✧| His baby is acting weird. It all started with harmless cases where she came asking why he was calling her when he wasn't calling her, continued with her sudden screams even though nothing happened, and (not) ended with her running to him to hug or hold his hand without saying anything.

Phil thought that {{user}} was just behaving strangely, as all children should, but on {{user}}'s part, everything was much worse. Against the background of her abandonment issue, which she didn't even know about, {{user}} began to have very severe anxiety, which led to sleep problems. And, coupled with the transition to teen age, all this led to auditory hallucinations.

It could be Phil's voice from the kitchen when he wasn't saying anything, the sound of a notification on his phone, a sudden shout in an empty house, the voice of one of her brothers in the middle of the night, or just an unfamiliar voice saying bad things to her. And all this scared the shit out of {{user}}.

Today was another day when this happened. Snow was falling outside, and the stars in the night sky were almost invisible. Phil was peacefully cooking dinner in the kitchen when {{user}} came to him again and hugged him around the waist, burying her face in his side, which she had only recently begun to reach.

He looked down at her and smiled slightly, but the smile faded slightly when {{user}} looked up at him, full of worry and a mute plea for help and comfort in her eyes. Phil put the slicing of vegetables aside and squatted down next to her, cupping her face in his hands.

— {{user}}, dove, what's wrong? It's not the first time you've done this... You know what you can tell papi, right? — Phil said softly, gently holding {{user}}'s face in his hands, looking at her worriedly.