IMPORTANT! Ok, ummm, you need to know that I am actually the author FantasticallyBrilliant. You may have seen me around before, this is my new Danny Phantom profile... I still plan on using both accounts, sue me. Anyway I do not own Danny Phantom, but I own my dogs, my story, and the clothes I am currently wearing, that is all. I hope you enjoy the story! Please tell me everything I did right and wrong, what you loved and hated. Do you want the next chapter to be better or not? Enjoy!
In the cold early morning hours of dawn everyone was asleep at the Fenton's home, but they wouldn't be much longer.
"NOOOOOO!" The youngest Fenton's voice rang through the house, piercing through everyone's slumber.
As soon as Maddie, Jack, and Jazz began to come into consciousness the cry came again.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!"
All three assumed it was a ghost and sprang from their beds, grabbing whatever weapon lay closest. Maddie kicked Danny's bedroom door open, but there was no sign of a ghost. Danny lay in his bed, tossing and turning as though he were in some sort of fit. Cold sweat ran across his forehead and the occational whimper came from his tense form.
"Danny! What's wrong sweetie?" asked Maddie anxiously, she hated seeing her son so upset.
"Was it a ghost?" Jack asked, his voice dangerous, for no ghost could hurt his son and get away with it!
Jazz stared at her brother for a long moment, the booomerang clutched loosely in her hand. "Mom, Dad, I think he's having a nightmare!"
Jazz had gotten it. Maddie came to sit on the side of his bed and wiped away the sweat on his forehead. "Danny, sweetie, its just a nightmare. It can't hurt you, you have to get up now."
"No, NO! Get away from me, GET AWAY!", He pushed her off the bed and turned over, still in the world of nightmares.
"Common son, you can beat any ghost, nightmare or not! You're a Fenton!" Jack encouraged him.
But it only seemed to make Danny worse.
"No, get away, you'll get hurt, I'LL HURT YOU! I can't hurt you! No! I'M. NOT. HIM! I won't!"
His parents were extremely bewildered by this, they had no idea why Danny was afraid he would hurt anyone. But Jazz knew, it was his alternate future, Danny was still terrified of becoming like him. It hurt to see him so scared.
She had to get him out of his dream, and cover for him.
"Oh, you know how strange dreams can be!" Jazz said a couple octaves too high. "We better wake him up, its damaging for teenagers to be so stressed!"
Maddie could tell that Jazz was hiding something, but it wasn't the time to find out. Her poor baby boy was suffering! She sat down next to Danny again and shook him. "You have to get up sweetie, you're dreaming, it isn't real." She shook him harder.
Danny shivered, moaned and then screamed "YOU CAN'T HURT THEM! I WON'T. Hurt. you." Danny began to regain consciousness.
Still trembling, he looked around the room. "Mom, Dad, Jazz. What... happened. Why are you all here?"
Jack- who was the least phased- answered him. "You had a bad dream son, but not to worry. Your old man is here for you!"
"We heard you scream honey, when we came in you were talking in your sleep. Screaming..." she trailed off sadly and pulled him in for a hug. "You know we'll never let anyone hurt you Danny, and we know you would never hurt a fly!"
But he only tensed in her arms. When he spoke his voice had a false ring to it. "Thanks mom, I should probably go back to sleep now, I'm still kinda tired."
Looking him up and down, Maddie took in his wild, frightened eyes, his crazy hair, and the sweat pouring down his face. He didn't look like he was tired, just scared. He didn't want them there, and it was saddening to know that. Was she the one he didn't want to hurt? "Are you sure you don't want to talk about it sweetie? I could make hot coco?"
"Yeah Danny-boy, think of the coco." Jack added.
"I'm fine. Really.", he added, seeing the disbelieving look on his mother's face.
"Well, come in if you change your mind, okay honey?" Maddie asked.
He nodded, but wouldn't look her, Jack, or Jazz in the eye.
"Why don't we make hot coco anyway Maddie, while we're still up?" pleaded Jack on the way out of Danny's room.
Seeing his parents leave calmed Danny a little bit, the nightmare was still in his mind's eye, every time he looked at them he saw what his alternate future- no- he had done.
Jazz had watched and waited for her parents to leave so she could talk to Danny. She started as soon as they left. "Danny, answer me truthfully, was that about... you know... him?"
Danny starred up at her and nodded. "Wait, how do you know?" he asked, furrowing his brow.
"Danny," began Jazz worriedly " like mom said. You were screaming little bro."
He paled. "And... what did I say, how much did you hear?"
"Enough to know you're still terrified. Of him. Of yourself. Of hurting us." she frowned disapprovingly at him. "But you know you're good Danny! You know you aren't going to turn into him, remember, he is half Vlad!-"
Danny cut her off, "Is he? Do we know that for sure, what if all I got was the power boost, what if that was all me? What if I hurt people Jazz, kill them, kill you?" He glared at her, daring her to contradict him, to find a sound argument.
Jazz was taken aback, but ever the voice of reason she had to think of something. "Danny, you're not evil. If you were would you be having these nightmares? Do you have the urge to kill me, to kill anyone? Vlad's half made him evil, we know that. And Clockwork knows it too, you stopped that future, Clockwork said so." She put her hand over his in a silent plea for him to understand the truth.
Looking at her and then her hand on his, Danny spoke "I guess you're right Jazz, but I still feel terrible. I can't help thinking about the 'what ifs'." he paused "And... it's terrible."
"I understand Danny. But remember this, you don't look like him, and you don't act like him, and you never will. You will always be you, right here." Jazz placed her hand over his heart, and was rewarded with a weak smile from Danny.
"Thanks Jazz, you're right. I will never, ever turn into him in any way, shape, or form." said Danny with a warmth in his voice that proved he was feeling better.
Jazz smiled at him, glad she had cheered him up. Then it occurred to her, the irony plane as the smile on her brother's face. Danny was now convinced he would never turn into his evil alternate self in any way, shape, or form. And he was right in the fact that they didn't know exactly how much Vlad's half had changed him. They knew he wouldn't have turned evil without it, he wouldn't have become a monster, but what else had Vlad affected? Everything? Nothing? For all she knew Danny's ghost half might get red eyes and fangs when he got older. Her parents were always going on about how, when a ghost's power levels increase their apperance changed too. But that probably wasn't true for Danny, his ghost half always mirrored his human half. Of course their Dad kept saying that this was around the time he had started to 'fill out' and that 'Danny-boy' would too.
Jazz open her mouth to tell Danny (in the least damaging way possible at least) when the door opened. Both their heads swiveled and they stiffened.
"Common Jazz, you both need to go back to sleep, or you'll be dead tired in the morning." Maddie scolded them.
Jazz closed her mouth, she would have to tell him tomorrow or risk being overheard. "Well, goodnight Danny."
"Goodnight Jazz, and, well... thanks." Danny told her, blushing slightly.
Maddie smiled at how cute they were together. Hoping Jazz had helped Danny with her psycological talk and what-not. "Goodnight Jazz, goodnight Danny." As soon as Jazz came out into the hall she closed the door softly behind her.
Closing his eyes, Danny exhailed. He still couldn't clease his mind of the fear his older self had struck into his heart, but Jazz was right, no way would he ever turn into that. With that thought Danny drifted into a much more peaceful sleep.
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