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"What happened Alex?" Danny asked bringing his daughter and her friends glasses of water, they were all in varying states of consciousness but Alex was the most awake.
"I- I don't know, I went to the lab door because Max accidentally set off the security thinking that it was the bathroom." Alex began feeling a bit foggy.
"That explains the giant charred patch on the floor." Danny laughed gently.
"Yeah, then I heard a noise down in the lab so I went down to check it out you know? We walked all the way to the back and a ghost came out of the ghost portal and flew off then the next thing I knew there was this bright flash and I woke up to see you." Alex sighed, Danny's eye twitched and his smile froze in place.
"Ghost… portal?" Danny said slowly.
"Yeah, Grandpa has one. Had one." Alex corrected herself and rubbed her temples, wincing at the headache.
"Just one moment." Danny said his smile still frozen on, he got up woodenly and grabbed his father by the elbow and hauled him out of the room and closed the door, Maddie followed.
"GHOST PORTAL!" Danny yelled at his father. Jack Fenton kicked at a rug distractedly and said nothing.
"We AGREED. You said you'd DISMANTLED it! So that Alex would be SAFE! We didn't even need it after we were able to make rifts between here and the ghost zone with the guns!" Danny shouted angrily.
"Jack! You didn't KEEP that thing did you?" Maddie gasped.
"I just… it was my greatest achievement. And it was safe, I put a sheet over it, Alex shouldn't have found it." Jack mumbled.
"Oh yes, because of the great concealing powers of a BEDSHEET!" Danny screamed, Jack mumbled some more. Danny paced the room with his hand over his eyes and repeatedly walking through a table.
"So someone stole it, either knocked the kids out or teleported it or something then." Danny said more calmly.
"Vlad?" Maddie suggested.
"Nah, he's got his own." Danny shook his head. "Who would be so desperate to have OUR ghost portal one of the only ones that works, I mean Vlad's the only other person who's been able to build a proper one." Danny continued trying to think.
"Alex built her one." Jack said proudly.
"Yeah, but it didn't work really did it? Plus it was only a little one. The only other person to have ever made another was Tucker, and his sucked." Danny smirked. "But if I didn't even know that we had one still, how would he have known? And why steal it now?" Danny frowned.
"Either we're wrong or we're missing something big." Maddie nodded.
"Dad?" Alex asked sticking her head around the door.
"Alex! You okay?" Danny asked concerned.
"I… I heard shouting, I'm sorry. I know I was meant to look after the house and I messed up, I'm really really sorry." Alex sniffed tears welling up in her eyes.
"Oh no Alex, you're not in trouble don't worry. I'm sorry for leaving you all alone and letting this happen to you." Danny said grasping his daughter in a hug, for once Alex didn't protest but cuddled closer.
"I tried my best." She cried slightly muffled in the fabric of Danny's shirt.
"I know sweetie." Danny said stroking her hair soothingly.
"You'd better get back to your friends, they're probably pretty spooked." Danny smiled encouragingly.
"No point, they've all gone. I doubt if Max will ever speak to me again, and I really liked him too." Alex sniffed wiping her eyes.
"I'm sure he'll still talk to you." Danny tried to sound hopeful.
"Dad, he came over to see movies and eat popcorn, he almost got blasted by a laser and then knocked out in my grandfather's ghost lab." Alex said flatly.
"Well, you've always got Josh and Aaron." Danny reminded her.
"I guess. Can we go home now?" Alex asked hopefully.
"Sure thing, let's get in the car." Danny said leading Alex out of the room and shooting one last evil look at his father.
Alex flew out of her window enjoying the feel of the wind in her hair, she had to admit, even if she was meant to be the janitor of the paranormal universe there were certain perks to the job. Alex did a swift loop-de-loop in the air before her eye caught something on the road below, a car covered completely in glowing jinx's.
"Oh man…" Alex muttered swooping low on the car and waving green light at the creatures. They chattered and shrieked at her angrily, a larger one pointed at her and screeched at the others, three of them nodded and jumped at Alex. She screamed and swerved in the air as she pulled them off her face and out of her hair. She glared at the largest one on the car and clenched a fist, to her surprise a glowing green orb formed around it, she grinned and punched towards the jinx, it screamed and went flying off into a puff of smoke. Several others seemed to re-evaluate their chances and disappeared, Alex grinned triumphantly and flicked a few off of the wing mirrors.
A little laugh attracted Alex's attention to one crawling THROUGH the bonnet with what looked like some very vital wires in its hand, it laughed and disappeared. Suddenly the car below her swerved and screeched in a very unnerving way, Alex glanced up to see a telephone pole racing towards them at unnerving speed, the people in the car screamed as they crashed into it.
Alex squeaked terrified, one of the men in the car had flown through the windscreen and was lying on the tarmac in front of the car and wasn't moving. She flew closer and landed on the floor, she was in no danger of being seen by the other man who was unconscious but still seemed alive, but this man… well he wasn't breathing. A blue light emanated from his chest and a glowing blue version of him sat up out of his body and stood up out of his body.
"Oh man, my car!" he shouted annoyed and apparently unaware of his present state. Alex blinked at a glowing white cord tying him to his body, she'd never seen that on a ghost before.
"I don't think you should be dead." Alex muttered.
"Really? Score!" The ghost-man cheered happily and apparently unfazed by his sudden death or Alex's appearance.
"If… if they weren't meant to be attacking your car then you weren't meant to have this accident and you weren't meant to die." Alex breathed in shock, she knew suddenly what she had to do. Alex knelt down and pinched her fingers on the man's nose and breathed into his mouth before pressing repeatedly above his heart.
"Whoa, I feel kinda strange." He said holding his hands to his ghostly chest, suddenly he skidded forward before shooting back into his body, the man coughed and began breathing again steadily. Alex breathed a sigh of relief and sat back.
"Wow you really saved my bacon there." A voice from above Alex said in very cold tones, she looked up shakily to see a dark robed figure with a familiar looking scythe in a skeletal hand.
"D-death…" Alex breathed.
"Yes." the robed figure replied. Alex stood up nervously.
"I- he wasn't meant to die was he? I didn't screw something up did I?" Alex asked panicked.
"No no, he's meant to live. Those bloody jinx's, honestly, just because they're in danger of fading out doesn't mean they have to come and mess with my business. It really buggers around with my schedule." The voice said in dead tones with a hint of annoyance.
"I get the lovely job of cleaning up after them too." Alex sighed relaxing a little.
"Mmm. You're the new girl aren't you? I'm Death, pleased to meet you." He said offering a bony hand, Alex shook it cautiously.
"I- yeah. The tooth fairy was showing me around yesterday, she didn't seem so happy about it." Alex frowned.
"Urgh, she wouldn't be. Pretentious little bitch, I tell you, I sent her a Christmas card every bloody year since humans with teeth walked the earth and what do I get? Nothing." Death muttered pulling a dog-eared cigarette out of some hidden recess of his robe, Alex giggled.
"I really do owe you one for that, people dyin' when they shouldn't be is a bit of a bad thing for me. You end up with zombies then, and we all know how that went LAST time." Death said breathing out a puff of smoke, Alex wondered how this was possible if he had no lungs.
"Tell you what, I'll give you this. If ya need me, just blow." Death said rummaging around in his pockets he emptied a few things into Alex's hands.
"A mint imperial, a mouse and a whistle?" Alex asked curiously.
"Ah, I meant the whistle." Death said taking the mouse back and tucking it back in his pocket. Alex didn't want to ask about it.
"You can keep the mint imperial though." Death nodded taking another drag on his cigarette.
"Thanks!" Alex laughed.
"Oops, I gotta go. There's a fireworks show in Ohio that's about to go horribly wrong. Busy busy you know." Death sighed dropping his cigarette on the floor and stubbing it out.
"Hey wait." Alex called after him.
"Yes?" Death asked looking at her, at least Alex thought he was looking at her, he didn't have any eyes or face to speak of.
"It was nice meeting you." Alex smiled at him.
"Thanks, people aren't normally pleased to see me. Remember if you need anything, whistle on that okay?" Death reminded her, Alex nodded and put the whistle around her neck and watched Death fade away into thin air. Alex called an ambulance for the men happy that they were in no mortal danger anymore and popped the mint imperial in her mouth and flew off home happily.
