Chapter 2
By the end of the night, the team had all started settling down and had started to get used to their respective bodies. they had all talked it over and decided it would be easier to identify as their bodies were designed, and giving themselves new names to help for the time.
"Hey Stevie, let's get to bed doll," Becky says softly as she realized the time. Stevie just groaned and nuzzled closer to Nata- Nathan. "He's warm and it helps," she says, muffled by where she had buried her face in his shoulder.
"It's okay, I'll handle it tonight." Nathan tells Becky, who sighed but didn't protest. There were no real relationships in the team at the moment, all of them casually slipping in and out of each other's rooms as if they were their own. It was one big poly family (with a few exceptions of course), and they couldn't have minded any other way.
Becky felt a bit guilty for letting someone take care of Stevie, having taken care of her for a majority of both their lives. But Stevie and Nathan seemed okay with it so she didn't have much say on the subject.
Becky sighed and went to crawl into bed after changing into a tank top and some old shorts, and almost was asleep when she felt a cramp in her stomach. Cursing, she got up and went to the bathroom, going to figure out how to use one of the many products she had seen under the sink.
Becky sighed once she finished up and went to go back to bed when she felt another, more sharp cramp and whimpered slightly. She groaned before sighing and went to Walters room, quietly opening the door and quietly getting into bed, not wanting to wake him when a pair of strong arms wrapped around her and she sighed.
"What happened?" Walter asked lowly as he stirred.
"Stevie's not the only one," she says softly in reply as she rested her head on Walters shoulder and curled up. Walter sighed once he figured what she meant and pulled her closer, placing a hand on her lower back and softly massaging it. Becky closed her eyes and hummed, liking the relief she was feeling in her back.
Becky soon fell asleep and eventually Walter did too, holding each other much like Nathan and Stevie were in one of the many rooms down the hall.
The rest of the team had settled in their respective rooms, all seeming to sleep through most of the night with hardly any nightmares or the liking.
The next morning the team started slowly waking up, Toni first waking up and heading for the kitchen straight for a cup of coffee.
Sammy and Stevie had woken up next, Stevie heading straight for the bathroom to take cares of some business while Sammy went to start making breakfast.
Penny came out next, stroking some messy silver-white hair out of her face as she walked over to Sammy, resting her chin on her shoulder and looking at what she was making. "Bacon... My favorite." She says as she wrapped her arms around Sammy's middle. Sammy chuckled as she finished cooking the bacon and set it on a plate. "Good morning." She says to Penny, who just hummed before going to sit down and wait for food.
Nathan came out a moment later and went to sit down after getting a cup of coffee, and Stevie came back from the bathroom and sat next to Nathan, who put his hand on her back and massages gently. It was a tip they had between the girls when they were going through this time, and Stevie realized how much the two others had seemed to appreciate it before now.
She hadn't been completely oblivious before, it's just she didn't know how to deal with it personally and it was really uncomfortable.
Stevie sighed as she rested her forehead on the counter. "Hey hon, it'll be okay soon. Do you want some ibuprofen?" Nathan asks softly. Stevie simply nodded, not saying anything in response. Nathan nodded and got up to get the pills for her, getting a glass of water to take them with at the same time. Stevie sighed as she sat back and took the pills as Sammy set a plateful of food in front of her and Nathan.
Nathan nodded in gratitude and started eating, as did Stevie, Penny, and Toni. Soon the others started to trickle into the room and started to eat.
"So what do we all want to do today?" Sammy asks them all, running a hand through her curly dark hair to keep it out of her face.
"I dunno, we'll figure it out though," Bethanie says, getting up to rinse her plate off.