Jungkook smirks a little as he looks to the judge, "Nothing further your honor."

"Very well, send up the next witness," the judge nods, looking to Seokjin, "Mr. Kim, you're dismissed."

"Thank you," Seokjin smiles, standing and relieving himself from the stand as he walks over to his brother, smiling warmly as he takes his seat in the pews behind him. Seonghwa takes in a deep breath, feeling his nerves ease a little after his brother's testimony.

"We call Kim Hongjoong to the stand!" Jungkook calls, turning to face the mulleted man as he stands and walks towards the judge.

Hongjoong walks past Seonghwa, gently squeezing his shoulder before taking his rightful place on the stand. He places his hand on the Bible Seokjin sworn on as well, agreeing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As soon as he sits, Mareen stands and takes her position in front of him. She has prepared a testimony for Hongjoong, confident it'll make the judge see Henry deserves as much custody as Seonghwa. She clears her throat, "Mr. Kim, do you know my client Mr. Lau?"

"I do," Hongjoong narrows his eyes at her, seeing where she's coming from and ready to play the game.

"When was the first time you met my client?"

"When he was harassing Seonghwa in the store I was working at," Hongjoong replies instantly, "I was just leaving work when I heard Seonghwa's voice. We were dating at the time so I was going to go surprise him, but instead I stumbled upon him caging Seonghwa and Jongho against the diapers."

"Caging? Mr. Kim, Mr. Park isn't an animal. What do you mean by caging?"

"Well Mareen," Hongjoong spoke her name like it was venom on his tongue, "What I mean by caging, is he was towering over Seonghwa and making his possible escapes hard to find. You can tell the difference by two people talking to someone towering over the other and making them feel uncomfortable. Not to mention I heard Seonghwa tell your client to stop a few times before I finally stepped in and physically pushed Henry away from Seonghwa."

"Did it ever occur to you that Mr. Lau was trying to beg for custody of his son?" Mareen asks, Hongjoong snorts.

"Henry hasn't begged for custody. I don't know what he's told you, but from what he has been doing is stalking us everywhere from our work places to our home. He stopped at my work even and managed to get my number from a coworker to call me. He called me one night while I was working and Seonghwa was putting Jongho to bed. He was watching us from his car. I'm ready to file a restraining order on him."

"We'll take care of that later Mr. Kim," the judge says gruffly, looking at Mareen, "Get on with it."

"Any other claims you would like to make about my client?" Mareen asks, her tone sounding bored.

"No," Hongjoong speaks, looking at Henry, "I have nothing further to add."

"Thank you Mr. Kim, you're dismissed," the judge nods, looking to Jungkook, "Let's get on with it, it's date night and I'd like to have the time to enjoy my steak."

"The court calls Henry Lau to the stand," Mareen calls, looking at Jungkook, "Hope you don't mind Mr. Kim, but the sooner we get this over with the sooner my client can see his child."

"If the judge even declares for him to be able to see the child," Jungkook retorts back. Henry places his hand on the Bible, swearing his truth to the man before turning and taking a seat. Henry sits at the stand and Jungkook stands for his questioning.

"So Mr. Lau, let me ask you. What is your purpose for filing for custody over this child?" Jungkook asks, pacing back and forth slowly in front of Henry.

"Because a boy should always have a father. His father, not another man that claims to be his in place of the other," Henry snaps at Jungkook, locking eyes with Hongjoong in the pews.

"If you think that, then why did you leave when Seonghwa told you he was pregnant with your child?" Jungkook counteracts.

"At the time it wasn't good. I was engaged, me and my fiancé went through rough patches every so often so I slept with different men to get through those rough patches. He was one of them. So him telling me he was pregnant with my child, I had to get rid of the evidence before my fiancé could find out. But over time me and my fiancé discussed becoming adoptive parents and we're supposed to be adopting a little girl today."

"So you wanted to cover your tracks for cheating," Jungkook laughs a little as he paces back and forth once more, "so after you left Mr. Park, when did you see him next?"

"About a year after I had left him, he had the baby and he looked to be about three or four months old? I was surprised he kept the child after what I had done to him."

"And when you seen the child what did you do?" Jungkook asks, getting closer to the manner.

"I fell in love with him," Henry says convincingly to try and trick the judge, "I never knew how precious your child is to you until I laid eyes on that baby boy. I wanted to be his daddy."

Seonghwa had to bite his tongue and refrain from not jumping up and calling Henry a liar. His claims were wrong, and everyone knows it. But the judge was still not convinced so Jungkook has to push harder.

"Mr. Kim claims you were stalking them at their house and their jobs. Were you?"

"I visited them so I could beg for custody of my child. They still denied every time I visited them."

Jungkook smirks, taking the folder in his hands and pulling out print outs of the text messages sent from Henry's phone to Hongjoong and Seonghwa. He brings them up to Henry and places them on the table top in front of him, "Could you tell me if you sent these messages Mr. Lau?"

"Objection!" Mareen yells out, standing in panic as the realization hits her that she may have lost the case.

"Substained! Sit down Mareen," The judge calls to her, glaring at her as he readies his glasses for the print outs.

Henry stares at them wide eyed, seeing every text he has sent Hongjoong and Seonghwa staring right back at him. Ones where he had threatened the two if they didn't bring him Jongho or allow him to see the child he will get CPS involved, a lawyer involved, the police involved, or he will just come take the child instead. The judge narrows his eyes, "Answer the question Mr. Lau."

Henry swallows, feeling his stomach sink at the thought of not getting his way, "Yes, I sent those."

Jungkook smirks, taking the papers and handing them to the judge, "You claim that you're begging my client to let you see your child. But your honor, tell me, does this look like begging to you?"

The judge takes the papers, reading the documents after tilting his head up a little to read them silently. His eyebrows furrow while reading them, looking at Henry, "Are you wasting my time just for petty revenge? Just to run it in someone's face that you can take something most precious away from them? You think it's cute to do this?"

"No your honor," Henry says meekly, bowing his head in embarrassment."

"Get him off the stands. From what I've heard today I've made my decision way before this happened," the judge grumbles, "I'm placing the child in the custody of the mother, Park Seonghwa. And if Mr. Park and Mr. Kim wanted to file more charges, I'm accepting those as well," he pounds his gavel and nods his head, "Case dismissed."

Seonghwa felt the weight on his shoulders leave as he stands. Seokjin smiles at him, Hongjoong comes around to bring him in a hug. He can't hear anything other than the one thought circling his mind.

My baby...

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I gotta add this video. If you watch it, watch the way Seonghwa walks. He walks like a damn model! And that bootay though 👀👀