Guys I cant say how sorry I am for not updating sooner. My little sister has been ill and I didnt get the chance to type anything. But here I am. Please dont expect much from this chapter. My brain is tired, I had to do this around doing homework. I have my music assessment on tuesday and I know the song I just cant play it fast enough. My life has just been a stress. But I hope you forgive me and this is enough rambling.

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Chapter 11

The Question

(Danny's POV)

I was lying on the floor, blood streaming out of my chest, after they had whipped me. My chest throbbed for was seemed like hours. It still hurts now, but the people who are standing in front of me, they are the people. Not the people who captured me. They are the people I would have called family. Sure, I still do call them family, since they haven't done anything to me yet. Except Sam who wants to get away and leave me here, in this hellhole, which I have been sent to by the person, people love and call God. I thought she was my girl friend, but I changed my mind on that now, she's just a friend now, not even a best friend.

This is what happens to you if you ever become a super hero. It's not like some comic book you pick up and read and the good always over powers the evil. In real life it's something completely different.

It's something that no one ever wants to experience since I, Danny Phantom/Danny Fenton whish to say this. I am no longer a believer that there is a God out there, a God wouldn't have sent me to this place, he would have created a place where people were murdered and died hungry. He would have created a place of haven where people didn't have to be the super hero. Maybe this is my punishment for going into that portal; maybe this is the way God thinks I should live. In fear of never knowing what's around the corner.

I have no idea what to think on religious terms anymore, so I have stopped believing, I always thought I had these powers as a gift from someone who wanted me to do good. Like a messenger, but I was fatally mistaken, if I was one of these "Messengers" I wouldn't have been kidnapped and tortured. I would have led normal life after saving the people from the asteroid. Maybe I should have just left it to hit the earth and we all died and the so-called "God" could have made a better planet. One, which he knew people would actually look, up at him and say thank you for making this place. We can't do that; we look up and say, why did you let it go this far? What did we ever do to you?

But I Danny Fenton thinks I am going to die soon, I know it's not impossible and its going to happen, and I wish sooner rather than later so I don't have to put up with this way of life.

This is my life, Danny Fenton/Phantom.

(No POV)

Soft sobs erupted from a raven-haired boy dangling off the wall by chains. He looked beaten, and pale, nothing to have eaten in days. His ribs showing through his tattered shirt, his strong muscular build making him look heroic, but the state of his body saying other wise.

Crusted red bloody cuts filling nearly every inch of his chest and back, from brutal whipping. The friends and family standing in front of the kid, looking down at him with some sort of disgust, their look not certain of disgust for the kidnappers or the boy hurt in front of them.

The mother with her soft, short red-ish brown hair, looking down at the kid, unknown tears welling up in her eyes, she had promised she wouldn't let it get to her. The sight of her child like this, it was worse than a nightmare, but there was an eerie feeling surrounding them, like some of them knew what was going to happen.

Sam, she still considered Danny as her boy friend, but she knew he didn't return it anymore, she remembered when they first walked into this room, Danny started crying out to them to help him and they could get out of here, but she ignored him, they were on orders not to help the ghost kid. This is what they were sentenced to. They had been told that they had to torture the kid, or their own lives were at stake.

(Jazz POV)

They walked into our room, I...I couldn't believe what they asked us at first, torture Danny or we die. It was something that we couldn't believe, Danny or ourselves. Of course, we all chose to torture Danny. What kind of people are we, we felt though that we had too, we couldn't help it.

Danny still doesn't know about it. He thinks we're just here to stare at him, we were told to wait for…them…to come back and then they would get started. They were obviously going to tell Danny, Danny was going to hate us for eternity if he found out, he would haunt us, if he didn't survive, who knows Dan might come back, we were all toast if that happened.

How long were they expecting us to just stand here? Danny must be catching on now, I just want to run up to him and let him out, he looks so miserable and I don't know what to do with him. If he ever comes out of this, he isn't going to be the same person as before, he's going to be completely different. Maybe not, maybe he will turn back into the Danny we knew before her was taken the first time. Only time will tell.

(No POV)

The door slowly creaked open and four people came in, all with a huge grin on their faces.

"Okay, let's start by introducing ourselves" Chief said.

"Okay, I'm Samuel Edwards, you obviously know that" Samuel said, he was standing the closest to the door.

"You know me as Liz Fenton, but really my name is Jordan Richards, surprised much, Liz is my code name" Liz said, more like Jordan.

"So are you a boy then?" Tucker asked.

"No I am not, I am a GIRL" Jordan shouted.

"Calm down, now, my name is, Tim Paul" Paul said.

"And I am chief, that is what you will call me and nothing else, my real name is John Hill, you know me as chief constable Hill from the police" Chief said.

"Wait, so that fits, how Samuel was able to come out of police custody" Jazz said after a moment's silence.

"Yes, that is how it went" Hill said.

"But now, it's time for us to tell Danny about this little secret" Paul said.

Danny instantly looked up. "What's that?" Danny asked.

"Ohhh, just a little something, maybe it's not for me to say, maybe your friends should say" Samuel said.

"No, I want you to say" Danny said with the only defiance he had left.

"Well you asked for it, don't blame me when you cry after what your parents have agreed to do" Paul said.

"Your parents, family, friends, what ever you call them, had a very difficult decision, they had to choose between, you or them, torture you, or dying, if you look up at them, its ever so obvious what they chose" Samuel said.

"Yeah, so obvious they chose to torture you over dying" Hill said.

"How nice of them" Jordan said.

"Yes it is, something you usually don't see in this kind of people. You usually see people sacrificing themselves over someone, but I was surprised" Paul said.

"No they didn't, they didn't choose that" Danny whimpered.

"Of course they did, look how greedy people have become now," Samuel said.

"I wont, they aren't like that" Danny shouted. Sam felt hot tears sliding down her face.

"You need to grow up ghost kid, of course they chose you over themselves. It's just the way people role these days" Samuel.

"Enough of this, let's just get down to business" Hill said.

"Yes sir, sorry sir" Samuel apologised.

"Hmmmm, I think we should start with the girl-friend, what about you guys?" Paul asked.

"I agree, the girl friend could be a major breakthrough," Samuel said.

"Yeah, but we want to have fun, before we get to the good stuff, I suggest maybe, the best friend" Hill said.

"That's a good point, I want to have some fun before he's completely gone" Paul said.

"Yeah, me too" Samuel said.

"You had tones of fun last time" Paul said.

"Yeah, well, what about Jordan then? She had fun too," Samuel said.

"Yeah, I got to sit with him and mentally torture him, fun beyond belief" Jordan said sarcastically.

"Can we just get on with it, use the African-American boy," Hill shouted.

"Yes sir" They all said. Samuel walked over to Tucker, he smiled evilly down at Tucker which sent shivers down Tucker's spine, Tucker did not in anyway like this guy, No wonder Danny was depressed after spending a couple of days with this guy He thought. He knew deep down that he shouldn't be thinking like this, he had just agreed to torture his best mate. He was wondering if Danny still called him a mate.

Samuel grabbed hold of Tucker's arm tight, and thrust a whip into chest.

"Use this" He said plainly and walked back over to the rest, his grin, widening at the sight in front of him.

"Ummm, okay. Do I just hit him with this?" Tucker asked dumbly.

"What do you think you do with it? Wrap it around his arm? Of course you do that, and if I find out you were holding back, we'll do it two times as hard and double the time to you" Jordan said.

"What happens if I refuse?" Tucker asked, feeling confidence coming back to him, even though now was not the time.

"We'll whip you three times as hard and then kill you" Hill said angrily. He was acting like a three year old who hadn't got his ice cream yet.

"Danny I don't want to hurt you-"

"Just do it Tuck, it's for your own good. Now you'll do as your told. This is your friend talking. I can take it" Danny cut him off.

"No Danny I can't" Tucker cried.

"Why not?" Danny asked.

"Because you're my friend" Tucker shouted.

"Great, well then, I'm asking you as a friend, to get it over with. Do you want to die?" Danny asked.

"No of course I don't want to die" Tucker said.

"Well it's your only way out then, isn't it?" Danny said.

"Fine then. But just let me say. I'm sorry" Tucker said approaching Danny. He didn't look back at the rest of them. Too ashamed that he'd betrayed them all, he felt too guilty to even look at Danny.

"It's okay Tuck. Even if I do die here, I'll always look after you, just from up in heaven. If that's a real place" Danny said.

"Don't say that Danny" Sam shouted from behind. Danny put his head down and braced himself for what was going to happen. Danny could see Tucker dark silhouette, Danny could just sense that Tucker was wavering whether he should take the punishment or should Danny, even after all the protest Danny had put up, Tucker still didn't want to do it.

Danny looked up only to see Tucker's tear stricken pace. Tucker shook his face in an attempt to get the tears away from his face. His facial expression changed, he looked more violent, most likely because he was just about to hurt his best friend. This is something Danny was going to be sure would never get to the press. That's if he ever got out of here.

1…2…3 Danny counted in his head, and bam the whip came smashing on his chest. It wasn't as hard as it looked. Tucker was probably doing this for Danny, but he knew the consequences of not hitting Danny as hard as he could. Or was it that Danny was just numb from pain from last night? Paul obviously picked up on this.

"Harder" He shouted across the room.

"Tucker you know what they'll do to you. Just hit me," Danny shouted at Tucker. It was like the driving force in Tucker, he hit Danny with all his might. Six no seven times, Huge tear drops coming out of his eyes. He was crying, "I'm sorry" all the way through it. Danny didn't remember anymore. He just saw the blackness of unconsciousness.

"I'm sorry Danny" Tucker screamed as he ran and hugged the bleeding body. He looked worse for wear. Tucker didn't know what he was feeling, some part of his actually liked the hitting of Danny, but his crying and feeling of guilt crushed those feeling in a mail box never to be opened again.

"Step away from him" Samuel shouted.

"Why should I?" Tucker shouted crying. Everyone was a little taken back by Tucker's outbreak.

"Because I told you too" Samuel said kicking Tucker in the ribs.

"That's enough. Take them all back to their room" Hill ordered. Jordan, Paul and Samuel nodded and pushed the family and friends out of the room. Leaving Danny dangling on the edge of the wall, blood trickling onto the floor. Maddie was hoping and praying that all of this would end soon. That this was all somehow a dream whilst she was waiting for Danny to come around. None of this had ever happened. That she had not just watched Danny's best friend hurt Danny. That Danny's blood was dripping onto the floor.

She closed her eyes and fell onto her bed as she walked into her room, like this was her prison. It is her prison, her prison until the day she dies. Her body will become her prison once she gets out of here.Maybe this is how Danny felt Maddie thought to her. She felt her eyes becoming heavy and the world around her fade to black.

Maddie was at the seaside with Jack, Jazz and Danny. Danny was just seven, the day he almost drowned in a puddle by the sea. Maddie smiled to herself. Watching Danny run along the sea front. Kicking water at Jazz and Jazz shouting at him for kicking water at her when she was studying the seaweeds. Danny shouted something back, something like "Who wants to study at the sea, your meant to have fun," He said it in a usual seven year old voice, all the words not pronounced properly. Though Jazz had tried teaching him to talk properly, she failed. Once minute she was laughing at them arguing, next she heard Jazz shouting for her help. Danny had fallen in the puddle; he had tripped over a rock and went falling in headfirst. He was panicked and didn't know what to do. Maddie ran up as fast as she could and pulled Danny out.

This was one of the worst feeling Maddie had, had in all her life. She looked down at her newly rescued son. His head soaking to the seem, his breathing short and raspy. She hugged him; she hugged him tighter than she had to anyone in her life.

Maddie awoke with a start. A feeling of uncleanliness washed over her. She felt dirty, there was a cold sweat all over her body. She heard the door close around her. She whirled around, feeling a cold breeze at the bottom of her neck, she looked down and the top of her jumpsuit was undone, she quickly did it back up and laid back down on the bed. The TV was on and Danny's faint moans were coming from the speakers. Maddie felt relived that he was okay. She looked around the room. It was dark and everyone was sleeping. Tucker was whimpering a bit, but no more noises could be heard except Jacks ghost rambling in his sleep.

Maddie lied back down and fell back to sleep, but she couldn't help but feel the slightest bit worried about going to sleep. She knew something must have happened whilst she was sleeping. Nobody in their right mind would sleep in these conditions something must have been up. Maybe they were all drugged to sleep. Maddie still felt dirty and unclean. Like a struggle that she never struggled with. Like someone had done something to her, like someone had been on her.

Maddie couldn't remember any of this though. Maybe she was drugged too, maybe this was part of their plan. Maddie shot up and look up at the screen, the sound had been turned off and Jordan and Samuel were leaving the room. Maddie heard their footsteps getting closer, she didn't care if they walked into here and saw her awake, she would stand up to them.

Maddie heard them talking on the way past. Jordan said something like "Did you see … face… when…happened" Maddie couldn't quite catch the rest. She was too scared to think of what they might have done. She heard more footsteps coming up to them and another voice sounding.

"Have you done the nightly check?" It was the voice of Hill.

"Ohh, yeah. And we have a bit of fun for ourselves" Jordan said.

"Did you ask him?" Hill asked.

"Yes we did" Jordan said.

"What did he say?" Hill asked.

"Maybe here isn't the place to say, we have a eavesdropper" Samuel said.

"Oh right. The Mother?" Hill asked.

"Yes it's the Mother. You can sense it, cant you?" Samuel said.

"Yes it is a bit obvious now that you mention it" Hill said.

"Goodnight Mrs. Fenton" Samuel shouted and Maddie fell into her bed and closed her eyes and wished to go to sleep. Danny, what did they ask you?


I hope you like it. Review Please. I gotta go, I'm watching Daniel Radcliffe on this World war show on ITV. He's smoking at the moment. They just had him in his boxers, then nothing but they didnt show it... review please.