xxPUDDxx - haha! i try to make everybody have an equal amount of POV's each, so they'll be a lot more Harry to come! and i have a rule, everything ends happily one way or other in all of my fics, so, probably!
FLOYNTERxxx - hmmm we'll have to wait and see!
323 Dougies POV
The door bell ringing broke us out of our moment, I had loved it, being able to hug in a big group, being close for once. In some ways, I wished the bell hadn't rung so we could carry on being close, but I knew we had to sort out the outside world too, before things got out of hand and people did actually believe that Tom and Danny were on the rocks and Tom was ill. He may have been ill, but it probably would make him worse if people knew that he was ill, because then we would be questioned about it, and they could say the wrong thing and make Tom even worse. He just about managed to eat and talk right now, we couldn't make him worse when we knew a way to prevent it, could we?
"I'll go get that." Tom sighed as the door bell rang again, pulling himself out of our hold, dragging his feet as he wandered out to the door. "we better go follow him." Danny let go too, wandering along behind. We followed suit to find Tommy walking through the front door, who was reading out a list of things we were doing today. "basically, we're just doing three interviews today, one radio, two televised. And we're just going by what the press release said." Tommy finished off, leading us out to the minivan. "what does the press release say though?" Harry asked, we hadn't even been told what it said yet. "that Tom did used to have an eating problem, but it has not come back and he is completely fine. And you are both fine, nothing is going wrong with your relationship. But I've been told to tell you to specifically not say anorexia, or the names of any other disorder. Not to mention self harm, or say anything other than you're fine and you love each other." Tommy explained, driving us to the radio station, filling us in on everything that had been said with the press release. Basically what had been said was that yes Tom had had a problem a few years ago, but had gotten over it, and him and Danny were perfectly happy together, the runaway hadn't effected their relationship. Now, if anyone actually believed that, was another matter entirely.
Arriving at the radio station, it was surprisingly quiet, you'd think after two major stories about us would caused a media circus to follow us. But, it looked like there wasn't going to be one, for that I was glad. People sticking cameras in our faces and following us around would not help Tom in anyway, he hadn't been put through anything like that in a while, since he came back, none of us wanted him to be put through that now after that recent article. It didn't stop us running into the building though, just in case.
"welcome! Follow me, you're on in about 5 minutes." A small man led us through hallways, chattering excitedly about...something, I wasn't paying attention. I was looking at Tom instead, how he kept his head down, letting Danny lead him with his hand on his hip, chewing on his sleeve again. We were led to a studio, where the host was playing a random song, another generic one that sounded exactly like everything else in the charts these days. He welcomed us as we sat down, mentally preparing ourselves for the awful questions, the prying into our relationships and Toms deep problems inside his head.
"welcome back to radio one, I've been joined by McFLY to talk about this latest news that has come out. It seems like you're full of surprises recently!" the presenter started cheerily, thankfully not armed with the magazine with the first article in, just a newspaper with our statement in. "yeah, not intentionally though." Harry managed to force a smile, squeezing mine and Dannys hand. "ah well, shall we get started? How about you tell us the truth about this whole thing about Tom?" the presenter started, giving Tom a fascinated wide eyes look. "well, to start off with, we're not fighting, or arguing, or anything like that. We are still as in love with each other as we've always been." Danny started, running his fingers over Toms side, who just started playing with his fingers. "are you sure? Cause from what we've heard, you guys are having some problems, because of Tom running away, you can't say that that didn't cause at least some sort of problem for you two, or all four of you?" the presenter pushed, Tom let out an almost inaudible whimper.
"well, it did at the beginning, but, we worked things out, and we are fine again now. There's nothing wrong with us anymore. We're worked it out and have put it all behind us!" Danny admitted, already looking panicked, glancing between the host and Tom, trying to gauge what this conversation was doing to the blonde. So far, he just looked guilty, and nervous. "ah so you're telling us that having Tom run away hasn't left some grudges or anything?" did this guy have to keep on about this? We were NOT holding grudges against Tom! We did not think anything bad about him!
Dannys arms tightened around Toms torso, bringing him closer to himself, rubbing his side gently, his protective side was coming out. "we love Tom, no matter what he does. Nothing will change that, ever." Danny almost growled, his face almost in a glare. "we do, we love Tom, no matter what. We've forgiven him and forgotten about it." Harry joined in, his arm sliding around mine and Dannys waists, telling the Boltoner to calm down a little.
324 Dannys POV
I already hated this interview, why did this host have to try and make it seem like there was some sort of grudge that we had against Tom when we didn't?! I held no grudges against Tom, none of us did, he wasn't in his right mind when he ran away, and he wasn't still in his right mind at the moment, but I was sure we were getting somewhere! We were getting somewhere, I was sure, he was getting better, right? Why couldn't the media just leave Tom alone, and leave our relationships alone? Tom was so easily influenced, at this rate they would actually get Tom believing the things they were saying, and I didn't want us to break up, we couldn't break up, he was my whole world, I didn't want him to leave me for something as stupid as the media making up rubbish again.
"okay, erm, what about this previous trouble? The things we've heard about what happened a few years ago, something about an eating disorder or something?" the host backed up a bit, looking nervous, before going straight back to full on with horrible questions. "no, there was not an eating disorder, there was just..." now I was lost, I think we all were, what did we say to that? What could we say to that? "there was just what? Tom, would you like to elaborate? You haven't said anything yet!" the host turned to Tom, almost staring at the poor guy, who was growing more and more uneasy as time went on. I could feel the nerves radiating from Tom, the poor guy was shaking, his head looking at the floor like that would help hide him from being asked questions.
As soon as the question was asked, Tom went rigid, the panic we were feeling starting to transfer to him now. "er, it just...happened." Tom shrugged, making the effort to look up a bit, though still using a tiny voice. "really? And how do you feel about the pictures that have been used in the first article? Detailing what was going on at the time." The host carried on, his eyes boring into Tom. I pulled Tom closer, letting him know that I was there too, that he didn't need to worry, I was going to back him up when he needed it. "they're just pictures...they don't matter much." Tom didn't sound confident of his answer, but it was probably the best we were going to get. I was proud of Tom though, for trying, and managing, to actually answer. I hadn't have thought he would have, so I was quite proud of todays achievements so far.
"are you sure they don't matter to you?" the host pried again, could he just shut up now?! We had answered him, there was no point in being persistent like this. "no, they don't matter to us, they're just pictures, like Tom said." Harry backed my boyfriend up, as he deflated. Tom looked down again, pulling his long fringe over his eyes, those pictures did matter to him, even though he hadn't seen them yet. Maybe it would be better if we did show them to him, then he would know what had been said, so he wasn't guess working his answers.
"alright, well, we've run out of time here, it was nice talking to you McFLY." The host wrapped cut to another song, One Last Kiss - Madina Lake. We didn't say goodbye to the host or anything, just hurried out of there, before anything else could be said, I didn't want Tom to hear any more critism than he had to endure right now. I mean, showing him the pictures and going through these interviews were going to be enough to worry him, but, I didn't want him to hear anything more than necessary. Tom was already fragile enough, I wasn't going to let him be exposed to something that could shatter him.