AN:/ I lied. I am a liar. My pants, they are on fire. And I would really appreciate it if someone would call the fire department because its really really uncomfortable. I'm going to tell you a really short story now.

It's about a girl. She wrote this story. It was an epic really. It got a lot of reviews, almost a thousand. But time had gone by. two years in fact. And she grew out of the story. She didn't really want to write it anymore. She was beating herself over the head about it, but she just could not muster the enthusiasm to sit down and write it anymore. At all. It was actually quite pathetic because the girl was so incredibly close to the end. But, the girl had known how this story was going to end for over two years now, and quite frankly the story bored her to tears, sometimes literally. It was no longer interesting in the least. Not even a little bit. It was no longer a labor of love it was a labor of loathing. Very intense loathing that had given her more grief than she probably knew the story was worth.

And then her pants caught on fire and that's when she knew. It was time.

So my dear friends, this is my not so subtle way of telling you I am done. I am so SO done. This is the end, or at least a summarized version of it.

Because I cheated. I am a cheater. And i am rather fond of pumpkin pie. So this is my way of soothing my conscience. what this chapter is, is my outline, that has been sitting on my computer, for months now. I wrote this, intended to be only read by me, so it is completely unedited. but this is how I basically saw the rest of the story playing out. If someone wanted to be brave and write it, they have all the permission I am allowed to give. But for me, this is the end. I doubt even a hundred reviews would get me to write more. I am seriously so done with this. i cannot do it anymore, and I don't want it over my head. So there you go.

Brief summary.

Okay so what's going to happen next is that the next chapter is going to be from Jazz's point of view. In that chapter we'll time skip forward a few more days, briefly we'll go over how Vlad has been treating Jazz with absolute contempt, treating her as if she were less than dirt or not even there. While at the same time Jazz has been noting the changes in interaction between Vlad and Danny. Danny has become sheepish and embarrassed. He is now always trying his best to impress Vlad, looking to him for approval, even if he isn't conscious of his actions. Vlad attempts to keep the façade of acceptance up, but anyone can see that Vlad's smiles aren't genuine. He looks at Danny with eyes full of disappointment and sadness. He walks around the mansion with his shoulders ever so slightly slumped. He doesn't pay attention quite as much as he usually does. His gaze lingers on Danny whenever he is in eyesight, as if pining over a toy that is just out of reach. Jazz sees all this going on and as the separation and anxiety between the two gets worse she is more and more scared to leave them alone together, because if she does it might get worse. She tries to think of something to get the two to cooperate and understand eachother again and what she comes up with is a training session where Danny shows her what he's learned while with Vlad. During the training session a little of Vlad's paternal side comes back and he recognizes Danny's efforts to please him somewhat. Danny jumps on the feedback and gives his all, doing everything he can to keep Vlad happy with him. While eventually Vlad realizes that he has been acting like a father to Daniel again and he backs off, causing Danny to become depressed and anxious, thinking that he did something wrong. Somewhere in the middle of all that, Vlad will stress the importance of practice, while Danny will make a comment about how there aren't any ghosts around to practice on. Jazz will then bring up the question of why there aren't any ghosts around Vlad's house and that will bring up the subject of marking territory. Danny will get a brief lesson on how that is done, while Jazz learns a little more about Half Ghosts. Somewhere in there, Danny's hair starts to get in the way and he is convinced to put his hair into a pony while he works out. The similarities of the hairstyle and color of Vlad's in human form are completely lost on Danny. While Jazz and Vlad just choose not to comment.

Next chapter:

The next chapter we see Danny in school, the first hour of the Day, Business math. We'll go through his thoughts on Vlad's recent behavior. He'll be feeling an immense amount of guilt and anger for both himself, Jazz, and Vlad. He'll be anxious and confused. Next I'll explain a project that they have been assigned in class. They are to look at the trends in the stock they have bought, and then do research on the market for the stock to analyze what might be driving the prices up and down. They are to analyze one stock a week until they have done all of the stocks in their Portfolio. Danny has just gotten to the Axion Labs stock. He sees the trend that Axion Stock has been rising, which is good. But when he does the market research he realizes that it's because more Axion Ghost hunting products are being bought, specifically by the clientele in Amity park. Danny get's suspicious and checks out the market some more, but there is nothing but a load of stories indicating that his town is happy he's gone and that ghost activity is down, meaning that ghost weapons shouldn't be in higher demand. Danny does more digging and finally finds a real article, one that tells of his town being completely overrun and calling for his return. From that article his is linked to a plethora of others and he reads article after article about how his town is falling apart. As he goes back to the other false articles he realizes that all of them were written by Ghost Writer going under different names and psydoumes. Danny is extremely confused until he get's a look at the editors name and realizes that it's just an anagram for Vlad Plasmius.

Danny draws all kinds of conclusions. Mainly that he hasn't been able to fully trust Vlad and take the last step towards 'Dad', because he knew somewhere that Vlad was keeping something from him, and that really Vlad has just been manipulating him from the start, to keep him away from his town and people who needed him. He suddenly feels incredible anger for Vlad and what he's hidden from him. He goes to the main office to say he's going home sick before he plants his cell phone and his laptop in the bushes before he takes off for Amity.

Next Chapter.

He gets to amity and there is a massive epically long fight scene. He meets up with Sam and Tucker and they have their various reactions. Mainly he saves them from a run in with Technus, but only knocks him out and away for a while. Sam accuses him of turning evil while he was away, because he looks different now and never came back for them. Tucker is mainly afraid of him, but sticks up for Sam when Danny starts to get angry at Sam. Sam starts exploding about how she was never good enough for Danny but he lost his chance because she's with Tucker now who actually cares. She says that they never needed Danny anyway. This only solidifies what was in Danny's head in the first place. As Technus starts to wake up, Danny leaves Tucker and Sam to deal with it, instead of helping them out of the fight. He ends up exhausting himself and just as his parents had planned. They suck their son up into a Fenton Thermos and take him back to the lab to wait for him to come around.

Next Chapter.

Danny comes to and realizes where he is and promptly starts to freak out. There is a lot of creepy dialogue between him and his parents, while he is strapped to a metal table that he can't get out of. He tries to reason with his parents, telling him that he really is their son, but they won't have any of it. Danny pleads with Jack as he pushes him into the machine. Jacks says that he is sorry but that a real father is willing to do whatever is necessary to keep his son safe, even if they don't understand why at the time. Instead of Danny being comforted, he is reminded that Vlad had kept him away from all of this. It strikes him that maybe Vlad didn't want him to be near his parents or any of this danger and that if he had just listened to Vlad he wouldn't be in this situation. As he is put into the machine he starts to scream out in pain, absolute agony. He calls out for the first name he thinks of. Eventually he begins to stutter through the pain and Vlad turns into Dad… in every sense of being.

Next Chapter.

Clinton calls Vlad and reports that Danny wasn't there to be picked up from school. Vlad becomes worried and accesses the laptops and cellphone's tracking devices. He sees that they are behind the bushes at the school still. Vlad abandons his work, signing out for the day before he teleports to Danny's things. He finds them discarded in a heap but still useable. He hacks into Danny's drive and takes a look at his user history only to descend into a blind panic, seeing that Danny has discovered what he had been keeping hidden. He teleports to the outside of the Fenton house, where they have a ghost shield up and another massively epic battle ensues. Vlad's number one priority is to get Danny to safety, But in the process, Vlad lets all of his wrath out upon the elder Fenton's. There is a lot of heated dialogue and acusations of insanity. Vlad let's the leash of his temper and they die. Vlad takes Danny home to try and heal him. Jazz who's still at the mansion is horrified and breaks down into hysteria. Trying to hold herself together for when Danny wakes up. Vlad however, realizes that at this point Danny has only scant minutes to live, most of his life force having been forced out of him. Vlad, strangely calm after having just killed two people, keeps his head on and realizes this is what Clockwork meant when he said that he would be available. He goes to the ghost Zone and asks for admittance. Instead of Vlad going to Clockwork, Clockwork comes to Vlad. Clockwork pauses time and slipps a medallion over Vlad's neck, allowing him to work on Danny without risk of his 'time running out'.

Next Chapter

Eventually Danny wakes up he blinks blerily for a moment before everything comes rushing back to him. He tries to bolt upward and scream but he finds himself only capable of twitch and a whimper. Vlad who is of course nearby, rushes to his side, brushing the hair off of his forehead, looking worriedly into Danny's half closed eyes, trying to calm him. Eventually Danny is calmed by vlad's efforts, as evidenced by his neck relaxing and the steadying of his heart moniter. Vlad informs him that he has been out for nearly two weeks, slowly regenerating his energy and that he will likely be bed ridden for weeks to come. With extreme pain in his voice he regails to Danny that while he still has his ghost half he will most likely never be as powerful as he once could have been, his powers will be permantly stunted, though he goes on to say that even with stunted powers, they are still increasing as he is still not fully grown, and would likely level off to something around vlad's level when they were done. Vlad goes through a plethora of little routine checks. He give Danny water, not letting him even try to hold the glass. He adjusts danny's pillows. He fluffs his comforter. He makes sure the temperature is just right. He asks Danny if he has energy enough to eat. Etc. All of the fussing causes Danny to smile and realize what had always been in front of his face. He manages to lift his hand and brush Vlad's arm. Vlad emidiately stops and directs all of his attention to Danny. Quickly trying to asses the problem. Danny waits for Vlad to calm somewhat before he grins and whispers a horse "Love you Dad." Vlad stops for a long moment not sure what to say, but before he can get his wits back Danny has already fallen back asleep.

Next chapter:

The Fenton's were declared casualties of a disaster, attacked by a ghost and dying valiantly to protect the town. After Danny passes out from exhaustion and just before the Fenton parents take him away there are a few people who see Danny in his human form beign carried by his parents. It is declared that the Fenton's were actually right and that Ghosts had abducted their son. And that he had been returned to them in the battle. Custody of Daniel Fenton fell to Vlad Masters, now that the Fenton's were deceased. Months later It is made public that Danny is the Masters heir and there is a cover on Forbes magazine of Danny and Vlad standing next to each other, Vlad's hand on Danny's shoulder. Anyone who knew about Danny before the guardianship and adoption was leagal can't say anything about it because the wish Vlad made is still in affect. So no one besides those who came in contact with Danny know that something was off about the story. Jazz and Vlad are back to good terms, after it is clear what the heck was going on, explained better by Danny with Jazz present. Sam and Tucker go on to finish their High school career. They end up breaking up over their different dietary choices. Danny is finally able to openly call Vlad his dad, and without any reservations.