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Phasing into his room, both of them shifted back to their human halves. Exhausted from all that went on that day, they stumbled to and collapsed onto the bed, staring at the ceiling, relaxing in the hum of the gadgets running overhead in the anti-ghost flying saucer his parents invented. Turning to look at his 'daughter' he softly smiled, then furrowed his brow as he realized a problem.

"Umm… Dani? Where will you be sleeping? We could try stashing you in the guest room again." Danny suggested.

Turning her head to look at Danny, Dani thought about it for a moment. "That might work for a while but if I'm gonna be staying with you, wouldn't your parents find out about me? Besides, it's boring in there. At least your room has cool books and music to listen to."

Thinking about it for a few moments, they flinched as the peace was broken by Danny's cellphone. Looking at the display, it showed that Sam was calling. Showing the display to his clone, he flipped it open and answered it.

"Hey Sam, what's going on?"

"Danny, where are you? We finished patrol hours ago after you disappeared, but you weren't home. We were starting to get worried about you. Is everything good with your cousin?" Sam spoke quickly.

"Whoa, Sam, slow down," Danny forgot that he last referred to Dani to his friends as his cousin, as that was how she first introduced herself to him. "We're fine. Dani was falling apart, Vlad and Val was causing trouble, same old same old. Everything is fine now."

"Wait… Vlad… Val? Explain." Sam demanded.

"I'm kind of tired right now, could we talk tomorrow on the way to school or during lunch or something?" Danny wasn't kidding. Between the overuse of the ghostly wail and the close call to an emotional breakdown both with Dani appearing to die, then planning on leaving, he didn't feel like explaining at the moment.

"...Fine, BUT you will tell us everything! Understand?"

"...Yeah, sure, whatever. See you tomorrow." Danny hung up the phone, not waiting to get a response.

Sighing, Danny gazed at his daughter. "So… how are we going to explain this?"

"To your friends… you did pretty well. I was falling apart, Vlad found out I was here, I came to you to see if you could fix me, I we got caught by Val, she took me to Vlad, you convinced Val to save me, and used an invention of your dad's to fix me. Got there, fixed me, beat up Vlad, all's good. Hey! We could say I'm staying with you in case it doesn't last." summarized Dani.

"As good as that excuse is, I don't ever want to think about you falling apart again. Once was enough, especially now that we care and can count on each other. Maybe we could go to Jazz. She knows I'm Phantom and can keep a secret. Maybe she would have a few good ideas." They both returned to staring at the ceiling as they thought it over.

"Sure, but could we do it tomorrow? I'm kind of tired as well, and don't feel like moving." Dani agreed reluctantly as nothing came to mind as a better idea or a reason not to. "… Um, Daddy?"

"You should keep calling me Danny. As much as I appreciate being called Daddy, it would be awkward either constantly saying it was a slip of the tongue, or explaining exactly why you're calling me that." Danny regrettably replied. "Of course, if we're alone like this, go ahead. Just make sure it doesn't become a habit. It's hard enough keeping my secret. I almost slipped myself today when tried to excuse myself to head out and patrol."

"Okay Daddy," as she continued to try out the new title for her father.

"Anyways, what was it you were saying?"

"...may I stay with you tonight? I really am to comfortable to move right now." She tried to explain away her real reason. For all her cloned life she had been alone. She had been held by only two people in her short life, the first being Vlad, who she knew now was only acting (and really didn't want to think about now, especially since not an hour ago he was trying to vaporize her), and Danny. She was finding that she enjoyed being close to someone she cared about.

"..." Danny was unsure of what to say. While he was enjoying having her laying next to him, he worried about the morning. Even if the idea of waking up with her next to him made his heart sing with joy, the fact remained that ultimately, there was a large possibility of his parents coming in and catching them. While that awkward scene could be explained away to his friends and Jazz, he couldn't think of a way to explain to his parents. After all, they only got out of trouble the last time she was here because she overshadowed his teacher and parents.

She also refused last time to have a parent confirm whether or not she… was... his cousin… He just had an idea. Well, that made things easier. But there still was the issue of why she was in his bed. "...And if we get caught by my parents, how do we explain why we are both in the same bed?"

"...we don't. Lock the door, if the come in the morning, we wake up with the knocking if we aren't awake then. From there, if they are knocking, one of us goes invisible. Problem solved. If I'm the visible one, you could quickly fly to the guest room, and walk down to breakfast. If you are, all the easier." she quickly came up with a plan.

Danny blinked. It could actually work. "Sure. I have an idea that goes off of what you said to me when we met on how to say who you are and why you are here. Problem is, we would need to let Jazz know before she gets to suspicious."

"Really?"

"You're my cousin, from dad's side of the family. You came over here… you think of a reason. I'm drawing a blank right now. Anyways, I or a duplicate overshadows dad to confirm the story. The way dad is… well it would be understandable if he was forgetful about all his family members and didn't tell mom about any of them." He slowly raised himself, groaning as he sat up. As he turned to leave the bed, Dani's hand shot out and grabbed his. Turning to Dani's face, he rose an eyebrow.

"Umm..." Dani slightly blushed as she realized what she just did. "Why are you getting up?" She really hoped the low light of the room hid her blush.

"Locking the door. Isn't that what you suggested?" said Danny. He seriously hoped this wouldn't backfire on him, as the only way to make the situation more awkward than it would be if they were caught was if it was after they broke through a locked door and caught them together… or naked. He quickly shook his head. He didn't want to know where those thoughts might lead.

Leaving the bed, he headed to the door and made sure it was closed and locked. Turning back he saw Dani's face relax into sleep. Smiling at the sight, he lumbered back to the bed and laid down. As he drifted into sleep, he felt Dani curl to him, holding him close.

Slowly waking up with a weight on him, Danny opened his eyes. The sight of his daughter's face filled his view as his vision came into focus.

"Morning Daddy." As his brain started up, the memories of the previous day trickled in, reminding him of the conversations he would have to have today. Smiling softly at his daughter, he sighed.

"Dani, could you let me up now"

"Why?"

"Breakfast, school, the potential of mom or dad breaking in to go on about ghosts…" he trailed off. Seeing his point, Dani rolled off of him, stretching.

"Fine. I'm off, now get me some breakfast!" she commanded.

Sighing, he stood up, ruffled Dani's hair, and kissed her forehead, making her blush. "I'm not sure I can sneak up enough to feed you, considering how much you ate the last time you were here." Her blush deepened.

"Hey! I needed the food to stay together! I'm better now." she refuted, her blush receding. And then returned when her stomach grumbled. "But I'm still hungry!"

Chuckling, Danny replied "Okay, okay. I'm not going to get you much, but if we talk to Jazz she should be able to get you something until we can tell mom and dad an excuse good enough for you to stay. Speaking of, how are you coming with that?"

"I'm not sure… I suppose we could say something like becoming and orphan because of ghosts… which is technically true because Vlad is a ghost, he made me, yet I have no parents- except for you of course."

Thinking on it, Danny chuckled and shook his head. "If it was any family but ours, that excuse would be right out." Reaching out, he pulled Dani into a hug. "And I'm proud to have you as my daughter."

Blushing the third time in as many minutes, she lingered in his hug, then pushed herself away. "Geez, you are so embarrassing! Hurry up and get me my breakfast!"

"Sorry, must get it from my dad. I'm going, I'm going." He left to the kitchen, closing the door behind him. Now all he had to do was have a reason to give as to taking food to his room.

Meanwhile, back in the room, Dani slumped back onto the bed. "Ugh, what is wrong with me?" She knew she wasn't normal. When she met her new father, it was apparent how deep the cloning went. Within the first five minutes they talked, she realized all the top interests they shared were identical. The thing was, while she could understand the same taste in music and reading material, the desire to be an astronaut shouldn't have been there. She was pretty sure that he unconsciously wanted to get as far as he could from his parents, and how much further could one go than space?

And yet, she still shared so many traits and hobbies with him. It was actually the reason she left the first time. Although she didn't say it, she needed time to find herself. By now she was sure that Vlad had scanned Danny's mind, then manipulated the memories to show himself as the father, loyal without question. The reason she assumed she wasn't as brainwashed as the rest was that Vlad saw something that made him believe she might actually be a success in the project, so went with the less-heavily modified memories. Obviously, he found a problem with her, or he wouldn't have created another 'prime clone'.

She scoffed. Vlad really was a fruit loop. All that time trying to clone Danny, but he could have easily cloned Maddie, the 'love of his life'. No ecto-deterioration, and if she was correct in her theory (she was pretty sure it was the right one) he could easily remove all memories of Jack and ghost hunting. From there, teach her ghost hunting himself, and he would have everything he wanted. Of course, he whether or not he wanted her to know ghost hunting was irrelevant. It was even obvious to her that any and all Fentons, and those close to them, would be drawn to ghosts.

… Actually, it could be the other way around. Unless one is interested in ghosts, they couldn't interact with the Fentons on any positive note. Now that she thought more on that line of thought, it probably was more true than she realized.

And then jumped up. Footsteps were coming closer. Cursing herself for getting lost in thought, she quickly got under the bed, then turned herself invisible for good measure.

Reaching the kitchen, Danny sighed in relief. His parents were nowhere in sight. Quickly pouring himself a bowl of cereal, he rushed eating it. Once done, he grabbed a box of pop tarts for Dani, and turned to head straight back to his room. Right into Jazz.

"Danny?" Jazz asked, arms crossed. "What's going on?"

"Hehehe..." Danny chuckled nervously. Glancing around, his parents still hadn't appeared. "Umm… could we talk… in my room?"

"Ah, something to do with… your job?" She avoided saying ghost. Inside the home, saying ghost could actually summon ghosts… or their parents. Usually just the parents though.

"Uh… yeah, something like that." That made it easier on him. "I need your help explaining something to mom and dad." Danny continued as they reached his door.

"Really? You're finally going to tell them?" She smiled. Danny was finally going to come clean to his parents!

"…" What was she talking about. Finally tell his parents what? Wait! "Ah, no not that. It's something else..."

As Danny opened the door to his room, Jazz was thinking overtime. Danny wanted to tell his parents something. This something had to do with ghosts. He wanted to discuss with her before telling mom and dad. He didn't want them to know UNTIL he discussed it with her… Oh dear, she thought. I think I know where this is going.

Closing the door behind her, she saw him place the box of pop tarts onto the dresser before turning to her. "Sooooo… who's the lucky ghost?"

Danny blinked in surprise at the abrupt question. "What?"

"The ghost you're dating. Your ghost girlfriend." Both Danny and Dani blushed at hearing this.

"How did you get that idea? No, I'm not dating a ghost, that's not what I asked to talk to you about." Underneath the bed, Dani felt disappointed. It would have been nice to date Danny… wait what? Dani shook her head at this thought. She would worry about dating after she had a permanent place to sleep. Like Danny's bed. Not now! She really hoped her thoughts would stay focused for the rest of the conversation.

"Then you got a ghost pet?" Jazz's short list was drying up. Danny deadpanned. Dani blushed as an idea came into her head… and left it as fast as she could kick it out.

"No. Jazz, could you let me explain, please?" Danny really wanted to get this over with. After all, he had to get ready for school to have enough time to tell the important details to his friends. He definitely didn't want it to be done during lunch where anyone could overhear. Besides, a ghost appeared during lunch at least once a week. If he didn't take care of this as soon as possible, they would be badgering him for weeks.

"Fine, go ahead." She figured she wouldn't guess correctly now that the most likely ideas had been already asked by her.

"You already know that Vlad is a fruit loop."

"True."

"Let me continue please."

"Fine..."

"So quite a while back he had the insane idea that if I won't agree to be his son, he would just create a copy of me who would."

"Wait, wh-"

"No interruptions please!"

"Fine." Jazz glared at Danny. That last comment needed its story told.

"So, he stole my DNA, and recorded me, using that data to make copies of me. Apparently, he didn't have everything he needed, because he wanted a complete copy- a halfa, not just a Danny Fenton or Danny Phantom. It turns out he also needed my… mid morph DNA. Anyways, without this his clones kept on falling apart, except one. Dani, would you come out now?"

"So Vlad had him keep the same name as well? Isn't that..." Dani phased up through the bed and faded back to visibility.

"Dani, with an I. I chose it." Dani said.

"Oh."

"So," Danny continued, "Long story short, he sent the copies after me to get the DNA, I beat them up, showed her how Vlad really wasn't her father in the proper term of the word, kicked his butt,-"

"We both did that, together." Dani interupted, then seeing the pop tarts, grabbed the box and started taking a couple out of their package.

"- then went our separate ways."

"I thought you said all the copies were missing the DNA. How come she's not falling apart now?"

"She was. She came by yesterday because she was on her last legs-"

"Till I didn't have any," she murmured between bites, shivering at the memory of melting.

"-to see if we had something that could fix her. Luckily for her, this past week, dad had been trying to make something that weakens ghosts. It works, for five seconds, then they grow stronger and more powerful than they used to be."

"Only dad..." Jazz shook her head.

"Vlad was also interested in how she stayed together for so long-"

"Mostly willpower, if you're asking." Dani interrupted again, as she reached for another package.

"- so he had her captured and worked to have her destabilized as soon as he could so he could study her remains. I managed to convince Val to work with me to save Dani-"

"Why Val?"

"I'll explain later." Danny sighed, and glanced at the clock. Looked like today was going to be a quick change of clothes and another long shower after gym today. No time left for this morning. "We saved Dani, using the Ecto-dejector or whatever it's called, and offered to let her stay here rather than drift around the world. Now, we have an idea to use, but knowing you, you probably would find it odd if I didn't explain right now, and end up risking the plan. Will you help us?"

"So, you want me to help your clone stay here. Well, if it's okay with Danny, then sure." Danny sighed in relief as Dani cheered, then hugged both of them.

Letting them both go, she then hugged Danny again, whispering, "Thank you Daddy!"

But not low enough. Time stood still as an odd look formed on Jazz's face. "Daddy?" she asked, looking at Danny.

Chuckling nervously, Danny explained, "Well, Vlad used my DNA, so technically I'm her father, and I'm willing to take responsibility for her..." His eyes then hardened as he looked into Jazz's. "Is there a problem with that?"

Her face relaxed, and she chuckled. "No… say it that way, and it's actually kind of cute."

"Cute?" Both Danny and Dani echoed. The emotional bond they were forming together was reduced to cute.

Chuckling again, she then asked, "So, when are you going to tell mom and dad?"

"After school, probably." Glancing at the clock, he started. "Out! I need to change, I'm gonna be late!"

"You still have a full hour till school starts." commented Jazz as she glanced at the clock. Opening the door, he pushed Jazz and Dani out, with Dani holding her box of pop tarts.

"Yes, but I also have to tell Sam and Tucker." He hurriedly said, closing the door behind him.

"..." Staring at the door, then turning to each other, they weren't sure what to do.

"Here, we'll stash you in my room in the meantime. If you need anything, just ask." Jazz decided, leading her new 'niece' to her room.

Once they were out of his room, he sighed, relaxed, then flew into a frenzy, throwing his dirty clothing into the basket, grabbing fresh clothes, and grabbing his backpack. Double checking to be sure he had everything, scanning the room, he figured he was all set. He figured Jazz knew enough that if Dani needed something his sister would be able to handle it.

Rushing through his door, he quickly went down the stairs. Just as he reached the door, his mom stopped him.

"Danny, have you seen your father? He should be up by now." Maddie asked. Usually at this time he would be tinkering with another device on the table.

In a rush, Danny asked, "Did you check containment in the lab? If he's not there, you could always say fudge." With that, he quickly ran out the door, as Jack was heard faintly yelling out "FUDGE!"

I guess he spent the night in there. I forgot that he was still there, Danny thought as he made his way to meet his friends. A small while after, Sam and Tucker spotted him and caught up.

"So, what happened last night Danny? After your cousin appeared you ditched us." Tucker asked, checking whatever gadget he happened to have on hand. Sam on the other hand glared at Danny, waiting for the explanation he promised last night.

"Apparently she was falling apart. She wasn't stabilized, so she came in hopes we could fix the problem. Vlad found out she was still alive, and had Val capture her. Val, hearing that she wanted to speak to me- well Phantom at any case- let her go to meet me and ended up catching both of us."

"That's horrible Danny," Sam said, slightly concerned.

"Yeah, man, that sucks." Tucker, now more interested in the story, slipped the device into his pocket.

"It wasn't that bad. I managed to convince Val to save Dani. It helped that apparently she saw Dani go ghost to save her life. From there we both dropped by home to get something dad created to weaken ghosts, but instead empowers them, in hopes that it would fix Dani's problem. We both fought Vlad-"

"Wait, isn't Valerie working for Vlad?" Sam interrupted.

"You should remember that Vlad mastered the duplicating trick. He locked himself in the closet, and Val fully believes that Vlad Masters and Vlad Plasmius are two different beings. The Masters did nothing but stand around, acting afraid, while Plasmius was just as difficult as usual to beat. It was close though. Vlad was doing his best to kill her to study the remaining ecto-goop. I barely managed to get the ecto-dejecto-"

"Wait, your parents called it ecto-dejecto?" Tucker interrupted this time.

"I really wasn't paying attention to what dad named it. It was something like that. Ecto-dejecto, ecto-dejector… it really doesn't matter. Just as I thought I was too late, and she was nothing but goop, she recovered. Together, we kicked his butt."

"Sounds like it was a busy night." Sam at least now understood why he called off explaining last night. "I guess she left to explore the world again?"

"Uh… not really."

Both Sam and Tucker glanced at each other. Sam chose to speak. "Then where is she?"

"She's staying at my house." Danny spoke as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

"Uh, dude, you do know that your parents WILL find out about her, right?" Tucker looked at his friend worriedly. Fighting ghosts was one thing. Having one wandering the house was an entirely different matter, even if it could go back into a human form… especially if that form was identical to Danny's, if shorter and female.

"Yeah, I think I know how to get them to let her stay with us. It will be fine." He waved off their concerns. "I hope," he whispered to himself.

As the school came into sight, the conversation was dropped, as now a different breed of problems would be on the forefront of their minds, some academic, some social.

Yet both Sam and Danny's thoughts drifted back to Dani. For Sam, she felt a slight pang of jealously, as another girl had entered Danny's life, and was likely to be staying. Granted, she was sure that the romantic potential was pretty much nonexistent, but certainly he would be spending less time with her.

Danny, however, had his mind go over what problems would arise when he informed his parents, and how he might be able to deal with them. He now had a daughter in his life and would do his best to keep her there.

Danny POV

We finally arrive at the school but as the typical day goes, Dash was waiting for me by my locker. I'm honestly starting to get tired of these daily beatings I take from the meathead. This has to stop eventually, especially before Danielle see's it. She would definitely try to pummel Dash if she saw what he does to me everyday.

Dash grabs my collar "Hey, FenTurd! You ready for your daily 7:30 beating? You're already late and I have a schedule to keep. How else am I gonna make my schedule of wailing on the other geeks today?"

Used to it, I don't struggle. I look at Dash with uncaring deadpan look.

"Oh no, we wouldn't want that to happen. You should maybe just skip me today so you can keep schedule. I know how organized you like to be. I wouldn't want you to be late."

Sam and Tucker had to hold back their snickers as they noticed my uncaring voice. Even if I didn't do this everyday, I fight ghosts 20x stronger than Dash daily who want to kill me for shits and giggles or to have my "pelt" on someone's wall. Yea...I know that image is disgusting. Dash's hits are like flea bite, if that. So can anyone blame them for almost laughing?

"Ha! No chance, you just want get out if you daily beating!" I knew he would refuse of course. I just try for the hell of it sometimes. Dash pulls back his fist to get ready to give out his "7:30 pummeling" and I close my eyes to humor him as always, and wait for it to end.

….

…

Nothing is happening. Man, either Dash has gained a heart in the past five seconds or I am getting way to strong for these 7:30 "beatings" if you can even call them that anymore. Honestly it's more like a human punching a brick wall, that he doesn't know that's a brick wall, and the wall trying to make itself softer so the dumbass human doesn't break his hand.

I try to hold back a chuckle at the thought while finally opening my eyes to see what happened.

Well, he's still there, but...something's not right. "Fenton, of course I was kidding best buddy! You didn't believe all that, did you?! I was just joking around! Just like how my face is a joke!" he puts me down while dusting me off. Wait...what. Confused, I look at him closely to see his eyes glowing green. "Yea with my stupid face! With my stupid life! And the very stupid existence of my being is so stupid!" Fuuu~

"So I'm just going to go leave you alone since I don't even deserve to be in your presence." the suddenly nice guy turns around and walks away.

So, here I am with Sam and Tucker and I just know that I if I don't explain quickly, Sam is going to kill me. Finishing this process of this thought, I try to explain, but It seems I'm too late. I feel the gravity around me increase all at once as I slowly turn around. Now, I might be having illusions, or Sam really does have horns, a tail, and glowing red eyes.

"Danny~" she says with a sweet voice that doesn't fit her at all. "What was that about. You should explain quickly, we wouldn't want anything to happen to you for being stupid now would we." I quickly try to explain what I now before I'm not only half dead anymore.

"Sam it wasn't my fault, before he put me down I saw that his eyes were green. He was possessed by a ghost! That's why he was acting all weird." I hurriedly explain. Seeing Sam calming down makes me breath a sigh of relief. My half-life isn't in any danger anymore. For now at least.

Tucker, who's been on his PDA the whole time, even when I almost died, traitor, finally decides to speak up. "So we're not gonna go after the ghost that's possessing Dash or…" he says nonchalantly.

Just realizing what happen, me and Sam looks at each other in realization for a few seconds before running to where Dash walked off too. We turn a corner to see possessed Dash going into the janitor's closet. While running to catch up I realize something. Why didn't I sense the ghost? It was literally standing right in front of me. Speaking of that, why didn't it attack either. I was literally within its grasps. So many questions, so little time before- as we open the door, the bell rings. I sigh at being late and the imminent detention. Not to mention the trouble I'm going to get in with my parents.

We see Dash, knocked out in the closet but not hurt on the floor. I honestly think we should just leave him here. We can't just carry a knocked out student in the middle of the hallway. Especially us, the geeks, with Dash. Not only would the popular kids be gunning after us more than usual, I'd probably get in trouble if a teacher saw me. Even if I try to explain to them I found him like this, I doubt they'd believe me.

In the end, we left him there and headed off to class. Of course we got detention and had to stay after school for 2 hours. I never did find out who the ghost was, why was it there, or why didn't it attack. Not to mention the bigger problem of my ghost sense not working. After detention, me, Sam, and Tucker said our goodbyes. Normally we would meet at someone's house but with the detention my parents are definitely not even going to let have friends over, nonetheless stay outside.

I have to stay home anyway with Danielle being there. Ha, I just noticed that I never call her Dani anymore. Honestly, it's kind of weird to say my own name so I'm probably gonna call her that from now on, just consciously this time.

I fly into my room to find Danielle laying in my bed, pouting. Oh for the love of-

"What's wrong?" I ask concerned. I've had a really long day and now a sulky kid. I mentally sigh, reminding myself it's not even over. After dealing with this I have to explain to my parents why she needs to stay here, which by the way I haven't came up with an explanation for yet, and go out on patrol. Actually, that sounds pretty good right now. I have a lot of stress and steam to blow off.

"Why did you let him treat you like that!" she explodes at me sitting up. At first, confused, I look at her strangely, wondering what she's talking about. Then, it all clicks.

"Danielle~!"