"If I say I love you will you shut up."
"Yes."
"I love you, nerd." I say giving him a kiss on the cheek, before we continue walking.
"QUEERS." I hear from the other side of the street.
As soon as Dan hears that word his shoulders slump, and I can tell his happy mood is now gone.
I roll my eyes at the man who yelled. You can't really do much but ignore the person and move on. But it still makes me worried about Dan.
"Dan are you alright?" I ask, concerned.
"Yeah I'm okay. Not much I can do about it." He says. Just by hearing his voice you can tell he's not as happy. Why do people have to be so idiotic?
"Hey, don't even think about him, alright?" I say in attempt of trying to cheer him up. "Focus on me okay? Ignore him. Someone like that isn't worth your time."
Dan nods but I can tell his mood only shifts in the slightest. I guess I forgot how much this kind of thing bothered him. Dan always got bullied for his sexuality and it really stuck with him. At school and at home.
He didn't come out to his family until a year after we started dating. Making sure he found the right guy and all that. But when he did his parents didn't take it too well.
They would always verbally abuse him and it took years for them to calm down about it. And it was only until he died is when his family finally accepted him and realized how stupid they were being.
It took a real toll on our relationship. Dan had to move in with me a couple months later because the verbal and emotional abuse from his family was getting to be too much, but he never was the same. He would distance himself from me, probably afraid he'd get punished again.
Getting bullied at school is one thing, but getting bullied by the people who were supposed to love and care about you was a whole other thing.
It took about a year and a half for Dan go get comfortable in our relationship again. And everything was good with him, well, until the whole death incident at least.
"You know what?" I ask him. Dan hums in response. "Let's go take your mind off of this."
"How do you plan to do that?" Dan asks.
"Well first, Christmas Drinks. Obviously. Then we can go see that new star wars movie together. That way we can go be nerds together- and you can even be the hot nerd if that makes you feel any better." I add to the end.
As we approach the Starbucks Dan stops in his tracks. "Star Wars made another movie recently?" He asks, confusion spread all over his face.
Should I have said that? Did I mess something up? How do 11:11 wishes work?
"Uh yeah there's been like, promotion for it for like a month." I say hesitantly.
Dan's eyebrows furrow together even more and he looks at the ground. "No, I would have heard about it. They haven't released another Star Wars movie since 2005 I think." He says, looking back up to me.
"Wait.." I say, trying to connect all of the pieces in my head.
"Dan. What's today?" I ask, slowly getting close to him.
"Monday, why?"
"No Dan. The date. What's the date."
"December 13... 2015. Phil are you alright?" Dan asks me, a very confused look on his face. It kind of seems like he's worried.
Oh my God. I think I just went 5 years into the past.
"Dan!" I laugh. "Oh my God Dan! I can't believe it!" I hug him out of happiness and surprise.
"I don't understand what's happening." He says. "What don't you believe?" Dan takes a step back from me so he can look at me.
"There's only one reasonable explanation for this." I say. "I'm a time lord." I whisper quietly.
"You're a what?" Dan asks, now forming a smile on his face.
"I'm a time lord, Dan." I say a bit louder.
Dan laughs really hard and he wraps an arm around me. "Yeah, okay Phil. I'm sure you are. Let's go get some Starbucks, Doctor."
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I'M BACK.
Hope you enjoyed that little fill-in chapter. It was a bit cringey but whatever. I just needed something to write this so I could get back into writing this story. Which I will be updating more often now. I'm trying to force myself to start writing again, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't have enough energy sometimes. So I promise that now that I'm getting back into writing, these chapters will be better.
Anyways thanks for reading, bye x
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