Dan pulls the covers off his bed and walks over to join Phil, still holding the huge knife, to look over the footage they just filmed.
They squeeze in tight together so they can both gaze at the tiny screen, and Phil tries not to pay attention to the amazing way Dan's hair smells as it graces past his nose. Little does he know Dan is also trying vary hard to focus on the footage- he feels rather uncomfortable being so close to Phil and feeling his body heat, not uncomfortable in a bad way, but more in the way that he is beginning to get hard, and because he is wearing only his Onyx boxer shorts as pants there would be no way he could hide it.
He decided this was a really really bad idea, so ran back across the room and sprang into bed, answering Phil's questioning glance with the simple reply of 'It was cold out there!'. Phil had felt rather warm but he supposed it was fair enough and turned to leave again when Dan calling out his name made him pause.
"Yes Dan?"
Dan looked up a his best friends brilliant blue eyes, trying to find a way to say how he felt without making things awkward or do anything bad to their everlasting friendship.
"Did you.. are you going to explain why I am actually locking my door to your viewers?"
Phil smiles at him, his beautiful, blissful smile and Dan can't believe he ever worried
"I'll stick with it's just so I don't kill you, yeah? Come on Dan! That's why we filmed me coming in with the knife!"
Dan laughs along, because Phil is right, and there is really no story to tell. His friend's carefree joy takes away all his fears, but he doesn't get out of bed because his boner has unfortunately not gone anywhere and he doesn't want to make Phil feel awkward now that everything is back to normal.
He lies down and pretends to start browsing the Sherlock tag on his tumblr, and if Phil is upset at the abrupt ending to their conversation, he doesn't show it, whistling as he leaves the room, closing the door behind him.
Phil snaps shut the screen with a sigh and sinks back into his pillow, reaching for the nearest plush toy to hold tight. He can't believe any of this happened- not that anything happened! It's just..
He and Phil have been friends for so long. And yes, there are moments when he wonders how it would be possible for him to find a girlfriend who would bring as much life, joy and love into his life as his witty, brilliant, ridiculous best friend does, but bromance is forever he thinks, snuggling further into the pillows, and god knows this is just a strange situation that arises when good friends live together and hang out a lot, get to know each other really well and don't have girlfriends.
He grins, of course Phil isn't going to say the real reason they are locking his door at night now. God knows the internet world already had enough speculation and rumours about them without them making it even worse than they already do with joint videos and living together.. The balcony was a logical step as soon as the first incident of sleepwalking happened, but it wasn't till a few days later that Dan's door was also part of the bedtime locking party, and for good reason too.. Oh if only they knew the real reason…