lily as jungkook's daughter, but she often calls jimin and tae as 'daddy' as well, because c'mon she's smol and gets confused. the two love her like their own daughter. (don't complain😌✊)

"you want me to take it off?" jungkook chuckles silently, reading the comments his fans have spammed the chats with. there are thousands of them telling him the same thing, 'please take the covers off'. but he just plays along, propping himself on his right arm, exposing the naked inked skin to the hungry people that he loves teasing.

"i can't take them off." he says, "as for you, you won't be able to handle it. do you think you'll be able to handle it if i take these—" he lifts up the cover from one corner, not enough to expose his bare chest, and smiles playfully at the camera, "—off of me? i don't think you can."

he lays properly again, his other arm hiding under the white set of duvet that also serves important purpose of keeping his body out of his fans' sights. he had no problem giving them a good view for a second, but the temperature of the air conditioner is a bit troublesome and most importantly, his toddler sleeping right next to him, in the warmth of his body and the blankets, wouldn't like him moving too much. she's a light sleeper and the last thing jungkook wants is for her to wake up right now in the middle of the night.

there's a reason jungkook chose this time, because it's only now, that lily's sleeping and he has nothing else to do. the day time goes by working and looking after his daughter when he's with her, sparing him only the nights to do anything extra if he pleased. the fans grew accustomed to it as well, and never really complained about the odd times jungkook chose to go live, considering that they all know about his daughter and try to be as understanding and supportive as can be, which jungkook is really thankful for.

he moves a little again, peeking under the covers as lily whimpers lightly, her hand curled into a fist that moves up her face, rubbing her eyes. "it's okay," jungkook whispers, lowering himself to the toddler and pats her tummy.

"dadda..."

"hm, go back to sleep." jungkook hushes to her in a soft voice, keeping himself close to lily until she drifts back to dreamland, then pulls him up in the original position, sending a smile to the fans. "she's sleeping." he answers with a nod on seeing the people asking if it was lily.

"dadda?"

jungkook peeks under again, frowning in surprise as lily's staring up at him, wide awake like a bird early in the morning. he sighs softly and strokes her side, "what happened? close your eyes."

"nuh," she mumbles, turning around and sits up, in front of him. jungkook pulls the duvet to cover her bare back, as she too, just like her father, doesn't really wear anything to bed other than a diaper which jungkook still makes her wear to avoid having any accidents at night. he can do the laundry a hundred times, but changing the bedsheets feels like one of the toughest jobs to him, and he can't even explain why. the last thing he wants is his bed to stink because of his little toddler wetting the sheets.

"what happened, lily?" he asks, "do you wanna use to the bathroom?"

lily shakes her head, pointing at the diaper and tries to stand up, but jungkook quickly holds her back, laughing silently as he pulls her in a hug and kisses her head, "my little baby," he scrunches his face and holds up his phone, "guys, give me five minutes, please?"

"pie' min'es daddy," lily nods.

"yeah, because lily's being a bad girl right now and not letting daddy talk to armys." jungkook pretends to huff at her, making lily grin mischievously, having him chuckling at her. he lays his phone down so the camera is facing the ceiling and not broadcasting their business. he gets off the bed, leaving only for a few minutes to fetch some wet wipes and baby powder, while lily's all alone with his phone and 6 million people patiently staring at the ceiling of jungkook's room.

lily crawls up to the phone, sitting down next to it and picks it up without hesitation, inspecting what's going on in it. "daddy phone..." she mumbles, then smiles on seeing her face on the screen alone with a bunch of words blowing up on one side. "dis' baby sho pwetty. mwah!" she pressed a kiss on the screen, "daddy! pwetty baby in daddy' phone!"

"what?" jungkook replies.

lily giggles, tapping furiously on the screen, changing filters accidentally and puts the phone in her lap, watching it patiently from above. the comments are still going and smiles on seeing a lot of hearts, "me wuv you, pwetty baby!" she claps her hands, cackling excitedly as she thinks it's the pretty baby on the screen who's sending her hearts.

"ah, what are you doing, baby?" jungkook hisses, taking the phone away and places it out of her reach, while his other hand catches her leg before she can crawl away. "daddy's faster. now c'mere."

"pwetty babbyyyyyy!" lily whines, struggling to move towards the phone, but with jungkook holding her leg, she can't even move. he picks her up, making her lay on her back and leans down with his elbows resting either side of her and hands cupping her face.

"hush, tell me what's wrong?"

"pwetty baby in da— phone," lily looks back up towards his phone, making him frown as he takes picks it up, showing his face to the fans, just till his shoulders. "where?" he asks his daughter.

lily leans forward, peeking at the screen, frowning as she can't see the pretty baby from earlier and pouts, "no pwetty baby..." she mumbles, "pwetty baby go away?"

jungkook presses his lips in a thin line, adjusting the phone a little have her face in the screen again, and lily gasps at it, pointing at the screen, "pwetty baby!" jungkook laughs at that, leaning closer to his daughter and kisses her cheeks.

"you're so cute," he cooes, giving her the phone to admire more of her own beautiful face and talk half sense half gibberish to the 'pretty baby', while he changes her quickly and pats her bottom as a gesture that they're done.

he gets up on the bed again, laying down under the covers and takes the phone from lily, setting it down in a stable position to have himself visible to the armys. "ah, okay guys, i'm sorry for the chaos." he chuckles nervously,  "lily needs some distractions so i can do my job." he confesses. he leans in, reading some comments and bursts out laughing, nodding his head. "she saw herself in the screen and thought it was someone else, whom she kept calling pretty."

"pwetty baby in dadda' phone," lily mumbles, pointing at the screen and jungkook pulls her to sit with him.

"that's you, princess."

"mm?" lily looks at him, making the father smile as brings the phone closer, having his face and lily's face in the frame. "daddy an—an' pwetty baby... my daddy..."

"yeah, it's daddy and lily. do you think you're pretty?" he asks.

"mm," she gives a subtle nod, leaning against her daddy's chest and turns around to wrap her tiny arms around his neck. jungkook places his hand on her back, supporting her weight as she tries to climb on top of him and lays on his chest. "daddy, where's taetae?"

"he's sleeping in his room." jungkook says, patting her back gently so that she would fall asleep too.

"an' chiminie?"

"he's also sleeping. so, lily should sleep too." he kissed her cheek, stroking her hair out of her face and smiles, "close your eyes. lily will sleep now, say bye to armys."

"mm'bye," lily mumbles, waving at the phone and hides herself in her father's embrace. she crawls under the blanket, laying quietly with jungkook who strokes her back, keeping quiet for a while and uses the time to read the comments. after a few minutes of silence, jungkook peeps inside the blanket, hoping that his daughter had fallen asleep, but ends up chuckling on finding her laying quietly with the thumb of her one hand in her mouth, and the other one is holding her right foot in the air for some reason.

she looks up at jungkook, breaking into a grin and squeals playfully covering her face with her hands and kicks her legs in excitement, "what's happening here? i thought lily fell asleep," jungkook pretends to be surprised, making the toddler laugh more, thinking that she fooled him.

"lily no' sweepy!" she laughs, clapping her hands as she sits up and pops out of the blanket with a 'boo!' for the armys.

"hey, don't scare army like that." jungkook holds his laughter.

"no? a'my gettin' scared? but- but i's me, lily."

"yeah, tell army not to be scared of lily." he pats her back and lily quickly leans forward, holding the phone and hums.

"a'my no' gwttin— scared of lily. daddy an' lily is yo' fav'ite, otay?"

"say love you,"

"wuv yoo!"

"now say, 'we're wrapping it up. thanks for joining us'."

"we' waping it pup? t'ank yoo for yo' uhm, daddy..." she looks back at jungkook, forgetting what she had to say after that, but ends up smiling on seeing that her dad is actually laughing loudly.

"no wonder why everyone wants you to keep talking." he squeezes her cheeks between his hands, and pecks her lips. "my precious little baby,"

"pi'chous baby!"

"yeah, do you know what precious means?"

"lily,"

jungkook chuckles, nodding his head, "well, it means something or someone very important. and lily is super important to daddy."

"daddy sho imp'otant to lily!"

"i'm sure of that." he smiles, propping himself on his arm and takes the phone, "alright, guys, i'll end this here now. it's been almost two hours and lily won't sleep until i turn off the lights and lay down with her. thank you for joining, and yes i remember, i'll do another live soon." he grins.

"bye army, take care."

"bye-byeee! ni'night a'my!" lily chirps, standing up and waves at the camera, making jungkook chuckle. the toddler keeps jumping around on the bed, hopping like a bunny and laughs when her feet gets tangled in the sheets, causing her to fall down.

jungkook ends the live and pulls lily towards him, making her lay down and smacks her butt lightly, "enough playing. close your eyes now." he says in an almost firm voice, but lily wiggles out of his hold, rolling to the side and slips down from the bed, running towards the door, only looking back to see jungkook staring at her with un unhappy look.

she leans against the closed door, hand automatically making its way to her mouth and giggles, "daddy catch lily,"

"no, come back. we're going to sleep."

"no!" the toddler huffs, turning around and raises her hands up, standing on her tippy-toes to grab the door knob, twisting it to open the door even though her father tells her not to. giggling mischievously, she glances back at jungkook one last time, gasping when she finds him getting off the bed, probably going to catch her before she actually leaves.

lily runs away into the hallway, laughing and giggling until she's met with another door on the left. she tries to open but it, but fails for it is locked, making her gasp as jungkook comes further close and she's almost caught, when she ducks down his hands and crawls from between his legs, going back in the opposite direction.

"lily," jungkook calls, "don't play right now, or else daddy's gonna get mad. and then no more sweets for you tomorrow."

"no, daddy. le's play!" she says, heading towards the stairs, while her head remains turned to the side as she's looking at jungkook.

"don't— hey!" jungkook's eyes widen, taking a large step to hold the toddler before she misses the step and stumbles over. however, lily thinks it's a game and moves back, laughing at jungkook when he couldn't catch her. the smile from her face is soon wiped away, when instead of finding solid ground to step on, her body falls backwards, meeting the hard edges of the steps underneath.

"lily!" jungkook jogs forward along with her crying voice, lifting her up as fast as he could, but still she just rolled down half the staircase, wailing her lungs out in pain and fear. he cradles her in his arms, checking for any injuries, and his heart aches on finding two on her face. one on the forehead and one very close to her right eye, both the wounds being split open and bleeding.

"god, i told you..." he mutters, blinking a few times and runs back to his room, straight to the bathroom.."shh, it's okay. it'a gonna hurt more if you cry, princess." he whispers, focusing on getting a small towel wet under the water to wipe off and stop the blood.

lily, although, keeps squirming in his arms, sticking to him for a hug which makes it hard for him to treat her wounds. he makes her sit beside the sink, earning a louder wail of his name, and her little arms stretched out for him to not leave her right now. her fingers curl in search for something to hold since jungkook is not wearing shirt. he provides his hand, using the other one to press the towel against the cut on her face. to make everything worse, there are two of them.

"shit, this is not working." he curses at himself, "please, baby, stay still. i know it's hurting, but we gotta stop the blood." he tries to reason the crying toddler, which he knows makes no sense and at last he just carries her in his arms, pressing the towel against the side of her face where the blood is flowing from and dropping on his bare chest and shoulder. lily's hands have got some blood too, making her freak out even more.

"hush, my baby. it's gonna be okay." he whispers to her, head out of his room to his brother's and knocks a few times.

jimin opens the door with a frown, which quickly turns into a gasp on seeing lily crying and blood smeared on her hands and jungkook's chest, shoulder, neck and a little bit on his cheek as well. "what the hell happened? oh my god, why's there blood on you two?!" jimin asks frantically, "and why is she crying?!"

"she fell from the stairs." jungkook says, "hold her please."

jimin does so, heading to the bathroom, looking at her face on the way and realises it's those two cuts that are bleeding. he winces at the sight of the crying toddler, her cute little face that looks so beautiful smiling, has traces of tears and blood now. not a sight to see.

"my god, what were you guys even doing at this hour on the stairs?" jimin mutters, his eyes narrowing at jungkook with a look of disapproval, making the younger sigh, wiping off the blood from his own skin while jimin has made lily sit on the closed toilet pot, holding both of her hands in his to prevent her from moving them too much and let him wipe off the blood. 

"she wanted to play and ran in the hallway. and before i caught her, she slipped down from the stairs." jungkook says, crouching beside the elder, reaching out to cup his daughter's face from the side which is not hurt. "my child, got hurt so bad. if only i held you in time..."

jimin sighs softly, replacing the towel and hums for jungkook to get another one along with the first aid. jungkook leaves them without a word to fetch the first aid box after handing two extra towels to jimin, leaving him alone to deal with his crying daughter. jimin checks her from head to toe again, seeing if she's hurt anywhere else, for she just doesn't stop crying. "hey, it's okay. look, uncle is helping lily out. it won't hurt anymore, hm?" he cooes at her, pulling her forward gently and wraps his one arm around her, letting go of her hands.

"daddy..." lily cries, hiding in jimin's embrace, which jimin doesn't try to pull away even though faint stains of blood mark his t-shirt as well.

"daddy's coming, sweetheart." he strokes her hair, "will you tell me how you got hurt?" he asks, tilting his head to look down at her face, hoping to keep a conversation going and distract her for a while until they can treat her wound and put her to sleep. 

"lily fell'uhmm ouch..." she mumbles, blabbering half the sentence between a sob, making jimin nod slowly.

"ah really? that's bad. is that how our baby got hurt?"

"mm," she nods, sniffling and looks up at him, then down at her hands, "wed..."

"it's gone, my love. see? there's nothing now." he kisses her palms, "just lily's cute little hands."

"daddy... baby ouch," she pouts, leaning onto jimin, and he smiles to himself, knowing that with this 'daddy' she wasn't referring to jungkook.

"yeah?" he hums, rubbing her back and kisses the side of her head, not wanting to correct her right now.  "it's okay, don't worry. daddy and uncle will scold the stairs for making lily fall down, alright?"

"mm," she nods, "scwo'd stai's... lily feelin' sho icky... ouch, daddy."

"i know, princess." jimin nods, glancing back at the door when it's opened, revealing jungkook along with taehyung, who looks like someone just told him the worst possible news. he kneels down in front of the toddler, hands instantly going to hold her as he inspects her face and winces, nibbling on his lip.

"god, does that hurt? of course, it must be hurting, what am i even asking." he mumbles, licking his lips and turns to look at jungkook, "how did this happen?"

"fell from the stairs." jungkook says, giving jimin the first aid and watches as the elder springs into action, already applying an antiseptic liquid to clean the wound properly, making the toddler squirm and move again, crying as she probably feels the burn.

"hey, it's alright. we're all here with you, little one." taehyung cooes at her, holding her hands so she won't bother jimin while he's doing his work. jungkook leans by the wall, crossing his arms on his chest, watching his brothers attending his daughter instead of himself. it aches his heart to see her hurt and crying helplessly out of pain, but there's nothing he can do. if only he caught her, she wouldn't have fallen and got hurt this bad.

he looks down with moist eyes, scrunching his face everytime lily screams or whines more, making it harder for him to stay in his place. he looks up, gulping down the uneasiness and approaches his hyungs, tapping jimin's shoulder, "please be gentle... she's crying so much, hyung." he hushes out.

"she'll be okay," jimin assures, "stand at the back. she's going to cry more if you stay here looking you're about to cry."

jungkook sighs and obeys, standing at the back, knowing that the elder is right. in a few minutes, jimin closes the box, washing his hands off and taehyung stands up, taking the exhausted little girl in his arms, patting her back. she doesn't say anything already feeling too tired and sleepy after crying so much.

"daddy..." lily mumbles, looking around, rubbing her eyes. jungkook steps near taehyung, following them to jimin's room and carries her when she leans towards him.

"yes, baby? are you feeling better now?" he asks softly, stroking her hair and lily pouts, resting her head on his shoulder.

"s'eepy, daddy..."

"ah okay, we'll go and sleep now." he hums, kissing her shoulder and glances at his brothers, who give him assuring nods. the two stay back while jungkook leaves back to his room, humming in a slow voice for his daughter. it doesn't take long for her to fall asleep and jungkook lays her down on the bed, covering her with the duvet and places a few pillows on her sides so that she wouldn't accidentally fall down from the bed if she turns.

jungkook stares at her face with soft eyes, leaning down to place a kiss over the big bandaid on her forehead and then over the one right under her eye. "daddy's so sorry, sweetheart. you got hurt because of daddy..." he hushes out before pulling up and heaves out a deep sigh, returning back to his hyungs, whom he knows must be waiting.

they are. sitting on the bed, conversing about something which comes to a pause as jungkook enters the room and flops on the bed without a word. jimin opens his mouth to say something but is interrupted with the younger asking, "am i bad a father, hyung?" his eyes remain pinned on the ceiling and arm folds to tuck under his head. "i must be an awful dad for my baby to get hurt like that when i was right there. i couldn't save her."

"kook," jimin sighs softly, "don't think like that, buddy. it was an accident and could happen with anyone. who said lily wouldn't get hurt if me or tae were there?"

"yeah, and kids her age are too young to understand that they can get hurt while playing. they just do whatever they feel like doing. it's not your fault, okay?" taehyung adds, patting jungkook's arm.

"i get that, but..." jungkook sighs, nibbling on his lip, "you guys are so caring with her. i can literally leave her with you and not to be worried, because you really take care of her the best. i just— i don't know, i keep messing up. how long does it take to be a perfect dad?"

"well, never. a 'perfect' parent doesn't exist, kook, like a perfect person doesn't exist. we all have our own margins to make mistakes and that's actually very important because we're all humans. parents are humans too, which gives them the right to make mistakes too. you're a father and it's your first child, so of course you're going to grow as a parent alongside your daughter growing up from being a child to a teen and to an adult. it's never gonna end, so don't take so much pressure and enjoy being a father to your princess. she wouldn't stay this little forever, and you won't stay this young either." jimin smiles at him as jungkook's have shifted from the blank modern ceiling to his face, listening to him carefully and nods.

"now go and sleep. it's almost morning but, you could still use a few hours."

jungkook stands up, lips stretching into a warm smile as he steps forward and hugs jimin, "thanks, hyung."

"it's fine. cheer up, things happen, we make mistakes and it's all part of life. but yes, you should definitely be responsible and look after lily and yourself. either of you struggling will be hard for the other too, remember that."

"yeah," he hums, nodding his head and stretches his body. "i'll go now. thanks again, though. and sorry for waking you guys at this time."

"don't act like you haven't woken us up for dumbest reasons before. this was still worth it." taehyung says, kicking jungkook's butt, making him laugh as he leaves the room.

in a few minutes, jungkook's laying in his bed, placing his hand lightly on his toddler's tummy, when she moves, patting in a slow pace to keep her asleep. he smiles at her sleeping face, kissing her hand that's lying near his face and mumbles, "i'm gonna be more careful with you now, i promise. i love you, princess."

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a/n:- i wanted to update yesterday but i couldn't. i'm sorry for that. here's a chapter now, please vote if you like it (i can take that as my birthday gift 😌👍) and leave a lot of comments. don't be a silent reader 🥺

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