Medical Checkup

Chapter 3

Hoseok was sitting on an uncomfortable chair in the recovery room while he was waiting for Jimin to join him after his colonoscopy. The dancer knew the procedure would take about 30 minutes, so he could have easily waited in the waiting room first with the others, but he didn't want to take the risk that Jimin was finished sooner than that and that the boy was waking up alone.

Exactly 34 minutes after Jimin's procedure had started, a door opened and a nurse looked around the corner to find Hoseok. "He's starting to wake up"

The rapper immediately got on his feet and walked towards Jimin's bed. The boy was lying on his side, sleeping peacefully with his bed hair sticking everywhere. Hoseok smiled softly and started to run his fingers through his thick hair, the gentle touches enough to wake him up. "Hey sleepyhead, are you ready to wake up?"

A small grunt was all Hoseok got in return and the nurse who was standing on the other side of the bed unlocked the breaks on the bed. "He can move to the recovery room. Can you help me?"

Together they wheeled the bed out of the room, into the room next door where Hoseok had been waiting the past half hour. There was room for two beds, so they parked Jimin's bed on the right side closest to the door that led towards the hallway. "He might need some time to wake up properly. He needed a little bit extra sedatives in the beginning to sleep well"

Hoseok nodded and made himself (un)comfortable on the chair again and continued to stroked Jimin's hair in the meantime. It didn't matter how long it was going to take for the younger one to wake up, but Hoseok was determined to stay by his side until he did.

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"Your name and birthday please" the doctor said when Taehyung sat down on the hospital bed in the middle of the examination room. All Namjoon's efforts to calm the boy down had been quickly thrown away when they had stepped inside the room. A doctor, three nurses and all medical equipment were too impressive to stay calm and collected, especially when you were the patient.

"K-kim Taehyung, 30-12-1995" Taehyung quickly rambled. The doctor hummed in approval and gave the paper file to one of the nurses. "Prepare 5mg please"

"Please lay down kid. I understand that you want Namjoon to stay with you until you're sleeping?" the man then asked. Taehyung nodded and looked up at his leader when he was lying on the back. Everyone suddenly looked very tall while he felt incredibly small lying in the big bed.

"Do you want him to leave when we start?" the doctor asked. The boy shook his head and Namjoon placed a hand on his shoulder to ground him. "You're going to be okay Tae, take a deep breath"

Taehyung did was he was told and took a deep breath, but then his breath stuttered when he saw a nurse walking towards his bed with a big syringe in her hand. "Okay Taehyung, please count down from 10 for me" the doctor said as he connected the syringe with medicine to his IV.

"10..? 9....?" Taehyung started. Namjoon's hand went from his shoulder to his hand and the rapper could feel how Taehyung immediately started to squeeze his hand in fear.

"Yes you're doing very well" the doctor praised him and slowly started to plunge down the medicine into Taehyung's IV.

"8... 7...... 6........." but slowly the boy's voice was starting to get smaller and the numbers took more time to leave his mouth "5.......... hmpff"

"There you go" the doctor said and smiled when Taehyung closed his eyes. He quickly administered the rest of the medicine before removing the syringe, and then turned around to grab a special device from the trail next to him. "Namjoon, you can talk a seat near his head"