#cod agere

Practically attached to whoever he's snuggling with while he sleeps too

Price was considered fatherly already, but experiencing one of his teammates being tiny increased it. He's the type to tie your shoes or help slip them off at the end of the day. He's the one to make sure you're tucked in properly at bedtime, which he enforces very strictly. The others often try to get him to let you stay up longer but he knows when his little one needs to sleep. So locked in he tries to baby you even when you're not in that headspace. Safe to say Price is the main caregiver.

Gaz likes to take advantage of you feeling tiny because it makes you extra sleepy and cuddly. When you're not, cuddling isn't even in the equation. But when you are, he loves just spending the entire day laying on the couch with you tucked into his side covered in a soft blanket. Nobody has seen you? Probably being tiny and laying on Gaz while watching your favorite TV shows and movies. He's the best at getting you to take naps (and usually falls asleep with you).

Soap riles you up 24/7. As soon as he gets word that you're feeling tiny from one of the others he's immediately gathering stuff to play with you. He already loves doing stuff with you on a normal day; but having a little buddy to play with and coo at? Even better. It doesn't matter if you're hyper or calm, loud or quiet, he's finding a game to play. You can even have the itty bittiest baby headspace and he still finds ways to have fun. Soap gets allegations of also being tiny because of how much he loves playing with toys with you, but he doesn't care.

Ghost was very hesitant whenever he first found out about your headspace. Even after the others became comfortable and fit into the role perfectly, he still felt out of the mix. Everyone knew how iffy he was around children, but maybe it would be different because it was you. If he ever found you feeling tiny, he would just hand you off to one of the others. They knew what to do and how to care for you. But over time he grew a little fond of holding you in his lap while he worked. You would simply curl up on his lap and lay against his chest while he typed on his computer or scribbled out reports with a pen. Admittedly, he grew to love the company.

That, with the addition of the fuzziness in his head. Every night, it's the same thing. Same steps, same time. But with everything getting fuzzier the sleepier he gets, it gets so much more difficult to balance all of it at once.

Although he's known Price a long time, and therefore Nik a long time too, if he's not the one who's checked everything, then it keeps him up longer. If he's unlucky, he wakes up in the middle of the night with it on his mind.

It has to be the same.

Any variation in routine leaves him stuck on the bathroom floor, hiccuping sobs that consume his whole body. It's his plan, it has been for several years.

The only time it ever can differ is when Nik is home, instead of just their Mama. Even then, it makes him gnaw at his cheek.

Nik is so, so careful with him as he tucks the blankets around him nice and snug, far better than Mama typically does. It's their little secret, though. Sometimes Baba does it better.

The bed creaks as Nik settles over the covers next to Kyle. There's a brief moment that Nik waits—not hesitating, waiting—for Kyle to decide if he can stay. A quiet beat of time, waiting for the boy to either snuggle up to him or nudge him away.

Kyle laying his head on Nik's chest tells him the answer; he can stay.

"Be slow," Gaz huffs just a little bit through his nose.

"I'll read slow, little one, do not worry." Baba hums, accompanied by a gentle hand stroking the back of his neck. He sits with a knee up, that way his other hand can prop a book against it to flip through the pages easier.

"You promise-?" His eyebrows furrow. Kyle wiggles a little bit to nudge himself closer to his caregiver.

"Da, of course. And I always stay until you sleep, I promise." Nik adds the extra reassurance of a soft kiss on Kyle's forehead.

"M'kay..." The boy mumbles back, the rest of his face scrunching at the kiss, and then the warm laughter of Nik chuckling at him.

"Finish where we left off, hm?"

"Go back a chapter!"

"Even better." Said without any sarcasm, too. Gaz likes that about Nik, especially when he's small. He has his sarcastic comments, but with him? Direct and honest.

Kyle snuggles up to his caregiver as he softly begins to read. A kids chapter book that he's forgotten the name of in his sleepy, fuzzy mind. That hand on the back of his neck still softly stroking his skin, keeping a constant touch that keeps Kyle here. Listening and allowing his eyes to droop closed the longer Nik reads.

And like Kyle, it makes Nik sleepy too. As always, though, Nik presses another kiss to his forehead with a soft goodnight, my otter before 'resting his eyes'.

When Price finds them later after Nik doesn't come to bed, he doesn't wake the two of them up. That bed can fit the two of them just fine, and Kyle finally looks like he's resting.

A boy and his Baba. That's who Kyle needed, of course it is. The man who can get him to rest so much easier than everyone else, can settle that rigid state of mind to let Kyle breathe...

Occasionally, John wonders what he's not doing right or what mustn't be enough for Gaz to ease up the rest of the way. As long as he can rest with Nik, though, it'll be okay.

He'll kiss both their heads and tuck a Gaz pre-approved blanket over Nik so he doesn't get cold overnight, before heading to bed himself.

John still wakes up with a full bed anyway, Johnny at his left and Simon at his right.