Ectoplasmic Secrets
Foreboding Feelings
Summary: The portal is almost finished. The agents at their house keep telling him it's going to change everything.
It was just past seven o'clock when Danny finally got home from the afternoon with his friends at the water park. He'd seen the government cars outside the house so it was no surprise when he saw his mom talking to an agent in the kitchen while his dad and the others were making a racket downstairs in the lab.
The agent Maddie was talking to was one Danny happened to recognize, Agent K, also known as John Kelvin. John had been the GIW executive who'd been overseeing the portal project for the past seven years. Maddie walked back from the counter towards the agent as she extended a cup of fresh coffee to him, which he generously accepted. She was just about to take a sip of her own cup when she noticed her son standing in the doorway.
"Danny! You're home! How was it today? Did you have dinner already?" Maddie asked, knowing John wouldn't really mind the interruption. Besides, family always comes first, she thought to herself.
Danny dropped his bag by the door and slipped off his red converse, "Uh, it was fun. We had dinner at Tuck's when we got back." He headed towards the living room because that couch just looked so nice right now as he heard his mom shout about there being leftovers in the fridge in case he got hungry or something.
Once he finally made it to the couch he plopped himself down and picked up his phone that'd he'd left there. He checked the group chat to see if either Sam or Tucker had sent anything. All he found was the picture that Tucker had told him he'd sent earlier of his class list. Danny sighed a little and set his phone down on the coffee table to instead pick up the TV remote. When the screen flickered on it was no surprise to find it had been left on the Ghost Watch channel the last time it had been used. Danny wanted to change the channel but found himself instead deciding on listening for a moment to the interview that was airing. The well known redheaded reporter, Tiffany Snow, was on and seemed to be hosting a debate between two others with opposing views. At the bottom of the screen the banner read, "NEW ANTI-ECTO LAWS GOING INTO EFFECT IN COMING DECEMBER" Danny grimaced just imagining what Sam's reaction would be like.
"Those are going to help a lot of people."
Danny had nearly jumped out of his skin at the sudden appearance of the deep voice behind him. The agent must have noticed his flinch because he grinned, "Scare ya?" Danny glanced up behind him at the agent and turned back to the TV, "Didn't know you were there" he mumbled, cringing slightly when he felt a strong hand rest on his shoulder. "Say, did your parents tell you the big news?" John asked. Danny thought for a moment then shook his head no.
"No? Thought they would be more enthusiastic about it." John said.
The teen just shrugged, "They're probably just too busy. So, what's the news?"
Agent K grinned and rubbed his chin, "Well…the portal. Its due to be finished by the end of this week." Danny's eyes widened a bit, "After all this time...?" He nodded, and was about to say more when his phone started ringing, "I've got to take this, see you later kiddo."
With that, the agent left the room, leaving Danny alone again. The TV was still on, but Danny paid little mind to it. It was almost unbelievable. The portal was actually going to be done. It seemed like that project had always just been one of the constants in his life, seeing as it had begun when Danny was just seven years old. He briefly wondered about what his parents were going to do when it was done…
Something suddenly moved in his peripheral vision and he turned quickly to look outside the living room window. There was nothing there.
Deciding to go upstairs, Danny got up and moved towards the stairs, passing the kitchen on the way.
"I don't understand it. Why would we get such a strong reading and then lose it so quickly?" Danny didn't really know what his mom was talking about exactly, but it sounded important.
"Whatever the reason, we know something's nearby. Q, I, search the area, I'll call it in, see if we can get some backup." Agent K said.
"Is that necessary?"
"I'll decide that, and yes, it is. That was no glitch, all of our sensors just picked up a level 8.4 entity."
"We haven't seen one that strong in Amity in years."
Danny watched as two agents, presumably Q and I, left the kitchen and headed out the door, inconspicuously adjusting the settings on their ectoguns. He realized then that most normal people would be pretty concerned in this situation, hearing that apparently some really powerful supernatural being was possibly in a close vicinity. Then again, he wasn't the most normal person, and this definitely wasn't the most normal house. He knew logically that nothing non human could get in or out of the house without his parents being alerted, but then why did he feel like he wasn't alone for the rest of the night?
A/N: Alright, this is the last chapter I'll be putting up for today! Sorry, it's a tad short, but I feel like it tells what it needs to.
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