Disclaimer:

I don't own Danny Phantom. The only thing I own is the plot for the story, everything else goes to Nickelodeon and Butch Hartman.

Author's Note:

Wow, I really am getting addicted to writing. O.o My friends call it work out of school but oh well, I like it. Thanks to Thunderstorm101, New Ghost Girl, luckygirl777, Skandragon Blackheart and Naomi Yuko for reviewing the last chapter, I'm glad that people are reading! Now, I want keep you waiting any longer, (well, these brackets make it longer, but oh well) here's chapter 9! (Also sorry two chapters ago I misread the review page and realized it was Phantom Shade not Fernclaw. Sorry about that mix up. Anyway I will try and make them a tiny bit longer but unfortunately I can't promise anything. This chapter is not because as FernClaw said, there comes a point where you can't write any more without repeating youself.)

Chapter 9:

Danny heard a knock from the door – that would be Sam and Tucker. He exited his room and walked down the flight of stairs to the front door and opened it. It wasn't just Sam and Tucker, though, Jazz was with them too.

"Danny! What did you think you were doing?!" she said, with a mixture of anger and concern in her voice. "You have no idea how lucky you are!"

Danny didn't say anything as Jazz pinned him against the wall. "Promise me you won't ever do something so stupid again! Especially considering you were wearing the clothes you always wear!" Danny then phased through her arms, so she was no longer pinning him there.

"I promise, it was a stupid mistake that I won't make again… Trust me, I was worried too."

"Good, now if you need me I'll be in my room finishing my essay." Jazz replied, walking up the stairs to her room. Danny turned back to his two best and only friends.

"Are you still completely sure no one recognized me?" Danny asked, biting his lip.

"Only Dash, but he said he thought you looked a bit like one of his second cousins rather than you. The old you, I mean." Tucker added to avoid confusion that was completely obvious anyway.

"Oh good, that's a relief…" Danny sighed.

"Trust me," said Sam, with a smirk on her face. "It was even better when he called his parents thinking his second cousin was dead. He was already grieving."

Danny burst out laughing, and so did the others. "You've got to be joking!" he said. "Dash? That is too funny. I wish I was there."

"Look, I got pictures on my PDA!" Tucker added, offering it to Danny. Danny took it and scrolled through, each picture of Dash either bursting out in tears, or desperately calling his mother for more information.

"Seriously, you Photo-shopped this, didn't you?" Danny asked, looking at the pictures of the sulking jock. "These are great!"

"Yeah, but I have to delete them…" Tucker said sadly. "Dash threatened that he'd 'beat my brains out' if I kept them. You saw nothing of the pics, alright?"

"Right." Danny said, grinning. Sam's attention was placed on something else, however.

"Hey, is that a security camera?" Sam asked Danny, pointing to a corner in the roof. Danny's eyes widened.

"I'll be right back."

Danny became intangible and invisible, sinking through the floor to the basement. There he saw a small TV surveillance system that his parents were watching, quickly turning it off as they realized he was heading right down. As Danny reappeared in midair he looked at them angrily.

"You were spying on me?!" he demanded. "What gave you the right to spy on me?!"

Jack stared up at his son, looking guiltily. However, Maddie was cool and calm, giving Danny an answer immediately.

"We are doing it because not only will it help us understand the behavior patterns of ghosts, but it may also help us revert you to normal."

"How can that be helping?" Danny said angrily. "I can understand the blood sample and the cat-scan, but this is taking it too far!"

Maddie was lost for words; she had left her son fuming and it was her fault for agreeing to go straight to research and not to fixing the problem at hand.

"…We're sorry, Danny." Maddie said remorsefully. "I… just don't know what came over us, we've never even seen a ghost before. It's no excuse, but we couldn't contain ourselves…"

Danny shook his head before drifting up through the basement ceiling . "I can't believe you tried to do that to me."

As Danny reappeared through the floor, both Sam and Tucker flinched, obviously not expecting his reappearance like that. Danny immediately looked up at the camera. Eying it angrily, he drifted upwards and yanked it from the wall, causing a few electrical sparks to flicker from each end.

"And if I see any more cameras, that's what's going to happen to them!" Danny growled furiously, dropping the broken camera on the ground.

"Were they really spying on you?" Sam said, quite shocked at the thought. "I can't believe they'd do that to you, Danny!"

"Neither can I…" Danny said sadly, his mood had changed fairly quickly. "It… makes me wonder…"

"About what?" Tucker asked, quite obviously puzzled. Sam seemed to have the same expression, only a bit darker due to her gothic nature.

"That they're using me as a research opportunity… I don't actually think they've even had a go at figuring out what exactly they'd have to do."

Sam comforted the ghost in front of her that was one of her best friends. "Don't worry, I'm sure that even if they haven't started, that they will start soon."

-End Chapter 9-

Author's Note:

Well, I would have finished this chapter sooner although I was absorbed in reading other fanfiction last night and today was given up to rollerblading and going out to dinner. If you're really, really lucky, I might be able to dig out Chapter 10 in three or four hours, but really, it's stretching it. Anyways, please review!

Peace,

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