A/N: Okay, I finally got back home after somehow surviving my family vacation. Sixteen people in one house is NEVER good. Trust me.
Anywayz, I'm typing this and getting it out ASAP so I can move on to the books I really like in this series. Not that I don't like this one, but….
Also, I've got a few other stories that I began on vacation and wanted to know if anyone would like to read a Danny Phantom/Death Note crossover or a Danny Phantom/NCIS crossover. Lemme know!!
Here's the next chapter.
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"MANSON! We've almost got a match for that voice!" Lancer declared as he came up to her.
"What?" she gaped. "I—I thought I'd pulled—"
"I put it back on. Really, Sam, you should know better than to pull evidence like that! Why'd you pull it, anyway?"
"Because she's still after Danny!"
Lancer froze for a second, looking sideways at her. "H—Sam, how do you know that?"
"They told me, okay? That's how I know. I also know that Danny's already next on her hit list. Our finding out what really happened could cause the killer to get rid of him!"
"Get rid of who?" Paulina's voice came. "Not my little Danny!"
"Yes, Paulina," Lancer sighed, "Someone's trying to kill Danny."
Sam huffed. So much for keeping the case on the down-low.
"Do you know who?" the Latina simpered.
"Not yet. We're running her voice now, though. It could take a little while."
Sam caught the slightest flicker of anger on Paulina's face before she grinned. "That's great news, then! Please, tell me as soon as results are in!" The girl sauntered off, leaving the two confused cops in her wake.
Sam turned quickly to Lancer. "Sir, she—!"
"I know, I saw, but we have to wait for evidence."
"Sir, by then, it could be too late!"
"We'll have to trust Vlad and Danny that it won't."
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Someone's coming, Demo hissed.
Who?
Can't tell. Something's mucking my—our—senses. It's impossible to say who it is.
Kuso.
You said it.
The door burst open, and Danny jumped to look up. The moment he did, though, he jumped down off the bed to back away from the woman who had come in.
Paulina walked towards him, pulling out one more knife from her purse. "They. Bugged. Your. Room," she snarled.
"And you think I had something to do with that?"
"It was your room, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, but I was unconscious the whole time!"
The knife flashed out, and Danny pulled back. A trickle of blood flowed from the new cut on his right cheek. "What the hell was that for?!?" Danny screamed, lunging forward at her again. The point of the knife found itself at his neck, and he froze.
"You'll be unconscious again when I'm done with you," Paulina hissed.
"What do you want, Paulina?" Danny asked hoarsely, forcing himself not to yell.
"They've got my voice."
"You were stupid enough to talk?" The tip of the knife forced him to raise his head higher. "Sorry," he grumbled. The knife lowered again.
"They're running it now. I want it off."
"Paulina, I'm stuck in a hospital! How am I supposed to get it?"
"That is your problem. But you'd better hope you do, or not even Phantom will get away from me."
Danny glared until Paulina pushed the knife slightly further in. "Fine. I'll get the voice."
Paulina removed the knife. "Good little puppy. I see you haven't forgotten your training."
"I'm doing you a favor, Paulina. Don't make me regret it," he snarled.
The girl scoffed. "Oh, please. You're trying to survive, simple as that!"
Danny lunged forward, grabbing her wrist to force the knife away from him. With a twist, the knife fell from her hand, and he kicked it away. He brought his other leg up into a high kick, throwing her into the door. As she slid down, he dove for the knife.
She approached rapidly, pausing for only a second at the knife he brandished before laughing. "Please! Like you've got the balls to stab me!"
"Why not?" he hissed, Demo's orange eyes glaring up at her. "I stabbed my own sister."
"S—Since when are your eyes orange?" she gasped, suddenly fearful.
"Since I found out exactly what I am."
She tried to call his bluff. "You're just a ghost!"
"Correction, I'm half ghost." He vanished, reappearing behind her. "But I'm full Reaper."
The girl turned around and screamed at seeing her little knife replaced by a scythe. She ran to the door, escaping as Danny's eyes faded back to blue.
Y—You… scared her away, he thought in shock.
'Course I did. Someone had to.
She'll really want us dead now.
Let her try. The results are in.
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"Sir, the results are in!" Dash said, waving the papers in the air as he and Kwan ran towards Lancer. Lancer looked up just in time to jump back so they didn't run over him.
"I thought you two had left?" he asked, an eyebrow raised.
"Nah, Vlad's paying for our hotel rooms until Danny gets better. Which will be soon, now that we've got the voice!"
"Really? Let's see it."
They handed over the papers, letting Lancer read through them. They waited as his eyes widened with each line.
"Is this—?"
"Yeah, it's her, Mr. Lancer."
"She snuck right past all of us… and Danny had seemed strange around her…." He looked up at them. "How long has—?"
"We don't know. Danny never really talked about it. Then again, he was quiet pretty much all the time."
"I see. We'll have to ask him after—"
"Sir!" Tuck said, running over with Sam and Val. "The hospital just called. Danny got into a fight."
"With who?"
"They don't know. But when they got in there, he was standing up, holding a knife, and staring at the door."
"The knife?"
"Same as all the others."
"It was her, sir, it had to be!" Kwan exclaimed. "Those knives are hers!"
Sam's cell phone rang, and she answered quickly. "What is it?"
"And we didn't know this before because…?" Lancer glared.
"Danny didn't want to say."
"What?" Sam hissed into the phone.
"Why didn't he tell us?" Lancer asked.
"Because he's too stubborn," Dash answered, shrugging.
"Not stubborn enough," Sam replied as she shut her phone. "Hospital just released him. Said his cousin came to pick him up."
"And?"
"He doesn't have a cousin," Dash gaped. "We've gotta go! She's got Danny!"
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"Mr. Fenton?" the nurse said, walking in. Danny looked up from where he was sitting, a small bandage covering the cut on his cheek and another on the spot on his neck that the knife had knicked. "Sir, someone's checked you out."
"Was it Vlad?"
"No, it was your cousin. Very nice young lady."
Chikoshu.
We're in trouble.
"Mr. Fenton?"
His head snapped up again. "C—Could I stay here until my uncle—?"
The nurse glared. "No, Mr. Fenton! You've been checked out, now go!" She pulled him up by his arm, marching him down to the front desk, where Paulina was waiting.
Why do hospitals always seem to believe her?
That, young grasshopper, is the question everyone wants to know.
…Call me that again and I'll put a steel knife straight through my heart.
Sorry.
The moment Paulina saw Danny, she leapt at him.
"C'mon, Cousin Danny, Daddy's been so worried!"
"I know he has," Danny replied, clenching his hands into fists. She grabbed his arm and dragged him outside, pushing him to walk in front of her. He hesitated, cursing when he felt the tip of a blade touch his back.
"Keep walking, Phantom, or I'll kill you."
"Oh, please, do," he growled.
"I'll kill everyone around you, too."
"You wouldn't," he said, narrowing his eyes.
"Try me."
He gnashed his teeth before beginning to walk again. Paulina smirked. "Just like my good little puppy, hm?"
"Shut up."
The knife inched closer, and he hissed. "What did you say?" she snarled.
"Which. Way?" Danny ground out.
She nudged him with the knife in his left shoulder. He turned with it, knowing he was heading for Paulina's car. He knew that meant that Paulina was ready to kill him, but he wasn't worried. Demo and he could beat her, no problem.
They arrived at the car, and she dug the knife point into his back until he opened the door and climbed in. Paulina moved to the front and started the car before turning around and saying, "The doors are child-proof, so you shouldn't be able to get out."
Danny snarled, hating anyone calling him a child. He was nineteen, dammit! As she laughed, he took a good look at the 'child-proof' doors. They seemed simple enough, push a button using his intangibility and one well-placed kick would open it. He just had to make sure Paulina didn't see….
But he didn't have to worry about that as a police car pulled up behind them. Paulina cursed, looking back at him through the rearview mirror. "Who the hell did you call?"
Danny glared back. "No one! I don't even have my phone!"
"Then how—" She cut off as she yanked at the steering wheel to swerve around another cop car. A third car spun out sideways into the road in front of her. "Damn," she muttered, turning quickly onto a side road. As the cars surrounded hers, she glanced into the mirror at him again. "Turn invisible. NOW!"
He did so, knowing what she'd do if he didn't. Paulina pulled over, rolling down her window as Lancer and Sam walked up. "Is there a problem, officers?" she asked, batting her eyelashes.
"We need to check your car, ma'am," Lancer replied professionally while Sam opened the back door and looked inside. Nothing.
"Can you pop the trunk, ma'am?" Sam said, spitting out the title in new-found hate for the pink princess and her pink Cadillac.
"Sure." Paulina did so, internally smirking as the back door closed.
Sam quickly checked the trunk before looking at Lancer and shaking her head.
"Thank you, ma'am." The cop cars pulled away.
Danny cursed silently from where he was trying to intangibly and invisibly unlock the door. Pulling his hand out, he silently counted down for—
"Change back," Paulina ordered. He obeyed, waiting for her to put her attention back on the road. As soon as she did, he kicked sideways, popping the door open and jumping out.
He rolled a few times before coming to a stop in the dirt. Completely forgetting his powers and without wasting any time by brushing himself off, he stood and ran back towards the city. Days like these, he was very glad he had been in track at school. The mile or two he had to run would take him, at his worst, ten minutes.
Then, of course, he'd have to factor in Paulina's car. It could go much faster than him, even at his best.
"Kami, I hate math," he grumbled. He could hear a car driving after him, and, with a feeble hope that Paulina's car would break down, he sped up.
The car behind him honked, and he kept going. But the minute he heard the siren, he slowed to a stop. Frozen, he turned slowly to make sure he was right. One of the cop cars was pulling up next to him, and one more was close behind. Sam and Lancer jumped out from the first as Danny collapsed, laughing hysterically. That whole time, he was running from the good guys!
Dash and Kwan ran up to the three, checking on their friend as he finally relaxed. Tuck and Val had been the first to see him jump out of the car, and they had Paulina in custody already. With that out of the way, Dash and Lancer drove to get Danny while Tuck drove Paulina back to the police station.
Danny chuckled a few more times. She's finally getting locked up after all those years.
Get some sleep, kid, you deserve it.
For the first time in his life, Danny didn't object to being called a kid as he fell asleep, still giggling.
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A/N: Okay, epilogue is next! Though I'll probably not be able to get it up until school starts. Stupid summer reading assignments…. Anywayz, long chappy to hold you over for a few weeks! Sorry! Byes, y'all!