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“And what will you say when you feel all fuzzy in your head?” Hoseok asked as he dried jimins hair after his bath.
Yoongi and him had decided to teach jimin some phrases he could use to indicate he was feeling small or needed their help. In theory it should work, he still didn’t remember much about being little when he came out of headspace but they noticed he also wasn’t taking off the locket they had given him so maybe subconsciously he had some awareness of what was going on he just didn’t know how to access those memories.
“Hyungie need help” the little said proudly.
“Good boy and if hyungie isn’t there to help what will you do?”
“Cry”
“No baby, who else can help you when you feel scared”
Jimin stared at his hyung, then tapped his tiny finger on his chin as if he was deeply thinking about it.
“Dada! Dada help Minnie love”
“My baby is so smart! Yes dada will help his Minnie love”
“But what is dada’s big name? Remember we don’t call him dada if we aren’t home.”
“Don’t know name just dada.”
Ever since jimin had popped the D word it was as if he completely forgot yoongi had any name before then. Even out of little space they noticed he was avoiding using hyung, jimin would simply tap yoongi’s shoulder if he couldn’t get his attention.
“You can call him hyung or suga hyung”
“No”
“Okay we’ll work on that later.”
“Are you ready for bed? Tonight you said you were going to sleep in your own big boy bed right.”
Every night this week hoseok would hold jimin until he fell asleep and then place him back in his bed before he woke up in the morning in his normal headspace. After that one full day of headspace with yoongi he went back to only slipping at night but with the other members coming back soon they needed to get him used to sleeping on his own to not raise any suspicions.
“Yes Minnie big boy no cry”
Tucking jimin in, hoseok placed a kiss on his cheek before getting up from his kneeling position. The lack of tears was a welcome surprise for the exhausted caregiver. Jimin lay deep in sleep with his thumb slipping out of his mouth. As quietly as possible, hoseok slipped from the room.
Finishing out his own night time routine, taking an extra long shower since jimin had went down earlier than usual felt like a day at the spa for hoseok. Yoongi was just coming in the door when hoseok was scrolling away on his phone.
“9:30 and your in bed..” yoongi noted leaning in to give hoseok a kiss.
“Was he not in his headspace tonight?”
“He was but like you suggested, giving him a routine really helped. He worked a bit and I ordered in for dinner and let him play around in the bath and he was out like a light”
“Don’t wanna jinx it but I think we’ve got the hang of this now, and it only took us a week!”
“I mean we were taking care of him long before this headspace started this is just baby mochi as opposed to needy jimin”
“He was always your baby hoba, now he’s just really embracing the role” yoongi joked.
“What’s in the bags?” Hoseok put his phone down picking up the bags as yoongi stripped for his own shower.
“Stuffed animals, pacifers, bathbombs?”
“ you said we needed to do something about the thumb sucking”
“Baby you’re such a dad right now!”
“Aye it’s nothing.”
Hoseok bounced to the edge of the bed to wrap his arms around yoongi as he took off his jewelry. Snuggling into his neck before Turning his face to cover him in kisses.
“Thank you, for doing this …. All of this with me”
“Yah! I need to shower, I wanna sleep just in case the little brat decides to do a midnight wake up call”
Squeezing him one more time hoseok let him go.
“Wash up quick and we can have some alone time”
Yoongi smirked with a little wink as he dashed to the bathroom hoseok’s laughter following him.
Not even 30 minutes later yoongi finds hoseok passed out on the bed phone still playing a video as he snores softly. Pulling the blanket over him and plugging in his phone to charge yoongi makes his way down the hall his feet leading him right to jimins door.
If the door was open he could have just poked his head in to check on jimin but it was closed. He knew the little was fine, but he felt unsettled not having been home to see him before he went to sleep. Yet he couldn’t bring himself to open the door.
After standing there for nearly ten minutes Yoongi decided to go back to bed, not before pressing his ear to the door praying to hear any little sign he was needed.
After what felt like forever to fall asleep yoongi felt something warm and wet touch his cheek.
Peeking one eye open he saw jimin kneeling by their bed, that wet feeling was jimin rubbing yoongi’s face with his hand that was still wet from the thumb sucking.
“Love? Why aren’t you in bed”
Jimin blinked at him, as if he was surprised he had woken his hyung up.
“Dada sleep” the little said trying to close yoongi’s eyes with his little fingers.
Sitting up yoongi looked over to hoseok who was still sound asleep.
“Why are you not sleeping love?”
The little looked down at his socked feet, pulling at his clothes. Hoseok had dressed him in a matching blue pajama set. Jimin had a habit of wanting to be undressed when he was in his headspace choosing to wear only a shirt and boxers when they put him to sleep but hoseok insisted that he would get sick if he didn’t wear pajamas.
“It’s the button huh?”
The little again tugged at the shirt.
“Aish, I’ll blame it all on you if he catches us.”
Yoongi said as he helped unbutton the littles sleep shirt.
“Up”
“You have to sleep in your bed.”
The little jutted out his bottom lip before using what has now become his magic weapon.
“Dada want you”
Yoongi tried his best to give jimin his no nonsense face but within seconds he cracked pulling back the covers as the little crawled into the bed over yoongi and right in the middle of his caregivers.
Five minutes later and jimin was still awake tossing back and forth. Going from laying on his back, kicking his legs, and then running his fingers up and down hoseok’s arm.
“What is it this time? Or are you just trying to wear us down with sleep deprivation you little monster”
“Feet”
Of course. Searching under the covers yoongi pulled the socks off jimins feet. Instantly the little cuddled into his side, rubbing his bare feet on yoongi’s leg. Just as he went to suck his thumb yoongi reached over into the night stand where he had placed the freshly sanitized paci. Jimin was confused when it first passed his lips but accepted it rather quickly closing his eyes.
“And you said I spoiled him” hoseok whispered as he wrapped his arms around the pair.
“H-he needed me, and we won’t get to sleep with him when the others come back.” Yoongi mumbled embarrassed to have been caught babying jimin.
“My suga, such a good dada” hoseok cooed.