Churchland - Chapter 7 - Rose Among The Thorns

Jan 13, 2010 17:08

Sitting in the car, Sungmin fell asleep against Kyuhyun's jacket. It was amazing how cold it had gotten in the few short days between recieving a call and actually going to the interview.
It was also amazing how they managed to fit fifteen of them and a baby in this car.
Yes.
Super Junior invested in a clown car as they had to sell their other cars to pay for baby stuff, seeing as SM pays them worse than elephants - they only the shells of peanuts...
It was hard to squeeze the grown men in, especially Zhoumi, but since he was Chinese and prone to becoming a gymnast, he contorted to fit.
Yesung cooed at the child in her car seat next to him. Ryeowook was on his other side, reading what appeared to be pages and pages of fanfiction, but no one could really tell; Siwon was brushing his shibrows in a handheld mirror he'd borrowed from Heechul, who sat beside Zhoumi trading notes on "What Not To Wear This Winter" except with Zhoumi's limited speaking, it came out as something akin to "What Wearing Rather Go Naked In Winter" to which Heechul laughed evilly and claimed the awkward Chinese man as his. At the back of the bus, because it was actually bigger than a car, Hankyung felt his ears twitch and demanded which of the members was corrupting his babies.
Leeteuk sat beside Kangin, fussing over his newfound hobby of knitting, to which Kangin firmly responded that he was taking his duty as Grand-Teukie too far which earned him a resonant slap from the leader.
Shindong sat with Henry, eating noisily while Henry tried to keep the flecks of food off of his 'precious-but-not-as-precious-as-Angela" baby, also known as, his violin, which has been ceremoniously named Martha.
Eunhyuk and Donghae sat by a window, watching the world go by, narrating the things that happened before Yesung yelled at them for being too loud and disturbing the baby - also, he just didn't want them stealing his thing.
While all of this was happening, one member remained silent.
"Where's Kibum?" said Leeteuk.
"Yeah, where is he?"
Kibum chuckled soundlessly from his hiding place. No one need ever know where he was. Suddenly, Donghae opened the glove compartment.
"I found him!"
"Good work Hae!"
"... Kibum? Why are you hiding in the glove compartment?" asked the newly awake Sungmin sleepily. Kibum shrugged.
"He IS a ninja!" Donghae gasped. Heechul hit him with a pillow.
"Kibum is not a ninja, you idiot!"
"Then what is he!?" Donghae asked defiantly. Heechul sighed angrily before returning to his preening.
"Hah! You don't even know what he is!"
"Guys..."
"Maybe he's an alien!?" said Yesung. Kangin glared at the older male for stirring Donghae up.
"Yeah maybe!"
"Guys."
"I wonder if he's secretly got green skin..."
"Guys!"
"And scales..."
"GUYS!"
"Maybe he can sing underwater... ooh, what if he is a fish!?"
"For the love of... GUYS!!!" Kibum screamed.
Angela stirred and began crying at the sound of the angry yelling. Sungmin moved to get up, but Yesung already managed the calm the little girl by pulling strange faces - not that his face wasn't already strange but...
"Yes Kibum? Now that you have awoken the baby, what would you like to say?" Sungmin glared. Kibum gulped.
"Well, I was going to ask that you guys stop talking about me like I'm not here, because I am. And secondly, we're here."
"We know we're here, but where the hell are you every other time!" Donghae cried. Kibum sighed.
"No, I meant we are at the recording place." he face-palmed.
Donghae's eyes lit up in realisation.
"Oh!"
"Super Junior, let's go!"
* * * 
Inside, Sungmin noticed the crowd of people waiting to be let into the studio. 'Probably the live audience...''
Many of them appeared to be middle-aged women, but then he noticed a handful of men. And these men were holding small children, most from Angela's age onwards. He smiled slightly before being ushered into another room.
"15 Men and a Baby? Our corner is called 15 Men and a Baby?" Heechul raged. Zhoumi smiled and clapped.
"I get it! It's a play on 'Three Men and a Baby', right?" the awkward chinese man laughed. The group ignored him.
"So, how are we gonna work this?"
"Well, I think Sungmin should hold Angela-" began Kyuhyun before being cut off by Heechul.
"You always think Sungmin should have everything! Maybe, I don't know, the older members could hold the baby for once!?"
"Heechul... Chullie... you don't even like babies..." Hankyung tried to calm Heechul down. His attempt was failing miserably.
Heechul glared, but continued.
"Why not let Teukie hold her?"
"Because she won't be able to sit still in his lap for a long time!" Kyuhyun argued.
"And what, she can in Sungmin's!?"
"Normally, yes."
"... I vote Yesung holds her..." Kibum mumbled, watching the strange man playing with the baby in the corner of the room, away from the screaming match.
"I just think that since she is attached and Sungmin is the reason we're here-"
"Angela is the reason we're here!"
"GUYS! I THINK YESUNG SHOULD HOLD THE BABY!" Kibum had given up on trying to get their attention quietly. They stared.
"When did you get here?" a bouncer walked in and asked. Kibum glared, but continued.
"She likes Yesung, and Sungmin will be answering a lot of questions and seriously, I think Sungmin needs a break from holding her.
Sungmin, who had been quiet until now, spoke.
"She is getting quite heavy, hyungs..." he said sheepishly. Kyuhyun huffed and looked away. Heechul smirked.
"Give her to me Yesungie~" he chanted. Yesung looked at the feminine man and handed over the baby who immediately started to scream as soon as she was put into arms length of the man.
"Aish!" Heechul yelled as he covered his ears.
"Ouch high-pitched! Turn it off! Turn it off!" yelled Eunhyuk, covering his ears.
"I can't! I don't know where her off switch is!" Donghae replied. The rest of the members covered their sensitive listening organs whileYesung brought the baby back to his chest.
The horrible banshee shrieking stopped once Yesung the Hero had-
"STOP NARRATING RIGHT NOW KIM JONGWOON OR I SWEAR I WILL SICK HEEBUM ON YOU!"
"Did he just call my baby a banshee?" Sungmin mused aloud, thoroughly amused.
"Super Junior! On in five!"
"Oh great..." Kibum sighed. Five more minutes until I can set this monstrosity onto the world?

* * *
"So Sungmin-ssi, tell me how this whole ordeal with Angela began." the MC prompted. Sungmin smiled.
"I went out with my baby girl and a fan spotted me. Thus resulting in a scandal."
"Oh. That simple then?"
"Yes."
"Well, how hard has it been for the other members? Dealing with a new baby?"
"Can I answer first?" asked Kyuhyun cautiously.
The MC nodded. "Of course Kyuhyun-ssi."
"We all love her to pieces, she is probably the most spoilt child I know of. Even though she does make us wake up early to tend to her, with the little hours of sleep we already get as idols, we still love her. We may fight over her from time to time because of how much we adore her."
"What would happen if her mother is found?"
"We'd be heartbroken." Yesung answered from his edge seat, holding the playful baby on his lap, bouncing her lightly up and down.
"I was surprised at Kyuhyun-ssi's answer. Usually he is very shy on shows. Why does he suddenly talk?"
"He really loves that girl." Kangin gave his teasing answer.
Angela began to squirm to get at Kyuhyun.
"Dadadadadadadadadada!" she cooed, continually trying to wiggle herself off of Yesung's lap to gain better access to Kyuhyun's.
"Excuse me." Kyuhyun stood up and picked up the little girl, bring her over to where he sat next to Sungmin.
"Dadadadadadadadada..." she giggled, playing with Kyuhyun's jacket. The MC was shocked.
"But I thought Sungmin-ssi was Angela's dad?" she asked confusedly.
"Mamamamamamama!" Angela called upon hearing Sungmin's name.
She pulled at the sleeve of Sungmin's jacket and he took her from Kyuhyun.
"Mama!"
"... So Sungmin-ssi is the mother and Kyuhyun-ssi is the father?" the MC appeared highly amused.
"It's because we are roommates. She sees us all the time because she sleeps in our room." Sungmin brushed the underlying question off. The MC shrugged. Kyuhyun couldn't help but feel a little hurt at his tone.
"But then how did Sungmin-ssi end up being the mama?"
"Because he loves pink!" Heechul deadpanned from his corner seat. The audience laughed at the bluntness while Sungmin blushed.
Zhoumi was about to stand up to adjust his seating position, because damnit, his legs were too long to sit comfortably and Korean people had tiny asses, but he tripped over his own feet causing a chain reaction.
Sungmin was thrown off his seat to the floor.
Holding his baby.
The audience gasped.
The entirety of Super Junior's seats collapsed.
Angela hit her head.
Once everything quietened down, all that could be heard was a soft sniffing, from where Sungmin was curled protectively around the baby girl.
Looking up, Sungmin looked at check that Angela wasn't hurt.
She looked back at him with a small blotch of blood dribbling down her forehead.

* * *
"ZHOUMI!" Sungmin screamed suddenly. He jumped up, giving the audience a good look at the blood dropping from the girl's forehead.
"... Uh... yes?" Zhoumi said sheepishly.
Sungmin looked like he was out for blood.
"You are a walking earthquake aren't you!? Look at what you did to poor Angela!"
The members had recovered themselves and looked towards where Sungmin was brandishing the child. Kyuhyun's eyes widened.
"I'm sorry, MC-ssi, but I really need to go and clean her up, feed her and put her to sleep..." Sungmin said surprisingly calmly, despite his explosion at Zhoumi seconds earlier. The male MC nodded, slight fear adorning his face.
"I will just talk to the other members..."
Sungmin smiled and walked off, humming happily.

"That was scary..." The male MC said the other members who merely nodded.
"He hasn't slept enough... he gets angry easier. He'll be fine now that Angela's okay," Kyuhyun looked remorseful, as if he was apologizing for the pink man. The MC nodded in understanding.
"When my daughter was born, I often exploded at little things that happened..."
"Do the single parents in the audience understand Sungmin's reaction?" A loud whisper overtook the audience and heads were seen to have nodded.
"He's a good father!... Or mother, rather!" a strong male voice from the audience came.
"He gives us hope as single parents!" another shouted.
The other members nodded.
"Shall we hear from the audience about their experiences?"

* * *
Sungmin watched the rest of the segment over the television in the greenroom. He heard the men who were raising children by themselves.
Such beautiful stories, that included strangers who had such kindness, prejudice, working two jobs and worying sick about their children.
He felt guilty over how he'd acted.
Angela seemed to be able to feel the guilt residing inside her 'mama' and she reached a hand up to his face. He smiled at his baby angel.
before grabbing the hand on his cheek softly, and brining it to his lips so he could kiss it.
Angela laughed despite the large bandaid covering her booboo-ed head.
Sungmin was rocking her in his arms and singing her a lullaby, so engrossed in his own world, sitting on the couch, that he did not notice when the other members finished the show and returned to the green room.
He'd fallen asleep right along with Angela. The little girl curled up against his chest, sleeping soudly.
"He's such a softie..." Heechul scowled, moving into the room, even though all of the other members had waited outside the door, admiring the cute scene.
"And you aren't, Heechul?" Hankyung said.
"Of course not, I'm Kim Heechul!" Heechul scoffed.
Hankyung shook his head.
"No, I meant, you aren't Heechul."
"Yah! Why are you like this?"
"Shhh... member and baby sleeping, remember?" Kibum brought a finger to his lips, watching Sungmin's chest rise and fall.
"I mean that your name tag lists you as Kibum. It has done for the entire recording."
"... What?"
"Oh my, it does!" Siwon pointed out.
"Mine says Donghae!"
"Apparently I'm Henry."
"When I woke up this morning I did not feel like Zhoumi."
"Hey, you can't blame me for the accident, because I'm Hankyung."
"How come I have to be Kangin?"
"Are you saying there is something wrong with me?"
"No, because you're Yesung!"
"I'm Kyuhyun! Yay, now I really am the maknae!"
"I'm Wookie!"
"I'll swap you!"
"Depends who you are Yesung."
"I'm Heechul."
"... I'll pass."
"I'm you Teukie-hyung!"
"Oh, that's great Siwon. Hey, who is Siwon?"
"I am..."
"Ah, Eunhyukkie! Who is Eunhyuk?"
"... No one, mine says that I'm Shindong."
"Oh... they forgot you Eunhyukkie... sorry..."
"... *sigh*..."
"Who is Minnie and Angela?"
"Let's see!"

Across Angela's little chest, the name tag read in big, bold letters: SUNGMIN.
And Sungmin's was placed just over his heart.
It read: PROPERTY OF ANGELA

"... Well... that is disgustingly cheesy..." Heechul huffed, walking out of the green room and leaving the other members "oohing" and "aaahing" over the unbearable cuteness.

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A/n: Sorry this update took FO-E-BAH! (alla-Jo Kwon) but I recently found my plot bunnies... this probably wasn't as crackish as the other chapters... sorry...

kangteuk, hanchul, sibum, zhoury, churchland, eunhae, yewook, shindong, kyumin

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