Title: Deleted Files
Placement: Before Chapter 21 (Absent Heartbeat)
Wes had broken into Danny's room with a motive. He had overheard the ghost trio talking about Danny's ghost files on his computer, so Wes thought he'd sneak a peek – maybe copy it onto a USB drive. After all, he'd found out Danny had done the same thing to Wes's computer a few weeks ago around Christmas when a DVD of Wes had been found in Lancer's DVD player at the beginning of the second semester.
So Wes had broken into Danny's room (honestly the Fentons were a joke, they had the best ghost security and left their front door unlocked) and found that in a stroke of luck Danny's desktop was already unlocked. At the forefront of the screen was a generic writing program filled with pages upon pages of extensive text, so when Wes found nothing about ghosts, he exited out of the program. Little did he know, that he had just deleted fifteen pages of one of Jazz's most labored college entrance papers. Her computer was rendered practically useless after Technus's last attack, so she had been using Danny's until she could get a new one.
Wes browsed through Danny's computer, and with a few dormant technology skills up his sleeve, Wes managed to break through two layers of encryption and find Danny's ghost files. However, there were a handful of files that no matter what he did, he couldn't open, such as Danielle, Dan, Plasmius, and Clockwork. Realizing that he didn't have all the time in the world, Wes copied the files that he could and promptly ran out of Danny's room, leaving nothing behind.
Unlike his last visit, Wes had managed to leave Fenton Works without Danny returning to find him. What he got was worse: a face full of Jack Fenton.
Wes had been running down the stairs, ready for a successful exit when his stomach was poked by an ectogun and he was met by familiar blue eyes. But it wasn't Danny, it was his dad.
"Who're you?" Jack bellowed. "And why are you in my house?"
"I – uh – I-" Wes was caught off guard, "One of Danny's friends?"
Jack's face accepted one of comprehension as he lowered the gun apologetically, "Sorry," he said, "it was kind of a reflex. So where is Danno? He hasn't been home yet..."
"Uh we're working on a project at my apartment, so he sent me to get something from his room," Wes lied quickly.
"That's good," Jack said, "Danny's been working on getting his grades up lately, and I don't know about Mads, but effort is all that's important to me. So what's the project? If it's anything science related, I can probably lend you a hand!"
"I think we have it covered Mr. Fenton..." Wes said. "Thanks for the offer though."
"Don't mention it," Jack said, "Now tell me, what was your name again?"
"Wes," he replied quickly, watching Jack's face contort in thought.
"Wes..." Jack pondered, "you aren't that Wes that wrote us that apology letter about the assembly last month, are you?"
Wes blushed, "I... I got to go." And with that, Wes left Fenton Works, victoriously gripping the USB Drive that held Danny's ghost files.
If Jack hadn't asked Danny later that night at dinner about his project with Wes, Danny probably would've never figured out how Jazz's entrance paper had gotten deleted. Those fifteen pages she had started with had taken her a week to write, and Danny had no way of getting them back for her. All thanks to Wes.
