It was just another normal day at practice, where Kaleb was showing Nathan how to do a more powerful spike "and just like that, you add more speed" the older laughed while ruffling the youngers hair.
"would you like to try this out now?" as the younger nodded eagerly kaleb yelled to Dalton to set for them. Reluctantly Dalton agreed knowing how he can get when teaching. As Dalton set for him, he spiked the ball so hard it popped on the gym floor making everyone stop what they were doing, it was so loud it echoed throughout the gym, getting the attention of their coach quite fast "KALEB, FRONT AND CENTER" as Kaleb mumbled a string of curses only nathan could hear he stomped his way to the coach to be scolded about not destroying equipment.
After practice Kaleb had to clean the gym alone, and as everyone else was leaving he sighed out the word "fuckkkkk" as Nathan and Derrick were passing by. Derrick was quick to cover the kids ears, as he wasn't aware he heard that and much worse earlier "KALEB I WILL END YOU" Derrick yelled as he stomped his way to Kaleb, but Nathan being his ball of energy self ran out the door to chase a butterfly he saw, in the end saving Kaleb as his caregiver had to chase him.
Their walk home was pretty quiet, except for the occasional complaint from Nathan that Derrick wouldn't let him run off. "Nathan, you know you can't chase every flying bug you see" he stated as he wrapped his arm around a pouting Nathan's waist getting a simple 'hmph' from him. as he opened the door to their apartment he turned to the little and crouched to his level "alright buddy, what do you wanna do?" Nathan thought for a moment "blocks!!" he jumped up and down excitedly as Derrick got his blocks out for him. "here you go prince, play while i make you a snack" Nathan nodded as he sat on the carpet and started stacking his blocks, he wanted to see how high he could stack them.
Derrick was in the kitchen cutting up apples, strawberries, bananas and grapes while the regressed was playing, as he was walking back to where the little was playing with the bowl of fruit, he must've surprised him as he jumped and knocked the tower over "fwucking swit.." Nathan muttered under his breath trying to stop the tears caused by watching his hard work crash infront of him. "excuse me? what did you just say?" Derrick put the food on the table and was infront of his little quite fast. Nathan, upset Derrick made him knock his blocks over, was in a pretty bad mood, and he did not feel like listening to a lecture about rules, at all. "go 'way! bwitch" Nathan yelled as he ran off as Derrick sat there dumbfounded and stared at the scattered blocks "the hell just happened?"
Derrick went up to Nathan's room to confront him on his behavior, only to be met with toys flying at him, and though it didn't phase him at all, it did annoy him quite a bit. He walked over and grabbed Nathan's hand as he had grabbed a car to throw since he ran out of stuffies, Derrick gently smacked his hand and looked him dead in the eyes "no sir, we do not throw things when we're upset or at all, use your words"
Nathan huffed and crossed his arms "i don't wike chu wight now!" he screeched in his caregivers face. Derrick was used to his meltdowns however, so he scooped him up and sat with the kicking and screaming little on his bed. "Nathan, look at me please" Derrick tried to get through to the angered little only to get met with a fist to the face, that was the last straw for Derrick, he swiftly hit the littles thigh to get his attention, and as the regressed looked up, he knew he was in trouble. Nathan gulped and hugged Derrick tightly while hiding his face against him.
"Nathan." Derrick said as he put the little down "Im gonna go get your food, and you can eat by yourself in the study, away from all your toys while you think of this behavior, you know very well what you did was wrong, and you're grounded until farther notice" He swiftly picked the boy back up already caving in on the punishment, he couldn't stay mad long. On the way to the study he grabbed the bowl of fruit and sat Nathan down in the corner. "I will be back in 30 minutes, i expect you to stay here and finish your food, can you do that for me?" to which Nathan nodded and reached for the bowl with one hand while wiping his eyes with his other sleeve. "here you go little one, ill be cleaning up, you won't be here too long, just think about what you did and how to fix it in the future before it gets to that point" Nathan had aged up by now, and looked at his boyfriend with a guilty expression "im sorry Derrick.." he said with tears streaming down his face, which resulted in Derrick swiftly turning around to hug his partner "its okay man, but either way youre still sitting in time out" he kissed his head as Nathan nodded "yeah, thats fairrrrrr" Nathan drug out and turned back to his fruit happily eating.
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It was now an hour later, Nathan and Derrick had put up all his toys, except for the items that brought Nathan comfort, like his kitty and blankie. They were cuddling on the sofa when Derrick noticed how antsy Nathan was getting through the movie, so he paused it "baby boy? are you alright?" Nathan shook his head "im not regressed" he pushed his blanket away to the other side of the sofa. Derrick, now with an idea of whats going on swifted into action, pulling the refusing little onto his lap. "mhm, but you want to be, don't you" Nathan just whined and tried rolling away but Derrick held him in place "i know you're holding back cause you feel guilty and want to punish yourself, but theres no need for that" Derrick started while holding the smaller boy against him and started rubbing his back "i knew what i was getting into when i agreed to take care of you, and i love you, fits and all, you don't have to feel bad about it, you just need to learn better ways to communicate, right baby?" Derrick smiled knowing that his speech combined with rubbing his back brought his baby to him "mhm love you" Nathan hummed while snuggling up to Derrick, who continued to rub his back until he fell asleep. As he looked at his sleeping angel, a thought occurred where did he get those words from
