You're Never Alone

Chapter 32

Word Count: 2634

All too soon Phil becomes distant from Dan again and Dan starts to feel the full weight of Phil's distance tugging on his heart. Over and over again, PJ has to remind Dan that he left Phil for a long time whenever he sees Dan staring after Phil. Dan's been back for a couple weeks now so he's mostly healed physically but his mental wounds still weigh him down and Phil isn't helping at this moment. Finally Dan has had enough with being without Phil.

    One morning when Phil is walking down the hall of rooms, Dan grabs his wrist and drags him back to his room. Phil tries to pry himself out of Dan's grip but over the past months, Dan has gotten stronger than Phil. Dan shoves Phil into the room and flicks on the lights above before slamming the door shut. Phil stumbles in and turns around to look at Dan with a glare.

    "What the fuck, Dan?" Phil exclaims but Dan crosses his arms and frowns.

    "Why're you avoiding me?" Dan demands but he cuts Phil off before he can respond. "Oh wait. Let me guess. It's really hard for you to see me because I've been gone for months?"

    Phil sighs angrily. "Something like that," he snaps and Dan huffs.

    "So what is it then?" But Phil looks away which makes Dan more annoyed. "Phil, talk to me!"

    "You were gone! For 7 months, Dan!" Phil yells, throwing his hands in the air. "You left me to go back to your father but you had some plan that only four other people knew about not including me! God dammit, don't you get it?!"

    Dan looks at him in silence, all of his words dissolving on his tongue. Phil continues.

    "You left me some bullshit note and then left me behind!" Phil screams and Dan looks at the ceiling. "So tell me something, Dan. Why did you leave me?"

    Dan bites his lip. "I was protecting you and saving you from my father." Phil screams in frustration which makes Dan jump visibly.

    "By throwing yourself at him?! And you could've told me!" Phil replies but Dan shakes his head.

    "If I would've told you, you would've tried to stop me," Dan reasons and Phil laughs bitterly as he runs a hand through his hair.

    "With good reason!" Phil steps closer to Dan. "You basically went on a suicide mission to save me, to save the rebels, to save everyone but yourself!"

    That's when Dan starts to get pissed that Phil isn't understanding. "I bought the rebels time. I bought us time to actually have a well thought out plan to actually kill the king!"

    Phil turns away from Dan with a short laugh. "And how well did your plan actually work?" he says snidely and Dan glares.

    "It worked well actually." Dan can feel his anger boiling beneath his skin, a feeling he's gotten used to over the past months. "I got information and I've been planning with PJ for months. We might actually have a shot at killing the king!"

    "In some plush palace that you've lived in all your life," Phil mutters and Dan breathes out deeply as his eyes begin to glow.

    Dan inhales as he tries to get control and Phil turns around to look at him with another glare worse than before. "Don't you fucking dare."

    "Dan, you say you're protecting me but what if this mission was actually because you're working with your father? Tyler could've been right," Phil says, testing Dan.

    "Next time I won't come back," Dan threatens and Phil bites his lip. "I went through hell and back again so I could protect your ass. I have been through so much just to save you and this is how you repay me? I get if you aren't ready to fully have me back yet but don't you even dare think for a moment that I'm working with my son of a bitch father," Dan spits as tears fill his glowing eyes.