Tell Danielle she needs to put a diaper on first, if she wants to pee like that.

"If you actually want to pee right now, you better put a diaper on first," Halley blushed, realising the prospect of cleaning up after her friend might be closer than she thought.

"You better put one on me then," Danielle grinned, seemingly relishing the prospect, as if this was all just one big game. Once again, Halley couldn't help but reflect that, at least in this one particular respect, it seemed Danielle would make a far more enthusiastic astronaut than her. A little too enthusiastic, in fact, if anything.

"You can... put them on yourself, of course," Halley blushed as Danielle looked at her expectantly.

"No, no," Danielle shook her head, already unbuttoning her trousers. "I think you're the expert here. You're going to have to take the lead with me."

"Uh, okay," Halley stammered nervously, watching her friend disrobe in front of her. More than that, in fact, Danielle seemed quite happy to dispense with panties too, and went to lie spread-eagled on the bed, ready to be attended to.

"Come on," she urged. "I really need that pee."

Well, it seemed like she was committed now. With awkward hands, Halley tore her way into the packet and extracted one of the tightly folded diapers. She was more than familiar with these by now. Historically, the 'maximum absorbancy garment' the space-shuttle era astronauts wore was carefully designed to appear as much like a pair of pull-on shorts than anything resembling a conventional baby's diaper. These days, such considerations seemed to have fallen mostly by the wayside, and things were much more standard and utilitarian. Still very bulky, though, compared to anything a child might wear, but disturbingly similar in every other respect. Halley did still normally put them on herself in a standard sitting position, however, whereas Danielle clearly expected Halley to do this in a far more conventional manner.

"Um..." she approached, not even quite sure how to begin from this perspective. "I guess you'll have to lift your bottom up a bit."

"Yes mummy," Danielle giggled, pulling her knees towards her chest and arching her back upwards, as if aiming her behind like a cannon towards the sky. Or rather, in this case, inwards towards the station's hub.

With an extremely surreal feeling, Halley opened up the diaper and slid it into place underneath her friend. Who could have known, this morning, that by this afternoon her life was going to come to this?

"You can, uh... put your legs down now," Halley blushed, trying not to study too many details of Danielle's poised behind. Yes she'd seen the other girl relatively nude before today, but never from quite such a intimate perspective. It was almost a relief to be able to pull the front of the diaper up between her legs, at least restoring her to a modecum of modesty.

The next part was the aspect Halley most frequently struggled with herself: pulling the sides around and taping everything together. Not that there was anything too complicated about what needed to be done, but it was a big of an exercise to get everything pulled together tight from three different directions, and then taped into place without giving any slack, when you only had two hands. Tug too hard in one direction, and the other would be pulled out of balance. Not tight enough, and the diaper might not even stay on, or sag so loose that there would be gaps left on either side. Like everything else about a spacesuit, it was necessary to lock everything together well enough to form a seal; in this case a waterproof one, but the basic principle was practically the same.

It was easier applying the principles to someone else, however; Danielle was right about that. If nothing else, the objective perspective seemed to help; it was a lot easier to see what was going on. Consequently, despite her awkwardness, Halley did still wrap up the task in something less than her usual time.

"Is that it?" Danielle sat up, flexing her legs experimentally. "Whoa, this feels kind of weird. Very padded, huh?"

"You don't really notice once you're inside a suit," Halley blushed. Obviously everything about astronaut gear was bulky and padded up, so you didn't really have to notice the diaper in that respect.

"It's cool," Danielle grinned. "I already feel like an astronaut... or a baby. I'm not sure which! So, can I pee now?"

Halley blushed, trying to imagine her own experience of diapers ever managing to be anywhere near as carefree and casual as this. Clearly Danielle really did have a completely different perspective here. There probably was a lot to learn from her these next few days.