Nanny Diaries 3 - Pride and Prejudice

Settling Down

"Honestly, Daphne...what am I going to do with you, pickle?" Nanny sighed as she removed my pacifier, once she had me on the changing table in her room, which had been my room, not so long ago. She had moved into it, after her return, because it was right next to the nursery and a little bigger than her old one. She kept a changing table in there just as I had, to deal with any little nighttime accidents without waking up everyone else. Except that my accident was not so little.

"Sorry, Nanny." I whispered, feeling tears welling up in my eyes. It had to be quite late, since she was ready for bed, wearing a bathrobe over a tee shirt, but her bed was still made, so maybe not late enough for her to sleep. I felt small and pathetic, having woken up in her arms, as she carried me out of the nursery, feeling a lot of fetid mush oozing between my legs.

"You don't have to apologise for using your diaper, dear. It is what they are for, after all...but you only messed four hours ago." She smiled, as she started to remove my sleepsuit. "At this rate, you will need potty training again before you have your third go at maidenhood...and this smells like a proper mess."

"I was asleep, Nanny..." I pointed out, whilst working out that it was about eleven-thirty, if it had been four hours. I had messed just after seven, and she had changed me after my evening bottle, so that I was saying my prayers by seven-thirty with my sisters.

"I noticed...but I could not leave you like that...all night...I always check on you monsters just before I go to bed and I could smell you from the stairs." Annie chuckled, as she got the sleepsuit off my bottom half and wrinkled her nose. "And I am not carrying you back in there and risking waking up the others, so it looks like you will have to sleep in my bed...would you like that, pickle?"

"Yes please, Nanny."

"Not that your third attempt is imminent, of course." She commented, whilst pulling the tapes loose and assessing the damage. It was two weeks since the Radcliffe wedding and we had just finished the school year at Deepdene. No one had mentioned anything about me leaving the nursery. "You are being such a good little nursling that no one is particularly inclined to break the spell...but after our two weeks in France, I am gone. I have to start work at the new school when we get back, getting things ready for the inmates...and who knows? I might have you as a day pupil next term, Daphne?"

"Yes, Nanny." I murmured, and then giggled, as she tickled my tummy, although I was scared that she might be right. Then she started with the wet wipes. It was not up to me. I had accepted that, and I was still trying not to think about the future.

"And I think your new nanny will join us on holiday...so, I am hoping to get a bit of a tan whilst she gets to know you lot...I shall be there in a supervisory role, according to your Papa at any rate. But it is going to be quite a house party...your parents, Caris' parents, Mr and Mrs Brewster and Mr and Mrs Radcliffe...are you looking forward to it, pickle?"

"Yes, Nanny...but we will all miss you so much...Georgina has such a crush..."

"I had noticed...but you will all still see lots of me at school...and I will visit, I promise. But I would like my friend back, one day, too...if you don't mind?" She laughed, slipping the clean diaper underneath me. "Then, you can visit me, and bring Georgina for a love in at my very big flat, maybe?"

"Soon, Nanny...I hope." I said, chewing on my lip.

"I swear you are smaller...and you have definitely lost weight...must be all that fish and veg I suppose." She suggested, efficiently restoring my sleepsuit. "Now...do you want a bottle to help you sleep, because you really shouldn't be wide awake at this time of night?"

"Yes please, Nanny." I replied, without even thinking about it. She raised an eyebrow.

"Ok...well, I will put you in my bed, and trust you to stay there, whilst I go downstairs and pop one in the microwave...are you going to be good for me, pickle?"