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Luckier In Love

Chapter 3: Kitty's Tale

"So you used to be human, not a denizen of the Ghost Zone..."Danny said.

Kitty nodded.

"Yeah, but you wouldn't have recognized me. For one thing, my colors be different, more human-like..."She said.

"What did you look like if you don't mind me asking?..."He asked, being curious.

"I was a red head for starters, fair skin and I had blue eyes instead of red..."She said. "Not only that but I'd even dress different...at least when I was your age..."She said.

"Really? Then what happened that made you like this?..."Danny asked.

"Johnny happened..."She said, giving a sad sigh as she began to tell him her tale.

"It all started back when we were alive...before I met Johnny, I was just an ordinary girl named Katrina Phillips..."Kitty said.

"Katrina?..."Danny asked.

"Yeah, what of it?..."Kitty questioned.

"Nothing...I...I didn't know that Kitty was a nickname..."He said.

"I doubt anyone would name their kid that..."The green haired ghoul quipped before continuing with her story.

"Like I was saying, before I met Johnny, my life was pretty standard and kinda boring. It was the 1980's, I was a junior in High School, living in New York with my parents..."She began.

"Back then, I wasn't exactly what you'd call dangerous...in fact, it was the opposite, I was basically the poster child for the "good girl"of that era..."She said, looking bitter.

"I came from a really strict family. My dad was in the military and he wanted to keep his family exactly the way he was trained in the army: strict and without disorder. My mom was one of those old fashioned housewives of the era, the ones who did everything by the book and taught their daughters to do the same. They both...were products of their time. They always expected things to be the way they wanted it to be and they cared a lot about their image. My dad hated disobedience and anything that was beneath his expectations while my mom was a social climber who wasn't as nurturing as she thought. They both expected me to be their "perfect little princess", they wanted me to be what they thought a young lady should be: polite, mindful of my manners, get good grades and loyal to them, and of course obedient. They wanted me to stay out of trouble and not to do or try anything to tarnish their reputations..."She said, feeling frustrated as she remembers what her life used to be like.

"Sounds like a life Sam would hate..." Danny couldn't help but comment as her parents kinda reminded him of the Mansons.

"If you mean that spooky chick in black, then yeah, she would..."She said.

"Must have been tough for you..."He said, figuring it quickly.

"That's an understatement..."She muttered, shaking her head. "I couldn't even get a drink of water without looking proper..."She said.

"That bites..."Danny said.

"It did..."Kitty said, looking hurt to think that. "But don't get the wrong idea. You shouldn't think I hated them...I didn't...I just didn't like how controlling they were but it was all I had but my parents weren't evil or anything like that, just pains. I was the only child of an upper middle class family, my dad was high up in the army and we did care for each other. I got whatever I wanted...as long as I was quiet...and sat still...and didn't argue or bring unwanted attention to myself. We had my dad's military career to think about and I couldn't afford to get in trouble..."She said, looking bitter.

"Even after all that, you didn't hate them..."Danny commented.

Kitty nodded.

"Yeah, I couldn't..."She said. "Heck...At first, I tried to avoid Johnny since I knew that my parents would never approve of him..."She said.

"I can see why..."Danny said and the green haired ghoul sighed.

"In retrospect, me too..."She said, not having the energy to defend the guy she is not even sure she even wants anymore.

"My dad was also very critical over all the guys I ever liked and scared off almost every guy I tried to go out with...Johnny had been the only one he failed to scare off, it might be why I was drawn to him..."Kitty said, looking nostalgic. "My parents hated Johnny, especially my dad. They told me to stay away from him, they said that he was a trouble-maker and that he'd never amount to anything..."Kitty said.

"Uh, they weren't exactly wrong..."Danny commented.

Kitty ignored that and continued with her tale.

"Anyway, I tried to resist but he was persistent and kept acting so charming. Apparently, he fell in love with me at first sight and he wanted to win me over. He used to bring me flowers, offer a ride and even send roses and love letters to my locker every day..."Kitty said.

"If they were human nowadays, she probably wouldn't have found that so charming as she would find that worthy of calling the cops..." Danny thought as the ghoul continued.

"It didn't take long for me to fall for him to and agree to go out with him but we did it behind my dad's back. If he knew about us, he'd might have disowned me for being with a "no good hooligan", so we snuck around and keep on meeting in private..."Kitty explained as she recalled how they had secretly dated in those days.

"It had been the best time of my life...I finally had a boyfriend who loved me and I no longer had to act like that "Little Miss Perfect" that my parents wanted me to be. I was finally able to let loose and have some fun..."Kitty said, smiling happily.

"I guess she was just drawn to the freedom he brought..." Danny thought as the ghoul continued with her tale.

"The six months that followed had been the best in my life, everything had been perfect and I had been looking forward to graduating and moving out with my boyfriend but my parents found out about Johnny and they went ballistic!..."Kitty said, looking angry at some memories.

"Apparently my dad got all suspicious that I was coming home late whenever I was "studying at the library"..."Kitty said with air quotes. "He followed me one time and discovered me with Johnny and he completely lost it, even throwing his bike in the river!..."Kitty said, pouting hard.

"Geez, and I thought Paulina's dad was overprotective..."Danny said.

"If you mean the girl I overshadowed for days, I saw first hand what he was like... it was like my own life all over again..."Kitty said, crossing her arms.

"My parents were so mad that I was dating Johnny that they did everything humanly possible to keep me and him apart. They were going to send me to an all-girl school to keep us apart, forever..."Kitty said as she raised her voice a bit at the last part.

Danny's eyes widen.

"Really...whoa...and I thought Sam's parents getting a restraining order on me was extreme..."Danny said.

Kitty raised a brow at that.

"Your girlfriend's parents tried to get a restraining order on you? Uh...why? I mean, you've beaten up Johnny but aren't you suppose to be like a word famous superhero or something?..."Kitty asked.

"It was before the world knew my secret and no, I didn't do anything. Her parents thought I was the reason Sam was a goth and not because of how controlling they are..."He said and Kitty raised a brow.

"Yeah, Sam and her parent's don't see eye to eye on anything and since they are rich people with no jobs and too much free time on their hands, they simply blamed me for their problems. They even lead a campaign to ban goths from town..."He added.

"Okay, and I thought my parents were obsessive and paranoid..."Kitty commented, rolling her eyes. "And seriously, they can't blame you just because that spooky chick in black liked you and spooky stuff..."She said.

"Glad someone is with me on that subject..."Danny muttered. "However they changed their tune when Sam and I started dating...most likely since I had revealed myself and got famous over it..."He said as he rolled his eyes.

Sam's parents had always been social-climbers and that hasn't changed at all.

"Figures, I'm pretty sure that my folks would've done the same in their shoes..."Kitty said, rolling her eyes.

"In fact, my dad wanted to set me up with some boring, string-bean of a guy who was from a "good family" and who did whatever my parents said to stay on their good side, but they were looking out for their own image instead of me finding my soul mate..."Kitty said, looking ticked.

"I guess part of the reason I liked Johnny was because he was the one guy who my parents didn't scare away or was pushed around by them. It was a breath of fresh air..."She said.

"With a greasy hairstyle..."Danny said with a quip.

Kitty actually chuckled a bit at that, since it was kinda true.

"Anyway, I kept seeing him. I snuck out and told Johnny everything. We didn't want to be separated so...we...I ran away..."Kitty confessed.

"You ran away from home?!..."Danny exclaimed in shock.

Kitty nodded.

"Yeah, I'm not too proud about it now, of course. It's just, at the time it seemed like my only way out. I just couldn't take it anymore!..."She said.

"My parents and everyone else in my life had tried to force me onto a path that I didn't even want to walk on, I grew to hate it and I couldn't take it anymore. I didn't want to be stuck in some boarding school or away from the guy I loved so I asked Johnny to take me away from there!..."Kitty confessed.

"I'm sure there were better ways to do that..."Danny said.

"Not in my time..."The ghoul said as she continued.

"On the night before I was going to be shipped off to that all-girl prison of a school, I snuck out and met up with Johnny. We were going to escape on his bike and start a new life together…"Kitty said before she suddenly looked gloomy and began to hug herself as she recalled with sadness.

Danny was confused at first, but then he quickly realized that this was getting very personal for her when he saw the tears forming in her eyes as she recalled these memories

"Kitty..."He began, feeling his kind gentle and sympathetic nature began to take hold while she went on with her tale

"Together...we left town together at midnight, with plans to start someplace new...far far away from my parents and my old life...a new life was about to start...except...that was the night we ended up...we ended up...Kitty choked up a bit and looked very teary eyed as her make-up started to run down her face as she sniffed hard as she couldn't even finish her sentence.

Danny might be known as the "clueless one" but even he could guess what she was trying to say.

"Wait...is that how they...DIED together?!..."Danny thought in shock and horror.

Sure, he knew that some of the ghosts he had battled have had human lives before...but right now, it didn't dawn on him how upsetting the experience might have been.

"Kitty..."He said, looking like he regretted asking and the ghoul continued.

"Like I said...it was dark...and we were on a rocky mountain road together, getting really excited to begin a new chapter in both our lives...except the rain and a certain truck derailed those plans..."She said, more tears falling from her eyes.

The ghost boys eye's widen in horror at that, realizing how painful it was too.

"Kitty...I...I had no idea that...that was how you became a ghost. I...I'm sorry..."Danny tried while the biker babe wiped her eyes.

"It's fine, there's nothing that can be done about it..."Kitty said, trying to stop her own waterworks. "I had been so reckless in my final moments that...I didn't even say goodbye to my parents after we had a fight or even though about the next step...or even considered if I was making a mistake or not...I lost everything, including my own life but Johnny and I had been together. I thought that as long as we were together, we could handle anything life throws our way, including our own untimely demise..."She said, in a somber tone in her voice that Danny hadn't heard from her before.

"The first few years together had been a dream, even if we were in a spooky dimension filled with all sorts of icky, creepy and depressing stuff but over time, I started to miss the human world..."Kitty admitted.

"I missed the sun shine, the fresh air, even if I can't breath it...the feeling of the wind in my hair and I even missed going to school..."Kitty said, sighing hard. "It's little things that I miss the most when I was alive. It was one of the reasons we tried to escape into the human world...that and to get away from ghosts like Walker, Skulker and the Ghost King's followers..."She said, looking down at her feet as she sat on a log.

Hesitantly, Danny approached.

"Have you ever... looked for your parents?..." He asked but Kitty shook her head.

"I never found them... I did try looking for them... but my last name is so generic that it's impossible to find them. All I heard is that they divorced and my mom took on her maiden name... I can't even apologize to them for what I did. I'm not even sure if they're still alive anymore..." She admitted bitterly with a look of regret on her face.

"I'm sorry..." Danny said.

"Don't be... it's not your fault. At first, Johnny was there to tend to me and I thought things would be alright..."She said, but looked down.

"They weren't, were they?..."Danny asked and the ghoul shook her head.

"No...in fact, they just got worse each passing day. In the ghost zone, Johnny has been just as quick to hit on women and even here in the human world. Heck, when he first met Ember, he hit on her...only for her to deck him and tell him to take a hike or else she'd and I quote "shoot her guitar's flaming fist where the sun don't shine", end quote...:She said, almost looking amused at the memory.

"It was actually how me and Ember met and before long, we became friends..."She said, looking fond now as she thought about her friend.

"Wow... I have new respect for her..." Danny admitted.

"Yeah..."She said in fondness of her friend.

It ended when she thought back to her boyfriend, who she felt betrayed by in the worst ways possible.

"You know...Johnny forgot that today was Valentine's day. Instead of spending the day with me or even getting me a lousy card, he just came here to hit on some meaningless girls and...he even gave her flowers and his number..."Kitty said, looking miserable.

"Okay, that's just wrong..."Danny said, not sugarcoating it.

Usually, he tried to stay out of their spats but right now, Kitty isn't on some rampage. She genuinely looks sad and just wants someone to talk about her problems.

"I was so angry. I tried to vanish him...fight him...to make him beg for mercy and...do something to make him realize how much trouble he was in and make him do something to prove he was sorry and that he wouldn't do it again..."She said.

"That's not healthy..."Danny said, looking disapprovingly.

"Well, I didn't see another way..."Kitty said, looking stubborn.

"Kitty, I repeat it...you can do better than Johnny but you can't keep doing this! You can't keep taking him back if he's not gonna change and you can't keep reacting with the possibility of making him disappear...no matter how much he deserves it...and you especially can't take your relationship issues out on my town..."Danny said.

Kitty frowned.

"Well, Ember's told me the same, at least on the first two. I have thought about leaving him before but he then makes me a promise and I then remember how sweet he sometimes acts and I fall for it all the time..."She said. "But nothing changes at all, even after all this time..."She said, still miserable.

"I repeat, that's not healthy. You can't just keep repeating the process and expect a different outcome. It's like re-watching a movie a hundred times and expect the ending to magically change..." Danny said.

Kitty sighed bitterly, knowing he's right.

"I know you're right...Ember said something similar too...only less PG but I did love Johnny and I really wanted to make our relationship work. I gave up so much to be with him.."She said, looking lost. "I ran away, dropped out of school and even lost my life for him but...but he doesn't even try and work on our relationship anymore! He cares more about his stupid bike and flirting with any pretty face he sees than he does about me!..."She said, tears falling down her eyes again.

"Kitty..."Danny tried as the ghoul kept crying.

"He keeps telling me that he doesn't mean it, that he'll stop and change his ways but he never does! He doesn't even remember my birthday or our anniversary anymore. He always acts oblivious until the last minute, then he lies and gets me whatever cheap trinket he can find at the last moment, but I always know...I don't even think he's ever going to ask me to marry him either! He's not who I thought he was anymore... if at all!..." She said as she buried her head in her arms and sobbed silently.

Danny wasn't used to seeing a ghost he's dealt with breaking down in tears. It reminded him she was once human, and that she's trapped herself in a relationship that was doomed since before they took their final breath on this Earth. As such, he chose to show her a side he's not used to showing ghosts.

His humanity.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and saw the gentle look on the ghost boy's face.

"I'm sorry..."He said, feeling bad for her.

What Kitty went through wasn't right and while she is responsible for her own actions, he still can't help but feel sorry for how much she has lost. She basically threw away her life for a guy who wasn't worth it.

Kitty sniffed, misinterpreting his actions and wondering if he's hitting on her.

"Don't think I'll just come into your arms because me and Johnny aren't working out. I-..."She was cut off when the ghost boy removed his hand and sent her a flat look.

"I'm not doing this to be your rebound guy or anything like that..." Danny said, almost looking insulted.

"Huh?..."Kitty asked, confused.

"I'm not doing this for that...I just don't like seeing people heartbroken... especially after what happened with me and Sam..."He said, looking down.

"Oh... I'm sorry..." She said, recalling that she's not the only one dealing with relationship issues on Valentine's Day.

"No, it's fine. I shouldn't have gotten so close...I still care about Sam but I know we're not meant to be..."He said, sadly but accepting it.

Kitty heard this and looked sad again as she recalled something.

"You know, even though it was fake, I can't say I hated the time we spent together... you weren't as dismissive and quick to abandon me as Johnny was. I guess that's why, unlike Johnny, I never went out of my way to cause you trouble. At least not deliberately..."She said.

Danny's head tilted.

"All I can say is the same thing I said earlier...You can do better and you aren't doing yourself any favors by staying with Johnny or losing your temper all the time and going on a rampage. You've already gave him plenty of chances and he blew it. You're better off trying to find someone new...believe it or not, even I think you're too good for him..."Danny said.

Kitty blinked, stunned before absorbing everything he's told her today.

This is the same guy she blackmailed one time and while they are technically on different sides of morality, he's been spending all this time with her, talking to her, listening to her side of her story and just offered her his compassion and a listening ear.

It was odd, unusual but she didn't hate it.

In fact, it felt nice to talk to this to someone other than her gal pals who only advice was to dump Johnny and vanish him...which actually wasn't bad advice but Danny made a lot of good points too.

"Even after everything I did to him...he's still being nice to me and trying to help me out..."She thought, feeling guilty.

The green haired ghoul took a deep breath and knew what needed to be done now.

"Danny...I'm sorry about blackmailing you...and about what happened with your sister. I know that it wrong on a lot of levels, I shouldn't have used either of you..."Kitty said, looking down. " I really am sorry for what I've done to you and your sister. I just hope that one day, you'll find it in heart to forgive me and maybe convince your sister not to hate me..."She said.

Danny was surprised by the apologizing, not expecting it.

Most of his foes would never bother to do that...then again, he never really considered Kitty to be a typical foe, just a troublemaker.

"I'm not sure she'll do that any time soon. Still... I forgive you..."He said, meaning it.

"Really?..."Kitty asked, surprised by how quick he was.

Danny nodded.

"Yeah...I can tell you mean what you said and I think everyone needs a second chance..."He said as he recalled certain memories he tried to push away.

There was an awkward silence before Danny spoke up again.

"Anyway Kitty, if...you have nothing else to say and since I don't think you're gonna attack the town...I guess this is where we part ways..."He said, looking unsure.

Danny was about to go, but Kitty reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"Wait... can I... can we do something? Together, I mean..." She said, surprising the ghost boy.

Danny rose an eyebrow by this sudden change of attitude.

"You accused me of hitting on you a few minutes ago, and now you're asking me on a date?..."He questioned but the ghoul shook her head.

"It's not a date. I just... figured... since you're being so nice to me, why don't we do something together? So neither of us are alone today..."She said, looking down.

"I know what you said and...I know that you're feeling as bummed as I am today but I actually started feeling better thanks to you..."She said. "I can tell you don't wanna be alone on this day either..."She said.

"And...this isn't another attempt to use me to make Johnny jealous, right?..."He had to ask.

Kitty shook her head.

"No, I'm tired of that...and I don't even want to think about him or anything to do with him. I just want...to not be alone today. It doesn't have to be a date but I can tell that you don't want to be alone today either...so...what do you say?..."She asked.

Danny blinked in surprised as he thought about it.

Kitty was asking him to spend Valentine's Day with her. She said that it's not a date, that she just doesn't want to be alone...and to be honest, Danny knew he didn't want to be either.

"Am I really thinking this over?..."He thought as he looked at her.

Kitty and him might not be friends but he knew that she isn't trying to trick him or use him to make Johnny jealous. She means it. He thought it over and realized that his only other options would be either to stay here, out of sight from his fan-girls (especially Paulina) or just go home and stay locked in his room.

To be honest, that didn't sound too fun.

He looked at Kitty and realized that so far, they were getting along and she just didn't want to be alone today. He also knew that he didn't want to be alone either.

The ghost boy gave a small smile and nodded.

"Okay..."He answered, hoping that he was making the right choice.

-To be continued-

Next time on Luckier In Love

The NOT-Date


A/N: Special thanks to NeoMark and Jay The Average Fanboy for their help. You guys are the best ;)


REPLIES to my loyal and totally awesome reviewer:

RonaldM40196867:

1) You do have a point there.

2) We'll find out more on that later. No spoilers.

3) Looks like it.

4) It most likely sent back into the Ghost Zone.

5) I hope that this chapter answers that question.


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