This had to be some kind of trick. Shiloh knew it. She couldn't prove that any of her torment over the past few days had been Dani's fault, but she had a hunch the innocent-looking girl in front of her wasn't all that innocent.



"You're a what?" Shiloh finally asked. Dani had trailed off.



Dani's eyes remained locked to the ground, the pink diaper still wavering in her grasp. The two were silent. The only noise in the room was Logan's mouth explosions as he crashed his self-healing cars together.



Shiloh snatched the diaper out of Dani's hand, looking it up and down. A swirl of butterflies collected into a large heart, and a lavish red bow sat just below the waistband on the back. Shiloh stopped. Was she… admiring it? She shook it off.



"You're a what?" she repeated.



"A baby..." Dani muttered to the floor.



Shiloh's eyes widened. She shot a glance to Logan, still absorbed in his toys, and then grabbed Dani by the wrist, roughly tugging the girl close. "Are you out of your mind?" Shiloh shout-whispered into Dani's ear.



"No, just a baby," Dani whispered back.



Shiloh shoved the diaper into Dani's lap. "There is a real baby right next to you!" she motioned aggressively.



"Hey!" Logan interjected, smashing one of his cars into the floor.



"Then we can be fwends," Dani replied, pouting.



"Cut that out! What are you doing?"



Dani sighed, shoving the diaper back into Shiloh's lap. "God, just put the fucking diaper on me!"



Shiloh shoved it back. "Do it yourself!"



"I tried to ask nicely!"



"You asked creepily!"



"I..." Dani paused, as if debating whether she wanted to finish the sentence, "...thought you would like that."



Shiloh's cheeks burned. "Well you win the prize for wrongest person to ever live!" she stammered.



"But you were in diapers and a onesie playing on the floor with Logan when I got here!"



Shiloh crossed her arms. "That's because I'm a professional." She turned her head to Logan, then turned back to Dani and whispered pointedly. "And not a weirdo. I saw you do some weird stuff when I was stuck in your closet."



Dani hissed, "Well then don't hide in my closet!" before shrinking down, once again letting her gaze fall to the floor. "You can't tell anybody."



Shiloh rolled her eyes. "Oh, suddenly miss 'You're the baby around here' bullypants isn't in control and—"



"I thought you were like me!" Dani shouted, breaking the long chain of whisper-fighting. Logan, startled, froze in mid car crash. She set the diaper down next to her and traced her finger along the patterns in the plastic. "I thought you liked it... too. And so I... did all the things to you, that I would do to me."



Shiloh blinked, her brain scanning over its memories from the past day, before she snapped back to reality, clamped her hands over Logan's ears, and whisked him to the stairs. "Howwww about you go get some more toys from your room, bud?!" she said, overenthusiastically, her hands still covering his ears.



"What?" Logan said, as Shiloh carried him upstairs.



Shiloh let him down on the floor of his room. "Pick out some more toys to crash with your cars! I wanna play too."



"Okay!"



Shiloh pulled the door nearly shut, before adding, "Stay here, I'll come get you, and we can all play." But Logan was already buried in his toy chest.



Dani hadn't moved from where she had plopped down on her knees in the middle of the living room. The pink diaper at her side, a little crumpled up from the shoving fight. Her white sundress spread out in all directions, like a circus tent, or a morning glory. Shiloh took a deep breath, letting a little bit out as she took each step down the stairs, calming herself. The girl did look cute like that. Littler.



"Look," she began, but trailed off, not knowing what else to say after that.



"I'm sorry," Dani muttered.



"No, it's all right," Shiloh said, sitting down on the floor next to Dani. "Obviously... some wires got crossed."



"I'm a freak," Dani said, head hung, her face shrouded by hair. A single tear dropped to the floor.



"Okay, okay, that's a little much..." Shiloh wanted to console her, tried to find a good place on her back or shoulder to pat, eventually settling on running her hand through Dani's hair, gently scratching the back of her head. "I don't get it, but you're not a freak."



Dani sniffled. Shiloh thought back to those few moments in the secret tunnel, her warm, full pullup clinging around her, running her fingers up and down the front as she had watched Dani do... that sudden jolt... she was lying, just a little bit, about not getting it.



With a certain suddenness, Dani whispered, "I fell into the machine. In the early days." Shiloh continued scratching the back of Dani's head as she spoke.



"We were testing the full treatment on mannequins, taking measurements, generating garments. But we hadn't added any of the virtual reality stuff yet. It was just conveyors and restraints and all these little grabby claws. It had my ankles before I could get up again. I was nearly to my feet when these silver cuffs shot out from either side of the belt and tugged me down to my back. Then one snaked around my neck. It was just measuring for my collar, but I was pinned. Once it snared my arms, the big cuff wrapped around my waist to take that measurement… but it squeezed hard."



She stopped for a moment. "I uh... went. Right there. In my clothes. And of course the machine noticed. I tried to tug out whatever limb I could but I was stuck fast. The machine was only programmed to open snap crotches, so two of those little grabby claws grabbed my pants by the crotch, smeared all of my... mess... around, and ripped my pants and panties right in two. It smelled horrible. It was terrifying. But I was... exhilarated?"



Shiloh had stopped scratching. What she had experienced didn't seem nearly so bad. During her first time in the machine she had gotten to be an astronaut. It was still so vivid, the stars, the voices, the absence of gravity.



"It cleaned me up, rough, cold, business-like, lifting me however it wanted like I was a doll. I had programmed this sequence, knew the exact moves and motions. I marveled at how well my machine worked. I watched the large cylinder rise up and spray a cloud of baby powder on me, then another metal unit supply the enormous white diaper, all for me. I gave up struggling. The cuff around my waist lifted up my bottom, placed the diaper underneath, and two grippers secured the tapes. It was soft, cottony, very tight. All the padding bunched up between my legs. It was done... and I felt... better. I was cleaned up, the diaper was so... nice? Secure? C-comfortable?"



Dani trailed off again, lost in thought, before blinking back to her train of thought. "Anyway, it shoved a pacifier in my mouth and spat me out the front. Bottomless, in a big diaper. Dr. Strait was at the control panel, hadn't even noticed what happened. I don't think he's looked at me the same since then. Respected me as a scientist. An equal."



Shiloh laid her hand on the pink diaper between them. "You can stop. If you want you can wear this," she said. "It's fine."



"I just want you to get it."



"I get it," Shiloh said. "You like them."



"But it's more than that! Don't you need to you know why? Aren't you curious?"



"I'm not a scientist," Shiloh said, shrugging, pushing Dani onto her back. "But I am a babysitter. And that makes me a people pleaser."



Dani's breaths were shallow and quick. Shiloh could feel Dani's eyes watching every move she made. She pushed the hem of the white sundress up, and Dani looked away, covered up her face a little bit.



"Hold this for me," Shiloh said, lifting up Dani's dress all the way, handing her the hem, revealing a simple pair of white panties underneath. "Thank you," she said, thinking, then adding, "Sweetie."



"...I've never had a real person do it before," Dani nearly whispered from behind her dress, the white fabric covering up most of her face, except those curious eyes. "Ch-change me. It's... gentler. Different."



Shiloh hooked her fingers into the waistband of Dani's panties. Her fingertips touching Dani's skin, removing her clothes like this, it was a little electric—some small part of her feeding off this… power. She had the power over this girl, no, this older woman. Shiloh looked back to Dani's eyes, saw apprehension, saw vulnerability. It was... cute. She slid Dani's panties down her legs, then picked up the pink diaper.



"Lift up, cutie," she said. Dani looked away, complying. This part was just like any other for Shiloh. She opened up the diaper, ran a finger up the leg guards, folded the diaper in half to break up the padding a little bit, and then placed it under Dani's raised bottom.



"Very good," she cooed. "And down?"



Dani lowered her bottom onto the diaper, which crinkled a bit in response. Shiloh pulled the front up between her legs, adjusting the fit.



"Do you have any baby powder for your diaper?" she asked, casually.



"...No," Dani replied.



"Well that's no good!" Shiloh said, getting up to look around for some.



"No no no no no no!" Dani stammered, sitting up on her elbows. "Don't leave me like this! What if he gets home?"



Shiloh tried to hide her smirk, enjoying her chance to push Dani's buttons. She knelt back down and finished her job, taping up the pink diaper nice and snug, adjusting the fit around Dani's thighs, patting the thick padding around her crotch, rolling her over, and patting her right on the bum.



Dani swatted Shiloh's hands away, her dress falling, revealing a very red face. "Okay, okay, that's plenty."



Shiloh rolled her back over, pulling up her white panties over the diaper. The plastic poked out of the waist and leg holes, so she dutifully tucked it in until it looked just right. She slid the dress back down into place.



"All done!" she said, cheerfully.



"Thank you..." Dani said, getting to her feet.



"Don't mention it!" Shiloh said, before smacking her right on the padded bum with a dull thwap. She her held hand there, pressed into the diaper's padding. "You keep this between us, okay? None of this in front of Logan. What he's seen is bad enough."



Dani frowned. "Deal. And... sorry about that."



"It's cool," Shiloh said, pressing her thumb to her chest. "Like I said, I'm a people pleaser. I'm just happy to be out of diapers. And you're happy to be in diapers. And Logan--"



Shiloh trailed off, looking up at the stairs. Dani tilted her head and turned around.



Logan stood at the top of the stairs, peeking out from the very top corner.



Dani brushed her dress down in a futile attempt to cover up her diaper.



Shiloh rolled her eyes.



Dani flushed deep red.



Logan nearly fell down the stairs laughing.