Jazz felt nothing short of elated when she finally got back to her house. She'd had an encounter with two ghosts tonight: a guy called "the Box Ghost" ( who she'd been able to take care of with a few punches) and then the "Skulker" guy. She'd beat every ghost she'd encountered, and that was all the activity she could find! Not to mention, she'd been lucky enough to get on decent terms with one of the local Ghost Hunters. All in all, she felt rather pleased with herself.
"Danny!" Jazz beamed as she phased through the wall and landed on the floor of his room. "Danny I did it! I–" she cut off and her smile disappeared immediately when she looked around, only to see that his bed stood empty. "Danny?" She asked softly, in case he'd gotten up, and she hadn't seen him. 'He probably had to go to the bathroom again or something,' she told herself, and actually believed that, until she saw the covers strewn from the bed to the door, like he'd been dragged or carried...
"No..." she whispered to herself, as her face drained of color. "Danny..." With that said, she rushed through the door, and almost flew down the stairs (literally). "MOM! DAD!" She yelled as her feet flew over the kitchen floor and onto the basement stairwell steps. "MOM!" She gasped, bursting into the lab to see her parents bent over a table in the center.
"Honey?" Maddie turned around worriedly, revealing the tabletop, and the figure lying there.
"Is it a ghost?" Jack asked hopefully. Jazz only stared at them, blinking.
Finally, she regained her voice. "Why," she said slowly, trying to keep the anger out of her tone, "do you have Danny down here?" Maddie and Jack exchanged glances before turning back to her, looking a little annoyed themselves.
"What's wrong?" Maddie demanded.
"I went into Danny's room, and he wasn't there," Jazz folded her arms, and glared at her parents.
"Well," Jack suddenly jumped in, "Danny's been acting strange lately, and we figured it might be ghost related." Jazz shut her eyes in what she hoped looked like annoyance and not fear.
Maddie continued Jack's sentence in a much gentler tone than before. "So, we decided to scan him thoroughly, and run a few tests...things like DNA, you know, stuff like that." Jazz felt her fists ball at this, and couldn't contain herself any longer. If she hadn't had her eyes clenched shut, someone might have realized they'd changed color to the bright, glowing green.
"HE'S SICK!" She practically yelled. "Has he been out since you brought him down?" She took a step forward. "I mean, he's been up and down all day! One minute he's fine, and the next he's gone! Scans and tests that are ghost related, will NOT help him right now! He needs to be in bed!"
Maddie bit her lip and looked back at her son for a few minutes. "Come to think of it," she said slowly, "he hasn't really...done anything but breath...but he's always been such a heavy sleeper...I didn't really..." Suddenly she turned and pointed to her husband. "Jack! Help me wake him up!"
"Danny! Danny!" They yelled at him. Jazz ran up behind them, hoping some sort of ghost detector thing wouldn't go off with her presence. For the first few seconds, he didn't respond, but as she ran towards them (in slow motion it seemed), he groaned, and she felt relief wash over her.
"What the..." he opened his eyes and looked around at everyone. "Mom? Dad? Where...? The lab?" He shook his head, obviously confused.
"Jazz is right," Maddie said, resting her hands on her sons shoulders and helping his unsteady frame off of the table. "You need to be upstairs." With that, she placed his arm around her shoulder, and they began to walk unsteadily towards the door. Jack and Jazz both jumped to help, but Jazz reached him first.
"I'll get it, dad," she nodded. She did not want to let her brother out of her sight, especially when the only other people she could entrust him to might suddenly try to suck him into a trap or something.
"Looks like you're staying home from school tomorrow, young man," Maddie commented. "And if this isn't better by tomorrow night, we're taking you to the hospital." Danny only nodded through heavy eyelids as they trudged awkwardly up the stairs.
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