"I'm glad you came, Taehyung. You missed your appointment last month so I was beginning to worry."

Taehyung smiles apologetically at the doctor as he gets the things he needs to complete the check up.

    "How have you been?  Jungkook told me that you've been making progress, even trying to speak sometimes. Yeah?" Dr. Riis asks, Taehyung nods. "Alright. That's great. But remember I said not to force yourself too much. You don't want to make more damage than progress."

Taehyung nods again.

Riis takes the tongue depressor and holds it to Taehyung's mouth. "Say ah, try making a humming sound."

Taehyung does as he says, the sound coming out hoarse.

    "Good, things are looking good." Riis says writing something down. "Where's Jungkook anyway? Working?"

Taehyung sighs, even though Jungkook wasn't working he nods.

Jungkook was with Haeun for her first doctors appointment for the baby.

Jungkook was reluctant to go but Taehyung convinced him that it was best to be there for the baby's sake.

    "Let's try a few exercises, it looks like to me you should be back talking in no time, if you started therapy you'd probably have a better chance at recovering quickly."

Taehyung nods, there was a reason he didn't want to start therapy.

Why would he want to spill his guts to a stranger for an hour every day? His problems were his problems and he didn't need a medical opinion on them.

Meanwhile back at the hospital, Jungkook was sitting in the ultrasound room with Haeun who was chattering excitedly about seeing the baby.

Jungkook just nodded and stayed silent, he was here for the baby, not Haeun.

    "Come on, Jungkook. I know this whole situation is crazy but can't you at least try to be happy? It is your first child." Haeun says.

    "I wanted to have my first child with someone I loved." He says, still showing no emotions towards her.

    "The baby is still yours, and the baby didn't do anything wrong so don't be cold." She says. "I didn't either so don't be mean to me."

    "I don't want to talk, Haeun." Jungkook says sitting back in his chair.

Nevertheless, Haeun was right. She didn't do anything wrong and neither did the baby. It was equally both their faults and wether Jungkook liked it or not this child was his and he had to love it no matter what.

There's a knock on the door and the door comes in with a smile. "Hello, mom and  dad!"

    "Hello." Haeun says with a bright smile.

    "Hey." Jungkook says forcing one of his robotic business smiles.

    "Kim Haeun and Jeon Jungkook." The doctor says reading the paperwork. "Says here you're about three months. Let's make sure yeah?"

Haeun nods excitedly looking over at Jungkook who doesn't look at all interested in what was going on.

He was preoccupied with thoughts of Taehyung and how his appointment was going.

"If I could get you to lift your shirt, mom."

After the doctor spreads the weird gel over Haeun's stomach she turns on some equipment and soon there's a black and white picture displayed on the screen.

Haeun gasps when she sees the small black dot on the screen. "Is that it?"

"Mhm. That's your baby guys." The doctor says.

Jungkook looks up at the screen and he feels a pang in his chest. That was his baby.

"That's...that's something." He murmurs making the doctor and Haeun laugh.

"You are still in the early stages of pregnancy, you should start showing in the next 9 to 13 weeks. That being said, it is still safe at this point for sex. Protected sex of course, but~"

"Oh-Oh we aren't together~"

"Yeah, we're not- we aren't together."

The doctor looks taken aback for a moment. "Oh, oh my apologies then."

"Don't apologize. It's fine." Haeun says with a smile.

"I'm glad you guys are choosing to work together for the baby." The doctor says with a chuckle.

Jungkook and Haeun nod, glancing at each other momentarily.

"As I was saying, you'll be showing in the next 9 to 13 weeks. We should be able to tell the gender after about 16 or 20 weeks." The doctor continues. "Everything looks great guys. Would you guys like a picture of the ultrasound?"

"Yes, please." Haeun says as the doctor cleans off the gel.

After the doctor leaves silence falls over the room and Haeun clears her throat to speak first.

"Thank you for being here Jungkook. I know- I know you don't want to have any type of relationship with me, especially after I probably messed up everything between you and Taehyung~"

"Taehyung and I are fine." Jungkook says.

Haeun looks shocked. "Y-...You are?"

"Yeah, we're fine." Jungkook says nodding.

"Well, that's nice." Haeun says with a smile. "I just um, thank you for being here for the baby. I couldn't do this alone."

"I have a conscience, Haeun. I wouldn't make you do this on your own. I'm equally responsible for the- for the baby." Jungkook says, the thought of having a child terrifies him.

The doctor returns with two separate ultrasound photos and and wishes them both luck before letting them go.

"Um, H-Haeun." Jungkook says as they exit the hospital.

"Hm?" Haeun hums looking up from the ultrasound photo.

"If-If there's ever- if there's ever anything wrong with you or the-the baby, just call me, yeah?" Jungkook stutters out.

Haeun chuckles. "Thank you, Jungkook."

Jungkook nods. "Later then, take care."

"You too." She responds before they both go their separate ways.

The entire way back to the house Jungkook can't take his eyes off the ultrasound picture.

Despite his situation, and despite Haeun being the mother, he was going to be a father. This little amorphous black dot was his baby, and the thought gave him butterflies.

He folds the photo and puts in in his wallet before walking into the house.

"Tae?" He calls when he gets in, he hears Taehyung him from the living room.

He walks into the room and finds him on laying down on the couch with a bowl of ice cream.

"Hey, baby." Jungkook says walking over and sitting on the end of the couch.

Taehyung puts his feet in Jungkook's lap. "Was the treatment bad?"

Taehyung nods, frowning as he thinks back to all the exercises, they really hurt.

"I'm sorry, baby." Jungkook says. "Did Dr. Riis give you anything to show me?"

Taehyung shows Jungkook the papers the doctor sent home basically saying that Taehyung has made a lot of progress and with therapy to help work out the psychological part of his mutism he was well on the way to a 100% recovery.

The rest of the day they spend lying around watching TV since they were back together, they didn't want to leave each other's arms even for a moment after those long two weeks.

They end up falling asleep on the couch after their fourth movie, it's a little uncomfortable but neither of them move throughout the night.

The past seems to be left in the past for the time being and they are both content with that.

They just wanted things to feel normal in their life again, or as close to normal as it can get at least.

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