Itty bitty imps

4. 💚Home away from home 💚

Notes:

TW: talking about past child neglect, being trafficked, meltdown, crying, threatening remarks, being owned by someone else.

Present day:

Fizzarolli woke up the next morning, expecting to be in his own apartment, but very happily found himself in the extremely comfortable crib at Asmodeus's place.

The nursery Ozzie set up was so nice. It was peaceful and colorful and quiet; things Fizzarolli didn't experience often.

He needs to get up, he's so tired but it would be rude to sleep in after Ozzie made such an effort for him, right? He climbs over the rails, clumsily falling on the floor face first. But he gets up again and walks out to the kitchen.

He made his way there and saw Asmodeus making breakfast. Pancakes in the shape of hearts! With sprinkles?!? That's pretty fucking fancy.

"Hi." Fizz says meekly.

"Good morning!" Ozzie sang, turning around and smiling at the sight of his....little. "How's my baby feeling today?" He asks.

"Uh I'm okay." Fizz says, he's not really little right now, so he's not sure how one would react normally to all this coddling.

"Sit down, dear and have some breakfast." He instructs. "I let Mammon know you are taking a few days off." Asmodeus informed him.

"Oh...what did he say?" Fizz asks nervously sitting down.

Asmodeus tiles his head. "He said it was fine, in fact he prefers it when you take weekdays off rather than weekends." Ozzie takes a plate with three pancakes on it and hands them to Fizz.

Fizzarolli sighs in relief. "That's good. I hate making him angry."

"I know, sweetheart." Asmodeus cooes. "Anyway, enough shoptalk. What would you like to do today, little Imp?"

Fizz sighs, feeling a little frustrated that Oz is pushing the regression thing on him already. He always has fun when regressed, but he hates not being in control. "I dont know, I'm not feeling very little right now. Do I have to regress?" He asks.

"Of course not." Ozzie says. "But it would probably help if you did, right? I notice when you do regress, you're a lot more energetic and happier throughout the week."

"I just- it feels like it's so... it's weird." Fizz says, trying to explain.

"Probably because you haven't regressed in a while, Fizz. You really should regress every week or so." Ozzie says.

"Right," Fizzarolli scoffs. "Like Mammon would allow that."

"Well, maybe we can just talk to Mammon?" Ozzie suggested. "Maybe he'll understand if we told him about-"

"He won't." Fizz crossed his arms.

"What makes you say that?" Ozzie asks.

"He just won't!" Fizz says, again.

"But how can you know he won't if you don't-"

"Because!" Fizz interrupts, causing Ozzie to take a step back. Fizz shakes his head and sighs in defeat. "Because he already knows about it."

"What?" Ozzie asks.

"He-" Fizzarolli groans silently, he didn't want to re-live this; but without an explanation, Oz might go talk to Mammon about it anyway. He couldn't let him do that! Mammon would be so disappointed! He can't make him angry- he can't!