I apologize, this chapter is a bit long. I'm trying to keep them all closer in length, but at the same time I don't really care. Oh well.

I don't own Danny Phantom (Butch Hartman does) but I do own this plot. :D

Enjoy!

GoingGhost! GoingGhost! GoingGhost! GoingGhost!

Vlad was furious. He should have expected this, but he was still shocked to see that even when Spectra had been put on probation and forbidden to treat any patients, she still came to visit! Even Danny looked irritated with the woman, and his attempts to shake her had failed repeatedly. And her attempts at a 'nice' conversation was only getting worse by the second.

"Oh Danny, you are just too cute! I don't know how there couldn't possibly be any records of a missing cutie named Danny. It makes a guy feel kind of unwanted, doesn't it?"

"Don't worry; I'm sure that right now my family is looking for me." Danny mumbled angrily as he glared off to the side.

"But what if you're an orphan? People nowadays are truly horrible, so how do you know if your friends truly care enough to look for you?"

"I have friends!" Danny snapped. Vlad gulped as he watched the scene unfold. He was right, something must be horribly wrong with Spectra if she was purposely making Danny feel bad about himself. Another mist flew from Danny's mouth with a shiver, but he ignored it.

"Sure you do, Dan." Danny's eyes widened. He jumped out of his bed and turned his back onto Spectra.

"Don't call me that." His voice came out as cool and monotonous, but Vlad could see the expression on Danny's face. It was the expression of a horrifying realization. Danny remembered something frightening, and it was connected to what Spectra just called him.

"What? Dan? It's just a nickname. Friends do give each other nicknames." Danny's eyes flared a glowing green and he clutched his hands in an attempt to keep his temper in check.

"We're not friends, nor will we ever be, now get out." Spectra walked up to Danny and placed her hand on his shoulder. Vlad caught the glow that emitted from her hand.

"Just remember Dan, I'll ALWAYS be here for you." She smirked and left, not even bothering to shut the door behind her. "Oh hello, Doctor Loss," Vlad vaguely heard her shout while he watched Danny slump over.

Why was it that whenever Vlad tried to help people it never really worked? Here he thought that he had finally gotten rid of Penelope Spectra forever, and she shows up to prove him wrong. Well Vlad couldn't stop now, he had to get Danny out of this funk. His curiosity over the boy has grown too strong to break from now. Vlad got up from his bed.

"Danny,"

"Shut up Vlad, I'm not in the mood for it right now." Vlad stood next to Danny and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Let's go for a walk and get you out of here for a while." Danny didn't say anything, so Vlad took his silence as on ok and partially dragged Danny out of the hospital and to the park.

AW! You even have a little banter! AW! You even have a little banter!

"Bertrand, I was so close! If only that punk, Masters, wasn't there at the time, I could have taken everything! He set me up! I just know it! Well he's not getting away with my victim!" Penelope spectra hissed as she paced back and forth in her private office. Bertrand, a short man with gray hair and a mustache, nodded.

"I know! I was watching the whole time! He just makes me so angry that I just want to bite him and sting him!" Bertrand growled. Spectra stopped in her track and smiled evilly. She looked to Bertrand. He smiled as well and nodded.

AW! You even have a little banter! AW! You even have a little banter!

Vlad was curious, he wanted to know what it was the Danny remembered, but he didn't feel like he should push it at the moment. An attempt at getting Danny to tell him what was so special about the name "Dan" would have only put Danny in a bad mood. Still, as Vlad sat next to Danny on his favorite park bench, he couldn't help but wonder what then name meant to Danny. Something told Vlad that it wasn't good, whatever it was.

"I really hate the hospitals, just everything about them make me irritated." And scared him a little, but he wouldn't admit it. "The needles, the creepy doctors, and the," Vlad sneered, "therapists on staff, all of it. If I had a choice, I wouldn't even be at this place!" But then he wouldn't have met Danny.

Vlad continued to ramble on about things in the hospital that he didn't approve of, hoping to distract Danny from his bad mood, or just act as white noise for the boy. Whatever he was giving to Danny at the moment, he didn't know, and he seriously didn't think that the boy was even listening to him rant. But it appears that the surprises won't stop coming this week.

"Then what is it that you do like?" Vlad paused at the sudden question. Danny wasn't even looking at him, his eyes staring straight forward.

"…." Vlad wondered if he should tell Danny about his crush. If he did, and Danny ends up not liking Vlad or wants an act of revenge for whatever reason, then he could use this against Vlad. But being truthful with Danny just might show that Vlad did care enough to give Danny important information. Satisfy curiosity, or keep his heartbreaking secret? Oh forget it, "Maddie Fenton."

Vlad watched Danny for a reaction and realized that the boy had tensed at the name. His eyes misty and unnoticing to the outside world as Danny's mind processed this.

"Why? Is she pretty?" Vlad snorted.

"She's beautiful! She's daring and smart, she's got common sense, and she's awfully kind. Everything about her is wonderful!" Danny's eye twitched.

"…..What does she look like?"

"Well, she has brown long hair and gorgeous violet eyes," Danny decided to stop Vlad on his rant before he went to an embarrassing territory.

"Is she of those run-of-the-mill-crushes, or is she your girlfriend?" Vlad shook his head somberly.

"Unfortunately, It's probably just a crush, but she was my first friend in a long while. Sadly, I got stuck with the sharper end of the stick, for she ended up marrying that oaf of a man, Jack Fenton!" Danny nodded.

"Why do you call him a oaf?"

"He's nothing but a huge, rude, fudge-loving, ghost obsessive, idiotic fool!" Danny whistled.

"Man, you really did get stabbed if that's the case. But, he can't be all that bad." Vlad huffed and crossed his arms.

"That and more," But Danny didn't want to believe that about Jack Fenton. He couldn't bring himself to believe that Jack was a horrible man, and Danny couldn't help but to feel disgusted that Vlad was so obsessed over Maddie.

"Well, everyone has to have an obsession, I guess." Danny mumbled to himself. It was at this time that his chilling ghost sense decided to warn Danny of trouble along with a sudden screech.

Both Danny and Vlad turned their heads as they saw more people run away in terror from a giant green hornet. Vlad and Danny looked at each other. A fuzzy feeling a familiarity washing through Danny as he felt his body twitch, as if it felt an upcoming fight that induced adrenalin flooding his system.

"We've gotta run," Vlad stated as he stood up, watching the glowing ghost bug make its way towards him and Danny.

"No, we need to fight that thing off," Danny argued as he too stood up. Vlad looked as if he wanted to slap Danny.

"We'll I can't change in front of people and blow my cover. So if you intend on fighting I suggest that you do as the pirates do and run away so that you can fight."

"Oh," So Danny and Vlad ran towards the mass of trees just a few feet in front of them, but it soon became apparent that it was too late for the bug was right on top of them.

"Where do you think YOU are going you little dunce?" it asked as it dove down, stinger first, at Vlad.

"Ah!" Vlad shouted as he dove to the side, barely dodging the stinger.

Danny's body pounced to the cover of the trees and shouted, "Going ghost!" and in a flash of light he was no longer is his human form, but his ghost form. In a second he saw Vlad, dodging every attack the ghost bug sent his way, but still in his human form.

"What? No more screaming?" the bug asked ad Vlad tripped and fell on his arm, spraining it, yet never screaming in pain. "Did your tongue swell up?" The bug lunged at the now injured Vlad. Danny flew at the bug and punched it with all his might, sending it to the ground with a rough thud.

"Ouch, that's gonna sting like crazy for a while!" Danny retorted, beginning to feel cocky.

"Why you little pest," The bug shouted as he morphed into an equally green and glowing panther and roared. He leaped back at his new target and the battle ensued.

All the while, Vlad struggled to not let out a cry of pain as he got back up to his feet. This was when he took notice that the park was empty, with the exception of him, Danny, the ghost, and a glaring Penelope Spectra. She stood watching the battle from the safety of the hospital doors. Her dark glare at Vlad and crossed arms told him that she knew more than what she was letting on. Suddenly she turned and left with a smirk, unnoticed but the people standing next to her, watching the battle.

"Mr. Masters!" One of the nurses shouted from an open window up above. "Run!"

Vlad nodded, he'd have to get to safety and find a place to hide before he could even think of changing into his ghost form. The problem was that right now was that the panther had also heard the nurse's shouts and immediately dashed for Vlad before he could get away. Now on his feet Vlad was able to run away, but there was no guarantee that he would get away in time.

"Run, run, as fast as you can, but you won't get away, no one can!" The puma called with a leer.

"You'll have to out chase me first kitty!" Danny called as he appeared in front on Vlad and held up a shield in the nick on time. Vlad gaped at Danny as the panther ran smack into the shield, unable to stop.

"Damn, you're fast!" Vlad exclaimed. Danny grinned.

"Somewhere past two-hundred miles per hour, if my flashes of memories are correct." Vlad smiled. "Well?" Danny's head slightly turned to Vlad.

"Oh!" and Vlad ran off for the hospital doors, only a few more feet away from his spot, while the puma shook its head in attempts to get rid of its dizziness.

He ran past all of the cries of relief and other various words that were thrown as soon as he was inside the hospital doors. Down the halls he ran, looking for an empty and dark room to change in when suddenly a dark hand reached through a wall, turned him intangible, and pulled him through the wall. Vlad was slammed against a wall, now tangible. His head slammed again it and he saw a flash of light for a few seconds. When he could see again he was greeted by an outraged Penelope Spectra.

"That ghost kid, it's Dan, isn't it?" she hissed. Vlad gaped.

"Wait, you just pulled me through the wall, only ghosts can go through solid objects though! You're a ghost!" Penelope's glare turned pure red as she phased back into her true form, a black specter with fire red eyes.

"Answer my question, Vladdy boy, or else you'll get it!" she threatened as she slammed Vlad's head against the wall again.

"Why does it matter to you?" Vlad snapped, grabbing onto her hands that latched onto the collar of his shirt.

"Because I could tell when I first laid eyes on him that he was a freak, and I can see now that he truly is one! I could feel his power ghost and human, but I couldn't believe it!" a thought struck her and she smiled an evil smile. "And you are too, aren't you? You're a freak; a little human boy with ghost powers! Oh isn't this just wonderful?" she cackled. Vlad sneered and phased. Spectra gasped when she saw his new form and let go of him as she jumped back in fright.

"Yes, I'm a human man with ghost powers, as is Danny. And that means that I can destroy you any time I want." Spectra replied with her own glare.

"Bring it on, you freak." Vlad snarled and lunged for her. Spectra cackled once more and flew through the wall; Vlad gave chase. "Catch me if you can, freaky man!"

"Oh, I intend to catch you!" Vlad listened for her laughter and tried to follow. She was leaving the hospital, great, out there he could fight her with less worries. But as he phased through the wall he was pounced by the puma and was thrown once more against the wall.

"What is it with people throwing me against walls today?" Vlad wondered as he punched the puma away. "Where's Spectra? My fight is with her, not you!"

"On contraire! I picked the fight with you first!" he pounced Vlad once more and clawed at him, managing to give Vlad a few good slices on his sprained arm.

"Augh!" Vlad threw an ecto blast at him, a pink ball of ecto energy, unlike Danny's green. "Who are you anyways?" he shouted as the pounded the ghost into the floor with a well-placed kick. The puma gave way to a green blob with red eyes, his true form.

"It's none of your bees-wax!" he declared as he turned back into a bee.

"Hardi-har-har, it's another pun." Vlad dodged the stinger.

"I thought you'd like it." Vlad dodged another swipe of the stinger and punched the ghost.

"Wait, if I'm fighting you, then where's Spectra? And where's Danny?" The ghost made a movement that looked like a shrug.

"If I know Spectra then she's probably sucking dry your little friend!" Vlad shot more ecto blasts at the bee as it came for him.

A couple actually hit the ghost and sent him to the floor. Vlad landed on his feet and walked towards the ghost as it shifted into a puma once more. Before it could lunge at Vlad once more he grabbed it by the neck and slammed it back down onto the floor, knocking it back into its original form.

"You must be very weak if all you can transform into is this, a puma, and a bee."

"These are my best forms!" he retorted, grabbing Vlad's hands.

"A puma," Vlad paused just to mock the ghost, "a giant bee," he paused once more, "and a blob are your best forms? Or are they your only forms?"

"Shut up!" the ghost landed a punch on Vlad's cheek and threw him off. "I may not have many forms but I am strong enough to kill you!" he snarled as he transformed back into a ghost.

"Sorry, but you'll have to do that another time seeing as how I finally figured out this blasted thermos." Danny stated from behind the puma. "Goodbye, Bertrand." With a flick the thermos cap was off and the ghost, Bertrand was sucked into it.

"What? NO!" Bertrand shouts could be heard as Danny recapped the thermos and sighed heavily.

"So many questions, no answers." Danny glided towards Vlad and offered him a hand. Vlad took it and was lifted back to his feet. He rubbed the back of his head, embarrassed.

"Um, thanks." Danny waved his hand.

"Don't mention it."

"What is that thing?" Vlad pointed at the thermos.

"Oh, this?" Well, from what I've seen, it's a container for ghosts."

"Nifty,"

"Yup, but it took me a while to figure out how to open it."

"Ah, um…" Vlad examined the silver and green thermos. "May I have a look at that?" Danny handed Vlad the thermos.

"Just don't open it; I don't want to deal with Spectra or Bertrand again for a while. God, I hate those two." He muttered the last part.

"So that's his name," Vlad said offhand as he looked over the futuristic device. There were multiple lights on it, some that looked like buttons, but all of which interested Vlad. "Such a peculiar device."

"Yea, dad made it." Vlad's eyes snapped up to Danny as he shook his head. "No, I still don't remember anything. I just get random snippets from time to time; I don't even know where it comes from." Vlad handed Danny back the thermos and watched as Danny clipped it back onto his belt.

"It might be beneficial to take careful note of things that you say; they could help tell you more about yourself in more than one way."

"I figured as much." He smiled. "Well, we probably should head back to our hiding spots before anyone comes looking for us." Vlad replied with a smile of his own and left back to an empty room near where he was in the hospital.

He felt giddy as he changed back into his human form and waited for Danny in their rooms, of course, now he realized he had some wounds and the nurses completely freaked out on him. Still, he didn't mind giving out what lies were needed for the next twenty questions or so about what happened to him. Afterwards Danny had finally entered the room with a goofy grin and a,

"That was some fight, right Vlad?" which Vlad would reply with his own smirk. "It would have been better if I could have actually watched it and not be a part of it." Danny and Vlad would both snicker and settle down onto their beds while they began to watch the television and ignore the curious glances they received.

All the while, Vlad wished that he really could have watched Danny fight more, just to see how he handled himself; probably very well when considering that he had no visible bruises and scratches. For the rest of the day he and Danny talked about things on the television, and certain happenings that occurred around the hospital that they found humorous.

This was also when Vlad discovered something that pleased him. Since the fight Danny had opened up more and seemed less depressed. With the lack of Spectra he began to show his true colors to Vlad. Danny considered Vlad a friend.

GoingGhost! GoingGhost! GoingGhost! GoingGhost!

Finally! So glad that this chapter is over! It was fun to type, and now I can continue on with an occasional deeper level.

I also wish to apologise about the fight scene, I'm trying to stay somewhat true to the original Danny Phantom, but at the same time I want to make it more interesting and not long winded (seeing as how I can't always pay attention when the fight scenes get too long and just start skipping lines when reading) because I'm not related to Technus, I will not be the master of anything long winded...hopefully. I think that I did the fight justice seeing as how they're not my most favorite type of thing to wright.

Although I also notice that I'm sticking to Vlad more often than not, I'm wondering if this will turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing but for now it works. *Snickers* Like how I break up the action? I'm partially quoting (because I'm too lazy to see if it's actually in the script) just because it's more interesting to me....Hope I'm not confusing anyone....