Hello everyone! Sorceress here with a new chapter for your hungry eyes! I can't believe the love I'm getting for this story, and you have no idea how much I appreciate it!

Now let's get this show on the road!

Warnings for this chapter: Boys kissing, but you wouldn't be here if that bothered you.

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Chapter six: I kissed a ghost and I liked it, but...

Phantom smiles and shakes his head in affirmation. "It's been a long time since we were together like this, hasn't it?" He says almost sadly.

Danny feels his brow wrinkle and crosses his arms, "What do you mean?" He questions, curiosity in his eyes.

Phantom walks over to the piano and leans on it, being careful of the keys, Danny is reminded of the hallucination he had not five minutes ago, and mentally shakes it off, focusing on what Phantom is saying, "We use to meet in a place like this, when everyone else was asleep. This was neutral ground for us."

"Neutral ground?" Danny presses.

Phantom nods, looking around the room as he seemed to lose himself in memory, "If someone came looking for us before we could leave, they would simply see us in here talking like good friends, though that wasn't actually the case," Phantom locks eyes with Danny, the glowing green irises feeling like they were looking straight into his soul. Danny gulps, nervously rubbing his upper arms when a chill runs through him at the intensity, "What was the case, exactly?" The raven asks, his voice becoming quiet as if talking louder would ruin the strange moment the men were having.

Phantom grins wickedly and steps closer to the blue eyed man, Danny's breath hitches and his heart stops before it begins pounding in his chest at a rapid pace when the other man puts his hands on his shoulders. Once again, Danny struggles with himself on whether to push the man away or not. Phantom leans in, his breath ghosting over Danny's lips as he whispers, "Why don't you tell me, Nightingale?" before sealing their lips together.

White hot heat zoomed through Danny from his lips down to his toes and he sighs as the distant thought of 'finally' creeps into his mind. He leans into the kiss and Phantom without missing a beat licks his lower lip, causing Danny to open willingly so he can feel the other's tongue explore the moist cavern of his mouth. Warmth pools in his stomach as Danny's own tongue begins dueling with the ghost's, and something niggles in the back of his mind; asking him why he was doing this with someone who was basically a stranger to him.

'But,' He thinks fuzzily, 'this doesn't feel like a stranger.' It feels good and right so Danny shoves that thought away to be analyzed later.

He grabs the front of Phantom's shirt and deepening the kiss, not wanting it to end. So when Phantom pulls back he groans in protest. Phantom smiles softly and puts a hand on Danny's cheek, thumb moving back and forth over Danny's soft skin as his eyes glow softly with a deep well of love.

"Now do you know why?" He asks.

Danny shakes his head, trying to clear it. He blinks lazily once, twice, before like a switch being flipped or a slap to the face, it dawns on him what really happened. He shoves Phantom away, clenching his fists as anger, fear and betrayal(?) washes over him, "What the hell man!" He whisper shouts just now realizing where he was, "You don't just up and kiss someone! Especially someone you hardly know!"

Phantom frowns in disappointment, "Hardly know you? Danny, I-"

"NO! Just-just stay away from me!" Danny ran out of the dining room, not noticing the look of hurt on Phantom's face.

In the back of his mind, Danny wonders why he should be angry. Sure the kiss seemed to come out of nowhere, but he liked it and that was no reason to feel like he'd been betrayed did it? It wasn't like before- 'NO! Don't think about that!' He thinks as he shakes his head furiously. what confuses Danny the most though is the fact he didn't immediately shove the ghost away like he did before, he didn't even feel slightly disgusted. He did feel terrified though, and even if he can't justify feeling angry and betrayed, when he didn't even know Phantom, he could be scared.

Danny barges into his family's cabin, startling his parents and sister awake, "Mom! Dad! I got kissed by a ghost!"

"GHOST!" Jack shouts, pulling a weapon seemingly out of nowhere as Maddie jumps out of bed and runs to her wide eyed son.

"A ghost kissed you?! Oh my poor baby are you alright? Did it do anything else to you?!" His mother asks rapidly, immediately going into protective parent mode. She looks Danny up and down, noticing Danny's bruised lips and flushed face. She opens his mouth but didn't see anything else out of the ordinary.

"I...don't see anything strange Danny, are you sure it was a ghost?" Maddie says slowly after she was done looking him over. Jazz huffs and walks over, putting her arms around him. He flinches, reminded of Phantom holding him the same way.

"It probably wasn't a ghost Danny, but I will talk to John and tell him to keep a look out in case someone tries something like this again."

"In the meantime, in case it was a ghost, you can wear this!" Jack pulls a green and silver belt out of one of the suitcases, "The Fenton Specter Deflector! Guaranteed to keep any molesting pile of ectoplasm off you!" He wraps the belt around Danny's waist and clicks it closed. A green light comes off of it and Danny feels an odd tingling before it settles.

Danny felt bad for doing this, but he knows that if Phantom, or even Vlad, came around again they won't be able to touch him. Danny's heart clenches painfully at the thought but he ignores it, logically he didn't know Phantom, not really.

According to Vlad, Phantom was the reason that Danny couldn't remember anything before eleven. Danny still feels something isn't quite right about that explanation, but he doesn't have any evidence to disprove it. He could ask Phantom himself, but he is hesitant to do so. Phantom could lie to him, just like Vlad is capable of doing, and after what happened Danny doesn't feel like seeing the ghost again.

He touches his lips, still tasting Phantom on them and he blushes at the tingle that goes down his spine; and not a bad tingle either. No, he definitely doesn't want to see him again for a while.

He ends up staying awake the rest of the night even as his family returns to bed, feeling restless and unable to stop the questions running through his head. Questions that might not be answered for quite some time.

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I apologize for the short chapter, but I promise the next chapter will be much longer. I hope you have a great day/evening, and I'll see you next chapter!

~Sorceress