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Anxious Times - SKZ Jisung (Han)

Levanter era. How the members help Jisung with his anxiety. 

No one had expected it. No one saw it coming. Not from their sunshine.

He'd been experiencing some symptoms of anxiety for a couple of weeks now, though he didn't think anything of it, he thought he was just overworking himself.

The first member to notice was Minho. The group had decided to take a trip to the mall, a half hour away from their dorm. When they had first arrived at the mall, barely anyone was there, now it was later in the day and it seems that everyone wanted to go and shop.

The eight of them had split into two groups, the first consisting of Chan, Jeongin, Felix and Seungmin, and the second consisting of all the other members.

Minho's group were all huddled close together, not wanting to lose anyone in the busy centre, Jisung, realising just how busy it was, started to breathe a little heavier, as his hands trembled a little. Minho had heard the younger's breathing pick up slightly, having been stood so close to him and wrapped an arm around his shoulder in comfort.

Jisung relaxed at the contact, knowing that the older would protect and thanked him quietly. Minho replied with a smile, that could only be seen by the way his eyes moved, the mask preventing Jisung from seeing it any further, and a soft squeeze.

That day, after they had returned home, Minho decided that their leader had to know of what had happened, "Chan-hyung, can I talk to you for a minute?" He asked after knocking on the door to Chan and Changbin's room, the two boys were just chatting about ideas for upcoming tracks.

"Of course, Changbin?" Changbin nodded, giving Minho a smile on the way out and closing the door behind him.

"What's up Minho?" Chan questioned, concerned as to why the boy was so serious. Minho sighed and took a seat on Changbin's bed sitting opposite from Chan. "I'm worried about Jisung." This caught the eldest's attention very quickly, "I've been keeping a closer eye on him lately, just because he's been acting a little off, and today at the centre, it got crowded, so we were all quite close to one another, Jisung's breathing picked up quite a bit, he was looking around anxiously and his hands were shaky too."

Chan nodded along with what Minho was saying, he was certainly right, Jisung had definitely been acting odd the last couple of weeks, he had been a little more reserved, which was definitely concerning. "It sounds like he may be developing anxiety, where is he now?"

"He's in our room." Minho responded, quickly standing up and following the leader to his shared room with Jisung and Seungmin. The sight that they come across was certainly not what they were expecting.

There, curled up in a ball on his bed while hyperventilating was Jisung. Chan rushed forward, placing one hand on his shoulder to check if touch was okay and when he received no flinch or the younger attempt to move away from the hand, he was quick to tug the boy up onto his lap.

"Jisung, copy my breathing okay? Hyung's have you. You're okay. In... Out..." Chan took slow, deliberate breaths, as Minho rubbed the boy's back soothingly. It took about ten minutes for him to calm down, and when he did, he was a blushing mess, frantically apologising, receiving hushes in response, "It's not your fault aegi, calm down. You have nothing to be sorry for." Minho whispered softly.

"Chan-hyung, I think the others need to know, just in case something was to happen and we aren't there. Is that okay Sungie?" When Chan received the approval from the rapper, he stood, transferring Jisung into Minho's arms for cuddles, as he left the room to talk to the rest.

Minho and Jisung spent the five minutes it took to cuddle and talk quietly, before the rest of the Maknae line crashed the party and stole Jisung away from Minho. Surely enough they heard a stampede of footsteps, Chan and Changbin's voices telling them to calm down before they all burst into the room and inevitably snatched Jisung away from the second oldest, laughing and cheering at the look of fear on Minho's face, Jisung even laughing too. They took the boy into Jeongin, Hyunjin and Felix's bedroom and proceeded to make a semi-fort on the floor, doting on the boy happily.

The next time it happened, was in public. The boys were at a fan sign event and were just about finished with the first half of the event, the signing of things that fans had bought with them, the second half where they performed and played around still yet to come around.

They were on the last fan when Jisung's anxiety had started to flare up, Jisung being last in line, was holding hands with the fan in front of him when she squinted her eyes at him, "Jisung-ah, are you feeling okay? You're really shaky and pale? You're breathing is all over the place? Omo! Are you having a panic attack?" She whispered softly, knowing the idol probably didn't want any fans to know.

When Jisung just looked down, she knew what to do. "Changbin-oppa, Jisung-ah is having a panic attack." She hushed quietly to the older boy, nodding her head at the member who was younger than her.

Changbin was quick to take action, placing a hand on Jisung's back and rubbing soft patterns on it, "Jisung-ah, we need to get you calm aegi, do you have any water left?" When the younger shook his head softly, Changbin just about cursed when the fan pulled out her own bottle, "I know you aren't supposed to take things like this, but I swear I have done nothing to it, here, see?" With that the fan took a couple sips of the water, convincing Changbin to take the water bottle and gently help Jisung up, "Thank you noona." Jisung subconsciously whispered, grateful for the kindness she had shown him.

The girl was shocked but nodded nonetheless and moved to be seated with the rest of the fans. Changbin made sure to take note on what she looked like so that he could return her bottle, and thank her a little later as well.

"Alright, aegi, let's sit you down, there we go." Changbin sat Jisung down on the couch in the back room, taking one of the younger's hands in his and placing it on his own chest, right over his heart, "I want you to copy my breathing and try to stay calm, okay?" Jisung nodded and followed Changbin's exaggerated breathing.

The technique worked for the most part, the younger was still a little shaky but he was a lot better than what he was fifteen minutes prior, "I know that you probably want to go on stage, but I think it's best if you stay here and get some sleep, I'll get manager-nim so that he can watch over you, but if you need any of us, just come get us, okay?" Jisung nodded and thanked his hyung, curling up on the couch, using a hoddie that was laying around as a pillow, while Changbin grabbed a throw over blanket and covered the boy with it.

He will admit, he was both surprised and unsurprised by Jisung's lack of protest. Surprised since the boy could usually be quite stubborn and unsurprised as the anxiety attack took a lot of energy from him.

"Manager-nim," The boy bowed respectively before continuing, "Could you please watch Jisung-ah? He just had an anxiety attack and is asleep on the couch. Omo, thank you so much, thank you." Changbin thanked their manager over and over before quickly rushing onto stage and pulling Chan aside to let him know what had happened.

They made sure to cover their mouths as they spoke, so that the fans couldn't see what they were talking about, "Is he okay?" Chan quickly asked, "Yeah hyung, he's calm now, manager is watching him, poor thing was exhausted, he's asleep on the couch right now. After the show, I need to pull that fan aside, she helped a lot back there, I've got to return her water bottle, and yes, the water was safe, she took a couple sips first, and then give her a couple of gifts as a thank you." Chan nodded in agreement, telling the fans that Jisung was just a little sick and would need to set the rest of the event out, the fans, luckily, were very understanding and sent Jisung their wishes for him to get better.

After the show, Changbin had a security guard quickly pull the fan to the side where he thanked her over and over, the girl blushing and shaking her head, accepting her drink bottle back with a smile, saying that it was nothing and she would want someone to do the same for her.

Changbin smiled softly and handed her the extra gifts, "Well, hopefully this helps." The girl teared up and looked to her idols that stood in front of her. Changbin embraced the girl in a hug as did the other members before they explained that they needed to get Jisung home and rested.

The next day, the company released a statement explain Jisung's anxiety and thanking the fan that helped them, the company also explained that Jisung would be out of events until further notice, so that he could receive help for his anxiety.