^AU.

Baekhyun sharply opened his eyes, as he heard an incessant loud wailing coming from somewhere near.

At first he was incredibly confused, his tired mind trying to make sense out of the noise. After a couple seconds of tension, he remembered. While his brother was away on a trip with his wife, they left the kids with Baekhyun.

Suddenly he realized he had to go check on whoever it was who was bawling their eyes out, because it could be something serious – and even if it wasn’t, that’s just what adults have to do when children are crying at night: go check on them.

As he rolled off the bed, he noticed something missing. The other half of his bed was empty, his boyfriend wasn’t there.

Baekhyun walked out of the room, hearing that the crying was soothing down, something was making it stop. And as he peeked into the open door of his guest room – which he had properly modified to accommodate his brother’s son and daughter – he saw Chanyeol, hugging the little girl and he whispered to her.

She had swollen red eyes, and a red and dripping nose, but she wasn’t crying anymore. There was a hint of concern in her expression, which went away slowly turning into pure tiredness as she heard Chanyeol’s whispers.

And Baekhyun couldn’t help but think, he had the best boyfriend ever. Most people would be bothered by tasks like that, and if it were someone else, Baekhyun would be surprised if they decided not to spend the night. But Chanyeol was just perfect. And he loved children, he was being so loveable to Baekhyun’s niece and nephew the entire day, and now even this.

“What’s wrong?”

Baekhyun quietly asked, seeing that the boy was still asleep – which he found surprising, considering the loud crying that just went on. Chanyeol looked back at him, and then picked up the girl and put her back in her bed.

“She’s scared. Her brother told her there was a boogie man in the closed, and now she can’t sleep.”

Chanyeol answered, still standing next to the bed, as the little girl simply wouldn’t let go of his hand.

“You can go back to bed, I’ve got this.”

Chanyeol continued, but Baekhyun wasn’t very sure about that. He was afraid to just dump it all on the man like that.

“No, come on. I can’t just leave you here, they’re my family…”

Baekhyun said, stepping forward.

“That’s okay Baekhyun. I really don’t mind, you know I love children. I was having a hard time sleeping anyway, I’ll stay here and read her a story, when she’s asleep I’ll go back.”

Chanyeol said, sitting next to Baekhyun’s niece on the bed, and showing his boyfriend the book that was the coffee table, which they had already separated for that.

“You look tired, just go to sleep. Please.”

Chanyeol sweetly completed, and even though Baekhyun wanted to insist more, he didn’t even have the chance to, as Chanyeol turned his attention to the little girl, sweetly talking to her, and starting on the book.

So Baekhyun left the room, going back to his warm and comfy bed. And the rest of the night, even though he worried a bit about Chanyeol being too tired, he couldn’t help but think – and eventually dream – of how good of a father Chanyeol would be.

_{The End. 563 Words.}