#alt: khay baybay

[kalamitis]

K and baby Del (either AU) having bath time together. K brings out nice bubble bath and rubber toys and Ty brings in soft towels afterwards.

The Khayby Del AU will probably ALWAYS be the one I choose if you give me a baby Del because I am self indulgent crap. So have this AU where K Ty and Rux are Del’s parents and eventually TJ happens.

For the longest time, K was the only one who could get Del into a bath. Whether or not this meant anything was up for debate - her lovers were adamant that it clearly meant favoritism on the child’s part - but it did mean that at a certain time of the day, just past sunset, when the world was incased in soft blue twilight, K was able to put her daughter on her hip and carry her into the bathroom.

Del was forever talking, babbling little nonsense words that K was sure she could understand most days, but whenever they got close to the bath, the little girl would fall silent, wide green eyes - just like her father’s - set on the big porcelain thing like it was a monster ready to pounce. So her mother did the smart thing, she distracted her child by asking which soaps she wanted, which scent of bubble bath, what color, which shampoo, until Del had picked out all her favorites, and Khayi had placed them all in a neat little line.

Turning on the water was always tricky - this was the time when her sweet one wanted to bolt the most - but the young mother was smart. She pulled her daughter gently to the side and they held onto the tap together, counting to three and then pulling all at once, that way Del would beam at her and Khayi could say she was brave and smart and beautiful - all the truths that made the almost one year old beam with happiness.

Next they checked the temperature together, K holding her wrist beneath the stream of water and Del peeking down and poking it in short little jabs, glancing between her mother and the water multiple times before nodding. Then, in went the bubble bath, always pastel, fluffy, and wonderfully scented. This day in particular Del had chosen the purple bottle, and the scent of grapes quickly filled the bathroom as K helped the little girl out of her clothing. 

She was always extremely careful when placing her daughter into the tub - there was always much more bubbles than there was water, and Del was prone to cry if K was even remotely out of sight, so the young woman always was ready to be as fully into the tub as her daughter needed her to be. Usually that was an excuse to steal one of her lovers’ tshirts and stay in her underwear so that nothing else could get wet, and today’s was a powder blue number with nothing but the word “Tsundere” in black across the chest, courtesy of Ruxy. 

Humming a soft song, K soaped up a wash cloth and gently moved it over her baby girl’s skin, careful to keep smilng encouragingly as she went. She rinsed her off with a cup from the kitchen, pouring the water over Del’s arms and torso, and once that was done Del was rewarded with a bunch of her bath toys, which always made the little girl clap her hands together and smile widely. K let her play as she got out the no tears shampoo, massaging her daughter’s scalp and leaving her hair in a tiny mohawk for a bit so that she could claim a toy to play as well. Their yells and peels of laughter could be heard throughout the house, and that was why, by the time K was rinsing the shampoo out of Del’s hair ten minutes later, both of her boys were framed in the door way, like two sides of the same coin, soft smiles on their faces.

By the time Ty had handed her a towel, Del was yawning, and then Rux was pulling out pajamas, and the three of them were putting their daughter to bed. Ty can never help but make sure she’s tucked in securely, K makes sure her hair is swept carefully to the side, and Rux places her suffed animals within arms reach. 

The last thing Del feels before sleep every night is three forehead kisses, each just as loving as the last.