mum, took a very brief look at me, eyebrow raised, but then simply walked off into the shopping centre.

I cried, oh gee did I cry a tanty.  As tears blurred my sight, I suddenly remembered the hat.  He had no idea I was Meredith, because of the silly hat, covering my hair as it did.  So I reached up to grab it, discovering it was held to my head tight.  I balled up my fists, and cried tears of utter frustration, Mum valiantly trying to calm me down.

"Oh, Meredith, I'll get you another biscuit in a second, darling, you can't have this one - the 10 second rule applies!", she whispered to me.  Of course, to her, this tanty was all about the dropped biscuit.  

In her infinite wisdom, she decided to press on down the Mall to the SUV, largely ignoring my cries.  Thrusting my pacifier into my gaping mouth, she picked up her walking speed.  The bumps I felt through the carrier harness, the exertion of my crying fit, the squeeks and crashes of the shopping trolley, all quickly tired me out, and by the time she'd reached the bottom of the Mall, turning off to head into the parking garage, I was quiet as a mouse, and out like a light.  

I didn't wake until we got home.

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Stowe sat at a window table in Bellamys, twirling a teaspoon around in his mug of Kaffee Latte, watching the three sugars slowly collapse through the white milk froth, dissolving before his very eyes.  Hehe, that's how his whole life seemed to be right now, he thought, just dissolving away.

He still had no idea where Meredith was, or if she was even alive.  Not a peep, which was very strange indeed.  If she'd been captured by Ramon, surely he would have heard from a goon, or even Ramon himself by now with some sort of ransom demand.  Or maybe an indication where to find her Little body.  

The dopey goon driver was leading him nowhere, but otherwise driving him insane.  The guy was parked in front of Mark Bradley's place, concentrating on tailing Mark Bradley, because Ramon was looking to snatch or otherwise harm Michael.  Nowhere within this orgy of subterfuge was anyone looking for Meredith Henderson.  Stowe reminded himself that even he had just spent darn near a full day watching dopey goon man too.  In fact, he'd been consumed with and blinkered into finding the asshole, due to a mistaken belief that the goon would lead him to Meredith.  Bzzzzttt.  Wrong, Stowe, ya goose.

Stowe worked his way through a labyrinth of random thoughts on the subject, whilst sipping down tiny mouthfuls of the amazing coffee.  Jacksen was watching dopey guy now, right, so maybe Stowe could ease up on that line of intellectual reasoning, and start down a new line of investigations towards finding Meredith again.  Yes, he thought, he could have watched the driver for long enough to lead back to the boss man, or maybe even Ramon, but it was doubtful the Family even had Meredith?  Again, there's been no word from them.  But there has been contact - the break-in at the office.  

Hmm... deep thoughts needed more fuel, so needed food, Stowe concluded.  He caught the eye of a waitress, and ordered some faux-Italian pasta dish.  In this Dimension, there was no "Italy" to speak of, with all the recipes imported from another Dimension - the one called "Earth", or so the tale fortold.  Stowe wondered how much money the person who initially imported those recipes made as a result.  In any event, the faux food was always delicious in Bellamys.  

If Meredith had been tortured to reveal the whereabouts of the Michael Stone documents, the office wouldn't have been trashed, Stowe wondered.  The smart thing the perps would have done was left everything untouched to cover their tracks, and only accessed Meredith's computer.  But because they were clueless, they had no option but to trash the place, and hack her computer. They were desperate for the documents, after all.

Ok, Stowe concluded, so Meredith likely hadn't been taken and tortured.

Jac's "enquiries" also had not turned up anything, and those even encompassed checking hospital admission records.  

Stowe sat back in his seat, looking around for inspiration, or maybe simply looking for an excuse to get out of there, go home, and sleep.  He locked his focus on a woman and a Little.  She had obviously regressed the poor boy back to a toddler age, and feeding him some biscuits.  The Little seemed quiet, apprehensive, rather well padded in a nappy and plastic pants, but otherwise content to knaw away at the treat.

He thought back to the accident, which was still quite raw and fresh in his mind.  Meredith was hit by the car, so was Mrs H.  Being methodical with his thoughts, keeping his emotions in check for once (and recognising the tiredness was helping to keep his thoughts detached), he dispationately surveyed the accident scene by playing through it like a video tape recording within his mind.

As he turned to chase the car down the street, he caught a glimpse of an Amazon woman rush onto the road, bending down towards Meredith.  In his mind, on that tape, her features were pretty non-descript.  After all, Stowe's mind only recorded a mere half-second of vision, before the mind's camera lens focused on the back of the car, and the driver.

His mind rewound the tape back to the spot where he noticed the woman bend over towards Meredith.  Amazon woman, injured Little.  Think outside the square, Stowe!  It's obvious now, Stowe, isn't it?  

All Stowe could do was completely freeze up at the revelation, a morsel of pasta hanging off the end of his fork, mere centimetres from his mouth.  He'd never contemplated the idea that Meredith had been taken to be adopted, but now it seemed an obvious conclusion.

Was this new adoption even legal?  Meredith had been chipped by Mrs Henderson, Stowe knew, so the adoption to Mrs H was made legal at that point way back when.  But hold on, would Meredith's adoption by Mrs H still stand even though Mrs H was dead.  Fuck me sideways, what happens then?!  Stowe's mind began to panic at the possibility Meredith was legally someone else's daughter.  

But a nagging thought joined the dance party.  That woman in the vision seemed, sorta, familiar.  But from where?

Stowe immediately made a mental note to check up on the legalities of termination of adoption when he was back in the office.  

Back to the question at hand, the woman in the tape.  He looked across the restaurant to the lady feeding her Little another biscuit.  Stowe suddenly remembered stopping today to pick up a child's biscuit from off the ground at the top of the Mall, just nearby, not all that long ago actually.  Again, in the brief period of time he saw the child, a baby actually, it too looked familiar.  The child was smiling, possibly even waving at him.  Actually, he remembered hearing that child get really upset when he walked off into the shopping centre.

What was it about that child, that baby, that Amazonian baby?  I know, Stowe remembered, it was the eyes, her eyes.

FUCK!  He slammed his hand on the table in disgust, causing a number of customers to yelp in surprise, startling the Little into dropping his biscuit onto the floor, immediately causing a scene.  

He left the rest of his lunch on the table, but sculled his hot coffee in one gulp, before he stood up and left Bellamys, briskly walking out into the Mall.  There was no sign of the lady, or the baby.

He paced nervously up and down the Mall, thinking about his next steps.

The lady he saw looked like she was a regular visitor to the Mall.  All Stowe needed to do then was be around the Mall when the woman next showed up.  It was a weak plan, but the only one he had for the time being.  

Sitting on a bench, he pulled out his phone.

[Stowe] I think I know what happened to Meredith!
[Jacksen] What?
[Stowe] adopted by a witness to the accident which killed Mum
[Jacksen] And you know this, how?
[Stowe] i'm an investigator, so I investigate, unlike you...
[Jacksen] haha, very funny
[Stowe] look, i need to chase down this lead
[Jacksen] ok
[Stowe] can you handle looking after the goon for me?
[Jacksen] Sure, but what about Mark Bradley, and Michael Stone?
[Stowe] they're not my concern anymore, jac, meredith is.
[Jacksen] And if Ramon makes a play?
[Stowe] then u deal with it. mark is one of your guys, after all!
[Jacksen] I thought you wanted the goon who ran over Mrs H?
[Stowe] i do, but I need to watch the Mall, it's where I've seen the witness, who took Meredith

Stowe waited a few minutes for a reply.  Something was happening, Jac was busy...

[Jacksen] hold on a sec, Stowe...
[Stowe] what? whats happening, Jac?
[Jacksen] dafuq is up with this guy, Stowe?! Mark's just left the house with family in tow, and this dumb fuck isn't tailing him? he's not driving away.. dafuq?
[Stowe] you know what to do, Jac.  Good luck.

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  • ozziebee changed the title to Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Chapter 6 (24 Jan 2018)

Oh getting excited. I am happy that Stowe figured part of the puzzle out. It will be interesting when he does talk to the new family or he investigates everything. I also enjoyed the way she was much more aware right now of what is going on. The family leaving is interesting and I look forward to reading about what happens!!

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Loved the new chapter. I am really starting to think that Meredith is really enjoying being a baby. I wonder how much she actually wants to go back to her old life. I was glad Stowe was able to figure out as much as he was able to. The ability to go back and remember such minute details like that are impressive to say the least. I am really looking forward to reading more. 

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  • ozziebee changed the title to Meredith - A Littles Broker in the Diaper Dimension - Chapter 10 (20 August 2018)

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