Author's Note

Hello Readers! Sorry for the delay. I got distracted by 13 Reasons Why….And the Trials of Apollo….and the Runaways comic….and One Punch Man…And my friend visiting from Mobile….And work….And the constant fear of the news everyday….and writer's block…*cough* Anyway, Thanks to all the reviewers and readers last time and let's continue on.

Chapter 20: Calm During the Storm

Luke was quietly picking at his small dinner he was eating with his grandparents.

Aimlessly picking at his food thinking about how he was probably never going to get to see Vanessa any because of her school and ghost hunting. Plus he barley seeing his siblings right now.

He sighs as his grandfather asked him, "So, Luke. How's your school work?"

Luke perked up at that. An idea forming in his mind.

…..

Lily was flying through the air happily.

She had always pretended to fly as a kid and her imagination was nothing like the real thing. Nothing at all.

She weaved and dived easily, laughing. Even when the wind started pouring down.

The snow white haired quarter ghost landed on the room of a church smiling as she looked over the town. She heard her phone buzz and managed to pull it out of her pants and seeing it was a text from Levi.

The girl glanced over it quickly seeing it was her a message telling her to text him back that they needed to talk.

Lily had been avoiding heading home cause she didn't want to talk to her family about her attitude lately. Especially after her and Luke's fight earlier.

She ignored the text and was about to put her phone up but was startled as it rang and she saw it was her Uncle Ash.

"Shit," She muttered as she ducked under the ledge on the church's roof. She could ignore it but that would only cause more problems as she also always answered her uncle's calls.

She steadied her breathing and answered, "Hey Uncle Ash."

"Sup, Silly-Lily," her uncle replied happily, "So, I'm just sitting her watching the news. And is there anything you want to tell me?"

Lily froze, oh shit. Uncle Ash knew. Or knew something at least. She couldn't tell him! He'd just tell her mother. She had to deny anything, "Nay. Why? Should I have something to tell you?"

…

Danny sat at the dinner room table at Fenton Works looking at the footage of the ghost girl from early, she looked familiar. So familiar.

He was so angry that Walker refused to talk to him before Danny released him.

Jazz walked into the room at that point and looked at her brother, "Hey, Danny. You do okay?"

Danny closed the computer and smiled at his sister, "Pretty good. You know. Same as usually."

…..

Nate was so happy to be away from Luke.

No offense to the guy but he had dealt with playing Battleship with him for two hours and had awkward small talk about his brother, sister, Nadir, and Vanessa. Oh, god he never wanted to talk about Vanessa again.

The teenager entered his house sighing as he called out to his father, "I'm home! I already had dinner! I'm going to head on to bed, Father!"

The aged Vlad Masters, or Joseph Bram if you wanted to use his new "legal" name, called from the living room, "That's fine son. By the way, I'm redoing the basement. Don't go down there for a while."

"Okay!" Nate confirmed as he walked up the stairs to his room.

Since he didn't enter the living room he never saw the sinister man talking to his father in the shadows.

Or the worried look on his father's face.

….

Ash hung up the phone and looked at Sam's worried face.

"Well?" Sam asked concerned.

"Lily's planning dumb but she's not good at it," Ash explained, "Claims she hasn't seen the news or know anything about some ghost girl. If it's not her I'll be surprised. But Sam you got to be smart about this-"

"I spent seventeen years almost protecting my children, Ash," The tearful woman cut off, "What am I going to do if all of that was for nothing? I don't want my kids to get hurt again."

Ash hugged his friend concerned, wishing he could say it would be alright. But that would be a lie. It would be the same lie he told Kendall right he died. He couldn't do that again and neither could Sam.

….

Lily hung up the phone sighing in relief thinking she had pulled it off.

She felt a tap on her shoulder and looked over to see Levi in his ghost form sitting next to her. His eyes a glowing violet and his hair snowy white like hers.

"Levi?"

"I talk to Nadir. He told me about Danny and how you know," Levi tried to explain unsure of how to say it.

"Oh. Yeah," Lily muttered looked up at the rainy clouds above them, "It's kinda a mess. I want us all to talk to Mom when she gets back. Maybe Danny too."

Levi nodded, "It makes sense you know. We never did look like Dad. I mean Dad will always be Dad but maybe….Maybe Danny could be a Da or Pop or something. It might be a little nice. He seems fun."

"He is. He's sweet and he tries. He tried playing Magic with me today," the girl explained, "With me, Luke, and Vanessa."

"We aren't telling Luke for a while right?" The younger of the two asked.

"Oh yeah."

"Don't blame you. You know how close he is to our parents."

"I'm not tackling that without out a twelve-step plan and an army."

"So, true."

…..

Luke smiled happily as he finished his and his siblings paper work for Casper High School.

Author's note 2

Thanks for reading and review please.

Reminder! I am still taking ideas for an extended Phantom Family for later. I'll take ideas, names, scenes, etc. I need ideas for Danny and Sam's grandkids, Lily, Luke, and Levi's siblings, Dani's children, Jazz's kids, etc. I got a few responses already and thank you for those guys.

Ash meet Kendall and Dante while in basic training and was in the army as well before being discharge because of an injury he sustained from the same incident that killed Kendall. Thus he is a close family friend. Sam helped him get his current job which is why they work together a lot.

Levi knows, so Luke's the only one that doesn't know. This will go over well.