have a spare 5 minutes so a quick update

284 Dannys POV

In sleep, I cuddled up to Tom closely, he had had a bad day yesterday at the restaurant, had spent the whole time I had been round crying and apologising for being disgusting. I had said he looked beautiful, but it made no difference, so now I was trying to hold him to tell him that he was beautiful, like I always did. "Danny, Danny you have to wake up!" I suddenly got shaken awake, being pulled away from Tom. "nooooo, go away!" I whined, pulling away and curling back up to Tom. "Danny you HAVE to wake up right now! Seriously, you really need to wake up right now!" Harrys hand, and I recon Dougies too, pulled me literally out of bed. "ow, whats happened now?!" I growled, rubbing my back as it hit the floor.

"Fletch has had his revenge. Look!" Harry showed me a newspaper, I knew we were screwed as soon as I saw the picture of me and Tom. "oh god no! Sh*t what are we going to do?!" I cried out, though still quietly, so Tom didn't wake up, he had been sleeping soundly, in bed, all night, I wasn't going to risk waking him up now. "I don't know, we should tell Tom whats going on though, so he can be prepared for whatever happens." Harry advised, glancing up at the bed.

As if Tom sensed we had been talking about him, he turned over, his arm falling off the bed, his fingers just about skimming my knee. It was like he sensed we were talking about him and that I had left the bed, and he wanted me back. I grabbed his hand, wondering how he would take the news of this. "should we wake him up and tell him?" Dougie asked, chewing on his nails. "no, yesterday was a tough day, and today will make it even worse. So, we better leave him be for a while, before we have to break this calm." I sighed, I didn't want to make Tom panic again, it had taken long enough to get him into bed and calm, it would take possibly longer today. I didn't want to go through this, I didn't want to see how he was going to react to the fact that everyone now knew that we were together. It had taken months for the jokes and the coverage to stop after Harry and Dougie came out, and they did that willingly! We didn't even ask for this, so we weren't prepared for it in any way, what were we going to do?!

Harry and Dougie went off to phone Darren and I waited quietly with Tom, waiting for him to wake up. I thought it was best to let him wake up naturally, so he wasn't already irritated when I told him what was going on. But Darren turned up before he woke up, he looked as panicked as I felt. "why isn't Tom up yet? Doesn't he know now, why haven't you told him?!" Darren almost shouted, Tom whimpered in sleep. "because he had a bad night and I want him to be happy for as long as possible okay? I'll wake him up now alright?!" I signalled with my hand for him to keep his voice down, there was still an innocent boy sleeping in here. Though, the innocence wasn't going to last long now, I wished it would, but I knew that this was not going to end well. "well hurry up! We need to sort out a game plan, what you're going to say about this, damage control a bit." Darren was texting furiously, probably the rest of the management, I couldn't even imagine what they were going to do.

285 Toms POV

"Tommy, Tommy honey, wake up please. We've got some news for you." Dannys voice permeated my dream, breaking apart the image of drinking peanut butter smoothies with The 10th Doctor. "ugh, 5 more minutes." I mumbled, turning over, pulling the duvet over my head. "no, Tommy, I'm so sorry but you have to get up now, its very urgent." Danny sounded like he wanted to cry, what had happened? "whats happened? Why do you sound like you want to cry?" I was hit with 100s of different thoughts all at the same time, sitting up, automatically checking his arms. No sign of cuts, or bandages, just a few scratch marks and overly bitten nails, almost so bitten that they were almost bleeding...oh sh*t.

"I haven't done anything to myself if thats what you think." Danny started, moving to sit down in front of me, picking up my hands. Its something about Harry and Dougie, they're hurt or something. "a-are Harry and Dougie okay? They haven't been hurt have they?" I whimpered, the idea hitting me, what if something had happened to them?! Something hadn't happened to them, had it?! "what? No! They're fine Tommy, they're perfectly fine. Its us I want to talk to you about." Danny shook his head, staring at our hands, he couldn't even look up at me, "I'm so sorry Tommy, but...the papers have found out about us. They know we're together. Fletch has told them, and, he's given them pictures too." Danny explained, shocking me, I froze. Fletch had told everyone that we were together? But, why? What did we do to him? You ruined his career. The monster answered, this was his revenge on me! Because I got him fired! I didn't mean to! I didn't even know what I was doing, and now he was trying to ruin my life, and Dannys at the same time! What would were we going to do?!

"Tommy, talk to me, did you hear me?" Danny snapped his fingers in front of my face, snapping me from my thoughts. "t-they know?" I managed to whimper, wanting to cry. We already got enough bad attention because of me, this was cause even more! I was causing us even more trouble, how could I do this to everyone? "they do, they know about us, they know we're a couple. There's picture evidence too." Danny showed me the newspaper, the middle of the page filled with us kissing each other at a party a few years ago, only a few months after we got together. "we're going to sort it out Tom, don't worry, I'm phoning round everywhere to see if we can get this erased. We'll sort it out." Darren suddenly spoke up, putting a hand on my shoulder. "e-erased?" I asked, unable to take my eyes away from the title of the page 'McGay - sorry ladies, these boys bat for the other team!'

"we'll make everyone forget about this, and make it seem like you're straight again, don't worry." Darren smiled shakily, going off to talk to someone. Even being gay is a disgrace to this band, nice going, can you do anything right? The monster sounded disgusted with me, making sure I knew that I couldn't do anything right and this was all my fault. "Tommy, do you want people to know we're together?" Danny asked, stroking his thumb over my hand. "I-I don't know...should we let them know?" I whispered, biting at my sleeve and my hand, the pain from that distracting me from the situation for a second. "to be honest, I think we should. I want to be able to hug and kiss you properly all the time, not have to watch our backs all day. And not have to say we're joking whenever one of us says we love each other. But, do you want that too? Cause I can go and tell Darren that we want to come out." Danny explained, he had a point. It was tiring being careful all day, not being allowed to hold hands and hug all day. We didn't do it at home anyway, but I remembered it used to be such a chore to try and seem straight, we almost gave up. Should we have come out now?

"w-we should then. We'll come out." I whimpered, scared by the thought, terrified of what everyone was going to say. "alright, I'll go tell Darren. Gunna come with me?" Danny half smiled, pulling on my hand. "n-no, I'm staying here." I needed to think, prepare myself for what everyone was going to say to us now, it had been bad enough the first time round with Harry and Dougie, now it was our turn. I had been dreading this for years, now it was here, what were we going to do? "okay, I'll only be a minute." Danny kissed my forehead and wandered out of the room, leaving me with the monsters laugh and taunts. Telling me that this was a mistake, that we were going to be hated, and it was going to be my fault entirely.