This is a mix of two requests by @purplecupcakes005 and @12343273smas cause I might as well kill two birds with one stone 🤷🏻‍♀️ hope it's good enough for y'all!

"AAAACHOOOOOOO"

That was his 46th sneeze that day. Jungkook was ill. Not just a lil cold though. No. It was worse than that. He had every symptom to exist on earth- coughing, sneezing, blocked nose, blocked ears, nausea, fever, tiredness. Saying it was "just a cold" would be a fierce understatement. Luckily they'd gotten a while off to care for kookie until he had fully recovered. The flu was never fun. All of the members were constantly alert, ready to do or give kookie anything he needed. Well, all except one.... taehyung.

It was a surprise to everyone. Jungkook and taehyung are always so close! Why is taehyung ignoring him? It baffled all of them. Not long after Jungkook got ill, tae basically locked himself away in his room and never left unless it was for food or anything else important. And when he did leave, he didn't dare lay a single eye on Jungkook. It was really strange, and they knew something must be up. Jimin was just about to go and talk to him, when tae suddenly barged out of his room and ran into the bathroom. Jimin furrowed his brows in confusion. Was it really that urgent?

Meanwhile Tae was busy puking up his guts as quietly as possible in the bathroom. He didn't want to be to loud cause he knew they'd all just say the same thing they've been saying this whole time. "We know you're not sick tae, stop faking it for attention." When Jungkook got sick, tae also got sick too, but due to unfortunate timing, the other members took it as tae faking it for attention. He was known for being a clingy soul, so they knew that tae would probably get jealous of him for getting all the attention. But tae wasn't faking it. He was sick. How the others didn't realise that, he doesn't know. He felt so miserable. He felt so ill but no one was paying him any attention. It was rough, and he struggled to get through it without someone by his side. At this point he'd given up trying to convince them. He just thought "It'll go away eventually, just push through." But that was easier said than done.

Jimin stared at the closed door of the bathroom for a bit before going into tae's room and waiting for him. See jimin, unlike the others, was thinking what if he is actually sick? what if he's sick and we're just ignoring him... This thought tortured him. He didn't know who to believe. But either way he knew he needed to talk to tae and find out the truth. As soon as he entered tae's room he saw tissues scattered everywhere, his bin already overflowing with them. He sighed. This is a lot of effort and wasted tissues just for faking sick. But if he was faking it why would he go through this effort when he won't let anyone in his room anyway? Jimin sighed again as he sat down on the edge of tae's bed, ready for tae to yell at him as soon as he comes back in.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!" Just as he had expected.
"Tae, I-... I just want to talk to you..."Jimin said, standing up from tae's bed. As tae pushed past him, he could for sure smell that pungent smell of sickness. That's when he knew he wasn't faking it. Tae flopped onto his bed and hid under the covers to avoid conversation. Jimin sighed for what felt like the thousandth time today and crouched down next to the bed.

"Tae..." He said, beckoning the sick boy out from underneath the covers, but it didn't work. He reached out and pulled the covers back to see a tear stain down tae's cheek. Hes definitely not faking it.
"Tae, please. Talk to me." Tae just growled with an angry frown, throwing the covers back over his head. "I know you're not faking it..." Jimin said quietly. Tae poked his eyes past the covers to see jimins soft expression, before pulling the covers back more and sitting up slightly with a sniff.
"I'm sorry that the others don't believe you. But I definitely do now. Do you want anything?"
"Just convince the others. That's all I want." Jimin let out a sad smile and nodded.
"I'll try my best..." He said standing up and leaving the room.

Jungkook was crying, sat up after a particularly unpleasant vomiting session. Namjoon was crouched in front of him holding a bucket and rubbing his shoulder, while hoseok was sat on the arm of the couch, rubbing his back. Jin came running over with a wet cloth to wipe jungkooks mouth and face, and yoongi came with a glass of water and a thermometer. Jimin sighed once again at the sad sight. All the members crowded around kookie, while tae was left suffering on his own.

"Namjoon-hyung..." Jimin said, catching the attention of the leader.
"Yes jimin?" He replied, still diligently rubbing the youngest's shoulder.
"Can I talk to you for a second?"
"I'm sorry chim, in a minute. I have to help kook first-"
"It's important, hyung..." Jimin was getting slightly angry. Couldn't he see that kookie was surrounded by the other members? Surely leaving him for just a couple minutes wouldn't make that big a difference. Namjoon sighed, looking at the floor.

"I'm sorry kookie, hyung has to go for a bit but I'll be right back ok?" Kookie doesn't even nod, and namjoon stands up and reluctantly follows jimin to the kitchen, glancing back and jungkook as he goes.
"Hyung, I know that none of you believe that taehyung is sick but-" Jimin didn't even get to finish his sentence before he was interrupted.
"Oh come off it jimin, you know he's faking it. It's so obvious, and we all know how clingy he is. He needs to learn that he can't always have all the attention. Kookie is really sick and-"
"Tae is too." Jimin interrupts "I promise you hyung. I went into his room and there were tissues scattered everywhere. Why would he go through all that effort to convince us when he isn't letting anyone in his room in the first place. When he came back in I could smell it. He is sick, hyung. And he's been suffering this whole time on his own cause none of you will believe him. So what if he's faking it? We should still help him because what if he's not and he's being forced to deal with it himself. If you don't believe me go see him yourself." Jimin stormed out of the room. Namjoon sighed and shook his head before going straight back to kookie.

"Sorry I had to leave you like that kook. Hyungie's back, don't worry." Kookie nodded and sniffed, feeling much better after all the members praise. He glanced back towards tae's room, and sighed. He felt bad. He also knew that tae was actually sick. They told each other first when they first got sick. He was happy when he saw Jimin enter tae's room. At least he has someone now.

Yoongi breaks the silence, speaking up, pulling kookie out of his trance.
"What did Jimin want you for Joon?" He asked.
"He's fallen for taes tricks too." Namjoon said, remembering what jimin said.
"Aish, really? When will he learn..." Yoongi says, looking towards tae's room. Namjoon puts his focus back on kookie, placing gentle hands on his shoulders and asking him what he wants.
"I want to sleep." Kookie says softly, still feeling guilty for stealing all the attention.
"Ok kook, just lie down-"
"And..." Jungkook interrupts. "Can you check on tae?" Namjoon looks stunned before a fed up look replaces it.
"Are you falling for it too kook? Don't worry, he just want's to take the attention from you. He needs to learn he can't always get all the attention."
"Please." He interrupts again. "Just cause I'm sick doesn't mean you should ignore him completely. Just talk to him at least."
"But-"
"It's what I want Joon. Please." Namjoon rolls his eyes and sighs.
"Fine. If it's what you want then I will." Namjoon runs a hand through his hair before standing up. Jungkook lies down and Namjoon hesitantly walks towards taes room.

---Meanwhile in taes room---

Jimin carefully enters to find Tae curled into a ball, a sniffling mess under the blankets. He crouches down in front of him and hands him a tissue.
"I talked to Namjoon. Unfortunately I couldn't convince him, but I told him to talk to you. Hopefully If he sees this with his own eyes, he'll believe you." Tae nods and sniffs before blowing his nose roughly.
"Do you want anything else?" Jimin asked. Tae puled back the covers and patted the bed next to him.

"Cuddle."

With that Jimin climbed into taes bed and cuddled him tight, and tae let out a content sigh.
"This is all I wanted this whole time." Jimin brushed the hair out of taes face, his hand grazing against his forehead, and he gasps softly.

"Aigoo you're rather warm tae." Jimin says, feeling taes forehead again, and tae leans into his hand.

"It sure doesn't feel like it..." Tae says softly. Jimin frowns with a pout and lets out a sympathetic sound.

At this point, They hear a knock on the door, and taes eyebrows furrow with anger.

"Who is it now..." He says under his breath, about to stand up before jimin stops him.

"Stay here, I'll go get it." Jimin says, standing up and stepping over the mess that they hadn't had a chance to clear up yet, to the door. He opens it and sees a done-looking namjoon.

"Well? I'm here like you asked. Can I talk to taehyung now?" Jimin looks back at taehyung reluctantly before stepping to the side and letting him in. He looks around at the mess, tissues scattered everywhere, half full glasses of water and empty medicine packets left haphazardly on the floor or his bedside table. Maybe Jimin's right. He wouldn't do all this just to fake sick. Namjoon sighs and steps over all the mess to taehyungs bed, where he is propped up on his elbow looking angrily at him. Namjoon crouched down and from there, he could also smell it. That smell of sickness. Maybe he's right. Maybe he is sick. Namjoon sighed and looked to the floor with guilt.

"I'm sorry Taehyung. I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I believe you now." Taes angry expression softened. "Now how about we get you out of this mess. It can't be doing you any good lying in a messy room filled with germs." Tae let out a slight smile. Finally.

"Jimin, can you get him in the shower? he could probably do with one. I'll clean all this up." He looked back at Jimin who was smiling with relief. He nodded and walked over to help tae up.

"Let's get you washed up then." He said as he led tae into the bathroom. Namjoon sighed as he looked at the mess, before bending down and picking up a few tissues off the floor. He went to go put them in the bin until he saw that the bin in taes room was already overflowing with rubbish. He sighed and went to get a bin bag.
"Oh! Namjoon! What happened?" Yoongi asked, sat on the floor in front of Jungkook, who was asleep on the couch. Namjoon stopped in his tracks and sighed guiltily.
"He is really sick. Really. Just-... just look after kookie for me. I gotta help clear out taes room." He says as he grabs a bin bag from the cupboards and goes back to taes room. All the other members are left conflicted and guilty.

——Meanwhile in the bathroom——
"Jimin...? Are you going to leave or....?" Tae asked sat on the edge of the bathtub.
"Of course I'm not leaving! Your ill! What if something happens? I need to be here!" Jimin said, genuinely offended.
"You perv." Tae says with a laugh.
"Hey! I never said I'm gonna get into the shower with you or anything! You can close the curtain! I'll just wait here." Jimin said, closing the lid of the toilet and sitting on it. Tae just laughs a bit before standing up and clambering into the shower. Jimin smiles, seeing that tae still had the capacity to joke.

Tae swiftly closes the curtain, carefully throwing his clothes onto the floor, and gets on with his shower. Jimin gets bored and starts wishing he'd at least brought a book in or something. Eventually he hears the water stop running so he stands up and passes Tae the towel. He wraps the towel tightly around himself so it won't fall down and sits on the edge of the bathtub again.
"Does that feel better?" Jimin asks. Tae nods, but says "I feel really tired now though."
"Yeah, it's probably from standing for so long. Let's just get you back to bed. Hopefully Namjoon has finished cleaning up now." Jimin grabs taes clothes that were thrown on the floor and unlocks the door.

They enter taes room to be met with a nice clean floor and fresh bedsheets.
"Thanks for that Namjoon." Jimin says as he throws taes clothes in the laundry basket. Tae sits on his fresh clean bed and sighs with contentment. Jimin looks through his wardrobe and searches for some comfortable clothes for Tae.
"Can you two, like, leave?" He asks, holding the clothes in his hand.
"N-no... we'll just turn around." Jimin says, grabbing namjoons arm to turn him around. Tae sighs, and quickly gets changed.
"You can turn around now." Tae says as he lies back down, breathing in the scent of the fresh bedsheets. Jimin walks over and pulls the covers over him. He crouches down and brushes the damp hair from his face.
"Is there anything else you want? Any medicine or food or anything?" Jimin says softly.
"No, I just kinda wanna be left alone right now jiminie." Tae replies with a soft smile.
"A-are you sure? Is something wrong?" Jimin asked with a worried expression. Tae laughs slightly.
"I'm ok Jimin. I just wanna sleep. You can go."
"Ok... make sure you call us if you need anything." Jimin says, very hesitant to leave taehyung alone.
"Yeah, I will, don't worry. Just go, Jimin" Tae says, still retaining his soft smile. Jimin nods slightly before standing up and walking towards the door. He gives tae one last glance before he closes the door, still leaving it open by a crack just incase.

The other members look with guilt as the see Jimin and Namjoon leave taes room.
"Is...he ok?" Jin asks, quietly. Jimin just nods and sits down next to Yoongi on the floor in front of Jungkook.
"Is this one ok?" Jimin says, looking at jungkook, sleeping semi peacefully.
"Well better than he was at least." Yoongi says with a sigh.
"What kinda symptoms is he having?" Jimin asked, comparing them to taehyung's to see if they have the same bug.
"Fever, vomiting, sneezing, coughing headache. Everything you can think of really." Hoseok says, gently brushing a piece of the sickly boys hair with his finger.
"*sigh* the poor thing." Jimins eyebrows curve upwards in sympathy.
"What about taehyung?" Jin asks.
"I'm not totally sure, but from what I gather, pretty much the same as kookie."
"Is he asleep right now?" Yoongi asked.
"Yeah, he said he wanted to be left alone, which is weird, but it's what he wants so..." Jimin said, looking at the ground with guilt. He still felt guilty for leaving tae alone. As if on cue, they heard a shout from taehyungs room.

"JIMIN-A!" His voice cracked slightly and sounded panicked, and Jimin already knew what was happening.
"Namjoon! Grab a bucket or something!" Jimin said running to taes room. The shouting woke up kookie, who now had a horrible headache.

"Sorry about that kook, it's ok" Yoongi says, gently stroking the hair from the youngests face.
"Head hurts" he mumbles, hitting his forehead with the heel of his palm.
"I know kook it's ok. I'm sorry but I can't give you any painkillers cause you only just had some..." Jungkook whines at the news. It's true, he only had some not long before his vomiting session. It's for the best that he doesn't have anymore just in case. But that doesn't change the fact that his head is pounding right now. He lets out a shaky breath. It hurts too much.
"It hurts hyungie." Jungkook says with a cry, burying his face in the cushion of the couch.
"I know, its ok kook. Don't cry." Yoongi says, carefully stroking his hair. Jungkooks shoulders start to shake with rough sobs. "Sssshhhh it's ok, don't cry you'll make it worse. Just take deep breaths."
Jungkook carefully sits up and reaches out towards yoongi, tears streaming from his eyes. Yoongi, though not usually one for skinship, will do anything for jungkook, so he reaches his arms out and puts him into a tight hug, whispering gentle encouragement like "Hyungies here" and "You'll be ok." Eventually the encouragement and cuddling works and jungkook is lulled into a sleep, albeit an uncomfortable and restless one, but a sleep nonetheless.

Meanwhile in Taes room, Jimin barged in running to Tae, not long followed by namjoon holding a trashcan. Tae is sat up on the edge of his bed, breathing heavily with tears pooling in his eyes.

"It's ok tae, I'm here, keep taking deep breaths, that's it." Jimin says as he rests a gentle hand on taes back for comfort.
"I don't feel good." Tae says between breaths, stating the obvious.
"Yes I know tae, Just keep breathing, you'll be ok." Jimin says as namjoon places the trashcan on the floor in front of tae.
"Don't hold back. If you need to throw up just do it. It'll make you feel better I promise." Namjoon says sitting down on the other side of tae. He let out a sob in fear, as he felt it rising up his oesophagus. There's nothing he hates more in this world than vomiting. But before he could even think of holding it back, he nose-dives into the trashcan with a violent heave. Namjoon cringes slightly at the sound, while jimin just keeps doing all he can to comfort tae. He's only granted a few quick breaths before another heave rears its head. That same process continues 4 or 5 times before it's finally over. Tae regains his breath and falls backwards, dizzy from the lack of oxygen combined with the force of his heaves. Jimin manages to catch him and hold him, gently rubbing his back and reminding him to breathe.
"You ok now?" Jimin asks once tae had regained his breath.
"Yeah, I think so, thanks Jimin."
"Do you want anything?"
"I just wanna go back to sleep, but thanks." Tae says shuffling back under the covers
"Are you sure you don't want some water or anything?" Jimin asks, helping tae lie back down again.
"Na I'm good." Tae says, his eyes closing.
"K then, call if you want anything." Jimin says, getting up and giving him one last look before leaving once again, still leaving the door slightly ajar.

"Is tae ok?" Hoseok asks as he sees Jimin and Namjoon leave taes room.
"Yeah, he just threw up but he's ok now." Namjoon says, going over to see kookie crying and in pain. "What's wrong kook?" He asks, stroking the youngests hair.
"His head hurts." Yoongi says, who was still hugging Jungkook tightly. Namjoon let's out a hum of sympathy.

"Why do we have to have two sick members..."

I need to end this it's getting way too long 😂😂😂 seriously I need to stop writing such long chapters I think I just get too enthusiastic. Also sorry this wasn't the best. One of the requests was Jungkook with the flu but there wasn't very much of Jungkook sorry. I would have switched it but it wouldn't make as much sense so sorry if it wasn't good enough I'll probably write a better chapter more focused on Jungkook. But I have a lot of other ideas first. Also I'm nearly done with college so once summer starts I'll probably be able to update more since I won't have as much work to do, but at the same time don't get your hopes up 😂 k see ya in the next one!
안녕!!! 👋🏻