Disclaimer:

I don't own the Danny Phantom etc. etc. etc…

Author's Note:

Yay it's the weekend! Saturday's the best day of the week! Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy Chapter 8, and as always thanks to those who reviewed!

Chapter 8: You tell me and I'll tell you…

Maddie started to type in something on the control panel, making messages appear on the screen.

FATAL ERROR IN DRIVE NO. 8463 FIXED. SYSTEM FULLY OPERATIONAL.

RECONFIGURING SETTINGS FROM DANNY FENTON TO VLAD MASTERS. PLEASE WAIT…

RECONFIGURATION DONE. NOW ATTEMPTING TO RESUSCITATE…

REGULATING BODY TEMPARATURE. PLEASE WAIT…

BODY TEMPARATURE NORMAL. SUBJECT CURED. THANK-YOU FOR USING THE DALV ALL-IN-ONE RESUSCITATION SYSTEM.

Vlad's eyes opened sleepily as the Fenton family crowded around him. He seemed slightly dazed, but otherwise okay.

"V-Man, you're awake! Maddie and Jazz saved your life!"

"Really…?" said Vlad, sitting up and rubbing his eyes with one hand. "Maddie saved my life…?"

"And me!" Jazz pushed in, hating to not take credit for something she helped do.

"That doesn't matter." Said Vlad, looking half love-sick for Maddie. "All that matters is that the woman I love saved my life."

Jack looked at him, confounded and angry. "What did you just say?!"

"Oops, I mean like a dear friend." Vlad added, making sure he emphasized the word dear, and smiling hopefully. This was a bit bold, Danny thought, but then again he was probably still a bit confused after waking up – Danny himself sure was. Before he could ask Vlad a question in which he wanted to get an answer from, his family would have to sit out.

"Can you guys please just go out of the room for a minute…?"

Knowing that the cause was probably Jack, Maddie and Jazz pulled him out of the room and closed the door behind themselves, so Danny could speak with Vlad privately.

"Why did you save me…?" Danny asked him suspiciously. "I thought you hated me!"

"Oh, my dear Daniel, hate is such a negative word, more like I dislike you, hm?"

"Yes… well, that." Said Danny, who was slightly annoyed at the correction. "You still haven't answered my question. Why did you save me?"

"And, another question for you, how on earth did you know I saved you?" said Vlad, eying him with an eyebrow raised. "It is highly unlikely that you'd know that I'd saved you while you were one, not even here, and two, completely unconscious. You tell me, and I'll tell you, deal?"

"Err… okay then…" said Danny, who was now suspicious that Vlad was already having a guess at what might have happened and may be wanting to use it in some way or form.

"Great!" Vlad said with pleasure. "Do tell, Daniel, do tell…"

"Umm… well… when I was unconscious I had a dream where I saw you operate the machinery and then it backfired on you and transferred whatever I had to you. Then everything went blurry and I woke up."

Vlad stopped and thought for a moment. He hadn't been sure what to expect exactly, but then there still could be plenty of ghost powers he didn't know about and couldn't use. Daniel had even mastered the ghostly wail, so why couldn't there be more that neither of them knew about?

"Could you put it in any more detail…?" Vlad asked, obviously highly curious about what Danny had to say.

"Well…" said Danny, unsure of how much detail he should go into. He was talking to one seriously crazed-up fruit loop, after all. "Okay then, I blacked out and in the dream I was floating up there." He said, pointing at the spot he had watched down from. "Then I saw you typing into that computer and all of my details on the screen, so I came down for a closer look. Then I saw you trying to get the computer to save me and as it got closer my vision in the dream went weird and fuzzy, but then it failed and my vision went normal, then when it transferred whatever that thing was to you the last thing I saw before I woke up was you change back and start to breathe mist."

"That is an interesting story you've got to tell Daniel, very interesting. That would explain why I heard your voice yell barely audibly, and how you seemed to know every detail of what really happened."

"But I was dreaming though!" Said Danny, confused. "How can I be dreaming I'm somewhere and actually really be there?!"

"I don't know," Complained Vlad. "but I can't find any better solutions."

"Right…" said Danny, looking at him skeptically. "I really get that. Now it's your turn, why did you save me?"

"Because I suspected that that thing you had been inflicted with may be dangerous to me, and alas, in the end I was right, but had I have let you die, the certain ailment you had skips from ghost to ghost, and it would have eventually gotten to me. The reason why it skipped straight to me when the machine backfired is because it was still young, and hybrids like you and I are much less defended against it than a pure ghost. Ultimately, I was saving my own skin."

"I knew he wasn't saving me directly…" Danny muttered spitefully under his breath.

"What was that?" questioned Vlad, again raising an eyebrow. "For that insolence, I think you deserve more than just an answer." Vlad transformed into his vampire-looking alter ego and glared at Danny. "I may have saved you then but it doesn't mean I can't destroy you now, and why not, when you have a new weapon."

Author's Note:

Man, this is too fun to write. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and I should be able to update tomorrow providing nothing comes up. Thanks for all that support all of you guys are giving me!

Peace,

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