Maddie looked down the barrel of her smoking ectogun. Her eyes wide in shock as the figure just feet in front of her collapsed, a ring of light exploding from his waist and traveling over his limp body, changing ghost to human in the blink of an eye.

But she didn't blink.

His round cheeks, pointed nose and kind eyes were unmistakably Danny. The only reason that she hadn't noticed before was because the thought of someone being both human and ghost was completely absurd, no one had ever even thought it was possible, and yet it was.

She didn't even need to think about what had happened to make him this way. The Portal was the only ghost related material he had come into intimate contact with since his troubles with school and behavior first started. He had gotten electrocuted when he turned it on, and somehow, it gave him the ability to be a ghost.

And he was only fourteen.

He didn't have his driver's lisence, couldn't drink, vote, or live on his own, and yet he saved his hometown on a daily basis.

He shouldn't be worrying about whether or not he'll have a school to go back to, but how he's doing in school.

He should be worrying about what he's going to wear to prom, not what he's going to wear to cover up his bandages.

His childhood was slipping by him, and there was no way he could catch it again without hurting someone.

He was trapped.