Danny Phantom Challenge


9 Drive


"Danny, could at least TRY to smile? Please? Your frown is distracting me from keeping my eyes on the road."


Jazz narrowed her turquoise eyes at her little brother, who had been frowning nonstop ever since the two left their parents driveway to ride around town which was two hours ago.


Her little brother's ice blue eyes glared dangerously at his older sister.


"How can I enjoy this? You drag me away from home, and from what I was doing, to bring me on this absolutely worthless drive!"


Jazz sighed and shook her head. "Danny, you're dealing with way too much stress now. If you don't find a way to get rid of it, who knows what might happen! Unexpected rage? Mental exhaustion? Emotion overload? Danny, you have to find a way to balance all of that!"


The frown never lifted from Danny's face. "Okay, first of all, I'm 15, those things are supposed to happen, and second, I have no time to balance everything if you haven't noticed-CAR!"


The two Fenton's eyes opened wide at the car in front of them getting closer. Jazz did the first thing that came to her mind, and swerved the car left as the incoming car swerved right. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and Danny slumped back in his chair.


"Jazz, when are we going home? We've been driving for two hours! And we're gonna get stuck in the 5 O'clock traffic!".


Don't even think about going home Danny. I won't go anywhere near the Fenton residences until you stop frowning and have a genuine good time! I'm doing this for your own good!"


"YOU always think, that if YOU send me to therapy, if YOU get me after school activities, and if YOU drag me away from whatever I was doing, to go on a ride with my older, peppy, ultra annoying sister is for my own good! It's NOT! So get your nose out of my life!"


The car suddenly turned a sharp right, as Jazz pulled over to the side of the road at a rest stop, in a desolate part of town, pretty far away from Amity Park. Jazz stepped out of her car, and walked over to open the door to Danny's side. The younger Fenton frowned even more.



"Jazz, what are you doing?"



"Do you want to walk Danny? I brought you out here, hoping to have a nice sibling chat with my little brother, but instead I get a grumpy 15 year-old who refuses to compromise. Now either I can drop you off here, and you can walk home withOUT using your ghost powers, or we can continue our little drive, and relieve stress instead of cause it. You're pick Danny."


Danny and Jazz returned intense glares at each other, waiting for the other one to give up and so on and so forth. Blue eyes finally lowered into guilt and he sighed.


"I'd…I'd rather we continue our drive…"


"Good."


Jazz shut Danny's door, and walked back to her own side, and got in. She started up her engine and backed out of the rest stop space, and turned around to go back to the main area of Amity Park.


An awkward silence fell over the two siblings as they drove back, buildings and people started to come back into view. Danny gave in.


"Jazz….I'm, I'm sorry. I know you really want to help…but, even if you can balance your emotions and your mental strength doesn't mean I can…you really can't expect me to live up to your expectations."


His older sister gave in as well and sighed. "I know Danny, and I'm sorry too. I just worry about you, that's all, and, I'm amazed."


Danny raised an eyebrow. "Amazed? Amazed at what?"


"Everything you go through during High School, everything you deal with concerning ghosts, and Plasmius, and your secret…it must be hard."


Jazz turned towards her brother and smiled kindly, and lowered her eyes into a comforting look.



"I know I could never do it."