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The filming of ToDo was in full swing and Yeonjun was having a difficult time. Sure, he was enjoying all the games they were playing, but he was having trouble focusing and was generally feeling a bit off. Admittedly he had been feeling a bit off since he woke up, but their schedules had been busier lately, and he probably shouldn't have stayed up late trying to finish his newest book. All in all, he figured that he was just overly tired from inadvertently pulling an all-nighter. Besides, they’ve had days where they basically had to be awake for almost forty hours. He’s used to sleep deprivation. It just probably wasn’t wise to skimp on sleep when he could actually get some. But whatever, what’s done is done.
The members were currently playing a game with electronic cat ears. Everyone was doing their best to either get one of the others flustered enough to move their ears or keep calm enough to keep their own ears still. Even though the group was being their usual loud, chaotic selves, Yeonjun was having trouble keeping his eyes open. He was doing his best, but as the minutes ticked by, it was becoming increasingly more difficult to stay awake.
Taehyun had taken note of Yeonjun's slightly odd behavior, but felt that the middle of filming wasn't the right time to confront the older. It wasn't until he could hear some very faint snoring under all the chaos that Taehyun decided to intervene.
"I think Yeonjun hyung fell asleep." The second youngest stated as he gestured to the man sitting next to him. The others started snickering a bit loudly at seeing Yeonjun sound asleep with cat ears on his head. Beomgyu went to poke the elder's cheek and frowned a little when he removed his hand.
"Does hyung feel warm to you?" He asked. This resulted in all of them feeling Yeonjun's face while making it look like teasing. After all, the cameras were still filming them. Soobin went to talk to the manager, only to be told that they couldn't reschedule the shoot.
"Guys, manager-nim says that we don't have any space in our schedules to refilm this episode, so we have to wake up hyung and continue filming." Soobin said with regret painted on his face.
Taehyun shook Yeonjun's shoulder, but the older man didn't stir. The other three members did the same, but Yeonjun was out like a light. Beomgyu sighed as he stood up before running over to where his backpack was. He returned a couple minutes later with an air horn.
"Hyung, why do you have an air horn?" Kai asked. Beomgyu shrugged his shoulders a bit. "I honestly don't really know. Someone in one of the idol group chats I’m in, I forget which decided that it would be funny to prank their group with an air horn, and it’s been migrating between groups. Kinda like that one book about the pants. Somebody put it in my bag during our most recent music show.”
Beomgyu raised the air horn a bit, turning his head away from the device. The other members pressed their hands against their ears to protect them from the loud sound. Beomgyu pressed the button and everyone startled at least a little bit. Yeonjun jumped out of his seat into a standing position. “I’m awake. I wasn’t sleeping.” The eldest said as he rubbed sleep out of his eyes.
“Sure hyung. Anyway we have about two more hours of filming then we’ll go home.” Soobin said as he took the air horn from Beomgyu. “I’m keeping this until we get back to the dorm. I don’t want you using this on unsuspecting staff.” Soobin chided. Beomgyu looked a little bit offended, if it weren’t for the mischievous glint in his eyes. Soobin knows the younger a bit too well.
The initial burst of adrenaline that woke Yeonjun up faded rather quickly and the members found him dozing off not even ten minutes later. Taehyun began having to discreetly slap him every so often so that he’d stay awake. It was a little bit concerning, as the last time Yeonjun had been sick, he hadn’t been this fatigued. Soobin made the decision that once they were done filming this episode, they were going to take Yeonjun home and get him to bed. He also wanted to know exactly how high his hyung’s fever was in order for him to be tired.
At some point the members decided to give up on trying to keep Yeonjun awake. It wasn’t exactly sustainable to be hitting one of the members every few minutes. Sobbin managed to talk the producer into letting them end the episode early, so they quickly said their closing remarks on the episode before wrapping up the episode. Soobin and Kai teamed up to walk Yeonjun to the van and then inside the dorm when they arrived. To no one’s surprise, Yeonjun was fast asleep by the time he was pulled up outside of the groups place of residence.
Taehyun went to the bathroom and grabbed the thermometer, while Beomgyu cleared off the sofa so Soobin and Kai wouldn’t have to walk so far. Taehyun returned with the thermometer just as Soobin and Kai finished getting Yeonjun properly positioned on the couch. Taehyun placed the thermometer in the eldest’s mouth, and the group waited for it to beep. When the device beeped, Taehyun removed it from Yeonjun’s mouth and frowned when he saw the number.
“How high’s his fever? Do we need to take him to the doctor?” Soobin asked, trying to figure out why Taehyun was frowning at the number.
“His temp is 38.3 (100.9F). It’s not nearly as high as I thought it was going to be given how sleepy and out of it he’s been today.”
“Hyungs, a fever is still a fever regardless of how high it is. Besides, have we even seen Yeonjun hyung with a fever before?” Kai asked. The others thought about it for a moment before they all shook their heads.
“Okay, so maybe this is just how he is with a fever. I’m going to grab some medicine, can one of you make some rice or something for him to eat.” Soobin said as he walked towards the bathroom.
When Soobin returned, he saw Kai shaking Yeonjun awake. Beomgyu was assisting by flicking water onto the older member. Yeonjun groaned a little as he woke up and wiped the water off his face. “Mhmm, What time is it?” He asked as he slowly sat up, not yet registering that he was back at the dorm.
“It’s seven at night hyung.” Kai responded ast he took the glass of water from Beomgyu and handed it to Yeonjun. Yeonjun’s eyes widened. “When did we get back?” He asked as he took a couple of sips.
“We got back a few minutes ago. You were basically a walking zombie for the past hour, so I talked management into letting us out early. By the way, you have a fever, so you’re probably not going to feel good for a couple of days.” Yeonjun hummed in response just as Taehyun walked in the room holding a bowl of rice.
“Hyung, eat this, then you can take a fever reducer. Although your fever isn’t that high to begin with. We all thought it was higher based on how you’ve been acting.” Yeonjun nodded as he accepted the bowl of rice.
“Yeah, my body’s never reacted to fevers super well. It honestly didn’t occur to me that I might be sick. I just thought that I might have overdone it or something and that was why I was so tired today.” Silence fell over the group as Yeonjun somewhat lethargically ate his meager dinner. He then took the fever reducer and was once again looking like he was ready for bed.
“Come on hyung, let’s get you changed into some more comfortable clothing then you can sleep for the night.” Yeonjun nodded and stood up, stumbling slightly as he was already half asleep. Beomgyu and Taehyun helped support their sick hyung as they walked him to his room and helped him get dressed. Yeonjun was fast asleep shortly after his head hit the pillow.
A couple hours later, the healthy members were in the very beginning stages of getting ready for bed, when Yeonjun came out of his room looking much more alert than he had previously.
“Hey hyung,” Taehyun greeted. “Are you up to get something or are you awake because you’ve practically spent the entire day sleeping and the medicine’s kicked in so you don’t currently have a fever?”
“Second one. I think I’ll hang out out here for a bit before trying to go back to sleep.” Yeonjun replied as he sat down on the couch, grabbing the remote to turn on the tv.” Taehyun nodded then sat down next to Yeonjun.
I don’t have any schedules tomorrow, so I’ll stay up a bit longer and keep you company.” It wasn’t long for the other three members to catch wind of what was going on and collectively decided to have a sleepover in the living room. Yeonjun at first, was concerned that an impromptu sleepover would mess up the others’ ability to properly perform at their own schedules. Soobin laughed a bit mischievously at the concern.
“First off hyung, since you have a fever, you’re not leaving here until you’re better. You only have a slight fever and you can barely stay awake. Secondly, if we’re that tired tomorrow, who’s to say we didn’t get sick too?” Beomgyu cheered at the statement and got the others riled up at the prospect of faking sick for a couple of days to play hookie while they kept their sick member company until he was fully recovered.