As Pit was drifting off in Nana's arms in the girl's cabin, Cabin B was just finishing up an all night marathon Pokemon TCG session. Lucas, despite his best efforts, couldn't resist the prospect of staying up all night to play with his friends even though they all had fights scheduled in the morning. His eyes burned and his vision was blurry. Popo and Toon Link, who had passed out about 15 minutes ago after they were eliminated, sat across the table from Lucas and Blue sleeping soundly in their PJ's.
Lucas decided to make quick work of Blue so they could finally lay down for the night. He'd tried his best to lead by example, after they'd had dinner, and was dressed in his usual blue pajamas with the tell-tale bulge around his waist. Popo and Toon Link had followed his lead in getting dressed for bed, but they weren't the ones he was worried about.
He looked to the side at his remaining opponent, Blue, who was wearing his sleepwear (which was the same as his dayware) but did not share the same bulge, much to Lucas' concern. While Lucas had long accepted, and no longer hid, his nighttime diapers from his cabin mates, Blue still thought Lucas was the only one who knew his nighttime secret.
Blue was deep in concentration, considering his cards and what his best strategy would be. He closed his eyes to think for just a second.
He woke up to Lucas holding him by the shoulders, shaking him frantically.
"Dude, you fell asleep!" Lucas hissed at him.
Blue rubbed his eyes. "So what? I'm tired, let's call it a draw," he told Lucas.
"No, that's not the problem. You uh... inked yourself a little," Lucas whispered awkwardly.
"What!?" Blue exclaimed, putting his hands on his crotch and feeling a warm patch. He looked down and saw a little wet spot on his shorts, with some blue ink having spread to his thighs.
"Don't worry, I saw what was happening before you really soaked them," Lucas assured Blue.
"Why were you even looking there?!" he hissed back, trying his best not to wake Toon Link and Popo.
Lucas blushed and scooped his cards up. "Just change your shorts and get your bedtime diaper on," he told Blue.
Blue quickly shushed his cabin leader before awkwardly shuffling toward his locker then the bathroom, trying to keep his crotch turned away from the boys as he did. Lucas pursed his lips, looking at the big wet spot on Blue's butt, but once the inkling was in the bathroom he woke the other two boys up.
"Just 5 more minutes…" Toon Link complained.
"You can have 6 more hours, you just need to be in your bed," Lucas told him, gently pushing him off the chair.
Popo wordless shuffled toward his bunk and dropped face first into his pillow, passing out instantly, while Lucas had to grab Toon Link's hand to pull him to his feet. Leading the younger boy to his bunk, he suddenly recalled something Pit had told him.
"Oh, don't forget to brush your teeth before bed," Lucas reminded Toon Link.
Toon Link let out a mighty yawn and grabbed the ladder to his bunk bed. "I did before we started playing," he told Lucas.
"Fair enough," Lucas said, watching Toon Link climb to his bunk, too tired to argue.
Finally, Blue emerged from the bathroom holding a bundle of clothes. He looked and confirmed Lucas was the only one watching before he buried his wet shorts and underwear in the bottom of the dirty clothes pile. Walking toward his bunk, he gave an apologetic grin toward Lucas before climbing the ladder to his bed. Lucas looked at the boy's butt as he climbed, confirming he had indeed put on his thick nighttime diaper.
Lucas saw everyone was in bed, with Toon Link and Popo already being passed out, before giving himself a slight pat on the back. Maybe this cabin leader stuff wasn't so difficult after all? He was sure everyone would be tired tomorrow, and he may have to talk to Blue about joining him in diapering up early, but aside from that things seemed to go smoothly. He turned out the lights and crawled into his own bed, falling asleep almost instantly.
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"Lucas…" the boy's brother was trying to wake him out of his sleep. Had he wet their shared bed again? He kept his eyes shut, wanting to delay getting another earful from Claus.
"Lucas…" the voice prodded again, this time just the littlest bit louder. Lucas, waking up from his deep sleep, peaked his eyes open to see the voice wasn't coming from his older brother, it was coming from Toon Link.
"Uh…" he said, rubbing his eyes. "What's up?"
"I had an accident…" Toon Link said.
"Had a…?" Lucas started. His eyes came into focus and he saw Toon Link standing in front of him, his eyes red and trying to avoid eye contact. The belly of his blue pajama shirt was soaked and the wet spot spread around his crotch and around one side of his tan pajama pants.
Lucas bolted upright, suddenly wide awake.
"I'm sorry…" Toon Link sniffed out, afraid from Lucas' sudden movements that he was mad.
Lucas quickly, yet quietly, sprang to his feet and brought Toon Link into a full body hug, seemingly not minding touching the boys wet clothes. Lucas had been in this exact situation more times than he could count, he knew exactly what Toon Link needed.
"It's alright," he assured Toon Link, breaking the hug and leading him toward the bathroom by the shoulders. "Rinse off in the shower really quick, I'll take care of your sheets and get you some clean pajamas."
Toon Link looked at him with concern, then toward his other two sleeping cabin mates. Lucas returned that with a wink, whispering, "Don't worry, I'm quiet."
Toon Link nodded and walked on forward, shivering a little as he went. Lucas saw the boys back and butt were well beyond drenched, he must have went to bed having to pee already.
After hearing the shower begin running, Lucas made his way toward the cabinet and started pulling fresh sheets and blankets out. As he did, he felt the swollen garment between his legs and sighed. "It's not fair, I'm responsible enough to wear my diapers to bed. I shouldn't have to deal with wet sheets…"
He went over to their bunk bed and climbed the stairs above his own bunk where Toon Link slept. Looking down at the wet spot the little Link had left, Lucas couldn't help but smile to himself at how badly Toon Link must have needed to pee before bed. Still, he hurriedly stripped the sheets and tossed them over the side and into the middle of the room before putting a couple of towels on the wet mattress.
Climbing down from the bunk to grab the fresh sheets, he noticed the door to the bathroom open and Toon Link peaking out in just a bath towel. Realizing he'd forgotten to get him pajamas, Lucas quickly rushed over to the lockers before remembering he didn't know the code for his lock. He reciprocated Toon Link's frantic look with an exaggerated shrug of his own.
Toon Link took a deep breath and tiptoed to Lucas, keeping a death grip on the towel around his hips to give him some modesty.
"Oh, let me take care of your clothes," Lucas whispered to the boy, going to the bathroom and picking Toon Links wet pajamas off the floor. He figured he'd need to take their clothes to the laundry tomorrow, anyway, to take care of Blue's accident as well.
While Lucas was going toward the dirty clothes to bury yet another set of clothes, Toon Link blushed as he passed him going into the bathroom. He felt bad for waking up Lucas and asking for help in the first place, he didn't expect his friend to go so far to help him with his accident.
Once Toon Link's clothes were properly hidden, Lucas reached into his own locker and pulled out a clean diaper for himself, figuring it would be wise to change out of his wet one before bed. He went to his bunk and put the diaper on his own bed before climbing the ladder and placing a fresh sheet and blanket on Toon Link's bed. When he climbed back down the ladder, he found Toon Link was dressed in clean PJ's and waiting for him, his eyes full of tears.
"Please…" Toon Link pleaded, trying to suppress his sobs, "it was just one accident."
"What?" Lucas asked, surprised. Until now he thought Toon Link was taking this well, all things considered. "What's wrong?"
"I don't want to wear diapers like you and Blue!" he blurted out, his voice cracking a bit.
Lucas followed Toon Link's eyes, which were staring miserably at the diaper on Lucas' bed. "That's uh…" Lucas started, suddenly his turn to be embarrassed. "That's not for you."
Toon Link's relief was instantaneous and the tears on his face nearly dried immediately. He looked down at Lucas' swollen, padded pajama pants and nodded. "Oh, makes sense," he said bluntly, as Lucas tiredly glared at him. Toon Link smiled back at Lucas, warming Lucas' heart despite himself.
"I'm sorry for waking you," he said, climbing up to his bunk. "I owe you one."
Lucas simply nodded and watched his young friend climb the ladder, thinking that being able to help such a cute kid who had similar problems as himself was a reward in it's own right.
The blonde haired cabin leader took his diaper and entered the bathroom, cleaning himself up and getting changed before throwing his old one into the lidded garbage bin. When he came back into the dark cabin his nightvision had faded and, as he was making his way back to bed, he tripped on something and stumble forward, hitting his forehead on the bedpost.
"Ouch!" he exclaimed, holding his head.
"What happened?" a voice from behind him asked. Lucas paused before turning around and seeing both Blue and Popo watching him, with Toon Link looking down on him with a paralyzing fear at the other two boys waking up.
"I just tripped, go back to bed," Lucas said, bending down and picking up whatever it was he tripped on. His hand grabbed at something moist...
Wet sheets! He'd forgotten to put these in the laundry!
Holding the linens, he looked up back up nervously toward Blue and Popo, who were looking at him expectantly. Above him, Toon Link was on the verge of tears.
"I, uh...leaked," he told Blue and Popo bluntly. "I...i guess I had too much soda and my diaper…"
Blue plopped his head back into his pillow. "Ugh, well be more careful next time. We're barely getting enough sleep as is," he complained.
"Do you need any help?" Popo asked earnestly. Lucas shook his head and Popo returned to his pillow as well.
Making his way toward the increasingly filling laundry basket, Lucas stole a glance up at Toon Link. The little boys eyes were full of tears and he had a giant smile on his face.
"Thank you!" he mouthed enthusiastically.
Lucas nodded. His reputation as a helpless bedwetter was long ago secured. Toon Link had worked hard to stop his accidents, until now at least. Lucas was glad to take the bullet for this. Still, he wondered why tonight of all nights Toon Link had wet the bed? Was it his lack of sleep? Maybe he missed Pit? He decided that tomorrow night he might bring Toon Link to the girls cabin before bed so Pit could wish him goodnight.
Crawling back into bed, tired and with his reputation further damaged, he himself wished Pit was still with them. He looked sadly upon Pit's empty bed. He didn't mind being cabin leader and helping his friends, he simply missed the comfort of Pit's presence.