Chapter 28
"What are we going to do now?" Danny asked as Jones changed his bandages.
"I don't know, we weren't expecting Masters to work like that," Mozzie said thoughtfully handing Jones anything he needed.
"I think he is working with someone," Jones said looking at the stitches running up Danny's side. They started at the lower right and zigzagged up to his fourth rib. Jones followed as it skipped over and a new mark above it caught his attention. It started lower, but then wrapped around his back and up to his left shoulder. That had too of hurt, it looks deep. Whatever the hell did this to the kid has to have no remorse. Why is Masters so obsessed with this kid? What does he have that Masters doesn't?
"Jones, are you okay?" Danny asked looking at Jones who was out in space.
"Yeah, it's nothing," Jones said shaking his head. To get rid of the mental image of what the wound looked like before it healed. "Mozzie, do we have that antiseptic?"
"Yeah, it's right here," Mozzie said getting it out of the med kit he made for Danny. "Here"
"Thanks," Jones said taking the tube. "This is going to sting," Jones said looking up at Danny who signed.
"I know," Danny said moving around so Jones could get it on without getting it everywhere.
"Yeah, I figured," Jones said sadly. He took the tube and gently squeezed some on Danny's side to disinfect the wound to keep it from getting infected. Jones started to rub it in; he noticed that Danny only flinched when he reached a very sensitive spot. He must be use to this stuff if he cannot even wince at the stinging during the rest of it. Most kids will sit there and scream blooding murder because of its sting, even some adults do. Danny looked down at the wound as Jones started to wrap gauze around it to keep it safe and supported.
"Thanks," Danny said smiling at Jones. Jones couldn't help but smile at the hybrid.
"Yeah," Jones said getting up and getting some food for their dinner. "Here we go. I remember that you liked Chinese."
"Yeah," Danny said taking one of the boxes. "This is so strange."
"How is that?" Mozzie asked looking at Danny curiously.
"The first time I came here, they had gotten Chinese for us to eat," Danny said getting the chopsticks.
"Wow," Mozzie said shaking his head. "I have places to be."
"Can you tell my mom that I'm okay and that I'm not mad," Danny said giving an envelope to Mozzie.
"Yeah, of course Danny," Mozzie said getting the envelope and putting it in his jacket. "Are you staying with Danny, Jones?"
"Yeah, Peter wanted me to make sure that Danny is safe," Jones said finishing his food.
"Alright I don't know when I can come back," Mozzie said leaving. Jones nodded and turned back to Danny. "I'm guessing you told your mom something from when you were gone."
"Yeah," Danny said putting his food away and looking back at Jones. "I guess that she was right that I can't blame myself for something that Vlad did."
"Something happened that you blame yourself for?" Jones asked looking at Danny with sad eyes afraid to really know what happened. This kid has been through so much that I don't know how he stayed sane.
"Yeah, but it doesn't bother me as much as it had," Danny said smiling. "Talking about it did help, but I think that it opened more wounds than what I had thought it did," Danny said looking down at his left hand.
"If you want to talk, I will listen, if not then well it's late," Jones said looking at Danny.
"It was before I went to Florida. I was in Virigina right after leaving DC. I was enjoying flying though the clear night air. I didn't notice that I had stayed too close and was found by Vlad until it was too late," Danny said rubbing his left hand as the memory of a wound reappeared. "He had Skulker come and I was already weak from the few days without food," Danny said looking around the room for nothing in particular. "Skulker had this device that was supposed to short out my powers. What Skulker wasn't expecting was for it to blow up. It sent a shock entering though my hand," Danny said picking up his left hand. "It went up and electrocuted me. To say to hurt would be an understatement. I was able to get away before Skulker realized what had happened." Danny stopped looking at Jones. Jones only smiled.
"Sounds like you had a hard time," Jones said smiling that Danny was still strong even though everything was going against him.
"Yeah, you could say that," Danny said smiling that Jones wasn't going to push him to talk about what had happened. "When I got away everything had fallen. There was a young woman that was near the site. Her and her baby were there," Danny said looking down. "I didn't know until after the explosion. They were fine but I was afraid that they were going to tell everyone that Danny Phantom was there. It turns out that she was from Amity and knew about me. She was nice and asked why I wasn't home. I looked at her confused. She explained that she was hoping to go home; but that her brother was her parents favorite and they had always picked him above her. She was sad, but said that seeing me doing everything that I did gave her hope that everything was going to be fine. She was scared when I disappeared. She told me that everyone was wondering where their hero had gone and what had happened. She seen how destroyed I was. I told her that sometimes the good guys couldn't win every battle, but that just because I lost a battle, didn't mean that I was going to lose the war. She felt so much better after that, she said that I was the reason for many people to keep hope. I was the one that people could look up to. She made me feel so much better. We parted and I was flying up in the sky slowly going south until Vlad attacked straight on. I was able to get away, but I flew for twelve hours until I reached Florida."
"So Vlad attacked an unarmed minor," Jones said smiling typing something into his laptop. "I'm adding that to his file."
"Cool," Danny said smiling helping to put things that they didn't have before.
MADDIE
"I thought you said that every other day we could see Danny," Maddie said glaring at Peter.
"That was before Vlad found him, now we have him somewhere safe," Peter said backing away from the angry mother. Jack reached forward and pulled her close.
"We will bring Danny home safe, let them do their job so we don't have to worry about Vlad attacking," Jack said hugging his wife.
"I just want my baby," Maddie said crying into his shoulder. "I just want him home and none of this happening."
"Me too, Mads," Jack said smiling into her hair. "But when we are out of this, we can be a family even stronger and do everything together. Knowing that Danny is the Ghost Boy is something that's will help. He knows so much that we never thought of. He can teach us things about ghosts that we never would have thought about."
"Thanks, honey," Maddie said smiling at her husband's enthusiasm. "That helps. Thinking about what we are going to do when we get home with him. We came here to try to get our minds off of Danny and it turns out that we came here and found out everything that made him run. And now we can help him come home."
"I came up with the ecto-shocker," Jack said smiling. "I want to test it on Vlad."
"We can do that, Jack," Maddie said smiling. "If it gets to violent we can always try again."
"I hope it works a little too well," Jack said glaring at the wall.
"Of course honey," Maddie said smiling at the smirk on her husband's face.
SAM
"Tucker, check this out," Sam said giving the file to Tucker.
"Wow, that can't be good," Tucker said getting on the computer in the room. "I bet I can find more on Adler."
"Yeah, let's see," Sam said getting up besides Tucker. "He is a billionaire that had created a trading company on Wall Street. People invested and got a lot back. Then after a few months, Adler disappeared in a con that reviled Ponzi himself. He had pulled off one of the greatest Ponzi schemes in the past years."
"Wow he got away with billions," Tucker said wide eyed. "And you think that him and Vlad are working together?"
"It wouldn't surprise me," Sam said going though some pictures. She came across Neal in one of them. "You said that Neal was also a con man?"
"Yeah why?" Tucker asked looking at the picture in Sam's hands.
"I think that Adler is after Neal and knows something about this case. What if they are ones going after Danny?" Sam said glaring at the picture of Adler on the computer.
"Danny wouldn't have to worry as much about us then," Tucker said trying to stay optimistic.
"Yeah, unless he and Vlad are working together," Sam said rolling her eyes as Tucker began a game on the computer.
"That would be bad," Tucker said stopping his game and looking down.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked seeing the sudden changes in Tucker.
"I missed Danny, but I have gotten so used to being without him that he seems more like a stranger," Tucker said looking sadly at Sam. "Is that bad?"
"He was gone for so long," Sam said looking down. "I felt that way at first, but he needs our help and we need him. We will get back together no matter what."
"Nothing to going to be like it was," Tucker said looking at the computer and turning it off.
"No it won't, but we can make the best of it," Sam said smiling. "We have Team Phantom back, and no one is splitting us apart again."
"Nice, Sam," Tucker said smiling. "I guess you're right, no one will ever be able to split us up again."
"Good, now we need to talk to Peter," Sam said walking over to the phone. "What is his number?"
"He never gave it," Tucker said looking down.
"We will have to wait for Mozzie then," Sam said sitting on her bed. "Until then we can play with the deck of cards."
"Where did you get a deck of cards?" Tucker asked sitting next to her. She smiled and showed the deck with the words FBI on them. "That is so weird."
"I stole them from Danny," Sam said dealing them out. "Now let's go."
DANNY
"Wow, I always knew that this guy was a fruitloop," Danny said smiling looking over the file that Jones had created to put Masters away for things that was inferred to what he had done. "But this just takes the cake."
"Of course, hopefully the jury will make the right decision, with this they will see what a threat Masters is to others," Jones said looking at Danny smiling at how amused Danny was with the file. "Even though he never really did anything like that, it will destroy everything he has tried to do in the past."
"Cool," Danny said then winced.
"Are you okay?" Jones asked watching as Danny slowly sat down on the couch in the living room part of the hotel room.
"That hurt," Danny said rubbing at the gauze. "I think I just moved wrong and it stretched it a little. I have done that before."
"Yeah, lift up your shirt so I can make sure that it's not bleeding," Jones said getting up and sitting next to Danny as Danny began to lift his shirt careful not to touch his tender side. "There's not blood coming though, so you should be fine."
"Yeah," Danny said looking down in wonder. "I wonder if it will work now," Danny whispered as he took his hand over the wound and created a blue tint. Danny began unwrapping the gauze as Jones helped. When they looked there was not a scar or event the stitches that were there before.
"How did you do that?" Jones asked looking at the clear skin that showed no scars or even any signs that there was a tear in the skin down his right side. His ribs were slowly disappearing as Jones stared down at where there was once a huge gash with stitches keeping it together.
"Why did it work now and not when it first happened," Danny asked touching his side as the tenderness was no longer there. "I tried it when it first happened and it didn't work."
"May be you were too distressed and your powers didn't know how to exactly help you at the time," Jones suggested looking at Danny.
"That makes sense," Danny said smiling. "At least we no longer have a wound to take care of."
"There is that," Jones said still memorized by the way Danny could heal that so quickly. He can heal fast. He can create cold weather and has ice powers. I haven't really seen him fight, but I bet it would be amazing. "Can you do that to others?"
"I honestly don't know," Danny said looking at Jones. "I have never tried."
"Well, I guess you can always try it when someone else is hurt," Jones said looking at Danny while Danny looked down.
"I really kinda hope that I don't have to find out," Danny said looking at the floor. "I really don't want anyone to get hurt."
"That's something that you can't control, Danny," Jones said smiling at the hybrid. "There are things that that we can't control."
"I know," Danny said. "But that doesn't help the guilt I get when I could have prevented something from happening."
"Yeah, but then you can do something about it, even if you can't fix what happened, you can always provide a safe haven," Jones said smiling as Danny seemed to lighten up.
"Yeah, thanks," Danny said smiling. Jones got up.
"We need lunch," Jones said smiling as Danny laughed.
"Yeah, I guess we do," Danny said getting up to help Jones make something for lunch.
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