Emily wasn't sure exactly how to go about contacting the Fentons. She knew the entire family was borderline crazy and she had been told numerous times that they were trigger happy and to be careful around them. She also knew they were the only way she was going to find anything out about Phantom. So she walked down the familiar streets of her home town wondering how she would start the conversation. Should she lie and say she was doing something for school? Or should she say she was with the Newspaper instead? Or should she say something different? Then she turned the corner and saw the massive house that she knew for a fact violated several laws.

The giant sign pointing to the house saying Fenton Works probably would have been enough to draw attention to the house but no, the Fentons had went ahead and made the sign light up in neon colors too. Already she was feeling bad for the two children who lived there, it probably wasn't easy living in a house like that in a town like this.

Even she had tried to avoid the Fenton house as much as possible when she was in High School, all of her friends had been rather immature saying that if they even looked at the house they might catch whatever the Fentons had that made them so crazy. She had always rolled her eyes at this but even so she had normally avoided the house. Now she was walking up to it willingly. Funny how things changed.

Climbing up the couple of stairs that led up to the door she tried not to hesitate in knocking. When she finally mustered up the courage to knock the door swung open instantly and she was suddenly facing the biggest man she had ever seen. Last time she had went to one of their ghost lectures in town he hadn't seemed this big and imposing. Now however he was towering over her in the normal bright orange hazmat suit he always wore. She only had a second to process this however as he screamed out, "GHOST!" as loud as his lungs would let him and aimed a rather large gun at her.

She froze. Fear bubbling up inside her. For a second she though for sure she was going to die, then she would know everything she needed to know about ghosts. The hard way.

Before anything else could happen though a slim hand pushed the gun away from her and Mrs. Fenton started scolding her husband in a very authoritative tone of voice.

"Jack how many times have I told you not to point weapons at people who are at the door!"

Mr. Fenton, to his credit, at least looked ashamed. "Sorry Mads." He said pouting and then looked back over at her.

"And sorry to you too."

Maddy smiled approvingly at her husband and reached into a pocket of her teal hazmat suit and pulled out a cookie before giving it to her excited husband.

Mrs. Fenton then turned to her. "And how might we help you?"

Emily's brain tried to catch up with everything that had happened in the last couple of seconds before finally remembering that she was supposed to say she was doing a project for school.

"I was just wondering if you could tell me about ghosts for a..." And that was as far as she got before Mr. Fenton grabbed her by the arm and pulled her inside already talking enthusiastically about ghosts. Mrs. Fenton followed behind saying how good it was that some of the young people of the town were starting to take ghosts seriously and see them as the major threat that they were.

Once again Emily felt gobsmacked by these people. They were just so enthusiastic about ghosts it was almost like they forgot how to respond accordingly to normal people.

Soon though she found herself listening to the Fentons theories and knowledge about ghosts while munching on a rather delicious cookie that Mrs. Fenton had offered her.

Some of their theories she knew were wrong. She knew for a fact not all ghosts were evil like they seemed to believe.

When the Fentons had started rambling on about how evil ghosts were she had tried to interrupt to say she didn't think so but, as soon as she did Mr. Fenton was off on another rant about how ghosts were.

Emily was starting to see how the Fentons were rather biased in their knowledge of ghosts. Seemingly not being able to believe any differently then what they were telling her.

When the Fentons had started telling her how ghosts couldn't feel pain which was why it was perfectly okay to shoot ecto weapons at them she had nearly left. She knew for a fact that ghosts could be hurt and feel pain, she had helped Phantom deal with wounds and listened to his cries of pain herself!

On the other hand some of their theories were rather interesting and actually seemed like they could be true. Like how ghosts were made. The Fentons explained how most ghosts were created because they had unfinished business here on Earth, mostly this happened because they had died a violent death.

As horrible as this idea seemed she thought it very well could have been true. And she found herself wondering how Phantom had died and why he had stayed behind as a ghost.

When she had brought up the idea of ghosts having a law system, like the one Phantom had mentioned to her, the Fentons had actually laughed at her. Saying that ghosts were not intelligent enough to be able to understand such complex human ideas.

She had to bite her tongue at this as she knew they were wrong and she didn't feel comfortable with the Fentons so easily degrading an entirely different species so easily. And that was how she was beginning to see ghosts, a new species that they had only recently discovered. They were basically like people after all, just with different abilities.

"So Mr. Fenton," She began but was interrupted by the large man when he shouted, "Call me Jack!"

"Alright...Jack. You said you built a ghost portal to the Ghosts Zone, and that was what started the ghost attacks on Amity Park?"

"That's right." Maddie, as she had been told to call her, said.

"So have you ever been inside the Ghost Zone?" She asked curious to know if they had ever actually explored the place they claimed to know so much about.

Maddie hesitated for a moment. "No, not exactly. We don't know what effect the pure ectoplasm would have on things from our world so we are hesitant to do any expeditions to the other side."

She was about to ask how they had found the data that they had when she was interrupted by the front door opening and closing.

"That would be my son Danny!" Jack said in his booming voice to her even though she was only a few feet away from him.

She looked over to the area where the front door was. She had never actually met either of the Fentons children before. She only knew they had a son and a daughter and apparently the sons name was Danny.

She only had to wait a moment before seeing him. He had black hair and baby blue eyes and for some reason seemed incredibly familiar to her. Danny however didn't even glance in her or his parents direction. Instead calling out, "Mom! Dad! I'm home! I'll be up in my room!"

Maddie however would have none of that. "Wait Danny! We have a guest! Come down here and meet her!"

Danny turned around from his position of half way up the stairs and slumped back down to the living room with the rest of them.

She watched as he sat down on a chair across from her and next to his parents before finally looking up. "Who is the gue..." He trailed off when he finally caught sight of her. For a moment he seemed to panic, not sure what to do. Then he smoothed his features over and tried to act like nothing had ever happened. But it had happened, she had seen all of it and she wondered what she had done to cause such reaction from someone she didn't remember ever meeting.

Still she tried to act like she hadn't seen anything. And offered him her hand to shake. He accepted and she introduced herself to him.

"Hello. My names Emily, I was just asking your parents about ghosts for a project I am doing in school."

Danny seemed to narrow his eyes at her just slightly like he was trying to find a hidden meaning behind her words, after a moment he finally seemed to relax completely and introduced himself. "My names Danny."

She nodded at him even though she already had known that and responded politely. "Nice to meet you."

Jack and Maddie seemed to have been pulled away into their own discussion about something she never had any hope of understanding so she sat there feeling rather uncomfortable. She wasn't sure if this was her cue to leave or not.

She was just about to excuse herself when she caught sight of something in Danny's hand that she hadn't noticed before. It was a book. The inner book nerd screamed to life and she found she couldn't leave without knowing what kind of books a son of a ghosts hunter read so out of pure curiosity she asked, "What book are you reading?"

The panic returned to his eyes.

He tried to act natural a he put up the book momentarily, just enough time for her to read the very familiar title of her favorite book. A Wrinkle In Time was in his hands and she felt happy that she was not the only one who seemed to enjoy the book as Danny's copy seemed to be almost as worn out as hers was.

"Oh! I love that book so much! What is your favorite part in it? Who is your favorite character?"

Danny looked at her in mild amusement at her outburst. "I actually haven't read it yet, I am just borrowing it from a friend. Is it that good?"

She nodded.

"Well at least I have something to look forward to." Danny said tucking the book underneath his arm so she could no longer see it.

After that the silence got awkward again, neither of them having anything to say anymore. After only a few more minutes of it she decided to get up and excuse herself.

"Thank you so much for the help Mr. and Mrs. Fenton but I really need to get going now."

"I told you to call me Maddie dear, and come back anytime if you have any more questions." Mrs. Fenton told her politely.

Emily nodded at them. Feeling much more confident then before she excepted their offer to come back latter saying she had thought many of their theories were interesting.

Danny walked her to the door, leaving his book behind in the living room.

Danny spoke first. "So you survived a conversation with my parents about ghosts, congratulations."

Emily laughed. "I thought it was interesting, some of their theories I don't completely agree with but many of them actually seem like they could be correct."

Danny nodded. "Yeah well I am glad my parents could help you with your school project."

"Yes thank them again for me." She told him stepping outside of Fenton Works.

"I will. Goodbye."

She turned around as the door closed behind her and started walking back to her house. Her brain was full of more knowledge about ghosts but for some reason she felt like she had missed something. Something very important. And she had no idea what it was.