Everyone decided to call it a night rather early, as they were all exhausted from the day they just had. Taehyung walked into his room that he shared with Jungkook, to see the maknae still peacefully passed out in bed. He was glad to see he was getting the rest he needed, he had been worried ever since Jungkook fainted at the amusement park, he knew heat exhaustion could get serious really quickly.

He looked at the nightstand and saw that Jungkook had drank through all the water bottles Jin had left him, so he quickly threw those away and grabbed a few more before changing into pajamas and sinking into his own bed. He watched Jungkook sleep for a few minutes, feeling a weird sense of nostalgia and sadness. Seeing him be young again brought back so many memories, some good, some bad. As much as it was a cool, or odd, experience, he really wanted Jungkook to be an adult again. He didn't like feeling like a babysitter, he wanted his 'real' Jungkookie back. In the middle of his thoughts, his eyes slipped closed and he fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Jungkook started tossing and turning in his sleep breaking out in a cold sweat before shooting up in bed, hyperventilating. It took him a moment to collect himself as he looked around and looked at Taehyung who was fast asleep in his bed on the other side of their room. He felt scared, and didn't want to bother his hyung but also really wanted his comfort. As Jungkook had gotten older he had grown out of his clingy phase if he felt scared but he couldn't fight the urge to wake his hyung up.

"Taehyungie?" Jungkook shook Taehyung, who just rolled over in the opposite direction.

"Hyung?" Jungkook tried waking him up again. "Hyung please wake up." He wiped a small tear that escaped his eye.

Taehyung opened one eye. "What Jungkook it's the middle of the night. Are you okay?"

"I had a nightmare," he pouted.

Taehyung groaned. "It was just a dream, go back to sleep."

"I can't hyung, it's scaring me."

"It was just a dream, okay?"

Jungkook stood at the side of Taehyung's bed and hid his face in his hands as he began to cry harder.

Taehyung sat up and pulled him into a hug. "Okay, okay. I'm awake. Do you want to talk about it?"

Jungkook sat and leaned against Taehyung while being hugged. "What if I never go back to normal? What if I'm stuck like this forever? In my nightmare I was stuck like this forever and then never died because I was stuck at 15 forever and I outlived everyone I love...including hyungs." He wiped another tear.

"We won't let that happen to you. You won't be like this forever. After three days if it doesn't fix itself, hyung's will figure something out. I promise. Don't worry about it okay? Seriously though Kookie you need to sleep now." Taehyung was exhausted and knew Jungkook wasn't 100% better either. He gave Jungkook a kiss on his forehead, and then Jungkook crawled back into his own bed and went back to sleep.

Taehyung passed back out in bed, but what felt like not even 10 minutes later he was woken up by Jungkook, again.

Oh for the love of God Kookie, now what?

"Hyung..." Jungkook said while clutching his stomach. Taehyung turned the lamp on his nightstand on, and was a little taken back by how crappy Jungkook looked. Even though he had some sunburn on his face, he still somehow seemed pale.

Taehyung sat up in bed as his worry increased. "What's wrong?"

"Hyung...I-I don't feel go-" Jungkook's words were cut off by him instantly throwing up all over the floor at the side of Taehyung's bed.

Taehyung groaned.

"I'm s-so sorry." Jungkook's face became flooded with tears. He felt like he was going to throw up again and covered his mouth with his hand.

Taehyung jumped out of bed and quickly dragged Jungkook to the bathroom and plopped him in front of the toilet.

"I'm really sorry hyung I will clean it up in a min-" more vomit, at least this time it was in the toilet.

"It's not your fault, Kookie. I can clean it up." Taehyung knelt down next to him and started rubbing his back. "Any idea how you got sick? "

"I don't know. I just woke up feeling like I needed to puke. I-I'm sorry to wake you up I didn't know what else t-to do." Jungkook's flow of tears were falling into the toilet.

"Noo Kook-sii don't worry about it. Hyung will help you." Taehyung started looking through their bathroom cabinets, he knew they had nausea medicine somewhere. He quickly found it, pouring a cap full and handing it to Jungkook.

"This should help a little bit, okay?" Taehyung said reassuringly as Jungkook hesitantly swallowed it, it didn't taste very good.

Unfortunately, the medicine came back up as quickly as it had gone down. Jungkook clutched his stomach and groaned. "I really don't feel good." He didn't understand why he suddenly woke up feeling so sick. He felt like he was going to vomit with every breath he took. He also had a pounding headache, and he was starting to feel congested.

"I know, Kookie. I'm sorry I can't do much to help you. Do you want me to get someone else?" Taehyung felt terrible seeing him so sick and not being able to do anything about it.

Jungkook grabbed his hand and gripped it tightly. "Taehyungie?"

"Yeah?"

"What if I'm dying?"

"Why on earth would you think you're dying?"

"What if that stuff I drank was poisoned and now it's slowly killing me? What if it's killing me hyung? I'm really scared."

Taehyung pulled him into a tight hug. "You're not poisoned and you're not going to die, okay? Now stop scaring yourself. You probably just got sick at the amusement park." He started running his fingers through his maknae's hair. "Hyung isn't going to let anything happen to you, got that? I promise you'll be alright."

Jungkook quietly continued to cry while letting himself lean into his hyung's warm embrace. His stomach had eased up a bit and he was ready to crawl back into bed.

Taehyung told him to hang out by the toilet while he went and cleaned the vomit off their bedroom floor. He came back and picked Jungkook up, who was too exhausted to even stand up, and tucked him back into his bed.

He placed a bucket next to Jungkook just to be safe. "Make sure you drink more water too," he told his maknae before getting back into his own bed and drifting back into dream land.

Taehyung woke up early in the morning, he looked over to see Jungkook passed out. He got up and went to check the bucket, which was unfortunately full.

How did that not wake me up? Why didn't he wake me back up?

He took the bucket and dumped it out in the toilet before placing it back next to Jungkook.

Poor kid, he needs a break.

He stood there for a moment and noticed something looked different about Jungkook, again. It looked like he'd been scratching at his ears, one of them even looked bloody.

He leaned in closer to inspect his maknae's ear, which did in fact have blood on it. He also noticed a lot of wheezing. He placed his hand on Jungkook's chest and felt how raspy his breaths were. He listened to his breathing for a second and could tell each breath was really mucus-y. How'd he get so sick?

Taehyung decided the best thing he could do for his maknae right now was let him sleep, so he left him alone and headed downstairs.

All the members were getting something for breakfast in the kitchen.

"Good morning, TaeTae!" Hobi went over and hugged him.

"You look exhausted," Namjoon pointed out.

"That's because I am exhausted. Something is wrong with Kookie," he told them with worry filling his voice.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at him.

"You mean aside from the fact he's 15 again?" Yoongi joked.

"I'm serious. I'm worried about him. He woke up having nightmares and after that he was up all night throwing up and he's all congested. I don't know how he's even breathing at all. And his ear is all bloody..." He stared at them.

Nobody knew how to react, they had all put their jokes aside and were now extremely worried. "Is he still asleep? I'll go check on him," Jin said as he headed for the maknae's bedroom.

"Don't wake him up he really needs more sleep. I don't think he's gotten much, he was up all night," Taehyung warned.

Everyone gave eachother a worried expression. Jin quietly ran and crept into the bedroom as to not wake Jungkook up. He walked over and felt his forehead, he definitely had a fever.

Jin listened to his breathing and understood exactly what Taehyung was saying. He ran back down to the others. "When he wakes up I'm going to bring him to the doctor just to be safe, he doesn't look good."

"Our poor baby. I wonder how he got sick," Jimin frowned. He hated seeing any of his members sick or hurt. It was heartbreaking for him.

"He was scared that the stuff he drank was starting to kill him," Taehyung told everyone.

"Awww no our poor Kookie. He's probably so freaked out about all of this," Hobi said.

They all felt terrible and guilty, thinking it was somehow their fault Jungkook had gotten so sick. They agreed to let him rest as long as he needed and continued making breakfast. Everything was fine until they all stopped at the sudden sound of Jungkook screaming upstairs. It was the most terrifying thing they'd ever heard.

"Help! Hyungs! Hyungs! He-!"

They all instantly dropped what they were doing and sprinted to his room, bursting through his door.

"What?! What's wrong ?!" screamed Jin.

They all ran to Jungkook in a panic. He was having a coughing fit while clutching his throat and chest, crying.

He was hyperventilating. "I-I-I can't br-reathe."

Everyone was surrounding him on his bed and offering words of comfort while Jin and Yoongi were patting him on the back. They could hear him trying to cough up the mucus stuck in his lungs.

"Okay, okay. You're okay. You just have to try and cough it all up okay? You're alright, hyung's are here," Jin reassured him.

Without responding, Jungkook instantly started gagging. Taehyung grabbed the bucket and placed it under Jungkook's face right in time. He began heaving into the bucket. When he was done, he coughed more but was able to get the mucus up enough to breathe. He was crying so hard. Everyone was embracing him in a group hug.

"P-please help me. Please make this stop. It...it hurts. I just want it to stop, hyung's please," he cried into his hyung's arms.

All the members began to cry too. They hated this just as much as he did.

Everyone felt helpless, and seeing Jungkook also be helpless was heartbreaking. Everyone was beginning to feel like a failure of a hyung. Why were they so bad at protecting him?

Jimin grabbed Jungkook's hand and squeezed it. "You're killing me Kookie. Just breathe okay? We will figure this out." He leaned forward and ran his fingers down Jungkook's cheek, wiping away his tears.

"Jungkook-ah I'm taking you to the doctor, okay? Hyung will help you get washed up and then we will go. Alright?" Jin told him.

Jungkook was now leaning against Namjoon's chest, who was patting and hitting his back to help him cough more. He nodded in agreement.

Hobi leaned over and wiped more of Jungkook's tears. " Uh, our poor kookie..." He sniffled as he held back his own tears.

"Hopefully it's nothing too serious." Yoongi mentioned. He was trying to hide how worried he was, but that was becoming increasingly harder.

Jungkook looked at him with fear in his eyes.

"Aw, Kookie you'll be fine." Yoongi said reassuringly. He didn't mean to scare him.

Please be fine...our little Jungkookie...