Yoonjin taking care of baby jimin?
“Why is he so ugly?” Yoongi asks, peering into the crib.
“Babies are always ugly for the first few weeks. He’ll get cuter. He’ll be so cute you won’t be able to resist.”
Yoongi wrinkles his nose. “I don’t think so.”
((“Dada!” Jimin gurgles and Yoongi reaches a finger into the crib. Jimin latches onto it and curls his tiny fist around the finger.
“Ok, he’s cute,” Yoongi mumbles and Seokjin laughs.
–“If you don’t want to be here, you don’t have to be,” Seokjin says as he changes Jimin’s diaper.
“It stinks,” Yoongi grimaces but he stays anyways and when it’s all done, Jimin reaches out and Yoongi picks him up and kisses his forehead.
((“I’ll change it,” Yoongi tells Seokjin who blinks, surprised, but agrees.
Seokjin doesn’t offer his help because he knows Yoongi will refuse it but he watches Yoongi struggle for half an hour until he finally gets it and Seokjin smiles.))
“Who would’ve thought Yoongi-hyung would be a father,” Hoseok laughs and Yoongi scowls.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
Jimin lets out a cry and Yoongi turns around, digging through the baby bag for Jimin’s bottle.
Namjoon blinks. “I honestly didn’t think Yoongi-hyung even had parental instincts.”
Seokjin watches Yoongi fit the bottle to Jimin’s lips. The angle is awkward and Jimin won’t be able to drink that way so Seokjin stands to go help.
“He doesn’t,” he tells Namjoon. “But he’s trying.”
Jimin hits his head playing on the playground and he and Seokjin wait in the hospital while Jimin gets stitches.
“I’ve never been this scared before,” Yoongi confesses quietly and Seokjin squeezes his hand.
“I am too. It’s because we’re his parents.”
Yoongi nods and they wait, holding hands.
((When Jimin’s finally out, they sleep with Jimin curled between them for a week and if they wake up every so often to make sure Jimin’s still there, they don’t call each other out on it.))
On Jimin’s first day of school, Seokjin kisses Jimin’s forehead and hands him his lunch. “Be good, I love you,” he says and Jimin nods.
“Love you too,” he tells Seokjin.
Yoongi drops him off without Seokjin who said he couldn’t bear it if Jimin ran to him crying that he didn’t want to go.
Jimin doesn’t do that. He waves to Yoongi and skips in, smiling and Yoongi bites his lip so he won’t cry because his baby’s growing up so fast.
As he’s about to leave though, Jimin comes barreling out and hugs Yoongi ’s legs.
“I almost forgot,” he says and he tugs Yoongi down and kisses his cheek. “I love you daddy, have a good day!”
A lump forms in his throat and Yoongi kisses Jimin’s head.
“Yeah…love you too kiddo,” Yoongi croaks and Jimin grins and runs inside.
When Yoongi gets to his car, he buries his face in his hands and cries.
When Jimin gets called to the principal’s office one day, he and Seokjin come down to the school to see Jimin sullenly sitting in a chair. Another boy beside him is nursing a black eye.
“Why did you hit him?” Seokjin asks in the car and Jimin scowls. “Violence is never the answer.”
“Sometimes it is,” Jimin says and he locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out for dinner.
Jimin doesn’t talk to them the next morning either and they both go to work with heavy hearts.
Yoongi gets a call at work. It’s a Jeon Jungkook, the boy Jimin hit.
“I asked them to not suspend Jimin,” he says. “because I deserved it, honestly. I…made fun of you and his mom and I was just joking but he took it seriously. It was my fault so please don’t be angry with him. He’s…he loves you guys a lot.”
Yoongi bites his lip. “I…I know. Thank you.”
When Jimin gets his first college rejection letter, he locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out.
Seokjin slides a letter under his door and the next morning, Jimin comes out and hugs them both.
(((When we first brought you home, you were so small and fragile, we didn’t know how to hold you. We were scared of being parents and we didn’t know if we could raise you up to be all you could be. But we think we did a pretty good job and we are so proud of you. So proud. And nothing can ever change that. You’re not perfect but you are to us. We love you so much Jimin. Please come out. We’re making your favorite tonight.)))
When Jimin graduates, Seokjin and Yoongi buy him flowers and leis and take pictures until Jimin laughs and complains his face hurts from smiling.
Yoongi’s own heart is so full it hurts.
“He’s leaving for college,” Yoongi whispers and Seokjin nods.
“It’ll be quiet without him,” Seokjin says.
The unspoken “we’ll miss him” hangs between them, heavy in the air.
He and Seokjin hang back after the reception.
“How did it feel to walk him down the aisle?” Seokjin teases and Yoongi smiles.
“He looked really beautiful today.”
Jimin kisses the love of his life in front of all his friends and family and Yoongi and Seokjin stand at the back, smiling so hard their faces hurt.
“I’m really scared,” Jimin confides to him. “Will I be as good of a dad as you, do you think?”
“You just bumble through and hope for the best,” Yoongi says. He squeezes Jimin’s hand. “I wasn’t very good at it but I did okay right?”
Jimin laughs. “What do you mean? You were the best dad ever.”
“I love you so much.” He hears Jimin say and he can tell he’s holding back tears.
“I love you too,” Yoongi says. “Seokjin’s waiting for me. You’ll be okay?”
“Mhmm,” and now Jimin’s crying, holding Yoongi’s wrinkled hand tightly in his own. “Sleep now dad. Say hi to mom for me.Tell him I love him.”
“Mm.” And with that, Yoongi closes his eyes for the last time.
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