HalfafanD: Once again, I'm back. I'm seriously trying to blow up my writers-block. So I'm writing as much as I can for this story before the block monster attacks. XD So here's the chapter. Oh, and for future reference. Maddie is aware of Danny's secret but Jack isn't because of a little Frootloop incident. *wink*

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DANNY PHANTOM!

Dueling Dentist

Danny sat in Phantom form on a couch with in the police department lounge. He had a glass of ice cold water, an empty cup that was somewhat filled with his blood and ectoplasm spit. And an ice packs which was firmly placed on his closed mouth.

Danny felt his mouth filling up with green and red liquid and took off the ice pack and leans down to the cup and spit out the remaining blood and ectoplasm, then took a drink of water and swallowed before resuming position with his ice pack.

He kept his tongue from moving around in his mouth as much as possible and tried to spit as painlessly as possible to avoid hurting his teeth. Some were really lose and others he felt were pushed up his gum, he also had one or two chipped teeth. He had been waiting for hours and within those hours he'd been like that because that was all he could do for now.

He really felt horrible for falling for something so stupid. He'd always got in worse conditions that this; even once broke his leg and he didn't flinch. But this, this was just humiliating. He'd never thought that this would hurt this bad. But he still sucked it up enough. He didn't want to talk either; he practically couldn't. He's teeth were damaged. The least he could do was grunting and moaning noises.

"Phantom?" A voice spoke. The sudden voice startled Danny, causing him to jump and his ice pack to jerk, making him practically punch himself with it. He groaned at that and put down the ice pack and glared at the door only for it to die down to an annoyed look as he saw Richard along with the Fentons.

Jack and Richard laughed while Maddie giggled. They always found it funny when they were able to startle the ghost boy. But Maddie's giggling died down as she saw the outer bang up on Danny's face.

"Oh you poor thing!" Maddie exclaimed as she ran over to Danny and started checking him over for other injuries. Danny groaned. She always did this. Yes; his mom knew his secret. And even though she did a good job at hiding his secret, she still treated him like her 'baby boy'. Danny looked over to Jack and Richard, pleading them to make her stop. But they put up their hands in a gesture saying that he was on his own.

Apparently three months ago, Vlad pulled something by kidnapping him and his mom and while everyone was desperately looking for them, Maddie found out about Danny's and Vlad's little secret. And thanks to that, they were able to take Vlad down and escape. It was also around that same time that Maddie put in a good word for Phantom and the town began to see him more as a hero. Though to the town, why Maddie suddenly changed opinions was way beyond them.

"Oh my poor little ghost boy!" Maddie exclaimed as she then went to hugging him. Danny snorted at the little nickname. Course whenever she was treating him like this, she would call him her 'baby boy' in his human form and call him her 'little ghost boy' in his ghost form.

Finally Richard came up. "I think you've tortured him enough. Can you look at his mouth though? That's why we called you in."

Maddie backed off before turning to Danny. Danny knew what she wanted and opened his mouth for her took look.

Everyone in the room gasped at the sight. Most of his teeth were damaged and pushed into his gum while others were slightly more crooked than before. Maddie tried inspecting the teeth by gently touching them, but that only caused Danny to wince so after three or four times Maddie stopped.

"They're way too damaged for his ghost powers to heal them on their own." Maddie concluded. "We may have to resolve in getting braces."

Danny started to panic. He couldn't get braces. If that were to happen, they'd appear in his human form and people would notice, not to mention he'd won't be able to speak for a long time which would be worse. And with Dash always on his case that would slow their recovery.

Danny began to form words in protest but as soon as his lips and teeth came together to start, a surge of pain came and all that was formed was a muffled moan.

Maddie turned to Danny; knowing exactly what he was trying to do. "No arguments young man. Those teeth are in real bad shape. Now they may be a nuisance for a while but it's only temporary until both the braces and those ghost powers do their thing into healing your teeth as good as new." She then leaned in. "I already have an explanation for Fenton getting braces." She backed up and spoke out loud again. "And it's either this and still fight ghosts while waiting for them to recover or not get braces and not fight ghosts; which is it?"

Danny though over the new information. Amity Park has handled itself before without him around. But he couldn't take that big a risk with a lot of his enemies stepping up their game. And his mom did say that she had a cover story for his human half. But with the side problems, it would make a bad decision. But all in all, braces were the way to go.

Danny slumped his shoulders in defeat knowing the choice he had to make. He then nodded toward Maddie due to his mouth being out of commission.

Maddie smiled. "Braces it is then."

"I'll call the dentistry to make an appointment." Richard stated. "They're sure going to have a field day with this." The police chief then walked out.

"Yes!" Jack shouted raising his fists. "Maybe I can make some special ectoplasm bands for the braces to increase Phantom's power or for speed healing!"

Please no. Danny thought as he shook his head in that gesture; knowing that the taste of ectoplasm braces bands would taste horrible.

HalfafanD: I'm going to end it off here. I know I should put more dialog in this but it's more of a filler chapter. Wonder what Danny's appointment should be like. Maybe Laughing gas or panic resistance. You decide! Please review, no flames please.