A/N An update so soon! What is the meaning of this?! No reason, just had an update itch I needed to scratch and decided to do it today rather than the saturday after next like I'd planned. Hope you all enjoy, and I'll be seeing you next satuday!

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"Sam, tell me why we're doing this again?"

A girl with black hair pulled into a long pony tail, wearing a purple shirt with a white skull on the chest and black pants with heavy combat boots, huffs and rolls her eyes in annoyance.

"That's the tenth time you've asked me that Tucker."

"Yeah yeah, summer job and all that jazz, but why here? You couldn't find anything else?" Asks a dark skinned boy with green colored shades. He is dressed in traffic light colors of a yellow long sleeve shirt with a gear on it, green pants and brown boots, A red hat to complete the look.

Sam shrugs, "no one else is hiring right now, and I know the guys who own this place. They've been scouting for artifacts from some restaurant chain that got closed down from unsolved missing children cases and employee deaths."

The second male and final person of the trio, who has raven black hair, sky blue eyes and is wearing a black T-shirt with a green ghost on the chest, well worn dark blue jeans and black shoes, covers his mouth and tries to hold in his snickering without succeeding.

"What's the matter Tuck? Scared of a few ghosts?"

"Danny, your boyfriend's a ghost," Tucker points out flatly, "and we interact with ghosts all the time, a few bedsheets and old masks are not gonna bother me."

They walk through Amity's amusement park and finally find the plain white building that houses the haunted restuarant attraction in the back of the park by the pier. An unpleasant feeling curls in Danny's gut as they walk closer, the hair at the back of his neck standing on end. They enter the building and look around at the decrepitness of the place that is supposed to mimic the old restaurants. Arcade games line a corner and rows of tables in the middle of the room with party hats on them lined up as if waiting for a birthday party await their eyes in the dim green lighting.

The chills intensify as Danny gazes at all the old posters and drawings, showing different animatronics and children. He spies a drawing of five kids, four facing away and one focused intently on a golden bear on a stage. He focuses on the bear and begins feeling a mix of emotions: fear, nostalgia...and strange sense of longing.

Sam notices that Danny isn't next to them anymore and turns around, "Danny? I know this place is interesting and all, but we got work to do. You can explore later."

Danny slowly turns and walks away, eyes not leaving the drawing until he rounds a corner.

They walk by a large window that reveals the office they'll be working in; a long desk under the window, a couple of chairs, a filing cabinet against the back wall that looks too damaged to open, and a monitor bolted to a wall on the right side of the desk. When they go in they also see a flip up maintenance panel, a row of plushies, a metal fan and a phone. The whole building is lit with that eerie green light, making it hard to discern the color of the walls and floor.

Danny spots a box full of masks and other assorted junk in the corner by the door and goes over to it with some bizarre curiosity just as the phone rings and answers itself.

"Hey dudes and dudette, are you there yet?"

"We're here Leo, what's up?" Sam replies.

"The boss just wants me to, like, thank you guys for helping us out, oh! And congrats on the new summer job by the way. Now I know it doesn't look like much right now, but I promise it'll get better! We found som-some great new relics over the weekend, and we're tracking a new lead, right now!"

"That's great Leo, hope you find something," She says halfway sincere.

"Hey thanks Sam! Now let me tell you about some things real quick so you can get to work. Like, the attraction opens in, like, a week, so we have to make sure everything works, and nothing catches on fire! Uhm when the place opens, people will come in at the opposite side of the building and work their way towards you. Yeah, you've officially become part of the attraction. You'll be starring as...the Security Guards! Isn't that awesome?"

"Yeah, really great." Sam responds while Tucker rolls his eyes. The only one not paying extreme amounts of attention to the conversation is Danny, who seems to be in a trance as he shuffles through the box.

"Yeah, I thought you'd be excited about that," Leo replies cheerily, either ignoring or not recognizing the sarcasm, "so not only will you be monitoring the people on the cameras, you know, make sure no one STEALS anything or makes out in the corner, but you'll also be part of the show. It'll make it real authentic I think, uh, now let me tell you about what's new, we found another set of drawings, always nice and a Foxy head! You know that Pirate Fox from the final location? Which we think could be authentic...then again it might just be another crappy cosplay, and we found that desk fan in your office there, very old school metal though, so watch the fingers.

"Uh, heh! Uhm, right now the place is basically just, you know, FLASHING LIGHTS and SPOOKY PROPS. I honestly thought we'd have more by now, uh so if we don't have anything really cool by next week, we may have to suit one of you up in a Furry costume, and make you walk around saying: "BOOO!"

"Yeeaah, I'm not doing that," Sam states crossing her arms. Danny takes the time to look up from what he is doing and shake his head as well before going back to rifling through the box.

"Hehe. Uh yeah, but you know like I said, were trying to track down, a good lead right now. Uh, some guy who helped design one of the buildings, said there was like, an extra room that got boarded up or something like that. So were gonna take a peak and see what we can find. Uh, for now just get comfortable with the new setup. You can check the security cameras over on your right, with a click of that blue button. Uh, you can toggle between the Hall Cams and the Vent Cams. Uh, then over on your far left, you can flip up your maintenance panel. You know, use this to reboot any systems that may go offline. Uh, in trying to make the place feel more vintage we may have overdone it a bit! Heh heh. Some of this equipment is BARELY functional!"

"WHAT?!" Sam and Tucker exclaim.

"Uh, I wasn't joking about the fire, that- that's a real risk." Leo says sheepishly.

"Leo have you lost your damn mind?!" Sam yells at the phone, "why would you do that?"

"That's it, if we're working here, I'm bringing my toolkit," Tucker decides, glaring at the sparking lights and monitor.

"Heh, Heh, yeah I think that might be a good idea," Leo nervously chuckles, "uhm, but the MOST IMPORTANT THING, you have to watch for, is the Ventilation. Look, this place will give you the spooks man, and if you let that ventilation go offline, then you'll start seeing some craaazy stuff man, keep that air a flowing! Ok, keep an eye on things, and we'll try to have something new for ya' tomorrow night." He quickly hangs up.

Tucker crosses his arms and sends a glare to Sam, "you couldn't find a better job? Even working part time at the Nasty Burger would have been better than this!"

Sam scowls back, "well excuse me! Everywhere else already had all the help they needed! Where else was I supposed-"

"It's not here."

The quiet voice halts the two friends' argument and they glance over at Danny, "what's not here, dude?" Tucker asks.

Danny gazes over at the prop of an empty animatronic bear in the hall, "your's is here, why not mine? Is it somewhere I don't know?" He mumbles, talking to the prop before he gets a downcast expression, "or was it hidden too well to be here?"

Sam tentatively walks over to Danny and puts a hand on his shoulder, making him jerk and look at her with wide blue eyes, as if he forgot that he isn't the only one in the room.

"Danny? Are you okay?"

Danny blinks owlishly, the fogginess in his eyes clearing a little.

"I'm okay guys, just...looking for something..." He says, a sadness in his eyes belying the smile on his face.

"What would you be looking for? You've never been here before," Tucker replies coming up behind Sam with a look of concern. Danny shakes his head and gently pushes Sam away.

"It's nothing important. Come on, how're we doing this?"

Sam and Tucker look like they want to say something more but Danny brushes by them and heads over to the monitor to activate it, "how about we take shifts? I'll handle the cameras tonight, then Sam, then Tucker the night after; we can do the same for the vents and stuff until Tucker gets the electricity fixed."

Tucker shrugs, letting it go for now before heading to the doorway, "Alright, I'll take a look around the place and see what needs fixing."

Sam still has a troubled look as Tucker left. She still wants to know what Danny was looking for, but sighs after a minute, knowing that hell would freeze before he'd tell them. She heads over to the maintenance panel and flips it up, becoming curious when she sees an audio reboot.

"Why would we need an audio feed?" Danny voices her thoughts. He taps the button and a childish giggle comes from the room next to the office, which is the one Tucker happens to be in. Danny snickers as Tucker jumps and looks around in confusion.

["Is there a kid in here?"] Tucker says through the camera.

Danny chortles and pushes the button again. This time a child's voice says 'hello?' in the room with Tucker, causing the techno geek to whip around. Danny out right laughs at this point, making Tucker glare at the camera.

["Whatever you're doing man, quit it! I'm trying to concentrate here!"]

Sam rolls her eyes at Danny's antics. He seems to be back to normal now if he's torturing Tucker with the audio feed. The night progresses much like this, Danny laying off for a bit to check the other rooms and vents before going back to taunt Tucker with the child's voice when he comes to a room the human traffic light is in. Sam has to reboot the audio a few times when Danny takes it too far, and reboots the cameras about as many times, but otherwise six o'clock rolls around with nothing out of the ordinary.

Tucker goes outside to wait as the other two make last minute checks and wrap it up. They meet Tucker outside, where they find him typing notes into his phone.

"I'm gonna have to come back later before our shift to work on the wiring of the building," he explained, "the cameras have wires loose in them, and the wires in the alarms and lights need to be changed."

Tucker sighed, "I'm gonna have my work cut out for me. At least mom's letting me sleep most of the day and we don't have any homework to worry about for the next two months."

"At least you don't have early morning parents trying to drag you to fancy functions and charities hoping that you'll find what they deem a worthy husband," says Sam who face palms with a groan of frustration.

Danny chuckles, "yeah? Well at least my parents haven't figured out that Phantom's actually a ghost. I mean, my powers are kinda hard to hide, so that was inevitable, but Phantom has managed to stay under the radar just by standing next to me."

"I kept telling you to wear a disguise, but did you listen? No, and now you're parents are trying to figure out how to cure you of your 'ghostly infection'," Sam scolded using quotation fingers at the end. Tucker snorts in amusement.

"I don't think it's gonna be as easy as getting rid of a cold. Danny's been this way since he was fourteen, if they haven't found out how to get rid of it then there ain't nothing to be rid of."

"Yeah, and besides, it's kinda became a part of me now. If I got rid of it, it would be like if I was getting rid of you guys or Phantom. It's just-OW!" Danny gets interrupted by a football to the head.

"Hey Fentina! What'cha doin' up so early? You're mommy finally get sick of ya'?!"

Danny rubs the back of his head, eyes glaring at his feet. If his friends faces are anything to go by, his eyes are probably glowing a bright gold at the moment. He takes a deep breath and turns around.

"I could ask the same of you Dash, are you actually going to work this early?"

Dash scoffs, "why would I need to work? I get up early cause of football practice."

"You still have football practice?" Tucker asks, but of course Dash ignores him.

"For your information Dash, I actually have to work this summer. We're just on our way home from a nightshift," Danny said flatly, starting to walk again to get away from the jock. He heard laughter behind him and for the millionth time had to force down the urge to blast the jackass.

"You? Nightshift?" Dash snorts, "You being that kid who was always talking about fighting off monsters in his house? Yeah right!"

Danny growls in his throat, and suddenly has the very rare urge to give Dash a good scare. A malicious grin curls on the raven's lips as he uses his powers a bit to project his voice and make it echo.

"Really Dash? You would know about monsters too wouldn't you? Shadows are often misunderstood in the mind of a child after all..."

Sam and Tucker watch as Dash goes white, his purplish blue eyes contracting and going as wide as dinner plates. Danny looks over his shoulder and Dash screams, running as if the very hounds of hell are after him.

"Dude! Did you ghost him again?" Tucker exclaims before Danny turns toward them with an innocent look.

"I don't know what you mean, I just looked at him," he says in a strange lilting tone. Sam feels her brow go into her hairline at this.

"Really? Cause the last time you used you're powers on him intentionally we were fourteen. You don't usually use your powers on living humans unless it's by accident," She states, hands on her hips. Danny just keeps grinning cheekily at her before he turns and continues on their walk home.

"I just wanted to give Dash a little warning is all. It does get annoying putting up with his shit after a while."

Sam and Tucker glance at each other, brows wrinkling in worry before following after Danny. They split and go to their respective homes, waving goodbye to each other as they go.

Sam and Tucker can't stop thinking about Danny's strange behavior however. Sure he'd acted weird before, even acted creepy like that time with Ember; neither one able to forget when his eyes had burned bright gold before becoming hollow all toether with white pinprick pupils.

Tucker shudders at the memory while Sam simply frowns. There is something going on here, and both have a feeling that if they didn't figure it out soon...something very bad would happen.