Chapter 4
I've gotta get Sam and Jazz out of here, now! Danny realized as he slowly made his way into Fenton Works. In the back of his mind, he knew he was stepping into the lions' den, but he had to save the two girls.
Danny cautiously made his way down the hallway, knowing they were being held in the family room. He couldn't go ghost since his parents had activated the house's defense system. He was surprised the house wasn't already on his hide.
"Where are you going?"
Danny froze as a whine of an ecto-gun powered up behind him. He slowly turned around only to see his parents standing before him, not with ecto-weapons, but with guns. His father held a revolver in his hands while his mother stood with a shot gun rested on her right shoulder and a berretta in her left hand. "Mom? Dad?" Danny asked, scared.
"Good bye, Daniel." Maddie growled, raising up the silver semi-automatic to the teen's head.
Danny sat up, his eyes flashing opened as he held a hand up to his heart. He quickly changed his eyes to glowing green to check out the room. The only thing moving was a rat in the corner of the abandoned rundown lofts he had crashed in, leaving Danny to sigh and relax.
It was just a dream. A nightmare.
Danny laid back on the mattress, trying to relax into the worn material.
Good bye, Daniel.
Danny turned over, trying to empty his mind as his mother's voice echoed in his head. He closed his eyes as a tear escaped, running over his nose and down to his other eye.
A buzz filled the air, vibrating the old springs under his body.
Danny whipped the tear away before grabbing his phone. He rolled back on his back and flipped open the device to get blinded by the light. After a moment, his eyes adjusted.
Dani r u ok?
Danny smiled, seeing Sam's spelling of his name. He glanced up at the clock at the top of the screen to see it was around three in the morning.
Yd u spel my name like that? :)
Stupid phone
Danny thought for a moment before he started to answer her question.
Hw do u do that?
Wht? Now when ur having a nm?
C! Howd u even now that!?
Weve ben friends 4 how long? 97
If i remembr right u wanted 2 take my crayons and bet me 2 a pulp
Nm bout ur parents?
Danny froze, looking at the glowing screen in front of him. The fear reappeared in his chest, forcing him to close his eyes to hold back the emotions. The phone buzzed in his hands to signal a new text had come in.
Were workin on them Vlads helpin
VLAD!?
He started it well human hum did
Danny closed his eyes again, fatigue taking over.
A buzz got his attention back to the phone that had fallen to his chest. He lifted it up and smiled at what Sam had said.
Get some sleep txt when u get there we all love you
Will do thanx sam
He hit send before going back to her last text.
we all love you
He always knew his two friends loved him like the brother they never had. Heck, Sam was more like a brother to him sometimes. A brother that wore skirts. Danny snickered at that thought as he closed his phone and rolled back to his side. Sam was right, he needed to get some sleep so he could wake up in a few hours if he wanted to make it to Suffolk before night fell tomorrow.
Now as long as his mind would leave him alone for the rest of the night he could get some sleep.
-.-.-.-
Well, Danny's worst nightmare came true, Mom and Dad know about him being half ghost and, as much as I hate to say it, they want him dead.
Jazz looked up from her diary and checked the clock. 4:23 am. The girl knew she should be asleep. It may be fall brake for everyone going to Casper High but college was just around the corner which meant papers to write for scholarships and entry forms. And now with Danny running away, Jazz had to be there at the search party tomorrow.
The red head sighed as she leaned her head on her hand. The stars outside her window shined brightly, reminding her of her brother's love for them.
She smiled as a thought formed. As much as Danny, and probably her own father, would deny it, her parent's love of ghosts and the unknown fueled both her own and Danny's two different loves.
Danny loved the unknown of space while her parents loved the unknown of the Ghost Zone.
Jazz's own love wasn't far off either. Her love was just the understanding of what happened inside the brain.
If only she could figure out a way to get into her parents' mind that Danny was Phantom and not the other way around. She looked back at her diary and continued.
I can't tell Danny, but Mom and Dad have already threatened to kick me out of the house. They believe Sam, Tucker, and I have all been corrupted by Danny.
Vlad's helping us, since it was his human self that caused all of this, though we'll have to wait till Danny gets to Suffolk to begin.
A bit of good news for my record keeping. Sam has learned she obtained some plant controlling powers from when Undergrowth took over. We'll have to make sure Mom or Dad doesn't find out at the moment, but if a ghost attacks while Danny's out of town, we'll have a trick up our sleeves.
"Jasmine?" Maddie's voice called through the door, getting the girl to jump in her chair. "You should be in bed."
"Yes ma'am." Jazz called, quickly flicking off her table light and getting into bed. For the first time in her life, she found herself afraid of her parents. At the moment the two were unpredictable which scared the girl more than her parent's weaponry.
AN: ok, one think I see missing in a lot of runaway stories (specifically Danny running away from his parents who turn out they want to kill him) is the nightmares. Most people who know me know I had to do almost just that last year and I still get haunted by nightmares of Mom coming and hunting me down or I'm going back to her house so I can get my cat back only I always get caught. So I know that if your subconscious is still fearing you're going to get caught, then it'll still haunt you in your dreams.
Danny: that's not really an author's note that's more of a commentary
AN: well, what do you want me to put, AC? No one's going to know what that is.
Danny: Air conditioner, Arcee, Agatha Christy,
AN: one Arcee sounds more like RC, not AC, and with a reason. She's a transformer. Two, that's my point.
Danny: Don't Care, I'm bored. *flying around in my tiny room*
AN: Someone snuck the sand pudding again didn't he? *shakes head* let me go and find that ghost fishing line again and bring him down to earth. While I do that, Read and Review fokes!