When Darkness Falls

The Old Friend

"Hello, Daniel. Did you miss me?" Anthony practically purrs into my ear.

What the hell. Literally what. The hell. How did he know where I was? How did he find me? Most importantly, why is he here? Its been years. Sixty five years if we're being absolute about it.

I shake my head at him in disbelief only earning a grin from him. "Well at least I can say I still make you speechless, right Danny Boy?" He winks at me and then shoves his hands into his front pockets before continuing. "So," he says with an exhausted sounding voice. "What brings you here, Daniel?"

"I could ask you the same thing Anthony." I give him a cautious glare to try and let him know that it wasn't actually a joke. I want to know why he's here. And I definitely don't need him showing up randomly like this at Phil's house.

He lets out a dramatic sigh and places his hand on his forehead. "Honestly, Daniel, can't you just believe that I came here to see you?" His eye brows furrow and his bottom lip pokes out in a fake pouting face as he stares back at me with wide eyes.

I just give him another roll of the eyes before turning back towards the door only to be stopped by him leaning his arm against the door and facing me with a faked innocent smile on his face. "Where are you going, Dan? We just said hello after all of these years and now you're saying good bye so soon? I'm hurt. Honestly."

"What do you want Anthony?" I ask in an irritated voice.

He gives me a wide grin. "I came back for you." Another chuckle escapes his lips as he leans against the door and crosses his arms. "It got pretty lonely after you left. I kept trying to find someone to be my friend after you left. Killing at least five people a day just because they didn't fit the standards." He lets out an exasperated sigh. "Eventually I gave up though."

Wow. He'd gotten really attached to me in those years we were together. I guess I couldn't really blame him. After being by himself for so long, it must have been horrible to have the one person who understood you leave without a care in the world. Whoops.

I open my mouth to say something but before I can get another word out, he's crashing his lips against mine and pushing himself up against me. My eyes widen in surprise at this. Well, I can see he hasn't changed in the sixty five years since we'd talked. Nope, he still loves to surprise me with kisses that I don't want. It is rather weird kissing him again after sixty five years though. I will admit I did kind of miss it, being able to have someone whenever I wanted. Rather than now when I can't even kiss Phil without him nearly crying and saying he has to leave.

He pulls away slightly so that he can whisper to me. "I've been wanting to do that for a while. Its so hard to find someone who can kiss like you do, you know? I tried to find one but it was useless." He gives me a grin before pushing off of me. "But I can see that you haven't changed any. Except for this house. I wonder." He taps his pointer finger on his lips. "Did you have to compel whoever lives here to let you stay?"

Yeah that's definitely it. No, Anthony, I actually did a good deed and saved a mans life a while back and now he's allowing me to stay with his free will. Oh, and I also have a huge crush on his son, but he's kind of emotionally unstable, and I can't kiss him without him crying.

I don't even think I could tell Anthony that even if I wanted to. See, he's kind of the jealous type. Even though we never dated, anyone who'd get more attention than he did when it came to me might as well have just dropped dead. That's actually exactly what they did. He killed pretty know ch all of them, and I don't need him trying to kill Phil before I even get a chance to do anything with him.

"No. They're old friends actually." Old friends. Yeah, good one, Dan.

Anthony gives me a curious and disbelieving look. "The forever alone Dan actually made friends?" There's no denying the prickle of irritation in his voice. Again; jealous. "Well I'd love to meet them if you don't mind. They must be pretty great if they can get you of all people to be their friends and come live with them right?"