So have you wished it, so…ah, you know the rest. (grins) Well, five reviews came in, so I updated. Before I get any farther, when you're done reading this chapter, visit my profile and help me figure out which story to do next. They're all under the POLL part. There are three to choose from. Thanks.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters from their respective shows, I'm just borrowing them. "Borrowing, mate, borrowing." Hee, hee. Johnny Depp was great as Jack Sparrow.
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Chapter V: A Normal School Day
Danny got up as early as he could the next morning without raising suspicion. He took a shower and dressed, and ran down the stairs to the front door, stopping only to grab a piece of toast from the table. He blew past Clark on the way out, who muttered, "What's with him?"
Danny ran as fast as he could to the alleyway behind the house. He triple-checked his surroundings before going ghost. He flew toward Casper High. Once there, he ducked behind a garbage bin and changed back to human form. He had barely gotten past Casper High's doors when he was shoved into an open locker.
"Hey Fenton! Have a quiet weekend?" said Dash, slamming the locker shut.
Danny waited till he knew the coast was clear to phase out of his locker. He ran down the hall, not wanting to be late. Again. He didn't stop until he got to his homeroom. Mr. Lancer looked up and raised an eyebrow. Usually, Danny only got to class by the skin of his teeth. Sam had already taken her seat, but Tucker wasn't there. Danny sat down next to her.
"Why are you in so early?" she asked quietly.
"Lois and Clark are staying at my house, and they were up early. I wanted to be out of there before they started yapping about their interview with Danny Phantom," he whispered.
"What!" said Sam. A few people in class looked at them. Sam lowered her voice.
"When do you plan on doing this 'interview'?" she asked.
"Did it last night," he said, smiling. "That's why I didn't stick around. They would have started asking me questions. Last thing I need is for Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom to appear in the same article."
"You're talking about yourself in the third person again," she pointed out.
Danny grimaced. "Sometimes it's easier talking about myself like that." He looked around. Class was about to start and there was no sign of Tucker yet.
"Where's Tucker?" he asked.
Sam shrugged. Just before the bell rang, Tucker ran into the classroom and took the last remaining seat, which happened to be right by the door.
Mr. Lancer stood up. "Now that you are all here," he said with a look at Tucker, who smiled faintly back, "we can begin class. Turn your Literature book to page 314 and read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice. Answer the questions on page 321, and if you do the composition as well, an extra ten points will be credited to your next test."
Halfway through the class, Danny's ghost sense went off. Sam noticed and they instantly began to look around the class for the ghost. The answer came from the hallway, where a student's cries were heard.
The ghost alarm started blaring immediately, and the class evacuated the room quickly to see what was happening.
"Red Badge of Courage!" yelled Mr. Lancer. "Calm down!"
Danny jostled along with the others until he found a closet to change in. He phased through the door back into the hallway. It was now cleared out. He flew off to find ghost and found himself face to face with the Lunch Lady. She hovered in the air, looking for something. She turned around and noticed Danny.
"Hello dear," she said. "Did they move the Cafeteria?"
Danny nodded. "They had to. The last big ghost fight kinda gutted it, so while they're fixing it, we had to have lunch somewhere."
The Lunch Lady became infuriated. "Who dares destroy the sacred place of lunchtime? He shall pay!" she growled.
Danny chuckled. "I didn't have the time to catch his name." Truthfully, Skulker had shown up and started his usual antics. Skulker and Danny had missed each other most of the time, hitting the cafeteria instead. Valerie had also joined in the last few minutes, and her shots were extremely destructive.
"Then I shall take out my vengeance on you!" she yelled furiously.
She fired a few ectoblasts at him with her brand-new spatula and Danny ducked every one of them, blasting her spatula as soon as he got the chance. When did she get that? Danny thought. He reached back for his thermos and opened it, catching the Lunch Lady, and sealing her inside. He turned to fly away when he ran into the solid chest of Clark.
"Ouch," said Danny, rubbing his nose. "Why are you here?"
"We heard the ghost alarm and got here as quick as we could."
"'We'?" asked Danny. Lois came out from behind Clark.
"Yes, we. Who and what's that?" she asked, pointing at the thermos.
"Oh, the Lunch Lady. She gets ticked when somebody changes the menu." He shook the thermos slightly. "This is a Fenton Thermos, designed to capture and hold any ghost it sucks in until it is released into the Ghost Zone." Danny tied the thermos to his back. "I've gotten sucked into it once or twice, and I definitely agree with another ghost that got sucked in there. It's cramped like everything." He noticed the students starting to file back in. "I've gotta go. See you later." He flew through the ceiling just as a Hispanic girl ran to where he had been. She sighed.
"Isn't he wonderful?" she swooned. (A/N: Three guesses who and the first two don't count.) Lois rolled her eyes. The girl was obviously infatuated with Phantom. She remembered being the same way about Clark only a few years ago. She had gotten over her obsession only a few months before she discovered Clark's secret.
She noticed Danny walking in with two other kids. She immediately went over to them. Clark noticed where she was going and followed.
She stepped in front of Danny, and said, "Hi, Danny." She smiled at the other two. "And who are your friends?"
The Goth girl didn't smile back. "Sam Manson. I take it you're Lois Lane?"
Lois nodded. Danny had been talking to his friends. Judging by his behavior that morning, he had probably begged one of the two to let him spend the night till they left, and they said no.
"I'm Tucker Foley," butted in the African-American boy. He had a huge, slightly leering, grin on his face. He reminded her of Ralph.
Lois turned to talk to Clark only find him missing. She stood on tiptoes, and finally saw him surrounded by a trio of cheerleaders. Lois sputtered, "Why those little witches!" and practically ran over to Clark.
Ever patient Clark, she thought. She recognized one of the cheerleaders as being the one who had just been gushing about Phantom. One of the others had blond hair and blue eyes, and the last had brown hair, and slanted brown eyes.
Clark held up his hand to show the girls his wedding band. "I'm not interested," he said. Judging by his exasperated tone, he had told them this several times already. "Can't you girls see I'm married!"
Lois walked up to Clark's side, and took his arm making sure the girls saw her wedding ring as well. The Hispanic girl simply made a face, tossed her hair, and walked off. The blonde girl had a look of disappointment on her face, but quickly recovered, running after the Hispanic girl, shouting, "Wait up, Paulina!" The Asian girl simply took one look at Lois's face and followed suit. Danny, Sam, and Tucker had walked up to them sometime in all this, with smirks on their faces. Lois chuckled. That one look had saved her butt before and after Clark had come into her life. She turned to the three teens beside her, and asked, "What class do you three have next?"
Tucker checked his PDA and groaned. "Science," he said. Cheerfully, he added, "At least the final's next week. Then we can go on vacation."
"Right. See you after school!" said Danny with a false smile. As Fenton, he was trying to put a little distance between him and those reporters. He didn't want questions about why, when Fenton disappeared, Phantom flew onto the scene mere seconds later, and vice versa.
Lois and Clark watched them run to class. Clark was thinking hard. Should he tell Lois his suspicions? He knew she could keep a secret. She had kept his for about a year-and-a-half now. He decided against it. If Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom were the same person, it would be Danny telling them of his own free will.
"Do you happen to know where their local library is?" asked Lois. Clark blinked while he processed the question.
"Yeah, I think it's down on Maple Drive."
"Good, that's our next stop. C'mon!" Clark ran after her. Sometimes he was glad he was Superman; or else, Lois might have left him behind a long time ago.
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Is that considered a cliffie? If so, sorry! I seem to being doing those a lot lately. (nervously laughs) Um, anyway, review, and I'll see about updating. It'll probably be Friday before I can though. I've got to study for my Sociology test now, and that'll be a barrel of monkeys in itself.
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