triple update <3 its for all the ones who stayed with daddy issues and its sequel even tho i keep making my characters suffer, i love u guys 😍

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"Do you want a sandwich?"
"No-"

"Cereal?"
"Nope."
"Anything?"

"Lyza stop it, I'm not hungry I just want Jungkook to wake up", Taehyung snapped and turned his head away, facing the other side. The two young adults were still sitting on two chairs in front of Taejeon's room. For now they decided not to wait in Jungkook's room because if the kid wanted something, they had to be close. The kid's section wasn't in the one in which Jungkook was laying in though. So they sat there for the whole night already. The sun was already back up and the doctors and nurses had their shifts switched, the hospital filling up with quite new faces.

"If you won't eat he'll wake up and you'll be starved by then", Lyza rolled her eyes and then got up, reassuring her jacket. "I'll go get some food for the two of us."
"Sure, whatever", Taehyung hummed, still not in the mood for breakfast.

Taejeon had already got his breakfast but he refused to eat it as well, he said eating won't bring his Dad back, so he won't. Jihyo gave up after trying to convince the kid for over an hour. She had to leave for her break now though, not coming back before the evening. Which was exactly the reason why Taejeon's mood got even worse. The nurse was the only one he was even talking a little bit to. His mother and Taehyung were basically non-existent to him, he couldn't forgive them even though he didn't quite knew why he was even so mad at them, especially Lyza.

Taehyung had called Lili around half an hour ago, convinced her mother that she'd bring the kid to the hospital before school started. Now they were on their way and Taehyung prayed on his inside that the girl would make Taejeon feel better. But by now, he doubted that a little.

Taejeon wasn't loosening up at all, it was more like he got more and more angry with every passing hour, his cries getting louder and his tears harder to stop.

Losing a parent was never easy.

And it shouldn't be.

Not much later the girl came running into the hospital, she was holding a big bag full of sweets, drinks and other stuff she knew Taejeon loved. Her mother was walking behind them, a small boy waddling next to her, holding the young woman's hand softly. Taehyung hadn't seen Lili's mother before, but the second he saw her he realised that she must be Lili's parent. They had the same eyes and they had the same cheeks. Beautiful inside out. Then there was a small, probably five year old next to them. He looked up at his mother and furrowed his tiny brows, "Mommy where are we?"

"It's a hospital, Darling."

"Stinks", the kid scrunched his nose and hurried after his sister. "Lili wait for me! I want to say Hi too!!"

"No, you're weird. We hate you", Lili hissed at her little brother and stopped in front of Taehyung. "Where is he?"

Tae pointed towards the right room and Lili disappeared inside of it not even a second later.

The girl however headed towards Taehyung as well, smiling a little. "Good Morning. You must be Jungkook's boyfriend, right? It's a pleasure to meet you. What's your name?", she asked politely and Taehyung got up, shaking her hand softly. "Kim Taehyung. Yours?"

For a second every expression faded out of the girl's face when she recognized the name from some papers she had signed a long time ago. "Ah, T-taehyung. Alright", she nodded, trying her best to cover up the weirded out feeling that creeped up her throat while she put her arms around her son, hugging him a little. "My name's Skylar", she introduced herself.

"Pretty name", Taehyung said and then kneeled down, eyeing the kid for a long time.
"And who's the little one?", he asked softly.

"This is Sam", Skylar said quietly. Taehyung nodded and smiled, "Sam", he repeated and held his hand out for the kid. "Hi Sam", he said in a soft voice, "I'm Taehyungie", he introduced himself again to the boy who looked at him with big eyes. One of his eyes had a double eyelid and the other one had a single one. Taehyung knew that small characteristic just too well. It was something Jungkook loved about Taehyung from back when they were small kids until today.
"Hi", the kid said a little awkward. "You look like me, I am asian too", he giggled then, poking Taehyung's nose. "My sister always makes fun of me because I am not american like her!"

"Your sister is a meanie, huh?", Taehyung chuckled and the boy nodded with his kinda big head. "She is really much. Her best friend is really meanie too. But I love Taejeonie very much but he never plays with me he says I'm ugly and that I am not cool and that I stink."

Skylar rolled her eyes a little, "Shush, Sam. That's Taejeon's Dad!", she said a bit amused and Taehyung gulped at that. "Y-yeah I'm his second Dad, y'know. His other Dad is really sick right now, that is why we're here."

"Oh will he be okay? Hospitals are crazy! All people die!", Sam blurted out. "Oh no, no. Not all people die Sammy", Skylar tried to say but the kid only gave her a worried look. "But Taejeon said so. He said when he punch me I go here and I die."

"Sam!-"

"Uh--", a girly voice made Taehyung, Sam and Skylar turn their heads to the left. Lyza stood there with two bags full of bagels, coffee in her hands and an insecure smile on her lips. "Hi-"

Skylar and her eyes met for the blink of an eye and Lyza's heart almost stopped when she saw the little boy to her feet. "Oh gosh, who's that cutie??", she squeaked and gave Taehyung the food, kneeling down herself to say Hi to the kid.
It was always like this since she was a mother herself. Kids just got her so excited and happy, especially when they were still small and cute. Sometimes she missed not being around more while Taejeon grew up but then again she knew he wouldn't want that. Taejeon had always been a kid with Daddy issues, as much as his father sucked at that time, he'd still always go for him.

"Oh Mom!!! SHE IS PRETTY!", Sam yelled out and reached for his mother's hand, squeezing it in excitement. Skylar laughed out softly and kneeled down too, eyeing Lyza for a bit. "She is", Skylar hummed and kept eyeing the young woman.
Something about her seemed so familiar. As if she had seen it everyday.

"I'm Lyza, hi", the girl introduced herself and that's when Skylar got up again and pulled her kid up into her arms. "Hi. UH- we'll wait outside", she immediately said and turned around.
That was too much of a coincidence.
She knew that name as well.

Just like she knew Kim Taehyung's.

Because hers was the one she read on the adoption papers as the real mother of her son.
And his name was the one she read after she let a doctor make a parental test to see who his father was.

"What??", Lyza asked quietly, wanting to run after the girl that literally rushed out of the hospital. But Taehyung held her back, "We gotta talk", he said and Lyza looked at him anxiously. "No I-"

"Lyz-"

"I shouldn't have come. No one's happy to see me, not even a stranger wants to talk to me as soon as I say my name. It's probably because Taejeon told his best friend how much of a shitty mother I am-"

"Lyz-"

"I'm a horrible mother. I should've been here, I should've-"

"LYZA for fuck's sake SAM is our son!", Taehyung yelled at her loudly, grabbing her wrists to make the girl pay attention to him as every color left her face. "Our son?", she asked confused. "What are you- What!"

"What?", Taejeon's voice behind them made both of them twirl around and flinch at the same time. "What the hell?", Lili asked, crossing her arms. "Leave", Taejeon said, voice going cold as ice. He was sitting in a wheelchair which Lili was pushing forwards. They were heading to the cafeteria to look for other kids. But what they just heard kinda changed all their plans.
"Oh god", Lyza stepped back, looking between her son and Taehyung back and forth, "Oh my god", she repeated, biting her lips anxiously. "He's lying", Taejeon said bluntly. "This is Taehyung trying to bound you to him just like he does with my Dad. He's a fucking bitch", Taejeon said angrily and Lili raised her eyebrows. "I'd appreciate if you'd leave my brother out of it. Just because he is asian and you are too, doesn't make him your kid. Fuck off."
With that both them turned their faces away and Lili pushed the wheelchair the other direction, heading to the elevator.

Taehyung looked at Lyza and the girl looked back, still shocked by the whole shit that just happened. "I'm serious, Lyz. Lili told us a few days ago they're from New York after they adopted her little brother."

"Coincidence", Lyza said quietly.

"Skylar literally ran away after she heard your name and she was already weirded out by mine", Taehyung went on and Lyza shook her head, "No that can't be."

"Lyza what the fuck, I'm not joking!", Taehyung growled. Lyza however turned around, "I'll go talk to the girl. You stay here and figure a way out to make Taejeon not hate us even more."
Taehyung scoffed, turning his head away. "Thanks-", he grumbled annoyed, watching the girl leave as well.

Arrived outside, Lyza saw Skylar sitting on a bench near the entrance, holding her kid close to her chest while she was staring into nothing. Lyza gulped a little dry before going closer and sitting down next to her, "No one's taking him from you", Lyza said slowly, avoiding to look at the girl. Skylar didn't reply, she only covered Sam's small ears carefully so he wouldn't listen to that conversation.

"You raised two wonderful children, look at you. You're responsible for Taejeon actually leaving his room with Lili. That little girl is like the best thing that ever happened to my son", Lyza said softly. "And your son, he's already so smart and talks so well. Mine did huge grammar mistakes until he was like 8-"

Skylar still didn't say anything, her shoulders falling a little because her tension was loosening up.

"I wish I could've been strong like you and raised a kid that well. I gave my own son to my ex-boyfriend even though he had more than enough problems himself. And now look at me, I'm in an abusive relationship with a guy I never even loved and have issues with the boyfriend of my ex. I fucked up being a mother."

That's when Skylar turned her head, expression softening. "You're the mother of the funniest kid I know", she started. "You're the girl Taejeon always says will always be prettier than my daughter because she is his mother, and hell yeah he was right-"
Lyza felt her cheeks heating up a little, "Oh-"
"You raised a kid that once wore a dress to school because another boy got bullied because he said he'd like to wear one", Skylar smiled a little. "He really did that?", Lyza asked with big eyes.

"Yeah, Lili came home that day and told me she's in love with her best friend. I asked why and she said it's because he's not like everyone else, he does what's right, not what's everyone's doing."

Lyza couldn't help but smile, "Okay but that's because his father is gay and he grew up knowing that it's okay to be different."

"You don't understand", Skylar chuckled. "Your son always runs around with caps, baggy shirts and sweatpants, he's boyish inside out. He doesn't wear girl's clothes, he did that because he's kind and has a good heart and that's the last thing I ever saw in Jungkook", Skylar hummed. "That's something I see in you though."

Lyza blushed, looking down. "You don't even know me."

"Did you already forgot I raised a kid with your genetics?", Skylar asked softly, brushing through Sam's hair slowly. "I see it in him everyday."

"I have no idea what to say", Lyza let out quietly. "I feel like I should say sorry for appearing out of nowhere. I-, I'll leave again soon, no worries. I'll not interrupt anything and neither will Taehyung. I'll make sure he stays around Kook and Taejeon, not around Sam."

Skylar nodded slowly, "It's fine. I'd be fine if y'all would want to get to know him a little, I think every parent wants to do that. I literally just freaked out when I saw you inside. You could steal every man and every woman in this world, I got scared you'd steal my son-"

"I'm not a criminal who kidnaps people", Lyza said quietly, "Sorry if I come off as that-"

"You didn't get it", Skylar hummed amused, grinning to herself. "You don't look like a criminal, but you're just a little too beautiful, you get what I'm saying?"

And that's when Lyza's heart dropped. She hadn't heard such a compliment in like-, uh. Forever. "What? Oh-, oh OH. Thanks! You too, I mean- uh", the girl stuttered, not sure how to react to that.
"Did you never receive a compliment?", Skylar joked but just hit the right spot which made Lyza's insides cramp together.

Well, there had been Jungkook.

The guy who said she's pretty and in the next sentence started talking about how beautiful Taehyung looked on his newest instagram picture. Or who said she was nice and in his next breath admired Taehyung for being kind and loving.

Then there was Finn.

The guy who preferred the word hot over beautiful, never looked into her eyes and just slapped her butt with every move she made. Who never recognized her face, only had her body in sight and complained when she gained even a little bit of weight.

Being called beautiful was new for sure.

"Oh shit, you really didn't", Skylar's eyes went big. "Oh god, honey. We gotta work on that", she chuckled and pinched her cheeks, "Your cheeks are quite puffy, I love it. It's cute, Sam has it too when he laughs-"

Sam heard his name and turned his head towards them, eyes going big. "Mommy! I saw a butterfly look!", he said and pointed at Lyza. "What? She's a girl, Sam, not a butterfly-"

"But you just said she beautiful. And you always say butterfly beautiful so she a butterfly am I right??"
"Oh no Sammy, you got that wrong", Skylar chuckled, facepalming herself a little. "She's not beautiful like a butterfly, she's beautiful like her."

"Disgusting", Taejeon scrunched his nose and Lili crossed her arms, the two of them were standing in front of their Moms and looked at them grossed out. "Is this a gay circle or why is everyone always complimenting the same gender." Lili rolled her eyes and intertwined her fingers with Taejeon's, sighing heavily.
The boy shrugged, leaning back in his wheelchair. "Let's run away."

"You can't run, Babe."

"Lili! You're ten years old, stop using words like this for Taejeon!!", Skylar squealed out, blushing because her daughter was using words like Babe. Lili stuck her tongue out, "You're just jealous because you have no one to call Babe."
And with that Lili threw her hair back and pushed Taejeon in another direction. "We're going for a walk. I mean, I walk and he just rolls along, y'know."
Taejeon nodded and they left off for the next couple of hours, hiding somewhere where no adults or annoying Sams were.

"They don't have a father?", Lyza asked quietly after Lili said that. Apparently Skylar was raising her kids by herself. "Gave up on men a long time ago", Skylar chuckled and Lyza sighed, "Wise choice, girl. Wise choice-"
"Y'know, it's not that hard. Just break up with your boyfriend."

"He'd probably kill me for it and I'm not even joking", Lyza hummed silently. "As far as I know you're from Korea so if you're here he can't exactly find you, right?"
"Right", Lyza mumbled, "Just that I have to go back sometime."

"Why?"

Lyza thought a bit, "I don't know, I live there."

"Do you have a job there that you love?"

"No-"

"Do you have your best friend there?"

"No.."

"Isn't your son living here in Chicago?"

"Yeah-"

"So where's the reason where you should live?"

"Here-"

Skylar grinned and Lyza gulped.

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"You can go home, y'know. We'll call as soon as he wakes up", Jihyo sighed, sitting down next to Taehyung who was sitting next to Jungkook's bed, holding his hand. "It's been two whole days and you really should shower. You smell bad", Jihyo added but Taehyung didn't bother to respond. "If he wakes up I have to be the first thing he sees."

"Why?"

"If no one's there, he'll feel lonely."

"The two kids are here all the time too, the mothers of the kids as well. There will be someone if he wakes up while you take a shower and take a nap-"
But Taehyung stayed stubborn, shaking his head. "You have no idea how big I screwed up, man. I need to be the best boyfriend possible if he wakes up which includes being there."

"Good boyfriends don't smell and have no icky hair-", Jihyo grinned and ruffled the boy's hair. "And your son will probably force you to go out anyway so he can talk to his Dad first."

"He's not really my son", Taehyung sighed, "I'm not worth being a parent."

"He calls you his Dad though, y'know me and Taejeon we talk a lot when we play Mario Kart or watch movies. He keeps saying how his dumb Dad is shitty and the reason why his favorite Dad is here-"
Taehyung's eyes went wide, "He actually says that?", he asked surprised and the woman nodded. "He does."

"Crazy shit, man. He never tells me that though-"
"That's because he's pissed at you and said until you changed back to the old you he won't be nice to you", Jihyo hummed.

"So, how do I change back?", Taehyung asked confused, "I can't change who I am-"

The girl only laughed, "Oh honey, we all can. I once had a phase where I tried being a bad bitch, my boyfriend was so annoyed by it that he slept on the couch for a whole month. One day he yelled at me and told me that being a bad bitch does not bring my best friend back but he loves me, so he'll marry me. I changed back in less than a day just because I realised that no matter what, he's gonna stay. Unlike my best friend-"

Taehyung didn't understand where that was in any way close to his problem but he nodded, "Mhm. Jungkook talked about breaking up before the accident."

"Sshhh", Jihyo quickly said. "Coma patients sometimes have the ability to hear their surroundings. I'd use that chance and talk a lot to him, y'know. Just talk everything off your soul until you feel free. And then get out, live a little and once he wakes up you'll be just the right man for him."

"Jihyo! I already told you I'm not going to leave until he wakes up."
"In three days, Taejeon gets released from the hospital which means you will have to take him home and bring him to school. He's your responsibility, Taehyung. Jungkook won't wake up anytime soon, I'm pretty sure of that. It can take up to years and you can not stay years in here."

Taehyung scoffed, "Watch me."
"I'll kick your ass out myself if you let your life pass by waiting for someone to come back who's unlikely to open his eyes ever again."

"He will", Taehyung said, teeth gritted in annoyance. The girl nodded, "Isn't that even more a reason to turn into the best version of yourself while he's asleep? Taehyung-, let me tell you one thing; sometimes being apart is the only thing that can teach you how much you need someone. So, go ahead and try living without him. If there's still a part missing when he wakes up, you'll be even more grateful that he's back and not treat him like shit again or lock him or anything."

"How do you know that--"

"Taejeon rants a lot about you", Jihyo grinned, patting his shoulder. "Don't worry, I don't judge with the locking and shit. Daniel and I do that too sometimes when we do roleplays."

"WHAT THE FUCK", Taejeon screamed, he just rolled inside the room, hearing that. "I wish I would've died in that accident, everyone is so fucking weird nowadays", he whined and rolled over to Jungkook's bed. "Dad, please wake up. Everything is a mess."

Taehyung and Jihyo sighed and left the room quietly, they knew that Taejeon would get mad if he didn't get his alone time with his Dad.

"Dad, look. Taehyung is being so annoying he smells like shit because he doesn't shower and he gave me hospital food each day instead of getting me fast food from nearby. Mom is being really dumb and always giggles with Lili's mother which is disgusting. I hate how everyone is so weird lately. I miss you Dad, can you wake up and go to McDonalds with me because I really miss you and I want a cheeseburger but- you rather sleep all day. Remember how you once yelled at me because I slept through the whole Sunday instead of working out with you? You said sleep is for when you're dead. Now you slept for two days already, are you tryna tell me you're dead now or what? Well, guess what. You're a bad actor, your heart is still beating so you're not dead. Wake up. I'll be nice for one day. Even to Taehyung if you wake up. Maybe I will even clean my bedroom."

Taejeon let out a sigh when he got no reaction and just kept sitting there in silence while he held his father's hand, tears slowly coming back up. "Everything sucks without you here."

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12k words in one day damn i hope this makes up for the sad shit i put y'all through