Oh cool, I think I'm finally getting the hang of using the tools here.. maybe. XD;;;

Disclaimer: I said I never owned Danny Phantom.

He pulled his knees closer to his chest. The terrifying darkness that he had witnessed a while ago still imprinted in his mind. He had never admitted it to anyone but darkness had always been his object of fear in his childhood. Ever since the lab accident though, he felt the fear slowly reside. He thought he had changed.

The bed creaked at the slight motion as he dug his head into his arms. Why was he feeling this way? He was supposed to be brave. He whimpered as he felt a burning sensation from behind his eyes. 'No… please don't. Not now' He buried his face into his palms. His eyes tightly shut determined to hold back tears that threaten to come out. They did unfortunately.

And more unfortunately so, it did just as a thin blue fog started circulating and thickening from the center of the room. And just before the boy had chance to pull a desparate effort to vigorously rub his eyes using the nearest piece of clothing, the bed sheets, to him, a tall dark form of a man appeared from the dissipating fog. The man, upon eyeing the boy, despite his eyes being red and almost unreadable, gave a look of bemusement (and concern?)

"Danny… are you crying?" Vlad's eyebrow rose a bit. He was indeed Danny Fenton. Not only because of the raven hair and teary blue eyes he was currently sporting but also because of the…something.. present in his eyes 'oh what's the word?' calmness? Mildness? Gentleness?…

Cuteness? He shook his head violently 'where did that come from?'

While the older hybrid was busy talking to himself 'what a weirdo' the boy, took it as a chance and, as ghostly possible, zoomed towards the door leading to the bathroom, splashed water on his face, rubbed his eyes, toweled his face and without wasting a minute more zipped back to his room where the man who was a while ago busy thinking was now surprised by the sudden swift action.

"Why did you just do that?"

"Do what?" Danny asked dubiously

"The bathroom. Why did you just go to the bathroom?"

"uhh… I had to go?"

"Oh don't play dumb with me, young boy. I know you were crying"

"No, I wasn't" he said almost quickly.

"Yes, you were"

"No, I wasn't"

"Yes, you—"

"Can't you just look at my body?" and before he had the time to realize the different connotations of what he just said, the older hybrid grumpily stomped towards the body that was, for a while, forgotten.

He put a hand on the body's forehead. He was deathly cold. He lowered his face to the boy's mouth (insert uneasy expression on Danny's face) He certainly wasn't breathing. Finally, he lowered his pointed ears on the boy's chest. There was no… 'wait a minute'.

"Vl—" the older halfa shot up a hand in the air signaling the boy to be quiet. It was slow and faint but it was there. His heart is beating.

He let out a sigh of relief. The boy, upon seeing the reaction, released the breath he had been holding ever since the hand signal Vlad had gave out for silence.

The older man faced the boy "Don't worry. You're alive… somehow" he assured.

"Somehow…?" Danny tilted his head

Not noticing it was actually more of a question that a reaction, he questioned, "Did you fight any strange ghosts today… err the day before?" glancing down at the alarm clock that read 5 o'clock.

"Ghost?" his eyes unconsciously followed what the man was looking at. After thinking for a minute, his eyes widened for the umpteenth time, "Oh my God"

"What is it?" Vlad asked as he watched the boy running in circles in a panic. It was kind of funny.

"OMG!!! We have to get out of here! If they find out—" BANG! Goes the door. And in goes the large towering man that was Jack Fenton.

"Danny!! Wake up! It's Family Camping(and by camping, I mean ghost hunting) Time!!"

"QUICK! Vlad!! Let's get out of here!" He tugged on the man's arms as if there was a bear about to attack them. Immediately, he grabbed hold of the boy's not sleeping but still alive body and threw him over his shoulders and at the same time held the conscious one in his arms. The thick fog appeared again from out of nowhere and instantly, they were gone.

The man left behind, after recovering from shock, let out an angry scream, not angry because it was a disgusting piece of ectoplasmic slob but because it actually had the nerve to kidnap his only son, "GHOOOOST!!!!"

Tbc.

Ugh.. lame end. I couldn't think of anything Jack might say so I just ended up with him screaming ghost. Hey, he does it all the time.

I don't know if you've noticed but I split Danny in half so yeah, there'd be a Phantom too. And yeah, if Danny's the cute uke... then Phantom's the brave seme... agh what am I saying? It's VladxDanny for pete's sake. Oh maybe there'd be PhantomxDanny too:D Ayiee, I'm making it up as I go .

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