Number 68
Haunt
Genre: Angst
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Slight Angst, Mature Themes
Episode Reference: Episode 27: The Ultimate Enemy
General Idea: What would've happened if Clockwork didn't give Danny a second chance.
Danny felt so burdened. His family...his only friends...gone. All gone. All because he had failed to save them from an explosion. How much pain he felt.
The eerie silence through the whole house hung over him like a silence. His soul felt as though it had been tied and whipped mercilessly. His heart throbbed in pain. Tears jerked as his eyes. He alone, so alone, haunted by the memories of being unable to save them.
All because he cheated on a test. He wanted to change the future, to make it better and to avoid the deaths of his friend and family, and to avoid becoming evil. He hadn't accomplished any of his goals, not even that was the one that mattered to him least.
Or, at least, not yet.
There was only one way, only one solution to reach one goal. To prevent the future from it being what it could be. He wasn't going to let everyone suffer because he wanted to...he wanted to...
But it didn't matter anymore. If he chose to live, he would be haunted with his own demons, with his own evil. And someday, the future would become what it was meant to be.
He wasn't going to let it happen. No, not Danny Fenton. Or Danny Phantom. Neither of his halves were going to let it happen.
Danny weilded a knife from the drawer. He didn't even remember the transition between standing up from the kitchen table he had been sitting at to removing the knife from the drawer.
He had always been willing to risk his life for others. And, now, he had to lose his life for others. And lose it by his own hand.
