Danny was really lucky that Clockwork wanted to see him at around the same time he wanted to see Clockwork. An Observer announced the halfa's arrival to the Time Lord himself. Danny saw him seated in a lounge chair, watching a wall-full of television screens, each one playing slightly different, yet strikingly similar content.
Clockwork turned around in his chair to face Danny.
"You wanted to see me?" they said at the same time, "No, you go first. No, you!"
"I understand you have questions," Clockwork cleared his throat, "Go ahead."
Danny sighed, "Clockwork, since my parents learned that I was a halfa, they went ahead and used the portal to make themselves into halfas. Jazz too, but she did it with a syringe."
"I see. She found a safer path."
"That's not the point, Clockwork," Danny was annoyed, "I'm starting to doubt that revealing myself to my parents was a good idea to begin with. Sometimes I feel like I should've taken off the minute the Disasteroid was gone for good, and..."
"Daniel," Clockwork interrupted, "I understand you have a lot on your plate right now, but believe me, this is for the best. Everything is as it should be."
"Excuse me?"
"Daniel, what did you think were the odds of your parents accepting you as a halfa?
"Fifty-fifty," Danny admitted.
"I make it seventy five-twenty five...against."
Clockwork directed Danny's attention to the television screens on the wall.
"Look, Daniel. The screen on the top left is your timeline. It's the one where your parents know, and they're...let's just say 'having a ball'. The one on the right is focused on the timeline where your parents know, and that's it."
'I envy him,' Danny thought.
"Then it gets worse," Clockwork pointed to the next few screens, "In this next one, the parents accept you, but only for so long before they give up. Here's one where the parents know, but keep you contained and used as a guinea pig. In another one, the parents are trying to 'fix' you by attempting to extract your ectoplasm. Then there's one that has Jack and Maddie disowning you and sending you off to be some other town's problem. Next one is pretty much the same thing, only you're banished to the Ghost Zone. In this one, they don't believe you, they don't care, they're blind as a bat, they've gone ahead and strapped you down and dissected you. There a few more like this one, but each one with subtle differences."
Then he gestured to the screen on the bottom right.
"You see this one, Daniel?" he said, darkly, "This is the one where you never made it."
Danny gulped. That could've been him if he weren't so lucky as he was in the timeline he belonged in.
Clockwork's conclusion? "You're better off in the timeline you are in, Daniel. Be happy that the parents have accepted you at all."
"So...do you know what's going to happen back home? Are mom and dad gonna invite other people to become halfas? I can probably imagine Sam as a halfa, maybe Paulina...definitely not Sam's parents..."
Clockwork put a hand on Danny's shoulder.
"Relax, Daniel," he said, "Remember what Andy Warhol said: 'In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes'."
"Gee."
"Let the 'halfa' craze run its course, then everything will go back to normal. Unless it gets worse."
And on that word, Danny was dismissed.
On his way out, he passed another Daniel, no doubt from another timeline.
"Hey, which one are you from?" our Danny asked, out of curiosity.
"The one where Jack and Maddie kick me out soon after I turned on the portal."
"Ouch. Hang in there, me."
Danny patted the other Danny on the shoulder, then went on his way again.