The closer it got to the official rehearsals, the more dan was seeing less of Phil. He had so much work, so much promotional stuff. Photoshoots with the uk cast, and there is even word of a uk cast recording. But its starting to get to him. When he got home some nights, Phil was already asleep, and would be gone before he wakes up.

Even on his first day of running through the show in full costume.

"hey dan, you alright?" Claire, the girl playing Zoe asks, dan spins around and sees her

"o-oh yeah. I'm fine, don't worry" dan smiles re assuringly. They had an hour to kill so dan stayed in his dressing room.

Dan: Hows work?


Dan: did you want to go out to dinner tonight? I'm off around 4, if you're up for it?



Dan: tell me when you can

Dan slams his phone down and holds his head in his hands, griping at his hair. He's not okay. He looks up at himself in the mirror, seeing him in his costume. His eyes start watering the more he looks deeper and deeper, because the more he does

The more he sees of his old self

A lying, Anxious, Depressed, Abused teenager starts looking at him dead in the eye, teen dan was in the reflection.

"do you want this dan?" It asks him. Dan feels sick, he feels so utterly sick. Suddenly he's drawn out of his crisis hearing they were starting. He wipes his eyes, makes himself look like he isn't having a mental breakdown and walks out to the curtain. Today he's performing in front of directors

"alright you're good, head on out" the mic manager says as he checks dans hair mic. He walks out to the middle of the stage with his props and gets ready, and the music starts playing

"Dear, Evan, Hansen.. today is going to be an amazing day, and heres why! Because, because today, um.. all you have to do, is just be yourself" dan starts, trying to breathe and calm down.

Once they finished the whole show, the director says they're ready, the show is starting in a week.

great...

As dan heads back to his room, he gets a horrible gut feeling. He hasn't felt that in a long time, the last time he felt it this bad was with pj... dan thinks about it, and wonders if its Phil?

He quickly rushes into his room and picks his phone, seeing a text from Phil, well a photo and a text...

Phil: he's a little busy right now, dan :)

The image is of Phil, laying asleep in bed next to-

Dans eyes start watering again but he's filled with fire, angry fire, he doesn't believe Phil would have cheated on him, especially not with, James.. this is a set up. It has to be.

"d-dan? Hey honey why are you crying?" Winona, the lovely woman playing Hedi, comes into dans room and crouching next to him.

"you know my understudy, James?.." Dan asks


"Yeah honey I know, what happened?"

"l-look" dan shows her his phone, she's dead silent, she holds dan tightly in his arm and dan sighs

"oh honey i'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry" she whispers, rubbing dans back.

"i can't believe this.. I can't.. Phil wouldn't go do this? Surely its sabotage, r-right?" Dan asks

"i've seen how James has been treating you.. he needs to be reported. I'll go tell Joe, alright honey?" Winona asks, dan nods. She stands up and walks out of the room and down the hall to the directors room. Dan closes his Door quietly and sits back on his couch, trying to compose himself. He looks down at his engagement ring,

"i'm sure he didn't.. he wouldn't.. he put the ring on my finger.." Dan says so himself. Suddenly his phone starts ringing. He picks it up and see the caller id

'Philly~ Work Phone' dan picks it up

"Hey how was to-"



"wheres your phone?" Dan asks suddenly,

"oh! Did you find it?"



"f-find it? No? What did you loose it?"



"yeah I think someone stole it from me this morning when I was at Starbucks. How do you know that it was gone?"



"i think James has it.."

"what? Why the fuck would James have my phone?" Phil asks

"are you leaving work soon? I need to show you something"



"yeah I just had a 2 hour then a 3 hour meeting right after, I'm over work. I'll see you back at home. I love you"



"i-i love you too, Phil" dan says, handing up. He collects his stuff and heads out for the day, his cast is off so he doesn't have to get it off. Dan heads to the taxi rink next to the theatre and gets in a cab back home quickly.

The drive was quite fast, traffic wasn't bad for once. once he arrives, he pays the driver and heads to the door.

"i told you to stay away from him" dan freezes, his heart stops. He slowly turns around to see the angry eyes...

..those angry eyes that hurt him..

"And look what that faggot did to you, he's broken your heart" she spits at dan. Dan feels like he might pass out

"you're supposed to be in jail.." Dan says shocked

"the thing is Daniel, you can get out early on good behaviour. So now I'm here" she smiles at him in an evil way. Dan runs for the door, unlocking it and closing it behind him. He quickly presses the elevator button multiple until it opens, and inside is Phil in his work clothes, dan gets in quickly and presses the close button.

"hey are you okay? You look really pale" Phil asks, holding dan

"m-m-my mum w-was just outs-side.." Dan says quietly. He starts putting the pieces together in his head...

"she was what?! Dan, did she hurt you?"

"n-no.. b-but I've realised something" dan says. They get out of the elevator and unlock their door, dan runs into the study, pulling open a notebook

"w-what did you realise?" Phil asks, following him quickly

"theres a timeline, I see it now.." Dan says, he writes 'Auntie' at the top of the page with an arrow pointing down to say 'James', then an arrow to 'auntie / Mum', then 'James' again.

"i-i told auntie about mum being in jail... she must have seen her in jail and told her about everything.. including our address, that why she knew where to go... and James would do anything to get me off the show.. he knows my weakness.. my mum.. if he and her were to work together they could easily make me break under pressure, or over a breakup.. so one of them must've stolen your phone.. but I'm not sure how they did the photo.." Dan explains

"photo? Theres a photo? I don't know what you're talking about right now" Phil asks, dan hand him his phone and opens the messages.

"What the fuck?! what a wanker!" phil yells, he looks at it closer

"h-hey Dan, this is a photo from your Instagram, I recognise it.. and not to mention, the file is from photoshop.. its been edited dan, it's 100% fake" Phil shows him the file name ending with '.psd'

"so they must have edited the photo, sent it to me.. that'll also explain why mum knew about what you supposedly did.."

"dan, please listen to me for a second.. did you believe that photo?" He asks.

"i hoped you didn't do it, I was hoping, it wasn't like you to sleep around.."

"Dan, just always remember that I put that ring on you finger and that you mean the literal world to me. I'd never hurt you like that.. I love you.." Phil holds dans hands. Dan sighs in relief.

"i love you too" Dan similes softly. Phil gives him a soft kiss on the lips,

"so. what are we going to do about James, your mum and your auntie?" Phil asks,

"we'll do what we do best...

we'll act"  

oooo shiiiiitttt