Hey!

I'm really happy that so many of you that liked Complications have found this. I hope more will, and I eagerly await your reviews. So in that spirit, here's a shout!

Danphanfan, Meagainsttheworld, Esme Kali Phantom, Leah Fenton, Kantix Gabriel, Ummari the Cranky, and The Fluff Ghost! You are all first time reviewers for this story, so you get the special first time shout. Of course, this is the first chapter, so…eh, whatever, you still rock! I remember a lot of you from Complications, and I hope you remain satisfied, despite my evil cliffies. This chapter doesn't have one, so you should like me slightly more. I hope.

Also, special thanks to Ummari for reminding me that I stupidly forgot Dani when Danny had his total breakdown in Complications. My only excuse is a severe case of brain gas. But, I'll just assume Danny was only thinking about his evil connections when he was freaked out. I'm also assuming he would have at least talked to Jazz about Dani since the incident with her. Just seems logical to me, even if that proves that I did indeed forget her earlier in the story. Hope that clears up any potential confusion and special thanks once again to Ummari. Much love, fricai.

Chapter 2 – Doubles

Danielle Fenton looked across the table at her biological family. "Umm…hi?"

Danny had yet to close his mouth, and seemed to be floating slightly above his booth seat. Jack Maddie and Jazz were looking back and forth between their son and this strange girl. Her stomach grumbled loudly.

"Uh, I know you're surprised, but could I grab something to eat? I haven't had hot food in weeks." Snapping out of his shock at this, Danny fell back down and quickly slid to the side, accidentally knocking Jazz off the other end of the booth. Grabbing her wrist, he dragged Danielle up beside him and pushed his tray in front of her. Jazz sat back up, absolutely livid.

"Ow! Danny, what's going on! Some strange girl shows up and suddenly I'm flying off my seat, and…oh! That Danielle." Jazz sat back down on the edge and looked the clone over for the first time. "Wow, first Danny's secret comes out, now this." Dani looked over at Jazz and grinned with relief.

"You mean they know about his powers?" Jazz nodded. "Good, that makes things much easier!" Noting the exchange, Maddie also looked over at the strange girl, confused.

"Danny looked shocked to see you and you know about his powers. I take it you two know each other. So, err…Danielle, was it?" Dani nodded. "Who exactly are you?" Taking a huge bite out of her pancakes, Dani turned towards Maddie and wiped some syrup off her chin.

"You just said my name. But call me Dani. And it's kinda hard to explain." She began, shooting sideways glances at Danny. He just shrugged, completely at a loss on how to explain too, taking a long drink from his orange juice. "I'm sort of Danny's…daughter?"

Jack Maddie and Jazz stared at the girl in shock as Danny spit out a mouthful of orange juice and started coughing. The whole table complete with contents phased out for a second, and the juice flew through onto the floor. Danny blushed.

"That would have been really smooth if it happened on purpose." He mumbled to himself. Jack and Maddie finally seemed to be able to speak.

"You're Danny's what?" Dani sat back in her seat.

"Well technically…I really don't know how else to put it. It's kinda complicated." Jack turned and glared at his son.

"Danny! I thought we talked about this when I gave you that class ring. And here we find you not only have a daughter, but you haven't been taking care of her!" At this, both Danny and Dani turned bright red.

"No, no! It's not like that!" Dani hurried to explain, very embarrassed. "Danny didn't…I'm not…" The young girl looked from her red faced pseudo-father to his parents and back. "I'm his clone." She explained, going for the short answer. "His arch enemy made me to destroy him, but I decided I like Danny better." She turned her eyes back to the older boy. "He really cares about me. Plamius may have made me, but if anyone's my father, Danny is." With that, the hungry girl resumed destroying several breakfasts, leaving a very flustered father and two new and very shellshocked grandparents to sort things out.

"A clone?" Jazz nodded.

"Danny told me about her a while ago. Vlad made her, but when she found out he was willing to kill her to get what he wanted from Danny, she changed sides. He's been really worried about her, but Vlad's been hot on her tail for months, so she couldn't settle down. And telling Danny where she was would have put our family in danger." At the mention of Vlad, Dani paled.

"Do you mean they know that Vlad is-"

"An evil ghost bent on taking over the world? Yes, they know." Danny quickly cut her off, shooting her a meaningful look. No way was he going to shock his parents again this weekend. Dani gave him a discreet 'ok' and returned to her food.

"Speaking of Vlads, where did Vlad go?" Maddie asked in a slightly dazed voice, realizing for the first time that Masters hadn't been at the house since early yesterday. Danny shot his mother a panicked look. "No not ghost Vlad, sweetie, the other one." Quietly to herself, she mumbled, "Though if I had to choose between them…" Jack smiled over at his wife.

"Oh yeah, I completely forgot! Vladdy told me yesterday that he had to head back to Wisconsin on business. He said he wanted to stay longer, but since the ghost thing seemed to be under control, he couldn't put it off any more." Jack smiled. "Good old V-Man. Maybe we should visit him next!" Dani dropped her fork, but Danny quickly put a comforting hand on her wrist and turned towards his father.

"That's okay, dad. Something tells me he'll be pretty busy for a while." In an undertone to Dani, he whispered "Tell you later." Dani giggled, and started eating again. Maddie looked back over at the strange new girl, her face still registering some shock.

"Well, I suppose it's for the best. This whole ghost power situation is going to take some getting used to, and I don't think having Vlad around would help. And now there's this clone thing, too. It's really a lot to take in." Jack nodded.

"And just imagine if Vlad found out. He's a pretty cool guy, but I don't think he'd understand." Jazz Danny and Dani shared a look. Maddie turned and faced the young ghost girl head-on.

"ButDani, why did you come here? Not that Jack and I are complaining, we're just a little surprised that you…well, exist. The last two days have just been one shock after another. We'd just like some answers." Sighing, Dani put down her fork and set aside any hope of eating in the near future. Looking down at her tray, the ghost girl explained.

"Ever since I betrayed him, Vlad hasn't stopped hunting me. He wants revenge for freeing Danny and destroying the other clones. He put a lot of work into them. In some twisted kind of way, I think he may have even loved the last one. It was a perfect replica of Danny. To him, me and the other clones were just…prototypes. Imperfections. Mistakes." A few tears fell from the young girl's eyes, but her resolve quickly hardened. "After a lot of tries, Vlad found out that in order for us clones to be stable, we needed Danny's DNA from when he's changing between forms. Since none of us have it, all the other clones melted when they tried to attack. But, I can't fight Vlad's goons either, 'cause I'll melt too." Dani looked up from her tray. "That's why I'm always running. If I try to use my powers to fight back, I'll…die." Jack and Maddie stared at the girl in shock.

"You have ghost powers, too?" Dani nodded.

"Yeah, all the clones did. But we were all missing some crucial part of Danny's DNA that keeps him together when he's in his ghost form. Vlad kidnapped him to take it by force, but I saved him." Dani looked back at her tray and pushed a few pieces of egg around with her fork. "And I haven't stopped running since." Maddie and Jack looked over at the poor girl with a greater understanding, clearly upset that she'd gone through so much just to help their son.

"That's horrible, Dani. We'll do whatever we can to help you." Maddie looked at the girl. "But you still didn't say why you're here." Dani frowned.

"Yesterday around six, some weird blue ghost appeared at my hideout. I tried to run, thinking it was one of Vlad's, but he stopped me somehow. I thought I was done for, but he just smiled at me, and said 'Danielle. If you want to go back to people who care about you, I promise that Amity Park is now a safe place for you to live. Danny is in charge there now, and Vlad and his minions can't get inside the city limits.' I didn't know if I could trust him, but he let me go, so I thought I could at least come check it out." Dani turned to her father. "Is it true?" Danny grinned at her.

"Yes Dani, it's true. Vlad can't come here anymore." The girl practically glowed with relief, and turned to quickly give Danny a big hug. The flustered teen awkwardly patted her on the back, as Dani squeezed tigher.

"I've been waiting for something like this my whole life. I'm finally safe from Vlad! I don't know how you're keeping him out, but thank you!" Dani finally broke off and Danny slowly gasped for breath, rubbing his sides. Jazz cleared her throat.

"Um, sorry to break the mood, but where are you planning to live? I mean, you're only safe here in Amity Park, so you'll have to live somewhere in the city." Dani frowned, and shrugged, shooting discrete glances to her right. Jack gave his daughter a shocked look.

"What are you talking about, Jazzy-pants! She'll stay with us!" Jack beamed over at the girl. Maddie's eyes creased for a second, then she relaxed into an accepting smile.

"Yes, dear. Of course you'll stay with us. You're family." At that last, Dani looked back at Danny's parents, a joy-filled grin on her face.

"You mean it?" Smiling despite their confustion, Jack and Maddie both nodded. Jazz thought for a moment, then grinned. Dani just sat back and took it all in. "A family. Wow. I was sort of hoping you'd ask; I just didn't want to say anything." Dani fished around in her pocket and pulled out some weathered but still readable papers. "I saved these from when Vlad sent me undercover to capture Danny. He made them just in case I needed proof that the lies I told were the truth." Eyebrow raised at the irony, Dani laid a birth certificate and some personal records, all fakes, on the table. "They're good, so we can use them now, no problem." Maddie picked up the birth certificated and gave it a brief read.

"Danielle Fenton." Maddie paused and briefly glanced up at the girl, a small smile on her face. "Well that's convenient. Hmm…Jack, do you know any of these people?" Jack looked at the record of her claimed parents and relatives.

"Nope. Only real family on this list is her great-grandfather. But he's been gone for years. Whoever made these knew a lot about our family. According to this, she would be Jazz and Danny's cousin." Jazz perked up.

"Hey, if the parents on that thing aren't real, we can claim they died. No one will wonder why she's staying with us. And we can keep saying she's our cousin; I mean, it's a pretty good cover." Jack and Maddie just nodded. Jazz's eyes widened as other, more immediate thoughts occurred to her. "Hey, why don't we go to the theme park tomorrow, after Dani gets moved in? We can spend today getting her all the stuff she'll need." Jazz grinned, shopping fever bringing a dangerous glow to her eyes. "We'll need to get her some clothes, furniture, accessories, school stuff…" Jazz's eyes widened. "Oh my gosh! We need to get her into school! Dani, what grade are you in?" Dani shrugged timidly, a little scared by the look on Jazz's face when shopping came up.

"I don't know. I've never been to school before." Jack and Maddie frowned.

"Okay, sweetie. You'll have to go to school if you stay, but we can figure that out later. We'll test you to find out what grade you should be in. In the meantime," Maddie continued, eyes glowing with a light unnervingly like her daughter's, "we have shopping to do!" Gulping at the look in Mrs. Fenton's face, Dani clutched Danny's hand for dear life as they were quickly herded out of the Nasty Burger and into the RV. Buckling herself into the back seat, Jazz turned to her new cousin.

"So Dani, what stuff do you have already? Just to know what we have to work with." If anything, the shopping induced spark in the girl's eyes had gotten even brigher. Dani looked down at her torn, dirty outfit.

"You're looking at it." Jazz froze mid-fever, embarrassed.

"Oh. Right, uh, sorry." Dani looked up confused.

"What for? You asked, right?" She looked back down at her outfit. "Besides, it's not like I was some helpless, powerless little kid. With my powers, I could have taken anything I wanted." Dani frowned. "But then, I'd be just as bad as Vlad. Given the choice, I'll stick with the rags." Jazz thought for a moment, then beamed.

"They look great on you, Dani." The girl looked up appreciatively and giggled.

"Yeah right. They're disgusting! But hey, that's why we're going shopping." Grinning, the two girls fell into some sort of shopaholic bonding moment, dopey smiles plastered on both their faces. Danny hunched over to the side and moaned. Seeing this, Dani broke off and punched him in the arm.

"Hey!" The girl looked back with a wicked smirk.

"Oh, sorry. Dad." Danny shuddered, briefly phasing out, as the two girls did their best to hold in laugher.

"Please, Dani. Call me a cousin, too. The dad thing is really creeping me out." After a quick grin, Dani put on an abandoned puppy-dog face.

"Does dis mean you don't wuv me anymo, daddy?" She managed to hold that face for about three seconds before both she and Jazz broke down into hysterics. Pulling herself together, Jazz put on a sad face too and reached an arm around Dani's shoulder. Maddie looked back in the rearview mirror and chuckled as Jazz joined in the fun.

"Don't worry sweety. Auntie Jazz will take care of you. Mean old daddy can't hurt you anymore." Danny glared at his sister, green sparks filling his eyes and lighting up the inside of the RV. Dani just turned around and glared back, eyes equally bright.

"You threatening my cousin? Then bring it, ghost boy." The young girl teased. Grinning, Danny changed to his ghost form and prepared to fly out and start a dogfight with his new cousin.

"Just try me. I'll mop you up when you lose." Danny challenged the young girl playfully as he leapt up into the air. Tensing, Jazz turned on the RV's portable ghost shield just in time for her brother to hit his head.

"Ow!" Danny sat back down and changed back, rubbing his head. "Jeez, Jazz, what was that for? We were just going to have some fun." Jazz shot her brother an exasperated look.

"Four words, Danny. Fifty. Thousand. Dollar. Bounty." Danny visibly paled, and fell back in his seat, groaning. Dani looked over at him, then back at Jazz.

"What?" Sighing, Jazz explained.

"Because of his bad reputation, the mayor put up a bounty on Danny. Until it's lifted, he probably shouldn't use his powers in public."

Maddie paused in the front seat. "That's a good point, Jazz. I hadn't thought about that." The older woman turned around and looked back at her kids. "Danny, your sister's right. Your father and I will do everything we can to set things right, but until the bounty gets dropped, you should stay human." With a brief eye-roll at the strange orders she had to give her children, Maddie turned back forward. Jack nodded his head.

"Your mother's right, son. As totally cool as your powers are, we don't want you getting into trouble." Jazz quirked an eyebrow.

"You don't want him in trouble? Dad, he fights ghosts." Jack laughed.

"He sure does, Jazzy! But using super powerful weapons against evil spirits from another dimension is totally different!" Big grin still on his face, Jack turned forward again. Jazz rolled her eyes.

"Still Danny. Don't use your powers right now unless you need to, okay?"

"But I used them on my date with Sam, and nobody caught me then." Danny argued. "I don't think it's a big deal." Jazz raised her eyebrows.

"Well, that wasn't very smart, Danny. I thought you had more sense than that." Jazz shot her brother a piercing look, a smirk spreading across her face. "Why did you want to show up at Sam's in 'uniform' anyway, Danny?" Danny blushed.

"Look, it's just something I wanted to do. Let's just drop it. I promise not to use my powers in public until the bounty is dropped, okay? Let's just go get Dani some stuff." Nodding, though still smirking at the thought of why Danny wanted to show up in costume for his date, Jazz returned her eyes to the road.

"There's the mall!" Dani shouted a moment later. "I…think. What happened to it?"

"Skulker." Danny said shortly, his eyes flashing again for a moment. The mall lay in ruins before them, construction equipment already being set up. In one of the relatively unharmed parking lots, several tents had been set up, with banners proclaiming what merchandise they had for sale.

"What's with the tents?" Dani asked curiously. Jack looked into the rearview mirror as he shifted into park.

"After the ghost attack, the mall agreed to let the local stores open tents in the parking lot to sell undamaged goods until the building is fixed up."

"I know it's not as good a selection," Maddie added, "but they really need our support right now while they rebuild." Nodding, the Fenton family all shuffled out of the RV and walked together toward the sprawling bazaar of open tents. Jazz practically glowed.

"Yay. Shopping."