Disclaimer; I don't own anything, blah blah blah, all characters belong to Butch Hartman, blah blurp smurp.

"And that will be all for today" said Mr. Lancer, erasing the whiteboard. As soon as the bell rang, a hoard of students rushed outside, eager to go home. Danny among them. Sam and Tucker carefully followed him. Danny rounded a corner, Sam and Tucker rounded a corner. Danny went to his locker, Sam and Tucker hid behind a bush. At last, they stumbled upon the boys washroom.

Tucker and Sam looked uncertainly at each other. "Your call" said Sam. Tucker made a not-again face and crept into the boys washroom. He saw Danny enter a stall.

And then there was a bright flash of light

Tucker put his hand over his eyes, squinting through the glare. It looked like 2 rings, tinged blue. He looked up in confusion, wondering what on earth had just happened. He walked out, bewildered.

"So?!" whisper-shouted Sam. Tucker, mouth open, stared at her. Sam had a mind to slap him there, "Tucker! I'll slap you if you don't say something!" she said. Tucker snapped his mouth closed, shook his head to clear it, and then…

"I…I have no idea…"

"How can you have no idea, you just went in!" said Sam, not bothering with the whisper now. Tucker pointed to the washroom frantically, "I really don't know! There was this bright flash of light! I don't know what Danny's doing in there, but I know it's not going number 2"

Sam glared at Tucker, then she thought. "Go check" she said, motioning for the door. Tucker looked like Sam had just asked him to go bungee jumping instead of walking two meters to the boys washroom. "No! I don't want to go! You g-oh wait…"

Sam raised an eyebrow.

Tucker smartly kept his mouth shut.

Danny smiled to himself as he flew through the air. It felt so nice! The wind, the exileration, the box ghost floating around yelling 'Beware!' at random passerbys, not even scaring the smallest of children, and...

Wow...just the feel of it. He sighed as he saw Boxy. "Doesn't that ghost ever take a break?"

Spotting Fentonworks, he slowed. He convent the roof and landed, stiff and a bit ungraceful, but on his feet. He stayed like that for a second, then jumped up and down, looking like a little kid at his first amusement park. "Yes! That's the second time this week!"

Then he dove and landed in his room…

…right on top of Dani

"What gives?!" said Dani, looking up at Danny with an aggrevated expression.

Danny rolled off, "Whoopsie!" he said, still jubilant from his improvement. Dani glared at him, "Don't just say that! Ugh, you got my shirt dirty. And eww! What happened to your suit? And you call me irresponsible. Yeah, I still remember that from yesterday. Honestly, don't you know that Phantom suits take ectoenergy to repair? And you flew home? What if a ghost attacks huh? And I suppose you think I'm going to save your butt" ranted Dani.

Danny fell half asleep when Dani said all of that. When she looked at him expectantly, he said. "Is that what I sound like to you?"

Dani shrieked out loud in frustration. "Danny! Aren't you even listening? You should be more careful. One observant person is all it takes for someone to find us out!"

Danny sighed, "Dani! No one has found out yet, relax!"

"Key word yet" muttered Dani, shaking her head.

Danny walked over to his backpack and dumped out textbooks, homework, loose pencils, erasers, and a mouldy sandwich. Dani grimaced at the mouldy sandwich.

"Anyways, I have to do homework. There's a big test that I can't miss"

"Wow cuz, you actually care about your grades"

"Not because of my grades, because I don't want to listen to Sam tell me about how immature I'm acting not caring"

"Ah, and here I thought you actually did something productive for once" teased Dani. Danny looked at her, irritated, then smirked.

"You know what you're right" he said.

Dani stopped talking, and looked at Danny. "What?"

"I mean, education is important!"

Dani nodded, a bit uneasily. Danny was up to something "Exactly!"

"…so maybe I should skip dessert tonight and fill up on brussel sprouts, I hear it's brain food"

"Exac-what what?!"

Danny looked at Dani as her jaw dropped. "NOOOOOOO! Not my pudding!"

Dani pouted angrily at Danny, who just smiled cheekily.

"I will get the thermos down here if you dare" she said. Danny paled.

"…call it even?"

"Even"

"Sam, this is the problem with you. You're too persistent. Can't you be normal and give up once in a while?" asked/whined Tucker. Sam just walked bravely up to Fentonworks, not even bothering to look back. "Tucker, if we're going to get an explanation we're going to get it now. I want to know why Danny suddenly disappeared in the boys washroom!" she fumed. Tucker looked scared, "But Sam, that's Danny's business. Besides, maybe he just walked out while we weren't looking"

Sam glowered. She snatched Tucker by the collar and dragged him with her.

She knocked on the door, and Jazz opened it. "Oh hi Sam, Tucker. I assume you're looking for Danny"

"Yeah, can we come in"

"Of course. Come right in. I'll go get Danny…did he do something? Did he get detention? Did he sneak into the girls locker room again?"

"Of course no-wait, again?"

"No, we just wanted to talk to him. We have some…unresolved issues" said Sam.

Jazz looked at them weirdly, but shut the door behind them, and went upstairs to get him.

"DANNY!"

Danny jumped from his seat when Jazz came in. "Jazz! Ever heard of knocking?" he said peevishly. Jazz gestured downstairs, "Sam and Tucker just came. They want to talk to you" Danny made a face "Why?" Jazz shrugged, "I don't know, but you better go!" she said.

Danny walked down the stairs to see Sam and Tucker sitting at the kitchen table. Sam stood up when she saw him. "Danny, sit down. We have some questions for you" she said, a bit scarily. Tucker facepalmed. "Danny, Sam's overreacting again. Just to be clear, I didn't want to be here" he said. Danny looked from Sam to Tucker, then to Sam.

"Okay..?" he said, sitting down and motioning for Jazz to give them some space, which she did with a I'm-watching-you kind of expression.

"So..?" said Danny…

…"I want to know why you disappeared into the boys washroom today and didn't come out" said Sam, looking intently at Danny.

Danny visibly paled, "I…uh…don't know what you're talking about!" he stammered out. Tucker raised an eyebrow, "Dude, you're going to have to do a lot better than that" he said. Sam glared at him. Danny sighed, "Look guys, I just walked out and went home. And why were you following me into the washroom?"

Tucker looked at Sam for the second question. Sam ignored Tucker. "Danny, I know you didn't walk out, so tell me. I'm not moving until you do!"

Danny didn't say anything about that subject, "Want some refreshments?"

Sam opened her mouth to say something, but Tucker beat her to it. "Sure dude" he said.

Sam glared

Tucker shrugged

Danny went and got out two glasses. He filled them with tap water. "Here Sam," he said, placing a cup before her. Sam mumbled a thanks before taking a sip. She looked at Danny, then looked away. The awkward exchange was broken by Tucker.

"Lovebirds!"

"WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" Sam and Danny said together. Tucker smirked, "Mhm, sure you guys aren't. Just fyi, I already planned the date. Restaurant and everything" Sam smacked Tucker, Danny chuckled.

"So, about-"

"Danny! If you're friends are ok with it, can you come here and help me with something?" Danny jumped at the chance. "Yeah! Sure Jazz! Be right there!" Danny hurried out of there, leaving Sam and Tucker in the mud. Sam glared at Danny, "Ugh! Stupid Danny being smart and the convinently timed interruption!" she said angrily. Tucker sideglanced her, "At least he took your advice. Sam, don't you think this is taking it a little too far? I mean, it's Danny. He's to…Danny to do anything bad. Besides, we're his friends, he tells us everything!"

Sam looked away, "I guess so…, but then, he also hasn't been acting like himself. There's something going on Tucker, and I want to know what it is!"

Tucker sighed, "Sam…" he tried, "You're really messing with Danny's personal life, that's not exactly the most...I don't know...normal behavior?"

Unknown to them, Danny heard all of it, with his enhanced hearing. He stood, stiff, by the doorway. Careful not to create the smallest disturbance, he crept to Jazz's room.

"Danny, is something going on? You never want to help me with my work. Did you bump your head on something?" Danny groaned, "not you too" he mumbled. Jazz looked at him, "What did you say?"

"Nothing"

Sam and Tucker left. Tucker stretched outside, as if he couldn't be happier to have left Fentonworks. "Ah! Sweet relief! Fresh air! And no condescending stares!"

Sam trudged along with a mad expression, "Tucker, how can you be so calm about this? Just 'cause Danny had an excuse to not answer our questions doesn't mean that I'm, or you should be, okay with this! And we didn't even get any answers!" "I did!" chirped Tucker, showing her his PDA with a picture of Danny smiling at Sam, "Danny is totally into you!"

Sam snatched his PDA, "You delete this or else you're going to be one Lilly short!" she said through gritted teeth. Had anyone else listened to this, they might've laughed, but Tucker knew Sam well, and smartly stopped talking.

"Sam, maybe we should call it a day. Danny's fine, you're listened to, and I kept Lilly" said Tucker optimistically, holding his PDA. Sam glowered, but nodded. They both went back home, leaving Danny to ponder what they had just said.

"Dani! They-"

"I heard cuz, it's not good. But they don't know yet, and there's nothing telling them that you're Phantom" Danny sighed, "I…I just…need some time to think" he said, "I didn't think Sam and Tucker would get so close. Ugh, I really need to start being more careful"

Dani looked away, a bit sadly. She didn't like seeing Danny unhappy. He was usually the most cheerful kid in Casper High (well, not most cheerful, but a little heart to heart was usually all it took for him to perk up) , despite the fact that Dash picked on him, and that he had a super annoying over-observant sister in the same house that he lived in.

"Danny, if you're so worried about them, why don't I take over for tonight. Since Technus is being annoying, Boxy is trying to find empty boxes, Johnny and Kitty are on a date, Skulker is looking for "rare specimen", and Spectra is trying to find Bertrand. So it should be-"

"Not ok. What if someone sees you huh? Even if mom's not home right now, there are still floating spectral ghosts around"

Dani sighed sadly, "But only for today" Danny ruffled her hair, "Dani, I know you're very capable by yourself, but just not today. Besides…"

Danny threw her a pink-wrapped chocolate. Dani perked up and dove onto the bed, acting like an excited puppy. Danny chuckled, then sighed as he sunk into his seat, preparing to do a lot of homework.

Jazz was thinking about doing some late hour studying when she heard Danny talking. She shook her head, "Teens" she said to herself.

The next day rolled around, "and way to quickly", thought Danny, because as soon as he was done his nightly 'stroll' and his homework, it was already time for school. He yawned, and looked back at Dani. She was curled up in a cute, Dani-ball. Danny stuck his nose up, "Why does she get to sleep in?" he asked before rushing in and out of the washroom, grabbing his backpack, and…

Right, he can't fly

Danny sighed as he went downstairs and rushed out the door, barely pausing to say hi to Jazz. He ran all the way to school, which wasn't fun. School was a good five blocks away.

"Hey Danny, why were you so late?"

"Nothing much, just overslept"

Sam thought for a moment, should she let Danny know that she knew that he obviously did not oversleep?

"Wow, and to think that Lancer let you in. You should sleep earlier"

"Thanks Sam,"

A crumpled paper ball landed on Sam and Danny's desk, in it was one word:

LOVEBIRDSSSSSS!

-Tucker

Sam made a mental note to smack Tucker.

Lunch time, so nice, so peaceful, so much of Dash flirting with Paulina, Starr being annoying, and Valerie bragging about her expensive tops and stuff. Danny and Tucker stuffed themselves with mystery meat from the cafeteria. Dash decided it would be a good time to pick on him.

"Fenturd!"

Danny saw a charging Dash, then ducked, smartly or unsmartly, under a desk. Dash snatched Danny up by the cuff. "Fenturd, I need your homework! So gimme or I'll-"

"Dash, Danny doesn't have it. He's not smart enough to" said Sam with a matter-of-fact voice. "Gee, I didn't know you thought so much of me" he said dryly. Dash dropped him, "Fine, but if Fenturd does have it, then…uh…then I'll beat up you Fenturd!"

Dash walked angrily off, leaving Danny, Sam and Tucker alone. Sam seemed proud of what she did, but then…

"Uh Sam? I did do my homework"

Sam glared at him, "Danny!"

"Sorry for doing my homework!" said Danny, a bit carpishly. "He's got a point" said Tucker, "I mean, it was your ide-"

"Don't push it"

"Hey Danny, how was…what happened to you?" asked Dani. Danny stiffly waddled into his room. "Thanks to your idea, I had to run home because I got some guy mad 'cause they thought I was dissing Dash!" he said. There was a shallow cut on his cheek.

Rings, then Danny was Phantom. The cut healed over, and he perked up a little.

Dani blew a raspberry. Danny did one back.

"By the way Dani, did my bed always have goop over it?"

Dani looked confused, then shouted aloud when she saw a green, slimy substance all over his bed. "Ah!"

Danny quickly scooped up Dani and away from the bed. "Dani! My bed!"

"Danny! I didn't do that on purpose!"

"And you-what?"

Dani gestured to the bed, "This…goop thingy! I…I don't know what…I just…I…uh…."

Dani started to panic, and Danny softened, "Dani, it's okay. Maybe you're just developing your powers early" Dani shook her head, "No! I'm not supposed to be able to use any ecto-energy yet, but look at this! Green goop and ice? Those are advanced ghost skills" Danny looked again, at Dani then at his bed. "I'll just phase it off, don't worry about it" The goop phased off, and Dani sniffled. She didn't realize that she had been crying.

"What if I lose control? What if I accidently hurt Jazzie, or Sam, or Tucker or anyone that walks by on the street?" Dani sniffled again. Danny conforted her, murmuring comforting words. They stayed like that in Danny's room for a few minutes, then Dani looked up at Danny. "You know, for an annoying half-ghost brother, you're pretty good at being mushy"

Danny smiled a dorky smile, "Thanks cuz" he said, without sarcasm, without any notes of dryness.

I'm fat!

Yeah, not a lot of plot progression, but in my defense…I'm stoopid. Please R&R and thanks for reading.