A Cliché Family twenty   Jinki wakes up one morning in late November with a sore throat and a headache. He's fatigued and he feels awful. He rolls around in bed in order to nudge Kibum and ask him to call in sick for him except what meets him is a husband that looks just as awful as he feels. Kibum is awake and the two men spends a couple of minutes just looking at each other.

"I'm calling in sick for both of us," says Jinki as he places his hand on Kibum's forehead and notices his fever. His voice is hoarse and it hurts when he's talking but they need to call their respective workplaces. Kibum groans and pushes the blanket away, his fever causing him to feel hotter wrapped in it.

"What about the kids?" he croaks and Jinki sighs. The kids. They'll have to walk to school alone today and he knows Kibum hates it when they do. It happens very rarely but he trusts Jonghyun to make sure Minho and he arrives safely. Taemin is a completely different talk. How do you take care of a baby when you and your spouse is both sick? Minho enters the master bedroom just then and looks at his fathers.

"Dad?" he says and both men turn their tired bodies towards the boy. Minho just stares at them. "Are you sick?" he asks innocently and Kibum nods weakly. Jinki has reached for his phone and is talking with his employer. It doesn't take more than a few minutes before he's off the phone. Minho climbs into their bed and Kibum tries to get him off of it. He doesn't want Minho to get sick either. "Does this mean Jonghyun-hyung will have to follow me to school?" The boy sounds more excited than Kibum wants him to but he nods nonetheless.

The silent answer gets the boy off the bed and running out of the master bedroom. Kibum sighs and turns to Jinki who has just hung up on Kibum's employer. Jinki pulls the blanket closer around himself and snuggles into bed. It's a comfortable silence that only lasts a minute or two before Jonghyun enters the master bedroom and look at his fathers. Jinki ignores him, his headache is growing stronger.

"Is it true what Minho says? We're going to school by ourselves?" Kibum answers in a low voice. Jonghyun leaves the two grown adults with an 'a-ssa' and Kibum groans a little of pain. In reality, the two children are not a problem. Although Kibum doesn't like them wandering around, they're 11 and 8 (Minho turns 9 very soon) and they know their way around the neighborhood. No, the real problem is the sleeping 1-year-old in the crib, because unlike Jonghyun and Minho, he cannot take care of himself. And with both Jinki and Kibum sick chances are that Taemin will become sick as well. It's not really ideal in any way to play around with a 1-year-old with a headache or a fever when rest would do both of them good, but when the boy wakes up as Jonghyun slams the front door of the apartment, there's nothing Jinki or Kibum can do to change it.

Jinki feeds Taemin his breakfast, changes his diaper and sits in the living room while the boy babbles happily and plays with his toys. He's still in his pajamas because Jinki didn't have the energy to change him. It doesn't matter anyway. He's drinking a cup of tea but nothing soothes his hurting throat and he almost wants to give up, wake up Kibum and go back to sleep. But Kibum needs the rest more than he does with his fever and Jinki just hopes he'll get better very very soon.

A couple of hours later and he's in the kitchen, a blanket draped over his shoulders as he warms Taemi