!! mentions blood (transfusion) !!
i don't know how it works exactly, but i have a rough idea. so please ignore if i write something wrong or weird. i tried looking it up on google, but it didn't really help. 😓

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jungkook nibbles on his lip, tapping his foot continuosly under the pressure of anxeity and fear, which is introduced in his body through his eyes watching the nurse making aera rest on the bed as she passed all the tests and jungkook signed the consent form to let her be the donor for this transfusion. aera gulps thickly, glancing at him and then at the needle in the nurse's hand which jungkook notices and sits next to her on the bed, holding her free hand and kisses her forehead.

"ouch..." aera winces softly, burying her face in jungkook's arm when the nurse inserts the needle in her arm and secures it with a bandaid. the tube connected to it, slowly turns red, directing the blood into a plastic bag like container, which has another tube and that is attached to jimin's arm on the bed right next to aera's. a whimper escapes her lips, holding onto jungkook tightly, who rubs her back gently to ease the pain.

"keep your arm loose, don't stiffen the muscles," the nurse says and jungkook pulls away gradually, glancing at the needle in aera's arm. she takes a few deep breaths, nodding her head and does as she's told.

she leans back against the inclination of the bed and sighs softly, rubbing away the tears that never left her eyes ever since she saw jimin like that: laying on the bed without any movement, white bandages tied on his head, arm and leg, his eyes closed and the machines that he was hooked to. and now she's sitting in the bed near him, watching her blood flowing away from her, and entering into jimin with energy, useful blood cells and of course her love that he needs right now to be healthy again.

her head turns towards jimin, trying to find any sign of him waking up, but nothing happens. he's still sleeping like he was enjoying this nap.  "why's he not waking up?" she pouts, turning to jungkook, "you said he'll be fine after taking the blood..."

"it takes some time," the nurse answers instead, standing near jimin's bed as she's monitoring the behaviour of his heart and other things then finally turns to face aera, "are you feeling okay?"

"yeah, just the needle hurts a bit," aera hums, making the nurse chuckle.

"that's alright, it's gonna take about three hours, by then your brother should gain consciousness too." she says, "you're a brave girl, not everyone your age can do this,"

"i want my oppa to be fine," aera says, glancing at jimin as she leans onto jungkook who smiles softly, wrapping his arm around her.

"he'll be okay," the nurse says, "he's got a strong sister rooting for him."

aera nods at her words, while the nurse now takes her leave after letting jungkook know that he should call her immediately if aera isn't feeling well or if jimin wakes up. the door opens next and haewon walks in, holding her son in her arms, looking tired.

"he fell asleep?" jungkook asks, getting a nod from her as she walks to the side and lays the baby on the couch and places the cushion near the edge, so that he won't fall down.

"aera, are you okay?" she approaches the sister then, stroking her hair and sits on jungkook's place as he stands up, taking a peek at the sleeping baby.

"yeah," aera nods, leaning towards her haewon hugs her gently, "the nurse said oppa will be fine, don't worry okay?"

haewon smiles at her, kissing her forehead as she nods, "you're the bravest girl i've met aera, really. your brothers are so lucky to have you."

"i'm lucky," aera smiles a little, but tears return in her eyes when they glance back at jimin, "i want jiminie oppa to wake up..."

"he will," the older girl assures, cupping aera's face and wipes her tears despite she herself, is having difficulty seeing her husband hurt like that. aera keeps quiet, resting back and closes her eyes, replaying the time she was talking to jimin and heard the loud crashing sounds.

jiwon moves in his place, letting out a little whimper, making aera open her eyes and quickly look over at him. she stares at the baby as haewon goes to sit near him and lays him in her lap, patting over his tummy. aera feels emotional, watching the baby who doesn't even know what his daddy is experiencing right now. she turns to jungkook, leaning in his embrace, nibbling on her lower lip while her eyes never leave jiwon's tiny body.

"koo, jiminie oppa has to get well quickly. baby jiwon needs his daddy... i- i don't want ji to grow up without his daddy or- or mamma, it's sad y'know?" she whispers in a soft voice, sniffing and rubs her eyes, trying to keep in her sob. jungkook gulps thickly, nodding subtly as he follows her gaze and hugs her back, "i didn't have mamma and daddy, but i had you and jiminie oppa, so it wasn't that bad... but baby jiwon doesn't even have an older brother. he has his daddy and mamma...  that's all..."

"jiminie will be fine, aera," jungkook assures, kissing the side of her head and pats her back gently, "the doctors said that he'll be fine— and you heard the nurse too right? she said he will wake up in three hours or so,"

"what if he don't wake up?" aera sobs, "i don't want baby jiwon to- to not have his daddy,"

"shh, relax," jungkook strokes her hair and lowers himself slowly, making aera lay down and wipes her tears, "close your eyes,"

"i'm not sleepy," she cries, turning slowly to face him, without hurting her arm and rubs her eyes, "i feel like crying..."

"you have an i-v attached to you, princess. you should stay calm and relaxed right now. please don't cry, your body should not be stressed or anything during the transfusion," jungkook tells her, resting beside her and brings her to lay her head on his chest, "now don't move too much, okay? and don't cry, my little kookie is the strongest princess i know."

"yeah, but—"

"shh, just close your eyes and listen," he whispers, patting her back gently. aera quietens down, breathing calmly after a while as she's not crying anymore, listening the rhythm from jungkook's chest, his heartbeat which wasn't really calm, but still it's beautiful jimin told her.

•••

"is she okay?" haewon asks and jungkook nods in response, standing up carefully without waking aera up as he stretches his back and sits near haewon, cracking his neck slowly, letting out a soft groan. "are you okay?"

"yeah, just a bit tired," he lets her know and haewon sighs, smiling thankfully at him.

"and your headache?" she asks softly, stroking his hair back and jungkook lowers his head, smiling a little at the affectionate touch from haewon that always reminded him of his mother when he was much younger, aera wasn't even born then, back in busan.

"don't worry about it—"

"and let you get even more sick?" haewon sighs, "i'll ask the nurse to give an aspirin,"

"i'm okay, noona, i'm here to take care of you guys, not the other way around," he chuckles lightly, massaging his temples and leans back, "you haven't eaten anything right? even aera didn't get dinner today," he shakes his head, standing up and takes off his jacket, rolling up the sleeves of his shirt, smiling softly as he glances at jiwon then at aera.

"wait," haewon stands up as well, laying jiwon on the couch like earlier and faces jungkook, "get something for yourself too and ask for an aspirin over the pharmacy counter. how will you take care of us if you don't take care of yourself hm?"

jungkook gives a subtle nod before walking out of the room towards the elevator where on asking, he found out that the second floor cafeteria closes at night and the only available one is in the ground floor. he heads to the main counter of the pharmacy first, gets an aspirin, then goes to the cafeteria asking for three healthy meals, the kind which helps a person donating blood gain all nutrients.

after taking the food which mainly includes vegetable soup, rice, fish, salads, and adding blueberry yoghurt for aera as a supplement, jungkook makes his way back up to jimin's floor. his eyes land on the big clock above the waiting aera, making him realise that it's already past one at midnight.

when he arrives back, entering the room, he's greeted by a loud cackle of his nephew who's probably now feeling himself while haewon looks at him with a hesitant gaze, "hey buddy, looks like you're done sleeping," jungkook chuckles, placing the bag of food on the table and sits near them, showing the aspirin tablet to haewon.

"jungkook-ah," she hesitates, "can i ask you something?"

"sure," he nods, "do you need something?"

"jiwon needs to change his diaper," she sighs, "we don't have any,"

"ah okay, i'll get a pack," he nods, standing up again and gestures towards the food, "you can start, wake aera up too. i'll take jiwon with me and get him changed."

"it's fine, we'll wait for you to come back. be quick,"

"just five minutes," jungkook promises, carrying jiwon in his arms and pats his bottom playfully, "always at the wrong time huh?"

jiwon giggles at that, opening his mouth as he leans near jungkook's face, leaving a long open mouth kiss and babbling against his jaw at the same time, "alright, we'll get your diaper. don't try to digest me," jungkook says and heads out again.

meanwhile haewon takes out the food, putting it on the table by aera's bed before going to wake her up, "aera, get up. you must be hungry right?" she taps on the young girl's shoulder, making her hum lightly in her sleep, moving to turn to her side which ends up tugging on the needle in her arm. the sleepiness vanishes within a second, getting replaced by a painful whimper. haewon places her arm still in place, stroking her hair and assures that she's okay.

by the time aera's sitting on her place, resting back on the pillows, jungkook arrives too, with jiwon sitting his arms, his pants in jungkook's hand and just wearing his diaper and the t-shirt.

"i dropped it in the sink accidentally, now it's wet," he confesses, putting the tiny denim half-pant on the armrest of the couch and sits near haewon, placing jiwon on the bed beside aera. the girl shifts quickly, wrapping her free arm around the baby and pulls her to sit more towards the center so he won't fall down.

"hi baby," she speaks to him, holding his hand and jiwon replies in his gibberish language, reaching out to climb on her lap, but haewon stops him immediately, "it's okay unnie, he's not hurting me," aera says, patting her lap and looks at jiwon, "c'mere,"

"he might pull on the drip, aera. it's gonna hurt you," haewon says, "you can play with him like this,"

"noona's right, don't take him for a while— at least till you get this thing away," jungkook says while haewon passed the food to him, gesturing him to give it to aera. he nods, pulling jiwon in his lap and places aera's food on the small table-like structure attached to the right side of the bed.

"i'm not hungry," she sighs, eyes automatically glancing at the injured eldest brother, getting soft gazes from jungkook and haewon.

"i can understand..." haewon nods slowly, staring at her lap and blinks away her tears. jungkook glancing between the girls, then at his hyung, before forcing up a small smile as if he isn't himself hurting and ruffles aera's hair, "riri needs to eat because you're the one providing energy to jiminie oppa. it's important for you to stay hydrated and eat healthy, so that jiminie can get well quickly."

then he turns to haewon and pats jiwon's back, "and noona has to eat because she's the one giving energy to our little champ. if you starve yourself, noona, how will jiwon grow healthy?" he says, heaving out a deep sigh before he continues, "so please you both need to eat. or else hyung will scold me for not taking care you both properly."

haewon breaks into a chuckle, staring at jungkook with teary eyes as she leans forward, pulling his ear lightly, getting a fake wince from him. just as they were about to start, the door opens and the nurse walks in, heading to aera first and checks the syringe and everything.

"how are you feeling?" she asks.

"okay," aera answers, "is it done? why is my oppa not waking up?"

"he will wake up soon, don't worry," the nurse assures, carefully taking off the bandaid and the needle and presses a piece of cotton on the spot, then pulls out a white sheet with different colored bandaids, gaining attention from aera as she leans over a little, pressing her lips into a thin line and points at blue one with a dancing olaf made on it and a few snowflakes. the nurse smiles, putting it over the cotton and pats aera's arm, "you did great," she says, then turns to check on jimin as she adjusts his i-v too, and notes down something from the monitor of the machines.

while she's at it, aera gasps, turning to face jimin's bed and points at his hand, "he's moving! i saw it!" jungkook and haewon stand up immediately, following aera's gaze as so does the nurse.

"i'll call the doctor," the nurse says, taking her leave while aera gets off her bed, going near jimin with tears blurring her eyes yet again.

"oppa... wake up please..." the sister rubs her eyes, hugging jungkook's waist when jimin doesn't move and keeps sleeping. jungkook pats her back, glancing back on hearing the door open and the doctor walks in this time, followed by two nurses.

"aera said she saw him moving..." haewon tells the doctor, who nods in response, putting on his stethoscope and stands beside jimin's bed.

though he's examining jimin, his attention for a brief second goes to the crying kid, "aera, how are you feeling? all okay?"

"see my oppa," aera whimpers, not looking at the doctor as she reminds him of his real job, making the man chuckle lightly.

"he's doing okay, kid. you need to rest for now, have good sleep, eat well. your body needs a lot of energy and nutrients. have you eaten anything?"

"i'm okay!" she whines, burying her face deeper in jungkook's shirt as she cries, holding him. jungkook sighs softly, sitting on the bed and wraps his arms around her, drawing gentle circles on her back.

"it's alright, the doctor is doing his work, honey," he assures, "and he said oppa's okay."

"then- then why is he not waking up?"

"he's conscious," the doctor says, "just sleeping,"

"no... wake him up, then he can sleep later," aera mumbles, looking at the doctor for the first time now, her eyes pleading virtually behind a warm layer of tears, "please,"

"i know you're worried for your brother, but it'll be good if he wakes up on his own," the doctor pats aera's head, "and take care of yourself too. get back on your bed,"

aera looks at him with an unsure gaze, not liking this doctor anymore but climbs back into her bed and lays down with her lips moulding into a subtle pout. the doctor nods and glances at jungkook, gesturing the brother to look after aera and jungkook gives him an assuring nod.

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it was around seven in the morning that jimin finally opened his eyes, aera was still asleep but jungkook and haewon had been up all night. hearing a low groan from jimin, the two sprung on their feet, rushing to jimin's bed, sighing in relief on seeing he's up now. jungkook called the doctor while haewon was busy letting out tears, holding her husband's hand tightly in hers, kissing it and muttering how he scared the life out of her.

the doctor said he was fine and could be discharged in two days. it was a bit difficult for jimin to talk or even move for his body felt stiff, though in a few minutes he relaxed a bit, finally able to drink some water and gaining full consciousness of his surroundings. the nurse inclined the bed for him after some time, letting him sit for a while as the clock ticked to nine with both haewon and jungkook sitting near jimin.

"should i wake her up?" jungkook asks, glancing at aera and haewon shrugs her shoulders in uncertainty.

"let her sleep i guess, she needs a sound sleep too," she says.

jimin follows their gaze to the bed next to his, smiling softly at the sight of aera sleeping peacefully. she moves a little in her sleep, turning to the other side and lets out a soft whimper as she accidentally lays over her arm. jungkook gets up from his place, making her lay properly, although a frown scrunches up his brows, as he goes to touch her arm again, then her forehead.

"what happened?" jimin asks, noticing the sighs of discomfort from the sister as well as jungkook shaking his head in a little disappointment.

"nothing, her temperature feels a little high,"

haewon stands up, going near aera's bed too and touches her forehead, then she looks at jungkook, "is it normal?"

"i don't know..." he presses his lips together, shaking aera lightly to wake her up, "hey, get up kiddo, are you okay?"

aera coughs lightly, slowly opening her eyes and nods, "i'm okay..." she sighs, sitting up and winces in pain, holding her arm from which she got the blood drawn out last night.

"it hurts?" jungkook asks and aera nods slowly in response. "it'll get better don't worry, look jiminie oppa's up," he says with a smile, patting her back, earning a gasp from aera as she peeks over jungkook's shoulder, tears returning in her eyes on seeing jimin sitting on his bed, smiling at her.

"oppa..." she breaks into a sob, slipping down from the bed, ignoring the sheets tangled on her leg which makes her stumble and almost falling down, but jungkook holds her steady, freeing her from the sheets and lets her go near jimin. "are you okay?" she asks between sobs, touching his hand and rubs her eyes, "i was so scared..."

"i'm fine," jimin says, patting her head with his free hand as the other arm has a cast on it, "don't cry, princess. look i'm fine and the doctor said i'll get better in no time,"

aera nods slowly, hugging him and wipes her tears as she looks around, finding jiwon sleeping on the couch too, "did you see baby jiwon?" she asks jimin, getting a nod from him and aera smiles a little, "he missed you too... he can't speak, but i know he missed you,"

"i know," he nods, stroking aera's back and looks at her face, "you have a fever, aera,"

"oh?" she pulls away, touching her forehead and turns to jungkook who nods in confirmation.

the nurse and the doctor arrive right then, checking jimin first while jungkook talks to the nurse, telling her about aera's slight fever and her aching arm. the nurse says it's nothing serious, but still the doctor will check for an infection or anything like that.

"now coming to aera," the doctor turns to face the girl, nodding his head for her to get back on her bed, making her sigh, "how are you feeling?" he asks, checking her pulse and tells the nurse to give her some antibiotics for the fever, "there's nothing to worry, people usually feel fatigued or lightheaded after a transfusion. it's normal, considering her age especially. she can go home today, but no heavy excercises for at least twenty-four hours, rest well, eat healthy and stay hydrated."

"a transfusion?" jimin frowns.

jungkook and haewon exchange glances, as they didn't tell him about it yet, but the doctor doesn't play along with them. he nods, hand gesturing towards aera, he says with a smile, "it was quite brave of her to agree at once for donating the blood when you needed it. anyway, i'll leave now. rest well," and walks out with the nurse once she's given aera the medicines.

"what?" jimin turns to his wife and then to his brother, "she's fifteen jungkook, how can you—"

"i know, i understand that... i'm sorry," jungkook says, "but we had to. noona or i would've gone for it, but they didn't allow us. and when i told aera about it, she agreed at once. i was a little worried but then she said she would be fine and even the doctor said we can do it if she has the consent."

"and so you agreed?" jimin hisses, "she's a child and doesn't know about transfusions and all, i get that. but you both too?"

"i'm okay, oppa. don't be mad." aera says, "i told koo that i wanna give you my blood, because you'll get better then. and you really needed it,"

jimin sighs deeply, shaking his head as haewon speaks this time, "she's right jimin, jungkook signed the consent form only after the doctor gave the permission. aera was really worried about you. you didn't see her jimin, every time the nurse or the doctor came, she asked them why you're not waking up. she wasn't even letting the doctor check her before you. don't be mad, they did it for you,"

jimin glances at jungkook who nods quickly, agreeing with every word that left haewon's mouth, making him sigh softly, "i'm sorry," he says, "and thank you for... for thinking so much about me,"

"what are you saying hyung, of course we'd think about you. wouldn't you be worried and do the same if me or aera were in your place and you were in ours?"

jimin smiles softly, nodding his head and turns to aera, "c'mere," aera slips down from her bed instantly with a giggle, sitting beside jimin and gives him a hug, "my child, aren't you scared of needles? and you still did this?"

"yeah, i was scared a little bit, but they said you'll be okay if i give you my blood. so i was like, yep, do it." aera grins, stretching out her arm and shows him the olaf bandaid, "look it was here last night— the needle. koo was hugging me all the time,"

"how long did it take?"

"three hours or so?" aera shrugs, poking the cast on his arm as she looks at his face, "is it hurting a lot?"

"no, it's fine," jimin kisses her forehead, "thank you, baby. oppa loves you beyond words can explain,"

"wow, thanks, i love you too!" aera giggles, kissing on his arm, then on his cast and then on the bandage on his forehead, "get well soon, please,"

"yes, now say bye to oppa. we're going home right now," jungkook says, patting aera's back earning an instant frown and look of disapproval for his words, "yes, you can take a shower at home. i'll cook something for us and then we'll come back. the food here sucks."

"you said it was fine yesterday,"

"that's because you weren't eating," jungkook sighs, "now c'mon, let's go."

"noooo!" aera pouts at jungkook who doesn't listen and pulls her with him, wrapping his arm around aera's shoulder and presses a kiss on the side of her head.

"shh, we'll come back in a while. let jiminie have some time with noona alone." jungkook sighs and aera stops whining then, glancing up at his face, getting a nod from him, "he's married now, ri. and when we get married, our first priority should be our family— our other half, who's gonna spend the rest of their life with us."

"first priority?" aera frowns, "so you're saying oppa don't love me now?"

"of course he loves you kiddo, he loves you a lot. what i'm saying is, he has a family of his own now, and it's his duty to put his wife and son before others. not just his in fact, noona's too. she loves him and would put him first in her life,"

"oh... yeah, right," aera nods, leaning into jungkook's embrace as they head inside the elevator, "you don't marry anyone, i'll be lonely if you do."

jungkook chuckles at that, ruffling her hair as he leans down, bumping their foreheads gently, "and what will i do when you get married and leave with your husband?"

"i won't get married either," aera grins, hugging jungkook, "i'll stay with you for the rest of my life. we'll play videogames and get more nerf guns an-and eat snacks all the time, and we'll dance too!"

"right," jungkook laughs, "that's my girl!"

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a/n- idk why i'm happy today, like no special reason just feeling myself 😘 how are you guys doing?

and i have something to show you, i found this somewhere and really really loved it. it's simply mesmerizing ✨

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