Hello everyone, my writers block is slowly dissolving so I'll try to update more often. I also put my new story up and it's a prequel and chapter two will be up by next week. This is OC focused, I wanted to give a little backstory on the two of them, thanks to everyone that has faved, followed, and reviewed! Also, a special thanks to Paige Knight who gave me the idea for this chapter! Hope y'all like it!

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING BUT MY OC'S!

The Loss Of a Loved One.

Aqua wasn't going to lie, she was having a panic attack. She felt her heart racing, butterflies in her stomach, and she felt like she couldn't breath. She was in her car, the one the doppelgänger had driven. Aqua didn't even notice Danny was staring at her.

" You're okay Aqua, the doppelgänger's not coming back." Danny's hair and eye's were a rich brown, which meant he was feeling her anxiousness. Aqua looked over at him, he sea blue eye's wide in fright.

" Daniel, I truly appreciate what you're trying to do, but please, I'm begging you lad, take me back to the school and out of this vehicle." She said, a slight tremble in her voice, Danny blinked in surprise, Aqua had never used his full name before and it really scared him, he pulled the car over to the side of the road and he put it in park before looking over at her.

" Aqua, it's been two months-" He started but she cut him off.

" Two months, three weeks, and six days." Danny blinked, again, in surprise.

" As I was saying, you need to get over this fear, I know what you're going through it's a hard thing to go through but I promise it won't happen." He said seriously, Aqua scoffed as she crossed her arms over her chest and gave him a hard look.

" First, you don't know a damn thing about what I'm going through," Her eye's narrowed dangerously " Second, who's to say it won't happen again? Third, I'd like to see you get over this quickly." Danny's hair turned a bright red as did his eye's, he was getting angry.

" Right, like I've never been through something traumatic," Danny started sarcastically before she cut him off, again.

" You haven't!" She said loudly before Danny's anger got the best of him.

" I watched and felt my mother die!" He yelled, when he realized what he had said his hair turned black with blue streaks while his left eye was black his right eye was blue, Aqua was shocked and saddened, she didn't know about that.

" Danny, I'm so sorry I had no-"

" No, you didn't know. I mean, how could you possibly know? You've never even tried to be my friend until a couple of months ago." Danny said quietly and Aqua stared down at her lap, she felt horrible, she looked over at Danny and saw the turmoil inside of him she, tentatively, reached for his hand and she gave it a gentle squeeze. Danny looked up and over at her and she saw tears in his eye's, she leaned over the arm rests and she hugged him as he cried into her shoulder.

Aqua would admit, it wasn't the most comfortable position to be in but she knew this was her fault, she made him upset. Danny wasn't the only one crying though, Aqua was also crying because she couldn't picture what would happen to her had she gone through watching her mother die but also feeling her die, that would've killed her. Danny was braver than her, for him to feel his mom's pain and sadness as she was dying, Aqua knew that would've given him survivor's guilt. When he had stopped crying and had pulled away, his eye's were blood shot and his nose red.

" Danny, you're right I never really tried to be your friend and for that I'm sorry," Aqua said her Scottish accent thicker than normal. " But I guess because everyone kept calling you 'annoying' and 'smiley' and 'super, duper, weird' I just assumed..." She sighed and Danny nodded.

" I know, I guess I'm alway's smiling and happy's because that's how I want people to see me. I alway's thought, giving someone, anyone, a smile or to talk to them or something like that. It'd make their day, but I guess I caused more harm than good." Danny said and Aqua nodded and gave him a small smile.

" Yeah well, maybe, instead of making everyone else happy. You should focus on yourself for a change." She said, Danny looked at her, she was right. He put everyone and anyone before himself, sometimes that's a good thing, but there are some days you just needed to take care of yourself.

" We'll see." He said as he straightened himself up, Aqua sat back down in her seat and she buckled her seat belt as Danny followed suit. He looked over at her.

" Do you still want to go back to the school?" He asked she looked thoughtful for a moment before she shook her head.

" Nah, let's just keep driving." She said and Danny looked surprised but nodded happily as he continued driving east.


The two of them had been driving for an hour before Aqua thought about it.

" Danny, I know you won't want to answer this but I'm curious," He glanced over at her before looking back at the road. " How did your mum die?" She heard him inhale sharply, he let it out slowly and he looked sad for a moment.

" Long or short version?"

" Does it matter?"

" No, I guess not." Danny sighed.

FLASHBACK:

Danny huffed as he sat in the passenger seat of his mother's Buick, he had gotten in trouble at school again for punching a boy that called him a 'Low Life Mutie' and he couldn't stand being called that. His mother, Sherry, glanced over at him.

" Dan, you know you shouldn't have punched that boy." She scolded, Danny looked over at his mother.

" But mom, he called me a mutie! He said I was dangerous and should be locked up!" He said and his mother nodded sadly.

" Yes, and you just gave him even more of a reason to hate mutants." She stated matter-of-factly, and Danny blinked.

" So you're saying I shouldn't do anything about it?" He asked.

" That's not what I'm saying at all, I'm suggesting, instead of taking matters into your own hands, you should tell a teacher." Danny scoffed as he looked out the window.

" Yeah right, like they'll take up for a mutant." His mother looked over at him incredulous of what she just heard.

" How do you know? Not everyone hates mutants, I don't hate you." Danny looked over at his mother, not only could he see the unconditional love in her eye's, but he could feel it. His hair and eye's accidentally turned pink, he still couldn't control his powers yet, his mother giggled before there was screeching of car breaks than metal crashing against metal, glass shattering tires skidding across the pavement.

Danny opened his eye's slowly to see the side of his mother's head bleeding and her eye's slightly open. His hair turned a misty blue and his eye's turned grey.

" It's... Okay... I'll alway's be with... You." She said hoarsely and her eye's closed and she went limp.

" Mom! NoNoNoNo, Mom! Mom wake up! MOM!"

END FLASHBACK.


Danny's hair turned a dreary bluish-grey color, Aqua had tears in her eye's she couldn't even fathom what he went through.

" I felt her die, and after that I couldn't control my emotions like I used too. I was out of control. So that's when my dad sent me here, that was three years ago." Danny stared out at the road and Aqua nodded, she could understand what it was like to have a dad that didn't care.

" I'm so sorry." She mumbled quietly, Danny half shrugged.

" It's fine, I know it couldn't have been easy leaving both your parents in Scotland." Aqua shrugged and she looked out the window.

" It was hard leaving my mum, but my dad couldn't have cared less if I never came back." Danny nodded in understanding.

" What happened between you and your dad?" Danny asked as Aqua turned to look at him.

" Which version do you want, censored or uncensored?"

" Either one."

FLASHBACK:

Aqua was curled up on her bed, crying her eye's out as she heard her mother and father arguing over what they should do with her. Ironic, it was raining and dreary outside and that was how she was feeling. Aqua's bedroom door opened and her parents walked in, you could cut the tension with a knife between the three of them.

" Aqua, your father and I have decided to send you away." Her mother said, a hint of annoyance in her voice when she mentioned her husband. Aqua's brow furrowed as she sat up and her eye's narrowed.

" What'd ya mean, 'sending me away'?" Aqua looked up and she saw her father was disgusted by being in the same room as her.

" A woman named Moira, from Muir Island, suggested a school you could go to. There are people your age and they're all like you." Her mother said, Aqua shook her head vigorously.

" No, no way am I going to a school that I know nothing about." Aqua refused and her father's temper, whatever was left of it, blew.

" Whether you want to or not, you are going to that school!" He roared Aqua glared at him.

" No. I'm. Not." Aqua said lowly and her father walked up to her and her mother stood and put a hand on his chest and he stopped dead in his track.

" You're a disgrace to this family, Aqua, if I had known you'd turn out to be some freak I never would've let your mother keep you." He growled, he turned on his heel and walked out the door.

END FLASHBACK.

Danny was bewildered, her own father wished she had never been born! His hair and eye's turned a dangerous red and Aqua noticed this and she put her hand on his.

" It's okay, it doesn't bother me anymore." Aqua tried to assure him.

" Well your dad must be dumb, because he doesn't know what an amazing and talented daughter he has." Danny said as he smiled at her, she blushed slightly as she looked over at him.

" Same about your dad."


Once they got to the mansion they parked Aqua's car in the garage and they both got out, when Aqua went to open the door she felt someone grab her arm and she turned around to see Danny holding a jewelry box in his hand.

" What's that?" She asked genuinely curious and Danny chuckled slightly and he rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

" It's a gift, for being a good friend." He said simply she grabbed the jewelry box and opened it to find an oval shaped ring in a silver setting, the band had swirls and you could tell it was vintage and she blinked.

" It's beautiful Danny, I couldn't possibly accept it." She said politely but Danny wasn't having it, he grabbed her hand gently but firmly and he put the ring on her index finger and she looked down and saw the clear color of the stone turn blue and she smiled.

" Aqua, Danny, y'all are late for Ms. Priss's class!" Jubilee shouted as she walked into the garage and the two of them nodded and she walked back into the mansion.

" Whenever I'm not around, just look at that mood ring and I'll be with you." He smiled and, quickly, kissed her cheek before walking inside the mansion.

Aqua put a hand to her cheek slowly, she looked at the ground as she blushed than she turned on her heel and walked up the steps. When the garage door opened slightly and she saw Danny's head poke out.

" Oh and, by the way, your dad's an ass." Aqua couldn't help but laugh in agreement before following him inside the mansion.

I hope posting just an OC chapter is okay, I know it seems to have nothing to do with the main plot but I can explain: Remember when Kitty asked them to go the mall with her and some others? This is what happened a few days after they went shopping, if that makes any sense. I hope y'all liked it and I would love some feedback for this chapter and anyway thanks for reading!