Requested by @wayyy_toosexyy hope you like it!!! I also wanna say I mean no disrespect to the members. This is just fiction, I know they wouldn't be like this really, but this is just what the request is so 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Another late night at the studio. They had all been working so hard to get everything finished in time for their comeback. But one member in particular was working especially hard- Namjoon. He was constantly cooped up in his studio, not even coming home some nights. The truth is, it wasn't his choice to work this hard.

All the other members had gotten so used to Namjoon doing all the work all this time, that they'd started getting lazy. They left him to do everything without realising. So now he was stuck in his studio doing work he wasn't even meant to be doing. His eyes were going square from staring at a screen for so long, and he was exhausted after having just an hour or two of sleep over the past few days. He ended up falling asleep on his desk, only to be woken up an hour later by the ping of his phone. He looked at his phone to see jin had sent him a message.
"Why didn't you come home today?!"
"Sorry I was working all night."
He types out slowly, struggling to hit the right keys.

He shakes the mouse of his computer, and it starts whirring as it turns back on to show the unfinished song. He hits the spacebar to listen to it only for his volume to be way to loud. He winces and clutches his ears, before reaching out to hurriedly turn the volume down. It sounds terrible. He thinks. He pounds his fists angrily on his desk, before standing up and pacing around the room. Why can't I just get it right?

He kept pacing until he heard the sound of a door closing from outside his studio. He looked at the time to see it was time for rehearsal. He sluggishly grabbed his bag, quickly saved the song and shut the computer off before leaving for the dance studio.

"Jesus Christ Namjoon you look awful!" Jin says, more angrily that worriedly.
"Thanks." Namjoon says, sarcastically.
"Did you finish the song yet?" Yoongi asks.
"Nope." Namjoon replies, keeping his answer to a minimum.
"Why?" Yoongi said angrily. He'd been working on it all night how is it not finished?
"Cause I'm terrible at producing? It sounds awful. Maybe you should finish it instead." Namjoon said. It would have sounded much better if Yoongi produced it from the start.
"No I'm not doing your job for you! Just get it done by tomorrow or it's scrapped from the album!" Namjoon sighed and wondered to the side of the room to dump his stuff and start warming up.

He started jogging on the spot and doing star-jumps and stuff to warm up, and his limbs felt so heavy with every movement. He couldn't even jog for a minute without feeling out of breath, and everyone already knew that something was up. It didn't even cross their minds that he'd been so over worked he was burning out. But nonetheless, no one said anything, and just carried on with rehearsal.

"Namjoon what's up with you today? You're even more stiff than you usually are! You need to do lighter steps! We don't want it sounding like there's an elephant in here." The choreographer shouted after the music was stopped for the 7th time already. He sighed and got back in position to start again. He tried so hard to do what he was told but he was so tired that he couldn't control himself. Each step felt so heavy, and he couldn't make them lighter no matter how hard he tried. I should just be kicked out of the group at this rate. I'm terrible at everything.

They were halfway through the dance when black and white spots started to appear in his vision, so he stopped dancing, which caused Jimin to crash into him.
"Namjoon what are you doing?!!!!!!" Jimin shouts at Namjoon who was now on his hands and knees, panting heavily. They all stood around him, expecting some sort of apology or something, but got nothing.
"Are you gonna apologise or what?!" Hoseok shouted. Namjoon took one last shaky breath before collapsing to the floor.

Everyone was left in shock, seeing their leader lying lifelessly on the floor. He was barely breathing, taking short, labored breaths. They all came back to their senses, reminded that he was just a human too.
"Someone call an ambulance." The choreographer said calmly, walking over to assess the situation. Jin looked up and saw Yoongi running out of the room with tears in his eyes, and Jimin ran after him, and Jin ran over to his bag to get a phone.

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Jimin saw Yoongi disappear into his studio, and tried to run after him before he closed the door but didn't make it in time. Yoongi's door shut and locked before Jimin could get into it. Jimin pounded against the door, since he didn't know the code, shouting for Yoongi to let him in. He heard a bunch of crashing followed by cries and a lovely string of curse words.
"Yoongi please let me in." Jimin says semi-calmly. Jimin then heard a beep and opened the door. Yoongi was crouched on the floor clutching his bloody fist.
"Yoongi are you ok?! What did you do?" Jimin says, crouching down next to him.
"DOES IT MATTER? NAMJOONS PROBABLY DYING RIGHT NOW! AND WE DIDNT EVEN CARE THIS WHOLE TIME! WHO CARES ABOUT MY STUPID HAND ANYMORE NAMJOONS GONNA DIE AND ITS ALL OUR FAULT!" Yoongi shouted tears spilling out of his eyes freely.
"Yoongi, it's ok, we all make mistakes. Let's just go see if someone's come to help Namjoon yet. Maybe they can check your hand out too." Jimin said softly, holding a hand out to help him up. Together they head back to the studio, and see paramedics sitting next to Namjoon. They'd only just got there seconds before.
"Is he ok?" Jimin asks.
"Yeah. We just need to get him to hospital to recover and do a few tests just to be sure." The paramedic said, as they placed an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth.
"Could you maybe look at Yoongi's hand? He hurt it." Jimin said pushing Yoongi forward, revealing his bloodied hand to everyone.
"Of course." The other paramedic said, before Yoongi could even stop him.
He cleaned all the blood off Yoongi's hand, and found the source of the bleeding: a few cuts on his knuckles. The paramedic inspected the cuts and concluded they would need stitches. Yoongi sighed. He didn't want to take the attention away from Namjoon, but also needles weren't his favourite thing ever, and he would need someone there with him while he got the stitches.
"Ok let's just get to the hospital. We have no time to lose." The paramedic said after wrapping Yoongi's hand in bandages.

Yoongi, Namjoon and Jimin all go in the back of the ambulance, the rest of them following behind. Jimin spoke to yoongi, asking him if he'll be ok alone while everyone else is with namjoon.
"As much as a hate to take the attention away from him, I really don't wanna be alone while I'm having needles stabbed into my hand." Yoongi said, guiltily.
"It's ok yoongs. I'll go with you. The others can stay with namjoon. Don't feel guilty. You're hurt, you deserve attention too." Jimin replied.
"Yeah but... I feel bad. We all completely ignored Namjoon for so long. Heck it's how we ended up in this mess, and now I'm taking the attention away from him again."
"Yoongi, it's ok. He'll have the others, and I'm sure he'll understand when he wakes up." Jimin said, chuckling slightly.

(I'm gonna write yoongi getting his stitches as a separate chapter since it wasn't part of the request. K cool.)

Namjoon was wheeled back to a room while Jimin and yoongi went back to a separate room for Yoongi to get his stitches. The other members got there not long after, surrounding his bed. He had an IV in his arm and several wires attached to a heart monitor, as well as an oxygen mask. They all stood guiltily, watching as their leader lay there lifelessly. A doctor came in, and checked a few things over.
"Will he be ok?" Jin asked sheepishly.
"Yes. He appears to be suffering from burnout. He should take a break from work for a while. But he will recover." He said, before bowing to them and leaving.

"This is all our fault." Hoseok said, breaking the silence. Jin sighs.
"I'm not gonna deny that, but we shouldn't feel to guilty. We can learn from this, right? And we need to stay strong since we'll have to last without him for a while." Jin says, trying to be a leader now that Namjoon can't.
"What? Why? Why will we be without him?" Jungkook says, with wide eyes.
"Weren't you listening? He's burnt out. He needs to take a break from work for a while." Jin says, and Jungkook shyly stepped back.
"Well, how long will we be without him?" He asks shyly.
"I don't know Jungkook. It depends on him and what he wants to do. But in the meantime, we can last, right?" Jin says. He's trying to take over the leader role, but it's already not going too great.

(Timeskip cause I'm lazy)

Namjoon was resting at home, while the others were at the studio. He felt bad that he was sat at home while everyone was working hard, but he couldn't work even if he tried.

Meanwhile everyone else was at the studio practicing their dances. It was hard without Namjoon. His absence wasn't just awkward for spacing.
"Jin what are you doing? You're meant to be there not here!" Hoseok shouted pushing Jin unexpectedly hard, so much that he fell to the ground.
"What was that for?!" Yoongi shouted at Hoseok, and it turned into one whole argument while Jin was sat, rubbing his hip that he fell on.
"GUYS!" Jin shouted, and they all went silent and turned to him. "Shut up will you! You don't need to argue. Yes I was in the wrong place, sorry, but you didn't need to push me Hoseok." Jin says, trying to resolve the argument. But it didn't exactly go as planned.
"Yeah Hoseok you shouldn't have pushed him! Are you twelve or something?" Yoongi said angrily. Hoseok turned around angrily and grabbed Yoongi's hand.... his bad on. He screamed in pain and held his hand, and he saw blood starting to bleed through the bandages.
"YOU POPPED MY STITCHES YOU IDIOT! NOW I HAVE TO GET THEM AGAIN!" Yoongi said angrily, storming out of the room.
"Nonono Yoongi wait-" Jin tries to stop him but can't.
"Look what you've done! You hurt two of us now! This is all you're fault!" Jin said angrily to hoseok, losing his temper that he was desperately trying to keep.
"None of this would've happened if Namjoon was here." Tae said quietly. They all stopped and looked at him, and sighed.
"You're right. If Namjoon was here none of this would have even happened. We can't even last a week without him." Jin said sadly.
They all stood in silence for a while.
"Jimin, can you go get Yoongi?" Jin said, breaking the silence. Jimin nodded and headed to the one place he knew Yoongi would be: his studio. He knocked on the door and softly called his name.
"Yoongi. It's just me. Can I come in?" He heard the beep and let himself in and saw Yoongi sat on the couch in his room with his knees to his chest.
"Are you ok? Jin asked me to come get you." Jimin said softly, crouching in front of him.
"No. Hoseok popped ALL of my stitches. Now it won't stop bleeding." Yoongi said. He revealed his hand, which was covered in bandages that were now completely blood stained.
"Oh my gosh Yoongi we need to get you back to the hospital, now!" Jimin said, pulling him up by his other arm.
"No no I don't want to go." Yoongi whimpered.
"Yoongi you have to. It's ok I'll come with you." He softly pushes.
"No I can't. It hurts." He whimpers again.
"I'm sorry Yoongi I'm not letting you bleed to death, come on let's go." Jimin says firmly. Yoongi gets dragged out of his studio and to the dance studio.

Jimin bursted in, dragging Yoongi in too.
"Guys, we need to take Yoongi to the hospital. his stitches have all popped and he's bleeding a lot." Hoseok has the most guilty look on his face as he sees the incredibly blood stained bandages.
"Ok come on let's go we can't waste any time." Jin says, standing up and rushing to the car.
"Cmon Yoongi lets go." Jimin said, but Yoongi was frozen solid.
(Again, this will be in the other chapter cause I don't want to change the attention of the story so much k cool)

The others all just went home, not in the mood to be practicing anymore, especially when they're now 4 members behind. It's not worth practicing just the three of them. When they got home, Namjoons expression changed very quickly as he saw the sad looks on their faces.
"What's up you three? Where are the others?"
"It's a long story and I don't want to talk about it." Hoseok said before storming off to his room to be alone. He always had a surprisingly short temper.
"A huge argument broke out, Hoseok pushed Jin and then Yoongi shouted at him for it but Hoseok got mad and grabbed his bad hand and popped all his stitches so Jimin and Jin are at the hospital with him right now and... here we are." Taehyung said. Namjoon sighed. The group was falling apart.

"We really can't last without you Namjoon."

I know I'm rude for ending it there 😂 it just seemed like a nice ending. Sorry this has taken a while, at least it felt like a while to me 😂😂 writers block just likes to show up sometimes for a little while and then it disappears for a few days or so and then comes back. It's really annoying. But I'm trying my best I promise. But also life is gonna get a bit hectic for me soon cause I have to make a film for coursework, and my theatre school is doing a show so we have a ton of rehearsals and also university open days and yeah it's a lot. But if I get any spare moments I'm always on here. I'm pretty sure Wattpad is one of my most used apps lol. So yeah, I'm trying my best. I hope you can understand. I'm just a human too. Speaking of, do you want a face reveal? I was thinking about it for a little while but also I think it would just kinda be nice to have somewhere were people don't know my face 😂 idk we'll see, give me your thoughts.

Ooo and if any of you were wondering, my sleeping habits have gotten much better so I'm getting more sleep now. So that problems half sorted. Again I want to just do a little self promo cause I'd love for more of you to read my other books. I know that you might not want to and that's fine to maybe just give them a read and see if you like cause these days I don't enjoy just writing for no one as much 🤷🏻‍♀️ anyway yeah. I'll try and get the next one out soonish. Thanks a lot x
See ya in the next one!!
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