Alright for the 2 reviewers i had to say, thank you very much: passing4insane, and fakeout-makeout. Im glad you enjoyed the last chapter. And yes, Ben is supposed to be alot like Danny, only he fits in with a lot of different categories of cliques, (nerds, jocks, popular, computers, and losers) this chapter is a little background on Ben and how he is going to receive his powers.
Disclaimer: i do not own danny phantom, just Ben, Charles, and Laura.
Guardian Angel
Chapter 2:
51
The year was 2003. In a little city in the middle of Nevada, a preteen boy of 12 years was running down the street to what you could call his house.
"I can't believe it! Oh my gosh, Momma, and Dad are going to be so proud!" The little boy thought to himself, smiling with excessive glee, with reflections of light beaming off his metal braces onto the windows of shops as he ran past them. His short dark brown hair blowing in the wind, and his eyes started to water from the rushing air. He finally got to his desired destination and ran up the 3 steps into the apartment complex. The little boy ran up the stairs to the second floor and slowed down to a fast jog to the 8th door on the right.
"MOMMA! I DID IT I DID IT!" Little Ben Harrington screamed into the small apartment hoping to grab her attention.
"What? What did you do Ben?" A middle-aged woman of about 43 said to her son.
"I aced… my… my… math test Momma, I aced it! 105 I got the extra credit too." Little Ben said between gasps for air. He handed the test to his mother to examine, hoping to get more praise.
"Excellent job Ben, I always knew you were great at math." Her mother trailed off.
"Thanks Momma," He said while rushing over to give her a big hug. Ben as a kid was quite tall for his age around 5 foot 7 inches. He was also very well built, between his swimming and tennis lessons; he had a nice body, some definition in his legs, chest, and arms. A smile rose in his already gleaming face as he backed away and grabbed a magnet from the refrigerator. Ben stuck his test on next to many other papers with similar results, like perfect spelling tests, 94 on a few English tests. Ben was a very gifted youngster.
"When is Dad getting home from work?" Ben asked, as his smile faded to a neutral position and curiosity in his voice.
His mother only sighed and put her palm under her chin, looking away from Ben. I don't know sweetie, he has been working late lately."
"That's ok, ooh I really hope he's proud of me."
"He will, Ben, he will. Now go outside and play a little bit, I need to get dinner started."
"What's for dinner Momma?" "Please don't be meatloaf…not again…"
"Meatloaf…"
"Awwww…"Ben walked out the small apartment barely big enough for his small family of his mom, dad, and himself. He didn't have a room; he just slept on a futon that would fold down at night. Ben didn't mind, but his parents were always concerned, they wanted Ben to have a good life that he deserves.
It was late at night, around 9:30, way past Ben's bedtime, before Ben's father came home.
"Charles, hey honey…" Ben's mom, Laura said quietly to her husband.
"Hey sweetie." Charles replied while kissing her wife on the lips. "Sorry I'm late again." They moved out of the biggest room in the house, the family room, which doubled as Ben's bedroom. You could barely call it big though, it only had enough room for a futon, a coffee table a few end tables, and a small TV. In the second biggest room, which was still uncomfortably small, the master bedroom, Charles and Laura continued their conversation.
"Ben brought home a perfect math test today…"
"That's great, he is going to be somebody someday you know that? I wish I was as smart as him when I was his age, then I wouldn't have to be Johnny pencil pusher for a dying Law firm."
"I know, but he deserves a better life than this. I mean I've slept on the futon before; it's really uncomfortable. But I just have to admire his aditude, he hardly complains, and he does all of his chores, I couldn't ask for a better son. I just wish we didn't have to live in pover…"
Charles put his hand up to cover Laura's mouth. "No, we don't live in poverty, we just have some monetary trouble that's all."
This didn't make her feel any better. She loved her son more than anything.
"Listen Laura, I want you to hear me out on this. I received a letter from the government today at work. It had to do with Ben…"
"What about him, honey?"
"They are interested in meeting him and just running him through a few tests that's all." Charles was lying, he knew what the letter said, and it was more than a few tests. "And we could make a lot of money, if we just give Ben to the gov…"
"What! Give Ben to the government? Are you mad?"
"Listen honey, they would pay us $100,000 for keeping him for one month, that's all one month."
"No, I won't let you take our son and give him away for a month, he's just a kid. I mean, why him anyway?"
"The letter said that it had to do with his genetics, he apparently has an incredibly potent immune system. And they just want to see him that's all. Think about it, after one month, we could give him and ourselves the lives we always wanted."
This awoke Laura's attention. She would do anything for Ben if it were for the best. She wanted to give him things that he wanted, like a bed, a bigger house, and some toys for god's sake.
"Well, I suppose if he's safe then we could let him stay… are you sure he will be safe?"
"Absolutely, the government would take great care of him!" He lied again. Knowing exactly what they wanted with him, he didn't want to use that money for Ben, he wanted to keep it himself. He didn't like his son very much, he always wanted a girl that would grow up to be a model and make millions.
"Well, when does he have to go Charles?"
"Tomorrow, I'll take him to the airport and I'll make sure he is safe as could be…" He said with a reassuring smile. Laura still didn't like this idea, but if she could give him the life he deserved than she would do anything. The couple changed and got ready for bed. They turned off the lights and slept, with both of them dreaming very anxious dreams all night.
The next morning, Charles woke up extra early and silently got dressed. He went out into the family room where young Ben was sitting up on the rock hard futon watching some Saturday morning cartoons on a small fuzzy screen.
"Hey Ben, I got a surprise for you…"
"Really! What is it?" Ben cried out.
"Shhhh shhh… you got to be quiet or else you won't get it." His dad told him.
"I got to drive you to get you there though so c'mon let's go!"
They got into a run-down station wagon and headed for the nearest gas station. He filled up on gas and ran inside and got some coffee and a bottle of Mountain Dew for Ben. He pulled out his wallet careful not to lose some small capsules in the bottom of the pocket, and paid for the drinks. Ben's father unscrewed the bottle of soda and slipped the pills in, until the dissolved.
He got back to the car, and handed him the soda, Ben's countenance gleamed up with surprise.
"This is for your math test Ben, you did a great job on that, Son." Ben thanked his father as they drove out of the station and down some barren streets.
Ben yawned and fell asleep after quickly chugging the Mountain Dew. Charles smiled as he looked in the rear-view mirror, being glad that the sleeping pills did their job.
He headed down some more barren roads for hours on end, until they reached the middle of the desert with a large fence with barbed wire around it. Charles drove in the gate, and stepped outside his vehicle.
2 men, one of which was carrying a briefcase, and the other with a walkie-talkie, whispering some undecipherable message, greeted Charles. Charles opened the back door and pulled his son out, carrying him over his shoulders, and placed him in the backseat of a black SUV that had just arrived on the scene. Ben was safely secured in the back seat and still asleep.
One of the men gave him a clipboard as Charles started signing dozens of forms. When this was finished Charles was handed a briefcase, which he opened, containing many hundreds of dollar bills. Charles stepped back into his running car and drove away leaving Ben in the back seat of a black SUV. The two men entered the vehicle and proceeded back toward a very large building.
The road towards this building was bumpy, and this caused Ben to bang his head against the black tinted windows. This woke Ben up. He looked out the window seeing nothing but desert and a very large building that he was being driven to. He was too drugged to speak or move that much for that matter, but was still coherent enough to read a large sign imprinted on the side of the building in white bold letters.
NOW ENTERING AREA 51 GENETIC TESTING FACILITY.
A/N: alright there you go, there is going to be a second chapter explaining how he gets his powers, and how he gets tested, etc. Then by the 4th we are back into present time with Danny, Sam, Tuck and etc.
I enjoyed this, sort of seeing how it's hard to believe Ben can be so optimistic, and how much his father doesn't like him, as well has Charles lying to his wife.
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