Chapter 14: He'll Always Want it, But He'll Never have It

Everyone had stopped to rest again, and a few students were complaining to Mr. Lancer.

"Mr. Lancer! I would like to point out to you that we have learned absolutely nothing so far. When are we going to learn something?" Mikey, a geek said to Mr. Lancer, his nasally voice being incredibly nasally, as he pushed his glass farther up the bridge of his nose.

Mr. Lancer sighed. "Yes I know that Mr. Trip, but-" "But Mr. Lancer, the whole point of this trip to at least learn something about Danny Fenton's mind, and we haven't learned anything. Trapped or not, shouldn't we try to find out new things?" Nathan interrupted, and his sentiments were agreed upon by the other geeks surrounding Mr. Lancer.

Mr. Lancer sighed again. He had wanted to learn something too. Not just about the mind, but about Danny Fenton. But all that he had learned is that Danny was doing something that Mr. Lancer so far, wasn't approving of. In truth, it scared him.

Danny was getting hurt from what was going on, and contrary to popular belief, Mr. Lancer did care for his students. And Danny was certainly concerning him now.

"I'll see what I can do." He replied calmly to the geeks, and walked out of the crowd. That's when he noticed the door. Nobody had noticed it.

It was a black door with white symbols. It wouldn't hurt if I just looked…Mr. Lancer couldn't help think. But he shook his head, backing away from the door. I can't… It's Danny's personal mind door, or whatever it's called… And Mr. Lancer turned around.

But what the geeks had said echoed in his head. It would be a good learning experience… And Mr. Lancer spun around and walked closer to the door. But…well…Danny might need help…And with that, Mr. Lancer opened the door, and walked inside.

"Students! File in!" He barked, and everyone was surprised to see Mr. Lancer standing in an open doorway, but walked in anyway, because they did not want to make him mad.

Danny was already next to him. And Mr. Lancer acknowledged him with a jump. It's for the learning experience, Lancer, you are doing this to teach the kids…Mr. Lancer said to himself, as Danny looked at him, or to be accurate, seemed to look into him.

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that." Danny said, smiling slightly in amusement, and walked away, leaving a bewildered Mr. Lancer.

Everyone stood in the strange glowing area, and from out of nowhere, a beam of light, like a projection slider light, came from out of nowhere, in the middle of them.

Everyone formed a circle around the unfurling image. Well, actually, it was more of a hologram. A 3-D Sam, Tucker, and Danny popped up, seeing no one but themselves. It was obvious they weren't real.

"Danny I know it's hard…" Holo-Sam said to Danny, as Danny sat down on the floor, his head in his hands.

"Sam, it's so hard! Ugh! I just wish…sometimes…that I was…normal." Danny said, his head not looking up. Sam nodded in sympathy and understanding, and plopped down next to him.

"It's just so hard! Not just doing it everyday! Trying to keep it a secret from everyone. Mom…Dad…the school…the world!" Danny said, looking at her, his arms flailing about.

"Danny! It's not as big as that!" Sam said, scolding him. "Yeah Dude, it may be bad at times, but if everyone found out, it might not be the whole world!" Tucker said, then cowered from Sam's glare that obviously said he wasn't doing well in the pep-talk business.

"Danny-" "Sam! Don't Danny…me! It's just…really hard everyday! And I know if anyone found out it would be all over the world, and you know that to! I would be even more of a freak than everyone thinks I am! I would get put under all kinds of tests! Very, very, painful tests! UGH!" Danny said, his head plopping into his lap again.

"Danny, we stopped that from happening countless times. Nothing will happen! And you know your parents would love you no matter what." Sam said, her hand on his shoulder.

Danny looked up slightly and smiled a little, then frowned again, sighing.

"Sam, it's not just that. Sometimes, I just want to tell them! To shout it out to the heavens! To have the heavy weight of doing it everyday lifted off my shoulders. Sometimes I think it would be better if it had never happened to me!" Danny exclaimed.

"Danny!" Sam said, taken aback. "Don't ever say that! Danny, ever since it happened to you, you've been an entirely better person! You've learned a lot of good life lessons, and you've saved many people! This town wouldn't be the same without you!" Sam said, blushing a little, pulling her hand back.

"Yeah dude." Tucker stepped in, patting Danny on the back. "Thanks guys." Danny said, smiling half-heartedly. "It's gotten a lot harder to hide now, that's all. The temptation of beating Dash up, trying to pretend like him bullying me hurts, trying to maintain a low profile, ugh! It's so frustrating!" Danny said, hitting his hand on his face.

"Well if they find out, there's an upside! You won't have to take any of Dash beating you up!" Tucker said, grinning. "Thanks Tuck!" Danny said sarcastically. "Anytime!" Tucker replied, apparently immune to sarcasm.

And then the little film ended, and everyone turned to Sam and Tucker, who zoomed out of there as fast as they could. They had had that conversation with Danny not too long ago.

Guide Danny was there all of a sudden, and he ushered everyone out of the room. But a girl had the courage to ask something everyone was wondering. "What was that room?" Danny kept looking ahead, but his eyes had a far away look. "Desire." He said quietly, and walked ahead on the path. Their rest stop apparently over.

Everyone huddled together and started talking. Mr. Lancer stayed to the back embarrassed. He had realized that he had opened a door out of desire and temptation, while Daniel Fenton was able to resist any desires like that. He felt absolutely ridiculous.

Whoo! Chapter Done! Thanks to DPcrazy for the chapter idea! I am officially emptied out of chapter ideas! OH NO! Gasp! Help! I don't want to end it yet! I said this in Bad News chapter 5, but if anyone could go onto my profile and take a look at my story ideas, and send me a message on whether you like them, I would appreciate it!

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