So, here's the second chapter of my newest Danny Phantom story. I obviously will be skipping sometimes, but only in the first few chapters because Danny's on summer vacation and hasn't got anyone to hang out with since Sam and Tucker are out of town for the time being. Convenient, right? I mentioned in my last chapter that since this is the ghost-version of pregnancy that Danny will go through the struggles of it and still have to go to school, feel pressured because of his ghost-fighting and schoolwork and so on. As I said in the last chapter I wanted to explore Danny's psyche while he was pregnant and how he grows during this; basically showing his development from hating this to eventually love the eggs.

Also, whenever there is a transition or skip in this story it will have the location, date and time of day. I do that with my chapter stories now after I played Persona since I like to know when things take place and I know other people do too. The only time the year is mentioned was last chapter or when it will be a new year in the story, but I don't know if it will get that far. I also went back to the correct year this story takes place on my calendar just so I know what day is when.

Hope you enjoy!

Word Count - 3,923 (Not including ANs)

Chapter 2: Sisters Always Care

Amity Park: FentonWorks - July 22nd Sunday - Morning

Danny Fenton currently had his head lying on the side of the toilet bowl. There was a greenish liquid leaking down the side of the young adolescence's lips that had discoloured the clear water in the toilet. The boy coughed before putting a hand to his mouth and coughed up another bout of greenish liquid.

"Danny, are you okay?" A female voice called through the closed and locked bathroom door; hearing the choking and vomiting sounds through the door.

The teen stopped for a moment before coughing again, swallowing, and taking a small breath. "I...I'm fine, Jazz. It's just a little bug..." He looked into the bowl and cringed. "Yuck. Ectoplasm..."

He wiped his mouth, standing back to his feet and flushing the toilet, watching as the glowing green liquid swirled around before flowing down the drain. He shivered before going over to the sink and washing his face of the ectoplasm. After that, he headed over to the door, opened it and saw his sister waiting outside for him.

She had long red hair that reached past her shoulders, was wearing a black blouse and light blue jeans with her usual blue headband in her hair to hold her fringe back. Over the course of the last three years as Danny had gotten his growth spurt he had shot up and now stood a head taller than his older sister which he was always glad to shove in her face.

Right now, wasn't one of those times.

Her aquamarine eyes narrowed as she frowned at him, arms folded across her chest as she looked up at her taller younger brother. "I heard you in there, Danny. You were throwing up. You're sick."

This only caused the teenager to frown at his sister. "Yea, I'm sick so what? You don't have to be so nosy about it," Danny said, folding his own arms across his chest in irritation.

He inwardly cringed at what he'd just said to her.

But it was kind of true.

She was butting into his business a lot and it got on his nerves sometimes.

And with how irritated he's getting lately he couldn't help, but say it to her face.

This ghost-pregnancy wasn't helping with this problem it was adding to it...

Jazz blinked at her brother's attitude before shaking it off. "Danny, I'm just worried about you. You've been really weird lately. You haven't even gone ghost lately."

The younger Fenton sibling turned his head away from his sister with the same frown still plastered on his face.

How could he tell her what was wrong with him?

He had started feeling weird a week ago.

So he had decided to go to the Ghost Zone to check what was wrong with him.

What he had found out wasn't what he had been expecting.

He was apparently in Ghost Heat.

And not only that but because he's one of the few powerful ghosts that don't need a 'mate' to procreate he could do it just from getting energy from the Zone.

Which meant that he was pregnant with ghost babies.

He hadn't been happy about that and still wasn't.

He's a guy.

He's not supposed to be pregnant and yet ghosts of either gender can do it.

It just depended on which was the more powerful in a relationship to be able to hold the eggs.

But the thing that bothered him was ... why?

Why did this have to happen to him?

He wasn't ready for this.

He wasn't in a relationship with anyone at the moment.

He still had school to finish and then think about what to do after school.

He didn't have time to think about this.

But now he had to.

He didn't know what the possibility of abortion would do to ghosts, especially a male half-ghost ... or if it would even work...

He just had to see what would happen.

No matter how much he hated it...

Now that he thinks back on it ... Jazz is his older sister and she's the most mature in their family.

It had been a week since he saw Frostbite and he was still having conflicting emotions on this.

Though ... how could he explain to his sister that he got pregnant through ghost energy and with him being male it affected his ghost side more.

"Jazz ... um..." He muttered out but bit his bottom lip as if to stop himself.

Could he really tell his sister?

She was studying psychology at Harvard right now and he didn't want her to start analysing him just because he wouldn't talk.

He grabbed her hand and took her with him into his room, hearing her protest to him dragging her along with him. When he let go of her hand he also made sure to close his door as well, so that they're parents didn't hear anything.

"Danny, what is going?" Jazz exclaimed, starting to look past worried and more panicked now. "Is a ghost after you?" He turned to her and shook his head at her as he walked past her and began to pace his room, thinking of what to say. "Then what? I'm your sister, please tell me."

He stopped, turning his head to face her to see the deep concern on her face, biting his bottom lip in nervousness.

He finally let out a deep sigh and nodded. "Alright, you win..."

She blinked, not thinking he'd give in that easily.

He twitched as if his nerves were on fire which they kind of were considering he was still experiencing Ghost Heat.

He just had to tell someone about this.

It was eating him up inside and he didn't know what to do.

He had to talk to someone even if it was his sister.

"This is really hard for me to say, Jazz..." He lowered his head as his black hair covered his face causing his sister to be unable to see his blue eyes. "I felt weird a week ago and went to see Frostbite about it. He told me I was experiencing something called 'Ghost Heat'." Jazz blinked at him, tilting her head confused. "It's meant to make my hormones stronger..."

He blushed after saying that and she nodded without saying a word.

She now realised that this was a very embarrassing topic for Danny, but he wanted to get this out ... to tell someone.

"He also explained how ghost reproduction works..." Danny's face went even redder and Jazz snorted causing him to scowl at her. "...it's because a pretty powerful ghost can reproduce with a reliable source of ectoplasm."

His sister was smart.

A genius even.

She could figure out what he meant just by that one sentence.

"Wait, are you saying ghosts can get pregnant without a partner?" Jazz questioned her brother, eyes wide.

"Not just that, but both males and females can due to how organs used are different from humans."

The nineteen-year-old just nodded her head, astounded at this new bit of information, but frowned when she realised something.

Why was her brother telling her this?

It was embarrassing him to even look at her, so why tell her?

"Why are you telling me this?" She asked and started to get a bad feeling when Danny lifted his head up, eyes sparkling with unshed tears.

"Because ... I'm pregnant, Jazz.."

Jazz blinked, staring at her brother before a small smile cracked across her face. "Danny, don't play jokes on me. I can clearly see you aren't."

This seemed to irritate the younger of the two. "Ghosts don't gain as much weight as humans do. I'm also only in my first week."

Jazz still stared at Danny, curiosity now showing in her aquamarine eyes. "How could you tell?"

Danny turned his head away from her while folding his arms across his chest as if to not give her the indentation that he was pouting. "I didn't. Frostbite could though. It's obvious in my Ghost form."

The older of the two Fenton children blinked, surprised at this new bit of information. "Can I see?"

Danny swallowed, keeping his eyes away from his sister and transformed. The bright rings flashing over his body, changing his blue pyjamas into the hazmat suit he usually wore in ghost form along with his black hair to a snowy white and his blue eyes to neon green.

He may have not been aware of it before he went into the Zone, but now that he was it really bothered him.

Jazz blinked as she looked at her brother's form once he had changed.

He had a brighter glow, was slightly see-through and in his abdominal area, he had what looked like an extra organ that was feeding ectoplasm to around five eggs. They were tiny, but Jazz could guess that like with human pregnancies they would get bigger as time passed.

The thing is her brother had five eggs in him ... how big would they get compared to a regular baby?

"Can you quit looking now? It's really uncomfortable..." Danny muttered out as Jazz lifted her gaze back to her brother and smiled at him.

"Sorry, Danny. I guess I'm just surprised is all."

"Yea, me too." He shifted back to his human form causing Jazz to tilt her head.

"Shouldn't you stay in ghost-form? I saw that the ectoplasm in your ghost-form helped supply the egg's nutrients."

Danny stared at her in surprise for confronting him about that.

Sure, he probably should make sure these eggs were healthy when he nested, but he was still getting used to the idea.

The idea that because he's also half-ghost he could get pregnant.

It seemed so surreal to him.

So abnormal yet it was normal to ghosts.

He grew up human, so getting used to ghost customs and biology was another thing he had to do.

"Jazz, I can't disappear for nearly five months just to lay ghost eggs," Danny told his sister which only caused her to snicker and him to glare at her.

"Do you really have to lay them?" She asked while lifting a brow with a smirk.

"I don't know. I was just told to leave a week or so before I nest since I'll be very aggressive around that time," Danny told her, turning away and collapsing on his bed. "Are we done here?"

She just giggled at his irritated behaviour, chalking it up to him being just a teenager or a part of his pregnancy.

"Yea, Danny, we're done." She turned to walk out of the room before turning to face him with a smile. "Thanks for telling me I'm going to be an Aunt soon!"

She then left his room, leaving a blushing Danny in his room, mumbling to himself, "I don't even know if they'll be like me or not..."

FentonWorks - July 30th Monday - Morning

Danny had just come out of the bathroom once again after taking ten minutes out of his shower time to throw up before finally having said shower. It was one day into his third week and he was already getting annoyed at the continuous flu-like symptoms that made him want to throw up everything he ate. Whenever he smelt something horrendous his parents made he wanted to upchuck too.

Or it could be the opposite where he was eating everything out of the fridge just like his Dad did.

He absolutely hoped that his well-toned physique wouldn't be ruined by the end of this.

He was only seventeen!

He shouldn't be having kids or whatever was inside these eggs!

He let out a loud sigh as he headed down the hall, down the stairs and into the kitchen before taking a seat at the table.

His Mother was cooking bacon and eggs while he noticed from the corner of his eye that his Father was working on another invention.

He cringed at being so close to a dangerous weapon, especially in his current state.

He absentmindedly placed a hand on where his eggs were located before realising what he was doing and placed it back by his side.

It still didn't sit right with him that his Dad was making a ghost-weapon at the table.

It could go off on accident and hit him ... not that it hasn't happened before in the past...

Though for some reason it worried him more now.

His Dad looked up and grinned at him, not noticing the slight discomfort of his son. "Danny-boy! You're already up!?" Jack placed the screwdriver down and stopped tinkering with the new weapon.

Danny nodded, smiling at his Dad with an unsure smile on his face. "Yea, Dad, didn't sleep well last night."

Which was partially true.

He had to get up halfway through the night to throw up his dinner and couldn't get back to sleep because of it.

Now he knew what his Mum went through with him and Jazz.

It's not fun...

That was when his mother came over, putting the plate with bacon and eggs down in front of Danny. The teenager looked over the food to make sure there was no ectoplasm mixed in with the food. He picked up his fork and moved the food around to check, but maybe having ectoplasm mixed in would help the eggs.

He didn't know.

So, Danny began eating his breakfast as he noticed his sister finally come into the kitchen, giving him a smile as she sat down at the table and began eating her own breakfast. His Mother sat down after she had finished setting everyone's breakfast down, giving her son a concerned look.

"Danny, are you alright?" She asked her son causing him to look up at her in confusion. "You've been sick for more than a week. Maybe we should take you to a doctor, sweetie."

Danny swallowed the food he had in his mouth before shaking his head and giving his Mother a smile. "No, it's alright, Mum. I must've just caught a bug when I went shopping at the mall a week or so ago."

He hated lying to his parents, but he had gotten used to the habit over the past three years.

It was something he had to do.

He was still unsure if they would accept him.

And now that he had these eggs in him he didn't know what they'd think of him if they knew that too.

It was another thing he was worried about, especially with what Frostbite said when he began getting aggressive and putting on weight.

It made him wince inwardly.

He was even more of a freak now...

"Are you sure?" She asked, sounding unsure.

"I'm sure he's gonna be fine, Mads!" Jack exclaimed, food still in his mouth. "He's a Fenton after all!"

Maddie seemed to take this in before sighing and nodding and continuing to eat.

Danny took this as a good sign that his mother wasn't going to worry about his 'bug' anymore.

The family continued eating; once breakfast was over with Danny headed back up to his room with his sister following him.

He turned around to see her as she closed the door behind them, giving him a worried look and he knew what it was about.

"Are you planning on telling anyone else?"

He swallowed, running a hand through his thick messy hair. His gaze aimed at the other side of his room, away from her. "I was planning on telling Sam and Tucker once I see them again at school. That way I had more people to talk to about it..."

"What about Mum and Dad?"

Danny turned his gaze back to his sister with wide eyes. "What?" A nervous smile spread across his face as his anxiety rose up inside him. "Jazz, you know how they are. I can't tell them about this."

This only caused his sister to give him a look as if to tell him that he probably should. "Danny, we don't know what will happen to the eggs after they hatch. If they'll stay in the Zone or you'll have to take care of them."

He swallowed again at hearing this.

He knew this was true.

They didn't know what would become of the eggs after they hatched.

Would they stay in the Ghost Zone?

Or would he have to take care of them ... like an actual parent?

"B...But..." He stuttered out, biting his bottom lip as he looked away from his sister again. "...how will they react? They always go on about dissecting ghosts ... me especially..." He lowered his head as he said this and he couldn't help but feel that familiar fear he used to feel when he was fourteen.

The sudden weight of a hand on his shoulder caused him to lift his gaze back up to his sister as she gave him a smile. "We'll think of something, Danny."

He gave her his own version of a smile. "Thanks, Jazz."

FentonWorks - August 2nd Thursday - Night

The cold night air blew through the open window in Danny's room causing the adolescent to shiver under his light covers. He wasn't told that this 'Ghost Heat' would also affect how he was around the weather. He may have a cold core, but right now it wasn't helping him a lot.

A light breeze in the wind could make him shiver as if he was in Antarctica.

A light ray of sunlight could make him swelter in the heat as if he was in the desert.

It really annoyed him, but he knew and hoped it'd stop once this was over.

The teenager groaned, mumbling to himself and shifting around in his comfy bed. "I don't wanna get up..." He grumbled out. He nudged his face into his pillow as if to prove that point. A low growl came up from his throat as he sat up in his bed, glaring at the other side of his room. A frown plastered on his face and lips set into a thin line.

His eyes narrowed as he placed a hand on his stomach and groaned. "Why am I hungry at this hour?"

He blinked and took his hand away from there, turning his head to the other wall.

'That's right. I'm pregnant. I'm meant to have cravings for food at odd hours of the day,' He thought to himself as he got out of bed, still grumbling under his breath about getting up.

He poked his head out of his doorway, scanning the dark and empty hallway of the Fenton home. He then went intangible and slid through the floor, landing in the kitchen. He looked around once more as he turned back into tangibility before heading over to the fridge. Danny quietly opened the refrigerator, eyeing each piece of food with a look of want in his eye.

Before he could grab anything he heard footsteps coming from the doorway and turned his head with wide eyes.

He shouldn't have come down here just for a midnight snack.

It was obvious he'd be found out.

Who else in his family gets up in the middle of the night for a snack other than sleepwalking?

His Father...

"Um ... Dad..." Danny said, pulling on a surprised face and smile. "...what are you doing up?"

Danny tried not to seem nervous in front of his confused Father, but it was hard when the fridge light illuminated his face.

The older of the two male Fentons tilted his head and stared at his son in bewilderment. "Danny? I didn't know you liked to have midnight snacks?"

"I ... um ... don't actually, but I was hungry and decided to have something," He answered, smiling sheepishly at his Father.

This answer caused Jack to beam at his son, bounding over to the teen as Danny stepped aside for the man to look inside the fridge instead.

"Then how we have our snacks together before we head back to bed! A little Father-Son bonding time!" Jack exclaimed, patting Danny on the back a little too hard.

"S...Sure, Dad..." Danny replied, wincing a little at the way his Father showed affection was by slapping people or crushing them.

He loved his Dad, but in his current state, he really didn't like it.

Danny walked over to the table to sit down as his Father brought out two plates of fudge from the fridge. The teenager was surprised his Father would let him have any since it was his Dad's favourite food. Jack placed a plate in front of Danny and another in front of himself as he too sat down.

"Um ... you sure you want me to have your extra fudge slice, Dad?" Danny asked as Jack nodded, grinning from ear to ear.

"Course, Son, this is the best way to bond! By sharing our favourite foods! Next time we should try yours!"

Danny blinked in bewilderment as his Dad began digging into his fudge slice.

He had been on a fishing trip with his Dad and a hunting one with his Mum but hardly got to spend time with them since either he was ghost-fighting or they were.

He never got to know who his parents were outside of their profession.

A smile spread across Danny's face as he took his fork, shoved it into the fudge, cutting a piece off and shoved the piece into his mouth.

His smile brightened when he realised he was actually spending time with his Dad even if it was during eating fudge.

It was nice from the usual.

It felt so serene.

It was great to be able to spend time with his Dad without a ghost attack.

He only wished that he could do this more often.

He got to spend time with his friends and his sister, but never his parents.

Not only that, but he'd been feeling more anxious around them.

Scared even.

He knew it was because of the possibility of them catching him, but there was another reason.

Was he really starting to be affected by his pregnancy and see his parents as threats?

He hoped not.

They didn't know it was him and if they ever found out they'd accept him, right?

Once the two finished up; Jack put their plates in the sink, hugged Danny for the 'great-bonding-time' before skipping upstairs and back to his and Maddie's room. Danny just stared after his Father before shaking his head with a smile on his face.

It didn't last however as Danny put a hand once more to his abdominal area, biting his lip. "This is going to get worse, isn't it...?"

He let out a long sigh, taking his hand away before heading back up to his own room, going the normal way this time.