Funkyferret: I really like that idea but I don't think I'll put it in this chapter. I would like to incorporate it into a later chapter though.

Deeed22: So I don't think I'm gonna use that idea only because I, personally, think that that's a little overdone. However, the idea of having Vlad send a ghost into the hotel was born from your comment. Thanks and I hope you enjoy this chapter, you kinda helped with it.

Chapter 10

He knew she had lied. So what did Danny do? Follow her, of course. What else would he do? At first, it seemed like she was going to her dad's room. His suspicions were proved right when she ended up walked past the door and transforming into a bat. Following her though a few more halls, the girl stopped at a large door and walked in after turning back into her normal form. He was about to follow her inside before a familiar figure passed just out the corner of his eye. When he had turned to get a better look, the figure was gone. However, further investigation showed the figure had only walked past the hall.

Danny blinked. (no this isn't Doctor Who)

White hair. A black sweatshirt with black jeans and white sneakers. The only difference was red eyes instead of green and Danny was staring at an exact copy of him. The copy phased through the wall casually and Danny's enhanced hearing caught Mavis' gasp of shock.

"Danny! It's not what you think!" She exclaimed.

When he phased his head through the wall, invisible, his eyes widened. Leaning against the piano were Mavis and Johnny. The vampiress' back to the piano while Johnny faced her with his hands on either side of her. For some reason, Danny's core throbbed. His copy didn't say anything. He just tucked his hands into his pockets and took off through the far wall, passing through it and disappearing. After shoving the redhead off, Mavis took off after him, calling out his name.

Danny pulled his head out of the wall, thoughts running through his head before settling on one.

He had to find that copy.

A few minutes earlier, Mavis walked into the lounge where Johnny had been waiting for her. It started as just a few simply hello's and deciding what to start on before she found herself face first into his oversized jacket, the smell of one of the hotel's dusty broom closets covering her. As quickly as it had happened, she found herself out of the hug with the frankenstein cousin holding her at arm's length, an apologetic look on his face.

"Sorry, Mavis. I guess I'm just a little... off." He said, slightly dazed.

"Off? You don't feel well or something- mmph!?" She was cut off by a pair of warm lips meeting hers.

Her mind went blank she didn't notice the piano coming to meet her back or the redhead pulling away at the sound of someone clearing their throat. When she was able to think clearly, she noticed Danny. Floating by the wall. Red eyes staring at them with an emptiness she couldn't describe. Her first thought? Danny.

"Danny! It's not what it looks like!" She exclaimed, only able to watch as the white haired teen silently took off through the wall.

She had to catch him and explain what had happened. Mavis knew she had been starting to develop some kind of feelings for the ghost teen. Of what kind, she was still unsure but she knew she had to catch him and set things right.

"I'd like for you to take care of him when Jack and I can't."

Mavis had made a promise that she wasn't going to break.

Meanwhile, Danny was getting frustrated and the slight sleep deprivation wasn't helping.

"Gah! Where'd I- He- It- Go!?" Danny exclaimed, turning to a mirror and smacking his face into it. "Ow!"

He paused and straightened himself out, holding a hand to his head and rolling his eyes.

"Duh"

"Danny?" Mavis' voice called from around the corner.

The ghost boy gulped and smacked into the wall, before turning intangible and flying through it as the vampiress walked around the corner. He couldn't bear to look her in the eyes right now. Not with what he had just saw in his mind.

After floating through many different walls and rooms (with a few shocked exclamations from the guests) Danny finally found himself in the lobby, staring at his aunt and uncle talking to his copy.

'They're replacing me...' Danny pushed that thought aside to phase through the floor and go over to where he was under his copy.

Grabbing the copy's ankles and turning him intangible, he pulled his copy down and away from his aunt and uncle. The two found themselves in the basement (or dungeon, whatever works) and Danny crossed his arms.

"Who are you?" He demanded, his annoyance obvious in his voice.

"He was right, you really forgot everything. Well, this just gives me a chance to work on my introduction." The copy spoke in Danny's voice before his body morphed into a tall white figure with a brown trench coat, a hat with a cane and glasses. "I am Amorpho, master of disguise and actor extraordinaire!"

"You know me?" Danny asked, slightly curious.

"Of course! Everyone knows of the ghost boy! You were quite the character when you were alive!"

Danny deadpanned before rubbing his eyes and recrossing his arms, storing that piece of information away for later.

"Why are you impersonating me then? Did you just want attention?" He asked, ignoring the annoying tick in his head from a memory waiting to be discovered.

"I am insulted by such an accusation!" Amorpho exclaimed before adding. "But yes."

Danny sighed and yawned.

"Listen, Amorpho." Danny started. "I get the whole need for attention but why come to the hotel? Wouldn't you get more attention terrorizing a small town or something?"

"Well, I was in a little town. Amity Park since the ghost population there had gone down and Plasmius had found me and said he had a job for me. I was supposed to find you and talk to you in the form of this fellow." Amorpho explained, morphing into the form of Danny's Uncle Jack. "And tell you to go with Plasmius. But I was having too much fun pretending to be you."

Amorpho laughed and changed back to his faceless form as Danny's eyes hardened. He flew close to the shapeshifting ghost and grabbed his jacket collar.

"You know me. Is Plasmius my father?" He demanded.

"I fear I'm already in enough trouble. I must be going!" Amorpho exclaimed, turning into a rat and falling down into the pit at the end of the staircase. (Hopefully, you know what I'm talking about.)

Danny watched in shock for a few seconds before his face fell to a glare. Rubbing his eyes again, he flew back up to the lobby and greeted his aunt and uncle.

"Danny? Are you ok?" Jack asked, his wife setting a hand on her son's shoulder.

The white haired teen nodded slightly before mumbling about being hungry and heading in the direction of the kitchen. His past aside, now he had to figure out how to talk to Mavis after when she thought he saw.

Of course, it wasn't long before he found himself in the kitchen, grabbing a worm apple and some bread to eat, thanking the cooks as he passed them.

"Danny!" A voice called.

He turned to see the very person on his mind running towards him. Mavis grabbed his hand as if trying to anchor him to his spot.

"Danny, we need to talk. What you saw... it wasn't what you thought you saw!" Mavis rushed in her words, only to be silenced when the ghost boy raised his other hand to silence her.

He gave her a small smile, trying to make light of the situation.

"Be serious, Danny. You don't know what his powers are!"

"I am serious, Sam. Whatever powers Tucker has, he doesn't have nearly as much practice with them as I do. I'll just talk to him for right now. Then, we can figure out what happened to Desiree and get her to change him back."

Danny pushed the memory to the side for a second. His thoughts needed to be on the vampiress in front of him and the ghost vampire wannabe that was currently trying to make him his son.

"I know what I saw, Mave. You and Johnnystein have something going on between you and I gotta keep my space. I get it." Danny explained, not noticing how pleading the vampiress' eyes were.

"No, that's not it. I don't know why but Johnny just kissed me out of the blue! There's nothing going on between us, we're just friends." Mavis pleaded. "Please, Danny. You have to believe me!"

The ghost prince stared at her for a few seconds before nodding and running a hand through his hair. He grinned, which was greeted with a relieve smile from the girl.

"I guess I did get the wrong idea, huh?" He chuckled, only to have the vampiress grip him in a shockingly tight hug at which he frowned slightly. "Mavis? What's wrong?"

She pulled away and gave him a small smile.

"It's nothing. I'm just relieved." She said before changing the subject. "Wanna sit on the roof with me? I wanna look at the stars."

Danny nodded and wrapped an arm around her waist, turning the both of them intangible as he flew through the ceiling and finally set her down on the roof. She sat down, hugging her knees while he leaned back on his arms and stretched out.

"I've always loved looking at the stars... They're so far away and beautiful and can probably see everything." Mavis said. "When I was younger, I used to imagine myself going out and grabbing one. Just to keep with me."

"You'd stay at the hotel?" Danny asked, side glancing at the girl.

Mavis shook her head, lowering her eyes to the lake that surrounded the hotel.

"No, I'd let it take me far away."

"Where would you go?"

Mavis lowered her legs and took a postcard out of her pocket, looking at it for a few seconds before handing it to Danny. It was worn and frayed around the edges and had long since acquired a yellow tint to it from age. The image of a sunrise was covered slightly by words that said 'Greetings from Hawaii!'.

"Paradise." Mavis smiled. "It's where my mom and dad met."

Danny flinched slightly at the words before nodding and handing it back to her. He then layed back on the roof with his hands behind his head, staring at the sky.

"Um, actually, dad? I want to be an astronaut."

Mavis looked at the ghost boy, who looked both amazed by the sky and deep in thought. She bit her lip slightly and decided to break the silence that had settled between them.

"Hey, Danny?"

"Yeah?" He turned to meet her eyes, the previous look on his face now replaced with a curious one.

"You know a lot of ghosts, right?" Mavis asked.

"Yeah..." Danny seemed hesitant with his answer, slowly coming to sit up more as the vampiress suddenly found the forest around them very interesting. "Why?"

She bit her lip again, her voice soft and careful.

"Would you happen to know if my mother is anywhere?"

Danny paused, staring at the vampiress with calculating eyes before he sighed and looked away, now fully sat up with his arms rested on his knees.

"Yeah, as the ghost prince, I'd know that but it's not a good idea." He spoke. "When a person dies, all memories of their life are lost. They have no idea who they were and wouldn't recognize those from their life. If I knew where she was, there's no way your mother would remember you. That'd be too painful. For both of you. Even if I knew exactly where she was, I won't do such a thing. Not to her and not to you."

Mavis nodded. Her thoughts turning to the ghost boy who had begun watching the sky. She couldn't help but think about her life compared to his. Sure, she was never allowed to leave the hotel but at least she had friends and family around her that kept coming back every year. Danny had his parents now but he must be homesick. Missing his life that he can't remember. Probably curious as to why he responds to the idea of parents in such a negative way. Her thoughts slowly changed to how the moonlight seemed to shine off of Danny's hair, making it whiter than usual as his intelligent glowing green eyes stared at the millions of stars above them. The vampiress fought off a blush a looked away before her mind went back to the problem at hand.

Sure, Johnny had kissed her but that's all it had been. Why he kissed her, she didn't know but that was all it was. A silly little kiss in the spur of the moment.

Alright! That's it for this chapter! Thanks for your ideas, they really helped and don't be shy to post some more! Let me know what you thought of the chapter and why you think will happen in the future in the reviews. It's always cool to see what you have to say! See ya next chapter!