McKenzie had stretched out across the couch, one arm tucked behind her head as she settled into the cushions. Greg lay across her stomach, positioned carefully where she could see him and where he could rest without sliding. It was a position he had been in plenty of times now, but familiarity had not made it normal.
It still hit him in small waves.
He was literally lying on his daughter’s stomach. He could feel the warmth of her body through the fabric of her shirt, the steady rise beneath him when she breathed in, the gradual lowering as she exhaled. Her perfume lingered around him, familiar but heavier at his size, wrapping around him until it felt almost like part of the air itself.
It was comforting.
It was also impossible to forget what it meant.
“Now that you’re finished eating,” McKenzie said, shifting slightly beneath him, “I got you something.”
Greg looked up as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small bundle of fabric. She set it carefully beside him on her stomach: tiny jeans, a hoodie, and socks.
For a moment, Greg just stared.
The clothes were ordinary. That was what made them hit so hard. Jeans. A hoodie. Socks. Nothing elaborate, nothing ceremonial, nothing that should have meant anything beyond getting dressed.
But they did.
After months of being dressed according to someone else’s purpose, someone else’s routine, someone else’s idea of what was appropriate for a Little, the outfit felt almost painfully human. It wasn’t workwear. It wasn’t something Madison had selected for function or control. It was just an outfit, the kind of thing he might have worn before all of this, scaled down and placed in front of him like a piece of himself being handed back.
His throat tightened before he could stop it.
“Does Madison know?” he asked, though he was still looking at the clothes. “She’s pretty particular about us getting clothes dirty when we’re doing work.”
McKenzie let out a small breath through her nose.
“Dad,” she said, like the answer should have been obvious, “you belong to me.”
The words landed strangely.
From Madison, they would have sounded like a claim. From McKenzie, they sounded more like protection. Warmer. Safer. But still, Greg could not fully escape the fact that it was ownership language, no matter how gently she meant it.
McKenzie seemed not to notice the way it settled in him.
“You’re wearing outfits,” she continued. “If what she has you doing gets them that dirty, then I guess that’s a chore for Mom.”
Greg glanced up at her.
McKenzie’s expression was calm, almost casual, but there was no uncertainty in it. She motioned toward the clothes with her fingers.
“Go ahead.”
Greg nodded and began dressing. The fabric felt heavier at his scale, more structured than he expected, but the sensation of pulling on jeans and sliding into a hoodie was grounding in a way he hadn’t anticipated. He smoothed the front of the hoodie with both hands after he got it on, pausing over the small, ordinary motion.
A hoodie and jeans should not have felt like dignity.
But they did.
While he adjusted the sleeves, McKenzie reached for her phone.
Greg noticed too late.
“Kenz,” he started.
The screen had already lit up.
FaceTime.
Madison.
Greg froze with one sleeve still bunched around his wrist.
McKenzie didn’t look worried. That was almost more worrying. Greg knew Madison. He knew how quickly a small thing could become a larger one if she felt pushed, especially where he was concerned. Clothing was not just clothing in Madison’s world. It was presentation, access, authority. It was part of how she organized people.
The call connected.
“Hey Kenz, you never FaceTime me during school, what’s…” Madison’s voice trailed off as her face filled the screen. Her brows knit slightly. “Are you at home?”
“Yeah,” McKenzie said easily. “I stayed home to spend some time with Dad. Mom’s still doing whatever you have her doing.”
“No fair,” Madison said immediately. “I wanna stay home and hang out with Dad.”
She was leaning against Brooklyn’s locker, phone angled slightly upward. Brooklyn stood close by, half in frame, with Evan and Ava nearby enough that Greg could hear their voices in the background. Madison’s first reaction had been automatic, bratty and honest, but Greg saw the moment she remembered she had an audience.
Her face adjusted.
Not completely. Madison was still Madison. But she pulled some of the rawness back, smoothing herself into something more casual, more defensible in front of her friends.
McKenzie noticed too.
“You get tons of parent time,” McKenzie said. “You’re with them for hours every day.”
Madison made a face. “That’s different.”
“I’m sure it is,” McKenzie said, not taking the bait. “Anyway, I called to let you know Dad’s wearing clothes from now on.”
Madison blinked. “What?”
“Outfits,” McKenzie said. “Actual outfits. What you do with Mom is your business, but Dad’s wearing clothes. If you have him doing things where they get dirty enough that you don’t want to deal with it, then that’s a Mom job. Or outsource it to one of your Little community people. I don’t care.”
Her tone stayed calm.
Firm, but calm.
Greg looked between McKenzie and the screen, feeling the strange humiliation of being discussed like policy. He wanted the clothes. He was grateful for them. He felt more like himself in them already. But that did not erase the fact that his daughters were negotiating his wardrobe over FaceTime while one of them sat at school surrounded by friends.
Madison’s expression tightened for half a second.
There it was.
The flicker of annoyance. The possessive pull. The instinct to push back because McKenzie had made a decision and announced it instead of asking.
But Madison looked briefly off-screen, toward Brooklyn or Evan or both, and the calculation changed.
She could argue.
She could make it a thing.
But not here. Not like this.
“Fine,” Madison said, drawing the word out just enough to make sure no one mistook agreement for surrender. “I mean, I can get him work clothes or something. Stuff I can put through with my delicates or my socks.”
That was Madison finding the shape of it again.
McKenzie’s boundary became a system in Madison’s head almost immediately. Work clothes. Wash routines. Categories. Exceptions.
“And if it’s something really grungy,” Madison continued, “I’ll just have Mom handle it. Or I’ll get Trina or Charity to help.”
Her eyes flicked toward Evan for the smallest moment when she said Charity’s name. There was annoyance there, but also something else, something Greg couldn’t fully read from the angle.
Brooklyn’s voice came faintly from off-screen. “Wait, he has little outfits now?”
Madison shifted the phone slightly away, not enough to hide the call, but enough to remind everyone this was still her conversation.
“Yes, Brooklyn,” Madison said, with exaggerated patience. “Dad has outfits now. Try to keep up.”
McKenzie gave Greg the smallest look, as if to say, see?
Madison looked back at the screen. “I gotta go. Class is about to start.”
“You’re good with this?” McKenzie asked, not letting her escape too easily.
Madison rolled her eyes. “I said fine. God.”
But there was less force behind it now. She had already converted the problem into something she could manage.
“Tell Dad he looks cute or whatever,” Madison added, like she didn’t care.
Then, after half a beat, softer and more direct despite the hallway behind her, “But not too cute. I still get him after school.”
The call ended before McKenzie could answer.
The screen went dark.
For a moment, neither McKenzie nor Greg said anything.
McKenzie set the phone down beside her and looked at him, still dressed in the new hoodie and jeans, standing on her stomach like the entire conversation had not just been about him.
“That went better than I expected,” Greg said carefully.
McKenzie huffed. “Yeah, because I didn’t give her room to argue.”
Greg smoothed the front of the hoodie again, slower this time.
“She’ll find room later,” he said.
“Probably,” McKenzie admitted. “But not on this.”
Greg looked down at himself. The jeans fit well. The hoodie was soft. The socks were almost ridiculous in how much comfort they gave him, as if fabric around his feet could somehow make the world less unstable.
“I appreciate it,” he said quietly.
McKenzie’s expression softened.
“I know.”
She reached down and brushed one finger lightly against the side of the hoodie, adjusting the edge where it sat crooked on his shoulder.
“You look like you again,” she said.
That hit him harder than anything else.
Greg swallowed and looked away for a second, pretending to inspect the sleeve so he didn’t have to answer too quickly.
Because she was right.
And because even this small restoration came with conditions. Madison had been informed. Work clothes would exist. Cindy would handle the messier parts. Charity or Trina might be pulled in. A simple outfit had already become part of the machinery of their divided household.
Still, for this moment, he had jeans. A hoodie. Socks.
McKenzie beneath him, steady and warm.
Pizza nearby.
Trash TV waiting.
And for the first time in a long while, Greg let himself hold onto the smaller truth without immediately burying it beneath the larger one.
He felt better dressed.
He felt more himself.
Even if the decision had belonged to someone else.
McKenzie!!! Large and in charge! I loved this chapter! Madison has no power here!
She was doing what needed to be done.
“And if it’s something really grungy,” Madison continued, “I’ll just have Mom handle it. Or I’ll get Trina or Charity to help.”
Her eyes flicked toward Evan for the smallest moment when she said Charity’s name. There was annoyance there, but also something else, something Greg couldn’t fully read from the angle.
that’s interesting…i wonder if Evan’s being protective of Charity being part of the community or something. I still think she’s going to do what she can to keep Charity separate and get a second little at somepoint.
Also wonder what Gregs thinking about Cindy right now. He’s smart enough to not push a touchy subject, so maybe he won’t argue about making Cindy clean these, but he could ask if she can get something too at least. would be a slightly different discussion at that point, at least to me, though i’m guessing it’d just circle back to how Kenzie feels about Cindy and Cindy’s views being honored etc.
Madsion will have a point also! Her parents do all their homework so…. I’m telling ya! That stupid community will fail!
With Evan you never know. But she does like Charity alot so it wouldnt be a stretch to say she is a bit protective of charity.
I cant see Greg pushing it much further hten he already has. At some point cindy needs to meet halfway and makeit up to mckenzie.
An interesting line about Charity, I do wonder if she’ll appear properly in this story.
Evan’s little? The odds are in her favor.
1) Why no shoes?
2) I was getting tired of seeing him in boxers 😁
3) It seemed like the “outfits” might spare him from some work, but Madison countered with “work clothes”.
4) I surprised that Greg did not have more of an emotional response (maybe a sob or two)
5) Also surprised that Madison’s entourage did not ask to see what Greg looks like now.
6) There it was.
The flicker of annoyance. The possessive pull. The instinct to push back because McKenzie had made a decision and announced it instead of asking.
Madison is going to come up with some kind of well considered decision of her own that McKenzie will find difficult to say no to.
7) Then, after half a beat, softer and more direct despite the hallway behind her, “But not too cute. I still get him after school.” – I was wondering about this in yesterday’s comments. Is Greg off limits when he is in McKenzie’s room when McKenzie is not around. McKenzie stated more than once that he will be there waiting for her when she gets home.
8) Boy! When he gets back to Cindy, it’s going to be awkward!
9) Since time is abundant (Madison does not graduate anytime soon), I think it is best that Greg take advantage of all that McKenzie is willing to give him. He has a lot of time to help Cindy, but Cindy has to start helping herself first.
10) How is Trina going to adjust to this change in rules?
11) CM makes a good point about Charity, perhaps she is an exception as well.
1) he wouldn’t really need them unless leaving the house, for which there are no current plans for
2) I literally thought about how much he needed clothes in the last chapter, lol
3) They were only gonna minorly inconvenience her at most
4) Over clothes? doubtful
5) I don’t think they actually care that much about him (also, Madison doesn’t have an entourage; she’s part of Evan’s entourage)
6) such retaliation is likely
7) I think Madison can grab Greg when McKenzie isn’t there. The rule seems to be he needs to be made available BEFORE McKenzie gets home
8) She’s gonna think he looks good, then wonder where her clothes are, then get disappointed that she doesn’t get any.
9) I’m sure Greg will try.
10) Triana already wears clothes, and so does Charity, so that won’t bug them so much. The increased workload would annoy them, and they’d probably blame Greg for that even though it’s their guardian’s fault.
11) I’m sure all guardians have boundaries for their Littles that the community must respect.
10) i actually don’t know if Trina would be too upset with Greg. I’m unsure about Charity, but to me all of the group treats greg kinder because he himself was kinder to them and not as caught up in all of this. Brooklyn might be the only one that doesn’t care about who Greg was before hand, maybe the British kid too (i forget her name, the one with the house little(s))
Yeah, I was talking about the rule that would exclude from some work, not that he had clothes.
1) they dont leave teh house that often. They have shoes but they would only bring them if it was a situation that required shoes.
2)I thought about just changing the boxers to see what people would say.
3) this isnt Madison’s first Rodeo. She has things and plans. So dont be surprised if she already has work clothes for them. As she had them as they were for a reason.
4) He’s not that much of a clothes person. So he wasnt as bothered He appreciates the clothes but it isn’t crying tears of joy.
5) They come over after school so they know they can see him if a few hours.
6) Oh, most definitely. Madison will madison.
7) Greg is not off limits in McKenzie’s room. Madison can get him from there. He is just homed in McKenize’s room so at hte end of hte day he will be in her room unless there is a reason for him not to be.
8) Greg dressed and Cindy still in her underwear she will be annoyed for sure.
9) I agree. its going to be years until things are really going to hcange as Madison has to graduate and even then its not like McKenzie has the calendar marked and bags packed the day she walks down the isle for graduation.
10) What change? Im not sure how Trina is affected. Shes sitll in charge of Greg and Cindy community wise. Worse case she loses greg but from a production standpoint htats less annoying then Cindy.
11) Charity is in the community but she has a degree of power because she’s Evan’s little and well Charity knows how to play the game.
through her nose.
“Dad,” she said, like the answer should have been obvious, “you belong to me.” Maybe McKenzie should tell Madison that! Cause the last time Greg said that madsion flipped and punished Greg
It is only fair Greg gets outfits because Cindy has outfits and gets her hair done with a smelling hot tub outings. Talk about pampering, Kenz can still pamper her dad to catch up to her mom if Madison doesn’t take dad on a pampering party lol.
So is Kenzie’s plan still to only let Greg see his wife while he watches Madison give her slave chores? Or does she plan on giving him visitation rights?
I think (and hope) that Kenzie’s going to let Greg see cindy even when it’s just them. To me at least, she seems more open to it if Greg’s bothered by it and not pushing the subject on her. Like you said the other day, he’s wishy washy, but I think that plays into what he can get from Kenzie too. At least to me, Kenzie would rather her dad be happy than let her issues with Cindy get in the way. that’s just me though.
Yeah hopefully she decides to let her little slave be alone with his little slave wife. He may be mildly bothered if he never gets to be alone with his wife again. Oh well, I am sure pet clothes and pizza will make him forget all about his marriage.
I mean, what is Kenzie supposed to do? Tell the child she is legally in charge of that she can’t use slave labor whenever she wants?
lol immediately made me think of RVB
Used to love RVB back in the day.
Hahaha got me.
I think I have just come to terms with everyone in this universe being different degrees of monsterous. Every one of these fucks is straight up evil or ignorant, some more than others, unless they are actively fighting to change these fucked up laws. Kenzie being in charge of a household that houses two slaves, who are her parents, and allows them to be treated as slaves, makes her near the bottom for me. Until she corrects Madison’s behavior (which I don’t see happening anytime soon), she is at worst a step below her mom on the piece of shit meter to me.
A) I hope since Greg is getting presentable outfits, he can go food shopping or just hang out with his girls & their friends on a regular basis.
B) Maybe even the girls together taking both the parents to the little Mart for a family outing lol.
i’d be interested to see how Madison behaves with just Greg around her friends and their littles.
1) “tiny jeans, a hoodie, and socks.” McKenzie is defying Madison even harder here.
2) “The clothes were ordinary. That was what made them hit so hard. Jeans. A hoodie. Socks. Nothing elaborate, nothing ceremonial, nothing that should have meant anything beyond getting dressed. But they did.” Something Madison had specifically denied him and Cindy
3) “the kind of thing he might have worn before all of this, scaled down and placed in front of him like a piece of himself being handed back.” another step in the return to normalcy
4) “Does Madison know? She’s pretty particular about us getting clothes dirty when we’re doing work.” Madison hasn’t had them in clothes (aside from undies) at all, from what we’ve seen
5) “From Madison, they would have sounded like a claim. From McKenzie, they sounded more like protection” yeah, protection from Madison’s claim
6) “Greg could not fully escape the fact that it was ownership language, no matter how gently she meant it.” Nope, ownership language isn’t going anywhere
7) “You’re wearing outfits, if what she has you doing gets them that dirty, then I guess that’s a chore for Mom.” Rough, but definitely something Cindy has preached
8) “Greg knew Madison. He knew how quickly a small thing could become a larger one if she felt pushed, especially where he was concerned. Clothing was not just clothing in Madison’s world. It was presentation, access, authority. It was part of how she organised people” McKenzie knows these things too; she’s asserting dominance/claim with them
9) “Hey Kenz, you never FaceTime me during school, what’s… Are you at home?” Welp, McKenzie just lost all authority to tell Madison not to skip school without looking like a hypocrite (not that I wouldn’t have called her one anyway if she did.)
10) “No fair, I wanna stay home and hang out with Dad.” and inspired by Mckenzie she probably will at some point
11) “Anyway, I called to let you know Dad’s wearing clothes from now on.” Just lawing down the McKenzie law
12) “If you have him doing things where they get dirty enough that you don’t want to deal with it, then that’s a Mom job. Or outsource it to one of your Little community people. I don’t care.” or you could make Madison do Greg’s laundry.
13) “feeling the strange humiliation of being discussed like policy.” That would be hard to get used to,
14) “I mean, I can get him work clothes or something. Stuff I can put through with my delicates or my socks.” I figured Madison would argue at first then get him clothes and outfits she liked, didn’t think it’d be that quick
15) “I’ll just have Mom handle it. Or I’ll get Trina or Charity to help.” Damn, already adding to the burdens of her friends’ Littles
16) “You’re good with this?” No, she’s just not picking this battle
17) “That went better than I expected,” – “Yeah, because I didn’t give her room to argue.” an option pretty much only McKenzie has
18) “Cindy would handle the messier parts. Charity or Trina might be pulled in” all three will probably resent him for it
4) I gotta figure we’ve only seen the same outfits because of the ease to render. It stands to reason that after the passage of time the has occurred they would need replacement clothing, and sounds like Asuka has alluded to the fact that Cindy wears work clothes geared to the work she is doing.
6) I missed this when I read it the first time.
7) Going to cause more friction between Cindy and Greg.
9) Hmm, didn’t think of that side effect.
10) Madison wanting to part of the family?
14) Waiting to see what Asuka has to say about this. Like I mentioned in #4, I figured they had to have some changes of clothes by now.
15) this begs the question, what is the hierarchy of this so-called “community”. We were made aware of where Cindy and Greg stood, but not where Madison and her friends stand.
18) This was what I was getting at in my earlier comments. Trina sounded like a real stickler for the hierarchy and rules. Letting Greg (and maybe Charity) have special considerations does not fit what she has been trained for.
18) I would think Kenz would not want Greg part of the community because she would only trust Greg with the daughters.
1) Madison is absolute. Her will can not be defied, only delayed. From the book of Madison. 4:17
2) Madison does have clothes for them. She had them like that for a reason.
3) Yes McKenize was pulling out all the stops buying dad clothes.
4) Thats not wholly true. Its only true they haven’t had clothes as depicted in season 3. They werent unclothes teh entirety of hte time between season 2 and 3.
5) Madison the conquerer.
6) Litltes are owned kind of hard to escape that fact.
7) Cindy deserves it. she will make it through this struggle. She deserves a little laundry and hard work in her life.
8) The hierarchy to McKenize is #1 McKenzie…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2. Madison.
9) Not really as McKenzie has reasons and a busy schedule where Madison would jus tbe staying home to stay home. McKenzie has school, tennis, a job. she has to maintain. Madison literally just has to go to school and watch the parents.
10) McKenzie could lay down the law. Just because she stayed home doesnt mean Madison can for no reason.
11) yup Madison is always highly receptive to ultimatiums with little choice but its McKenize so she will relent.
12) Madison could McKenize doesnt care how it gets done. thats on madison to figure out.
13) I would probably never get used to that.
14) Oh she will definately be putting him in clothes and things she likes. Madison is good with loopholes and making things her own. Queen of the pivot. this will be her idea by the end of hte week.
15) According to Cindy thats what littles are for. So Cindy should be already prepared for this. She lives for madisons convenience.
16) That is very true. Madison is aware of her surroundings as well.Shes not going to cause a scene like that in the midddle of hte school hallway in front of her friends.
17) That the power of McKenzie. The Madison slayer when she needs to be.
18) It depends how they feel about greg vs Cindy.
8) regarding hierarchy, what is the hierarchy within the community? The one Madison and her friends are creating. Can Madison unilaterally decide what Charity does? Do the girls have to reach a majority consensus? Can anyone override how their Little is treated?
Well, Evan is the leader of the group, and her closest friend is Brooklyn. She thinks of Madison as one of her best friends, but in Smallara terms. Brooklyn is Evan’s Ellie.
Madison is in Evan’s group its not the other way around.
Madison can have charity to do things just like she can have trina do things, but she’s at best 3rd more likely 4th in the group Power dynamics.
As you have Evan 1, Brooklyn 2. 3 Emma but some would argue Brooklyn and emma are swapped. 4th is Madison, 5th is Krysi. 6th would be Eva.
So their power in the community goes along with their power within the group.
It’s kind of a don’t be dumb policy, but the actual guardian of the little can veto.
Everyone knows how Evan feels about Charity, so there is no official policy, but the unspoken rule is if what your wanting charity to do is going to annoy or piss off Evan, probably don’t.
Brooklyn and Madison are a bit more Chill. Not that they dont care its just they are just more easy going in general when it comes to their littles but if they dont like something they will speak up.
1) A future chapter
2) Well we’ve not seen them
3) Yes McKenize was pulling out all the stops buying dad clothes.
4) Other than underwear and the clothes they shrank in we haven’t seen them dressed
5) lol
8) That’s a long gap between McKenzie and Madison, I like it
9) I’m not saying she isn’t got valid reasons, but she’s still a hypocrite, or at least that’s how it’d look to Madison
10) And Madison could ignore that, just like McKenzie is right now
14) Lol, I wonder if she’ll feel tempted to dress Cindy to match him
15) Yeah, but Trina and Charity too!
16) Wait until she get’s home
17) more of that please
18) I think they’d all rightly hate Cindy more, but they’d see Greg as an enabler
I hope Greg is able to tell his girls that his transformation has some upside like being able to spend more time with them in their regular life from the best seats in the house, like their neck/shoulder instead of working all the time.
Possibly. Madison would be more likely to greg with her then cindy I’d say but it would probably depend on the day and what she was doing.