Yup, this is the second chapter. Already. Can I just say I'm writing while watching Adventure Time (which I also don't own)? I'm starting to think I watch too many cartoon -.- BUT I SHALL KEEP WRITING!

I don't own Danny Phantom. Clearly. Wish I did though.

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The door loudly creaked open ever so slowly, drawing Dash's attention away from the sports magazine he had been reading to catch the frightened face of one unlucky guest.

"h-hey D-D-Dash! I was j-just wondering i-if you would-wouldn't mind me eat-eating something af-after not having h-had d-din-dinner and all."

Dash looked at the computer genius like had completely lost it.

"Dude, I just told five minutes ago you could help yourself to whatever you could find. And what's with the stuttering? Scared of me are you Folely?" Dash smirked as he said the last sentence. The smirk was only widened as Tucker jumped as thunder struck none too far from Dash's window.

"NO DON'T KILL ME!"

Dash, being the bully that he was, didn't even try to stop himself from laughing out loud.

"Seriously techno geek? You live in the most haunted city in America and you're afraid of thunder? Pfft, loser!"

Tucker opened his mouth to defend himself, only curl into a fetal position for a second time as a yet another round of thunder boomed. This time, Dash didn't laugh. He probably would have forced himself to, if his other jocks had been there, but in all honesty, he truly felt bad for the quivering mass of geek huddled up in his doorway. After all, he hadn't exactly been all helpful just letting the kid sit there and be mocked as he was forced to watch a movie that clearly terrified him.

With a reluctant sigh, he swung his legs off his bed and crouched down so that he was nearly the same level as Foley.

"Man, that movie really freaked you out huh?" A barely auditable mumble was his only reply.

Running his fingers through his hair, Dash tried to think of a way to relieve the situation (especially as he didn't want his parents coming home to find a traumatized loser in the middle of their house. Heaven knows he wouldn't hear the end of it). Then he remembered what his father had done when he himself had been trying to get over his fear of horror movies.

Standing up, he picked the smaller teen up by the back of his collar and dropped him onto his feet.

"Follow me before I change my mind!" he snapped over his shoulder. Tucker hesitated for second, before yet another clap of thunder had him scurrying after blonde.

Tucker followed Dash all the way back upstairs to his home cinema. He watched in curiosity as the tall jock made a beeline for the rack of assorted movie titles on the other side of the room, seeming to consider each one before tossing it carelessly to the side.

"Um, Dash, what….what are doing?"

Dash turned to face the smaller boy, several movies still in his hands.

"I'm putting on a different movie to help you get to sleep, so you won't bug me all night." Like hell he was going to admit he was once afraid of horror movies too. He would sooner kiss Fen-toad.

Tucker's eyebrows shot up. He shuffled over to where his classmate stood.

"Really? Well, do you have any sci-fi?"

Dash threw him a confused looked. "Sci-what?"

Tucker bit back a chuckle. "Science fiction, Dash. Science Fiction."

"Oh….no, I don't think so. Look for yourself. I actually don't know what a techno geek likes."

"I like science fiction."

Dash glared down at the boy who suddenly seemed to grown a spin out of nowhere.

"Well we don't have your stupid science fiction, so pick something else!" he growled.

Tucker shrunk back a bit, and resumed scanning the numerous movies genres available before picking one off the shelf with an amused smile.

"Oh I can tell you don't have any science fiction. Plenty of romance though. What this? 'Season One: Icky Icky Goo Goo Romance'? Seriously man?"

Dash froze for brief moment, before snatching the DVD case from the geek and throwing it back onto he shelf as though it was some kind of bomb set to explode if moved.

"Th-that's my….my cousin's! Yeah! For when she visits!"

Tucker's eyebrow rose further, threatening to disappear underneath his hat.

"Ri-ight. I believe you. And I bet those teddy bears I saw poking out of your closet are for 'when she visits' too huh?"

Dash froze for the second time that night, eyes wide with horror as he stared down at the (far too smug-looking) boy on his left.

'Oh shit! He saw that?' "I-I have no idea what you're talking about Foley."

Tucker just gave a small "Mm-hm, sure," and knowing smirk. Dash's eyes narrowed to slits.

"Listen loser, if dare-"

"-tell anyone you'll pummeled me to death so fast I won't know what hit me. I get it, I won't tell a soul. Literally."

Dash relaxed a bit, and resumed looking for a non-scary movie for them to watch.

"On one condition."

Dash nearly dropped everything he had been holding. On one condition? Was this loser going blackmail him? Him, Dash Baxter? No,…no he wouldn't dare!

"I won't tell anyone if you promise to leave me and my friends alone for rest of the school year."

So this was how it was gonna go down huh?

Dash calmly placed the movies he had been holding back, before facing the smaller boy with a look of pure rage.

"How about-" he hissed. "-you don't tell anyone, and I don't beat the snot out of you?"

The nerd did something only a handful of people ever dared to do, and even then would usually end up having to pick their teeth off the floor: he laughed right in his face.

"Please Dash! By the time you get round to that word would around the school, it'd be too late. Tell you what, I'll shorten the time down to Christmas, so you still have a half a year to make up for lost time. Deal?"

Dash growled. "I can beat you up right now and no-one will know"

Immediately Tucker's face dropped. He quickly swung back to face the shelves of movies, posture rigid and panic quickly setting in once again.

"Eh-heh…so-o about this movie.. Which one did you want to watch again?"

Dash raised an eyebrow in amused at Tucker before speaking again.

"A week."

"Huh?" Tucker blinked up at the blonde in confusion. "I don't see any movies called 'A Week' "

Dash held back the urge to smack the nerd over the head. Instead he gave Tucker a look that clearly told the other boy how stupid the blonde thought he was being. Coming from someone as dense as Dash, that meant a lot.

"I mean I'll leave you and your loser friends alone for a week."

Tucker blinked again. "Oh. How about a month?"

"Two weeks."

"Deal. Shake on it."

Dash extended his hand for Tucker to take, shaking the poor boy's hand a little too roughly and making Foley's arm feel like it was about to ripped from it's socket. Rubbing his shoulder he gave the jock an apprehensive smile.

"You sure have strong handshake….please never shake my hand again."

Dash just smirked. "Not my fault you're a wimp. Now have you finally decided or am I going to put on 'Friday Thirteenth'?

Tucker quickly shook his head, fear evident in his face.

"NO! No I…ah….I'm nearly done."

Dash just gave a frustrated sigh and sat down in one of the recliner chairs.

"Well hurry up! I haven't got all night!"

Tucker squeezed his eyes shut as he turned his back to Dash. Had he been imaging Dash being nice earlier? He must have been. The Dash he was talking to now was without the doubt the one he had grown up knowing and hating.

'Just for tonight Tuck, you just need to survive tonight. Then, you get two whole, beautiful weeks bully-free. Just gotta remember that.'

"Oi! Techno geek! Make a decision already!"

Oh, he was definitely looking forward to those two weeks.

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I know I have introduced Danny or any other characters yet, but I will in the next chapter! I promise!

I'm out of cookies so reviewers will get brownies instead! : D