Stockholm Syndrome-PHAN AU

Chap. 2

A bit of a short chapter but oh well I needed to get this plane ride out of the way and I had no more to add to it without it getting boring.

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The entirety of the plane ride at that point was spent in silence. I sat on my seat, my black inked arms balancing on my knees with my hands linked together. It was clear that everyone was stunned by my little know your enemies stunt. I had no regrets for that, Phil was way out of line.

"Where are we going?" Chris finally spoke up. His voice cut the awkwardness like a knife. I inhaled quietly, refusing to look at Phil. No one spoke, not even Cat who was usually very chatty, she was pissed off at Phil. I think everyone was. After a few minutes of arguing with myself, I decided to apologise to Phil because he clearly wasn't going to do it. I hated fighting with him.

I got up and sat next to him, his blue eyes watching me intently.

"I'm sorry." We both said at the same time, we both laughed.

"What for?" Phil asked when he stopped laughing, "I was the bad guy."

"You're never the bad guy, Philly," I said quietly, "You have a medical condition, I should've handled it better." I said honestly. I felt bad for snapping at him, but he needed to be put back in line.

"I should've taken the pills straight away, I was just being stubborn." Phil mumbled, looking at his hands. His multi-coloured tattooed arms were shaking, I knew he felt really bad and I felt terrible for making him feel that way.

"Phil," I said urgently. He glanced up at me as he was slouching over in shame, "It's alright." I said, putting my hand over his. He gulped a bit, inhaling sharply, and pulling his hand away suddenly, which made me frown.

"We're going to Hawaii," Phil turned his attention to Chris to avoid an awkward conversation. I felt slightly uneasy at my action to put my hand over his, I knew he found it weird. "We need a holiday, but we also need time to sort out our plans, the police are onto us again." Phil said, uncertainty in his voice. I was fairly new to this lifestyle, Phil had been doing it for about four years more than me.

"Yeah, you all need to unwind, if you know what I mean." Cat turned around and winked at the three of us.

I furrowed my brows in confusion and Phil and Chris burst out laughing at my confusion.

"She's saying we pick up some hot chicks, mate." Chris unintentionally snorted, which caused Phil to laugh harder.

I don't know why they found my confusion so funny. I scrunched up my nose in distaste because of the disrespect they had for women, I knew I was gay so I didn't find that idea appealing at all.

Not that they knew, that I was gay of course.

"What was that for? Aren't you a little bit excited?" Phil laughed, putting his hand on my shoulder which caused me to jump.

I thought about saying no for a moment, but I decided against it.

"No it's not that, I'm just surprised we're going to Hawaii that's all." I grumbled. They couldn't know, I don't know why but I just felt uncomfortable on bringing up the topic, hey guys I hope you don't mind I'm gay.

"We've got a while to go," Cat said, breaking the silence. "You boys might as well get some sleep before we go meet PJ in Hawaii."

I smirked at Chris, and he rolled his eyes at me. PJ was openly gay and had always had a crush on Chris.

That was another reason why I didn't want to come out, Phil and Chris would always talk about PJ like a foreign being, and how Chris was sick of PJ hitting on him. I played along, of course, that's why I teased Chris, which I kind of felt bad about.

"You guys might want to listen to this," Phil suddenly spoke up, unplugging his headphones that I wasn't even aware he had in. "I'll rewind it."

"Recent news; Police have been informed that if Daniel Howell and Phillip Lester are spotted, police are to shoot them on sight." My eyes widened, I knew we were trouble, but I didn't think we'd be in this much trouble. "However, this could be a problem as no one knows what they look like." I thought that was funny, and Phil did too because I looked at him and he had an amused grin on his face. "Will police ever find these two? Are we all in danger?" Phil burst out laughing and locked his phone.

"No, I don't think you guys ever will be found." Chris smirked, rolling his eyes at Phil.

"Don't jinx it." I joined Phil on the laughing.

"This shouldn't be funny," Cat said, before laughing as well. "We're fucked up."

"I can second that statement." I piped up.

"The good kind of fucked up." Chris winked at me.

"Is there even a good kind of fucked up?" Phil laughed. I laughed and shook my head.

"Probably not." I agreed. Silence soon fell among us because we were all processing what the news had said.

"Holy shit." Chris said suddenly.

"What?" Phil and I said at the same time.

"We're wanted, like really badly." Chris said in awe.

"Yes, good observation, Chris." Cat chuckled. "Now, listen here you fuckers, sleep. Now." Cat snapped in a friendly way.

"Was the swear word really needed?" I said, pretending to be horrified from her unjustified swear word.

"Yes, it's always needed. Sleep idiot." Cat said. I laughed, before lying down on the seat next to Phil. My body instantly felt tired which was odd, I didn't feel tired before. I guessed I needed my sleep then.

"Good night, Bear." Phil yawned.

"Good night, Philly." I replied, before darkness overcame me.