A Mother’s Guilt | Lee Dongwook Imagine
Pairing: Lee Dongwook x Wife!Reader
Requested by anon: Can you make a dongwook imagine where his gf/wife gets really sick, like coughing, loosing voice and vomiting? Omg I forgot to add a detail for the dongwook request "where his gf/wife is sick" but they have a month old baby, could you add that in the imagine? 💀 I am so sorry I forgot to add, idk if this is late or not
Genre: fluff
Word Count: 0.9k words
A/n: happy reading nuggets!
Tunes: n/a
Dongwook winced as he heard the violent coughing coming from the master bedroom. The little girl, laying against his chest in the baby carrier, was calm despite the harrowing coughs from the illness you’d developed about a week ago, just days short of reaching one month postpartum. Her head nuzzled against his chest, rooting for what he could only assume was your breast.
“Hold on,” he whispered softly, placing a light kiss to the crown of her head. “The bottle’s almost ready.”
She whimpered just as he heard the violent hurling of you in the bathroom. He’d have to see if it could get his mother to come over for a bit so he could take you to the hospital as soon as he could. The little one’s whimpers quickly turned into full-blown wails as she grew impatient and restless against him. He bounced light from side to side as he waited for breastmilk to reach the right temperature after having run it under warm water.
Pouring a little drop of the milk onto his wrist he sighed as he began carefully undoing the carrier, taking the one months old out of it and resting her comfortably in his arms as he carefully waited for the bottle to slip past her lips —an action that happened fairly quickly, silencing her cries as she began eating, her hand gripping onto one of his fingers. The soft suckling made him smile as he stood in the kitchen simply feeding her whilst leaning against the counter.
“Dongwook?” he heard your frail, hoarse voice call out.
He looked up from his daughter and saw you. There was no denying that you were a beautiful woman inside and out. But right now…right now you looked like absolute shit. And there was nothing he could physically do about it at that very moment. He made a note to run your bath as soon as he set the baby down for a nap in a few minutes.
“You should’ve rung the bell,” he whispered, worriedly looking at your unstable footing. “Do you need some tea? Soup? Change of clothes?”
You shook your head slowly, giving him a weak smile, “Why don’t you take a break? I can watch over her while you rest.”
His eyes widened at your request, “I’m fine. You need to rest.”
“All I’ve been doing is resting,” you voiced tiredly. “I feel so useless and guilty for not being able to do anything.”
Dongwook’s gaze softened as he looked at you, taking a few careful steps over as he continued feeding the babe in his arms. Adjusting his hold on the bottle with one hand, he reached out to you, running his knuckles delicately along your cheek.
“You aren’t useless and you have no reason to feel guilty for needing to rest in order to get at least a bit better. You’ve done so much for her —for us— the past month. You need to take care of yourself too.”
“But she—”
“She’s fine. There’s enough milk for us to use right now from your extra supply. You don’t have anything to worry about right now. Just take it easy.”
You looked at him before letting your eyes wander down the now sleeping girl in his arms. You cleared your throat in an effort to suppress a cough.
“How is she already this big?” you whispered, reaching out your hand before taking it back. “She doesn’t like the bottle does she?”
Dongwook shook his head, “This is the first time she took it willingly in the past week. The desperation must’ve finally hit her and she accepted her fate for the foreseeable future.”
“Think your mom would be-” you turned coughing violently causing your daughter to stir and make a face before Dongwook settled her, her suckling continuing.
“I’ll call her in a bit and ask her to.”
You nodded, retching and going over to the kitchen sink and vomiting. Dongwook’s borrows furrowed in concern again. He’d be calling his mom now.
“The flu?” you asked, looking at the doctor before you. “The flu’s what’s causing all of this?”
The doctor nodded looking down at her clipboard, “You happened to get a much stronger case, probably due to being only a month postpartum. Your immune system still isn’t completely back to normal. We’ll be keeping you overnight for observation and to aid with the slight case of dehydration you have.”
Dongwook smiled and gave a soft thanks as she turned to leave, “Well it looks like we’re both getting some time to rest.”
You looked at him wide eyed, “No, you have to go back home to be with-”
“My mother would sooner skin me alive if I went home and left you here alone,” he interrupted. “They’ll be fine for the night. I need to make sure that you’re okay too.”
You bit your lip in worry.
He said your name softly as he took a seat on the edge of the bed, placing his hand on your knee, “Don’t feel guilty for needing to take some time to look after yourself —for me choosing to stay here with my wife to make sure she's okay. The two of us need to be okay in order for our daughter to be okay.”
“You’re right, but I just…”
“It’s okay. Just try to get some rest. I’ll call my mom and let her know we’re staying until morning.”
Patting your knee, he rose and stepped out into the hallway. The deep timbre of his voice echoed into the room, mixing with the soft barely there dripping of the IV you were hooked up to. Before you knew it your eyes were falling shut until you eventually slipped into a restful slumber seconds before Dongwook entered the room. He smiled at the sight of you, taking a spot in the recliner closest to you and getting as comfortable as he could before he too eventually fell asleep for the night.










