Despite me running around like a chicken without a head these days, I managed to write this little thing for you, Bill :)
Title: Dawn
Pairing: You'll see ;)
Rating: PG-13
Language: English
Disclaimer: It's only fiction. Never happened and probably never will.
Summary: Two couples, two ways of love...
A/N: Happy Birthday
drbillbongo! Ich wünsch dir alles, alles Gute! *knuddel*
The bright light of the laptop’s screen made Daniel’s face glow in the darkness of the room which lay in complete silence except for the slight snoring coming from his sleeping lover. Daniel wished he could accompany him in the land of dreams, but it was just another night which yet again held no sleep for him - something he had gotten used to during the last months.
Instead of turning from one side to the other he had picked up the habit of surfing the internet at these ungodly hours. Opening the all too familiar site and logging into his account, Daniel couldn’t help his grin anymore, knowing very well what his lover would think if he knew that besides having the real thing he also very much enjoyed reading stories some probably not so crazy fans wrote about them.
As soon as his friends’ page opened, he started to scan the entries he had missed during the day. Skipping the ones he wasn’t interested in, he smiled when he saw that this one girl had posted new pictures of their training from last week.
Of course there were hundreds of photos out there of him and his team mates, but he still loved these entries even when it was just for the hilarious comments at the bottom of the page. It was just too funny when they were speculating about Toni’s and Jan’s love life. If only they knew…
After leaving a short comment himself, Daniel returned to his friends’ page, scrolling further down, when suddenly the headline of another entry caught his attention.
OMG They officially came out!
“What the…?”
For a short moment Daniel’s heart missed a beat, remembering the pairings this person liked, him and his lover being one of them. He tried to come up with something that might have happened even though they were always as careful as possible, until he noticed that the person wasn’t talking about football this time, but about this British band called McFly.
Daniel didn’t know much about them, just what he had read in this journal. Those guys didn’t seem to mind to openly display their affection for each other. Just from seeing a few pictures and videos he had actually guessed that two of them indeed hid deeper meanings behind their actions than they officially claimed. And now it seemed as if he hadn’t been that wrong after all - probably one of these ‘takes one to know one’ things.
A slightly bitter grin crept on Daniel’s face when he read the entry, which mostly consisted of OMGs, squees and ‘I told you so’s. He couldn’t help himself, but think about the reactions if one day he would tell the world that the love of his life did indeed have long hair, but wasn’t girly at all. There might be some happy voices, but on the other hand he could be glad if he left the house in the morning and all the tires on his car would still be intact.
Trying to shake away the thoughts of all the insults he and his lover would have to face, which literally made him shudder, he clicked on the link provided at the end of the entry. It led him to a British news page, displaying a picture of the happy couple right at its top.
Daniel sighed, not being able to look away when he saw the two young men, one having his arms around the other, both looking at each other with so much love in their eyes that nobody actually needed the description underneath stating “Yes, Dougie and me are a couple… and it’s definitely no joke this time.” Harry Judd (22) revealed on the red carpet at the Brit awards.
Obviously they had been caught by a room maid who couldn’t keep her mouth shut in their hotel room during their last tour. More or less forced and finally fed up with pretending they decided to come out, knowing that most of their fans would support them anyway.
Reading through the article, Daniel didn’t even notice that he had started hugging himself, trying to chase away the shiver in his body. If only it would be so easy for them as well…
Of course he was happy for those guys, but he couldn’t deny that he was also jealous. They could now walk around the street, holding hands, kissing in front of everybody while he was forced to hide away, to stare at his lover longingly from a distance, to keep himself under control everywhere they went, only being able to love within these walls.
After casting one last look at the happy couple, Daniel shut down his laptop, his face once again shrouded in darkness. He didn’t know how long he just kept on sitting there, staring at the wall, actually seeing nothing.
Finally after what could have been seconds or hours - he couldn’t tell - he got up and went over to his bed. As soon as he had lain down again, two arms wrapped themselves around him, a head being placed on his chest.
Despite everything that had occupied his mind earlier, Daniel started to smile while he gently stroked his lover’s face. “One day, Micho… one day…”