Hey, guys! This chapter was fun to write as not only do you get the return of Xavier but also some Danny, Sasha, relationship building. I don't own anything. Danny Phantom belongs to Nick. Enjoy!


Ghostly Jealously

"So how was the water park?" Sasha asked as her and her friends walked through the halls of Casper High, Danny trying his best to hide behind them. She was unable to go with them during the weekend, not having the funds to do so. Sam offered to pay for her ticket but Sasha declined. It never felt good taking handouts from friends, no matter how rich they were. And although it sucked not being able to hang out with her friends Sasha was able to sit down and add the Wicked soundtrack that Xavier let her borrow to her iPod. "And why does Danny look so paranoid?"

"It was a disaster. Perhaps it was a good thing you didn't tag along, Sasha," Tucker answered, causing Sasha to raise an eyebrow, hoping he would elaborate.

"Johnny 13's stupid shadow showed up and when Danny transformed back from ghost form Paulina saw him and found out about the whole ghost thing," Sam jumped in.

"Shit," Sasha muttered in shock before turning to Danny. "If you're looking to hide out today feel free to use the nurse's office. My mom will totally understand."

"I might take that offer," Danny said. "God, this sucks, Paulina knows I'm half ghost. I mean she says she's gonna keep my secret but how can I trust her? She's a girl. Girls can't keep secrets!" Danny ranted. As soon as his last sentence came out of his mouth Danny froze, realizing his mistake before turning to Sam and Sasha who were looking at him unimpressed. "Except for you guys, you guys are different."

"Nice save," Sasha deadpanned.

"Well, the good news is Paulina's kinda dim. As long as nothing else weird happens maybe she'll forget all about it," Sam assured Danny, ignoring his earlier comment.

Just as Sam said that Sasha and Danny's ghost sense went off as Tucker went to take a drink from the water fountain. Johnny 13's shadow popped out of the fountain causing the rest of the students to scream and run away in terror.

"So that's where the town sewage goes, I knew it," Sam noted.

"Ugh, gross, I use those to fill up my water bottle," Sasha gagged.

Jumping into action Danny and Sasha hid behind Sam and Tucker and transformed into their ghost sides. They flew through the halls, catching up to the shadow.

"You're making it really hard for me to keep a low profile," Danny growled at the ghost who ended up punching Danny through the ceiling and out through the roof of the school. Sasha followed them, charging up some light in her hands.

"I think it's time I brought a little light back into your life," Sasha smirked. Bringing the balls of light together Sasha created a beam of light and aimed it directly at the shadow. The ghost hissed in pain before disintegrating.

"Nice job," Danny complemented, having recovered.

"All in a day's work," Sasha smiled.

The two returned back to the school, Danny disappearing into a locker while Sasha disappeared into the girl's bathroom in order to transform back. Walking out of the restroom Sasha was greeted with the sight of Paulina congratulating Danny on a job well done in defeating the ghost. It looked like she wasn't forgetting about Phantom anytime soon. Thing's only got weirder when Mr. Lancer came to scold Danny on missing out on recent detention duty and Paulina stuck up for him, explaining why he was late.

"He was with me. We're dating now!" Paulina declared to practically the whole school. Everyone in hear shot gasped at the news. The popular girl deciding to date one of the freaks. It was unheard of. Danny smiled though as Paulina clung to his arm, looking at him with these dreamy eyes that made Sasha want to barf.

"This certainly ups your street cred, Mr. Fenton," Mr. Lancer smiled before turning to Tucker and throwing the stack of erasers into his arms. "Mr. Foley, you're not dating anyone out of your league, you can knock the erasers together. You two lover birds enjoy lunch."

Watching Danny and Paulina head off to the lunch room Sasha and Sam glared at them, but mainly Paulina still hanging off Danny's arm. And while Sam's glare was filled with disgust, Sasha's glare was filled with rage. With arms full of blackboard erasers Tucker easily picked up on his friend's discomfort with the scene.

"You guys okay?" he asked.

"Oh, yeah I'm great. It's not like the most disgustingly, nasty, popular girl just suddenly decided she's attracted to the one who she's happily bullied for the longest time just because she knows he's the one saving the town from all the ghosts trying to invade it. Yeah, I love that that bitch is using one of my best friends and that he's too blinded by her pretty face to notice. But yeah, it's great seeing him so happy," Sasha ranted before walking off towards the lunchroom herself, knowing very well that their sitting arrangements were gonna change thanks to Paulina's big announcement.

"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen Sasha so pissed off. And that's saying a lot since we've seen her and Danny mad at each other twice," Tucker commented as him and Sam watched her go.

"Well, what she said is true and I hate it also. I think it's because she's become so protective of us," Sam replied.

"What do you mean?" Tucker asked confused.

"Remember when you were trying to get with Valerie even though she was just using you to get more info on ghosts? Sasha became super defensive when she thought you'd out her mom about her ghost knowledge," Sam brought up.

"Yeah, she threatened to kill me," Tucker remembered.

"Well, now we're in that category of important people to her that Sasha will defend to the death. If she senses that someone is messing with us or using us for their own gain then she won't be happy. That's what's happening now with the whole Paulina and Danny situation," Sam explained.

"Sam! Tuck! Come on! Don't leave me alone while that is going on," Sasha called out to them, already having got a glance at the new couple and was repulsed.

Sam shot Tucker a see what I mean look before the two headed into the lunchroom. And besides all the staring the new couple was getting the three saw even more changes happening as Dash reluctantly walked up to Danny.

"Well, as much as it pains me to say this, Fenton, now that Paulina likes you you're officially a cool kid," he informed Danny.

"Officially? Like a club?" Danny asked excitedly.

"Not like a club, a club," Dash said annoyed and then muttered to Paulina. "He's kinda dim, isn't he?" Turning back to Danny Dash began to hand him all sorts of stuff. "Here's your membership packet, and this is Mikey, he'll be doing your homework from now on."

"Hi, Danny," the geeky kid greeted.

"Don't talk to him, you're nowhere near cool enough," Dash scolded and tossed Mikey into a table before turning back to Danny and Paulina. "And here's your hall pass card. After the hall monitor stamps it ten times you get a free frozen yogurt. Welcome to the A-List, jerk… uh, I mean pal."

"Hey, Fenton's cool now? I thought we didn't have room for new members?" Kwan questioned.

"Kwan, old pal of mine, I have some bad news," Dash said to the football player before breaking it to him that he was out of the group.

Kwan ran out of the room, tears in his eyes, while Dash took a seat at Danny and Paulina's table along with all the other A-Listers. Sam and Tucker looked over at Sasha, surprised to hear a low growl coming from their friend.

"Should we head over…?" Tucker went to ask.

"Don't bother, we're clearly not 'cool' enough," Sam interrupted.

"Then where are we gonna sit?" Tucker questioned.

"Come on, I know a place," Sasha frowned and then led them over to where Xavier and his theatre friends were. "Hey, Xavier, would you guys mind if we sit with you?"

"Is this that girl you were telling us about?" one of his friends asked. "The girl with the great voice?"

"She sure is," Xavier confirmed.

"Then grab a seat, you and your friends are definitely welcome," the girl smiled.

Sasha gave the girl a small nod and slid in next to Xavier while Sam and Tucker took their place across from them. The three tried to be polite in answering any questions the rest of the table had for them, them mainly being for Sasha, but every once in a while, Sam, Sasha, and Tucker would glance over at Danny and Paulina. Tucker would look at the scene with envy, Sam with disdain, and Sasha with an angry protective eye.

o

It had been a week of being ignored by Danny as he hung out with no one but Paulina. Sasha hung out more with Xavier while Kwan managed to snag a way in with Sam and Tucker because they felt sorry for him. Sasha felt sorry for Sam and Tucker however as they dealt with the football player trying to fit in with them and failing significantly. She was doing a bit better, hanging out with Xavier more was fun, the two of them bonding over more musicals. He opened up to her about his dream rolls, wanting so bad to play Jean Valjean and Anthony from Sweeny Todd, even though he wished he had the vocal range for Sweeny himself. But she couldn't spend all time with Xavier as he had a special someone himself who he was determined to spend enough time with. It was in those times by herself that Sasha was reminded what was going on with Danny and Paulina and became instantly frustrated again. That frustration only increased when she saw that Star, Paulina's old best friend, was ordering Tucker around like her relationship slave. Sasha tried to avoid them as best she could, not being able to take the sight of her friends being used, even if they were happy about it. She hoped that home would be a good place to do so but one look out the window at Danny carrying Paulina towards his house in his ghost form had Sasha screaming.

o

Danny set the Kitty possessed Paulina down on a chair in his basement while he floated above her, looking annoyed.

"Look, Danny, I didn't want to cause you any trouble," Kitty-Paulina said.

"You're about eight shadow attacks too late," he replied unimpressed. "What's the story?"

Kitty-Paulina sighed before beginning to recount her story. "It's like this. Very since Johnny modified his bike so it can come here I've been nagging him to take me back. The city sights were so exciting, but unfortunately Johnny was taking in the sights too. And by sights, I mean every single girl in town. I remembered how much Johnny couldn't stand you so you were the perfect person to make him jealous. I was originally gonna try and overshadow your friend, that one that Johnny was gonna use to bring me into the human world. You like her, don't you? Johnny told me how protective you got over her when he was planning to use her as the backup."

"Sasha?!" Danny squeaked. "I… well… uh… Just get back to the story!" Kitty-Paulina shot him a look, saying that he totally liked her before continuing.

"Unfortunately, she wasn't there with you so I was gonna settle on overshadowing that goth chick you hang out with but ended up in this body instead. Go fig, but the good news is you like her too. Johnny's furious, I'm pretty, you're popular, everybody wins."

"Except for Paulina," Danny pointed out. "You realize you're gonna have to stop this right."

"Maybe. Or maybe Paulina will slip up and tell the whole town that Danny Fenton is the ghost boy," Kitty-Paulina threatened. Seeing that she had him beat Kitty-Paulina got up from the chair and headed out. "See you at lunch tomorrow, boyfriend."

All Danny could do was watch her leave, wondering what he could do to try and fix this. He really needed to talk to his friends, and apologize for ignoring them throughout the whole thing. He'd just have to leave the whole Kitty wanting to possess Sasha because Kitty thought Danny liked her out of his explanation. Blush appeared on his face thinking about that. No, there was no way he'd tell her that.

o

Sasha was surprised when Sam pulled her over to a table during lunch before she could join Xavier and his theatre friends. She was even more surprised to see that Tucker and Danny were at the table that Sam was pulling her towards.

"Wow, it's a surprise seeing you here," Sasha said to Danny. "Where's your girlfriend?"

"Hopefully stuck in the lunch line," he replied, tensing when Sasha brought up Paulina.

"Trouble in paradise?" Sasha laughed dryly. It was around the time Sasha guessed things would go downhill.

"I'm losing my mind," he admitted. "I mean, Paulina's fairly high maintenance…"

"Really, we hadn't noticed," Sam pipped in.

"Yeah, but worse, she's being controlled by a ghost with a crush on Danny," Tucker told them.

"Wait, what!?" Sasha exclaimed.

"Tucker, Kitty doesn't have a crush on Danny. She'd using him to make Johnny jealous," Sam said, having ignored Sasha's outcry.

"Okay, okay, hold it! We're a team here remember? And as part of that team I would really appreciate it if I was given a rundown of the situation at hand," Sasha said.

"You're right, I'm sorry," Danny apologized.

"Well that sentence sounds nice," Sasha smirked. "So, we're dealing with Johnny-the-creep 13's girlfriend trying to make him jealous by using you to do it? And I'm guessing she's holding your secret over your head so that you corporate?"

"Pretty much," Danny confirmed.

"Hmm," Sasha pondered before coming up with an idea of how they might be able to fix things. "I have an idea on how you can fix this whole thing, but it's kinda risky."

"Danny!" the Kitty possessed Paulina cried out as she searched throughout the school yard. "Has anyone seen my Danny?"

The four grimaced hearing the words come out of her mouth. Danny, Sam, and Tucker's more so in fear of being found while Sasha's was more so of disgust. Danny instantly turned invisible to try and hide from her long.

"Risky it good, let's hear it," Danny agreed.

"You're gonna wanna find Johnny and convince him to take Kitty back," Sasha told him. "The kid that's been annoying him since we first fought, begging him to take his girlfriend back. He'll fall right into our hand and soon enough Kitty will be out of our hair and back with her creep of a boyfriend."

"That sounds like it could work," Sam said.

"Great. You guys can take care of that after school," Sasha nodded and went to head over to Xavier's table.

"Wait, what about you? Aren't you gonna help after school?" Tucker asked confused.

"Sorry guys, but one: You will never get me to go into the Ghost Zone, where Johnny probably is. And two: I promised Xavier to help him plan a nice picnic in the park. He's trying to be romantic after his beau had a hard week." Sasha explained. "I'll be there for when the plan goes down though so text me the details."

She waved her friends goodbye before walking towards Xavier's table, only to walk right into Paulina.

"Oh, Sasha, have you seen Danny anywhere?" she asked.

Sasha could feel her friends' eyes on her, waiting to hear what she'd say. "Sorry, Paulina, but in case you haven't noticed ever since you and Danny got together we haven't really hung out much. You're gonna have to find him on your own," she answered, glaring at the girl. The Kitty possessed Paulina just glared back at her.

"You're just jealous because I got to him first, aren't you huh? Shy little pathetic Sasha Lucas is jealous because I got Danny Fenton before she could. Trust me, you're terrible at hiding your embarrassed blush. How pathetic, the freak couldn't even get a freak. And now you never will," she replied.

"Go fuck yourself, Paulina," Sasha hissed and then stormed off. She couldn't wait until Kitty was gone. Then she could deal with Paulina's regular pathetic insults and not ones that cut so deeply that that one did.

o

Sasha stood, hiding behind some trees in the park. Danny apparently took inspiration from Xavier and decided to set up a picnic for Kitty to help with his and Johnny's plan. Well, it was more so Johnny's. Danny texted her saying that Johnny would take care of the most of it and that all they needed to do was show up in case something went wrong. Sasha was hoping that wouldn't be the case as Xavier's date was supposed to start soon and she didn't want Johnny and Kitty's relationship problems ruining it. But all she could do right now was wait and watch Danny and Kitty's 'date'.

"Oh, Danny this is so romantic," Kitty gushed.

"Anything for you," Danny said.

"Hey, Sasha," Sasha heard from behind her. Turning around she was surprised to see Xavier.

"Xavier, hey, what are you doing here?" Sasha asked.

"What I can't say hi to one of my greatest friends?" he asked.

"Well no, but I thought you had a date," Sasha pointed out.

"Not for a little bit, and I thought that I could hang out with you until it did," he told her. Sasha looked at him a bit confused. From what Xavier had told her he was really excited for his date and was probably gonna be nervously waiting at his set up until it started. So, if that was the case then why was he here with her. "Hey, is that Danny and Paulina? We should go over and say hi."

Before Sasha could protest Xavier took her arm and lead them over to Danny and Paulina's blanket. The two were just as surprised to see them, Kitty possessed Paulina glaring once again at Sasha.

"Hey, guys," Xavier greeted. "Lovely day to have some lovely ladies out isn't it?"

"Xavier, I didn't know you would be here," Danny said, looking around to make sure his fellow high schooler wouldn't have to deal with the soon to be arriving Johnny 13.

"Oh yeah, couldn't pass up this gorgeous day. Paulina, I'm sure you've met Sasha seeing as she's friends with Danny," Xavier continued.

"Yeah, we've met," she answered between her teeth.

"She's amazing, isn't she? You're amazing you know that, right," Xavier complemented.

"Yeah, you tell me that every Tuesday in the choir room," Sasha replied, still confused as to why he brought them over there.

"Say, since we're all out in enjoying the day why don't we turn this picnic into a double date," Xavier suggested.

"What? Xavier but what about Gabe?" Sasha questioned, wondering if Xavier was out of his mind.

"Forget about Gabe. What I wanna do is spend the day with my best girl," Xavier smiled. He pulled Sasha close to him before planting a big kiss on her lips. Her eyes widened in shock before pushing him off her and going to yell at him.

"Xavier, what the hell is wrong with…Johnny?" Sasha gasped, seeing as Xavier's gleaming black eyes switched to a ghostly green.

Being found out the Johnny possessed Xavier switched his voice over to Johnny's to really show that it was true. "Yeah, you got me. It took me a little bit but after Kitty over there showed me that you can get the guy, or in my case girl, of your dream by just possessing someone I thought I'd give it a try. After all, if Kitty can have that loser, now I can have you," Johnny said, pulling Sasha close to him once again. "Now, how 'bout another kiss, doll face?"

Before Sasha could try to push the Johnny possessed Xavier away both Danny and the Kitty possessed Paulina protested.

"Stay away from her!"

"Stay away from him!"

Kitty jumped out of Paulina's body and tackled Sasha while Danny transformed into his ghost side and tackled Johnny out of Xavier's body, leaving both Xavier and Paulina barely conscious on the ground. Sasha transformed out of instinct as Kitty held her down.

"You stay away from him you floozy," Kitty growled at Sasha. "Johnny is mine!"

"You can have him," Sasha growled right back, using an ectoblast to push Kitty off her.

"I teamed up with you to get your girlfriend back, not for you to try and trick Sasha into dating you, you creep!" Danny shouted at Johnny.

"Hey, I saw an opportunity and I took it," Johnny shrugged. Hearing this Sasha got up and headed over to Johnny. Pushing Danny aside she picked Johnny up by his shirt collar and glared at him.

"Well how about you take this," she hissed and then punched him in the face, sending him flying back towards where Kitty had landed.

Seeing her boyfriend hurt Kitty went even more into rage mode and went to attack Sasha but Johnny held her back.

"You little bitch!" Kitty shrieked at Sasha. Sasha was ready to take her on but Danny stepped between her and the other ghost, trying to take control back of the situation.

"Forget about her, babe," Johnny said to Kitty picking her up and beginning to pull her over to his motorcycle. "Let's go home, get away from these losers."

"That sounds great," Kitty agreed.

The two happily jumped onto Johnny's motorcycle, shooting glares filled with daggers at Danny and Sasha. Revving up his engine Johnny pressed a button on a device he rigged to his bike, causing a portal into the Ghost Zone to open up. Before they were fully through the portal Danny shot an ectoblast at the device, destroying it so that Johnny and Kitty wouldn't be able to open up any more portals. That was gonna be a fun thing for them to discover. With those two gone and the portal closed Danny and Sasha turned to each other.

"I'm so sorry about that, I didn't think Johnny would try anything," Danny apologized.

"It's not your fault he's a creep that can't be trusted. Thanks for coming to my rescue though once we figured out what was going on," Sasha said.

"Not that you needed it. Seeing you punch him in the face was so satisfying," Danny told her.

"Yeah, it really was," Sasha agreed.

Their conversation was cut short as both Xavier and Paulina came around, groggily sitting up. Sasha and Danny shot each other a concerned look before flying over to their respective person, Danny to Paulina and Sasha to Xavier.

"Hey, you okay?" Sasha asked.

"Yeah, what happened?" Xavier asked confused.

"You were possessed by a ghost who went around trying to kiss some girl," Sasha explained, not telling him that the girl was actually her.

"Oh man, I really need to find her and apologize," Xavier groaned, feeling bad that he unwillingly tried to assault some poor girl.

"Don't worry about it. I explained the whole situation to her and she forgave you. Wasn't your fault you got possessed by some creep of a ghost," Sasha assured him.

Xavier let out a breath of relief. He still felt horrible but at least the girl forgave him. "Thanks, you're a real life saver. You know, the town was wrong about you. You and that ghost boy aren't that bad. It's just a shame I don't know what to call you," he said, thanking Sasha.

"Shadow, you can call me Shadow," Sasha told him.

"Thank you, Shadow," he smiled at her.

"You're welcome," Sasha said and then caught sight of Xavier's boyfriend halfway through the park, running away in tears. "Ugh, you might wanna go apologize to someone else though."

Xavier's eyes widened once he saw what she was referring to. He thanked Sasha once again before running off towards Gabe, calling out to his boyfriend to hear him out. Sasha winced, hoping that their relationship would work out.

"Uh, hey, Shadow, I think it's about time we head out," Danny said, grabbing hold of her arm to get her attention. One look at the adoration in Paulina's eyes as she looked at Danny explained everything. That girl was one second away from having a full-blown fan girl. Sasha nodded and the two flew off.

"Thank you, Invis-o-Bill!" Paulina swooned as they flew away.

"Invis-o-Bill?" Sasha questioned, amused.

"Not all of us get the opportunity to create our hero name," Danny replied.

"Actually, you just had your chance in correcting Paulina," Sasha pointed out. Danny groaned and face palmed, realizing that she was right. "Don't worry, Phantom, I'm sure they'll get it right eventually."

Danny smiled at her, finding it nice to hear Sasha call him Phantom. "Thanks, Shadow," he said.

o

Returning to school the next day was awkward. With Danny no longer dating Paulina all his A-Lister status stuff was revoked, letting Dash happily beat him up again. But that wasn't the weirdest part. The weirdest part was finding a small shrine to Phantom in Paulina's locker, the popular girl cooing over it every time she opened her locker door.

"Can you believe that, Paulina's still in love but with the wrong me," Danny complained to his friends.

"Welcome back to the fold, fellow loser," Sam smiled.

"How's Xavier after the whole ordeal?" Tucker asked.

"Well, Gabe ended up breaking up with him and he's been listening to the Next To Normal soundtrack in mourning," Sasha answered, remembered when Xavier called her last night, crying with the musical soundtrack blasting in the background.

"I think he wants to know if he's fallen in love with Shadow like Paulina has with Phantom," Sam clarified.

"Not to Paulina standards. I mean, he keeps a picture of Shadow in his locker now but I'm pretty sure he looks at her more so as a hero he looks up to than someone he wants to be in a relationship with," Sasha explained.

"What makes you think that?" Tucker asked.

"Because while he was venting to me last night he wished he could find the Phantom to his Shadow and that they're so cute together and wishes that he could have what they have," Sasha practically recited.

"He thinks Phantom and Shadow are dating?!" Danny asked, his and the other's eyes widened in shock.

"Yeah, he kinda ships us together. Your picture is also in his locker… next to mine… in a heart shaped frame," Sasha reluctantly explained.

"Us two… dating?" Danny laughed uncomfortably.

"Yeah, ridiculous, right?" Sasha joined in, laughing just as uncomfortably as Danny. "Lunch sounds good now, right?"

"Yeah, that sounds great," Danny agreed.

"Great," Sasha nodded.

Tucker and Sam watched as their two friends headed towards the lunchroom, still laughing uncomfortably at the news while blush sneaked up onto their faces. They were so bad at hiding their feelings.

"So, how long until they get together?" Sam asked.

"I'd give it two months," Tucker answered.

"Two months? You clearly don't know our friends that well. I give it at least six," Sam laughed dryly.

"You wanna bet?" Tucker challenged as the two began heading towards the lunchroom to catch up with their friends.

"Oh, you're on," Sam smiled.


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