For the ones that don't know what little space is, it's a headspace where mostly adults slip in because of trauma or other things. (I read this on Google so I hope this is right)
Feel free to request anything if you like. I do all ships, but it needs to have something about little space in it. You can also request only a ship
Ship: Minho x Chan
Little: Minho
Plot: Chan wants Minho to overcome one of his worst fear and tries to teach him how to swim, but things do not as expected.
(Chan is taller than Minho)
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"Come on Min! Don't you want to swim with us when we go to the beach?" Chan asked the poor boy for at least the hundredth time this day.
"Hyung, you know that I nearly drowned as a child in a swimming pool and now you expect me to go swim in a fucking ocean?" Minho yelled annoyed.
When he was six, he and his family were invited to a pool party of his dad's best friend. Since Minho didn't know how to swim his mom never let him in the pool alone, but when she got distracted and no one paid attention to Minho he jumped in the pool, not realizing that no one was paying attention to him. He yelled for his parents, but since he was underwater no one could hear him.
After two more minutes, his father finally noticed that Minho wasn't near him anymore. He started yelling for him until his mother saw him in the water.
Since this incident happened Minho didn't dare to put a foot into a bigger pool of water, only if his members were near him and the pool wasn't too deep, so he could still stand. He also developed a headspace due to the trauma. When he was younger he rarely regressed, but now, because of the huge stress he slipped into little space more often, but shorter and he never felt fully safe or happy in his little space.
The reason he didn't know. He never told his members, because he was afraid that Jyp would hear it and kick him out of the group.
"Min, I will always stay with you and I don't want you to just sit on the beach while everyone is having fun in the water!" Minho was very annoyed. Why couldn't his leader just let him be? It wouldn't hurt him if he sat a day at the beach and just relax. And one day wouldn't help him overcome his fear of so much water. He also didn't want to freak out and slip into little space when they would go to the beach soon. The sight of million liters of water scared him.
"Okay, but only one time!" Minho agreed after some time. Chan happily clapped his hands together and ruffled Minhos hair.
"Great! Meet me tomorrow in the pool outside at 8 am, since most of the people in the hotel will still sleep or find it too early to go swimming." Minho nodded and sat down in his bed. They were currently in a hotel room since they were on tour again, but today was their last performance for their maniac tour, so they had the next week off and could do whatever they wanted.
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It was now 8 am and both males were at the edge of the pool. Both still let their shirt on, since no one knew if some annoying fans would stalk them, even if there were only a few guests and they would probably have better things to do than take pictures of two swimming boys.
"Let's get in the water at first and just let your body adjust to the water," Chan suggested and let himself slide in the surprisingly warm water. Minho still didn't want to do it, but it looked so easy for Chan and he knew that if he didn't try it today, he would never try it.
So he closed his eyes and got closer to the edge.
"Just let yourself slide in, I will catch you!" Chan assured him and opened his arms for Minho to jump in.
The younger let out a sigh and pushed himself into the water. He was met with warm water and Chan's muscular arms, that grabbed his waist and held him up.
Minho looked down and noticed that his feet weren't even touching the ground. He looked at Chan and saw that the water reached the older nearly to his shoulders.
"Hyung... it's too deep!" He whispered and placed his hands on the olders shoulders. Minho hated how he felt so vulnerable. No one out of his Hyung would ever be allowed to see him like this.
"Then let's go a few meters to the other side, the ground should be a bit higher there." Chan quickly took Minho to the other side of the pool and let him go, once the younger could stand without drowning.
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After one hour Minho got comfortable with the water and sometimes even let go of Chan and walked a few steps or tried to swim a bit, but it always looked like a cat was trying to swim, so he just let it be and mostly walked.
When he was again on a Chans back, they heard a loud thud and a high scream. Both of their heads snapped up and saw a young, pregnant woman holding onto the wall and pressing her belly. Her pants were wet and it looked like her water broke.
Chan immediately let go of Minho and swam to the woman. He quickly laid her down and grabbed the phone from his bag and dialed the emergency But what he didn't notice was Minho who was struggling to stay up, since Chan left him in the deepest spot of the pool. Water got in his mouth and nose and he couldn't bring up the strength to push himself up. He felt how he got dizzy, but what was worse was that his inner child came out due to his memories.
Tears left his eyes and then everything went black.
The woman was crying and holding onto Chan's arms so tight, the male thought she would rip his arm off if the doctors wouldn't come soon.
As he suddenly spotted her phone, he grabbed it and dialed the emergency contact. Another male voice answered and Chan tried to explain to him that the water of his wife broke and where he should come.
As he ended the call he looked around, since he didn't hear or saw Minho and had a not-so-good feeling. What he saw in the pool wasn't a nice view. Minho was floating on top of the water, his head down and not moving.
"Minho!" He yelled and ran towards the unconscious body, not caring about the woman's complaints, since he saw her husband already running down the stairs.
To his luck, he saw Minho moving his hands a bit, which meant he wasn't dead. He jumped in the pool and lifted Minho, carrying him to the edge again and getting him out of the water.
"Wake up Min!" He screamed and shock the younger, but no reaction. So he tried to revive him and after a few tries Minho started spitting out all the water. His eyes fluttered open and he looked around. Tears welled up in his eyes, as he realized what happened.
"No... no..." He yelled, confusing Chan.
"Where Daddy?" Minho yelled, crying very hard now. Chan furrowed his eyebrows, not knowing what was going on.
"It's called little space and it seems like he has no caregiver." A voice explained to him. It was the husband of the pregnant woman. Chan just looked at him, still questioning what Minho was doing.
"He is mentally younger and also acts like it. Little need a caregiver who looks after them and gives them attention since little space is often caused because of trauma or stress." The man explained more details and Chan finally understood.
"Hey sweety, can you tell me how old you are?" He asked the little one, who held four fingers up, still crying. Chan send a thankful look to the man, but he was already back with his wife.
"Let's go back to our room and rest for a bit. When you're big again we will talk. Okay?" Minho nodded and made grabby hands towards Chan, hoping the older would pick him up and Chan couldn't resist those cute kitty eyes and picked him up without complaining. Minho immediately wrapped his arms around Chan's neck and his legs around his waist and hid his head in Chan's neck.
As he walked up the stairs with Minho, Felix ran into them and shot Chan a questioning look. He never saw Minho crying like this and the second oldest would never cuddle with one of the members like this.
"We talk when I talked with him." Chan just said and continued his way to their room. He carefully laid Minho on the bed and helped him change clothes so the younger would be more comfortable when he would wake up.
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After Minho slept for two hours Chan thought it would be time to wake him up. He already looked everything up about little space and would agree on becoming Minhos caregiver.
"Hey Min, can we talk?" He asked as he saw Minho opening his eyes.
"What happened?" Minho asked confused, not knowing how he got into their room.
"You slipped," Chan told him straight forward. Minho tensed up. Did he already tell Jyp or the other members? He asked himself.
"I didn't tell anyone if that's what you're afraid of. I wanted to talk to you first. And no, I don't judge you or hate you, because you're still one of stray kids and I won't leave you behind because of a headspace, which is not even your fault." Chan told him and grabbed the younger hands.
"But please tell me more about it. I want to be able to understand you more." Chan asked the younger and saw him pleading in the eyes.
"So you know that I nearly drowned when I was six... because of that I developed the headspace and my fear of big water masses. When I was younger I used to slip one time a week, but now it seems out of control. I keep slipping at random times, like at the set or before I go to sleep.
One time Changbin nearly saw me. It was at the Maxident set. Since it all looked so childish and cute I couldn't help it but slip. I didn't tell any of you, since I didn't know how you would react and if Jyp would kick me out if he knew about this. I kinda like my little side, because then I can do things I can't do anymore as an adult. I can feel small and I don't need to worry about work or other things. But I often feel unhappy or not safe." Minho explained to the leader, who was nodding in understatement.
"There is nothing wrong with being a little and I'm happy that you like that side of yourself, not many little ones seem to do that. But even if Jyp would want to kick you out, everyone would take your side, since stray kids wouldn't survive if anyone left, especially you. No one explains difficult dances so easily like you. I did some research and found out that little ones need a caregiver to look after them. If it's okay for you I could be your caregiver-..." Before he could complete his sentence Minho threw himself on him and hugged him.
"Would you really do this?" Minho asked, not believing his ears.
"Tell me one thing that I wouldn't do for you to be happy." Chan hugged Minho back, not wanting to let that precious thing in his arms go.
"Is there something you don't want little Minho to do, like some names.." Minho asked, not wanting to make Chan uncomfortable in any way.
"Everything is okay, but if we are around others I don't think you should call me some names... if you even want to tell the others." Minho nodded. A side of him didn't want to let the other members know about his little side, but a bigger part of him wanted to let his friends know about little Minho. It would also be less stressful if he didn't have to hide all the time.
"Yeah, but could we tell them soon, I feel like I'm going to slip soon again," Minho told him and rested his head on Chan's shoulders. Chan smiled and nodded, caressing his hair.
The younger made grabby hands again, signaling Chan to pick him up again. Chan opened his arms and let Minho jump on him and started carrying him down, hoping to find the members eating.
"Why are you carrying Minho Hyung again?" Felix asked the moment he spotted the two oldest of stray kids.
"Because we have to tell you something and I want every one of you to listen to me and don't you dare to make fun of what I'm going to tell you!" He warned them, earning scared nods from six people.
"So.. you know that Minho nearly drowned when he was six and is now scared of the ocean and huge water masses. Since we wanted to go to the beach in a few days, I wanted to teach him a bit of how to swim and that he adjusts a bit to the water, so he doesn't need to sit all the time alone on the beach.
So I managed to get him in the water and after an hour a pregnant woman passed by and her water broke. So I helped her but forgot that Minho couldn't swim and he nearly drowned again. After I got him out of the water he was acting weird and then I found out that he is a little." The silence was very awkward.
The first one to do something was Jeongin. He stood up and went to Minho, who was still hiding in Chan's neck.
"This is true or?" He asked the now little Minho, who nodded. Jeongins face lit up and he engulfed Minho and Chan in a big hug.
"I always wanted to meet a little!" He said and hugged Minho even tighter. Now the others also stood up and went to hug Minho. The little one was even happier that all of his friends accepted his little side and that he could regress now whiteout fearing to be caught.
Lol, I didn't expect this to be so long, since I wrote this in one day in school and it's better than all of the things I wrote at home I think:)