Dolls in the Nursery
A/N: I want to thank all of you that feel this story is worth following! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. If the numbering is confusing you, don't worry it will all change in the next chapter but for now here is the newest chapter and you'll get to meet some more residents of this doll house :D Hope you like and please love and REVIEW!
"Hey wake up! 1246 wake up, didn't you get like enough sleep already in stasis?"
1246 was shaken awake by the same Beta that had so kindly taken him to his dorm and shown him the way to the showers.
"Oh, sorry I guess I just …."
"Yeah you fell asleep well it happens after a big day but anyway get up already I have to take you down to the mess hall and we have to be there before all the Alphas like totally eat everything."
"Ahhh I have to meet the Alphas?"
Poland opened the closet and pulled out the little mess of clothes that 1246 had put away after returning from the shower and shuffled through them. "You are like so messy ugh, hey wait why didn't you put these on?"
Poland held up a strange cloth. "What's that?"
"These are underwear and you wear it under your tunic but I'm going to guess that you didn't see the guide when getting dressed."
1246 shook his head slowly feeling slightly embarrassed that he hadn't bothered to check for more instructions.
Poland gave a slight giggle behind his hand. "I guess that means you're all easy breezy down there how cute." Poland adjusted the material in his hand and handed them to the new doll. "I like totally won't put them on you but I'll tell you how to put them on, just stick your legs through these holes and make sure that this part stays in the front."
"Like this?" 1246 clumsily tried to stick one foot in through the opening and then the other but became tangled and fell back on his bed.
"Well something like that. Just sit on the bed when putting your feet in and then stand up and pull the underwear up slowly until …"
"OUCH!"
Poland couldn't help the amused laughter that escaped his lips as 1246 rolled on the bed curled up in pain. "Well I told you to do it didn't I?"
"I don't like this underwear thing."
"Well you'll get used to them but make sure they're pulled up to your hips and then put all your other clothes on, and these here go on your feet."
1246 pulled the tunic down and took the strange looing plastic items.
"These are your shoes, they just slip on but won't hurt so you don't have to like be scared or anything and this is all you'll be wearing until you enter the training, and then you get new clothes."
Poland pulled the new doll from his room and quickly shuffled them down the opposite end of the wing down another long and plain looking corridor until the faint sounds of commotion could be heard.
"W…w..what is that?"
"Oh that's just the mess hall, and believe me it may be called a mess hall but you don't want to even try to make a mess or the punishment is to clean the entire Beta wing."
"Why is it so loud?"
"Happy bellies make happy dolls, and happy dolls are well… you'll see…" Poland glamorously opened the light double doors and inside were rows and rows of tables, and scattered all around were dolls of every kind.
1246 was once again frozen in place as his eyes scanned every doll carefully, he saw tall dolls, short dolls, young looking dolls, and older looking dolls, some were arguing aggressively, and some were chit chatting pleasantly.
"You know, if you just like stand around every time you see something new you'll never survive here."
"Huh? What oh I'm sorry it's just well….I've never seen …"
"Whatever you can meet them all later and then you'll be just as bored as me now come on!"
Poland pulled 1246 by the hand and pushed his way through half the dolls that were already waiting in line.
"Move it, new doll, excuse me move it Beta and new doll coming through!"
"Is this ok every one is looking angry…" 1246 couldn't help but cringe at the deep stares they were being given.
"Pssshhht ignore them, I'm not waiting around forever and look at all the Alphas, there won't be any food left after they're done."
"Poland you know you can't abuse your authority like that."
"Oh can it Japan, don't you see that I'm like totally helping this new doll out?"
1246 looked across the glass to see a short doll with short dark hair and calm looking eyes. Though a slightly agitated expression was visible.
"I am very pleased to meet you, I am doll 3514, but here at Doll House you can call me Japan." The shorter doll gave a slight bow and offered a tray full of food to the new doll.
"Oh thank you, I am doll 1246, I just woke up today."
"Really? I had not been informed of a new doll scheduled to awaken today, is he a second gen?"
"No, he's like a total first gen, I know its weird right? Oh well, where's my tray?"
Japan let out a small sigh. "Pease do not make this a habit, I will not be punished for your foolish behavior."
"Thank you! Hugs and Kisses!" Poland blew a kiss to the doll as he took his tray and then walked away with 1246 walking right behind him. "Ok now where to sit you, let's see…"
"Can't we sit together?"
"It's like totally all crowded so we'll have to separate but don't worry I'll come get you later if you need help getting back." Poland scanned the room again carefully, the young doll was scared of Alphas which was just as well since they are rather overwhelming at first, and the Omegas were all in the kitchen or flittering about taking care of the mess hall today, and Betas were too busy taking turns between patrol and eating to make the new doll feel any kind of welcome. "Oh wait I have like a totally brilliant idea, here follow me."
"Where are we going?"
"Well I want to sit you were you can talk freely and get to know other dolls but since you were awakened a little ahead of time there aren't very many new dolls for you to talk to but there are these two second gens that eat alone in the nursery and just woke up from stasis so it's about the same thing."
"Oh, they're second gen? That means they have parent dolls right?"
"Yep, but I would be careful about asking them about that, they're like so touchy about it it's a pain really but you'll like totally like them."
"Ok here we are the nursery, now you go in there and like be cool."
Poland opened the door and stepped inside where two blond dolls sat at a table in the corner of the room.
"Hey Poland! Long time no see!" 1246 almost just out of his skin at the loud booming voice that welcomed the Beta.
"Hey Alfred you look like so totally different now I just can't believe you're that same little dollie that used to run around and play superhero."
"Ummm hi Poland." 1246 looked over and was surprised to see a shy looking blond doll with slightly long messy hair sitting at the table holding something tightly in his lap.
"Oh hi Mathew didn't see you there, listen guys, this new doll just woke up and is like all totally clueless about everything so is it ok for him to eat with you guys?"
"Really a new doll? Oh sweet! I'm never allowed to meet new dolls so what's your name? I'm Alfred and this is my lil' bro Mathew!"
"Alfred I'm your big brother!"
"Yeah but I woke up first and you're all shorter and stuff." Alfred laughed loudly as his brother continued to what 1246 interpreted as yelling at the other for being rude and mean.
"Well I'll get back to the mess hall, I don't want Lit to think I'm slacking off. Laters." Poland left and now 1246 was alone with the brother dolls.
"Please come sit, don't mind him he's just a jerk." Mathew tilted his head over to mean Alfred who was completely oblivious to the insult.
"Thank you, I'm 1246 …"
"Whoa, you don't have a name yet that's so cool! You really are a new doll."
"Oh well I was told that we get names after we enter training, does that mean that you two already went through training?"
The brothers look at each other and then looked back. "No." They replied in unison.
"We do have serial numbers but we've never used them, we were given names by our parent dolls."
"Yeah, I think serial numbers are used to track the gnome line right? So in our case we were born here to their resident dolls and didn't need to use them so instead we get to use our names."
"So you were born?"
"Yeah, I hear that first gen dolls are made in a lab but Mathew and I were made the human way through the breeding program."
"I'm a first gen doll."
"OH REALLY THAT'S SO COOL I'VE NEVER MEET A NEW FIRST GEN!"
"Alfred calm down or Mama might come and think you're being bad again."
Alfred looked around but saw no sign of the doll in question. "So you don't have parent dolls then that's cool, so when you were born what was it like?"
"Well it wasn't called being born, I was told I awakened and it was really cold and dark. I didn't know what was going on, I couldn't move right away and they kept poking me with sharp things."
"That sounds scary…" Mathew hugged his item tighter in his lap.
"I was told that I have a brother though…"
"OH so first Gen can have brothers that's new to me."
"Alfred don't be an idiot, Mama said that he had brothers remember?"
"Oh yeah but they're at another Doll House so I just forget."
"Mama?"
"That's what we call our doll parent that gave birth to us."
"Did your parent dolls make you in the lab?"
"Wow you really don't know how dolls work huh?" Alfred looked at the new doll with fascination."
1246 felt a bit embarrassed to shake his head. "I just woke up today so now I really don't, I don't even know how I was made or why I'm here."
"Well everything we know we learned from our parent dolls…but I guess that's what makes us different and what makes us the same."
For a moment the three ate their meal quietly, not knowing what else to talk about. The difference between the three seemed to be very deep and neither could provide solid answers.
"So when will training happen? Do you know?" 1246 decided to try and make conversation again, feeling a bit anxious when the room had gone silent.
"We haven't been told yet, that part wasn't taught to us but if there are more dolls waking up then that means that it should be soon." Mathew offered as he watched his brother trying to force a large amount of food down his throat at once.
"So you guys live here in the …nursery I think it was called right?"
"Yeah, we've been here since before we were put in stasis and then when we woke up we were brought back here…is there somewhere else to live, I mean where are you living?"
"I was given a room in the Beta wing rooms but it's not as umm…decorated as this place. This room has lots of things to look at and well what are all those things?"
The two looked around to what 1246 was referring to.
"Those are called toys, dollies are given lots of things to play with and we were given lots of toys by our Papa, I remember our nest box was always full of new things to play with."
"Papa?"
"Papa is the doll parent that mated with Mama to make us." Mathew seemed to know a bit more than his brother, and for a moment 1246 noticed that Alfred would listen intently to what Mathew had to say.
"I don't remember Mama or Papa very much…but Mathew seems to remember them before…"
"Alfred I was just a couple of years older than you but don't worry at least we still have each other right?"
Alfred scrunched up his face as if trying hard to find an answer to that statement, irritation very much visible on his brother's face.
"Aww you know I'm happy to have you Mathew!" Alfred suddenly threw his arms around the other and held him close almost squeezing him hard enough to crush him."
"I hope that when I get to meet my brother we can be happy like this too!" 1246 seemed to have a sense of happiness flow through him at the thought of having another doll he could connect to."
"We don't always get along…"
"But we'll always have each other's back."
"So where are your parent dolls? Are they in training?" 1246 hadn't realized he had asked about the one topic he had been warned about until after the words had left his mouth. The look on both dolls sitting across from him changed into almost opposite emotions before both settled on a look of sadness. "Oh I'm sorry! If you don't want to talk about it that's ok I mean I shouldn't have…"
"They're around…well at least Mama is…" Alfred continued to eat as if trying to gather his thoughts before continuing. "I don't remember Papa at all, he's not here at Doll House anymore."
"I remember Papa but it's bad to talk about him here…" Mathew hugged his toy closer again and continued to eat.
"I'm sorry."
"Hey don't worry about it, soon we'll all get to know each other better and learn everything we want to know in training and since we're all awake at the same time then that means we'll all go together!" Alfred stood with his chest puffed out to make himself look important. "So we can all be friends and go on assignments together!"
"I really hope we go to training soon because I really don't know what you're talking about half the time." 1246 felt like his head was doing flops and suddenly it began to feel pain. Alfred just laughed whole heartedly as if he had just been told he was the greatest doll in Doll House.
"To be honest, I'm also looking forward to training, it would be nice to be allowed to leave the nursery. It was fun when I was a dollie but now it just seems a little bit boring."
"Yeah no kidding, we never get to leave and that means we don't get to see any other dolls that aren't Betas but they don't talk to us much either."
"Well we did get to kind of meet a Beta but he's not very nice and doesn't like to talk much and doesn't like to let us get near his nesting box."
"Nesting box?"
"Yeah dolls with dollies are put in nesting boxes until the dollie is old enough to be around other dolls."
"Aww he has a dollie? Can we see him?"
"I wouldn't recommend it, Mama said that parent dolls don't really like to be bothered when nesting so we can't go see him either."
"That's too bad."
"Hey don't be sad, we'll just have to wait until he is bigger and come out into the nursery area and that will be when the parent doll is strong enough to go back to assignments."
"Man, the food's all gone again…I wish they'd give more." Alfred looked down to his tray and was sad to see that he had picked it clean. "I hope they give us more food when we're in training 'cause I want to eat lots more if I'm supposed to be strong and do hard work."
1246 looked down to his tray and was surprised that he too was all out of food, not even a crumb had been left behind but now his belly felt full and content. "This was my first food."
"You mean meal, food is what was on the tray but all together it's called a meal."
"Oh, meal, this was my first meal."
The three laughed and enjoyed the lightened atmosphere.
"So why are you here in the nursery?"
1246 got up and walked over to a pile of toys and picked them up to inspect them. "Poland said that there are no other new dolls for me to talk to and that you guys are almost like me since you guys just woke up."
"Oh well that makes sense but does that mean that you saw other dolls?"
"Yes but there were so many of them that I got scared…oh but I did meet a nice doll named Japan and he gave me my…meal."
"Japan…that means he already went through training, you should ask him what it's like and then come tell us about it."
"It would be fun to know what to expect." Mathew was the last to finish his meal and finally went to sit with the new doll and offered his toy for 1246 to inspect. "This is my favorite bear…Papa gave him to me when Alfred was born."
"Bear…"
"I named him Hitohiro!"
"No you weirdo, you named him Kumajiro! Jeeze you always forget his name and you're the one that named him." Alfred then ran to one of the corners and pulls out a box with little people painted with red clothes. "These are my favorite toys, they're called soldiers."
"Soldiers." 1246 repeated. He hugged the Kumajiro bear closely and watched as Mathew and Alfred aline all the soldiers in the box up from one end of the room to the other.
"Here, you take a soldier and then make him talk and make pretend to do things with him…like this…"
The three sat in the room playing with soldiers, and even used other toys in the room for their pretending. 1246 had become engrossed with the activity, he didn't have much to say and just followed along to what the brothers were doing but he still felt very happy that he was in that room. He hadn't even noticed when a familiar Beta had entered the room.
"1246 it's time for lights out soon."
The three stopped and looked to the darker haired Beta.
"Hi Lithuania."
"Hello boys, I see you three are getting along just fine, did you have fun 1246?"
"Yes! I learned a lot from them but do I have to go back to my dorm?"
"Yes, it's time for all dolls to go to sleep now so you have to go back to your room for the night and you two try to keep it down tonight."
"Well tell Mathew to stop taking away my pillow!"
"I don't take it you throw it at me!"
"We've all told you before just start sleeping in separate nests already or keep it down you make the dollie cry."
"We're sorry." Mathew looked down truly feeling apologetic while his brother Alfred only laughed as if it was the funniest thing he had ever heard.
"Ok well 1246 please come with me."
"Bye 1246 remember to ask about training and then come tell us!"
"Yes I will." The new doll smiled brightly at the two brothers and left the nursery heading back to his dorm room. "Will I get to come and eat with them again?"
"Yes, until you feel you're ready to eat with the other dolls but I won't blame you if you don't want to right now."
"NO I DON'T WANT TO!" 1246 shook his head furiously.
"Don't worry, you'll feel better when you get to know more about your purpose here."
"My purpose?"
"Yes all dolls are made with a purpose but that will all be explained in training."
"I keep hearing about training but what is it exactly?"
"Training is where you will learn about Doll House, what you are, and what you will do." All dolls go through training so when enough new dolls are gathered you will be put through training."
"And when will that be?"
"Well no one was scheduled to be awake yet but since you and your brother woke up ahead of time, and with those two still in the nursery Doll House might send you four soon."
"That's good I can't wait, I have so many things I want to know about like what is the difference between being awakened and being born, and why I don't have a parent doll but Mathew and Alfred do….ummm can I ask you, what happened to their parent dolls? Mathew said that the Papa doll is not here but their Mama dolls is but I didn't see him…where are they?"
The two stopped at the same door that still only read 1246. 1246 Opened it and walked inside but still looked intently at Lithuania for an answer.
"Some things are not allowed to be mentioned here, so please do not ask again." The beta walked to the closet and took out a new set of clothes. "These are your pajamas, they are robes to wear only when you will go to sleep for lights out, you don't wear your shoes on the bed or you may get the bed dirty."
"Ok, umm…" 1246 muttered as he struggled to redress himself.
"Something on your mind?" Lithuania was helping 1246 find a way to poke his head through the pajamas before he hurt himself.
"I was just still curious about my brother doll…"
"Sorry about that but if the doctors still have him then there must be reason. Just go to sleep for tonight and tomorrow you can learn more things and that way when you do finally get to meet your brother doll you can teach him and he won't feel so lost."
1246 smiled a bit as he allowed himself to be pushed back on his bed and tucked in. He really wished he had awakened with his brother and they would be here together and talk about all the interesting new things they would have learned together, but if he had been there, 1246 wondered if he would have been allowed to meet Alfred and Mathew in the nursery.
"Lithuania, why are Mathew and Alfred still in the nursery?"
"I believe those two have special circumstances, they are the first Dolls to be born to our facility so maybe they're still trying to figure out what to do with them. I think it has to do with parent dolls but you don't have to worry about that, besides, it is not a dolls place to question Doll House."
"Oh."
"Well that's it for today, just rest and in the morning your room will light up again and then you are expected to shower, change and get breakfast in the mess hall."
"Breakfast? Is that a meal?"
"Yes, it's the morning meal when you first wake up after lights out, then you will get to explore some more."
"Will I get to eat in the Nursery again?"
"I think that will be alright…for now."
"Ok well thank you."
"Good night 1246."
Before 1246 could ask what that mean the Beta was out the door and before long the light in his room dimmed and finally turned off. The room was now dark and silent, nothing was heard except for the quiet shuffling of his feet on the stiff blankets. 1246 knew what sleep was, he had done it so easily earlier before meal time but this time he felt his mind was not so helpful. His mind was still very much active and asking so many questions that he was not able to ask the other dolls. The new doll turned and turned attempting to feel tired enough to fall asleep, but only succeeded in tangling his legs up in the sheets.
1246 finally decided to sleep on his side and through the darkness he caught a glimpse of the empty bed across from him. His mind had by now become bored and tired but still questioned the whereabouts of the missing doll.
'I wonder if he will look like me, Alfred and Mathew look similar but not the same; their hair is different and so are their eyes but you can see they look similar.' 1246 couldn't help a yawn that escaped him. 'They don't act the same either, they are very different, so does that mean that all dolls are different even if they are from the same genome? What is a genome anyway?"
With so many different thoughts running through his head, 1246 slipped off into sleep.
A/N: Well for now this is the end of this chapter. I guess you've all noticed that for once I don't write long chapters but oh well. Please review and let me know what you all think, this story was all inspired by a weird dream and thought I had believe it or not. Now I'm wondering, I know that I've writing this up in a way where it is supposed to make you ask questions but I now have a curiosity as to what those questions are? Review and ask please I wish to know hehehe. Love to you all poppets!