Little Clay Spencer

Chapter 4

By the time Jason gets back home and gets everything loaded into his appartment he feels like he's been awake for a week straight but it's only been a few hours. Jason lays Clay down on his bed and starts to put the groceries away, now he actually has some food in his appartment which is a new one for him. When he's done with the food he puts the soap in the bathroom and the clothes on the dresser next to the bathroom door, box of diapers on the floor next to the dresser. Jason drags the tub into the shower stall leaving it there thinking it'll be eaiser to just leave it in there than have to pull it into the bathroom everytime Clay needed a bath. Jason goes over to the bed and sits down next to Clay watching him play with his seal, a few times Clay just shoves the plush toy in his face and laughing at him trying to avoid the slightly damp toy. Jason lays down next to Clay attending to just shut his eyes for a second but when Clay's crys wake him up it's nearly dark out so he figures he's been asleep for atleast 3 hours(~6pm). Jason startles awake instinictivly reaching out over where Clay is to pull him over to him. "What's wrong bub?" Jason sits up pulling Clay into his arms bouncing the boy. Rocking doesn't settle the boy so Jason checks his diaper and realizes that Clay needs changed again. "Come on let's get you cleaned up," Jason says getting up and grabbing the baby bag walking to the bathroom. Jason starts the water in the shower letting it warm up, and fill the tub some so he can just wash Clay and then change the diaper. Just as Jason gets Clay's bath warmed up and ready his phone chirps again but Jason just ignores it again, getting Clay out of his overalls and shirt, throwing the diaper in the bin and putting Clay in the tub. Clay just stills at the warm water, making a happy noise whiggling around a bit as Jason grabs the soap he got and starts to wash Clay's hair. When Jason pulls Clay out of the tub now clean, his first intintion was to put the fresh diaper right back on the boy but there was knocking at his door and he didn't know who it was. Jason wraps Clay in a towel setting him down on his bed for a second as he goes to get the door. Clay was too busy messing with his feet to realize that they'd left the bathroom. Jason pulls open the door not caring that his shirt and hair were wet from Clay dumping water on him earlier, he just didn't realize it was that much. "Ray?" Jason says when he sees the man standing infront of his door, "What are you doing here?"

"Had some questions, Blackburn said we're being stood down for a while. That you requested time off. I wanted to see how you were doing... Why are you taking a shower with your shirt on?" Ray says, taking a shot at his appearence.

Jason doesn't get time to answer before he sees in the corner of his eye a pink little blur laughing and wabbling away from the bed, "Clay no," Jason says dashing over grabbing the boy and grabbing the towel pulling it back around Clay. Jason just pulls him to his chest his wet hair laying on his already wet t-shirt. Jason turns back to Ray who's standing slightly in his appartment now with a dumb founded look on his face. "This is why i'm standing down," Jason says walking a little closer to Ray, "You wanna say hi to your Uncle Ray?" Jason says bouncing Clay a little bit. Clay just hugs closer to Jason kind of hiding in his chest.

"What?... How..why?" Ray starts to stumble but Jason cuts him off.

"Come in and close the door. I gotta get him changed and into a diaper before I get pooped on." Jason goes over to the bed where he had a diaper and onesie layed out for him to be changed into.

"This is why you're standing down?" Ray asks, "Who's kid is that?"

Jason just gets Clay into his clothes saying to Ray, "Whose kid do you think it is Ray? He's mine."

"And his name is Clay?" Ray says still shocked by the situation.

"Yeah, Ray," Jason says pulling Clay into his arms after he got the diaper on him and into his onsie, "He was left on my front door in his carseat, baby bag and all."

"Eig..." Clay says quietly looking over at Ray now, waving his little hand at Ray.

"Hey little buddy," Ray says to Clay as he just puts his hand in his mouth chewing on it.

"Clay, no." Jason says grabbing the stuffed seal from the bed, "Don't chew on your hand," Jason says pulling Clays fingers from his mouth putting the seal in his hand instead. Instantly Clay has the fin in his mouth chewing on it. "I think he's teething, he keeps putting his hand in his mouth chewing on it," Jason says to Ray, figuring maybe he would know if that was normal.

"Yeah well kids do that when they get teeth. How old is he Jason," Ray asks.

"One, nearly two."

"Egh...I don't know what I'm doing..." Jason says sitting down on his bed pulling Clay into his lap.

"When's the last time he ate?"

"Eh.. he's been with me for like 5 hours so before that. I don't know," Jason says getting up and going over to the baby bag, with Clay still in his arms, pulling the formula out and the little canisters of food.