Forever Together

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"Why are we here? I have a newborn and toddler to take care of," Aim grumbled while Won and Jin were cooing over little Noah. "I mean, I literally gave birth less than two weeks ago. This is just mean."

"Oh, so you don't want to see Appa Tae use the birthing simulator because it can't be that hard?"

She turned to look at Yoongi, her eyes wide as she started to cackle. "Oh my GOD, yes! Please, please, shit, it hurts to laugh," she grumbled as she wrapped her arms around herself. "Worth it though, let's get on with it."

"I still say it can't be that hard," Tae grumbled.

Yoongi was getting it all set up, and the others were watching with varied giddy expressions. "Alright, strong man. Are you ready for this?" Tae nodded his head quickly. "I'm going to start with 1. 10 is active labor, like pushing the baby out."

"He won't make it past 3," Jungkook snorted.

"You've got this Tae Tae, I believe in you," Jimin cheered from behind the couch where he was holding Tae's hand.

Tae nodded once, and Yoongi turned it on. Tae yelped in pain, and Aimes and Stasia snorted so hard as they high-fived each other. Jungkook was right. Tae tapped out at 3, and he looked a little too smug about it. Yoongi raised an eyebrow. "You think you can do better?" he challenged.

Anyone who has met Jungkook knows that he loves a challenge. Even more so when everyone is watching him. A cocky look covered his face; his eyebrow raised in mock strength because Yoongi knew he was going to fail, just like he knew that Tae was going to fail. "Of course I can. I can make it to 7 easily."

Yoongi rolled his eyes and motioned for him to get on the couch. Jin begged to be the one to strap it on him. He was almost gleeful while doing it. Those two have the strangest relationship. Yes, Yoongi and Jimin bicker like an old married couple. But Seokjin and Jungkook are something else. They fight like actual siblings, and 90% of the time, Jin acts like the younger of the two. "He's ready," Jin grinned.

"I'm going to start you out at a one, just like Tae. We'll move it up slowly. If it's too much, please tell us. You really have nothing to prove here."

Jungkook snorted, lifted his head up, and smirked. "Do your worst."

Ami and Stasia fell into each other, howling about how this was the greatest day ever and nothing would ever be able to top this. Yoongi turned it on, nothing, not even a flinch, so he moved it to two. Still, nothing, then three, that got a little movement, just his eyebrow twitching a bit. Then it was four and his breath started to stutter, at five they could see his sweat starting to build up a bit, it was at six that the first tear fell. "Good job, bun," and he meant it. That wasn't easy, he knew that even if he'd never experienced it himself.

"Am I done?"

"You are."

Jin scoffed, "One little tear, and you call it quits?"

Yoongi looked at Jin and was ready to argue that they really had nothing to prove when Kook sat up and yelled that he didn't cry. This only made him cry harder because anytime someone mentions that he's crying or will cry, well, the bun starts crying more. "You were, but it's okay. You made it double what Tae did."

That seemed to appease him a bit, but Jin wasn't satisfied at all. "I can get to at least six; he didn't even make a face like he was in pain. This is ridiculous, I know he's a muscle pig but damn."

"DAD," Aimes yelled as she pointed at her daughter, "Scout."

Jin rushed over to his granddaughter, picked her up, and swung her around a bit. "So sorry, love. I didn't mean it."

Scout giggled as he was spun around in the air, and Aimes grumbled that she wanted more of them to understand her pain. After several kisses to Scout, Jin was strapped into the machine, and before it even hit two, he was tapping out, screaming that it was too much. Joon refused to even try, stating that he had nothing to prove. Jimin wanted to try and make it to six before he quit. He wanted to stop at four, but he didn't want Kook to have those bragging rights.

Then, all eyes turned to Yoongi. "No, absolutely not." His hands were in the air, and he was slowly backing away from the machine. "I know it hurts. I was there for every single birth. I know how strong women are, and you've never heard me say anything different." Jungkook and Jimin were still approaching him. "Joon didn't have to," he grumbled.

"Too bad, Hyung." Jungkook picked him up and manhandled the smaller man onto the couch, where Jimin sat on top of him and strapped him up.

"This is stupid; why didn't you do this to Joon?"

"He's our leader," Jimin shrugged, "you are our grumpy cat."

"I hate every single one of you; we aren't even BTS anymore. There are no leaders, and if there were, it would be Stasia."

"Well, he's not wrong there," Stasia mused from where she was sipping her root beer and eating popcorn.

Before he even had a chance to argue more, Jimin jumped off, and Kook turned it on. "Is it on yet?"

Kook raised his eyebrow a bit and cranked it up to four, but still, nothing came out. "Are we sure this is working?" He mumbled to himself. By the time it hit eight, Yoongi mumbled that he could finally feel something, and it pissed Kook off so much. "How?"

As soon as he was unstrapped, Yoongi shrugged his shoulder. "I don't think you guys realize how long I have dealt with my shoulder pain. I danced every single day with that and tried to act like everything was fine. It wasn't easy. Plus I couldn't take pain pills after a while, I got addicted and it was making me too numb."

Stasia came up and sat in his lap as she wrapped her arms around him, "I'm still pissed that you never told us until it got to the unbearable part. You were already BTS, and I already loved you."

A/N yes I know that shoulder surgery is nothing compared to giving birth but neither is the simulated birthing thingy, so yeah lol. Anyway after seeing the new Yoongi Amygdala video I wanted to add this.