Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own Danny Phantom! But I'm pretty sure some of you guys are pleased about that...

Authors Note: Review replies below because I can't be bothered to PM:

LoViNgXtWiLiGhTxoxo ~ Thank you! As you can tell by this chapter, I am continuing :) thanks for the support!

A-Mostly-Free-Individual ~ I'm glad you love angst, I do too XD most of my friends on here don't, unfortunately... Thanks so much! I absolutely love getting feedback, whether it's good or bad, and I honestly wasn't too sure about the structure of it :) Again, as you can tell by this chapter, I'm continuing, so you definitely will be seeing a few more chapters! I'm thinking about making it longer than I was going to :D

SofiPhan29 ~ I can't tell if that's a good wow or a bad wow XD

MidnightWriter44678 ~ Yeah, it hurt me to write it too, but I'd had it stuck in my head for so long I figured why not share it? :P I'm glad you enjoyed!

PeanutCAT13 ~ I know... I like angst a bit too much... This was actually going to be a one shot, originally, but since so many people want me to add more I thought 'why not?'

User724 ~ I'm interested in it, sort of, but I haven't watched it yet... Sue me.

Trigger Warnings: Self harm (this is going to be a thing now...), self hate.

~~DP~~

Contrary to what Danny (probably) thought, Sam and Tucker weren't dumb.

They'd noticed the way he'd stare longingly at the scissors on the table, or how he'd always wear long sleeves.

They weren't stupid.

However, even with them denying it, they had to admit that at one point, they were a little... brain dead.

In other words, they left Danny alone.

In that time, he'd managed to cut some of his hair off (leaving it with this uneven, messy look that he seemed rather proud of) and somehow cut his arm.

And the weird thing was that Danny hadn't noticed.

Surely a normal person would notice that their arm had been cut (and rather deeply, too) and immediately ask to go to the nurse.

Then Sam and Tucker remembered that Danny wasn't exactly normal.

Anyway, since Danny has been in so many fights and gotten hurt so many times -

- Tucker could still remember the time when Danny came into his house with his arm bleeding heavily. Danny kept on saying he was sorry, that he didn't mean to. He just didn't -

- that maybe he was immune to it now. Yeah, his pain tolerance was higher now. That had to be it.

They both ignored the obvious truth in front of them, desperately hoping it wasn't true.

~~DP~~

Okay, so Dash might have bullied Danny for years, but he wasn't going to sit there and do nothing.

Was he?

Dash didn't really want to know what would happen if he told someone. What if Danny went completely crazy on him?

(He'd heard some people whose deepest, darkest secrets had been told did that.)

No, Danny was much too weak to do that. He didn't have the physical strength to do that.

Even though Danny could run fast - but only when he was distracted, for some reason - and appeared to have muscles on some occasions, he couldn't hurt Dash, could he?

No. It would be better if he told.

Except, did he really care?

So maybe Danny was almost self destructing. Maybe he was hurting himself for a good reason. Yeah. He just needed to get it out of his mind.

He didn't really care about Fendork, did he?

No. He didn't.

Dash could just put him out of his mind and move on. Besides, Fenturd wouldn't go that far.

Dash went back to Lancer's classroom and sat back in his seat, leaning back and chatting easily to his friends.

After all, it wasn't his problem.

~~DP~~

Danny hadn't felt in a long time.

Maybe he should rephrase that.

He hadn't felt emotions in a while.

He couldn't remember what it was like to be happy -

- Danny gave Tucker and Sam a smile, laughing as they continuously told him absolutely horrible jokes that had absolutely no context, tears streaming down his face of joy -

- or to be upset -

- the liquid dripping down his face felt strangely hot and cold at the same time as he sobbed into his knees, Sam and Tucker comforting him -

- or to be angry and annoyed -

- "Honestly, dude, you're seriously starting to annoy me now," Danny warned, his eyes raging like fire at the Box Ghost. "I swear if you make me fail..." -

- or to love -

- he looked at Sam with an adoring expression. What was he waiting for? -

or anything else.

It hurt.

It hurt to see his family give him a gift and having to fake a smile to make them happy.

It hurt to have Sam and Tucker at his back all the time because they were just worried.

(They didn't need to worry about him, he wasn't needed, they'd be perfectly fine if he wasn't -)

It hurt to have Jazz look at him with a concerned expression, as though there was something wrong.

(Except there was and she couldn't see it and he'd dug too deep and he couldn't get out of this hole -)

He had dug too deep. And he'd pay the price.

(Shouldn't he say cut too deep?)

Danny may hate himself, he may wish that he was never born, but he wasn't going to go to that length.

After all, he still had a family. He still had friends.

At least, he thought he did.

But would friends do this? Would they watch your every move, then let you go, carefree, because they trust you?

The guilt bared down on him heavily, crushing his shoulders, crushing his want to live.

One slash is all it would take. Was he man enough to do it?

No. He wasn't.

He was already half-dead. He couldn't take away the half of him that was living too.

(But the relief he'd felt as he'd seen the on button inside the machine - the way he was absolutely certain he'd die - and the horrible pain - and he woke -)

People relied on him, he hoped. People needed him, he wished.

It was probably all in vain.

Nobody loved him.

All he needed to do was do that one vertical slice -

- and all his troubles would be over.

He raised the knife.

~DP~

Yeah, I totally left you on a cliffhanger. I'm pleased.

Um, I hope you enjoyed? I know it was kinda short, I just thought it was the perfect place to stop ;)

Also, I'm about to create a poll :) it'll be up until Sunday (so, four days) and it's basically this:

Danny die?

Danny alive?

I have different ways of how this story will go, so pick either!

Reviews shall be answered at the top of next chappy! I really appreciate your feedback, guys :D