Hemophobia- Fear of blood

2PM – Nichkhun

It probably wasn’t the best idea in the world, taking you to play basketball but Nichkhun insisted despite the fact that you were fairly clumsy and didn’t really like sport full stop. Being an idol meant that you two didn’t have an awful lot of time to spend with one another and not to mention that he had been in Japan for several weeks on tour, it felt like a lifetime since you last spent time with each other. So when Nichkhun appeared at your door bright and early with those cute dimples and puppy eyes asking to come and play basketball with him you couldn’t really say no, especially when he promised ice cream after.

Arriving at the local basketball courts that were located around the corner from your apartment you both dumped your stuff and whilst Nichkhun immediately ran off to warm up you were perfectly content to just sit and watch him stretch hoping to catch a glimpse of that hot body of his as he raised his hands in the air and stood on his tiptoes. He glanced over at you only to realise that you were just sitting there watching him, upon realising that you had been caught you tried to cover the small blush on your face by coughing and looking away hoping he didn’t notice it.

“Jagiya~, I didn’t bring you out here to stare at me” he said with a smirk on his face as he walked over to where you were sitting on the sidelines, “I want you to play with me” he pouted and grabbed your hands before pulling you up and dragging you over to where the basketball was discarded on the floor.

‘There goes my plan to just sit there and watch’ you thought as Nichkhun expertly twirled the ball on his index finger before lightly flicking his wrists and watched as the ball soared in the air and fell through the hoop. Smirking he sauntered over to the ball and picked it up before making his way back to you. You only raised your eyebrow as he came back to stand in front of you carefully handing the ball to you, “Try to beat that” he said obviously very proud of himself and his smirk only got wider as he noticed the narrowing of your eyes and the twitching of your eyebrow.

He had definitely hit a nerve, despite the fact that you disliked sports you were incredibly competitive and having your boyfriend of all people flaunting his talents in your face only brought out what your older brother called ‘the inner tigress’. Rolling the ball around with your hands you carefully threw the ball towards the hoop, only for it to fall a metre in front of it.

Chuckling Nichkhun ran after it as it bounced away, coming back over he once again placed the ball in your hands before standing behind you and placing his hands against yours, his chest tight against your back he leant his head on your shoulder on whispered in your ear, “Why don’t I help you”.

You shivered as his warm breath tickled your ear, not fighting him as he lifted both of your arms up and shooting a goal. Turning around in his arms you beamed, “I did it! Err... I mean we did it” You cheered as Nichkhun raised an eyebrow at you before beaming along with you. Despite whining threw the entire process you let Nichkhun teach you how to shoot and dribble properly until he was satisfied with the progress you had made. The sun was high in the sky by the time he decided to play a little one-on-one.

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It was safe to say that were pissed off, you were losing quite badly at that; 14-2 and those 2 points Nichkhun had helped you score. Narrowing your eyes at him as he stood in front of you with his hands in his pockets smirking, he was waiting patiently for you to make your move.

‘Okay that’s it’ you thought as you began your plan of action. You began staring then frowning at a spot just behind Nichkhun hoping it would catch his attention so he would turn around, it worked as he noticed your laser eyes directing behind him, he turned around expecting to see something only to see nothing out of the ordinary. “Jagiya what are-“but his words were lost as he watched you streak down the court, dribbling the ball as you went. “That little sneak” he muttered as you sped off after you.

You couldn’t believe that he had fallen for that, giggling as you heard his footsteps behind you, you sped up until you were slightly in front of the hoop before chucking the ball with all your might hoping it would go in. But your eyes widen as the ball headed straight back for you, having only bounced off the hoop, you barely even registered what was happening before the ball hit you smack in the face. Staggering back strong arms managed to catch you before you could fall back.

“Omo! Jagiya are you alright?!” Nichkhun basically squealed as you reached up to clutch your nose as the pain finally registered after the initial shock of the hit, Nichkhun carefully pulled your arm away to take a look at your nose, “It doesn’t look like it’s broken or anything, come here” he said as he began to pull you to the stands on the side.

Letting your boyfriend drag you along you went back to clutching your nose wishing the pain away, “Stupid basketball” you muttered, “See Nicki this is why I hate sports” you continued to whine as he began to rummage in his bag. Feeling something slightly wet on your fingertips you pulled your hand away from your nose only for your eyes to widen and your body to stiffen.

Blood.

Choking on your breath you felt the blood run out of your nose down your lips before spotting your white tank top. You body felt like going into meltdown, you didn’t know what it was about blood, the redness of it or the circumstances that people often placed it under but you had always felt sick to your stomach whenever you saw it and this had only worsened as you and your best friend had been in a car crash several years ago.

Blood, blood everywhere.

You felt your legs weaken under you and as your brain registered what was about to happen, “Nicki” you whispered as your legs struggled to hold you up. Peering over his shoulder at you Nichkhun’s eyes widen as he saw the state you were in, he knew you were hemophobic but he had never seen the state you get in when you saw blood, he had always tried to keep you away from blood to try and protect you.

As your legs buckled underneath you, Nichkhun immediately dashed forward to catch your body, screaming you name as your whole body began shaking you could only focus on the redness of it as it continued to pour out of your nose. Nichkhun quickly pulled his t-shirt off, leaving him in a black wife beater, and placed it against your nose in attempt to at least hide the blood from your view, but it was already too late. You couldn’t even hear Nichkhun call your name desperately as all you remembered and could see was blood.

Grasping you head in one of his large hands Nichkhun stared directly into your eyes, “________ look at me! Look at me, remember me and only focus on me okay, I’m sorry I can’t protect you but please try to fight it ________. For me please, I love you!”

Your brain heard Nichkhun’s calls for you and your brain switched on to register his desperate attempts to get your attention on him, through the sea of red you heard the calls of your precious boyfriend, breaking free of the spell you could only whisper Nichkhun’s name before your eyes and head rolled back. Not knowing what else to do Nichkhun quickly scooped you up into his arms before grabbing your stuff and quickly exiting the courts.

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Your eyes slowly fluttered open wincing at the harshness of the light; as your eyes adjusted you turn your head to see that you were in your bedroom lying on your bed, also peering down at yourself you noticed that you were dressed in your favourite pair of bunny pyjamas.

‘How did I get here? I thought me and Nichkhun had gone to play basketball, oh yeah’

You shuddered as you remembered the events that had taken place earlier; you sat up as you heard a worried voice filtering through your partially closed door.

“Hyung she’s been asleep for almost 5 hours I don’t know what else to do…yes I’ve called the doctor but he said her mind just needs to recover from the shock of it but….*sigh* yes, fine, okay I’ll call you later” Nichkhun sounded clearly distressed and despite the situation you couldn’t help but smile slightly thinking it was all because he was worried about you.

Wanting to put an end to his distress and convince him that you really were okay you swung your legs off the bed and walked to the door, peering outside you saw Nichkhun on the couch with his head in his hands, “Nicki” you said slowly coming out the room. His head whipped up upon hearing your voice and he quickly turned towards your voice, leaping over the couch and wrapping you in his arms.

“________ thank god I was so worried I thought you’d never wake up” Nichkhun cried cradling you close to his chest,

“I know I heard you” you said clutching his shirt and pulling him even closer. You stayed like that letting Nichkhun hold you close as he relished in the fact that you really were okay, he had been so scared when you had fainted in his arms and even though he knew it was just a bad nose bleed, seeing you covered in blood and brought some of his nightmares to life; he never wanted to see that much of your blood ever again.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you” he muttered into your hair, you could feel his body tensing up and you began his hair to try and calm him down, “I thought I could always protect you from it but I guess I failed, I’m really sorry ________-ah I should never have taken you to play basketball and I just hope you can forgive me”. He pulled away and gave you a kiss on the forehead before walking away and taking a seat again on the couch.

You stared after him shocked, how could he think that this was all his fault? It was you who basically hit yourself in the face with the ball albeit unintentionally, true he had dragged you along to play but this definitely was not his entire fault. You followed him and sat on your knees in front of him, he was leaning his elbows on his knees and his head was bent. You simply flicked him on the forehead and had to contain the coo as the cutest, confused expression appeared on his face as he looked up at you.

“Nichkhun I can understand why you would want to put the entire blame on yourself, yes the idea to play basketball was yours but did you intentionally throw the ball at my face?” you asked raising and eyebrow.

“No” he muttered,

“Did you position the hoop at that height so the ball would bounce back and hit my face?”

“No” a pout now forming on his lips.

“Did you intentionally make me throw the ball at my face?”

“No but-“

“No buts Nicki! This wasn’t your fault” you cried clutching his face between your hands, “It was an accident and accidents can and will happen, as much as you want to you can’t always protect me from it”

“Maybe not but I can sure try” he said placing a hand over one of yours and staring into your eyes with determination.

A smile appeared on your face at his words and you crawled closer so you were right in-between his legs, “My superman, thank you for protecting me but we can use this as a learning experience can’t we?” you asked a small smile appearing on you face as you watched Nichkhun’s do the same.

“Not to let you play basketball anymore or any sports for that matter” he said and he couldn’t help but chuckle as you nuzzled his nose with yours before he began placing sweet kisses on your lips and lastly one on your still sore nose. He pulled you up into his lap and switched the TV on as you cuddled into his chest.

“Hey look basketballs’ on” he said before you both looked at each other and burst into laughter.

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I hope it's okay, I got a bit stuck at the end on how to end it but I tried my best!

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