Not Halfway
Summary: Meetings drag on, and Danny feels impossibly bored by them.
Pairing: Vlad x Danny
Originally Written: February 2014
Danny reached up, covering his mouth as he yawned tiredly. He had lost focus on what was being said hours ago. Or it have only been ten minutes, but it felt like an eternity as the two groups talked. He was pretty sure at least an hour had passed though. Part of him wanted to be back home working on his studies. Sam and Tucker were busy getting things ready for when they left to go off to college, and Jazz, despite all her pestering to tutor him, was spending some time with Dash. Danny smiled somewhat at that fact. Back at the start of freshmen year, before the accident, Danny never would have imagined that he would be happy at the thought of his sister dating someone like Dash, but the jock was actually really nice to her, far different from the impression Danny first had of him.
An elbow to the ribs snapped his attention back to the present, and Danny turned bright green eyes onto the man standing beside him, blinking innocently as if he wasn't about to nod off during the meeting.
"You're supposed to be paying attention," Vlad mumbled quietly to him, appearing in his ghostly form, which Danny realized did a far better job at hiding his identity than his own, which only changed his hair and eye color. No one seemed to make the connection between Phantom and Fenton though, so Danny wasn't worrying too hard about it.
"I'm trying," Danny murmured back, frowning at the older half ghost. Trying and failing as the talks went on and on, lulling him toward sleep from the boredom of it.
"This is important, you know." Vlad's red eyes glanced over to the long table set in the middle of the room where Danny's parents, along with Sam's mother Pamela, sat talking to the mayor and his council. Danny and Vlad - Or more specifically, Phantom and Plasmius were there to represent the ghosts as they worked out details on addressing the issue of keeping Amity Park safe while also allowing ghosts the freedom to visit the town without harassment. Of course, any ghost that came to Amity Park with the intention of doing harm to the people that lived there was subject to being hunted down by Danny's parents. And Pamela Manson. They were still working on recruiting reliable people to work under them. People that weren't like the Guys in White and only saw ghosts as evil and attacked without thought the moment a ghost appeared before them.
"I know." Somehow Danny managed not to groan in his frustration. Later, they would have to go back to the Ghost Zone and relay the information to other ghosts. They had somehow become the mediators between ghosts and humans. His father's brilliant idea. Something about the two of them having the unique perspective of seeing both sides, that of humans and that of ghosts. Right now, Danny just felt like it was another thing on top of his already full load of trying to catch up with his life.
The red haired woman sitting next to the mayor tapped at her watch.
"Ah, that's going to have to be all for today," said the mayor, a short, balding man with a bushy mustache. "I have another meeting I must get to. We can pick up where we left off next time."
Danny watched for a moment as the two parties shook hands and said parting words. He bobbed his head and shook hands to the officials that came up to him and Vlad. When they were no long the subject of anyone's attention, Danny turned toward Vlad and leaned in close to him.
"Now that we're done here, how about you and me sneak off to somewhere a bit more private?" Danny suggested with a small smirk tugging at his mouth. While they were in their ghost forms, no one had any reason to argue about their age difference. For all they knew, Phantom could be older than Plasmius but simply died at a younger age. Danny, of course, would prefer to be able to go on dates with Vlad as a normal human, but he would take a date in their ghost forms until their relationship wasn't something at which most people frowned.
Vlad gave the room another sweeping glance. By now, the mayor and his council were gone, and Danny's parents were all that remained, still running over a few details in the papers that they would probably spend the evening discussing with Vlad. The corner of his mouth turned upward, and he stepped back, pulling Danny with him through the wall as he extended his invisibility to the younger half ghost so that no one outside the building would see them if they even bothered to look up.
"Where exactly did you have in mind?" Vlad questioned curiously, utilizing hard plates of ectoplasm to walk in the air above the streets.
Danny always enjoyed seeing new ways to use his powers, mimicking Vlad as he walked along beside the older half ghost. He paused, twisting around to face Vlad as he wrapped his arms around the other ghost's neck. "Well," he said with a smirk, "I have been feeling rather frustrated lately."
"Danny-"
Vlad's tone held a hint of warning, but Danny silenced it as he sealed their mouths together. His hands slid up Vlad's throat to cup his face, his thumbs stroking over the bluish flesh of his boyfriend's cheeks. Vlad's hands rest on his shoulders, to push him away, but there was no real conviction in the attempt. Danny grinned into kiss, sucking Vlad's lower lip into his mouth and nipping gently at it with his teeth. He moved away from Vlad's mouth, kissing down his chin and nipping along his throat as he listened to the low growl rumbling in the back of Vlad's throat.
"Danny," Vlad said again, this time with a hint of a moan, his hands strongly gripping Danny's hips, "we shouldn't."
Danny sighed, pressing his head into the crook of Vlad's neck. "I just wanted a kiss," he mumbled. "I know we're taking things slow, but you don't need to be so shy about a simple kiss."
"I'm merely concerned." Vlad touched a hand under Danny's chin and tilted his head upward. "Our relationship is still young, and I certainly don't want to seem like I'm taking advantage of you."
Danny laughed under his breath. It felt more like he was trying to take advantage of Vlad sometimes. Vlad would protest the simplest of affections sometimes, and Danny felt frustrated over it. "You know, life's all about heart break. It's something that happens when you allow someone into your heart and they betray you. It hurts, and it's certainly not something I really want to experience. But isn't it stunting my growth to constantly push me away for fear of breaking my heart?" He frowned, arching one eyebrow at the older half ghost. "And I'm not some fragile thing that you have to keep protected from the world." He kissed Vlad again. "Let's not do this halfway."
Vlad sighed, his breath washing over Danny's face. "I suppose you do bring up a good point." He leaned down, pressing his mouth to Danny's, who happily returned the kiss.
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