Our Time Chapter 7

The morning sun shined into the large room. The gold colored sheets glistened in the glow. The whole room danced in the light as if beckoning the boys to greet the day. Danny's eyes fluttered open as the morning brought heat into the electricity free room. The pile of blankets started to feel hot; more so than what was comfortable.

Something warm and comfortable moved below the boy's head. He looked at what moved and saw that he had used Vlad's chest as a pillow. He lazily lifted himself off the man. He repressed a groan from leaving the warmth and comfort. He sat up and groaned as the dull pain from last night raced up his body. "Shit." He muttered under his breath. The teen stretched his twisted muscles.

It felt like normality had set in. He was once again waking up in Vlad's green and gold bed in the early morning. He smiled to himself as he climbed out of bed. He looked down and saw that it wasn't exactly a normal morning. He had gone to bed completely in the nude. He walked through the odd house trying to remember where the living room was. His feet padded softly on the polished dark wood that decorated most of the floor in the new house. He finally found the front room filled with mountains of boxes.

He picked up his boxers and pulled them on. Something crusty rubbed against his thigh as he pulled them up. He looked down and saw that some of his pre-cum from last night had stained the material and dried over time. The teen let out an audible "yuck". The raven haired boy debated whether or not he could get away with just wearing his oversized t-shirt for the day.

"I have an extra pair you can slip into." A voice rang out behind him. He turned around quickly to see the six foot man standing next to the wall. He had slid into the room shortly after Danny had found it. He smiled a loving smile. "We'll just have to shift through the boxes to find them.

"Thanks, but I doubt yours would fit me." Danny laughed he finally followed through with his idea and swapped out his boxers for his oversized white shirt. He tested it out. It went down about mid calf and would keep him rather well covered.

"No, I have some of your cloths still." Vlad walked over to one of the many boxes that cluttered the room. He started opened them and dumped the contents onto the floor. Danny finally joined in the effort.

"Why do you still have some of my cloths?" He opened a box and found some of the man's kitchen ware that he always doted over. The teen smiled down at the silver pan and set it carefully aside.

"Well, I had a lot of extra cloths for you at my house since you practically lived there. Since I decided to move so quickly, I didn't have time to sort them out and give them to you. Besides, if I had, you probably would have stopped me from moving."

"Of coarse I would have! You got rid of so much back in Amity!" Danny turned to face the older man and stared disapproving daggers at him. "You moved away from me. You sold your house. You sold the diner! You sold our diner!" Emotions bubbled up in the boy and spilled out. "That was our diner and you just sold it! Why would you do that! Then you left me behind with out a single word goodbye?" Tears poured down the boy's face. He wiped at his eyes and sniffed.

"I'm sorry, Daniel. That was our diner. I shouldn't have sold it." Vlad pulled the boy into an embrace and held the crying boy to his chest. He rocked himself slowly as the teen calmed down. "We can always open one up here." Vlad held the boy at arms length. He looked the teen up and down and couldn't help but smile. "We'll make another one. This one can be better; bigger! We'll be co-owners and have a wonderful life cooking and serving."

"Promise?" Danny hick up-ed out. He wiped the tears from his now puffy eyes. He grabbed the man's hand in his own smaller pale ones. He held it and looked deep into the navy orbs that decorated his lover's face.

"Yeah, we'll talk to your parents and see if they're willing to transfer parental ownership over to me. You can live up here, go to the public school here, and work at our new diner." Vlad lifted the boy's tear stained head in his hand. "Deal?"

The raven haired teen smiled up at the older man. "Yeah." He felt a smile cross his face as he imagined the future Master's had just described. A dull black and red striped pair of boxers caught Vlad's eyes as the teen stepped back and wiped his face. He picked them up and offered them to the boy. He took them and put them on as Vlad tossed the contents of more of the boxes to the floor. He eventually found an outfit for the boy.

Danny pulled on a tight v-neck red shirt and semi loose black pants. He smiled as he looked himself over. It was a little formal for him, but it sufficed. Vlad laughed and told him he looked great.

"You know, since we don't have electricity we'll have to go out to eat." Vlad smiled down at the boy. He started to scoop up the spilled contents and shove them gracelessly into the boxes.

Danny scrambled to help him clean up the mess. "That sounds good." The teen folded some of the cloths that littered the floor before placing them into the boxes. "Maybe after that…" The teen picked up the box filled with kitchen wear and showed it to the man. "…we could unpack and make this place feel like home?"

Vlad smiled as he carefully took the box out of the boy's hold. He looked into the silver polish that glistened in the morning light. "That'd be nice. Er… but we could wait until we have all of our things up here." He set the box aside.

"Why, you don't have all your stuff up here yet?" Danny quizzed.

"No, we don't have your stuff." The older man flashed a smile and patted the boy on the shoulder. "After all, this is our home now." He grabbed a shirt and pants from one of the boxes he had stuffed prior and started sliding them on. "We'll go down to Amity and talk to your parents after breakfast. When they say yes, we'll pack your stuff and come back up." He finished sliding his white jeans on and adjusted his long sleeve black shirt. "So, let's go?"

"Let's go." The two men left the house and walked to a drove to a diner on the edge of town that Vlad insisted he wanted to go to. The two men ordered pancakes and bacon to start the day and chatted idly as they waited for their food.

"This is a large town, Daniel. There are lots of high schools for you to choose. Would you like to go to one closer to the house, or our future diner?" The hostess came up to the table and set down the piping hot food. They uttered their thanks and went back to talking.

"Well, since I'd be working after school I'd like to attend one near the diner. I have lots of time in the morning to walk to school anyway." Danny started eating his light fluffy buttermilk pancakes. They were good, but not quite as good as Maters' were.

"Alright. I'll be looking into buyable buildings next week. Hopefully we'll have a place to set up shop soon. We'll have you enrolled in a high school before the end of the month." The two men approved of this plan and ate in mostly silence. They had gotten three fourths done when the television in the corner of the room blared to life with an important announcement.

"Amity is under attack. The culprit? Ghosts!" The announcer's voice roared. "A medieval ghost claming his name is Fright Knight has been torturing the town for hours now. In an attempt to keep the chaos at bay, local ghost hunter Madeline Fenton has turned on a device called a ghost shield. This seems to be keeping the villain at bay, but how much longer will it last?"

Danny jumped up and slammed his hand down on the table. "Mom!" He dashed for the door while yelling back at Vlad to hurry up. The older man ran out behind the teen.

"Daniel, stop!" The teen stopped short of getting into the car. "There's nothing we can do! Your parents are the only ones who can stop ghosts." Vlad walked over to the car. "They'll be fine. I've seen them fight."

"That's a load of crap! My mom can take care of herself, but dad isn't as great a shot. As it is, she's probably exhausted from all the fighting." Danny got into the car. Vlad quickly followed.

"Even still, it's not like we can help. We don't have weapons."

"We don't, but my parents do." The teen sat in his seat tried quietly to turn ghost. Nothing happened. Of all times to not be able to go ghost, now was the worst. "Just, trust me Masters!"

The older man paused and looked at the boy. The teen had only called him Masters once before. That was a long time ago when the boy was young and had a nightmare about his sister. He forced Vlad to drive him home just in time to find the girl choking in her bedroom after having an allergic reaction. Vlad threw the car into gear and drove away from the small restaurant. "Alright. We'll go. I hope you know what you're doing though."

"I do. I remember doing this all the time back in my dimension." He clutched his right wrist in his left hand. Nails dug into flesh. "My parents, do they have a working ghost portal?"

"Yeah, but they usually don't have it on."

"Perfect." Danny smiled to himself. He pulled a piece of paper and a pencil out of the glove box. He started writing down number sequences and drew dials that looked a lot like clocks. The teen was wracking his brain trying to remember something from his world. Unfortunately the memory deletion process had progressed too far and he couldn't remember some of the numbers that were necessary to his mission. He tried his hardest to remember them, but they never came to him. He cursed quietly to himself as the numbers evaded him.

The long drive went by quickly as the two men approached the outer part of Amity. A large wall of glowing green energy greeted them. Ghost armies tried restlessly to break in. The outer buildings were already left out of the ghost shield. It was already loosing power.

"We can't get past them." Vlad said worriedly.

"Don't worry, these ghosts focus too much on one thing. Just rush full speed ahead. We'll be fine." Danny steeled himself for the rough ride. He unbuckled his seat belt and reached for the tire changing kit Masters kept in his back seat. The teen grabbed a long metal rod out of the kit and rolled down his window. He sat on the edge of it, one hand holding tightly to the bar on the ceiling of the car, the other poised to hit. "NOW VLAD!" He shouted.

Vlad pressed the gas peddle to the floor and the car lurched forward. It quickly picked up speed as they raced towards the army of ghost skeletons. Only the outer rank of them turned to notice the two men in time. Danny started swinging his metal bar at their heads. CRACK. It made contact and knocked one of their heads off. He kept swinging the bar as they plowed through the large army. The car drove into a ghost skeleton that forgot to turn intangible in time. He rolled up over the hood and was left floating in a daze. The car rushed forward through the large green energy shield. They lurched through it and stopped on the empty street. The army they had just passed through roared in anger as they doubled their effort to get in.

"Great driving." Danny said as he slid into the car. "Let's go." Vlad drove toward the Fenton's house. The whole town was quiet and deserted. They started seeing more people as they approached Fenton Works. A crowd of people where gathered around the brick house all loudly yelling out how it must be the Fenton's fault that the ghost was now attacking. Vlad had to park his car near the edge of the crowd. The two men rushed through the large gathering and burst into the house.

"Danny! I though you two were supposed to be in a different town." Jaz said as she jumped up off the couch. A book she was reading crashed to the floor making a dull thump noise.

"No time to explain. Where are mom and dad?" Danny strode forward towards the kitchen.

"Their out making their rounds." Jaz and Vlad walked after the teen. "What are you doing here?" The raven haired teen brushed off the question and ran down the stairs into the empty lab. He rushed over to the ghost portal. It was turned off. "Danny?"

"Vlad, come help me." Danny pushed one of the sheets of paper he had doodled upon towards the older man. "Make sure everything on that machine matches what's on that paper." Danny pointed towards a machine close to the stair case. Vlad did as Danny instructed him to and quickly matched up the numbers and dials.

The teen went over to the one next to the portal and started tweaking the numbers. He lined up the dials correctly and made sure everything matched up to memory. He guessed on all the numbers he had forgotten. "I hope this works." He muttered to himself.

"Hope what works? When did you learn to use the lab's equipment. Danny, answer me!" Jaz was practically yelling at this point. "What are you doing!" Vlad placed an understanding hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

"Just trust him." He said. She finally shut up and let the boy finish working.

Danny threw the main switch and waited for the spark in the portal to show that it was now receiving energy. The room lit up bright green temporarily. He hummed is approval.

The teen ran into the portal and slammed his fist into the 'on' button. Vlad stepped forward and yelled out, "Daniel!" Before he could stop himself, he was rushing forward. Worry of the boy's safety clouded his judgment. He rushed into the machine with the boy. Before he could pull the teen out, a dangerous wave of electricity passed through him and the boy.

The two men screamed in pain as the energy zapped them and their DNA was altered. The basement was flooded in flashing green lights. Smoke poured out of the machine and impeded Jaz's horror stricken stare.