Who are you? (danisnotonfire fanfic) ON HOLD

Chapter 7

 Dan woke up to the sound of a phone beeping.  He mumbled to himself and squinted his eyes open.  He was still in the living room, slumped on the sofa.  I must've fallen asleep watching the movie last night.  The light was streaming through the window and he could hear the bustling of traffic  from the street below.  He figured it might be sometime around midday.  He tried to sit upright but he felt something on his chest.  He looked down and saw Arya, sleeping peacefully with her arm thrown over his torso.  Also, he had his own arm wrapped around her and there was a blanket thrown over both of them.  He smiled affectionately at her sleeping body.

He maneuvered himself out of the position and laid Arya's head carefully down on the arm of the sofa.  She murmured and shifted slightly, but thankfully she didn't wake up. 

He turned around and noticed a post-it note stuck to the TV.  It read "Gone out to get us some breakfast, be back soon.  Phil, Chris & Peej".

He scrunched the note up and fished his phone out of his back pocket.  No new notifications, and since the other three would never go anywhere without their phones, he came to the conclusion that it must've been Arya's phone that beeped.  I'll let her know when she wakes up. 

Dan dragged himself to the kitchen to make himself some coffee, bumping into the glass door on the way.  "Ah, fuck."  He swore quietly, rubbing his forehead.

When he returned to the lounge, Arya was mumbling in her sleep and her brow was furrowed.  "No, n-not the dogs... no... no..."  She muttered, her head twitching restlessly.

Dan didn't like seeing her so uneasy, so he took a chance and tried to wake her up.  "Arya, wake up."  He breathed, shaking her shoulder lightly.  She turned on her back and carried on mumbling to herself.  Maybe that wasn't enough.  He tried waking her again, but this time more firmly.  Arya's eyes fluttered open, but suddenly she jolted, screamed and punched him in the face.  The blow made Dan drop his coffee, sending it crashing onto the floor.  He staggered back and held his face.  What the?!

Arya's eyes widened and her mouth gaped as she realised what she'd just done.  She'd just punched Dan Howell square in the face.  Dammit stupid reflexes!

"Holy crap!  I am so sorry!  Sit down."  Arya jumped off the sofa and steadied Dan and forced him down onto the sofa, completely ignoring the shards of broken ceramic underneath her feet.  She leapt over to the end of the sofa and grabbed the first aid kit out of her bag.  She expertly whipped out an instant freeze pack and applied it to where she'd punched him.  "I am so sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just reflexes y'know..."  She babbled, still holding the freeze pack to his face, carefully checking the rest of his face for any other damage.

She was completely oblivious to the fact that she was practically sitting on Dan's lap and that their faces were only inches apart, until the front door to the apartment swung open and Phil was just stood in the doorway looking at them.

"Ahh... umm... I can see you two are a bit busy... Should I come back with breakfast a bit later?"  He asked awkwardly, shuffling from side to side.

Arya looked at her position with Dan and instinctively jumped back, landing on a piece of the broken mug.  She bit back the pain and tried to form a coherent response.  "No, we weren't... I wasn't... I..."  She was struggling to find the words and her cheeks were growing redder by the second.

Arya looked over to Dan for help.  "Arya accidentally punched me and she was just applying a freeze pack to my face."  He explained.  Dan watched Arya visibly exhale in relief before agreeing with him.

Phil relaxed a little, but he was still confused.  "Dan, why did she punch you..."  He turned and looked at Arya, thinking that the question was better directed at her.  "Arya, why did you punch him?  And how can you accidentally punch someone?"