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   If You Don't Love Me, Pretend by phantasticworks (steddieworks)

   Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   16 Jul 2021

   Tags

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   • Dan Howell/Phil Lester
   • Dan Howell & Phil Lester
   • Dan Howell
   • Phil Lester
   • Louise Pentland
   • Hazel Hayes
   • PJ Liguori
   • Chris Kendall
   • Original Characters
   • Sophie Newton
   • Martyn Lester
   • Cornelia Dahlgren
   • Fluff
   • Angst
   • Mild Hurt/Comfort
   • Foster Care
   • School Counselor!Dan
   • BBC Producer!Phil
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Fake/Pretend Relationship
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Sharing Clothes
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Parenthood
   • Eventual Smut
   • Alcohol
   • mild smut in Chapter 22!!!
   • explicit smut in chapter 23!!!
   • blowjobs!! the real deal!
   • explicit smut in chapter 24!!!
   • read at your own risk but it is marked

   Summary

   All his life, Dan has wanted to have the chance to be a parent someday. He would be the best parent that ever existed, he was sure of it. Fostering might not be the most traditional way on the road to parenting, but Dan's dead set on doing it anyway. But, well, it would be easier with a co-parent, right?

   the bed-sharing, fake relationship, friends-to-lovers, parent fic i was desperate to read; when i shouted into the void and was met with silence, i decided i'd do it myself

   title from Drop in the Ocean by Ron Pope

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   • Part 1 of iydlmp verse

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