OK, so as most of you guys may know from deviant ART, my mother has just passed away due to a freak heart attack that nobody saw coming. Instead of explaining my situation the real way, I'll explain it through Danny Phantom/Fenton's eyes. I will tell you when events are changed and who is related to who. I will go day by day, and, hopefully, this will turn out to be a great fic. Please, read and review, and please, most of all, pray for my family, my mother up in heaven, and me to help us all get through this little situation.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. However, this whole fic is going to be based on a true story, although some things are gonna be switched up due to me being a girl and Danny being a boy.


Here is the character list as to who I am replacing with DP characters:

Danny: me

Sam: My friend, Carolyn

Tucker: My other friend, Dennis

Dash: My "not-so-much-of-a-friend-anymore" Madison

Maddie: my mother

Jack: my father

Jazz: my sister, Lisa

Random doctors: random doctors

I am also going to make up characters, but some of the people are going to be real, as well. Such as some of the nurses and family members. I will also add some ghost fighting in here, although I am not sure as to where exactly. This chapter will have a basketball game that Danny is going to instead of me going to my color guard practice and the next day is going to be Sam's birthday party.

So, without further ado, please enjoy the first chapter of "Wait Until She's Gone."


Day 1, Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14

It was a calm, quiet evening; no ghost attacks or a single care in the world. Well, unless you count going to a basketball game at Amity Park's own Casper High School. These games were intense. If one team didn't have any injuries, it was most likely the visiting team. Casper wasn't really that great with the whole "sports" thing. Not to mention that Casper High was only famous for its star football player, Dash Baxter. He was the quarterback for Casper's very own football team, the Ravens, and he was also the school's biggest bully, but this story isn't about a jock, bully, or anything like that. No, no, no. This story is about a young teenager and his mother.

Daniel Fenton, a.k.a. Danny to his friends and family, wasn't the most popular kid in the whole world. He was on the skinny side, not much of a sports guy, and was very pale. He had very dark, black hair, not very unnatural in his family, though, and baby blue eyes with a mixture of ice and a tint of fire in them. He wasn't the tallest teen around town, either. About the fair height of a twelve-year-old, I would have to say. Danny was never afraid to speak his mind, especially when people would come up to him and start making jokes about his family. His usual attire was always a white T-shirt with the colar, ends of his sleeves, and a small circle in the middle of his chest a light red, blue jeans, and red converse sneakers.

Danny was used to this kind of treatment from elementary school, but he certainly did not allow such childish behavior to mess with his head or his family. Although he is from a family of ghost hunters, Danny has managed to gain two awesome friends. Their names are Sam and Tucker.

"Ghost hunting?" you may ask. Well, it's not the most favorable job in most people's eyes, but Danny's parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton had just loved to explore the paranormal world. They shared their interests with ghosts so much they became obsessed... too obsessed for that matter. One day, they decided to make a portal to another realm- the ghost realm. You see, the Ghost Zone, as it later became known as, was actually the flip side of the human world- earth.

When the Fentons found that it did not work, they pretty much gave up. Thanks to much persuasion from Sam Manson, Danny, reluctantly, found himself walking into the portal when it was off, having Sam and Tucker watch form a distance. The whole thing was a total accident! What do you expect three teenagers to do when they're home alone in a ghost hunter's home with a lab downstairs beholding many assortments of strange objects and weapons used to fight off ghosts?

Danny, unknowingly, pressed the green "ON" button and presto! The ghost portal turned on with a flash of bright, green, swirling light. You could hear screams echoing around the whole house. Eventually, the noises died down and the portal, instead of having wires and a metallic, techno- edginess to it, only had a green octagon tracing the inside of a huge, metal frame with bolts keeping attaches to the wall. The eerie glow with darker green swirls circling around in the center in one rotation was nothing compared to what happened next. Out comes a fourteen year-old, unstable kid, with a black jumpsuit and white gloves, boots, and a belt. His hair turned white and his eyes became an eerie, glowing green color. He still had the same boyish face as Danny, but something was definitely off- he was floating. FLOATING, for Pete's sake!

It only took a few moments of reasoning when Danny Fenton stepped out of the portal, he had inevitably turned half ghost, due to the fact that he could switch between human and ghostly forms. The one thing that Danny didn't know, though, was what would happen if his parents ever found out about this? Would they ground him for sneaking into the lab while they were out? No way! Something way worse than that! Maybe they would, like, try to dissect him or something? Yeah, that seemed to fit the bill, but honestly, why would he, in all due respect, tell his parents about him and his two friends sneaking down into the lab when he was expressly forbidden from going down there in the first place? They would never trust him again! This is why he needed to come with a secret identity for his ghostly side.

Danny Phantom, perhaps, would fit him the best, especially after trying to find every other thing relating to ghosts as his last name. No way, though, would they ever change his first name! It was too "cool" to change, am I right?

So, after about an hour of randomly choosing last names, they went with their first choice- Phantom.

Danny had kept his secret for well over a year, with only a number of people finding out, such as most of his ghostly enemies, and his his sister, Jazz (Jasmine) Fenton.

Jazz was always there for Danny, just in different ways. She would normally act like an older sister, constantly yelling down his throat for putting a fart machine inside of her stuffed animals just for laughs and such, but at other times, she was sincere and showed deep care toward him. Whenever he was going through something at school, such as having a bully torturing him, or needing help with a test coming up the next day that he had to study for, Jazz was always there for him. Even if she was two years older than him and was WAY smarter, she didn't mind helping out her "little bro."

The one to thank for Danny acquiring his ghost powers is Samantha, known as "Sam" to those who did not wish for their necks to be broken. She was Danny's friend ever since she moved to Amity Park in eighth grade. She was automatically shunned for her outlook on life. Sam would always dress in dark colors, such as black, purple, and sometimes even green. She had light, violet eyes, no thanks to contact lenses, and had shimmering, dark black hair that was constantly pulled up into a half pony-tail. A little bit of her hair would also stick up where she had it up in a a green hair band and the rest would hang just above her shoulders. Her wardrobe consisted of a black, green, and purple plaid miniskirt, a sleeveless, black belly shirt with a purple circle in the center, black bracelets on either wrist, purple leggings, and chunky, black combat boots.

Part of the welcoming committee for Sam was not only Danny, but Tucker Foley. Either known as Tucker, Tuck, or "techno-geek," this African-American boy was around the same height as Danny and Sam and wore black rimmed glasses that only a true nerd would pick up in a specks shop. Because of a slight dandruff problem, Tucker has never gone out without something covering his super short black hair. He would always wear a red berret with almost none of his hair showing. He had dark green-bluish eyes and never ate a single vegetable in his entire life! Unlike his friend, Sam who was an ultra recyclo vegetarian. She wouldn't even eat eggs, that is just how protective of animals she is. Tucker and Sam wouldn't always get along that well, but they were still friends, whether they liked it or not. Tuck also wears a long-sleeved yellow shirt, baggy, green pants that only come up to about his ankles, and a pair of tanish, brownish worknig boots.

The one thing that always got on both Sam and Danny's nerves was when Tucker would tease them about liking each other all the time. Although this was true, they never thought that the other one liked them. It was always so awkward whenever someone teased them, let it be school, family, friends, you name it! Sam and Danny DID go out once, but it didn't really work out, so they decided to take a break. Neither of them really knew what it meant, but still, if it didn't mean that they were going out at this particular moment in time, it was alright by them! (A/N: My story, situation, please don't take it weird...ly. Danny and Sam did go out, broke up, and nobody knows Danny's secret identity yet... before phantom planet, peoples! Thanks!)

"So, who do you think is going to win tonight?" Sam asked casually as Dash, the muscular bully, passed the ball to one of his teammates. Both of them were sitting on the bleachers in Casper High's gym in the front row; perfect for watching their home team get killed!

"I honestly think that the other team is going to win," Tucker stated simply with a sigh. Sam looked at him quizzically.

"Why do you say that?" Sam asked as she arched an eyebrow.

"Sam, our school doesn't have any good teams... unless you count the chess team, but that isn't sports... So I don't really think that you should count it," Tucker reasoned. Sam nodded her head slowly, letting some loose hair fall in front of her pale face. Sam's eyes became wide and she opened her mouth as if to say something. She quickly changed her mind and shut her mouth before Tucker could ask any questions. Unfortunately for her, Tucker did see this little action and gave her an odd look.

"What was that all about? Are you feeling alright?" Tucker asked sympathetically. Sam nodded once more and pushed the loose strands out of her vision range.

"Yeah, its just that... well, wasn't Danny supposed to come tonight? I could have sworn he said that he was coming," Sam avoided eye contact while pondering. Tucker just smiled a certain way and Sam knew automatically what he was about to say.

"What's the matter? Worried about your boyfriend, I see, hmm?" Tucker said in a 'dreamy' voice, obviously taunting Sam. Apparently, Tucker was oblivious to the invisible ghost boy right next to him. Danny looked around at the whole gym to make sure that no one was watching and became visible. Sam jumped a little bit, but once she saw it was Danny (who was putting a pointer finger to his lips to signal her to be quiet about his whereabouts) and she just smiled. Danny as rolling his hands to signal Sam to answer his question and winked. He mouthed the words, 'Keep going!'

Sam sat there, starting to giggle like mad. Tucker, however, did not let this one go unnoticed. He spun around quickly to find nothing but air behind him. Tucker heard a burst of uncontrollable laughter emit from his friend's mouth, so he turned around again to his starting position and saw Sam cracking up hysterically, tears streaming out of her eyes. Tucker could have sworn that Sam was going nuts!

"You're going nuts!" Tucker exclaimed as Danny reappeared while crossing his eyes and sticking his tongue out. Sam was about to fall off of the bleachers; she was laughing so hard! Between Tucker's words and Danny's actions, this was turning out to be one of the best basketball games she'd ever gone to in her whole life! Just then, Danny started waving and giving Tucker bunny-ears with his fingers positioned into a peace sign. Sam started caling down a bit...

'Not what I had in mind, Sam...' Danny thought silently to himself. He decided to make his presence known to Tucker in one of the funniest ways that he remembered Sam would always laugh at- Poking Tucker in the sides to see him jump about a foot in the air!

Danny put another quiet sign to his lips and put both pointer fingers into a poking-position. Unexpecedly, Danny jammed his fingers into Tucker's sides and whispered a soft, quiet message in his ear.

"BOO!"

"Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!" Tucker laughed and screamed at the same time. Danny and Sam were howling with laughter at this point, and there was no stopping them. The funnier thing was that everyone was looking at them like they were a wild pack of hiyenas. What they didn't notice was that someone was watching them with tender filled eyes and a loving, motherly expression.

"Oh my gosh, they grow up so fast," Maddie sighed as she gazed down at her fourteen year old son and his two goofball friends from the top of the bleachers. It's a good thing that she didn't see Danny go from invisible to visible either of those times, because Danny would have been in some serious trouble. Since it was February, the weather started getting a little bit nicer, so she decided to check out one of the basketball games at her son's high school. She had to admit, their home team DID suck, but it was still pretty entertaining to watch a few high schoolers get bet up by a rival team. That was probably the only reason she came, too... Oh well. Since it was Thursday and all of the housework was done, her husband, Jack, had the flu, Jazz was at home taking care of him, getting him soup and fdge when he felt hungry, and she had been stuck in the house for quite a while there. She needed some fresh air, dude!

"So, you know what tomorrow is, right?" Sam asked her two guy friends, both of which were still chuckling a bit at the situation only minutes before.

"Umm, Saint Patrick's Day?" Danny guessed stupidly. I don't think I need to tell you twice that Danny is but a C student, do I?

"Dude, Saint Patrick's Day is in March! Obviously tomorrow is Easter!" Tucker said, jokingly. They both burst out into another fit of laughter, one of which Sam did not join into. She just rolled her eyes, glared, and placed her skinny arms on her hips. Both boys stopped their fit immediately and looked at her like they were both lost puppies out in a rain storm. Sam just gave a huge sigh and smiled.

"I'll give whoever can guess what tomorrow is one-hundred dollars in cash," Sam bribed, hopefully to jog their memories. Danny and Tucker's mouths dopped.

"Are you serious?" Danny asked his ex-girlfriend.

"Yep," Sam stated simply. A huge light bulb must have appeared on the top of Tucker's head, for he had been the one to answer Sam's mystery quiestion game.

"It's your birthday, isn't it?" Tucker pointed a finger at Sam, as if he had just won a hundred dollar bill... which he pretty much had...

"Congratulations, you win nothing!" Sam said in fake excitement. She threw her arms up in emphasis as Danny clapped his hands, saying, "Cudos, Tuck!"

"Why can't I have any money?" Tucker asked slowly with tears nearly coming out of his eye sockets.

"Because," Danny started 'smartly', "It was too easy of a question, right ,Sam?" Danny begged.

"Hmm... Yeah, I guess you can say that, but I just don't like Tucker. Now, if it was DANNY who answered it, I might have given him like, ten dollars, considering he already has some stuff he's going through, and the huge fact that he can't remeber anything that went on within the last five minutes!" Sam taunted with a joking tint to her voice. Danny glared as Tuck and Sam smirked.

"'Ha, ha,' very funny," Danny said sarcastically, "So, are you doing anything special for your big day?"

Sam thought about it for a few moments. "Well, if you count having smelly old farts coming to your house for your birthday, then yeah. If you guys want to... well, you HAVE to, now, come over, come at about five o'clock or something. That way there, you van stay until about eleven or something and we can have the whole house to ourselves for about two hours. So, what do you think, guys?"

"Sweet!" The male friends replied in unison, "We'll be there!"

"And that concludes the final half of the game! The Knoxville Knights win thirty-two to nineteen!" The announcer... well, announced over the loudspeaker. All at once, everyone started getting up from their seats and started making their way to the double doors. The teams went back into their locker rooms, each and everyone of them talking about the game that went on for about two hours. Finally, the only people who were left were Sam, Tucker, Danny, and Mrs. Fenton.

"Do you guys need a ride home or anything?" Maddie asked Sam and Tucker.

"No thanks, Mrs. F. My dad's picking me up in a couple of minutes," Tucker explained.

"Yeah, and I'm getting a ride from Tuck's dad, so... yeah... Thanks for the offer, though!" Sam added quickly. Mrs. Fenton took no notice, though.

"It's no problem. Anytime you kids need a ride home or anything, just call and ask me. I'm always available... well, except when I'm fighting ghosts, maybe not," she stated with a small shrug and a sweet smile. She decided to turn her gaze to Danny.

"So, you ready to go home, Danny?" Maddie asked like any mother would to their child.

"Umm, just one question before we go. Sam's having a birthday party tomorrow, and I was wondering if I could go," Danny added with a huge, pitiful dog whimper at the end that would make anyone want to take him inside if they found that same animal inside of a cardboard box out in the pouring rain. They all started doing it, and Maddie sighed.

"Why did he just have to meet you two? Alight, you can go, just as long as you all stop giving me that weird face!" Maddie exclaimed, laughing a bit.

"Done," Danny saluted his mom and shook her hand, which caused Sam and Tuck to sart laughing as well.

Maddie sighed, smiling and shaking her head. "What am I going to do with you? Alright, say goodbye and let's get out of here! I'm beat!"

"OK, see you guys tomorrow! Bye!" Danny waved goodbye to his friends.

"See ya!" they said together. Danny and his mom started walking out of the gym and to the RV when Danny'g ghost sense went off. He saw the Box Ghost flying over their heads with something that resembled bubble wrap, but quickly dismissed it seeing that he was being chased by a very aggressive bird.

Well, tomorrow was Sam's birthday, and, true to his word, he would go to Sam's house for a party, one of which none of them will ever forget, and definitely for the wrong reason...


Well, I sure hope you all liked the fist chapter of "When She's Gone." And don't forget, this whole story is based on a true story thathappened a little over a week ago! This all took place on February 14. Anyways, I don't really have that much to say right now, but hopefully there will be a lesson in here that I do not want anyone of you guys out there to forget. That lesson is "You don't know what you have until it's gone," and boy, do I relly wish I had listened to that WAAAYYYYYY before now! Anyways, happy Wednesday! R&R, please and thank you!