It didn't just rain the next day, it stormed. Thunder, lighting, power outages, the whole shabang. Jimin was currently sitting on his bed with his blanket thrown over his head. He was rocking back and forth, whimpering under his breath, trying not to wake Yoongi up. He was all the way in another room across the hall, but Jimin bit his lips to keep himself quiet. He didn't want to be a burden.

A particularly loud round of thunder struck, shaking the apartment building and sending Jimin into another fit of holding back sobs. Lighting rained down of the sky, illuminating Jimin's entire room with bright light. Jimin jumped and clutched the blanket tighter around himself.

Jimin let out a tiny scream with the next bout of thunder, unable to hold it back any longer. His whole body was shaking with fear and he pulled the blanket closer. It wasn't long until there was more thunder, or what Jimin thought to be thunder, but was really just Yoongi heavy footfalls as he sleepily made his way towards Jimin's room.

"Jimin?" Yoongi asked quietly as another strike of lighting lit up the room. He noticed Jimin wrapped in his blankets, practically suffocating himself in the fluffy material. The little bundle of blanket - with fluffy brown hair poking out of the top, Yoongi noted - was shaking almost violently and Yoongi quickly made his way over to the bed.

Jimin whimpered when Yoongi rested his hand on the blanket. "Jiminie, can you come out for a second?"

The bundle shook fervently, the mop of brown hair flopping from side to side. Yoongi reached forward to pull away the blankets, but when his hands made contact with the blanket Jimin pulled away and cowered under his blanket.

"Well, if you're not coming out, let me come in." Yoongi lifted the blanket and crawled under it, his feet poking out from under it because it wasn't quite big enough. Jimin looked over at him with big, teary doe eyes and Yoongi felt his heart break a little. He reached over and pulled Jimin into his lap, the younger boy shaking with fear. "Why didn't you come wake me up?"

Jimin opened his mouth to answer but another clap of thunder rang out and settled on a broken cry and shoved his head into Yoongi's chest. Yoongi wrapped his arms around Jimin's small frame and rested his cheek against the top of his head. Jimin clutched Yoongi's shirt and Yoongi could feel his tears soaking through his shirt.

"D-daddy, I'm scared," Jimin cried. Yoongi stiffened slightly but quickly decided he'd deal with it later; Jimin needed him right now and it was definitely not the time to be weirded out by the fact Jimin had called him daddy. Which was fine, totally and completely fine, no big deal.

"Don't worry, Jimin. I'm here. I won't let the storm get you, I promise. Where's Cornelius?" Yoongi asked. He wanted to take the blanket off because it was getting a little warm, but Jimin seemed to be calming down and he didn't want to do anything to compromise that.

"He f-fell." Jimin said quietly, pouting away from the bed. Yoongi wrapped one arm tighter around Jimin and used the other to reach down off the bed and grab the stuffed bear. He pushed it into Jimin's arms and the younger boy immediately clung to it, then wrapped his arms around Yoongi so the Bears beaded nose pressed uncomfortable into Yoongi's chest. "Paci," Jimin said quietly.

"Where is it?" Yoongi asked. Jimin shrugged and Yoongi sighed. The pacifier could be anywhere in the house and he couldn't exactly leave Jimin to go find it. He thought for a second, maybe it was on the bedside table? No, probably not. Under the bed with his coloring books? That would be stupid. Jimin was starting to get restless again and Yoongi reached his hand up and pressed it against Jimin's mouth. "Here, if you want."

Jimin started sucking on Yoongi's fingers lightly, like he wasn't really sure if all of this was okay but he was doing it anyway. Jimin cuddled further into Yoongi's chest while Yoongi tried to distance his mind from the fact that Jimin was sucking on his fingers which could ultimately lead to a few different things but Jimin was crying and Yoongi couldn't think about that right now. Not ever.

Jimin eventually fell asleep in Yoongi's lap, his mouth going limp around Yoongi's fingers and his whole body relaxing. Yoongi slowly removed the blanket from overtop their heads and wrapped it tight around Jimin's shoulders. He attempted to lay Jimin down on the bed but the younger boy held tight to the front of his shirt, and Yoongi had to grab onto the headboard to keep himself from falling on top of Jimin.

"Jimin, let go for a second." Yoongi whispered, touching the side of Jimin's face. Jimin didn't stir and he considered just laying down and going to bed, but Yoongi really had to pee and maybe he'd find Jimin's pacifier in the bathroom, but if Jimin didn't let him go he may explode. "Jimin, let go, baby boy, let go."

Jimin just seemed to grab tighter into Yoongi's shirt and Yoongi sighed. "Fine, guess you're coming with me then." Yoongi picked Jimin up and his head lolled to the side, but Yoongi had to pee so bad he didn't bother fixing it. Yoongi set Jimin down on the floor outside the bathroom and quickly did his business – and also finding Jimin's pacifier on the bathroom sink.

He shoved the pacifier into his pajama pants pocket and picked Jimin back up. Jimin clung to him, not even stirring when a loud clap of thunder broke through the sky. Yoongi laid him back down in his bed and pulled the covers up to Jimin's little nose before crawling under them himself. Yoongi reached into his pocket and pulled out the pacifier, pushing it gently against Jimin's lips.

Jimin frowned and opened his eyes sleepily to glare at Yoongi. He nudged the pacifier out of the way and grabbed Yoongi's hands, putting two of Yoongi's fingers in his mouth before rolling over and pushing his back against Yoongi's chest. Yoongi fell asleep to Jimin gently suckling on his fingers.

——

Yoongi woke up before Jimin and took the time to go around the apartment and light some candles, since the power was still out. Jimin came out and found him maybe an hour later, little fists rubbing at his eyes. His hair was an absolute mess, but Yoongi decided not the comment on it because it was kind of (super) adorable.

"I-I'm really, really sorry." Jimin said quietly, picking at his hair. Yoongi pulled his eyebrows together and pulled Jimin in for a hug. He wasn't going to at first, but he couldn't resist the living fluff ball standing in front of him.

"What for, bab–"

"Don't call me that, I'm sorry." Jimin said. Yoongi pulled back from the hug, narrowing his eyes at Jimin in confusion. Jimin sighed and rubbed at his eyes. Maybe it was a nervous habit. "I shouldn't have called you, um, that name or sucked on your fingers like that was probably really wrong and I'm really sorry–"

"Jimin, shut up." Yoongi said, putting his hand over Jimin's mouth. Jimin looked up at him and Yoongi laughed to himself. "You don't have to be sorry, okay? I wouldn't have agreed to any of this if I wasn't full ready to be whatever you need me to be. Let it be a friend, or a hyung, or even a daddy," Jimin flinched like the word was a taboo. "I'll be whatever you need to be, and if that includes you sucking on my fingers rather than on your paci then whatever, I'm not complaining."

"Are you sure?" Jimin asked quietly. Yoongi nodded and Jimin grinned, leaning his head against Yoongi's shoulders. Suddenly Jimin was pressed up against Yoongi, his hands gripped tightly to Yoongi's shirt. His nose was practically pressed up against Yoongi's when he talked. "Does this mean that I get rules? And bedtime and stickers when I've been good, oh please let there be stickers I love stickers."

"Sure, Jimin, whatever you want, rules, bedtimes," stickers, Jimin whispered quietly. "Stickers, anything. But you have to remember that if there's rules, there's consequences if you break them."

"What's a consequence?" Jimin whispers excitedly. Yoongi wanted to laugh because Big Jimin would definitely know what that means, but Yoongi decided to divulge him anyway.

"A consequence, baby, is something that happens when you're bad." Bad, Jimin whispered. "And that can be anything from a timeout," timeout "to taking away your stuffies," not my stuffies, "or even making you eat your vegetables."

"No! Vegetables are gross!" Jimin said, standing on his tip toes and pressing his face against Yoongi's. Their noses smushed awkwardly together and Jimin looked into Yoongi's eyes with his own blown out brown ones.

"Well, then I guess you'll just have to be a good boy, won't you?" Yoongi said, and Jimin nodded fervently.

"I'll be so good, daddy, I swear. Like, I'll never be bad and I'll even pee with the door closed." Jimin promised. Yoongi got sidetracked when Jimin called him daddy but quickly flipped his brain back to the situation at hand.

Yoongi laughed and pressed a kiss to Jimin's forehead. "How about you go get your markers and some paper and we'll make a list of rules."

Jimin ran away, back to his room and Yoongi took the time to internally freak out. He grabbed his phone off of the couch and immediately texted Jin.

To: Jin hyung
jimin called me daddy wHAT DO I DO

From: Jin hyung
go along with it if you're comfortable, how's he doing with the power out?

To: Jin hyung
we're making a rule list right now and he's doing well but what do I put on it hyung seriously I'm shitting myself

From: Jin hyung
no cursing in little space, bedtime, eating rules, things you would tell a child

To: Jin hyung
but he's technically not a child

To: Jin hyung
NEVER MIND HES BACK WITH HIS CUTE LIL BED HEAD AND HIS CUTE LIL PJS I LOVE OK GOTTA GO

"Okay so I got the sparkly pens because they're my favorite and I got the colored paper because that's more fun and I think we can just tape them together." Jimin said, plopping down on the floor and laying out all of his supplies.

"Let's get started then," Yoongi sat down on the floor across from Jimin and took one of the sparkly pens in his hand. "First off, no pacifiers unless I'm not here. I have two hands for a reason."

——

Yoongi stood in front of the new rule list, a bouncing Jimin beside him, muttering stickers, stickers, stickers, under his breath. There were only a few, due to the fact that Jimin got easily sidetracked and Yoongi kept pushing the pen through the paper. Jimin had colored the paper after Yoongi was done with it, covering it in sparkly hearts and stars and something that could pass for a dog, maybe if it'd been run over by a car.

"I'm so excited!" Jimin yelled, jumping in place as he stared at the list. Yoongi winced and grabbed a pen, scrawling at the bottom of the page, inside voice, and Jimin immediately turned to him and whispered, "sorry– I'm so excited."

"You want to earn stickers, right?" Yoongi asked, and Jimin nodded frantically, grabbing onto Yoongi's arm. "Then pick up all your things and put them away, then we can have cuddles and you can get stickers."

Jimin ran to the living room and started gathering up his things, and Yoongi rushed around to find stickers after realizing that he'd stupidly promised them without any on hand. He walked into the kitchen, eyes immediately drawn to the bananas sat on the counter. Yoongi walked over to them and peeled off the little sticker.

"Done!" Jimin lowered his voice to an excited whisper. "Done! Sticker now!"

Yoongi held up the small banana sticker and Jimin rushed forward, immediately pressing it to his chest. He grinned excitedly at the sticker and looked back up at Yoongi, looking happier than Yoongi had ever seen him. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're the best daddy ever! Jungkook is going to be so jealous when he sees my sticker!"

"I bet, baby. Do you want to color or do you want cuddles?" Yoongi asked. Jimin pulled Yoongi over to the couch and laid down on top of him, cuddling into Yoongi's chest.

"Cuddles over everything, maybe we should make you a list– I'll get the sparkle pens." Jimin started to get off the couch but Yoongi wrapped his arms around him to keep him down.

"Maybe later. Right now let just lay here." Yoongi said. Jimin nodded and laid his head on Yoongi's chest, his hand reaching out for Yoongi's. Yoongi brought his hand up to Jimin's mouth and Jimin started sucking on his fingers happily. Yoongi could have sworn he mumbled something about getting a sticker for this, but Yoongi ignored him in favour of using his free hand to pet Jimin's hair and lull him back to sleep.