The Regression of Erin Vallium, First Floret
CW: This story has elements of characters calling other characters by titles of a partental nature.
Erin Vallium, First Floret had a problem. It wasn't a problem that she could easily hide from her Owner Nivalis either. She had for the third time this week, woken up in a wet bed.
"Erin," Nivalis said, her voice echoing slightly in the large cavernous hab. "It's time to get up, you've got a play date with Gabby today..."
Right, the play date... "Um, I'm awake, Mistress," she said loud enough that Nivalis would hear her. "But I, uh, have a problem."
"What's the problem, little one?" Nivalis asked, coming into the room where Erin was laying in a pet bed, which was soaked after her afternoon nap.It was made worse for Erin as she was wearing a light pink dress and her pet bed was a lavender color. Both were now a darker color and they both smelled of urine. Erin glanced up as Nivalis came around the corner. Nivalis's first response was to pluck Erin out of the wet bed and strip her right there in the room. Vines picked up the wet bed and clothing and tossed them in the compiler to decompile them. Nivalis carried Erin to the bathroom. "Hab, start a bath for Erin, default settings, please."
"Yes, Miss Vallium" The Hab responded cheerfully. Water started to flow into the pool that occupied the bathroom. That was the way that Erin had always viewed the tub that was in the Hab. Once the pool was three quarters the way full of water, Nivalis unceremoniously placed Erin into the water and started to bathe her.
"You know, we're going to have to do something about this..." Nivalis started to wash the floret in the tub's body as she spoke. "It's not normal for a sophont of your age to have these issues."
"I'm sorry, Mistress..." Erin's voice was tinged with sadness. "I wish I knew why this kept happening..."
"It's ok, I'll get an appointment set up with the vet set up," Nivalis scrubbed every part of Erin's body. "I'm going to compile some stuff to help, at least I think it will help. I will have to have a few things delivered, and will probably put you down for a nap while some new furniture is delivered."
"What new stuff is coming?" Erin tipped head up so that she cold look at her owner. She was a curious floret, after all.
"You will see once you you wake up from your nap. Close your eyes for me, little one." Nivalis used her vines to scoop water up and pour it over Erin's head. "Keep your eyes closed, I'm going to wash your hair." Vines reached up and grabbed a bottle of shampoo off of a high shelf.
"Mhmmm" was the only sound Erin made as Nivalis started to work the xenodrug infused shampoo into the girls hair. As she massaged the shampoo into her florets hair, she knew it would increase the sensitivity of the florets skin. This would be important when Nivalis got her out of the bath and put her down for a nap. Nivalis wasn't sure what Erin's reaction would be to the outfit that would be laying on the compiler, but, the girl would be wearing it one way or another.
“Hab,” Nivalis glanced up at the ceiling in the hab, a small orange light lit up to indicate that the hab had heard the request. “Please compile the items on the list I created before waking Erin up.”
“Yes, Miss Vallium” The voice of the Hab replied, and the orange light blinking out.
"Why don't you use the Hab's name?" Erin asked, glancing up lovingly at her much taller owner. Erin had, shortly after they had moved into the hab unit on the ACS Effortless Dawn, named the Hab AI 'Sarah' and whenever Erin was talking to the AI, she used the name she had given the system.
"I don't use it because I'm the one in charge..." Nivalis chuckled. "I'm not even sure that she'd respond to me saying her name."
"Miss Vallium, There is a message from Praxus Rapiloni." Sarah said. “Would you like me to read it aloud?”
“No thank you, Sarah,” Nivalis replied, using vines to pull her datapad out of her body. “Please forward the message to my datapad.”
“What does Aunt Praxus want?” Erin asked, tipping her head up to look at Nivalis.
“Yes, Miss Vallium,” Sarah responded, before a chime sounded, indicating that two things had happened: the first being the message had been forwarded to the datapad, the second was that the Sarah had finished all tasks.
“I don’t know yet, little one…” Nivalis read the message and then tucked the datapad away. “She asked me to keep it a surprise, so you will have to wait…”
"Aww..." Erin mumbled. She didn't do well with having to wait, but she loved surprises. “Why do I have to wait?”
“Because Aunt Praxus said it’s a surprise.” Nivalis used her vines to scoop up water to rinse the girls hair. “Close your eyes and hold your breath…” Erin did as she was instructed and let the water flow over her head and down her body to rinse her off. "I also have a surprise for you, but you get mine as soon as we get you out of the bath." Erin smiled up at Nivalis.
"You have a surprise for me too?" Erin's voice was bubbly.
"I do, but I'm not sure that you're going to be too happy with it..." Nivalis smiled. "I have my reasons for doing what I'm doing, I just want you to keep an open mind and trust me."
"Yes, Mistress." Erin responded. She didn't know what it was that her owner had in mind, but she would try to keep an open mind "Is it time to get out of the bath?"
"It is indeed, little one..." Nivalis said, vines simultaneously grabbing a towel and pulling the very wet floret out of the bath. Bringing the two together, she expertly dried Erin off and then carried her out to the main living area of the hab. There was a pile of stuff sitting on the compiler, which vines snaked over and brought the pile of stuff over onto the table. Erin eyed the pile, curiously.
It consisted of neatly folded layers: pink at the bottom -- no make that black -- black, then very light purple, then a very light pink layer, then two white layers. The little bit of shiny black material that Erin could see reminded her of the shiny shoes that her little sister, Alexis would wear from time to time. She had always been envious of those shoes, now it appeared that she would have her own pair. The rest of the pile was just colored fabric but she couldn't tell what was what in the pile. The top most layer seemed thicker than the others. "Mistress?" Erin finally asked, glancing up at Nivalis.
"Yes, little one?" Nivalis chuckled, knowing the question that was coming.
"Is..." Erin paused, trying to bring herself to both question what part of the stack was and to question the wisdom of her owner. "Is the thing on top a diaper?"
“It is…” Nivalis replied, a slight chuckle in her voice. “We are going to try to keep from ruining your bed…”
"But..." Erin's voice cracked. "But I don't need to wear diapers..."
"I think that you should be in them." Nivalis said, "This is what I wanted you to keep an open mind about."
“But I’m not a baby and I don’t need diapers.” Erin huffed, she was close to a tantrum, and one hadn’t happened in quite some time, but this would probably enough to cause one. “I am not going to wear it, or anything else in that pile.”
“Oh, little one…” Nivalis’ voice had a tone to it. It was a mixture of amusement and frustration. “You will be wearing it. Or is it because you don’t want Gabby to see you in a diaper?”
“It’s because I am not a baby, and I ask you to not make me wear that during the day.” Erin had tears starting to roll down her cheeks now and her breathing became rapid as the sobs started. “I beg you, please let me wear panties. If I start having accidents during the time I’m awake, we can revisit something like a diaper. Please?” The last word was cut off by a sob and if Nivalis didn’t know her floret like she did, the last word would have been lost.
“Erin,” Nivalis’ voice was stern, but loving. “You will be wearing it, I’ve already talked to Miss Florisium and she has explained it to Gabby.” This caused Erin to blush, and then start crying anew. “Do you trust me, Erin? Do you trust that I have your best interests at my core?”
“Uh huh.” Came the mumbled answer between sobs. “I can’t believe that you told Miss Florisium! She’s gonna laugh at me.”
“Have you ever known any Affini to make fun of a sophont with some sort of challenge with their body?” Nivalis spread the diaper out on the mossy floor of the hab. Emma watched with interest as Nivalis kneaded the diaper, making it fluffier. Two of her eyes glanced over at Erin, who when she noticed them, shook her head no. “Then why would you think that it would start with Miss Florisium?” Nivalis reached over with several vines and picked Erin up, carefully laying her in the perfect position on the diaper.
Erin struggled as her bottom landed perfectly on the diaper. She didn’t want this and was determined to make it as difficult as she could. “I don’t want to wear a dia—!” She wailed before a vine inserted itself in her mouth, cutting off her speech. It leached a sweet sap into her mouth and then she started sucking on it.
“That's my good girl.” Nivalis cooed, a different set of vines adjusted the diaper under Erin's bottom as she had wiggled off of it when she was struggling and then sprinkled powder all over the area that the diaper would cover and then quickly and snugly taped the diaper up.
"Abbaafffaa" Erin said, suddenly confused by the fact that she had been given a Class W xenodrug.
"That's right!" Nivalis smiled down at Erin and helping her to her feet so that she could finish getting her dressed. "Mommy gave you a Class W so that you'd stop complaining about having to wear a diaper." A quick tap of vines on both of Erin's arms caused her to raise them so that a very fluffy lavender and white petticoat could be dropped over her head. Erin left her arms up as vines tightened the laces on the back of the petticoat, causing it to conform to the floret's body. Since Erin hadn't been told to put her arms down, they remained up as Nivalis dropped a sleeveless dress down the girls arms. The dress, like the petticoat was lavender and white, in kind of a swirl pattern, but still recognizable as the two primary colors Erin's owner. Not that it would matter, any Affini that stumbled across the sophont would be able to figure out who her owner was. The dress was similarly laced up the back and Nivalis tapped Erin's wrists and she dropped her arms to her sides, as she was doing that, Nivalis tapped the back of her legs with a vine and Erin sat on her bottom and gave Nivalis her feet, which were quickly adorned with a pair of white socks with lavender lace around the top, followed by a pair of very shiny black shoes. "Now that we have you all dressed, would you like to see yourself?"
"Yaeeajejeejf" Came the response from Erin, who giggled normally as she was picked up and carried toward her room, where there was a large floor to above head height mirror so that Erin could see how pretty she was whenever Nivalis had decided that she needed to. When they got there, Nivalis stood Erin on the floor and made sure she was steady before retracting her vines. Erin looked at her reflection in the mirror and pointed, jumping excitedly. Nivalis had compiled this dress so that it would just barely cover the diaper when Erin was standing. "Iooosskks tttueeee"
"Yes, you look cute. You always look cute!" Nivalis carried Erin back out to the living room. "We have a bit of time before I take you over to Miss Florisium's hab. I'm going to turn on a show for you to watch." Erin was sat down on the pet bed in the middle of the living room and a pacifier was popped into her mouth. The vidscreen that was built into the wall of the hab lit up and started to display a show with a lot of swirling colors.
I'm not a baby... Erin thought to her self, disgruntled by the fact that she was sitting in a diaper with a pacifier in her mouth while watching shows that were for toddlers. Well, ok, the shows weren't for toddlers, but were for florets, and she was a floret, but still... She was the most prized possession of Nivalis Vallium, Fourth Bloom. I can't believe she expects me to use this diaper either... It wasn't her fault that she had been having accidents at night while she slept. She had tried everything from drinking less in the hours leading up to going to bed and going to the bathroom before she was tucked into bed. She had even tried getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom by setting an alarm, but she would just sleep through it, thanks to the Class Z Xenodrugs that her implant supplied her with at bedtime. Just as she had a thought relating to the Xenodrugs, she felt the warmth of her implant releasing a batch of drugs into her body and she forgot all about the thought.
Erin rejoined reality as Nivalis was changing her very soggy diaper. Looking around she could tell that they were still in their hab, but she was now laying on a table that felt like it was six feet in the air. Nivalis smiled down at her as she glanced up at her owner and smiled. "abbbabbba?"
"Yep," Nivalis lifted Erin's legs and slid the soggy diaper out from under her before sliding a dry diaper in it's place and quickly and securely taping it up. The soggy diaper went into the compiler, which hummed and then the diaper was gone . "You're mommy's little baby and a soggy one that." A vine slipped Erin's pacifier back in her mouth. "You dozed off while watching the show and I'm glad you were wearing that diaper. Are you ready to go over to Gabby's?"
Erin smiled and nodded her head as Nivalis picked her up. No, I don't want to go to Gabby's dressed like an overgrown baby... Erin thought to herself as she quietly suckled the pacifier. Why am I just sucking on this pacifier like it's something I've done everyday for my entire life? Erin tried to stop sucking and found that she couldn't. She watched with interest as momm-- Mistress picked up a bag that she'd not seen before and tucked it away inside her body and then started toward the door. A few moments later, they were outside the hab, Erin blinked in the artificial sunlight from the sky aboard the ACS Everlasting Dawn. Once she processed that she was outside, wearing a diaper, was being carried by her owner, and still sucking on a pacifier. Gabby is going to laugh at me, let alone anyone else that sees me...
In a few mercifully short moments, the pair had arrived at the hab unit of Miss Florisium and her floret, Gabby. As they approached the door, the hab recognized them and the door slid open silently. they entered the well lit hab, scents of pine, fir and spruce filling the air. The floor was mossy, much like Nivalis and Erin's own hab, but more dry and a little less spongy, a small babbling brook ran along one wall before disappearing through a tunnel; the sounds of birds chirping quietly filled the space. "Eribear!" Gabby's voice echoed from around the corner. Erin assumed that Liza, the hab AI had informed Gabby of their arrival.
Erin buried her head into Nivalis' chest as Gabby came around the corner. chest as Gabby came around the corner into the main area of the hab. “Whatcha wearing?” Gabby asked.
“Nuffin.” Erin mumbled around her pacifier, before feeling the slight warmth of xenodrugs flowing into her bloodstream. “Ok, It’s a diaper." Erin blushed. To Erin's surprise, Gabby just grabbed her hand and led them both toward her room.
“I couldn’t care less that you’re wearing a diaper…” Gabby said as the door to her room in the hab slid shut. “But you have to tell me why you are wearing one.”
Erin blushed, and tried to stop the answer from escaping her lips. "Because I have been wetting the bed." Tears started to form in her eyes. "Please don't laugh at me..."
Gabby hugged her friend and then stepped looked at her. "I would never laugh at you; I've had problems myself." She lifted the hem of her dress, and revealed a diaper of her own.