~Tao~

Chanyeol wanted him admitted to the hospital. He'd rushed him right to the emergency room. Not taking any crap from anybody, just rushing past people and nearly getting slapped by a nurse that had had enough of all that went on.

Tao didn't even sort of understand what was going on, he did in a sense, understand that he was in a hospital filled with sick, injured, pregnant people, but he didn't quite get why Chanyeol was freaking out so much, it wasn't like that was going to get Tao to a doctor faster. And wasn't Tao just an expendable resource to Chanyeol and their boss? All Tao ever did was insult him and try to get him to shut up.

Chanyeol eventually found someone specific to complain to, a women behind a desk, the desk clearly marked 'Check In', Tao was surprised he hadn't found it before.

Chanyeol had slammed his hands to the counter, getting her attention, and also making her damn near jump out of her chair. "He needs a room, like, now!" Chanyeol had yelled. It was something like 3 in the morning, he'd woken the sleepy hospital out of it's daze, that was for sure.

"Is this an emergency?" The nurse behind the counter asked.

"What? No, okay, I'm just here for a band-aid." Chanyeol said, his voice dripping sarcasm. "YES, dammit, it's an emergency!"

"What is the emergency?" The nurse said, exasperated, annoyed, probably wanting to strangle Park Chanyeol.

Chanyeol seemed to feel the same. He grabbed Tao's arm, pulling him uncomfortably closer. "He's coughing up blood."

Tao pushed Chanyeol away. It wasn't that bad was it? It was just that once, he tried to tell himself maybe he just bit his tongue by accident, but that was stupid, and he knew he didn't do that.

"So, it's internal bleeding?" The nurse asked.

"It's not that bad, it was only for a second, I'm sure I'm fine." Tao said, giving Chanyeol a glare. He didn't want to be here. He'd promised Min-hee, and though he supposed a text was enough, he'd rather say it in person that he was alright and that he was sorry.

The nurse smiled. "I'm sure, but we have to check, just in case."

Tao groaned, looking up at the ceiling. He wanted out of here as soon as possible, just to make sure Min-hee was alright. She hadn't been at his house, and neither had Baekhyun, he wondered where she had gone, what she must be thinking about,

That little cute dork.

Chanyeol poked him. "Why'd you say that, panda?"

Tao shrugged, at first thinking that he was talking about what he'd thought in his head, but then coming back to reality. "Because it's true."

"But it's not! This is serious, don't you know what internal bleeding is? Imagine what could be bleeding for a second, this is an emergency!" Chanyeol took Tao by the shoulders and shook him. "What if you die?"

Tao raised an eyebrow. "Don't you think I'd know if it was that bad?" Maybe he didn't, maybe this was bad. Tao didn't know about this type of thing, he'd gotten in a lot of fights, though when he was little, it was never about money, it was always about helping someone else. But back then, he'd never really gotten seriously hurt, just a black eye, or a bloody lip. No one had really beaten him that bad until recently.

Chanyeol may have a point...

"The doctor can see you now." the nurse said, dragging Tao out of his thoughts.

Chanyeol practically pushed him to follow the nurse off behind the counter, though the nurse insisted that Chanyeol couldn't come with, Chanyeol was obviously having none of it, outright ignoring her.

The room was like any other that you'd expect a check up in. A computer in the corner, a sink in the other, all sorts of instruments and tools laid out on it, along with a mug with a yellow smiley face, the mug filled with syringes wrapped in plastic with red lettering all over it. There was that cushy bench/bed thing, a strip of paper over it for the sake of cleanliness. And then there were two chairs against the wall. The room smelled overly sterile, just like the rest of the hospital, and it made Tao almost sick.

Ironic.

The nurse had said the doctor would see him like the doctor was actually in the room, but he wasn't, so Tao took a seat in one of the chairs by the wall. He'd avoid sitting on the other thing if he could, sitting on that would make him think he was sick, and he wasn't, at least he was pretty sure he wasn't.

Chanyeol sat next to him. Tapping his foot. "So...have you and Min-hee like...kissed?"

Tao nearly choked on air. "Wh-what?!"

Chanyeol fake gasped. "You haven't? Why, why, why, why, whywhywhy?" His words slurred together as he leaned closer to Tao, inch by inch until Tao leaned back out of the way. "I thought you'd have at least one make-out session by now."

He knew what he was trying to do, he was trying to get him not to think about what might be wrong with him, about the death threat from the boss, about how Lu Han had threatened Min-hee. It was working, he'd give him that. "Because I have a girlfriend?"

Chanyeol frowned, backing away and staring at the wall across from him. "Are you running some kind of operation where--." Chanyeol looked back to Tao slowly, grinning. "Can I get in on it?"

Ew. "Chanyeol, I'd never do that." Tao said slowly, just to make sure he understood, because he seemed to only be hearing every other word he said.

"Oh, right, I forgot, you're scared of--."

The doctor came in, giving Tao and Chanyeol a smile. He was wearing a white doctor's coat, stethoscope around his neck. But he didn't look average in the sense that he had tousled brown hair and square-ish framed glasses.

He extended a hand toward Tao, kind of suddenly. "Hi." He said. "I'm Zhang Yi Xing, I'll be your doctor." Tao shook his hand, it feeling a little awkward. Yi Xing scratched the back of his neck. "So I heard you're--."

Before He could finish, Chanyeol jumped in, "He's coughing up blood."

Yi Xing looked from Chanyeol to Tao, his mouth slowly starting to open to say something, but then he closed it and knelt in front of Tao. Something Tao found extremely awkward and weird. "I'm going to press on your abdomen, is that okay?"

Tao shrugged. And Yi Xing started pressing gently, his thin fingers just barely touching him, but the way he did it made the silence increasingly uncomfortable.

Then it hurt. Like someone was shoving a pin into him from the inside, like someone was stabbing him with a pair of scissors. Tao sucked in a sharp breath, smacking Yi Xing's hand away.

"That hurt?" Yi Xing asked.

Tao was hardly listening, he was taking a series of deep breaths. Damn. Tao moaned, biting his lip. Then he started coughing, he couldn't stop himself, he kept coughing, each cough hurting.

"Panda?" Chanyeol asked.

Tao couldn't look up, he'd pretty much doubled over, coughing and hacking. He felt a pair of hands grab his shoulders.

"Help me carry him." Yi Xing said.

Soon enough, Tao felt one of them grab his legs while the other hooked their arms under Tao's arms, lifting him out of the chair and starting to carry him, probably out of the room, Tao didn't know, he was coughing violently enough to not be able to keep his eyes open.

He should be thinking about other things, he knew he should, but all he could think about was Min-hee, how much she'd worry, how he couldn't be there to protect her. He wanted her here, he wanted her with him.

"Ch-Chanyeol..." Tao said, between coughs.

"You shouldn't be talking, Panda-a-a!" Chanyeol whined.

Tao ignored him, shaking his head. "Tell M-Min-hee, she's got to kn-know wh-where I am, pl-please...!" He stared up at Chanyeol, since he was the one carrying Tao by the arms.

Tao could see Chnayeol look off to the side, biting his lip. "She'll only worry about you..."

"Ch-Chanyeol!" Tao rasped, his voice feeling weak now.

"I can't, I'm sorry Tao, It would make me a target, I can't. I...I'm sorry."

What?! Tao would have smacked him if he could, but at the moment, he was barely in reality, the room was spinning, colors playing on the white walls. He blacked out for the second time in the last 24 hours.

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A/N: Everyone STOP! Now, imagine Lay as your doctor.

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Problems solved ( ^-^)-b

I listened to Overdose while writing this, it was an experience, let me just say, and also a horrible pun ;P #IGotNoJams