Time I Changed

Chapter 7 ~ Voices (+ A/N)

"I'm not going to tell you to stop drawing but it scares me when you do it..." Toby announced very warily to his best and only friend.

Danny felt worthless because of what they had just put Toby through, they didn't deserve a friend like him. He was always so nice to them and then they go and do that!

Pathetic.

"I-I'm sorry Toby.... I'll go, you don't need me holding you back when you can go and find somewhere to have a better life. Any life for you would be better than having me in it..." they announced through broken sobs.

Toby was shocked... He knew his friend was in a bad mental state but he was not going to allow them to think that of themself!

"Danny! What are you talking about? Of course I'm better off with you in my life.... you're all I have..."

Yeah but he can have more without you Danny.

I know he can. I'm such a burden.

Yes. Yes you are.

"I know... and if I wasn't here you would have so many more people to be around. I'm just a burden who gets in your way. Even Greg agrees..."

"Who-Who's Greg? Oh don't tell me you know him! Of course you do.... He just like you isn't he Helen... Pretty much? Oh whatever." Toby had just realised that Danny had seen him arguing with himself.... but they just gave him a knowing look.

"S-So.... Helen... you-your v-voice isn't a male? I thought you had one with you kinda mentioning it before but... I wasn't a hundred percent but now I am...."

"OKAY OKAY NO NEED TO SHOUT HELEN! Jeez.... sorry Danny... No Helen is a male he was just given a rather feminine name... but yeah... I don't know how long he's been active... a few years at least... When did Gerard come along... That is his name right?"

Who the he'll do you think you are! My name is Greg you idiot!

Oh shut up!

"His names Greg not Gerard... but around a week ago... I completely freaked out but... you get used to it I guess."

"Yeah."

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At this point the pair decided to walk for a while... complete silence between the two of them, they had a few dirty glances and disgusted words thrown their way but not him they weren't used to...

Oh what they would both do to be accepted and to live a normal life...

They way they were treated and spoken to, it would make you think that they were running around kissing everything on the street... Jesus Christ! They didn't even do anything with each other.

They wouldn't dream of it... they were best friends... only friends... all each other had.

Seriously they were treated like animals that had been looking through people's bins and stealing their babies... but all they were actually doing was being themselves, they weren't doing anything wrong to deserve all the abuse they got... Oh wait, according to everyone else yes they were.

Their crime was being alive. One of the worst crimes imaginable clearly, because nobody else was allowed to live. Oh wait, the straight people were, never mind...

Do you or your friend even do anything with yourselves? From the time I've spent with you it's just been plain boring... we haven't done anything at all! And trust your only friend to be housing Helen of all people!!

Woah. Calm down please.. wait... Housing?

Yes. Housing are you stupid?

Well. Kind of, does that mean that you're never going to leave. So me and Toby are going to be stuck with you two as Well!?

Like Toby said, he's been housing Helen for years. Actively of course. He doesn't know that Helen has been there his whole life, but I have been with you. I've seen everything that only you have seen and quite frankly I felt sorry for you sometimes. I only 'activated' - if you want to call it that - last week because I'd seen enough and never said anything about it and really. All you ever needed was someone who knew exactly what was going on to talk to. I was just never brave enough to let you know I was there.

Wow... um I wasn't really expecting that but thanks I guess... so, you saw everything that happened when I was younger? You know all of my deepest secrets and there's nothing I can do about it?

Pretty much. But even if I wanted to - I don't! - but if I wanted to I couldn't tell anybody anyway after all I'm only in your head and nobody elses...

"Hey Danny," Came the familiar voice of Toby. " I can see that you're in the middle of a conversation with Greg. I can tell by the confused look on your face. But this is something you definitely need to hear..."

A/N

Hey... so I'm really bad bc I haven't updated since flipping APRIL but I just had zero motivation to do anything at all and I just felt like doing an update. I'll most likely be doing a lot more and more often now. But I just wanted to say sorry for taking so long and I hope that you enjoyed this chapter... idk I guess it's kind of a filler chapter but I just really wanted to get something up.

I'm going to be trying different ways of signing off every chapter so if that changes a lot I apologise.

Any feedback on the story would be a great help and if you have any ideas for where you want the story to go just give me a message and I'll see if I like it. I kind of have a plot but kind of not. Anyway I'm gonna sign off this one and please if you want to ask me anything about the story feel free to give me a message. Thanks again for reading!

~C