Disclaimer:

I don't own Danny Phantom. I never have and I never will.

Author's Note:

Firstly I'd like to thank Skandragon Blackheart, New Ghost Girl, Naumi Yuko, Thunderstorm101, Phantom Shade, Fernclaw and luckygirl777 for reviewing, and everyone who has read this far. I do it for you guys!

Chapter 13: Friends

A knock came from Danny's front door. That would be Sam, Tucker and Jazz getting back from school. Danny opened it to find that it was them, minus Jazz.

"Jazz stayed back to do some study at the library." Sam explained. "Honestly I don't know how she can stand spending more time at school than she actually needs to."

"Just going to stand there or are you coming in?" Danny questioned his two best friends as they steeped through the door. "So, anything interesting?"

"…Apart from me becoming Dash's new favorite, no." Tucker said. "It's so boring without you around…"

Danny frowned. "It's not like I can help it. I'd much rather be normal Danny Fenton and go to school rather than stay locked inside my own house and be home-schooled by Lancer…"

"Wait, you're being home-schooled by Lancer?!" the two said in unison.

"I'm not kidding…" Danny said, looking at their shocked faces. "Apparently he wouldn't take no for an answer, despite mum's A streak right through school and university. And now he's going to be coming over every weekday at nine!"

"Man, that must suck." Tucker replied. "How did he react when he saw you?"

"He stared." Danny said. "I think he was finding it hard to take his eyes off me. I'm pretty sure I gave him a fair fright when he first came in. He probably found that even harder after my intangibility when haywire and my pencil slipped through my hand…"

"That's tough…" Tucker said. "I mean, Lancer in your own house. Really, that's tough."

"I guess…" Danny said. "But… I'm having my doubts on that…"

Sam and Tucker looked at each other incredulously.

"You what?!"

"Well… I don't think that he's the jerk I always thought he was. Sure, he stared, but… He didn't linger on it. After a minute he just got straight to the maths and attempted to treat me as normally as possible. What I'm wondering is how I'm going to effect him; he's always said my parents are brilliant scientists but they shouldn't be focusing on something as make-believe as ghost hunting. Something tells me that me, being living proof that they exist has given him a lot to think about. So really… it's incredible he managed to teach me anything at all."

"Dude, you think too much." Tucker replied. "And they say that you're unobservant. C'mon, time for some mindless video-games considering you can't go outside anywhere. Who's with me?"

Sam rolled her eyes at Tucker. He couldn't think about anything else other than his precious technology. Nothing. Well, maybe his friends, but that was besides the point. "I guess so."

Danny nodded too. The normal kid stuff sounded good to him at the moment, although he still wanted outside. Very much so, did he want outside. But he knew it wasn't going to happen, not in his current state.

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Two hours of mindless video games, 41 character deaths and nine dropped controllers from Danny later, the three got board. As entertaining as video games were, they couldn't entertain you forever.

"Hey, now that Jazz's home let's play a little invisible prank on her…" Tucker said mischievously. Danny couldn't help but agree; he might not want to be a ghost, but that didn't mean that he couldn't have fun with it. Sam shook her head and rolled her eyes. Boys…

Danny turned himself invisible just outside her door and phased through it, his sister not noticing anything. Sam and Tucker watched through the little eyepiece used to see through to the other side of the door. Danny crawled under her desk, from which she was working on her own laptop. Danny became visible where she couldn't see him and then, making his head intangible, Danny suddenly poked it through the desk, making Jazz nearly join the astronauts and scream so loudly that Tucker and Sam were wondering if their ears would survive. However, all three Danny, Sam and Tucker burst out laughing, walking into the room.

"Oh, real mature Danny!" Jazz said angrily at Danny, who walked out of the desk, joining his friends who were laughing, Sam in spite of herself. "Out, out of my room! Out! Maybe if you're enjoying this so much I might be able to convince mum and dad to stop making the 'Fenton Genetic Reversal System', or something like that!"

All three of them stopped laughing, although it was hardly likely to be a real threat, they wouldn't push it. That was a sign she was angry enough. However as the three friends raced back to Danny's room and burst out laughing again.

"Dude, did you see her face?! That was priceless!" Tucker said, wiping a tear from his eye.

"Yeah, it was pretty funny." said Sam afterwards. "Although I feel horrible laughing over it, but I can't help myself… You just had to see her face."

Danny smiled. Maybe, just maybe, this wasn't a bad thing after all. Sure, it had its downsides, but then it also had its upsides too.

-End Chapter 13-

Author's Note:

Sorry about the late update, writers block… Don't you just hate it?"