jungkook as riri's daddy

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"daddy?" aera peeks at jungkook's face, standing in front of the couch where he's asleep. his tattooed arm covers his eyes, blocking the bright lights from disrupting his sleep, and earpods playing soft music in his ears to distract him from the deadly headache that arose in the middle of the night.

"aera, c'mere," yoona smiles at the toddler, holding her son in her lap as she's feeding him, "do you wanna eat too?" aera shakes her head, climbing next to jin's wife, watching the baby boy who's eighteen months old already.

"baby hungwy," she giggles, shifting closer to the mother-son duo, making yoona chuckle as she glances at her husband and yoongi sitting across them.

"yes, minsuk's having his lunch, then he'll take a nap," yoona tells aera, stroking her hair gently, "and i think riri should eat something as well," aera shakes her head, slipping down from the couch, going back to her sleeping father.

"hey, let daddy rest for sometime, aera," jin says, standing up as he carries aera in his arms, "daddy's a bit tired. he'll take a nap and get a lot of energy to play with our princess. is that okay?"

"daddy icky?" aera frowns, staring at jungkook and pouts, reaching out to go to him. however, jin tries to engage her in a different conversation, taking her away from jungkook, which only makes the toddler whine out and squirm in his arms. "daddy!"

hearing aera crying, baby minsuk starts crying as well, making yoona sigh. she stands up finally, keeping the bowl of their son's meal on the table and approaches her husband, "you feed minsuk, i'll take her to haewon," she offers, earning a nod from jin.

"hey, it's all right, i'll take her. you guys can watch your kids," yoongi chuckles, taking aera from jin and pats her back, returning jin and his wife's warm smiles.

"who's crying?" jungkook grumbles, opening his eyes with a deep sigh as two toddlers keep wailing out in their high pitched voices, especially minsuk's. "noona!" he calls, standing up and stretches his body.

"which one?" one of the ladies reply from inside.

"anyone without kids right now!"

"what?" haewon walks out with chaeyong (yoongi's wife), tying up her hair into a bun as she goes to jungkook first, touching his forehead and shakes her head, "you need to take another aspirin i guess. your fever didn't go down a bit,"

"poor boy," chaeyong strokes jungkook's hair amd he glances at yoongi for a brief second before focusing on the elder girls again. he nods slowly, sitting down with a deep breath,

"my head feels like it'll explode now,"

"you should go in and rest," yoona says, "and for god's sake, take those earpods off,"

"yeah, she's right," chaeyong nods, "you can tell any of us if you need something, okay?"

"thanks," jungkook mumbles, glancing at his daughter and sighs, opening his arms for her, "why are you crying?" he asks, bringing her on his lap as yoongi makes her sit near him. aera rubs her eyes, sniffling softly and hugs jungkook tightly.

"mish you daddy..."

"but i'm right here, princess,"

"mm-hmm," aera nods and jungkook sighs softly, massaging his forehead with one hand and holds his daughter with his free arm.

"okay, do you wanna sleep?"

"no,"

"no? then go and play outside. doyun and jiwon oppa are there, iseul is there too,"

"no, daddy— mamma..."

haewon steps forward, stroking aera's back as she carries her up and nods jungkook to go to his room and get some rest. jungkook smiles at her, standing up and gives her a brief hug, "you're the best noona,"

"go," haewon and chaeyong chuckle while aera whines, reaching out for her father again, "it's okay, aera. let daddy go, we're gonna have fun without him," haewon smiles at the little girl.

"dadda," aera mumbles, her round eyes watching the staircase in search of jungkook.

"he's gonna come later," chaeyong holds aera's hand, going to the backyard where their sons are playing. jimin and taehyung decided to teach them soccer today, and their miserable attempt is still hoing on. doyun and iseul, jin and yoongi's sons, being six-year-olds already, are better than jiwon, who just turned five during the vacation itself.

the laughters from the boys are soon interrupted by aera's crying voice, drawing attention from them. jimin kicks the football aside, wiping the thin line of sweat in the sleeve of his t-shirt before approaching the ladies and the crying baby.

"hey, who made riri cry?" jimin asks.

"daddy..." aera sobs, holding out her arms on locating jimin, always ready to go to him in any case.

jimin smiles, taking her from his wife and sits down on the side, "yes, what's wrong? did mamma make my little angel upset?" he asks, fake glaring at haewon, making chaeyong laugh silently while haewon just rolls her eyes at him. 

"mamma," jiwon hugs haewon's waist, seeing iseul hugging his mother as well, "why's riri crying?"

"she wants go to her dad," haewon answers.

"ah, okay, is kook feeling better now?" jimin asks.

"no, the fever is still there and the headache is pretty bad too," chaeyong says, "tae, do you mind going to the pharmacy for him? he's not even able to sleep because of the headache,"

"sure," taehyung nods with a smile, "i'll go right now then. who wants to come?" he asks the kids, seeing the three young boys jumping around him, excited in the name of going for a ride.

"i'll come too," jimin says, then glances at haewon, "we're taking aera as well. maybe she'll feel better going out for a while,"

"yeah, that'll be nice," haewon smiles at them, waving at her son who tells her happily that he'll get an ice cream for his mamma and aunts.

"chaeyong-ah," yoongi calls from inside, "jungkook's asking for some cold patches!"

"give it to him," chaeyong sighs.

"he asked you not me," yoongi smirks, "you ladies really be spoiling him, so he's your headache, not mine,"

"don't call him that," chaeyong shakes her head at her husband, getting a chuckle from him.

"for real though, let the boy be, yoongi," yoona says.

"leaves it yoongs, we cannot win against them," jin jokes, getting a laugh from yoongi.

"i'll go and see jungkook," haewon says, giving a smile to chaeyong as she pats her back lightly, "you should get some rest too," she nods down at her belly where the baby bump of seven whole months has started showing.

•••

"uncle tae, let's go to the park!" doyun chirps, pointing across the street at the park where they can see bunch of other kids playing.

"we'll go later, buddy. uncle kook's not feeling well, and we have to bring him the meds," taehyung says. doyun and iseul exchange glances, both pouting on being refused to go to the park. the boys turn to jimin, seeing jiwon saying something to him and jimin is consoling the young boy.

"what happened jiwon?" iseul asks.

"ji wan' chocolate..."

"oh," the six-year-olds nod slowly, glancing at their uncle jimin who smiles at them, "chocolate?"

"we've got chocolates at home, kids,"

"riri do you want chocolate?" jiwon asks the toddler and taehyung sniggers at jimin, knowing that once aera starts whining about chocolate there's no way they can leave without it. and the three young boys have learnt this from the time aera started understanding their words better.

"mm," aera nods, turning to face jimin as well and touches his cheek, "choc-ate," she mumbles with her tiny arm held out in the direction of the store.

"we have a lot of chocolates at home, okay? riri and riri's oppas can have them all. we'll watch the birdies an—"

"no..." she pouts, "choc-ate dadda,"

"okay, fine we'll get riri chocolates alright?"

"mm," the baby nods briefly once, staring at the boys as she reaches out to jiwon, "daddy get— choc-ate, okay?" she babbles half the sentence, getting a confused look from jiwon while doyun and iseul nod.

"she's saying that uncle jimin will get us chocolates, ji," iseul translates for the younger brother, throwing his arm around jiwon's shoulder as he drags him to the car. doyun chased after them, making it a game of tag that tempts aera enough to let jimin know that she wants to be left down on her feet.

jimin smiles at the kids, watching them play around while taehyung goes to get the car from the parking. aera being the youngest and her body still working on the development of the cognitive as well as physical skills,  often lags behind the three boys. doyun however, holds her hand, helping her keep up with him in the game.

after a few seconds the kids stop in front of a parked car, laughing at something jiwon said. aera laughs with them, whether or not she's understanding anything, and it frequently amused the elders to see how she would do whatever the young trio was doing. doyun says something to iseul and jiwon, getting nods from the two. iseul climbs on the hood of the car, sitting there without much problem and so does doyun. then jiwon climbs up as well and jimin shakes his head at the sight, about to tell stop them and tell them to get off somebody else's car.

jimin's phone rings then, drawing some attention from the kids as it's from hoseok, "yes, hyung," he answers.

"me and joon were on the way back, and thought of doing some grocery shopping. so tell me what do we need,"

"i don't know, i'm not at home," jimin says, "you should call jin hyung or yoongi hyung. they're cooking today. or maybe yoona noona or haewon,"

"ah alright, nevermind then,"

"did you get your recording done?" jimin asks, walking towards the kids, frowning as he watches jiwon lifting aera up and iseul pulling her hands, probably to bring her up on the hood of the car like them.

"it was good, me and joon nailed it!"

"hey, don't—" jimin gasps, seeing iseul losing balance and slipping ahead, falling down with aera and jiwon. aera's sharp cry fills the air while iseul stands up quickly, helping jiwon up as well. "hyung, i'll call you later. these kids don't know how to stay still for minute,"

"yeah sure," hoseok chuckles.

jimin hangs up the call, jogging to the kids with a worried look as the three boys surround aera, who refuses to get up from the ground. "what do you guys keep doing?" jimin mutters, making his way between doyun and jiwon, carrying two-year-old in his arms, which only makes the baby cry more.

"it's okay, honey. don't cry," jimin rubs her back, "are you hurt anywhere?" he frowns in concern, checking aera's little body and hisses on seeing her arm swelling up already. he tries to move her arm slowly, but gets aera crying as she squirms in pain, confirming that it's her arm hurting her.

"guys, let's go," taehyung arrives, rolling down the window as he pulls up the car near jimin and the kids, "what's up? why's riri crying?"

"riri got hurt," jiwon says, "we fell down,"

"ah, poor baby," taehyung shakes his head, getting out of the car and heads to jimin.

"tae, see it," jimin takes a deep breath, having a hard time calming the baby down who keeps crying, touching her right arm. taehyung hums, grabbing aera's arm gently and feels around a little, trying to get her to do some movements.

although when she doesn't stop crying and the swelling keeps getting worse he sighs deeply, nodding his head slowly, confirming the fear evident in jimin's eyes, "looks like a fracture to me,"

"f'acture?" jiwon tilts his head in confusion, "what is that?"

"hush, enough, get in the car," jimin tells the boys in a firm voice, then looks at taehyung, "you take the kids home, i'll take her to a doctor,"

"alone? let's go to the doctor first—"

"it's fine, tae. the kids are not needed there, and also kook needs the meds. so you should go home,"

"alright, i'll drop you off on the way,"

jimin nods for that, sitting in the passenger seat with aera in his lap. he rubs her back gently, whispering different things to calm her down and also holds her arm to avoid any unnecessary movements that would hurt her more. taehyung glances at the boys in the backseat, looking all worried and quiet, "are you all okay? nobody got hurt right?" he asks.

"i'm okay," iseul mumbles.

"i'm okay too," jiwon nods.

jimin says nothing to them as more of his attention is on aera getting tired, crying in pain which hurts him too at some point, considering that he has always been around and helped jungkook raise this little angel. he has been close enough for aera to mistake him being her daddy too and his wife as her mamma.

taehyung pulls up in front of the nearest clinic, giving jimin an assuring look that says that aera will be okay. jimin helps himself inside, speed walking with the crying baby in his arms. a nurse catches his eye, guiding him to emergency unit right away on seeing that the child has an alarming inflammation and redness on the arm.

jimin puts aera on the bed, stepping side as soon as the doctor attends them. aera's eyes keep spilling tears, her tiny hands clenching and unclenching in the search of a trusted hand to hold. jimin sighs painfully at the sight, gradually holding the toddler's hand, smiling to himself when her fingers instantly curl around his index and middle finger.

"it's a fracture," the doctor tells jimin, "we need to do an x-ray,"

"yeah," jimin nods, "do i take off her clothes?"

"yes, the nurse will help you," the doctor says, injecting a little dose of something into aera's arm, "it'll help her with the pain for some time,"

jimin unbuttons the cotton top that jungkook dressed aera in after bathing her in the morning, leaving her just in her diaper. the injection probably works for aera's cries slow down and she grows quieter, reaching out for jimin. he strokes her head gently, making her lay down on the bed which is too big for her, and sits beside her.

"good girl, now don't cry okay? we'll get riri a lot of chocolates after this," he says, wiping the tears off her puffy cheeks and kisses her forehead, "riri's the strongest baby, isn't she?"

"dadda..."

"yes, baby, dadda's at home. we'll go to him soon, don't worry," jimin whispers at her.

he pulls away from aera, which gets a whine from her lips and tears slipping down her face again. "i'm right here, baby. we need let doctor uncle do his work. he's trying to help my little angel, so you've stay still alright?" jimin says to aera, smiling when the doctor and the nurse chuckle at him reasoning a two-year-old.

"kids can be hard to deal with," the doctor says.

"well, yeah," jimin sighs.

"how did she get hurt?"

"fell down,"

"hm," the doctor nods briefly, studying the x-ray image and looks over to the nurse who's already standing with things they need. the man sits in front of aera, telling jimin that he can dress her up and hold her still while they see her arm to fix it within the plaster.

"daddy..." aera looks at jimin with a pout, rubbing her eyes with her free hand, "baby ouch..."

"it's okay, it'll get better,"

"she calls herself baby," the nurse mumbles to herself, almost squealing at how cute that sounded from the toddler.

the doctor arches his brow at the nurse, making her gulp and shut her mouth, grabbing her stuff as she leaves them alone. the man sighs, shaking his head and stands up when aera's cast is done, "please avoid any excess movements with this arm. it can be hard, considering that kids her age often want to play and all. but it's important for the fracture to heal. this cast needs to stay for four weeks, then we'll do another x-ray and see if it can be taken off,"

"thank you," jimin shakes hands with the man, "do i take any kind of medication? what if she cries if it hurts or something like that?"

"i've prescribed a syrup, give her that for the starting days as the fracture will definitely give her a hard time. but other than that, you'll have to deal with it— calming her down and keep her distracted y'know? your child is still pretty young for any pain killers,"

"right, thank you," jimin smiles, carrying aera in his arms and walks out of the emergency room. he walks to the reception where the nurse is talking to the lady over the desk.

"sir," she says, sliding a plastic bag with the syrup and the bill long with it. jimin nods, pulling out his wallet and keeps the black card on the counter.

after paying for the service, jimin heads out, realising that it's almost time for sunset and they've been out for more than five hours. he crouches down on the ground, placing aera on her feet for a while and pulls out his phone, dialling taehyung's number right away.

"daddy?" aera peeks at jimin's phone, speaking softly to him.

"no, it's uncle taetae," he says, putting the phone on speaker and wraps his arm around aera, "we're gonna ask him to come and take us from here,"

"mm," aera nods once, not giving much mind to it as she lets out a yawn, leaning onto jimin and closes her eyes.

"jimin, how's aera?" taehyung asks as soon as he answers, "how long are you gonna take? everyone's worried,"

"we're done here. it was a fracture indeed," jimin sighs, glancing at the tired little girl, "anyway, could you come and get us from here? i don't see any cabs nearby,"

"yeah sure, i'll be there in ten minutes,"

"okay, perfect. we're waiting," the call ends and jimin stands up, carrying aera in his arms. he pats her back gently, making her lay her head on his shoulder and kisses the side of her head, "get some sleep, little one, it's been a long day,"

after waiting for a few minutes, the familiar black suv pulls over in front of the clinic giving jimin a reason to relax. he gets in the passenger seat, holding the sleeping baby in his arms tenderly. "aw poor little riri, i feel so bad for her," taehyung stares at aera's sleeping face with empathetic eyes, reaching out to pat her head lightly.

"yeah, she's cried a lot and fell asleep now," jimin nods.

"she must be tired,"

jimin hums, resting his head back against the seat and glances at taehyung as they drive back home, "did you tell jungkook? how's he?"

"he could barely even stand, and he also threw up because the headache was so bad," taehyung sighs.

"did he sleep?"

"yeah, he was tired so haewon gave him the meds and then he slept. i didn't get any time to tell him about aera. also, the hyungs and noona were like, let him rest for a while. he'll come to know when you come back with aera. so it's fine,"

"yeah," jimin nods.

•••

"hey, look who's up?" chaeyong smiles at aera as sits up, rubbing her eyes, whimpering at the restricted movements of her right arm. "come, let's go see everyone," chaeyong says, holding aera up and places her down from the bed.

aera mumbles something, raising her arms for chaeyong to carry her. the woman smiles apologetically, holding the toddler's hand and heads out of the room, "i'm so sorry, aera. i can't carry you," she says, for her doctor, husband and everyone else told her not to lift anything, especially kids who won't understand her pregnancy.

aera pouts, breaking into a sob as chaeyong walks her downstairs with a guilty expression. "hey, what happened?" hoseok carries her up quickly, "is your arm hurting?"

aera rubs her eyes quieting down once she's in someone's arms and looks around, "daddy..."

"jungkook?"

"dadda," aera says, looking around and finds haewon trying to feed her son while jimin is talking to them. it's abnormally quiet for an evening in the house when the kids usually make a lot of noise, playing around and doing all sort of mischief. doyun and iseul are silently having their dinner with jin and yoongi cooking in the kitchen and helping them at times.

"jimin-ah, is kook up?" hoseok asks, taking a seat with aera next to jimin.

"no," jimin says, "but i checked him just now. his fever is gone. so i'll wake him up for dinner,"

"daddy icky," aera mumbles, touching the cast on her arm.

"it's gonna be okay," jimin kisses her cheek, carrying her with him and rubs her back, "let's go wake up riri's daddy now. you wanna see him don't you?"

"go to daddy!" aera nods instantly, almost jumping in her place, getting a smile from jimin as he stands up. right then they hear jungkook's voice and find him already heading downstairs, just in the state he was in the morning, wearing the same black joggers and messy hair.

"daddy!" aera gasps, moving in jimin's arms to get herself free and run straight to her father. hoseok chuckles at her, watching with his phone quickly ready to record the baby reuniting with her father after a whole day.

"what's that?" jungkook frowns at his daughter, crouching down to see the cast on her tiny arm and glances at his hyungs for some explanation, "what happened?"

"she fell and got a fracture," jimin says, "i'm sorry, i should've been more careful with the kids,"

"what?" jungkook looks confused, checking aera from head to toe and gives her a hug, "gosh, my baby is it hurting?" he hushes out to her, carrying her up with him as he walks to the couch, sitting with the elders.

"daddy," aera babbles against jungkook's cheek, clutching her hand in his hair as she cackles loudly, happy to be with him after a good number of hours today.

"yeah, show me where you're hurt," jungkook makes her sit properly in his lap, kissing her cheeks as the baby points at her casted arm.

"dadda ba-baby ouch..."

"my child, daddy's so sorry," he sighs, bringing her in a hug again, rubbing her back. he glances at jimin and says, "will you tell me what exactly happened?"

"we just went to grab the medicines for you. the kids were playing near the cars and the boys got on top of the hood of one of the cars.  they were trying to get aera up with them, but ended up falling," jimin sighs, "she was crying a lot and it looked bad, so i took her to the doctor. they said it was fracture,"

"and nobody thought of telling me?" jungkook asks, carrying aera in his arms while he looks between the hyungs and haewon, "seriously? my daughter gets her arm fractured and none of you thought that maybe jungkook should know?"

"kook, it's not like that," jimin says, "you weren't well. tae was going to tell you, but seeing your health, he couldn't say anything,"

"yeah," taehyung enters the room, "you were barely able to get out of bed. i didn't want to worry you more with this... i'm sorry,"

"worry me..." jungkook mutters, looking away as he shakes his head, "i should've just stayed with aera. i was here sleeping all day, it wasn't even that serious, and—" he breathes out, "i should be the one taking care of my baby,"

"jungkook," haewon looks at him, stroking his arm gently as she makes him sit down and takes the place next to him, "we're sorry for not telling you. but really, we worried about you too. i told tae not to say anything to you, and let jimin come back with aera first. think about it, even if we told you, you would just get worried here and your health could get worse. there was literally nothing you could do then, instead of waiting for jimin to return with aera. i'm sorry for what happened, it was an accident jungkook, we all love aera with all heart. not as much as you, of course, but we do care a lot about her—"

"i know," jungkook nods, "i know that. of course you all love her, noona. you helped me raise her— you and hyung are the ones who actually taught me how to be a good father. i trust you guys with my daughter more than myself. i never meant anything bad from my previous words, it's just... i hate to know that i was in here sleeping while my child was in pain,"

"don't think like that," haewon strokes his hair, "you needed rest too. and what fool told you that parents don't need time for themselves?"

"no one," jungkook mumbles, smiling a little and haewon chuckles, ruffling his hair and aera's hair, "thanks noona,"

"no problem," haewon smiles at him, standing up, "let's go, you should have dinner now. look at your face, you've gotten weaker, kook. my poor boy, let's go,"

"i was sick for one day, noona," jungkook laughs lightly as haewon touches his face, probably seeing his cheek bones suddenly prominent due to apparant starvation.

"yeah, one whole day," haewon shakes her head, "sit here. hey get of the way y'all. kook and his baby need to have dinner,"

"kook and his baby, and his noonas need to have dinner," jungkook corrects her, turning ro his hyungs and grins at them, while the ladies laugh. they all look at their husbands while the single ones of the men, join them quietly.

"okay, we're at your sevice ladies," jimin says first, bowing to his wife, pulling yoongi and jin with him too, making them bow to their wives.

"daddy," aera giggles at something as she looks at jungkook, drawing attention from the three elder males.

"yes, are you hungry?"

"mi'k,"

"you don't wanna eat dinner?"

"mm-mi'k," aera mumbles, "baby— riri mi'k, daddy,"

"okay, tell uncle jin to give riri milk,"

aera looks at jin, staring at him for a moment and babbles out something, gesturing her hand towards the fridge, "yes, aera? what do you want?" jin chuckles, pretending not to understand and aera giggles, finding something funny enough to make her hide in jungkook's embrace.

"you won't get milk like that," jungkook laughs lightly.

"uncl— me, baby mi'k," aera mumbles between her little giggles.

"alright, we're gonna give baby riri her favourite milk," jin smiles at aera, preparing the milk for her in her bottle. he hands it to jungkook who makes aera sit on the table  next to him and brings the bottle closer to her mouth. aera grins, suckling out some of the sweet tasting milk and leans onto her father's arm.

after some time she let's go of the bottle, whining about something not being her way which gains jungkook's attention and he sighs, seeing her fiddling with the cast, "drink your milk, baby," he says handing her the bottle again.

"daddy mmmum,"

"c'mon, finish your milk, sweetheart,"

"baby d'ink mi'k?" aera looks at him with her round eyes and jungkook smiles, nodding his head.

"my baby should drink the milk so she can be strong," he strokes her hair and aera suckles out some more milk before holding it in front of jungkook's face, "i'm good, thank you for asking," he chuckles.

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