Author's Note: This is the final chapter. I can't believe it has taken me so long to write this. Stupid computers. That's all I have to say to that. By the time this gets uploaded, I will be so tired of computers that I may not write for a while. But feel free to leave me ideas in my inbox on PM. I will take on throwing any KPOP group into the Boys over Flowers world. Thanks for bearing with me. Now I will drink my chocolate milk as I work on this.
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Baye was comfortable. She was warm and felt safe. Where had that come from? The last thing she remembered was kneeing the crap out of Ho Joon and then watching as the Darklings and Guardians started to patch things up. Fire had been all around them and it had died as she had become peaceful. She had been happy.
So when had she become comfortable, warm and safe?
Cracking open one eye, she surveyed her surroundings. She knew this room. It was her room back at the house. And not just any house either. It was the house she shared with the former Darkling Six and the Guardians who also happened to be F4. Now wasn't that something? So what had happened between the groups talking and her getting to the house? There was only one person she could ask, but he was in the bed with her and sound asleep.
Jeongmin had had it rough these last few days as they had planned the course of the attack. He had watched as she had come up with the way she would confront the groups. They had to be together for it to work. Then he had watched her sign the letters with something so obvious it would take a stupid person not to understand it. Then she had left him out of the surprise party, opting to have him where he would be most useful. That one had cost two nights of fighting and one night of sleeping on the couch. She would bet he was still a little anal about the last bit.
Everyone in the house had been weary about the plan, but Baye had known it would work. She had faith in herself and the people she was living with. No one would let her get hurt. They would die before that would happen, especially since she had already lost most of the mobility in her right knee and now had to rely on crutches to get around. Stairs were going to suck.
But they were her friends. She had been willing to lose her life to protect them. She had even contemplated going dark just to see what would happen, but she had ultimately decided not to test what Leo had told her. They needed her as the strong not-so-silent type. Actually they needed her to argue with Jeongmin because they weren't having any luck.
Speaking of the man, he rolled over and buried his nose in her hair. "Why are you awake?"
She lifted her head and looked at the clock. "It's actually a little past ten."
"So? We spent all night making sure you didn't die. Now go back to sleep."
Happy to do so, Baye made a grand gesture of rolling on to her side and burrowing as close as she could to Jeongmin. She wedged her knee between his and hit his jaw with her chin. She heard him laugh as she wiggled to get as close as she could to him.
But that happiness and silence wouldn't last. Not a minute after they had gotten settled, there was a knock at the door. Jeongmin yelled they needed to have better timing, to which Leo promptly opened the door. Even though their paths had been set, Leo couldn't help but rib Jeongmin every chance he got. He was able to come and go as he pleased in Baye's room so he did it when he knew it irritated the younger man.
He leaned against the door nonchalantly. For a quiet man, he was really snarky. "I would but there's an irate woman downstairs demanding to meet the harlot who enraptured her youngest child and threw him into the throes of fornication."
Jeongmin groaned and buried his face in the pillow. "My mother's here isn't she?"
"The one and only Shin Hye Li. She said you have five minutes or she's coming up here. Shall I tell her you're completely naked?"
The younger man sat up quickly with a finger pointed at his friend. "Do it and I swear I'll tell your sisters that you swore that you would never get married."
Leo threw his hands up in surrender. "I'll give you seven minutes. Then I open my mouth."
Baye looked at Jeongmin as he scrambled from the bed. She buried her head in the sheets as his foot got tangled in the duvet and he went sprawling across the floor. He kicked until his foot was free then he ran into the closet.
"Is she that scary?" she asked as she finally got up and followed him.
"Worse. She threatened to have my sister institutionalized for not being married already," he answered as he threw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
"Why don't you tell her the paperwork is filled out and just has to be processed?"
"Then she'll want a wedding ceremony."
"I draw the line there."
"Exactly. She's going to be irritated enough that you're partially crippled."
Baye tilted her head as he rushed out of the closet and hurried down the stairs. She stood on the landing and watched as he ran down the spiral staircase. She had never seen him like this.
She thought about going back to bed. She was bone tired and felt like a ton of bricks was weighing on her shoulders. But the thought of Jeongmin's mother ripping into him because he wasn't married had her making her way down the stairs.
A hand caught her under the arm and steadied her. She looked up into Donghyun's face and smiled. He smiled in return and continued helping her down the stairs. He was always there when she needed a helping hand.
When they walked into the living room, a woman barely taller than the couch was ranting and raving at Jeongmin. The young man sat with his head bowed like a good son would when he was being scolded. He didn't look up even when he knew she was there.
"And you don't even know her! And you sleep with her? You bond with her? Does that make any sense to you? To top it all off, she's older than you! She's nearly your brother's age!" his mother ranted.
Baye scratched her head as she hobbled into the room. "Actually I am older than your older son. Hello. I'm Lee Baye." She bowed as much as she could and said her name the way she would if she were introducing herself to her family.
Jeongmin couldn't stop his mother in time. The woman was a spitfire. She strode across the living room, stepped right in front of Baye, and brought her hand right across the woman's face. Luckily for them, Baye was very even tempered at the moment. She was too tired to react anyway.
But the others don't feel that way. They were well-rested and on their toes. Donghyun pulled Baye behind him as Leo diverted the woman to another corner of the room.
"Mom! You can't hit her," Jeongmin scolded as he walked over to her. He glanced back at Baye briefly before focusing on his mother again.
"You nearly got kicked out of school because of her! Why can't I hit her?!"
Jeongmin had to hold her back as she tried to get around him to Baye again. She wasn't playing anymore. She was really angry. "It was my idea to pursue the relationship. Not hers. She's not at fault here." He made a face when Baye perked up to argue. Their entire conversation was done by facial expressions that made Donghyun and Leo snort in laughter.
His mother wrestled out of his arms and smacked his shoulder. "Why would you do that?"
"If you can't see it, you shouldn't ask."
It took a minute but she finally turned to look at Baye. She swept her slowly, up and down twice over. Baye stared right back at her, not even demanding she change her attitude. Her was no point. They would fight about it anyway.
"What do you see in her?" she asked.
"What did you see in dad?" he retaliated.
She seemed to reconsider who she was talking to because she turned back to Baye. "What can you give him?"
Baye shook her head. "Nothing really. Except honesty, love, a good fight, and…" She glanced at Leo and Donghyun who had no idea. "And a child of his own."
It took a few moments. Actually it was more like two minutes before the look of shock disappeared. Donghyun recovered first. He looked at her then at Jeongmin then back at her. A slow smile spread across his face before he turned to Leo. The other blond was too shocked to answer.
But it was Jeongmin who was the most flabbergasted. He stared at Baye for the longest before his legs shakily carried him over to her. He gripped her face and searched it to make sure she wasn't lying. She stared levelly at him. So he lowered his head and kissed her sweetly.
"How long have you known?" he asked.
"Only a few days. Ji Hoo Oppa wanted to do a routine checkup after we had the discussion with the Darkling Council. He determined that my leg was bummed and that I was pregnant. But here's the catch." She waited until he tilted his head. She really shouldn't open her mouth but she had to be honest with him. "There are two babies."
This time it wasn't Jeongmin who opened his mouth. It was Donghyun. His hand dropped from his mouth as he slowly walked forward.
"You mean twins? You're having twins?" She nodded, and he turned to his friend. "Sir, I want to applaud you. Twins only happen 1 in 500 on the first try without in vitro."
"Actually, my mom's a twin. It runs in the family," she said. "But Youngmin and Kwangmin are going to have an issue with not being the only set of twins in the family."
"Forget the two of them," Jeongmin argued. "I'm going to have to deal with it. Did hyung tell you the time frame?"
She nodded. "It wasn't the first time. He thinks it was the second so about two months ago. Three at the most, because we were at the Bunker the first time. That was before I was taken by Hyuk. Then I stayed at their place for two weeks and we were here for two months before the actual encounter. So yeah. Two months ago."
Donghyun's hand shot out and he popped her in the back of the head. She yelped in pain as Jeongmin stared at him. "I could beat you senseless. You were pregnant when the man attacked you and when you stood up to the former Darkling Council. What would you have done if they had hurt you? What then huh?"
"Nothing happened! And I didn't know at the time. I haven't had any symptoms. Oppa says I have an iron stomach."
After the argument, Jeongmin's mother attacked Baye with questions about the ceremony. Baye put her foot down and said they weren't having a ceremony even though their marriage paperwork hadn't gone through yet. She wasn't budging on that. If people wanted to give them money like was customary, they could do so without the wedding.
While the two women argued, Jeongmin stood off to the side with Leo and Donghyun. He was going from a single college student to a married man with two kids on the way. He hadn't expected any of this when the semester had started. Now he had a wife to look after and help prepare for their children who would be here in seven short months.
"What am I going to do?" he muttered.
"Well, first you're going to buy two simple gold bands when your registration goes through. Then you're going to pick a room and decorate it for when the babies get here. Third, you're going to rub it in your brother's face that you're younger with an older wife and two kids," Donghyun said.
Jeongmin looked at his two friends. He had never thought of it like that. His brother had always rubbed it in his face that he was the youngest and would be the last to do anything. But now, Jeongmin had the upper hand. He had two babies coming instead of one.
"Oh, he's going to be so mad," he said. He strode across the room to put an end to the two women's bickering before sitting down with his mother and standing with his registered wife.
THE END