HEY THERE! Course the werewolf was away, trying to write for DD(Detonation Day).
Danny:
HI!
Me: why'd you come here?
Him: Don't you like me?
Me: Yeah but this is just random.
Danny: I see. You don't like me anymore do you? Yeah I see how it is. (Flies away angrily)
Me: Danny, wait I oh never mind.
Just so you know, Danny's personality was kind of based on a friend of mine who said the last sentence(that Danny said) a lot.
OH and this might seem irrelevant but it's really important. In this part of the story, Danny's room has a window that faces the street. I think it's in the show too but I just want to clarify that. AND this whole chapter takes place at the same time, the line breaks are just different perspective.
Disclaimer: Don't own Alex or Danny or Journey to the center of the Earth. Damn. Anyway onto the chapter.
Chapter
3: Paper storm of secrets
Alex had given up on Danny.
He had seen him around town a few times since the last time Alex had
gone to his house but they hadn't really talked. But Alex knew
there was some connection between him and Phantom and that's why he
was up at 4 a.m. in the morning thinking about all the ghosts he had
seen in the last few days.
"Think of the devil himself," Alex muttered as Danny Phantom flew past his window. Not caring where the ghost went, the young spy turned his thoughts back to his musings. For some reason he remembered the conversation with Danny at the Nasty Burger.
"Someone sent me here on purpose?" Alex shook his head. He needed a walk to clear his thoughts but it wasn't like he could just was through the front door. He walked onto the balcony of the room he and Jack were sharing and looked for anything he could use to climb down. He spotted a drain pipe running lengthwise along their balcony.
"Perfect," he muttered and went back inside to change into warmer clothes. Finally he came out and started to scale down a 10 story high drain pipe.
As Danny finished patrol for the night, he went back to his room. Sam and Tucker were staying for a sleepover and they were printing something using his printer. Sam looked pretty scared when she heard the noise but relaxed when she saw Danny.
"Uh, guys, what did you print?" Danny asked, because there were already about 20 pages printed out.
"Well, remember that Alex guy we met a few days ago?" Sam started nervously.
"Yeah." Danny waited for her reply.
"Well, I did a search on him and I found out that he's a spy." Her voice was small as she said the last three words.
Danny laughed. "Okay," he said. "Even if that were true, how did you find out?"
"Let's just say I managed to hack into MI6's computer files."
"Who the hell is MI6?"
"This spying company that is based in London. There's this thick 31 page file all about Alex and his missions. For instance do you know he was the cause of 7 deaths?" Sam waved the stack of papers under Danny's nose.
"It's true dude. She tied me to a chair and gagged me while she was getting to the website but she let me look." Tucker was rubbing his wrists and Sam was nodding.
"Come on, he's only a teenager like us." Danny couldn't believe that Alex would be a spy.
"How many teenagers do you know that have saved the world on 6 different accounts? Here just read it. I have to go make sure that the government can't trace yours computer." Sam dropped an armload of papers in Danny's arm and he leaned over to whisper to Tucker.
"Does she do a background check on everybody we meet?"
"Well I think that she did a search on people in our class…apparently Dash had a crush on her mom once…" Tucker grinned.
"I HEARD THAT!"Sam yelled.
Alex had somehow managed to find himself at the Fenton house once more. He had managed to climb unscathed down the drain pipe but his thoughts were twisting and churning like fruit in a blender. He wondered whether to visit Danny and talk to him, maybe even apologize for leaving so early…
"At 5 a.m. in the morning? He'll thing I'm crazy." He sat down on the street curb opposite to the Fentons' house and sank into his thoughts.
A half hour of reading was not what most would call the most enlightening experience for most people. Unless of course you are reading a file about a person you know. Excuse me. Make that thought you knew.
"This is incredible," Tucker said. "He's done things that could have killed him and he's still alive!"
"Man, Tucker, you make it sound like he's a book character," Sam said
"Why a book
character?"Tucker asked.
"Because the plots of these missions
are way better sounding than any movie I've seen. Besides, most
movies are basedon books."
"Not true!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Um, guys?" Danny tried to get there attention but they kept on arguing.
"Name one," Sam said not hearing Danny.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth!" Tucker shouted looking triumphant.
"You idiot that's a classic book!"
"Guys, SHUT UP! You're going to wake up my parents!"
"Too late for that," muttered Tucker as the door opened and Jack Fenton came in waving what suspiciously looked like the Fenton Weasel.
"Look Danny! I just finished making a few modifications on Fenton Weasel. Now it just doesn't suck, it also blows! Look!" Jack flipped a switch on the Weasel and it started blowing wildly, scattering Danny's books, and clothes and…
"THE FILE!" Danny, Sam and Tucker yelled. They all raced toward the window (still open from when Danny had returned) and watched as the papers flew onto the street. By now, Jack had turned off the weasel, disappointed by Danny's reaction and went to bed. A good two thirds of file was flying out on the street right now. And there was no one there except some guy sitting on the curb…
Alex got whacked in the face by a flying piece of paper. He yanked it off and looked at it. There was a picture of him on the paper, a recent one. As Alex scanned the paper he saw that there was information about him on the sheet. As more sheets flew from the open window, Alex picked them up and quickly scanned each of them. After he had collected all 20 sheets, he had read about Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Skeleton Key, and almost all of Eagle Strike. He looked and saw the heads of Sam, Tucker and Danny ducking down and hoping he hadn't seen them. Well it was too late because he already had.
He rang the doorbell to the Fenton home, shifting the papers so he could carry them under one arm. Jack answered the door, looking sleepily at him.
"Good morning Mr. Fenton. Sorry to disturb you but I need to see Danny right now." Below the cordial surface, a range of emotions were erupting. He was shocked and hurt, and scared that other people could do this also. But mostly he was angry. Angry at the way Danny and his friends had invaded his life and privacy. Angry at MI6 (for who else could do this?) for doing this without his knowing. And just angry in general with himself for getting angry over this.
"Yeah, sure….I like fudge…fudge ghosts taste good…"Alex took this as a 'yes' and pushed upstairs toward Danny's room. He knocked at Danny's door.
"Open up Danny! I've got something of yours." The door was opened and Alex walked in. He dumped the paper stack on the bed and was silent. All thoughts of sarcasm were out of his head. He was hurt and angry that someone could and did do this.
"So, is it true?" Tucker asked. Danny and Sam also had the same doubts and Alex could have easily denied it…
"Yes." He said it in almost a whisper.
"So you've killed people? You've saved the world? What kind of a person are you?" Sam said.
"I could ask you the same thing." Alex watched her reaction first anger then puzzlement.
"Me?" She said pointing like an idiot to herself.
"Not you specifically. But the three of you, walking around whispering together, and Danny's disappearances and your lack of fear when faced with ghosts." Alex got up. "I should go."
"Wait," Sam said as he stood with his back to her in the door way. "What were you doing outside Danny's house so early?"
"Would you believe me if I told you I suffer from insomnia?" Alex said dryly, not bothering to turn around.
"No," Sam said flatly.
"I thought so," Alex said simply. He finally walked out, slamming the door behind himself.
After the trio took a shocked moment in silence to process what had happened, Danny got up.
"I'm going to talk to him," he said, grabbing a jacket.
"What if he's here to spy on you? Or what if he's working for the guys in white?" Sam grabbed his shoulder and held on.
"Firstly, I don't think he knows that I'm Danny Phantom. If he did, he would have said so. Secondly, I don't think the GIW is smart enough to hire anybody like Alex. Thirdly, he's my friend no matter if he is a spy. Besides, I'm the freak with super powers remember?" Danny walked out the door, knowing his reasons were right.
"Should we go after him?" Sam asked Tucker.
"Nah, I agree with Danny on this one. I believe Alex is a good guy," Tucker said.
"I hope you're right."
"Alex!" Alex looked behind his shoulder to see Danny running after him.
"What do you want Danny?" Alex said darkly.
"I want to talk, Alex," Danny said.
"About what?" Alex said impatiently. He looked like he was going to run away any minute. Danny thought fast and blurted out the first thing that came to mind.
"I just want to thank you," Danny said.
"For what?" Now Alex looked a bit calmer and more curious than angry.
"Um…for saving the world?" Danny said awkwardly.
"In case you've noticed I haven't really done much for north America."
"Well…what about when you stopped that crazy billionaire?"
"Which one? There's a lot of them these days."
"Tell me about," Danny said thinking of Vlad. "And I mean that one that tried to destroy Washington D.C. ?You know Nickolei Drevin?"
"I would have done it anyways. My housekeeper was visiting her parents there." Alex continued walking making Danny have to jog to keep up.
Alex was making Danny frustrated. He stopped in front Alex turned around so he faced him and gripped him by the shoulders.
"Look, I'm sorry about what my friends did. I didn't ask them to and I didn't want to know that you're a spy. But it's not like I can control my friends!" What had begun as a simple apology ended up as a rant as Alex stood there looking emotionless. Danny shook Alex. "SAY SOMETHING!"
"Like what? The fact that my friends, no sorry make that friend, is miles away and I have no one to talk to? Or the fact that only two days ago you didn't seem to want to be my friend and now you're acting like you've known me your entire life! The only thing I really want is a normal life! With friends! But no, I'm Alex Rider! I have to disappear for a few weeks just to save the world! But how can I do that when I can't even save my grades? How come you get to know everything about me but I can't even here a good excuse from your friends on how you disappear? I don't want to be kept in the dark anymore." Alex seemed physically tired from this rant.
"Alex…" Danny began, but Alex just walked away. And this time he didn't try to stop him as the sun started rising.
Um. I'm never doing anything like this again. NO MORE ANGST FROM ME! But angst from anyone else is good. REVIEW!