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Yoongi woke up with a headache.
He rolled over slowly and lifted a tired arm up to search blindly for his currently 'ice cream cake' screaming phone. Without opening his too-heavy eyes he turned it off and pulled the covers over his head. He was gonna kill Jungkook for changing his alarm tone again - just as soon as his head stopped pounding.
He must have fallen asleep again because the next time he woke it was to Jin gently coaxing him awake. .
"Yoongi, I know you're tired but you have to eat something. You can rest after." Jin had a hand on his shoulder and spoke with soft voice close to his ear.
Yoongi groaned his dissent, he was too hot, his throat hurt, and he wanted to sleep for the rest of the year. Where did he catch a cold?
"Yoongi," Jin tried again, "You have to eat. When you do you can take some medication and sleep again." He laid a cool hand on Yoongi's forehead, "You're burning up."
Yoongi sighed, both from the relief of the cold palm on his forehead and the idea of sitting up but slowly, and with Jin's help he did. Once upright he cracked his eyes open to see Jin's worried ones locked on him before closing them again because they were too heavy to keep open.
Jin chuckled but even that was tinged with worry, "Oh boy. Just open when I say, I'll feed you."
"Thank you," Yoongi croaked when Jin was done getting him to eat and making sure he took some medication. He laid back down and pulled the covers around him.
"Get some rest," Jin dropped a kiss on his forehead, "I'll come back to check on you."
With that, Jin left the room and within minutes Yoongi was asleep again. In the hours following he woke a few times, usually to someone checking on him, bringing him water, feeding him soup, making sure he wasn't too uncomfortable. And though he would usually throw them out he was too sick to deny it to himself that he loved them all and loved the attention. Except for Namjoon of course, because he was the biggest, squishiest one of them all, and he called him cute when he sneezed, and he smothered him with kisses, and really he had no right to look at him like that when Yoongi sweaty and stuffy and felt undead.
The fever finally broke late in the afternoon. Yoongi wasn't quite up to cartwheeling or, let's face it, rolling too quickly to the left but he felt better. Jin came to check on him not long after and was happy to find his progress.
"I was starting to think we'd have to take you to the hospital- yes, you hate it, but you were burning up and we were worried. Still tired?"
"Not as tired as before," Yoongi replied, voice scratchy, "I'd still like to sleep for a while though."
Jin hummed, "Okay, good, rest up. And call if you need anything. Do you want me to make you something special?"
Yoongi shook his head, no.
"Okay well I'll go start dinner." Jin kissed his cheek before leaving, drawing a small smile from the sick man. When the door closed Yoongi decided that now was a good time to shower. He struggled out of bed, pouting at the effort it took and glaring at his barely cooperative legs. He opened his door to begin the journey that was really seeming too far a stretch only to be immediately accosted by anxious maknaes who sprang to action as soon as he came into view.
"I can walk!" He protested to deaf ears as Jimin commanded one side of his body and Jungkook another. Taehyung held the door to the bathroom open for them all and they would've stayed with him if Hoseok hadn't dragged them out.
Yoongi smiled after the door closed.
***
That night found Yoongi sat on the couch in their living room with Namjoon and Jin on either side, Hoseok on the floor in front of him with his head on Yoongi's lap. The younger ones had all reluctantly gone to bed earlier but not before making sure cuddle up to their sick hyung and hugging him too tightly.
"I'll go make some popcorn," Hoseok said when the first movie ended. Yoongi extracted his fingers from where they'd been carding through Hoseok's hair and let him go. He sighed and snuggled closer to Jin who looked down at him fondly before smiling kissing him chastely. Yoongi smiled up at the brunette before turning to Namjoon for another kiss. Namjoon chuckled and gave it to him, maybe not quite as chaste as Jin had been.
"Feeling better?" Hoseok asked. He walked back into the room and sat on the floor again but turned his back on the TV this time.
"A bit," Yoongi grinned.
Hoseok laughed. "Oh, a bit. Let's see if I can help improve that."
He leaned up on his knees and brushed his knuckles over Yoongi's cheek before kissing him. Yoongi always liked kissing Hoseok, he didn't bring him gasping to his knees like Namjoon did, and he wasn't as gentle and adoring as Jin was, but he kissed with his whole body and it always pulled Yoongi in. He could kiss Hoseok for hours.
Next to them Namjoon whistled and Jin giggled. Yoongi and Hoseok smiled into the kiss before finally pulling apart.
"A few more of those and he could be cured forever," Namjoon laughed.
"So let's try then," Jin joined in.
"For science and the good of mankind," Hoseok declared before leaning back in.