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Hobi looked at the clock and saw it was way past two in the morning. He was nowhere finished with the song project but for now this should do. He yawns really loudly and slowly takes his stuff, he feels a bit strange, his body feels really heavy and slow but he pays no mind to that, he can sleep at home. He sneezes one time. And then, another time. Hoseok grumbles under his breath, how many times he is gonna sneeze today? His throat starts to hurt and it’s dry as sandpaper, so he starts coughing.
He locks the door of the music studio and is quick to his car, the night is freezing cold (it’s in late January), and feels like he is going to freeze ‘till death if he doesn’t go to a warmer place any time soon. When he is in the car he turns the heating up all the way, he is waiting for the car to warm up and luckily it’s a new model so it warms up really fast, but he is still shaking even if the thermometer on the car board shows 35 degrees celsius. He looks weirdly at the number but shrugs, even the electronics can be wrong sometimes. He sneezes three more times and the warmth of the car is slowly lulling him to sleep. Luckily he is near home so he just shakes his head a few times, so he doesn’t fall asleep right there.
When he parks the car he sadly needs to make a plan that will keep him warm the longest and to go to the house the quickest. He turns the engine off, takes his stuff that was in the back of the car, takes his house keys in one hand and the car keys in another and closes his eyes for a few seconds. He then opens the door of the car, quickly closes it, presses the button (he doesn’t even check if the car alarm is on) and sprints to the house. In the meantime his body is shaking like never before and he is so, so cold. With a shivering hand (or more like with his all arm shaking) he tries to unlock the front door but the keys slip out of his hand onto the floor.
“Shit…” Hoseok grumbles under his breath and quickly picks the keys up. He succeeds in the second attempt of opening the door and he exhales the breath of relief, he is finally home.
“Hobi hyung…? You okay…?” Jimin asks when Hobi is taking off his shoes and jacket.
Before Hoseok can say anything he starts coughing really bad. “Jimin, what are you doing here?” He takes a deep breath in and he coughs even more, so much that his eyes tear up.
“I heard someone opening the door, so I got out of bed to see what was going on.” Jimin mumbles. “Hyung, you don’t look so good.” There is a worry in his voice and he scans Hobi with his eyes from the toes to his head really quick.
“What? I am totally fine.” Hobi shakes his head and puts some slippers on.
“You are shivering all over your body and you are really red in your face,” Jimin worriedly puts his hand on Hobi’s forehead, “woah, you are literally burning up, baby and you are coughing. Like really bad!”
“I can’t be sick, not right now.” Hoseok whimpers. “I need to finish the project…”
Jimin shakes his head. “Seokjin hyung! Come downstairs right now!” He yells, and Hoseok knows that he woke the whole house up.
“Jimin, what are you doing?!” Hobi asks the younger one.
“You are going to bed. Right now and without any peep. You have a cold and we are going to take care of you.” Jimin says with a stern voice, but with a worry in his eyes.
Hoseok is shocked at what Jimin just said. “What? No!” He shakes his head but starts coughing again so he knows he looks funny.
They both hear footsteps coming near the two of them. “Ahhh, here you are.” Seokjin comes downstairs and just takes Hobi’s hand. “Sunshine, you are sick.”
“No, I’m not.” Hobi mumbles.
Seokjin gives him a stern look. Hoseok just sighs, there is no way he is going to win this argument and goes upstairs after Seokjin but before Jimin.
“Everything good?” Namjoon peeks out of his room.
Seokjin looks Namjoon into his eyes. “Sunshine has a cold.”
Namjoon nods. “We have code red, Tae.” Joon says into his room.
“Oh no.” Hoseok hears Tae say. “Who is under the weather?” Taehyung asks Namjoon.
“Hoseok.” Joon answers Tae.
As soon as Joon says that, Hobi shivers and Jin catches him. “You. Bed. Now.” Seokjin points with his finger on the younger one. “Do not move a fucking muscle. Are we understood?”
“Yes mom.” Hoseok rolls his eyes but does what Jin said. He goes into his room but he can’t even change into his pajamas. “Jimin, can you come here? I need help.” He shouts with a weak voice but Jimin is in a second in his room.
“Of course.” Jimin nods. “What do you need?”
Hoseok sighs. “I want to get changed.”
“Okay.”
Jimin takes the pajamas that were on the end of Hobi’s bed and starts taking Hoseok’s work clothes off the older’s body. Hoseok needs to hold on to the younger one so he doesn’t fall.
“I made you some tea.” Yoongi comes into Hobi’s room with a piping hot tea and a bowl of cookies and some medicine. “Please drink it up.”
Hoseok can only nod and carefully blow into the cup, so he won’t burn his mouth and tongue. He takes a sip of the tea and feels how it warms his body. Then he takes another sip and takes the pill with it.
Jeongguk comes into the room so quietly that Hobi doesn’t even realize he is here until he feels his hands on his hair. The youngest one doesn’t say anything, he just starts humming the melody of a lullaby. And it works because Hobi is out in a second.
He wakes up whimpering in pain, every single muscle in his body hurts, and he guesses it's still in the middle of the night. The clothes were sticking on his body, he was sweating so much that he would fill a bucket but at the same time he was shivering because he was so cold. He tries to get up, to go to the toilet but his body doesn’t work. At first he doesn’t know what to do but then he remembers that his boyfriends are most likely close to him, his room so they can watch if he needs anything.
“Guys, anyone?” Hoseok wimpers into the dark of his room.
“Baby? What happened?” Taehyung asks with worry.
“I need to go to the toilet, can you help me?” Hobi quietly asks, his throat still dry as hell.
“Yes, of course sunshine.” Hobi feels Tae’s hands trying to help him stand up. “Try to stand up.” The younger one says as he is holding him upwards. “I can help you to take a shower, too, if you want.” Tae suggests when they slowly come to the bathroom.
“Yes please.” Hoseok says with a weak voice. A shower sounds really nice right now.
Taehyung nods. “Then, I am going to leave you just for a minute, okay, I am going to bring you some clothes and a towel.” The bathroom is warm enough, so Tae doesn’t add any more heating to the room.
Hoseok relieves himself and just when he is about to stand up, Tae comes into the bathroom again with his clothes. Taehyung helps him take a shower and checks if the water is warm enough so that Hobi wouldn’t freeze to death. He shampoos his hair with a really soft touch and massages his body, where it hurts the most.
“You are the best boyfriend ever.” Hoseok mumbles and closes his eyes. Soft touch and careful hand really works wonders on Hobi’s body and he is really grateful that he has such caring boyfriends, all of them.
There is a grin on Tae’s face. “Don’t let the other hear you.” He chuckles and starts rinsing the older’s body with a really warm, almost too hot water.
Hoseok almost falls asleep right here and there but keeps his eyes open, but just barely. Taehyung pats him down with a towel and puts the underwear on him. Then he puts other clothes on too and dries his hair with a hairdryer. Hobi just stands there and lets Tae do whatever he wants.
“There you go, let’s put you back to bed.” The younger one mumbles when Hobi’s hair is finally dry.
Seokjin comes into the bathroom and helps Taehyung with holding Hobi. Jin gives Hobi another cup of tea when he lays on the bed. As soon as he drinks the whole cup he falls asleep again and someone (he is not sure who) starts to hum the same lullaby that Jeongguk sang yesterday.
“I- need to- I need to go…!” Hoseok needs to finish the song, it’s a deadline.
Namjoon has a stern look on his face. “You are not going anywhere. Sit your cute ass back down.”
“Joon is right, you ain’t going anywhere.” Yoongi nods but hugs Hobi so he wouldn't feel so down. “Maybe when your fever is down, you could work a day from home.” The older one suggests.
“Please give it a day or two, so your body can rest.” Seokjin also nods.
Hoseok is now pouting.
Tae has a worried look on his face. “No, no pouting. We are doing this for your own good.”
“Fine.” Hoseok mumbles and puts the blanket over his head to hide his tears.
“Baby, please…” Jimin comes to Hobi and hugs him over the blanket, but does not take the blanket over his head. “Sunshine, please don’t cry. Everything is going to be alright.”
Hoseok has a full crocodile, big tears that are falling from his face to his lap. “I lost so much time, everything hurts, the cough is annoying as hell, I feel like absolute shit and it feels like I can’t do anything right.” He is full-on sobbing on someone’s shoulder (Jeongguk’s?) but he doesn’t want anybody to see him.
Nobody says anything, Jeongguk starts from nowhere singing really quietly the lullaby and the others join in. It calms Hoseok up and he stops crying.
“Thank you guys.” Hobi says with a soft voice but starts coughing really bad right after. He takes the blanket off his face and Taehyung gives him a glass of water with another pill.
“You don’t need to thank us.” Yoongi shakes his head.
“I hope you guys won’t get a cold too.” Hoseok sniffles. “I don’t want to feel guilty, because of me you are all gonna be sick.”
“If we are going to be sick, it’s because we want to be close to you. It is not your fault that we can’t be away from you.” Seokjin winks.
For the first time in two days Hobi laughs, it’s not the strongest one, but it’s still there. The others feel relieved at the laugh, they know he is feeling a little bit better.
“Sunshine, do you need anything?” Jeongguk asks.
Hoseok shakes his head. “Just please stay with me.” He whispers. And this is what the others do, they stay.
When he wakes up he is feeling a little bit better, the body doesn’t hurt that much anymore and he doesn’t feel like he needs to cough every five seconds. He does start to sneeze more, but he takes sneezing over coughing any day, it’s less annoying. The others are still in his room, squished together like tetris and all laying on top of eachother but it’s really cute to see. Hobi can’t get up from his bed because Jeongguk has his arm on him so he just slowly moves his body up, into a sitting position so he can drink some tea that somebody put on his night table.
“Good morning, how are you feeling?” Namjoon asks with a really raspy and deep morning voice (if he wouldn’t have a cold, he would jump his boyfriend’s bones and climb him like a tree, but that is a story for another day). Hoseok looked at him with wide eyes because he didn’t think that anyone would be awake at this hour, but he was wrong.
“I am, uh fine, better.” Hobi was kind of happy that he was already red in the face because he had a fever, if not…help him god.
“Good, good.” Namjoon nods. “Do you need anything?”
“If I am going to need something, I am going to tell you.” Hoseok says and sneezes.
“Bless you.” Joon says with his signature dimple smile and goes carefully out of bed, not to disturb the others who are still sleeping. “I’mma get you something to eat, you didn’t eat much in these two days.”
Hoseok sighs. “Please, for the love of god, don’t burn anything.”
“Can’t promise anything.” Joon winks and he goes out of the room.
“He is going to burn the whole house down, isn’t he?” Yoongi mumbles from where he is lying.
“Oh, great, you are awake too.” Hoseok mumbles.
“I think we all are.” Seokjin says very quietly.
“Great, because I need to pee. Jeongguk, scooch a little bit please.”
“Nooooo, hyung, you are so comfortableeeee.” Jeongguk whines.
“I am going to pee on you if you don’t move your ass.” Hobi grumbles.
“Fine,” Jeongguk finally moves his ass and starts lying on top of Jimin, “you are so not fun when you have a cold.”
“If you are not careful you are going to be sick too and let me tell you, I ain’t gonna be feeling sorry for you, you brat.”
“That is not fair, hyung.” Jeongguk pouts. “I am a really nice guy.”
“When I come back I will deal with you.” Hoseok says and goes really carefully to the toilet, today he can walk alone and doesn’t need assistance from the others. In the bathroom he also brushes his teeth and refreshes his face with some cold water. When he comes back to his room the others are more awake than before but still looking sleepy.
“You would think that you guys have a cold, not me.” Hobi quietly giggles.
Namjoon has some breakfast in his hands that he gives to Hobi when he goes back to bed.
“There you go, baby, eat up.”
“Can we all eat here? I want to be close to Hobi hyung.” Says Tae with a whiney voice.
“Of course, baby.” Seokjin nods and kisses him on the nose. After some time the oldest comes back with six plates, a whole loaf of bread and a big jar of chocolate spread. “If anyone wants coffee they need to make themself, I only have two hands.”
“Tae, want to help me in the kitchen?” Yoongi asks. “I am going to make coffee for everyone when we all eat.”
“Sure, Yoongi hyung.” Tae smiles.
They all eat in silence except for the occasional “thank you”. The warmth and love from the others lulls Hoseok to sleep but he eats his breakfast that Namjoon made just for him. He is half napping when they all ate their breakfast and Tae does go into the kitchen to help make some coffee with Yoongi.
It's Sunday, they are all just chilling at home and enjoy being together. Hoseok sleeps through the day feeling really cozy even if the cold is still there. From time to time some of the members are gone for some time, but Hobi doesn't even register that he is sleeping. The others are trying not to wake him up, so they are talking really quietly or even not at all, they are using gestures to tell something to others.
The clock is running, from morning it turns to afternoon and then into the night. The day is even colder than yesterday, it looks like it's going to snow any time soon, but Hoseok doesn't notice this.
He wakes up once again in the evening, the dinner is already ready on his nightstand, still hot and delicious.
Hobi drinks some more tea and a painkiller, even if he is feeling the best that he felt in the last three days, there is still nagging pain and some sore throat. He takes another shower (Jeongguk helps him with clothes) and in the meantime the others change the bedding, so he feels really refreshed when he comes back.
He even has so much energy that he even works for an hour on the song that he had a deadline on, he made so much progress that he thinks that maybe being sick wasn't that bad, it cleared his head. And the lullaby that they were singing for three days was helping with the melody he needed too.
“Hoba, please put the laptop away and sleep for some more.” Seokjin begs and gives him a pleading look. “Your temperature is still not normal, it's still kind of high.”
“Yeah, don't worry, my eyes are tired either way so I was thinking of turning the laptop off.” Hobi nods and yawns. “Good night.”
“Sunshine I hope you are going to feel better in the morning.” Yoongi says and gives him a big hug. “But as always if you need anything, just say. Good night.”
He sleeps really calmly that night.
When he wakes up most of his boyfriends are gone for work so he just migrates to the dining room and talks with Yoongi who is making lunch, the older one works the afternoon shift this week. When Yoongi needs to go, he just kisses him on the forehead and wishes him to have a great day.
After two hours the others came home.
“Thanks guys, I feel so much better now, I don’t think I have a cold anymore.”
Next to him Namjoon sneezes and looks at the other with wide eyes. Oh well it was good until it lasted.
“Code red!” Jimin yells and the others just sigh. Here we go again.