"mom!" jungkook gasps in horror as he watches his mother's pained expression. tears blurring her eyes and hnd clutching on the rail on her side as she groans, struggling to walk down the last step.

the boy rushes to her, hugging her big belly which has his baby sister inside as what sunhee told him eight months back. he looks around, unaware of what to do and just ends up crying out of fear. the mother holds onto him, pressing her lips tightly as she taps on her son's shoulder, gesturing towards the phone on the table.

"call your dad..." she manages speak between a painful groan. jungkook nods quickly, dialling his father's number with tears streaming down his face as he looks over at his mother gain. it worries him to death seeing her in pain, nearly crying and barely able to stand on her feet.

the ringing sound from the speaker dies down eventually and jungkook realises that it's better to call his brothers instead. so he taps on the screen a few times, breaking into a sob as the ringing covers up his mother's groans and winces. the call is answered within the first three rings, jungkook wipes his tears hastily, drawing in a deep breath before speaking, "hyungie... mamma's not well. she's crying— i don't know what's happening," he mumbles, staring at his mother, while holding her phone near his ear.

"t-tell him it's time," sunhee says and jungkook frowns.

"it's time for what?" he asks, getting a gasp from his brother. "hyungie, what is happening?"

"the baby's gonna come soon. now listen here, call the driver and take mom to the hospital okay? don't be scared we'll see you there,"

"o-okay," jungkook nods, hanging up quickly and runs outside, finding the guard as the very first person and tells him that they need to go to the hospital urgently because the baby's going to come. the man rushes inside, calling over two of the staff members, taking one with him to help miss jeon out of the house while the other gets the car ready. 

jungkook follows the elders with tears brimming his eyes, not letting them out anymore for his brother told him to stay strong. he rubs his eyes, gulping down the fear and holds his mother's hand, hugging her with all his might throughout their way to the hospital. his iron man figurine also stayed in it's place, hanging on with the boy in the pocket of his denim shorts, being the only source of comfort at the moment.

although the hospital staff attended them instant and sunhee's doctor took her under professional care, jungkook couldn't help but worry for his mother and his unborn baby sister. his hold on the iron man toy remains firm, eyes wandering to the end of the hallway where people pass by his petite figure once in a while but his brothers aren't among them.

jungkook sighs deeply, looking up at the guard and tugs on the man's shirt to draw his attention, "where's hyung?" he asks when the guard looks down, not having an answer but pulls out his phone and hands it to the young boy.

"you can call him,"

jungkook thinks for a moment, pouting at the phone and then at the man, "i don't know hyungie's number..."

"i'll do it," the man says, about to contact one of the elder sons of the family, although jungkook's voice interrupts him as the boy stands up quickly, running in the direction where they came from earlier. there he finds the two elder boys, one of them returning jungkook's tight hug, assuring him that they're here now and the other patting the boy's back as an appreciation for being so strong.

"where's mom?"

jungkook pulls from the hug, pointing at the door near by, getting nods from the elder teens. the housekeeping staff present with them, bows to the two, getting subtle nod of acknowledgement from the eldest, "what happened?" he asks.

"master jimin," the staff head arrives, bowing to the boy, earning a nod from him, "mrs jeon is fine and so is the baby," she lets him know, sending a smile to his face as he turns to his brothers, hugging both of them together. "congratulations, you have a baby sister,"

"thank you," jimin's voice comes out like a whisper, tears blurring his eyes, "thank you, i uh, can we ho see mom?"

"yes, sure," the lady smiles at the boys, leading the three towards the room where sunhee had given birth to a baby girl.

jungkook rushes to his mother's side, hugging her tightly, "are you okay? i was so scared," he says, kissing her cheek, making sunhee chuckle as she nods.

"i'm okay. thank you for helping me out earlier  you're a really good boy," sunhee smiles fondly, ruffling his hair and jungkook nods, sitting up straight so his hyungs can talk to her as well.

"i told you we should not go to school today!"

"shut up, tae. nobody knew it would be today," jimin sighs.

"i knew," the boy huffs, sitting on the edge of the bed, leaning back and glances at sunhee, "where's that human you produced?"

"you should speak more normally," sunhee sighs deeply and taehyung laughs at her, moving back to avoid getting hit. "brat,"

"where's the baby, mamma?" jungkook asks as well.

"they took her to get her cleaned. she's coming in a while and then she'll meet her brothers,"

"okay," the youngest boy nods, leaning onto her and looks at taehyung who squints with cautious eyes, "tae hyungie said that you forgot him when i was born. will you forget me too because of the new baby?"

"obviously," taehyung sniggers.

"tae," sunhee scolds the fourteen-year-old, making the boy laugh louder. she shoots him a glare before turning to her youngest boy and smiles softly, "i didn't forget anyone, kook. all of you are my kids and mamma loves you all, okay? don't listen to tae's silly talks. he's just trying to gool you because you're my favourite boy,"

"yeah," jungkook nods, "tae's jealous of us,"

"exactly," she chuckles, kissing jungkook's head and notices how quiet jimin has been the whole time. she pulls away from jungkook, telling him to sit properly and make space for jimin, shakes his head quickly, letting the younger brother be comfortable while he's fine standing.

"what happened to you?" sunhee asks, reaching out for jimin's hand and the boy smiles, "c'mon tell me,"

"nothing that serious," he says, giving the mother a hug and sighs deeply, "it just scared me hearing kook crying on the phone. i knew dad didn't come..."

"honestly," sunhee takes a deep breath, whispering to jimin, "fuck him," the boy laughs at that, nodding his head and hugs his mom tighter.

"i'm so happy that you gave birth to a baby girl," he says and pulls away to see the mother smiling at him, "i really wanted a sister,"

"well, i didn't want anyone after him," taehyung mutters, pointing at jungkook, making the younger whine and run to hit taehyung.

"i didn't want you! why are you here? you should live with monkeys in the zoo!" jungkook grumbles in anger, throwing daggers with his eyes at taehyung.

"hey kids, don't create a ruckus here," the nurse walks in, holding a baby wrapped in a soft, white towel, seizing all the movement in the room. jungkook stops chasing the elder boy, having his attention on the baby completely just like taehyung.

jimin, being the nearest one to sunhee, glances at her as she nods for him to take his sister from the nurse. so with nervousness crippling through his viens, he sanitizes his hands once before taking the newborn in his arms, letting out a soft breath, scared that even his breathing might hurt the little angel he's holding. her eyes closed, cheeks looking as soft as a cloud and hands curled with her little fingers as though she was preparing to hold his hand. then she moves a bit, startling jimin enough to make his hold quiver but he makes sure to keep her still and safe in his arms, not even noticing when a tear dropped from his eye while he was busy watching his sister.

"she's beautiful," he hushes out softly, glancing at his mother with a smile, blinking his eyes to clear his vision and lets out an airy chuckle, "she's so pretty, mom. i— i haven't seen anyone so cute and soft and beautiful,"

"she's your sister," sunhee whispers fondly, sitting up carefully and strokes the baby's head.

"wow..." jungkook breathes out, peeking at the baby, "she's so small..."

"that's because she just came into the world a few minutes ago," taehyung says, "but yeah, she's cute. like actually cute. i thought newborn babies are ugly,"

"you're ugly," jungkook mutters, ducking down swiftly between jimin and sunhee so that taehyung won't smack him. but taehyung could still easily reach jungkook's butt and place a slap there, making the boy kick his legs, hoping to get taehyung.

"hey, stop it, you're gonna hurt the baby!" jimin scolds the two.

"jungkook get away from there! you're hurting the baby," taehyung pulls jungkook away, pushing him aside and moves next to jimin, "can i hold her?" jimin nods, handing him their sister and smiles while jungkook looks upset, watching them from a distance.

"you forgot me already," he complains.

"nobody forgot you, come here," sunhee says, making the space for him and jungkook sits on the bed, waiting for his turn to hold his sister which although never comes and he sighs deeply, watching the infant now awake, close sunhee's chest as she's breastfeeding the baby.

"what are you watching there?" jimin chuckles amusedly, catching jungkook's gaze fixed on the baby's mouth for it's probably visible from where the boy is sitting.

sunhee looks down, laughing lightly on realising that the boy is observing her breastfeed the baby, "what happened, kook?" she asks.

"nothing, i'm seeing that the baby is hungry," he shrugs his shoulders.

"she is," sunhee nods, "oh that reminds me of. have you guys eaten anything?"

"no, thank you," taehyung says.

"let me get a hold of you, taehyung," sunhee warns the boy, shooting him a displeased glare which only makes him snigger. jungkook sticks his tongue out at taehyung, shifting closer to the mother's side and strokes his newborn sister's head gently, playing with the tiny brown hair, the shade that's similar to taehyung and sunhee's.

jimin is blonde and jungkook close to brunette just like their fathers respectively, while taehyung took after the mother, adorning those beautiful dark brown wavy hair like sunhee does. the new baby has got the same hair, eyes like jungkook and adorable cheeks just like jimin haf all his life. sunhee chuckles at the how miraculous the combination is, picking out the most beautiful features of her sons and blended them together to gift her a daughter.

"what are we going to call her? have anyone of you thought of a name for your baby sister?" she asks, glancing at the boys as jimin sits nearby, holding the babygirl again once she's done feeding.

"lily," jungkook chirps, "i like that name,"

taehyung breaks into a wide smile, leaning over jimin's shoulder and pokes the baby's cheek, "lily," he says softly, "it suits her,"

"that's a nice name," jimin smiles, turning to the mother who nods as well, smiling at the sound of a cute name for an even cuter daughter.

"yes!" jungkook leans over sunhee's lap, resting his elbows on the pillow and stares at the baby, then at jimin smiling, "lily is so cute, hyungie,"

"she is," jimin nods, "do you wanna hold her?"

"nah, he'll drop her," taehyung shakes his head, taking the baby from jimin and sits on the couch away from the bed, making sunhee laugh silently, watching taehyung smiling and playing with baby lily by himself.

"no, i won't! i'm a big brother i'll be careful!" jungkook protests, lingering behind jimin and waits for him to take the baby from taehyung and give her to him. "take her from tae," the boy whispers to jimin getting a minor laugh from him.

"sit here," jimin says and jungkook frowns in confusion but does he's told, sitting on jimin's lap and sunhee laughs loudly.

"god, you silly little boy," taehyung mutters, "sit on the couch," he points at the space next to jimin and jungkook shifts quickly to the spot, waiting like a good boy for his turn to hold his sister.

"you're adorable," jimin ruffles his hair, laughing at him before he makes the baby lay on jungkook's lap, never leting go completely just in case jungkook couldn't hold her properly if she started crying or moving.

"hi, baby," jungkook whispers, smiling at his sister and leans down to peck her lips, "i'm kook, your big brother... you're so pretty,"

"pretty like whom?" jimin presses his lips into a thin line, gesturing sunhee to listen in carefully as jungkook grins.

"mamma,"

"my baby," sunhee pouts, sending a kiss to jungkook, who smiles proudly. taehyung shakes his head, standing up and goes to sunhee, sitting beside her with a sigh. she strokes his hair gently, catching on with his tired face and kisses the side of his head, "you're tired?"

"hm," he nods, "when will you be discharged from here?"

"i'll have to stay for three-four days at least," she says, "but don't worry, i'll ask sooyeong to stay at home with you all,"

taehyung gives a brief nod, eyes moving to his brothers when he hears jungkook's voice laughing and jimin saying something, smiling as he takes baby lily, making her lay on his lap now. "he was crying on the phone," taehyung chuckles, shaking his head.

"he was worried. he's still young, tae," sunhee smiles softly, taking taehyung's hand in hers and looks at him, "don't make him cry, okay? i get it you guys are just like that, but still it's not necessary to argue all the time, honey. you're kook's hyung, you should be a little more sweet with him. he's just ten,"

"i am! i take care of him!" taehyung gasps, "c'mon mom! just because i tease him a little in front of you doesn't mean i don't love him. you don't know this but i helped him find his pants yesterday,"

"i— yeah, right. thank you for thinking so much about your little brother," sunhee sighs, "what i'm saying is, you should stop messing with him so much,"

"jimin can handle everything," taehyung smirks, getting attention from jimin who arches a brow, standing up. he lays the baby on the crib nearby letting jungkook play with her while he makes his way to the mother and younger brother.

"jimin can handle what?"

"everything," taehyung says, "i was telling her that i don't need to be all soft and sweet with kook, when you're there to do that,"

"you're a jerk," jimin hisses and taehyung laughs.

"i'm just kidding. i have such a cute little brother," he says, storming up to jungkook and pulls him in an agressive hug, kissing the boy's cheek despite the protests from the younger to get out of his grip. when he lets go of jungkook, he leans down by the crib and smiles at the baby, "and a beautiful baby sister now. so pretty, aren't you?" he cooes at the infant, getting a movement of her hand as she raises up her arms, making a sound from the back of her throat.

jungkook gasps at that, pointing at her, "she said something! jimin hyung, mom! she replied to tae hyung!"

"really?" sunhee smiles, "talk to her, she'll respond to you too,"

"okay," jungkook nods, leaning beside taehyung and tries to talk to the baby. taehyung holds jungkook's hand, bringing it closer to the baby gently, letting her hold it and glances at the boy, who's more than just happy.

"look, she's holding your hand," taehyung says, "you held mine when you were a baby,"

"really? yours? i thought i held jimin hyungie's hand?"

"yeah, but you held mine first," the fourteen-year-old chuckles, "you started walking with jimin. we still have the video somewhere. he used to make you practice," he sniggers, glancing back at jimin who laughs at the memory along with the mother.

"and y'know kook, when we were trying to train you to use the toilet, you always peed on or around taehyung then he would cry a lot," the mother says.

"yeah, that was one reason i didn't like you," taehyung scrunches his face.

"jimin never complained though,"

"i knew it!" jungkook huffs, looking at jimin, "you love me the most. and i love you the most, hyungie," jimin laughs with the confession, nodding thankfully for the younger brother.

"jim," the eldest son looks at the mother, seeing her smile softly, "i'll probably have to stay here for a few days. at home you all—"

"we'll manage, don't worry," jimin assures, "your health and lily's health should be the priority. and if there's anything i'll call dad...?"

"yeah, i mean if you want. but i've asked sooyeong to stay at home,"

"oh that's perfect," jimin says, knowing that the woman who has been their caretaker since forever will be the best person, certainly better than the dads they know. jimin and taehyung's father was still fine, no grudges with the family even though he has a different wife and kids now. but he's still better than jungkook and lily's father who only showed up on christmas with presents to make up with jungkook. although whatever had been the reasons for sunhee to end both marriages were never really a bother for the boys, because jimin and taehyung were too young when divorce happened and they weren't really attached to their father either.

but it was mostly just sunhee and the kids. men never really stayed in her life, either fussing about het being too ambitious or for her not wanting to settle for less. her reason to end the first marriage was simply that they both fell out of love. jimin and taehyung's father, kim sujeon later confessed that he had already started seeing someone who wasn't sunhee and that just made it easier for sunhee to sign the divorce paper. it didn't hurt her, rather felt like a burden was taken off her shoulders.

later she married a man from work, whom she had hired for two reasons, one- he was buisness oriented and two- he was handsome. jeon jaesung. sunhee hired him with simple intentions not knowing that she would actually get pregnant within a year and give birth to a baby boy, jungkook. even after jungkook was five, they never thought of marrying each other, until one day sunhee asked him to marry her. he said yes and they worked fine until this year. during the fifth month of the pregnancy, sunhee was hiring a lawyer and filing a divorce case, not interested in a man who doesn't want to be involved in her pregnancy as well as her children's lives.

even today, she couldn't care less about her ex husbands or why she doesn't have a man by her side, which often bugged jimin and taehyung a little as they both understood how important that presence is. although sunhee always assured them by saying that she already has them, her three favourite men whom she trusts blindly and loves more than anyone else. jimin would smile at that, hug her tightly while taehyung stayed quiet, not having much to say and then at last, jungkook, the youngest who always promised to grow stronger and protect his mom.

"mum—"

"yeah yeah, stop crying," taehyung sighs deeply, covering jungkook's mouth with his palm and sits down, "you're a big boy, happy?"

"aw, c'mere," sunhee opens his arms and the youngest boy moves to her, rubbing his eyes, showing her where taehyung just hit him. she glares at taehyung, "you will not hit him,"

"i didn't even hit that hard," taehyung mumbles, standing up, "i'm going out. i need a drink,"

"yeah, go grab some milk big guy," jimin scoffs, getting a look from taehyung, "what? you kept making fun of him first,"

"okay, i'm sorry," he sighs, turning to jungkook, "i'm sorry, kook. i won't hit you again,"

"and you said you don't want me," jungkook mumbles.

"i was teasing you. i do want you. i mean, if i didn't want a brother i would've given you to someone else. but i didn't. means i want you. you're my only little brother, kook," taehyung says, growing conscious of his words and steps forward hugging jungkook from the side, "i'm sorry. i was just playing with you. don't think that i don't love you okay?"

jungkook nods, hugging him back and grins, turning to jimin, calling him to join the hug as well. jimin joins them quickly, sighing, "ah is anyone hungry?"

"me!" both the younger boys raise their arms and sunhee chuckles, telling jimin to them to the cafeteria in the hospital.

"do you need something mom?" taehyung asks.

"no, thank you. i think i'll just sleep for sometime. you please don't wander here and there, don't disturb anyone around, and hold jungkook's hand. don't let him go anywhere alone okay? stay with jimin,"

"okay, don't worry," he gives a thumbs up, peeking at the baby one last time, seeing that she's sleeping now. "bye bye lily, we'll see you in a while. sweet dreams," he whispers before exiting the room, jogging to catch up with his brothers.

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a/n- jimin and taehyung have the same father. jungkook and lily have the same father, they were born from sunhee's second husband.

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