He swore his sister was trying to make him go into cardiac arrest -And considering his halfa status that was quite the accomplishment-.

But there was no other explanation to his sister stubbornness, and if he knew her at all there was just no talking her down from interning at goddam Arkham.

Their parents were no help at all. Well, they had been a little helpful at first, of course, what parent isn't concerned about their precious princess going to a city full of raging lunatics? And, ok, maybe she had gotten a full-ride scholarship from Gotham State University, but she could easily get in any of the other alpha nerd colleges she had applied to when they were in elementary school, yes, elementary school- and he wasn't surprised to find out they were still keeping tabs on his sister since then, the stalkers, but whatever, still better than the one in Loony Town.

So, with mom and dad at his back, Danny thought at the time that they could convince his sister from accepting, he should have known better 'cause all it took was a mention of all the new, different and most likely quirky ghosts that probably haunted the other city and all the research she could do on them because, oh? didn't she mention? The G. S. U. was letting her make her paper on ghost psychology, and wasn't that just neat?

After that mom and dad -the traitors- were over the moon with all the possible research that their princess could do with the resources provided by a university, let alone one as prestigious as G. S. U., they had not, after all, forgotten the good chunk of investigation financed by the University of Wisconsin that led them to the creation of the ghost portal, and even that was after fighting tooth and nail for validation of their thesis. After all the ghost-related incidents of the last years, the world was finally acknowledging the validity of ghost research and these people were offering Jazz a great opportunity.

Dad and mom where static for at least one of their children was getting into a good college or, well, that is what it felt like 'cause-

Like, they had not said anything but it was pretty clear they had given up on him getting into college. Any college.

..He wasn't going to lie, i-it hurt a little bit.

Just enough, really...

Not that they didn't love him or anything but, I mean it's not like they knew the reasons behind his fucked up grades, the constant breaking of the curfew, his reluctance to get near them as much as he used to because he feared triggering another of his parent's weapons again and- well, you get the idea.

So the interactions parents-son were a little rusty and declining because they knew he could raise his grades, after all, he had been a good student before the portal opened and the ghost started treating Amity like a playground, but they didn't know why he wasn't trying anymore, and his reluctance to spill the tea was not helping.

They probably thought he didn't care.

But he did care, he was anxious all the goddamn time because of it, there was no time to get his school work done and still hunt down all the pesky bitches invading the town, what was he supposed to do? ignore the ghosts? What was he going to tell his sister and his friends?

Like 'Sorry guys, I know I let the town go to the dogs, but look a B+!' Yeah, no. Not gonna happen.

But that his grades and chance of being an astronaut had been murdered in the ghost portal -not even touching the issue with his weird as shit contaminated ectoplasmic blood that wouldn't pass the health check ups, really he would have a better chance on steroids but whatever- didn't mean that his sister's chances were. You would think he would be resentful, but really, he loved his sister too fucking much, they had been through some shit together and he knew that if there was someone to be resentful to was his godawful luck.

And the Observants, fuck those bitches.

So yes, he wanted Jazz to be safe out of this weird haunted town, but just the thought of her sister getting this scholarship, to make a paper, on ghosts, in an asylum, on fucking Gotham, all by herself, and no. Fuck NO. That shit was the exact opposite of what he wanted!

Sadly, by this point in time Jazz already had sneakily planned and executed the first steps to get the ball rolling and shut down any argument he had to throw at her, so-

Whatever.

That's what she wanted? fine. But if she thought that he was going to let her take the bull by the horns on her own she was fucking wrong. The Fenton siblings had been ride or die since the Chicken Salad Incident of 2006 and if his sister was going to throw down in Loony Capital then so help him god he was going to be right behind her.

also, he was not staying with their parents alone, that was just asking for trouble.

As for dealing for the ghosts, well, there was always a first time for everything and he supposed there was nothing a few treats and some favors couldn't fix. Maybe a pair of memos here or there, the diplomacy lessons that the Observants had been trying to shove down his throat -may the higher lords know why- had to come in handy sometimes for fuck sakes.

And thus the Fenton Crash Curse for Suicide Missions -shut up Jazz, it is suicide- was born, because he was left with no other option more than prepare, and boy was he going to prepare.