I sat on my couch with the book I've needed to read for so long. I finally found where I was at previously.

Though after two months of hiding the creature, I began to notice that my mother became weaker and weaker every time she walked into my room. And that the will o' wisp hid even from me. I decided to look for it and found it in a box in my closet, it was no longer weak and even attacked me. Fortunately, mother had invited an old friend of mine and his father inside. They just happened to be ghost hunters and heard my scream of "Ghost!" and rushed right in.

My friend's father, Jedith, happened to have blood roses on him. Blood roses had been proven by their ancestors, to keep ghosts away. He threw them at the now powered up ghost and we watched as it began to dissolve.

My eyes grew wide and I rushed into my room. I found the will o' wisp on my desk. I sucked it into a Fenton thermos I had on me. "Sorry, deal's off." I screwed the top back on it and tossed it on my bed.

"Honey, is everything alright?" Mom poked her head in my room and Ben was right behind her with a popsicle in his mouth and a jar of pickles.

I looked at her and smiled to try and hide my panic, "Y-yeah, everything is fine mom, just a little jumpy."

We heard a huge bang coming from the front door and we all jumped up to run down. "Hello little sister!" I heard Uncle Jack say from the now broken door.

"Oh my, Jack, Maddie, you do know that if you knock I'll gladly open the door." Mom said exhaustedly.

"Sorry, Sandra, force of habit." Aunt Maddie said as she picked up the door, "We were just testing the Fenton ghost tracker and we picked up two ghost signals, one of which disappeared." Aunt Maddie took out a box that began to beep faster and faster as she walked closer to me. My eyes widened and I began to back into my room.

"Maddie, I'm sure it's fine as long as they're not attacking." Mom said.

Aunt Maddie sighed, "I guess you're right."

"Aww, but Maddie I wanted to see if it was those Ghost kids." Uncle Jack whined. "I wanted to dissect 'em!" I swallowed hard and slammed the door to my room.


"What's with her?" Jack asked.

"She, hasn't been feeling well?" Ben tried to convince his aunt and uncle.

"That's odd now the readings indicate that the ghost is in Jen's room." Maddie said.

"UH, THANKS FOR THE VISIT AUNT MADDIE AND UNCLE JACK, NEXT TIME KNOCK BEFORE BUSTING DOWN THE DOOR PLEASE THANK YOU!" Ben said as he pushed the ghost hunters out of the house. He pushed the door back to it's usual place and leaned back on it.

"Ben? Is something wrong?"

The teen sighed as he took out a pickle, "No, nothing, just…" Ben thought hard to come up with an excuse, "Jen is working on her homework, don't want to disturb her!" he added a nervous laugh as he got up and walked to his room. "I feel like I need to go to sleep! Night Mom!"

Sandra was left in the living room to think. Unlike her older brother, she had an understanding of how ghosts feel, and she was no idiot to be kept in the dark. She knew that Ben was hiding something when he first came home with an odd watch, but whenever she asked she was either avoided or broke out into an argument with him about curfew or something of the sort.

Jen protected him a lot of the time, she always had the excuses. Now, it looks like their roles have been reversed.

'So something must've happened to Jen.' The blonde woman sighed. It was always their families. First, Ben found the omnitrix, then Jen had unleashed a rare anodite power that allowed the user to have access to a single pocket dimension. Finally Gwen discovered that she had 'the spark'. And now something else has happened to Jen, it all just made her head hurt.

'I may as well just go to bed now.' She sighed as she stood up. As she walked near Jen's room she heard her and Ben talking.


After Ben's little out burst he came to my room, "You ok?" he asked as he handed me the jar of pickles.

That's the thing about Ben and me, we like all the same foods, just not at the same time. We like all the same movies, but we fight over which one is coolest. Though when it comes to comfort food, pickles or ice cream, we have the same craving.

"I'm fine, I'm afraid what would happen if they thought I was being overshadowed or something." I took out a pickle spear and put in my mouth.

"Well let's be glad that they still haven't found out you're Jen Phantasma. We'll ask Danny to see how he's dealing with it tomorrow." Ben got sat on my bed next to me. He looked at me skeptically, "You sure you're alright?"

I looked at him and saw he wanted the truth, "No, my stomach is doing flips whenever I just get near any ghost equipment. Kinda like it's telling me to run, and living near a ghost lab doesn't help." I began to curl in on myself.

"Jen, you'll be fine, you know that me Gwen and Kevin are here for you, just like how Sam and Tucker will be there for Danny… But that's not really what's bothering you is it?"

I mentally cursed Ben for his older brother-ness, "No, I'm kind of scared about how Mom and Dad will react. I mean Mom is a born Fenton, they've hunted ghosts since there were ghosts TO hunt. What if-"

"Jen, mom and dad accepted me despite the fact I turn into different forms of aliens, they'll accept you."

I glared at him, "Not all aliens are considered bad, though it's been proven that all humans consider ghosts to be evil. Plus Jack and Maddie are ignorant enough to try and dissect us in our ghost form and never notice who we were."

He held my shoulder, "Try looking on the bright side, with this, maybe you can help people. I would never let that happen to you, so let me worry about Jack and Maddie, while you just shove the Box Ghost back into the ghost zone as many times as you can." He smiled and I laughed.

"Alright then, 'Ben ten'."

"I see we've reached an agreement Ms. Phantasma." He stood up and bowed to me mockingly. He smirked and left my room.

I laid on my bed and relaxed for the first time in years, since Ben found the Omnitrix.