Yaxley turned the voice recorder off. "Alrighty. Thank you Daniel." He turned to Vlad. "Don't forget, the court date is tomorrow." He finished and sent the two on their way.

Vlad put his hand on Danny's shoulder and squeezed it as they left.

"Everything will be fine Daniel. I promise."

Chapter 7: The Fenton's mistake

As Danny entered the car with Vlad he felt safe knowing he wouldn't let him go easy. He also knew the Fenton's wouldn't either. Danny found himself falling asleep on vlad's shoulder about halfway through the car ride. Vlad just played with Danny's hair in a comforting fatherly way while reading a book.

"Don't worry little badger, your safe with me." Vlad whispered softly as he looked away from the book in his other hand.

Vlad couldn't blame Danny for falling asleep. It was fairly late and he's had a fairly long day. Vlad shook Danny awake as thy pulled up to the manor.

"Daniel wake up."

Danny did and sleepily began to slowly follow Vlad inside . Danny walked into the living room and looked at the clock.

"It's 8:45 pm." Danny muttered.

"Yes, it is a bit late. Do you want pizza for dinner or just go to bed?" Vlad asked.

Danny thought about. "Pizza sounds good. Maybe a movie too. Then I'll go to sleep." Danny replied plopping onto the couch.

Vlad ordered the pizza and rented a movie Danny seemed to want to watch. It was a movie that hadn't come out yet. Vlad didn't know what it was about but as long as Danny was happy he didn't mind watching it. It was about 9:30 by the time pizza came. The movie was close to over and Danny had fallen asleep on the couch. Vlad got up from his chair, payed for the pizza and brought it back. He shook Danny awake and handed him the box. (He didn't want pizza so he got himself cheesy breadsticks). Danny had eaten about two small pieces of pizza before saying he wasn't hungry anymore and quickly falling asleep on the couch again. Vlad had noticed Danny didn't really eat that much and it worried him, but Danny's sleep patterns worried him more so he decided to let him sleep and make sure he just had a proper breakfast in the morning. Vlad left Danny on the couch and pulled the blanket up more before heading to his bedroom. He had just sat down as he heard the landline in the hallway ringing. He was going to just leave it be, but he didn't want it to wake Danny so he got up again and began walking downstairs. He reached the phone as looked at the caller ID before picking it up and made sure he put it on speaker before pulling out his phone to record.

"Yes Maddie? How can I help you at this late hour?" Vlad asked politely.

"It's not that late we-" Maddie got cut off.

"Maddie it's 10:30 in the evening. I'd say it's pretty late, not to mention I have a child who is sleeping." Vlad countered trying not to be too loud.

"Vlad, we don't care what you have. We want our child back!" Maddie yelled into the phone.

"Maddie the court will decide tomorrow-" Vlad started.

"No vlad. He is our child and we are coming to get him!" Maddie yelled again.

"Maddie, I don't think that's-" Vlad stopped.

"Vlad, what's going on?" Danny asked rubbing his eye sleepily.

"Everything is fine little Badger, just some business. You can go back to bed." Vlad said softly.

"Okay..." Danny said yawning, before turning back to the living room.

Vlad turned back to the phone before continuing. "I told you he was a sleep, now you've woken him up!" Vlad yelled.

"He is our child and we will do as we please!" Jack yelled from the background.

"No you won't. He is safe here and he will stay safe, I will not sit idly by and allow you to neglect and ignore him again!" Vlad said quietly.

"Now, if you excuse me...I am going to make sure Daniel is asleep before I go to bed myself. Please don't bother to call again because I will ignore any further phone calls. Vlad said before hanging up and pushing stop on his cell.

He walked into the living room to find Danny asleep again. Vlad walked over and picked up the blanket that had fallen on the floor, and placed it back onto Danny.

-Break-

It was about three am in the morning. Vlad was woken up to a series of loud and rough bangs on what he quickly assumed was the front door. Not long after being woken, up Danny came running into the bedroom shaking. Whatever was at his door was clearly scaring the poor boy. He put a hand oh his head witch was buried into his arm.

"It's alright little badger, let's go check the security cameras." Vlad said leading the boy to the room right next to his.

He turned on the screens and flipped through each camera until he came to the one reading 'Front Entrance'. He pushed the a green button that turned on the cameras night vision so they could see who was there without them knowing. There was a small figure standing next to a larger figure and both were wearing hoods.

"Your parents really aren't making their case any better are they?" Vlad sighed.

"Doesn't look like it..." Danny replied with a yawn.

Vlad lulled his phone out and began to make a call.

"Vlad are you calling the police?" Danny questioned.

"I am Daniel."

"911 what's your emergency?" The phone asked.

"There are two hooded figures outside my door who were roughly banging on it. I believe they are trying to break in. I also have a child in the house." Vlad said.

"What's your address?" The operative asked.

Vlad gave the operative the number of his home and instructions on how to find it.

"Can you stay on the line and is the child with you?" She asked.

"I can, and yes he is." Vlad smirked, because he knew the Fenton's were so screwed now.

"I need you put the phone on speaker and stay in the line. We're sending police."

Vlad did as told and kept an eye on his security cameras as well. Vlad heard the police siren and the phone call drop. screening from Maddie soon followed. There was a knock on the door, so Vlad grabbed Danny's hand and led him to the door. Vlad opened the door to see an officer.

"Mr. masters, these folks say you have their child and that's why they are here." The officer stated.

"I do have their child but they are not to see him. We have a court trial for custody of the boy in the morning, and they were told that he would choose where he wanted to go. He chose to stay with me and they were then told not to bother him until the trial." Vlad replied.

"Do you want to press charges then sir?" The cop asked.

"I think I do, considering they not only woke me up thinking there were people trying to break in, but also woke up a child in my care." Vlad replied again.

The cop nodded and put the Fenton's into his car and handed them a piece of paper. Their car was towed and they were taken into overnight custody.

A/n: I know most of you were expecting the trial this chapter but that's going to be in the next chapter. I am going to try and get the next chapter posted sooner than usual (and yes there will be an update next month even if I post two this month).

Till next time
-Author chan.