Just a heads up, next chapter will be a super small one to tie up loose ends so thanks for sticking with me!

I don't own DP. On with the story!

Chapter 6: Danielle

It was six and the team was finishing their light dinners. Maddie had urged the group that they needed to eat light so they had something fueling them without weighing them down. Although Jack and Tucker weren't as happy to learn that meant one cookie and one burger, they ate what they were given because they knew that she was right.

As soon as the last plate was licked clean (Tucker's), the group rushed to the Specter Speeder and loaded in. Even Val and Dani rode along. They were in this together, and they would stay together as long as they could. After all, it was love that would win this battle, so they minus well be with those they loved while they still had the chance.

They arrived at Mayor Masters' mansion in 15 minutes. Maddie parked the Speeder behind the brush in the backyard before the group leaped out. Dani used her invisibility to turn herself, Maddie, and Jack invisible so they could sneak in while Val applied her camouflage to her, Tucker, and Jazz. Once in the mansion, the team began their search. First, they searched the kitchen, guest bedroom, and what looked to be a game room on the ground level. They came up empty. After searching the second floor, all of which were more guest rooms and a few bathrooms, the team started to feel discouraged. It wasn't until they reached the third floor that their hearts began to race.

The third floor was one massive room: a library. From floor to ceiling nothing but book shelves could be seen. In the middle of the room sat one chair, one nightstand, one lamp, and the only window on the floor. Below the window was a picture of Vlad Masters and below the portrait was a fire place. But what filled the group with adrenaline was the sight of Danny, Sam, and Vlad floating three feet in the air, twenty feet in front of them.

"Very good Daniel. Now, create a duplicate and make it transform with you still in ghost form," Vlad ordered. He had a smile on his face and his fangs were visible. If his ghost sense had gone off, he'd ignored it. Danny did as he was told and was praised by Vlad. Sam clapped but said nothing. As Danny recalled his clone, Vlad then said to him, "Very good Daniel. Perhaps we shall take an early dinner as a type of reward for your accomplishments today."

"Thank you father," Danny said in a monotone voice. Dani could fell Jack's body tense beneath her hand, but he didn't say anything. Either he was too chocked up or he understood that Danny didn't really mean it and he couldn't blow their cover. Just in case, Dani gave him a squeeze on his shoulder and he began to relax again.

"Samantha, go fetch us our dinner," Vlad said without taking his eyes or smile off Danny.

"Yes Master," Sam flatly said. She lowered herself to the ground and began walking to the door on her left. However, as soon as she reached for the doorknob she was knocked off balance by an unseen force.

Finally, Vlad tore his gaze off Danny to see that Sam was lying on the floor clutching her head. Danny immediately flew to her, but he couldn't get anywhere near her because all of a sudden Val, Jazz, and Tucker blocked his view.

Danny scowled. Yes, he knew this was for his own good, but Vlad still had much control over him so Danny returned to Vlad's side and waited for further instruction.

Vlad growled before he snapped, "If you children know what is best for you, you would leave now. Or I will have Daniel lock you up in my lab's torture room!"

"Not gunna happen ghost!" Jack yelled as he launched himself at Plasmius. Vlad went intangible and Jack phased through him, but before he could let out an evil chuckle, Maddie shot him with one of the wrist rays.

Unknown to Vlad or Danny, Dani had silently phased behind Tucker, Jazz, and Val and was trying to locate the flower petals she'd seen on her neck earlier. Even though Sam was slightly dazed, she still gave a small fight and if Dani hadn't covered her mouth with ectoplasm, she would have been screaming for help. But because she was silent, Vlad and Danny believed nothing was wrong.

Well, Vlad believed nothing was wrong.

That is, until he yelled, "Son, attack!" and Danny didn't move. After it became clear Danny wasn't going to attack, Vlad snapped, "Daniel attack or you will be punished!"

Danny instantly obeyed and started attacking, but not Team Phantom. Danny spun around and kicked Vlad in his gut. He then duplicated himself and shot at Vlad with his Ecto-ray and his ice beam. Vlad was so shocked that Danny was resisting a direct order and was attacking him that he didn't have time to brace himself.

The Ecto-ray forced him to crash against the wall behind him and the ice beam froze him to where he'd crashed. By now, Dani had successfully restrained Sam, but she'd yet to transfer her energy into the petals. Maddie and Jack were so happy to see that Danny had attacked Vlad and helped them that they lowered their weapons. Wrong move. Again the Danny's spun and attacked the same way he did Vlad.

"Dude, what was that for?" Tucker yelled when he saw Danny freeze his parents to the wall opposite Vlad. One of the Danny's laughed, but the other one launched an Ecto-disk at him. Before anyone could fathom what was happening, the two Danny's were battling it out.

"Father will be very upset that you did that and we will be punished," the first Danny flatly said as he punched the second one in his stomach.

"He's not our real father and you know it," the second Danny said as he retaliated and kicked the first Danny in the chest.

"Don't fight the control! The control offers power and understanding."

"It's not right! We have a responsibility to the townspeople and we are ignoring it."

"That's not what Sammy says."

"That's exactly what Sammy used to say."

At the mention of Sam, the two Danny's froze and stared at each other before turning to the teens and asking, "Where's Sam?"

The teens parted to show Dani holding Sam. Her head was bowed and Dani was gathering energy to her finger for the transfer. When the more evil Danny saw this, he yelled to himself, "They're going to take her away from us. Absorb me quick and get them!" Danny absorbed his clone and began flying towards Dani and Sam yelling, "She's mine!" but before he could reach them, Dani's pointer finger glowed green with energy and she touched the petals on the back of Sam's neck.

The change was instantaneous. Sam's normal attire returned to her and she fell limp. Dani too struggled to stay on her feet as Danny approached them. Instantly he yelled and held his head. The petals on Sam's neck began to fall off one by one and Danny was quickly losing power. Sam, Danny, and Dani all passed out within the next minute. Dani reverted back to her human form, but Danny stay as Phantom, black halo still floating. The ectoplasm disappeared from Sam's mouth as well as from the Fentons and Vlad.

"Look what you've done! I will get my revenge on you and Daniel will be mine once more, but until then…" and with that, Vlad dramatically raised his cape and disappeared from sight. Without hesitation the group grabbed the three motionless teens and retreated back to the Specter Speeder.

Once they arrived back at Fenton Works, Maddie and Jack brought Sam and Danny to their room and laid them on their king-sized bed. Dani had woken up on the ride home and was now sitting at the foot of the bed. Jazz, Val, and Tucker sat on Val's hover board as Maddie and Jack stood behind Dani.

No one talked, but unlike earlier at dinner, this silence was filled with worry, not determination, and was uncomfortable. It took thirteen minutes before Sam started to move. She squeezed her eyes shut before blinking twice and slowly woke up. She rubbed her head before looking around. She sat up and asked, "What the hell kind of dream was that?"

Maddie cleared her throat, a sign telling Sam she didn't approve of her word choice, and Sam instantly apologized saying, "O, sorry Mrs. Fenton!" before her eyes went wide and she asked, "That was a dream, right?"

"Nope, that really happened if you're talking about what I think you're talking about," Tucker said with a small grin.

"Only one way to find out," Jazz said before asking with a smirk, "In your dream, did you happen to kiss Danny a lot?"

Sam's face blushed hard at that comment before she slowly shook her head 'yes' and said, "So, why isn't he up? I don't remember him getting hurt." She was now looking at Danny, who was lying next to her, and intertwined her fingers with his.

"We don't actually know, and the black halo is still there…" Val said. She didn't know how Sam would react to that information so she had to say quietly and slowly. Sam didn't say a thing, only moved her other hand up to Danny's head and brushed her fingers through his messy hair.

"How are we going to wake Daddy?" Dani hesitantly asked. She didn't know if Sam remembered that she was her mom, or even if Danny was her dad, so she braced herself for the shocked outburst. It never came.

Instead, Sam shrugged her shoulders and continued running her fingers through Danny's hair, careful to avoid the halo. Lucky for everyone, Tucker had an idea. With a slightly evil smirk he said, "Well, Danny normally always wakes up when he hears you scream in terror."

"I don't like where this is headed," Sam said while she narrowed her eyes at Tucker, who'd leaned over to Val and whispered something in her ear. Once he'd stopped whispering to Val, he pulled out his PDA and Val went to whisper to Jazz. Once Jazz was brought up on the plan, she went to tell her parents and Val motioned to Dani to come to her.

"What is going to happen?" Sam asked, a little fear leaking into her voice. She knew if this was one of Tucker's ideas, she probably wasn't going to like it so she tried to prepare herself mentally. It didn't help that all the teens in the room were smiling diabolically at her.

Before she knew it, everyone in the room was holding their hands up to cover their ears and Tucker threw her his PDA. On it was a picture of Sam. In a pink puffy dress. The same pink puffy dress her parents had forced her to wear for her seventh birthday. She possessed the only photo and she'd hidden it in her diary at her house. The only way Tucker could possess such a photo was if Tucker had read…

"AHHHHHHH!" Sam screamed after processing what she was looking at. Sam jumped off the bed and hurled herself at Tucker but was stopped by an Ecto-shield, curtsey of Dani. She was about to swear and attack the shield when Danny yelled behind her, "Sam!"

When Sam turned around, she saw Danny had shot up in bed and was looking around anxiously to see what had caused Sam to scream bloody murder. When he saw that there was no immediate threat present, he put a hand on his heart and his other on his head and said, "Holy shit Sam. What was that for?"

"Danny! Do not swear! Especially in the presence of your daughter!" Maddie snapped. She had just about had it with the foul language of these teens. She would have to have a stern talk with her kids, as well as the other kids' parents, if this kept up.

"Sorry," Danny sheepishly said.

"Hey, why does Danny still have red eyes and a black halo?" Jack asked after the room had grown silent. The teens, just realizing that Danny wasn't actually back to normal, quickly snapped their heads towards Danny and stared in disbelief before breaking into laughter.

"What's so funny? I don't know if you guys realize this, but this is a major problem!" Sam yelled. As soon as Tucker opened his mouth she regretted her question.

"Dude, you still have to kiss him to bring him back!" Tucker happily exclaimed. The shield was gone and he was waving his PDA around in the air as he continued to laugh with everyone else. Both Sam and Danny's mouth gaped open before they quickly snapped them shut and their faces were consumed with a deep crimson. Before Sam could realize what was happening, Dani was pushing her towards Danny and into his open arms.

The room continued to laugh, but as soon as Danny flashed Sam his lopsided grin, she couldn't hear a thing. It was only her and Danny. She snaked her arms around his neck and pulled him towards her as he wrapped his arms around her and brought her to meet him.

The instant their lips touched, fireworks went off. Danny's halo ceased to exist and had his eyes been open they would have glowed an electric green, but only for a second or two because the white rings soon appeared and Phantom turned into Fenton. This all happened during the kiss and neither heard the group stop laughing nor did they hear them snap pictures on their phones.

Actually, they didn't hear anything until Dani said, "O.k. this is starting to get weird guys." Finally Danny and Sam broke apart and they leaned their foreheads against one another. After a few more minutes of eye gazing, they turned away from each other and held their arms out to Dani, who gratefully jumped into them.

All the while, Tucker chuckled to himself. He'd caught it all on camera and the second he was out of the room, he would send it to everyone in Amity. Ah, the perks of being a techno geek!

I'm a sucker for happy endings and if you've read any of my other stories you'd know that I'm also big on Dani X Danny as Father and Daughter. Next chapter is just a close out, so it will probably be posted later today(: