Brothers

27

"Ana! Come here 'Lil Miss!" Hongjoong coos, sitting on the floor as the baby lays on her stomach, patting the ground with a loud babbling cry. He chuckles, patting the floor as well to get her attention, "Crawl to me!"

"Joong she's only six months old," Yeosang giggles, rubbing his small belly as he picks up a few of her toys and places them in the toy bin, "She's just now getting the hang of rolling over. And she can't even sit up yet."

"Yeah, but she should be scooting!" Hongjoong purses his lips, "She needs to be crawling or walking here soon but she's not budging."

"Where on earth did you get that information?"

"I read it in one of Seonghwa's books," Hongjoong waves him off, noticing the Omega giving him a strange look and he arches his eyebrow, "What?"

"Nothing," Yeosang smirks, "To think you weren't wanting babies, and now you're spending a lot of time with Seonghwa and Mingi's daughter."

"I-I don't! I don't want kids!"

"You are spending an awful lot of time with Ana here recently," Seonghwa comes in the room with a basket of laundry, ready to start folding, "Someone has baby fever. And I can smell your lies about not wanting babies of your own all the way outside to the clothes line."

"No, if I had baby fever I'd be begging Mingi to give me a baby right now. I'm simply keeping the baby fever away by watching over Ana like the awesome uncle I am." Hongjoong turns his attention back to the baby, who has rolled on her back and now has her tiny foot in her hands and mouth, chewing on her toes and drooling all over them.

Seonghwa arches his eyebrow, "Mhmm, right. So constantly having her and watching her isn't making you want one?"

"No," Hongjoong stands, "Can we stop with this nonsense? It's not going to happen, I'm content with Mingi not having a baby with me. After all, I'm just here to help him hunt and do patrol runs. And the occasional fu... sex."

"Yeah but since the others have joined and started building their house, you've spent more time in here with Ana and Yeosang instead of helping Mingi," Seonghwa shrugs, "Don't be ashamed, Mingi would love to have another pup running around here along with Ana and the new baby."

Hongjoong rolls his eyes before leaving the room, walking right past the office only to stop when he heard Mingi's voice, "Hongjoong."

The Beta pauses at the cracked door and takes a deep breath before opening it, "Alpha?"

"I think tomorrow we need to schedule a hunt with the others. We're getting a little low on meat and possibly have the Omegas run to the nearest town and grab some supplies. It's too cold to grow anything in our garden, hopefully in the spring I can build Seonghwa a green house."

Hongjoong nods, "Yes Alpha."

Mingi licks his lips, setting aside his pack log and folding his hands on the desk, "So what's this conversation about not having babies?"

Hongjoong arches his eyebrow, "I don't-"

"Save it. You know I have better hearing and have a stronger sense of smell. I'm quite curious, why do you not want children?"

Hongjoong shrugs, leaning against the doorway as he looks at Mingi, "It's just something I don't envision myself being, a parent. Especially right now when we're building a house for our new neighbors to get them situated, Yeosang already being pregnant, and a six month old in the house."

"Well it doesn't have to necessarily be right now," Mingi laughs, "we got too many projects going on to build. Adding another baby into the mix and causing all of my pack to not being able to help wouldn't be a good idea. Especially in the winter."