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Wonwoo wakes up to the sound of both his and Mingyu's phones vibrating on the nightstand. His phone is ringing from a call while Mingyu's is going off non-stop from notifications. There are only three chats Mingyu doesn't mute even when they're asleep and since Wonwoo is already right next to Mingyu, and they'd just talked to Minseo earlier this evening, plus Wonwoo's phone is ringing, it can only be the members' chat.
He can’t read who’s calling him but he picks up anyway since it’s a contact.
“Don’t kill me,” says the voice on the other end.
It’s Soonyoung. He sounds harried, even over the phone.
“Young-ah? Is everything alright?”
“I fucked up you need to help me.”
Wonwoo is awake immediately. He gets up from bed and grabs his glasses so he can move right away if he needs to. “What happened?”
“I posted a video with Latte but I didn’t check the background.”
Dread spreads across Wonwoo’s whole chest. Knowing Hoshi, it could be anything. Wonwoo prepares for the worst.
“What was it?”
“There was a sex scene on the TV.”
Wonwoo pinches the bridge of his nose. It's not ideal but it could have been far worse. Still, “The SNS team is going to kill you," Wonwoo tells him.
“I know but you need to help me fix it.”
“How?” Wonwoo can't imagine what he can do that Seungcheol or a manager can't. At least one person is always on standby if something happens.
"We need a distraction!!" Hoshi declares. There's a pep to his voice that wasn't there when he was confessing to his crime and Wonwoo has a feeling he knows where this is going.
“He’s asleep, Soonyoung.”
“Please please please. I will owe you both forever.”
Wonwoo glances over at Mingyu who hasn't stirred at all even over the chaos of his phone vibrating non-stop for the last few minutes. It's been a hot minute since Mingyu broke the internet so Hoshi's plan might actually work.
He sighs. "I'll ask him. But only if he says yes."
“Love you and can I send you the video so you can crop it? I tried to do it but I ended up posting the scene again.” Hoshi adds quickly.
“Kwon Soonyoung.”
“You love me!”
Wonwoo puts the phone down and watches the video, shocked at how Hoshi could have missed the woman on the giant screen clearly in the throes of passion. He shakes his head in disbelief. He'll edit the video later, for now, they need to provide a distraction for Carats.
Wonwoo leans over to Mingyu's side of the bed and strokes the hair away from Mingyu’s face. He’s loath to wake Mingyu up when he's clearly deep in sleep but this probably counts as an emergency. Their phones haven’t stopped blowing up and Wonwoo can see Seungcheol's name popping up the most in the notifications.
“Min-ah, wake up.” He presses a kiss to Mingyu’s forehead. “Wake up, sweetheart”
“Hm?” Mingyu vocalizes in the cute high pitched way of his. He shuffles closer to Wonwoo, still asleep but starting to wake up.
“You need to take a selca now and post it for Carats,” Wonwoo tells him, still stroking his hair.
“Hyung?” Mingyu's blinking up at him, bleary. He knows Mingyu understood the words but not the reason Wonwoo's waking him up in the middle of the night to provide fan service.
“Right now, baby. I’ll tell you why in a bit and make it up to you. But you have to do it now.”
Mingyu rolls over on his back and pulls the blankets up to his chin, bare shoulder just peaking from under the covers. He looks up at Wonwoo expectantly so Wonwoo takes the photo on Mingyu’s phone. He angles the camera just close enough that it'll look like a selca. Mingyu looks so soft and sleepy and Wonwoo really wishes he could keep this photo for himself but the team needs this. He leans down and rests his head on Mingyu’s shoulder so Mingyu can see the screen as he types out the Weverse post.
“Are you okay with this photo, baby?”
“Mhm,” Mingyu replies sleepily. "Will you tell me why you're posting me in bed on Weverse now?"
“Thank you.” Wonwoo presses a kiss to his jaw and gets Mingyu up to date on what happened on Weverse.
Mingyu's eyes widen when he sees the video and he looks up at Wonwoo, scandalized. "Hyung."
"Yeah, so you can see why we need you."
Mingyu only nods in reply. He takes his phone from Wonwoo and hits post himself.
Wonwoo works on cutting the video to remove the offending clip and sends it back to Soonyoung so he can post it and then he opens the group chat. Sure enough the members who are awake are all flooding the chat.
Seungcheol: Kwon Soonyoung.
Hoshi: I’m fixing it.
Seungcheol: Our manager is threatening to resign.
Hoshi: I'm fixing it!!
Seungcheol: WHY DID YOU POST IT AGAIN. STOP IT.
DK: oh it’s not me this time
Jihoon: Soonyoung🙄🙄🙄
Jeonghan: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Wonwoo: I am deploying Mingyu to distract them.
Joshua: is that what we’re calling thirst trap these days
Hoshi: I love you, Wonu-yah ~
Mingyu: Gkad I could help hyung.
Wonwoo: You owe us .
Seungcheol: SNS team is telling me to tell Hoshi to stop posting. @Hoshi
Hoshi: Saying good night now. ㅠㅠ
Hoshi: I'm really sorry everyone.
Seungcheol sends a few more messages and Wonwoo knows Hoshi's gonna yelled at more when they get to work in the morning. In the grand scheme of things, it’ll likely blow over and hopefully carats will just find it funny, even though he’s sure the SNS team is upset. He’ll owe them even more for making their jobs more difficult. That’s for Soonyoung to deal with though.
Wonwoo turns back to Mingyu and sees him looking thoughtfully at Wonwoo.
“You’re normally more gatekeepy about my shirtless selcas,” Mingyu comments.
Wonwoo pulls Mingyu toward him and settles Mingyu's head on his chest. “Emergency measures.”
They both watch the video again and take a moment to contemplate the gravity of it all.
“Wow,” Mingyu says.
“Yeah.”
Mingyu looks up at Wonwoo, eyes full of mirth. “Can I have what she’s having?”
Wonwoo snorts but starts pushing the blankets down. “Anything for the hero of the day.”
Wonwoo's about to start trailing kisses down Mingyu's chest but they both jump when Mingyu’s phone vibrates again. There’s a comment from Seungcheol on the Weverse post.
Seungcheol: Youngh…hee?
Mingyu groans. “Hoshi-hyung owes me hanwoo beef.“
Wonwoo laughs and pulls Mingyu in for a kiss.