Hey!

So, here I am with the new chapter of this collab fic with AstroGravityPhan! Now, as this is a collab, please read Astro's part of this story as well as my part.

Anyway, you guys know the drill, I will never own Danny Phantom, that seriously damn good show will always belong to the one and only Butch Hartman. I also don't own Lex or Liz, they belong to AstroGravityPhan. All I own are my own OCs and my part of the story.

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Chapter Three

"Jackie, are you sure you're okay? You don't need to get those looked at, do you?" Max asked Jackie worriedly, slowly irritating the blue-eyed girl who was nursing the electric burns she had received from their fight with the new ghost Voltage.

Jackie rolled her eyes at her brother worrying over her and responded sarcastically, "I'm fine, Mom. It's just a couple of burns; I'll heal in just a couple of days."

"Still, they might get infected or you could burn yourself and reopen them if they start to scar, or-" Max fretted again before Jackie clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Stop worrying. I'm fine. You're fretting over nothing," Jackie hissed at him. She then let go and added, "Besides, you worry as much as-"

However, she had stopped herself when she and Max saw their…

"Mom!?" the twins exclaimed in unison.

Sure enough, Dani was standing there, along with Youngblood, talking to a teacher who had been nearby when Voltage attacked earlier. At hearing their son and daughter, Dani and Youngblood walked towards them, Dani almost running, and swept them into two massive hugs, Dani's one bone-crushing enough to rival Jack Fenton's.

"JACKIE! MAX!" the two worried parents yelled in unison as they looked concernedly at their children. "Are you two okay?"

"We're okay," Max answered, and then Jackie inquired, "What are you two doing here?"

"We heard about the ghost attack and that it was taken care of. Was it you two?" Youngblood answered.

"Us and Lex together," Jackie answered.

"Did either of you get hurt?" Dani asked.

"No," Jackie replied back quickly, a bit too quickly, as she tried to hide the burns she had received from fighting Voltage.

Dani, noticing her daughter trying to hide something, asked, "What are you hiding, Jackie?"

"Nothing Mom! I'm not hiding any-"

"Jacqueline."

Knowing that she had been caught, Jackie sighed in annoyance.

"Fine," she grumbled, before she showed her parents the electric burns on her arms.

Dani and Youngblood gasped at seeing the burns on their daughter's arms.

"What happened?/Who did this?/Are you sure you're okay?/Do you need these to be checked out?/Do they hurt?/Why didn't you tell us straight out?" Dani and Youngblood asked in rapid fire, as Dani gently inspected her daughter's burns.

Jackie rolled her eyes at the needless questioning and fussing, knowing that thanks to her healing factor, she will be healed in a couple of days, a week tops.

"Okay, in order: I received them from fighting the ghost. The ghost who did this was the one me, Max and Lex fought and she's some new electricity-based ghost called Voltage. Yes, I'm sure I'm okay. No, because of my healing factor. They don't, but they do sting a little. And I didn't tell you straight out because I knew you would both freak out," Jackie answered, before phasing her arm out of her mother's girl, tired of being fussed over because of her burns.

Dani glared at her. "Jacqueline!"

"Mom, I'm fine. I've had worse than these," Jackie assured. "Remember that time when Skulker got me good and nearly managed to take my arm clean off with that new gun off his? You and Max had to hold me down, Dad, while Mom stitched my arm up."

Dani nodded. "I remember. You gave us quite a scare."

"But, in just half a week after that, I healed fine with no scarring, and you could take those damned stitches out," Jackie said. "Look, the point is, these burns don't compare to some of the more serious injuries both me and Max have received between us. So, stop worrying over nothing."

Dani and Youngblood both looked at their daughter sternly for her causal attitude concerning her injury, even though she had worse.

Suddenly, Jackie and Max's phones rang.

Pulling them out, the twins saw it was a text from Jordan.

"Sorry, Mom, Dad, but me and Jackie got to go. Jordan just texted us if we were still coming to the Nasty Burger for lunch, and we better go," Max informed them.

They are about to leave when Dani pulled them back by the collars of their jacket/vest.

"Hey!" Jackie and Max exclaimed angrily in unison.

"Sorry, kids, but you two are coming with us to your Uncle Danny and Aunt Liz's straight away. So is Lex. We are going to discuss this."

"Dang it!" Jackie and Max muttered in unison.

"Mom, Dad, why do we have to discuss this ghost fight with Uncle Danny and Aunt Liz?" Jackie groaned, resisting the urge to scratch her newly-bandaged arms. The electric burns were stinging like crazy and were begging to be scratched.

"I agree with Jackie. With every other ghost fight, we usually discuss at home. Why do we have to discuss this particular one with Uncle Danny and Aunt Liz?" Max wondered, agreeing with his sister.

"Because, that fight included Lex as well, which means we'll have to talk about it with your aunt and uncle as well," Dani told them. "And besides, I want Liz to look at those burns of yours, Jackie, to make sure they're not infected or haven't caused anything permanent."

"Does she have to?" Jackie whined. "They feel fine, except they sting like heck, and-"

"Jacqueline."

"Fine," Jackie grumbled, folding her arms and pouting.

Dani sighed, shaking her head while Youngblood chuckled. Even Max smirked, which did nothing to improve Jackie's scowl.

Eventually, the family had arrived at Danny and Liz's modest two-storey home. Youngblood knocked on the door and Danny answered, looking slightly surprised that his sister, brother-in-law and niece and nephew were already.

"Hey Dani, Youngblood," Danny greeted. Looking at the scowling Jackie, and the mildly irritated Max, he asked, "I suppose you're here to talk about the ghost fight that happened at Casper today?"

"Yep," Dani and Youngblood answered in unison.

Without another word, Danny stepped aside as Dani, Youngblood, Jackie and Max walked in… and saw Liz applying some cream to the massive bruise on Lex's back.

Lex, seeing his aunt, uncle and cousins, widened his eyes as his cheeks reddened.

"AHH!" he yelped, trying to hide behind his mom. "Don't look!"

"Hey, just be glad that we're family!" Max said defensively.

"Nice bruise, by the way. Got it in your ill-fated attempt to ride Voltage like Grandpa Jack rides a bull at the Fudge Rodeo?" Jackie inquired, smirking playfully.

"Yep," Lex confirmed. "Now, could you all turn around, please? Give a guy a little privacy, will ya?"

"We will, Mr. Modest," Jackie smirked, but still she, Max, Dani and Youngblood respectfully turned their backs while Liz finished attending to the bruise on Lex's back and Lex had but his shirt back, turning around after he did so.

"Now, Lex, you might want to keep an eye on that bruise, in case it gets worse. And don't ride any more ghosts like horses from now on. And-" Liz started instructing her son, only to trail off when she saw Jackie's bandaged arms.

Jackie, who had looked slightly confused, noticed her aunt's eyes lingering on her bandaged arms.

"Uhh… surprise?" Jackie said weakly.

Liz, snapping out of her shock, asked Jackie firmly, "Jacqueline, what happened to your arms? And don't lie."

"Well…" Jackie started, rubbing her neck sheepishly, "I kinda tried to attack the ghost me, Max and Lex were fighting earlier, Voltage, and she shocked me. Bad."

"How bad?"

"Bad enough to make me change back to human. And… leave me behind these lovely souvenirs."

As she said that, Jackie peeled back a tiny bit of the bandage on her left arm, wincing as she did so, and showed her aunt the electric burn on it.

Liz's eyes were wide, mouth in an "O", as she just stared at the burns. Jackie, feeling uncomfortable and nervous, pulled down the bandage as she waited for her aunt to say something.

And she did.

Just in the form of a rant.

"Jacqueline Madeline McLain, do you not realise how lucky you are to just receive those "souvenirs"? LUCKY?! YOU COULD HAVE PERMANENT NERVE DAMAGE! PERMANENT NERVE DAMAGE! DO YOU KNOW THAT NERVES DON'T GROW BACK AT ALL!? WE COULD BE IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW, WATCHING THEM AMPUTATE BOTH YOUR ARMS CAUSE YOU'VE LOST ALL FEELING IN THEM! YOUNG LADY, COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY THAT THANKS TO YOUR HEALING FACTOR, THAT THOSE BURNS AREN'T AS WORSE AS THEY COULD HAVE BEEN! LUCKY! OTHERWISE WE WOULD BE HAVING AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"

Jackie, Max, Dani, Youngblood, Lex and Danny winced at the tone of Liz's voice.

"I understand, Aunt Liz," Jackie said, voice small. She looked at her parents and apologised to them.

"It's okay, Jackie. Just, please be careful next time you encounter Voltage," Dani said.

"I will," Jackie replied in a smaller voice.

"Now," Danny said, "to get the elephant out of the room, let's talk about this new ghost that Jackie, Max and Led fought today. Voltage."

Oh man, I absolutely love overprotective parents. Don't you?

So, the discussion will happen next chapter. Oh boy, that will be fun…

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