Chapter 4
August stood in the warm water. He was thinking. He hadn't regressed since he was about 16. His mother always treated him gently, being a natural caregiver. She was good to him and his dad. His dad was a alfa and loved her more anything in the world. Her death made him violent.
He thought about how he easily submitted to Nick. It was his nature. And the fact that he might feel love again, made him genuinely excited. His little age was around 1-2. However, the lack of fully regressing defiantly damaged that. He'll have to be tested again to judge his current age range. Nicks so nice to him. He just makes him slip. And he feels so ready to let go.
A knock at the door pulled August out of his thought. "Ok kid, are you almost done?" Nick asks through the cracked door. August shuts off the water and rapped himself in his towel. It felt warm. "M-mmhm." He murmured loudly. Nick entered with a pile of clothes. He smiles at the drippy boy with large green eye looking at him curiously. "How old you feeling, bud?" Nick coos as he sets the pile on the counter. "Mm." Auggy reply's holding one hand out, clutching his towel with the other. He was pouting and his eyes were huge.
Nick chuckles. "Is it ok if I help you get dried off and dressed?" Auggy nods making grabby hands with his free hand. Nick walks over to the boy, takes the towel, and makes quick work to dry August's hair. He whines the entire time and his thumb finds its way to his mouth. Nick chuckle as he dries off the rest of the boy. August giggled as he dried his sides and bottom.
Nick smiled gently, wrapping the towel around Auggy, and picking him up out of the tub with one arm. He snatched the pile of clothes off the counter as he walked to the living room. Auggy coos as he sees the big play pen and baby gym in the middle of the room. "Yeah buddy, Toys for you to play with." Nick said with a smile at the boy.
Auggy tilts his head as he's laid on the play gym. Toys hung above his head and he started reaching for them giggling. Nick smiled, glad he was distracted. He quickly diapers the boy.
By the time Fury had Auggy dressed, August finally looked at himself. He was wearing a red onesie and blue socks. His fingers were still in in his mouth as he looked back up at Fury. He had a warm caring smile and chuckled at the small boy. "Let's not eat our hands, buddy. That's gross." Nick cooed, pulling Auggy's fingers from his mouth. This earned him whines and squirms from the obviously infant mindset that August was in. He shushed as he slid a captain America themed binky into the boys mouth. A few moments of August moving the object with his tongue, he quickly got a rhythm for it and smiled up at Nick. Little giggles escaped his lips as he reached for Nick to pick him up. Nick stood and took the boy on his hip. "Hey little guy." He said in almost a whisper as he bounced August. August sort of gurgled and kicked his feet lightly. He was nonverbal.
Nick took note of that.
August kept gripping Nicks shirt. Like he was seeing what his hands could do. Nick sat on the small couch with the boy and dug through the backpack he'd packed for him. He pulled out two red mittens, that had white fabric in the center of the palms. They were made to look like the repulsers from the Ironman suit. The whole outfit was inspired by the Captain America and Ironman suits. This was his kind of baby shower gift to the couple who'd be getting little Auggy very soon.
He slipped them on Auggy with no fuss. He looked at his hands when he got them back and patted at Nicks chest. Nick smiled at his curious behavior. August let out a yawn and leaned into Nick more. Nick chuckled and played with the boys hair. He knew August was out when he felt his even breathes. He even snores a little. He gently gets off the couch and lays the boy in the large playpen. He covered him up in a big blue fuzzy blanket that Steve and Tony gave him for the little guy, and gave him his stuffed rabbit he found on the floor when he got here. August's binky bobbed rhythmically between his lips as he snuggled close to the blanket and stuffie. Nick smiled at the sight.
After a few minutes of watching the boy sleep, Nick felt his phone vibrating in his pocket and quickly went into August's room to take the phone call. "Hello?" Nick said in a more serious tone then he was using around the mental baby. "Hey, how's it going with August?" Phil spoke on the other line.
"It's going great. He slipped right into headspace after his shower and I just got him to sleep." Nick says as he peeks through the cracked bedroom door to the living room, just to check on the boy.
Nick and Phil talk for a bit, about August's training and how it'll go for the team. Their phone call was interrupted by a certain billionaire calling Nick. "Oh fuck, I forgot to call Tony and Steve." Nick quickly ends his call with Phill picks up Tony's call. "Tony" Nick answers. "Hey Cyclops, so it's been almost two hours since you arrived at your "mission" and we were just wondering if it was time for back up or not." Tony quickly spoke into the phone with his usual snarky tone placed around the word 'mission'. He sounded antsy.
Nick smiled a little. "Yes I meant to call you once I got the kid to sleep-" "To sleep?" Nick was interrupted by Steve. "It's almost 10 o'clock! He shouldn't need a nap till after lunch!" He already sounded like a worrying mother hen. "Calm down Cap." Nick quickly interjected. "The kid has a fucked up sleep schedule from his job."
"Language and old job" Tony teased with the first half of his sentence and it caused Steve to huff. "Will you guys let it go!"
Nick chuckles. "You guys can head this way. He'll be up soon." "Already doing that." Tony responded. "Stevie's driving" Nick rolls his eyes. Of course. "You have the address. I'll see you when you get here." And the phone call ends.