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It was true, Tadashi did respond when food was nearby.
He brought some simple chicken soup in and Tadashi eyes didn't leave the plate.
Tadashi mouth opened as he fed him after blowing on it.
His swallowing reflects still worked as well, Maddox watched Tadashi finish it all before going back to staring blankly into space.
He recieved a notification.
# Quest: Change his daipers#
What?
No!
But it won't go away and his money was going less with each second he wasted.
Fine.
He went in search of nappies and than carried the child to the bathroom.
What followed next was something he won't ever speak off.
He washed his hands like 30 times before he deemed them useable again and looked at Tadashi in that chair.
# Quest: Stimulate the brain by reading a book#
Something much easier.
He went to get a adult level reading book, the workers at the orphanage may read him baby books but he didn't want to insult the child.
He opened the book and began to read, he read in the most energetic voice he could muster.
He realised the book was pretty good within the first few pages and it stopped feeling like homework and more of a light read, he didn't even glance to see if their was any notifications.
He read until his own eyes started dropping and saw the child was alseep.
He picked the child up and tucked him into the large bed, and than he continued to read until he really could not any longer.
"Goodnight, son" he said, kissing him on the forehead before walking to his room to sleep, he set his timer for early the next day.
He awoke early the next morning and cooked pancakes while completing a quest.
He brought the food in, and know immediantely to bath and brush the child.
He picked the child up, stripped him and than put him into the bath, the water seemed to wake the child right up.
He thought nothing of it, until he brushed him down with a towel and notice the child wasn't staring off into space but following him with his eyes.
[Tadashi Starlight Lv 2]
Tadashi eyes were still blank but he was following him, he opened the child's mouth and brushed before putting him in a red t-shirt and jeans.
He put him back in the bed and brought him pancakes while the eyes followed him.
"I made you some pancakes" he said "I didn't know what you like so I made some plain pancakes. Maybe next time you'll tell me what you like"
Again, he refused to treat him like an idiot.
He fed him the pancakes, before stretching and saying. "What do you want to do today? How about the book? You seem to love it yesterday night."
Silence.
He found the book and pulled up the seat next to the bed before opening to where they left off.
As he read, he looked at the status bar and saw the percentage increase but it was like one percent per 30 seconds.
However it was something.
He watched the clock and saw it was time to each lunch and change his diaper.
And than he saw it.
[Tadashi Starlight Lv3]
What changes?
Tadashi slowly opened his mouth without prompting and he couldn't help but expect the boy to show his brilliance.
However the child let out a baby giggle and squeel.
Maddox face changed.
Oh, that's not good.
Spit began to droop out from the boy mouth like how babies do.
His mind was so broken that he was reduced to a baby mentally.
But it was something.
He read again but Tadashi wasn't listening at all, he seemed to be fascinated with the fact that he had hands.
So it was time to change techtics, maybe the key was to try to get through to him as a baby.
He brought baby toys from the digital shop and shook a rattle.
Tadashi eyes turned to the colourful toys in his hands.
"Let's play" he said, before putting a toy that was designed for when a baby chews on it, in the child's mouth.
He put it in the boys mouth and sure enough, the child began to naw on it, trying to get to the liquid inside.
With each squeeze the toy released a note.
He got out shakers and began to try to make random noise with them.
Tadashi stopped and stared at him and he stared back before he shook and Tadashi did the same thing and now Tadashi was following him.
He saw the percentage begin to appear.
Nothing stimulates a child more than a good old fashion toy.
By the end of it, he allowed the child to do a solo and gave him encouraging sounds.
After that he got the notification that Tadashi needed a change.
He picked him up and allowed him to play with the toy as he did so.
He than gave him dinner, making sure to blow before letting him eat.
He honestly didn't want to touch the toy that the child spat out to eat but he did so.
[Tadashi Starlight Lv4]
Suddenly the squeezes weren't random and the boy was actually trying to do a tune.
He was proud for something so simple, he allowed the boy to do his thing knowing this was the most activity he had done in 5 years.
He watched the child tire himself out like a baby and when he was alseep, he took the toy out, kissed his forehead and said. "Good night"
He walked out and went to eat, he than went to his room and put his head on the pillow.
15 seconds later he heard it.
Tadashi cries.
He got out and made his way to the room, only to find Tadashi awake and crying like a baby.
He realised that Tadashi was too big to rock, he carried him and put him on his lap.
"Shussh. Daddy is here." He said, softly before he began to sing 'Baa Baa Black sheep', rich people version.
"Baa Baa Black sheep have you any wool for my designer 300 dollar fur coat?" He sang.
The child stopped crying immediantly and stared at him with wide eyes, maybe somewhere deep down he knew this version was bullshit but Maddox continued because he stopped, crying didn't he?
He finished it and than began to edit the other nursery rhymes, his years of quick thinking came in handy and the child actually seemed fascinated that he could edit so quickly.
When he finished the most famous ones, he tucked the child in, gave him his toy and said. "Please get some sleep, Daddy is very tired."
And than he walked out and thought that would be in the end of it.
Not by a long shot.
Baby Tadashi showed him hell that night, his head didn't touch his pillow for more than 15 minutes before having to get up for Tadashi.
In the end, he had to move in and sleep beside Tadashi.
After that, he didn't hear a peep and he got some blessed sleep.
He woke up to something touching his face.
He opened his eyes to see brown eyes staring back at him.
"Da-Da?" said Tadashi.
First word!
"Yes, Da Da" he said. "Dad is here. Dad is always here."
And Tadashi smiled very innocently.
How old was he now?
"I'm going to shower and than you'll go and shower. We're going to eat breakfast together. Would you like pancake again?" He said.
"Da-Da" said Tadashi.
"I'll take that as a yes" he said, they got ready for the day and he gave him his favourite toy.
However Tadashi seemed to be bored of yesterday's favourite toy and went to do something with his hands so the child played the xiophone with miniuim motorskills.
Maddox had to wonder if he was going to go through every age with Tadashi.
He was not looking forward to the infamous terrible twos.
Also he needed some servants in here, he was supposed to be rich.
If it wasn't for the fact looking after Tadashi earned him money, he would have been kicked out by now.
# 2 Weeks later#
The Social worker came by taxi, it as by far her favourite child to go to because of the location.
When she knocked on the door, she was surprised to be greeted by an old man in a butler uniform.
"You must be the social worker" said the man. "Master Starlight has been expecting you"
And than she came in and followed him and to her shock, they weren't going to the stairs or elevator for the second floor but the third main living room on the ground floor.
What she saw astonouded her.
The child who she was sure she would see staring into the distence, was on some pillows drawing Maddox in a chair on colourful paper.
She couldn't believe her eyes.
However the machine was still hooked up to the child and still here.
"Master Starlight, the social worker is here" said the butler.
"Thank you-" he began until they heard.
"Daddy, I'll doing your lips. Stop talking" said Tadashi.
"Oh, sorry" he said.
The butler took her away to explain.
"We have made great strides with the young master" said the man. "We are piecing his mind back together little by little"
What little by little?
It's been two weeks and the kid was doing something he hadn't done in five years!
"However, as we piece him back together. We are unsure we can piece his memories back together as well" said the man, stunning her. " The master fear that the truma is too much for him and he's using this to redo his childhood. It been some weeks and we haven't heard a peep from his Aunt."
And the social worker looked at the child who was doing better sadly, she had a sinking feeling his Aunt had ignored the letter.
The boy was showing amazing progress but he still wasn't considered normal for his age.
"Well, it seems he's been taking good care of here. Ill be on my way" she said.
The moment she was gone, Maddax dropped a bomb shell on young Tadashi who just finished drawing.
"Tadashi, I'm not your real father. Would like to see pictures of your parenrs?" He said.
The boy went silent before he said. "No. Your still my daddy and nothing is going to change that. You still give me loads of hugs and kisses"
"That's right" he said, before he wrapped the child up and gave him lots of kisses. "Daddy loves you very much. And one day your be healthy enough to walk outside with your daddy"
And Tadashi smiled, he really did just brush his adoption under the rug because he was too young mentally to have those tidle wave of emotions.
A few days later, Maddox got in the mail that he could enrol Tadashi in special needs class but he cringed at that, because he knew it the child went there he may slow down to a snails pace and that stigma would follow the child for the rest of his life.
No thank you, he didn't just want Tadashi to be normal, he wanted the child to be back to his genius self.
Now he had to deal with the doctor.
The man came in and you can just tell at a glance the man was going to over charge him because of where he lived and his income.
However the man froze when he saw the dead brain child on his laps and reading that big book that he read as Baby Tadashi.
The man blinked owlishly not knowing what he was seeing.
"Tadashi, this is Doctor Season. He's our family doctor and he's coming to check up on you" said Maddox.
"Will you be with me Daddy?" Said Tadashi.
"Of course. I'll be in the room" said Maddox, before he allow the child to leave his lap.
"Hi, I'm Tadashi Starlight" said Tadashi "and I like my daddy"
The man opened and closed his mouth
This man had been his doctor for five years seeing little to no change so what he was seeing was nothing short of impossible.
"How old are you Tadashi?" Finally the man said.
"I'm five but Daddy says I'm 10" said Tadashi.
The man opened and closed his mouth again.
Tadashi had been stuck at five for two weeks now.
He would have been fine with it since he had no schooling for five years but this kid was a former genius.
"Oh, did your daddy tell you about your adoption?" said the doctor.
"Yes, but I don't care" said Tadashi. "I got an amazing daddy who give me lots and hugs and kisses and tell me he loves me everyday"
The man was speechless as he said. "You not curious where you came from?"
"No. All I need is daddy" said Tadashi wondering how long this will take.
The man was again speechless.
"I think the doctor wants to talk with me now" he said, before he called the butler over and said. "Can you take Tadashi to the kitchen and give him a nice icecream sundae. He was good for the doctor"
"Really? Yay!" Said Tadashi.
The boy practical skipped out of the room and followed the butler to his treat.
Finally they were alone.
"How?" Said the man.
"I find that he responds well when I didn't treat him like a morn when I first got him" said Maddox. "I read a big book to him to get his imagination flowing. Ever since than we've been taken it one step at a time"
"Amazing." said the man. "He's back to the age of the incident. The child doesnt look like he plans to remember the incident at all. The truma is probably too big for what little is left of his mind. Watching his parents die and than his Aunt abandon him while she took his brother. He was in the room when this was happening. Here, you have a chance to rewrite his whole life. If he keeps advancing, by the time he reaches the age of 25 and he has the mind of a 20 year old he will be considered normal in the eyes of Society. A 5 year gap will be nothing"
Normal?
"No, thank you" he said, stunning the man. "Tadashi was born a genius and he will die a genius. Everybody else may only focus on getting him normal in the eyes of the world but I want to get his genius mind back because I believe it's still there"
The man stared in disbelief.
A genius putting himself to peak from nothing was unherd of.
Once a brain is damaged, that IQ is gone forever.
"I know you don't believe in him but I believe in him" said Maddox. "I plan to unplugg him after Christmas"
"Are you insane?" Said the doctor. "His brain will collapse!"
"Maybe" said Maddox. "But you can not deny that I was the one who brought this child you see today out. I was the only one who made Tadashi fight to speak or to even walk. If I didn't think he can handle it, I wouldn't suggest it. I want to give him the best Christmas he ever had and the freedom to walk outside. If Tadashi flatlines, than I'll be happy to go to prison for it. But I know his potential and every day, I have to look him in the eye and tell him he can't go outside. We are living in one of the most beautiful citys in the world. He deserves to see it"
The man was silent.
"Alright" said the man. "But I want a contract stating that I am not legally bounded by what happens and it's all on your head"
"I can do that" said Maddox. "Tadashi just needs somebody to believe in him and I will be that someone"
That machine will haunt Tadashi for the rest of him life if he doesn't do this now.
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