Chapter two
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"Sam! Dean! You're earlier then I'd thought you would be!" Maddie beamed at them happily. Dean and Sam stared for a moment. Had she just come up from the lab? She was still wearing her modified hazmat suit.
"Uh yeah, I figured we could take Danny to the movies or something since it's so early!" Sam explained. In reality they had finally given up on sleep sometime around midnight and driven the rest of the way through the night. The questionable deadness of Danny had worn on the both of them.
"DANNY! SAM AND DEAN ARE HERE GET DOWN HERE! Maddie yelled up the stairs. There was a crash upstairs before Danny peaked around the corner.
"Hey Danny. " Dean called, an easy smile on his face. Danny eyed them both warily.
"Hi guys." He agreed.
"We were thinking of going to a movie, want to come?" Sam asked. Danny stared at them for a moment before wilting a bit.
"Uh, sure…I think there's a few good things at the theater." Danny finally answered a little weakly. He stepped out from behind the wall where he'd been hiding and came down the stairs.
"Right, uh, bye mom." He waved as he stepped outside, Dean and Sam close on his heels. Danny jumped into the back seat without a word as Dean started the car. Five minutes later they pulled into the motel they had checked into early that morning. Danny felt that the sound the room door made as it closed was just a little too ominous.
"Right, so explain what actually happened." Dean started – sitting down on the bed with a thump. Danny rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"Um well. Me Sam and Tucker were poking around the lab when Sam asked about the portal. And she thought it would be cool to get my picture by it with me in my hazmat suit. So we were doing that and I decided to take a look inside. I thought it was fine because it didn't work but…apparently there was a second power switch inside of it. It was dark and I hit it." Danny shrugged looking away uncomfortably. Dean and Sam exchanged a look.
"And immediately after that?" Sam asked, Danny shrugged.
"Well apparently I was kinda glowing for a minute but other than that I didn't really notice anything weird until I started randomly phasing through things and turning partly invisible. Then a while later I got attacked by a ghost and transformed for the first time." Sam was looking a bit intrigued, Dean however was frowning.
"Do normal tricks for ghosts work on you?" he asked. Danny made a face at that.
"Um, some do, some don't, some depending on what form I'm in. it seems really all over the place." He answered with a shrug.
"Well let's test a few things then!" Sam cut in. Dean recognized that glint in his little brothers eyes. He rolled his eyes in good natured exasperation.
"Right, sounds good. What first?"
"Hm…regular salt line I think." Sam answered after a moment. Danny eyed them both like they had just turned into Demons.
"Um…you're not going to like, shoot me to see if it works are you?" he asked worriedly. Dean smirked at him.
"Only if you throw the dresser at my head brat." Sam rolled his eyes at him from where he was pulling one of the canisters of salt out of a duffle bag.
"Let's start simple." He said, trying to cut off any further barbs before Dean could in fact get that dresser thrown at his head. He moved over to the door, the most open place in the room, and drew out a circle in salt. "Alright, try and walk through that." he nodded to it. Danny shrugged and stepped over the line like it wasn't there.
"Salt doesn't work in human form, or I wouldn't be able to get into the house. They filled the walls with salt and put pipes filled with it in every doorway and window."
"In human form?" Dean echoed. "So it works when you're a ghost?" Danny wobbled his hand in a so-so gesture.
"Kinda. It's like running into a wall of jello. I can get through it if I try hard enough, it's just not usually worth the trouble.
"Can you show us that then?" Sam asked. Danny huffed, exasperated.
"Right, going ghost then!" with that the glowing ring appeared around his waist and split apart – shooting up and down. Within moments the slightly glowing ghost from the pictures on the internet was standing before them. Dean was smirking at him with a raised eye brow. "What?" Danny asked suspiciously. "
"Oh nothing, it's just." Dean smirk widened a bit. "You've got yourself a regular magical girl transformation going there don't you? You've even got the little catch phrase." Danny's jaw dropped open in outrage while Sam hid a snigger behind a cough.
"Take that back!" he squawked and tried to lunge at Dean only to hit the salt line. He seemed to get stuck for a moment before shooting loose and pouncing on Dean. Dean just laughed and rolled out of the way before he could get a grip and stepped back over the salt line. Danny lunged again shooting through the line with only a brief struggle. Dean just stepped backwards though and right back out again. Leaving Danny to have to fight his way out to get him. Sam let this continue for a few moments before interfering.
"Right, enough or I'm going to start shooting peoples kneecaps." Sam snapped with an eye roll. Danny ended his chase with a pout. Dean having managed to evade him the entire time.
"Right, so what next?" Danny asked grinning. At Sam's smirk his enthusiasm waned more than a little bit.
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"Well, I'm going to go with Alive." Sam pronounced after a good two hours of experiments. Dean nodded in agreement. For one thing, ghosts didn't bleed the weird combo of red and glowing green ectoplasm that Danny did. The glow was honestly kinda odd by their standards, but Sam theorized the either passing through the portal gave the ghosts in the area some kind of charge, or Limbo itself did. None of the ghosts they dealt with could throw around what looked like plasma bolts for one. Something Dean was really kinda grateful for.
"You really think so?" Danny asked hopefully. Dean shrugged.
"Close enough. You might want to watch it with other hunters but your fine with us. If Maddie and Jack loose it when they find out you've got our number. You can either stay with us or we'll talk to them." Sam added. Danny looked nervous now.
"When they find out? I thought you weren't going to tell them!" he squeaked.
"And we're not, but they'll figure it out eventually, Danny. Just know we've got your back when that happens alright?" Dean shrugged, not seeming too concerned about the eventuality. Danny hesitated before smiling wryly.
"You're right, but I'd rather wait till I'm a bit better at dodging before telling them."
"Probably a good idea." Dean agreed dryly, he'd seen some of the Fentons new guns. They certainly seemed to have decided that ghost hunting was going to be a case of go big or go home.
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