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If you haven't seen Reality Trip yet, then here's a warning: RT spoilers ahead.
Drabble #4: Jazz's Thesis
Clickety-Clack went the keyboard, as a 16-year-old girl typed up her college thesis on ghost envy. Jazmine Fenton, known as Jazz to anyone that was close to her, was typing up her paper like there was no tomorrow. Even though she had months to get her thesis in, she was starting now. To her 14-year-old brother, this was a mystery in itself. Then again, Danny tended to procrastinate, and then ended up staying up for part of the night working on a project.
Fighting ghosts on a regular basis wasn't exactly helping matters for him, either. Speaking of Danny…
"Jazz, are you still working on that thesis? You've got a good few months to get everything done!" Danny banged open the door and walked right into her room.
"Yes, well, if I start the thesis now, it'll be perfect by the time I actually have to submit it to my future college," Jazz said in reply. "What are you doing here anyways?" Danny paused for a minute, before saying:
"I don't know. You can't lock me out, though!"
"Danny, get out. Or I'll turn on the Fenton Anti-Creep system and scream for help from Mom and Dad!" Jazz responded, now annoyed that her brother would use ghost powers against her.
"Fine, I'll get out. A person tries to joke, but noooo, Jazz the spaz has to kick me out!" Danny exclaimed before slamming the door shut. A picture of Jazz and her friends from school fell to the floor, the glass on the frame shattering.
Danny really needs to learn how to shut doors properly, or else he'll keep destroying whatever I hang up there, Jazz thought to herself.
She resumed typing again. Her fingers hit the keys fast and furiously as words poured out onto the glowing screen.
Jazz was not an ordinary girl. Her thesis on ghost envy helped prove that fact. Much as she wouldn't like to admit it, she was becoming more and more like her mother with each coming day. No longer did she deny the existence of ghosts, or question her parent's sanity for believing in them. Starting on the day Jazz found out that her brother was a half ghost half human hybrid; she was interested in hunting ghosts.
Having ghost-obsessed parents got annoying from time to time. Sometimes, she felt that her parents loved ghosts more than her. Other times, she wished she was the halfa instead of Danny.
Whenever those thoughts occurred, Jazz immediately shot them down; thinking them silly and not true. Her parents didn't love ghosts more than her; their job was to design equipment that would catch ghosts. To them, ghosts were a passion, not a life controlling obsession. Maddie and Jack didn't know that Danny was a halfa. If they did, they would first go: Oh my gosh! Our son hunts GHOSTS/Jack, we've been hunting our own son! Then, they would drag poor Danny down to the lab and proceed to quiz him and perform dangerous experiments on him.
Mom and Dad are better off not knowing anything when it comes to that sort of stuff, Jazz reasoned with herself.
Even though on occasion she did get ghost envy, she never let it get the better of her. Ghost envy proved to be Freakshow's downfall. That downfall was useful for Danny, because once Freakshow turned himself into a ghost using the Reality Gauntlet, Danny defeated him in five seconds flat.
One could almost feel sympathy for someone like Freakshow, though- but not quite. When Jazz was questioning him for her thesis, she discovered that he had grown up with ghost-obsessed parents. Except the ghost-obsessed parents were way worse than her parents: they had actually loved ghosts more than their own son! He was a perfect example of a man so consumed by ghost envy that it had taken over his mind and soul.
Click-clack-click-clack-CLACK! Jazz typed faster and faster. She was trying to get every bit of detail in as possible. Colleges were looking at her thesis, not her in person. It could be the deciding factor about whether she got into her dream college or not. Her fingers were making so much noise on the keyboard that Maddie poked her head in to make sure Jazz was alright.
Jazz didn't notice the door creak, or see her mother stick her head in the room. She didn't notice when Danny walked upstairs with Tucker and Sam, purposely saying loudly, "Jazz is working on her thesis. I guess we shouldn't disturb her!" There wasn't even a passing groan when Jack ran around screaming "GHOST!" and tested a new "malfunctioning" invention.
She was too absorbed in her own world of words, thesis's and ghost envy.
A/N: Fourth drabble! This was inspired by all of the ghost envy in Reality Trip. Thanks for reviewing, ur1crazedupfruitloop! Well, R&R and tell me what you think!