,Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but I do own Alanis and this story's idea. Heart and Soul Chapter 2: Dinner with the Fenton's
Chapter2: Dinner with the Fenton's
"Mom, Dad I'm home we have a guest!" Danny yelled as the two of them entered the house. "Make yourself at home Alanis."
"Yeah thanks." She said going over to the couch and sitting down.
"Danny! Have you seen...?" Jazz shouted at him as she was coming down the stairs.
"Oh, Danny why didn't you tell me we had a guest." Jazz said in a very annoyed tone.
"Hey, it's not my fault you didn't hear me." He shot back at her.
"Hi, I'm Jasmine, but call me Jazz."
"My name's Alanis it's nice to meet you." Alanis got up and shook Jazz's hand then sat back down.
"Now, where was I? Oh yeah, Danny have you seen my issue of Genius magazine?"
"No. Ask Mom. Hey Alanis want a soda?" He replied and walking to the Kitchen, while Jazz went down to the lab to ask Maddie about her magazine.
"Sure what do ya have?" She asked walking over to the entrance of the kitchen.
"Umm, we've got Dr. Pepper, Sprite, and Root Beer."
"Root Beer is fine."
Danny opened the fridge and got out two root beers and tossed one to Alanis.
"So what do you think of Casper High?" Danny asked while he opened his soda.
"It's great. I only went to Roswell High for two and a half months. Mom had me stuck in a boarding school most of my life." She said as she tapped the top of the can then opened it.
"So when do you wanna start working on homework?" Alanis asked.
"Now's fine, I'll grab our backpacks." Danny went to the living room.
"Danny! Oh hello, I'm Maddie, Danny's mom. You must be the new neighbor's girl." Maddie said coming out of the Lab and shutting the door behind her.
"Yes ma'am. I'm Alanis McKain. It's very nice to meet you." Alanis said very politely.
Danny walked back in the kitchen with both book bags. "Hey mom Alanis and I are gonna do our homework."
"Ok I'll have dinner ready in a few. You two can stay and work on it at the table."
Maddie gathered the things she needed to cook dinner and began preparing dinner. Danny and Alanis started reading Frankenstein. Jazz finally came out of the Lab her magazine in hand she sat down and began reading the first article. An hour passed and dinner was ready. Alanis helped Danny clear the table and Jazz went to get Jack.
"Maddie how long till the Fenton Ghost Thrasher is ready? Oh, heya kiddo. Danny you didn't tell me you had a girlfriend." Jack said as he sat down.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Danny said quickly as he pulled plates from the china cabinet and placed them on the table.
"I'm not his girlfriend! I'm just helping Danny study in English." Alanis said as she blushed furiously.
"Oh, just the way Danny was lookin' at you I thought..."
"How was school today Danny?" Maddie chimed in before Jack could embarrass Danny further and handing Danny the silverware to pass around.
"It was fine, just the normal everyday stuff, except Alanis transferring here." Danny said while trying to hide the fact at how red his face had turned at his father's comment.
"What do you think of Casper High Alanis?" Jazz asked as she helped Maddie put the food on the center of the table.
"Well to me it's better than Roswell. I met Danny at his locker and it turns out our lockers are right next to each other. That Mr. Lancer has good taste in literature. We're reading Frankenstein. There are a few things I don't like, but I can deal with it."
They each made a plate and began to eat. It didn't take Jack long to realize that Alanis had been talking about Roswell, New Mexico.
"Roswell? So did you happen to see any ghosts?" Jack asked.
"No, but my parents are experts in the paranormal. Ghosts, aliens, crop circles, you name it they study it."
"Wow, now we have neighbors that know about ghosts!" Jack was so happy that he could have hugged Alanis. Jack began asking more questions and then started to bather on about how he came to study ghosts. Jazz ignored him, Danny was now as red as he was when Jack made the "girlfriend" comment, and Maddie ate quietly, which left Alanis the only choice of listening to him while he talked. Until Jack struck one chord that Alanis became very uncomfortable with, her parents.
"So how long have your parents been in the ghost business?" Jack asked.
Alanis just stared at her plate hoping Danny would notice. She was about to speak when Danny saw the pleading look on her face.
"Hey Alanis, you want to go finish our homework?" Danny asked. He could tell that she didn't want to talk about her parents right now.
"Yeah, we still have part of chapter two and all of chapter three." She took her plate and placed it in the sink. "Thank you for dinner Mrs. Fenton." The two then bolted up to Danny's room.
-----Danny's room------
"Wow that was embarrassing." Alanis said to Danny.
"I know. Sorry 'bout Dad he just, sometimes he doesn't think before he speaks." He blushed again.
"My Mom does that so don't feel bad."
Alanis pulled out her copy of Frankenstein and began to read. Danny followed her lead and pulled out his book. Ten minutes passed and Danny had a hard time understanding chapter three.
"Hey Ali, could you give me a hand on this chapter?"
"Yeah, the girl Caroline is sick and dying and she wants Frankenstein to marry Elizabeth. And Caroline dies and she..." Alanis looked away from Danny as a purple wisp escaped her lips. Danny turned around to hide his ghost sense.
"I have to run to the bathroom right quick. While I'm gone would you like a soda?" Danny quickly said.
"Yeah a Dr. Pepper." Alanis replied.
"Ok. Be right back."
Danny ran to the bathroom and shut and locked the door.
"Goin' Ghost!" He cried.
The blue rings surrounded him again and he became Danny Phantom. He flew out the window and towards the ghost. He had a Fenton phone on him and he called Sam and Tucker.
Alanis looked around making sure no one could see or hear her.
"Phantom Heart!"
Like Danny the ring appeared on her waist. She closed her eyes as the light violet ring split in two and overtook her body. As they dissipated her eyes opened to reveal them to be ghostly green. She turned intangible and flew out Danny's window. As Phantasma she flew and in invisible mode in order not to be seen.
----School Football Field----
"Ah, Ghost child it's wonderful to see you again." Skulker said.
"Did you know it's rude to interrupt someone when they are studying?" Danny said.
Danny Phantom shot an ectoplasmic bolt at Skulker, which in turn Skulker blocked it with an ectoplasmic shield.
Not long after Danny and Skulker began fighting Sam and Tucker arrived, hoping to help Danny in one way or another. Skulker pulled out an ectoplasmic gun and powered it up. As the green goo glowed brighter with each second until the meter became full. Danny tried to get the gun away from Skulker but to no avail.
"Now Ghost child I will have you for my collection." He said smugly and pointed the gun at Danny. Danny was exhausted from the fight physically and needed to rest, but before Skulker could fire the gun a familiar light blue ectoplasmic arrow whizzed through the air and impacted with the gun causing it to explode on contact. The goo flew in every direction Phantasma touched Danny's shoulder and turned intangible to dodge the mess, and then seamlessly reappeared.
"Sam, you seeing what I'm seeing?" Tucker asked in awe.
"Yeah I am! Another Ghost kid and she's a girl!" Sam exclaimed.
"You two okay down there?" Phantasma yelled to them. 'That's Tucker and Sam, they must help Danny.' She thought. Their safety and Danny's would now come before her, own safety. She wouldn't have anything happen to her new friends.
"Who are you? Wait you're another ghost child! Well this is great another to add to my collection." Skulker's voice had a happy tone ringing though it.
"Collect this!" Phantasma said while she gathered a large amount of blue ectoplasmic energy and threw it at Skulker. He didn't get a chance to dodge it. The blast hit him straight on, knocking him to the ground. Tucker and Sam moved so they couldn't fall victim to a hostage situation.
"Child you will pay for that!"
"Stop calling me child! The name's Phantasma, get used to it!" Alanis said firing another blast, it landed at Skulker's feet. Danny was about to fire his green ectoplasmic bolt, but a beeping noise came from Skulker's com.
"Great, I have to go stare at a gorilla for six hours." His jet pack fired and he took off.
"Thanks for the help Phantasma." Danny shook her hand as they landed on the ground.
"No problem. I'm happy to help. Oh, and call me Taz. Who are your friends? They help out often?" she asked.
"Yeah. They help a lot actually."
"Well it's nice to see that you have friends Danny Phantom. Till we meet again. Bye you guys." She waved at Sam and Tucker. They waved back. "Bye cutie." Phantasma said to Danny and winked at him then she flew off.
"Wow Danny another Ghost kid! I think she likes you dude." Tucker said elbowing Danny's arm.
"Tucker he barely knows her." Sam interjected.
"So how's Alanis?" Tucker asked.
"Oh man! She's at my house she's helping me study for that quiz tomorrow in Lancer's class! See you guys later." Danny flew off as fast as he could go.
"Well, let's head home. Bye Tuck, see you tomorrow." Sam looked over to Tucker.
"Yeah, see you later. Bye Sam."
They left the field.
----Danny's room----
Phantasma entered Danny's room and turned to Alanis once again. 'Danny can't be far behind so I'll do some speed reading.'
She grabbed her book and began skimming though pages.
Danny arrived back into the bathroom and went back to normal. He unlocked the door, ran downstairs grabbed two sodas then went to his room. Danny opened the door and found Alanis sitting on his bed reading. 'She's got to be in chapter 4 by now.' He thought.
"Here's your Dr. Pepper."
"Thanks. You were gone for a while, I thought you might have fallen in." she said jokingly.
"Nah, it's just school lunches." Danny said covering his long absence.
"Ah, just kidding with ya. Did that ginger tablet work or help any?"
"Yeah, it surprised me on how good it was like eating a gingersnap at Christmas."
"You know that's what I thought too weird huh?"
"Yeah, that's kinda creepy in a weird way."
Danny picked up his book and began reading once again. Since Alanis was there to help him the got the chapter review questions done in no time, and he actually understood what was happening. The way she explained it was in normal teenager terms, putting each scenario in to modern times. This made the learning process a lot easier. By the time they finished it was 10:15 p.m. time for Alanis to head home.
"Well, it's late. I'd better get going." Alanis jammed her books and paper into her black backpack with a sewn on patch of Gir from the show Invader Zim. She got up and was half way out the door when Danny said.
"Even though you live next door, how 'bout I walk you home. It's late and I'd feel better about it if I did."
"Yeah, of course. Considering all of the ghost attacks that happen around here." Alanis inwardly blushed.
They had barely known each other for 24 hours but she had caught herself coming to have a crush on Danny.
The two walked downstairs and to the front door Alanis said good-bye to Jack, Maddie and Jazz. Danny shut the door and it only took about a minute, but for the two new friends it seemed like an hour. Both teens didn't say anything until Alanis unlocked her door and threw her backpack inside.
"Thanks for walking me home Danny. It was awfully sweet of you." Alanis said looking at him trying not to blush.
"It was nothing. I'll see ya tomorrow. Ok." Danny was about to become flush red again, much like he was at the dinner table.
"Night, Danny Fenton." Alanis recovering her self long enough to say it.
"Night, Ali McKain."
"Ali? I like it." She smiled at him then winked. "See you tomorrow Danny."
With that she shut the door and locked it. She leaned against it, her heart pounding in her ears. 'I can't believe it! You've been here in Amity Park for two days and only one of those days was actually in school. And within less than a 24 hour period you have a crush, but hey he's cute. What girl wouldn't have a crush on him?'
Back outside Danny stood there for a minute then left her stoop. He had this funny feeling that someone winked at him in that manner before. He couldn't quite place it, but he knew it happened. His heart pounded as equally if not more than Alanis's.
"Hope that she doesn't move again. She's a good friend, but why do I feel like it might me more than that. Danny, get a hold of your self you have only known her since school this morning, but I wouldn't mind falling for her." Danny talked to himself as he walked into the house and into his room, where he had a dreamless sleep.
Hey guys! How was this chapter? I know it's early for the romance to start, but I have had this experience before. It's like love at first sight. Any questions or suggestions are welcome. No flames please. Read and REVIEW! THANKS!