Author's Note:

Yup, Paullina really is a shallow witch. By the way, in this story, Danny will probably go through a few girlfriends, just like he did in the show. And Valerie will show her face soon. Thanks to all of my reviewers, seriously, you guys are awesome, each and every one of you! ( :

Chapter 20: Detention

Along the way to detention, Danny and Kiera stopped off at each of their lockers. When Danny immerged from his not with a lunchbox, but a pencil and a sketchbook, she eyed him curiously.

"I'm just not hungry, that's all" Danny said, untruthfully answering her unspoken question. Being the slightly gullible person she was, Kiera didn't think twice about it.

"You know that in Rihan's class, you shouldn't have done that, it was a little impulsive."

"Well I'm sorry that I don't just like to stand there and watch people get dumped on. Especially my best friends' little brother."

"Wait, what? Jazz??" Danny asked in surprise at her remark. "But she's two years older than you!"

"Yeah, well, she showed me around when I came to this place a couple of months back. And... it just happened from there. We sorta completely forgot about the age difference after a while."

That'd be easy to do. Danny thought as he looked at her figure. She was at least another five cetimeters taller than he was.

"We better get to detention or they might use that as an excuse to give us another on Tuesday."

Danny nodded in agreement. "You're right. Rihan would have our heads on the executioner's block if he found us here." Danny put on an exceedingly angry face. "Detention! Lunchtimes, afterschool and weekends! Rest of your life!"

Both smirking, they headed further down the hall towards the detention room. Just outside the door, Kiera sighed. "Y'know, this is the first detention I've ever had. They don't send a note home to your parents, do they? Mine are... well, they expect perfection. They barely understand why I can't bring home straight A's, but detention would really make them flip out. Heh, they think that I rig the score when I bring home B's."

"Nah, they don't. Which is good for me with Rihan around. He hated me before this disaster happened and now it's only getting worse."

"Y'know if you give me ten bucks, I'll willingly punch him in the face. I'm blue belt in karate and I might be able to break his nose if you pitch in an extra fifteen on top."

Smirking at the delightful thought of Rihan with a broken nose, Danny disagreed. "How have you not gotten a detention earlier?"

"No one ever finds me out. That's why I won't say the different things I did with those idiot jocks. If I do, my head'll be on the executioner's block yesterday. Well... they deserved every last bit of it. Especially that Dash kid, man he's a total moron. Thicker than tar. Not to mention a brute."

Danny opened the detention room door. There were eleven others there, including the teacher whom had her head buried deep into a book. She didn't even acknowledge their arrival.

"And... we make thirteen." Kiera said as she finished counting everyone. "Great, an unlucky number."

Danny rolled his emerald glowing eyes and took a seat down the back, while Kiera followed and sat down next to him, breaking off a piece of chocolate from her chocolate bar. Finding himself staring at the chocolate and zoning out from everything around him, Danny quickly turned his head away. Luckily, no one that was staring at him had noticed. They were all too busy looking at his startling appearance.

Danny placed his sketchbook on the table and opened it to one of the last blank pages. Making a mental note to get another, Danny got his pencil out and began to draw random things like a vase in the corner of the room, a birds nest with a few hatchlings in a tree outside and the fishtank with it's incredibly exotic fish. At least they didn't care about Danny's bizarre appearance. Or maybe they did, you couldn't tell with fish. Drawing was the only thing that kept his mind clean of the knowledge that he was being constantly watched like an animal in a zoo, only with much greater interest and puzzlement to go with it.

Suddenly, just before Danny was going to take a risk and draw Kiera, with her long, pitch black hair and dark green almond-shaped eyes there was a knock on the door. Danny lifted his head to see who it was.

"Mrs. Campbell, may I come in?" came the forever dry voice of Mr. Lancer.

"Sure, hon." she replied in her country accented voice, not lifting her head from her book even for a split second. Mr. Lancer opened the door and walked in, facing Mrs. Campbell.

"You don't mind that Kiera Winter and Danny Fenton will be spending their detention with me?"

"Nope, go ahead, hon."

Danny and Kiera looked at each other in surprise, then picked up their stuff and headed over to where Mr.Lancer was standing, saying not a word. He led them out of the detention room and into his office, (Danny dropping his pencil and sketchbook along the way) beckoning them to sit down on two flimsy plastic chairs the school provided in front of his desk. He then filled two plastic cups up with water and handed them to Danny and Kiera. They put their stuff on the floor to take them. Kiera took a sip, Danny, however just swirled it in his hand and then put it down before he dropped it.

"I understand that each of you recieved a detention for lunchtime today and lunchtime Monday from Mr. Rihan. My sources tell me he wasn't being fair on either of you, so could I please hear what happened?"

Kiera didn't hesitate to start talking. Her hate for that teacher obviously ran deep inside her veins. "Rihan,"

"Mr. Rihan." Lancer corrected. Kiera continued.

"Mr. Rihan was dumping on Danny. He started mocking him, like he said don't inhale the Sulfur if you don't want to end up like Fenton. Danny went really pale and then dissappeared for a second, then he just gave him a detention just like that! So I argued, and he gave me a detention for 'cheek'. Then... when we were doing the experiment, something happened. Danny was trying to turn off the gas, but he couldn't. By the time I got there, the crucible smashed. He blew his top and gave us both another detention on Monday and made us sit out for the rest of the experiments. It was completely unfair, I think today he's biased towards Danny."

"He's always been biased towards me." Danny corrected. "Just more so today."

"I see. Being vice principal, I do have some authority over these things, and neither of you will have a detention on Monday. You are also free to go. I'm sure Miss. Fenton will be wondering where you are, Kiera."

"C'mon, Danny. You can come with Jazz and me. She was worried about you all recess. However, when she said you were different... heck, I didn't expect this."

"Thanks." Danny said gratefully, both to Kiera and Mr. Lancer. No one else might, but at least those two and Jazz would offer sympathy rather than the forever staring eyes.

You can't trust just anyone...

Danny looked shocked at the echoed voice he had just heard. Looking around urgently, but he couldn't see anything. In a wisp of blue vapor, he realized it must be a ghost. Tell me no! Danny thought to himself, most probably being unwise when he chose to ignore it. No one else, not Kiera, not Lancer, had heard...

But... what did it mean?

-End Chapter 20-

Author's Note:

So... hot... I really wish I lived in England at the moment, where it's so cold. And yet if I did, I'd probably want the opposite. Bah, I'm babbling, hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review.

Peace,

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