Phan - Short Fics Collection

(*) Astronauts

(A/N this is too fluffy and mushy im sorry)

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"Don't you think they're gorgeous?" Phil said in a hushed voice, laying down on the soft summer grass.

"I don't see anything, just some stars, what am I looking at?" Dan questioned, laying beside the darker haired boy and twiddling with his thumbs.

Dan was 10 while Phil was 12. Sometimes Dan never understood what Phil was rabbling on about.

"The stars. Look at them." Phil pointed his thin finger upto the dark sky.

Dan just stared up, nodding. Pretending to know what exactly he was looking at.

/2 years later/

"Dan look up, they look beautiful again." Phil called back as he pulled the younger by the hand towards their field, the one they visited every once in a while. As an escape from the real world.

"I still don't see anything worthwhile, what's so good about a bunch of stars?" Dan said blandly as they lay under the shimmering blanket above.

Phil turned to him and what he said made Dan realise what exactly he was looking at.

"They ignite the dark. Imagine how many people at this moment are watching the stars with us. Without them, the blanket above us right this moment would be plain. Would be bland. They uncover all the secrets that the sky has to hide. They illuminate the unknown."

Dan stared in awe at the boy with the eyes almost as bright as the stars above.

"Hey Phil?" "Yeah?" "I want to be an astronaut." "Tell you what, when we're older we'll go to the sun together." Phil replied, tangling his fingers with the younger boy.

/6 years later/

Dan and Phil had been friends their whole lives, Dan started thinking differently about Phil now he was 16.

"Hey do you remember that promise you made to me a few years ago? That we would go to the sun together?" Phil turned his head and gave him a small nod.

"Well I want to go to the moon. The night has so many more mysteries and secrets. We could uncover the ones the stars haven't."

"That's a-" "Some people say that the stars are the most beautiful things but not to me. To me you're the most beautiful thing on this earth." Dan shuffled so his head was leaning on his arm and that he was looking at Phil. To find the ebony hair boy already looking back.

"We could do anything you wanted, we can go chasing rainbows and sleeping on clouds. And maybe even more, we never know how many secrets the sky hides." Phil whispered, never breaking eye contact with Dan. Then he did something that took them both by surprise. He leaned in and softly pressed his lips against Dans in a slow and loving kiss.

Dan moved one hand to Phil's waist and one to rest on his jaw. The kiss wasn't hungry but soft and slow. It felt like a century that kept their feet so firmly off the ground. Like they were flying. Like they were astronauts.

When they pulled away Phil whispered, "and I'll be with you until the end, so sure let us both go into outer space."

"Good because if you ever weren't, I'd question going on without you."

Phil looked away and gazed back up to the sky, "Am I just dreaming in the city that never sleeps? The sky always seems to be awake. The little flickering lights are slowly fading only to be consumed by the brightness of the sun. Although it doesn't make the sky more awake. Just covers the secrets and wonders. Makes people who don't appreciate the stars, more aware its there."

"Kind of like you then. You aren't more beautiful at night, the dark just hides your mysteries. We can run under the stars through cemetery backyards or through wide open green fields but its like the stars, people who don't appreciate us won't notice us. But infact I'll always appreciate you. We'll celebrate the way the night hides scars and secrets." Dan mused in the silence.

"Dan you know what, I don't want to be an astronaut." He started, staring back at the smaller boy beside him. "Because you are my sun. My moon. You're my universe. To me you shine brighter than all these stars, casting everyone else into darkness. Sure, I'm a mystery and who said it's the stars that uncovers the skies secrets? You're my star Dan, and I love you."

Dan leaned in and pressed a strong kiss to Phil's lips, entwining their fingers.

"Your eyes shimmer in the starlight you know. Its like rays of light bouncing and dancing on your face. Like a deep blue sea of magic." Dan said, pushing Phils fringe out his face and turning back to the sky.

After a little while of laying and thinking, "I love you Phil." Dan blurted out in the comfortable silence. "And I love you too my little astronaut." Phil replied, pecking Dans nose softly and rolling onto his back once more to take in all the wonders the sky was revealing.

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