AN: I will warn you now I bounce through POV's a lot in this chapter but don't worry I put dividers to try and keep things a little separate to avoid confusion. I would also like to apologize for any errors as I am working without a beta reader and I probably shouldn't listen to any kind of music as I write because I am forgetting words and my fingers try to move to the beat across the keyboard and who knew Celtic music was so fast!?


Hint 2


My second hint didn't take as long as the first to notice. It's actually funny because when it first started I shrugged it off as random thoughts. I was sitting there using the free time I finally had to start on some of my homework and just as I cracked my math book open I thought well 'I'm doomed.' and heard faint laughter from somewhere. I ended up searching my room for nearly 5 minutes before I gave up and assumed it was the tv or me imagining things. That was the last time I heard the voice that night. The second time I heard it was when I was waking up the next morning.


"Get up sleepy head you're going to be late." Danny grunted snuggling deeper into the covers.

"Get up..."

"Are you going to wake up or not?" Who ever it was sounded annoyed now if the exasperated sigh was anything to go by.

Danny cracked his eyes open just a bit only to slam them shut again as the harsh light of the morning sun hit his sensitive eyes. "Go away" He mumbled. "I'll get up in a few minutes..." Peacefully letting his eyes close once more he jerked them open after hearing a laugh (the same one from last night) followed by "No, you won't you'll sleep the day away. After all, who would know you better than me?"

"Who are you?"

"Not important now. What IS important is the fact that you are going to be late."

"Late? LATE!?" Danny shrieked before flopping out of bed and onto the floor in an attempt to jump up in a hurry. Hurriedly throwing on the same jeans from yesterday and a shirt he grabbed from the closet Danny snatched up his bag and ran as fast as he could to the bus stop. He figured he could investigate the voice after he managed to not get detention for the day.


The entire day had been spent ignoring the strange voice only I could hear for some reason. At first I had questioned Tucker and Sam at lunch when I heard the voice make a comment and they both responded that they had heard nothing. I remember the look they gave me too. It was like Youngblood all over again. I figured maybe they shouldn't know about the possibility that I might actually be going crazy this time. With Youngblood I knew I wasn't because I could sense him like I could with every other ghost and there were plenty of times when someone couldn't see the ghost I saw. That and the fact that I sometimes forget to notice whether the ghost is invisible to others or completely visible. See that's the funny thing. Ghosts can see other ghosts when they're invisible and I just forget to really pay attention to it. I see them and that is all that really matters. So when I could hear a voice but not see the ghost or sense one near by I figured I must be losing it and I would rather not have my friends knowing about it. Or Jazz. Definitely not Jazz.

Pretty soon I started talking back to it. It had a pretty good sense of humor so I figured if this is what going crazy is then I think I could handle it. The more I talked back the more I heard the voice. Pretty soon I heard it throughout the course of the day instead of just random moments. Anything from insults to Dash, jokes about Mr. Lancer, and just random conversations between the two of us. It even started to help me with my homework and ghost fights!


"If you cross multiply the length of the shadow of the tree with your height and then divide by the length of your shadow you should get the height of the tree."

"Thanks, how do you know this stuff?"

"Same way you know it. We read the chapter remember?"

"You understood that!? That was practically another language to me!"

"Well, I'm not you remember?"

Danny could practically feel the smirk.


"Why is she crying? Didn't she win?"

"She's crying because she's happy."

"...You humans make no sense..."

"Of course not."


"Duck you moron!"

Danny tried not to get aggravated at the name but did however duck just in time to avoid being decapitated in a move he would never have recognized until it was too late.

"Thanks, but you know I do have a name right?"

"Duh, moron just came out faster."

Danny chuckled a little and rolled his eyes as he sucked the ghost into the thermos and capped it.

"Of course it did."

"Honest, it did."

"Suuure."


It got to the point where he could hear all of my thoughts just as clearly as someone could hear you speak. I could hear a great deal of his too. Sometimes, when he wasn't paying attention, I could hear him humming in the background. Snatches of music or thoughts that he wasn't really paying attention to. He became a steady source of companionship. I could always feel him somewhere in the back of my head and his presence became calming rather than irritating. Granted there were moments where I would want my head to myself but he would usually relent and leave me alone for a while or until I called him back. Pretty soon we could each others emotions going back and forth between the two of us. Boy, that was a freaky day. Turns out he is surprised and intrigued by a good deal of what is so normal to most people. He doesn't understand some emotions or the more basic parts of regular human interaction such as personal space or even why some people need to just get a room. If he gets curious about something then he is absolutely going to want to investigate no matter how embarrassing or intrusive it may be.

It took sometime to really get used to him. It freaked me out a little when I realized he was a he to me and not an it anymore. Somewhere over the course of talking to him I had started to think of him as a person separate from myself instead of a hallucination or voice in my head. He is the first to greet me in the morning and the last to tell me goodnight. Sometimes I think I even hear him in my sleep. I might seriously be losing it but I can't help but say that I enjoy the company.


AN: Alright that's it for this chapter. Leave your comments in the reviews please. Please leave reviews. PLEASE! I intend on writing or trying to write a chapter at least every other day and while they may be a bit on the short side most of the time I will still try to come up with other chapters. Sorry for bouncing through point of views so many times in this chapter too. :( Thanks for reading and have a great life.