Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom
Summary: A response to one of Ghostanimal's challenges
The Challenge: MaddiexPhantom or JackxPhantom mother/son or father/son bonding fiction.
Rules: Danny cannot be exposed.
A/N: I couldn't decide if I should do a MaddiexPhantom or a JackxPhantom so I did both. They have NOTHING to do with each other. Well…maybe they have a LITTLE something to do with each other, but one can be read without the other.
Also, just as a bit of a warning, in ONLY the first part, there IS hint and a bit of DannyxSam, but it's more JackxPhantom father/son bonding. After all, what better father/son bonding topic than girl problems?
Bonding
Fatherly Advice
Jack Fenton was on patrol when he heard the noise of what sounded like a pebble being skipped. He went towards the duck pond in the park and saw a sight that was rare.
Danny Phantom, local town 'hero' and ghost boy, was skipping rocks looking rather deep in thought
"UGH!" the ghost boy exclaimed frustrated about something as he wasn't half bad at skipping rocks. "Why ME?"
Jack shifted causing Phantom to turn in shock.
"Da-er…Jack" Phantom gasped prepared to take flight.
"How come you're not terrorizing the town?" Jack asked pointing his bazooka at Phantom
"Well…all the other ghosts are either in the Ghost Zone or in that Fenton Thermos that whacked me in the face a month after I came into being" Phantom said. "So, I've been doing a bit of reflecting and I'm beginning to see why everyone had called me 'Clueless'"
Jack sighed. The look on Phantom's face reminded Jack of whenever his own son, Danny, was having trouble with a homework problem.
Because of that, Jack lowered his bazooka and sighed.
"You're not going to shoot?" Phantom asked
"You just remind me of my own boy" Jack said
"Scrawny black-haired kid with blue eyes?" Phantom asked.
"Yeah" Jack confirmed.
"He's a nice kid" Phantom said with a smile. "He's trying with the ghost hunting"
"He's hunting ghosts?" Jack asked stunned
"Yeah, but don't tell him I told you. He wants to get really good so he can help you guys out. Though I can't tell you the number of times I've had to save him"
Phantom held in a small laugh of disbelief when Jack put the bazooka against a tree. After over a year of being hunted, all Phantom had to do was tell the father figure of the Fenton Family that he saved his son numerous times and he was in the clear.
"So what's frustrating you Phantom? As a father, I could probably help"
"Well…" Phantom sighed. "In life, I had two friends…Sarah and Tom. Tom and I had been friends since forever. I met Sarah after Tom threw up in her lunch box in the second grade and told her…Richard Swamp did it. She kicked Rich off the jungle gym for that. Anyways, after that, we became the best of friends. However, something happened"
"Your death?" Jack guessed
"No. Before that. I 'died' at 14. This happened when I was 13. Sarah changed. She took on a new look and my first thought was something no friend should think of another friend, but I was a teenage boy starting puberty. And lately…I still visit them from time to time, but whenever I see her with another guy…I get this feeling of rage. One time when Ember was taking over the town and I was placed under her spell to be in love with Sarah, she broke the spell by kissing the guy who had bullied me in life. I felt like my heart had been ripped out. And then when she dated this guy from…Romania…and I used my powers to spy. He kissed her which she returned and I felt my heart get ripped out and stomped on before going through a grinder. And when she told me that the guy had been a fake, I felt relieved. However, she seemed upset over the fact that the guys who seem to be the only ones who want to date her are fakes. So I told her that there were plenty of reasons for a guy to want to take her."
"what are those reasons?" Jack asked
"She's smart, pretty, fun, feisty…" Phantom listed before smacking his forehead. "Why am I rambling? I am such a spazz"
"Why DO you haunt your old friends?" Jack asked
"I don't know" Phantom said skipping another pebble. "It could be because they had been present when I died. Or that we promised we'd be friends forever and that nothing could tear us apart which apparently considered death"
"I THINK I may know your problem" Jack said. "I just need to know a few things"
"If it's what caused my death, that's a BIT personal" Phantom said
"Nothing like that. Would you do anything for her?"
"Yes"
"Would you take a bullet for her…if the bullet would finish you off?"
"Yes"
"Do you have dreams about kissing her, if you do dream?"
"Yes"
"Then you have it bad" Jack stated
"What do you mean?" Phantom asked
"You, Phantom, are in love with Sarah"
"LOVE?" Phantom exclaimed
"It COULD be why you're a ghost." Jack said. "You died without telling her. OR you're a ghost to protect her the way you couldn't in life. I don't know HOW you can still love since ghosts aren't suppose to have emotions, but perhaps this Sarah is your obsession. Besides, whenever you were thinking about her during our chat, you had the SAME look MY son has when he's thinking about HIS friend, Sam"
"Really?" Phantom asked nervously "So…what should I do?"
"Tell her" Jack said "Sure she can't have you now, but it'll help you. Who knows? Maybe her kid will be named after you"
"Maybe" Phantom said before smiling at Jack. "Thanks Jack. My life…er…afterlife makes more sense."
"No problem Phantom. Glad I can give some fatherly advice to SOMEONE. Danny just seems so busy these days, I hardly ever see him."
"Danny still loves you" Phantom said knowingly. "He just has a lot of stuff on his plate between training in ghost fighting behind your back, school, and just typical teenage stuff."
"You think so?" Jack asked
"I heard it out of his mouth personally" Phantom said before taking off
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The next day after school,
Jack was working on a tracking device when the front door opened to reveal Jazz and Danny. Jazz looked as if she had won the lottery and had been given a full ride to Harvard all the way through her Doctorate degree. Danny looked a mix between annoyed with his sister and on Cloud Nine.
"How was school today?" Jack asked
"DANNY GOT A GIRLFRIEND!" Jazz announced. "AND I MADE $50!"
"Really?" Jack asked
"I got the nerve to ask Sam out" Danny confirmed "She said yes"
"Always knew you and that creepy goth girl would get together" Jack said proudly. "You gave her the ring, right?"
"Yes" Danny confirmed with a smile and a bit of an eyeroll
And HE was called 'Clueless'?
The End