"Well he doesn't know how to begin." Skulker tried to explain to Danny. "It was shocking enough for him to find out that she was related to the Fentons. He's just as surprised and overwhelmed as you are."
"Well why isn't he mad at me?" Danny raised his eyebrows.
"You can't help being related to your second cousin. It's in your blood, and Vlad knows that." Ember explained.
"Well falling in love with Caitlyn isn't in Vlad's blood." Danny smirked.
"It's funny how a few hours ago you were so excited about Caitlyn being a ghost, and finding someone, but then you lose it when it turns out that her new boyfriend is one too." Ember's voice was starting to sound like she was losing patience.
"Oh I don't care about the ghost part. I care about it being Vlad." Danny said calmly.
"Well just so you know the reason Vlad is being so nice, is beacause he wants to be friends with Caitlyn's family. Even if that's you, Danny. I'm not saying give Vlad a hug. I'm just saying, the way you handle this relationship is your choice. Either way it's not going to go in your favor, unless your favor would be for them to be together, which I'm guessing it isn't." Skulker said. Danny looked at his feet for a while. He didn't know how to react to this relationship at all.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Danny don't go into the ghost zone. Us ghosts are being rounded up by Walker. Its lucky we got out of the ghost zone for our vacation with you. He seems to be picking mainly at the ghosts that are good friends with Caitlyn. He isn't even giving his gaurds a reason. We think he's trying to pull Caitlyn into the zone. For whatever reason it might be don't bring it up to Caitlyn. It'll scare her. They just caught ghost writer this evening we think. He's Cailtyn's best friend next to the two of us. Just keep her safe." Ember gave Danny a big hug.
"Well I'm going downstairs to find that lasagna, and try to finish it without getting caught. Frankly everytime I leave this room, there's a new surprise to me. Anything I should know?"
"No. Go ahead ghostchild." Skulker grinned.
Danny glided through the massive home. His watch read eleven thirty. The rooms were so much more beautiful looking now that it was night. He finally came up to the kitchen. The fridge was sort of large, in comparrison to how slender and tiny Caitlyn was. He opened it up to find all the plates covered in plastic wrap, exactly how they were left at the table. His had the word "Daniel" written on the side. It wasn't in Caitlyn's handwriting, but in Vlad's. He ignored Vlad's generousity, grabbed the plate and tossed it in the microwave. When he turned back around Vlad was sitting at the island counter in the middle of the kitchen. Danny had not even heard Vlad coming into the kitchen at all. Vlad was looking down at the pearly marble top counter. Then looked up to meet Danny's gaze. Vlad wasn't wearing a shirt which made his chest seem more muscular than it already was. He just wore a pair of bluejean pants that were too big for his small hips.
"Oh . . . Hey Vlad." Danny mumbled in an embarrased small voice.
"Hello Daniel." Vlad said stirring a spoon around in a coffee cup. He didn't look up to Danny's face. Then the microwave's beep went off.
Danny turned around, pulled the dish out, and reached up for the fridges handle. He pulled the fridge open. He hid his face in the fridges contents just so he couldn't look at Vlads face. There weren't any sodas like what he had talking with Caitlyn and at dinner. He just thought that they were somewhere else in the back. He moved some things around. Nothing.
"Is there anything to drink other than pink lemonade, tea, and diet soda?" Danny asked closing the fridge door.
"She is a girl that barely weighs anything, and lives alone." Vlad said raising an eyebrow, not pulling his shoulders down from their hunched position.
"So does that mean No?" he said with a fake laugh to pull away the awkwardness. He grabbed a spoon full of mashed potatoes, and ate them starvingly.
"Yes. That's a No." Vlad said smiling at him. "Here take one of these, I bought them this evening." Vlad tossed a can to Danny. It was Danny's favorite soda. "Caitlyn said that you preffered them the most." Vlad's eyes suddenly got wide and his face got incredibly red. "Caitlyn is furious at you. She was crying when I went into the room. You should apoligize to her."
Danny sighed heavily to himself, put the plate on the island, and changed to a ghost. Vlad was the third person to tell him to apoligize. He headed straight to the direction of Caitlyn's room. Vlad grabbed Danny's leg, and rolled his eyes. Danny was confused. He changed back, and forgot to land, falling straight on Vlad. Vlad was on his back with Danny on top of him across his stomach.
"She's gotten back home and she's fast asleep." he grunted with a teenage ghost knocking his breath out of him.
"Oh I understand." he pulled himself back to his feet. Danny grabbed Vlad's hand,and flung him up to his feet. Danny returned to his late night dinner
"So do you know about Caitlyn's . . . ? " Danny started, pulling a big piece of pasta to his face.
"Yes all three of us know each other's powers." Vlad interrupted getting back to the stool, sipping his coffee out of the cup. He was very calm sitting in the same room as Danny. "She's very popular with the boy ghosts. Especially Skulker." he tilted his head to the window. "Yes we know about that too. You don't mind do you?"
"No" Danny shook his head, opening the soda. "It's you I mind. Seriously, how did you meet her, Vlad?" Vlad sighed, and knew there was going to be alot of explaining.
"It was when we were younger. Children, actually. We were always very close. She was shy and eight, six years before her accident. I was a romantic and ten, nine years before my accident. We met way before I met Jack. We had met in elementary school. We stayed friends forever, even to highschool I didn't know she had liked me at all. I was head over heels for her, though I never told her that. What a mistake for not telling her sooner. I was intimidated by her beauty at the time. I didn't think I had a chance with someone like her. When I was looking for college, I met Jack. I then met Maddie, who I introduced to Jack. I thought Maddie would give me a chance. Then I got hit in the face by the accident, and went to Caitlyn for help with the ghost problem. We found out about each other at the same moment, even though she had her powers longer." It made Danny a bit angry that Vlad considered Maddie a silver trophy. "When Maddie denied me, I didn't think I would ever find anyone. I was so upset, I could only turn to Caitlyn for comfort. I never brought up Maddie's name. Then I found it in me to tell Caitlyn how I felt about her after all these years, and, well, here I am." Vlad said with a small smile, and handed him a picture of his and Caitlyn's ghost form hugging each other. Danny saw the picture's details. You could see both their expressions clearly, they both looked liked they were more in love than any couple he had ever seen, though they couldn,t see each other from the angle of the hug. The teenage Caitlyn was more beautiful than any girl Danny had ever met. He couldn't blame Vlad for being attracted. Then he thought yes he could. Vlad had none of the muscles he had now. He was skinny, and had big expressive eyes, and no beard. He had the same figure Danny had now. "I guess it's what you and that Samantha girl have. Oh trust me Daniel. Ghost or not you will know who that special girl is. I knew she was the girl for me, but was too scared to face it when the fact spat on my shoes."
Danny had blushed at the mention of Sam's full name, and finished the dinner, and put the dishes in the sink. Vlad had also finished his coffee, and placed it in with the dishes.
"Why are Walkers gaurds rounding up the ghosts?" Danny asked Vlad, who was washing Danny's plate.
"Well I think he's feeling like there's somebody he needs for himself. I think he wants Caitlyn, which of course he cannot have." Vlad said putting his coffee cup away first.
"Wow" Danny said with his head falling back. "Well that's great." he said pulling himself away from the counter, and into a chair by the island. "We just have to keep her out. Unless Walker pulls her in right? They can't touch humans though, so we'll just be humans and slip right out."
"Yes." Vlad said putting the last dish away. "But rumers are going around that Walker's found a way to keep the three of us ghosts. I'm not sure they're true, but I think I can keep her out of the zone for two weeks tops." Danny's face suddenly turned away.
"I'll keep her safe, Vlad. Not you" he grumbled to the counter.
"Daniel I . . . " Vlad was about to begin. Danny cut him off.
"Just shut up. I'll talk more tomorrow" Danny ran in his rooms direction. Vlad looked at the sink. He just didn't know how to reach Danny's good side. He looked at his reflection in the sink. Why was it so hard for him to get women? For gods sake, it was hard even when the girl liked him back! Well it wasn't like he was dating Caitlyn's family. Just Caitlyn. Danny could hate him, but that didn't mean he could at least try to make Danny like him or at least forgive him.