"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"NO!"
"YES!"
Danny sighed in frustration. "Mom, there is no way I'm getting a haircut! I like my hair the way it is!"
"Danny, it's been, what, three years since you last got a haircut! I think it's high time you got one, mister," Maddie said firmly to Danny.
Danny sighed again, running his fingers through his, admittedly, long hair.
"Fine! You win. But don't think I won't enjoy it," Danny relented, glaring sullenly.
Maddie smiled and ruffled Danny's long, messy hair.
"Trust me, Danny, you'll thank me later."
…
"How is this thanking!?"
It was a couple of minutes later, and Danny was fuming mad. It didn't help matters that Maddie was still giving him that sheepish smile.
"Uh… oops?"
"Oops? Oops? You nearly made the hairdresser shave all my hair off!" Danny shouted, glaring.
It was supposed to be a simple haircut-just a quick trim at the back. However, when Danny's ghost sense went off and the Box Ghost appeared-surprise, surprise-Maddie, reacting to this, pulled out a Fenton Bazooka-and also startled the hairdresser into cutting off one of Danny's bangs, and shave off a large bit of hair at the back of Danny's hair, kind of in a skunk stripe. Thankfully, Danny hadn't been stabbed by the scissors, and the hairdresser managed to not shave all of Danny's hair off-but she came darn close to it.
"Danny, I'm sorry about that, really. I honestly didn't expect that ghost to appear," Maddie apologised. Danny was also surprised. Why the heck was Box Ghost attacking a hairdresser's? "But, I'm surprised Phantom didn't appear. He's usually there to fight all those ghosts and be the 'hero'."
Danny winced. Since he couldn't leave and find a place to go ghost, he couldn't fight the Box Ghost without risking his secret.
"Well, I guess I just have to wait another three years for my hair to grow back, right?" Danny asked Maddie in an attempt of a joke. Maybe this won't be so bad.
…
Danny was wrong. It was a lot worse.
When Jazz, after calming down from erupting into laughter at seeing Danny's new haircut, asked Danny how this new haircut would impact him in his ghost form, he was really nervous. As far as he knew, whatever happened to him in human form probably carried on to his ghost form and vice versa. He would have to do a check to see.
Danny decided to Skype his friends to get their opinions whether or not to see if he should check.
Let's just say, Tucker was full of sympathy when he saw Danny's new haircut.
"Ha ha ha ha ha HA! That…. Is… too… hilarious! Ha ha ha ha!" Tucker gasped out between laughs, almost crying, he was laughing that hard.
Danny glared at him.
"I get it Tuck, I get it. My new haircut is hilarious," Danny deadpanned sarcastically.
"It is, but I think that's not why you Skype-d us, right?" Tucker asked his best friend.
"Yeah. I've gotta check to see if my new haircut carried on to my ghost form. I wanted to get your opinions on whether or not I should check," Danny explained to Sam and Tucker.
Tucker's response was instant.
"Check, man! If you don't, then you'll not gonna know," Tucker encouraged.
"But, Danny, why do you need to check?" Sam asked.
"If my haircut carried on to my ghost form, my parents will be asking why Phantom has the same haircut as Fenton," Danny answered.
"Oh. In that guess, I think you should check, but be careful, Danny," Sam said.
Danny gave a her a smile.
"I'll be careful, Sam."
"Lovebirds," Tucker muttered during a fake coughing fit.
"WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" Danny and Sam shouted in unison, the both of them blushing furiously, Tucker having a knowing smirk on his face.
"Sure…"
Danny and Sam continued to glare at him.
"Okay, okay! By the way, the back of your head looks like a skunk stripe, Danny," Tucker informed.
"Gee, thanks," Danny said dryly.
Tucker and Sam shortly after got off Skype and Danny immediately got a full-length mirror from Jazz's bedroom. He would have used the bathroom, but Jazz was having a shower in there.
Positioning the mirror against the wall, Danny exclaimed, "I'm gong ghost!"
The familiar white ring appeared at Danny's waist, splitting into two and transforming Danny from Fenton to Phantom. Danny hoped that his haircut didn't carry on to his ghost form.
However, those hopes were dashed when he saw his hair looked the same way it did in human form.
"Dang it!" Danny muttered, glaring. Well, now he knew. Hopefully, he would be too far away from his parents if they saw his hair when he was Phantom.
He was about to change back when he heard a voice ask, "Phantom? What are you doing here!? Where's Danny!?"
Danny's eyes widened, and he winced as he turned around and saw his mom.
Oh crud, he thought.
(AN: The end! Nah, just kidding…)
…
"I won't ask you again, Phantom, where is Danny!?" Maddie demanded, before she then noticed there was something different about the ghost boy that was a pain in the neck for her and Jack.
"Phantom… what did you do to your hair?"
Danny stiffened; he did not expect his mom to pick that up so quickly.
"I, uh, um… new haircut?"
Maddie frowned.
"That's not possible for you to get a haircut. When a human dies and becomes a ghost, they're frozen in the state that they were when they died. So, in all logic, it's impossible for you to get a haircut or to change your hair."
Danny shrugged. "Maybe it might be possible for me."
Maddie continued to frown-and realised that Phantom's "haircut" was very similar to Danny's haircut, almost identical-down to the skunk stripe at the back.
Maddie's eyes widened. No, it's not possible…
But as she connected the dots, she was mentally kicking herself for not figuring it out sooner. They looked the same, had the same height, build, hairstyle… heck, they even sounded the same, if you got rid of the echo in Phantom's voice.
Phantom… Fenton. Phantom… Fenton. Phantom. Fenton.
Ugh, even the names sounded blatantly similar! How on earth she and Jack never figured it out before-especially when one of their "malfunctioning" weapons always reacted to Danny-she will never know.
But now, she was figuring it all out, and the answer to her question was staring right at her-right at her with glowing green eyes.
"Danny?" Maddie whispered. Phantom stiffened, before slumping-in defeat, in resignation?-and said, "You've figured it out."
A bright ring of white light appeared at Phantom's-no, Danny's-waist, startling Maddie. The ring split in two, one going up, one going down. When the rings were gone, in Danny Phantom's place was Maddie's baby boy, Danny Fenton.
Danny smiled nervously, rubbed the back of his neck and said, "Mom, I'm half-ghost."
Read and review! Hope you enjoyed, and sorry if I made either Danny, Maddie, Sam, Tucker or Jazz too OOC!
GhostWriterGirl out!