It was no surprise that their youngest, Dino, found Coups. According to Dino, it was a complete accident, or maybe a blessing. Depends on who you will ask.

After spending the day in his room, Dino found that he had not eaten. Being an idol he is used to not always being able to eat, however, they were on a break. A slice of pizza would not hurt him.

Noticing the dark dorm, Dino uses the flashlight off his phone to brighten the surrounding. Making his way into the living room he sees the oldest member, Coups, awake and sitting on the couch "Hyung. What are you doing? It's late."
"Finally. God." Coups replied "Dino. I need help." He pants. "With what? Is it the baby?" Dino questioned.
"Yes Dino, it is about her. I am in labour." He explained. "Like now? Like.. your baby is about to be born?"
"Exactly what I mean. Listen, hell, ooh those hurt."
Dino abandons his phone as he approaches their leader "What do you need?"
"Go wake up Jun. He is my driver to the hospital. Tell him that baby Coups is out. He will understand." Coups instructed.
"Okay, yeah, let me go tell him."

The first visitor of Coups was Woozi.

"I come with food. Hopefully I remembered all of your cravings." Woozi lifts up the plastic bag.
"I bet that you did a wonderful job. Thank you." Coups praised. "How are the others?" He added.
"Dino went back asleep." Woozi informed "The rest of us are all waiting on any news."
"They say I am halfway. Maybe one of the members will walk in as I'm giving birth." Coups said. Woozi laughs "We can be hopeful. Alright Hyung, you stray strong. We cannot wait to meet your baby or your girl."

His next visitor was Minghao.

"Hello Hyung. Is the baby here yet?"
Coups exhaled "Not yet."
"Very unfortunate. Much longer?" Minghao inquired. "Not an idea. I'm just here giving pushes so I can bring a baby into the world."
Minghao nodded. Do you need anything before I leave?"
"No thank you. Once baby has made its appearance a nurse will alert everyone."

In mid bite, another visitor arrived: "Hello, Jeonghan." Coups greeted. Jeonghan waved before sitting in the chair next to Coups. "What is wrong Jeonghan?" Coups worried. "Just thinking. About the future now. What will happen after the baby."

Coups closes his eyes "Are you talking about how I am being forced to leave the group? Or that you will be the leader?"
"All of it? I don't know. These things were never really discussed because we 'still had time'. And now we no longer have the that time."
"I'm sorry I did not prep you enough for what happens next. I did not want to think about it, and now I have failed you for your new responsibility. I'm sorry."
"No. No, do not apologize! This situation.. I'll be okay." Jeonghan sniffles.
Coups reached out for his hand "How are you feeling? Any update on baby?" "No." Coups exhaled "Nothing big to mention."
Jeonghan nodded his head "Okay, if you need anything let one of us know. We love you."

Coups closed his eyes after Jeonghan left, and allowed the tears to drip down his cheeks.

When he opened his eyes again, Jun was sat in the chair "So quiet you are." He commented. "You looked in pain so I didn't want to break you from your feelings. We order stew Hyung." Jun holds out a clear container "Thank you."
"You are welcome. Uh, can we talk Coups?"
"Sure, yeah. What about?"
"I was really afraid when I first came to Korea. Meeting you, you made me feel less afraid. You were patient as I was slow to learn Korean, your culture, and yourself too. All of the hardships you endured just because you are our leader is awe worthy. We all look to you as our strength. Not only as our leader, but also as a friend. I am confident that Jeonghan will be a fine leader to us, but he won't be you as our leader. I am so sad to see you leaving us Coups."
"Jun, wow, thank you." Coups wipes his eyes "Thank you for being my friend. And thank you for being there next to my side for all of these life accomplishments."

Alone again, Coups experienced another set of contractions. His hands were wrapped around the hospital bed bars with his eyes closed.
10.
9.
8.
7.
6.

Pain stopped.

"Hello Coups, are you feeling okay to take another visitor?"
"Come inside Seungkwan." Coups beckoned him into the room.
"Any progress report?"
"Contractions are getting closer together."
"Well good. None of us want to see you in pain."
"You all can leave. I will call someone after she is born. Hospitals are no fun."
"No, we have all agreed to stay. These are our final times together, all as Seventeen." Seungkwan replied.
"I'm sorry. Sorry for putting your future in jeopardy. You all did not deserve this treatment because of me."
"Stop." Seungkwan whispered "We would do this for you all over again, even if we knew the outcome again."
"I don't and do not deserve you as my team." Coups whispered. "We all deserve each other." Seungkwan tells him. "We are our family. That does include this little one." He added.

Mingyu visited next.
They sat in comfortable silence.

"Ooh, wow that one was painful." Coups groaned.
"Here take my hand." Mingyu offered. He sits up straight in the chair as he offers Coups one of his hands. Coups does accept.
"Just like that. Good job. Breath. In through the nose."
"Out through the mouth." Coups finished.
"Good job. Let's do another one. In through the mouth. And out- ahh, ow."
"Im sorry-" Coups groaned "Worst contraction."
"Keep breathing. Oh wow. You are really strong."

Once that contraction had ended, Mingyu slipped his hand out of Coups "I think it's broken. I will see who is your next visitor."

Dokyeom was the next visitor.
"Why are you over there?"
"Mingyu warned us about your strength. He is getting medical attention on his hand." Dokyeom explained.
"I understand. You can come sit next to me. I promise there will be no more hand breaking."
Dokyeom sits in the chair next to Coups "Carats are making speculation online about you having your baby."
"Yeah? Has the company said anything yet?"
"No. Not yet. They are waiting until you have your daughter."
"Are they also going to mention that I am no longer a Seventeen member?"
Dokyeom takes Coups hand "I'm sorry that our company is doing this to you. Right now, you need your friends more than ever. How can they just kick you out? Make you leave. We talked about following you."
"No, please do not do that. I want you all to succeed."
"Even without our leader?"
"You will have Jeonghan."
"Yes, that is true.. but you are our leader Coups. Until we decide to disband."
"I know. I know Dokyeom."
"How are we to follow our company when they have mistreated our leader? Coups you are important to us."
"So are Carats." Coups reminded. "Yeah." Dokyeom exhaled "They are too."
"Listen Dokyeom." Coups began "Since our debut I knew we would succeed. Look at where we are now as a group. I am proud of you all, and of myself. It was not always easy for us, but I believed in all of us."
"We believed in ourselves because we were following you Hyung. And now that has disappeared."
"No. You now will follow Jeonghan."
"He still is not you."
"No. He is not me. He will be better than me Dokyeom. I need you to give Jeonghan the strength that he needs to be the best leader that we know he is capable of.  Please for me. Remind him to be easy on himself, he is learning something new. A higher expectation is set on him now. Promise me."
"I promise, I will." Dokyeom sniffled.

Coups watches as Dokyeom leaves his room.

"I have ice chips. The nurse recommended these for you. How are you?"
"Hi Hansol." Coups welcomed "Thanks for the ice chips."
"Of course." Hansol sits in the chair "Dokyeom will not stop crying. We think he is most worried about you."
"I know he is worried. As I am worried about you all. This is a transition period for all of us. I want this baby to stay inside of me so I can continue being your leader while I also want to meet my baby. But I know that once I am discharged, I give up all my rights as the leader. Do I sound horribly selfish?"
"No Hyung. You sound as though you were given no choice to make of your own. We understand that you did not purposely make this baby, it was an accident. A happy accident, that we all do know. You have shown us that we need to stick by what we say, even when we do know of the consequences. This baby could be the best thing that has happened to you. Now with this baby, you get to live the life that you choose. Not by our company. A life that if you want a little cottage with you and your baby. No more diets, or the demand that you change yourself. The pressure of being our leader. No demanding of our company when we do something wrong. I'm jealous of you. Please do not think of yourself selfish Coups. You have given us all of your 20's to not being selfish. Now it is time for you to be selfish. We are all here to support you now. Let us cheer you on, and you can now relax."
"Wow Hansol." Coups dried his eyes "That is the most I have ever heard you talk."
Vernon chuckled "I meant every word. We are happy for you Coups. Be happy for yourself."

Coups woke to another contraction "These are becoming unbearable." He groaned. "How far apart are they?"
"What? WonWoo! Hi, yes, they are.. another one." He groaned.
"Getting closer." WonWoo answered "I am not here to be sentimental or talk, I want to be your support Coups."
"Thank you. Can you please fix my sock? The seam is off and that is all I can feel now. Oh yes thank you." Coups wiggled his toes at WonWoo who laughed "How else do you need help?"
"I want that pudding over there." Coups pointed at. WonWoo said nothing. He retrieved the pudding and brought it to the oldest "Your pudding."
"Thank you. Oh she is now finally happy." Coups rests a hand against his bump. "Let me feel." Wonwoo rested his hand next to Coups "Wow, she's moving a lot."
"Food makes her happy." Coups replied.
"So I can see. Does she have a name yet?"
"Nothing decided. Maybe she will look like the name I want to give her, or maybe a different name will look more like her. Why do you ask, do you have a recommendation?"
"No. We are out there talking as we realized no name has been set."
"I do not know what to name her. I worry if I give her a name that she does not like. Or that I do not like when she is older."
Wonwoo hummed "Let the name choose her. You will know if it fits her."
"She does hold my heart."
"As she should. She will be the most important person in your life now Coups."
Coups nodded. He knew that Wonwoo was speaking the truth "All of you will be important too, you know that?"
"We know. We do, but, we had our time with you. She is going to experience you as her father, something that is far more important than being our leader. We support you as our leader, and now a dad."

"Hyung? Are you awake?"
Coups looks up from his phone to see the youngest standing in the door "I am. Come in." Coups accepted. Dino entered the room "I won't take up too much of your time. How is baby?"
"Still not coming. How is everyone?"
"We are still doing okay. I came in here because of these." Dino hands out a folder with Coups name drawn in pink marker "What is this?" Coups questioned. "We all wrote letters to you, and to your baby. The letters to your daughter is telling her all about you before you were her father."
"Everyone wrote one?"
"We all did, yes. " Dino nodded "We wanted to give these to you earlier but Hoshi Hyung had the idea to wait until you were in the hospital. Right now feels better than before anyways. Oh I also have these for you."
Dino holds out a bag "What is inside?"
"Your slippers and bathrobe. Figured you would want to be warm and comfortable after giving birth. I washed them myself with that detergent that you like." Dino smiles.
"Thank you for thinking of me." Coups replied "You are so welcome. Well I will be leaving now."

Coups opened the folder, he sees Jeonghan's paper on top:
'Hyung- do what you want. Do what will make you the happiest.' He reads. Coups flips through the letters, until the last page where there was a photo of Seventeen on their debut stage. "We were so young." He runs his finger over the paper "You have the most wonderful uncles baby."

"Ready for two more visitors?"
Coups looked towards to the door "Hi, yes, I was hoping you two would be coming in very soon."
"We wanted to give you some privacy."
"Thank you Hoshi. How is everyone doing?"
"We are still waiting, just like you." Joshua replied "We heard from our company." He added.
"Oh yeah? What did they say?" Coupe asks.

Joshua and Hoshi share a look.

"Asking if baby had been born."

Liars.

"Oh, no, not yet. Hopefully soon. My contractions are very regularly." Coups tells.
"WhaT do they feel like? Contractions."
"Like you are being shocked." Coups explained. "That must feel strange. Does it feel strange?"
"Very." Laughs Coups "You do not get used to them, you get used to dealing with them."
Hoshi hummed "Okay, well, I am going to head out. Hyung. We love you and today is going to the best day for you. We are all anxiously waiting for the news." Hoshi tells.

Coups waited until it was only Shua and himself "Tell me the truth."
"What about?" Joshua from his phone.
"About our company."
"There is nothing to tell."
"Why will nobody give me a straight answer! Just tell me."
Joshua puts down his phone "We have decided.. to disband." Joshua says.
"What, why!"
"It was the mistreatment of you."
"I am the leader, this mistreatment is fair. Oh no."
"What? Hyung?"
"Please call for a doctor. It's time Shua."
"It is time to give birth? Are you actually ready?"
"No, I am not. But she is ready." Coups replied.
Joshua positioned his hand on Coups bump "Be kind during the birth. You want to get out just as your dad wants you out. Both of you please work together." Joshua looks at Coups "Okay, I will get your nurse."

"No please, let him stay in here with me." Pleaded Coups "I.. I need a friend."
"Fine. He can stay."
Joshua holds Coups hand "I'm nervous." He says. Coups looks at Joshua "I think that we both are. But we do have one another. Oh no. Can I start pushing?"

"Push Seongcheol!"
Coups pushed his chin into his chest as he pushed "I am!" He groaned as his hand tightened around Joshua's.
"Good job. Give us another push."
"Shua, why, why god." He hisses.
"Keep breathing then give another push." Joshua encouraged.
Coups pushed once again.
"10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.. okay, and again. 10, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. And rest."
Coups closed his eyes.
"What are you doing?" He opened his eyes. "Wiping your forehead Coups. Here drink sone water."
Joshua held the straw for Coups as he was drinking.
"Alright. Are you ready to push again Seongcheol?"
"I am. Ooh. Okay." Coups grunted.
"Again from 10, okay? 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Rest. And again!"
"You can do this." Joshua praised "Only a little while longer. I am here for you. For the both of you, I'm not going anywhere."
Coups continued to push. He felt his body shaking.
"There you go, there you go! Good job, keep pushing!"

"How is baby not born yet?" Coups commented.
"Almost Seungcheol. The head is out. A few more big pushes and you will meet baby.
"Stay strong, only a little while longer Coups."
"Continue pushing. Once the shoulders have passed, baby is born quickly after."
"Let's meet your baby. I am right here." Joshua smiles.

Coups inhaled, then exhaled as he began to push "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.. good good, give us another push!"

"Good good! One shoulder is out. Another push, good good!"
"Okay. Wow, shoulders are out! Give me another big push."
Coups arched his back while was was pushing "Is this pushing going to give me my baby soon!"

Joshua smirked.

"A girl!"
His daughter cried for the first time.

Coups allowed his body to fall back against the bed "I did that Shua." He whispered.
"I know. Wow, we are all proud of you. You did that."

Coups listened as his daughter cried while being examined.

"She is completely healthy. Congratulations."
The nurse brings his daughter to Coups. She placed the small one against his chest "She wanted her daddy. There you go, see, she just wanted you."
Coups cups her bottom as he allows the tears "What's her name?"
"Choi Haneul."
"Choi Haneul." Joshua repeated.
"Do the boys know Haneul has been born?"
"I wanted to give you time with just you and her before I bring in everyone."
"Thank you. Thank you for all that you did today."

Hi readers!

So, I've been thinking.. maybe it is time that I leave this book. I am not active on this book much, people do not seem so interested anymore.
What should I do?

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