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Alex walked down the hallway of her school with Josh, Aaron and surprisingly, Max; Josh was not happy about this last fact but Aaron was managing to keep him quiet, kind of.

"Why does he have to be here? Alex is our friend!" Josh hissed to Aaron.

"Will you knock it off? He's nice!" Aaron hissed back. Max looked exceedingly uncomfortable.

"I- listen if your friends don't like having me around then I'll go, I don't wanna cause an upset." Max whispered to Alex.

"No, I… I like having you around; Josh just isn't a people person, I'm sure he'll warm to you eventually." Alex blushed. Suddenly Alex felt the air grow electric and the room seemed, not quite right, as if something was out of place. Alex looked around and at the top of a ladder with a suspiciously placed can of paint was a Jinx, it was chittering and jumping up and down with delight as it edged the can further towards the edge, Alex panicked.

"OH MY GOD! LOOK! MR LANCER!" Alex yelled pointing in the opposite direction, Aaron, Josh and Max jumped and looked at where Alex was pointing, meanwhile Alex waved a streak of green light at the Jinx causing it to yelp and disappear.

"I don't see him." Aaron frowned turning back.

"Heh, my mistake, it must just have been a very out of shape bearded old woman." Alex laughed nervously, Aaron raised an eyebrow at her.

"Changing the subject! I need to house-sit my grandfather's place tonight, you three want to come over? We could bring movies." Alex suggested quickly.

"Sure." The others nodded, apart from Josh who glowered at Max.

Alex sat in science class trying desperately to focus on anything other than Max, like say science for example.

"Alex! Maybe you would care to answer my question?" The teacher snapped at her, he always disliked her theories on ghosts, even more so that she never seemed to be able to be proved LOGICALLY wrong with them, and so he tended to pick on her.

"Uh… nuclear fission?" Alex suggested, aware that she hadn't been listening at all.

"I- you weren't listening at all were you?" The teacher glared at her.

"Uh… not really sir." Alex admitted.

"And yet by fluke you happen to be right. I've got my eye on you Fenton." The teacher growled very annoyed at being shown up when he KNEW she wasn't paying attention.

"So how come your grandfather's house needs looking after then?" Max asked Alex as they all walked down the road to Fenton Works.

"Well, my grandma's out at a science conference and my Dad and Grandpa are out staking out some haunted house and my aunt Jazz is busy at the hospital where she works." Alex explained.

"They can't leave the house alone really, there are quite a few people around who'd either like to get in and steal things or get in and destroy things." Aaron continued for her, Alex nodded gravely.

"And so you're letting him who you just met the other day into this house WHY?" Josh muttered, Aaron elbowed him to shut up.

"Anyway, here we are." Alex said knocking on the door and ignoring Josh's last remark, a hatch slid back and Jack Fenton peered out.

"Password?" he demanded.

"Grandpa! Not this again." Alex moaned.

"Password." He repeated.

"Urgh, ghosts exist, Jack Fenton is awesome." Alex muttered embarrassed.

"I don't know, you didn't sound enthusiastic about it..." Jack said slowly.

"For crying out loud, just let her in." Another voice said from behind the door, the door swung open revealing Danny Fenton and a pouting Jack Fenton.

"Ooh, a new face." Danny smiled at Max as he moved to let the four teenagers in.

"Hi, I'm Max; you must be Alex's Dad right?" Max smiled.

"Well I'm certainly not her grandfather, hey Aaron, hey Josh." Danny nodded, the other two teens murmured a hello and left to explore the softness of the sofa and the possible abundance of snacks.

"Can you trust him?" Jack asked suspiciously.

"Yes Grandpa, stop making my friends uncomfortable already!" Alex hissed.

"On that note, we'd better go Dad." Danny sighed herding his father out of the door ignoring his protests, he returned and kissed Alex on the top of the head.

"Daaaad. Embarrassing me." Alex muttered not entirely seriously.

"I know I know, I'll see you in the morning okay?" Danny smiled leaving the house.

Alex pulled popcorn from the microwave and headed back to her friends.

"So, have we decided? Zombies or aliens?" Alex asked jumping over the back of the sofa to land in between Josh and Max and scattering a few peices of popcorn in the process.

"We're thinking aliens mostly." Aaron grinned.

"Cool." Alex nodded pressing the play button.

"Oh god, that bright light, is… is that… the ALIENS!" a voice from the TV set screamed, all four munched popcorn transfixed by the cheesy horror film.

"Can I use your bathroom?" Max whispered to Alex.

"Sure, down the hall on your left." Alex replied quietly. Max got up quietly and walked off down the hall, there happened to be two doors on his left, he stood still for a moment, which had Alex meant? His hand pushed open the first door, about that time Alex tackled him to the ground.

"What the?" Max gasped shocked.

"Not that left." Alex breathed pulling Max up and showing him the charred spot on the ground where he was standing only moments ago.

"What's that?" Max asked stunned.

"That's my grandfather's lab, hence the security." Alex explained, by now the other two had joined them interested in the commotion.

"That thing's dangerous, it's tried to get me when I've just walked past it before." Aaron laughed amused at the terror on Max's face.

"Yeah it is kinda- did you guys hear that?" Alex asked suddenly becoming serious.

"Ha ha." Josh sighed not buying it.

"No seriously, I think something's down there." Alex murmured, swiping her hand over the sensor and walking down the stairs to the lab. All three boys stood for a moment suddenly more than a little nervous at being alone in this house before dashing after Alex. They skidded into the back of her causing her to shush them and walk onwards, her toes barely graced the ground as she snuck along, her fingers sneaked a ghost gun from a nearby workbench and she held it ready. The three boys followed with their mouths open in awe, none of them had seen this room before now and it was huge and full of incredibly cool stuff. A green glow came from a circular object hidden under a giant sheet at the back of the room.

"The ghost portal." Alex muttered creeping towards it, there were only three sets of footprints in this dust down here, one was hers before her accident, one was hers barefoot afterwards and one was her grandfather's.

"No-one's walked down here." Alex whispered to the now very creeped out boys behind her.

"Th-then what is it?" Aaron said more squeakily and shakily than he'd have liked.

"I-" Alex began before a bright light emanated from the ghost portal blowing the sheet off it and towards them, The three boys screamed caught up in the giant sheet scared and confused. A familiar blue ghost shot forth from the portal. Alex smiled and pulled the sheet off of her friends.

"You ladies can come out from under there now, it's just a ghost." Alex laughed.

"I AM THE BOX GH-" it started before staring in fear at Alex.

"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR AFTERLIVES!" He screamed flying off through the ceiling.

"Aww, he remembered me." Alex laughed feeling touched. Suddenly her eye caught on a small metal ring rolling along the floor towards the ghost portal.

"What the?" Alex murmured before a bright flash of light threw them all backwards.

Not entirely sure how much later Alex opened her eyes to a hand shaking her shoulder, she looked up into her father's concerned face, Alex frowned and shook her head and suddenly remembered, she sat bolt upright and stared at the huge empty space where the ghost portal had been moments ago.

"It… it's GONE!" Alex yelped.