I have reordered the season one timeline. Episodes listed at the end of the chapters.

Every episode will be mentioned. You do not have to read plot synopsizes to understand what is going on although you may want to so you know what was happening 'off-screen'. Do not re-watch the show. I have changed/dismissed many of the details of the show to allow for a more realistic setting and characters who are not card board cut outs.

This is still cannon. Season one has no clear chronological order so I have fit the episodes into one timeline that reasonably allows for different school events and character driven plot.


Ghosts had gone from scary to annoying very quickly for Star.

They interrupted her day, caused property damage, and were always obsessed with something strange. Like boxes.

Sure, they were frightening at times. And yeah, people got hurt. But really? They were more of a nuisance than a threat.

And then there was the ghost boy. He was always fighting the other ghosts. Couldn't they take their fights elsewhere? Just last week he and another ghost destroyed the school cafeteria!

There were debates on whether or not to declare him, specifically, a public menace.

It was almost a sure thing after the fiasco at the zoo.

By the time lockers started opening on their own, it was so yesterday. Ignore whatever mayhem the ghosts were causing until they left. Simple. Straight forward.

Danny Fenton stealing sodas from the vending machine and handing them out to the popular kids? Unnatural.

Dash was too phased by Danny talking to him of his own volition to do anything other than accept.

But Star wasn't. None of this was right. He didn't act like himself at all. Even his friends were talking about it. And when he got tackled in a pick-up game of football (because of course Dash invited his crush to do something he liked) she saw it.

He had phased through them.

No way. Danny was human. He had a pulse and two legs and they had grown up together.

Well, she knew who he was.

So she considered the facts. He very much still seemed human but he was acting different. Spotting the town's ghost hunters across the field, she pushed down any possible regret in favor of asking questions. If anyone would know, it would be them.

"Is it possible for ghosts to posses people?"

She regretted it anyway. Yes, it would be possible for a ghost to posses someone and make them do things they wouldn't normally do. Why, Jack was working on this great dream catcher that could separate a human from the ghost possessing them!

She finally got a word in edgewise and asked if ghosts could use their powers while possessing someone. Mrs. Fenton didn't think so but they'd never encountered a case of possession themselves, so they didn't know for sure.

Star thanked them and hurried off with a shudder. If she never had to talk to people that weird ever again...

Not important right now. What was important was sharing what she'd found out. Kwan waved her over and they circled behind the bleachers to where Paulina was watching over a dazed Dash. Star grimaced. She did not want to be the bearer of bad news.

"He talked to me. He had fun playing football with me. Is this a dream?"

"It's not a dream, but you might not like reality very much."

"Huh? What are you saying? If it's not a dream, than Danny just said he wants to spend time with me. This is... unbelievable."

"Exactly." Star braced herself with a deep breath. This was gonna hurt. "I think Danny is possessed. He's not acting right. The things he's saying aren't right and during the football game, he phased through Mitch when he was being tackled."

Her friend looked crestfallen before pulling on a poker face. "Yeah. Yeah, it would be pretty weird for Danny to suddenly like me."

Star bit her cheek. She didn't want to cause her friend pain but the lie would be so much worse. It wasn't Danny and Dash would have noticed on his own soon.

They kept an eye out for the rest of the day finally seeing him smash a mirror. "I can explain! Actually, I can't."

So Danny was himself again. Had it been the mirror? Did the ghost come from the mirror? Did Danny not remember being possessed or did he just not want to talk about it?

Being assigned detention for 'breaking school property' caused the 'party at Fenton's' to be cancelled which Star only considered a good thing.

The knowledge that people could be possessed gave them something new to watch out for.

They passed this information on to Becky who in turn spread it around school. It added a new sense of worry over the next week until the student body accepted that this, too, was part of their new lifestyle.

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Episodes: Mystery Meat = One of a Kind = Splitting Images