what's left ↔ p.l

six - i am phil lester

author's note: big chapter ahead! there is some timeskipping, but we get to have a reunion...but you better read on to find out who is reunited with! the chapter is based off the song I Am Moana, anyway, read on!

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It had been weeks since Dan's death.

I trained harder, and found I could manipulate more than just fire and nature. The time I spent with other superheroes, including Dan, I had absorbed more of their powers. I was equal in power to Anti.

Bile rose in my throat when I thought of him.

I still met up with non-superhero friends, still happy as ever. But I was longing for Dan. I missed him so much. Every passing day my heart ached for his warmth. His smiles. His laughter.

Tonight, I walked among the grass of the countryside, away from Anti. Away from home.

Everything hurt. I was grieving still. The den was completely empty. It was just myself. No companions, no one. None of the superheroes were alive. They were all dead.

Because of that bastard. That evil, slimy bastard of an Irishman.

Yet I was here alone. With no hope of defeating him. I couldn't hope for anything. I lost my hope the moment Dan passed in my arms.

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"You're a long ways past home." called out an all too familiar voice.

I didn't look back. It could be Anti trying to trick me, out in the open field.

"It's not you. I know it's you Anti." I shout back.

"Guess I chose the right person to love." the voice called out again. It was sincere. It didn't sound anything like Anti. It sounded like Dan.

My heart panged. I turned around, and saw a blue ghost light up the ground below it. It was Dan. I ran over and hugged him, not caring about the cold touch. "Is it really you, Dan?" I looked up at him, his eyes still retaining that coffee brown colour. He nodded, and kissed my forehead.

"I tried so hard to keep training without you." I said, my breathing becoming quick. "And I found out I have a lot more power to myself than we both realised."

"Then what is stopping you from taking him head on?" Dan asked, running a hand through my hair. My head felt cold, but I didn't care. I was within the embrace of my lover. The only person giving me hope.

"I lost all hope as the weeks drones on. I'm so sorry, Dan." I reply, keeping my head down.

"I should have never put so much weight on your shoulders, Phil. I should've come to you earlier." He said, stroking my hair.

"But why didn't you?" I asked, looking up to him.

"Because I love you. Because I found that this time was right. When you needed me the most." He replied again, looking down into my eyes.

"If you want to go home, go ahead. I will be okay with that decision." Dan said, and it shocked me. He was okay with me giving up? I stood up from his embrace and started to walk back. I felt my heart tug at me, and I stopped in my tracks.

"What's stopping you?" Dan asked, as I looked back to him. "I...I don't know." I said, turning around.

"I know a boy from England. He stands apart from the crowd." He started singing. I couldn't fathom what or why he was singing.

"He loves his friends and his family, he makes his whole family proud. Sometimes the world seems against you, the journey leaving a scar...but scars can heal and reveal just where you are." He kept singing, but I listened on.

"The people you love will change you. The things you have learned will guide you. And nothing on this earth can silence, the quiet hum still inside you..."

"And when that hum turns into a call. Phil, you've come so far. Phil, listen. Do you know who you truely are?" Dan finished singing, his voice light and soft. I felt compelled to sing.

"Who truely am I?"

"I am a boy who loves my land, and a boy who loves his friends and family...it calls me." I kept singing.

"We are superheroes. Who found their way across the globe. They call me..."

"I've delivered us to where I am. I have journeyed farther. I'm everything I've learned and more and still they call me!" I shouted, into the open area, my arms out wide.

Dan smiles.

"The call isn't out there at all, it's inside of me! It's like a tide, always falling and rising!" I belt out, taking a deep breath before continuing. I walk back over to Dan and hug him.

"I will carry you here in my heart, you'll remind me, that come what may, I know the way!" I sung, to fill my heart's content. I look back at Dan.

"I am Phil Lester! And I will defeat Anti at every chance I get!" I start running back to home. As I turned back to go give Dan a goodbye kiss, he stood there, smiling.

"Go get him Phil."