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Instinct || Josh Pieters

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A/N: This is literally just a huge ball of fluff because I’m feeling very broody rn and miss my lil baby sm<3

You and Josh had a thousand things in common, one of the many things that spurred you to fall for him, but there was one specific thing that you defiantly did not share. And that, was your motherly instinct.

You really couldn’t help it, it just came naturally to you. It may have been due to the fact that you grew up taking care of your younger siblings seeing as both of your parents worked and only really came home to sleep.

They were older now, and you knew deep down that they could look after themselves and didn’t need you as much anymore, but that didn’t make moving out of your family home any harder.

These days, you really didn’t have anyone much younger than you to look after, only Josh, who, admittedly, didn’t need you as much as you liked to think he did. He was a grown ass man who was living his best life and was ever thankful that you were by his side throughout his journey, but that didn’t stop you from feeling a little unneeded.

You’d always had such a purpose, a drive that got you out of bed at five am every morning and only let you sleep when everybody else in your life was one hundred percent satisfied. Not having that made you feel inadequate.

That wasn’t to say your life living with Josh and Caspar wasn’t challenging, but you just felt like they withdrew themselves from you, obviously under the impression that you didn’t want to have to deal with their problems. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

There was a turning point, as there is with every resounding situation; and it was a cloudy Monday morning. You were sat on the couch in your sweats, your hair up in a messy bun and a small amount of makeup on your face. It was a personally proclaimed lazy day; and besides, you’d always been convinced that Monday’s were originally created as a day to recover from the weekend.

Josh had left early that morning, kissing you softly on the cheek as you mumble incoherently, still half asleep as you push your face into the pillow and hear him chuckle slightly as he left the room and flicked the light off.

You were sure that he’d gone to a meeting, seeing as you’d had a conversation with it the previous evening; but you couldn’t pinpoint exactly what the meeting was about. You silently shake your head and curse yourself for having such a bad memory.

You were swaying your hips and scrambling some eggs in a pan when your phone chimed from its place on the countertop. You reached over and kept one eye on the pan as you unlocked the device and read the message from one of your best friends. The further you read, the more the pit of your stomach began to bubble with excitement.

She’d asked you if it was okay for her to drop her little boy at your place for a few hours seeing as you lived hardly ten minutes from her place and her babysitter had dropped out last minute.

You agreed readily and you could just tell she was laughing at you for getting so excited. You had time to eat your eggs and make sure nothing too sharp was exposed at floor level before you heard a knock on the door.

Swinging the door open, you smile at her widely and she just chuckles and rolls her eyes at you, pushing into the apartment and placing the baby bags onto the counter before passing you the car seat. “He’s asleep at the minute, won’t be long until he wakes up. He shouldn’t be any trouble really, he loves his Auntie (Y/N).” She smiles at you and kisses your cheek, glancing down at her watch and cursing quietly. “Sorry I couldn’t stick around for longer, but I’m so late. I’ll see you in a few hours, and thanks again babe!” She calls as she walks out of the apartment, closing the door softly behind her and leaving you to grin down at the sleeping baby.

You truly were in your element, and even when he woke up and cried softly for a while, you couldn’t help but continue to smile as you bounce him up and down in your arms and hush him softly as you walk around the apartment; knowing for a fact that movement never failed to calm him down.

When he was happy and you had him giggling, you decided to prop him up on the couch and keep him stable with pillows and sit directly in front of him with your legs crossed, playing peek-a-boo and laughing whenever he threw his head back and gargled gibberish which you could only assume was him letting you know how much he appreciated your dry sense of humour.

You barely even noticed when Josh walked back into the apartment, along with Caspar and a very frazzled Joe following suit. They all froze and their conversation halted when they spotted you sat on the couch, your face pressed against the babies as you blew raspberries with your mouth and giggled when he stared into your eyes and blew spit bubbles.

You looked up over the back of the couch when you heard Josh drop his keys onto the counter, and smile at them all. “Heya guys, how was the meeting?”

“Alright.” Josh shrugs, before furrowing his brows and sharing a look with a few of the boys as you go back to quietly playing peek-a-boo with the baby. “Um, babe, where’d you get the baby?”

You scrunch up your nose and look at him in disbelief. “I went and got him in Tesco, where’d you think I got him?” She says sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she steadied the tiny swaying body. “(Y/F/N) dropped him off, her babysitter bailed on her and she had a meeting in Central London.”

“He’s so adorable!” Caspar squeals, running over and sitting on his knees in front of the couch, staring at the baby as if he was the most precious thing in the world. “Oh my goodness, I just wanna eat him up!”

You chuckle and wipe away some dribble with the bib you’d grabbed out of the bag from the babies chin. You look up at Joe and Josh and nod toward the baby. “Come say hello.”

Caspar awes softly as you brush some of the hair away from the little man’s face and he leans into your touch with a gargle, causing you to grin and rub your thumb across his cheek. Joe and Josh huddle around the sofa, Joe kneeling down beside Caspar and Josh sitting behind you, wrapping his arms around your waist and kissing your neck once before he began staring at the baby over your shoulder.

Caspar picks up one of the many toys that had somehow already been littered all across the apartment and cautiously holds it in-front of the baby, the smile on his face widening hugely when the boy reaches his chubby little arms out and makes grabby hands for the plush giraffe.

Joe was making funny faces at the baby, making him stare at him with his wide eyes and laugh, but hardly anything compared to the way he laughed with you. It was more than likely to do with the fact that he knew who you were, and was only just now meeting Joe for the first time.

There was peace for a few minutes, and you conversed with the boys about their meeting and how everything had gone, but before you could get into telling them about the boring morning you’d had, the babies mood suddenly turned and he went from gurgling happily to screaming at the top of his lungs.

The boys all move away, their eyes widening in shock, but you simply laugh and roll your eyes at them, reaching forward and lifting the baby into your arms, standing up and patting his back softly as you walk around to the back of the couch and pace circles slowly. “Hey, hey no, it’s okay. Shh.”

You continue to mindlessly mumble reassuring things to the baby as you reheat his bottle of milk, expertly resting it on your wrist all whilst balancing the now deeply breathing baby on your hip. When you were sure that it wasn’t too hot, you popped the nipple into his mouth and rocked him gently as he stared up at you and guzzled the milk down before falling asleep in your arms with an empty bottle hanging between his gums.

You clean up his face and put the bottle on the counter before walking over to the car seat and placing him down inside, making sure to cover him with his little blanket and putting a pacifier between his clenched fingers just in case he was to wake up.

When you were fully satisfied that he was as safe and as comfortable as he could be, you hop over the back of the sofa and cuddle into Josh’s side. He wraps his arm around your waist and hugs you into him as Caspar continued to play Counter Strike on his computer on the other side of the room and Joe began to vlog a little, updating his viewers on his day. You hadn’t even noticed that he’d been filming before.

That night, when your friend had come to pick up the baby and had thanked you multiple times for being, in her words, a life saver, and Joe left to go home, you and Josh cuddled together in bed. He ran his fingers up and down your back as he began to speak softly. “Did you have a good day today?”

You nod and smile at him. “One of the best in a while.”

“Seeing you with kids, it makes me really happy,” Josh admits, his voice croaky and his accent so much more prominent now than it was during the day due to his sleepiness. “You think we’ll start a family one day?”

You purse your lips together and shrug. “I like to hope so.”

He grins and pushes his face into the crook of your neck, yawning softly and closing his eyes. “Well, in that case, there’s something I need to tell you.”

You narrow your eyes and push him away gently, looking at him with your eyebrows raised. “What did you do?”

“I may or may not have lost a bet to Casp when we were seventeen and now have to give my first child Caspar as a middle name.”

You were about to groan and laugh at his, and coincidentally, your, expense, but after thinking about it for a second, you hum and nod, causing the red head to eye you in confusion. “Something Caspar Pieters, I like it.” You kiss him quickly before getting comfortable and switching off your lamp. “Night babe.”

You hear Josh laugh and you can’t help but smile into your pillow, especially when he curls himself around you from behind you and begins to trace shapes into the exposed skin on your stomach. “I love you.”

“I love you more.” You mumble sleepily, your eyes slowly closing as the events of the day caught up to you and you fell into dreams of yourself and Josh’s future.