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The one thing Kara never got tired of was hearing all the stories about how the halfa saves people. The kid had heart, and Kara admired him greatly for that. He did his best with each situation that was thrown at him and never gave up when things got tough. It was all the more reason that Kara wanted to actually talk to him.

The only fear Kara had was that Danny Phantom might send her back to the Ghost Zone without giving her a chance to explain herself. Kara knew that Danny would have no reason to trust her. His experience with ghosts thus far showed Danny that the ghosts that come out of the Ghost Zone were out to get someone or to get revenge. Or even just to reign terror on Amity Park, just for the hell of it.

But Kara knew that if she didn't present herself to Danny Phantom, she would regret it for the rest of her ghostly life. And there were already so many things that she regretted not doing. Kara figured that the worst that could happen is that she would be sent back to the Ghost Zone. Sure the rejection would sting, but hey, at least she will have tried. With that thought in her head, Kara fazed through the ship carrying Danny and his friends as they navigated their way out of the Ghost Zone.

"Danny," The goth girl was saying, "Are you sure you're doing alright?" Kara knew it was in bad taste to be eavesdropping on their conversation, but what else was she supposed to do? They were flying endlessly through the Ghost Zone and since she was hitching a ride from them back to the other side of the portal, there was nothing else to do but listen to their conversation.

"Yeah, Sam. I'm fine. Stop asking, okay? It's getting really annoying," Danny replied. He sure sounded annoyed. His response had a barely controlled bite to it. Just from that answer alone Kara, not even knowing Danny, knew that he was very much not fine.

"Are you sure, man?" The other friend asked. "After everything that went down, ya know, saving the world and all, you haven't been the same. You've especially been very tense lately."

Danny, who had been doing his best to ignore his friends, snapped his head in their direction. His eyes glowed with an anger that Kara knew came from bottling feelings. Sadness and hurt and insecurities bottled up can turn into anger. And that kind of anger is always the most painful, Kara knew from experience. a tired kind of anger, something Kara knew all too well.

"I'm fine!" Danny shouted. "I am sick of the two of you always checking up on me! Everything's great. There's nothing to be worried about. Let. It. Go." Danny bit out before sitting on a crate, turning around and hunching his shoulders around him like they could protect him from his friends' questioning.

His friends, Sam and the glasses guy, gave each other worried looks but ultimately decided to drop it, like Danny wanted. Kara almost wanted them to keep pushing Danny.

Looking at Danny, Kara remembered the fear she felt when she found out the world was going to end and the sense of relief she felt when she saw the dashingly heroic face of Danny Phantom announcing his plan to save the world. She remembered how confident she felt as she watched him soar through the sky with an armada of ghosts flying behind him. She had no doubt in her mind that Danny Phantom could save them. She'll never forget that feeling.

Danny Phantom was a hero and Kara thought that thinking about such a feat should make Danny happy. He shouldn't be angry about saving two worlds.

Curious about what could be going on in Danny Phantom's head, Kara crept closer. She was intangibly invisible, making sure she didn't touch the floor, ceiling, or walls of the ship so she didn't get hurdled back into the Ghost Zone.

The minute Kara's face was an inch away from Danny's, a blue sliver of air came out of his mouth. He sat up straight, muscles tensed. He quickly turned to look at his friends. When seeing that they had not noticed anything strange, Danny turned his attention back to where Kara was. Danny didn't get up from his spot or alert his friends to the potential threat of danger. Instead, he squinted his eyes and looked closely at every nook and cranny he could place his eyes on.

Kara knew that Danny knew she was there. Kara also knew that Danny didn't know exactly who it was that was on his ship, but oddly enough he just continued to sit looking utterly dejected.

Soon enough, they had made it safely to the other side of the ghost portal. It hadn't been too long since Kara had been on this side of things, though she had been a completely different person then.

Phazing through the ship, Kara took in her surroundings. The weapons and machinery all looked state of the art. The lab itself looked pretty high tech but it was cold and Kara felt the strangest feeling of emptiness lingering in the air, though that could just be the emotions radiating off of Danny.

"Danny," The nerdy friend with glasses started saying, "Look, man, you know we care about you." Kara flew closer to where Danny was leaning against the ship, back in human form. The kid with glasses was standing in front of him keeping his distance, and Sam was standing by the open door of the ship keeping her head down listening to the conversation.

"I know we keep bugging you about how you're doing, but we care about your wellbeing. Everything's been going great for all of us. We saved the world, I'm the freaking mayor of Amity Park. Sam has started all these programs around different schools about animal awareness. We're living our dreams. Dude, you're even going to space camp over the summer. You get to go to Florida. To- to freaking NASA! For free! And you've just been bummed since you found out, and we don't understand why." Kara frowned.

"Danny," Sam's voice was so quiet that Kara almost didn't hear her. "We just want you to be alright. I know things kind of happened between us and then they stopped and if that's why-"

"No," Danny said, squeezing his eyes shut.

"No?" Sam questioned.

"I'm not upset because we broke up," Danny said not noticing the hurt look in Sam's eyes at his words. He turned so that he could look at both his friends. "I'm not upset at all," Danny explained looking so sincere that it had to be fake. "I'm just tired, okay? I need a break from everything. Which-" Danny cut himself off before he could finish his thought.

"Which what, Danny?" Glasses asked.

"Which includes you guys. I need a break from you guys," Danny finished softly.

"Us?" Sam asked, obviously hurt.

"Why?" Glasses questioned Danny.

With a deep breath and a sigh, Danny explained that the only time he saw his friends anymore is when they need him to deal with ghostly politics. With glasses being mayor and Danny and Sam both working for him, they were all crazy busy. All their time was split between different things. He only saw them for work, which was the only reason he was even seeing them right now. It was to map out new doors that had popped up in the Ghost Zone. They never hung out like they used to, and it had gotten to the point that he didn't look forward to seeing them anymore.

"We're sorry we make you feel that way Danny, but we're only trying to help," Sam said. "We have a duty to the town, to the world! We couldn't just stop once everything was safe again." Danny simply turned his head away from her with a sad look in his eye. With a sigh, Sam called the other guy, Tucker, as his name turned out to be, to leave. Kara watched as Sam and Tucker slowly made their way to the stairs. Danny watched on with a remorseful look in his eyes.

Quietly, Danny sent out another apology to his friends. "I promise, when I feel better you guys will be the first two people I call."

With an off-handed "That's nice, Danny," from Tucker and a "See ya," from Sam, Kara watched Danny's two friends leave the laboratory. Once the two were out of sight, Kara watched helplessly as Danny leaned back against the ship and slide down it. He hid his face in his hands and his shoulders started shaking. Kara quietly moved forward to sit cross legged in front of Danny. As soon as she got close to him, that same breath of blue air escaped through his hands.

"I know you're there whoever you are. You can come out now," Danny said, his voice muffled byfrom his hands. With Danny's face still hidden, Kara made herself visible.

Cocking her head to the side, Kara openly observed the boy sitting in front of her. He looked exhausted and absolutely miserable. He didn't look anything how Kara thought the savior of the world should be.

"Are you okay?" Kara asked softly. Danny snapped his eyes open and Kara was met with a teary-eyed glare.

"I'm fine," Danny snapped. "Why do you care? I don't know you. What are you even doing here? If you wanna go make a mess of things, go right ahead." Catching his breath, Danny said, "I won't stop you."

Kara stared at him, unsure how to answer.

Cause you've always interested me. You're cute. You're sad. I'm sad. I want your help.

"Because we're the same," Was all Kara could get outwhat Kara came up with.

"How so?" Danny questioned, waving his hands around manically. "How would you know that? I've never seen you before in my life."

Kara scooted herself closer to Danny to where their knees were almost touching. She looked at her hands contemplating her answer.

"Everyone in the Ghost Zone knows who you are," Kara whispered. "Everyone knows what you did to save both worlds even if they weren't there to actually help, like me."

"You didn't help?" Kara couldn't help but feel like Danny was judging her for apparently not helping, so she figured she should explain herself.

"No." Barely being able to look Danny in the eye she said, "I didn't die till after it happened."

Danny looked startled. It was in the moment that Kara saw Danny look her over. She knew what he saw. Some teenager who obviously died pretty recently. It was obvious, Kara knew, due to her clothing choice. She looked like a Lindsay Lohan wannabe and she knew Danny would be able to tell when she came from.

"I remember watching everything on the news though. What you did was amazingwesome,." Kara gushed, reachinghed out to place and placed a hand on Danny's knee. She and offered him a sincere thank you. Danny only nodded looked down in response.

Deciding to continue, Kara asked, "You know Lindsay Lohan?" Danny nodded looking confused at the question. "Well as you can see, I think she's pretty kick-ass. I tried to impress these girls at school. Dressing like this, growing out and dying my hair. I wanted to be like them, and they liked Lindsay Lohan and I thought she was awesome, so I followed her as a sort of fashion icon. The girls went crazy over my ideas of how to transform myself. It'll be "totally fetch", they said. Totally fetch, my ass," Kara scoffed. SheKara shook her head. "Stupid Mean Girls," She mumbled.

"I tried so hard for them to like me," Kara said. She felt the familiar burning behind her eyes and tried to hold back the onslaught of tears. She didn't like thinking about how she died. Not only did it totally blow that she was dead, but she also was extremely embarrassed about it. "They invited me to this party after you saved the world. It was some big thing, obviously. Everyone was relieved, and people were throwing parties everywhere. I had never been to one before so when they invited me to go with them to one, I did." Kara let out a short chuckle that she knew conveyed the fact that she didn't find her story amusing.

"I had never drank before or done drugs or anything bad really. I've always been such a rule follower and these girls weren't. I was tired of being me, so I tried to be like them and since the world had just been saved, I figured it was the perfect excuse to really reinvent myself into the person they wanted me to be- that I thought I wanted to be."

"At the party, they convinced me to do a keg stand. I did that and took shot after shot and played way too many rounds of beer pong," Kara sighed. "Especially for someone who had never drank before. I was hammered. "I vaguely remember going to the bathroom, I didn't feel good. I could hardly see anything. I remember locking the door and trying to make it the toilet. Then everything went black. When I woke up, I was in the Ghost Zone. I didn't know what was going on."

"Then what?" Danny asked.

Kara shrugged. "This guy, Johnny, showed me the ropes. He said I was lucky to have my memories. He told me stories about you and your adventures. Things that I wouldn't have known about when I was alive. He and his girlfriend told me everything I needed to know. Long story short, I was fascinated by your story. I already knew who you were, but the more I heard about you, the more I wanted to find you. I was hoping maybe you could help me figure out how to become a halfa," Kara confessed.

Danny gave Kara a funny look. "I can't help you figure out how to be a halfa," Danny said slowly. "That's not how it works."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I didn't ask to be this way. It wasn't like one day I just decided that I wanted to become half human- half ghost. It happened in an accident- an accident that nearly killed me," Danny explained. "Then I willingly gave my powers away because I was sick of them and then I had to get blasted by a ton of ghosts to get my powers back, and that was an accident too."

Kara was confused. She thought there were three halfas, that were known anyway. And that included Danny. She thought he could help her have a life in the human world. She wanted to become human again and if there were three halfas out there, shouldn't she be able to become one too? She voiced her thoughts to Danny.

"There are three of us," Danny confirmed. "Well, maybe…that we know of anyway. For me and Plasmius, I'm sure you remember him, we got our abilities the same way. It was the same accident but at different times and different circumstances. As far as we know, it's the only way to become a halfa. And honestly, no one knows where he is anymore after the whole incident with him trying to become ruler of earth. He disappeared after that. For all we know, he could be dead," Danny rubbed his eyes and took a deep breath before continuing. "As for the other halfa, it's a long story, but she's sorta my clone."

That made Kara pause in her thinking. Not only were there ghosts, but clones were a thing too? Then another thought crossed her mind and her brain couldn't keep up with her mouth to tell her it was insensitive to ask. Before she could stop herself she asked, "How could she be your clone if she's a she?" Kara quickly slapped her hands over her mouth shocked she had asked him that as she quickly realized the only possible answer.

Kara jumped to try and correct herself. "Not that I-I mean- that is to say…It's okay if you were born a girl-," Noticing Danny's shocked smile- small and subtle, but a smile nonetheless- Kara stopped talking.

"Thanks for the unneeded support, but I wasn't born a girl. It was just some freak genetic code mix-up thing. She wasn't a perfect clone, obviously. When Danni, that is, Danni with an "I", was created, it was messy and sort of an accident and things didn't go as planned- not that they were my plans anyway," Danny mumbled.

"But seriously I'm okay with it if-" Kara tried to reassure Danny, but he cut her off.

"And I'm serious. I was telling the truth. I wasn't born a girl. I was born with a penis and a penis is what I still got." Kara closed her mouth quickly out of embarrassment and quickly loweredshielded her eyes away from Danny. "But thank you though," Danny tried to reassure Kara. Kara just nodded in response.

Trying to focus on h getting through her embarrassment, Kara focused on what Danny had told her. If Kara couldn't just become a halfa then what was she going to do? She died too young and there were still so many things that she wanted to do. She hadn't even had her first kiss yet.

"So now what?" Kara asked. "I'm just supposed to go back to the Ghost Zone?"

"I don't know what you want me to say. I get that you wanted to become a halfa and you probably were banking on the fact that it was possible but it's not. Especially since your body is…" Danny didn't know how to finish the sentence.

"Since my body is dead," Kara finished for him.

"That's not exactly what I was going to say, but yeah basically. There's no host body that you could return to. Plus, if everyone thinks that your dead, it would majorly freak them out if you just started walking around again. And that's only if your body is still intact. Maybe you were cremated or maybe your body's been eaten by buzzards. Either way, it's too late."

And, as if it were a second thought, Danny threw in how if she started possessing people in order to live in the human world, itthat would just cause the Ghost Force, the police force that handles the ghosts, to lock her up in a special prison. Ghosts were tolerated now, Danny explained to her, but there were still rules they had to follow.

And anyway, Kara knew Danny was right. It probably wasn't a good idea to try and possess her old body and she wasn't about to go and possess someone else's.

Then a random and absolutely terrifying thought crossed her mind. She didn't know what year it was. Danny looked older, she realized. She knew he had been 14 at the time of disthe asteroid. It had been all over the news that a half ghost 14 year old boy had come up with the plan on how to save the world. But the Danny sitting in front of her looked to be her age, and she was almost 18 when she died. Fearing the answer, Kara asked him what year it was.

Confused, Danny told her it was 2007. And Kara suddenly startedtarted sobbing. She had been dead for three years and she didn't even know it. Her family had probably long since forgotten about her and her death was probably being used as some story in a school assembly about drinking safety or not giving into peer pressure or some bullshit like that. How could it already have been three years? She just found out about being a ghost what she thought was a couple weeks ago. Did time work differently in the Ghost Zone?

Danny didn't try to comfort her. And she didn't try to get him to. She closed her eyes and let herself cry. Eventually she calmed down enough to gather her thoughts.

"I wish I was really dead," Kara told Danny with angry tears in her eyes.

Startled, after a few moments of Kara's silence, Danny let out a, "What?"

Angrily she snapped back, "I wish I was really dead. Being a ghost isn't being dead. I'm still here. I'm still fucking here."

"Sometimes I wish I was really dead too," Danny said quietly after another long moment of silence. Taken aback, it was Kara's turn to let out a surprised, "What?"

"Sometimes I wish that I had actually died in that accident. Instead, it's basically like the ghost me is possessing my corpse or something. It's pretty messed up if you think about it. I mean, I don't know if that's how it really works but when I really thing about it, that's the only explanation I can think of," Danny confessed. "It's really messed up. I mean, I'm half dead…or completely dead and possessing my corpse." Danny shook his head as if trying to clear his thoughts. "It's pretty fucked upfucks with my head."

"What year did the accident happen?" Kara wondered.

"2004." Kara let out a choked laugh.

"It's kind of ironic," Kara said, with a slight smile and some tears still gleaming in her eyes.

"What is?"

"Both our accidents happened the same year. Imagine if we both had actually died. Or if we had even just ended up in the Ghost Zone after our accidents at the same time. Ya know, w without any complications of whatever the hell caused me to not be a ghost for three years and if you didn't become a halfa. We could have ended up in the Ghost Zone together." They both sat there pondering that.

"Huh," Danny said, lost in thought.

"My thoughts exactly," Kara gave Danny a small smile and was pleased to receive one in return.

"Anyway," Kara said standing up from her spot on the floor, rubbing the tears from her eyes. "I should probably head back to the Ghost Zone. If I'm gonna be a ghost forever I guess I better start figuring out my way around." Danny took her lead and stood up as well.

"It was nice talking to you…" Danny said, trailing off.

Taking the hint, Kara filled in the blank space with her name.

"Kara," Danny repeated, testing out her name. "It was nice to meet you, Kara." Giving her another smile, Danny went over to a control panel type thing and placed his thumb over some sort of scanner. Once it scanned his finger, the ghost portal opened. The green light washed over the two of them filling the gloomy lab with some sort of creepy life.

Kara walked over to the entrance of the portal. Before stepping through, she turned back to look at Danny. "If you ever need anyone to talk to, come and find me. You need to talk to someone. It's not healthy to keep things bottled up." Offering Danny one last smile, Kara stepped forward into the green portal, with no other choice than to accept her fate as a ghost.

Once Kara was gone, Danny closed the portal and grabbed a seat in the nearest chair. Danny's mind was reeling over the fact that Kara was right. They both had technically died around the same time. The only difference was that Kara somehow got stuck waiting three years before ending up in the Ghost Zone and Danny somehow maintained control over his body. With a sigh, trying not to think about what could have been, Danny stood up and made his way upstairs.

After "Phantom Planet", as people called the asteroid incident, Fenton Works had become fairly quiet. Now that they knew his secret, Danny's parent basically left him alone. And because they helped to save the world too, people no longer knew Jack and Maddie Fenton as bumbling Ghost Hunter wannabes. They were now part of the Ghost Force, to make sure ghost activity was managed. Did they still bumble around? Sure, especially his dad. But they were respected, and they were hardly ever home anymore.

At first it had been nice. He didn't have to hide anymore or lie to his parents. In fact, they were on his side. They were literally on the same team to keep ghosts at bay. And there were definitely some other perks to having had saved the world like people giving you free stuff and respecting you everywhere you went. Plus, he got the house to himself most of the time since his parents built another laboratory in the Ghost Force section of the precinct. That also meant Danny had full reign of the lab at home. But unfortunately, the upsides of saving the world ended up becoming most of the downsides to it too. It was a double-edged sword Danny would always have to live with, and he hated that.

It was even worse now that Jazz had been out of the house and at college for two years. Danny was happy that she was able to pursue a degree in Psychiatry. It's something that she's always been passionate about- and she's not half bad at it either. And being Danny Phantom's older sister definitely got her in good standing with her university, and Danny knew that Jazz had plenty of jobs lined up for her once she got her degree not just because of her relation to Danny but because she damn well deserved it.

But Danny missed having his sister around. After she found out about his powers, she never expected more from him that what he'd always given. Jazz always treated him like the annoying little brother that she knew and loved. It was something Danny would be eternally grateful for. It gave him some sense of normality in his crazy world and without Jazz, that last sense of normality after everything that happened, was gone.

Finally having made it to his room, Danny trudged through the door and threw himself face down on his bed. Danny buried his head in his pillow thankful that he was able to stay in his house.

There had been a lot of pressure early on that he should move into some sort of mansion or something because of his hero status. After all, why shouldn't the savior of the world live in a big fancy house? People would always be reminded when they passed by just how important he was. He could have been waited on hand and foot and continued with his schooling in private. But Danny didn't want that. He made that perfectly clear. He just wanted to go on with his life as normally as he could.

Unfortunately, hardly anything ever went as Danny wanted it to.

Looking at his alarm clock, the clock's red numbers told Danny that it was only 9:00 PM. It wasn't even that late and he was already tired. Groaning, Danny flipped over onto his back. He really wished Jazz were here, she'd know how to fix whatever was going on with him. Closing his eyes, Danny tried to get some sleep.

"Johnny? How come I've been dead for three years and I've only just discovered I'm a ghost?"

Kara was sitting with Johnny on some cliff near his house. She figured since Johnny and Kitty were the two people- or ghosts- who told her everything she knew, then maybe they'd be able to help her out. Kitty, unfortunately, decided that it was girl's night with Ember so that left Kara to deal with Johnny's unfiltered mouth alone.

"I don't know, doll face. There could be a ton of reasons. I mean you said you died three years ago but that doesn't mean that you haven't been here this whole time," Johnny replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kara asked, thoroughly annoyed with Johnny's nonchalance attitude towards the whole thing.

"Dude, I dunno. Like, maybe you were some blob of a ghost wandering around the Ghost Zone. Maybe you only just got your memories back somehow. I don't know," Johnny sighed. "I don't pay attention too much to other people other than Kitty. And to be honest, I don't care too much about your inner turmoil. Just accept that you're a ghost with memories and move on with your life," Johnny shrugged. "I don't know what you want me to say."

Eventually Johnny had not so subtly hinted that Kara should leave. So Kara went to the place that Kitty had set up for her. Despite the Ghost Zone's initial creepiness and distorted looking reality, there were rules and regulations like how Kara was used to back home.

Kitty had taken Kara to this weird door, not too far from the Fenton Portal. It almost reminded Kara of the inside of Monica's apartment door from Friends. Once they were through the door, Kara was surprised to see what looked like the lobby of an apartment building. Kitty explained to her that the Ghost Zoneapartment "complex" operated similarly to how it did in thethe human world. The only difference was that Kara would have to pay rent using items she found in the human world that were of value to the landlord. The landlord gave her a list of things that could be used to pay rent. Some of those items being as easy to fingetd such as a bag of gummy bears. There were also some items on the list that Kara would have more difficulty finding or as difficult to get such as a platinum gold watch. The amount of time her rent would cover depended on the value of the item. The higher value the item, the longer she wouldn't have to worry about paying rent.

Kara knew that the system for paying rent was going to get on her nerves quickly, so sheKara had made it a goal of hersbecome invigorated to track down Danny Phantom and not be a part of the ghost world. She had wanted to become half human so she could have a somewhat normal life, like Danny had. and to become a halfa like Danny Phantom. That way, she could just live in the human world like he did. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible so she was being forced with just havingjust going to have to deal.

Stepping into her apartment, Kara was still shocked at how much it looked like apartments back in the human world. Kara supposed that it was because many of the ghosts had once been human, and she wondered when the shock of it all would wear off. Once she settled in for the day, Kara picked up a book that Kitty had left for her. It was a Harry Potter book, classic. But as much as Kara wanted to get sucked into the comforting world of witches and wizards, Kara couldn't help but feel a small amounbout of distain for the book.

She had loved the series so far, having only read up to The Order of the Phoenix, and had longed so desperately to be a part of it. She wanted to fight evil and help Harry save the world. She wanted to go to Hogwarts and explore the castle, get into trouble, and befriend some ghosts.

She was instead living some sort of nightmare, however, living through her own nightmare. Instead of befriending a ghost, she became one. And she wasn't the cool kind of ghost either like the ones Harry Potter or even like Danny Phantom. She was just some teenage ghost who wasn't special, the same kind of not special she was when she was alive alive. And suddenly the thought of reading Harry Potter didn't comfort her as it once did.

With a sigh, Kara got up to look out her window. It was green with doors and ghosts floating around. It wasn't the beautiful blue skies she was used to filled with sunshine and sea breeze. There were no puffy clouds to find silly shapes in as she wasted time waiting for the sun to set. and for some reason Tthat thought weighed heavily on her heart.

Filled with sadness, Kara lied down on the couch and closed her eyes.

It wasn't till about a week after Danny met Kara that he actually decided to take her up on her offer. He had been holed up in his room the whole week and Danny decided that maybe Kara was right- he needed to talk to someone. At first Danny had considered talking to his parents, but they were too busy with the Ghost Force. Then he thought about calling Sam and Tucker. But that meant that Danny would have to spend time with them, and despite his anger over how they hardly spent time with him anymore outside of work, seeing them together hurt. Danny was suspicious that they were secretly together and they didn't need him anymore. Granted, Danny didn't have any proof they were together, but a part of him was just waiting for them to tell him they were. And, even if they weren't, after Danny and Sam broke up, Tucker and Sam had grown so much closer anyway and that made Danny sad. So that meant Danny couldn't- or more accurately, wouldn't- call them.

The one other person in his life that Danny knew would be willing to talk to him was Jazz. But she was so happy at college. Anytime Danny talked to her, she would talk his ear off over what she had learned in class that day, or the day before that, or the day before that. Danny had once sat on the phone with Jazz for three hours as she told him a play by play about what she learned in class the entire week prior. She would have kept going if Danny hadn't reminded her that she was a couple hours behind him and he needed to get tto bed.

It pained Danny to know that she would drop everything to go as far as coming back home just because Danny was feeling depressed. And he didn't want to be the reason that Jazz missed out on her education, especially since she really loved what she was learning. She had done so much for Danny the past couple of years that he just couldn't bring himself to call her.

It was that moment that Danny decided he would march into the Ghost Zone and hunt down Kara. She offered to be the someone Danny could talk to and Danny would be damned if he wasn't going to take her up on that offer. If he didn't talk to someone soon, well, he was afraid that he would do something to make his ghost half the only part of him. And even though he had told Kara that he wish he had died, a part of him knew that that wasn't really true and he clung to that.

Once Danny was inside the Ghost Zone, he went straight to Johnny 13's house. Kara had said something about Johnny and Kitty helping her out and Danny figured it was probably the best place to start his search.

As soon as he got there, he wasted no time in throwing the door open and barging in. He was desperate to find Kara and if she was here, he needed to know. Danny flew all around the first floor of the house almost deciding to give up when it looked like there was nobody home. That is, until he heard a bang like something hitting a wall coming from upstairs. It sounded like it came from right above him. Danny wasted no time in going through the ceiling to whatever room that was and boy did Danny immediately wish he hadn't done that.

Danny had not been expecting to find Johnny and Kitty barely clothed and making out on a bed. Kitty was straddling Johnny and she wasn't wearing a top. And if that wasn't enough to make Danny uncomfortable in more ways than one, her hands were awkwardly working to undo Johnny's pants. They were unaware that Danny was there, he hadn't made a noise since he entered the house.

Needing to know where Kara was and not wanting to just sit around tight in his pants waiting for them to finish, Danny panicked and made himself seen yelling out at them to stop.

Instead of being startled and embarrassed like Danny was sure he'd be in their situation, they both looked over to him panting and annoyed. "What are you doing here ghost child? You're totally ruining our bone time," Johnny complained angrily.

Bone time? That's one way to call it,Danny thought. What a stupid way to call having sex.

"Unless, you wanted to join us, Danny," Kitty said smirking. She climbed off of Johnny and crowded up against Danny. Pressing herself up against him, Kitty ran a finger down his cheek. Danny tried to become one with the wall and tried not to focus on how her breasts felt pressed against his chest. He wasn't gonna lie, Kitty was pretty attractive and he was to frazzled but the situation to think too much of anything else..

"No, babe," Johnny called out, saving Danny from embarrassing himself. "I know you have a crush on the kid, but there's no way in hell I'd actually sleep with him."

Kitty turned around planting one hand on her hip and looked at Johnny straight in the eye.

"Then you can leave and I'll have the halfa all to myself. It'll be fun to break him in." Turning back to look at Danny she said, "You're a virgin, aren't you Danny?" Moving himself quickly towards the door, Danny held out his hands in front of him to keep her from coming close to him and tried to gather his thoughts.

"Look," Danny said, taking a breath. "I just want to find Kara. She said she knew you guys," Danny explained.

With matching smirks, Kitty and Johnny stared Danny down, as if they knew something he didn'tdown Danny. He was starting to get uncomfortable again, but not in the erection pressing painfully in the pants kind of way. It was more like, they're about to say something that's gonna make me want to die of embarrassment, kind of way.

"If you want to bone Kara I doubt she'd be up for it, dude," Johnny said. "She's a goody-goody. She won't be down."

"I don't want to bone Kara," Danny yelled, flustered. Taking a breath to calm himself, Danny said, "I just want to talk to her and I thought you guys would know where she was."

"Well that's a relief," A familiar voice said from behind Danny. He turned around quickly to see Kara's head fazed through the wall. "I don't wanna bone you either, as you so eloquently put it," Kara said as she fazed herself completely into the room.

"Kara?" Danny asked, surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing," Kara pointed out as she crossed her arms.

"Look," Kitty said, turning Kara and Danny's attention over to her. "Since neither of you are down to "bone", can you two get out of here? We were sort of in the middle of something," Kitty sad gesturing to Johnny, who was still lounging in bed, pants partially undone.

Kara blushed as she looked at the pair in their state of disarray. "I'm sorry. I just came over to see if you wanted to hang out then I heard yelling so I came to see what was going on. I didn't mean to interrupt anything," She explained hardly taking a breath.

"Look noob, it's fine," Johnny said. "Just take your boyfriend and get out of here."

Kara lamely pointed out that Danny was not her boyfriend but nodded anyway and walked out the door. Danny followed her lead.

"And Danny," Kitty called to him just before he stepped through the doorframe. "Just know that I'm always available for you if you wanted to blow off some steam. I know how hormonal you teenagers can get and I'm up for helping you out," Kitty winked before climbing back on top of Johnny and kissing him hard on the mouth. Danny quickly walked through the door wide-eyed and nearly crashed into Kara.

"So," Danny said awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck.

"You wanted to talk?" Kara asked. Danny nodded with a lame "yeah" thrown in as confirmation.

"Can we go back to the human world?" Kara asked. "There's some things I need to get." Danny told her "sure" and they were off flying through the house and into the Ghost Zone with Danny leading the way.