Μητέρα: Mother
Rating: K+
Pairings: None
Ages: Danny is 14
Summary: Sometimes you never know where you're going to learn a life lesson and Maddie Fenton would've never imagined learning about motherhood from a ghost of all things.
Notes: Slight commentary about the story at the bottom if you're interested. Oh and Danny does have his ghost powers, he just doesn't get to use them in this story.
She could hear the lone tree out back scratching against the window as well as the occasional whistling of the wind. It wasn't a windy night really, just something of a Spring breeze. It should've been a calm night, a peaceful night, a night where it was easy to get to sleep. She had the whole bed to herself for the weekend since it had been Jack's turn to take Jazz to look at colleges. The two wouldn't be back until Tuesday more than likely. Jazz had finally considered checking out some of the Ivy League schools she'd always dreamed of going to. Maddie wasn't sure why, but within the last few months the young woman had been reconsidering moving so far away; it was about as odd as how close she and Danny had gotten recently, seemingly out of the blue. It wasn't a bad thing, just peculiar.
Maddie sighed and flipped over, letting the moonlight from the window hit her face. Eventually she was able to start thinking about inventions she wanted to work on and things she wanted to try and do with Danny while Jack and Jazz were away. Her eyes finally started to drift close, when she heard noise coming from one of the floors below. It was muffled, somewhat distant, so most likely, it was from the lab. The FentonWorks Anti-Creep mode for the house was activated and the doors to the lab were bolted shut for the night so no robber could be making the noise. That left only one thing.
"Ghost…" Maddie whispered, her brows furrowing in determination. The Ghost Alarm was on too, but it was never active for the Lab because of the high amounts of ectoplasmic residue that would interfere with any system they could develop. She slipped out of bed as though it wasn't there and quickly changed back into a fresh jumpsuit. Her first priority was to check on Danny.
Maddie tiptoed down the hall to look in on her son, only to find to her horror, that he wasn't in bed. She walked further into the room, wondering if he was just using the bathroom. "Danny?" She whispered. She trotted over to her son's bathroom and opened to door, only to find it just as empty. She grit her teeth, trying to stave off her anxiety and rushed out and down the stairs.
She found herself just outside of the doors to the lab and she could definitely hear voices coming from within. She pulled out her baton, which she kept close to her person, and as quietly as possible, opened the door.
"…Hold him-"
"Let me-mmph! Mm. Mmmmm…"
"-long?"
"-nother twenty secon-s…"
Maddie creeped down the steps, catching pieces of the conversation as she got closer. Her breath caught in her throat and she flinched when a bright white light shined in the lab and then died. After a second of waiting to see if she'd been spotted and when she was finally in position, she leaned a bit on the wall to get a quick look into the lab. Her blood went cold.
Danny was hanging limply over the shoulder of grey-skinned ghost who wore mercenary armor and an eye-patch. Her son's arms were secured to his sides and his wrists were bound behind his back by green glowing energy. Another ghost, dressed as a generic officer, was just then pulling away a cloth from her boy's face and a second officer aimed and fired something at him, causing a green undulating blob to seemingly gag him.
"Careful with that cloth, Spectra said that that ecto-ether is powerful stuff," the first officer ghost scoffed.
"It's the only reason we were able to subdue him was because of the ether, idiots," the grey ghost grumbled and turned, facing the portal. "Let's hurry so Walker doesn't find reason to punish us."
"You got it, Bullet."
Maddie leapt out into the open with a primal battle cry. One officer fell to her wrath and was sucked into a Fenton Thermos before he could scream. The so called Bullet, who still had her baby, shot into the swirling green portal. The second officer blocking her from him was the only reason the grey ghost got away. She tore into the officer, smacking him in the side of the head, chest and slamming him into the ground with the use of her ecto-baton. Another use of the thermos and it was over.
She glanced up and growled in a mixture of worry and frustration. How dare they! How dare those scum of the earth, manifestations of post-human subconsciousness touch her son, much less kidnap him! She rushed for the Specter Speeder and started the power-up sequence. It was only moments later that Maddie Fenton found herself in a whole other world for the first time.
It took several minutes, but the Specter Speeder caught up to the grey ghost that still had her son draped over his shoulder like some sort of prize. Her ability to keep track of the ghost was most likely due to the fact that he hadn't probably expected her to follow him. Bullet's eye popped comically when he noticed her trailing him as well as the weapons that started to protrude from the ship.
"Stop right there you ectoplasmic malefactor! Drop the boy!"
Bullet heard the sound of the woman's voice come through the speakers on the ship. He could probably out-run her or turn invisible, but there was a good chance she would fire one of those weapons or still see him with some type of device and then both he and the ghost boy would be toast. Perhaps, there was a way out of it though.
Bullet whipped around, holding the limp Danny in front of his body and placed a light hand on the boy's stomach. "Stop now, or I my hand might just slip and remove something important."
The Speeder came to a slow halt when Maddie realized what the ghost was implying. He was threatening to reach inside her boy and- She couldn't even finish the thought. "It looks like we're at a stand still then, because I'm not deactivating the weapons until you let him go."
There was a long pause that penetrated the scene, with only the distant cries of other ghosts, spirits, and creatures breaking the silence.
Bullet decided he needed to try and distract her in order to find a way out of this mess. "You really think you're protecting him, don't you. He must feel such overbearing shame all the time, that and hopelessness. I don't honestly know why the boy hasn't snapped yet."
"What are you talking about?" Maddie demanded.
Bullet gave her a dark grin. "Humans are so oblivious."
"You're one to talk. Ghosts don't have the capacity to have complex thought."
Bullet rose a brow and snorted. "And apparently they're stupid and still judgmental."
Maddie narrowed her eyes, trying to understand what he was getting at. This ghost seemed to have a more complex line of thought than Maddie thought was possible for a ghost. It wasn't that she didn't believe ghosts couldn't be crafty, it was that they shouldn't be able to plan well or use another's emotions against them unless it was their special power like the psychology ghost that had invaded the school once. The specter didn't understand other emotions and then use them to her advantage, she simply felt others hidden emotions and forced them to the surface so that they would feel them more acutely. This ghost though, was making her question what she knew.
"Stupid? You don't have a biological brain."
"Thank God. Those things are a pain. A core is better, does practically everything and organizes it all efficiently." Bullet smirked cruelly before he frowned and clutched Danny closer to his front. "Now, I'm going to gut him in ten seconds if you don't get lost."
Maddie flinched hard from the sudden change in topic as well as the terrible threat. She opened her mouth to reply, when several voices arose.
"Halt! Drop the human!"
"We'll tear you apart, frail mercenary!"
"Release him now or suffer the wrath of Pandora!"
Bullet and Maddie snapped their heads to the side, only to see a mass of soldiers. Maddie was stunned to see what looked like ancient Spartans and large and powerful looking unit of women. But amongst them, there was one ghost that stole all their attention. It was the Pandora ghost Maddie had seen once in the human world. She was very tall and had four arms held wide, each holding some type of weapon or shield. There was a fiery purple plume the trailed from a helmet on her head and her outfit was a bronze chest piece with a long leather-like dress that fell all the way to where her feet would be. Her skin was blue and her eyes red and she scowled at the tiny grey ghost.
"I will not say this again. Release Daniel and I will consider not letting my warriors deal with you."
Bullet seemed to freeze, trying to figure out whether Pandora's wrath or Walker's was worse. Finally, a woman warrior suddenly released an arrow that sunk into Bullet's shoulder. The mercenary let out a pained screech and released Danny. He took off, flying towards Walker's prison and Pandora didn't stop a few of her Spartans when they flew off after him in eager pursuit.
Maddie tried to start her Speeder only for shouts and yelling to make her look up. Hundreds of those officer ghosts had suddenly appeared and a white ghost, with an almost mafia-like appearance and a skull-like face, appeared amongst them. There was no sign of Bullet or those few Spartans, so it was safe to assume that these ghosts had been coming this way to begin with.
A massive fight broke out between Pandora's soldiers and the skull-ghost's fighters. Maddie felt the Speeder rock, when it was struck with several bodies and attacks purely by accident. She shut her eyes out of instinct when she was tossed from her seat, only to feel a sense of weightlessness instead of the cold metal shell of the ship's interior.
She cracked open her eyes and saw she was in the grasp of Pandora, who was holding her in her bottom two arms, while the first pair was carefully cradling Danny. Maddie stared into the massive ghost's eyes.
"You are his mother, correct?"
Maddie stared dumbly for a moment, unsure what to say or do. "I-yes. Let me and my son go!"
Pandora rose a brow. "Of course. However, you will have trouble getting back to your portal without proper repairs done to your ship." The ghost gestured gently with her head and Maddie turned around to see the Specter Speeder burned, broken, and sparking a bit. "We will contact friends of ours that can do a better job of repairing your ship, but until then, you are more than welcome to stay at the palace with Daniel."
Maddie blinked and Pandora grinned. Maddie really wished her baton was still on her person. At least she had her jumpsuit's built-in weapons if they got into a tight spot.
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The acropolis was huge and Maddie was blown away by witnessing ancient looking common people from Greece walking around the outer section of the city, using the market. By this time, Pandora had released Danny from his bonds, though he was still out cold. Her warriors had either left to patrol the outer area of her region for signs of Walker and his men or to move the Speeder to a safe place within the palace walls.
Maddie eyed Pandora like a hawk as the ghost carried her child. She was wary and yet perplexed by how gently she held her son, cradling him carefully, supporting his head as well as his center of mass, so that he'd be completely comfortable. It was bizarre. Ghosts weren't suppose to have care or empathy for anything or be able to understand such emotions like sympathy or compassion.
"You are confused."
Maddie jerked her head up to look into the ghost's face. "What?"
"I can sense it. Your confusion, perplexity, anxious energy, and love is quite active in your aura," Pandora explained. Then she smiled. "You love Daniel very much, don't you?"
"I- why do you ask?" Maddie questioned suspiciously.
Pandora chuckled softly. "So very untrusting. I suppose that's wise though in some ways. Your son was much the same with us for a time."
Maddie's mind went blank for a moment, trying to comprehend the underlying meaning to that sentence. "You mean to tell me he's been here before?"
Pandora slowly frowned, realizing she'd spoken out of bounds. "I met him once in the human world. He was untrusting of me then."
"You're evading the question, ghost," Maddie bit back and then flinched when she noticed the several stares directed towards her from the crowds of ghost pedestrians. Garbled whispers came from several as well as murmurings, while most simply ignored her.
Pandora watched the human woman carefully. She had heard many things from Daniel about his family and acquaintances as well as some of the issues he faced in his day to day life. Pandora had happily filled something of a motherly role for the boy seeing as his mother unknowingly hated one half of him. The greek ghost had felt it was a good idea to give his ghost half a motherly place of comfort. She didn't dislike the boy's mother though, not yet. She felt an old kindling of curiosity burn inside her.
"You despise ghosts quite deeply. I'm curious. Is there a reason as to why?" Pandora asked softly.
Maddie wasn't sure how to respond to that, though she did stay skeptical. "You're still avoiding my question."
Pandora frowned slightly. She went to open her mouth to speak again and was interrupted.
"My Lady! What happened to the young Daniel?"
Pandora and Maddie looked up to see someone flying towards them. The ghost halted, stuttering a bit in the air before stopping right in front of them. He had on a toga, winged helmet, winged shoes, and a decorative staff. He was slightly taller than Maddie, though nearly a head and a half shorter than Pandora and in peak physical condition if he'd been human. His light blue skin was clear and bright and his hair was like a dark frame around his face.
"Oh, and who do we have here?"
Pandora chuckled. "That would be lady Madeline, Hermes. She is Daniel's birth mother."
The ghost, now revealed to be Hermes, opened his mouth into an o shape as both his dark eyebrows rose in interest. "Ya don't say? Well then!" Hermes stuck out a hand after tucking his staff under an armpit. "Nice to meet you, Madeline. I'm Hermes, bringer of visions and messages. I can bridge the gap between the mortal and ghost realms and tend to run errands for many ghostly rulers in the Infinite Realms."
Maddie tentatively reached out a hand, ready to attack if necessary, and took Hermes' offered hand. He surprised her by clasping it with his other and giving her an enthusiastic full double armed shake. After he was done, Maddie couldn't help but ask a question. "Do you mean to say you're Hermes from Greek legend and you, Pandora?"
Pandora and Hermes looked at each other and smirked. Pandora was the one to speak first. "Something along those lines. It's complex, but essentially we were given life, or existence if you prefer, by the thoughts and dreams of people."
Hermes laughed a bit. "We're not exactly like the books say though."
Maddie looked between the two ghosts and then looked back at her son. Pandora noticed. "Don't fear too much for him. He will awaken soon, I'm sure."
"What happened to the boy?" Hermes asked.
"Walker and his goons tried to spirit him away from his own home in the dead of night, the bloody coward," Pandora hissed angrily.
Hermes clicked his tongue in irritation. "That warden. I swear he's got the Observants in his pocket somehow." The three were interrupted when Hermes' staff started to glow. He furrowed his brows in aggravation. "Speak of the devil, it's those one eyed-nuts now." He huffed. "I have a right mind to file a complaint while I'm running whatever errand for them they're needing."
Pandora shook her head. "You might do more harm than good, my friend. Remember that they aren't fond of young Daniel. They may just come to dislike him more if you try to show your support."
Hermes' face almost looked red to Maddie as the specter fumed. "I may visit Clockwork."
"You know he has announced his guardianship of the boy. You must remember that he knows all."
Hermes let out a sigh and covered some of his face with the bridge of his helmet. "Right, right. I'll be calm." He popped his helmet back up and into place with his thumb, changing his attitude instantly. "Whelp, I've got to go before they decide to banish me to oblivion for being a millisecond late."
Pandora smacked the back of the ghost's head with one hand. "Hush your speech, Hermes." Pandora admonished playfully.
Hermes cackled gleefully as he floated up to begin to fly away. "Now, now, My Lady, What good would my afterlife be if I couldn't laugh at it?" After the last syllable had fallen from his mouth, he bowed to Maddie and was then gone in a flash of green smoke.
Pandora snorted. "He must've been cutting it quick on purpose if he bothered to teleport." Maddie stayed silent for a moment before Pandora spoke again. "Let's head into the palace for a meal and a place to give Daniel some more rest. Our friends will be here in a couple human days time to fix your vehicle."
Maddie's mouth fell open. "Wait they won't be here for a couple days?"
Pandora blinked. "I'm afraid not. Not all ghosts are blessed with the ability to teleport. They will need to bring several workers so the map is out of the question." Pandora expressed, purposefully being vague about the Infi-map.
Maddie frowned in irritation.
Pandora let out a sigh. "I can answer other questions you may have in the dining hall."
Maddie folded her arms. "Ghosts don't eat."
Pandora rose a finger. "Correction, we don't need to eat. We still do though."
Maddie felt one of her brows raise against her will. She stayed planted in place though. "Will you tell me why so many ghosts know my son and why so many seem to dislike him? And what is this about a Clockwork being a guardian?"
Pandora let out a sigh. "I'll tell you what I can. I simply would rather not share any of Daniel's secrets that I have no right sharing."
At that sentence, Maddie felt a part of her perceived world crumble. Did this ghost know things about Danny that his own mother didn't? Did the Ghost Zone have something to do with her son's strange and somewhat troublesome behavior the last year? More importantly, was it true that Danny had visited the Ghost Zone?"
Maddie snapped out of her thoughts when she noticed Pandora making her way up the steps to the largest white pantheon-like palace in the acropolis. She hurried to catch up to the ghost that held her still unconscious son.
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Maddie kept switching her gaze between Pandora as the ghost clearly ate the food in front of her, Danny, who was laying on a lounge chair of some kind, and her own food, which she was wary of. The clinking of silverware was the only noise that permeated the room after the servants had left them to their meal.
"So Mrs. Fenton… That is how you address people in your time and place, correct?" Pandora asked, looking up from her food and eyeing Maddie expectantly.
Maddie nodded. "Yes."
"What questions do you have for me? Just try to be mindful that I care about Daniel's privacy-"
"That's just it!" Maddie suddenly blurted, unable to hold back her frustration. "I'm his mother. I feel as if I should know more about my own child than some ghost I just met!"
Pandora waited patiently for Maddie to finish before speaking. "I see. I can understand why you're angry and more so, worried." Pandora picked up her fork and took another bite of lamb before speaking again. "May I answer with a question? What do you expect to learn about your son? What are you hoping to hear?"
Maddie paused, actually considering what the ghost as saying. What was she expecting? She popped her head back up when Pandora continued.
"You know sometimes, as mothers, we don't get to see all sides of our child-"
Maddie seemed irritated. "Are you trying to say you're a mother?"
Pandora blinked and them gave a smile. "I was and I suppose I still am to some degree. I am a ghost that falls into the category of being born of ideas and dreams, however, legends tend to have very complicated lore that alters beings who are connected by it. My daughter's name is Pyrrha. In greek stories she was one of the only humans to survive a great flood caused by Zeus, or an irritated Vortex." Pandora snorted somewhat bitterly. "The Observants still despise Vortex for that one. It was a nasty storm." She returned the smile to her face. "The point is, in reality, Pyrrha became my daughter through adoption, or at least that's the term for it in the human realm as far as Daniel has told me. Ghosts of course can't actually give birth, but many will pair up or offer to care for younger ghosts, mostly children, that end up here and need guidance during their stay. At first, we didn't get along very well. We still argue much about whether or not humans should be tested by the horrors within my box or if they should be protected from some of the worst things. I feel that it's my duty to hold many horrors in my box and to suddenly let them free on humanity would be wrong. Pyrrha thinks humans need a wake up call and don't deserve to be coddled anymore." Pandora was silent for a moment, lost in thought or her own memories, and then she nodded. "So yes, to some degree, I know what it means to be a mother."
Maddie looked at the being before her with a mixture of confusion, exasperation, and still slight suspicion. "Well… what was it then, the thing you were trying to say?"
Pandora smiled. "It can be easy to judge our children sometimes… We are older and supposedly wiser than them, so it can be easy to write off their input. But older does not always mean wiser. Even ghosts have made the mistake of thinking that humankind would never be as wise and worldly as ghosts, seeing as none could outlast most of us." Pandora looked over and gazed at Danny fondly. "He's very wise for his age and very responsible…"
"Then why doesn't he do his homework? Or get good grades in his classes? Or stay out way past his curfew? Or disobey me and his father by coming into the Ghost Zone where it could be life-threatening!?" Maddie asked in further aggravation, standing up from the table. Her face then relaxed in semi-defeat. "You're talking as if you know a completely different side of my son."
Pandora frowned in pity for the woman. "Do you want me to help you with your son?"
"Pardon?"
"I could direct you in what you need to start doing, but I'm fairly certain you will not listen. That's the main reason that I'm being so vague with you."
Maddie studied the ghost for a minute. "What? Tell me."
"First, you need to learn to trust ghosts, not all of them, but some."
Maddie narrowed her eyes. "Of course, some trick…"
Pandora sighed. "Next you need to back up and think about your theories on ghosts, their reasons for existence, their feelings, their consciousness, otherwise you won't gain your son's trust back."
Maddie frowned. "Why does everything come back to ghosts?" Her face shifted to show anger again. "And my son loves me and he knows I love him!"
"I said nothing about love, I mentioned trust. They are two entirely different entities. I'd take a guess and say you could not lose the love of your son. He cares for you, his family, and friends, dearly. He has made that clear many times before," Pandora replied. "And ghosts? You are a ghost hunter like your husband and you have a portal in your basement lab. How could this not all be about ghosts?"
Maddie froze. She went to open her mouth but was interrupted by a groan. She whipped her head to the side to see Danny shifting. Suddenly he sat up with a gasp and looked around, his eyes locking onto her and then Pandora.
"Uhhh…" Danny stalled. "Mom, I can explain?"
Maddie wanted to be angry and start drilling her son with questions, but she was overcome with the desire to hold him. She had almost lost him to that Bullet character. She rushed over and swept the young teen into her arms. "Danny, sweetie… I'm so glad you're okay."
Danny choked slightly from the tight hug and looked over give a meaningful glance to Pandora. The greek shook her head slightly, indicating that Maddie didn't know everything. Danny smiled and then finally sunk into his mother's embrace, taking in her scent as well. "Thanks mom." Maddie released him and held his face at an arm's distance. She studied his jawline which was something of a mix between hers and Jack's, taking her shape but Jack's hard lines, his plush raven hair, his dark expressive eyebrows, his cheeks that still stubbornly held some of their baby fat, and his bright blue eyes.
"Mommm…" Danny whined, getting a little embarrassed by his mother's coddling.
Maddie smiled and let him go, watching as he predictably reached back to scratch his neck with one hand. Then her smile dropped. "Daniel."
Danny swallowed thickly.
"How do these ghosts know you?"
"Funny thing… I kinda fell into the Ghost Zone once and got lost. I found my way back out and then… kinda… kept… visiting?" Danny finished lamely.
"Daniel James!"
"Look, I'm sorry! It was cool in here and I started to make some friends!" Danny expressed, worried where this was heading.
Maddie furrowed her brows and tapped a foot while her hands rested on her hips. "You know what I've taught you about ghosts."
Pandora simply watched them as she ate, not bothered by Maddie's words.
Maddie almost flinched when she saw Danny's facial expression change from timid and worried to defensive and protective in a blink of the eye. "Well you were wrong!" Danny shouted back, gesturing wildly as he started to rant. "Ghosts can feel, they eat, they go into trace state, which is like sleeping, they have families, purpose, government, monarchies-" Danny trailed off briefly before restarting. "Ghosts are more like people than you or dad ever even bothered to consider! They're almost exactly like people, mom! Some are good and some are bad."
After Danny had grown quiet, the two had a stare down. Maddie's face slackened a bit. Her instinct was to believe her son was being overshadowed or had been manipulated by ghosts or the zone itself by visiting so often, but she wondered… She used the same tactics over and over again to try and reel in her son's behavior and to have him as her happy little boy again. Pandora's advice to try and listen more rung in her head and though she was fearful to trust a ghost, she was starting to wonder if trying something completely new would help change things. She sighed. "Okay… alright… maybe I've been a bit close-minded."
"See that's exactly what I'm-" Danny started up, before his brain registered what she had said. "Wait, what?" She marveled at how quiet his voice had gotten, as though he was suddenly tremendously emotionally vulnerable. She'd crossed onto strange territory that she hadn't even known was there. "What did you say?"
Maddie hummed. "I've been talking with Pandora… You say ghosts have the capacity to feel and experience existence like we do?"
Danny perked up in shock and then hissed. "Mom! Not in front of Pandora!"
Pandora laughed melodiously. "Daniel, it's quite alright. I understand her fear and do not blame her, though I thank you for your concern."
Danny smiled at his friend before looking back at his own mother with analytical and skeptical eyes. Maddie had never seen her son so alert. "So you really mean that? Are you willing to give ghosts a try?"
Maddie wanted to shout never and somehow yank her son back home before any ghost would bat an eye, but she fought against such thoughts in order to answer. "I'm not happy about it, but I guess I couldn't call myself a scientist if I didn't follow up on new developments in the field."
Danny blinked, then scratched his head, then rested his chin between his thumb and forefinger in thought, not noticing his own tongue starting to peek out from between his lips. He finally glanced over his shoulder at Pandora. "How long will we be here? I'm guessing the Specter Speeder got trashed or something?"
Pandora nodded. "Frostbite and his workers should be here by tomorrow morning maybe the next day at the latest. Normally it would only take several hours, but they are having to carry many tools and materials to work on your ship. They are also vulnerable with such cargo and much rest from time to time to hide better from opportunists that would like to cause trouble or steal from them."
Danny nodded to himself and then looked back up at his mother. "I could… well… show you around the acropolis, take you to all the best places and let you meet some of my friends here. I can show you acropolis ghost culture and eat up our spare time."
Maddie paused, lost in thought. She glanced upwards and locked eyes with Danny for a minute. Maddie finally replied and Pandora couldn't stop the happy smile that came to her face.
"Okay. Show me."
Okay so at first this story was going to go on for a little longer. I was going to describe them walking around the acropolis and a few other things that are apart of various head cannons of mine, like Hephaestus and Dionysus hanging out in town. Some of the greek gods and goddesses in the zone look a lot like they do in legend, except a few actually are other ghosts that have been somewhat mistaken as them. Like Vortex being Zeus. The more crossover there is between cultures and their ideas and dreams about a god of thunder, the more amorphous a ghost begins to look. After the tour, Maddie would reflect on all the amazing cultural things she'd witnessed, etc and then after a visit with Frostbite it would skip to when they were leaving. Somewhere along the way home Vlad appears and Danny finally transforms in front of his mom.
However, I got to this point in the story and felt like that last bit of dialogue by Maddie was the perfect stopping place and more natural too. Forcing Vlad in there felt weird and I feel the story means more having a developing trust between Danny and his mother again rather than ending it with a reveal. That way it's open ended as to how long it takes Maddie to learn more about ghosts and talk with Phantom and for Danny to finally tell his mom the truth.
But that's just my two cents. ;)
