beforehand

I've been being a bit of a bitch, sorry all! i've just been really moody lately. thank you to all my beloved reviewers! oh, and as Chaos inducer so kindly pointed out, I made another newbie mistake... in the previous chapter, it should have said Paulina and Star, not Paulina and Sam. I think I fixed it, though... hopefully.

Oh, and about the title. Whenever my friends and I are in an IM and something happens that startles or confuses us, or just plain weirds us out (a very hard thing to do i might add), we hit a random jumble of keys and send that as the message. it's sort of like a typed version of a spasm. anywhore, I accidentally did that at one point in the story because i freaked myself out, and I just found it so randomly amusing that I decided to keep it.. and then i couldn't think of a title so I just retyped the spasm.

shoutouts

crazyvi - thanks a bunch, i'm trying!

gabriella phantom - lol. aren't they all? and no, i guess they can't. i know i can't :-)

Anon - cool, thanks for taking the time out to review!

dannychic - it seems a lot of people do, i'm glad i decided to post this. i hate when that happens, i have to be extra careful because i'm the one writing it! XD thank you so much for your suggestions, every one counts and I make note to try and include them all. your idea sounds great for a future chapter.. I'll see what I can do! I think i'd have to agree with you on the being undressed by Phantom part :) thanks for coming back and I promise I will try to use your idea!

Chaos inducer - yes, arguing with oneself seems to have become a common character trait. i get it from my own behaviou si suppose X3 i know! i read your story, i'm so glad you decided to make it more than a one-shot. i had half a mind to make danny say aloud what he did softly but i dont want to get him in too much trouble... yet. i have no clue where the sam and tucker thing came from, i think it's just because personally, i don't like tucker... O.O good thing he's locked in bunny bubble's closet and can't get me for that :)

Bunny Bubble - yes, the real chapter nine. the other one was just kidding XD it had an identity crisis... NO pun intended! T.T -steals munchkin- it better be jelly... X3 i'm like uber hyper, srry... oh and p.s. you saved me.. lol. if you read the end of my review reply to chaos inducer (above) you'll understand :)

disclaimer

I hate that I don't own Danny, and I hate more so having to say it every chapter TT.TT

Silent Departure

Chapter ten - Hjfksdjfsdjlks ((Danny Phantom's POV))

You're having an interesting day at school, love. I say to him as Samantha argues with herself. Maybe we should push her into the Ghost Portal...

No, we're going to let Sam be normal. he says.

You weren't supposed to hear that. Samantha's hitting herself in the head. ...That's normal?

Be quiet. he grins. As for my day, I think it's going just fine. Having some alone time with Sam and without Tucker's smart mouthing every two seconds is a bit of a relief.

Be so nice to your friends, why don't you?

Come off it. Besides, talking to Sam has really calmed me down. I know she hasn't said anything really yet, but I don't think she could help me any more than just by listening. If I told Jazz, she'd immediately have to analyze the detail down to how many pebbles were on the ground, or how far I fell before I woke up. Talking to Sam makes me realize, it was just a nightmare. People have nightmares all the time and they don't necessarily mean anything. It's just a reflection of my innermost thoughts, so somewhere deep inside I have the fear that I'll do something wrong and push you away.

But I would never leave you, Daniel. And What'd this about me drinking?

I don't know. Like I said, it's just a dream.

Yeah. Just a dream.

"You know, I'm probably jinxing it by saying something, but I'm surprised we haven't had any ghost attacks recently," Samantha spoke suddenly.

"Yeah... I know what you mean," Daniel replies. "In fact, if Ember hadn't escaped yesterday that would mean it's been over 24 hours since the last attack."

"That can't be good," Samantha unnecessarily points out. "Usually by now we would at least see the Box Ghost."

"Tell me about it. Maybe Skulker finally locked him up for good. I can't count the times Box Ghost has escaped from the Ghost Zone."

"At least he's never been a real threat," Samantha says as lunch is ending. She and Daniel clean their trays and leave the lunchroom, heading for their lockers to switch their morning books with their afternoon ones. For no reason she points out, "Without sharing control all the time, you don't have random parts of your body going ghost without you anymore."

"Yeah," Daniel replies, shutting his locker. "I guess you're right."

"So what's it like, Danny?"

I recognize that tone.

"What's what like, Sam?"

Before she can reply (she was going to chicken out of the question anyway, I could tell), Wulf suddenly crashes through the cieling. While everyone else runs, Daniel and I see it as no threat. He's our friend, right?

"Danny, why didn't your ghost sense go off?" Sam asks. Before Daniel can answer, Wulf takes him in one hand, claws a portal into the Ghost Zone, and jumps through it.

The portal closes behind us, trapping us in the Ghost Zone. Being human, Daniel cannot interact with Ghost Zone items, and slips right out of Wulf's paw.

"Going Ghost!" Daniel exclaims, and through our transformation, I take over.

"Why have you come back to attack us?" I ask Wulf. He replies in that strange language that only Tucker can understand.

It figures, as soon as we need him.

I sigh, then realize that Wulf is attacking again. I dodge him and fly off in search of a portal back to the real world. Not paying attention, I fly straight into Walker.

"Missed me that much, did you?" he asks teasingly. I ignore him and try to fly off, but he grabs my ghostly tail. "Oh no you don't. You're not getting out of this so easily."

His words send shivers down my spine as if I've heard them before and they should bring back some haunting memory. My only hope is to switch control with Daniel, but as soon as the rings appear around us to signal our transformation, Walker slaps some heavy metal thing around my waist. The rings disappear and I get violently shocked, and then I find I can no longer communicate with Daniel. It's as if I'm being blocked from every trace of life in our body. Before I can ask, he sneers.

"Aww, the wittwe halfa can't turn human anymore. How sad," he emphasizes the last word as he slams me into a metal cage floating next to him. I turn quickly but he slams the door of the cage before I can escape. Holding onto a handle atop the cage, he heads towards the place where he keeps ghosts imprisoned. I try going intangible only to be shocked by the belt thing again. "Nice try, kid, but that little device can detect every one of your abilities, and whenever you try to use a power you'll get shocked."

Thinking that I can blast the lock open, I try to shoot an ectoblast from my finger. As soon as the energy builds up, the belt gives me a light shock. "It's linked to my attacks, too?"

"Of course it is. Whatever pain an enemy would feel from your attack is how intense the shock from the collar will be. If you do manage to bear the pain long enough to attack the belt, you'll probably just make it go haywire."

With a sigh, I sit and admit defeat. For now.

I hope Daniel is okay... and Sam and Tucker in the real world... they better not be doing anything stupid. What was it Sam said before Wulf took us? Wait... where is Wulf? Ugh, he must have just meant to lead me to Walker. Okay, but what did Sam ask?

"What's it like, Danny?"

No, no... it was after that...

"Danny, why didn't your ghost sense go off?"

Yes... why didn't our ghost sense go off? All my other powers seem to be working fine... well, I can't check to be sure, but if they weren't then word would spread throughout the Ghost Zone, and Walker wouldn't have put this belt thing on me.

We're suddenly attacked... and by we, I mean Walker and I...

That's a disturbing visual... I shudder.

Focus.

Walker is attacked again, and I single him out because this time the ectoblast hits him square on instead of flying between him and the cage I'm in. He lets go of the cage and is sent back by the blast, while the cage continues forward on its own. Oh the wonders of the Ghost Zone.

Is that... Plasmius? What the Hell is he doing here? And what's with that smug look on his face? Oh yay, now he's flying towards me. He grabs the cage and flies into a portal that I hadn't seen before. We come out through the portal in his home in Wisconsin.

Well, that's one way to travel.

He sets the cage down and takes something out of his pocket. A key ring? He unlocks the cage and opens the door, standing over it like a new pet owner waiting for their kitten to come out and explore the house for the very first time.

Hjfksdjfsdjlks. I am NOT Plasmius' kitten. Nonethless, I crawl out of the cage, but only because it's too small for me to stand up when I'm inside it. Once I'm out, I stand up and stretch, only to be grabbed by the waist and pulled closer to him. This is getting creepy... the guy's like 40 years old and obsessed with my mother...

I shudder again. He unlocks the belt and it falls from my waist. I blush lightly. Duh. What the Hell was I thinking? Plasmius wouldn't...

Having my lips claimed by his kinda makes me think he would. I sure hope Daniel returns soon.

((Danny Fenton's POV))

Okay, this is NOT what I expected to come back to. Being separated from Danny is one thing, but to return and find him kissing Plasmius, of all people! Or ghosts... whatever. Just, no.

Why isn't Phantom putting up a fight? Are our powers still short circuited? Maybe he's frozen with shock. That better be the case. It's bad enough I dreamt that he thought I cheated on him, and now this? But he doesn't like it... I can tell... I'm still inside of our body and we're connected again... he doesn't want this... I'm being paranoid again.

Danny comes to his senses, presses his hands to Plasmius' stomach and emits strong ectoblasts. At the moment, they're only strong enough to send the other ghost back a few feet, but it buys time for Danny to fly backwards, away from the old pervert.

"Don't you EVER do that to me again, Plasmius!" Danny growls. "I belong to Daniel and Daniel alone... and even if I didn't, I would never go for the likes of you."

"Oh, you're so ungrateful, Daniel!" Plasmius says dramatically. This could get confusing. I call the phantom Danny and Danny calls me Daniel, but Plasmius calls us both Daniel. My head hurts.

"I don't remember asking for your help," Danny hisses, going intangible and flying through the cieling. Plasmius follows.