Daniel Howell Imagines

Sad Beautiful Tragic

Word Count: 831 words

Genre: fluffish angst

Song(s) used: Sad Beautiful Tragic- Taylor Swift

Pairing: Dan x Reader

Third Person P.O.V

"We had a beautiful magic love there, what a sad beautiful tragic love affair..."

Dan was potentially the love of her life, and vice versa. For the both of them, it seems to be the same old routine. Love was always a scary thing for the two of them; and falling in love was a fear or IS a fear shared between the two of them. Walls had been built up between them both, with none of them ever having a chance to break down; they were just too scared.

Too scared to trust one another
Too scared to let the other in to see the truth
Too scared to love one another
Too scared to fall in love

But they did, they fell in love with each other. And god did it break them. The love they had was once a fairytale, then turned destructive. They were mentally tearing each other apart. They became lost in the silence that consumed them. Their love was a beautiful, magical love; but now it just seems to be tragic.

There was a long note that she had handwritten herself, that she gave to Dan; actually she had quite a few notes that she gave to Dan, but this was the one that would stick by him forever. It was a note she had written him when she explained her feelings for him. She was quite old fashioned in that sort of sense, and she thought it could potentially be more romantic like that. But now, the words on that note, mean almost nothing anymore.

She always takes the tube back from work to her flat, because it's cheaper than catching a cab in London. But there's a locket that Dan gave her on their One year anniversary and it had a picture of him in it so she could take him anywhere she went, but now that everything between them is tarnished she just can't bring herself to get rid of it; it means too much to her, to just let it go, or get rid of it.

When they were together, Dan would always tease her about being a good girl. It might have something to do with the fact that she was really polite, and would try hard not to make anybody mad or upset, she loved making people happy, and there was a saying her mum would always say to her as a child "good girls, hopeful they'll be and long they will wait..." At the time she had no idea what those words meant, but now, those words are her life. Her life without Dan in it... but the thing is, she's lost hope in any sort of reconciliation with Dan.

In some sort of sense, she was a good girl. She was naive when it came to falling in love, and she still longs for love where it is lost. She was hopeful. Hopeful that Dan would so the right thing, hopeful that he could reach out to her one last time, but yeah, she lost hope.

Dan has this way about himself, he's extremely stubborn, and won't make the first move, it's almost like his pride is the most important thing to him in this sort of sense.

The relationship was amazing at first, it was everything they both could've hoped for, but things and people change, things turned sour, and bad. Love seemed to be harder and the relationship was in turmoil. I guess you could say things ended extremely badly, but none of them wanted it to end that way.

Dan was always travelling, and with the distance being too much, it put a strain on the relationship. The timing was always bad, and nothing seemed right in the end. (Y/N) was always fighting to have her voice heard from Dan, but he just wouldn't listen. He just could never listen.

A lot of the time Dan would dream about her in a warm light, where things were okay and they didn't hate eachother. Where things were back to how they always should've been.

They say time can heal almost anything, but for the both of them, time is taking its sweet time erasing the memories they both shared, taking its sweet time erasing the relationship the once shared, taking its sweet time erasing each other from memory.

Dan has his demons, and in this case, they all look like (Y/N). In this sense, a demon is something that wont go away, the recollections of memories continue to haunt him at night, how badly he treated her, all the yelling, how he never treated her the way he always promised he would, how he left her without a proper goodbye. It's as if he can't move on, and neither can (Y/n).

They had a beauiful, magic, love there, but now it's just a sad, beautiful, tragic, love affair.