Failure.
That single word echoed throughout his mind. For his whole life that single word had plagued him.
Failure, loser, freak…
Every time his parents looked at him he saw it in their eyes. The same look they gave their experiments that didn't work.
Jazz was on the honor roll, always the best. She was the shining star, on her way to Harvard.
He had the occasional D. They didn't ground him much, not that they could drop him, but always those eyes. A small sadness, pity. He could never live up to their standards.
Not that he didn't try. He worked hard to keep up his grades, and to stay out of trouble. But the curse of his double life all but erased any progress he made.
It was that second life that they didn't know about. Even then he was a failure and menace.
In that scene life he was better than his parents at what he did, yet he was one of those they sought to eliminate.Absent mindedly Danny rubbed his wrists while waiting. For what he didn't know. The ghosts were quiet, Sam had been captured by her pink loving parents, and Tucker was working on that paper due tomorrow.
Amazingly all of Danny's homework was done an hour ago. It was too late for hanging out on the town and too early for a late night flight. He was itching for something, anything to happen.
Deciding he might be better off playing on the computer Danny headed down the stairs to the lab.
"Jack the signs are there, you know what that might mean."
His parents were sitting on the couch, obviously deep in a conversation. Rarely had Danny ever seen such a serious expression on his dad's face.
"His grades have never been high, besides brains aren't the point."
Where they talking about him? Neither had spotted him yet so he decided that it was best if they didn't. He backed up and sat out of their sight.
"I know, but three, four more years and then what? He may not make it on his own."
"Of course not, you've been cuddling him too much. I warned you about bonding. Just tell him and be done with it."
'Tell me what?'
"How? It's not like we can just say, 'You can never leave the house because…'"
The front door slammed open and Jazz's voice called though out the house, "Mom, dad, I'm home."
The teen girl caught sight of her parents, "Oh, I'm not interrupting anything am I?"
"No Jazzy pants. Hey, want to see the latest invention?"
Danny quickly and quietly crawled to his room and phased through the door.
In their eyes, he would always be, a failure.