Yunho woke up with a hazy mind this morning.

He blinks slowly, trying to grasp the reality and his surroundings as he gathers his energy to sit up. He felt so sluggish and heavy today. Was it because I pushed myself too hard last night with the last dance practice..? Yunho huffed softly, swinging his legs from the bed and sitting at the edge.

Yunho stared at the floor with his mind empty. He isn't even aware that a pair of feet had entered his vision, standing close to him. Not until the owner of the feet called him.

"Yunho? What are you doing?"

"Huh..?" Yunho startled, looking up and saw San standing in front of him, tilting his head at Yunho. " Oh, morning Sanie." Yunho whispered, making Sanie raise one of his eyebrows towards Yunho. "Why are you whispering?" San asked, his voice wavered into a concerned one when he looked at Yunho properly.

"Am I? It sounds so loud to me though.." Yunho whispered again, scrunching his nose at how loud San was talking to him. San hummed, pressing his hand on Yunho's forehead and sigh softly as his suspicion was correct. "You're warm, pup. I think you should stay home today. I'm going to find manager hyung."

Yunho blinked, watching San walk out of the room in search of their manager. He tilted his head, his mind still hazy as he stared at nothing on the floor once again.

"Baby?"

Yunho blinked, realizing that someone is standing in front of him and a hand pressed on his forehead. Yunho tilted his head up to see his boyfriend looking at him with a very concerned face. Mingi then went even closer to Yunho, getting in between Yunho's legs as he put his arms on his baby's shoulders. Yunho melted instantly, leaning his head onto Mingi's stomach, sighing softly.

"Baby?"

".....hm...?"

"...Yeah, you're staying home today."

".....why..? We have a lot of schedules today, right..?"

Mingi huffed softly, looking down at Yunho as he pushed Yunho a bit so they could look at each other properly. Yunho pouted but let Mingi tilt his head up with his hands. Mingi was about to speak when Yunho slumped forward, burying his entire face onto Mingi's stomach making the former panicked for a bit, thinking that Yunho had fainted.

"Baby?!" Mingi hissed but relaxed when Yunho answered him with a muffled voice, "Min.. Why do I feel so heavy today..? You feel so good.. So warm.. I'm cold.." Yunho whined as he wrapped his arms around Mingi. "You're having a fever, baby." Mingi explained, caressing Yunho's hair while at it.

"....I don't want to be alone.." Yunho whined, knowing that if he's sick while they have group schedules he would have to stay in the dorm alone but before Mingi could say anything, their manager came into the room, "You won't be alone, pup. I'm afraid we have to bring you with us. I've managed to cancel all the performances for today but I couldn't cancel the 2 photoshoots. I've tried talking to the photographers but they wouldn't budge."

"What? Seriously? My baby needs to rest!" Mingi huffed at the manager.

"I can't do anything. I tried. They said they will go easy on Yunho though so if anything happens then I'll give you the permission to yell at them. Well, before I yell at them myself." the manager shrugged and that is enough for Mingi to let Yunho come with them, although he is still not happy with it. "Okay then, but I won't even hesitate to yell if I found one tiny frown from my baby because of their doings."

Mingi then picked Yunho up easily making Yunho instantly wrap his legs around Mingi's waist, laying his head on Mingi's shoulder. "..Where are we going..?" Yunho mumbled as Mingi walked out of the room. "Bathroom. I'll help you shower." Yunho hummed at Mingi's answer, letting Mingi do most of the work afterwards, from showering to changing into new clothes.

Yunho limply lay on top of Mingi as they sat on the couch, waiting for the other members to get ready. Mingi gently ran his hands on Yunho's hair and back, lulling the sick boy to sleep as Seonghwa made some instant porridge so Yunho could eat a little and take his medicine. The oldest then gave the porridge to Mingi who had put Yunho on the couch right next to him so he could feed the sick boy.

Yunho had lay his head on the headrest right after Mingi put him on the couch from his lap, closing his eyes and breathing a bit heavily. Mingi ran his hand on Yunho's lock as he called him softly, "Baby, you need to eat a little for your medicine." Yunho whined at that, "No.... M'not hungry..."

"You have to baby, please? So you can get better?"

"Don't want... Will be sick later..." Yunho whined and pouted, looking at Mingi with wide teary eyes and Mingi nearly gave up but he wanted his baby to get better. "Please, love? Hm? I hate seeing you this sick.. Please..?" Mingi pleaded, using a pet name that would make Yunho melted, which Yunho did that he sighed, pouting at Mingi but he opened his mouth to indicate that Mingi could feed him.

Mingi smiled, giving a soft kiss on Yunho's forehead as he started to feed him. Yunho ate about half of the cup before he refused to eat more but it's enough for him to be able to eat his medicine so Mingi stopped feeding his baby and helped him down the medicine afterwards. Yunho rubbed his eyes with his fists as he felt his eyes burn because of the fever until Mingi had to stop him by pulling both of his hands away from his eyes.

" Don't do that baby."

"It burns.. I hate it.."

Mingi huffed softly, he knew how cranky Yunho is when he's sick and the slightest things could make the tallest moody so he picks him up and settles him on his lap, pulling him closer as he runs his hand on Yunho's waist. Yunho sighed, burying his head in Mingi's neck as he closed his eyes and it didn't take long for him to be asleep.

Mingi gently picked Yunho up and all of them went to their vans, Jongho helping Mingi to bring the asleep Yunho into the van without waking him up. The ride to the venue is silent and calm as they don't want to be too noisy for the poor sick boy. Yunho didn't wake up for the entire ride, sleeping soundly on top of Mingi.

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"Baby, wake up." Mingi whispered, running a hand through Yunho's lock until the latter stirred a few seconds later. Yunho whimpered as soon as he opened his eyes, his head throbbing and limbs heavy. "M'head hurts.." He whined, burying his head in the crook of Mingi's neck, eliciting a sigh from Mingi. "I'm sorry baby.. but we're here.. Do you want me to carry you inside?"

Yunho pouted, shaking his head. No way in hell would he let Mingi carry him because of a 'little' fever in front of strangers. He still has his pride. "I'll walk myself.." Yunho huffed, opening the van door but failed to do so, making him whine and throwing a tantrum at the handle before Mingi kissed his neck softly, pulling his hands away from the handle and opening the door. "Let me do this kind of thing baby, your grip would be like a baby right now." Mingi chuckled, amused by his baby's antic.

Yunho huffed, getting out of the van with a scowl on his face and waited for Mingi before walking into the venue together. Yunho smiled as soon as he saw the staff inside the studio, bowing politely as their manager ushered them into the dressing room. Yunho saw a couch in the room, making a beeline towards it and flopped down, releasing a tired huff. Hongjoong frowned in concern, walking towards Yunho and pressing a hand on his forehead, grimacing at the warm radiating from the tallest.

"Pup, do you want me to tell them that you can't do this? I can go right now and you can just rest here until we're finished."

Yunho shook his head, giving Hongjoong a small smile, "It's okay hyung. I'm already here so let's just do it. I'll tell you if I can't take it anymore."

Hongjoong squinted his eyes at Yunho, doubting the pup that he would tell him if he's becoming worse. "Promise me that you'll tell me." Yunho pouted at Hongjoong and reluctantly nodded his head. "...I promise.." Hongjoong nodded, satisfied with the verbal answer and went ahead to get his hair done by their stylist.

--

The first photoshoot went without a hitch as they only had to sit and laugh with each other so it was bearable for Yunho to do so. The last photoshoot was the problem. They have to pose outside under the hot sun and Yunho felt like he would melt on the spot. The heat made his head throbbed violently and it's not helping when the photographer insists Yunho to be the one at the hottest spot saying that the spot was made for Yunho and it would be a beautiful picture.

Yunho does as the photographer says at first, enduring the throbbing headache while trying to look decent for the picture so he could finish it fast. The problem is that the photographer keeps telling Yunho to change position a lot and doesn't seem to be satisfied with the picture even though his assistant already told him that it looks fine. Yunho felt like fainting after posing for 30 minutes under the hot sun so he looked around to find Mingi or Hongjoong.

Fortunately, Mingi was nearby, watching him so when he saw Yunho looking at him with a very pale face, he rushed to Yunho while yelling for Hongjoong. Yunho was breathing heavily, trying not to faint as his vision swirled and his head heavy. Thankfully Mingi came right on time as Yunho slumped forward, no longer able to hold himself upright. Mingi caught Yunho by the waist and glared at the photographer once he heard Yunho whimpered against him.

"This photoshoot is over." Mingi hissed at the photographer as he picked Yunho up in his arms.

" What?! But I still need more of his picture! Come on! It wasn't even that hot!"

"He nearly fainted in front of you! How could you not see that?? I'm stopping this photoshoot right now!"

"You're not even the leader! Yunho! Get back to your position!"

"Excuse me sir, I'm the leader and I am stopping this photoshoot right now. You have breached our agreement that you won't make this hard for our sick member." Hongjoong stepped in, telling the photographer off with a stern voice. " W-what? B-but he'll be fine after a 5 minutes water rest! Come on! He looks beautiful here and I want it photographed!"

"No. We're going home." Both Hongjoong and Mingi said to the photographer making him grumble and hissed at them, "Fine then! I'll tell the media how bad you guys are so no one will watch you guys ever again! Fucking brats!"

"Eh, then we'll expose this video of yours that didn't treat our sick member well and tell him to do stuff under the hot sun. You even breached our agreements." Yeosang nonchalantly said, standing a few feet away from them with Wooyoung who had recorded everything since Yunho went up to the spot to be photographed 30 minutes ago.

The photographer paled as their manager came up to them, "Let's go boys, we're going home." He said while glaring at the photographer, "Our higher ups will call you soon. Make sure to answer it. Ah, don't even bother to sweet talk them as I've already told them what happened. Oh, and our deals are off. All the pictures you took today, KQ will take everything and you can't publish it anywhere or we will sue you. Have a nice day."

Yunho limply lay in Mingi's arm, breathing heavily with his eyes closed and whimpering occasionally as his head throbbed. San opened a bottle of water as they all piled into their vans and gave the bottle to Mingi, telling him silently to feed Yunho with it. Mingi kissed Yunho's warm forehead, "Baby, drink this. You need to rehydrate." He coaxed the sick boy and Yunho complied, too tired to fight as he drank the water slowly.

"The doctor is on the way to the dorm. He suggested letting Yunho rest at the dorm rather than the hospital. If his fever is still high tomorrow then we will take him to the hospital." Their manager announced.

--

Yunho had fallen asleep throughout the process where the doctor inserted the IV drip into the back of his left hand and treated him. He had told the members, mostly Mingi on what they should do to bring Yunho's fever down as it was not that high yet. After he was done, he told them that he'll be back after 8 hours to take the IV drip out of Yunho.

Mingi sighed softly, running his hand through Yunho's lock as he watched him sleeping. Yunho stirred slightly making Mingi panicked a bit as he didn't want his baby to be awake because he needed the rest so he shushed him softly, trying to lull him back to sleep.

To no avail, as Yunho coughed a little and opened his eyes slowly. He looked around, confused and tilt his head at Mingi. Mingi sighed, kissing Yunho's forehead and answered him softly, "We were home about 1 hour ago, the doctor had come and gave you the IV drip and some shots for your fever. Go back to sleep baby."

Yunho hummed, looking at his left hand where the IV needle was attached to the back of his hand and scrunched up his face at it making Mingi chuckled. "Yeah, I know you don't like needles so I was beyond grateful that you were asleep the entire time." Yunho pouted and was about to claw the needle out of his hand when Mingi stopped him. "Hey, leave that on young man or else.."

Yunho smirked at his boyfriend, " Or else? As far as I know, I'm the bravest one in this house."

Mingi gaped at Yunho and faked a very loud gasp, his hands on his chest as he looked at Yunho with a fake hurt face. "Excuse me?! Don't try to rat me out right now! I'm still your boyfriend! Oh! I'm hurt!"

Yunho rolled his eyes at the dramatic display, though he had a small smile on his face.

"No kisses and cuddles then." Mingi huffed, crossing his arms over his chest. He knew Yunho would back out as he really loves kisses and cuddles from Mingi especially when he is sick. Yunho widened his eyes at that, grabbing Mingi's wrist as the latter started to stand up from the bed.

"No! Stay! I'm sorry! I was only joking! Miiiiinnnnn!" Yunho whined, looking at Mingi with big eyes that are glazed with fever and pulling him back weakly. Mingi takes one look at his boyfriend and deems it's enough and stops the teasing, sitting back down on the bed and kissing Yunho's forehead. "I'm sorry too baby, I was only joking too. Now can you please go back to sleep?"

Yunho pouted, tugging Mingi even closer. "Only if you sleep with me." Mingi chuckled, nodding his head and lay next to Yunho, minding his IV drip, bringing Yunho closer as the taller sighing in content. Yunho buried his face in Mingi's neck and was lulled to sleep with Mingi's hand running on his waist, knowing that he will be fine as long as Mingi and the others are with him and helping him.