The three Fentons that remained in the house sat around, miserably staring at the swirling, green porthole. When Danny had tracked Alesha and Jazz through the walls and into the basement, they were nowhere to be found. He even ventured into the Ghost Zone, but found no further traces of them. After that, he'd gone back to help his mother, in human mode. Not minutes after she'd woken up, Jack had come downstairs, and Danny related the story...well, most of it, considering that he wasn't sure how they would react to his "secret". After all, a ghost had just kidnaped their daughter.
Now he sat at Sam's house, with her and Tucker trying to comfort him...well...Tucker was.
"I told you she was bad news!" Sam seethed as she paced around him. It made Danny dizzy to watch, so he put his head into his hands. "Didn't I tell you that!" the Goth Girl threw her hands into the air.
Tucker nodded with a sigh, answering for Danny. "Yeah, you did."
"I can't believe she played me the entire time," Danny moaned in a muffled voice, through the hands that covered his face. "She said I'd never see Jazz again...as payback for me killing her brother."
"But you didn't," Tucker and Sam said unanimously.
Danny put his head down even further. "She apparently doesn't believe that."
"But she wasn't there!" Sam interjected. "How could she–"
"On the other hand," Danny cut her off, and looked up through pained eyes into hers. "How can you be sure of what happened? You weren't there...you simply went with my word."
"I remember it...vaguely," Tucker said softly.
Danny shook his head, "but not enough to be 100 percent sure, right?"
"Dude," his African-American friend looked slightly offended, "we trust you!"
"Yeah," Sam growled, "why can't she?"
"I don't know," Danny sighed. He kept playing both scenes over and over in his mind. First, the scene where Alesha jumped into Jazz and flew away, phasing through everything (which had surprised him, until he realized that if he could touch people and make them go intangible, why couldn't she do the same INSIDE a body), throwing him off for just a few seconds. He'd actually believed that she'd gone deeper into the city. After a few moments, however, he'd realized that she would be heading for the nearest escape, which meant the Fenton Portal. But 'd arrived only to see his mother sprawled on the floor, and the green eerie light from the Ghost Zone casting a creepy feeling over the silent scene. Could he have done anything different to stop her? He kept asking himself...
'Yeah,' Part of him said in a sarcastic tone. 'You could have not trusted her. Never trust a ghost, remember?'
Sighing, Danny pushed these thoughts away, only to see the other scene come racing across his brain. Vlad flying out of his best friend, and him trying to catch Tucker before everyone in the room became obliterated, trying to move his arms and reach both his friend, and the ghost boy at the center of everything. He couldn't move them though...he tried desperately, but to no avail. He could only yell to his friend, who grabbed his ankle as they headed through the wall...and then, he looked down to see two bright green eyes...
Suddenly, a thought came to him. "Hey guys...what if she was told wrong?" he asked.
"What?" they looked at him.
"Think about it," he stood up and began pacing. "The only other people who were actually there to witness everything was Vlad and Brian...and maybe one or two of Vlad's minions..." Sam and Tucker exchanged glances before returning their gaze to him.
Sam spoke first. "So, where did that thought come from?" she asked.
"Yeah, man," Tucker agreed. "That sounded a little deep for you..." Danny stopped pacing and turned towards his friends with a shrug.
"I...don't know..."
"But if that's right," Sam said, unwilling to finish the sentence. Her anger at the ghost girl seemed to be suddenly ripped away. "Why couldn't she just trust you?"
"Because," Danny sat down, "She was told something over and over again...until she finally believed it."
"What?" his friends once again voiced their thought in unison.
Danny shook his head. "That homework assignment we had a few days ago, the one with all the definitions."
"You think she's been brainwashed?" Sam asked skeptically. Danny looked away for a few seconds, once again seeing those green eyes before the blinding flash. They looked almost exactly like those belonging to his sister's kidnapper...and with that memory, the assurance seemed to come as well. Danny couldn't explain it, he could only trust it.
"No," he looked back at her heather colored eyes. "I'm sure of it."
I got several questions as to how Alesha could phase Jazz though walls...well, Danny can...so I'm assuming that Alesha can too. shrug made sense to me. Sorry if you disagree.
Dark Ninja: 14? sigh Dang it. I shall strive to do better.
Lavanderpaw: No worries. I just like a little feedback every now and then. :hug:
LaBOBruen: Yeah, I used to put stuff up on first draft. shutter Now you see why I don't. ;) I'm not a Fenton Family hater! What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, and I like characters to be strong...so I have them conquer the theological plain of eternal torment. ;)
Thanx again for all the remarks guys. :hug: I appreciate it.