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minho has a panic attack in this one so if that makes you uncomfortable then please don't read! requested by TaeVh8 - enjoy!

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Minho normally coped under the dazzling lights, the ridiculous outfit choices and thousands of screaming fans just fine. He was a performer, after all. This was what he did best, yet he couldn't shake off a strange niggling in the back of his mind.

Tonight, it seemed as if the lights were brighter, the clothes on his body were tighter and the fans were screaming louder, and Minho didn't know how to cope. He looked over at Chan several times during the show, but the leader was too preoccupied actually doing his job properly, unlike Minho. Everyone was doing so much better than he was right now.

Luckily, after Double Knot, half of the members had a short amount of time to go backstage and change into their next of clothes and wipe the sweat from their foreheads while the remaining members on the stage interacted with the fans. Minho was lucky enough to be going off stage at the same time as Chan, and as soon as he was certain he was out of the view of any fans, he gripped onto the back of Chan's shirt and fell to the ground.

Chan felt the pressure on his back and heard something thud behind him, and suddenly looked behind him to see Minho kneeling on the floor covering his ears with his eyes clenched shut. Immediately, he was at his side, wrapping one arm around the younger's shoulders and using his other arm to help him up off of the ground.

"Is there anywhere I can take him?" He asked one of the backstage crew urgently, and thanked her when she led them to a changing room opposite the toilets. "Good boy, baby, you're ok."

Minho just kept shaking, inhaling deeply and exhaling shakily as he trembled in Chan's arms. This only happened sometimes. When Minho got too stressed and hot and tired at the same time, he lost it, but Chan had never seen it this bad.

Minho often had the tendency to slip when things got this bad, so Chan tried the only thing he could think of to get Minho to calm down.

"Minho, look at Daddy, baby," he encouraged softly, gently cupping Minho's face in his hands and tipping his head upwards to meet Chan's gaze. Minho's eyes were wide and his pupils were shaking, panicking. "You're ok, sweetheart, Daddy's got you."

Minho did eventually calm down, going from crying and sweating and shaking to only breathing heavily as he leaned into Chan. "Daddy..."

"Good boy," Chan cooed, stroking Minho's hair with one hand while the other hand went to rub his back up and down. "There's my good boy."

When Minho was fully calm, they left the dressing room and went to find the other members, when they were met by a very worried looking Jisung.

"Oh my God, there you guys are!" he exhaled in relief. "Where did you go?"

"Min had a panic attack so I took him to a different dressing room. "Where are the others?"

"On stage stalling," Jisung answered. "Don't worry, though, the fans haven't realised yet. I'll go tell the manager and you can sit with Minho until he feels better."

"I can do it," Minho spoke up quietly before he cleared his throat. "I'm ready to go back on stage."

"Baby, it's ok, you don't have to," Chan replied. "Stays will understand, baby."

"No, I can do it, I promise," he reassured, looking at Chan definitively. "You guys go out, I'll be there in a minute."

Chan looked unsure, but when Minho gave him a reassuring smile, he decided he would have to trust him. He smiled back at Minho and kissed his forehead. "Ok, doll."

And only five minutes later Minho came back out on stage in a comfy t-shirt and a pair of sweats. He looked severely under-dressed compared to his fellow members, but the roar of cheers he got when he stepped back out on stage was enough to have the adrenaline pumping just the way he liked it.

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nobody asked but here's a pic of the tattoo i got last week

here's me with my tattoo lmao

and here's the dummy my girlfriend got me uwu

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