Just a little something that occurred to me after writing "His Personal Dreamcatcher" and "A Less-Frightening Fright". Enjoy!

A/N: Now this story takes place before Danny gets his ghost powers, but he will still get them at age 14. Warning, this story may cause tears, but I promise there will be happy moments too. Also, this story will be AU.

Disclaimer: Danny Phantom belongs to Nickelodeon. I only own Phantina, Clocktina, Rebecca, Elijah, and Joshua.


From Fright To Dreams

Chapter 1: Tragedy

Maddie Fenton looked sadly at the grave before her. Her wonderful husband Jack now lay there after a terrible accident in the lab had gravely injured him. Her two children were beside her. Danny, at age two, was having a difficult time understanding what was going on, as was Jazz, who was four years old. "Mommy?" asked Jazz. "When is Daddy coming home?"

Maddie looked sadly at her. "He can't, sweetie," she said. "He's somewhere else now."

Danny simply hugged his mother, hoping to make her feel better, but something told the toddler his mom would be sad for a long time.

A familiar person came up to Maddie. Vlad Masters had a bit of a grin on his face that he expertly smothered to look sympathetically at them. "Maddie, I'm so sorry," he said, the words sounding smooth and sincere, but they weren't. "I know this is hard on you, but Jack made me promise something a long time back."

"What was that?" asked Maddie, taking comfort from him.

"Jack made me promise to take care of you and the children if something happened to him," he said. "I had my servants move your things to my mansion."

Maddie was too sad to see that Vlad was taking advantage of her sadness. "Thank you," she said gratefully as he took them to his mansion and while they weren't looking, he grinned. He finally got Maddie, which was what he had always wanted. The kids? Well, he really didn't want kids, but he'd have to put up with Maddie's two brats for now.


Two years later…

"You crook!" Maddie screamed angrily as Vlad served her divorce papers. They had gotten married a couple months after Jack's death and now Vlad didn't look very remorseful.

"I'm no crook, Maddie," he said. "But my patience has worn thin with you and Jasmine."

"I won't let you take Danny!" she screamed.

"You have no choice, Maddie," he said. "The divorce papers put Daniel in my custody."

With that, he booted both Maddie and Jazz out of his mansion and in tears, but vowing to somehow get her son back, Maddie took six-year-old Jazz's hand. "Don't worry, sweetie," she said. "Mommy will keep you safe and we'll expose that creep for good."

"Will we get Danny back, Mommy?" asked Jazz, who loved her little brother and was afraid to leave him with the mean man.

"Yes," Maddie said firmly. "Someday, we will."

In another realm, three other figures were watching what happened and looked at each other with nods. The time would soon come when they could interfere. Right now, they could only keep an eye on Maddie and Jazz and keep an eye especially on Vlad and Danny.


Yes, Vlad will be the bad guy in this story and yes, Jack sadly died. Like I said, this story will cause tears, but there will be happy times too.

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