kpop sickfics

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Sickie: DK
Caretakers: seventeen

Seokmin p.o.v

I sat down on the stage looking out at all the carats. Their loud cheers echoing in my aching head. I rubbed my eyes, only two more songs. I reminded myself. We began performing Clap, I grew a bit worried when it got closer to my part, I felt like I was going to sneeze and no amount of rubbing at my nose seemed to do anything. My part came up, and it went flawlessly, except on the third to last word my breath hitched, and by some stroke of luck I managed to hold back the urge to sneeze. As the last part of the concert progressed I continued to hide the growing headache I had and focused on performing, it seemed to work as none of the members commented and no one seemed to notice.

After the concert I was in the green room (idk if thats what it is really called by my theater kid brain says to call it that) with the other members. I sat down on the couch and rubbed at my itchy face. I still felt like I needed to sneeze.

I felt the couch dip next to me. “you alright?” I heard, recognizing the voice as Joshua’s. I nodded. knowing my voice would betray me if I chose to speak. I felt him moving to get up when the sneeze that had been building for the last 15 minutes decided to finally come out. ¨heichu-heh-eichu¨

“Bless you,” Joshua said, patting my shoulder. I wiped at my watery eyes, brushing away the itchy tears that had gathered. “Thanks” I said with a soft sniffle. He smiled and walked away. I rubbed the side of my head around my eyes, the pressure that had been building spiked when I had sneezed.

The manager called us to get on the bus to begin driving to the next stop. I stood up, stumbling just a tad. Shaking my head lightly to clear the fuzziness in my brain. Once on the bus it was fairly quiet, all of us tired from the concert. Jihoon, Jeonghan, and Chan had all fallen asleep. I tried to sleep but it was like my whole body was telling me no, my brain felt fuzzy and my head felt cloudy and almost heavy, my nose itches badly, and my sinuses were in pain

Joshua p.o.v

Finally done, I sighed in relief as I went off the stage. “I’m so tired” I complained in English to Vernon who had sat down next to me. “me too” I looked around at the other members. Everyone looked so tired, especially Seokmin, who was sitting in the corner with his face buried in his hands. “Is he okay?”

“I have no idea, I’m gonna go check on him”

I went over and sat down next to him. “Are you alright?” he nodded and rubbed his face. I assumed that he was tired and was trying to nicely hint at me to leave. As I stood up I heard a soft gasp coming from the younger man. I turned around in time to see him clasp his hands in front of his face and sneeze twice. “Bless you,” I said gently, patting his shoulder. He thanked me, his voice was stuffy and his eyes were watery. His nose stood out bright pink against his pale skin. I grew a bit more concerned, he looked noticeably sick.

Before our manager called for the whole group I went up to Seungcheol. “hey, Cheol, I just wanted to let you know I think that Seokmin is either getting sick or is already sick”

“Alright, thanks for telling me, I’ll keep an eye on him.”

On the bus I noticed how Seungcheol had intentionally sat near Seokmin, I glanced at the younger of the two who flopped back onto the chair. I took note of how he had put a small handful of tissues into his pocket, feeding into my belief that he was indeed sick.
seungcheol p.o.v

Once we were on the tour bus I took an evaluation of Seokmin. His skin was pale, which made his bright pink nose stand out, his eyes looked glossy and empty, like he was sleeping with his eyes open. I noticed that his bangs clung to his sweaty forehead. I guessed he had a fever, but we had also just been performing so I couldn’t be too sure.