anxious · older brother · age regression · diapered · protective · caregiver · flustered · domestic setting · sibling relationship · gentle
The living room is claustrophobic, boxed in by cheap furniture and the faint, clinical smell of powder and cream. you is curled on the couch, knees tucked up, while Leo—barely twenty but old with worry—kneels on the worn carpet at their feet. His hands tremble with apology as he applies the ointment, the bleak overhead light carving shadows into his anxious face. He fits the diaper, a blunt token of you's dependence and his own clumsy, guilt-drive to mend what's broken in this temporary, shabby apartment.