"Jam stawp it"

I shoved them away but jam kept poking my cheek, smirking to themself cause they knew they were annoying me. I whined loudly and Andrew called from his office.

"Jam, play nice, don't make me come down there"

Jam pouted and turned back to the tv, watching the colourful cartoon their daddy put on.

Jam had been in a bit of a mood since they turned back. We were both changed into fresh diapers but jam also back into the clothes they were wearing before and we watched a movie with Andrew. It was about a movie star dog trying to get back to his owner but it had a really scary part and I held onto Andrew for comfort.

I hid my face in his big hoodie and Andrew rubbed my back.

"Hey buddy look its ok-"

Jam certainly didn't think it was ok.

"No! My daddy!"

Jam crawled over their daddies lap and pushed me away, snuggling up in my place. They didn't hurt me but I still cried. Jam was scolded, I was calmed down, Jam apologised, everything was fine. Even jam's mood had settled down and we finished watching the lightning movie dog.

Sadly after, Andrew had some work to do in his office, that jam told me we're not allowed in.

After a quick change, as i had wet a good bit more during the scary part of the movie, Andrew attempted unfolding the pen walls. Jam was having none of it though and their mood came back in full swing.

They threw a bit of a tantrum, screaming that they were big and didn't need it. I didn't like the screaming so I covered my ears and shut my eyes tight. Then I felt a hand shaking arm. It was jam, who had stopped screaming and was now solemnly apologising for upsetting me, twice now.

"Am sowwy wrenny, I jus weally don't wike da pay pen.... is stoopid.."

Andrew sighed

"I know you don't like it baby but its not stupid, it's to keep you safe"

I didn't really mind about the play pen, I mean Andrew put all my toys and stuffies in with us and daddy puts me in one sometimes when he does boring house stuff and I just get to play.

My play pen was alot different to jams though. Mine was kinda small with mesh walls and a bunch of blankets and pillows. I fall asleep in there alot. Jams was much bigger, it was like a fold up criss crossy walls that's Andrew set up on the floor. So the floor was the bottom of it and not a little mattress thingy. It reminded me of the play pen in the rugrats, which I watched with daddy sometimes.

Even if jam wasn't annoyed or anything with me, they were definitely still peeved with Andrew. So there jam sat, arms crossed, sitting by choice in the play pen corner, ignoring their daddy as he called out.

"Puppy, come on why don't you play with wren while daddy works, I'm sure wren would love to"

I crawled over to jam and held up my crinkle ball. Jam turned to me and cautiously gently took the ball. They shook it, smiling to themselves while I giggled.

Andrew smiled down at us both and turned on nick Jr for us.

"Ok just yell for me if you two need anything"

Jams eyes trained on their daddy as he left. As soon as he was out the door, jam threw the ball back at me and themself on the floor, face down, definitely not wanting to play.

For a little while jam just huffed and pouted, rolling around a bit and I watched the cartoon on the tv. It wasn't until was sulking after his poking of me I actually tried again to interact with them.

"Why don chu wike da pay pen?"

Jam, who now had their face mashed into their bunny stuffie looked up at me.

"Don wike daddy weavin an pay pen small can' do much"

I shook my head

"No my pay pen smaller. Dis big wike in da wugwats"

"Huh?"

I repeated myself

"Da wugwats!"

Suddenly a light bulb went off in jams head. They grabbed the stick from a toy xylophone and headed to the play pen connector gate thingy.

"Wrenny chu a genius"

"Wha?"

Jam started doing something I couldn't see.

"It is jus wike da wugwats!"

They excitedly said as a portion of the wall popped off. Jam turned to me.

"Gwab your stuffies wrenny.... its cwime time"

I grabbed stuffie cause he was definitely the most ok with crime.

Jam motioned for me to follow with one hand, bunny in another.

"Usually I jus have June but now I have chu! Chu betta pawtner in cwime!"

I was happy at any kind of praise but that made me beam from ear to ear.

We headed for the door when I stopped jam.

"Wait jamjam"

"Ya?"

"Daddy told me partner is 'nother word for boyfwiend"

Jam hummed for a second

"Yeah chu right, my daddy told me pawtner is wike a non binawy boyfwiend"

"So does that mean.."

Jam figured he rest out for me

"I'm your pawtner and chu my boyfweind?"

Jam looked for reassurance for their guessed statement , I nodded eagerly

"Yeah dat sounds wight!"

Jam smiled and took my hand, leading me out of the sitting room.

"Where we going?"

Jam shushed me and I repeated it but quieter. "Where we going?"

"Da kishin, deres gotta be sweets"

Jam lisped excitedly on the last s and I jumped in place a bit. I really liked sweets.

We toddled to the kitchen and searched for the sweets. I whispered to stuffie if he could see anything and held him up high, spinning in a circle. But stuffie saw nothing.

"Wrenny dere!"

Jam yelled and immediately slapped their hand over his mouth. Had Andrew heard? We stayed still and heard nothing from the office, no footsteps, no nothing. We were safe.

Jam brought my attention back to what he saw, a big clear tub of colourfully sweets.

"Dats my reward jar, daddy keeps changing its place cause I keep sneaking sweets"

We giggled and shushed eachother. We were so close to more sweets than we'd ever known but one more obstical stood in my way. The counter.

We couldn't quite reach up enough to climb onto the counter but jam had an idea.

"Ok wrenny you're gonna be my ladder"

"What!?"

I was given no warning as jam started using me as a stepladder up to the counter. I whined and pushed they're foot out of my face. Jam just giggled and shushed me.

I backed up to see jam removing the lid of the jar with a 'pop'. They smiled wide and started shoving handfuls of sweets into their short pockets. I whined as jam was hogging all the sweets.

Jam made an o shape with their mouth and threw down an equal amount of sweets for me. They're were lollipops, chewy sweets, chocolate. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity. I filled my hoodie pockets.

Jam closed the jar, dangled off the edge of the counter and dropped down. They took my hands and brought me back to the sitting room.

"Daddy will never know-"

I giggled and so did Jam

"-oki oki we gotta put back da gate so daddy won know"

I held the fallen piece of the play pen up and Jam fiddled with the latches until it stayed.

I fell back onto my butt and happily bounced, unwrapping a strawberry chewy sweet and holding it high.

"Cwime Time acompish!!"

Jam laughed and sat down with me.

"Bes boyfweind in cwime evah!!"

Jam side hugged me suddenly and knocked me down. We lay giggling and eating sweets for while. Eventually we finished it all and jam was incredibly hyper. They jumped about doing a little happy dance to the my little pony theme

"Come on wrenny!"

I giggled and stood unsteadily on my feet, kicking away the sweet wrappers and joining jam in their dance party. Wait the sweet wrappers!!

"Jam!"

I hissed so Andrew wouldn't hear. Jam stopped dancing but kept moving from foot to foot.

"Da wappers! What awe we gonna do?!"

I will not lie, I was kinda freaking out. What if Andrew told daddy and papa? I didn't want to get punished. I started to whimper but jam started shaking me.

"Wrenny! Is gonna be ok, we can hide dem an we didn't even do anyting too bad"

Jam giggled and I warily nodded, still a little afraid of what could happen.

Jam and I hid sweet wrappers under the couch and in between the cushions, which we could just reach over the play pen walls. Cause why would Andrew ever look there, it was full proof.

With my faith filled renewed in our scheme me and jam danced our hearts out. Stuffie, Topsy and Bearemy all got a turn as my dance partners, well secondary cause jam was my main dance partner!

We spun and twirled and bopped about, thank God the shows were all musical based cause we were in the dancing mood!

"Well aren't you two just adorable"

I squeaked and fell on my butt at the unexpected voice. I looked to see there in the doorway stood Andrew.

"Sorry wren, didn't mean to spook you, are yous having a dance party?"

Jam ran over to the play pen wall and made grabby hands at their daddy

"Yeah Daddy! Come dance!"

Andrew chuckled and stepped into the pen, dodging strewn about toys and taking one of each of our hands. He did a little kick move in time with the music and I tried to do it too but I always did late.

I don't know how long we danced but I was pooped, jam seemed to be too, nearly passed out on the floor.

Andrew suppressed a laugh as he layed the limp jam and the drowsy me on the couch.

"Wren your daddies are gonna be here to pick you up soon, so I'll pack away your things. You keep jam sandwich here outta trouble"

I nodded sleepily, perhaps we were crashing after our sugar high, or maybe jam is just really comfortable but I fell right asleep.

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Ricky groaned every few seconds when he realised he didn't have my undivided attention.

"Ricky you're ok, it was just a filling"

"Thwo Thavid!"

I laughed at his slurred speech

"Shuth up! My mouf hurs"

He slumped in his seat and pouted. Keeping my eyes on the road, I rubbed Ricky's leg soothingly.

"I know darling, it'll wear off eventually... but i take it that its not gonna stop you from yapping"

"Never Thavid Never"

We pulled up beside Andrew's house.

"Ok you wanna stay here while I get Wren?"

Ricky hummed. I got out of the car and headed up the drive. Andrew opened the door before I even reached it.

"Hey David, how you been?"

"Ah pretty good, got off work early to take this drama queen home"

I gestured to the car where Ricky could be seen poking his numb cheek, he then noticed us looking and waved enthusiastically.

Andrew chuckled and waved back.

"They're inside, sure tired eachother out too. Its gonna be an easy bedtime"

We entered the sitting room to find wren and jam both asleep, tangled up in eachother. I bit my knuckle and Andrew smiled tiredly. Jam kicked out their leg and wren whined, stirring a little.

I took this as an opportunity and knelt down. With a little help from Andrew the two were untangled and I gently lifted wren into my arms. Not gentle enough for him aparently I realised as wren whined and buried into my chest.

He then noticed it was someone new holding him,looked up and squealed seeing me.

"Papa!"

He hugged me tight and I was about to greet him back when he squeaked suddenly.

Jam had woken up too and was latched back on to wren's ankle.

"Wrenny no go!"

Wren giggled and wiggled about as Andrew's attempt to detach jam tickled him.

"Bambi its time for wren to go, you can play again another day"

Jam whimpered and Wren started to get upset too, his bottom lip beginning to wobble.

"Hey hey hey bubba no tears its ok, no need to get upset baby, Daddy's waiting outside, don't you wanna see daddy?"

Wren sucked his fingers and nodded, I quickly replaced those fingers with his paci, dangling from its clip.

"Cans I see jam 'gain soon?"

"Course you can princess"

Jam clapped their hands

"Yay mo-wah cwime time!"

I didn't exactly like the sound of crime time but it made wren happily giggle-snort. Wren then pointed to jam.

"Bes' paw-ner"

Jam bounced in their daddies hold.

"Yesh! Bes boyfwiend 'oo"

Me and Andrew both stopped and stared at our respective babies. Wren's smile started to fade when he noticed the raging fire in my eyes. I tried to stop my voice from sounding too scary to lil Wren.

"Princess, what did they say?"

Wren stuttered over himself

"J-jam jam i-is m-my paw-tner in cwime an paw-tner non.. non bin- non biw-"

Jam finished the word wren struggled with

"Non binawy!"

"Ya, non binawy, paw-tner is non binawy boyfweind"

Andrew started to laugh, covering his mouth as i breathed i sigh of relief.

"Who told you that wren?"

"Daddy and jammy"

He twiddled his fingers nervously.

I looked to jam who pointed at their daddy, who at this point was barely holding it together

"Not that kind of partner jam!"

I bounced wren a little, loving just how innocent he was to this.

"Well that's good, cause bubba you're not getting that kind of partner until you're at least... 50,000,000 years old"

"Nuuuu Papa dats too wong! Wan jam pawtner"

"Nope you're my baby till the end of the earth, no partners for you"

Wren whined as we walked to the door. Andrew laughed as he carried jam out on his shoulders, cutting himself off with a yawn. That man needs some sleep.

Andrew handed me wrens bag and spoke to jam

"Ok bambi, say bye bye to you're boyfriend"

I frowned and Andrew smirked as jam and wren started waving enthusiastically.

"Bye bye wrenny!"

"Bye bye jam sandwich"

I closed the door behind us as we left. Ricky was just gonna love this.

The back window of the car rolled down slightly and ricky yelled out to us.

"Thavid I can thalk bether! Iths going away!"

Wren laughed and looked up at me curiously, I explained.

"Daddys mouth is all numb from the dentist so he sounds funny"

Wren giggled more as Ricky yelled 'hey I'm sensitive right now!' From the car.

I reached the car I realised Ricky had maneuvered himself into the back, dramatically opening his arms and bear hugging wren while I sat in the front.

"Am I just a chauffer to you Ricky?"

"No! You're also my sssugar thaddy"

Ricky lisped and wren squealed attempting to roll around in Ricky's death grip.

"Ricky car seat please"

I gave him puppy eyes through the rear view mirror and Ricky huffed, buckling wren up. He was fine with it, just happy to be sitting with his daddy.

"So princess, why don't you tell daddy allllll about your playdate"

"Oki! I'm jams boyfweind!"

I think wren enjoyed the kind of reaction that got out of me and Ricky as I pulled in suddenly and snapped my neck around to a giggling mess of a baby boy and Ricky, who's soul had left his body at the annoucent.

"Wren what did I say earlier?"

Wren pouted but answered

"Noh until i vitty milun years ol'"

Neither of us noticed Ricky when he unstrapped Wren and brought him back to the bear hug.

"AAAAAAAAAA my lil baby is partners with jam-"

I should've interrupted there but this was far more entertaining.

"Now you two are adorable but you are still MY LITTLE BOY. NO ONE ELSE GETS YOU BABY. Well maybe papa BUT NO ONE ELSE"

Maybe he was trying to sound intimidating but Ricky just came off even funnier and both me and wren were dead where we sat as Ricky continued his lil baby rant.

Wren groaned again clutching his stomach.

"Hurs Dada!"

He cried into ricky's blanket on the couch while Ricky rubbed his back. This timmy pain came seemingly out of nowhere and we were certainly worried.

"Baby do you need to use your diadee?"

Wren whimped and shook his head quickly.

"Ok honey, it's gonna be alright baby bear, David grab some medicine"

"K darling"

I hit the kitchen, spotting my phone, and a text from Andrew.

Hey just so you know, I found a whole lot of sweet wrappers off the sweets from Jam's reward jar under my couch and between the cushions. Jam told me wren and them stole the sweets for their crime time. I don't exactly know how but I know fledgling diets are very particular and I'm so sorry I let this happen.

I cursed under my breath, fledglings are at a weak stage of their lives, blood sugars can get dangerously low or high and immune system is generally hay wire. We had been keeping a good eye on what wrens been eating up till now.

I texted back Andrew a quick thank you and not to worry. And headed back to the slightly distressed wren. The sweets were definitely to blame but I needed to gage how much he'd eaten.

"Wren, bubba, look at me"

Wren looked up at me with a shakey frown.

"Andrew has just told me alot of sweets were taken from jams reward jar-"

I saw wrens face pale, he started to shake more, getting panicy. I wasn't especially mad, just worried, so i spoke softer to try keep Wren calm.

Ricky seemed to have figured out where I was going and reassuringly rubbed wrens back.

"-bubba did you steal those sweets"

"N-n-no-"

Wren started to cry and Ricky hugged him tight.

"Its ok honey you can tell us the truth, we need to know"

Wren sniffed

"J-jam did 'oo!"

"I know bubba, but did you eat alot?"

Wren made little crying sounds as he nodded, holding onto his sore stomach.

"Its ok princess, its ok, thank you for telling us the truth, well talk punishment later but now we can help"

I picked away at a cut on my neck from wrens last blood feeding. I picked him up and got him the his feeding position. Wren whined, wiggling about and not latching on.

"Bubba it'll settle your tummy, trust papa, it'll make you feel better"

I felt the light suckling on my neck, and leaned back sighed once again in relief. Ricky draped a blanket over us both and put on the news for me as wren slowly fed.

I could feel wren growing sleepy as he drank. His sucks would get very light then suddenly hard again.

"Its been a tiring day for you, I know princess"

I looked up at Ricky on the other end of the couch, peeping over at me and wren.

"You too darling, come here"

I motioned in and Ricky joined the cuddle. I switched the tv to a family movie and we stayed snuggled up together, forgetting tummy, teeth and your-not-even-2-year-old-son getting a "partner" troubles