jimin woke up and saw six boys surrounding him, but the one he noticed first was yoongi. he felt flowers coming up and, fortunately, he didn't throw up like he expected. thank God for doctor song, jimin thought in his head.

"hyung! hyung, are you okay?" jeongguk asked. the older busan male looked at him and met the younger's red, puffy eyes and he immediately felt sorry.

"i-i'm okay," he managed to say. "jeongguk, i'm so sorry..."

"n-no, don't be sorry hyung, i'm just happy you're awake," jeongguk said through tears and gently pulled jimin in a hug.

"jimin-ah," another person said and jeongguk sat back down. it was yoongi speaking. "do you need anything? water?" he asked, worry evident on his face.

jimin shook his head and gave him a smile. "i'm alright hyung, but thanks."

"are you sure?" hoseok asked and jimin nodded.

"jimin... we told them that you have hanahaki," taehyung said and jimin's eyes widened. before he could say a word taehyung leaned in and whispered in his ear, "but not that it's because of yoongi hyung." jimin nodded and relaxed.

everyone talked for a while until jimin felt his stomach turn upside down. "garbage," he suddenly said and gagged. jeongguk immediately grabbed the small garbage can beside jimin's bed and helped him remove his oxygen mask and jimin retched out full flowers, thorns and blood. yoongi rushed to his side and rubbed his back soothingly. the younger coughed and gasped for air and tears pricked his eyes. when he finished, he breathed heavily and sniffled. this was everyone's first time seeing jimin cough up flowers, excluding taehyung.

"jeongguk, go get doctor song and tell him jimin threw up," taehyung told the maknae. he nodded and left the room to find jimin's doctor.

jimin cleaned himself up and taehyung threw away the flower-filled garbage bag and replaced it with a new one. jeongguk came back with dr. song.

"i heard that mr. park threw up flowers," he said and everyone nodded. "i'll take him in for an x-ray, you can wait here," he said and everyone nodded once again. nurses came in and wheeled jimin out of the room, leaving the six boys.

"i hope there isn't a main stem growing," yoongi said and hoseok held his hand.

"it's going to be alright," he reassured.

a few minutes later doctor song came back in the room and seokjin immediately stood up. "doctor, how is jimin?" he asked worriedly.

"jimin is alright. there was just a blocking in his airways again due to the petals and flowers, but he seems to have cleared everything from there. however, the roots are starting to spread and are now starting to wrap around his heart, so his heart is getting weaker as well, which is causing more coughing. i know it doesn't really make sense, since the roots can only fill something up and not wrap themselves around it, but it happens in a lot of hanahaki cases. he still refuses to take the surgery, but i don't mean to scare you guys or anything... he doesn't have a lot of time left," doctor song said and everyone's faces went grim.

"we'll keep an eye on him, and if ever anything happens we'll try to get him to surgically remove the roots," namjoon said. doctor song nodded and bowed before leaving the room, and the boys did the same. jimin was wheeled back in.

he didn't have a lot of time left, and it was only a matter of time before yoongi found out the real truth.