Phan Fluff One-Shots

the theory of colour

By: commonemergency on ao3

Word count: 5,918

Summary: Dan has always seen in black and white, he's always been told that once you find your soulmate you'll see in colour. Though he's never really sure if he's believed in it, regardless of what people had said it's just a theory to him. Though one night at a house party he meets Phil Lester and it changes everything. This is a story of the theory of colour, and falling in love for the first time.
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They say it only happens once in your lifetime, and sometimes it doesn't ever happen at all. No one knows how it came to be, if it's always been like this, or if it just happened. Where the world is black and white to few- it's not to others who have found "the one", to many it's a joke, to others it's a beautiful thing. This is called the theory of colour.

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It starts at a house party. Dan liked going to them because it was something to do, instead of staying in his dorm room with people he was too scared to talk too. Although going to a house party wasn't anything really better -- at least there'd be free alcohol to drink and that was the only saving grace that he could really think of at the moment as he walked with one of his friends that he didn't mind that much. They were quiet and they got along great, they didn't need a lot of words to say and their connection was fairly strong. Dan could count on his hand the amount of friends that he had at university, but he mostly studied a lot, never really realizing until he got here how hard studying law had to be.

They had to take a train to this particular house party, they only got invited because their other friend didn't want to go alone yet by the time Dan and Jake finished getting ready he had already left. Dan wanted to say something to the other but he didn't know what to say, it wasn't an awkward silence just a silence. Dan had taken the flask he carried in his pocket out and took a drink for pre-party as they traveled thirty minutes out, it was ten o'clock at night and already they couldn't see very well. Not many traveled out this late but rules were meant to be bent and he figured that they were adults in college now although they didn't really feel like it. In a world designed for people like them there were always precautions, most couldn't see entirely well unless they were one of the people who actually saw in colour, but people Dan's age hardly ever did until their late twenties.

"It's fucking cold out," his friend had muttered, zipping up his jacket in case the rain decided to come, the clouds had been tempting it all day but it hadn't happened yet. Dan looked up at the black sky and nodded his head. "Yeah, totally," he added, seeing glimpses of the stars though they weren't as remarkable as what he read in books they were just there, existing like he was.

"We should have brought flashlights or something because I keep tripping- even on the tiniest of rocks," Dan laughed lightly, but he mostly said it to keep a conversation going because most of the time Dan wanted to talk he just didn't know how to make appropriate conversation with people. It wasn't that it was particularly hard, just took a lot of energy out of him, in a way it was like college had sucked a good portion out of the boy because it was a lot of work and by the time he finished studying for the night his roommates were already out at parties and he was stubborn and liked to do things himself instead of going to study groups or even talking just to one person about things he didn't understand. But Jake was someone that he met on his first day and they stuck by each other but they weren't that good of friends, they enjoyed each other's company at parties and Dan had felt like he was his closest friend at the moment and that was a bit sad because he didn't even know the boy's last name or anything important.

"I was going to say we have our phones for lights but they don't help as much," Jake agreed, taking his phone out but he was right -- it didn't help.