Danny met her eyes sadly and sighed…

"It's Vlad. Apparently he still hasn't given up on me yet."

Amy wasn't sure who Vlad was, but from the look on Danny's face, he wasn't friendly. She lightly cleared her throat and walked past Danny to a large, glassy, black surfaced lab table.

After pulling open several drawers she removed a thin syringe and some gloves. Quickly pulling on the gloves she paced back to Danny and waved with her hand, "Come on, give me your arm."

Danny held his arm out for her, palm up, and she stuck the needle in at the crease of his elbow. Danny watched the syringe fill up with his blood, glancing between the needle and Amy. When she removed the needle she asked, "Do you need something for-"

"I heal pretty quick," Danny interrupted. And sure enough, as Amy looked back to his arm, after Danny ran his thumb across the drop of blood on the surface, there wasn't evidence of the skin ever being broken.

She briskly walked back to the table and did some complicated looking things with some complicated looking equipment, and Danny was surprised, "You really look like you know what you're doing."

Amy mmed and answered distractedly, but not without an even layer of pride, "Thank you."

After several minutes Danny pulled out a stool and sat down, passing the time by making his hand tangible and then intangible again and passing it through various objects on the table behind him. His attention had slipped from Amy, so he was startled when he heard her call out from the other side of the room, "You'd better not break anything." He stopped playing with all the expensive stuff after that.

Danny hadn't been keeping the time, but a lot of it must have passed before he heard a light gasp from the other side of a room. Amy was leaning in toward a brightly lit computer monitor, finger tracing what looked like a mapping of his DNA.

Danny put a hand on the back of the swivel chair and leaned in to look, but not remembering anything from 10th grade biology, so he asked, "What?"

Amy circled some areas with her finger and said, "This is impossible. Your DNA is laid out almost like junk DNA, but it's coding for something. Either that or it's just very different from human DNA. Everything is out of sequence. And look here, "she pointed to the bottom of the screen, "You have an extra set of chromosomes…"

He stared at the screen blankly, thinking hard. Amy watched him in silence, ready to do whatever it was that he wanted.

An agonizing twenty seconds ticked by before something lit up in his eyes that Amy recognized. He had an idea…even if he wasn't going to share it with her. He took a deep breath, "Can you copy this information to a flash drive?"

"Yeah, wait a second," she answered, and rummaged through the contents of a lower drawer. She grinned and pulled out a small black flash drive and jammed it abusively into the USB port. Danny watched the loading bar pass quickly from 10% to 100% and pulled it out when it was done.

The half ghost smiled gratefully at Amy, "Thanks a lot Amy." Before she could answer with anything beyond a 'sure' or a 'yeah okay' he had her in his arms again, with even less difficultly than before. Danny left the room and kicked the door closed with his foot, going ghost immediately after he passed through the door frame.

Danny dropped her off back at the apartment and grimaced when he saw the microwave reading 3:54 in blocky red numbers.

"Sorry for stealing your sleep."

Amy smiled, "Nah, it wasn't a big deal."

Danny returned her smile and added, "Night Amy." As he turned to go, Amy felt her heartbeat quicken and her chest go numb, like little threads tying themselves around her heart. Without a second thought, she reached after him and embraced him from behind. Danny froze at the contact, and just as quickly as she had thrown her arms around his waist did she let go and stutter awkwardly, "Night."

Danny smiled softly at her and rested a hand on her arm before he disappeared without a trace, leaving Amy alone in her living room with the memory of his bright green eyes staring back at hers.

Amy whispered into the darkness, "Good night Danny."