We were eating lunch outside when we heard it. The whole school heard it. Screaming, but it came from the sky. Someone had a pair of binoculers and starting shouting that it was a ghost girl and that she looked hurt. She was being attacked but some buzzard looking ghosts, she was falling. We all saw the flash in the sky.

With people everywhere I had no where to go ghost. I was starting to panic as she got closer to Earth. I stood up and almost called out Going Ghost even tho I was in the middle of a crowd, when I saw Dash make a bee line for her.

It was pretty amazing to watch. He ran at full force, everything seamed so well timed, he used one of the picnic tables to lanch himself into the air. He scooped her up out of the air like a football. The landing wasn't as graceful, but Dash protected her body well using his.

Everyone cheered, and I prayed that it wasn't her. Let it be another ghost girl, please oh please. Her hair was black and short. I pushed my way to the front, it was her.

"Dani!" I ran the short distance to my baby girl and the man who was now my hero.

I heard the crowd mumble and ask why I'd said my own name.

Taking her hand I almost cried at the sight of her. Bloody and clothes torn, if Dash hadn't saved her.

"Oh baby, oh sweetie, pumpkin. It's okay, please wake up hon, Dani sweetie. Please, please open your eye's." In a hushed tone, "Please for daddy."

Dani groaned and opened an eye. She looked around and saw me. Instantly she leapt into my arms and starting crying. I stroked her hair and listened to the sound of sirens drawing closer. The only thing I could think of to calm her down was a luaby. It sounded horrorable but her sobs quieted.

The crowd was parting to let the paramedics through. I held her hand as they strapped her to a board and carried her in the ambulance. They tried telling me that I couldn't go with them, I let my ghost powers seep through knowing how I'd look to them. They changed their minds about letting me go.

The trip was fast and Dani was looked at in no time. Other than being exausted and having some cuts and brusies she was fine. Dash had really saved her life. I would have to find someway of thanking him later.

Right now tho I had to deal with her doctor.

"You want her parent to sign, fine. That's me. Don't believe me than run a DNA test. Take my blood, swap my cheek I instest."

The doctor took it, probably just to prove me wrong and throw me out. If took a few hours but he came back amazed and full of questions. So I answered them, sort of.

I told him that my parents were scientists, and that a fellow scientist was jealous of my father. So he worked on cloning, what he was planning to do with the clone I wasn't sure. He was a nutjob that didn't think ahead very often. Anyways he managed to make a clone, but messed up and instead of a he it was a she. He'd figured out a way to age her as well.

I signed the papers the doctor needed and swore him to secretcy. No one could find out about her, people would only want to use her or study her or even worse take her apart.

The call home was weird to say the least. Telling them as much as I could without giving to much away. They knew I'd be staying the night and promised to pick us up when she was releast.

Dash came by.

We stood in a stairwell with hot chocolate from the cafeterate.

"Thanks Dash. I owe you big time. You're a real hero you know." I felt so greatful, until her opened his mouth.

"Daddy? It's been bugging me why'd you say daddy? If you have some kind of sick relationship with her, I'll...I'll... She only looks twelve for fucks sake." One hand griped the railing, his knuckles were turning white. He looked angry and confused.

I set down my hot chocolate. "No, we don't. I'm going to have to explain everything aren't I? Fuck. You can't say a word about this to anyone got it?"

Dash nodded, looking less angry but more confused. "I promise Fenton."

I checked the stairwell first than shouted, "I'm going ghost!" I'd tranformed. Dash stumbled back and I grabbed his arm to steady him. "I'll just give you the cliff notes, and save the whole story for later."

So I told him. How I turned into a half ghost, about Vlad, about the cloning.

"So you're a dad huh?"

"Yeah pretty much." I'd turned off the ghost thing, if anyone saw us well I was a ghost things could get bad.

We drank our hot chocolate in silence for another minute. "What's it like? Being a dad at 15?"

"It's weirder for me than most I guess. I didn't get any of the fun plarts like sex or watching her grow. Hell I'm not even sure if she really grew, I don't know how Vlad did it all. Suddenly I've got an angry preteen that felt betrayed by the world when Vlad threw her aside. I don't even know where she is most of the time. I've seen her three, four times now. Never for more than a few days. So I'm always worrying. Sometimes I worry less, but when she comes back into town it's cause there's trouble following. She looks twelve but she's only maybe five-seven months old now, and she's lived more than I have. She's out on her own, taking care of herself and I have a bedtime for fucks sake. I've tried asking her to stay, but she never does. What can I give her anyways?"

"A home, love, a father that isn't a total dick, just a bit of one." Dash was smerking.

"Ass." But I was grinning. It was really nice to just talk to someone.

He nudged my arm with his. "Tell you a secret, gotta promise not to tell tho."

A secret, from Dash? Maybe he hit his head catching Danni. "Yeah sure. Cross my heart and everything."

He nodded and took a deep breath. "I knocked a girl up last year."

If I'd been taking a sip right than, it would have been all over the stairs.

"Our parents were freaking out. It was a one night stand, we'd both had too much to drink and ended up together. We'd become friends after, then we found out. About the third month in she miscarried. Her parents decided to move, get her better therapy than she could find here. My parents opted for forgetting about her and the baby."

Dash looked sad, but a smile creeped up on his face. "Our kids would have been only a few months apart." Tears were in his eyes so I did what anyone would do. I hugged the larger man.

We sat around and chatted for a while longer but soon he had to go and I wanted to see my Dani.

He walked be back to the room. "Danny with an I huh. Clever."

"For only a month or so old, yeah I'd say that was pretty clever, the real genuis was Vlad. Danielle, seriously he named her that."

Dash laughed and patted me on the shoulder with promises of being back first thing in the morning with a present for Dani.