Daily Free-Write October 3, 2020 (Patreon)

His mouth was dry. He was hot. Tired. His water had long ago run out. He lay there with his eyes half closed. What was he going to do now? With not a drop of water in sight, he knew he would be a goner for sure. 

"Hellllppp," he whispered. "Waterrr.. need...water..."

"Nicky? Nicky?"

"Doug? Is that you? I can't see... everything is going dark... I need... water..." 

"Nicky. Get out of bed! It's almost noon!" 

"My water glass... so empty..." 

"Yeah, I'll bet I know where all that water went too!" said Doug, whipping off the younger pup's blanket and poking his squishy pampers. 

"Carry me to water, Doug... I'm too weak to do it myself..."

"That's Daddy to you, sprout, and you'd better get your but out of bed or I'm gonna have to take drastic measures."

"Your methods won't work on me, evildoer..." said Nick, listelessly. 

"Oh, I have my ways," said Doug, smiling an evil grin and readying his fingers for another round of tickle torture. 

Nick rolled away in the opposite direction and rolled off the bed with a thud. 

"Ow." he said. 

"Are you okay, Sprout?" asked the bigger dog, mildly concerned. 

"I thought that would be a little more graceful than it was." 

Nick popped his head over the side of the bed and grinned. His nose was bleeding but he didn't seem to notice or mind. 

"Hey hey hey! You're gonna stain the bedspread! Off to the bathroom with you! Let's go!" 

Doug hustled the younger dog into the bathroom and told him to wash up, inspecting his nose after and dabbing it with some liquid bandage.

"Owww, hey! I can do that myself! I'm a big boy, Daddy!"

"Yeah, sure ya are. Now go get another diaper, big boy, Daddy's gonna change you before you leak all over."

He shook his head as the overgrown pup ran off to grab another diaper. He was going to have to put rails on the bed. Yet another item in a growing list of baby-proofing to-dos that he threatened his accident prone boyfriend with on a daily basis. 

He went back into the bedroom to find Nick patiently lying on the bed in the diaper change position. 

"Alright, sprout. So you picked the firefighter pups today, huh?"

Nicky nodded smiling and wagging his tail as Doug went to work on soggy padding. 

"Yeah! I'm gonna be a firefighter and put out all the fires!"

"With that little hose?"

"Hey, it's not the size of the hose, it's how you use it!"

"Yeah, everybody knows how you use yours, soggy butt!" 

Nick just wagged and nodded. He wasn't complaining. After a summer in diapers, he had finally accepted the fact that he was going to have to wear them, though he was rarely ever excited at the prospect.

"Alright, kiddo, that oughtta patch the leak - at least for a little while."

He ushered his little one downstairs for lunch, which consisted of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, sliced apples, and a nice mug of hot cocoa to wash it down. 

Signs of Fall were finally beginning to show. This was their favorite season because Fall meant cozy days at home. It was a season of warm colors, warm spiced foods, and of course hot cocoa! And today was a special day because it was their lazy day. Something that Nick was perhaps a little too good at. 

As they sat on the couch and looked out at the autumn leaves, Nick wondered aloud when the first one would fall. 

"Well, I don't know," said Doug. "Who's to say the first one hasn't fallen already? Have you checked?"

"No," said the younger dog, shaking his head. 

"Well, then let's go investigate!" 

Nick groaned. He didn't want to leave the cozy house. But Doug insisted. It wouldn't do to stay inside all the time anyway. 

Doug zipped nick up in his puffy vest  and slipped the cub-harness on him as well.

"Do I have to wear this?" asked Nick, blushing furiously.

"Absolutely you do. Otherwise I know you'll run off into traffic or something!"

"Oh, come on, that was like one time!"

"Once is enough, sprout! Now move your butt!" 

Once they were outside, Nick's attitude completely changed. He was running from one spot to another, dragging Doug along with him. Luckily the older dog was pretty fit from his work in construction, so he had the energy to keep up with his overstimulated boyfriend. 

"I'm going to have to get you some sugar free cocoa, kiddo!" 

"Hey! Hey! What's that?" Nick asked, pointing to a pile of leaves.

"I do believe you've found the first leaves of fall, Nicky!" 

The pup laughed and dove for the leaves. but when he landed, he screamed, causing Doug to jump about a foot and a half.

"Geeze Louise, Nicky! You darn near gave me a heart attack! What it is it?"

The younger dog's face was terror stricken, his eyes wide, his jaws flapping like he had just stepped out of the pool. He had put some distance between the leaves and he was pointing at a largish object poking out of the leaves. 

"It's a- It's a- It's a- b-body!" he finally spat out.