My Baby Bird

Ch 3

Rumi managed to calm Hawks down enough that she could get his permission to give him a bath. She had left for a moment to grab him some clothes, when she returned the boy hadn't moved. Hawks stared blankly ahead, silently sucking on his thumb. One thing was for sure, Rumi was getting him a pacifier at least.

"Hey little man. Can I start washing you?" Rumi asked.

Hawks nodded, still keeping his thumb tucked into his mouth. Rumi tousled his hair then began washing his body with a wet soapy cloth. Hawks didn't move at all, he was just too tired and his head and tummy hurt. He didn't feel like moving too much.

"Bunny?" Hawks suddenly spoke up.

It took Rumi a minute to realize he was trying to get her attention, "Yes?"

"Head." Hawks muttered.

Rumi was a little confused, "What about it, baby?"

"Head. Owie." Hawks whimpered, trying to explain his headache.

"It's going to be okay love. We'll get you some medicine as soon as you're all clean." Rumi smiled softly and kissed her friends forehead, earning a small giggle in return.

Rumi helped Hawks get dry and then get dressed. She set him down to look for some medicine that might help his headache, or reduce his fever, ideally both. Of course her friend, hardly had any sort of medicine at all, not even pain reducers. When she finally found what she was looking for, Hawks had gotten ahold of a suppressants bottle.

"Hawks, what are you doing?!" Rumi asked, a little panicked.

"Gotta get medicine. Gotta be big boy. Can't be little." Hawks replied, shaking the bottle as if it would somehow refill.

So that was why he got so sick, he'd been taking too many suppressants. Rumi decided that they needed to have a serious conversation when all of this passed.

"Oh." Rumi nodded, picking up Hawks and setting him on her hip, "Here, this with help."

Rumi handed Hawks a small pill, mostly to help with his migraine and let him sleep, but if he didn't realize it wasn't a suppressant they would be able to put that problem behind them for a while. Hawks scrunched up his nose a little but too the pill anyway. He leaned into his friend.

"How about we go take a nap for now? I think a nap will help you feel better." Rumi suggested.

"Bunny here, an' Bunny not 'upposed to know I little." Hawks yawned, subconsciously nuzzling his into the crook of the woman's neck, "Bunny gonna see me."

Hawks must have been too out of it to realize who he was talking to. The poor kid was too sick and little to properly register the situation. He'd already believed that the medicine Rumi had given him was a suppressant, but he was more disoriented than she'd thought.

Rumi giggled a little, "Don't worry, Bunny won't see and I won't tell her, it can be our secret."

The bunny hero carried Hawks back to his bedroom and set him on the bed. Once Hawks had fallen asleep again Rumi returned to the couch. She grabbed Hawks' walet, looking for his ID. It didn't take long, once she had it she found his classification rather quickly.

Classification: L 2-4

Rumi sighed, he certainly wasn't the youngest little out there, many littles regressed further, but he was still young. He'd spent all of this time with no one to take care of him and no little items. That was going to change, as difficult as it would be for a neutral, Rumi would take care of him herself if she had to. He was her best friend, she wasn't about to let this continue.

Hawks was alone in his old room. He was sitting in the middle of a bed, but it wasn't his own, it belonged to an old friend, Touya. He was on Touya's bed from their shared dorm. When he began thinking of his friend he came in through the window.

Touya held up a bag, "Hey, Keigo!" Sometimes he forgets that's his name, only Touya calls him that anymore, "I got you somethings."

Touya tossed the bag toward Hawks who clumsily caught it. He pulled out a lavender colored rabbit plush as well as a red pacifier.

"What do you think?" Touya asked.

"I love it, thank you." Hawks giggled.

Touya smiled at that, "There's my baby bird." Hawks liked that name.

Hawks sat with Touya on the taller boy's bed. He was on his friends lap, holding his bunny and sucking on his paci. He was little, but he was happy. Touya  was holding him and he wasn't even in trouble.

That's when they came in, they ruined it! They were too loud! Hawks couldn't tell what they were saying, but he knew he was in trouble again. They took his paci and his bunny. Then they took Touya.

They were taking him away! Why were they taking him away?! Hawks needed Touya! He didn't need the paci or the bunny but he needed Touya!

"Stop! I'll be good! I can be big!" Hawks pleaded, "Touya! Touya come back!"

But Touya was gone before Hawks could grab him. Everything was gone. He was in the dark room again. He just wanted Touya back, Touya made it all better.

Hawks' eyes shot open, "T-Touya..." He whimpered.

He was alone again. Touya was gone. He missed Touya, he wanted him to come back.

Hawks noticed something at the foot of his bed, he crawled over to it, discovering a stuffed penguin. He picked it up, inspecting it. Hawks liked her, she seemed nice, he was going to take her with him. With his new friend wrapped in his arms Hawks wandered out of his room.

"You're up! Good, are you hungry?" Rumi asked, hearing Hawks' feet padding down the hall.

Hawks jumped a little and looked over at Rumi, he nodded silently and slipped his thumb into his mouth. Rumi sighed and rummaged through a bag and pulled out a pacifier. She carefully pulled Hawks' thumb out of his mouth and replaced it with the pacifier, thankfully the boy didn't complain.

"Let's go get something to eat." Rumi smiled.

Hawks grabbed her hand and followed her into the kitchen. Rumi put a bowl of oatmeal in front of Hawks. She tried to take the penguin from his arms to set it off to the side and was not met with a happy response. Hawks clearly liked the penguin a little more than she'd expected.

"No take her! Mine!" Hawks yelled hugging the penguin closer.

"I'm not trying to take it, we just need to set it down so it doesn't get dirty." Rumi tried to explain.

Hawks pouted, "No."

This was going to be a long couple of days.