Summary: Life and death felt the same to him until something changed.
Characters: Box Ghost and Box Lunch
Prompt: Fave Ghost
Day Eleven
It was cold.
That was what he remembered best about his last moments of life. It was cold, and he was alone. Story of his life, really.
It happened suddenly. He was the last worker at the packaging plant, putting some remaining boxes away on the shelves. All the other employees headed home, a nice break for the Christmas holiday, but he didn't have a family to go home to, only having his empty little apartment to greet him.
It wasn't like he didn't try to meet someone. He tried dozens of times with no luck. Women weren't interested in a chubby man that worked at a package plant. A clown, they called him. They laughed as they walked away from him whenever he tried to flirt with them, impress them in some way.
So it was no surprise to him that his final moments found him alone. The ladder wasn't balanced or something. A freak accident really. He fell, boxes spilling down on top of him. His back hurt when he tried to move after the fall. Broken perhaps. He couldn't move. He tried shouting, partly in the agony of the pain he suffered, but no one was anywhere around to hear his cries for help.
The afterlife didn't prove to be any better for him. He tried to be the spooky ghost that terrified humans, using his control over boxes, but his attempts were laughable. He could see it every time he went up against Danny Phantom, who sighed in exasperation when they fought. He was a failure in life, and he failed as a ghost despite trying so hard to succeed at anything.
All he wanted was someone that cared about him.
Box Ghost lifted the little giggling bundle up over him, smiling at the cheery little face of his daughter. It might have taken him some time, years after being dead, to find something that he was good at: being a father.
Author's Note: So many great characters in Danny Phantom! I don't really have a favorite, so I went with Kelsey and Hacha's suggestion of doing something with the Box Ghost. =)