Stray Kids Sickfic

Changbin - Hide-And-Don't-Seek

Hey! Look who's back! My terrible time management, my writer's block, and lack of motivation, that's who. But I drop-kicked one, judo-flipped another, and beat one in a game of chess and now I have another oneshot after several months.

All jokes aside, I am on a writing hiatus, but this has been written and 75% edited for the longest time, not joking, and a very active reader requested this a while ago and with all this time off I suffered through the last 25% of editing to get this out for them. Sorry for the months long wait... I suck, I know.

Requested by @K-pop_Way_Too_Much for either Changbin or Felix hiding something from the others. I decided to do Changbin because he hasn't had any fanfics (oneshots or full lengths devoted to him yet and I am legit in love with that man (please help me omg)). 

Hope you enjoy! 

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It was supposed to be a simple game of Hide-And-Seek. Staff were enjoying following the members around the villa with cameras as they ran from closets to behind curtains, to under beds, and in cabinets. The members were having just as much fun trying to find the spots to hide - even when Jeongin got stuck momentarily in a Laundry Shute and Hyunjin and Seungmin had to fish him out. 

Changbin was it first, and he eventually found all the members - after an eventful forty-five minutes of searching everywhere. Felix won - no surprise there, somehow that boy knew how to hide like a serial killer was after him - and he got to be it the next round. 

"I'll count to two minutes, and then you'd better have your asses hidden!" Felix laughed. 

"Yongbok, we're on camera!" The manager scolded though he was biting his tongue to keep himself from laughing. 

"Oops." The Aussie smiled, shrugging at the manager. 

Felix turned around and started counting while the members ran off to find hiding spots. Changbin wandered around aimlessly, trying to remember any good hiding spots the members had used the previous game. So long as he didn't use Felix's spot, the other places weren't known to the dancer yet. He ended up picking the spot Han had hidden in the previous game. It was on the bottom shelf of a closet in one of the bedrooms in the villa, behind a stack of blankets. The only reason he had found Han back there was because the rapper was singing to himself, completely unaware of the fact that Changbin had walked in the room. But if Changbin stayed silent - unlike the younger - he could probably hide for a lot longer. 

He ran to that spare bedroom and tucked himself in the bottom shelf. Only when he was squeezed tightly inside did he relax, confident that he had found a good spot. But then he also realized something. He was tucked into a very tight, dark space. Which normally wouldn't bother him, but the blankets made the only passage for air difficult to get it in and out. 

He decided to just move from his spot and find a different one. No need to suffer in the same spot when he could easily handle this situation. But one glance at his watch told him that Felix would be searching for them any second now and he wasn't about to lose the game crawling out of his spot because... what? It was dark? It was a tight fit? That's ridiculous. 

He stayed tucked behind those blankets. 

At first his mind just wandered; it was kind of nice to actually have a break away from cameras for a second somewhere private. It was a rarity in their line of business. But that was short lived. It was maybe two minutes into hiding that he started feeling the shelf above him pressing against his back, and the way the blankets really were suffocating him. He shook his head, starting up a mantra of "it's fine" in his head. It really was fine. Sure, a little tight, but not too bad.