A/N: Hi this is my first DP story so if anything's out of cannon please let me know. I appreciate constructive criticism but I ignore flames. Also I know the whole Danny goes to live with Vlad plot has been done before so if it's like a story you've read or written sorry but please know that it's just a coincidence. It's not like I'm making any money writing it anyway. Just doing it for fun.

Disclaimer: Yeah I own Danny Phantom that's why I'm writing fanfiction instead of making new episodes (Rolls Eyes). I don't own Danny Phantom.

Numb, that was the word that described what he was feeling. Compared to what he had been feeling lately he welcomed the numbness. It was pure luck he survived. His parents, his friends, his sister all killed in a freak accident he himself had only survived because his powers had malfunctioned and turned him intangible without him realizing it.

The police told him it was a miracle he was alive, and that he was extremely lucky, they still could not figure out how he had survived. He disagreed. He had nothing and no one left, everything he cared about was gone.

Gone, the word had hit him like a ton of bricks. He would never hear his perfectionist sister over-analyze everything he said, he would never be able to turn to his parents for comfort, and without his friends he would bear the burden of his secret alone.

Tears fell freely from his sky-blue eyes. The all consuming anguish had left him now, but he still mourned for his lost friends and family. His once bright eyes, now dull and lifeless gazed around the now empty cemetery. They came to rest on a large headstone, the words "Gone but not Forgotten" were carved into the stone. Six people were pictured in the stone, a woman and man wearing hazmat suits, an older girl with long hair, and a boy and girl who looked about fourteen.

Their funeral had been hours ago but he couldn't leave and the lawyer who had been put in charge of him couldn't bear to make the broken boy leave. He sat down in front of their headstone hand resting lightly on it, tears still flowing freely down his face. His lawyer walked up behind him.

"You'll get your suit dirty, sitting in the dirt like that," the boy's lawyer said.

The boy gazed down at his black funeral wear with an uncaring expression. He opened his mouth to speak but just sighed and stood up. He wiped the tears from his face and whispered a hoarse "Sorry."

The lawyer regarded him was a sad expression. "Why don't we get you home Danny," she said gesturing towards her car.

"My home was blown up along with everything I cared about. I don't have a home anymore," was his sad reply.

"We're working on that. Your parent's will states that they want you to be adopted by a close family friend, Vlad Masters, I'm sure you've heard of him."

"The Vlad Masters? The billionaire?"

"The same."

"I didn't know my parents even knew him."

"I have people contacting him as we speak," her phone started ringing. She picked it up and talked quickly into it. Her face broke into a large grin. "Good news Danny, he's flying to Amity as we speak, he wants to meet you!"

Danny remained silent. He didn't really know what to think. The lawyer sighed, she had been expecting a bit more emotion, not that she could blame the kid, she had no idea what it would be like to loose everyone you cared about. They both walked to the lawyer's car wrapped up in their own thoughts. The drive to the hotel they had been staying at was quiet. They both walked up to their separate rooms in the hotel. Danny walked into his room silently but the lawyer paused in front of her door. "Bad things always happen to good people," was the thought passing through her mind.

She went into her room; fell on the bed and into a peaceful sleep. Danny across the hall did the same but his sleep wasn't so peaceful.

A/N: So what do you think? Its short I know but I wanted to get it posted. I was trying to write angst in my writing class a few days ago and I couldn't do it. I'm just not good at getting into characters' heads. So this story is practice at writing angst. So please tell me what you think.