Requested by mehreatlsse

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The members shared a lot of things, but one thing they had always been hesitant to share were their personal items, such as their phones or laptops. Mainly because their laptops all had projects on them and they couldn't risk another member accidentally messing them up.

Which is exactly why when Jungkook kept asking Namjoon to use his laptop for one of his games, Namjoon repeatedly told him no.

"I have a lot of projects to work on, I can't have anyone using it right now," Namjoon informed his maknae.

"What about later?"

"I said no, Jungkook. Once I'm done with my projects in a few days, then you'll have free reign of the games on here, just wait a bit, okay?"

"Fine," Jungkook said pouting and turning out of Namjoon's room. He headed down the stairs and met up with his other hyungs in the living room. Some of them were on their phones and some were playing games together on the floor.

"What's your issue?" Jimin asked his maknae. He could tell Jungkook seemed to be in a bit of a bad mood.

"Nothing. I'm just bored."

"Want to play with me and Hobi hyung?" Jimin gestured to a card game they were playing.

"No," Jungkook crossed his arms before laying back on the couch and playing with his phone.

A few hours later the members decided to go outside and start a fire to sit around and chat. Jungkook decided this would be the perfect opportunity to go inside and play with his hyungs laptop. He told the members he didn't feel like being outside and retreated upstairs into Namjoon's room. He figured they'd be outside for a while so he'd just hang out in the living room and play for a bit and then put the laptop back. Namjoon hyung will never even know.

Once he grabbed his hyungs laptop off his bed he began to make his way to the living room. In his excitement for the game he was finally going to get to play he was skipping down the stairs when he missed a step, sending both him and Namjoon's laptop crashing down to the bottom of the staircase. Jungkook immediately grabbed his ankle which was shooting with pain.

"Ahhh!" he screamed out loud. He then noticed his right thumb was throbbing badly too, looking at it, it was clearly sprained or broken, he didn't know. It was swelling and turning purple and blue. He looked at his ankle which was the exact same color. He tried to take deep breaths as he fought through the pain. Before he had the chance to get up, his hyungs came running in, "What happened?" Jin asked. All of his hyungs eyes immediately fell on the laptop.

"Is that mine?!" Namjoon screamed, leaning down to pick it up.

"Hyung I was just-" Jungkook started, but Namjoon cut him off, "What the hell Jungkook! I told you you couldn't use this! Look at it! It's broken!" Namjoon held it up and the laptop was in two pieces, with the screen completely shattered.

"Namjoonie hyung I-"

"Why didn't you listen to me?! I told you I have projects due in a couple days, now how the hell am I supposed to get any work done?! What am I supposed to do?! This shit took me weeks!"

The rest of the members were equally as angry. They all began scolding Jungkook, who still hadn't even gotten up from the floor and was still trying to hold his thumb and ankle, but everyone was more concerned about Namjoon's laptop to ask the maknae if he was okay.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to!" Jungkook cried as he finally stood up, favoring his other leg to stand.

"Just leave me alone! Go away!" Namjoon spat before taking his laptop and disappearing up into his room with it. The members glared at their maknae angrily before agreeing that Jungkook should go to his room for now. They all turned and went back outside while Jungkook limped his way to his bed. He threw himself onto his bed and cried. His thumb and ankle were hurting worse and worse and now his ankle was pretty swollen along with his thumb. He didn't know what to do. He didn't want to say anything to his hyungs because they were all angry with him and he felt like enough of a burden already. He lay there clutching his ankle and cradling his thumb. That's all he felt he could do.

Later that night the members had made dinner, but nobody bothered to call Jungkook down. He was still in his room crying trying to think of how he could apologize to his hyung. He didn't like everyone being mad at him.

Everyone had finished eating and were doing their own things when Jungkook painfully made his way downstairs with his own laptop. He tried to hide his limp as to not worry anyone. He walked over to Namjoon and offered his laptop.

"Here hyungie, you can use mine for your projects."

"Maybe I should just break it instead," Namjoon spat while taking the maknae's laptop from him.

"I'm really sorry hyung."

"What's that? I'm not listening to you. Just like you clearly don't listen to me."

"Hyung...I'm really sorry...I shouldn't have taken yours. I never meant to break it. It was an accident," Jungkook fought back tears. He really didn't know how else to apologize. He realized he should have listened in the first place. He kept trying to apologize but Namjoon didn't want to hear it at all. He was using Jungkook's laptop and then put headphones in, completely ignoring his maknae. Jungkook turned and decided to just go back to his room, he tried to walk normally until he was out of sight, then instantly fell back into a painful limp. It was becoming more and more painful to walk.

Over the next three days, nothing was different. The hyungs were all still angry with Jungkook and he kept his distance. He basically stayed in his room 24/7 at this point. They'd had time off work so he didn't have to interact with anyone if he didn't want to. He figured his hyungs must be happy about that too considering nobody bothered to ever come check on or spend time with him. His ankle and thumb were badly swollen. His ankle was so swollen now he couldn't even get his shoe on because the swelling had gone into his foot, both were turning a weird black and blue color. His thumb was still purple and blue and extremely sore. He had been starting to not feel all that great the last few days. He was feeling extremely exhausted and getting a bit sweaty, so he decided being alone and staying in bed was his best option. He hadn't bothered eating or drinking anything because the last time he tried it made his stomach hurt. He didn't know if maybe he was getting the flu or something and definitely didn't want to give it to any of his hyungs.

Later that night, all of the members were gathered in Namjoon's room eating dinner and joking around and laughing. Yoongi mentioned offering food to Jungkook, but Taehyung said Jungkook would most likely eat on his own. They agreed that was more than likely what their maknae would do. The youngest hadn't spent time out of his room lately anyway.

The next day, Namjoon was finally finished with his project. Thankfully he was able to use Jungkook's computer to complete everything because his projects were on an online account he was able to log in to. The others members had also been working on projects. All of them except the maknae. They gathered into the car to head to the studio so they could hand in their work. It was a quick trip to work as all they had to do was submit some files to their boss and then could head back home.

On the way home they started talking about how hungry they all were.

"Maybe we could stop somewhere to eat?" Jimin asked.

"I think we have a ton of food at home we could still cook, let's at least get through that first," Hobi suggested. The members agreed that there was more than enough food at home, they should save their money for now. When they got back Jin opened the fridge to see a ton of leftovers, stuff that they had left for Jungkook to eat. The maknae hadn't touched any of it. Jin became increasingly worried and realized he better go check on his maknae. He made his way to Jungkook's room and went to open the door but the door was locked.

He started knocking on it loudly, "Jungkook!! Jungkook?!" His knocking got more panicked and frantic when Jungkook wasn't replying and he realized he actually hadn't seen his maknae in a few days now.

"Jungkook!!!" Jin screamed while banging on the door. The other members heard Jin yelling and all ran to meet him. They saw Jin banging on Jungkook's door and screaming his name.

"What's going on?" Namjoon asked with worry.

"He hasn't touched any of his food in days and when is the last time we've even seen him?! His door is locked! JUNGKOOK!!" Jin screamed again while banging on the door. All the members looked to eachother with worry. They didn't realize Jungkook hadn't been coming out to eat. Hobi and Taehyung started pounding on the door too.

"MAKNAE?!" Taehyung screamed.

"JUNGKOOK open the door!" Hobi yelled. They waited silently and still received no response. Hobi and Taehyung started turning the handle trying to break the lock loose. They both backed up and slammed their bodies into the door trying to break it down. The members were desperate to make sure their maknae was okay. All the members started helping knock the door down and within five minutes they finally cracked the side with the lock and the handle came loose. Everyone ran in and found Jungkook asleep in bed. They frantically ran to him. Yoongi started shaking him, "Hey, hey, Jungkook-ah, wake up!" he demanded while panicking. He felt Jungkook's body radiating heat when he tried shaking him. Jimin pulled his blanket off to reveal their maknae completely drenched in sweat. It had pooled around him, making even his bed wet. Jimin tried shaking him this time, "Bunny hey please...wake up Jungkook.."

"Hyung why isn't he waking up?! What's wrong with him?!" Taehyung yelled while tears flowed down his face.

"I don't know!" yelled Yoongi. Hobi stared at the youngest, "He's so pale.." he put his hand to his forehead, it was completely burning up, "Aish...He's on fire guys.."

Namjoon also tried to shake Jungkook awake, "Hey? Jungkook-ah? Time to get get up now, you're scaring us!" They waited but still got no response. The members were all crying, they were extremely worried. Namjoon pulled out his cell phone and called an ambulance. Jin sat next to Jungkook on his bed and wiped the sweat off his forehead, "Oh Jungkookie...why didn't you say something if you weren't feeling well? You'll be alright.." Jin was trying to reassure himself that his maknae would turn out just fine. He needed him to. The members felt so incredibly guilty for not checking on him sooner or making sure he had actually been eating.

When the ambulance arrived Jungkook was quickly taken away from them. It was like he was there one second and gone the next. The members sped to the hospital behind the ambulance, all hoping and praying their youngest was going to be okay.

When they got to the hospital they ran in asking if Jungkook would be okay but they were told they'd have to wait because he was in the Emergency Room and they couldn't go back there to be with him. They waited for a few hours until a doctor finally came in asking for them. They all ran to the doctor.

"How is he? Did he wake up? Is he going to be okay?" Taehyung asked impatiently.

"He has not woken up yet, he's being treated for an infection. May I ask what exactly happened? We did some tests and he's extremely dehydrated and it appears he hasn't eaten in days. Upon examination he also has a broken ankle and a broken thumb. The broken ankle is what caused the infection."

All the members stood there with their mouths open in shock.

"A broken ankle and thumb? An infection?!" Cried Yoongi. They all looked to eachother with concern.

"Oh my God he must have hurt himself when he fell down the stairs with your laptop! That was almost a week ago!" Jimin cried to Namjoon, "Why didn't he say anything?!"

"Probably because we were all so damn busy screaming at the poor kid that none of us bothered to ask him if he was okay!" Taehyung yelled angrily. The guilt was eating him alive.

"Yeah, he probably didn't say anything because we were all treating him like shit. You know how he gets. He hates being in trouble and he hates feeling like a problem. Oh my God our poor maknae," Cried Hobi, "We were so mean to him..."

The guilt wasn't letting up. They all felt absolutely terrible for not only all yelling at Jungkook for breaking Namjoon's laptop, but also neglecting him for days afterwards. They all felt so bad for never even asking him if he was okay after knowing he'd fallen down the stairs. They had all been more focused on the laptop.

"We're failures. We're the worst hyungs! The worst!" Jimin cried as Hobi hugged him, "He isn't going to die is he?!" Jimin asked the doctor through his tears.

" No, no. He won't die. But he will need to stay here a bit while we clear his infection. We also treated his broken bones. I will come back when he is ready for visitors," The doctor turned on his heel and left the waiting room.

"Broken bones...he had broken bones this entire time and none of us bothered to even ask him if he was okay.." Jin said with a voice full of guilt. The members remained quiet after that. They realized how badly they had messed up, and they could only hope that their maknae would forgive them.

After a few more hours the doctor came back and told them they could go see him. They ran to his room to find him still sleeping. His right thumb and his ankle were both in a large cast, and he was hooked up to different IV's that were pumping different antibiotics into him. He was also hooked up to some tubes that were administering vitamins to him as he had become extremely malnourished. The members surrounded his bed. Yoongi grabbed his maknae's hand, thankfully he wasn't so hot and sweaty anymore. He squeezed his hand but felt his heart sink more when Jungkook didn't squeeze it back. He just wanted the poor boy to wake up already.

"Our poor baby.." Hobi whispered. Jin was running his fingers through his maknae's hair, "We're so so so sorry Jungkook-ah...we never meant to let this happen to you.." Taehyung offered Jin a tissue to wipe his tears away. After standing around his bed talking to the unconscious maknae for a bit, the members all took seats around the room. They refused to leave his side so they were admitted past visiting hours. They all slept curled up together on chairs and couches. They wanted to make sure they were all there for him when Jungkook woke up.

The next morning, the members all woke up early. Unfortunately the maknae still wasn't awake.

"Uh... when will he open his eyes?! I just want him to open his eyes for us!" Taehyung pouted. They all agreed that it was concerning and frustrating. The doctor told them this was normal but they were all still so worried regardless. About an hour later, Jungkook slowly began to open his eyes and the first thing he saw was all of his hyungs huddled around him, practically hovering.

The first thing he did was panic. He didn't know why he was in the hospital or how long he'd been there but he did know that his hyungs were mad at him. His members began to excitedly greet him but in his panic he cut them off, panicking and crying, "I'm so sorry hyungies! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to be bad! I'm so sorry Joonie-hyung I didn't mean to not listen to you! I promise to always listen and never ever do that again but please hyungs, please don't ignore me any more! I'm really sorry!" Jungkook began sobbing. He really missed his hyungs. That was his main concern. He didn't care he was in the hospital. He just wanted his hyungs to not be mad at him anymore. Namjoon sat down on the bed next to him and pulled him into a tight hug, "Hey, hey, stop. It's okay." Jungkook buried his face into Namjoon's chest and cried.

"It's okay Jungkook-ah. Really. I don't blame you. I'm the one who should be apologizing. We all should be. We never meant to ignore you. I'm so sorry you got hurt and we didn't even bother to check on you. Please don't cry. You know hyungs love you and you're more important than anything. It was just a stupid laptop. They're replaceable, and you are not. We should have checked on you, not screamed at and ignored you," Namjoon was rubbing Jungkook's back.

"Kookie we're all so sorry. Why didn't you come to us when you realized you were hurt? You know we would have taken care of you," Yoongi asked.

"Hyungs were angry with me."

"I know our actions may have said otherwise, but please know even when we're angry we still care about you. We're sorry we didn't show you that,"Jin told his youngest. The rest of the members also gathered around and held Jungkook, rubbing his back. The gesture put Jungkook right back to sleep. Namjoon lay him down back onto the bed and covered him up with his blanket.

"Poor maknae is so exhausted.." Jimin mentioned. He let out a deep sigh.

"I can't believe he thought we were so angry we wouldn't have cared he had gotten hurt. We don't even deserve him!" Hobi said, plopping down into another chair. The members couldn't help but agree with him, right now they felt like the absolute worst hyungs. Their maknae deserved so much better.

Jungkook slept for the rest of the day, and the following morning the doctor came in to tell them all that Jungkook was ready to be discharged. The members clapped, they were all ready to bring their youngest back home, and treat him right this time. He had to be brought to the car in a wheelchair, and he was given a little scooter with wheels he could prop his leg up on and he was also given crutches so he had some options to get around while his ankle healed.

When they got home, the hyungs waited on Jungkook hand and foot even after he kept telling them they really didn't need to. Jin walked by with all of Jungkook's bedding, "What are you doing?" He asked his hyung.

"Cleaning these, they're full of sweat."

"Hyung it's okay I can do that," Jungkook went to get up off the couch but Namjoon gestured for him to sit back down, "No, you just rest."

"What do you want to eat? Hyungs will make you whatever you want," Hobi and Jimin both offered. Jungkook smiled, he'd really been craving pork belly lately. "We're on it!" Jimin said while grabbing Hobi and leading him into the kitchen.

Taehyung and Yoongi sat next to Jungkook. Yoongi asked if he needed any medicine or ice packs or anything, the maknae said he was okay.

"We really are so sorry Jungkookie. I can't force you to forgive us, but we all hope you do. We never meant for you to get hurt or ignore you," Yoongi said. Namjoon sat with them too, "We promise to never ever treat you like that again. You're more important than anything, maknae. You're our priority. No matter what happens or what you do, we promise to always take care of you," Namjoon felt tears welling up in his eyes again as he pulled Jungkook into a hug. Jungkook smiled and hugged his leader back. He finally felt loved again, like he wasn't a burden anymore.

"Oh and one more thing," Namjoon disappeared and brought Jungkook's laptop back to him, "I was able to buy a new one. But turn yours on, there's a surprise."

Jungkook started up his laptop and saw that his hyungs had bought the game for him so he could play on his own whenever he wanted. The members all smiled seeing their maknae's face light up.

"Oh hyungs!!! Thank you!!" Jungkook screamed. Namjoon patted his back, "Don't worry about it. We love you."

"I love you guys too."

After a week of dread was finally over, all was right and well in the BTS dorm once again.

-Fin.