Fun fact: In case I didn't make it obvious, Tucker is straight, but he is gay only for Danny. Which is why Phantom is able to hypnotize him; because he has an attraction to guys, even though it is very, very slight. Tucker remains unaware of the attraction though, and Phantom can never stop internally laughing because he is currently the only one alive that knows about the crush.

Sam still wishes that Danny wasn't gay. Povresita... I don't feel bad for her.

...

Constant clicking was the only current sound in the room as Danny played around with the soundtrack of the new song he was working on. Phantom sat on the bed, playing with the bandage that Jack had put on after taking a harmless blood sample. Not that he needed it anymore.

He tore the bandage off, and the sound of it ripping filled the room, shocking Danny out of his concentration for a second before he went back to what he was doing. The song was only half finished, and he wanted it to be done before the end of the week. These things usually took him a month when he did it leisurely, and under pressure, it took him, at the fastest, a week.

The board of music was usually flexible with him on the account that he was a full-time high-school student, there were times though, that they became more demanding.

It was okay, this was a good week for them to be demanding; he had already finished all the projects and turned in all the essays, so this school week should be more or less mellow in regards to homework. He had plenty of time to work.

"How come you never sing the song?" Phantom asked out of the blue, still sitting on the bed, now reading a book.

Danny side glanced him, his father had kept his word that he would not perform any experiments without Phantom's strict consent. The man had seemed to treat the merman almost the same as he did before he knew that he was a siren, just more aware. Aware that Phantom had the power to manipulate and lie, aware that he was stronger than the man of steel, aware that underneath the human disguise, he was hungry.

Jack didn't seem to be mistreating him though, and he kept his promise about letting him stay in the house instead of kicking him out. The merman still had all the freedom that he had before, and though the adult human seemed tense around Phantom, he didn't necessarily treat him badly.

Already in the two days that Jack had known, he had gotten a blood sample, a hair sample, a saliva sample, performed some eye scans, cat-scans, X-rays, and had asked thousands of questions ranging from how old Phantom was, to what kind of powers he had.

All with permission, and as long as it was okay with Phantom, then Danny was alright with it.
Danny had been mad when Phantom admitted that he had hypnotized Sam and Tucker in order to stay close to him, and that talk had been long and stressful. It had called for many silent breaks in the conversation to keep the yelling to a minimum, but sooner or later, Phantom called Sam and Tucker over and released them from his spell to apologize.

The two friends had been annoyed, to say the least, and had threatened that Phantom wouldn't hear the end of it if he ever did it again, but they let him off the hook with a warning and a couple of bad attitudes.

"I don't sound as good as you," Danny started typing the lyrics, coding them to match up with the rhythm of the music.

'bittersweet memories

that is all I'm taking with me

so, goodbye

please don't cry

we both know I'm not what you, you need.'

"Nonsense, Precious, I know what you're hiding in that voice of yours. People would love you." Phantom stood from the bed and walked over to the raven, the open window letting in the neutral temperature afternoon air. They had just gotten home from school, Danny wanted to get home quickly so that he could work on the song. It was already Tuesday, and it was due Friday- written, recorded, and ready to play on air.

Suddenly a scent caught in Phantom's nose, and he looked around in confusion. He had never smelt that before, and he was stumped with the only thought of what it could possibly be. Then he turned to Danny, who's stomach started growling loudly.

Something wasn't right. The smell in the air was coming from the raven's skin, and it was... different.

"Well, as sweet as your coaxing is, babe, I still think that you're-" Phantom walked up and grabbed Danny's hand, turning the boy around in his rolling chair. "What?- Phantom what are you doing? I was busy." Danny didn't appear to be acting different or unusual.

That smell though.

The merman leaned forward into the raven's neck and sniffed at the skin there, making Danny blush royally as he tried to sink in his chair from embarrassment.

"Are you hungry or something?" Danny asked dizzily as he tried to ignore the breath on his neck.

Phantom shook his head no.

The human's stomach growled again, and at the sound of his own hunger, Danny stood, turning around to click save and close as a sudden decision had him moving, "Well, you may not be, but I am suddenly very hungry, wanna go grab a burger?"

Phantom allowed Danny to pull his hand free, and the green-eyed teen stared at the human, trying to place what was different. He seemed to be healthy, no dramatic mood changes, and Phantom couldn't smell anyone around other than the kid's father. "Sure, I guess so, I'll go get your keys."

"Actually," Danny turned around with a smile, "It's cool enough outside for you, and it's only a ten-minute walk."

The merman was sure that his skepticism was readable on his face, but there was no harm in going for a quick walk, right? The sudden desire to have one was weird though, Danny didn't particularly like walking anywhere since getting his car.

"Uh," Phantom hesitated only briefly, but surely he would be able to tell if something was wrong, right? "Sure."

"Great!" Danny said happily as he grabbed his wallet and shoved his phone in his pocket, "Let's go then."

That smell was still in the air, it wasn't foul, but it wasn't sweet either. He wondered if he should bring it up to Danny, but chose not to, there was no need to worry him if there was nothing wrong.

Phantom shrugged and followed Danny out to the stairs, but it only took the raven two steps before he tripped over his own feet, starting to fall forward head first down the wooden staircase.

Before the kid could even think to scream or try to catch himself though, Phantom grabbed the back of his shirt and the stair post before the dumbass could break his neck, effectively stopping the fall.

The merman yanked him up and after some fumbling, Danny got his feet back under him. He looked pale as if the traumatizing moment when he knew he was about to get hurt was still flashing in his head.

"You okay?" Phantom asked, though he already knew the answer to a very intimate degree.

Danny nodded, but his voice cracked when he spoke, still trying to recover from the almost accident, "Yeah, I'm great, we should really get some traction on these stairs though." he cleared his throat and straightened his wrinkled shirt before securely holding onto the stair rail to continue his way down.

"Good idea," Phantom said quietly as he followed Danny out the front door and down the street.

...

"Bro? Are you sure you got a good grip on that, Bro?"

"Yeah, Bro, I got it nice and snug, Bro."

Martin and Luther were best friends who worked together, but they had somewhere to be in thirty minutes and they wanted to get this 8 by 6-foot glass window installed as quickly as possible.

"Okay, Bro, since we didn't attach it to the equipment as securely as we should have, we need to be very careful 'cause it's pretty loose, Bro."

"Okay, Bro."

They stepped up on the latter and pulled the lever to lift the heavy glass up to the 10th floor of the business office, the leather straps that held each corner cried out from the strain of lifting the window. The two construction workers grunted with the effort of lifting the thing up all the way, but they worked in sync and so far, everything was okay in the world.

When it was finally up in the air with them, Martin looked at Luther, his bright red dreads covering his eyes. The glass did something to the direction of the wind, making everything muffled, and Luther's afro blew in all directions with it.

"Okay, Bro, I'm gonna let go and bring it over to the groove, Bro."

"What? Let go and bring it over to the groove, Bro?"

"Yeah, Bro, that's exactly what I said, Bro."

"Okay, Bro."

Both of them let go of the rope at the same time, but before they even knew what was going on, the rope flew up and released itself from the pully, dragged along by the weight of the window as it fell.

Luther gasped as his eyes widened and he screamed out, "Woah! Oh god, Bro, LOOK OUT BELOW!"

...

Danny and Phantom walked along the sidewalk, they had left the house just minutes ago and the roads seemed busier than a normal today.

The merman was staring at the raven as he walked a few feet ahead, trying and failing to figure out what was up. His scent was so different, but Danny seemed fine.

His green eyes traced along the raven's frame.

He wasn't bleeding anywhere, nothing seemed broken, his mood was still normal and his mind was still Danny. So what could it be?

That's when he noticed something, it was so minor that he couldn't really kick himself for not noticing it earlier, but now that he knew it was there he was positive that something was definitely wrong.

Danny's shadow was gone.

It didn't seem normal, or possible, but the fact that there were shadows all around them, including at his own two feet, except for on the ground where Danny walked, it was a clear sign that an outside force was up to something.

Could it be another siren? What kind of siren could do that? Hide another person's shadow? If it was a siren, then they were in deep trouble if they were already making a move and Phantom had only just caught on to this detail in Danny's anatomy.

Bad.

Very bad.

"LOOK OUT BELOW!" Usually, when someone hears that yelled out from above, their first instinct is to look up, right? Well, Danny looked from side to side.

Phantom looked up, though, and his features went from confused to utterly horrified as he watched an over-sized piece of glass came crashing down.

Right over Danny.

Without a second to lose, Phantom ran and tackled the raven over and covered his body with his own just as the glass window shattered on the concrete behind them.

The noise was loud and terrifying, and Danny's shock didn't allow it to register at first that he was unharmed, so his nervous system freaked out. Phantom would be worried he would faint if he wasn't already on the ground below him.

The raven panted for breath, the strike to his bravery had hit like a machine gun and it would take more than a moment for Danny to get over the panic. Phantom got off of him and lifted his body up off the concrete ground, and as his brain finally started to gather that his body was in no danger, the teen started to slow his breathing.

"Omg, Bro." A construction worker stepped off the latter, followed by his partner as they made their way carefully across the broken glass. Pedestrians and people who had been inside the building were circling around to see the damage.

"We're in trouble, Bro," the other worker said to his friend.

Phantom checked Danny over to make sure he was okay before turning angry eyes at the two workers, "What the actual fuck?"

Danny flinched at the anger in his boyfriend's voice.

"Bro, we're sorry, Bro." The worker grabbed his dreads as if he was trying hard not to rip them out, his partner stood next to him just as wide-eyed and worried.

The guy with the afro started to beg, "Please don't sue us, Bro, our boss will kill us. Here," he pulled out his wallet and pulled out $300 in cash, "We'll give you money and everything, Bro, I have more at my house stashed away, just don't sue us, Bro."

Danny glanced between the two workers fumbling with their wallets, looking as pale as white sheets of paper. Phantom was livid, and Danny was honestly surprised that his eyes weren't glowing a blood red at the moment. Huge shards of glass were everywhere, and Danny was glad he wasn't the poor guy that would have to clean up the mess. Light reflected off the shards and practically burned holes in his retina, but he put a hand on the merman's shoulder anyway.

"Phantom," his white-haired boyfriend turned to look at him, "Let them be, we'll report it later." They had hundreds of thousands of dollars in their bank accounts, there was no need to sue, or to take their pocket money. There was plenty of witnesses, and from what Danny could see there were people recording this on their phones. Whatever company these two workers were a part of, their boss would hear about this within the hour.

At the word 'report' the two worker's mouths dropped open and they started talking to each other in mortification.

"Oh, shit, Bro, we're so fired, Bro, what are we going to do, Bro?"

"It's okay, Bro, we still got the naturalist club, Bro."

"Okay, Bro."

Phantom rolled his eyes but carefully stepped over the big pieces of glass, grabbing Danny's hand as he went and they walked away.

Danny blinked a few times but grabbed onto Phantom's hand, the nasty burger was just a few blocks away now. The roads were very busy and every three seconds a car going at least 45 miles an hour passed them.

"You can't seriously still be hungry after that." The merman side glanced the raven, amazed by the kid's ravenous stomach.

They stopped at a stop light and pressed the cross button before waiting at the corner for the light to turn red and the sign to say it was safe to cross.

"Hey, I'm a healthy growing boy, I need calories- woah!" Danny heard the bells before he felt the impact that ripped him out of Phantom's hand. A bike rider who didn't seem to care about avoiding pedestrian traffic knocked Danny over right off the sidewalk.

The first thing Danny realized was that he was on the street, and the second thing he realized was the loud honking coming from his right.

Just as he turned his head to see an 18 wheeler just feet away from turning him into a pile of blood on the side of the road, he felt a strong grip on his ankles yank and drag him back onto the sidewalk. He could feel the concrete scraping against the flesh on his back, and he knew there would be ugly bruising and skid marks in the morning. Though that wasn't what was occupying the front of his mind as Phantom lifted him up off the ground and helped him regain balance for the 3rd time in less than 10 minutes.

The smell of blood filled the air, further concerning Phantom as he checked Danny over, lifting up the back of his shirt to see the damage.

This was really bad.

Well, the scrapes were too, but Phantom meant the very obvious bad luck that Danny seems to have.

"Are you okay?" The merman asked the petrified human, if he kept suffering sudden drops in blood pressure like this then Danny was really going to end up in the ER. "Breathe, you idiot," he said when he realized the raven was still holding his breath.

A rush of breath was released, and Danny's fearful eyes looked over at him, the panic slowly going away before a nervous smile covered his face. He gave a scared laugh and practically slapped his hand into Phantom's, holding it in a death grip that expressed his appreciation that the merman had the 6th sense of a spider. Needless to say, Danny was nervous and paranoid at this point and thought it best to glue himself to Phantom's side.

"Still want food?" Phantom asked as the sign finally turned to the walk symbol. The restaurant was in sight, but still at least 2 minutes away. Phantom did a 360 to make absolutely positive that there was no chance they would get hit on the way across the 4 lane intersection.

Danny side glanced the merman again, giving him a bashful smile, but it was that goofy half scared/fully hungry smile that had Phantom rolling his green eyes again. Of course, Danny was still hungry. The stomach crisis would always outweigh any outward crisis that came his way, as long as he was hungry.

They walked into the nasty burger together, and the coolness of the diner had Phantom sighing in relief. It may have been 72-degree weather, but being outside still wasn't the most fun.

Wet floor signs covered the ground, and the worker was actively mopping a few feet from the front counter, but that didn't stop Danny from walking right up to the menu and giving the cashier his order. He got triple meat with bacon and spicy jalapeno cheddar with tater-tots and coke, and Phantom could already smell the farts.

The lady behind the counter called Danny's name and the boy grabbed his bag, turning around to start the walk home with Phantom.

That's when he slipped.

Danny gasped as his whole body flew backward, losing balance after slipping on a particularly wet spot on the tiled floor. Phantom sensed fairly quickly that the back of the raven's head was going to make an impact against the edge of the counter, and knew that it would cause severe damage and possibly immediate death. So he put his hands in the way, cupping the edge and cushioning the blow to the kids head, hurting his own hands in the process.

Phantom knew just by the pain in his metacarpals, that without his hands saving Danny's head just now, there was no doubt in his mind that the impact would have cracked his skull.

The blue-eyed boy fell harmlessly to the ground after that, feeling around on his head and checking himself for injuries with a familiar look of post-panic on his face.
There was no denying it now, this was definitely another attack. Danny had to have some kind of black magic riding on his shoulders, and Phantom knew that it had to be another assassin behind the curtain.

Once, Danny was a dumbass. Twice, it was just a coincidence. 3 times, it just wasn't Danny's day, but 4 almost accidents that would have left Danny dead in less than 20 minutes? Some shit was actively going down, and the merman needed to figure out what it was before the raven tripped and fell off a cliff.

"Yeah," Phantom said as he helped Danny to his feet for the billionth time that day, "Okay, somethings up, this is another attack, we're going home and I'm locking you in your room until we figure out what's going on."

Danny stood on his feet and Phantom wrapped an arm around his shoulder, drawing the boy's small frame to the side of his body to keep him out of trouble on the way home. The boy looked around himself, taking in any and all possibility for disaster. The crack in the sidewalk, the cars speeding down the street, the construction workers painting the side of the building, the toy helicopter flying above their heads, the walker with 6 dogs waiting to get her street-side coffee, it all looked like possible cause of death to him now.

The raven held onto Phantom as they walked out the door and started down the sidewalk back to the Fenton works, now unwilling to let go of the merman for any reason until they were safe at home and away from danger.

"If I'm being attacked, shouldn't there be some kind of confrontation like the others?" Danny said, his voice a little shaky from being attached to the merman's side and from their fast pace.

"Not unless they're stupid like the others," Phantom's eyes searched, looking for anyone who didn't seem to fit. "If someone is trying to kill you, they're definitely on the right track." Being evasive and keeping confrontation non-existent was definitely the course of action to take if they wanted Danny dead.

This wasn't good, they had a siren that was actually smart, who knew that as long as Phantom knew they were there, they would not succeed. The merman couldn't see, or smell, or hear any indication that another siren was around, even though Phantom knew there had to be. Only if there wasn't, what then? Would Danny just continue to have constant bad luck, and nearly die every couple minute until he actually did trip and fall off a cliff?

Danny swallowed thickly, he knew that there were merpeople coming after him who had ill intentions, but to hear Phantom say out loud that someone was trying to kill him right that moment was still nerve-wracking.

"Relax, precious," Phantom said, his voice comforting but still contradicting the panic that was clearly heard, "You're gonna be fine, just whatever you do, do not trip."

Danny nodded roughly, but somehow they were able to make it back to the house without anything bad happening, and the raven felt 10 times safer the moment that he walked through the front door. He sighed in relief and went straight to the kitchen, snatching his burger out of Phantom's hands with a groan as he went.

He yanked the kitchen chair out from under the table and sat down to start eating, and Phantom walked in to sit in the chair across from him.

In no time at all Danny had already scarfed down 3 bites, making Phantom snap at him to chew his food more.

"I'm not about to drive you to urgent care because you start choking, chew your damn food, and take baby sized bites." His tone was slightly angered, and more than a little irritated, but Danny knew enough about how Phantom behaved to know that the merman wasn't actually directing his attitude at him. "There will be no asphyxiating in this house any time soon."

Danny would have rolled his eyes if it weren't for the fact that he was currently accident/danger-prone and choking on his food was an actual possibility.

Phantom sniffed as Danny continued to eat. That odd smell was still underneath the raven's skin, and he had a nagging suspicion that whatever made that weird smell was behind all the almost-accidents. Was the siren overshadowing Danny? If that was the case, how the hell was he supposed to dispel it without hurting the human? It wasn't as if he could just use his ice powers, Danny would likely freeze to death. How did he get rid of a siren that was underneath the boy's skin?

Danny successfully finished eating without choking or biting his tongue, and he took a sip of his coke with a sigh of relief. The thought rushed into his head that he was awfully stressed out, and usually, the only cure for that was sex, or lavender tea. And considering he didn't particularly wanna die via endorphins induced heart attack, he thought making lavender tea was the better course of action. So with a sigh, Danny stood and grabbed a mug and tea bag from the pantry before turning to the stove.

Phantom's eyebrows crinkled when another smell hit his nose, and he asked as panic filled him up like an emotional bucket of fear, "Is that an electric, or a gas stove?"

Danny turned his eyes over to the merman and responded as he reached to turn on the heat, "Gas, why?"

Phantom's eyes widened and before Danny knew what was happening, there was a loud explosion and seconds later, he was on the ground.

Danny coughed and hacked to get the smoke out of his lungs, the pressure from having Phantom's weight land on him had knocked the air right out of his lungs. He couldn't see, and could hardly breathe. There was a pain in his head and Danny knew that the sensation of liquid dripping off his face onto the hand that held himself up was blood dripping from his nose. Finally, when he was able to get the world around him to stop spinning at 100 miles an hour, Danny got off his stomach and took in the scene around him.

He didn't know how he and Phantom had gotten out of the kitchen so fast, but that didn't matter to him right at that moment, no.

Phantom was unconscious.

And burned. Badly.

...

Hehe, this chapter was going to be longer, but it would have ended up 9k words, so I cut it in half and left you at a cliffhanger. There will now be 43 chapters, plus an epilogue.

I hope you like where the story is going still, but let me tell you, I think a lot of people are going to hate me soon...