Streaming Love

Description: It was a normal day in the Dan and Phil house, but when Dan went to go live on YouNow, Phil decided that it was finally time to tell Dan something that he had been holding in for much longer then he wanted to. Dan and Phil OOC as well as our OC in later chapters.

CHAPTER ONE

Daniel Howell was sitting in the lounge ready for his liveshow to start. It was five before nine, for once he decided that he would be early so that #danisnotontime wouldn't trend.. again, so he was waiting in the Que for Evan Edinger to finish up.

His Mac was sitting on the table right in front of him when his best friend and roomate, Phil Lester, walked around the corner and into the room. Right away, Dan could tell that something was up with Phil. That worried Dan and no matter his 'promise' to YouNow Dan defiantly put Phil before YouNow anyday.

"Hey Phil. What's wrong?" Dan pushed his Mac away and scooted off to one side of the couch so that Phil would have some room, having just been sitting in the middle.

Phil just stared at Dan for a second before leaning into Dan and kissing him. Dan sat in shock for a second before kissing Phil back. They were kissing when both of their phones started blowing up with messages. They pulled away and saw that they were on YouNow and the comment section was speeding by really fast.

Right away they knew there was a big problem. The phandom was going crazy in chat. Dan's Tumblr, which was open in another tab, showed that the 'Phan' tag was blowing up - yes he did track that tag, they made good artwork.

A single glance down at his phone, Dan saw all his YouTube friends texting him - most telling him that he was live on YouNow.

He looked into Phil's eyes - his beautiful green eyes - and they came to a silent agreement.

Dan quickly closed his laptop, but -as always- he failed and it ended up falling off the table. He was able to close it after he grumbled a curse and then looked at Phil.

"Well," Dan said with a snarky smirk, "The phandom is having a shit storm right now."

Phil looked at Dan, he was used to his sarcastic comments, but he really wished that Dan would be serious this time, "Dan, what are we going to do?"

"Play it off like the Valentines Day video." Dan suggested.

"But I don't want it to be a secret." Phil responded back.

Dan somehow missed the undertone of Phil asking him to be serious without him actually having to say it. "Why CAN'T we just play it off? The valentines video is just a joke now and hidden pretty well from both of us."

Phil sighed and put a hand though his hair. "Dan, can I ask you something?" Phil said, hoping there was no way Dan missed the seriousness in his voice.

"Ask away Phil." Dan said with a smirk, now just torturing Phil, getting that he wanted him to be serious.

Phil sighed, "never mind, forget it." Phil said, stood up, and left the room.

He went to his room, slammed the door shut, and locked the door as he slid down the door into a sitting position with his knees hugged up to his chest. His forehead was resting on his knees, arms wrapped around his knees.

Faintly, Phil could hear Dan calling for him through his door, from the distance of the voice, it sounded as though he was heading this way from the lounge.

"Phil? PHIL!" Dan called. Suddenly, Phil heard Dan attempt to turn his doorknob, which failed.

"Phil? Unlock the door!" Dan said calmly. "Please." He added.

Phil just sat there and leaned his head against the door and closed his eyes.

Dan heard the small hit that was causes by Phil putting his head against the door. "Phil. Can we talk about this?"

"Forget it Dan, I don't want to talk you right now."

Without a second thought, Dan stood his place facing Phil's door. "Phil, I'm not leaving until you talk to me." Dan paused for a second. "You know how bad the Internet is. If we don't face this then things are just going to get worse."

"Dan! How is there ever going to be an US if you are never serious?" Phil finally broke down and yelled through the door.

Dan sighed, and knowing Phil wasn't going to open the door, he sat down and leaned against the other side and leaned his head against the door.

"Phil..." Dan sighed quietly. He really didn't know what to say to that and his phone began to go off again.

Without knowing what to say to Phil, Dan pulled out his phone and started to search through the text messages that he had been getting.

The first thing that he saw, though, was a notice that there was a tweet from Tyler Oakley. Dan really didn't want to, but he had to laugh at those tweets.

danisnotonfire amazingphil I didn't know you were thirsty! You've come over and you never told me that you were thirsty! I've been available! ;)

Phil got mad and stood up hitting the door as he got up. He stood in the middle of the room and put his hands through his hair. He was shaking and just wanted to cry.

Dan jumped up and away at the sound - and vibration - of the door when Phil hit it. "Phil?" There was a small moaning noise coming from Phil's room, making Dan nervous. "Phil are you okay?" It took Dan a moment of hearing Phil making that terrible sound to realize why he was acting like that. Phil had just been telling Dan that there was no way that they could be together if he kept up his sarcastic-literally-never-serious self, then he proceeded to start laughing.

Head palming the door, Dan realized that that was a stupid idea, but as was laughing when Phil wanted him to be serious. "Bloody hell! That literally hurt!"

Phil scoffed and took his position back up in front of the door, facing it.

"I think I need to go to A & E." Dan moaned, holding his head. He sat back down, having heard Phil scoff at his stupidity. "We need to talk about this Phil. Will you come out?"

"No." Phil said and sniffed, gently leaning his head against the door.

"Well, then can we talk through the door if you don't want to come out?" Dan paused for a second, trying to fight it, but couldn't. "Since you don't want to see my bloody face." Dan just couldn't hold in that second remark.

"Can we?" Then he heard Dan's second remark and sighed and put a hand though his hair.

"The valentines day video." Dan said quietly, putting his back to the door and leaning his head against it. "Was that - was that true. To some extent at least?"

Phil was quiet for a while and he accidentally hit the door as he turned so his back and head were leaning against it. "Yeah..." He said so quietly that Dan almost didn't hear him.

"Phil..." Dan said sadly, "I didn't know that. I thought - literally thought - that that was a joke."

Phil nodded, and then remembering that Dan couldn't see him he said, "Yes, I know."

"Why did you never say anything?" Dan asked Phil, "Ever. The video was ages ago."

"I guess I was scared to... I wanted to see how you would react and see if you got it, even though I didn't think you would." He sighed at his wording. "I was scared of how you would react, if you would think of me differently if you didn't feel the same way. I didn't say anymore because I think I was fine with being just friends. I wanted to spend my life with you, friends or more, didn't matter. I think lately I just really wanted to be something more..." He hugged his knees to his chest.

Suddenly, Dan realized what the look on Phil's face had been when he had come into the lounge. He was prepping himself for finally doing something after all this time, which defiantly didn't end the way that he wanted it to. "I hope that you noticed that I wasn't reluctant."

Phil was silent for a moment. "I-I guess the sarcasm and YouNow distracted me from that..." he said quietly and looked down.

Dan smiled slightly, "Well, my sarcasm is pretty sexy, isn't?"

Phil couldn't help himself and laughed at Dan's reply."Yeah, sure, that's why." He rolled his eyes.

Biting his lip, Dan reached up for the doorknob and gently put his hand on it, but didn't attempt to turn it, "Do you want to come out now and talk about where we are going to go from here? The shitstorm is happening as we speak."

Phil sighed, unlocked the door and slowly moved to the side so he was by the wall instead.

Dan smiled as he stood up, opened the door and walked to Phil, "The two choices still stand, Phil. We could just play it off like it was just a joke, or we could say something to the Phandom. I can stand either one of them." Dan sighed, "We just have to know if we say anything, we will end up getting hate, more hate then we've had before."

Phil nodded and hugged his legs, "I know. I want to be with you Dan, but would it be fair to keep this away from our fans?" he paused and looked up into Dan's eyes. "I don't like hate but I don't want to hide either..." he sighed and leaned his forehead on his knees.

"I know what you mean, Phil." Dan nodded, he sighed and shook his head, moving so that he was right next to Phil. Dan stayed silent for a moment, thinking over the two options that they had, Phil doing the same. "We could tell them. 99 percent of the fans will be behind us, and that one percent... well, we will have each other. What do you think Phil?"

Phil nodded and leaned his head on Dan's shoulder. "I like that..." he said quietly.

"We are going to have to go and tell them soon." Dan said softly, he handed Phil his phone. "People - Tyler Oakley, mostly - are already pumping up people on Twitter." Dan had mentions showing that 'Phan' was trending worldwide, he chuckled, "I'm expecting Phangirls to come knocking down our front door soon."

Phil slightly smiled," how are we going to tell them?" he said and looked at at all of Tyler's tweets and sighed.

"New video? Tumblr post? Twitter post? YouNow? Radio Show?" Dan listed off all of the ways that they have in order to get to their fans. "Facebook? Vine? Instagram? Pintrest? Myspace?" He winked at Phil, "We have unlimited choices."

Phil smiled at the myspace suggestion, "I think either a video or tumblr post would be best... What do you think?"

"Valentines Day Video Part Two." Dan told Phil, "Only this time it is truly mutual, and we both know it. It will spread around all the other social medias quickly enough."

Phil nodded in agreement.

Phil handed Dan his phone back and Dan went onto Twitter, 'New Video will be up in a few hours (feat. amazingphil)' "I think that everyone will understand what that means." Dan told Phil, "That way they can back down, even though a 'few hours' to me is about a day to anyone else." He smiled, "We can have some free time, for now at least."