Hi strangers of the Internet! I get a new review and some new followers and that give me motivation needed to keep going. So, my original plan to improve my writing abilities with the aid of your feed backs either went extremely well and after the first chapter my writing is now spotless (yeah... don't think so) or well, it clearly wasn't one of my most brilliant ideas, so, whatever. The point is that regardless the motive that get me to start this, now I have twelve new ones, yes you read it right! Twelve anonymous beautiful souls are already following this attempt of a story.

So, for each one of you, my lovely followers, I dedicate the next chapter to you.

Chapter 4: Reunion

Vlad's words have helped to distract Danny a good part of the way home, but with the ominous sign of 'Fenton works' on sight, the fear and anxiety struck again with full force. Danny dragged himself tortuously the last two hundred meters to the nearest ally and landed with a deaf thump. He checked twice before turning himself visible and let two rings of light roamed his body, taking his ghost form with them. Somehow the neighborhood seemed quieter than usual, dissipating any hope to be interrupt before reaching the front door.

A voice in the back of his mind kept nagging him about not being prepare for this yet, making the lump of cold despair inside his chest grew a bit bigger with each step. He hadn't been prepare to turn half ghost; he hadn't been prepare to fight his first ghost; he hadn't been prepare to save the Ghost Zone. Any of those experiences could have killed him but he survived, and yet, knowing that didn't make him feel better. Because he hadn't tried to prepare for those and failed horribly.

Danny didn't realize he was shaking until he rose his hand to ring the doorbell. He smacked his cheeks with both hands, took a deep breath and rang the bell. With his enhance senses he could feel some gasps inside the house followed by utter silence and then light but decided steps approaching him. Jazz opened the door and her face lightened when she saw Danny, almost making him fall with the force of her hug. Barely seconds later he was in the middle of the living room, in the center of a big family hug. Both his parents had their eyes tightly closed but by the humidity of their eyelashes Danny could tell they have been crying. knowing he was the cause of those tears broke his heart.

-"I'm so sorry, I'm so so sorry" Danny voice quivered.

-"Don't!" Jack's strong voice made Danny startled a little and Maddie took the post while resting a reassuring hand in his husband's shoulder.

-"Honey, you are not the one who have to apologize here" Maddie's sweet voice made Danny impossible to contain his tears.

-"For all the heavens son, we!... We shot you" jack's voice struggled with the second part, but Danny catch it anyway.

-"I didn't want to lie to you. It's just, I was so scared" Danny let out while sobbing.

-"Shh, shh, It's all right now honey. We gonna fix it, don't worry" Maddie reassured.

-"Have you eaten baby brother?" Jazz interrupted and Danny stomach responded for him.

The dinner developed without any emotional outburst and a lot of small chat. Jazz didn't let silence hit the table not even once and once finished the dessert she rapidly suggested going straight to bed after the long day. Danny didn't realize just how tired he was until then. However Maddie's voice froze them before reaching the stairs.

-"Danny, baby, Would you mind if we run some testes on you before you go to sleep?" Maddie asked with her best motherly voice.

-"Mom!" The rage was evident in Jazz's tone. They exchanged glances briefly, as if they were having the rematch of a previous discussion, before Maddie's attention drove back to Danny.

-"Honey, I understand if you are too tired now, but this is important. We don't know how much the accident affected your body, you could be in danger. All of this is our fault, we can't pretend everything is alright and if then another aftereffect worsen your condition..." Maddie's voice was wavering. Jack was right by her side, hugging her tenderly with one hand and directing pleading eyes to Danny.

-"No, it's fine. I don't mind getting tested, if that helps you stop worrying then it's alright" Danny lied through his teeth but he couldn't stand looking at his parents while answering so he looked at Jazz instead. Big mistake. That dreadful combination of worry and pity in her eyes made earlier dinner and dessert revolt painfully in Danny's stomach.

-"Lets head to the lab then" Jack was already marking the path.

Danny walked to a secluded part of the laboratory. It was surprisingly cleaner than the rest, there was a single anti-ghost metal gurney in the middle of the room and a lot of terrifying looking surgical instruments in display on the walls. Danny winced 'Oh god, this is where they dissect the ghosts they catch? Or well, would they catch a ghost, here'd be the place where they would ripped them apart, molecule by molecule, like dad likes to say. Oh Jesus! They already catch one, and no other than the Ghost Boy'. Danny was clearly hyperventilating.

- "Make yourself comfortable honey" Said Maddie while waving to the hard gurney.

-"Danny, what happen sweet heart? Danny, babe, calm down, breath with me, that's good, yes, it's all right, breath with me" Maddie's motherly tone was reassuring, so as her hands drawing circles against Danny's tense muscles.

-"I..I d don't want, I don't want" Danny was clutching to his mother with all he got and trembling so badly. Maddie had to strain her ears so as to no miss what he was saying. Jack, a few steps apart, couldn´t hear nor understand what was happening.

-"You can talk to us baby, it's fine, we won't get mad, what it is that you don't want?" Maddie's voice kept reassuring and her hands didn´t stop even for one second. Despise her small internal panic, she offered him a warm smile.

-"I don't want to be dissected mom, please, please mom, I'm still your son mom, I love you, I love you mom, please, I swear" The words rushed out fast and needy and stopped when Danny felt that his mother's hands were no longer caressing his back.

The first thing Danny saw when he opened his eyes can only be described as utterly horror, that was what was plastered in his father's face. He took some steps back, Maddie's body opposing zero resistance to the breaking of the embrace. He could see her eyes watering really fast, her expression a mixture of sorrow, fear and a lot of guilt.

-"Oh god no, no Danny, we would never, we didn't-" Maddie wanted to reach him and pull him into a big hug and tell him everything would be all right but she was frozen. Her body refused to obey her orders because deep down she didn't feel she had the right to comfort his own son. Because she knew she was the cause of his recent break down, and lots of scars and bruises back in High School... and probably most of his nightmares too.

-"We just want to cure you son" Jack's voice reverberated in the lab, instantly catching all the attention.

-"Cure me? But I'm not ill" Danny felt exhausted and confused, but did his best to try and understood what was going on.

-"You are half dead Danny, because of us. I know we can fix it" Jack has moved and was now right next to Maddie.

-"I-I'm sorry, I don't... I need some time, sorry" Danny was already running out of the room at mid sentence. By the time Jack and Maddie reach out the room, the lab was empty and the portal was closing.

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