Time in the Heart

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.


"We dream in joy and wake in love." - John Gardiner Calkins Brainard


Dreamer's Luck


"I didn't want to," Sarah tried to explain, but no sound came out of her mouth.

The misty forms of her son and the three others began to disappear..

"Daniel, wait!" she cried, trying to reach him.

Too late.

She fell to the ground, crying.

Frostbite held her in his arms and murmured words of comfort in her ears.

Frostbite pressed her head against his chest, letting the rhythm of his heartbeat soothe Sarah's troubled sleep. Whatever the Dream Master had shown her, was it worth the suffering she went through every day?


"Why are these not broken?" Clockwork asked, handing her the watch back.

"Uh, do you really want to know the answer to that?" Apricot asked, rubbing the back of her neck nervously.

"Enlighten me," the child Time Master said, folding his arms.


Danny opened his eyes and then shut them against the harsh glare of fluorescent lighting. "Ugh! What happened?"

"Plum, plum, plum!" a small fruit-like creature shouted, knocking the boy flat on his back again. "Sorry, Danny."

"Mom?" he asked weakly, looking around for the woman he'd seen in his dreams.

"She's on her way, Danny," the school nurse said, popping her head in the room, upon hearing the noise.

Danny heard the sounds of Sam, Ember, and Tucker waking up behind him.

"Whoa! What a rush," Ember moaned, shaking the cobwebs from her head.


"A human cannot be born of a union between ghost and human," Maddie argued.

"There is much you need to know, ghost hunter, if you wish to raise my son," the Fright Knight replied. "Daniel is fully human. I wasn't always as you see me now."

Maddie's head was spinning from the overload of info barraging her brains.

"What about his apprenticeship to your king?" Jack asked.

The Fright Knight frowned and then sheathed his sword, something very few people have ever seen. "Let me see the blue prints to the Ghost Portal," he said, ignoring Jack's previous question.

"Here," Jack said, handing it over.

"Jack, how could you do that?" Maddie hissed.

"Maybe he can see something we cannot," Jack reassured her.

She sighed. "I hope you're right."

"You forgot to configure a power source for the ecto-filtrator," the Fright Knight said, after examining the rough design. "Try an octagonal shape for the portal's body," he suggested.

He looked each of them into the eyes and gathered the darkness around him.

"If anything happens to Daniel, you will pay for the injuries one-hundred fold," the Fright Knight said, implying his previous threat.

"Fudge?" Jack offered, trying to guage this ghost's weak point.

"Get this portal up and running by Daniel's fourteenth year. Time is of the essence," the Fright Knight said, ignoring Jack's fudge offer.


"Danny, Sam, Tucker," the nurse said, hanging up the phone. "That was Mrs. Fenton. She says to say she's sorry, but she's running a bit late. Do you feel up to going back to class?"

"No," they replied.

"Okay," the nurse said, a bit too chipper.

"Who gave her a happy sunshine pill?" Ember grumped.


"I don't think we should tell Danny about his biological father," Jack said, as they climbed into the Ghost Assault Vehicle, oops RV.

Maddie nodded. "I agree," she replied, staring out of the window as Jack pulled the FFGAV into reverse and ran over the neighbor's mailbox.

"Fenton!" Amery Pole yelled, tearing out of his front door.

"Sorry!" Jack yelled, speeding off into the night.

Amery Pole sighed. "Idiot," he muttered, under his breath.