Forbidden Love

Chapter 3

Dan groaned when the sunlight hit his face, he pulled the blanket over his face when he realized the bed seemed empty. He sat up and looked around but Phil wasn't in the room so he got up and looked in the lounge and found him sitting on the couch rocking his sleeping baby.

"Is everything alright Dan?" Phil asked looking up at him. He was wearing his glasses today which he never wore outside his apartment, he preferred wearing contacts even though Dan had told him many times he liked his glasses.

"Yeah, I was just looking for you." Dan yawned, he looked over at the clock and saw that it was only seven in the morning.

"Sorry, Emily woke up so I was just putting her back to sleep." He whispered looking down at the baby. "It's pretty early you can go to bed and I'll be there in a minute or do you want me to make breakfast?"

"Not yet, I just want to stay in bed for a bit.." Phil nodded and got up to put Emily back in her crib, Dan went back to Phil's room and crawled back onto the bed. A few moments later he felt the mattress dip a little behind him and an arm slide around his waist. Dan grabbed onto Phil's hand and linked their fingers and stayed close to him, after yesterday's events he just needed comfort, he just needed assurance that he's safe for now.

"Do you want to talk about what happened yesterday?" Phil asked kissing his neck.

"My foster parents are horrible people, no one believes me, they say someone can't be horrible without reason and they don't have any reason and I'm making stuff up." Dan sighed, his eyes started to water up so he squeezed Phil's hand gently feeling comfort that he's here. "M-my foster father, he tries to r-rape me, a-and my f-foster mother w-watches. If I-I f-fight back or don't let h-him then they h-hurt me even m-more."

"Dan, you have to turn them in.." Phil whispered.

"If I do that then they'll just send me back to the orphanage Phil." He sobbed into Phil's chest, "And I can't go back to the orphanage, you don't know what it feels like to not be wanted. But I can't go back to them either, I can't take anymore of their abuse.."

"It's okay, I'm not going to make you go back to them. You'll stay here with me alright?" Phil said wiping Dan's tears away.

"But they'll know something is up.."

"Nothing will happen to you I promise, because we are going to turn them in." Phil said, "My brother he's a cop, I can talk to him and he'll help us out alright?"

Dan nodded, Phil sat up and called his brother. Dan listened, scared that maybe his brother will refuse to help, or worse he will turn Phil in when he finds out how old Dan actually is. Phil however sounded calm the entire time when he explained the situation, there were no "you don't understand" or "please just listen" Phil told him that he will see him soon and then smiled at Dan. Moments later his brother arrived, Dan held onto Phil's arm scared that maybe he will tell Dan that he has to leave but Phil assured him that it'll be alright.

"So your bruises are enough evidence for me, I just need you to give me their address." Phil's brother, Jackson said.

"But what about me? I don't want to go back to the orphanage.." Dan said looking down.

"You won't have to." He explained, "You'll be eighteen in a few months anyways and I can just say that you will be staying with me or something. I won't mention anything about you or my brother."

"Thank you Jackson, I really appreciate this." Phil said.

"Well I can tell that you really care for him, and I'm not going to turn my brother in, unless you kill someone that is." He joked.

"Um, my foster father just texted asking me where I am and to come home this instant. I sort of had to sneak out yesterday.." Dan sighed looking at his phone.

"Did you respond?" Jackson asked, Dan shook his head. "Good, don't. I'll go over there and deal with them alright?"

"Everything is going to be okay Dan, don't worry." Phil whispered squeezing Dan's hand. Dan looked up at him and smiled slightly resting his forehead on his arm.

"I'll call you and tell you when it's done." Jackson said to Phil before he left. Phil got up and made Dan breakfast, Dan ate in silence still nervous about what may happen. The remainder of the afternoon the two watched movies trying to pass their time waiting for Jackson to call them and tell them what the situation is. Phil fell asleep, he was awake most of the night taking care of Dan and then woke up early because of Emily, who again started crying. Dan didn't want to wake him so he got up and took care of Emily, he had been around a lot and watched Phil take care of her so he sort of knew what she needed and how to handle her. He picked up Emily who needed a diaper change, he considered waking Phil up but then saw how tired he looked and decided to take care of her himself.

"There you go all done." Dan smiled changing her diaper, she looked up at Dan and cooed wanting to be picked up. He carefully picked her up and rocked her gently.

Phil walked into the room and smiled when he saw Dan gently rocking Emily trying to get her to sleep. "Seems like you've got everything under control."

"She started crying and I didn't want to wake you." Dan whispered looking down at the baby.

"It's alright, Jackson called." Phil said, "He said that everything is taken care of but you'll need to come down to the station to answer a few questions."

"But Phil, what if they send me away.."

"They' won't, Jackson said not to worry and that he will ask you the questions he just needs it for their files." Phil assured him kissing him softly.

"You promise everything will be alright?" He asked.

"I promise." Phil smiled kissing his forehead.