4 Chapter 2
created: 2023-06-04T10:39 updated: 2023-06-04T10:
Kirsten woke up around seven thirty to her alarm going off. She reached over and swatted at her phone trying to silence the alarm. After she had silenced the annoying sound, she sat up, her hair falling in her face. She noticed that her pacifier was in her mouth. She wasn't sure if she had actually kept it in all night or if Delaney had placed it back in her mouth before she left. Shrugging, she stood and went toward the kitchen to get some coffee. When she got there, she found her pink butterfly sippy cup with a note. 'Kirsten, The only cup you're allowed to have until I get home is your sippy cup. Put ice in your coffee to cool it down, and keep your diapers clean...' Kirsten blushed. Drinking coffee almost always made her have to go to the potty and she figured that Delaney would still be a few hours away. Figuring that she had no other choice if she wanted her coffee she placed a pod in the brewer and hit the button for the smallest size. That would give her room for creamer in the sippy cup too. She might need more than one cup of coffee this morning. Once she had poured the creamer in the sippy cup, she waddled her way toward her office. Her phone was on the charging dock, and the monitors were dark, moving the mouse, all three monitors lit up and she saw that the compilation of her code was done. She picked up her phone and looked at it. There was a text from Delaney. 'Good Morning baby girl. I'm sure that by now you've realized that you're going to be messy when mommy gets home, don't fret, mommy will clean you up.' Kirsten blushed, and told her self that she could hold it until Delaney got home.
Delaney pulled into the parking spot at the coffee shop she was meeting Zoe at as her phone chimed and indicated a text message had been received. Grabbing her phone and bag, she opened the message and read it. 'Good morning Mommy, I made my coffee in my sippy cup and about about to work on some more code. I'm big and I'll prove it to you.' Delaney stepped on the sidewalk and composed a reply.
Kirsten finished the coffee that was in the sippy cup as her phone vibrated. She picked it up and looked at it. 'Kirsten, we both know that you're not big, no matter how much you insist you are. Mommy will be back in a bit and She'll remind you that you're just a baby..." Kirsten blushed and put her pacifier back in her mouth without really thinking about it. It was a comfort item to her, and she used it as such. Her phone buzzed again, This time it was a group message between Kirsten, Lilly and Delaney. 'Made it to Denver. I'll keep you updated on progress. Colo staff seems to think that actual resolution will be quick and I'll be on my way by lunch... We'll see..." This wasn't the first time that Lilly had to fly somewhere in the short time that she had been part of the family. These messages were normal and would continue throughout the day. The phone vibrated again, this time it was Delaney asking for diaper checks. Both of the 'kids' had wet diapers, no real surprises there. Delaney told Lilly to change her diaper before she tried to go through security at the Denver Airport, as it would be easier to do with a dry diaper. Kirsten sat the phone back down and turned her attention to the code on the monitor in front of her. She skimmed it and then turned to her email.
Lilly walked into the building that housed the colocoed server. She had it running a backup via her remote connection from her laptop, which she had started before she had even boarded the plane this morning. As of when her flight landed the backup was almost done, and by the time she actually walked up to the rack and had attached a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the server, it should be done. After finding a cart with the supplies she needed on it, and rolling it over to the location of the server, she plugged into it and restarted her session. She was right, the backup was done, and all the data was on the server sitting under the one that was being dysfunctional. The first thing she did was issue a shutdown command so she could pull the server out of the rack and give it a quick once over. Since the command she had issued wouldn't actually power down the computer, she popped the pins and slid it out on the rails, the wiring coming behind it on the arms that were attached at the back of the rack. She popped the top off, aware that an intrusion alarm would be written into the logs. Everything inside seemed to be fine, All the fans were spinning like they should be. Ok, so a hardware failure hadn't happened, that meant it was something software wise. Everything that the admins did was supposed to be logged, so she pulled out her laptop out and logged into the issue tracking system to see who the last person to mess with this box was and, more important, what they had done. Depending on what she had to do, she might be home tonight, but she might not.
Delaney walked in the kitchen to find Kirsten making a sandwich. "Playing house wife, are we?" Kirsten jumped and dropped the butter knife she had in her hand on the floor. "Ew... Someone is tinky..."
"You scared me..." Kirsten said, picking up the knife. "And, yes, your little girl is hungry, and messy."
"I thought you were big and wouldn't mess your diaper..." Delaney teased. Kirsten turned around and stuck her tongue out at her mommy. "Excuse me? Maybe I'll leave you in that diaper for a while..."
Kirsten's eyes got wide. "No... I'm sorry mommy." She was practically crying. "Please change me..."
"I will. I don't want a fussy baby with a rash..." Delaney said. "Eat your sandwich, and come get me when you're done."
"Yes, mommy." Kirsten said, the sound of relief that she wasn't going to get left in her messy diaper for an extended period of time. Kirsten watched Delaney head toward their bedroom. When she got there she looked at the time locked safe. It still had 20 minutes before it would unlock, so it wouldn't matter if Kirsten had walked up ten minutes ago, she would still have to wait. She smiled to herself; if the safe unlocked and Kirsten hadn't been in yet, she'd add an hour to the time and re-lock the safe. She'd never done that before but she was feeling sadistic at the moment. She took the safe into her office and dropped her laptop in the dock. The monitors turned on and presented her with a login prompt. She logged in and stared at the screen for a few seconds. She opened the document that she had been working on while her and Zoe had eaten lunch. All she had to do now was write the proposal for the Williams account. They needed the document by Monday morning, and that gave her the weekend to write it. She opened her word processor and selected the template. This proposal would end up costing the Williams Firm around fifty thousand dollars if they adopted every part of it, but their IT infrastructure would be brought up to date from the early 2000's equipment they were currently using. Of course, Delaney was a consultant: she was paid to give people suggestions that they rarely took. They often took some of the suggestions, but this firm needed to take all of the suggestions. The timer whirred as the pins all retracted. Kirsten hadn't come and asked for a change yet, so Delaney set the timer for an hour and locked the container again. With Kirsten stuck in her messy diaper for another hour, she focused on the proposal. About five minutes later, Kirsten appeared.
"Mommy, I'm ready to be changed..." She said, sounding desperate.
"Well," Delaney said, picking up the safe and showing the display to Kirsten. "You still have almost an hour before I can let you out." Kirsten pouted.
"I'll go do some more studying, I guess. I can't do anything else..." Kirsten said, sounding disappointed. She left the door way and went back to her office.
Delaney smiled to herself, being evil was fun... As she turned her attention back to the proposal her phone chimed. It only chimed for seven or so people... She picked it up and looked at it. It was a text message from Lilly who said that everything seemed going well and that she'd probably be on a flight home tonight, providing the weather held out. The weather was always an issue for the Denver International Airport. It had much different weather patterns than most airports. Delaney replied to the message and hoped the weather would hold so that she could have both of her girls home with her. If it did hold, she was planning a trip to the zoo. She had added a second 'child' to the membership after Lilly had started moving into the house. Both of the girls looked young enough that they passed for children and with them dressed the part (and playing shy, which wasn't uncommon for either girl,) they would pass for children. Kirsten was understandably shy as she didn't want to get clocked, and they had played with dressing Nathan as a little boy, that had been fun but unfortunately it had set off a bad dysphoric episode for the brain that was enclosed in Nathan's skull. It led to almost having a breakdown at the zoo. Not really the place for such a thing to happen. "Kirsten, can you come here?"
"Coming!" Kirsten's voice floated over from the next room. A few moments later, Delaney knew that Kirsten was standing in the door way because of the smell. "Yes..." She sounded hopeful, like the timer had unlocked the safe. "If Lilly makes it back tonight, do you want to go with me to get her and if so, who do you want to go as?" She asked,
"I will go with you, and Kirsten's coming," Kirsten replied "How much time?"
"Ok, I'll pick something out for you to put on after your shower, and you still have forty three minutes and sixteen seconds..." Delaney replied, after glancing at the display on the safe. "I'll call you when it unlocks."
"Ok." Kirsten said, the defeated sound back in her voice. Delaney felt a little bit bad for keeping Kirsten in the messy diaper for an extra hour, but knew that Kirsten wouldn't admit it, but that she secretly liked it.
Lilly stared at the monitor, and noticed that her diaper was soggy. She had gone through the logs and couldn't figure out what had happened and she was the last one that had done anything on this server. She had retraced everything, had been on and off the phone with various people, booted off of a live boot disk with out duplicating the issue. That meant that the issue was somewhere in the configuration of the server. The problem was, that she couldn't find it. She picked up her phone and called her boss. "Hey, It's Lilly. I can't figure out what happened, I want your ok to just nuke it and start over..." She rubbed her eyes behind the plastic framed glasses that she wore. "Yeah, I've gone through everything, nothing is standing out as being capable of causing this type of failure. It's not hardware, I ran the inboard diagnostic..." She listened for a few more moments. "Ok, thank you." she said, and sat the phone down on the cart. She issued a command to the server and it rebooted, she selected the installer that would automatically do 90% of the work for her. She watched as the installer started, really not able to do much else except wait...
The safe made a whirring sound, indicating that the time was up and it was unlocked. "Kirsten!" Delaney hollered. "It's time..." Kirsten appeared at the door in next to no time flat, her back facing into the room. Delaney unlocked the lock and unzipped the sleeper. "Go get a shower..."
"Don't have to tell me twice..." Kirsten said, disappearing down the hall. Delaney turned her attention back to the proposal that she was writing. She finished the first draft for the proposal, and got up and went to go to the bathroom. She went into the bedroom and laid a diaper on the bed. She eventually decided to pull out a pink onesie and a denim jumper. She headed back down to her office. After she sat down at her desk she heard the shower shut off. She knew that she would be getting called in a few moments to put a diaper on Kirsten. About three minutes later, She heard Kirsten's voice.
"Mommy," Kirsten's voice floated out of the bedroom. "Diaper time..."
"I'm coming." Delaney said loudly. She stood and went to go put a diaper on Kirsten. Stretching she felt her skirt tickle her legs just above the knee. There was something about being the dominant in a skirt to her that made her more powerful and keeping the kids in a skirt just served to further control them.
Lilly looked at the monitor. The installation had failed for the fourth time. The twenty four year old sysadmin looked at the monitor. The same error had cropped up each time. She stopped and thought about it for a second. She powered down the server and pulled the first hard drive out, next she pulled the fourth hard drive out. The fourth drive was a hot spare; placed in the server for this very reason. Worst case is that she would have to tell her boss that they needed to replace a drive on this machine... The good news is that there are people in the Denver office that can do that. After switching the drives, she rebooted the server, attempting her install again. She glanced at her watch and then picked up her bag. She had managed to pack everything in her backpack that she carried her laptop in. The bag itself was nothing special, just a baby pink backpack that was designed to carry a laptop and had enough pockets for everything else that went along with the laptop. Plus on short trips like this one, the bag was often all that she carried. It did have the room for clothes and diapers and powder. She picked up the bag and headed back out of the server room, after she had exited the room she realized how loud the server room had been. This was a small coloco and they would do what it took to make the customer happy. She made her way to the bathroom and changed her diaper quickly before depositing the soggy diaper in the trash can, placed in two plastic bags. The soggy diaper sank to the bottom of the trash can due to the weight of it. She picked her bag up and went back to her server. When she got back to the server, she found that the installer was almost done. Her hunch had been right. All of the problems that she had been having were related to a drive that was going bad. Unfortunately, the only way to diagnose this pate slur issue was to send her here. She watched as the server rebooted, coming up to a login prompt. She logged in and verified that everything had installed correctly, before logging out and unhooking the monitor and keyboard. She rolled the cart back to where she had grabbed it from, took the bad disk and dropped it in her bag and left the server room for the second time. When she was outside the server room and could hear her self thinking again, she requested an Uber to take her to the hotel. It was already seven PM and snowing lightly. It would be enough to make getting on a plane tonight difficult, besides, it was closer to nine on east coast. She would call and talk to Delaney when she got settled into the hotel.
Delaney picked up her phone and sent Lilly a text message because she hadn't heard for her in several hours. Lilly responded quickly, presumably because her phone was close by. It was a rule that both of them had to have their phones on them if they left the house. She was hunkering down in a hotel near the airport as it was already late and evening on the east coast and it was snowing in Denver already. The cold had come in much earlier than normal this year; and the next days weather forecast wasn't much better. It might be Sunday before she could hop a flight home. Delaney called Lilly rather than responding to the text.
"Hi Mommy!" Lilly said, sounding tired, but enthusiastic. "What's up?"
"Hi," Delaney was surprised at the energy that the young girl still had. "I just wanted to call and see how today went and make sure that you found your footies I slipped in your bag this morning when you weren't looking."
"My pink ones?" Lilly asked, knowing which ones Delaney was talking about. It was the only pair footed pajamas in the bag that Lilly had brought with her. The footies in question was one few of Lilly's favorite pairs, they turned her from being a little girl to being a kitty. "I did. Thank you for slipping them in there, I would be wearing just my diaper to bed." It wouldn't be the first time that she had done that. It was more likely on a trip like today, where it was supposed to be an out and back, something easy, that she wouldn't normally have to stay over night. Those were the nights that she often didn't have everything she needed clothing wise. There had been many a trip to a store to get something, which often ended up in more clothes in her closet than she had room for. Most of them were girls sizes, as they were often less expensive than their 'adult' counterparts, and usually cuter too. It was part of where she had gotten her addiction to overalls. Her first pair as an adult was because she had two days to kill and had a pull-up fail on her; they were the most readily available thing she could find, and they worked as long as she controlled the flow. This was before she had tired her first 'proper' diaper. She had been in a low end motel that didn't have a laundry facility. She did the best she could in the bathtub to at least not have all of her clothes smell like urine. She normally drank plenty of water and there wasn't much odor to her urine, but she would occasionally wet her pants just to feel the warmth go down her legs...
"Yeah," Delaney replied. "Your Hello Kitty ones." She chuckled. "You know this is why I'm the mommy and you're the baby, right?"
Lilly felt her cheeks get warm. "Yes, mommy." she said, aware that the embarrassment could be heard in her voice. "Just so you know, I'm still wearing my second diaper that I put on while I was at the coloco site. I'm going to change when we get off the phone and then go to bed. Looking at the forecast for tomorrow, I'm not sure what it's going to look like in terms of catching a flight out of DIA. I'll keep you updated on that." Every time that Lilly had flown into Denver, there was always weather that had delayed her leaving the city.
"Ok, sounds good." Delaney said. Since I know you didn't wear your overalls today, wear them tomorrow with your butterfly shirt and hopefully you'll make it home and I get to see my baby girl."
Lilly blushed again, at being called a baby girl; she was just a baby and knew it. "I'm going to go to bed, goodnight mommy. Send my love to Kirsten, I love you."
"I love you too, princess," Delaney said, knowing that Lilly would blush at being called princess. "Sleep well and Mommy will talk to you tomorrow. Hopefully you're safely home where I can tuck you into your bed. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Lilly said, and then hung up the phone. Any overnight trip was hard enough when she lived alone, but now that she had a family to come home to, it was even harder on her. She always had some of home with her: the diapers were a comfort object as was her stuffier, Ears. He had been with her ever since she was a little girl the first time around. ~~He had been there through quite a few break ups, always getting soggy as she cried into him;~~ He was there when she joined the family with Delaney and Kirsten and he had been all over the United States as she traveled for work. She sighed and went into the bathroom at change her diaper. She took her contacts out and changed her diaper for the second time that day, missing how tight Delaney would put the diaper on her. Walking back to the bed, she put on the sleeper and pulled her pacifier out of her bag. Clipping the baby pink strap to the sleeper, she laid down on the hard mattress, cuddled Ears, and drifted off to a fitful sleep.
Delaney glanced at the clock, and was surprised that Kirsten hadn't come in for her evening diaper change. "Kirsten, come in here so I can change you."
"Coming..." Kirsten's voice floated down the hall, a few seconds later she waddled into the bedroom; waddled was exactly what she was doing too... She flipped her jumper up and laying on the bed. Delaney quickly changed the diaper, as Kirsten was starting to lose control of her bladder from not holding it. Re potty training would be difficult at best if they ever had to do it, but for the moment, Delaney was in charge and she had Kirsten and Lilly right where she wanted them: padded and controlled. Of course it helped that both of them wanted this level of control. They both were fiercely independent and some times That led to head butting with Delaney. Needles to say, they both could be... Compelled to see things Delaney's way. It was rare that things got that far, but it had happened; sore bottoms were in abundance. Delaney deposited the diaper she had removed from Kirsten into the diaper pail.
"Go do whatever you were doing, but tomorrow we actually need to bring the crib up." Delaney said, holding out her hands to help Kirsten back to her feet. "So you need to come to bed soon."
"Yes, Mommy." She said, blushing as Delaney gave her a kiss on the forehead. "I'll probably be up for another hour or so."
"Ok, I'm going to lay down. Behave."