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Ch 9

Clockwork POV (just before Team Phantom arrives)

I was still deciding whether or not to bring Jasmine here while Daniil was talking to Frostbite and Lynn was yelling about something when much to my surprise the object of my thoughts and my son's two friends showed up. Well I guess that brings the number of people who can surprise me up a number or two...

While I was thinking Daniil said something about wondering how they got there and no one knew. Then Lynn had the bright idea that it might have something to do with me sharing my ghost powers with Jasmine's previous life and then Lynn started yelling at me for it. After that everyone wanted to know what we were talking about so I explained how the ghost zone came to be and then the whole thing with Pariah Dark and the Observants. Walker then interrupted asking what that had to do with mine and Lynn's conversation and my son. I told him to be patient and proceeded with how Daniil came to be and why he was left to the Fentons. I then very smugly told everyone about my loophole to the Observants demands. Then Jasmine said something about my explanation giving reason to Flashbacks she'd been having dazing Lynn probably because Lynn had figured that it wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Lynn apparently knocks out of her daze when Walker voices a question about how Daniil can be only three deathdays old because she beats me to answering him.

"Had Daniil been allowed to stay with Clockwork then you're absolutely right James; Daniil would be closer to his human age but as he was not exposed to a ton of ectoplasm until recently he is only just barely three deathdays old."

After that Daniil said something about one good thing coming from this and started to move toward me when the door banged open and in walked another observant. This time before any of the humans could do anything Walker and I restrained Lynn and Jasmine while Frostbite grabbed Samantha and the boys just stood there.

I'm glad I'm not that Observant right now because it looks like all three of the girls are going to tear him to shreds for interrupting Daniil... On second thought I wish we had thought ahead and let the girls claw him to death because I'm not sure I like the look they're giving us...

Lynn POV (after the Observant walks in)

I'm just about to run over and give the-thing-that-doesn't-deserve-a-name a 'brand new look on life' when Walker grabs me. I absently note that the other girls, who are just as angry, at the interrupted, what seemed to be a, blossoming family moment, are restrained as well.

"Walker, dear, have you heard the saying 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'?"

"Yes. What of it?"

"Well, if you you don't let go of me RIGHT NOW THEN YOU WILL LEARN THE MEANING OF THAT PHRASE PERSONALLY!"

"Letting go now..."

I swear I could hear him think women are scary... Just for that I ought to make good on my promise but as he did let me go so I won't... Yet...

Off to the side I just barely hear Daniil's adopted sister say something about the same thing happening to Clockwork if he didn't let her go. I'm kind of glad Frostbite can't be threatened by Daniil's friend because the Observants are going to be mad at me and once they find out about Daniil's sister they won't be happy with her either. Regardless of the fact that she's a different person from her past life. I've found that people who hated you in a past life don't care that you're basically a different person they still hate your present self and want you dead... This way at least one of the women in the room can support Daniil, without having to worry too much about having a bounty on her head, when the time comes that the Observants try to destroy him and his family and anyone else in their way.

It seems that while I was thinking Daniil's sister has taken the lead and used what looks like a modified version of a cat o' nine tails and the contraption has electrocuted the-thing-that-doesn't-deserve-a-name and the 'thing' is out for the count.

"Hey Daniil?"

"Dah?"

"May I borrow the thermos, that Walker described to me, real quick?"

"Dah...?"

As he nervously hands me the thermos I hear his friend not being held by Frostbite ask a question but ignore it for figuring out how to use the containment device. And once I'm sure I have the correct way to use it I uncap it and suck the still unconscious thing into it.

"So now that that's taken care of, may I please be let go? Also Danny will you continue what you were saying earlier?"

This seems to set in motion a chain reaction of Frostbite letting the girl go and Daniil running to his father to hug him. As the father and son share a moment the boy talks about how at least one good thing came about this; his father had always wanted him. Every female in the room awww'd at the moment and then proceeded to take as many pictures on their phones as they could. This would have gone on if Frostbite hadn't of asked what was to happen now. It was a good question that no one except maybe Clockwork knew the answer too. If Clockwork did he wasn't going to tell anyone anytime soon.

Observants POV (in the thermos)

I was sitting there plotting how to get revenge when one of my brethren joined me. Albeit he was unconscious but join me he did. I waited for him to wake up and then asked what had happened to him. He told me that he had barged into Clockwork's and was about to demand where I was when he was shocked by the number of people with Clockwork. By the time he had gotten over his shock the ghost brat's sister had already started her attack with one of their parents inventions which electrocuted him and then he blacked out only to wake up here. Then he asked me how I got here and I told him what happened. By the time I was done both of us were ready to convince the rest of the council we needed to go against our oath and intervene just this once. Now how to go about getting out of here to do that...