Remembering

Valerie sighed; she was so bored, well she was in math, what did you expect? Since she was excluded from the A list, the classes had become even more boring than ever. The only not-so-boring classes were the ones that she had with Star (when Paulina wasn't around) and Danny. 'Danny' she thought, 'I need to stop thinking about him; my job is too dangerous to have him around'. But then this statement reminded her of something.

"The ecto-suit" she muttered to herself, and fortunately it was so low that nobody else had heard her. Valerie was so occupied on catching Phantom and thinking about Danny, that she had completely forgotten about the suit. Now that she thought about it, her curiosity began rising.

But even though she wanted to look at how it worked so badly, the memories of what Vlad had said kept bugging her. 'You are bright, and have talent. Just take in mind to use it in the right moment. Use your brain, and don't trust Phantom, he's evil'. Well, there wasn't anything wrong on just giving it a little look without using the suit, right? But she wasn't sure what was exactly going to come out of the red box.

Then Valerie eyed her new bracelet, and the yellow button on it. 'Maybe it can be activated anywhere with this bracelet, and the ecto-suit will come to me' she thought. Then she thought about Danny again, and how had he managed to notice that her new bracelet had a button kept skipping her. Also, the way he said it, like if he suspected something, really bugged her. "A bracelet with a yellow button in the back of it, that's weird, you know." Well actually it was weird but nobody else had noticed it yet, not even her father.

"Ms. Grey are you okay?" she heard a voice asking her, taking her out of her deep thoughts.

"Huh?" she asked then, feeling stupid by her answer.

"I asked if you were okay. You don't seem to be paying attention to the class, now do you?" she now realized that it was her teacher. "I will ask you again, what's the answer to the problem on the board?"

"Oh, sorry, ummm..." she eyed the problem, then answered, "42?"

"Very well, Ms. Grey, but please stop day dreaming, since we will have a test next week." This made half of her classmates giggle, and caused her to blush.

"Yes" and then she decided to drop her thinking and start working before she failed another test again.

It was already lunch time, and Danny Tucker, and Sam, where sitting in the same table, where they were used to sitting. Danny had the only normal food on his plate, since Sam's was full of vegetables, and Tucker's, you guessed right, of meat.

"So, Danny, what exactly did Vlad say?" asked Tucker curiously remembering what he had told them last night. But Sam didn't want him to remind Mr. Paranoia what had happened.

"I don't think it's a good idea to talk about it" Sam replied, giving Tucker a 'shut up' look. It was too late; Danny then changed his calmed expression into a very worried one.

"No, this is important Sam, who knows what he could do, we must be prepared!" Danny then said.

"Yeah, yeah I know, but I mean, he really said that he was trying to take Amity Park?" asked a very impatient Tucker.

"Yes, now, what are I'm going to do? What if I can't stop him?" replied Danny

"I?? What do you mean 'I'?? Danny, you know that Tucker, Jazz, and I are here to help you. We are not going to leave you alone on this, plus, it's our city too." said Sam, who was between furious and sorry about Danny. Angry for trying to exclude them from the problem, and sorry for him getting in so much trouble.

"I know, Sam, but it's too dangerous and -" he was cut off by Tucker.

"Man, don't start with your 'it's too dangerous' speech please. You know Sam is right, and even if you lock us up, we will still try to help you. It is our city too, you know."

"Thanks guys, but what about Valerie?" said Danny, remembering what had happened the other night.

"I don't know, dude, but why don't you just chill out? You made peace with her, and you know what Vlad's planning. Can't you have a calm lunch just for once?" replied Tucker.

"You're just saying that because the Techno convention will be here," said Sam.

"YES!" said an enthusiastic Tucker. This made Danny to laugh and also relax. Tucker was right; he had the right to enjoy his lunch for once.

"BEWARE!" was then heard. Yeah, what a relaxing lunch!

"I'm home" yelled Valerie, after coming back from school. After not receiving an answer from her dad, she assumed that he was working. Perfect, now she could go and test the new suit. But she had to go to her job in the Nasty Burger in an hour, so it would be much better to test it later, and start doing homework

Danny opened the door of his house and yelled "Hi mom, dad, we're home!" Jazz was getting into the house just behind Danny, so she shut the door.

"So….Danny, is there anything you want to talk about? You seem worried," said Jazz.

"Hello!" they heard his mom and dad yell at them. Apparently they were in the basement.

"No, everything...everything... it's all right Jazz, there is nothing to be worried about." and then he went upstairs and into his room, leaving Jazz alone in the living room.

She really had nothing to do. After doing her homework before the due date, she decided to go to the basement and see what their parents were doing. Actually she really wanted to go and persuade Danny for she wasn't as stupid as to believe what he had said. But then again, she believed that he also knew that, and still refused to talk about it. So Jazz decided to let it go for a moment, and then she would have a talk with her little brother.

She was starting to go into the basement, when she heard a very familiar voice.

"Very well, so you think it's possible?" It was Vlad's voice.

He was still in the basement after hours of talking and developing theories with the Fentons. They were being very useful, and it seemed now that they really were the best ghost inventors. Well, especially Maddie, she was the most intelligent woman he had ever met; she could be considered as intelligent as him. It was so sad that she had married the dork of Jack. That un-useful human who only existed to make his life miserable. The only good thing he had ever accomplished was to give him the powers that would be used to make him rich. But then again, those powers got him apart from his beloved Maddie, and Jack would pay for that.

"As this test says, yes it is VLADDIE!!" said Jack with much enthusiasm.

Jazz was completely surprised, Vlad? What was he doing here? What are they talking about? What test? She needed to find out. Jazz didn't like to spy on her parents, but Vlad was too dangerous to let this opportunity pass by. She hid in the stairs, and tried to hear as much as she could. Maybe this conversation with Danny was going to become much more interesting and necessary than she thought.

"Now now, Jack, relax. I'm very cheerful about this discovery, maybe, if it's possible, you would let us try and examine it much more clearly when it's done," said Maddie, also exited for the discovery. Well, not as much as Jack, who was being…well Jack.

"Yes, V-man! Imagine the kind of ghost weapon we could construct with it!"

"Oh of course, Maddie, I would love to let you try and take a look to the ecto-gas, if it's possible. For now, I will continue with the investigation myself. Thanks for your help, it is really a pity we can't work together much more, Maddie."

This comment made Maddie to frown and glare at Vlad with much hatred. She remembered what had happened in Colorado back then, and even though she thanked him for saving Danny, things like that couldn't be forgotten. Instead, Maddie knew Jack was completely clueless about this, like father like son, she thought. But this made her happy, it would be such heartbreak if he knew about Vlad. And in Danny's case, it was fun to see him being clueless towards Sam, and she was sure Jazz and Tucker always had fun with it most of the time. But this was beside the point, the good news was that with this new discovery they could improve all their weapons, and soon became the greatest ghost inventors in the country!

They made their farewells, and Vlad started to go upstairs. This made Jazz to get alarmed, and she shot up, as fast as she could towards the living room. She actually made it, and then took a magazine near her, and pretended to be reading it on the couch. Thirty seconds later, she saw Vlad coming out of the kitchen.

"Enjoying the reading?" he asked with a smile on his face.

"Oh, much more than you can imagine…fruit loop," she said, giggling to herself.

"I'M-NOT-A-FRUIT LOOP!" he said, trying not to yell and make the Fenton's suspicious towards him. So Vlad, with an angry glare, opened the door and got out of Fenton Works.

Jazz laughed very hard when he got out, and then thought about going to talk with Danny. But she quit that thought, trying to give him some time alone. Meanwhile, she decided to do an investigation on ecto-gases on her computer, though, if this was a new discovery as they said, it would probably be a waste of time. But she had enough time to waste in whatever she wanted, and it worth a try.

Valerie, after working for two hours, came back home. There hadn't been any ghost attacks in the whole day; except for one in the cafeteria, but it had been the Box Ghost, and before she could transform into the Red Huntress, the despicable Phantom had already trapped him in what he called 'The Fenton Thermos", which she assumed had been stolen from the Fentons. Another thing to hate him for, stealing from Danny's parents was really something that could make her anger rise.

She looked through her apartment, and didn't find her father. Apparently he had a lot of work to do. He said that the president of the company was in Amity Park doing some investigation, so he needed as much security as possible. Meanwhile, the investigation continued. It seemed to be something very important, since her dad had been working almost twenty-four hours this week.

So the coast was clear, and she had already finished her homework. Maybe...maybe she should try that suit. As Vlad said, Phantom had used it during the invasion without problems, so if that punk could use it, anyone could, especially someone as capable as her.

Valerie got into her room, and opened her closet; she started to move away some boxes that were on the floor, until she took one that was closed with much care. She took it, and placed it over her bed. Then she opened it, and before doing anything else, she closed her window and the curtain, making her room so dark that she had to turn on the light. Finally, she closed the door.

After that, the hunter took out what she hadn't seen since Monday, the red box. The one with the black V that drew her attention. She still wondered if it was meant to fit her name or Vlad's, but that was beside the point right now.

The curious girl then eyed her bracelet, moved her other hand to touch it, and then very carefully, pressed the yellow button.

Then she gasped.

OMG!! I actually ended it there!!! Hahahaha :P

ESPECIAL SUPER MEGA THANKS: To Sophie (mysticfiresophia) for accepting to be my beta!! WOOOOT!!!! Now she will do me the super great favor of revising my grammar and spelling :D YAY!!! So this chapter is dedicated to her ;)

About the end….NO I'm NOT telling you what happened to her on next chapter, you will have to wait for the great battle to see what's with the ecto-suit! I just thought that it had been out of character from her to not been curious, plus I wanted to give the ecto-suit much more mystery :P Oh well, if I feel to write about it in the next chapter, because knowing myself I always end writing stuff that weren't meant to be happening, then you gotta be lucky :P

As always, Thanks for reading!! And please, review :D I love them ;)

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Chapter posted: Saturday, April 28, 2007.