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Childhood Snapshots

Summary:

Brief glimpses into Yona's life pre- and post- "Home" fic. Might be helpful to read the rest of the Childhood series first, but probably not entirely necessary. Just know that this is a universe wherein Yona comes to live with the Son family at 13 after family tragedy and things get interesting.
This references most of the fics in the Childhood universe, but also random other things that haven't shown up in those stories, too.

Notes:

So this happened.
I've been working on these snapshots since last July, so... they might not all make complete sense together?? Idk. They were things I thought were cute and didn't feel like turning into a huge story of their own, so they're little glimpses.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Sleepovers

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Hak, Tae-woo, and Han-dea are sleeping over tonight, and Papa is sighing as Mama insists they can sleep in the guest room, but if they keep coming over as a trio they’re going to need another bed.

It had started with just Hak staying over one night, and then Tae-woo and Han-dea had insisted on coming, too, and now it was all three of them in one room and Papa didn’t like that idea much.

“Well, they’re not sleeping in Yona’s room, and the nanny wouldn’t like it if we put one of them in her room,” Mama sighs. “And since you won’t let us put a couch in your office, they’ll all have to use the guest room, because I’m not putting them in the living room.”

Papa sighs and relents, “I’ll go find the air mattress.”

Yona beams at him and he mumbles something about bunk beds.

Eventually, they shove the big bed against one wall and put a bunk bed that Papa ordered specifically on another wall, and Yona insists on sleeping on the bunk beds one night when it’s just Tae-woo and Hak staying because Han-dea is sick.

Mama and Papa are out of town and the nanny sighs as they give her their best puppy dog eyes.

“Fine. But you all go to bed when I say, all right?”

They cheer, and the nanny warns, “And don’t tell Yona’s parents or we’ll all be in trouble.”

They promise, and she shoos them off to play before it’s time for bed.

--

Papa refuses to give up his study, so the guest bedroom gets a makeover, at Mama’s insistence.

She has Papa get someone to make a set of bunk beds that get tucked against one wall, while the bed that is already in the room gets moved to a different wall. That way there’s space for all three of the boys if they need to stay over, and there’s extra space in case they have more than one or two adult guests.

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Yona ended up at Hak’s house a lot as she got older and her parents had to go on more business trips.

But she didn’t mind, and Mundok had started letting her store extra sets of clothes in the closet in case she ended up staying for longer than planned, like that first time.

Over time, it just became her room, and she started adding more personal touches—including the clock that Hak hated.

She still grinned when she thought about his expression as she’d shown it to Mundok, which happened to be every time she glanced at said clock.

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The nanny ended up getting more days off than on, with Yona at the Son house so much, and eventually Yona didn’t need her at all.

They turned the nanny’s old room into the one for the boys, putting the bunk beds in there along with a small futon.

The guest room went back to being a proper guest room, to Papa’s relief.