Spoilers: MDG, SoG, DCMH

Rating: PG- Cartoon peril

Notes: Thanks for all the support, you guys! I love my fans. xD

Chapter Four

There's no way. Danny thought desperately as he zipped through the skies of Amity Park completely invisible. He had gone outsid to calm down and try and make sense of his surroundings, flying always did that for him, but now he was just as worked up as he had been inside that... that house.

No, it wasn't a house. It was a mansion. Vlad's mansion. Where had FentonWorks gone and what on Earth was going on with his family? Jazz seemed afraid of him and his mother... she didn't even look him in the eyes. They were all spouting some garbage about a boarding school too. He'd apparently been gone for eight months.

Danny shook his head. This was all too confusing.

He passed right over the small town, headed to the one and only place he wanted to be.

Danny landed on the balcony silently and rapped quietly on her window. "Sam?" He whispered.

Behind the window, there was some commotion before the curtain opened and she was standing there, staring at him. Sam blinked a few times before unlocking her window and opening it.

"Danny? What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Sam, this is insane!" Danny exploded as he marched past her, into her bedroom. "I was at home and then Vlad was there and Mom and... and..." He looked at her puzzled expression and paused.

"Uh... Danny, are you okay?" Sam asked, concerned. He noticed she hadn't come toward him. "Maybe you should sit down."

"No, I don't want to sit down. I just-" He turned around and stopped abruptly. "What... are... these?"

Sam blushed behind him. "You... you remember Gregor, don't you?" She asked quietly.

Danny's jaw dropped as he stared at the posters on her wall. "G-Gregor?" He spun back around. "What is Gregor doing on your wall?" He hissed.

Sam took a step back. "Danny, calm down. This is what got you sent to the institution in the first place."

"Institution? What institution?"

"Well, White Corp., obviously. Seriously, Danny. Are you all right?" She tilted her head at him.

"No!" Danny shouted, throwing his arms up in the air. "I'm not all right! I have no idea what's going on!"

"Okay, listen." Sam held up her hands defensively. "Why don't you just sit down and we can talk about this." She looked at him pointedly.

Danny hesitated for a moment before the rings came and changed him back to his human form. He pulled a chair out from her desk and sat down, frowning.

"Good. Now, what's wrong, Danny?" Sam asked, taking a careful step toward him.

"Everything's wrong." Danny replied, running his fingers through his black hair. "Nothing's the same. Nothing's right. In a split second everything changed."

"I don't understand," Sam answered. "Everything's just fine, Danny. It's always been like this."

"No, it hasn't!" Danny shouted. "Sam, Vlad was never my father!" He jumped up. "I was never in boarding school, you never liked Gregor!" He paused. "Okay, you liked him... until you found out he was fake."

Sam frowned. "He is not fake. And you're not in boarding school."

"Thank you. At least someone-"

"You're in White Corp's Institution." Sam interrupted.

Danny looked at her carefully. "What exactly... does that mean?"

"It means you're clinically insane, Danny. It's an Asylum."

Danny froze. "Wh...What?"

"The boarding school was just a cover-up for your mom and sister. So it wouldn't freak them out." Sam tried to explain. He recognized the careful look in her eyes now. It was fear. "Vlad sent you there because he was afraid you'd hurt someone."

"Vlad... he..." Danny leaned over, holding his head in his hands.

"Are you okay?" Sam asked quietly. "I can call Vlad if you wa-"

"No! I don't want Vlad!" Danny exploded. Sam flinched. "Why do you keep doing that?! Sam, I'm not going to hurt you."

"I know you wouldn't hurt me, Danny." Sam tried to assure him, but her tone didn't agree with her words. "How did you get back here?" She asked, narrowing her eyes. "Last time I heard they were keeping you under lock and key."

Danny shook his head. "I told you. I never went anywhere. I was standing in my bedroom with Jazz. She was doing some stupid psychology trick and-"

"Psychology?" Sam asked. "That's funny. I thought she gave it up."

Danny stared at her in shock. "My sister... give psychology up?"

"Well, she was kind of torn up about the divorce. She'd really hoped your parents' marriage would work out. Despite the odds..."

"Divorce?!" Danny shrieked. "What divorce?!"

"Between your mom and dad." Sam rolled her eyes. "Jeez, Danny. What'd they do, wipe your memory?"

"So... Vlad's not my father then...." He whispered, a little bit of relief coloring his tone.

"Not your biological one anyway." Sam agreed with a shrug. She sat down on her bed just as her laptop made a beeping sound. Sam hit the enter key and a screen came up. She smiled softly into it. "Hey, Tuck."

"Tuck!" Danny cried happily. He raced over to the bed, causing Sam to cringe away, and grabbed the laptop, spinning it toward him. "Tucker!" He shouted again.

The face on the screen looked bewildered. "D-Danny?" He asked. "What are you doing at Sam's house?"

"Long story, Tuck." Sam offered.

"Tucker, you remember, don't you?" Danny pleaded desperately.

Tucker cocked an eyebrow. "Uh... sure, Dude."

"I'm not crazy, am I?" Danny demanded.

Tucker hesitated, looking past him at Sam. She just shrugged, her eyes wide. "Of course not, Danny." He grinned nervously.

Danny caught the implication. "You don't remember either." He sighed, devestated.

"Am I missing something?" Tucker asked, starting to get annoyed. "Sam, why did you let him in your house? I thought your parents told you never to speak to him again."

"Yeah, like I'm actually going to do what my parents tell me to." Sam replied sarcastically, holding her hands on her hips. "He's not dangerous, Tuck."

"Tell that to Axion Labs." Tucker retorted.

"What? What do you mean?" Danny demanded. When Tucker didn't answer he turned to Sam. "What does he mean?"

She grimaced. "Well... it was a few weeks before they sent you away. You were fighting that ghost dog. You remember him, right?"

"Yeah. The one that plays fetch with my foot?" Danny deadpanned.

"Yep. That's the one." Sam laughed nervously. "Anyway, you couldn't get him to behave and you just... exploded. I mean, you destroyed the entire laboratory." She sighed. "The dog got away, thankfully."

"How do you know it was me? It could have been the dog!" Danny argued.

"Dude, they found you trying to shred a piece of a metal pipe with your bare hands." Tucker piped in. "And you were human."

"Who found me?"

"The Guys In White." Sam answered. "And then they recommended to your mom and Vlad that they take you in."

"White Corp..." Danny's eyes grew big. "Mom handed me over to the Guys In White?!"

"Danny, she doesn't know you're a ghost, remember?" Tucker replied. "Calm down, Dude. The Guys In White told the whole big story about the boarding school that they ran."

"But Vlad knew." Danny's eyes narrowed. "He knew it wasn't a boarding school."

"Of course he knew." Tucker answered. "He's the one that convinced your mom into sending you."

Danny's teeth ground together. His fists clenched.

"Danny, relax." Sam rested a slightly trembling hand on his shoulder. "If my parents know you're in here, they're going to freak and you'll be right back at the institution."

"They sent me there over one explosion?" Danny asked in a low, controlled voice. "That they can't even prove was my fault?"

"Well..." Tucker sounded nervous. "You had a few... "blow ups" before that. It started when your dad left. I mean, you were really mad about that. And then when Vlad swooped in and took his spot..." Tucker shook his head on-screen. "I wouldn't call you the most mentally-stable kid around."

"But nothing near the monster the Guys In White made you sound like." Sam cut in defensively. "They said you were in league with "Invis-O-Bill". That you had been from the beginning."

"They never could get my name right..." Danny grumbled.

"They've always tried to make you the bad guy." Tucker frowned. "But I don't think they could have faked this one so easily. I mean, you were the only one that showed up on the cameras."

Danny closed his eyes and held his head in his hands again. "I don't know what's going on...." He whispered. "This is all... wrong."

"How?" Tucker asked impatiently. "I'm lost here."

"It just is!" Danny cried.

Sam pulled the laptop away from him. "Tucker, meet us in the forest in ten minutes. Stay connected on the phone. I'll explain on the way." And she hung up on him, closing the lid to her laptop. Sam hopped off the bed and took Danny's hand.

He looked up at her.

She offered a small smile. "If you fly us, invisibly, it will be a lot less conspicuous."

Danny followed her to the window just as her phone started ringing.

Sam picked up. "Tuck? Okay. Here's what happened as far as I understand it..."

To be continued...