Chapter 25

"Hey Danny, are you okay?" El asked as Danny walked into her home with his bag around his shoulders.

"No," Danny said sitting on the couch. El looked at him sadly.

"Do you want to talk about it?" El asked sitting next to him.

"No, that's what started it," Danny said looking down. "I was talking with my mom and she opened an old wound. Just give me some time and it should be fine." Danny said looking down at his hands as the bones would move shift when they were told to move. Danny sighed.

"That's really something everyone needs sometimes. Just some time to heal," El said looking at his hands and seeing that they were filling out and he didn't look as bad as he had. "What would you like for dinner, Danny?" El asked hoping to take his mind off of whatever he was thinking.

"I don't know," Danny said looking up at her.

"Well, why don't you help me make something then? Peter will be home soon after he is done," El said smiling as she got up and Danny followed.

MADDIE AND JACK

"May be I shouldn't have asked him to tell me," Maddie said crying as her and Jack got ready to go to bed in the new hotel room they were in.

"Well, from what you told me, he should feel better not worse," Jack said hugging his wife comforting her.

"Yes, but he seemed so defeated. So lost and confused like he didn't know why he was still fighting when giving up seemed so much easier," Maddie said looking over out the window. "I hope he will be okay. I have seen that look in suicidal teens. Like the ones that are shown on the news."

"Mads, Danny is far from destructive. He is strong and knows how to get though the tough and hard times. This time is no different." Jack said smiling. "Danny is too protective to do anything stupid."

"That's true. He is very protective, that may be why he felt that those kids were his responsibly even though he didn't know them very well, even after everything they had done, saving them and then them coming and helping him, he felt like he should have been there to save them. He doesn't realize that if he had stayed, everything could have been so much worse." Maddie said smiling. "I can't wait until we can home and bring him home and show everyone the monster that had taken Danny from us."

"Yes, and then help him ghost hunt," Jack said excitingly. Maddie shook her head at her goofy husband.

SAM AND TUCKER

"I can't believe they had to separate us from Danny," Sam said looking down at her bag that had a FBI shirt and sweatpants from Danny. He had given to her to sleep in since she didn't have any sleep wear. She picked up the shirt and pants and left to get dressed. Tucker watched as she left.

"Yeah," Tucker mumbled as he took out the shirt and sweatpants Danny had given him to sleep in. He found it funny how much he got from them for helping them. He had so much clothes that he didn't know what to do with it all. That is until they had come and needed something to sleep in. Sam had come out of the bathroom went Neal came in.

"Are you guys okay? You seem a little depressed," Neal said looking at Sam as Tucker left to change.

"I wish that we didn't have to be separated. I want to spend some more time with Danny," Sam said as she sat on the air mattress that was set up for her. Neal came around on sit on the one set up for Tucker.

"You will see him tomorrow that is if Elizabeth doesn't take him to work with her. I might end up stuck babysitting all of you," Neal said smiling as Sam started smiling as well. "See. He will be fine, just get some sleep. Besides my friend Alex has about half of the criminal underworld going after Masters tonight. By morning he will either be broke or have the majority of his houses robbed," Neal said then thought for a bit. "I most likely say both knowing how mad Alex can get. She really liked Danny."

"Good," Sam said smiling and then lying on her bed as Tucker came out of the bathroom.

"What did I miss?" Tucker asked seeing that Sam was calmed down and getting ready to fall asleep, she picked up a paper and threw it at Tucker. It hit him on the head. He glared at Sam as he went to sit on his bed as Neal was getting ready to go to bed himself. "See you guys in the morning," Neal whispered as everyone fell asleep.

PETER

"Jones, do we have that file on Masters here?" Peter asked looking around for the file.

"It should be on top," Jones said getting up to find the file.

"It's right here, boss," Diana said sadly. "There is nothing in it though."

"Agent Roe took everything from the case," Hughes said coming in. "He thought that you were going to ruin someone who doesn't deserve it considering he was trying to protect that Fenton boy."

"The only one hurting Danny was Masters," Peter said angrily. "Where is it?"

"He took it," Hughes said surprised by the change in Peter. "Where is the kid?"

"Staying hidden until Masters is taken down," Peter said glaring as Agent Roe was packing everything up. "Agent Roe," Peter called down getting the attention of the agent.

"Yeah Agent Burke," Agent Roe asked looking at the angry agent.

"Where are the files on Masters?" Peter asked going down the stairs.

"They should be in the file I never touched them," Agent Roe said confused. Peter looked at him and then realized that Danny wasn't kidding when he said that Masters could take over someone.

"Agent Roe, can you stay here any longer?" Peter asked looking at the agent.

"I thought you guys didn't want me here," Agent Roe said glaring.

"That was before Masters got that file," Peter said looking around for the copy he hid. "Masters may have just dragged you into it considering you were the one that took the file."

"I didn't take the file," Roe said angrily.

"Wasn't your choice. That kid that had been around is someone who had been running from Masters. Masters is a ghost," Peter said writing that in his copy. "I need to make more copies so that way we can make sure that he can't completely get everything."

"What are you talking about? Ghosts don't exist," Roe said looking at Peter.

"Actually they do," Diana said getting the file ready to make more copies. "We are working with one."

"You guys are crazy," Roe said leaving them.

"You think that was a good idea. Boss," Diana asked looking at Peter.

"Yes, we now know that Masters has access in the Bureau. But he needs to over shadow them. We may need Danny to be on alert in case anything happens," Peter said helping make the copies.

"Well I better get home," Peter said taking one of the files home to hide there. "See you guys tomorrow."

"Okay Peter," Diana said getting ready to leave.

"See ya," Jones said leaving. Peter was the last one left. He left thinking about how tomorrow was going to change everything, and how they plan to take Masters down.

BURKE HOME

"Hey El," Peter whispered as he entered quietly shutting the door.

"Hey Hon," El whispered back smiling that all Danny did was turn a little. "He finally fell asleep. I was trying to get him to think about something else to keep his mind off of whatever his mother and he were talking about and then when I went to the bathroom he started crying to himself. I felt bad and asked what was wrong. He jumped so far up that he about went through the ceiling. It was funny," El said smiling. "He was remembering a time from went he was on the run, apparently he had helped a couple of kids and then they helped him and then their family was targeted by Masters. He had burned down their house and then one of the kids was killed in an accident."

"Wow, I didn't know he did that. It makes me wonder what really happened out there to him," Peter said sadly looking at Danny. He got and pulled the blanket up to Danny's neck. "He needs to talk, but I think he had buried it so deep that talking about it will only make it worse than not. It's sad that he felt he needed to bury it so no one would have to worry. It will eventually get to him and he'll need people around him to make sure that he doesn't do anything really stupid."

"Is that why you wanted him here?" El asked looking at her husband with worry.

"One of the many," Peter said looking at his wife. "He is on the line and he needs help. If we can help him then I will feel better knowing that he will fine."

"That's great," El said. "I love you, Hon."

"Love you too," Peter said kissing his wife and getting ready to go to bed. I really hope we can help him and that he hasn't buried everything so deep that we can't help him until he breaks.

890MASTERS

"What the…?" Vlad looked around his house and noticed that it wasn't just destroyed, but the most valuable things were stolen. "How in the world did they even get past my security system?"

"Easy," Adler said coming around the corner. "You told me where Ms. Hunter was, but in the process you got her to make every criminal she could find go after you." Adler said walking around some broken glass. "I would chance to say that every one of your homes was broken into. The very best criminals came after you. I would check everything, because some of them are hackers."

"So in other words the majority of criminals are after me," Masters said annoyed.

"Without my help," Adler said smirking. Vlad looked at him and an evil grin came across his face.

"I may have an idea now," Masters said looking at Adler. "One that would solve both our problems, and I even have one set in motion as of now."

MORNING-BURKE HOME

A scream woke the entire house hold. Peter jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to see Danny sitting up with his eyes wide. He was breathing hard and holding his right side.

"Danny, calm down," Peter said running up to the hybrid. "It's okay, nothing is going to happen."

"Why can't it stay gone," Danny said shaking his head to get rid of the memories. "Why is it getting worse?" Peter began rubbing Danny's back to get him to calm down.

"It's okay, you are safe," Peter said as El came down stairs to see what was going on.

"Is he okay?" El asked walking up to them and making sure that Danny was okay.

"Besides scared half out of his mind, I think he is okay," Peter said as Danny moved his hand from his side and blood starting to ooze out of it. Peter looked wide eyed as El got some gauze from the bag that was on the table from their trip to the mall. "What happened, Danny?" Peter asked as he tried to help stop the bleeding. He then noticed the knife on the floor with the blood on it. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything," Danny said looking at the knife on the floor. "At least I don't think I did." Peter lifted up Danny's shirt and seen that the wound was caused by a knife. Peter looked at Danny angrily.

"Don't lie to me, Danny," Peter said glaring at the hybrid. Danny looked down the bleeding had slowed down a bit and El looked up at Danny with sad eyes.

"I don't know," Danny said quietly not knowing what to do. "I…I…I."

"Please, Danny, don't lie to us. We haven't lied to you, you shouldn't lie," El said looking deep into Danny's eyes. She seen that he was honestly and completely confused and had no idea what was really going on. "Danny, was there anything last night that was different from the others?"

"El, he cut himself," Peter said looking curiously at his wife. "Where are you getting at?"

"Danny doesn't know," El said putting more pressure on the wound on Danny's right side. "He didn't do this to himself. It was either done by someone else or something happened that made Danny do something he wouldn't normally do." Peter looked at Danny and realized that Danny was strong and wouldn't do anything like that. He was also completely confused at what happened. He forgot for a minute that Danny was a hero and he would fight even if there was nothing left to fight for. He wasn't just going to give up. He was fighting even though all of this.

"Danny, I need you lay down. Slowly," Peter said calmly picking up the knife with a cloth. "I'm not mad. I didn't mean to snap." Danny looked at him sadly and lied back down. He looked up at the ceiling with a blank expression before he looked back at them with sad eyes.

"I may have," Danny said looking down at his wound.

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