Yeonjun braced himself against the bathroom sink as he threw up for the third time in two days. He'd had a fever for just as long and had told his members as much, but he was getting a little stir crazy not being able to leave his bed aside from going to the bathroom.
"Hyung, You good in there?" Soobin asked from the other side of the door. "Yes, Binnie, I'm fine. It's just a little bit of puke." He finished cleaning out the sink and rinsed his mouth out before opening the door. Soobin gave Yeonjun a sympathetic look as he walked back to the couch.
"Are you feeling any better hyung?" the leader asked as the eldest sat down, putting the thermometer in his mouth. Yeonjun shook his head and the duo silently waited for the device to beep. When it beeped, Yeonjun took it out of his mouth and sighed as he put it on the table.
Soobin glanced at the thermometer before redirecting his attention to his hyung. "I'm sick of being sick. I just want to go back to schedules." Yeonjun complained. "I know hyung, but your body is fighting off a virus and you need to rest." A moment later Taehyun walked into the room carrying a bowl of ramen.
"Do you think you can eat a bit?" the second youngest asked. Yeonjun nodded and took the bowl from his dongsaeng. Beomgyu and Kai came into the room as Yeonjun began to eat. "Do we still have our appearance on Weekly Idol today hyung?" the youngest asked.
Soobin nodded. "We're still going on Weekly Idol. However Yeonjun, you're staying here to continue resting." Everyone nodded, but Yeonjun groaned a little bit at having to stay home. The rest of the morning was fairly quiet as everyone ate.
The four younger members got ready to leave and Yeonjun remained sitting on the couch. "Hyung, is there anything you need before we head out?" Beomgyu asked. Yeonjun shook his head. "Feel better hyung." the four said in unison before leaving the dorm.
Yeonjun sat on the couch for about forty five minutes before he got bored. He was tired and he wasn't feeling the slightest bit nauseous right now. He decided that while he was feeling okay and since his dongsaengs weren't in the dorm to stop him, Yeonjun decided to head to the company building to get some practice in. He knew he had a couple of hours before his dongsaengs would return, so he decided to take the chance.
When he arrived at the building, he was happy to find that the usual dance studio he used was unoccupied. He set his bag down and hooked up his phone, he then got started on stretches.
Once he finished stretching, he started up the music for the title track of their latest album. After two run-throughs of the song, Yeonjun began to feel nauseous. He paused the music and sat down on the couch in the room, grabbing the nearby trash can just in case.
The nauseous sensation gradually went away, the longer he sat, so he decided to sit for a few more minutes while he sipped from his water bottle. Once the nausea had completely dissipated, Yeonjun started up the music again and got back to practicing.
Yeonjun only got through one and a half run-throughs before the nausea came back full force. He only had enough time to stop dancing before he was bent over at the waist throwing up what was left in his stomach from breakfast. He coughed up soup and bile for a few minutes before he sank to the ground, careful not to sit in his own vomit.
After a few minutes, Yeonjun gathered enough strength to get up and move to the couch where the trash can was. He immediately sat down and grabbed his water bottle to rinse his mouth out. Apparently, his body wasn't done emptying itself and the process of rinsing his mouth out triggered his gag reflex, causing him to begin puking again.
At some point while his head was buried in the trash can, someone entered the practice room and was now rubbing his back. "You're okay, just let it out." the person said. Yeonjun coughed a couple more times before leaning back against the couch.
"You have a fever, Yeonjun." Yeonjun startled a little, not having fully realized that someone was in the room. He turned to see Jimin sitting next to him. "Hello Jimin-ssi." "You can call me hyung, Yeonjun. Now, based on the puddle of puke over there, the fact that you were puking just now, and the fever your sporting, I'd wager you have quite the stomach bug." Yeonjun hummed in agreement, not wanting to admit to his senior that he had come in to practice knowing he was ill.
After a couple of moments Yeonjun moved the trash can away from himself. He heard the door to the practice room open again to see Taehyung. "Jimin, I told the janitor that this room needs to be cleaned. How's Yeonjun?" "He's got a fever and should probably be in bed." Yeonjun once again hummed in agreement to Jimin's statement.
"Yeonjun, where are your members? We should have one of them take you home to rest." Yeonjun couldn't give a noncommittal answer to this question, so he went with the truth. "They all had other schedules today. None of them are here." He intentionally omitted the fact that his members knew he was sick and that the schedule was a tv show.
Taehyung and Jimin nodded. "In that case, we're going to take you to our dorm until your members are free." Yeonjun wanted to protest, but he wasn't about to defy his seniors. Yeonjun watched Jimin pack up his bag and Taehyung helped him up. "Okay Yeonjun, let's get you out of here so you can get some rest."
Around half an hour later, Yeonjun finds himself lying on the sofa of the Bangtan dorm. He once again had a thermometer in his mouth and a bucket next to the couch. Taehyung was sitting next to him while Jimin was in the kitchen making soup. Jimin came a short while later with a bowl of soup and Taehyung removed the thermometer from Yeonjun's mouth.
"Definitely a fever, Yeonjun. Do you think you can eat some soup?" Jimin asked. Yeonjun nodded and took the offered bowl. After a few bites Taehyung spoke up. "I texted Joon-hyung for Soobin's number. When he responds, I'll text Soobin that we found you throwing up in the practice room and brought you to our dorm." Yeonjun groaned at that.
"Is this a good time to tell you that including today I've been sick for three days and as far as Soobin knows I'm sleeping on the couch in our dorm?" The two members of BTS frowned at him. "And why pray tell were in the practice room when you've been throwing up for three days?" asked Taehyung. "I was getting a bit bored, and since my dongsaengs are filming Weekly Idol right now, I saw the opportunity and took it." Yeonjun felt his stomach lurch and quickly grabbed the trash can, holding it under his chin for a couple minutes before the nausea subsided.
He sighed as he leaned his against the armrest, "I think I overdid it today. I had only puked three times before I went to practice." Jimin chuckled, "That'll do it Yeonjun. Your body wasn't ready for strenuous activity when it hasn't even gotten into the recovery stage yet." A moment later, Taehyung received Soobin's number from Namjoon and he texted Soobin. "I've texted Soobin to come get you when they're all done with filming. For now just get some rest." Yeonjun nodded and turned his attention to the tv that Jimin had turned on. A few minutes later he drifted off to sleep from over exerting his body.
About an hour later Yeonjun jolted awake gagging. Jimin quickly positioned the trash can under Yeonjun and began rubbing his back. A couple moments later, some undigested soup and bile came out of the younger's mouth and into the bin. When he finished he leaned against the couch. "Can I have some water please?" Yeonjun asked. Taehyung got him a glass of water and the younger rinsed his mouth out.
A short while later there was a knock on the door and Taehyung opened it revealing all four of Yeonjun's dongsaengs looking a combination of worried and exasperated. "Hyung do we need to have hyungs babysit you until you're better?" Kai asked as they walked in. Beomgyu added on, "I'm sure BTS hyungs would be willing to do it. Otherwise Soobin could ask Nu'est sunbaenims, or Seventeen sunbaenims, Enhypen hoobae would also probably be more than willing to nurse one of their sunbaes to health." Yeonjun groaned at the teasing.
"Alright I get it guys. What I did was stupid and if I do it again I can expect a babysitter." Soobin smiled. "You're correct on that one hyung. However we still have more promotional activities to film and from what hyung texted me, you're still too sick to partake. I have half a mind to take Kai and Beomgyu's idea seriously."
Yeonjun groaned as Taehyun and Beomgyu helped him up and walk to the door. The five members turned to Jimin and Taehyung. "Thank you for taking care of hyung." Jimin responded "It was no problem guys. By the way, Yoongi hyung and Jungkook are free tomorrow if you think Yeonjunnie needs a babysitter." Soobin smiled. "Noted hyung. We'll reevaluate tomorrow and contact you then." The five members then left the BTS dorm and went back to their own, where Yeonjun was promptly forced to go to bed under threat of Taehyun and Kai sitting on him.
