AN/: Hey guys, it be Wednesday, you know what that means, updates! Ok so this isn't a part of the Pieces arc, those are coming so don't you worry, this one is a requested drabble, but i think you'll like this one and its Part 2

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They Know

Today was just not his day, wasn't it?

His head ached and his right eye kept twitching every 3 seconds, to make matters worse it was raining cats and dogs outside. Apparently, the storm would last three days over the Zone. Not that the weather usually mattered to him, the Citadel could handle any type and at times like this the whipping, freezing frenzy of wind only brought a nice cool chill to the interior. So the storm didn't bother him…

Dan on the other hand.

For every loud surge of thunder the Large Phantom would growl and from the beam he was precariously draped over, the sound became low and hollow, truly if it were aimed at anyone other than thunder, it might, emphasis on might slightly not sound like a whimpering dog in a Storm.

Clockwork would have left him growling, at the weather of all things, if it weren't for the fact that the thunder made his head hurt and the continuous growling made it all the worse.

"Dan could you stop that?!"

The growling stopped.

Clockwork sighed, good now he had some modicum of silence so concentrate on his wor-

Thunder clapped in the background

The growling began again.

Sighing the Time Master placed a hand at his temple and rolled his eyes. He attempted to stay focused on the Screens in front of him, he succeeded… for a few seconds that is

A bolt of lightning stuck rather close to the Citadel.

The Lair shook slightly with the electrified energy and Clockwork, being like any ghost was connected to his lair, shivered slightly as the electric energy traveled through the Tower, and to an extent through him, the energy left rather quickly though, leaving behind a draining, hollow numbness.

Headache, Dan, thunder and lightning, truly it wasn't his day.


Dan wasn't having the time of his afterlife either, the fucking thunder kept booming on and on, and for each time it did he slipped bit by bit off the beam that he was so happily lounging on before the hellacious Shakespearian tempest began.

When the Lighting actually struck the tower or very close to it, the Phantom actually jumped, completely unprepared to feel the electricity course through. It was a very good thing that he chose the beam that was over the Purple couch.

When the Lightning struck, instinct having taken over Dan found himself Phasing through the beam, landing quietly on the couch, he quickly looked forward, Clockwork had his back turned, good, he thanked whatever gods that the time Keeper didn't see that embarrassing display, then of course the Thunder started again and he growled at it subconsciously.

"What are you growling at? It's Thunder, don't tell me you're afraid of it?"

Apparently Clockwork gave up on trying to work, seeing as he was standing in front of the Phantom on the couch.

"What are you talking about Oldman? I fear nothing", scoffed Dan.

"Yes, you fear nothing except death, losing and thunder", countered the Other.

Though Dan did growl through gritted teeth, he did nothing more than glare. Clockwork took this as an affirmative and continued.

"You fear Thunder and yet majority of your pillages and killing sprees were in the rain-"

"I don't fear thunder, I dislike it, big difference-"

The Time Keeper rolled his eyes, "Sure-"

"It is, and I dislike thunder, for your information, because it annoy me and I get angry once annoyed-"

"And your-"

"And for every city of town I destroyed during the rain faced a greater portion of my wrath, if I actually cared I would almost pity the poor fools."

"So what you're telling me is that you went on rampant killing sprees in the rain because you were throwing s temper tantrum? Honestly Dan, a fear is no reason for such a thing", Clockwork had delivered that with such a deadpanned expression that it didn't hit Dan, until the Temporal ghost shook his head slightly, that he was being toyed with.

"I-… you-… you're an ass, you know that?" any attempts to cover up his sputtering were shot as the phantom could feel his cheeks color.

"Mm yes, but you're still the one who's afraid of thunder, now move over", he gestured to the couch but Dan did not move, so Clockwork simply placed his legs over the Phantom's lap as he lay comfortable with his head on the arm of the couch.

"Hey-! Clockwork really?!"

The Temporal ghost shrugged, "My couch"

"Fair enough", with that Dan began to tap lightly on the pair of legs that were draped over him, at this the Time Keeper began to chuckle.

"What's so funny?" asked the flame haired Phantom.

"That's something you and your younger-self share"

"Well it's either that or I snap your legs off-"

"You even try and your core would be crushed before you can blink", Clockwork had said this with a lazy yawn but Dan knew very well that the Time ghost would hold true to his threat. The Phantom swallowed thickly, hoping the other wouldn't sense his apprehension.

"Yeah… sure, so what are you afraid of Oldman?"

"Me? Hmm, not sure actually-"

"What, someone take away your visions?"

"Are you kidding? That would be a blessing, I would finally be able to sleep properly"

Dan rose a brow, "Wait, you see visions in your sleep? How can you tell if they're dreams or not?"

"That", Clockwork raised his right index finger, "is a very good question, I just do, it's probably why I don't sleep much"

The Phantom scoffed, "That and because you're a goddamn workaholic"

The same raised index finger moved in a small circular motion, "That too".

"What about losing your staff?"

"This?" The Time Keeper raised his left hand and inspected the his staff, "Hmm, no actually, no one else can use it but me and the next Time Master, besides, it's not a power source, it's a limiter type conduit"

"So your powers would go crazy without it?", Dan eyed the Staff warily, he knew very well what would happen to him if he touched it again.

"No, not anymore, it was only made like this because I asked for it to made like this, and considering I was too young to be using majority of my powers, it was a very good idea"

"What do you mean by that?"

"What was the first thing you learned to do power wise Dan?"

"Uh, fly I guess?"

"Exactly, its standard that every ghost learn to fly before anything, as for me, I learned to teleport before I could fly-"

"Pfft, you're kidding"

"Not at all, if I jumped 2 feet in the air I ended up in another realm"

"Wait how did you fight? Ground battles?"

"Majority of the time"

"O-ok that's rough", whipping a tear of mirth from his eye the Phantom tried in vain to stop his chuckles, "your enemies could easily have flown away-"

"Actually, none of them were ever able to-"

"How-?"

Clockwork rose a brow, "You are aware that you can be shot down from the sky right?"

"Yeah, but how good is your aim-?"

"Very"

Dan whistled.

"So… that means you're afraid of heights?"

"Hardly, I had to jump off, cliff and mountains and Waterfalls, heights were never a problem"

"You were afraid of flying then?"

"Actually no, was more afraid of ending up in a random time and dimension, but after getting my powers under control, neither of those thing were a problem"

"Huh, interesting… is there a fear of not knowing what your fear is"

Clockwork shook his head with a slight chuckle, "I'm not sure about that one, but did you know there is a fear of everything?"

"That and some stupidity of a duck watching your every move or something"

"Yes basically, there's also the fear for…"

And so it continued, the two of them talking about fears, no not their own fears, but of the types of fears themselves, the Phantom and Time Master had talked for about a good three hours before it happened and there they realized that someone else's day was going far worse than theirs.


"So you're telling me that the fear of long words is a long ass word? Damn that's just savage as fuck, just imagine asking some poor soul with that fear, just like, hey buddy what are you afraid of?"

"The English language… 's called the ironic language.. for a reason…you know", breathed Clockwork, at this point, the Time Master, though still laying down with his legs over Dan's lap, had his right arm draped over his eyes, while his staff was held to his side, loosely under his left palm.

"Huh, makes sense, but you still never answered me, what's your fear?"

"My fear… hmm…"

Dan who was thinking of all the possible fears they had talked about, barely realized that it took more than five seconds for Clockwork to answer. Looking over at the Temporal ghost to see his lips slightly parted and his "breathing" even.

The Phantom deadpanned, he should push the elder off the couch for falling asleep on him, but for some reason he didn't, he chalked it up to pity, he knew very well that the Time Keeper hardly slept, he himself had admitted it earlier in their conversation.

Rolling his eyes, the large Phantom decided to let the Time ghost be, but it seemed that the weather didn't agree with that. Not 15 minutes after Clockwork had fallen asleep, a loud boom of thunder followed by an instant flash of lightning shook the Citadel.

Dan who had all but forgotten about the weather tensed, but Clockwork...

The Time Master visibly jumped, Dan had to stifle his laughter as Clockwork ended up slightly floating cross-legged over the arm rest, the very same one he was using a pillow no more than three seconds ago, his eyes were wide and blue and his aura flared about, temporal energy manipulated the long white locks that whipped around him like an angry octopus in an attempt to protect the startled Time Keeper.

Clockwork blinked, one…two… three times before calming down and lowering onto the arm rest, he ran his free hand through his hair to dismiss the energy and to make it somewhat presentable again, he was very aware of Dan's snickering, his slight purple cheeks were an attest to that.

"So you can be surprised"

"Never said I couldn't", still sitting cross-legged on the arm rest Clockwork yawned and stretched before going back to his hair.

"So what was up with", he gestured to Clockwork's hair, which currently refused to be tamed.

At this The Time Keeper scratched his head in embarrassment, something his hair obviously didn't like as a few of the ends reached up to smack at his hand.

"I didn't expect to fall asleep-"

"Comfortable were we?" Smirked Dan

Clockwork rolled his eyes as he stood up, "very, but before I get too comfortable, I'm heading to bed".

"Oh, so what, I wasn't a good pillow?"

"Foot rest you mean, but no you were excellent, I'm going to bed unless you'd rather not move till tomorrow?"

"You taking a day off today then?"

"A break, besides I don't think I'll get any work done like-this…" The end of his sentence drifted off and the Time Keeper made a curious line towards the door, Dan followed right behind him equally confused.

"Clock? What-?"

Dan was cut off when Clockwork opened the door and Dan found himself with an arm full of shivering Dani.

"Squirt? What the hell?"

The child didn't answer his question, seemingly hysteric.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'msorry, I'msorry, I'msorry,"

Dan quite frankly did not know what to do, he wasn't fond of contact, or people or crying people, worse crying children, screams yes, crying was a no, but no matter what he did he couldn't pry the clone off of him. Thankfully Clockwork did his Father Time thing and got her to calm down slightly.

"Danielle, what are you sorry for?"

"I'm so sorry, they know-" and just like that a flip switched and the child went hysteric and latched back onto Dan again, "They know!, They know, they know, theyknow, theyknow, theyknow"

Dan grimaced. "Squirt, who knows and what do they know?"

Whatever Dani was going to say next was cut off when the Citadel Door banged open and Danny Phantom came in just as Hysteric as his clone.

"Clockwork! They know! They know, they know, theyknow, theyknow, theyknow!"

The aforementioned Time Master deadpanned as two of his charges were currently dripping wet, shivering and panicking. The Time keeper had placed his cloak on Danny while Dan had done the same with Dani.

Sighing Clockwork grabbed Danny by the shoulder as the distressed Phantom had begun to pace.

"Daniel, calm down, tell me, who are they and what do they know?"

"M-my parents, they know we're Phantoms"

The proverbial record broke.


AN/: Ok that's Part 1 of "They Know", Part 2 will be called "Illness" as requested. As a matter of fact this was a mash up of two requests" Poly wanted some Dan with thunder, while MuffinOverLord8 requested Danny and Dani freaking out about the Fenton Parents finding out their Phantoms.

Tsukiko K, your request is a main part of the part 2, and MuffinOverLord8 the Fenton Parents do come in this one as well so stay tuned.

Ok guys with that said, this and "Illness" will NOT be a part of pieces, these two are totally separate from those. Speaking of Pieces Kimera20 and GoldGuardian2418 are starting to piece stuffs together, you're warm you two, come on, keep trying ;) this goes for anyone else trying to figure out the "Pieces arc" XD.

But anyway you guys know the drill, send me your requests, and I'll write 'em, ask me your questions and I'll answer them, send me your reviews and I'll smile like the little nut I am.

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