A/N: This is set sometime early in 'The Ultimate Enemy'. Yes, Valerie knows that Dan used to be Danny (P/F).
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. He still belongs to Butch Hartman. Sad face.
Dan's gaze flicked to the poem posted above her head and he read it silently, mouthing the words of it, "Good night, sleep tight / Don't let the bedbugs bite / May angels guard you through the night."
He sneered in disdain at the childish rhyme. Why did she even have it? He nearly snorted out loud – obviously because she was still so immature. Unlike him. He already had blood staining his hands…sweet crimson blood…
Dan's eyes lit up with an unholy glow. He stared down at the girl in front of him. Her dark hair was fanned out against her white pillow. She was so innocent, so vulnerable…he could kill her right now, so easily. Slit her throat, let dark blood bleed into midnight hair…
No, no, he thought to himself. Why kill her? Why not have fun for a while? The other humans merely scream in terror and run – she puts up a fight; she makes the game fun.
His mind made up, he turned to exit her room. He contemplated opening the window, allowing cold air to enter and make her wake earlier, but ultimately dismissed the idea. Too juvenile. Besides, it might blow away his gift.
Dan grinned and phased through the wall. Night-night.
The next morning when Valerie woke up, the first thing she saw was a scrap of paper with the likeness of her face as she slept drawn on it. Scribbled underneath, in heart-wrenchingly familiar handwriting, were the words, "So much for your angels." A quick doodle of a white P inside of a black, stylized D was underneath it.
Valerie threw herself into designing the citywide ghost shield immediately after that, and from then on she always slept with an ectogun under her pillow, within easy distance should the fully evil ghost of her former friend ever visit again.
A/N: All right, this came about because of a set of four words for poetry (Pillow, Night, Window, Angels), and then I remember an episode in Season 2 of Buffy after Angel reverts to Angelus. He comes into Buffy's room and draws her while she's sleeping. Pretty soon after that, Buffy figures out how to make him stay out of the house.