Here's Maddie's POV! I don't own DP!


Daniel James Fenton!

Honestly! Where are you? It's almost one IN THE MORNING!

I was currently sitting on the couch in the living room. I was waiting for my ebony-haired son, Danny, to enter the room because he hadn't come home yet. He's never home in time for his curfew.

I heard a small noise that sounded like it came from the basement. So I silently strolled down the stairs and hid behind the wall so whatever was down there wouldn't see me.

It was Phantom!

He was holding something in his hand that I couldn't quite see because his back was turned to me. He went to the control panel for the Ghost Zone. I thought that he was trying to destroy it before I noticed that he was going to connect what he had in his hand to the panel.

That's where I came in.

I cautiously wandered past the corner where I was hiding. Hopefully he wouldn't notice me.

Still staring at him so he couldn't sneak up and attack me, I reached for a random weapon laying in one of the many tables since my handy tool belt seemingly disappeared.

"Inviso-Bill!"

He whirled around so that my weapon was right in front of his face. Guess I'm using a ecto gun. He criss-crossed his eyes to see it before his radioactive eyes looked from my head to toes. I still had my blue jumpsuit since I had stayed up all night to wait for Danny. My red goggles were over my eyes.

Now he can't go invisible!

"What are you doing in my house!" I demanded when he didn't say anything.

"Um…this is your house?" I saw that he had tried to act clueless, but he obviously knew whose home this was. Besides, there's a huge sign connected to the building that says Fenton Works!

"Quit the innocent act!" I shouted out, "I asked what are you doing in my house!"

If he tries to act clueless again...

"I'm emptying my thermos," he seemed to answer genilinally honestly. But that can't be true. Ghosts don't have emotions.

I just fingered the trigger of the highly-technological gun in my hands because I didn't believe him. I didn't trust him to not make a move to assult me either.

"I'll ask one more time!" I aimed at his chest where his famous D with a P inside was located. "Why are you in my home?"

"Oh I don't know," He spat sarcastically while waving at the portal. He shouldn't be able to do that. Being sarcastic. "Maybe because you have a portal to the Ghost Zone that I can throw these ghosts into that are in my thermos right now! And you didn't ask the exact question!"

Why! All ghosts are evil! How dare he! Trying to look like the good guy!

"Honestly! Stop trying to look like a good ghost! You're just acting! All ghosts are evil! Ectoplasmic scum!" I raised my voice before he interupted me.

"Yeah, yeah." He boredly waved while saying something. "Ghosts don't have emotions, ghosts don't feel pain, etc."

How does he know what I was going to say? Maybe I've said it when chasing him...

"You!" I finally glanced at the thermos he was holding. "What are you doing with the Fenton thermos!"

"Well," he retorted, "I was using it to capture the bad ghosts!"

"More like you stole it!" I accused while he sighed.

"Oh yeah. I definitely stole it!" He replied sarcastically, "I'm the good guy!"

"Where's Danny?" I questioned in a threatening tone. Better that Phantom believes that I'll shoot first if he doesn't awnswer correctly.

His glowing eyes moved to the left and to the right as if he were searching for something...someone?

"I'm right here," I stared in confusion before anger crashed into me when I saw his infuriating smirk.

"Not funny Phantom!" I pushed the front of my ecto gun into his chest right above where his core should be.

"Well," He was still smirking, "My name also happens to be Danny."

"Phantom!" I warned, "Where is my son?"

"Um…" He nervously rubbed the back of his neck like my son usually does. "Black hair, blue eyes, about my heighth?"

"What did you do to him!" I got ready to charge my gun.

"Why do you keep assuming that I'm evil!?" He groaned in…frustration? That…faker. He's lying!

"Why you!" My gun gave off a beam of ghostly green energy that zoomed towards him. He barely twisted to his right to avoid it. Before he could have the chance to leave, I shoot off more shots.

That's weird how he never attacks me back...Probably trying to make me think that he's good. Until he stabs me in the back later.

He started to do a handstand when I was about ready to fire at him. Before I could comprehend what was happening, Phantom was rolling to a stop with his back to a wall. Before he could gain his bearings, I stepped up right in front of him.

"Stand up!"

Faking painful moving, he stood up. When he had stood up, he straightened up to a height of five foot five. That means that I'm slightly taller than that ghost. Before he could say something, he was slammed into the wall of the basement.(that's where we were)

I just shoot my ecto gun.

And it had hit him!

I wanted to cheer in joy at finally getting the ghost scum, but I refrained from doing so. I glared at him only to see him moving his white-gloved hand over his chest before pulling it back with a worried gasp.

Ectoplasm.

He seemed to realize something because the next thing I know, he quickly leaped from the floor and bolted up the stairs all the while dripping green non-stop.

I didn't have to worry about finding him because there was a trail of the stuff everywhere he went. So I calmly ran up the stairs with my gun charged in case that I had to use it. When I had gotten to the livingroom, I saw that the ectoplasm was leading upstairs.

So that's where I went…

As I climbed the stairs, I saw that green colored one side of the staircase like paint decorates a mural.

When I had gotten to the top, I noticed that it went to my son's room. Slowly creeping towards the door, I made a promise to destroy him if he even touched a hair on my son's head. Images flashed through my mind.

And then I looked down.

Scarlet? Is that...?

I quickly shoved my red goggles to the top of my hoodie on my suit so that I could see better. Rubbing my fingers over the blot of ectoplasm, I gasped.

Blood.

Human blood.

Getting up, I took a deep breath in as to settle my nerves. Going to the door, I carefully opened it to see if he was still in there.

He wasn't.

Ectoplasm mixed with red was on a chest that my son keeps his space ship models in. The trail only got bigger as it climbed to the right onto my son's desk where I know he had incomplete homework for later today. The ectoplasm started to fade as more red joined to meet by the window.

That's scienficically impossible! Humans can't have ghostly powers! That would require electricity and ectoplasm being indruduced to someone at the exact same time. And don't even get me started on how much power it would take to make that work...unless-

A huge puddle was collected right in front of the closed window. A handprint was left on the windowsill.

The portal…

The portal wouldn't work until...Danny's accident! My son's accident! He can't! He...it's not possible!

Before my mind could catch any information, I dropped my ecto gun in shock. Tears settled into my eyes and I couldn't see straight.

I…I…

I stared ahead so that maybe what just happened wouldn't have happened. My vision blurred as I sobbed into my hand as my hoodie fell down.

I shot…

I shot him…

I shot Phantom…

I shot Danny!

I shot my son!

That's when my legs gave in, and I slid to the floor while crying. He was dead! And I just probably ended his afterlife, too! I'm a terrible parent! Danny! I'm sorry!

"I'm sorry!" I sobbed as I laid against the chest that was covered in blood-both human and ghost. Before I had fallen into a restless sleep, I was sure that I had seen red sneakers walk up to me. Then everything went dark.


Updated finally. Hope you enjoyed it! This is not the last chapter, I am also going to do an aftermath chapter where Maddie questions herself about Danny.

~Angelicat2~