HERO Larry Stylinson

Chapter 4

After getting home from that long trip, I walked up the stairs, and into the spare room that had clearly become Louis' room, with the once white door, now a pretty pale blue. I walked into the room with Louis on my hip, and my arms wrapped around him, the teddy and blanket hanging in my hand. I looked around to find it had completely been transformed, the king sized bed now gone and replaced with a crib and a teddy sitting in the crib, a baby monitor attached to the side. The bed side tables now replaced with a changing table, the wardrobe now replaced with a smaller and white wardrobe, now full with baby clothes. The brown chest of drawers now replaced with a smaller white set packed with more baby boy clothes, nappies, dummies, blankets and more. I looked at Louis to find him looking around the room with big eyes, taking everything in with caution but interest.

"Welcome to your new room buddy" After looking around a bit more, I walked out with Louis, and went to my bedroom, to find it had been changed as well, a crib was sitting in my room, and a baby monitor was sat on the bed side table. I walked into the bathroom joined to my bedroom, and saw that they had changed it to. On the counter sat: baby powder, wet wipes, baby shampoo, baby wash and a kids shower head that connects to the bathtub. Beside the counter was a plastic folded up changing mat, just above was a new towel rack with a small blue towel on it  that had a duck in the corner, a box of bath toys sat beside the bath. "Come on buddy, time for a bath" I said smiling down at the small boy in my arms, I pulled out the changing mat, and laid it on the floor, I laid the dirty blue mat, I still had in my hand, on the changing mat, I then laid Louis down, as soon as he was on the mat, he looked up at me with those big ocean blue eyes,  as soon as he noticed me looking back at him he quickly looked away, and his eyes landed on his teddy I still had in my hand, and he began to whimper. "You can have him while I get you out of your clothes, and clean you up a bit, okay?" He looked up at me, but as expected didn't answer. I gave him the teddy and instantly he burried his head into the soft brown fur of his teddy.

I looked down at the little Louis, and realised I was going to have a bit of trouble getting his way to big shirt off of him while he had a teddy pulled tightly to his chest. I started by prying his left arm off of the teddy, he whimpered as I did this "Shh it's aright Buddy it will only be for a second" I whispered, I quickly took the teddy from his arms, "I'm sorry buddy it will only be a second" I said, as he started to whimper and cry. I quickly removed the large shirt from his tiny body, and couldn't help but stare at was underneath that shirt. I looked into his blue eyes, as he looked into mine with fear, I quickly grabbed his teddy and gave it back to him, immediately hiding his face in the teddy. I looked back down at his small body, and saw so many cuts, and bruises. The cuts were red and inflamed, but seemed to be healing slowly, the bruises were big, not only that but they were purple, blue and black. My poor boy needed lots of tender loving care, which I was willing to give, if he was willing to accept.

I ran my hands gently over his small torso, as soon as my hands touched his skin he flinched, I moved down to his pant covered legs, I undid the button, and the zipper, and lifted his legs to remove his still soaking pants. The one thing the orphanage did do right was buy good underwear which actually fit him. I went through the same process to remove his undies. As soon as I had removed his undies a whimper was heard from the small boy laying there with his head buried in his new teddy, I really have to read his file. Looking down at the boy, I was met with quite a mess, his butt just about covered in shit, and his crotch wet, his stomach, chest, most of his upper body covered in marks. I stood up and grabbed the wet wipes, before kneeling back down, I quickly wiped off little Louis bum and crotch, I threw the used wet wipes in the bin sitting near the sink, I washed my hands before picking up Louis and placing him on my hip, with his bear still in his hands. I started to run a bath for him setting it to a warm temperature, and only just enough water. I placed a heap of different bath toys in the tub hoping to distract Louis while he didn't have his bear, but that didn't quite work out. As soon as I took the bear from Louis he started to whimper, I placed it on the sink, "It's alright you can have him back after" I gently said. I knelt down on the ground beside the tub, and tried to place Louis in the water, but it seemed to be a fear of his. As soon as his feet touched the water he gripped onto my arms tightly and lifted his feet up to his chest. I lowered him into the water while whispering sweet nothings to him to try and calm him down, but it didn't work. Once he was in the water he wouldn't stop crying and just about screaming, and he wouldn't let my hands go. "It's alright Louis, it's alright" I tried reassuring but it was no use, he just kept on crying. I gently pried my hand away from his tight grip, and gently rubbed his back, and continued to whisper words of reassurance. He gripped onto my left hand with both hands while I rubbed his back, and slowly adding water to my hand, after a while he finally calmed down slightly, and I was able to quickly get the baby soap, but Louis grabbed my hand again quickly after, so I had wash him one handed. I decided it was best to wash his hair another day, so I just gently ran my wet hand through his hair a few times to wet it and get it clean-ish.