Torn // exo x reader

10; Are you all okay? No? Okay.

Y/N jumps when Baekhyun and Chen slam through the door, lunging at the couch with hands full of things she didn't ask for. They practically jump on her when they reach the couch, and in all the commotion, Yixing was scared away from the couch. She doesn't understand their need to be loud and annoying, but she's okay with it.
"Y/N, we got them!"
Chen holds up crutches, and when he does that five things fall from where they were tucked under his arm.
He scrambles to pick them up, but then the crutches fall and now he's in a pile of goods on the floor, leaning on—and almost breaking—the crutches she asked for earlier.
She thanks them generously because they went out of their way to get her many things she didn't ask for. Her ankle already feels tremendously better now, and the swelling has gone down but she doesn't think she can stand being confined to the couch for any longer so she takes them gingerly and begins to attempt to learn to walk with them.
But then they sit her back down and start shovelling gifts at her like stuffed animals and candy and other things she doesn't need but does like. She smiles at them and gives them each a hug because she thinks that's their main goal here.
"Y/N, what happened in here?"
Kris comes from upstairs, gawking at the pile of gifts she's received. She's not too far off either, wondering what she did to deserve them all, and she hopes she didn't make them feel too guilty regarding the staircase incident.
"Baekhyun and Chen w-went to the store."
Kris nods solemnly, and just walks out. She wonders what she did to make him dislike her too. Did she do the same to him she did to Chanyeol indirectly?
She isn't given much time to dwell on it, because as soon as her thoughts delve deeper into anything close to that, a finger prods at her forehead, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Are you awake? You seem pretty out of it as of late." She ignores the fact she's only been with them for two days because of the whole Onew thing, and just shrugs. Something is weighing her down, and she can't exactly figure out what it is.
"Y-Yes, I am fine."
Kyungsoo raises an eyebrow, but shrugs in return, not prying any more than that, and she doesn't know what to do. Does she try to end the conversation, or does she attempt revival with the small amount of social skills she holds?
Kyungsoo makes the decision for her when he gets up and walks away.
She almost yells her thanks to him because it made her life a whole lot easier now that she doesn't have to pretend she's good at talking.
"Y/N!"
She dodged one bullet but now there's another one coming her way. All she wanted was to probably nap on the couch and but if Baekhyun gets any louder she doesn't know if she'll be able to sleep again.
Also, there's thirteen people in this house and they all have to talk to her? Don't they have people they talk to normally? She doesn't know what's so interesting about her and her life but when they tell her she'll be surprised.
"Yeah?"
"You seem sad. Do you want to play board games with me and Chanyeol?"
Y/N doesn't know if Chanyeol agreed or not, but she's guessing Baekhyun didn't even bother asking for his opinion, so she politely declines because she doesn't need Chanyeol disliking her further.
"Well then, it's me isn't it? Wow, okay I see how it is, I see, oka-"
"F-Fine! I'll play!"
She's a sucker for his pouty lips and big eyes and by now he knows what he's capable of making her do. Which is odd since as previously stated, she's spent a total of like two days with these people.
"Woohoo!"
Who even says that anymore unless it's ironically?
"Well, c'mon!"
Baekhyun latches his hand onto her wrist and starts pulling her to the basement, where more members sleep, and where coincidentally, Chanyeol has been setting up a board game Y/N has never seen before, pieces cruelly made of wood or buttons.
To make a long description very very short. It looks gross.
"Me and Chanyeol made this board game ourselves."
She feels bad now, because both of their eyes are sparkling at their achievement and she just called it disgusting, so she smiles as brightly as she can in the presence of this abomination, and speaks brightly.
"I-I love it! It's so c-cute!"
Baekhyun smiles just as brightly at her, but Chanyeol smiles happily down at the board, where he's counting and sorting the fake money scribbled on obviously ripped pieces of paper. They're ripped and some have marker on them and the board is a large piece of wood with permanent marker scribbled into spaces and there's actual, real dice but they aren't in very good shape either.
"So Y/N, you're on of the first people to try the prototype! Tell us what you think of the game and we'll take your compliments into account for when we make the sequel."
A sequel? To a board game? At this point, she just gives up asking.
"Oh yes. First of all the a-aesthetic is killing me!"
Sure, not in the way they're interpreting the comment, but this way she's not lying to anyone but herself so she won't feel bad at their smiles growing bigger by the second at someone playing and appreciating this abomination.
"Ah, good, good. The wood theme was Chanyeol's idea, it gives it a very manly feel."
He's totally making this up, and she can't believe they're having this conversation about a homemade board game.
"W-Well it was a genius one!"
Okay, now she's given up because there's nothing she could say to that but complete and utter lies, and she's about to spew some more when someone comes rushing down the stairs, tripping on their own feet at the bottom and skidding to their lying session Baekhyun thinks is a prototype testing since she doubts Chanyeol is listening.
It's Yixing, and he's huffing and he sits up quickly, disregarding the board game and he rushes, apologizing quickly, and shoves Y/N away from the board game and Baekhyun and Chanyeol.
"Yixing what's wrong?!" Baekhyun shouts, but Y/N just sits back there because with her ankle still being tender—she didn't really need the crutches, which she realized after they left—from earlier, she doesn't want to get up.
"T-Tao, he, he collapsed and so did Luhan-hyung, and—and we can't let Y/N get si-"
Yixing is cut off by him collapsing himself, sweat dripping down from his face, and Baekhyun dives to catch his head before it hit smashes onto the floor, and lays it down softly, before scrambling up with Chanyeol to find out what's going on.
Once they're gone, Y/N slides on the floor over to Yixing, and she can hear rythmic thuds upstairs, but she isn't sure what's going on, and she's scared.
She pulls Yixing onto her lap, and checks where she hopes is his pulse, and gets something, and she thinks—more like hopes—his body isn't pulsing softly so it must be his pulse telling her he's alive.
She stands shakily, but she won't be able to carry him upstairs, so she drags him over to one of the beds, and after many tries, gets him in one. She doesn't know if it's a common cold or if he has Ebola, so she just leaves him there. If it's Ebola, she's been in such close contact with all of them she probably already has it, so she heads slowly upstairs, since no noise has been made since she laid Yixing down.
Walking throughout the house, there's just bodies of her friends, sweating and breathing lightly on the ground. She comes across Baekhyun and Chanyeol too, who were perfectly fine. She reaches into Chanyeol's pocket and pulls out the facemask that Baekhyun told her Chanyeol carries about almost 24/7, and pulls it on, hoping this'll save her.
"Y-Y/N," someone whispers from behind her, "they're just passed out."
It's Sehun. He doesn't look good at all, eyes glazed over and skin pale as a ghost, and his chest isn't moving as much as she'd like it to.
"Sehun! W-What do I do?"
"G-G-Get them into beds." His dialogue is getting slower and his eyes are drooping farther.
"N-No! Sehun, stay awake!"
"Let's see you t-t-try to do t-tha-" His head thumps softly against the floor from where he picked it up slightly to attempt to yell at her for being ignorant.
She doesn't think she'll be able to pull everyone up the stairs without injury, so she picks herself up from Sehun's side and goes to bedrooms and grabs pillows quickly, and on the way there, rushing she realizes she has no clue what to do beyond that, and hopes she'll do it right.
She lays pillows under all of their heads, and they look sweltering, and she doesn't know what to do, since she can't just peel off their clothing, so in an attempt to cool them down, she goes to the thermostat and puts it down extremely low, and she doesn't even notice the cold.
She's thankful most of them ended up in the same relative area, so she can watch them to make sure nobody dies or to see if someone wakes up. So far, Tao and Luhan look the worst, sweating furiously, more than the others and barely breathing.
"Y-Y/N?" There's a hushed whisper, and she goes over in it's general direction, and it's Suho.
"Y-Yes? Oh my god you're awake, S-Suho I'm scared-"
"Don't be, it'll—it'll be fine, I promise."
"You s-swear?"
"I do."
He manages the strength to smile at her, and she smiles back. She doesn't want him to pass out again, or lay down to sleep, she doesn't want to be alone, but he has to get sleep to become better, so when he notices her tears, and lifts a hand to wipe them away, she swats his hand away, and smiles softly.
"Get s-s-some sleep, please."
He closes his eyes almost immediately, like he was waiting for her permission, and almost falls asleep instantly.
She looks around at the room, seeing all the boys on the ground and suddenly a rush of fear crawls over her skin again, because even though Suho said it'll be okay, she's not too sure herself.
But instead of doing anything else, to pass the time she lays on the couch, and finds her eyes closing and her breath slowing and soon enough, she falls asleep.
--
She looks around, eyes darting wildly around the room, at the bodies on the floor. They're all not breathing, and their skin is disintegrating slowly, and she reaches out for them, but they're dead, and their skin is cold as ice, and she doesn't know what happened since they were just fine.
"Suho?! Sehun?! Hell, Baekhyun?!" She screams at their bodies, as if this will wake them up, make them snap out of it. So far she hasn't been successful.
"Well, well, well," she turns sharply at that pointed voice she recognizes, a chill tingling her spine, "who do we have here?"
"J-Jinki, what did you d-do?"
Onew smiles at her, a sick one, twisting her gut.
"I merely got rid of them, love. Now it's just me, and you."
Her eyes rush around further, and she skids away from where her knees buckled and sent her to the floor, and away from that monster.
"Taemin, add the last one to the pile."
"Y-Yessir." It's rushed, all in one sentence.
He brings forward someone so demolished she barely recognizes him until he's flopped on the pile of bodies sloppily.
"M-M-Minseok!" She screams and wails his name over and over.
"We did this because of you, Y/N, it was all you. If you would have stayed, this wouldn't have happened."
"N-No! No, no, no, no!"
"It's your fault Y/N."
"It's not, no it's—it's yours!"
"Y/N! Y/N! It's your fault!"
--
She wakes up quickly, sitting up so fast she's afraid she'll hurt herself, and there's shouts of Y/N's name across the room, worried voices calling out to her reminding her it was all just a dream from their designated spots on the floor.
"Y/N, are you okay? You started screaming." Yifan asks from his spot, since he's closest to the couch.
"I'm fine." She has to be strong now, to take care of these people who have taken care of her.
Only a select few are awake, and they're looking considerably healthier just in however long she was asleep. Yifan, Baekhyun, Chanyeol and Kai are awake, and she recovers from her dream quickly. She doesn't realize she's still crying until Kai tells her there's tears still dripping down her cheeks nonstop when she returns with water for him, and she apologizes accordingly.
He smiles at her, and Y/N's not sure if the smile is of pity or to reassure her it's okay and a dream. She smiles back either way, pawing at her cheeks and the tears laying there.
She dotes on them for most of the day, and she's upstairs grabbing something for Yifan when there's a wail of pain downstairs that sounds almost inhuman.
"Y/N!"
She jumps, and run downstairs quickly.
"O-Oh my g-god."

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Surprise bitch, bet you thought you'd seen the last of me. Anyways, here I am! I haven't dies! I lost all motivation—and my fic planner but that's beside the point—but alas, I pulled through to deliver you this! I hope it's not garbage and I hope you guys don't hate it because despite the quality I actually try really hard okay I just want to please you.
Anyways, thanks again for tuning into this trainwreck!
xOXO
-Sierra <3

Chapter 11 summary: Nursing these wolves back to health won't be as easily as previously thought, especially now that one of Y/N's friend's life is in danger.