We are the ghouls of London // PHAN

•CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE•

Throughout the car journey, Dan continued to hold onto his younger brothers hand. It was still quite clammy but Dan neither said anything or complained. In the front passenger seat, Dan looked how Phil was staring out the windscreen towards the artificial lit up street. With his free hand, Dan leant forward and stroked Phil's hair. Confused, Phil turned around and gave Dan a glance before chuckling and turning back around to watch the road.

As they reach Phil's house, a sense of warmth made itself feel at home in the pit of Dan's stomach. It made him smile and squeeze his little brothers reassuringly, as if signalling to him that it will be ok. They were away from their mom and as Phil had told Dan, his dad was allowing the two of them to stay as long as they wanted. It made Dan not feel so much pressure on feeling as if he wasn't intruding on all of the Lester's family time as it was Phil's dad who invited them and welcomed them under his wing.

The car came to a halt on the driveway. Everyone began to exit the vehicle and Phil's dad made his way to the back of the car to collect the suitcases Dan had packed with his and Adrian's stuff in.

"It's ok Mr. Lester, I can take them in if you want..." Dan offered politely, outstretching a hand to take one of the handles of the suitcases.

"It's fine honestly Dan, and call me Lee. You have only remind me of my boss at work when you call me Lee," he chuckles as he makes his way towards the Lester household.

Lee lead Dan and Adrian upstairs into the family bathroom, making both of the Howell's sit on top of the counter as Lee took a wet, damp flannel and first began to wipe at Adrian's face to rid of any of the dry blood on his skin.

Keeping himself out of the way, Phil leant against the doorframe and watched as Adrian had his head tilted back slightly as his dad continued to wipe dry blood from his nose and lip.

"Phil could you go get my leather notebook off of my desk please?" His dad asked, not even looking towards Phil.

"Yeah... but why?" Phil questioned as he pushed himself up, catching eye contact with Dan.

"I need to ask these two boys here some  questions on what happened," his dad confirmed as he wet the cloth yet again, and instantly put it against Dan's face making him splutter since he wasn't expecting the impact of the flannel. Phil giggled before walking out the room to collect the notebook.

The notebook was heavy as Phil picked it up and giving it a second glance, the book looked extremely full with photos, notes and folded up documents on different cases.

Walking back, Phil put the notebook on the sink, "There you go."

His dad passed the flannel onto Phil, "You keep clearing up the guys, I'll write down the answers to my question," his dad instructed.

Nodding, Phil once again wetted the cloth underneath the tap before pressing it against Dan's shoulder after having to instruct him to take it off since Phil had spotted blood seeping through his galaxy top. The fact Dan was still wearing this top made him smile.

"Stop staring at me," Dan mumbled under his breathe for only Phil to hear, and then he winked at him, "No need to make it obvious you are attracted to my beautiful body..."

Phil chuckled as he pressed the cloth once again Dan's wounded shoulder, "You wish..."

"Ok first question," Dan looked towards Phil's dad, "Before I had to kill Richard for safety issues, he mentioned someone called Sam Kassidy? Who are they?"