Universes || Phan {Completed}

Science

"We're having an emergency assembly" The speakers rang out through the school, crackling from age and over-usage. Phil made eye contact with Dan and raised his eyebrows.
"Conner" He mouthed
Dan nodded, before looking at the teacher.

"Let's go we don't have all day get up" She sighed, walking through the class as the students piled out behind her.
Dan rushed over to Phil, nudging him slightly with his shoulder

"Do you reckon his name was actually Conner?" Phil asked, quietly
"Probably not" Dan replied. They didn't have to be loud since their faces were so close together.
"Then why'd you say his name was Conner?" Phil giggled
"He looked like a Conner to me." Dan smiled, as Phil ruffled his hair around slightly, he then ruffled Dan's hair.

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"Mason Lockory was found dead this morning, from a suspected overdose" The principal began

"Mason" Phil whispered to Dan, hitting his knee slightly with his hand
"Dang"
"One quid, please" Phil giggled slightly as Dan fished out a one-pound-coin from his pocket. 

The principal ranted on about drugs for an excruciating length of time, Dan and Phil were making quiet jokes together, and small wagers.

"Bet he'll look at Stan" Dan whispered
"I bet Stan will try to get his attention"
"I bet that Jax and Daniel W are gonna kick Annie's chair"
"I bet that Jax and Daniel W are somehow to blame for Conner"
"Do you think?" Dan asked, squinting at Daniel W and Jax, who were sitting at the other end of the assembly hall from them.
Phil just nodded.

When the assembly ended, Dan hadn't learned anything new, aside from that Conner's real name was Mason but neither Dan or Phil really seemed to care.
Since they still referred to him as Conner.

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"How'd he get a brand new packet of panadol? I don't know anyone who owns a brand new packet of panadol. They're all like a month old."
"How do you know they're brand new?" Dan replied, confused
"They released a new version a few days ago, he had a box of those ones in his hand." Phil nodded at Dan.

"Hey Dip" Phil smiled at Dan "My dream job changed again"
"What too, now?" Dan laughed, linking hands with Phil as they walked through the playground.
"I want to be a scientist. Just like Bill Nye" He laughed "It's pretty dumb-"
"No way! Pip you're like, amazing at science. You'll be the best scientist ever." Dan smiled as Phil blushed
"Really?"
"Really" Dan reached his hand out, letting go of Phils "We can shake on it"
"Then it's set" Phil nodded

And it was set.
Phil would be the best scientist, ever.

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"Pip, what's your favourite flower?" Dan asked Phil as they sat cross-legged in the unclaimed fields behind Phil's house
"Probably a daisy, they're really simple but quite cute" He laughed.

"Perfect!" Dan smiled, as he turned around to show Phil what he had made

A flower crown, made out of daisies. Just for Phil.

"Aww! It's so pretty" Phil blushed slightly as Dan put it on his head
"Phil Lester, King of the Daisies" Dan emphasised his already posh accent as much as he could.
"I don't know if I can be King all by myself" Phil giggled, his tongue poking out "Wanna be Co-Kings?"
"Sure" Dan smiled "I'll make myself my crown"

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"I, King Phil Lester, make you, Dan Howell, Co-King of the Daisies!" He laughed, making his northern accent as posh as he could.
"Thank you" Dan bowed, before bursting into laughter. Phil followed.

"You're a dork" Phil laughed
"You're a dork, too" Dan replied.

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"Pip, do you think we'll be friends forever?" Dan asked Phil as the sun began to set, their crowns still atop their heads.
"Yeah, what do you think?" Phil replied, grabbing Dan's hand. Phil's hands were a little cold, but Dan could warm them up
"That's the plan, us being friends forever" Dan replied.
"Good" Phil smiled.

"Can we shake on it?" Dan asked
"Of course, silly"

So they shook hands.

And it was set, then and there for all of forever.
Dan and Phil were going to be friends, forever.

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"Why do Daniel W and Jax hate us so much?" Dan mumbled. The sun had set but Phil's mum hadn't called them in for dinner yet.
"I don't know, Dip" Phil sighed
"Does it have something to do with the things they call us?" Dan asked
Phil flinched at the words. Dan was told he couldn't repeat them multiple times before. Phil seemed to know the words Dan was referencing
"It does" Phil muttered "It does, they're mean people. They're mean words. Especially to us"

Dan was comfortable in that moment. They were lying in the soft grass, fingers intertwined, palms touching. Yeah, it was bloody cold, but they were warm together. It hadn't snowed yet, so they could lie in the grass still.
Their crowns were still on their heads.

"Forever" Phil mumbled quietly, his thumb rubbing over Dan's hand.

It felt nice to be this close to Phil, Dan didn't have anyone else he could be this close to. His dad worked from 5 am to 8:30 pm, so Dan only saw him at the dinner table.
Dan only had Phil, but that was enough.

Friends forever

"Kids- Dinner!" Phil's mum yelled into the paddocks, the sound echoing through the empty silence.

"C'mon, Dip" Phil giggled, kissing Dan's hand
"Okay" Dan smiled, getting up

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Dan and Phil were cooped up in Phil's room, in the fort they built. It was nearly 1 am. Phil had rested his legs on top of Dan's as they lay. Their flower crowns resting on Phil's desk.

"Do you want me to read you The Bridge to Terabithia?" Dan asked, softly
Phil nodded, equally as soft as Dan had asked the question.

"Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity" Dan began reading.

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"You said it's sad" Phil whispered, it was 5 am, they were up to chapter 10, almost finished
"Do you want to finish this chapter?" Dan replied quietly
Phil nodded again.

"He was all the way into the kitchen before he realized that something was wrong. His dad's pickup had been outside the door, but he hadn't taken it in until he came into the room and found them all sitting there: his parents and the little girls at the kitchen table and Ellie and Brenda on the couch. Not eating. There was no food on the table. Not watching TV. It wasn't even turned on. He stood unmoving for a second while they stared at him. Suddenly his mother let out a great shuddering sob. "O my God. O my God." She said it over and over, her head down on her arms. His father moved to put his arm around her awkwardly, but he didn't take his eyes off Jess. "I told ya he just gone off somewhere," May Belle said quietly and stubbornly as though she had repeated it often and no one had believed her. He squinted his eyes as though trying to peer down a dark drain pipe. He didn't even know what question to ask them. "What-?" He tried to begin"

Dan raised his eyes up from the book to look at Phil, who had worry in his eyes. Dan felt awful for what he was about to read

"Brenda's pouting voice broke in, "Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead," too."

Phil covered his mouth, shaking his head violently
"No- No no no no!" he cried, muffled by his hand.

Dan crawled over to Phil and held him.

"Hey- It's okay. I'm here for you" Dan cooed into Phil's hair, stroking it softly as they rocked back and forth
"She didn't deserve to d-die" He sobbed.
"I know, I know" Dan mumbled
"Don't ever die young, Dan" Phil sobbed "P-promise me"

"We can shake on it if you like" Phil looked up at Dan.

"Okay" Phil nodded slightly

And so it was set.
Daniel James Howell wasn't allowed to die young.