As promised if you are reading my other story. What I decided to do is make this an oneshot but if you people like it review and tell, me and I will add more chapters. The reason I am doing this is one of the main characters is an OC. Don't worry all of the other DP characters on here they take a main role to and I left them mainly unchanged (they are older I made Danny the oldest so he just turned 19 while Sam and tucker are 18). Any who this is going to be a cross-over if I finish it with a bunch of things so enjoy. No PP.
P.S rating is for a reason it is T because of mention torture, death, PTSD, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny phantom
Danny let out a sigh of relief as the bell rang signaling school was out for the weekend.
"Don't forget to study finals are next week!" Mr. Lancer called as the students practically stampeded out of the classroom.
Danny headed for his locker pushing through the sea of students. A smile graced his lips as he saw his two best friends waiting for him. They were as always bickering about something. As he made his way over, he took his time looking at the girl leaning against the lockers. She was the schools resident goth and ultra-recycle vegetarian and just happened to be best friends with a half ghost super hero. Danny still had yet to tell her of his feelings which he had come to admit to himself. By the time he made it over to them, he could hear what they were arguing about.
"A person can live a normal life and not eat meat! Let alone nothing but meat!"
"Meat never hurt anyone! In fact red meat is heart healthy!"
"No tucker red meat is bad for your heart it clogs your arteries!"
"Guys please! Just give it a rest for one day!" Danny spoke cutting off tucker before he could make a comeback. "We have the whole weekend off. Let's not spoil it with arguing about this; besides Tuck Sam's right it won't kill you to eat some veggies." He put in the combination to his locker as he said this it swung open with a creak.
"Of course you would take her side love birds!" Tucker smiled as he said this both their faces light up like Christmas lights.
"We're not love birds!" They cried at the same time, which only made them blush more. Tucker rolled his eyes he knew his two best friend had a thing for each other the only problem was getting them to admit it.
"Keep telling your selves that." He murmured under his breathe.
"So whose house are we staying at tonight?" Danny asked trying to break the awkward tension.
"Yours." Both Sam and tucker said at the same time with a grin.
Danny rolled his eyes. Ever since he told his parents of his half ghost status three years ago, they took it upon themselves to help him in any way possible, which made his life a lot easier. They even built a training system in their basement/lab the very reason why his two friends wanted to stay there. It was a computer-generated system, which Tucker had learned to program so they all could play inside the game of their choosing.
"You know if my parents found out that's what we did I don't think they would be to happy."
Tucker shrugged. "Well we will worry about that later come on hurry up! The newest version of super sumo slammers just came out and I've been dying to try it!"
Sam made a face, "No way we're going to play Doomed."
"But we always play doomed." Tucker whined.
Danny opened his mouth to comment up was cut off by a blue wispy mist escaping his lips he groaned. Most of the kids had left but there were a few stranglers here and there. "Oh great just what I need."
Sam winced, "Well this comes first."
"As always." Danny said dryly heading for the bathroom.
He pushed open all the stalls to make sure no one was in the room before letting the white ring form around his waist. It split in to two one went up the other down. On their separate journeys, a changed was made on the molecular level the once human Danny Fenton was replaced by the ghost and local super hero Danny Phantom. His white baggy shirt and jeans was replaced with form-fitting black and white spandex with the infamous logo on the chest. His black hair and blue eyes replaced with snowy-white locked and toxic neon green eyes.
He let out a sigh before shooting up turning intangible at the last second rather than hitting the ceiling. It didn't take long to find the source of his ghost sense. A hooded figure floated high above the school grounds, pink blast of energy escaping his hands aimed at random. Danny's eyes narrowed pink ecto-blast? He though it was uncommon so uncommon in fact only one other person her knew of had them.
"Hey fruit loop what's with the cloak?" He yelled as he flew over powering up his own blast."Finally figured the vampire look was over used or did you like looking like a sparkling fairy princess?"
The figured turned his blood red eyes full of malice. "Hello there Daniel"
Danny shuddered that was Vlad but something was wrong his voice was like nails on a chalkboard. His eyes had more of a blood tinge to them then usual. In a blink of an eye, he reappeared before Danny his hand clasped around his throat. It happened so fast Danny didn't have time to react. He gasped the green glow that had been covering his hand diminished he could feel himself losing energy.
Vlad took a deep breathe. "Oh yessss!" He hissed, "So much power not as raw as the other one but still there."
Danny struggled to break free sweat drops slide down his brow as he kicked and punch trying to get free but all the time he was losing power. He gasped for breathe as black spots appeared in his vision. At last, his fist hit soft flesh he could feel it give way to bone until even that broke beneath the force of the blow. He heard Vlad's pained "ummph" and suddenly the ground was rushing up to meet him. He could feel some of his power returning but ever muscle in his body throbbed in pain. He managed to catch himself before he hit the ground but just barely. His chest and face collided with the asphalt as two feet slammed in to his back with enough force to take his breathe away. A hand fisted in his hair yanking his back and wrenching it at a painful angle so his face was just inches away from Vlad's. His hot breathe stung it smelled of death and decay. "He was so much like you. Played the hero but in the end so easy to break." Danny didn't understand it and Vlad must have figured that out because he let out a hiss of anger. "You don't know yet!"
"I know your one messed up fruit loop!" Danny said as he shot a powerful ecto-blast straight into Vlad's face.
The force knocked him off of Danny who although exhausted stood up. He clutched his left bicep the green ooze seeping through his white-covered fingers. "I have no idea what is going on in your head Vlad and honestly I don't want to know. But what are you talking about?"
"Your demise Phantom!" Vlad roared as he shot forward, a pink blade in his hand. Danny tried to dodge it but was to tried he slipped on a piece of loose gravel. The blade slide in-between his ribs, Danny's eyes widen he never thought Vlad would go so far. It slide out of his body and disappeared forever.
"Danny!" He could hear Sam screaming but the pain over took him his knees buckled. And he fell Vlad's hand wrapped around his throat again, sucking his power. His right hand wrapped around a cylinder object attached to his belt. He pulled in loose and flicked the cap off before raising it but Vlad noticed he slapped it out of his hand his rolled away harmlessly.
Blood oozed up into Danny's throat as his lung filled with blood, he coughed, and blood splattered across the ground. Vlad's hold on his throat tighten and he realized with a dark horror this was the end.
A light blue streak filtered in from the right and Vlad's eyes widen "No! you little…" But he never finished his sentence as he was sucked into the thermos. Danny feel to the ground as he coughed and wheezed. Each breathe only filled his lung with more blood, it slide down his chin as he rolled onto his back coughing. He expected to see Sam or tucker holding the thermos nether of them were.
A girl no older the Danny held it close to her chest Tears slide down his face. As she stared in horror a crowd begin to form. Her blond hair was held in a ponytail the ends black. She wore a dark purple shirt and black kakis a dark blue scarf wrapped around her neck and black fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows. Her blue eyes stared in to his own green and she whispered something he didn't catch.
"Danny!" A sobbing Sam yelled as she threw herself down. He fixed his green eyes on her.
"Sam…" A weak whisper.
"Oh Danny please!" She sobbed her hands pressing on the wound, which bleed profoundly.
"I…I love you." His voice was getting weaker his breathe shallower.
"Danny oh Danny please don't leave me I love you to!" Sam cried harder.
A smile graced his lips as his eye lids dropped. "Always…I'm sorry" He let out a shaky breathe his chest rising and falling no more…
"No!" Sam screamed, "Please god no he can't be no!" She was so upset she didn't notice when the medallion was slipped onto her neck.
"Samantha." His soothe voice pulling her out of the trance like state of grief.
"Clockwork please you have to bring him back!"
"I'm sorry but that is not why I'm here I cannot bring him back I came for his body…"
"What! Please no!"
"Samantha a storm is coming and in it's wake death if Daniel's body is in the wrong hands it could mean the end of the universe."
Sam just stared at the cold body still in her arms she knew that was true but she could not give him up it was admitting defeat his death. But there was no other choice.
His surprisingly warm hand fell on her shoulder, "Trust me when I say his death affects us all deeply."
She nodded not trusting her voice. Clockwork picked up the cold body. His head lopping to the side his lifeless green eyes glazed over fixed on some unknown spot. She cried harder than ever before but the ghost of time was gone….
(line break…)
Telling them had been almost impossible. But they shared her grief crying with her. The funeral would be held Monday a week after his birthday party had been. Sam stayed at the Fentons relying on Jazz and Maddie since her on mother did not believe crying was what a grown woman should do. What would she do without him?
(line break 2…)
"You are no different than him" The girl hissed angrily her blue eyes narrowed as she glared. "You didn't have to do that! You could have told them the truth he would have come and they won't be grieving! And what the hell were you thinking releasing one of them!" She held up the thermos to empathize her point.
Clockwork stiffened and opened his mouth to retort but though better of it. "I'm doing what I have to do to save this time stream."
"Or you could have fixed the problem in the first place and not let it get this far!" She knew she would have to wake the boy up soon but she still had five minutes and thirty-four seconds tell any permanent damage was caused not that it would equal anything as severe as his wound now.
"Erisa!" Clockwork stressed dangerously. "And how do you suppose I do that?"
She could feel the tears threatening to spill over. "Rewrite time don't let it happen take me in his place."
"No." He replied dryly. "What is done is done." He turned to leave the small bedroom.
"I hate you!" She screamed angrily. "No matter what you can't change what happen to her so why is it you are making other people suffer the same fate?!"
"I'm doing what is best for all time streams!"
"No! You're playing favorites! Trying to fix the problem by patching the cracks not the source!"
He did not look back or respond as he walked away. She could feel the anger, sorrow, and pain he felt from here but she was mad and did not care. She looked back at the young adult lying on the cot his white hair was dirty and his unmoving bare chest was wrapped in white linen, which had already begun to stain green and red. Like some sick Christmas pattern. She felt sick they looked so much alike. The pain and longing that flowed from him like waves over the beach surrounded her she took a deep breath and moved past it. Placing her hands on his chest, she closed her eyes and focused on the energy. It's sweet energy pulled and pushed at her fingertips. The electoral currant pushed out full force his back arched up as he gasped as air rushed into his lungs. He coughed and hacked as life reentered his body. She winced at the pain and pressed her hand to his forehead. He started to relax as a cooling wave of relief rushed over him.
"You're not dead." She said simply.
Danny's eyes flew open. "W…what?" his voice husky.
Erisa rolled her eyes and sat down on the chair next to the cot. "You're not dead Danny."
"Bu…but I… what!" He tried to sit up but fell back down clutching his chest. "Ow."
"Clockwork needed you and the only way to safely get you out was to fake your death. " She lied. "So I put you under a hex."
"You were the one who trapped Vlad in the thermos!"
She nodded ignoring the pain and tears that came with seeing him. "Yeah only that wasn't Vlad. Look I'll go get you some food I'm sure you're hungry then we can talk." She got up and left before he could say anything leaving him to his thoughts. Sam… He though his heart ached for her. They think I'm dead all of them…
(line break)
Erisa cried as she slid down the wall. The small kitchen she sat in had only enough to sustain a few. Clockwork added it when she first arrived. The whole thing was automatic you told it what you wanted and it made it for you, which gave her time to herself if only for a few moments. She clutched her head fighting with all her might. They had been going away she had been getting better. She knew even with all the time in the world she would never be able to forget, would never be able to heal. The vision took her breath away as it came.
The blood was the first thing Erisa notice the warm sticky mess that stuck to her fingers and still pushed through covering her hand completely. The metallic smell filled her nostrils clogging her lungs.
"Run Eris don't be stupid…RUN!" His voice echoed in her head suddenly it was clear.
She was kneeling over him. The gaping wound in his chest oozing green and red. He looked at her pleadingly with his bicolored eyes his white hair stained and dirty. His clothes were ripped but still fit nice just another painful memory. She shook her head ignore what he said and counting to push against the wound the dark blue glow never stopping.
"Please… run." He begged. "I'm not going to make it Eris."
"Don't say that! You promised me you promised!" She sobbed tears running down her face mixing with his blood and own tears.
"I know I'm sorry." His voice was getting weaker.
"No Josh please!"
He smiled weakly. "I love you and I will never leave you…" His voice was a mere whisper his body was fading from view. "Now…do me a favor Eris run…." And closed his eyes disappearing from sight forever.
"No!" she sobbed, "no please!" She refused to move.
"God damit girl come on!" Clockwork snapped grabbing her arm and dragging her forward. He had witnessed the whole thing only coming there to save her.
A shrill beeping that signaled the food was ready brought her back to reality. Her face pressed against the cold tile floor her stomach lurched. It was always like this her body coming back slowly unwilling to come back to the present. She sat up slowly her head spinning she groaned with annoyance. She could feel his emotion worry, angry, grief, that stupid hero complex. Danny was trying to stand up and come look for her. In fact, he had made it done the stairs.
"Daniel you're an idiot." She stated surprising him as he limped into the kitchen. He clutched his chest the white bandaged was almost completely seeped with blood.
"You've been gone for almost an hour the things been beeping for at least forty-five minutes."
She wiped her eyes of the dried tears. "I fell asleep." She lied and winced at how horrible that sounded.
Danny was worried admittedly, he did not even know this girls name but something in him worried about her maybe the hero complex his friends always said he had. Also knowing from what he learned from Jazz when a girl does not want to talk about it, it could go either way. She could get mad at him for asking or tell him because it is important. He decided to risk it. "What's the matter?"
"You're bleeding a lot and I have to fix it." She mumbled angrily standing up and going to a device that looked like a stove. A plate sat on it, which she picked up glaring at Danny. "You know how hard it is to wrap your whole chest with lien?"
He didn't know what to say.
She let out a sigh brushing past him. "Your ghost half helps you got fast healing which is easy to help speed up but I can't do that on an empty stomach nether can you so come on."
He followed her slowly trying not to show how much it hurt. Years of trying to hide wounds from ghost hunting from his friends, family, and even kids at school kind of hotwired his mind to that. It had gotten easier since Sam had taken the medical classes at the college. It felt as if someone wrenched a stake through his heart. Erisa looked at him she could feel the pain he felt similar to her own but not the same. Never the same. "Erisa but I prefer Eris."
"what?" Danny asked a blank look on his face as he followed her to what appeared to be a study. Who knew clockwork had all these rooms?
"My name is Eris." No one had called her that since he died.
"Oh" he said dumbly sitting across from her in the big leather chair the coffee table in the middle a fire place to the left. Shelves of books lined the walls each one looked older than the others. "That's a nice name. Well you already know my name." He laughed weakly clutching his chest again as they turned to coughing.
She placed the tray on the table. "Deep breathes with help trust me."
"Every been stabbed before?" He asked trying to make a run at humor.
"Yeah a few times never in the ribs though but I mean I know how it feels." She said somberly.
Danny was at a lose of words. Again. He didn't expect that. "What do you mean it's never happen but you know how it feels?"
She looked up at him her right eye was covered by her hair, which had been taken down. The black cutting across her skin at an angle as her eye fixed on him sent a chill up his spine. "I'm an empath I can feel what others feel emotional or physical."
She pulled the cover off the tray steam rising up with it. Two bowls sat with identical contents of soup. "Clockwork never understands people. And right now he's under a lot of pressure."
The words were random yet it was what Danny was going to ask about. "What's going on?" He took the bowl of soup she offered him.
"Change." She took her own bowl meeting his eyes again. "A monster of untold power is sucking a hole through dimensions. Or at least trying to he can't not until he gets the 'key'. A few people of power can make or break this goal. You are one of them if the monster got a hold of you he would drain you of your body and use it as a husk for his minions."
"So is that what Vlad was doing? Was that even Vlad?"
"Yes and No. Yes it was what the thing was trying to do it's why it didn't take long to take you down. No because that wasn't Vlad as in your Vlad."
Danny made a face as she said that. "Trust me he's not mine."
She laughed though it sounded hollow. "No I mean the one from your time stream. That was a thing known as a Whisper man. The Vlad it took it's form off of was from a different timeline on where the monster has infinite power yet no finite way of using it. He can only send others to other time lines to disrupt things until he gets the 'key' he's stuck powerless."
"So what is this 'key'? Why not just destroy it?" He asked sipping the soup trying to ignore the pain in his side.
"The 'key' is a person." She trailed off as her words sank in.
"The ultimate choice huh? Stop a monster but kill an innocent person. Or let them live and risk the whole universe."
"It's not that hard kill the 'key' another lives have been lost one more for the good of all why not?" She asked dryly her eyes scanning his face before moving to the door where Clockwork floated shifted through his forms.
"Because the 'key' holds to much importants they hold life or death in their hands for more than just one time stream if you kill them there could be unknown consciences." Clockwork
Eris looked angry. "All they are causing is death. I say good riddance if I could would do it myself."
"And what about the people who depend on this person?" Clockwork asked his voice laced with venom.
"They should understand!" She snapped. Danny could practically cut the tension between the two with a knife.
"If I might say something I agree with Clockwork surly there's another way then just killing this 'key'?"
"Clockwork doesn't care about killing them he's worried about what will happen if we did." Erisa stated turning back to Danny ignoring Clockwork and turning her attention back to the soup.
"I do care but I would do what has to be done. Although sacrificing the 'key' is not what I would do they grow up to be very important for the safety of the universe."
"If they cared so much then why haven't they done something?" Danny asked not to be harsh but to know.
"They can't if they use their powers the monster would find them." Erisa stated.
"Does this monster have a name?"
"Yes and no. It does have a name but names are power. If you know the name of a person, you hold power over them but in turn, they hold a force over you. I know his name but I can't tell you."
"You lie so easily." Clockwork murmured so only she could hear which earned him a glare.
"Ok…this still doesn't really explain what good I'm to you wounded and stuff. I mean yeah if you got a hold of me but you said he was in another dimension it sounds more like you need the key wait am I the key?!"
"Ha full of yourself much? No you are not the key more like a bishop if you ask me." Eris said.
"Well I see you two found dinner I came to tell you something important erisa but I did get distracted."
"Well what do you want?" She snapped impatiently.
"I'm not sure if having Daniel here is a good idea."
Danny looked up from his soup with a grin "Telling secrets are we?"
Erisa glared at Danny. "You are stupid you know?" She stood up setting the bowl on the table before following Clockwork out of the room.
"What's so important the Meta human can't know?" Erisa snapped. "Oh wait do I have to ask?"
"You know what this is about girl! Now listen to me I understand how you feel but they will be coming I need to know when."
"Wow that must have pained you to say." Eris smiled darkly. "Huh? To have to admit you don't have all those powers you like to boast about?'
Clockwork steamed. "Yes I understand sometimes I get a little boastful but must you be such a pain?!"
She shrugged. "Do you always have to be a dic-"
He cut her off. "I don't care who is your father watch your language."
If looks could kill, he would be a pill of smoldering ash. A string of unprintable words escaped her mouth. "When have you cared about me in a fatherly way?"
"I have always seen you as a daughter now this is off topic when?"
"We have a listener." Her hand reached out faster than a striking snake.
Danny let out a pained yelp as she grabbed his invisible arm tightly. "Ow! Watch it!"
Clockwork looked annoyed. "Yes he's a teenage human boy with ghost powers you sound surprised."
Eris let go of his arm. "Oh you care so much don't you? Your little pet human! If I did this you would have my head! But he can do no wrong his needs before the rest! Sure, you see me as a daughter but you're the kind of man who loves his son more huh? Go burn in hell!" She snapped storming off leaving a very stunned Danny and an exasperated Clockwork.
"That girl is impossible!"
"…" Danny just stood there never in his life had he been rendered speechless so many times by one person. His neon eyes wide with shock.
Clockwork sighed she still didn't answer his question. "Daniel you should have not been spying."
"Sorry but I mean I am here against my will and you guys won't really tell me anything."
Clockwork sighed. "It's for your own good." He raised his hand stopping Danny from interrupting. "And considering for years you lied to your parents you have no place to speak."
"Yeah well at least they knew I was safe then."
(linebreak…I lost count)
Two weeks…Danny thought with a sigh. I've been here for two weeks. The weeks had their ups and downs. Danny found it hard to live with Eris sometimes. She was distant, short tempered, and erratic. Half the time she was cool then all of a sudden she hated him more than Clockwork. He found the pattern quickly it was only after she disappeared for a while did she get snippy at him. Which as the weeks progressed happened more and more often.
Clockwork was the opposite. He spent most of his time in meetings with the Observers or messing with his portals. But he was always kind to Danny. No matter what he had a fatherly vibe.
One of the downs of staying in the clock tower happened to be in a thermos. Since his wound was almost gone Danny spent a lot of time wondering around he avoided the main room for this reason. Every time he came close, Dan would speak and would throw jibes at him. Some struck closer to home than Danny would like.
He walked past the hole in the wall without thinking. His thoughts on his family and friends.
"So how does it feel to be a dead man?" Dan asked.
Danny stopped surprised on the fact he even knew about that. "What are you talking about?"
Laughter. "What do you think Eris doesn't tell me stuff?"
"Oh yeah she's really ate up about it."
"Erisa won't tell you anything if she knew who you really were!" Danny snapped he knew he shouldn't even be talking to Dan let alone having a conversation with him.
"You really think that?" Dan asked still laughing. "'Cause I'm pretty sure she knows full and well who we are."
"I am not you! You are a liar! That's all you do that's what you are doing right now!"
Tension had been high in the tower to begin with but now Danny was surging with it. Dan lies that's all. He thought but yet what if he wasn't? Eris knew a lot about him but would she really tell him what had been going on.
"You know she's more of a liar than me. She lied to you since day one. I mean think about it has she ever told you about her powers?"
Danny didn't respond he knew she had some powers more than just empathy but what he did not know.
"Well she has me." He added, "And think about it, do you really believe that faking your death was the only way to get you to come. If they had told you would have come and your friends wouldn't be mourning you."
Danny stormed off angrily Erisa had asked not to be bother and had gone to her room for the rest of the night. So Danny went to his room slamming the door shut behind him. He let Dan's words simmer within. The inner turmoil was enough to keep him awake all night.
Finally, he had enough. As much as he hated to admit it, Dan was right. And it was time to confront Erisa about it. He stormed out of his room banging on her door loudly.
"Erisa! I need to talk to you!"
Good lord Danny trying to wake up the entire ghost zone!" Eris snapped as she pulled open the door. She had black bags under her blood shot eyes. It look as though she had stayed up all night crying. One look at Danny and she knew what this was about. "Why did you talk to him?"
"I think the better question is what's going on all of it! I mean one minute you're fine and dandy the next psycho bitch! And he is right you know I would have come you did have to fake my death!"
The tension between the two had been growing since Danny had arrived but it was like a dam breaking all of it rushing to the surface.
She stiffened. "If you lived one day in my life you wouldn't be able to go on! Because you know what you are a little human FREAK! No one wants you no one truly accepts you! In ever time stream Dan is a possibility so if you want to talk about psycho! And don't even talk to me about what should have been or could be!"
"Oh here we go again some big secret you have hold it over all our heads but never tell us! Maybe you are just making crap up to get attention because you certainly want Clockworks!"
That hit home. "Get out of my way!" She snapped shoving him out of her way as she stormed down the hallway. "You and ever one of your kind is a pig!"
"Oh really? Now what's 'my kind'?"
"MEN!" With that she was gone leaving a fuming Danny behind.
He walked down the stairs that lead to the main room where Clockwork was. "You shouldn't have said that."
"Well I'm sorry! But it needed to be said honestly what is wrong with her!"
Clockwork's red eyes fixed Danny with a stern glare. "There are many layers to Erisa in one of them is something you would call PTSD."
Danny felt a wave a guilt but it didn't demise his anger. "So? What ever happen to her does not give her the right to ruin my life by faking my death!"
Clockwork seemed surprised by this. "She told you it was her doing?"
"Yeah! Can you believe that?"
"No because I was me who chose that. She tried to get me to do something else. She didn't want you or your friends to suffer."
"What?" Danny asked surprised suddenly that guilt washed out his anger.
"Erisa suffered greatly it is why she is here. But she did not want you to suffer as well I insisted that it was the only way to keep them all safe."
"What happened to her?" His voice was a mere whisper.
"It is not my place to say. It would be like me telling everyone you knew about Dan it is something she must tell you herself. But considering how upset she was well she left I don't think that will happen anytime soon."
Tears streamed down her face the cold rain running down her back. Her clothes were soaked but still she stayed crying. The gravestone stared her down eyes burning with hatred. He was gone but yet she could not believe it. Never.
A graveyard was the only place that Eris felt she belonged. The loneliness, the loss, the guilt, pain. It was like sweet honey. The taste metallic almost like blood in her mouth. She walked in between the rows and rows of gravestones. She didn't have to see where she was going as if by memory her feet lead her. The small woman was kneeling at the site. Her dark attire blended with the whole feeling of the graveyard. Thunder roared as she neared the goth. She rested her hand on the crying woman's shoulder.
"Sam."
Sam looked up surprised. At first, she just stared blankly, not recognizing the girl then it clicked. As if, someone flipped a switch.
"You. You were there…" A sob ripped from her chest.
"He's not dead." Eris leaned down so she was looking the girl in the eye face-to-face. "I can take you to him."
"Who are you?"
"Someone who you have to trust." She stood back up. "No don't trust me you have no right to you don't know me. Take a leap of faith for love. For Danny."
Sam stared hesitantly at her out stretched hand. So many emotions washed through her it made Eris dizzy to feel her vitality, her life force pumping strongly, yet so easily diminished. She took her hand if she hadn't been so tried maybe she would have thought straighter. Now all that mattered was seeing Danny.
Danny hadn't realized he fell asleep on the small couch in the small living room until he was wakened up by a soft hand brushing the hair out of his eyes. He though it was Eris when he opened his eyes his mouth working faster than his brain.
"I'm so sorry about wh- SAM!"
The Goth laughed but it was cut off by a sob of joy as she threw her arms around him. He pulled her closer to him tears spilling down his cheeks.
"Oh Sam I thought I would never see you again! Oh I love you."
"I love you to Danny." She whispered in his ear not wanting to let go. Afraid if she let go he would disappear that this was all a dream.
He pulled back slowly his lips met hers. He pulled her into his lap and her fingers found their way into his snowy white hair. His hand pulled her closer deepening the kiss.
Someone clearing their throat broke them apart. Blushing madly Danny looked at the door where Eris leaning against. "Sorry to interrupt no wait not really Clockwork is going to be in a hissy fit when he finds out so I thought I give you some warning. Trust me when I say you should be so thankful it was me walking on you two sucking each other's faces off and not the master of all angry." She gave them a smile before turning around.
"Wait Erisa!" It was Danny. "I'm sorry."
She didn't bother turning around but she cursed under her breathe ignoring what he said. She turned back towards them and stomped over to the chair in the corner of the small cozy room. A medallion around her neck. Clockwork stood in the doorway arms crossed.
He looked PO. "I don't even know what to say! What are you doing children?"
"Oh I don't know looks pretty obvious to me. Had I not walked in we would have a six person staying in this prison." Eris snapped back both Sam's and Danny's faces turned beet red.
Clockwork glared. "That's not what I mean!"
"Sorry with you can never tell."
Clockwork took a deep breathe Danny could see as his hands trembled with angry. "What is the human doing here?" His voice was calm to calm. Freaky calm.
Eris cocked her head to the side like a dog and spoke something in another language. She laughed suddenly it was a sharp barking laughter that made both Danny and Sam jump.
Clockwork's face soften. "Child go to your room I will speak to you later."
Eris's face was Stoney as she stood and walked out of the room stiffly. Clockwork turned back to the couple sitting on the old Victorian style couch. He let out a sigh. "Samantha you should not be here."
"And why the hell not?! You lied to me! You told me there was nothing you could do and he was dead!" Sam snapped angrily.
"I did that to protect you all. There are forces in the universe that are greater than you can understand. It was all for you safety."
"oh I heard that one before." Danny looked suddenly to his right as an icily chill swiped through this body but didn't escape his lips like normally when his ghost sense went off.
A ghostly disembodied voice should of raised more from the ghost of time and Sam but it didn't it appeared as though they could not hear it. In fact, the other two went on talking about what had been going on. Danny tuned it out it was the same speech Clockwork had told him what seemed like thousands of times these few weeks.
"Blah blah blah he sounds like a broken record! God I wish I could put in some Ghostbusters in. Ha!" The disembodied voice suddenly had a body. His ghostly tail swept back'n'forth it a pale gray. He wore a black suit with a white dress shirt and blood red tie. If he had a fedora on Danny would have thought he was an Italian mafia ghost. His hair was a marble of stark white and ebony black. His skin was a lit tan color healthy yet at the same time a ghostly sickly look. His eyes, oh his eyes one a toxic green similar to Danny's own but blue swirled around in it. The left one with a piece of black hair falling into it was blood red. Redder than his tie. The closer Danny looked the more detail he noticed about the ghost. His sharp looking suit was not so sharp. It was torn and stained with dirt and green and red blood. A scar ran down his cheek under his red eye. It was pink and thin. Danny only could stare wide eyed.
"Oh yeah imagine that CW singing ghostbusters! Eris would love that." His smile widen and he let out a sigh looking over at Sam and Danny his eyes widen though when he saw Danny staring AT him not through him like he should.
"Ok J.C now you are just imagining things I'll turn around and some big monster will be behind me on the first plane. Don't! Get your hope up for nothing." The ghost turned around slowly the only monster behind him was the wall.
Danny could hear him gulp as he turned back around. Danny didn't know what to say if anything if they others couldn't see him then they would think he was crazy.
"Danny?" Sam's voice brought him back to reality. "Earth I mean ghost zone to Danny ello? Anyone there?"
"Ah yeah sorry I was distracted. I think I'm going to my room." He stood quickly albeit stiffly and before either could say anything he left.
J.C knew Danny well enough to know when he wanted to talk without having to say it. He rose intangible through the tower to the living space. Stopping in Eris's the girl was laying on her stomach on her bed, her face smashed into a pillow. She gave a cry of frustration and annoyance the pillow muffling it. He gave a small smile before phasing two rooms down the hall into Danny's. Who had just walked in he closed the door softly.
"Why in hell can I see you and no one else?!" He spoke in a quiet whisper.
"Why would you think I know? Are you freaking kidding me! It's has been like two months since someone's seen me!" He didn't bother keeping his voice down no one could hear him.
"…What!" Danny cried out louder than he intended he slapped his hand over his mouth. The ghost in front of him smiled lazily. His eyes gleaming with humor.
Danny cringed as the knock on his door resounded like a boom around the quiet room.
"I'm opening the door please be descent." It was Eris.
"No don't come in!" Danny yelled panicking the ghost rolled his eyes "She can't see me let her in or she'll get suspicious."
"Danny you suck at lying. I'm coming in." She opened the door and looked around surprised her eyes trailed over the ghost but she didn't see him.
"No Sam? I would have though you two would be like rabbits."
Danny blushed the ghost behind him coughed but it sounded like something between a laugh, cough, and gag noise. "I went upstairs."
Erisa rolled her eyes walking into the room as if she owned it letting the door close behind her. Danny noticed as the Ghost's eyes followed her dark and lustful but something more. "No really? I though you just went out for tea and biscuits."
This time the ghost laughed fully. "No." Danny growled out. "Just stressed that's all."
Eris eyed him from her place on the bed in the center of the blue room. Her toes running through the cream carpeting. "It's ok."
"What?" Danny asked confused. The ghost gave an agitated sigh "She means about your apology."
"Oh yeah well." His hand went to his neck.
Eris smiled softly she looked sad the ghost acted on impulse his fingers brushed her cheek. She gasped a shiver running down her spine. "You can't tell her I'm here. Ever."
"I know you talked to Clockwork and I think you deserve to know the truth." Her hand brushed her cheek. Wishing with all her heart it was real.
"OK." Danny said uncertain sitting down next to her.
She refused to met his eye. "It happened two months ago. Well I mean for me two months for you only two days."
She looked up at him he obviously was confused. Her eyes were glassy with unshed tears. "That thing that came at you was nothing. He as in the leader of them captured me and my friend at prom."
She gave a humorless laugh. "Every girl dreams of their prom somehow I should have known this would be mine. He was my best friend I loved him when he asked me to prom I thought it was the best thing ever. Well that's when that monster captured us. He tortured us for weeks. He wanted me to renounce my family to join him. I refused to. So he used Josh against me he would beat him to an inch of life and make me watch. Everyday a new torture." Tears poured down her face.
"In the end we escaped. Only it was a trap. We should have known it was just to easy. Josh took a ecto-rauiam blade to the heart. He died in my arms but the blade destroyed his essence his body disappeared even if his spirit survived he would never be able to take a corporal body again."
The ghost looked almost as sad as the girl "I promised her I would never leave her. It was at her mom's funeral." Danny looked at him surprised.
"The worst part of it is you."
"What?" Danny asked a little offended.
"You two look so much alike it's uncanny. I get that there should be a family resemblance but he looks like your twin not your son."
Danny eyes widen as his head shot up staring at the ghost who smiled darkly. "Hi dad nice to see you."
Ok I'm done ! Hope you like if you guys want I will finish in case you didn't get it Erisa is from the future. I don't know if I put that in there this took me several days of working on to finish hint why it's so late plus I have summer school so if I do finish it won't be tell July. Yours truly kindrid