Archive of Our Own

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It was around 7:30pm in Australia and that is the time Daniel starts little max's bed time routine, and tonight max happened to be little around 14 months. Max doesn't talk much when regressed but occasionally Daniel will catch him babbling nonsense for ages to him self.

''Hey baby, what you talking about?'' Daniel walks into the livingroom where max was sat on his race track rug playing with his lion and cars. He sits down with max tickling his sides getting little giggles ''Huh, you telling your lion friend about you amazing race skills?''

''Mhm and you'' Max nods leaning on Dans side rubbing his eye with a fist. Daniel kisses his head rubbing his back before picking up his bottle just less than half full of apple juice, the bottle covered apples and trees. Max has 4 bottles ones got apples on it for his apple juice, ones got cows and sheep on for his milk, one with oranges on for the rare time he has orange juice and one with horses and chickens witch is a water bottle.

''Is it beddy byes time?'' He knows Max wont answer but he asks anyway. ''Not want any more juice?'' Max takes the bottle and drinks most of what was left and handing it back. Daniel takes and gets up to go wash it up and run Maxie a bath.

He makes sure the bath isn't too hot, adds nice but subtlety scented bubbles and his favourite toys stirring it before heading back to the livingroom where max is now rolling on the floor, ''what are you doing silly?'' he grabs him under the arms and lifts him of the floor. ''Its bath time now butt face'' he starts walking down the hall to the bathroom.

Max stars wiggling, giggling saying no. ''What? did we forget something?'' He stops walking, Max just giggles hides his face in Daniel's neck then stops wiggling and relaxes. ''Hey! did you just pee on me?'' he laughs as max nods and whispers ''We go now'' Dan rolls his eyes ''You are a cheeky bum, but thank you for not doing that in the bath''

The enter the bathroom and max gets plopped on the floor then his t-shirt gets pulled over his, he mostly wears top and trouser pjs during the day except the rare times they go out, Dan gently pushes him onto his back to pull off his bottoms leaving him in just a diaper. His dummy is still clipped to his top next to his head but he is still sucking on it. ''You've got lots of wee wees in here bud, you did drink a lot of juice today.'' Daniel gets to work cleaning his bum, ''Can I have your dummy bubs, you can have your bath one in a minuet.'' He reluctantly spits it out and its moved away from his face, he can have a fresh one after his bath.

They have a separate bath dummy because Max has a habit of spitting them out and it means they don't have to wash his normal one even though he has a large collection in the bed room. He lifts him into the tub handing him the bath dummy Max takes it in his mouth and splashes the bubbles a little. ''Body or hair first?'' he pats his head showing he wants his hair done first. He grabs a cup of the side of the bath filling it with water tipping Max's head back shielding his eyes and pouring it over his hair. He lathers his hair in shampoo once its saturated in water then rinses it out, he washes Max's body while the conditioner sits.

Soon the bath is over and Max is wrapped in a fluffy towel being carried back to the bedroom. Daniel gently throughs him on the bed grabbing a diaper and two options for pjs, ''Race cars of space? he hold them both up to max and max points to the race car ones. ''Good choice baby.'' he unwraps him sliding his night diaper under his hips pulling it over his front making sure everything is secure before taping it up, he pulls the legless onesie over his head and does he crotch snaps up. ''You going to stay here with lion friend or come with me while I make your bottle?'' Daniel sits him up, ''come with you pleas''

''of cores sweetie'' He picks him up putting him on his hip supporting his bum with his arm. in the kitchen Dan puts him on the counter while he warms the milk in the microwave, shacking it and checking the temp on his wrist. They head back to the bedroom after filling up his water bottle for during the night or in the morning. Max grabs his fluffy blue blanket wrapping it around his shoulders as Daniel gets comfy in the middle at the top of the bed leaning against the head board. He crawls into his lap sitting side ways to have his bottle, ''hey cutie nearly sleep time'' Daniel says as max yawns.

Soon the bottle is done and Max is being layed on his side of the bed against the wall, Daniel grabs max's phone to put on a bed time story in dutch. while max can speak and understand English when regressed it's easier, especially when tired, to under stand dutch. Daniel uses this time to clean up the living room and put away clean dishes but in the middle of this he gets a phone call from Oscar. He answers obviously:

O:Hey im really sorry to ask you this on such short notice but can you come and look after lando?

D:Hey, sure may i ask why?

O:Yeah i just got a call my mum is in hospital and i don't know much so i need to head over there.

D:I hope she is okay. Ill be over as soon as possible.

O:Thanks so much mate, i would take lando but he is small and wouldn't do well in a hospital especially this late.

D:Its fine honestly, see you soon.

O:see yah

Once the call ends Daniel groans, not because he doesn't want to help he just knows max isn't going to be happy as he is about to fall asleep, he heads to the bedroom and gently shakes max awake. ''Im sorry bud but we need to go to Do's'' max whines rubbing his eyes. Luckily he sits up pouting as it is nearly 9oclock but lets Dan put soft jeans on him and his coat with the fluffy hood. ''I know, you can keep your dummy and blankie'' he puts his own coat on and grabs the diaper bag and car keys then heading down to the car.

He straps max into the back seat so he is less likely to be seen, Oscar and Lando live on a very private road so that wont be an issue. Eventually they arrive knocking on the door and a very frantic Oscar opens it, '' I sent you a text with every thing you should need to know, i probably wont be back till the morning. Sorry for waking you bud. I have to go sorry bye.'' He ruffles max's hair in apology, waving then walking out the door.

Text:
-There is a bottle of milk in the fridge he will probably want it but don't worry if not
- Try getting him asleep before 10:30 or he might get grumpy but again don't worry too much
-He needs a pull-up on for bed no mater how much he tells you other wise
-There is a box of crackers as a before bed snack next to his bed
-You will need to remind him to wash his hands if he goes toilet
I think that is every thing don't be afraid to message me if you need too, sorry again.

Once he's read the message he hears a scream and Lando comes running in laughing his head off. This is going to be a long night.

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Lando through himself onto the sofa next to Daniel, stopping the screaming once he was on the sofa. He continued to laugh his head off though.

‘’hello butt face, why are you screaming so late at night?’’ Daniel asks with Max sat on his lap, who got startled by the screaming boy but Dan cuddles are helping him feel alright.

Lando sit’s up from the position he was laying in to look at Daniel, ‘’Dunno was exited I guess’’ he shrugs, picking up a toy from between the sofa cushions before butting in his mouth to chew on.

‘’we aren’t here to play bud sorry, just to make sure your safe and go to bed while Osc is out.’’ He moves max off his lap to give Lando a cuddle. ‘’ how about we don’t try eating toys, especially ones we find in the sofa’’ Dan gently takes the toy from his mouth putting it on the table and grabs the dummy he knows is in the draw.

Lando accepts the dummy that was pressed to his lips before suddenly getting up doing a little dance, grabbing his crotch and running upstairs. He hears a door upstairs slam open. ‘’Maxie, can you stay here for a second?’’ Max nods his head and Daniel follows Lando.

On the way Daniel notices an increasing amount of drips of liquid, he follows them and finds Lando in the bathroom with the door open naked from the waist down on the toilet peeing. ‘’what happened to your clothes?’’

‘’Dunno, they was wet so I tooked them off.’’ Lando says standing up not doing anything.

‘’Why were they wet?’’ Daniel asks, spotting them balled up Infront of the sink with a small puddle next to them.

‘’maybe I weed on them a bit, but I did alot in the toilet’’ He said quite fast but Daniel did manage to catch it all. Lando plops himself on the floor cross legged, elbows on his knees chin in his hands. ‘’I really tried Dandan’’ He is pouting.

‘’I know you did darling, you did a good job ‘cause you still got some in the toilet’’ He crouches down next to Lando rubbing his back. ‘’ I'm going to get Maxie and some clean jammys for you then I'll be back to give you a bath.’’

‘’Okie’’ He puts his dummy in his mouth drawing shapes on the bathmat. Dan gets up heading to get max, he assumes Lando's little jammas are in his little bedroom.

He takes max with him to Lando’s room, he opens the top draw of the chest of draws and finds his jammas so then he starts looking for a pull-up. The pull-ups were in the next draw down so grabs one and puts it on the bed with the jammas. ‘’up we go’’ Dan lifts max, ‘’oo I'll give your bum a change in a minuet seeing as your awake and it must be getting uncomfortable’’

Back in the bathroom Daniel sits max in the corner with his lion and starts to run the bath and put the clothes in the washing basket. ‘’ bubbles Do?’’ He is looking through the cupboard under the sink where the toys are too.

‘’yes pleas Dandan’’ Lando has shuffled his way over to be next to the bath and has taken his top off himself only getting a little stuck.

‘’You have very good manners, the bath will be ready in a min’’ The bubbles get poured in and sturd around.

‘’Can Maxie come in?’’ Lando steps into the bath once Daniel had deemed it full enough.

‘’Sorry not tonight, he already had a bath earlier’’ Daniel explains hoping Lando wouldn't be to upset ‘’ he can play next to the bath with you if you make sure to try not to get him wet’’

‘’I promise I'll try behave’’ Max crawls over and takes the toy handed to him and they start playing gently. Daniel has to interrupt their game so he can wash Lando.

The bath gets cold soon, so they head to Lando’s little room to get him dressed. ‘’I no want pull-up, I big boy’’ Lando whines sitting on the floor.

‘’you have to bud, you don’t want a wet bed do you?’’ Daniel tries to reason remembering what Oscar said.

‘’But I promise I won't wee the bed’’

‘’ You can’t promise that. You won’t be happy if you wake up tomorrow and your bed is soggy’’

Lando eventually nods and stands up to let Dan dress him. Lando is wearing a top and trouser set and he looks adorable. ’’I need to change max’s nappy then we can go downstairs to watch some tv before bed’’

Daniel lays max down and pulls of the jeans he had on and pops the poppers on his onesie, pushing it up round his waist. ‘’Can you grab me the pack of wipes over there please Do’’ Dan points to the corner of the room, and he undoes max’s nappy pulling down the front.

Lando comes back with the wipes handing them over and Dan starts wiping max down. He starts getting in the way, trying to grab at max with complete childish innocents. ‘’Do, please stop that's not nice’’ Daniel pushes his hand away.

He knows max doesn't care much now in his headspace but when he comes up he will be embarrassed but he won't be mad at Lando.

Daniel finished up quickly taping up a clean nappy and snaping up the buttons. He picks up max ‘’ come on let's head downstairs and watch some tv’’ Lando follows him and they snuggle up on the sofa. ‘’ what should we watch?’’

‘’Bluey dada’’ max asks and Lando nods excitedly.

‘’okay okay, we can watch two episodes of bluey then bed’’ Daniel finds the show on Disney under little Lando's accounts continue watching. ‘’ Do, do you want you bottle? Warm?’’ Lando nods to both questions, both boys sucking their dummy's and watching the show.

He goes into the kitchen gets the bottle from the fridge and microwaves it making sure it's not too hot. It gets handed to Lando and he silently replaces his dummy with it.