So, I actually went through all of my Danny Phantom ships and assigned songs to each. Now, I'm writing a fanfic for each. I had two for Punk Rocker, but I'll post just this one for now. The posts will be inconsistent, as I'll only write when inspiration strikes me. Anyway, I had two for Phantom Rocker, and this is one of them.
Disclaimer: Butch Hartman owns Danny Phantom, and My Happy Ending belongs to Avril Lavigne.
They'd been dating for two years now, and Ember McClain was happier than she'd been in a long time. She had a great boyfriend, one who actually cared about her, not just the sex they had. Actually, they'd never gotten to that yet. He'd done so many things for her over the two years they were together that the least she could do was wait until he was read. And wait she would, even thought he was already eighteen.
She smiled when she remembered the day that he had stood up to his two best friends, for her. They'd lightened up a little, but it was obvious that they didn't trust her. She doubted they ever would, but it was okay. She had him.
He brought out feelings in her that she hadn't had since she was alive. He lessened her resentment to the world, and he showed her that humans weren't all bad. Of course, he wasn't human himself, not completely. No, Danny Fenton had a secret: he was really half ghost. Only three humans knew his secret, and all three hated her. Not that she could blame them, after everything she'd done. She'd brainwashed the world, and then she'd come back and kidnapped their parents. Not really the best first (or second) impression.
And yet Danny had given her a second chance. He'd offered to become her friend, and she found herself admiring him for that. That admiration had turned into affection, and affection evolved into love. And now she was the luckiest girl in the Ghost Zone.
Ember stood and stretched. It was their second anniversary, and she wanted to surprise him. He usually came to visit her in the Ghost Zone. She hardly ever left it to see him anymore. That Red Huntress girl was actually a competent ghost hunter, and she destroyed ghosts instead of returning them to the Ghost Zone. Ember was taking a risk, but this surprise was worth it. She grabbed her guitar and turned off the hypnotic effect. She hardly ever said the words 'I love you' to him. Then when she did, it had so much more meaning. And she'd written a song – a love song – just for him.
She flew in the direction that she knew the Fenton Portal was. Poking her head through, she saw Jack Fenton's back. He was clearly working on something, so Ember turned invisible and phased through the ceiling. She frowned when she saw that he was neither in the living room nor his bedroom. Maybe he was in the park. He liked it there. So she flew to the park, remaining invisible.
She smiled when she saw him sitting on one of the benches and prepared to turn visible when she noticed something. Danny wasn't alone. By his side was his little goth girl friend, Sam Manson. They were slightly turned toward each other, and Danny's hands were over Sam's.
"You know I really care about you," Danny was saying. "And I was thinking… You know… We could take this a little further? I mean, if you want to."
Ember closed her eyes tightly and covered her ears. She'd heard enough. She flew off, more upset than she'd been in a long time.
At that moment, Danny's ghost sense went off. He looked around, but no ghosts were attacking. His eyes widened as realization struck. "Oh, no…"
MyHappyEnding
Ember was almost ready to smash her guitar by the time she made it back to the Ghost Zone. How dare he! Danny knew her history with relationships! He knew how she died…
She'd been asked to see a movie with the guy she'd had a crush on for years. She went to the theater and waited for hours, but he never showed. She was so exhausted when she got home that she fell asleep and didn't even wake up when the house caught fire. The next thing she knew, she was a ghost, standing in the ashen ruins of her house. It was only two days later, and she'd found the boy, though he couldn't see her. He was laughing with another girl about how he'd tricked stupid, unpopular Amber McClain.
And now Danny had lied to her, too. He'd promised that he would never hurt her like that, and that was exactly what he just did. She had to find her old band. She'd have her revenge…
MyHappyEnding
Danny sat on the bench in the park with his head in his hands. Sam still sat next to him, unsure of what to do.
"She thinks I'm cheating on her," the boy groaned. "She thinks I've been cheating on her."
"Just go and explain it to her," Sammy suggested.
"Sam," Danny started, "It's Ember. She's not going to believe me, no matter what I say…"
"Then just go and ask!" Sam said.
"But I'm still not ready," he muttered. "You heard me. It was awful."
"You don't have much of a choice. Either ask badly and get her back, or don't ask and lose her forever!" It was no secret that Sam didn't like Ember. But the pop star ghost made Danny happy, and that was what mattered. So Sam was willing to do anything to help him.
Both teens looked up when they heard an oddly familiar song. They looked at the stage that had been set up a year ago to bands that were passing through. At the front of the stage stood Ember McClain.
"Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?
Don't leave me hanging
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were done
He was everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending…"
"That means you, Fenton!" she yelled, and Danny could have sworn he saw tears in her eyes before she disappeared in a purple cloud of smoke.
"Go after her!" Same whispered, and Danny nodded, ignoring the stares and running behind a tree to go ghost. He immediately flew home and through the Fenton Portal, determined to find Ember and explain. But no matter where he looked, she wasn't there. Eventually, he went to Clockwork's, hoping that the Master of Time could help. The older ghost looked, but even he had no luck.
Ember McClain had just… vanished.
Danny reached into his pocket and pulled out the small navy blue velvet box. He opened it and stared at the ring insider, the ring he'd hoped to put on a pale, slender finger.
"I will always remember you, Ember," he whispered.
… Yeah… Boredom hit, and this is what happened. In case you didn't realize it, everything Danny said to Sam was her helping him practice for when he was going to ask Ember. She just managed to arrive at the wrong time, misunderstood the situation, and, in a typical Ember fashion, handled it with anger and rash decisions. Because of the way she died, the heartbreak of what she thought Danny did caused her to collapse in on herself, making her unable to retain a physical form and vanishing from existence.
I made me feel bad for Ember, and I don't even like her!
