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Family
A Danny Phantom FanFiction by Cordria

…this is the 100 drabble challenge of a connected variety that will go in an order that resembles chapters so this collection of singular one-shots will kind of look a lot like a full-fledged fiction…

Drabble 21: Vacation

Danielle glared at the calendar her mother was pointing to. "I know," she said with an annoyed scowl – one which, had Genie the nanny been around to see it, would have thought looked scarily like her father's. She probably would have followed up the thought with another that went along the lines of 'such an expression should not be on the face of a five-year-old girl'. "Daddy's gone. When's he coming back?"

"T-two days, Dan-Danielle," the program stuttered.

"It's not Dan-Danielle!" the girl complained, a bit louder than actually necessary. "It's Danielle."

The Maddie program, unable to compute a response to the girl's sentence, simply logged the incident for Vlad's perusal later and turned off the hologram without a further word.

Danielle stared at the spot the facsimile of her mother at been for a few seconds longer before storming out of the room. Over the past few weeks, she'd been getting slowly fed up with the annoying Maddie program. Of the four clones, she was the only one to realize that the person she talked to was not, in fact, her mother.

Her real mother was in some other town quite a distance away.

Skulking up to the clones' playroom, Danielle completely ignored the quizzical looks from her brothers and dropped heavily into a chair, arms crossed, her expression one that would have frightened storm clouds away. For a few moments, everything was quiet. Then she huffed loudly, making a big show of how angry she was at the world.

One of her brothers finally took the hint. Covered up in a rainbow-colored blanket, Bones drifted over towards her and tapped her on the shoulder, tipping his head to the side in an unasked question. What's wrong?

"Daddy's gone again," she muttered darkly. "And he didn't take us with him."

Bones glanced back at his brothers, then shrugged. He didn't really want to go with their father on one of his trips. The clones knew just enough about their father's job to realize that it was boring.

"I want to go see Mommy," she whispered softly, the tension leaking out of her shoulders. "I want to go see our real Mommy." When she looked up at Bones, her normally blue eyes were sparkling with emerald fireflies. She wanted to crawl into her mother's arms and have her mother call her by the right name and have someone hug her and hold her close.

Confused, Bones just tipped his head to the other side, watching his sister for a few moments. He had no idea what she was talking about – their mother would show up if anything happened, there was no reason to go anywhere. But she was obviously upset and he'd go along with it; maybe this was some new kind of game. Tapping his finger joints together to get her attention, he gestured with his hands. How?

She thought about it for almost a minute before jumping out of her chair to grab the backpack Genie had forgotten to put away after their last picnic. "I'm going on a trip," she said as she grabbed things to stuff inside. A small blanket, one of the toy cups, a pad of drawing paper and some of the color crayons quickly joined the picnic supplies still left inside. "I'm going to find Mommy."

Bones rolled his eyes in his head, looking to where his brothers had already gone back to playing. The two of them didn't quite understand what their sister was planning, so Bones just sighed silently and turned back to where his sister was zipping up her backpack. Where are you going? he said with his hands.

Being clones, Danielle easily understood what her brother was saying, even though the rest of the world probably would have had a tough time with it. She hesitated, straightening. "Um…" she murmured, knowing that her brother had asked a really good question. Her eyes suddenly lit up. "Mommy!" she called out, waiting for the Maddie program to fizzle into view.

"Y-yes, Dan-Danielle?"

Danielle put on her best smile – the one that never failed to get her a cookie from Genie - and tried to ignore the stutter. One of the few things she knew about her real mother was her first name... hopefully that would be enough. "Where's Maddie?"

The Maddie program blinked at the young clone, but didn't feel any surprise at the odd question. It was, in fact, a question Vlad asked all the time. Vlad had long since placed a tracking program on the woman in question and it didn't take more than a few moments for the program to access her current location. "Amity Park."

Danielle grinned, turning to her brother. "I'm going to Amity Park," she said proudly, pleased with herself.

"You are-are not allowed-ed to leave th-the grounds, Dan-Danielle," the program stuttered happily.

Tilting her chin back slightly, Danielle started at the bad copy of her real mother. "Make me," she said shortly, turned, and walked towards the door.

All three brothers watched her go. Only Bones understood what his sister was planning and had an inkling of how much trouble she'd be in when their father returned. He shook his head sagely, but he didn't make a move to stop her. Instead, after the door swung shut, he glanced up at their mother and then went over to play with his brothers.

The Maddie program waited for a moment as it tried to work on what to do in this situation. Finally, it sent a text message to Vlad and shut off the holoemitters in the playroom, leaving the brothers to play in peace, not caring that Vlad wouldn't respond to the message.

When Genie the nanny appeared with lunch an hour later, Danielle was long gone. When she asked where Danielle was, all three brothers merely shrugged their shoulders, having already forgotten that their sister was officially on vacation.

Family is not who you have or what they can do...
it's the love that grows despite everything that can come between you.