Chapter 5: flushes of shame and going home
And so for the next week alex spoke to zenith and loden when they had free time and played on a tablet that loden gifted to him until on the last day a kadabra doctor walked in and disconnected most of the tubes from alex, "so i get to go home? Where is mum and dad?" alex questioned feeling a urge to get back to them, nagging clawing at his mind like he needed them to hold him and alex completely wanted to kick his own ass with his new leg for that, "well master alex yes you are going home and your parents are preparing some things for you now hold still" said the kadabra as he moved to remove the urethral catheter from alex's penis "ok on the count of 3 take a sharp breath" the kadabra says, "1, 2 ,3!" the kadabra doctor says as alex drew in a sharp breath as the doctor removes a deflated catheter from alex "there now that didn't hurt now did it?" the kadabra says coiling up the tube and handing it to a chansey nurse, "you do not know how badly i want to deck your fucking face in" alex says having a death grip on his sheets "ok now that curse il let slide but only because something was being pulled out of you from a very sensitive place" loden says walking in with zenith walking in behind him as she pushed in a stroller.
"Is that a fucking stroller?" alex says staring at the stroller "ok that is strike 3 young man" loden says folding his arms "alexander ichabod bartholomew ember you know what i said about swearing" loden adds using alex's full name just with the last name being changed, "i would not be throwing him onto your knee and spanking him any time soon" the kadabra doctor says washing his hands and walking over to loden "at the moment and for a couple of weeks he will be basically as fragile as a newborn" the kadabra adds. Alex at that statement really wished he had his pistol so he could shoot the doctor for saying that but then involuntarily let out a squeak when loden lifted his remaining leg and saying "well since the tubes are out the diaper has to go on alex i know you are a big boy but you will be wheelchair bound for a while", "what about my prosthetic leg?" alex says in slight alarm weakly kicking his stump at loden until it was restrained and forced upwards with his right leg then renith held alex's hands together, "listen alex it's ok we have your new leg with us but we need you to behave ok, some of the side effects from the medicine that lets you understand us might make you have a emotional dependency on us but there is no change there" zenith says her calm red eyes looking into alex's blueish green ones as loden finishes putting alex in the diaper.
Alex looks down at the diaper and blushes a bright red as zenith takes out the silver coloured prosthetic leg and connects it to alex's stump via the anchor poking out of the stump making an audible clicking noise as it locks into place, "right then let's get you your clothes" zenith says reaching into a duffle bag. "Oh god it's going to be baby clothes" alex thought but was shocked when zenith didn't pull out anything overly babyish just a set of denim overalls and a red shirt with a silver gear on the front "ok sweety time to get dressed" zenith says smiling and loden ushers the doctor out of the room, realising his muscles were already quite weak from inactivity alex sighed and let zenith dress him "well i guess it could be worse" alex says as zenith sits him up to put his shirt on and to pull the straps of the overalls on "well you are my baby boy, i know boys like to run around so i thought something that would not tear easily would be best" zenith says planting a kiss on alex's forehead and giggling when alex blushes, at this moment loden walks back into the room "ah i see you are ready" loden says as he gently lifts alex and has the pleasure of getting the fussy man into his stroller "stop i am not a baby give me a wheelchair not a stroller" alex complained until he was strapped into the stroller and realised how comfy the seat was.
"See not as bad as you think i built it to be luxury" loden says giving alex his toy mareep and smiling widely when alex silently said to himself "shar shar" and cuddles the toy "your tablet also has unlimited free mobile data thanks to ember tech engineering" loden says winking, "perhaps we should head home?" zenith says sarcastically placing a hand on her husband's shoulder causing him to stand "ah yes of course" loden placing alex's tablet onto alex's lap and letting zenith push the stroller after loading the duffle bag they are using to carry his spare diapers and such. "So what exit should we take? Raphael's reporters are scrambling to get an interview with him" loden says to zenith gesturing to alex who was too busy blushing and hating but secretly liking what was happening, "calm down it should be safe leaving out the front" zenith says "yea you said that when we raided that team magma hideout and we only made it when a sniper started firing on the troopers" loden says back sarcastically then both zenith and loden stop and look at alex, "alex sweety did you ever provide sniper support to 2 HAA shadow bounty hunters by a magma base?" loden asks and smiles when alex nods yes "well looks like we have a little guardian angel" zenith coos happily and rubs alex's cheek.
After continuing to the lobby of the hospital the family freezes in place when they get to the door and notice reporters outside and are looking at the family "hey look it's the hunter" one of the reporters say as the hoard of reporters of various pokemon began to approach, alex looked at the pokemon approaching and without his weapons to grip he holds his mareep toy close to his chest and involuntarily lets out a whimper, noticing his son let out a whimper loden stepped forward and let his wings fold out "NOT ANOTHER STEP FORWARD!" loden boomed silencing the crowd "RIGHT NOW IF ANY OF YOU WANT A INTERVIEW MAKE AN APPOINTMENT!" loden yells escorting alex and zenith past the hoard of reporters, "th-th-thanks d-d-daddy" alex manages to blurt out to loden after getting away from the reporters he never liked reporters but from what he was told the medicine was warping his emotions so he guessed it amplified his nerves, "your welcome my little hatchling" loden says kneeling down nuzzling alex's face "aw loden honey you are a real sweetheart with children" zenith says loving the fact that alex was adapting quickly, "can we just go home" alex says blushing and covering his face with his toy "ok sweety" zenith says picking up alex and putting alex into a oversized car seat which still surprised alex despite the fact he knew they are hunters like him, "um mum i am an adult this almost seems like a car seat for newborns" alex points out "sweety we don't want to treat you like a newborn, like a 2 year old at the very minimal but that seat is built so your bones are in a prime place to heal now sweety i want you to drink this" zenith says handing alex a sippie cup filled with a full heal potion, "uummm how many full heal potions did you buy?" alex asks "enough to speed up your healing to 2 days then we can help teach you to walk again" zenith says smiling and giggling as her and loden get into the car and beginning to drive towards their home.
As he laid back in his seat drinking the full heal alex looked out at the scenery passing by realising lavender town was no longer how he remembered he saw streets that were not there before and new stores and even one's with tech he wanted to see, "if you want we can go out and buy you toys you know" loden says looking back as zenith drives along both parents noticing their new son blushing and sinking in his seat finishing his drink.
"Well we are here" zenith says pulling into the driveway of a 3 floored mansion of a house alex's mouth dropping letting the sippie cup drop to his side empty, "oh guess you are surprised there is more under it, you could say it's like your bunker" loden says as zenith parks and loden holds alex gently against his chest alex not wanting to enjoy it but was enjoying it regardless, as the family walks up towards the house a charizard in pokescout master armour and a flareon dash out of the front door leaving a rock to hold the door open before rushing to their parents to see their new baby brother.
authors note: a cliff hanger because i can