Bravery 2



A/N: just realized I didn't completely update Bravery, he's the rest of it. 

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The light hangs above them as they silently sip their hot chocolates. Taehyung hasn't touched his mug yet, too taken with watching Sunny concentrate on dipping her chocolate chip biscuit into her drink.

He doesn't say anything as he watches her drop the cookie inside her cup and gasp before grabbing a spoon in an attempt to salvage the chocolate. He thinks it's cute when two little wrinkles appear between her eyebrows as her spoon collects clumps of broken dreams.

He leans against the table, propping his elbow on the table and holding up his chin with a fist. He smiles as he looks at the little girl, who looks like a beautiful mix of you and him.

She smiles brightly before shoving the spoon in her mouth. Her nose wrinkles as she grabs the bag full of cookies, looking for the chocolate ones. Taehyung wonders if Sunny's always had his nose. If this is the nose she was born with, or if with time, it changed.

He curses himself because he wasn't there to see her born, to witness her growth from a younger age. And because genuinely Taehyung will never know if Sunny has always had his smile and his nose and if she's always had your eyes and your hair.

He will never have these answers and it makes him sad.

He doesn't realize he's crying until they slide over his lips and the saltiness of his tears catch onto his taste buds. He's really staring at her and wondering how something this delicate, this fragile, this beautiful could have possibly come from him.

How could something so innocent, be apart of him when he himself was not a saint?

He wipes the tears away before she looks up at him. "Aren't you going to have your chocolate drink?"

Taehyung grins, his eyes upturning into crescent moons. "Of course I am!"

"Good, I think there is only raisin cookies left though."

She sticks her tongue out at him before giggling into her mug.

He's so angry at himself for missing so many years. He's so angry at the opportunities he will never get back. The days that Sunny will now mark as "before dad," and, "after dad."

Will he even get the chance to be her dad?

Every loose tooth, every bad dream. Every bed wet. Every knot in her hair. Every tantrum she pulled because she wasn't ready for bed. He missed it all and he wants to be a part of the rest, he doesn't want to miss another milestone. He wants to feel okay again. He wants to feel loved and alive again.

Leaning forward, he ruffles his hand through her hair. "You're such a good girl, drink it up. This will be the last before I take you to go sleep, okay?"

She drops the empty mug, a ring of chocolate around her mouth. It makes Taehyung laugh silently before he helps her wipe it off. "I am very tired."

He makes a promise then and there that though he's missed out on a part of Sunny's life, he will not miss out on the rest.

"Hey, do you know who your dad is?" he asks and Sunny shakes her head. Taehyung watches her eat the cookie before whimpering. "Do you know what his name is?"

She looks at him in thought before pointing at his name badge. "Same as yours."

And it kills him. 

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