Thanks for the reviews: the sleep warrior, katiesparks, GoingGhost, Catmedium, thephantomgal10, Ghostboy814, spdgirl and Nobody is Somebody.

Special thanks goes out to: the sleep warrior and thephantomgal10 for suggesting this idea almost identically to each other! LOL

A quick note from the author: Told you those who suggest ideas will get their names mentioned. I tweeked warrior and phantomgal's ideas just a little. DJ's slowly breaking down his bad boy exterior, and with any luck he'll be reached!

Chapter 8: Did She Want Me?

DJ sat at the table sitting across from his grandparents. Cassy was in the kitchen cooking, but in the meantime, DJ was playing with his cup of orange juice. "So…why didn't you guys ever visit or anything?" he asked. "I mean, Mom never even mentioned you guys."

"Well, she wouldn't," Pamela said softly. "We weren't very kind to her after…"

"After your father died," Jeremie finished. "We never did like that young man, and only a few months afterward she came home and announced she was pregnant…with you."

"We didn't take it very well," Pamela said.

Cassy handed DJ a plate, and the young man stared at it. "So…you guys didn't want her to have me?" he asked softly.

"That wasn't it at all," Pamela said quickly. "We are a rich family, and we have a certain image we must keep. If our only daughter was pregnant and unmarried, even if the man died before he could marry her, it just wasn't something we wanted others to know. We couldn't simply ask her to hide you, and we knew she wouldn't agree to…well." Pamela obviously didn't want to voice her opinions.

"You wanted my mom to get rid of me?" DJ looked up at the people he had just learned were part of his family. They both shifted, glancing at each other nervously. "But didn't you love her?"

"Yes, we did, and we loved you too," Pamela said gently. "We just didn't think it was right for her to be carrying the child of a dead boy."

DJ tried not to flinch at the way they said that. "Why didn't you like my dad?"

"There were certain…things about him. He encouraged our daughter's strange behavior, and there was this incident with a gothic fair…" Jeremie said.

"But he was brainwashed!" DJ blurted out before realizing they might not know the whole story like he did.

Pamela and Jeremie, however, didn't comment on that. "We did try to make things right," Pamela said. "You were only a small child the first time we saw you. We tried to make things right, but we only ended up making them worse."

"How?" he asked.

"We said that you looked too much like your father," Jeremie said. "We feared you might take after him in everything including ghost powers. Samantha had already worried about your father when he was alive and fighting; we didn't want her to worry about you."

"And…what did you try to do?"

"We wanted to have you tested to see if you were part ghost," Pamela said. "There's this man Vlad Masters that could separate the ghost and human half."

"Vlad Masters?" DJ asked incredulously. "No wonder Mom freaked! He used those friggin' Ghost Gauntlets on Dad twice! Once in the future, and once in an alternate timeline."

"We found that out later," Jeremie said. "We never wanted to hurt you or your mother. It was all simply misunderstandings and misinformation."

DJ looked back at his nearly empty plate, thoughts tumbling through his mind. "Did my mom want me?" he asked quietly.

"Yes," they both said quickly.

"Daniel, your mother loved you from the moment she knew she was pregnant," Jeremie said, "and she wanted the best for you."

"She wanted to move in with the Fentons before she even told us she was pregnant, and I think she was a little elated when we disowned her," Pamela said softly. "She didn't want you to have the same life she did: lonely rich kid in a huge mansion."

DJ didn't speak for a while after that. These people didn't understand that he was lonely. He didn't have siblings, he didn't have a dad, and though his mom loved him, he still wanted his dad. "I'm gunna go lie down for a little bit," he mumbled, leaving for his room.

"DJ?"

He turned. He had barely made it up the stairs, and Cassy was standing right there just watching him. "What?" he asked, not really in the mood for talking. He had a lot on his mind that confused him and some that made him realize just how much he really missed his home.

"If you want to talk…I'm here," she said softly.

He held her gaze for a moment then looked away. "Thanks," he mumbled then walked away.

A/N: Well, what do you think? I'm hoping to have DJ break down sometime soon. Maybe…hmm…maybe after he gets his ghost powers. When do you think he should get them? I'm thinking there might be this scene where he has to save his mom from being hit by the ghost's ray, but it's all kind of jumbled in my head right now. I feel like DJ... All the thoughts in my head just aren't making any sense...