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little!jisung
caregiver!minho

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Minho honestly would never trust himself in the dorm alone, let alone with someone else. And definitely not when that someone else was in a vulnerable headspace and he had no clue what to do at all.

Everyone else had gone out for dinner and Minho told them he would stay behind, not really in the mood to shower or go anywhere that day. The others had promised they would bring him some food back, though, so he didn't mind letting himself starve for a few hours.

When he'd asked Chan where Jisung was just as they were about to leave, Chan told Minho he was sleeping since he hadn't been feeling well all day, and told Minho to keep an eye on him. Minho agreed - obviously - figuring it would be pretty easy to watch over Jisung and make sure he didn't die in his sleep or anything.

Minho expected him to wake up and ask where the others were or something. Minho was not expecting for Jisung to wake up with the mindset of a one-year old, immediately beginning to cry as he sat up in his bed.

Everyone in the group knew that Jisung was a little, and Minho had heard about times when Jisung slipped into baby space. He'd sometimes heard the cute little babbles that would leave the younger's mouth, but he'd never seen it since he honestly didn't know what to do when Jisung was that little.

Chan and Woojin were always the ones who dealt with Jisung when he was in baby space, so Minho nearly fell off of the couch when he heard the loud cries coming from the rapper's and Jeongin's room.

Stumbling through the door, Minho immediately knelt down next to Jisung on the floor, reaching up to stroke the little's face.

"Hey, baby, what's wrong?" He asked softly, unable to hear himself over Jisung's cries.

Minho could then safely say that he'd tried everything. He tried stroking Jisung's hair, face, hands, any part of Jisung that he could reach, but absolutely nothing worked. That was when Minho considered calling Chan; he would always know what to do.

Despite feeling absolutely awful about leaving Jisung for a few minutes, Minho really had to if he wanted to be able to hear Chan.

"Hey, what's up?" Chan answered after the third ring, and Minho exhaled in relief.

"Hyung, Jisung's woken up in baby space and he just won't stop crying and I don't know what to do," Minho rambled, sounding like he was about to cry himself.

"Woah, woah, calm down, Minho," Chan interrupted calmly. "All you need do to is make him a bottle. There's some diapers in the bathroom and there should be a dummy under his pillow. He's probably forgotten he's put it there, poor thing."

Minho nodded along with what Chan was saying despite the older not being able to see him before thanking him briefly and hanging up. Heading back into the bedroom, he could see that Jisung was still crying, but less than he was before.

"Baby, did you forget about this?" He asked when his hand felt under Jisung's pillow for his dummy and, like Chan had said, there it was.

Jisung's eyes practically lit up when he saw the comfort item in Minho's hand, reaching out for it immediately. Minho let the boy have it with no argument, wanting to cry in relief when the younger's sobs immediately stopped when the dummy was in his mouth.

"There you go, baby; good boy," Minho praised softly, picking Jisung up when the little made grabby hands. "You gave Minnie-hyung quite the scare, baby. He thought you were badly hurt."

Jisung mumbled something incoherent behind his dummy, and Minho smiled.

"You don't need to say anything if you can't, baby, I understand," he reassured, and Jisung went to wrap his arms around Minho's neck. "Pretty baby."

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this is terrible lmao