The Benefits Project ; phan au

The Benefits Project || Phan

Dan Howell is a timid boy, who always does as he is told. He was once friends with Phil Lester, the 'bad influence' who soon ditches Dan for the popular group in Year 7.

After five years of not talking to each other, they're partnered in a project and Phil's wants to win Dan over just like he has with most of their year. But yet, Dan is determined to find out what Phil is hiding behind his arrogant mask.

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Hi! I'm Ellie and this is my first ever phanfiction... :3

This story is in a way more of just a phanfic but there is quite a bit of smut involved so I will on every chapter - or at least before the smut - warn so people who aren't into smut don't read it :3 but whatever, don't hate on me for writing smut. Don't like? Don't read. Simples :)

I know the description makes it sound seriously cliche but hopefully it won't be as cliche as it looks? The first part should be up soon as I have written half of it :D

Cheerio my pancakes! :)

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Hello to you all,

This is an author's note about 7 years after this fic was uploaded. There used to be a note here from 2015 where I attempted to clear up some readers' frustrations about the blurred lines of consent in this fic. Looking back now I don't think I did a very good job at that or a good job at editing the fic so that the blurred lines were no longer blurred. Therefore I will apologise for that.

I wrote this fic when I was 14 years old without a real concept of what consent was and from reading other fics I thought the way Phil acted in this fic was perfectly normal behaviour. I am now 21 and now know it isn't normal.  This is a warning to you that Phil's behaviour initially is unacceptable behaviour that should not be condoned. I tried to reflect this when I edited the fic back a couple years ago with the other characters calling it out but I do not feel like this is good enough anymore.

However I won't be editing this fic again like I did in 2015. I no longer ship phan or a part of the phandom and haven't been for a few years. I have a degree to focus on and do not have time to go through and fix a phanfiction I wrote 7 years ago. I just thought I'd put this authors note here in order to clear this up. 

No means no. I don't know means no. Anything that isn't a yes is no. 

If you do go ahead and read the fic, I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you for all the previous support with this phanfiction.