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[XLII] short circuit

[XLII] short circuit
xlii;;jung-hoseok::short-circuit

Hoseok dragged Yoongi into Jihyo's second trial, figuring that they should know what shit she was spewing. Jihoon and Jin sat there too, unsurprisingly.

Everything was fine. Everything was normal.

That's what Hoseok wanted to believe. But Jin was leaning over to talk to Jihoon a little too much, and Jihoon seemed to be deflecting whatever questions the older was asking. Hoseok figured he could ask about it later.

Recess started. Jin was already gone, having gone somewhere else for a phone call of sorts. Hoseok and Yoongi rose from their seats, but Jihoon wasn't moving.

"Jihoon?" Hoseok leaned over the younger's shoulder, tapping him lightly. "Don't you want to stand up and stretch your legs?"

"Huh?" Jihoon jumped, but after Hoseok had moved his hand. It was like he didn't even feel the taps. "Oh, maybe."

His voice was wavering weirdly, which was completely out of character. Yoongi slid beside Hoseok, narrowing his eyes. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Jihoon muttered, as though he was trying to convince himself. "My head just hurts a little. I'll stretch, though."

He stood up on shaky legs, and that was when Hoseok heard the soft whirring sound coming from him. He knew that sometimes Jihoon- or, WOOZI, rather- made the sound on occasion, especially when he was computing something complicated, but it never sounded this loud or came out when he wasn't... being WOOZI.

Hoseok immediately had what was going to happen flash before his eyes. He reached out as Jihoon stood up, the latter collapsing into his arms. He looked at Yoongi, who looked back at him with wide eyes.

"Where's Jin?" Hoseok asked, setting Jihoon down so that he could pick him up bridal style. "We need to find him, like, now."

"Right." Yoongi held open the doors to the courtroom, letting Hoseok and Jihoon through. "Jin!"

"Jin!" Hoseok repeated, now especially conversed due to the whirring getting faster and Jihoon's body heating up. He wondered in the back of his mind if something like this had ever happened before, but it didn't matter at the moment. They needed to find Jin, who was the only one who knew exactly how Jihoon worked, and then fix it.

Jin rounded the corner, still on his phone, but he set it down the moment his eyes landed on Jihoon. He rushed over to Hoseok and Yoongi, the youngest of whom set down Jihoon. "What happened?"

"We don't know," Hoseok said. "He was sort of... whirring earlier before he collapsed. And he's getting hotter."

Jin pressed the back of his palm to Jihoon's forehead. "Fuck," he muttered before picking up the phone. "Bambam, I'm going to need you to stand in for us so we can fix Jihoon. When are you getting here?"