Chapter 3
Danny was at his house sitting on his bed thinking about his thoughts at Sam's house and insensitively telling them out to her.
He had flown faster than he had the ability to turn bright tints of red on his cheeks.
"God, Danny you're so stupid, why on earth did you have to just ask her, and seriously what can she do to help with Vlad!" He threw his hands in the air and let them fall ungracefully beside him.
At that moment his door opened and in came Jazz, she elegantly closed it behind her. She looked worried but calm all at once.
She joined Danny on his bed and he just looked up at her, watching her fiddle with her fingers which Danny had been taught by the one and only Jazz, that fiddling with your fingers meant you were scared and that they usually were hiding something tragic. They shared an awkward silence until Danny decided that she wasn't going to talk without him starting it. "Jazz, what's wrong?" He knew it had to be bad! A tear rolled down her cheek as if to exaggerate the fact that the news was bad and upsetting.
"Uh… Danny, mum and dad, they… they were in a Car accident. Danny's face was pure shock mixed with sadness.
Jazz felt the same way when she first heard the news. She put her arm around Danny and pulled him into a half hug, he buried his face on her shoulder and a few tears slipped out. "Danny, there's more" Danny was reluctant to move and hear the dreaded words creep out of her amazingly pale white lips, but he eventually showed her he was ready to hear what she had to say and pulled away from her and waited like a puppy dog waiting for his trainer to come home.
"Dad's, Dad's not with us any more but mum's in hospital" she smiled slightly hoping it would make him feel at least a tiny bit better, while knowing it failed miserably because he hugged her and started crying out streams of pain filled tears. Once he had stopped and pulled away from her he headed to his draws and got out a new shirt and pair of jeans as well as some socks and boxers, and went into the bathroom, leaving his sister on his bed alone.
Danny enjoyed the hot running water wash away his thoughts for the moment while he got clean and soapy smelling, he enjoyed showers because you didn't have to worry about much or get your thoughts sorted out. It was like a separate room made only for you, mentally and physically.
He finished washing himself up and turned off the warm water of freedom and got out and dried himself and got dressed into his freshly clean clothes and started to brush his teeth with his favourite minty toothpaste, he brushed, spat and rinsed, put his toothbrush away and headed back to his room thinking Jazz would be there but she had obviously moved, which was made obvious by the noise of a toaster downstairs. Once he found Jazz eating a slice of toast with jam on it he sat down in front of her and dropped her car keys on the table so she would understand what he was thinking before she'd question him.
She looked at him and nodded and continued to eat into her slice of toast which she finished a minute later, she grabbed her keys and headed for the door, Danny close behind and they walked out the door making sure it was locked and they hopped into Jazz's car once she unlocked it and she looked at him when he clipped in his seat belt. "The Hospital where mum is, you do know which one right, Jazz?"
"Of course I do Danny!" and she started the car up and drove off after Danny gave her his 'Yeah right' looks.
At Sam's house
"Tuck I can't get a hold of him, he won't answer" Sam said worriedly to her best friend who was sitting at the table watching the news on his PDA so he could find out the weather for tomorrow.
"This isn't like Danny to just miss our study sessions, he's usually all over them" Tucker said in monotone which pissed Sam right off!
She scowled at him and replied with a sarcastic tone of her own "I'm aware of that Tucker"
The news woman started saying "There was a car crash involving the Fenton's who are renowned ghost hunters, Jack Fenton died at the scene but Maddie Fenton is currently in hospital"
He interrupted her scowling when Tucker dropped his PDA and slowly looked up to meet Sam's bewildered Lilac eyes.
"No way, Danny's parent's were in a car accident" Tucker said surprised
"You don't say, no wonder he hasn't been answering us, he's to concerned about his parent's" She said shocked
"Wait, does he even know?" Sam looked at him sarcastically and mouthed the words 'Nah Tuck, he's happy fighting ghosts and not contacting us once'
Tucker got the message and picked his PDA up and stood following Sam out the door to Danny's house.
They got there just in time and managed to grab their attention before they drove away and got in and buckled up their seatbelts as Jazz sped away to the hospital.
At the hospital
They finally arrived at the hospital and Danny was the first one to hop out with Sam and Tucker in hot pursuit where as Jazz calmly got out and locked the car, before heading into the hospital where her mother was currently staying.
"Danny, wait up!" Tucker panted after him while Sam had no troubles keeping up, even though Danny had started working out about a week ago.
"Danny, do you even know what room your mother's staying in?" Then Jazz came towards them and shook her head, chuckling lightly, mainly to herself.
At that moment she advanced forward with a sly smile on her incredibly delicate pale skin. "Tsk, tsk Danny, you came charging in here and yet you don't even ask where our mum is staying?"
All three backed away from her with expressions of 'Wet your pants' fear, screaming silently in their heads 'Arghhh! She's being overshadowed' or 'What's gotten into her?'
"Ha ha ha! You should see your faces, Oh and Danny…" Jazz came up to him and slapped him across the back of his head and smiled "Be more careful" she simply stated and headed down the left corridor which had plenty of gift shops filled with sweet smells and flower bouquets, teddies and sweets too.
Jazz gave them each $20 dollars "Go get her something special but also cheerful, I'll wait for you at the café over there" She pointed to it and then she sauntered on over there like a runway model and ordered herself an espresso, and sat down at the closest table and waited.
"Danny what was with your sister back there?" Sam asked while looking at teddy bears.
"What, back there? Oh… nothing, that's just her annoying me, she knows I hate it and yet she still does it, well anyway, just forget it ever happened, okay?" Danny explained while looking at flowers for his hospitalised mother.
Sam and Tucker just looked at each other then nodded and continued to browse the goodies they had to offer.
Once they had bought their gifts for Maddie, they went to Jazz, who had just finished paying the man for an excellent espresso and led the trio down several hallways that eventually came to meet with the outside of her door.
They heard a voice in there.
A voice that made all their blood run cold then turn into icicle poles which snapped into thousands of shimmer crystals.
A male voice.
It was none other than Vlad.