Danny and Skulker were fighting as usual when something unexpected happens. Ember shows up and Skulker hits her real bad. Danny takes Ember to his house and helps patch her up. Certain things are said. Are Danny and Ember able to handle a relationship? Dani shows up and things start to happen with the three of them, but wait, what is happening to Sam? What about Vlad? Does he finally get what he wants, a perfect family? Only one wait to find out. After D-Stabilized. Before Phantom Planet. Danny and Ember are both 25. Dani is three years old.

Chapter 1: Ember

Like most stories that are read or told, we always begin by going right into the action, but some stories that are read or told, we begin with an event that leads us to the main character. This story will not be like that for this story is unlike others that are told for we begin with someone that is out of character. Now, we begin our story.

It was a quiet day in the Ghost Zone for all of the ghosts. There was no ghost that was out making trouble, no form of fighting, and no shouting, or at least that is what we thought until a voice could be heard from almost everywhere.

"SKULKER!" Ember said as she shouted with all of her might trying to get the hunters attention as she approached his island. As she was getting closer to his island, what she saw surely did not surprise her at all. She saw that Skulker was getting ready for a hunt and when she saw this, she was in anger and the reason why she was in anger was because Skulker forgot that he had set up a date with Ember. When she saw this, she started to yell at him.

"Skulker! Where the hell do you think that you are going?" she asked with such anger in her voice. Skulker was able to detect and hear the amount of anger that was in her voice and he spoke up against her.

"Shut up bitch. I am going to go out and hunt a rare beast. Now, get out of my way." Now, when Ember heard this coming from her boyfriend, she was so angry that she started to lash out towards him.

"No. You are not going anywhere until I am done saying with what I have to say to you. I am tired of you always blowing off all of our dates and I am tired of you always of going to go out and hunt. You are a lousy boyfriend and I am through with you. Done." Now, Skulker, who claims himself to be the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter, is one that does not accept rejection very lightly. With anger now fueling him, he turned to Ember and started to yell back at her.

"How dare you talk to me like that? The Ghost Zone's greatest hunter. I will get you bitch if I did not have a rare hunt that I had to go to. I will deal with you later." When Skulker said that, he left Ember alone and a bit terrified. Ember knew that Skulker was stronger than her and not wanting to be subjected of being abused or tormented in any way, Ember started to leave the Ghost Zone. Now, some are thinking of how she could leave the Ghost Zone. The answer is simple, the Fenton Ghost Portal. Every ghost knew that the Fenton Ghost Portal was one of the many portals that can be used for any ghost to go to the human world, but it was a ghost portal that was built by humans. Anyways, Ember continued to fly through the Ghost Zone until she came across the Fenton Ghost Portal. Upon seeing it, she flew through the portal and made her way to the human realm, more accurately, in the Fenton's basement. With her now in the human world and out of the Ghost Zone, she flew away from the Fenton House and made her way to the city.

A couple of hours later, Ember was relaxing at the park and was enjoying the quiet for the first time in her afterlife, but the quiet that was looming around was suddenly interrupted by a blast from a missile. Upon hearing the blast, she stood up from where she was and went to the source of the blast. What she saw did not surprise her at all. She saw Skulker trying to beat Danny Phantom, the ghost boy that always protects Amity Park. When she saw the fight, she looked at Danny closely. What she saw shocked her.

"Damn, when did Danny get so muscular?" Ember said to herself. She continued to watch the fight. As the fight progressed, Ember got in closer to see Danny fight, but when she did that, Skulker must have seen her for he spoke up.

"What the hell are you doing here bitch?" Skulker asked Ember.

"Well, I am watching Danny beat your sorry ass you loser." Now, when Skulker heard this, he was outraged at her. With anger still fueling him deeply, he shot his missiles at Ember which caused her to fly back greatly until she hit a house with such force. When Skulker saw this, he had a satisfied grin on his face, but not for long for it was interrupted by a beam of white light that was aimed at him which caused him to be caught in the confinements of a certain device, the FentonThermos, which was carried by none other than Danny Phantom. Now, the most of us know that Danny is the good guy in this story and he cares about everyone that gets hurt, both ghosts and humans, and Danny just saw Skulker fire a set of his missiles at someone. Wanting to know which one Skulker did manage to hurt, Danny left to go and see who it was. When he approached where the person was flown to, he was shocked as to who he saw, Ember McLain. When he saw her, to say he was shocked would be less accurate. Concerned would describe Danny in this situation. Upon seeing Ember tattered and broken in a sense, Danny picked her up and started to carry her to his parent's house. As he was carrying her, a thought entered into his head, a thought that would change the way that he thought about the female ghost.

'Why did Skulker hurt Ember? I have to find out.' Little did he know was that the answer that he was going to receive from Ember would thus unravel into a series of events for the both of them.

Danny continued to carry Ember until he was able to see his parent's house in the distance. Upon seeing the house, Danny started to increase his speed and moments later, he was in his room with a knocked out Ember. With both ease and carefulness, Danny set Ember on the bed. Before he even left the room, Danny decided to take a look at Ember to see if there was any scratches, bruises, or cuts that had to be taken care of. Knowing that he had to be extremely careful, he started to examine her. What he saw surprised him.

'Wow, Skulker did a number on her. It looks like a couple of fractured or broken ribs, looks like a broken leg and . . . . . oh my god. She has a huge cut on her abdomen. She is bleeding ecto-plasm out fast. If I do not treat it soon, her afterlife will be gone.' Knowing what he had to do to help Ember, Danny left his room to go and get the first aid kit that was in the bathroom. After looking around for bit and finding it, Danny went back to his room to see Ember out of his bed trying to leave, which could be seen as unsuccessful. Upon seeing this, Danny spoke up.

"Ember, what are you doing?" he asked even though he knew what she was doing in the first place.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Ember asked Danny a bit dumbfounded. Danny knew that he had to calm down Ember.

"Ember, please calm down. I brought you here to help you get better," Danny said trying to reassure her, but it did not work as she was still freaking out.

"Who are you?" she asked yet again. Danny knew that he had to show her. Concentrating on his ghostly energies, Danny transformed into his superhero alter-ego, Danny Phantom. Upon doing this, Ember was shocked to see him.

"Dipstick, why are you helping me?" she asked wanting to know.

"The reason why I am helping you is because Skulker hurt you badly. I brought you here to help you heal. Now, please get back into the bed. I have to tend to your injuries." Knowing that she was weak and could not do anything against Danny at all, she went back to the bed just like he said. With her now back in the bed, Ember noticed all of the medical supplies that he was getting out. She saw gauze, peroxide, bandages, IV bag (which confused her), and as well as needle and thread. The first thing that she noticed that Danny grabbed was the peroxide.

"Okay, Ember this is going to hurt a lot," he said to her as he got closer with the peroxide in hand. Danny approached the wounds and he started to apply it on the cuts. It was when he did that did Ember start screaming in pain. It was as he was doing this did Ember start to think to herself.

'Why is the dipstick helping me? I am his enemy, and yet he is treating me like I am one of his friends,' Ember thought to herself, but what she did not know was that Danny was also thinking to himself as well.

'Damn Ember, I can't believe that Skulker did this to you. I am going to make sure that Skulker does not do this to you anymore. Uh-oh, I think that I might have overdone it with the peroxide.' Danny then capped off the peroxide and grabbed some cloth to wipe off both the excess peroxide and the excess ecto-plasm that was seeping through the wound. When he knew that the wound was clean, Danny then grabbed the needle and thread which caused Ember to get a little scared.

"Wh-wh-what are you going to do with that?" she asked with a bit of fear in her voice.

"I am going to have to stitch up the wound Ember or else you might have ecto-infections and trust me, you do not want any ecto-infections. I speak from experience." Danny then started to stitch up the wound and each and every time that he punctured Ember's skin, she winched slightly in pain. He continued to do this for five minutes until he was done. With that set, Danny grabbed the gauze and started to wrap up Ember's chest where she had a couple of broken ribs. Ember did not protest at all when Danny did this, nor did she protest at all when he wrapped up her leg as well. When he was done wrapping her up with the gauze, Danny the grabbed an ecto-level reader and started to scan her. What he saw on the screen shocked him.

'I can't believe it. Ember already has lost half of her ecto-plasm. From what this is telling me, all she needs is a transfusion and that is it. I hope that my ecto-plasm can help.' With that set, Danny transformed into his ghost half and he started to withdraw his own ecto-plasm into the IV bag for Ember. At least 30 minutes went by until he was done getting the ecto-plasm that he needed. He approached Ember and before he was able to put the needle into her, she spoke up.

"What are you doing dipstick?"

"I am giving you some of my ecto-plasm. It seems as if you lost half of your ecto-plasm when Skulker blasted you, but you will get your ecto-levels back up once my ecto-plasm is in your system. Just be patient and at least get some rest Ember." Before he even left the room, Ember spoke up.

"You know, you did not have to do this at all."

"I know, but it is my job to protect everyone, whether they are ghost or human. Now, get some rest," Danny said as he closed his bedroom door to let Ember rest, which she was about to do when a thought entered her mind.

'Danny is such a nice and caring guy and he goes out of his way to make sure that the people that he loves are taken care of, but I know that once I am all better that the both of us are going to go back to being enemies,' Ember thought to herself as she drifted off to sleep unaware that the ecto-plasm that was going to be put into her system was going to change her.

When Danny closed the door to his room, a thought entered his mind, and it was this thought that was going to change everything.

'I am not going to let Ember leave to go back to the Ghost Zone. She is going to stay here and live with me where I know that she will be taken care of and will not get hurt at all,' Danny thought to himself. With that now set in his mind, he went downstairs hoping that he would see someone that he had wanted to see for years now, Danielle. You see, it has been years ever since Danny had helped out Danielle, his clone that was created by none other by Vlad Masters, from becoming a pile of goo. Anyways, as he approached the kitchen, he would always hope to see Danielle scouring the fridge to find something to eat, but alas, that is not what he saw. He only saw an empty kitchen that did not have his daughter. Yes, that is right. Danny thought of Danielle as his daughter and not as a sister or a cousin for that is what he was technically. Danny was Danielle's father and he knew it deep down. He still remembers the nights that he would go out and try to find her to bring her back where she belongs and that was home. Anyways, Danny would still hope that Danielle would come to him for he wanted her safe. Knowing that what he dreamed of what was going to be impossible, he left the kitchen and he went to the living room where he then laid down to go to sleep. Little did he know was that by tomorrow when he woke up, he would be in for a surprise. Danny went to the couch and moments later, drifted off to sleep.