AN: Hey guys! I went back and edited these two chapters together. What would've been chapter 5 is now part of chapter 4.

Chapter 3: Food and Revelations

Danny opened his eyes to see the Director, or the man in the white mask, talking to a doctor. "We'll have to wait for him to wake up and than ask what's wrong because I don't know." said the doctor

"He's awake." said a voice from right behind his head. He was strapped to a gurney in a sitting position. His brain was fuzzy and his stomach was clenched in a painful knot. In the state he was in he couldn't tell whose voice it was, but he knew it sounded familiar.

The Director and the doctor walked from their position on the opposite side of the small, hospital like room. The Director stood and contemplated him for a moment before nodding at the doctor who started to look him over. Danny tried to struggle, but found he was so weak he could barely move, much less break the glowing green restraints attaching his wrists and ankles to the gurney.

"I don't know what's wrong." the doctor said, "He seems perfectly normal, if a little weak."

He Director looked at Danny and, for the second time Danny noted, nodded at the doctor. The doctor began to undue Danny's restraints. "Try anything, Phantom, and you'll get a shock." The Director said, throwing a pointed glance to where Agents O and E stood with large ectoplasmic guns, watching him as was the rest of the team.

Danny frowned, but nodded to show his understanding. "Get up." the Director said. Danny was so weak he wasn't sure if he could get up. H attempted to anyway. He slowly got down from the gurney and instantly the world spun and Danny almost fell to the ground.

He gritted his teeth and attempted to walk, but the dizziness only grew and he was sent toppling over again, only to be caught by two nurses who than set him back on the gurney. "Phantom, what is wrong with you?" There was no concern for Danny's well being in his voice, only concern for his prize.

He couldn't tell the Director what was wrong with him. If he did, the Division would know that he wasn't a real ghost. If he didn't, the Division would not know how to help him and he would die. In his indecision, somebody answered for him.

"I suspect that young Daniel hasn't eaten or drunk anything in 4 days." said the voice from behind him "Because of what he is, his metabolism is faster than that of normal humans."

Danny stiffened at this. It was true, of course, but the fact that he knew about it was what shocked him. He had told no-one in this room of his true identity and he was sure that the people who knew would not have sold him out. Did that mean that the person behind him was not human?

Before he could fully digest the idea and all that it implied, the Director spoke up again. "But ghosts don't have to eat or drink." he sounded really confused, and Danny, with his near hysteria outlook thought this was hilarious.

"Okay." the Director said and repeated the orders to his team.

Soon a mouth-watering steak was sitting in front of him. It was a one pounder. A 2 Liter bottle of water was also there. Unable to stay away, Danny ate the steak in less than a minute and forced himself to sip a the water. He was finished with his meal in under two minutes. Danny sighed and said dreamily, "I love meat."

He looked up to find the Division team staring at him in astonishment. He frowned. "What, I was hungry!" he defended.

A dry chuckle came from the director. "Obviously." he said.


The Director was amazed. Phantom had just consumed every bit of a five-pound steak and a 2 Liter bottle of water in under 2 minute. The team continued to be more amazed as they watched Phantom's eyes regain their ghostly light and the dazed look they had had cleared almost instantly. His ghostly glow also came back in full force. This was not a normal ghost.

"A ghost that needs to eat." mused the Director.

He watched Phantom carefully. A flicker of alarm had entered his eyes and for the first time since the Director had known him he saw fear in Phantom. "What are you hiding Phantom?" the director said, almost to himself. Phantom didn't answer.

The director looked at the ghost that was floating behind Phantom. He watched phantom with hatred and something that was strangely like jealousy. The ghost floated slowly in front of Phantom.

"Vlad." Phantom said with hate and annoyance dripping from the word. "Why am I not surprised?"

So, Vlad was his name. In all the time the Director had known the ghost, he had never mentioned his name. The Director looked at his fangs and cape. Vlad was a fitting name.

"Daniel." Vlad practically purred. "How nice to see you again."

"I can't say the same." Phantom spat.

There was obviously history between the two. Daniel was a strange name for the ghost the Director had come to know as Danny Phantom.

"Why?" Phantom asked' "Why all this?" He gestured to the team and lab. "You could've just kidnapped me again or, I don't know, sent Skulker or some other minion after me, but no! You have to get the Guys In White and the government involved and make everything messier than it has to be."

"Why! Why?" Vlad exclaimed, incredulous, "You have foiled every one of my plots and made yourself a more of nuisance than any enemy I have ever had. Now I will reveal your secret to the world and you will not reveal mine because if you make one wrong move than Danni, who I have imprisoned, will be dead."

There was a shocked silence in the room. Nobody really comprehended the weight that Vlad's words had and the Director only understood small parts of it, but you could see the effect the words had on Phantom. His face was pure white. In anger or fear the Director couldn't tell . Phantom opened his mouth several times, as if to speak, but seemed unable to form the words.

"To sum up what you just said, you have Danni and will kill or harm her if I don't do exactly what you tell me to. This reveals revealing my secret to the world and not revealing yours." Phantom said dryly.

"Yes." Vlad said, clapping his hands in what seemed to be glee at his own brilliance.

Phantom's shoulders slumped and he looked around the room with world weary eyes. The Director was eager to know what this secret of Phantom's was.


The only thought in Danny's mind was .GOD. Vlad the evil , smug, bastard, selfish, arrogant, fruit loop was going to reveal his secret. The only secret that had ever truly mattered to Danny.

He thought desperately for a way out, but his mind came up blank. His eyes began to glow brighter as he panicked. He looked around the room frantically for means of escape but, again, found none.

In his search for escape, he instead found a monitor with his blood test results on it. His shoulders slumped and he let out a long sigh. He than looked around the room, feeling like he had lived and seen to much for someone his age, which was true.

"Well Daniel? What do you have to say for yourself? They already have your blood and DNA test results back, so they know there is something human about your existence." Vlad said smugly.

Danny turned hate and anger filled eyes to the one of the only other Halfa in existence. This ghost had been a thorn in his side for months now and he was really starting to get annoyed with him. He saw now that all this was revenge for everything Danny had done to him.

"Why don't you tell them Vlad? I'm sure your dying to." Danny said angrily.

Well, I would be glad to young Daniel," Vlad said his real name mockingly. "You see, Division team, that Daniel here is not a normal ghost. Nor has he ever been. He is the only known ghost in existence that is half human, or what we call a Halfa."

Danny winced at this. There it was, his second biggest secret, laid out for the world as if it were a simple fact. He looked around at the Division team and chuckled aloud at their shocked faces.

"Weren't expecting that were you?" He smirked and than continued to laugh as the Director answered. "No."