Author's Notes: Thank you to all who reviewed my fic and also I would like to ask if any of you are artists would like to do fanart for the fic and I'll put a link to it next chapter, the only thing is I hope you don't mind doing it for free as I can't pay for the work. If you go to edgarandellen . com (remove the space) you can find pics of the characters (except Augustus Nod and Fr. Reynolds as he's an OC).

HollywoodXoX: Yes Dan did really beat up Danny and you'll find Danny's death.

Fernclaw: Yes there is hope.

Thunderstorm101: that's what Danny does, he saves people regardless of the consequences.

Smallvillegirl2: You're going to find out what happened soon enough.

Mystery Writter5775: Clockwork is the mysterious being and we never know what he has up his sleeve. Yes, tying every Nod's Limbian to said ghosts is cruel and unusual punishment.

Shining Zephyr: you should be honored my friend as you are the first to receive the Golden Thermos. Please wait till after the fic to kill Vlad.

Chapter XXI: Time and Time Again

Jack

I couldn't believe it, my son was dead and I would never see him again.

"If it's any consolation, Danny died protecting people," Sam said trying to hide her own tears. "We're all going to miss him," she tells us as she goes to her room to think.

"I'm going to see if Vladdie can book us tickets to attend the funeral in Nod's Limbs," I told Maddie as I got up and went to Vlad's office to ask him.

"Vlad, you in here," I said as I knocked on his door, "V-Man it's me Jack," I say as he slowly opens the door.

"Please come in, Jack," he says as I walk in and sit down. I can tell that he taking Danny's death hard, "What can I do for you," he asks as he tries to smile.

"I was wondering if you could make arrangements so we can attend the funeral," I ask him solemnly.

"Of course, Jack, I will take care of it, leave it to me," he says as he smiles and I leave knowing that Vlad has everything under control.

Clockwork

"Just as I planned," I said as I gazed in the mirror, pleased with the outcome of things. I was the only who could see the beauty in my plan as I knew its ending.

I left the mirror and opened a portal, "Now for Phase II," I said before I disappeared to begin the next part of my plan.

Edgar

"Mr. Nod are you here?" I asked as we entered the cave and gently laid Danny on the floor. "Mr. Nod?" I ask as I go in search of him.

"Forsooth, why dost thou comest to mine cave," Nod said as he came out of hiding, "How dare ye bring this Knightly Bootlicker to mine sanctuary," he said looking at Danny with contempt.

"He needs your help Augustus he's dying, we need your Life-Balm to save him," Ellen pleaded pointing to Danny whose life is now slipping away.

"No, now get this infectious tardy-gaited canker-blossom out of mine sight," he shouts grumbling as he walks away.

"But…," I said before he left us. I looked down at Danny's broken form; his hair was crusted with blood and hardly a strand of white could be fine.

"Now what are we going to do?" Ellen asks worried but before I could answer I froze in my tracks and heard someone say 'Time out!' and what appeared to be a ghost appeared.

Sam

"Danny," I whispered as I stared up in my room, I couldn't believe he was gone. It wasn't fair, he didn't deserve to die he was so young.

I got out my Tarot deck and closed my eyes, "is Danny really gone," I asked as I laid a card on the cloth, it was the moon, the card of mystery and deception. Things were not as it seemed with Danny but what it wasn't a enough. "Could you clarify," I asked and drew another card, the star.

I smiled when I realized the message it was giving me: things weren't as they seem with Danny and there is hope for him.

Pleased with the outcome I picked them and reshuffled when I heard a knock on the door, "come in," I said as the door opened and Danni walked in. "Danni, what's wrong?" I ask her.

"I miss Danny, it wasn't fair Sam, it wasn't," she said as she fell to her knees and cried. I wanted to tell the news but if I told her now she might think I was tricking her.

"I know, Danni, I know," I told her as I comforted her while silently praying in thanksgiving to God that there was hope.

Mayor Knightly

"Uh, sir the sculptor his here and Fr. Reynolds is here to go over the preparation for the service," Bob said as he walked in the room looking at his clipboard.

"Good, did you hire the councilors for the schools, the children will be devastated," I tell him as I walked out to greet the priest, who was a friend of mine.

"Theophilus, it's good to see you again, I only wish it was under more pleasant conditions," Fr. Reynolds said as he stood up and shook my hand.

"As do I, Father," I tell him as we walk into my office and sit down.

"What happened to your family portrait that used to be in here," my friend asked noticing an empty space on my wall.

"I'm having a new one made, Claudia and I adopted a boy, the poor thing was abused by his biological father. His name is Daniel, if he wasn't hiding right now and I call him to introduce him to you, but he's hiding. Probably devastated over Phantom's death," I told him as I poured him a cup of coffee.

"Thank you, I have always said that you the heart of a saint Theophilus, this only proves it," Reynolds said with a smile, "I have the Mass scheduled for 9am at St. Mark's," He tells me showing me the program.

"Perfect, thank you," I tell him.

"Anytime, and tell your family that I said hello," he said as he got up and left.

"Will do," I tell him as I go to prepare the eulogy for Phantom.

Edgar

The ghost then floated over to me and Ellen and placed some sort of necklace on us that allowed to us move. "Who are you?" I asked the ghost who was dressed in a purple tunic with a clock on it and purple cape secured by a clock gear. He had a blue face with red eyes and a scar on the right side of his face. He also kept changing from a child, to adult, to an old man in the blink of the eye.

"I am Clockwork, master of time, and I am here to save Danny," he said pointing our friend lying on the cave floor.

"How, Nod won't give us the Life-Balm to save Danny," Ellen asks him baffled as she looks and Danny who is frozen in time.

"What Augustus Nod doesn't know won't hurt him, now follow me," he said pointing into the cave.

He took us to deep corner of the cave where there was a small lake, "What is this place," I ask him amazed by it.

"This lake is made of Life-Balm; it is not connected to the spring that Nod uses. Now gently place Danny into the lake," he told us pointing to the lake as we lower our friend into it. "Now for the final piece," Clockwork said as he placed a necklace on Danny.

We watched as miraculously Danny's wounds were healed; the lacerations on his torso and back disappeared and only a medium sized cut remained on his abdomen. His face also healed as well and his hair was restored to white again.

"He'll be fine now, take him back to your mansion to rest, he'll be exhausted," Clockwork said as he waved his hand a gateway of some kind.

It was then I remembered that monster had the vat of muffin batter there ready to explode. I turned to the ghost who smiled.

"Do not worry, your mansion is fine, your groundskeeper was able to stop it, he is fine now go. I will return shortly when Danny awakes," he said as we left. The last thing I heard was him yelling, "Time In!" before he disappeared.