soft - seventeen littles.

psst.. wake up | 10

vernon had to double take when he walked into the living room in the morning to see a small lump covered by a blanket or two on the couch, soft breathing seeping through the stitching. cautiously walking over he let out a breath once he saw jeonghan with his arms wrapped around chan's waist and pulling him close, his head resting on the youngers shoulder.

spotting the half empty glass of water and the bottle of pills on the table he took a guess that chan wasn't feeling too good. he'd heard jeonghan talking to hoshi about chan's nightmares the night before and couldn't help but feel his heart ache at the thoughts of the other having to go through that all the time.

he realised he'd been staring when he heard fussy whines and then semi-quiet crying from one of the little rooms on the second floor. when he was halfway back up he ran into jun who had minghao bouncing gently on his hip to calm him down with a soft smile. vernon honestly had respect for the guy.

jun had the youngest little who hardly ever came out of headspace, if at all. to almost make it harder minghao had really bad anxiety attacks regularly, usually ending in him passing out or being sick, yet the older of the two never complained or even seemed to doubt his commitment to his baby boy.

when jun saw vernon he smiled and nodded towards the smaller room with jihoon still asleep, mouthing out a word which made vernon nod and walk quickly, returning with a paci in his hand which he gave to junhui. once minghao had it he calmed down a little more and uncurled his fists to show where his nails had dug into his skin.

sighing, jun went to walk past vernon who gave him a heads up as to chan and jeonghan being on the couch. after they'd left, seungcheol and dokyeom woke up and said good morning to vernon before they quietly went into the little rooms. dokyeom snook over to joshua to wake him up, rubbing his finger over his cheek until his eyes seemed to flutter open. he smiled almost immediately and sat up to hug his daddy before he made grabby hands and dk picked him up and carried him downstairs.

on the way down they bumped into seungcheol who was coming out of the babyspace room empty handed. his heart sped up slightly as he flew down the stairs but stopped when he saw his boys cuddling on the sofa and walked over to kneel down beside it, brushing a stray hair out of channies eyes.

"hey... jeonghan, it's morning babe." seongcheols voice seemed lower than usual in the morning and jeonghan didn't seemed too bothered to be woken up by it. he went to move before remembering chan and kissing him on his forehead to wake him up too. chan opened his eyes to see both his boyfriends on either side of him and giggled to himself.

seungcheol went to pick him up but the younger of the three shook his head. "chan?" he nodded. this just made the eldest grin as he picked him up anyways and kissed him. "well hi there stranger," his voice made chan melt before he was put down and he realised how cold he was, wrapping himself in the blanket.

laughing, seungcheol pulled his hoodie from over his head and threw it at chan who huffed cutely from underneath it before pulling it over his head. in a few minutes, jihoon had woken up fussing and so hoshi had brought him downstairs, and seungkwan and mingyu had woken up together before going and jumping on wonwoo, much to his disapproval.

jeonghan offered to make breakfast with the help of chan and a little seungkwan who was thankfully distracted from the conversation by a colouring book (crisis averted). soon all the caregivers along with chan, joshua, seungkwan and mingyu were sat at the table, minghao and jihoon playing with soft toys on the rug where the others could keep an eye on them.

the aftermath of breakfast was a lot to say the least. the table had almost all empty plates and dishes with the littles having gotten their food pretty much everywhere, the only explainable place being mingyus nose where he'd put ketchup because he thought he looked like a reindeer. vernon and dokyeom cleaned up whilst the headspace members went to watch cartoons and hoshi and jun warmed up milk and formula for their babies. jihoon was being fussy and didn't want to sit still and drink his bottle whilst minghao snuggled into his daddy's chest and let himself be fed.

"hoonie, c'mon baby, it's breakfast," jihoon kept whining and wriggling about until wonwoo came and took him onto his hip. "can i...?" hoshi handed him the warm bottle and the other sat down cradling the fussy little and brought it to him. almost like magic jihoon seemed to relax and started drinking, making hoshi laugh as he got up and ruffled his hair. "so that's how it is huh!" jihoon giggled through his bottle and wonwoo had to pull away so he didn't choke before he started feeding him again.

dk walked from the kitchen to see wonwoo and smirked. "don't let mingyu see you, you know how jealous he gets right?" wonwoo just rolled his eyes as dokyeom sat down next to him and looked over at the relaxed jihoon. "he must like you a lot to let you feed him, he almost bit vernon last time he tried." a bit surprised wonwoo seemed to turn slightly red before reverting to his original colour when he felt the little squirm in his lap.

looking down he couldn't help but smile at the baby boy who had his head tucked into his chest and was babbling to himself after having finished his milk whilst wonwoo ran his fingers through his hair gently. eventually he began to wriggle a bit too much so the older of the two placed him onto the floor with his soft toys, before he heard his name being called and left to find by who and where.