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Danny didn't know who looked more startled. Him. Or the two men pointing shotguns at him. One was taller than the other. Seriously tall. So tall Danny possibly considered the fact that the guy was related to dear old legendary sasquatch. He had a neat shag of brown hair from what Danny could tell in the dark. Wearing plaid, jeans & boots hidden under them. The shorter guy wore something simliar. Only he wore demin & his hair was fashioned in a sandy colored looking crewcut.
The shorter guy was the first to speak with a sheepish expression. "Uh. Hi." He then fumbles for something in his back pocket. "FBI."
Whoa. Wait. What? Did Danny hear that correctly?
The guy continues, "I'm agent Smith." While holding a pretty convincing detective's badge, he nods to his partner. "Also agent Smith."
"No relation." Tall guy says.
Danny only responded with a dumbfounded look. "Huh?"
Short Smith lowers his gun to his side. "We're looking for a runaway."
Tall Smith seconds short Smith & asks, "You wouldn't have happened to see a strange girl? Maybe 12 to 13 years of age. Short. With white hair caught in a ponytail wearing even weirder getup?"
"Danielle!" Danny unintentionally exclaims under his breath. Then he realized he bit his tongue a little too late when short Smith gave him an odd look. "UH. No idea!" Danny quickly adds. "I have NO idea who you're talking about."
"Uh-huh." Tall Smith said in an under tone that obviously meant like he didn't believe a single word that came out of Danny's mouth. "Well. She refuses to be in custody." He continues. "She also kicked my partner pretty hard between his-"
Short Smith gave a very loud fake cough.
"-Um. A certain sensitive part of his body, & now she's a potential danger to everyone around her."
Crud. That's Danielle all right. Danny crept a palm behind his neck. "So. Let's just pretend I saw her."
The two Smiths exchanged looks. Then stared rather very intently at Danny.
"That's PRETEND." Danny continues. "What would you do to her?"
Short Smith responds with, "You don't have to worry about that. We'll take care of her."
FBI my butt. Danny decided he didn't want to trust the two stooges.
A seemingly long uncomfortable pause sets in afterwards. If it weren't for Danny's cellphone going off, he'd thought that the two guys would drag his butt to the police station for a long interrogation for his obvious attempt at lying. He'd never been so thankful as to hear his mother's voice practically screeching for him to get home.
As Danny sprints to his front porch, he had the distinct feeling he hadn't heard the last of those so called FBI guys.
Later that night, Danny had a hard time focusing on finishing his failed assignments for his language arts class, & an even more harder time heading to bed trying to get himself to sleep. He couldn't stop worrying about Danielle. He didn't know where she was or if she'd just collapsed somewhere in the streets forming into a big puddle of green goo. That's if the two guys calling themselves FBI hadn't taken her away to who knows where. Danny had to wonder if they were working for Vlad Masters. (AKA Plasmius. Danny Phantom's archnemisis.) Or The Guys In White. Which were anything but friendly when it came to ghost hunting.
OR maybe you should just stop thinking about bad things. PERIOD. Danny heaves a sigh. Eventually his eyes fell heavy, & he'd gotten himself to sleep.
Next thing he knows, he starts to hear a constant tapping noise. He thought he was dreaming for a minute or so. But then, he heard one very loud THUNK, & he sat straight up. Danny blinked really hard twice to realize what he read on his digital clock almost said 3 in the morning.
Then his stomach made an uncomfortable noise. Uh-oh.
After a half an hour being in the bathroom, he drags his feet back into his room, only to literally trip & face plant the floor.
He groans. "What the crap!" Then he takes in a sudden short breath to realize what he had tripped on.
Or rather WHO.
"OMIGOSH. Danielle, hey!" Danny exclaims as he flicks his desk lamp on.
She was sprawled all over the ground, in her ghost form, looking rather more than wary. "What took you so long?" She groans.
"Eating five bowls of very buttery popcorn, & having nachos, & ice cream all together is seriously a bad idea." Danny shakes his head.
"Ew."
"Yeah. I know. Are you all right?" Danny asks.
"Well." Danielle responds. "Considering that I can't get up & I'm bleeding ectoplasm on your rug. I'm just peachy, dude."
Danny then scoffs. "You had me worried sick! Why did you fly off like that? Where were you? What the crap happened to you & why are two guys pretending to be FBI want with you?"
"Hey. Do you want the entire cul-de-sac to wake up?"
"DANIELLE."
She sighs. "I don't know Danny! Honestly! I was minding my own business okay? Trying to find a place to crash. But it was so late at night. Who'd wanna be bothered. Right? So I got a little ghosty & got comfy in this snazzy vintage looking car, & the next thing I knew these two guys start shooting at me."
Danny softens his expression a little. "You know you're always welcome here, right? You don't always have to wander alone, sleeping who knows where."
"I don't want to be a burden." Danielle says as she lifts a hand over her eyes.
"You're not-"
"Whatever." She continued as she slowly tried to gather her composure. "Look, you better watch your back, Danny."
"What? Why?"
"They shot me with something & I still haven't healed from, phantom powers & all. Not to mention no matter how hard I try to lose them off my trail, they always seem to find me."
Danny drifted his gaze to Danielle's left leg. It was full blown nasty. He frowns.
"Hey. It looks worse than it feels. All right? I'm okay." Danielle comments. "I think whatever they shot me with is seriously wedged inside my ankle. I can't get it out."
"I'll get the first aid kit." Danny stood. "You're staying here for the night. All right?"
Danielle's stomach rumbles. Uh-oh. "Got any food?"
"You're seriously hopeless you know that?"
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