A/N: I've decided to include a soundtrack to this story if anyone is interested, if you want look up the songs online and play them when reading the specific chapters, I will go back and edit previous chapters to include their songs. This particular one is "In the morning" by Razorlight. You tube has it if you'd like it.

Also thanks to all my wonderful reviewers:

Misstress of Darkness: Yay for having me on your alert list! Thankyou!

PotterPhan21: Yes, he's one of the people that does know, after all they hunt ghosts together now.

Dragon-Fire-Fairy: heh, thankyou

AirGirl Phantom: Yep, they're all 14

Lucky Phantom: I will try to continue to rock. ;;

Jessicajason: Yes Jack does know. And with Alex being able to see Sam when she was young, well... traumatic events bring out surprising things in children, but as a child Alex wouldn't have been around too many ghosts (if you were a ghost would YOU go near the Fentons?) so it faded into disuse. Doesn't mean it won't come back though! -

The next day Alex, Josh and Aaron were setting up their joint project in the main hall when the school jocks walked over.

"Yo Baxter! Whaussup?" One shouted obnoxiously. Aaron turned around and grinned at them, Josh and Alex rolled their eyes and went back to putting the finishing touches to their project.

"Hey guys!" Aaron grinned back smacking on of the guys playfully on the shoulder.

"So, party tonight? My house?" The lead jock asked.

"Dunno, I'll let you know at the end of the day, I gotta check my busy social calendar!" Aaron said sarcastically.

"Heh, that's cool." The lead jock nodded before leading his buddies off.

"I don't know why you hang out with those losers." Josh said bitterly. Aaron looked irritated, Josh was always going on about this.

"Funny, they say the same thing to me." Aaron shot back.

"That's because they're stupid jocks!" Josh hissed.

"What would you know; you're too close minded to give them a chance!" Aaron growled.

"I'm not close minded, I'm just a realist!" Josh retorted.

"You two! Cut it out!" We're all in this project together remember!" Alex snapped at them both, Josh and Aaron fell silent but continued to glare at each other.

"Now, is everything working?" Alex asked patiently, both boys nodded.

"Let's hope so." A voice from above them said darkly.

"AH, principle Lancer." (A/N: yep! He's principal now! ) Aaron said smoothly with a smile that was in fact forced.

"Vinci, Baxter, Fenton." Principal Lancer said this last name with some venom. "I hope this new project of yours isn't TOO terrible."

"It's a gem sir honest." Josh grinned.

"Lets see it then." Principal Lancer said slyly.

"If we could have the lights off?" Josh asked the now packed hall, the lights were obligingly turned down. Josh's part of the project came to life, a rotating lamp projected a masterfully made series of images of what was, unbeknownst to them, Alex's father.

Aaron stepped forward first and began to speak. "The ghost kid, sometimes known as Danny Phantom is an important part of our cultural heritage. In 2005 when he made his first appearance he was a local sensation in the newspapers, both national and local. He drew people from all around the country to our town. He even appeared many times in this very school. Some people theorize that he may have been a student here at some point judging on his age and the number of appearances here. Whether a fraud or a phantom it is undeniable that he changed Amity Park forever." Aaron stepped back and people clapped. Alex stepped forward and a board behind her lit up, Alex nervously began to speak.

"Even though ghosts aren't an accepted fact in mainstream science." Alex began bitterly saying the word mainstream. "The idea of a being that could be half ghost and half human is intriguing and is theoretically possible."

"She's gonna get laughed off the stage again isn't she?" Aaron whispered to Josh over Alex's speech.

"I dunno, Lancer might drag her off first, look how pissed he looks." Josh pointed to Principal Lancer who was already starting to fume.

"-for those who don't know, ectoplasm is the energy that ghost use, the slime found at haunting sites-" Alex displayed a slide behind her showing a slime covered room. "is ectoplasmic residue, that is used ectoplasm-"

"Oh man… they're not liking this at all…" Josh sighed looking at the sarcastic faces in the audience.

"Even with prolonged exposure to ectoplasm you still wouldn't become half-ghost, after all I've been around it my whole life and I'm normal." Alex continued, a laugh went up from the audience and someone shouted "NOT!" Josh and Aaron winced as Alex faltered for a moment.

"So, uh, what you'd need would be raw ectoplasm, and this would be possible by exposing yourself to it by opening a portal from this world to the next based on certain theories of space and time." Alex finished uncertainly.

There was a pause before the whole room bust into laughter. Alex flushed red with anger.

"STOP! STOP!" She shouted waving her arms angrily. "I KNOW you'd all laugh so I built one!" Alex shouted, the audience quieted down, this could be interesting.

"She BUILT one!" Aaron hissed.

"Oh gods…" Josh moaned.

Alex dragged a backpack sized machine onto the stage and put it onto the table, the hall was silent in anticipation. Alex pressed a few buttons on it and… nothing happened. The audience began to mutter and Alex looked up angrily.

"Oh calm down, it's not plugged in yet!" Alex shouted. She followed the power cable along and plugged it into a power lead dramatically. A lot of nothing happened. A few sniggers went up from the audience, Alex looked worried before running over to the machine and reaching into it and fiddling with a few switches, suddenly a huge beam of green light erupted from it sending Alex flying backwards off of the stage and blasting a meter wide hole in the wall dangerously close to Principal Lancer.

Alex sat bolt upright, her head still spinning slightly, snow-white hair fluttered down in front of her eyes. She stood up slowly and slightly wobbly and dusted herself off, it was at this moment that Principal Lancer regained his composure.

"FENTON!" He yelled. Alex spun around and saw the great big hole in the wall. She ran over excitedly and ran a fingertip through the glowing green goo on the edges of the hole. She jabbed it at Principal Lancer's face.

"HAH! Ectoplasm! What does your conventional science have to say about that!" Alex demanded triumphantly, her new white fringe getting into her eyes.

"It says that you blew a hole in my wall and melted part of it." Principal Lancer snapped.

"But why would it be glowing and green?" Alex retorted.

"Hell, it's probably radioactive now! And Ms. Fenton, you're suspended! For a week!" He continued.

"But!" Alex interrupted.

"TWO weeks! Don't make me make it a month Fenton!" Principal lancer threatened. Alex fell into a sullen silence as the whole school around her laughed and jeered and mocked her. A tear slid silently down her face as the laughter washed over her and she slowly left the room.