Anna, a foreign national working as a nanny, gets a job offer, the pay for which is a lot more than usual. Curious, she decides to go for an interview.

During this, she finds out about her unusual prospective charge; Sharon, an adult woman who is permanently dressed as a baby and behaves like one.

She thinks about turning the job down; as she gets up to go, though, she sees a look in Sharon’s eyes. At the same time, Sharon reaches for her, almost begging her to stay.

She takes the job…

During the first week, she gradually gets used to dealing with an adult baby. Nappy changes seem to be needed quite regularly; more often, even, than most ‘normal’ babies. Investigating further on her own, she finds out that Sharon’s ‘formula’ has a laxative built into it, which definitely isn’t needed. Her employers hadn’t read her CV fully; Anna was also a qualified pharmacist, at least overseas; she was waiting for her UK certification to come through, and working as a nanny to make ends meet…

She finds the individual ingredients for Sharon’s food, and replaces the ‘contaminated’ version, without anyone knowing.

Over the next week, Sharon needed a lot less changing…

Anna was puzzled. Why make Sharon need the loo more often than she needed to? Why was someone trying to make sure she had to wear nappies permanently?

Sharon could somehow tell that Anna was trying to help her. Her ‘upset stomach’ had settled down ever since Anna had started looking after her, and she was really caring. Now, if only she could help Anna to find out the truth about her…

Next day, Anna changed Sharon as usual, then started tidying the flat. She had been left in charge; Sharon’s ‘companion’ had gone out for the day.

Sharon herself was in her playpen, dressed in a pink latex romper suit that she had been fastened into that morning. She was trying to pull the mittens off, but they were locked on.

Anna had been observing Sharon carefully, all the time she had been with her. She considered it part of her job but, also, she was very curious. Sharon just wasn’t acting like a typical baby, or a handicapped adult. She was acting like she knew what she wanted to do, but she was being stopped from doing it.

Anna had no idea why she did what she did next. She helped Sharon take off her mittens…

Frantic, now, Sharon reached out of her playpen and grabbed a crayon and a pad.

“Help me!”, she wrote. “I’m trapped in this shit! There’s nothing wrong with me!”

Frantically, she pointed to her face.

Anna looked carefully. Finally, she saw the faint seam…

Anna pulled. Gently at first, then harder. Sharon’s face peeled off, from just under her nose, downward…

Underneath was a gag, built into her mouth. Anna quickly removed it.

“Oh! Thank God!”, Sharon cried, voice rough from long disuse. “I’ve been like this for months! I was hoping you’d see what was wrong, and you did! Thank you!”

Anna hugged her as she cried…

It turned out that Sharon was the inheritor of a massive estate, one worth billions. Her ‘companion’, actually her stepsister, had been insanely jealous, and had converted Sharon into a baby so she could get her declared incompetent and act as her representative, just to get hold of the money.

Sharon had gone to bed one night, after having her round for drinks, and woken up as a baby in the crib, mouth sealed shut except for a hole to take a bottle and force fed the laxatives.

She had been trying to escape ever since, getting weaker and weaker from the drugs in her food. It had taken a caring person like Anna to free her…

Before her stepsister had returned, Anna and Sharon had spoken to the police. It had been treated as a kidnapping case, especially when the police found out who Sharon actually was and were able to prove it.

Her stepsister got back in the evening to find Sharon sitting in the lounge, dressed properly with a smug expression on her face, Anna sitting alongside her.

“You interfering bitch!”, she cried, diving at Anna.

The police detective waiting behind the door soon convinced her to back down and took her away. It was her turn to be locked up and forced to do things against her will…

“There’s one more thing you should know about me”, said Sharon, later, to Anna. “I can be very grateful…”

Anna smiled as she found out how much, in bed later…