Yay! I think I did pretty well on my lab test, so here's the reward. I know, I'm happy too.

Disclaimer: Do I look like the owner of DC Comics? Nope, therefore I don't own Lois and Clark. Do I look like Butch Hartman? No, therefore I don't own Danny Phantom. Care to make a donation to the "Buy Danny" fund? So far, I have half a piggy bank of pennies. Hee, hee. Onward!

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Chapter IV: Midnight Interview

Danny made it back home just before Lois and Clark did. They must have driven like Dad to get here before me, he thought.

Dinner went OK, but Jazz kept giving Danny looks. He pushed his peas around his plate. Jack was going on about ghosts, but Danny didn't pay attention to him. Neither was Lois for that matter.

Danny waited until about midnight, when he knew his parents and Jazz would be asleep, to silently go ghost. He floated, intangible and invisible, through the wall to the guest bedroom. Lois was already in bed, reading a book. Danny could hear the guest shower running. He floated in front of Lois and turned visible.

"Boo," he said.

Lois jumped, but when she saw it was only Danny, she calmed down.

"Danny, or do you prefer Phantom?" she asked, putting the book down.

"Phantom," he said. Lois reached across to the bed stand and picked up a voice recorder.

"I'll wait till Clark gets in here to start," she said in a voice louder than normal.

Clark, dressed in his bathrobe, chose that moment to come out of the bathroom. He sat on the bed beside Lois and motioned for her to start the interview. Danny floated to the end of the bed, and gently touched down.

"All right, this recording is an interview of Danny Phantom, and who he really is. First question: how did you die?"

Danny took in a large breath and blew it out. He knew this would be one of the questions. "It was a lab accident. That's why I'm wearing a hazmat suit."

"All right, next question. Why are you still here? What kind of unfinished business do you have?"

Danny nervously answered, "I'm not sure. Come to think of it, I never thought about it. I guess I didn't move on because I didn't want to leave Amity Park."

Lois's eyebrows lifted. "Okay, I read in the Amity Paper that you attacked the mayor. Is that true?"

Danny rolled his eyes. Here I go again. "Of course not. The Mayor was being overshadowed by one of my ghost enemies. I'm wanted in the Ghost Zone for breaking one of his rules." He made quote marks in the air for "rules." "He decided that since I could escape here, he would make my life here torture. Gotta give him credit for that one; it's been working like a charm."

"What is overshadowing and what is the Ghost Zone?" asked Clark.

"Overshadowing is when a ghost overtakes a human. The ghost usually has full control of the human's body. When the ghost leaves, the person has no memory of the overshadowing. It's a blank period. Its side effects are dizziness and disorientation." Danny blinked. "Whoa, I didn't even know I knew that word." Lois chuckled. "The Ghost Zone is where almost all the ghost live."

"Can you overshadow someone?" asked Clark curiously.

"Yeah, but I don't like to. I've had to do it here and there, but only if it was an emergency."

"What are the rest of your powers?" asked Lois.

"Oh, um, let's see. Ectoshield, ectoblasts, invisibility, intangibility, ghost sense, flying, ghost stinger, working on duplication, and, oh yeah, my most powerful, the Ghostly Wail," he said, ticking off each power on his fingers as he went.

Lois's ears perked up. "'Ghostly Wail'?" she repeated.

"Yeah, it's really powerful, but it drains a lot of energy out of me, so I don't use it often. It's like ghostly sonic waves. I would really like it if you didn't put that one in the article."

"Agreed," said Lois, always one for protecting the source.

Clark had his head tilted to one side. The boy's voice was familiar. He tried to place where he could have heard it before. He knew it didn't have that echo tone to it. He thought about Phantom while Lois and Phantom exchanged more information. Wait…Danny Phantom. Danny Fenton. Could it be possible…? Nah, someone couldn't be alive and dead at the same time. It isn't scientifically possible. But the more he studied the ghost, the more the similarities between him and Fenton became obvious. Like you're one to talk, he chided himself. You've been hiding behind a pair of glasses, some hair gel, and a flashy suit. At least he looks somewhat like a different person.

Clark shook his head slightly to bump him back to earth. Lois was asking Phantom one more question. "Do you, by any chance, attend the local high school?"

Danny's eyes opened wide. "No, why would you think that?"

Lois waved her hand. "Never mind. Just a thought. See you around."

Danny laughed. "Stay in this town long enough and we'll run into each other again really soon." He flew toward the roof and turned intangible just before he hit it.

Danny flew back down to his room, invisible, changed back to human and crawled into bed. Well, at least now, maybe I can get some good publicity.

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Lois was ecstatic. The recording had been perfect. The echo-like disturbance was barely noticeable.

"Clark, can you type up our notes so we can send it to Perry first thing in the morning? Just to show we're not goofing off. " She looked up to see Clark deep in thought. She waved her hand in front of his face. "Clark?"

"Oh, right." He went to the computer and typed up the notes as fast as the computer would allow him without smoking. He saved the file, shut down the computer, and got in bed with Lois. "Good night, Lois," he yawned.

"Good night, Clark," she murmured. They both soon fell asleep.

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