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baby space!felix
caregiver!chan

chan doesn't get any fan mail so felix writes some himself!

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Felix reached up with grabby hands when Hyunjin approached him with his fan mail, bouncing excitedly on his bottom as be sucked on his dummy, making short little sounds of exclamation in the back of his throat.

"Excited for mail, little one?" He asked as he handed Felix his stack, watching as Felix lay the pile on the mat below him carefully.

Felix, too little to fully understand Hyunjin or even to reply, turned to Seungmin sitting next to him and placed a tiny hand on the younger's knee, looking up at him with pleading eyes.

"Need me to help you read it, bub?" He asked, and Felix nodded, picking up the pile in his tiny hands and crawling into Seungmin's lap. After a little moving around and getting comfortable, Felix found himself sitting between Seungmin's long legs, Seungmin's arms wrapped securely around Felix's middle.

Felix loved getting fan mail. And he loved it even more when he was little. The fans always drew lovely pictures and left Felix cute stickers and thoughtful messages. He loved having the other members read them to him because as much as it was a bonding time between him and the fans, it was also a bonding time between him and his fellow members.

As Seungmin started reading the first letter, Felix let his attention wander around the room, his gaze settling on Changbin across the room reading his own fan mail and Hyunjin giving Jeongin his fan mail. He spotted Chan speaking to one of the managers a distance away but frowned when Chan bowed to him and then turned away looking quite upset.

Felix continued to watch as Chan sat down at his dressing table and began to swipe through his phone. Did Chan not have any mail? Why would he not have any mail? He was their precious leader!

Making a displeased noise in the back of his throat, Felix tapped Seungmin's arm, looking up at the younger and pointing at Chan across the room.

"What's wrong, baby?" Seungmin asked before he followed where Felix was pointing with his eyes and saw Chan. He sighed, knowing exactly why Chan was sitting on his own. Seungmin patted Felix's bottom. "Go on, baby."

With that permission, Felix crawled off of Seungmin's lap (leaving his mail behind) and began his journey over to Chan. Feeling too little to walk as well had Felix crawling the entire way, being cooed at by his fellow members and some of the staff.

When he reached Chan, Felix sat back on his bottom and - similar to how he got Seungmin's attention earlier - placed a tiny hand over his caregiver's knee. Chan instantly looked down, his neutral expression shifting to a warm smile when he saw Felix, bare-faced with his dummy in.

"Hi, bubby," he said, reaching down to lift Felix up and sit him on his lap. "What's my baby doing, hm?"

Felix didn't answer - still too little to do so - and instead lifted his tiny hands up to Chan's face, cupping his cheeks and squishing them together, causing Chan to make an involuntary funny face. Felix giggled behind his dummy, eyes crinkling into crescents as Chan chuckled himself. He held Felix's wrist as he pulled them away from his face and kissed his palms gently. Although Felix was succeeding in making his caregiver laugh, he could still see some sadness behind Chan's eyes.

Felix frowned worriedly as he leaned forward and bumped his forehead against Chan's softly, his non-verbal sign for "I know something's wrong".

Chan smiled sadly, kissing Felix's little palms again before running his thumbs over them. "Where's your mail, pixie? Wasn't Seungminnie reading it to you?"

Felix nodded but bumped his head with Chan's again, this time whining sadly when he looked at Chan. He wanted to know why Chan wasn't reading his mail, why he didn't even get any!

"Dada no got maiw," he slurred behind his dummy, shifting on Chan's lap so he could sit closer to his caregiver.

"Daddy didn't bub," Chan confirmed with a shake of his head. "But Lixie got so much! Does baby want to read them with Daddy, instead?"

Felix whined again, this time more agitated as Chan steered around the topic. He wasn't going to throw a tantrum in the middle of the dressing room, but Chan must've thought he would as his eyes went wide and he braced Felix with hands on his tiny waist.

"No faiw," Felix whined as he slumped against Chan's chest. "Dada should get maiw too."

Chan didn't answer to that, just stroked Felix's back and his hair with his larger hands while also thinking it wasn't fair that he didn't get any fan mail.

~*~

"What are we doing here, angel?" Minho asked as he sat down next to Felix, who was lying on his stomach on the bedroom floor.

Felix looked up at Minho, dummy in his mouth, and smiled widely behind it as he held up the many pieces of paper he had. There were at least 20 A5 sheets with little doodles and writing on them, all addressed to Chan.

"Oh, how pretty, baby boy!" Minho exclaimed, ruffling Felix's hair. Felix giggled before he removed his dummy and crawled on Minho's lap.

"Did Minnie-hyung know Dada no gets maiw?" He asked, his head cocked to the side.

"Minnie-hyung did know, baby," Minho replied with a sad smile. "But Daddy will be so happy with all these beautiful letters from you, fairy!"

Felix giggled again before putting his dummy back in and picking up the pieces of paper. Minho stood up with Felix in his arms and walked him to where he knew Chan was - which wasn't at the studio for once.

Chan was sitting at the dining room table on his phone, and when he saw Minho and Felix from the corner of his eye, he immediately turned and smiled at them.

"Dada!" Felix squealed, bouncing excitedly on Minho's hip.

"Baby!" Chan replied in the same fashion, standing up and taking Felix from Minho before attacking the little's face with kisses. "What have you got there, pretty fairy?"

"For Dada!" Felix giggled as Chan sat back down with Felix in his arms. Chan stopped bouncing Felix as the younger handed him the pieces of paper. "Ish fan maiw fo Dada 'cus Dada deserves it!"

Chan handled the pieces of paper carefully, looking at the pictures and reading the notes in detail until he couldn't read them anymore because of the tears in his eyes.

"Dada no wike dem?" Felix whined, tears filling his own eyes at the prospect of his caregiver not liking the letters he'd put so much effort into.

"No! No, baby, Daddy loves them," Chan sniffled, kissing Felix's temple. "Daddy's just never received something like this before, bubby boy, so Daddy's just a little overwhelmed."

"Baby wanted to make Dada wots of maiw..." Felix whimpered with a sniffle of his own.

"Baby did!" Chan reassured, wiping Felix's tears away. "Baby did such a nice thing for Daddy, and Daddy's so grateful."

Felix nodded, nuzzling his head into Chan's chest. Chan tightened his grip around Felix, hugging his baby and kissing the crown of his head.

"I love you, baby," he whispered. "Thank you so much."

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i was re-watching all the skz-talkers and they get so much fan mail omg