little: yuta
caregiver: jaehyun
"dada..?" yuta said as he waddled into his caregivers room.
jaehyun, who had just woken up, looked up from his phone and frowned when he saw the look on the littles face.
he sat yuta down on the bed and held the littles smaller hands in his bigger hands.
"why is my baby pouting, hmm?" he asked gently.
yuta just look at his caregiver, his lip quivering as he tried to hold back tears.
"b-bwankie g-gone.." he said sadly, the tears starting to fall from his eyes.
jaehyun felt his stomach drop. he knew what was going to happen. yuta lost his blankie and would refuse to go to sleep without it and if he does go to sleep, he's going to end up having nightmares.
yuta loves that blanket. he claims that it "takes away all the scary dreams and turns them into happy ones".
"do you know where you might've left it?" the younger asked.
yuta just shook his head.
jaehyun frowned again and looked around the room in hopes that he just left it in there and forgot.
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after looking around the house for the entire day, jaehyun gave up.
he sat down on the couch next to yuta, the little looking at his caregiver with innocent eyes in hopes that his dada found his comfort item.
that hopeful, innocent look went away as soon as jaehyun smiled sadly and shook his head.
"dada can't find it, sweetheart. you probably forgot it at the studio. we can look when we go back tomorrow." he said.
yuta did not like that. he just wanted his blanket, that's all.
he broke into tears, jaehyun standing up while lifting him into his arms.
the little continued to cry, jaehyun trying everything he could think of to calm the boy down.
"baby~ i know you're sad and want blankie but it's getting late and we need to get you into bed." he said.
yuta eventually allowed the younger to lay him down in his bed and tuck him in with his stuffies.
jae said goodnight to the little and headed towards his room so he could go to bed himself.
yuta fell asleep pretty quickly and everything went well until he woke up in the middle of the night, overheating as he cried his little heart out.
he sat in his bed for a few minutes, his hands over his face, before he heard the door open. he started to back into the wall but realized that it was just his caregiver, not a scary monster.
he made grabby hands towards jaehyun, the younger picking him up and rocking him back and forth slowly as he whispered sweet words to the little.
"does my baby wanna come lay with me?" he asked, just wanting his baby to feel better.
yuta nodded shyly and started to calm down more as he was carried into jaehyuns room and laid down in the bed.
being in jaehyuns embrace was enough to keep the little calm and to help him fall asleep again. his comfort really relied on his blankie, but also on jaehyun.
losing a stuffie or any of his comfort items was very hard for him. but he never takes having a caregiver for granted. jaehyun made everything better. no matter what.
