Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom

A/N

So apparently this is the shortest chapter yet... Yeah, I'm slowly crashing and burning... But at least this chapter is here!

Enjoy the chapter!


Chapter Seven: Laughter and Pain


When they finally reached the final stretch to camp, Maddie was fussing over Tucker more than Danny. It was a relief, because Danny's healing abilities had to have time. Most of his injuries were already healed.

Maddie forgot that she put ectopweapons and traps where they entered the camp. And that they would target her son.

Danny caught the whine of ghost weapons powering up. He had no time to dodge, before a weapon struck.

"Danny!" Jazz imediatly went in front of her brother. The ectoweapons wouldn't fire if his ectosignature was blocked. They were designed to get a clear shot and nothing else.

Maddie was messing with a controller, trying to find the right buttons to push to deactivate the safety measures. Jack was about to put Tucker down to rush to his son, but Sam touched the highest point she could. Which just so happened to be his elbow.

"Don't. You'll make Tucker's injuries hurt even more." Jack instantly deflated. He looked at Tucker.

Tucker put on a forced smile. "It's okay, Mr.F, Danny's strong!"

Jack calmly walked over to his son, and saw his shirt was burned where the ectoblast hit him.

Danny groaned, and said dumbly, "Where's the bus?" He tried to sit up, but got pushed back down by Sam and Jazz.

Sam rolled her eyes. "There was no bus."

Danny looked at his injury, and then looked at his mom, still pressing buttons. Realization dawned. "Oh..."

"Got it!" Maddie put the device back into one of her pockets. She rushed over to Danny. "Oh Danny! I'm so sorry! I forgot that I put up the ghost defenses and that they activate for you! Ugh, I need to get that fixed! I cannot believe that I-"

Danny sat up and hugged her, efectively cutting off her sentence. "Mom, it's okay... I'm okay..." He let go of her, and quickly layed back down. He then noticed the tears in her eyes.

"Oh, Danny...!" Danny slowly got to his feat, faking a grimace of pain.

"It's okay mom... Let's just get back to camp. I wanna hear your ghost stories." Maddie chuckled. She helped Danny ginish getting to his feat, and tried to continue helping him to camp.

"I'm fine mom!" Maddie was gently pushed away from Danny.

Maddie was about to try to help him again, but Jazz placed her hand on her mother's shoulder. "He'll be fine, mom. Sam will be next to him ready to help." Jazz looked her mother in the eye. "Just focus on getting us back to camp."

Maddie nodded, and they started heading back to camp.


It took a little longer, because even though Danny insisted he was fine, he was walking slower.

When they did reach camp fully, Danny walked over to his tent, and sat down. Sam quickly followed him. Everyone else wanted to go over and make sure Danny was truely alright, but Tucker was still hurt. So they instead went to help another person who was injured.

Maddie motioned for Jack to bring Tucker to the GAV. Jazz went ahead of them and opened up the back doors so they could lay him down. She quickly grabbed some Fenton Emergency Blankets and layed them down so it would be more comfortable instead of just laying on cold, hard metal.

Jack carefully layed Tucker down. He only winced once when they had to move his injured leg to a better position for Maddie to work on.

Jazz quickly found more painkillers, and only gave Tucker one pill. He swallowed it dry. Maddie then started to get to work.

There was always the slight wince and hiss of pain from Tucker, but it was over fairly quickly.


Danny sat down at the mouth of his tent, but was quickly forced to lay down because of the pain.

Sam quickly opened up her backpack and looked for her first aid kit. "Okay, Danny, what injuries do you have?"

"Right after the fall, or right now?" Danny winced a little from the pain.

Sam rolled her eyes, and mumbled something that sounded like, boys. "Right after the fall, what were your injuries?"

Danny tried to remember what Tucker said his injuries were. "Well... A broken foot... Fractured arm... Bruised ribs... And a few scratches..."

Sam nodded her head, expecting nothing less. "And now?" She looked over at Danny, with a painkiller in hand.

"Now, I think it's just a fractured foot, ribs are still a little bruised, the very obvious burn, and my arm's healed." Danny took the painkillers offered and swallowed them dry.

"This may hurt, but if your foot didn't heal right, we're going to have to figure out what to do to fix it..."

Danny blanched. "Well, on that note, Doc, mind fixing me up?"

Sam smiled sadly. "Just promise me that on this camping trip, you don't finish killing yourself?"

Danny rubbed the back of his neck. "I can't promise, but I'll try..."

Sam got to work rewrapping his foot. "That's all I could ask for..."


After Maddie made sure that Sam wrapped up Danny okay, they all set up the campfire for the night. The girls won easily, as they had the most wood. Even though the boys brought none back, they would get a few extra marshmallows to make into s'mores.

The whole ordeal left them very little time with daylight. So very quickly, it was dark enough for a fire.

With the fire lit, they all put marshmallows on their chosen sticks, and got to roasting them. They joked a lot about what happened, and Maddie was glad it didn't scar them emotionally. Physically, Tucker would get a real scar on his head.

While they were happily eating their first s'more, they decided to start a new conversation.

Tucker smacked his lips. "So, who has the first campfire story?"

Jack instantly perked up. "I do!" He quickly got up and dashed to his and Maddie's tent.

They all watched his behind sticking out of the tent. Sam snorted, and started choking. Thankfully, she was sitting next to Danny, who imediatly patted her on the back until she stopped.

"Thanks..." Sam blushed when she realized that Danny still had his arm on Sam's back.

Danny smiled, oblivious of what he was doing. "No problem."

Tucker decided at that moment to ruin it. "Lovebirds!" Was whispered from his direction, and Danny quickly blushed and pulled his hand away. Sam blushed even more, and stared at Tucker with a promise of pain.

Maddie and Jazz tried to hide their laughter behind their hands, but Danny, with his ghostly hearing, heard them laughing and blushed even more.

At that moment, Jack appeared with a flashlight. He then noticed the scene before him. He smiled and sat down by his wife. "Did it happen yet?"

Maddie was still laughing a little. "Well... They were kinda close, but Tucker made a comment!" Maddie tried to be quiet, but Danny heard her.

"Mom!"

Jack couldn't help but laugh. "Well, let's get on to the campfire stories!"


To Be Continued...


A/N

So I added in a little DxS fluff for someone in particular... You know who you are!

There is a reason I've given myself a time limit saying the latest a chapter will be out is a week. And this is why...

This is my very first fanfic!

I got inspired to do a camping trip from Haiju! It's loosly based off of it, because there is a camping trip. It's just not Maddie and Danny... So there will most likely be no more Vlad, because the main antagonist is Youngblood.

But in all seriousness, check out Haiju's fanfic, Roughing It. It's amazing!

Anyways... I gotta do a little research on some campfire stories to put in next chapter... Joy...

Review and tell me what ya think of this story/chapter/update! It means a lot to know what you think!