❛ 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐚𝐧. 𝗇𝖼𝗍 𝖺𝖽𝖽𝖾𝖽 𝗆𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋

◈ Another hospital visit ◈

"Let me in, Lucas." 

Lucas stood in a starfish position in the doorway, blocking Taeyong's access to inside the dorm. Yangyang came up behind Lucas and copied his position as if to make it harder for Taeyong to enter.  The leader threw his head back with a heavy sigh - these boys were really testing his patience. 

"Boys, stop irritating Hyung," Kun's stern voice sounded from somewhere inside the dorm followed by a yelp which had been caused by a sweaty Chaehyun, who had taken the cold compress off of his head and threw it at Kun in order to get him to shut up. The compress slapped him smack bang in the middle of his face, earning the yelp. Kun turned to Chaehyun with a look of pure disbelief. He lowered his tone and cleaned close to Chaehyun, now whisper shouting. "What the hell did you do that for?!"

Chaehyun giggled weakly. "Funny."

Kun narrowed his eyes and flicked Chaehyun's forehead earning a loud groan. Immediately, guilt ran through his veins. Chaehyun hadn't explained exactly what had gone down between him and Taeyong as he stumbled into the WayV dorm, but he was crying and looked as though he was about to pass out, he was mumbling something about being hurt by Taeyong and that's when he blacked out. Kun and Ten were panicked messes whilst the others simply shrugged. They'd gotten used to Chaehyun's random accidents. 

"Chae told us that you've hurt him before he blacked out--"

"HE BLACKED OUT?!" Lucas squeezed his eyes shut as Taeyong began pacing around. "Oh god, this is my fault. I've ruined--" 

"His entire self-confidence, his ability to open up, his--"

"That's enough Lucas. Go sit with Chaehyun, Sicheng is calling the ambulance. He's barely even awake and his temperature is worrying." Kun shooed Lucas and Yangyang out of the door and turned to Taeyong with the least convincing smile. "Chaehyun doesn't want to see you at this time, Hyung. I don't know what you said to him, but whatever it is has hurt him. He looks...empty again, emotionless like the way he did when we first met him....he looks like the broken, closed off boy again. What the hell was said?" 

Taeyong dropped his head and drifted his eyes across the floor. Kun sighed and dropped a hand onto the older man's shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze. Kun didn't believe that Taeyong meant anything of what he said. People say things in the heat of the moment and by the look on his face, it was evident that Taeyong was deeply regretting everything that was said. 

"To sum it up...I basically said he was milking the topic of his past and that he should shut up about it." 

Kun's hand flew up to his mouth. That was a new low, especially for Taeyong. The man was the most sympathetic of all, so to hear something like that was truly a shock. No wonder Chaehyun was such a mess. Kun sighed and stepped out of the dorm, shutting the door quietly behind him. 

"I wasn't gonna tell this, but he smelled of smoke when he showed up..." Taeyong's world crashed before him. It had taken them so long to get Chaehyun to stop relying on that, he had made so much progress. And now, Taeyong blamed himself because Chaehyun had been pushed all the way back to square one all because he showed up late with a valid excuse. Muffled sirens were heard and Kun sighed. "The ambulance is here. I doubt there is anything serious, but he's pretty sick so I just want to make sure he's checked out."

The door swung open to reveal a panicked Xiaojun. 

"Chaehyun...I think he's having a seizure." 

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Hours later, Chaehyun was resting in a hospital bed. The boys and management had been informed of his condition and had each tried their best to pop in and visit him. Ten, Johnny, Taeyong, Kun and his grandparents were waiting in the waiting room. Daeyoon and Hanra left ten minutes ago and Taeyong wasn't the only one beating himself up, Hanra was too. Eleven had been left with the boys. 

"Mr Kim?" Everyone looked up. "I'm guessing you're all here for Chaehyun. I can assure you that there's nothing severe wrong with Chaehyun - in fact, he seems quite chirpy, he was giving me some tips on how to make my hospital room more colourful as the bareness it makes him want to slam his head against the wall. He apparently believes that having puppies running around will make the patience much happier...oh he also asked me to tell Johnny that it was him that ate your leftover pizza and he does not regret it anymore due to the fact that you are now invisible to him." 

Everyone turned to Johnny who looked pissed. "It was Chae?!! I yelled at Mark 3 times then proceeded to ignore him for lying to me! Chaehyun was the one who told me he saw Mark eating it. Your grandson is a monster." 

"Anyway." The doctor cleared his throat. "Mr Kim appears to have a sickness bug which worsened possibly due to overworking himself or stress. The seizure was stress induce definitely. He should be fine, but he needs to take things easy. Try to keep him resting until the bug is out of his system in 3 days to a week. He is able to go home but I would suggest that somebody stays with him throughout the night just in case, he will b throwing up a lot and if he has another seizure or you feel he isn't getting any better than pop back and we'll run some more tests." 

Taeyong had his head buried in his hands whilst Chaehyun's grandparents jumped up to thank the doctor before heading into Chaehyun's room. When the door opened, Chaehyun's British accent escaped and nobody could hold their laughs as he spoke the sentence in English, but even those who couldn't understand him giggled at the distress in his tone. 

"My arse is hanging out the back." 

"Chaehyun, keep your voice down, there are people around." His grandmother giggled. 

"Well, im just stating facts." 

Not long later, Chaehyun was being loaded into the car. Taeyong hesitantly slid in beside him, but Chaehyun didn't flinch. 

"You don't have to look so tense around me. I'm not gonna hit you." 

"But you are mad at me." 

Chaehyun shrugged. "Not really, just slightly hurt by you. Just 'cause I'm hurt doesn't mean I'm gonna throw a tantrum. I know you didn't mean it, but that doesn't mean I'm not hurt. It's cool, I'll get over it. Yeah, may take me a while to be open again but at the end of the day, it was in the heat of the moment. I know what it looks like when somebody means an insult, I've been dealing with that my whole life and you, you don't meet the requirements of somebody who means what they said. I've been hurt too many times to let something like this break me down completely." 

Taeyong didn't know whether to be relieved, shocked or simply proud of how mature Chaehyun was actually being, but he was still beating himself up. Chaehyun turned and shot a small smile in Taeyong's direction before slumping and resting his head on his leader's shoulder. Taeyong stared at Chaehyun's eyes fluttered closed. Everything seemed normal until Chaehyun decided to be...well...Chaehyun.

"Ha ha...fish in the ocean swim in each other's poop and pee." 

Yep...he's back. 

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I am so tired i can barely keep my eyes open and it's only 6:10pm.

Anyway, thank you so much for reading this was not proofread. 

You are greatly appreciated 💚

- Blue x