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Yoongi wasn't feeling well. It wasn't anything bad, just a slight fever, a light headache and mentally tired of all the works he had been doing, but with tight schedule and hard practices it could be really annoying. They were in the middle of practicing their dances when Yoongi felt the headache was getting worse. He tried to keep up with the dance though, and for an ill body he did a good job, but after 2 hours, his body was starting to give up, he didn't though. The first one to notice was Hoseok since he was keeping keen eyes on everyone to check on them. He noticed how Yoongi kept panting a little bit out of rhythm even though he usually keep up very well and how he dragged his body to move harder than usual. Once he realized that his particular hyung wasn't in his best condition, he frowned.
The second to notice was Seokjin. He knew something was wrong the second he accidentally glanced at Yoongi. He looked pink and it was hard to miss because usually the younger was a lot paler than this.
The leader of the group noticed right after Seokjin noticed. It didn't take much for him to notice, only one hand accidental touch and he got how unwell the older was. He eyed Hoseok once he noticed it, and Hoseok understand what it meant. He stopped dancing and clapped his hands.
"Okay, we're taking 10," Hoseok said, Seokjin went over to turned off the music and everyone stopped dancing. Just when the dance leader said that, the maknae line knew what's up and looked at each member to see which one of them was not well. The three youngers immediately took some action.
"Water, hyung?" Jimin said as he offered Yoongi a bottle of water. Yoongi gave him a nod and took the water before he sat down on the floor. Jungkook silently tossed a pillow near Yoongi because he knew the older would want to lie down and a pillow is always nicer than the hard floor for his head. Yoongi lied down as what Jungkook had predicted. Taehyung helped him towelling his forehead as well giving him a little massage while doing so. Afterwards they gave him the space he needed.
"Fever," Taehyung whispered to Seokjin as soon as the maknae line joined the hyung line on the corner of the room.
"Is it bad?" Seokjin asked. Taehyung shook his head.
"I would say it's pretty bad," Taehyung informed.
"From how he looks, he might have headache too though," Seokjin guessed. His guesses is usually right (and he was right) so the other believed it too. All of them exchanged a look before all of them look at Hoseok since he was left in charged by their dance instructor before he ran out for some emergency situation.
"We'll call today short," Hoseok said, he looked at Namjoon as if asking if it was okay. Namjoon gave a nod.
"Let's do one more though, so he won't get suspicious. You know how he didn't want us to go easy for him," Jimin suggested. The others nodded, agreeing to what he stated.
"Uh... He said to me earlier that he was going to go to his studio after this... We should think of a plan to prevent that," Jungkook stated. The other groaned as everyone knew that was a very hard thing to do.
"What do we do?" Taehyung tapped his chin, thinking.
"Namjoon-hyung or Jin-hyung should confront him about that... If he is going to listen to anyone, it would be Namjoon-hyung or Jin-hyung," Taehyung made a suggestion. They all agreed to that too, now the attention was turned to the two said guys.
"He will still go even if we ask him, but we can make him feels like he made the choice...?" Seokjin said which only earned confused look from everyone except Namjoon.
"Oh! That thing you showed me from that book? What was it? Parenting 101?" Namjoon said, clearly talking to Seokjin, the oldest gave him a nod. Jungkook put his hands on his hip, and raised his eyebrow.
"Perenting 101? Really is that how you control us?" Jungkook asked as if he was offended. Seokjin grinned while Namjoon let out a little 'oops'.
"Well, it worked on you, you, and you," Seokjin said while pointing to Jungkook, Jimin then Taehyung.
"Anyway, back to topic! Do you think your parenting or whatever it is will work on Yoongi-hyung?" Hoseok said, making them focusing back to their real deal.
"Well, I'll try," Namjoon said.
"I think you guys should go ahead after this, make sure our place is comfortable from him, maybe ordered some soup or something," Namjoon suggested, the other nodded to agree.
"Okay, we have the plan and our 10 is up," Hoseok said as he took a peek to the clock. He walked away from the rest to get in front of the mirror. Yoongi was still lying on the floor, his right hand is on his forehead, his eyes were closed but not sleeping, face still pink but he got his breathing back.
"Come on guys, 10 is up," Hoseok said, he made sure Yoongi heard that too, without letting out any word, Yoongi raised up and get to his position as well as the others.
They ended the practice after one last round and just like Jungkook said, Yoongi straightly went out to go to his studio, he bid a weak goodbyes to his band mates before he goes, and that's Namjoon cue to follows him. The other followed the plan as well, so they gave Namjoon a good luck mutters before they pack up to leave for their home.
When Yoongi was pushing his code to his door, Namjoon tapped him by his shoulder to get his attention, Yoongi turned to see Namjoon and raised his eyebrow to ask 'what up?'. Sick Yoongi is quite Yoongi, so he didn't really talk much.
"Hyung, I don't want you to overwork yourself but you are reasonable adult so let me give you a choice. You get out from there and go home with me in an hour or we are going home right now?" Namjoon said, trying. He started to think he should have let Jin do this. The older frowned and sighed before he gave a pat on Namjoon's shoulder.
"It's not working on me, okay? I know you're using Jin-hyung's trick..." Yoongi said, he walked into his studio, Namjoon followed him in. He sighed, but if this one trick doesn't work, Jin did told him there was another trick he could try.
"...Yeah... Sorry..." Namjoon said, sighing loudly so the older would hear him. Yoongi sits on his chair clicking some things and Namjoon sighs again.
"What? What is it?" Yoongi asks, he look away from his pc to look at Namjoon, he is annoyed of Namjoon's sighs and a bit worried too.
"Well... If I don't come back with you, I'll be nagged by Jin-hyung... I just... Ugh, not in a really great mood to be nagged at," Namjoon says, sighing again and put his I-am-troubled-and-only-you-can-get-me-out-of-this look. That look works really well since the moment he pulled that look, Yoongi sighs too. But then again, if this doesn't work, he still can use his leader card to play it dirty.
"... Damn... Fine, I'll go with you... Just give me 30 minutes to write some draft," Yoongi says, finally giving up. Namjoon's face lits up and he jumps excitedly.
"Thanks, hyung!" Namjoon cheers up.
27 minutes later Yoongi was ready to leave, Namjoon was really happy that his hyung was keeping his promise. He observed the older who looked much more pink then usual. The leader frowned his forehead and as Yoongi closed the studio's door, he brought his palm up to Yoongi's neck, feeling the burning skin. Yoongi glared at him, but didn't say anything.
"Gosh, hyung, you are burning up... Let's go to the doctor downstairs?" Namjoon said. Yoongi sighed, he knew it was coming.
"Please? I can't calm down if I don't know for sure, from a real professionals, that you are okay," Namjoon said, beaming a puppy stare to the older. The oldest rapper sighed again and nodded, before he walked towards the lift. Namjoon smiled and followed him. Now, Namjoon had lived the longest with Yoongi, long enough to know sometimes even the tough Min Yoongi likes body contant. And he guessed this was one of those times. He grabbed Yoongi's wrist, practically holding hand with the older, Yoongi sent him another glare, but his body language showed he appreciated the contact.
Namjoon giggled, even after all this time, he still couldn't understand how the swag Min Yoongi who didn't like hugs can be the same Min Yoongi who could look like he was about to cry if no body hold his hands in the next minute.
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Namjoon brought Yoongi back to the dorm safely which made the other members felt a little relief tgat their plan worked. As soon as he got to the dorm though, he got into his room and didn't come out even though Jin tried to knock on his door.
"The doctor said he'll be fine. He gave this," Namjoon said as he handed a packet of pills. Seokjin nodded.
"Okay, we'll take care of him now. You go rest," Seokjin said firm but soft. Namjoon complied. Seokjin went back to the kitchen and brought a tray of food and tea to Yoongi's door before knocking it again.
"Yoongichi," Seokjin tried to call the younger softly. He heard a slight groan before he decided he should just open the door. He found Yoongi lying helplessly on his bed, looked so in pain.
"You alright?" the oldest asked softly. Yoongi silently nodded, obviously lying.
"I brought soup, you think you can sit up for me?" Seokjin asked. The ill guy nodded and slowly slided himself to sit down. Seokjin set up the food and tea on the nightstand.
"Can you eat your own or should I feed you?" Seokjin laughed lightly. Yoongi rolled his eyes and grabbed the bowl of soup. He didn't want to eat because he felt unwell, but he couldn't deny that he didn't have anything this afternoon and he was hungry, so he took in the soup. It was warm and felt nice. The familiar taste made him felt good. He knew this taste, Jin definitely made this. Ever since they got busy, Seokjin rarely cook, and he would be lying if he didn't miss his only hyung in the group's cooking.
"Sorry to make you make this, you should just have rested, hyung," Yoongi finally said something. Seokjin only smiled.
"I would rather have a thank you than an apology, Yoongichi... You know I am happy to do this for my awesome dongsaengs, you are no exception," Seokjin said, it left Yoongi a slight smile of pleased.
"Thank you, Jin-hyung," The ill boy said. Seokjin nodded and ruffled his hair quickly. Seokjin rarely do that to Yoongi as he knew Yoongi didn't like to feel babied, but he knew the younger was pleased to get a ruffle on his head today. He was right, Yoongi felt pleased, somewhat calmed.
"Thank Chim and Kookie too, they helped made that soup. And also Tae, he tried his best to make the best papermint tea in the world for you," Seokjin said. Yoongi weakly smiled as he imagine how the kitchen would look like.
"Okay," Yoongi said before he took in another spoon of soup.
"I'll leave you for now, be sure to finish it and drink your meds," Seokjin said because he thought Yoongi would liked to have some space. But Yoongi stopped him by grabbing Jin's long sleeve's end.
"S-stay," Yoongi said. The room was dimly lighted, and Yoongi was red because of his fever, but Seokjin could tell he was a little bit flustered due to being shy. It was kind of cute. He wondered how this Yoongi could be the same Yoongi who kicked him out from their previous sharing room because he cuddled to the younger.
"What? You miss having roommate?" Seokjin asked jokingly, but if he was completely honest, he might be the one who missed to have a roommate.
"Kind of," Yoongi said, expressionless. Nevertheless it made Seokjin melted. He smiled and sat on Yoongi's bed, then accompanying Yoongi eating his dinner in comfortable silent.
He took a little nap after his dinner, and woke up around 11 PM. He had terrible sleep paralysis, but thankfully he was able to wake up. His headache came back and he couldn't really fell asleep again. His room felt cold and somehow he felt a little too empty since Seokjin left to his own room, so he left his room to wonder to the living room. There, he found Taehyung and Jimin, watching something on the TV, even though either of them seem to pay attention to it.
"Hyung!" Jimin almost yelled. Taehyung looked to Yoongi and lit up.
"How are you feeling, hyungie?" Taehyung asked, he sounded concerned. Jimin looked at him, anticipating an answer.
"Better... Thanks for making me soup and tea. It was the best I had in my life," Yoongi might have exaggerate that sentence but he just wanted to express that he appreciated his 2 beloved dongsaengs. It something he didn't usually do, though it didn't mean he never appreciated his members, he loved his members after all, he was grateful to be there with them.
"Awh, hyuuung~" The two youngsters said as they proceed to hug the older. The older beamed his infamous gummy smile and pats the other two.
"You are still warm, hyungie," Taehyung said, refering to his body temperature. Jimin let go of the hug, only to look his hyung in the eyes with pouty lips.
"Is your head hurts too?" Jimin asked, tilting his head. Yoongi tried to keep his smile, he still had severe headache but the last thing he wanted to do was to make the two more worried.
"Better, at least," Yoongi answered. Taehyung and Jimin smiled widely, then Taehyung dragged Yoongi to the couch shile Jimin pushed him to sit down.
"Cuddles can heal headaches! Let's cuddle!" Jimin excitedly threw himself to the couch next to Yoongi. Taehyung placed himself on the rapper's other side. Yoongi didn't mind at all, in fact, in the times like this, he might really enjoy skinship, made him felt less empty and ill, so the older was more than happy to join the cuddle. And it's warmer than being alone in his cold room.
They spent some time in a very comfortable silent, only when he drifting to the dream land he heard Jimin and Taehyung started humming a lullaby. It sounded like angles--perhaps, since he doesn't know how angles sounds like--. He always liked Jimin's voice, but when Jimin and Taehyung combined, it sounds heavenly. Yoongi feels good, he might be sick, but he feels good inside.
Yoongi was awaken due to a sound of something knocked over. He opened his eyes and he saw Jungkook. In fact, he was in Jungkook's arms, he was being carried by Jungkook and it seemed like Jungkook had knocked something over accidentally. He looked at Jungkook un-judgingly, but obviously asking for an explanation.
"What? I can't let my hyungs spend a night in the couch," Jungkook said as he looked away from Yoongi, slightly blushing. Yoongi chuckled and looked over the couch behind them. Jimin and Taehyung was no longer there, Yoongi guessed Jungkook had carried them back to their assigned room as well.
"Carry on then," Yoongi said, dropping his head to Jungkook's shoulder. The younger grinned as he gained the permission, so continued to walk towards Yoongi's room's door. He opened the door slowly, and made sure he didn't let Yoongi bumped into anything. Then he slowly layed Yoongi to his bed, the older appreciated it since he was still a bit dizzy, probably because side effect of a med he just took after dinner.
"Thanks, Kookie," Yoongi mumbled.
"Still dizzy?" Jungkook asked. Yoongi was still having a headache, but again, he didn't want to worry his members.
"Not re--"
"Hyung... I... I thought I've said it... You don't need to pretend like you are strong... You are strong... But... You know you can let yourself be weak with us..." Jungkook said, so slowly that Yoongi almost didn't hear it. Yoongi knew how hard it was for the youngest to say such thing, because he wasn't someone who was expressive about his feelings, much like himself actually.
"Yeah... Thank you, Kookie," Yoongi gave up.
"I am feeling dizzy, but I'm alright, Kook," Yoongi convinced the younger.
"If I am not fine, I'll tell you," Yoongi assured. The younger's face lit up, he was surely happy that his hyung would trust him on that.
"Okay?" The older waited for response.
"Yeah," Jungkook shortly replied with a smile.
"But... Maybe it'll be better if you stay home tomorrow... Please, hyungie?" Jungkook said, he sounded very sincere.
"We need you to be better before our flight," Jungkook added. Yoongi nodded. They were having a tour overseas soon, he couldn't afford be sick anymore than this.
"I'll tell Sejin-hyung..." Jungkook added again.
"Okay, I think you're right," Yoongi agreed which made the younger smiled. He gave Yoongi a hug then gave the rapper a tiny 'thank you'.
"No, thank you," Yoongi whispered back.
"Now, I'm dizzy, need my sleep. Thanks for carrying me, Kookie. But out you go now! Go to sleep!" Yoongi said, mostly because he wanted the maknae to have some sleep too.
"Okay okay," Jungkook said as he made tiny run to the door.
"Good night, hyungnim,"
Yoongi woke up feeling a little better, even though his fever hadn't came down yet, but his headache was almost gone. He glanced over the clock above his TV, it was 9. They had a practice scheduled at 8, and he had set his alarm at 7, he wondered why didn't it ring, so he checked it and found that it had been turned off. He had a mental fight with himself: a side of him telling him he might have forgotten to set the alarm, and one side of him telling him he was sure he set it yesterday morning.
"I disabled it, because all of us agreed you need to rest and skip the lyric practice," Yoongi looked up to find Hoseok coming in with a tray on his hand.
"Morning, hyung~" Hoseok greeted like a sunshine.
"Oh, morning hyung, are you feeling better?" Namjoon appeared from being the door and positioned himself behind Hoseok, resting his chin to the dance leader's shoulder.
"Yeah, thanks," Yoongi said, taking some of the porridge. He was sure Hoseok made that, it tasted similar to Jin's porridge but with more rough cutting of chicken and with soy sauce, just the way he liked it.
"I get Kookie said I should rest today, but why are you two staying too?" Yoongi asked, curious.
"Because we know our Yoongi-hyung would like a company even though he most likely will be a tsundere and denied it," Hoseok said as he beamed the most charming smile anyone can strike out. Namjoon giggled and nodded to agree to what Hoseok said. Yoongi scoffed but didn't comment on it. Dee down he was agreeing too though.
"And beside our 3 dongsaengs make it clear to us if we don't take a good care of you, Jungkook will personally kill us, Taehyung would burry us, and Jimin would pray for us to go to hell," Namjoon says. Yoongi laughs to the what he thinks as a joke.
"It wasn't a joke, they really said that to us!" Namjoon said and Hoseok nodded.
"Those three has soft spot for you, I swear... I get jealous sometimes..." Hoseok says before he plops down on Yoongi's bed, lying on his stomach, next to Yoongi. Namjoon takes Yoongi's other side, also lying on his stomach. By then Yoongi was done with his porridge, he put the bowl back in the night stand. Hoseok helped him to get a glass of water while Namjoon sneakily circled his hands around Yoongi's arm.
"Do you need anything, hyung? I can get pain killer if your head still hurts," Namjoon said. Yoongi shooked his head. He leaned back to his bed, still in between Hoseok and Namjoon, only now they were snuggling closer, keeping their hyung warm.
"I need more sleep. Stay like this... Save me when I'm getting sleep paralysis..." Yoongi said. Namjoon and Hoseok smiled, Yoongi then closed his eyes, difrting back to sleep.
Yoongi could have sworn he had the best sleep, he wondered what could be the reason to that. His headache and fever were gone as if he never had it in the first place. When he opened his eyes, he felt a little heavy, he found Hoseok and Namjoon were still on his side, sleeping. He also a hand linking to his right hand, he found Jin next to Namjoon with his hand weakly holding his, he was also asleep. Then he saw Jungkook sleeping quitely on the top of him, Jimin was on the top of Hoseok, his hand was over Jungkook while Taehyung was on the top of both Jin and Namjoon, his hand was over Junkook too. Yoongi smiled to the situation. He couldn't understand how his bed manage not to break with 7 people on the top of it considering it is only designed for 2 people. But at least, he knew why his sleep was good now, it was probably he had his dearest friends with him. He felt loved and blessed.
"Thank you for taking care of me," Yoongi mumbled before he proceed to pat each one of them gently, feeling grateful that he was surrounded by his kind members.