Chapter 6

"Brooke what happened there?" Rosa asked. "Why did you go into the Ghost Zone?! And with Bertrand?"

Brooke sighed. "He said he knew my mom, and could lead me to her.."

"Your mother's dead?" Danny asked softly, Brooke nodded.

"She died the day I was born." Brooke sighed sadly and stared out as they walked towards the portal opening.

Rosa looked at the poor girl with pity. "Who do you live with?" She asked softly.

Brooke sighed. "My father." She unconsciously put a hand on her arm, which was bruised underneath the blue fabric. Rosa and Danny sent each other knowing glances.

"Well, at least your father takes care of you." Danny said cautiously.

Brooke frowned, staring at the ground ahead of her. "Yeah, he takes care of me real well." She said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Are you alright?" Rosa asked.

Brooke blinked, finally coming to reality, she looked at Rosa and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine.." she sighed.

They finally got to the portal opening and Brooke stepped through first, followed by Rosa and Danny was the last. He pressed the button near the portal door and the yellow and black gates suddenly appeared, closing the portal up tight.

"So, um, you are the ghosts I saw the other night?" Brooke asked.

Danny and Rosa nodded. "Were called halfas. Half human, and half ghost hybrids. Halfa's." Danny stated. Brooke nodded. All of them were caught up in a uneasy silence.

"I should get home.." Brooke started to walk towards the stairs.

"Brooke wait!" Rosa said.

Brooke stopped and turned.

"Is your dad hurting you?" Rosa whispered. In that instant, Brooke's eyes went wide with fear. Then narrowed. "Stay away from me please Rosa..That is none of your concern!" With that she ran up the stairs, never looking back.

"Rosa, why did you say that now?" Danny asked.

"I don't know.. it just came out, oh Danny, all I want to do is help! But everything I seem to do is wrong!" She began to run also, but Danny grabbed her by the arms and forced her to look into his eyes.

"Rosa you know better than to say that about yourself! We do a lot of good in the world, but we cant save everyone. I'm not even sure that Brooke wants to be saved." Danny said truthfully. Rosa formed a frown.

"Well I'm not giving up!" At that, Danny smiled.

"There's my girl." He gently stoked her cheek and Rosa smiled at him. In an instant, they were kissing.

Brooke's eyes flooded with tears as she ran towards the place she called home, first that ghost tricked her, and now Rosa and Danny knew both of her secrets! If they tell the police, he will kill me! That one thought sent a shiver up her spine. But, isn't that what I want? She suddenly thought. Death has to be better than letting my father beat me every day. She quickly shook those thoughts away. What am I saying? If I kill myself no one will know what a awful man he is! But they also don't now..She looked up at the sky helplessly, pleading for someone to save her from this nightmare and her own mind.

"I wish I could be free of him, but I can't…Ill have to wait.." she whispered to herself as she opened the door to her house.

"There you are!" Her father yelled as he saw her entering.

"I'm sorry I'm late Sir." Brooke whispered.

"Sorry! Oh your sorry are you?! Ill show you sorry!" He walked towards her in a threatening manner, she gasped and dropped what she was holding and backed into a corner.

"You called the police didn't you!?" He yelled.

"Honest I didn't!" Brooke squeaked, but she knew it was useless, he had the same drunken look in his eyes he always did. And he was angry.

"You filthy liar!" he screamed, holding up his arm high above his head. Brooke closed her eyes and tears flowed from them as his fist made contact with her fragile body.

After a while, he left her, beaten and broken. He said. "If you told them, then I will kill you." He slammed the door to his room, leaving Brooke alone. She was on the floor, she hardly had enough energy to sit. So she lied there, her eyes staring into oblivion, after a bit they began to fill with tears. She curled up in a ball as the cold wind blew in from a window nearby, and cried herself to sleep.

Rosa's walk home was the same as always. After saying bye to Danny she walked past a few streets and made a left. Then she saw her house two houses from the street sign. As she opened the door, she felt a bad feeling rise through her body. She opened the door wider and noticed that no one appeared home. Worried by this, Rosa quickly shut the door and went up to see if Ruby was still around. She checked Ruby's then her room, and saw her sitting on the bed, waiting for Rosa.

"Ruby? What's wrong?" She saw the girl's hand wrapped in bandages, and her eyes red from crying. "Oh god what happened?"

Ruby walked to Rosa and hugged her. "Rosa, I have to tell you something.." Ruby said softly, and led her to Rosa's bed. As soon as Rosa sat down, Ruby sat next to her.

"Rosa, our parents are getting a divorce.." Ruby whispered to her sister.

"What?! No! no you're lying!" Rosa said, wide eyed, and pulling away from her sister. But Ruby grabbed a hold of Rosa's arm.

"Rosa listen to me! They've been fighting so much this week that they felt they have to! Dad almost hit mom…" Ruby closed her green eyes.

"But, no! they love each other!" Rosa whispered, trying to deny the reality.

"Rosa the fight started about you and Danny!" Ruby yelled, sick of how Rosa was taking this. Her face instantly soften as she saw Rosa's face turn from shock, to depression.

"No.." Rosa sobbed, falling to her knees and putting her hands over her eyes.

"Rosa I'm.."

"Go away.." Rosa whispered.

"Rosa.."

"GO AWAY." Rosa said harshly.

"Very well, but you should also know..Dad's leaving in a week, and I'm going with him.." Ruby said quietly, then shut the door to Rosa's room when she was out.

Rosa lied down on her bed and sobbed uncontrollably. Her world was turning upside down, and she didn't like it.

As Danny started to his room his mother stopped him.

"Someone's on the phone for you!" She handed Danny the phone and ran to find his father.

Danny put the phone to his ears. "Hello?"

"Danny, its Star."

"Star! Are you alright? The way you ran off we thought-"

"I don't care what you thought. Danny tomorrow you and Rosa have to listen to me and the others. We have something dire we need to tell you both."

"Why cant you tell me right here?" Danny asked.

"Because you wont like it!"

Danny blinked. "This doesn't have anything to do with me and Rosa does it?" He asked.

"Yes it does." Star said.

"If you want me to break up with her, I wont do it!" Danny told her harshly. "I love her! I would never-"

"Even to save the group?" Star asked.

"What?" Danny was alarmed. "The group is in danger?"

"Me, Sam, and Aries are going to leave, if you two don't break up." Star said.

"How could you?!" Danny was very enraged by his friends turning on him.

"Daniel Fenton, you spend too much time with Rosa already, you both are getting obsessive! That's not normal! You want to lose everyone over this?"

Too angry to respond, Danny slammed the phone into the charger.

With a frustrated sigh, he walked up to his room and lied back on his bed, staring up.

Sam was lying on her bed, wondering if she had made the right decision. She did promise Danny that she would respect his decision, but now she hurt all over and realized that she did love Danny. She didn't want any other girl to take him away. Her light purple eyes started to cloud over with tears. She hated to make them both feel so bad, but everyone decided that this was the best thing. She started to drift off to sleep thinking about what would happen the next few days.

Tucker stared hard at the TV in front of him. It was getting very late and he had to get to sleep, but then he would start to think about everything happening and he would be trapped in this reality again. He didn't want that. So he kept looking at the TV, until he himself finally fell asleep in his chair.

Vlad looked out his window with a smirk on his face. "Sleep well children, for tomorrow will the darkest day you ever have experienced."