Bright Star
By: Wilona Riva
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom.
Author's Note: While updating Night Wind, I checked to see what other stories needed updating, and found this floating around. And of course, that led to this... Enjoy. Thanks to everyone who took time to beta read and for a slow day at work to write this.
Book of Sighs
Ember picked up the poetry books, and tidied up the cell. Using her flaming ponytail, she fried the broken camp cot to a crisp, and blew away the ashes. Knowing Walker, she would have time to return the books to Ghostwriter, while the Warden briefed her lover on whatever a doozy of a mission awaited him. Walker would keep Danny hopping for the next four months-Danny would start working for him full time once he graduated.
"As I am forbidden by the Observant Council from banning fresh fruit from my inmates' diets, I would appreciate it if you would not add any more citrus fruits to this rehabilitation unit," Walker greeted him gruffly, when he and Bullet entered the sparsely furnished office. "Am I clear?"
"Crystal," Danny affirmed. "What's the job?"
Walker raised one eyebrow at him. "There is a chameleon-skinned book thought to have been destroyed centuries ago. Recently, it has resurfaced in your hometown of all places. I want you to search every library, bookstore and bookshelf until it's been located. Do not touch it."
"Why?"
"That's for Miss Gray to worry about-not you."
"What if it's in someone's private collection?" Phantom asked, thinking of Vlad.
"You're a ghost!" Walker snapped. "Use your imagination."
"You have school tomorrow, Phantom," Bullet reminded him. "Get out of here, brat." Knowing Ember was waiting for him on their private island, he saluted and took off.
"Really need to human proof my office one of these days," Walker muttered to himself.
"I noticed you didn't mention the part of the book's history where it was part of the Vatican's Librorum Prohibitorum," Bullet pointed out. "We don't know what consequences will befall him-being a halfa."
Walker smirked. "We'll have to wait and see, won't we?"
"Look what I got!" Ember said, showing Danny the square box in her hand.
Danny stared at her. "Journey to the Edge of the Universe is about the most awesome film on everything in space. Let me see it."
"No," Ember told him, holding it out of his reach. "Kiss me first."
He snatched it from her, and put it down on a flat rock next to his feet. Ember wrapped her arms around his neck and drew him in for a kiss.
"Danny?" Ember queried, looking up into his bright acid-green eyes.
"Hmm?"
"I've got a pain between my shoulder blades. Can you massage it for a minute?"
"Sure," Phantom agreed, touching said spot. "Here?"
"No, it moved a little lower."
"Here?" he asked, touching her lower back.
"A little lower," she purred.
"Ember, if I go any lower..."
Danny made a strangling sound, as Ember dragged him down to her, cutting off his protest. He pulled back.
"I promised my parents we'd wait until graduation," he reminded her. "Don't start."
Ember traced the symbol on the front of his jumpsuit. Danny squirmed a bit, then let out a strangled moan as Ember's hands roamed a bit further south.
"Quit trying to corrupt me," he growled, pulling her tightly against him.
"Correction," she purred in his ear, feeling what she was sure wasn't a rock pressed against her lower abdomen. "Already corrupted."
Phantom chucked, pulling her in for another lingering kiss. "I need to get home so I can get some rest. After school tomorrow, meet me and Valerie in the library so I can go over the details of the mission with both of you. I'd rather not repeat myself twice."
"Good idea," Ember agreed, her flaming hair flickering in the breeze. "Now, I want to hear it."
"EMBER!"
Walker paused, mid-sip. "He'll never make it to graduation."
