Sweetest Gifts
A fan fiction by Kate-chan 91
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Kate-chan 91's tidbits (A/N): Sorry that this news is late, but first things first, HAPPY BELATED POISSON D'AVRIL! (That's French for April Fools Day!) I celebrated this unofficial holiday by pulling pranks on the forums I'm on. For example, in the Disney Comics Worldwide forum, I pulled a somewhat elaborate prank stating that Archie Comics has bought the rights to the W.I.T.C.H. comic and they are changing the format and everything. I even added a fake link to the "petition"! I REALLY hope everyone will forgive me when I reveal it because most of the members are from Europe and Asia, though.
(Throws toast to katiesparks and fanficaholic)In response to your odd "review" katiesparks, I guess I'm glad that I gave you wonderful memories of Winnie the Pooh? XD
Enjoy!
Chapter Six: A New Start?
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Late into the night, two figures were looking at the sleeping Danny and Sam. Both appeared to be in their early teens, and the boy was taller than the girl by about two inches, and both were wearing pajamas. As they stood at the foot of the bed, they whispered something as they stared at Danny.
"Man," the boy said softly, "I've never seen him like this before…"
"Of course you haven't, dumbass," the girl commented. "We've only seen him in his ghost form."
"What did he go by again, Invisobill?"
The girl tried her best not to yell in frustration. Fighting the urge to yell, she quickly whispered to him, "Noooooo… For the thirtieth time, he went by Danny Phantom or something like that…"
"Danny what? THAT was the best he could come up with?" The boy then started snickering.
Boy, is he an idiot…it's not even that funny to begin with… The girl thought before she angrily whispered,"Shut up… you're going to wake everyone up and expose us!"
It was too late by then. The boy had tried his best to resist, but he couldn't help it- he started laughing so hard that the lights from Jack and Maddie's bedroom were turned on and Danny and Sam started to toss and turn and escape from the world of forty winks.
"Now look what you have done! Let's get outta here- NOW!" The girl urgently whispered to the boy.
As they attempted to remove the medallions around their necks as quickly and quietly as possible, however, the barely awake Danny jerked up.
"Shit!" The girl cursed as she tugged on the boy and her medallions so hard that they broke off; Danny yawned as the boy slapped her (therefore causing her to drop the medallions) and the duo disappeared from the room.
"Wh-wh-what's going on?" He said in a sleepy voice as Jack and Maddie came into the room with all sorts of ghost fighting weapons, including the Fenton creepstick, which was in reality an ordinary baseball bat with the word 'Fenton' on it.
"Danny, what's happening?" Sam groggily asked as they barged into the room, complete with Jack screaming, "GHOST!"
Upon discovering that the younger couple was the only people (or anything else, for that matter,) present, Jack and Maddie were obviously disappointed as they walked out of the room with weapons in hand.
"What just happened?"
"Just go back to sleep… one of us just probably talked in our sleep and… you get the idea." Danny replied as he yawned and went back to sleep.
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"Psst… Danny!"
No answer.
"Psst… Danny!"
Danny simply tossed and turned for a second.
"DANNY!"
"What?" He asked in his sleep with a pillow over his head.
"Your mother and I want to talk to you for a minute."
"Dad, can we do this later? I want to sleep!"
"Danny…"
"Okay, okay! Fine!" Danny said as he yawned and got out of bed. Because he stepped on something, he yelped "OW!" as soon as his feet reached the floor.
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"What do you guys want me for at five in the morning?" Danny asked, yawning, scratching his head and occasionally taking sips of coffee.
"Well… we just wanted to talk with our son before he left at for home with his very own family…" Maddie replied after taking a sip of coffee.
"So… what does this have to do with five A.M.?"
Jack and Maddie didn't immediately answer their son's question. When they finally did, Jack replied, "You know, now when I think about it, I have no idea…"
Danny groaned as they suddenly heard a car alarm. Upon closer inspection, they found out that the car alarm came from-
"MY CAR!" Danny screamed as he urgently looked for what the vandal did to his car, which was one of the first hydrogen cell powered cars when it was new; it was one of the last things Danny bought before his ghost fighting made an even bigger dent in his everyday life than it did when he first obtained his powers. After a few moments of inspection with the help of his parents, he checked the engine and noticed that it had been completely removed. How and why the vandal took it out was not on his mind though. Instead, the word 'fuck' was on it as he wandered what he was going to do now that his only affordable form of transportation had been disabled.
"Great," Danny said with a hand buried in his face. "What am I going to tell Sam and Winnie? It was already to take at least two days just to get back home!"
"We will gladly let you borrow the Fenton-"
"Sorry Dad, but I don't exactly want to travel in that at the moment," Danny interrupted his father. "I don't think any of you have enough money for something like plane tickets since that war in Iraq broke out into World War Three, huh?"
"Of course not! We used the majority of our budget for ghost hunting weapons," Maddie replied. "However, you're entitled to stay here until we manage to do something, okay?"
Danny sighed. "Since that seems to be my only option now, can I go call Winnie's school to tell her that she won't be coming back for a while due to some family business or something like that?"
They shrugged in response and Danny made the call. Because he had the strange feeling that they were not going to arrive home for a while, he lied that a serious illness in her immediate family had occurred and that they were going to attend the funeral. When he hung up, he scratched his head as he walked back to the table.
"Um, Danny, your father and I were thinking about this…"
"Shoot."
"We remembered what you said about being fired from your last job when Winnie was taking a nap yesterday, and since you're staying with us for a while, we want to know whether you're going to try to take a job here or not."
Danny laughed nervously. "Well… about that, I've already kinda promised Sam that I wouldn't apply for a job while I was here."
"Now, Danny, what do you think you're going to do while you're here- just mope around while we have to deal with Winnie's education and Sam's pregnancy? The poor thing is going to give birth any day now and you guys seem to have no money to prepare for taking care of your twins!"
"I know that, but- "
"Look, Danny, if you don't want to get a job, we will get you one, along with work here to-"
"Okay, okay, fine! I'll get one!" Danny quickly yelled as he knew what his father was going to say; he definitely didn't want to fight ghosts or help his parents build weapons with the unlimited spare time he would have without a job.
"Great!" Jack exclaimed as he wrapped an arm around his only son and dragged him towards the computer.
Oh, great, online resumes… Danny thought as soon he got on and the 'Amity Park Job Wants' page was opened. He then looked back at his parents and back at the computer as he thought, Dammit, I've got to come up with something or else they're going to force me into building ghost hunting weapons… Urgently, he selected the "food and health" option on the homepage; not surprisingly, the only place in town that wanted help was the Nasty Burger. Just bear with it, Danny, just bare with it; it's only temporary… He kept trying to mentally reassure himself as he clicked on the link to where you filled out your job application.
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"DAMMIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE I OVERSLEPT!" Danny yelled as he quickly got dressed into a faded black business suit about days later. After all, twenty-four hours after he submitted his application, he received an e-mail from the Nasty Burger stating that his job application had been accepted and that they wanted to have an interview with him four days later at about ten in the morning. As soon as he finished changing, he grabbed his wallet, which only carried four dollars in cash, some spare change and his driver's license, and rushed downstairs through the front door; he would've had enough time to run there if it weren't for his mother.
"DANIEL FENTON! GET BACK IN HERE NOW!" She yelled as she waved a huge glass jar half full with coins and the occasional green dollar bill.
"Come on, Mom! That swear jar is almost thirteen years old!" He yelled.
"It has to come back again, Danny! I heard Winnie yell the d-word five times and the f-word once yesterday! One is too many to come out of a little girl's mouth as it is!"
"How come are you putting more of the blame on me than Dad and Sam? They curse too!"
"True, but they don't use them to the extent that you've been using them! Now, pay up, Danny!"
"Can't I pay you later? I've got to go so I can get to the Nasty Burger on time!"
"NOW, DANNY!"
"Alright, alright! How much?"
"Let's see," Maddie replied as she took a little red notebook out of the jar. "this morning alone, you said the d-word eight times, the a-word twice, the s-word once, the b-word one times, the 'SOB'-phrase twice and the f-word once, which means fifty cents instead of a quarter for that one, which gives us the grand total of four dollars."
Danny quickly coughed up the last four dollar bills in his wallet and ran like hell towards the Nasty Burger. As he got tired, however, he suddenly remembered that he had ghost powers, so he ran into a dark alley, changed into his ghost form, and flew towards the fast food restaurant.
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Danny ran into the room he had been instructed to enter to have the interview. The woman that was to give the job interview with him quickly put her smokeless cigarette into the ashtray on her metal desk.
"I guess you're Mister Fenton?" She asked, ignoring the smoldering cigarette.
Danny nodded.
"Well come right in! My name is Mallory- M-A-L-L-O-R-Y, mind you- Jansen and I will be interviewing you today." She said as she shook hands with the possible employee-to-be; Jansen then instructed him to sit down and the job interview started.
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Six hours. That was how long Danny was trapped in a pseudo-prison, where he had to survive through a long, long interview (most of which consisted of how exactly did he get fired from his last three jobs in a short amount of time), a review of how to work a cash register, and getting sized for his uniform. The fact that he barely managed to get the job would've made it all the worthwhile if it weren't for the fact that the police were swarming like bees in and around Fenton Works when he arrived to his parents' home and his temporary refuge.
"What happened here while I was gone?" He asked Sam as he noticed everyone that was present at what seemed to be a crime scene, including Jack, Maddie, Tucker, Valerie, and of all people, Vlad Masters. As he jumped to conclusions of how and why he traveled back to Amity Park, he noticed Detective Keith; apparently she was on her day off when he last saw her due to the fact that she was in an actual police detective's uniform.
"MISTER FENTON!" She demanded from the front door. "GET YOUR ASS IN HERE AND TALK!"
Danny gulped; he didn't like the sound of this as he had a feeling over what had happened…
End of Chapter Six
A/N: (Those chickens that kill authors that write cliffhangers look at me with customized gardening tools) Wow, I've broken my record- this was unintentional, but this is now the longest chapter I've ever written, at over 2,100 words. In addition, I would like to note if y'all mind if I show some notable things I've typed, cut and paste and "deleted" from the actual fanfic. If you want me to do so, just give me a holler! Until I update though, have a great day and a happy belated April Fools Day!
Ja Ne!
Kate-chan 91