Greg smiled as he picked Danny up and buckled him into his car seat.
“How was work?” Greg asked. Danny crossed his arms, a gesture that looked cute rather than intimidating.
“Well, I had to get a new badge because you made me look like you and then left!”
“Yeah, sorry about that. It was an emergency.”
“Hmph. And then I- I-” Danny winced. “Made boom-boom in my diaper.” Danny had begun to use childish phrasing to refer to whenever he had accidents, which Greg found adorable. “And because I made boom-boom in my diaper, Kristof wants me diapered at work all the time.”
“Kristof’s got the right idea. You almost lost your potty training before. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s happening again,” Greg said. “I think you should wear diapers at home for a while, too.” Danny sighed.
“…Fine.”
“That’s my good boy.” Greg ruffled Danny’s hair. He closed the car door and got into the driver’s seat. Little did Danny know, he hadn’t just changed Danny’s physical appearance. He’d also nudged Danny’s potty training down. Not enough where it would be immediately obvious, but enough to put him back in diapers and allow for Greg to use some tricks at home to reduce his potty training. In fact, Greg was already planning on being unavailable to help Danny any time he needed to use the potty.
Greg had actually adjusted more than just Danny’s potty training. Every metric that kept Danny acting like a little adult had been reduced. Again, not enough to be caught right away, but enough to make it so Greg could drag Danny down to being a proper toddler.
Greg had been surprised by how quickly he took to being a surrogate father to Danny. He liked dressing Danny up in cute clothes, getting things from tall places for him, and even changing his diapers and training pants. So, naturally, he was going to do everything within his power to make Danny become a proper son to him.
“Did anything else happen at work?” Greg asked. He knew the answer already. Kristof had called him, asking if there was anything he should adjust for Danny to make work easier. Danny sniffed loudly.
“Kristof wants me to take my breaks in the daycare.” The store had a daycare for children of employees, and now, the daycare was also for a certain employee. Greg’s goal was to make it so Danny spent more and more time in the daycare, until he wasn’t even working a job at all.
“That stinks.”
“He also told me that if I need a change or to use the potty, I need to go to the daycare for that, too.”
“Well, at least the people there are experts in taking care of that for tykes,” Greg said.
“…I guess.”
By the time they got home, Danny was asleep. Greg carefully popped a brand-new pacifier into Danny’s mouth. Danny instinctively suckled on it, still sleeping. There was a soft hiss as he wet his diaper. Greg smiled.
Everything was going according to plan.
Now, he just had to wait to see which part of Danny’s life would fall to toddler level first.