A/N: For all those who didn't catch Aaron's last name in the earlier chapters, this is a little explanation. Including a shot into Danny's life between the TV series and Alex being born. All of those who made the connection in the earlier chapters let me know! -

Dash Baxter looked up from reading his sports magazine at the sound of a knock at the door. He frowned, who would be up at this time in the morning? It was six in the morning and he had only just gotten dressed. He stood up and ambled over to the door and opened it curiously, Alex stood there her face streaming with tears, still in her pyjamas and with nothing on her feet.

"Alex! What- what are you doing here?" Dash asked before Alex threw herself at him sobbing, he stumbled backwards his prosthetic metal leg clanging against a chair, he blinked surprised at the teenage girl affixed to his chest and sobbing incoherently.

"Uh… there there?" He offered stunned, "Aaron!" He yelled up the stairs for his son. Several loud thuds alerted him to the fact that his son was out of bed and coming down the stairs.

"Alex?" He asked blearily.

"Ughwashnvjs!" Alex sobbed incoherently from Dash's midriff.

"Any idea what this is about?" Dash asked hopefully, Aaron shook his head wide-eyed in shock and walked closer to Alex hoping to glean some sense from her wailings.

"Alex… what happened?" Aaron asked leaning closer to her.

"HmwahDADmffphaaaa." Alex whined through tears and sniffling.

"Right… okay your dad… what about your dad?" Aaron continued pulling Alex off of his father and towards the sofa and tissues.

"He… he…waaaah!" Alex sobbed reaching for a tissue.

"He..f-found out about m-m-me and now I'm on his list!" Alex sniffed rubbing her eyes and blowing her nose.

"What list? What did he find out?" Aaron asked completely puzzled. Alex's eyes widened, she'd really screwed herself over this time. She'd kept her new powers a total secret from everyone, even her friends and now Aaron was going to pressure her to tell him, in front of his father too!

"I… nothing." Alex said quietly and sunk deeply into the Baxter's soft leather sofa.

"Nothing my ass." Dash frowned poking Alex in the shoulder.

"Really. It's nothing." Alex insisted waving her hands at him.

"Alex, I've known you since the day you were born, I was at your naming ceremony, I was at your mothers funeral, I was there on yours and Aarons first day of high school. I KNOW when you're lying." Dash sighed rolling his eyes.

"He's right, and you're pretty crap at it too." Aaron nodded.

"I can't tell you, you'd hate me, like Dad does." Alex sighed.

"What could you possibly tell us that'd make US hate you?" Dash groaned annoyed, Alex was as stubborn as her mother and father put together. Alex squirmed under their staring but then sighed before pressing her fists together. Dash's eyes widened as he saw those familiar white rings appear and slide over Alex's body leaving the "ghost girl" that had been storming the news lately in Amity Park. Memories of those same rings appeared before his eyes…

He remembered the car crash in college, he'd been drunk admittedly, but he, Danny and Sam were all in the car together, against their better judgement and he was trying to scare Danny. He'd stopped beating him up so much by that point but still enjoyed messing with him, he'd never meant to get that close to the edge of the road. But he remembered distinctly watching Danny Fenton change before his eyes into Danny Phantom and pull him and Sam from the car, he still ended up loosing his leg when the car buckled though. Suddenly it had all made sense, Danny had flown him to the hospital telling him about his secret identity and how he came across his powers in an effort to keep him conscious despite the blood loss.

He'd never forgotten Danny's kindness after all the years of beatings that he'd given him, it was in fact Danny's own father who had set Dash up with his athletic metal leg after the accident. He'd never been able to follow through with his sports career though and instead went into coaching, and when Aaron was born only two months before Alex was, Danny was there. They'd been close ever since, Danny and Sam even made him Alex's godfather, and, like Danny he'd promised never to reveal Danny's secret to Alex. Although this present situation was presenting a problem to that. He glanced at his son who was gob smacked at this turn of events and shot him a warning look, he lent down to Alex and gave her a hug.

"That was what all that fuss was about?" He teased her, Alex looked up at him surprised.

"I… you?" Alex stuttered.

"Don't care. I'm guessing your father saw you like this and didn't realise that it was you under there and went off the deep end?" Dash smiled, Alex nodded dumbly. "I'll… have a word with him. Or something." Dash promised uncertain of how to go about said promise.

"You freak!" Aaron yelped jumping on Alex and punching her in the ribs. "HOW could you go through something like this and NOT TELL ME! You suck!" he snapped tickling Alex in annoyance.

"I didn't know what you'd think!" Alex shrieked uncontrollably.

"Please. I tell you EVERYTHING that goes on in my life, and you go ghost and don't tell me!" Aaron demanded locking her in a headlock and noogieing her painfully.

"ARGH! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Alex begged as tears of laughter ran down her face.

Not to far away Skulker and Technus floated in the air looking at a small monitor on Skulker's arm.

"There! My tracking system has indicated that the ghost girl has… gone ghost as the term goes." Skulker alerted as they flew off towards the Baxter's house.

"Indeed, now that we've tracked down her location, then I can really begin to infiltrate her life!" Technus grinned as he looked through the window at Alex and Aaron play fighting, his eyes focused on the digital watch on Alex's wrist. Skulker smiled in victory as he watched Technus merge himself with the software in the ghost-girl's watch, he let out an evil chuckle and flew away; plans were moving along swiftly indeed.