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Total Eclipse Of The (Fangirl) Heart

Another dreadful morning approached; the coughing and sniffling began as soon as Phil opened his eyes.  However, in his sick haze, Phil realized that he had woken up at four in the morning.  A very drowsy Dan raised himself out of bed beside him to grab a cup of water and a bottle of pain relievers that the hospital had equipped him with from the kitchen. This week is going to be wonderful...
"Do you need me to get you anything else?" Dan asked in a yawn after returning to the bedroom.
"No thanks," Phil answered after he had sluggishly swallowed the pills,"but I do need to continue hibernating."  He sniffled.  "Also I need to call and ask for more days off of work"
Dan smiled. "Get all the sleep you need, babe. I'll call your boss later in the morning."
     "Thank you," Phil couldn't stop a smile from coming onto his face.  It was a natural movement, as even though his nose was blocked and it was hard to breathe through his constant coughing, having Dan by his side broke into his sickness with happiness and melted all of his headaches and called their new life together home.
     After struggling to drink the remaining water, Phil suddenly had trouble keeping it down; Dan ran to the other side of the room to grab a trash bin.  If I can't even drink water properly, how am I going to fare the rest of the week?
     "Let's go get you cleaned up," Dan suggested when Phil was finished being sick.  The punk nodded in agreement and grabbed Dan's arm to help lift himself up.
They slowly walked into the hallway bathroom together, and Phil was nervous that Dan would start to become frustrated with him for being so sluggish. However, the logical side of his his brain persisted the fact that Dan was probably the most wholesome person in his life right now and that he should go on on with his day. But still the raging thoughts continued until Phil felt emotionally anxious as well as physically ill. I wonder if Dan has ever felt like this? Almost as if he had been asleep for a few minutes, Phil snapped out of his thoughts only to notice an already half-naked Dan placing a hand on Phil's hip.
Dan paused his efforts to undress Phil for a half second to give him enough time to respond for himself. "I thought maybe we could have both of our showers done at the same time, y'know... so I wouldn't have to leave you if you needed help."
     "That sounds fine," Phil answered, removing his boxer shorts with shaky arms.  This would be the first time since last week that the two had been so close, and the anxiety of it all was eating into Phil's worn and ragged state.
Finally, the two hopped in the shower together after Dan had stripped the last of his clothing.  As soon as the hot water ran over Phil's pale skin, he started to become so drowsy to the point of falling over.  Of course, he realized, this was the whole reason Dan had joined him...  Or maybe for something else as well, but he knows I'm too tired.  Even so, Dan brought Phil closer to himself in an attempt to steady the other and help clean the last of the sterile hospital scent off of him. 
Phil stood almost limp against Dan as he felt soft hands massaging into his scalp with a shampoo that smelled like daffodils and rosemary. Next, the boy with nails painted cherry blossom pink began rubbing soothing circles into his shoulders and back, stopping every once and a while on spots that were especially tender and sore. After what had felt like years and years of the most amazing relaxation, Dan took Phil's head into the palms of his hands and connected their lips in a loose kiss, made extraordinary by the heat of the water and the drowsiness that both of them felt from it still being so early on a Friday morning.
Once all of the shampoo and soap had been washed down the drain, the two returned to bed with damp, messy hair and clean shorts on. This time, they lied down facing each other in as close of an embrace as the universe would let them. Now drifting off to sleep, Phil watched as Dan's mocha eyes slowly closed and his face relaxed.  He never noticed before how tense the seemingly jovial pastel cloaked man was until now.  Although it was quite unnerving, Phil had one final thing to say before shutting his own eyes and traveling to a world known to any human who travels the endless waves of sleep, another thing that he had only began to realize a few hours ago, a continuity in his life that he hoped would never change:
     "Dan, you're my greatest escape."
     He smiled as he said this, then closed his own eyes.  Not too soon after, however, he felt Dan reach over and give him a kiss.  It wasn't long before Phil reciprocated the gesture and the two were transported out of the world of hospitals and anxiety and into one of sleep and harmony; it was their own personal eclipse of the heart.

AN:
nothin' gets my heart racing faster than Domestic Phan™
after the eclipse today and cute things going on in the phandom (besides ppl who think that d+p "owe" them personal information ugh) I thought it would be the perfect time to finally update again.  hope you enjoyed
-Em out ✌︎('ω'✌︎ )