A/N: Thank you to BlazeNStar on Discord for drawing the cover for this story!
I own nothing, aside from Evelyn and Spencer. Don't like DannyxOC, don't read. Simple as that. Flames will be used to make a fire for Danny and Evelyn to sit at later on. This is an AU story, as Phantom Planet never happened.
I also do not own any music in this story. The titles are based off of the album Unleashed by Skillet. They reflect the song I was listening to on repeat while writing the chapter. They may not fit, but I thought it'd be a fun little thing to add.
And thanks to my Beta Readers-
Queen of Trash (Discord) christine . kim . 524 (Fanfiction, just remove the spaces)
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And finally, thanks to christine . kim . 524 for helping with ideas for this story. She's basically co-writing in a way, which is great because without her, this probably wouldn't be written at all!
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Any authors notes after this should not be as long as this. Have fun reading!
Chapter One: Feel Invincible
A figurative target was on his back as he ran, the brown haired man weaving in between buildings. "Lyn!" He called out. "They're after us!" His red eyes were filled with fear, a bleeding cut under his left eye.
"How come you didn't tell me they had bounty hunters here!?" 'Lyn' replied, hiding in a building.
"And how come you didn't tell me where exactly we were jumping to before we jumped!?" The male shouted back.
"Spence, you know I can't see past my portals, that's your job!" The woman, who looked to be his twin, said as a ripping sound was heard. She made a motion, as if grabbing a zipper, and pulled down- opening a bright blue portal.
Behind them was a blue and black haired man with tanned skin. He had dark blue eyes, had a black tattoo over his right eye that looked like sideways waves,
and he wore strong looking armor- black, white, and green. He had a white spear that was glowing blue at the tip.
"Come back here, criminals! You need to be tried for trespassing in our dimension!" The man screeched, thrusting his spear forward in an attempt to close the portal on them.
"Sorry, Vikki," Spence exclaimed with a grin. "We've got places to be!" Focusing, he caught the spear and sent a rush of electricity through it, his red eyes tinting yellow.
Lyn stepped into the portal, looking towards her brother. "Spencer, come on! We don't have much time left before it closes!"
"Coming!" Spencer replied. Lyn jumped through, as if walking down a hallway, and Spencer followed.
Right as it closed, however…
"Ack!" Spencer coughed. The tip of the spear could be seen through his chest.
His twin turned around, a look of sheer horror on her face. The hunter had shoved his spear through at the last moment, catching her brother. "Evelyn! Keep going!" He called out. "Don't look back, I'll be fine, I'll join you soon!"
They both knew he wouldn't.
Executing his final wishes, Evelyn kept going and didn't stop until she was out of what she called the Limbo Portal.
She was in a new place.
Without her brother.
He was twenty-four now.
It had been four years since Tucker had gone off to MIT. It had been five years since Sam left for Vermont Law School- the only reason he knew that was because Tucker had told him.
It had been even longer since he and Sam talked. The last time either had said something to other, they had been fighting.
The fight had been a big one, the end of their relationship. Danny had gone off to fight a strong ghost, and he didn't bring Sam or Tucker with him as back-up. He had won the fight, but he was seriously injured afterwards. Once he was healed enough, he and Sam had argued.
They had been seventeen when it happened.
"Danny, you can't keep doing this to yourself! That ghost nearly killed you!" Sam had exclaimed, her eyes narrowed at her boyfriend. "One of these days you're going to get yourself killed!"
"Sam, it's my responsibility," Danny had told her, folding his arms across his chest. "It's my fault that all the ghosts are coming to Amity Park, I need to protect everyone. And if that means getting hurt, or even risking death, then I'll take that chance."
Sam groaned in frustration, throwing her hands in the air. "Danny you're so stubborn, sometimes I just can't take it!" She exclaimed. "You need to think about yourself, not just the town and the people in it!"
Sam started giving him the cold shoulder after that. The trio knew he wouldn't be stopping any time soon.
A year later, they had all graduated- Danny just barely passing- and his two childhood friends left for college. He knew that college and his ghost hunting "hobby" wouldn't mix, so he started working part-time jobs. He didn't usually hold one for long, though, because the ghosts just kept showing up.
Being single for at least five years now, he had no one to tend to his injuries. Danny was always getting injured from ghost fights. It wasn't too bad but Team Phantom was officially broken up. He still talked to Tucker sometimes, but the man had school and a job at a tech firm to deal with. The same with Jazz.
Danny sighed, pushing open a door and walking into the small coffee shop he always went to before work. The sign read Hank's Cafe.
It was a quaint place, with a few tables scattered around the room. At the far back was the counter, and the menu. There were restrooms that way, and behind the counter was a door to the staff room and supply room.
He had a part-time job at a hardware supply store, though he was probably going to lose that job the way things were going. Just yesterday, Skulker had come out to try and claim his pelt, and then the Box Ghost showed up and he had to chase him around Amity for at least two hours. When he got back to work, his boss gave him a look and just shook his head.
That would be his third job in two months.
I should probably just do ghost hunting full time, he thought. It's not like the ghosts care what I'm doing. He chuckled dryly at that.
After placing his order- a flat white with vanilla, he went to go sit down at a window seat.
That was when she walked in.
She was a slightly tanned woman with stunning, blood red eyes and dark brown hair. She wore a uniform that every other worker in the shop wore, her name tag saying "Evelyn G." She had a good sized bust and was about five foot five inches. She smiled at Danny and waved before going behind the counter.
She's… Wow, he thought, before shaking his head. I can't let anyone get too close, though. It's for their safety.
While he was stuck in his thoughts, he failed to notice the same woman walk over to him with his cup of coffee. "Here's your coffee, sir," the woman said with an accent that said she wasn't from the area.
"Thanks," Danny said absentmindedly, taking a sip from his warm drink. His ghost sense went off a few seconds later and he sighed. Looks like he wouldn't be finishing his coffee today after all.
He'd probably be late to work, too. Again.
Today just wasn't his day.
It was night time now.
She had lost her brother five years ago, to the day.
It was cloudy out, and the full moon could barely be seen from behind it's blanket of clouds. Evelyn Rowan Geller sat on her bed in her apartment in Elmerton- a suburb of Minneapolis. She wore a long night gown and had her hair tied back. She had music flowing through the small room. It was towards the end of the song and she was humming along to the tune.
The woman heard a crash outside her apartment and looked out the window to see a young man, around her age, with white hair and glowing green eyes. He wore a black and white HAZMAT suit with a racing D on it.
Danny Phantom.
Eyes wide, she pulled on a coat, yelling at Alexa to pause her music, and ran out of her apartment. She raced down the stairs and to the alley where he landed.
He was seriously injured. She only saw a flash of a green cape before she was totally alone with the ghost hero.
"Well, this can't be much harder than what Spence and I used to do… Right?" The twenty-four-year-old woman said to herself, picking him up. She thought he was going to be heavy, but he actually wasn't very heavy at all.
The young man mumbled something, but he was incoherent. The amount of ectoplasm he had lost couldn't be healthy, but he was hanging onto his ghost form well enough.
"Just keep holding onto it, we're almost there," she said as she brought him into her apartment and put him on the bed in her room. Better to give him the private room- let him keep thinking she didn't know his secret.
Evelyn Geller wasn't a normal human, not by anyone's standards. Aside from vibrating at a slightly different frequency compared to the people of this dimension, she had her own powers. One of her powers was called Psychometry. That meant she was able to discern the history of a person or object, so long as she had been in close proximity to them. So yes, she did know the secret of Danny Fenton being Danny Phantom.
She wouldn't tell anyone. She'd leave it up to him to tell her.
Today was the first day she got to actually get close to him, and when her powers reacted- as they always did- she got the shock of her life to learn he was the town hero.
She also displayed powers stronger than Psychometry- such as Dimension Hopping. That was how she lost her brother.
Shaking her head, she grabbed her large first aid kit, looking at an already healing gash on his arm, and a particularly bad burn on his leg.
She muttered something inaudible, putting latex gloves on. She rubbed antibacterial ointment around his gash before quickly stitching it up. Then she put
burn cream on the burn and wrapped both injuries up. He looked to still be out of it, so she left out some Advil and wrote him a note.
"Phantom,
You crashed down near my apartment and you were pretty badly hurt. I treated what I could see, but I left the first aid kit in the bathroom in case there's anything else you need to take care of.
Does Advil work on ghosts? Nevermind, just take as much as you need. You heal pretty fast, but be careful not to aggravate any injuries, and make sure you take care of them until you're fully healed.
You can always come back here if you need first aid and you're in the area. I'm first aid certified, so it's no problem for me. Hospitals probably don't take ghosts, anyways.
Anyways, I'll probably be in the other room, working on an article for the local newspaper.
Thanks for all the good you do,
Evelyn R. Geller"
She left the note there with a soft smile and walked out of the room. She had an article to work on.
I hope you're still in the Limbo instead of dead, Spencer… Be safe, brother.