THIS CHAPTER IS 5 PAGES LONG! LONGEST CHAPTER EVER! *dances in excitement* Anyways enjoy people, this story is almost over. :'(
Chapter 8: Getting Answers
Maddie was back in the lab, after getting Danielle something to eat and getting her off to bed, she had come back down. She didn't need to worry about anyone interrupting her, Jack was sound asleep, Danny was at Tucker's for a sleep over, and Jazz was at some psychology convention until late tomorrow night, so now she was determined to get answers.
Maddie watched as Phantom slowly woke up, he groaned and his eyes fluttered open. Maddie watched as he completely skipped over he and to the table Dani had been on before.
His eyes hardened and he looked at her and asked, "Where's Dani?"
Maddie looked at him in disgust; he was worried about losing his obsession, but not about being destroyed. "She's safe," Maddie said harshly, glaring at him. "Safe from people like you who want to use her for their own personal gain."
"What!" Phantom yelled. "I would never do that to Dani!"
"Sure you wouldn't ghost, but I have you all figured."
Phantom blinked and for a moment fear passed over his face, and was etched into his eyes.
"That's right, I know all about how Danielle is half ghost and I get it now."
Phantom's mouth was now opening and shutting like a fish as he tried to think of something to say.
"I get it and you disgust me."
Quickly she wrote in her note pad as she watched Phantom's eyes change to sadness and tears start to build up in his eyes.
"I know all about your obsession with her, because she will have the things you will never have. Feelings, humanity, the ability to tell right from wrong."
As she spoke Phantom did the one thing she didn't expect, the tears stopped coming and he looked up at her in shock and then he laughed? Yes that ghost scum was laughing at her. "You-you think Dani's my obsession."
Maddie flushed, "oh course it all makes sense."
That just made Phantom laugh more, "this is ridicules. She's not my obsession."
Maddie looked at the ghost in disbelief, as he continued to lie to her face. She glared at him and hit the button causing electricity to travel up and down his body.
"Stop playing games scum, I've got some questions for you, and don't lie. I know when you are. This thing," she held up a lie detector. "Will beep every time you do and trust me Phantom." Her eyes flashed. "You don't want to lie to me."
Phantom gulped and looked up at her, his body still slightly sparking. "Okay," he whispered.
"Good, now first question. Why do appear to breath."
Phantom looked at her dead serious and said, "because I died in a unique way. The point is I stop breathing I die." Then as an afterthought added, "Again."
To Maddie's surprise the tiny lie detector in her hand didn't go off. Blinking in surprise she asked, "How did you die?"
To her surprise Phantom's face hardened and again he replied in a serious voice,"to a ghost asking that is a serious offense, it's like asking a human how much they weigh. I don't suggest you go around asking it."
Maddie glared at him, how dare he defy her AGAIN! "Listen closely Phantom, you are my prisoner you will answer my questions."
"And what will you do if I won't!" Phantom yelled back, his green eyes glowing. "Shock me with the stupid electricity; you don't know how weak that is compared to what I went through before! But you wouldn't know! You wouldn't care! Because I can't feel pain, I can't eat, drink, whatever! YOU MADE STUPID GUESSES WITH NO PROOF AT ALL!"
Maddie stared up at the ghost boy as he continued to rant, "What do you mean what did you go through before?" Almost feeling sorry for the ghost boy, ALMOST.
Phantom looked at her and he stopped ranting to whisper, "It has to do with how I died, I was shocked to death. My parents were scientists and well it was just me being stupid, you can do the math."
Maddie looked up at him and seeing the pain in his eyes decided to move on, "Okay um next two questions. One, how old are you? Obviously you're at least over a hundred years old, because any ghost with your power has to be at least that old; otherwise they would just melt trying to use it. Also why have Jack and I always caught you slipping up and calling us mom and dad at times?"
Phantom looked up at the ceiling and whispered quietly, "15."
"What?" Maddie asked blinking.
"I'm 15; I died when I was 14."
Maddie stared at him in shock, "that's not possible!"
Phantom shrugged, "It is. Don't know how, but it is. I'm living proof, well actually dead proof I guess, but that's not the point. It has to do with the way that I died." He said solemnly.
Maddie looked over at him and sensing the tension the subject was bring up decided to move on. Clearing her throat she continued, "And the reason you slip up with the mom and dad thing?"
"You remind me of them," he said slowly. "You look a lot like my mom, Jack like my dad. Almost like you're the same person." His eyes danced as if he had just told an inside joke.
"You remember your family?" Maddie asked interested.
"Ya," Phantom said. "I had a sister, well I guess she's still my sister, she found out I was dead a couple months after I died. She saw me in an ally way and made the connection in between me and her brother. My friends they-they were there when it happened." Maddie saw tears begin to form in Phantom's eyes. "One of them, her name was Sammy, she was beautiful. She dared me to go look at one of my parents inventions and well I don't know I guess I was trying to show off, I went over to it hit the on button by accident and well died. I still hear their screams, both of them. Sammy and-" Phantom stopped for a second as if thinking, perhaps trying to remember his other friend's name. "And T.F." Again his eyes lit up like he had just told an inside joke. "They were the best. Sammy she blames herself for what happened."
Carefully Maddie asked, "Do you?"
To her surprise Phantom shook his head, "Nah, it wasn't her fault. If it was anyone's it was mine. My parents told me to stay away from the machine, I didn't."
"What about your parents do you blame them, for making the machine that killed you?"
To her surprise Phantom looked at her as if studying her and then replied, "No I don't blame them either. I'm sure though if they find out that I did die that they'll blame themselves."
"Wait! THEY DON'T KNOW YOU'RE DEAD!" Maddie asked amazed that any parent wouldn't notice that.
Phantom shook his head and to her amazement the lie detector didn't beep.
Phantom's eyes turned sad and he looked away from her, "They were gone when it happened and well they just never made the connection."
"HOW COULD THEY NOT HAVE?" Maddie yelled. Amazed that any parent couldn't notice one of their children were gone.
Phantom still didn't look at her and found much interest in the ceiling as he spoke. "They weren't the most attentive parents. They were always wrapped up in something, always busy, sometimes too busy for their kids." He chuckled softly and continued. "Sometimes they were more obsessive over their experiments then any ghost could ever be. Like I said before they were gone when the um accident happened and well the just never realized who I was, I guess you could say they thought I ran away maybe."
Phantom closed his eyes and he groaned as a short half beep went off and electricity raced up and down his body.
Maddie's eyes flashed in anger. "What are you not telling me Phantom?" She hissed.
Phantom sighed, "They don't think I ran away. They just simply don't know I'm dead. Everything else I said was true." This time the lie detector didn't go off and Maddie accepted the answer. Still amazed that a parent couldn't see that their own son was dead. What kind of idiotic people were they?
"Last two," Maddie said. "Why do you pretend to protect the town? And why do you show emotions, have a heartbeat, and show other human qualities? Like having bone structure."
"Technically that's four," Phantom told her cockily. "But I guess I'll go in order. I don't pretend to protect the town Maddie; you asked earlier if Dani was my obsession, she's not." Maddie blinked in surprise as the lie detector didn't beep at this. "Protecting the town is a different story. My friends and I, Sammy and T.F I still see them sometimes, we've decided that every ghost has some sort of obsession some weirder then others." Phantom added and appeared to mumble something that sound like, like certain fruitloops. "We decided that mine is too protect the town, or as Sammy put it, I have a HUGE hero's complex which makes it so it's fine if I get destroyed, but if someone else gets hurt I immediately blame myself. Whether it was my fault or not." Sighing Phantom continued. "On to the harder questions."
Maddie blinked, forgetting for a moment the other questions she had asked. "Oh um yes the other questions."
Phantom closed his eyes as if thinking and then began to explain. "I'm different from most ghosts. My obsession doesn't control my life as much as a normal ghost's does. I still have emotions and as you can probably tell can feel pain."
Maddie felt guilt poor over her as the lie detector didn't go off about the pain part.
"Yes, Maddie prior to your um guesses I can feel emotions, I can love, care, cry, etcetera. I'm not controlled by anger, sadness, or grief. Although I feel them just the same. As for the heart beat, again this has something to do with the way I died. You see when I died I didn't, um really die."
Maddie blinked, "How is that possible."
"I only died partially."
Maddie thought of Danielle and whispered, "Like Danielle."
"Yes, like Dani, but I'm still different from her, I died differently. When I died I still had a heartbeat and other human qualities. The only thing that changed was that well I was dead, making it so that I got a much lower body temperature and a slower heartbeat."
Maddie looked at Phantom and asked, "Are you half ghost too?"
Phantom's eyes darkened, "I thought you said these were the last questions."
Maddie looked him, "You are aren't you?" When Phantom said nothing she repeated. "Aren't you?"
Phantom gulped and whispered, "Yes."
Questions exploded in Maddie's head, but she pushed them aside she had told Phantom that she wouldn't ask any more questions. Still she wondered about all the things she didn't get to ask him such as was he truly evil? Why had he attacked the mayor? Robbed stores? Attacked her and Jack? Did he know her son? Should she get rid of him? Why did she trust Danielle, but no yet phantom? It was all so confusing. Slowly she stood up and walking up the stairs called to Phantom, "I'm sorry I can't let you go yet. I have too many what ifs."
Phantom nodded and putting his head down closed his eyes. Maddie felt tears coming to her eyes. She was so confused; she didn't know what to do. Slowly she left the lab, ready to sleep on it.
So how did you like it, certain parts (at least to me) seemed kind of forced. Who found it funny that Maddie was so made at Phantom's parents? Also Maddie's getting close. WILL SHE MAKE THE CONNECTION? Stay tuned to find out.
REVIEW REPLIES!
Janessa-san: lol, sorry. But you're gonna get used to them. I use cliff hangers a lot!
Turkeyhead987: One word, random!
Jeanette9a: Yep, and everything defiantly is going wrong.
Pantscanttravel: First off I love your penname it made me laugh XD. Lol, ya, but in her defense it explains in this chapter why she's not worried about Danny, but still.
TigerWolf1103: Maybe the answers simple…he's not. *plays dramatic music*
Dezzi Star: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it sadly though that plot line didn't last long :(, but I may do another fic based around that idea a little more. *shrugs* It depends.
FloridaChocogirl: Okay um in order
1 Thank you, actually I wasn't gonna post this story it was in my trash can -_- then I came across it reread it, edited it a bit and posted XD
2 Thanks, I like writing the replies almost as much as I like writing the story XD
3 Yep Maddie is making a lot of mistakes
4 Honestly I don't know where Jack is. Eating fudge maybe? In this chapter though he's sleeping…
Kirara the great: 1. For all Dani knows Maddie already figured out Danny is half human, however I like the idea
2. Yes like most stories about Danielle and Danny she probably will get adopted XD
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Ry22: Lol, thanks sadly the whole Dani is Danny's obsession plot didn't last long, but I liked it so much I think I might write a fic based off of it a little more
Aslan333: Lol, why thank you. I enjoy being as you say crazy!
Thelittlemonster17: Yes, yes he is. (he he rip off of PnF)
BlueCalumon: Actually although I planned on it before I don't think Danny is going to get dissected.
.my: No it probably won't
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