For You I Will {Jihancheol}

1

If he had to guess, he would say it all started when Soonyoung first confessed that he was a little.

It happened after all of their comeback preparations were completed. They had all just got back to the dorm from their final dance practice and Soonyoung broke down the second they came through the door.

No one had time to breathe before the performance team's leader suddenly turned towards them all with tears furiously streaming down his bright red cheeks.

"I can't take it anymore," he cried. "I'm sorry, but I just can't-!"

Seokmin, apparently knowing where this was going, wrapped his arms around Soonyoung amd began to rock him gently.

"Hey, it's ok," he murmured into his ears. "You can slip if you want to. I've got you, baby."

While most of the other members had matching puzzled expressions, Seungcheol had been completely stunned.

Slip? But there's no way he could mean...?

"Hey, what are you guys talking about?" Seungkwan whined. "Don't leave us out of the loop!"

That was when Seokmin reached into his own pocket and pulled out a bright blue pacifier.

All eyes were glued to it as he popped it into Soonyoung's mouth.

Soonyoung wanted to panic, his darkest secret had just been revealed, but sucking on his favorite paci calmed him to point where he couldn't find the energy to care.

"He's... a little," Seokmin explained.

"No shit," Jihoon snapped. "I just wanna know why you're the only one that knew about it."

Before Seokmin could give him an excuse, a loud squeal caused both him and Jihoon to practically jump out of their own skin.

"Look at him!" Jeonghan, whose eyes were stuck Soonyoung, cooed at the sleepy little. "He's so cute! My heart can't take this."

Mingyu suddenly raised his hand. "I call cuddling him first!"

Jeonghan turned to frown at him. "Over my rotting corpse!"

"Guys, please, not now," Jisoo sighed, stepping between the two of them.

"Wait! I'm confused," said Chan. "What's wrong with Soonyoung hyung?"

Seungkwan pulled the maknae to the side and whispered into his ear.

"He's a little," he explained. "When he's stressed out, he regresses to a child's mindset. Seokmin's obviously the one who looks after him."

Chan carefully looked over Soonyoung as the little fought against sleep. "Does... Does it help?"

Jeonghan immediately turned his attention away from Soonyoung, who had fallen asleep in Seokmin's arms, when Chan said that. His eyes glowed with excitement.

"Baby Chan wants to be a baby?! Can I be your caregiver? You can call me Mommy!" he rambled, tightly clenching onto Chan's hands.

Seokmin ignored his excited hyung, shoving him to the side, and smiled at the maknae.

"It does, actually," he answered proudly. "Since it's been only the two of us, Soonyoung and I have been passing the caregiver role back and forth to each other. Both being little and a caregiver make us feel less overwhelmed and stressed. If it's something you wanna try, we can help you out."

Seokmin then turned his attention to the rest of his members. "That goes for you guys too, you know?"

There was a brief moment of silence, with all of the members staring back and forth between one another.

The first one to speak up surprised them all with a loud "I wanna try it, I think."

All eyes suddenly turned to see Minghao slyly raising a hand in the air.

Smiles spread throughout the room.

"Aww, baby Minghao would be so cute!" Jeonghan sighed, clutching at his chest in mock pain. "Help, I'm swooning."

"I wanna be little with Haohao!" Mingyu shouted eagerly, jumping around in excitement.

Seungkwan raised his hand, as well. "Me too! I just wanna be babied."

The other members all laugh at that, blatantly ignoring Seungkwan's yell of "Hey, I was serious!"

Seungcheol shook his head fondly before finally addressing the situation. "Alright, does anyone else wanna try this out?"

His insides were fluttering at the thought of all of the toys, the coloring, and the cuddles that came with little space. He'd known about it for awhile, so Seokmin and Soonyoung coming out with this was the best thing to happen.

"I think the rest of us are caregivers," Jisoo announced.

"I don't know, guys," Jun giggled. "I think Jihoon would be the perfect baby boy."

Jihoon glared up at the younger. "Watch it, kid. I will snap your neck!"

Jun scoffed. "If you can reach i- Oh my god, no!"

The other members could only watch as Jihoon chased Jun around the dorm.

Even Seungcheol couldn't be bothered with the two of them.

"Dibs on calling Coups 'daddy'," Mingyu said, grabbing onto the leader's arm.

Seungcheol felt his heart drop into his stomach.

"Wait a min-!" he tried speaking up, but more elated squeals drowned his voice out.

"That would be awesome!" Seungkwan agreed, turning to the leader with pleading eyes. "Please Hyung? You'll do it, right?"

The others chipped in, each adding in their pleas and puppy dog eyes.

"Of course he will!" Jeonghan told them, placing a comforting hand on Seungcheol's shoulder. "Don't worry,  Cheol! You're already a good leader, being a caregiver won't be all that hard!"

Seungcheol bit his tongue to stop a whine from coming from his mouth. 

He looked at all of their pleading faces and nodded. 

"Yeah, I can be 'Daddy'," he said.

The newly found littles all cheered at that and then spurred into conversations about what toys and snacks they wanted. Jeonghan and the others followed closely behind to listen closely and make mental notes. 

Seungcheol was left alone with a napping Soonyoung within seconds.

The words that had been hiding behind his lips came out in a gentle whisper.

"But, I'm a little too."