Dan and Phil are children together, best friends from the offset. Even as they drift apart Phil's little lights stay with Dan and he carries the theory with him through into old age.

dan likes long words. he also likes phil lester. short story.

Phil lester, a 17 year old high school student, moved to the new lands...America. he discovers another British boy at his new school, and become friends. will they become more than friends? will phil find out Dan's secret, or dan find or Phil's first?

"In the end, everything is a gag." ー Charlie Chaplin ー in which dan is a boy who cannot see colors. and phil is a boy who helps dan see them. ᴀʟsᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴀs ᴀ ᴄʟɪᴄʜᴇ́ sᴏᴜʟ﹣ᴍᴀᴛᴇ sᴛᴏʀʏ.

"hey i'm phil and whoever didn't show up, is a dick," ; copyright © 2016

After sherlock's death, you fall into a deep deep depression and then things happen.....

"The less you care, the happier you are." He turned to face me, his blue eyes dull with traces of betrayal. "No. The less you care, the lonelier you are." - In a world where people have the ability to flip an emotions switch, many people lack feelings and sympathy in general- including Dan Howell after a tragedy strikes and he can't take it. However, he meets Phil Lester, the outgoing flirt with too big of a heart to handle. The two become close, and Dan soon realizes that even with his switch off, he can't deny that Phil is slowly reaching to turn it back on, and Dan can't seem to push his hand away.

in a world where your moods are visible above your head, displayed through pictures and icons, it's impossible to hide your true feelings. however dan howell seems to be lacking this. labelled as an emotionless freak, dan is outcasted because his moods are never visible. that is, until an endlessly happy boy named phil wonders why.

Dan has given up on ever being happy. Life has lost its meaning, and everything he seems to do causes some form of destruction, and Dan is so tired of destroying the things he used to love. He's lost so much, and he's scared of losing Phil, the only thing he can bring himself to care about. But Dan can't see past his own depression that Phil is struggling with bulimia, and that he's equally good at hiding his dark thoughts as Dan. And as Dan walks through the streets alone at night getting high to escape from the hell he's trapped himself in, will he be able to see that maybe the happiness he craves so desperately is not on the streets in the form of white pills, but inside his own apartment in the form of Phil Lester? Or will it be too late... WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, SEXUAL SITUATIONS, USE OF DRUGS, VIOLENCE, HIGH LEVELS OF ANGST, BULIMIA, AND THEMES OF SUICIDE. IT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS.

i was sinking, and i couldn't swim. {phan au} highest ranking - #10 in danandphil