QS: ok, so the twins have gotten their powers, discovered flight, found 4 ghosts so far, and discovered another power of telepathy. We join our heroes now in a most exciting place for every student: DETENTION!
A/N: this isn't as long as I'd like, but I might be able to post another chapter over break if I can convince my dad to lend me his computer. You never know ^.^
Chapter 10:
Danny and Alex were back to square 1: staring into space in a classroom full of kids with a teacher in front of them. The only difference now was that the 'class' they were in was filled with Casper High's 'finest', being the oh-so-loved populars, and there was literally nothing to do. Mrs. Dinozzo's detentions were infamous for their mind-numbing quality. She had a rule that everyone could either write a set of rules twice and go home or simply stay silent for the duration of the detention. Now this may not have seemed like a very hard punishment, but the rules, nicknamed 'Da Rules' by the students, were a thick packet of 100 separate rules, each at least 10 words long. Odds were that unless you had a 2-hour detention or longer, the detention would be over faster than you could finish copying Da Rules. Most didn't even bother trying to start them unless they were extremely bored.
Which, despite the blank stares of the twins, they were not. Right now, they were deep in their thoughts, together.
'This is so cool!' Alex said in his mind to his brother. They were new to the whole telepathy thing so their 'Voice' sounded unfocused and echo-ey. Stray thoughts passed freely between them unrestrained, but it didn't bother the boys. They were twins after all; they had lived with each other their whole life. They may not have been literally inside each other's heads as they were now, but they still knew the others thoughts as if they were their own. An attest to that was how the boys frequently said the same sentence or finished the others thoughts when they were nervous.
'Absolutely!' Danny agreed. In his mind's eye, he could see his brother sitting next to him. No, that wasn't really the way to describe it. He could more feel his brother beside him as a red hot presence beside him. Likewise, Alex felt a cold blue presence beside him. Unbeknownst to them, what they felt and 'saw' was the others core.
All ghostly siblings were able to feel the others cores like this, but so few ghosts were created with their siblings, it hardly ever happened and even fewer talked about it with others. The only other cases of this happening were Johnny 13 and his shadow, and Aragon and Dora. More often was it that close friends or lovers died and were reunited in the ghost zone: Youngblood and his parrot/horse; Spectra and Bertrand; Johnny 13 and Kitty, and so far the only one to have met the ghostly twins: Ember and her band. When the latter sort of bond was formed, it didn't usually come with any ability like telepathy, but more just a feeling of obligation towards the other to stay by their side.
'You know, this could come in handy during a fight'Danny mused.
Alex groaned out loud, gaining the attention of the entire class. He shrank back in his seat with a sheepish grin and the others returned to staring into space. 'I can't believe you're thinking about ghost fighting with this. Can't you see the other possibilities?'
'Like what? It's telepathy, not mind control. Besides, I'm pretty sure it's only between us anyway.'
Alex looked at his brother with a mischievous smile on his face. 'Only one way to find out...'
'This I have to see.' Danny thought, his smile matching that of his younger brother.
Alex turned his attention to the class around him. Star and Paulina were texting each other under their desks, and Dash and Kwan were intermittently passing a Football and spewing spit balls at the other students. Mrs. Dinozzo sat at her desk, grading miscellaneous papers with Mozart playing in the background and occasionally telling rowdy students to settle down.
'Who should my guinea pig be?' Alex thought to himself.
'How about Dash?' Danny suggested.
'I wasn't- oh never mind.' Alex put his head down on his hands so that he could look at dash without gathering attention to himself. He was already unpopular; he didn't need to be labeled as the weird kid who stared at random people.
He focused his mind, trying to extend his consciousness to Dash like he imagined people in Super Hero movies did. He tried, but nothing came from the burly jock.
'Did it occur to you that it might be because Dash doesn't have thoughts?' Danny smirked.
Alex chuckled lightly, gathering more attention, but he ignored them. 'Maybe.'
Just then, alarms from the students' phones went off, signaling the end of their detention and also the start of Ember's surprise concert. Everyone filed out of the classroom with loud cheers, leaving Danny and Alex alone with Ms. Dinozzo.
"We have to go to that concert!" Danny said at the same time that Alex thought it to him. They winced and Danny continued out loud. "ok, let's agree not to do that again."
Alex nodded silently. the double 'voices' they had heard gave him a headache.
"Come on, Mr. Hero Complex," Alex teased, "let's get going, we have a party to go to."
A/N: I have a poll up, go check it out k? I'm sorry about the length, but I might have more for you over the break, no promises though.
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