Looking back on things, I never would have expected anything to turn out the way it did. It never occurred to me that all of Danny's battles might eventually turn into PTSD. I never expected Tucker to go on a mission trip and not come back into our lives when he returned. I never expected to end up actually marrying Danny- I'd always wanted it, but I didn't think it would really happen. He usually went after girls that were much different than me.

I fully expected to one day leave my parents' house to go live with Danny and his parents. I never expected that eventually his parents would push us out to live on our own. If they had given me two more months to get everything in place, moving out for the first time would have been a lot less stressful and lot less scary. Danny couldn't tell them about his mental health issues without also telling them the big secret. They never knew the real reason why he didn't work. They never knew the reason why doing his chores was so hard. They never knew the reason why he almost flunked out of community college. They couldn't know. It would be more than they could handle.

I never expected us to meet someone else we both could trust after Tucker left. I never expected Danny to actually bond so closely with someone else. I never expected our marriage would eventually turn into a polycule.

I definitely did not expect to end up dating the roommate without losing Danny first.

Nothing turned out the same way I thought it would when we were high school freshman. At the end of the day, I wouldn't change it for the world. It's not that everything has been a happy alternative, but it's made us stronger.

I saw Danny fall into the depths of depression and flashbacks. Now, I'm watching him claw his way back to what he used to be. Throughout everything, he never lost that hero complex. He's always jumped into battle when the world needed it, even if it meant setting himself further back. When we first got together, we expected him to end up taking care of me because that's who he is. We didn't expect me to end up talking him out of the dark hold of depression or helping him keep his mind together enough to keep going. Danny has been through hell and back, but the enemies of this world should fear the day he gets back to the same hero he used to be. This internal battle is what will make Phantom unstoppable. He's just got to get through it with his mind in one piece.

We will survive this, just as we survived everything else.

Looking back on things always puts a new perspective on life. Everything went to shit more than a few times, but it's also how we wound up where we are. It's how Danny and I wound up being an unstoppable team. It's how Danny learned to trust again after one of the few people that knew his secret left him. It's how we learned to be completely self-sufficient quick and in a hurry. It's how we learned the importance of patching up our mental health rather than just our physical injuries. Everything that's happened made us who we are.

I never expected any of this, but that's just how life goes.

I present to you, a short one-shot.

I'm getting back in to writing regularly again. I've got a couple of different original projects going on, but I figured it was high-time I come back and finish some of my fan-fics too. I'm going to attempt to start updating some story or another on Monday nights/early Tuesday morning.

If you would like to support my original works, you can find those on under the same username.

Here's to coming back to stay for a while.

Comments and feedback are always welcome!

Invisible One