Another sickfic. Whoopsie =P

Trigger warnings! Blood! A little bit of Gore? I don't know. =P

A/N I don't have any ill intentions or assumptions towards military! This is only a fic and my head just decided on making them the bad guy! 

Yunho fumbled with the hem of his sweater as the manager briefed them about their MT starting tomorrow for 3 days. It's not like Yunho hated it, it's the other way around but he's having a fever right now, a bad one at that and he doesn't think that he could do it.

Mingi wrapped his hands around Yunho's waist making Yunho lay his head on Mingi's shoulder as Mingi spoke to their manager. "But, this is a Military Training to help raise our stamina right? Yunho is having a fever right now.. Can't you do something about it, hyung?"

"I will tell them to cut Yunho some slack but he might still have to do some of it like going up into the mountain but we're only walking." Their manager said and Mingi nodded his head. That would be fine as he would take care of his bub while they're trekking up the mountain.

"Rest well, boys." Their manager said and left the dorm.

Yunho sighed, turning around and snuggled close to Mingi as Mingi thread his fingers along Yunho's hair. "How are you feeling, bub?" Mingi asked and Yunho whined. "I hate this.. I want to do well for the MT... I looked forward to it too.."

"It's okay, bub. You can't help it that you are sick right now. We could always do MT again in the future." Mingi consoled Yunho but the latter one only whined again, burying his face deeper into Mingi's neck.

"Go rest, everyone. Yunho, eat your medicine before going to bed." Hongjoong said and the others nodded their heads, going to each of their respective rooms.

Yunho then wrapped his hands around Mingi's neck and the latter knew what Yunho wanted so he picked Yunho up by the thighs and went into the kitchen to feed Yunho his medicine. He wanted to put Yunho down on one of the chairs but Yunho tightened his holds around Mingi so the younger one sighed and walked around the kitchen while Yunho attached to him like a Koala.

After gathering Yunho's medicines and water, he put Yunho down on the table and fed him the medicine.

"Where do you wanna sleep tonight, bub? With me? I saw Jongho went to hyungs' room though." Mingi asked while caressing Yunho's head, frowning a bit when Yunho is still warmer than usual. "Your room, please." Yunho answered and Mingi picked him up again before going into his room.

Yunho cuddled close with Mingi, sleeping in his embrace that night.

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"Bub, wake up. We're here." Mingi threads his fingers into Yunho's locks a few times to rouse the sick boy up. Yunho stirred up after a few minutes and shivered, cuddling close to Mingi as he felt colder than before. "M'cold.." Yunho mumbled and Mingi frowned, feeling Yunho's forehead and found that Yunho is warmer than yesterday.

"Is he warmer?" San asked as he pat Yunho's head gently and Mingi nodded his head. "Definitely warmer than yesterday.. I don't think he should do this MT.. I don't want him to worsen.." Mingi sighed and the others were quick to agree with him, watching Yunho sadly.

Yunho whined and Mingi quickly sooth him by cuddling him close and kissing his temple as they got out of the van. Yunho refused to be picked up by Mingi so he wobbly stood beside the younger as they waited for the military instructors to come and greet them.

"Hello boys. Welcome to the MT. I will be one of your instructors for 3 days. I am Lieutenant Moon and you shall call me by that name only. This is Lieutenant Kyung and Lieutenant Won." Lieutenant Moon said while the other Lieutenants looked at them with a death stare, making everyone including Yunho feel a bit afraid.

"Your manager won't be staying here and they will only come back on your last day here." Lieutenant Kyung said and they bid their managers goodbye.

They were about to go inside their dorm for 3 days when Lieutenant Kyung narrowed his eyes at them, making Yunho shivered as it seems for him that the Lieutenant is somewhat glaring at him. "You're Jeong Yunho, aren't you?" Yunho gulped and nodded his head. "Y-yes sir."

"Just because you have a fever, doesn't mean that we will let you off easily. Hear that?"

Yunho nodded slowly, "Y-yes sir.."

Mingi and the others frowned but they didn't say anything although Hongjoong had glanced at the others to watch over Yunho as much as they could.

"Get your stuff into the dorm and we will start right away. Change into your sweatshirts." Lieutenant Moon said and they quickly heed his orders.

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They begin their military training right after changing and after 3 hours, Yunho felt like fainting as they still made him do all the harsh training like the others but he forced himself to finish all of them. Mingi and the others had tried talking to the Lieutenants but they ignored them.

They finally got to rest for 2 hours before another harsh training and Mingi was quick to go to Yunho as the latter seemed on the verge of fainting after their last training. Yunho slumped himself against Mingi as soon as Mingi was within his reach and Mingi quickly picked the sick boy up, walking into their dorms as Yunho lay limply in his embrace.

Mingi helped Yunho showered as the latter can barely stand up, making Mingi worried on how he would do another harsh training after 2 hours. Yunho slumped down on the mattress but before he could sleep, Mingi told him to eat his medicine and he was out in seconds after downing the medicine.

"I'm worried.. He's not gonna last any longer.." Mingi sighed.

"I'm messaging our manager right now. To tell them that they didn't let Yunho do less than us. Hyungs had told me that they would let Yunho has less trainings but we could see that was a blatant lie right now." Hongjoong said as he typed on his phone.

"At this point, the pup will only worsen his fever.." San sighed, threading his fingers along Yunho's lock and grimaced at the unusual warmth radiating from him.

"We have to keep him close so we can watch over him. The Lieutenants don't seem to like him, for some reason.." Seonghwa sighed and the others nodded their heads.

"Let's get some rest, boys." Hongjoong said and all of them laid near the sleeping sick boy.

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"We will place each one of you at specific spots and you have to survive using anything that you could find and you'll succeed once you arrive back here."

"You will be blindfolded until you reach the places."

"You cannot shout for help. At all. You need to do this on your own."

Yunho anxiety rises as the Lieutenant blindfold his eyes and guides him to his spot while the others are worried about Yunho but they can't do anything, for now.

"Sit down." The Lieutenant said as they arrived at Yunho's spot and Yunho did as he was told. Yunho winced when he felt something sharp was wrapped around his right arm but he stayed still, afraid that the Lieutenant would scold him.

Yunho flinched again when he moved his right arm slightly as the sharp thing poked his arm. The Lieutenant then opened his blindfold and Yunho widened his eyes when he saw his right arm was wrapped with those spike wires and attached to a tree. Yunho paled even further when everytime he moved his right hand the spike would poke his arms.

"W-what is this, sir..?"

"You know, I don't like you since the first time you arrived here. I bet you only fake your fever so you don't have to do the training here. You should know that as a military, you will get no rest whatsoever and do all the training diligently." Lieutenant Kyung hissed, making Yunho frown slightly.

"I did not fake my fever. I was looking forward to this actually. I really like this type of training but my fever won't let me." Yunho explained but it only made the Lieutenant scoffed.

"Then survive. I'll see you at the dorm."

Yunho gaped at the Lieutenant but didn't say anything and looked defeatedly at his right arm before looking around. There's nothing that he could use to get his arm out of the wires at all. Not even a stick. The branches also were too high up that if Yunho stood up, his right arm would be jostled.

"What should I do..?" Yunho whimpered softly and winced when his head started to throb again. "I don't have my phone to call Mingi or the others.." Yunho pouted and he started to carefully touch the wires on his right arm in hope that he could somewhat untangle it from his arm.

Yunho started to feel helpless when after 1 hour, he still couldn't get his arm out of the wires and his arm was already full of blood because the spike had scratched his arm too many times when he tried to untangle it. His left fingers were also caked with blood because he had grabbed the wires forcefully as he was desperate to untangle the wires from his arm.

Yunho felt light headed as he watched the blood trickling down from his right arm and his tears started to form in his eyes, wanting his Mingi or the other members to come and find him because he was sure he wouldn't be able to get out of the place.

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"It's been 3 hours.. Yunho is still not here. We should go search for him." Mingi said worriedly and the others were about to agree when Lieutenant Kyung stopped them.

"No. If he doesn't survive tonight, we will find him tomorrow morning."

"Fuck no! We're going to search for him right fucking now! We're not militaries for fuck sake nor are we in the military right now! You can't do this to him!" Mingi hissed but the Lieutenant scoffed.

"He's a weakling. If he couldn't survive tonight then he would never survive when he entered the military later on."

"Huh! For once I heard Jeong Yunho is a weakling! He's one of ours that could survive anywhere! He couldn't do his best because of his fever and it was a high fever as the doctor said so!" Wooyoung hissed, making the Lieutenant raise one of his eyebrows at him but didn't say anything.

"Our managers will be here in a few minutes, anyway. You will have to deal with them because you didn't heed their warnings about giving Yunho less trainings than us! We have schedules to deal with right after these trainings and if Yunho worsened he would be devastated as he would have to stay home until he is well again. Again, we're not fucking militaries right now and we have our jobs to do after 3 days yet you seemed to think that we are militaries when we're fucking not!" Hongjoong glared at the Lieutenants and they were speechless.

"Now where is my pup!?" Seonghwa demanded and the Lieutenants stared at the 7 furious stares and Lieutenant Moon sighed as he knew they were in the wrong this time. He and the other Lieutenants always got their heads too high up but no one ever talked back to them, unlike these 7 people.

"He's on that mountain. Go find him then while we wait for your managers to arrive."

"You don't have to sweet talk our managers as we all have said to them what happened and they will believe us rather than you guys." Yeosang said with a deadpan expression on his face before they all ran to the mountain to save Yunho.

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Yunho breathed shallowly as he slumped on the ground and winced again when he moved his right arm because he doesn't have any energy to hold his arm in the air anymore.

His fever had worsened and the blood on his arm and fingers didn't help. Yunho felt very lightheaded and he was on the verge of fainting when he heard some rustles in nearby bushes, making him open his eyes and look at the bushes in fear.

"There's no wild animals here... Are they..?" Yunho mumbled and he absent-mindedly pulled his arm making him winced at the stings.

"BUB?! FUCK!? WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO YOU?!" Mingi rushed to the slumped boy as Yunho teared up when he saw Mingi.

"M-min... Help m-me.." Yunho whimpered and Mingi gaped when he saw all the blood on Yunho's right arm and left fingers.

The others gasped and Jongho actually growled when he saw Yunho's condition as he walked closer to Yunho. "Remind me to fucking kill the Lieutenants." Jongho hissed as he gently touched the wires. The others didn't know what to do but Jongho pulled out a cutter from his pocket, making Yeosang raise one of his eyebrows at his boyfriend.

"Baby? How did you have that?" Yeosang asked and Jongho shrugged before cutting the wires gently to prevent it from hurting Yunho further.

"Found it near my place and decided to keep it and I'm so glad that I kept it." Jongho answered.

Yunho breathed heavily as he felt lightheaded again and Mingi quickly scooped the boy up once he was out of the spike wires. Yunho lay his head on Mingi's shoulder as they walked to their dorm.

"The managers are waiting for us. We will go straight to the hospital as they have already packed our stuff." Hongjoong announced as he read the message their managers gave him.

"Let's hurry then!" Seonghwa said and all of them rushed to the dorm. Yunho seemed to not be aware of his surroundings anymore, making Mingi call his name a few times but Yunho didn't answer him, only staring blankly with his eyes half-closed.

"Oh my god! What happened to him?? Why is there so much blood??" One of their managers hissed while the other managers glared at the Lieutenants.

"They put him in those spike wires!" Wooyoung said as he glared at the Lieutenants and the managers gasped.

"WHAT??"

"WE TOLD YOU HE'S SICK!"

"You guys breached our agreements! We won't tolerate this easily as you had injured one of our precious employees while he isn't fully healthy! We will talk with our lawyers!"

The Lieutenants widened their eyes as they realized that they will be in trouble as no one in ATEEZ are militaries.

"We didn't know that he was that sick!" Lieutenant Kyung tried to explain but he was stopped by the managers.

"We have told you so! WE! Their managers! The one who manages them! We also told you that his DOCTOR said no to too much harsh training! This is torture!"

The Lieutenants didn't know what to say as they knew it was true but they didn't want to heed the warnings before.

"Can we go now, hyungs? Yunho needs to be treated. Fast." Mingi said while frowning in worry, looking at Yunho who had now closed both of his eyes and breathing very shallowly.

The managers glared for one last time at the Lieutenants before ushering the boys into the vans and rushed to a nearby hospital.

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Yunho blinked slowly and all he saw was white. He looked around with a still hazy mind and saw Mingi laying his head near his right hand. Yunho was about to put his hand on Mingi's head when he realized that his arm was bandaged. He scrunched up his face when he remembered what had happened before putting his hand on top of Mingi's head, rousing the latter.

"Baby? How are you feeling?"

"Numb.. What happened? I don't remember anything after you guys saved me from the wires.."

Mingi then proceed to tell him what happened as Yunho listened to him before tugging Mingi's arm. "Cuddle.. I'm cold.." Yunho pouted and Mingi smiled as he shook his head, even after those harsh situation Yunho was in, he was still capable of being fine with it while Mingi still felt like killing those Lieutenants. Mingi sat beside Yunho on the bed and Yunho quickly put his head on Mingi's chest while Mingi thread his fingers along Yunho's lock.

"You need to stay in here for a few days, until your fever broke and your injuries are healing nicely. The others had gone out to buy some food." Mingi explained when Yunho looked around at the unusual empty room. Yunho hummed, "Will you stay with me? I don't want to be alone right now."

"Of course, I will bub. All of us will. Manager hyungs had canceled all of our schedule until the doctor discharged you from here. They are really angry with the Lieutenants and the higher ups are planning to sue them."

Yunho widened his eyes and tilted his head up to see Mingi properly. "That bad?" Yunho asked and Mingi huffed. "Yes. That bad. All of us yelled at them to the point they were speechless and shocked. You were injured and the agreements were to just help us train our stamina, not a whole lot of the military's harsh training shit."

Yunho giggled and nodded his head at Mingi's explanation before yawning when he felt tired again. Mingi saw this and kissed Yunho's warm forehead, pulling Yunho's head down on his chest gently. "Sleep, bub. I will wake you up when the food arrives."

"Hm..Okay.." Yunho mumbled sleepily and he was asleep within minutes.

Mingi smiled and kept caressing Yunho's hair and waist to lull the sick boy to an even deeper sleep so that he could rest properly.

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