Okay, so yeah! Two chapters in one weekend. What is this? I don't know, but I'm not going to lie... I kind of like it. Fluffiness and cuteness and feels and everything in this chapter. Woo! Feels! This will probably be just a fluff filler. Enjoy!

Chapter 23

Danny's POV

Everything felt off mow that Tom wasn't around to be with me, to joke with me, to cuddle with me. It was like a chunk of my life was missing. I didn't like it. Not at all. I sat against the trunk of a tree and quickly dozed off to sleep. I began having a great dream.

I was sitting at the foot of the tree where I fell asleep, but I wasn't asleep. I lifted my head to find Tom running to me with open arms. Everything was moving in slow motion. I waited for him to reach me and when he did, I felt his warm and welcoming embrace, his arms around my waist, holding me tight against him as if he hadn't seen me in years.

To be honest, missing him for 6 days was like 20 years for me. I couldn't even imagine what it was like for him. He so much more sensitive and fragile than I am, and I felt like I could breakdown and just die without him for this long.

Then the dream began to turn sour. I saw Tom's face and he had a look of panic and desperation written all over.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

He pointed behind me. I turned quickly to find the monster that killed him. Tom gasped and took my hand. I held on as tight as I could to him. The monster ran past me and Tom, but it snatched him up with its tail. Once again in slow motion, Tom's hand just slipped slightly from my grip and he was pulled away. I collapsed as I saw the pleading look on his face as he was taken from me, his hand reached out for me to come get him. But I didn't. I just sat on my knees and cried.

I woke up crying and couldn't help but to think about how this whole mess we were in was my fault. I let Tom get taken away. I was too busy being weak and selfish and I let him slip away. I was the reason it got him and killed him. I was the reason that it killed him. I killed him. I began sobbing into my hands, but then I realized there were a pair of arms snaked around my waist, connecting at my left side. I followed the arms back to their source to find Tom sleeping, his head rested along my stomach.

"Tom?" I mumbled, not sure if it was still a dream, if I was hallucinating, or if he really was there.

He shuffled a bit in his slumber, moving his head up against my chest.

I pinched my arm. This obviously wasn't a dream. I poked Tom's wrist. He was real. This obviously wasn't a hallucination. Once I narrowed it down to the only explanation, I put my arms around him and pulled him as close to me as physically possible.

"Tom!" I yelled out, my voice echoing through the forest. He began to wake up, his eyes slowly opening to look into my own.

"Hi there Dan," he smiled at me.

At that point, I was overcome by all my joyful feelings that I just quickly pulled him into a passionate kiss I had been longing to share with him for the near whole week he was gone.

At that exact moment, so many different things raced through my mind. How much I missed him, how much I needed him, how much I wanted him, how much I longed for his presence, how much I loved him, and... how I wanted to be with Tom and only Tom for the rest of my life. Nobody else could satisfy me like he could and he was the only one I could ever want.

"I missed you," I smiled at him.

"I missed you too," he grinned back.

"I will never let you go again. I promise," I assured him.

"I will never let you go either. Ever," he replied.

"I want to be with you forever," I confessed to him.

His eyes sparkled and I could tell he was touched by my words. "I feel the same way about you," he squeaked out, his voice cracking from trying to hold back tears of glee.

And at the same time, we both looked into each others eyes and with so much synchronicity, we both said at the same time, "I love you."

Fluff, fluff, and more fluff. Hmm... I'm maybe seeing a certain "w" word coming up? Yes or no? And if I killed any of you from Flones fluff, I am entirely sorry. Until next chapter... :D XX -Sam!