IS YOUR CHILD MENTALLY ILL? ARE THEY CONTAGIOUS? ARE THEY POSSESSED BY SATAN? OR WERE THEY SIMPLY EXPOSED TO TOO MUCH ELLEN DEGENERES??? However this happened, whoever made your precious offspring this way, we assure you THIS. CAMP. CAN. HELP! Just bring your confused teenager here in June and when they come home in August they'll be the perfectly normal, heterosexual, cisgender, son or daughter they were before they became tainted! You might've seen this prompt on your Tumblr feed about a thousand times.

not mine!!!!!!! creds go to SoloChaos on archive of our own just another copy of the forest fic make sure you have tissues

An unlikely tale of odd affection and baffling fondness between a pair of outcasts in a ramshackle orphanage comes to be plagued by tragedy when they move away to the green idleness of Scotland. Six years scuttle by, and all that was promised to remain simple is replaced by the ugly misfortune of dirty secrets, traumatic yesterdays and Phil Lester's forbidden feelings for Dan Howell.

Phil Lester is sweet and cute; known for his kindness and enthusiasm. Dan Howell is a tough, cold outsider; known as the school's stereotypical 'bad boy'. But if he's so bad, then why on earth did he rescue Phil Lester and give him a smile which would melt anyone's heart?