Dan's POV

"SkyKitty24 commented..." Phil's voice falters slightly, going silent. He's been trying to tell me loads of his comments. I don't believe any of them. If they saw me in real life, they wouldn't say this to me. "What? What did 'SkyKitty24' say?" I raise my voice, dripping with venom towards his efforts. "She...she said..." He sighs, looking away while handing me the phone. I read through it quickly and then run out of the room, sliding down the wall in the hallway. She had said,'Why did you get that thing? You aren't prepared for this obviously. It doesn't even treat you with respect. If it's always like this, your pet needs to be put down.'

Her words flash like bullets through my brain. I don't know why I'm so upset, she is obviously the only person who speaks the truth. "I'm gonna give you a minute to yourself, Dan." He called from behind the door, which seems so far away now. My mind drifts and then suddenly I know what to do. She told the truth. I don't deserve to live. I don't deserve anything. Filled with rage at myself suddenly, I run into the kitchen. I scan the surfaces with my eyes, settling on a rack of knives. I seize one, about to do it when I hear Phil's door open. "Okay, I'm coming out now!" Scared, I freeze, the knife slipping from my hand. As Phil appears in the doorway, I scrabble to pick it up in time.

Phil's POV

"Dan, no!" I shout as he managed to regain his grip on the knife. As he doesn't stop, I dive at him, knocking the knife across the room. Dan turns to me suddenly, angry tears in his eyes. "You ruined everything! I could have made the world better off! I need to die! She said! I don't deserve to live!" He suddenly just lies down on the floor, his body racked with sobs. I don't even know how to comfort him right now so I just talk. "Sshhh. It's fine, it's fine, Dan. You deserve to live. Don't listen to her..." Now we've just gone back to silence. I just sit there, my arm over his shoulder, stroking his hair.

"Okay, I think I know what to do now." I say to him. He still won't respond. Suddenly, my phone ringtone plays from my pocket. It was an unknown number so I hesitantly say, "Hello?" A warm, Canadian voice talks to me from the other end of the phone.
"Hello, is this AmazingPhil? The one with the Neko?" I'm not sure about this. Do they want me to stop spreading my message of Neko rights? Are they gonna come take Dan somewhere? Dan's broken and I want to be the one to fix him. "Uh, yes, it is. Why?" The guy at the other end of the phone pauses, nervous. "Well, I'm Robert. RobertIDK? No, of course you wouldn't know me..." Robert seems really nervous and his voice trails off. "Yes Robert? What do you want to talk about?"

"Well...I'm from this organisation called the 'Neko Rights and Health Company' or just 'NRHC' for short. We saw Dan...well, I saw Dan, I'm a really big fan of yours, and we want to help. You're going to VidCon in a few days, right? Well, I'm going to meet you there. Bring Dan. We're here to help." Once he stopped I exhale in relief.
"Okay, I'll get an extra plane ticket for him." Robert pauses, scared he would upset me.
"The only thing is...well...the only way Dan can get on the plane...is...well...he has to wear a collar and lead!" Robert suddenly blurts out, obviously distressed.
"Okay, bye Robert. I'll tell Dan." And with that I hang up on him.

Dan's POV

Phil has been talking on the phone for quite a while now. He has just said he would get me a plane ticket somewhere. But where? Now I can hear the voice on the other end of the phone is scared and they raise their voice and I hear 'wear a collar and lead'. I subtly move away from Phil, flinching at his touch as he hangs up the call. Phil looks over at me, tears in his beautiful eyes. "Dan...we're going on a plane to VidCon in a few days an-" I cut him off quickly, trying not to show my emotions. "I know, Phil. I heard every. Single. Word."
"Dan..." He mutters desperately. "We'll just have to-"

"No, it's fine. You go buy one. I can deal with it. I've been a pet before." His eyes show his relief as he exhales slowly. Careful to put away the knives, he leaves the house. Now I just feel no emotion about any of this. I've been through this before. Though it was much worse.

Flashback to when he was 10

I stare hopefully out of my cage as the bell rings. "Daddy, daddy, over here!" A little girl's legs appear in my field of vision, along with her father's shoes. "Okay, okay!" Her father's deep voice says. "Nekos...half-person, half-cat..." he reads from the sign above my cage. There was only three of us left. I could hear her cooing as she looked at the others and then suddenly realised I was there. "Aaawwww!" She cooed at me. "Hi! What's your name? Mine's Jessica!"
"My name is Dan!" I chirped happily.

"This one, daddy, this one!" She told her father. He just said, "Okay, okay. I'll go get a collar and other stuff." He says as he walks away, leaving me with the little girl.
"Yay! Daddy's gonna let me get you, Dan! I'm gonna take great care of you!" Later, her father came marching back, opening my cage door. As I eagerly scrambled out, I felt something being clipped around my neck and panicked."Dan, it's your collar!" I calmed down a bit as I got up, dragging my feet. I felt a sharp tug on my neck, almost sending me tumbling over. As I was took outside, I panicked, pulling the lead from Jessica's hand. "No!" She yelled, angry, pulling on my tail. I yelped in pain and ran down an alleyway into darkness.

The next year, I was sat next to a bin when I heard footsteps. "Here, kitty, kitty!" A voice said. A man turned the corner with a metal lead and locked eyes with me. "I-I don't want to get into t-trouble..." I muttered.
"You've been bad enough already." And with that he lunged for me, getting the cold steel lead around my neck. I struggled but when I tried to escape I was choked. The last thing I saw as he loaded me into a cage in his van was the words 'Animal Control'. From then on, I never thought of myself as a person. Nobody else thought of me that way, why should I?

Oh my gosh Imma kill SkyKitty24! Oh wait...I'm the author... Sorry about the feely feels! But hey, RobertIDK is here to help! I put him as a super fanboy for Phil. And come on, people, can't we just call him the king of all fandoms already! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! If so, be sure to leave a vote for it and feel free to comment to let me know what you want done with the story! Other than that, ummmm...nothing! Mmkay!
Byeeeee!