#everydayheros

Links Last Checked: March 27th, 2025

part one

Firefighters

Third Degree (ao3) - sierraadeux

Summary: Dan sets fires. Phil puts them out.

Cops/Police Officers

My Baby Shot me Down. (ao3) - Mirian_Rodrigues

Summary: Daniel Howell became a police officer for one reason, or rather, a person, Phil Lester, a wanted criminal.

Nurses/Doctors

All the Sinners Crawl (ao3) - TheOceanIsMyInkwell

Summary: The clock is ticking for Dan Howell, who has had a terminal illness for the past eight years. Everyone tells him it’s a miracle he’s made it to the age of 25. Maybe that miracle just might be Phil Lester, the mysterious nurse who happens to be a fallen angel, cast out of heaven and destined to wander the earth unaligned for eternity. The only problem? Dan’s name has already been written down for heaven–and Phil is bound for hell if he heals him.

I Have Better - doomedhowell

Summary: Dan had been in another relationship with a guy and gotten pregnant. The guy dumps Dan for being pregnant and a “freak.” Phil meets Dan at the hospital, being his nurse, and doesn’t care that Dan’s pregnant and they slowly fall in love. Dan has nightmares and Phil comforts him.

Inclination for my Disposition - dancingwithstarlightatmidnight

Summary: Alpha Phil Lester is a successful doctor. He invented the Lincoln Serum; a tonic that makes its users tell the truth when prompted. At home, he has an Omega, Dan, and a three year-old named Josh. Everything changes when Phil’s family is kidnapped in an attempt to get ahold of the Lincoln Serum.

Let the Human In - rainbowchristy

Summary: It’s just a regular workday for Phil. Doing rounds with his patients, helping out with the occasional emergency department case. The only difference? He has one new patient in the ED. One found unconscious on the street. One who starts throwing up from seemingly nothing. One, with a very dark backstory and no hope for the future.

Teachers

Absolutely Smitten (I’ll Never Let You Go) - manchestereyes

Summary: In which Dan is a much-adored primary school music teacher, and Phil is just the science teacher who can’t keep his mind off of him. But when the students notice and try to get in on the action, will Phil finally work up the courage to ask Dan out?

Apples And Desks (ao3) - analester

Summary: teacher!phan au where Dan flirts with Phil and Phil likes him back, but he doesn’t want to be just a one night stand.

A Thorough Lesson On The Male Body (ao3) - americanphancakes

Summary: Dan Howell – Phil’s substitute sex ed teacher – is very good looking and, luckily for Phil, very into hands-on teaching methods.

Call Me Mr. Lester - doomedhowell

Summary: Dan and Phil are teachers at a high school. They’re together and married but have kept their relationship a secret until a student catches them and threatens to tell the rest of the school.

The Art Of Teaching (ao3) - pasteldanhowells

TUMBLR Gang!

Links Last Checked: March 27th, 2025

part two

fics where they are firefighters, policeman, etc.

Firefighters

Dad, The Superhero - doomedhowell

Summary: Billy describes his dad, Phil, as a superhero. Phil is a fire fighter who gets a late call to work and is late picking up his son. Dan is Billy’s kindergarten teacher who gets stuck with him after school because Phil is late, and he’s surprised when he learns the reason why Phil was late.

Fire In The Sky (ao3) - galaxeephan

Summary: Phil feels like the odd man out at the fire station he works at, until he gets to know Dan more.

Fireman Dan - phanpire

Summary: Basically when Dan decides he wants a ‘real’ job but he wants to help people he becomes a firefighter, ironically, and Phil is worried about him.

Keep Me Warm And Safe - etoilesdephan

Summary: Dorky Firefighter!Phil and Student/Bookstore saleperson!Dan who likes to blurt out the first thing that comes to his mind.

Life Saver - doomedhowell

Summary: Dan and Phil used to be in a relationship, but they had to call it quits because Phil was committed to his job of being a fire fighter. Luckily they were still best friends, which Phil was grateful for. One day, there’s a fire in town and Phil finds out that it’s none other than Dan Howell’s house.

Cops / Police Officers

Cops and Robbers - doomedhowell

Summary: It’s been four years since Dan broke up with Phil. They both went their separate ways and left the youtube world. Dan moved on and was making a living by being a cop. Phil, on the other hand, hadn’t exactly “moved on”.

Daddy’s Punk Princess - elliesfics

Summary: When Dan is out late at night trespassing at his local park, it really is no surprise when the nearest officer interrupts his plans. What those plans entailed? Well that might explain the massive problem Dan has to deal with when he gets stuck in the back of a cop-car. Not to mention a fucking gorgeous cop’s car.

Differences - placingglaciers

Summary: In which they are police partners with complete opposite personalities that inevitably obstruct their work duties and makes things a lot more complicated than what they really ought to be.

How To Befriend A Criminal - placingglaciers

Summary: They’re policemen. And they’re terrified.

If You Think You Know Me - ineverhadmyinternetphase

Summary: Fiction. Phil’s a police Sergeant. He’s been itching to get promoted to Inspector for ages, but to do so, he needs to crack his biggest case - famed internet hacker the Howler. Phil’s been after him for years, but he’d never managed to get even a hint towards his identity. When he meets a hot stranger in a bar one night, Phil thinks his luck might just be turning up. But maybe getting close to this particular stranger isn’t the best idea.

Rescuing Baby Howell (ao3) - Alphalester (alphalester)

Summary: Baby Howell is the youngest exotic dancer here at Blue Feather. Baby is abused and mistreated except he doesn’t know any different. Baby can’t even remember his own name.

Phil Lester is a policeman who is desperate to be a detective. When he gets the chance to go undercover and prove himself, Phil has to find out where exactly the dancers came from after having a tip-off that one was being held captive and being made to work. Phil was going to get that Dancer safe if it were the last thing he ever do.

The Christmas Chimney Burglar- auroraphilealis

Summary: Dan’s the lone police officer on duty the night of Christmas Eve, and Phil’s the friend who calls with a claim of a burglar trying to sneak in through his chimney. Dan isn’t sure whether to take him seriously or not.

Unconditional Love (wattpad) - PhanOnIce

Summary: Dan is a homeless teenager who has to resort to prostitution to buy himself a meal. His life turns around when he meets Phil, who is a cop but is very kind hearted and unhappy with his marriage.

Nurses/Doctors

Black And White (And Screaming Color) (ao3) - mysticstargirl

Summary: the one where Dan is a teenager admitted to the hospital after his lung cancer hits a particularly nasty bump, and he hates it- but a beaming, beautiful, bright-eyed nurse named Phil Lester makes everything a bit better.

Dan is shades and layers of grey-black-white, but Phil is screaming color. The world is printer ink on cheap paper, Dan is thick, messy acrylic paint on rough paper, and Phil is pastel, watercolor stains on hot pressed canvas.

Everything fades with time, even masterpieces.

Code Black (ao3) - starboydjh

Summary: “Code black: An influx of patients so great, there aren’t enough resources to treat them. The average A&E is in code black 5 times per year. St. Thomas’ Memorial Hospital in London is in code black 300 times per year.” Doctors Dan Howell and Phil Lester know all too well that when everything in the busiest accident and emergency department in England and their personal lives goes right, the most incredible of miracles can happen. After Dan bares the struggles of his past to Phil, a member of Dan’s distant and troubled family shows up as a patient in their A&E one night after years of silence, and life starts to feel like one long code black night in more ways than one.

Doctors Not Only Heal Physical Wounds - irphanfic

Summary: Dr. Dan Howell, the dreamiest doctor of the hospital is charming, attractive and has a motorbike, all Dr. Phil Lester wanted in a a partner. After a big scare makes them both connect as more than co-workers, how will they manage to develop their new friendship?

Piecing Together My Mind - paradisobound