Jazz exited through the cabin with her arms crossed. She really needed to think right now. She sat down on a log next to the campfire from the night before, and massaged her temples. What was wrong with Danny? she wondered.
Jazz may not be a doctor, but she knew that you were supposed to sweat during a fever. That's why you are always so thirsty! It is the body's way of cooling down since your internal heat is flaming. Jazz was at a loss for an explanation, but she knew she couldn't ask her parents. They would most likely not even notice. How could she fix this? She didn't even know what caused it.
Then an idea came to her. She stood up with excitement, and rushed to her parent's cabin where she could find her father, content in his lab.
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Maddie Fenton sat on her daughter's cot watching her son sleep. Tears rushed in her eyes as she remembered he was hiding something. Something really big. She reached her arm out to stroke his hair from his face. As her dainty fingers grazed his forehead, she realized he wasn't sweating. She got closer, and bent over his sleeping body to get a better look. Maddie was past confused for this. If Danny wasn't going to sweat out this fever, what could she do to help his body heal? She had no proper medicine or tools. But she did in the lab! The next time Danny woke up she decided that she would move him to the lab, so she could give him the proper treatment.
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"Dad!" Jazz called to him once he was in sight. After going through the entire cabin, and not finding him, she finally found him on the outside of the back of the cabin, working on a new invention. He looked up briefly from his work, but was still quite angry at his daughter for letting the ghost boy run free.
Jazz rolled her eyes at her father's grudge, and sat down next to him. Neither of them said anything for a while, but soon Jack put his new toy aside since it was clearly evident that Jazz was staying.
"What is it?" he asked her, making sure his voice didn't sound too harsh.
"I was just... just curious..." her voice trailed off, unsure about what she was going to say.
"Curious about what?" Jack asked, suddenly intrigued.
"The ghost boy," Jazz started, but paused because she noticed her father tense. Still she had to save Danny, so she kept going.
"What did you do to him?" Her worried eyes sickened Jack.
"I wouldn't be surprised if your boyfriend's gonna come around here within a day or two," he chuckled, darkly.
"Wh-what do you mean?" Jazz's voice cracked with her nerves.
"I just got a little revenge."
Jazz's eyebrows furrowed in anger. "What do you mean revenge?"
Jack sighed at her daughter's interest with the ghost. If only her high-interests were against them.
"Well, surely you remember how he froze my newly invented machine," Jack began. Jazz nodded her understanding with the matter.
"The shock I struck him with had a... freezing effect, we'll say. Right now he is most likely shivering his ghostly bottom off, and there is nothing he can do about it," Jack said, proudly. Jazz was not proud, however. She was horrified.
"Then why would I be seeing him soon?" she asked.
"Because I am the only one who has the antidote, and I am the only one who knows where it is. He'll freeze - literally from the inside out - or have to come and get it. Little does he know, it is him that is going to be gotten."
Jazz stood up, and turned her back towards her father. She inhaled to calm herself down, and violently bit her lip, so it wouldn't quiver. Tears began silently streaming down her face, but she had to say this one last thing before she left.
"I know you don't like ghosts, Dad, but there comes a point in your life where you have to decide what you feel more of: hatred for ghosts or love of your children."
Jazz left her father who dwell on her last statement, and walked into the woods.
Once she was safely encased in the thick, dark trees, she walked around the campsite, and exited through the dense trees on the opposite side, making a semicircle. She was about to open the door to the lab, when her mother spotted her. She had Danny's right arm slung around her shoulder, and she was trying to get him to walk.
"Jazz," her mother noticed her. "Here. Help me carry your brother. I need to get him on the lab table so I can see what's wrong with him."
"What do you mean?" Jazz played.
"I don't think this fever is going to blow over. He isn't sweating, and I'm not sure how he's going to get better without sweating out the heat." Jazz gasped, softly. Her mother had noticed.
She ran to her mother's aid, and lifted Danny's sprained left arm around her shoulder to help him walk towards the cabin. He was awake, but just barely.
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Danny's blue eyes opened slowly. He was looking up at a bright light above his head, which panged his newly enlightened eyes. After blinking a few times and letting his eyes adjust, he realized he was laying down on the lab table.
He sat straight up, and looked around, his heart beating quickly. He tried to control his breathing, but he was terrified. Why was he sitting on his parent's lab table? Did they know his secret? Why wasn't he strapped down? What was going on?
Jazz looked up from Wuthering Heights, and smiled. She quickly set the book down, and ran to him. "Danny," she breathed.
Seeing his sister calmed Danny greatly, but he still had no idea why he was here.
"What's going on?" he asked.
Jazz answered his question with another question. "What do you remember?"
He thought for a moment before responding. "We were in that cave, and then Skulker came in, and he threw me aside before I was able to go ghost, and then turned to you... What happened? You were holding the Fenton thermos when I came back."
"He came after me, and was about snatch me, but as soon as he got within an inch, fell down. His body - or armor, I guess - kinda twitched a bit, but then I remembered I had the Specter Deflector on. Once he was down and unconscious, I just pointed the thermos at him, and vacuumed him up," she told him.
"Wow, nice one," he remarked, and continued on what he recalled. "Then... I was... I was shot with something. Something incredibly powerful and painful.
"I woke up, and remember piling into some jerky, and you told me I sprained my wrist," he winced at the memory. "Now I'm here," he pondered.
"It was mom and dad that electrified you," Jazz explained. "They wanted revenge for when you froze their stupid machine, so they added some kind of substance in the bolt to freeze you. I think it gave you a fever because your body was trying to warm itself from the coldness that was pulsing through your veins. It appeared hot on the outside because the freezing sensation was occurring only in the inside."
Danny was shocked. "Wow. I didn't know Mom and Dad had that in them."
Jazz nodded her agreement. "Anyways," she continued. "I only know all this because Dad told me. He also said there was an antidote that only he knew about, but he was never the greatest hider," she smiled.
"And how did I get here?" he asked.
"Mom wanted to observe you more closely, so I helped her bring you in here. Once you were situated, I told her she could leave to fix dinner, and that I'd watch you, when in reality, I needed to find the antidote, so I began searching through every corner and flat surface until I finally found it."
"Where was it?" Danny asked.
"Where do you think?" she smirked.
"Behind the emergency ham," they both said together.
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Maddie Fenton decided that it was high time she check on her only son. It had been almost an hour since she left him with his sister, and she wanted to see how he was doing. Afterall, dinner was ready, so she should probably get Jazz anyways.
She entered the cabin, and walked in her silent jumpsuit-shoes towards the lab that contained her only two children.
"...emergency ham," she heard her children say together. Danny was awake! She quickened her pace, to greet him. Maddie could see the light now coming from the lab, but something made her stop in her tracks.
"And my secret?" Danny asked, obviously worried.
"Is safe with me," she heard her daughter say, her smile evident through the tone of her voice.
Maddie's voice was stuck in her throat. Not the horrible secret again. Maddie couldn't take anymore of the lies going on in this family. She had had enough. She walked closer to the entrance, and knocked softly on the door.
"Danny," she smiled. "I'm so happy you're awake. How are you feeling? I gave you a dose of Tylenol to bring down that awful fever you had." She noticed her son's slight hesitation before responding, and the lump that moved down his throat.
"I-I feel great. The medicine must've really worked!" he said, fakely.
Maddie made sure not to give away that she knew anything, so she simply returned the fake attitude, and smiled wider. "That is wonderful, Sweetie. Dinner's ready, so if you two want to come on out, now."
Jazz got up, and Danny swung his legs over the edge of the table. They both followed their mother out of the cabin towards the campfire.
Once everyone was seated and served, Maddie's mind began to leave the conversation, and track off to her own worried thoughts.
She had to devise a plan where Danny told her what was bugging him so much. She had to come up with something... anything...
Then an idea came to him.
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"Everyone, listen," Danny's mother announced, interrupting the conversation.
Everyone silenced, and turned their focus to her.
Maddie opened her mouth a few times before finally going on. "I think we should go camping."
Danny laughed. "We are camping, Mom."
"No," she continued. "I mean take our sleeping bags, and a tent and go into the woods. We can split up into two groups. Danny and I, and Jazz and Jack. We can leave in the morning." She was clearly happy with this arrangement.
"Why?" Danny heard Jazz ask the question on his mind.
"Well ever since you let the ghost boy free," she explained to Jazz. "Your father has been a little... irritated, so this could be the perfect bonding experience for both of you!" She turned her attention to Danny. "And I'm always up for spending quality, one-on-one time with my only son," she smiled.
"So after everyone finishes up, we can go pack, and we leave in the morning," she decided.
Jazz hesitated before responding. "I'll agree on one condition." The silence of her family permitted her continuance. "Nothing of ghostly assorts. No weapons, trackers, or even regular appliances. If it has anything to do with ghosts, I'll come back to camp." Danny nodded his agreement wit her, and they both turned to see their parents' response.
Maddie thought of the dangers for a moment, but she really needed this with Danny, so she nodded.
Jack was harder to convince, but one look from his wife's face, and his head was bobbing up and down as well.
Jazz smiled at her wonderfully planned scheme.
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After everyone had finished dinner, Danny and Jazz returned to their room to pack for the morning.
"Is it just me, or does this 'camping trip' seem a bit... I don't know... planned? Like it wasn't a spur the moment decision?" Danny pondered.
Jazz shrugged. "I don't know. I suppose Mom could have an alternative motive than just quality time together. It doesn't matter because Skulker is gone, and there will be no need to go ghost, so we'll be perfectly safe," she smiled.
Danny lied, "Yep. Safe."
Jazz's eyes narrowed. "What are you not telling me?" She saw right through Danny, as always.
"Nothing!" he lied, again, but the look on his sister's face told him to just tell her. "It's nothing. It's just... I sorta also saw Technus, but he flew away before I could get him."
"Danny!" Jazz accused.
"It's fine! It's not like there's any technology for him to overcome. Unless he got into Mom and Dad's lab, but that has a ghost zone around it, so it's fine!" He assured her, but he was really convincing himself.
Jazz finished packing and zipped up her bag before responding. "I hope you're right," she said, sadly.
Me, too, Danny said to himself.
Hey there! So I was thankfully able to get this chapter up pretty quickly, thanks to all those fantastic reviews :)
So for the next two chapters, I was going to do one as Maddie/Danny's adventure and one as Jazz/Jack's trip. I have not started on either, but I was wondering which one you guys want first, so I can start with that one. Make sure to comment "Team Madds and Phantom" or "Team Jack-o-Jazz." Whichever has the most votes will come up first.
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