Wahoo! Another sad chapter for this endless drabbles of mine! Oh, and KL? I lied... it is what I told you about... but you knew that already... didn't you...? As for the rest of you, REVIEW OR ELSE!!! OR ELSE NOTHING, BUT REVIEW STILL!!! erm... right... on with the drabble...

To Be In Peace

It was a quiet day on Amity Park; everyone was relaxed since no ghost attacked today. There was a small "boom!" sound, but everyone knew by now that it was the Fenton's way of warning that a new weapon was done. The floor of their home was covered on goop as usual, leaving green spots on the rugs too.

"Our new toy is done!" Yelled Jack as he held a metal thing (that had no normal form whatsoever) proudly. "Now to figure out what it is…"

"Jack, don't tell me you just placed the pieces together…" Maddie sighed angrily.

"Erm… maybe…?"

There was a ringing sound and Jazz answered the phone. Her eyes grew wide as she realized who it was and what had happened. She called her mother loudly and threw her the phone with a sad face mixed with horror and disappointment.

"Hello?" Maddie asked through the phone as Jazz climbed up the stairs to Danny's room.

"Maddie? Is that… you?" The voice asked in a faint whisper.

"Vlad!?" She gasped in surprise; they knew nothing about him for five years until today.

"Yes dear Maddie, it's me. I need to see you." He coughed out painfully.

"What!? Why?" She quickly asked getting suspicious. "And more importantly, where."

"You don't need to use that tone, my dear; I just wanted to say goodbye." He said softly trying to hide a sob.

"What do you mean?" She asked as panic flooded her existence.

"Go to the ghost portal. I'll explain everything." He replied. "Please, trust me, for once."

Maddie sighed and agreed, getting the feeling that something was wrong, very wrong. She went to the basement and told Jack to buy fudge; it always worked when she needed some space alone. As soon as he was gone she opened the portal, revealing a seriously injured Plasmious.

"What… happened?" She asked as she saw ectoplasm everywhere.

"Phantom." He replied softly as he placed a hand on his ribs.

"What did the ghost kid do!?" She asked in a shriek.

"He was trying… to help me." He sighed as he felt weak.

"How is this helping, Vlad?" She asked angrily as she looked for a first-aid kit. "He almost killed you!"

"No. I almost killed myself." He murmured and yelled in pain as Maddie cleaned his cuts and gashes.

She looked at him straight in the eyes; they had dark bags and many tears where forming. He looked down in shame and transformed human. He looked worst this way, he had cuts everywhere and blood had stained his expensive clothes, but the thing that caught her attention was his cut wrists.

"Why did he do this to you?" She gasped as she looked at him.

"He didn't. I did. He tried to stop me." He replied but all of a sudden he fell on the floor holding his head in pain.

"Why would Phantom try to help you?" She asked as she tried to help him stand up. It was no use, he was way too heavy and he just let his body fall with a small "thump!"

Of course, you might be wondering, why does she care? And more importantly, how is it that she knows his secret and doesn't kill him? Well, she found out when he had done this before five years ago, when she said that she never wanted to see him again because he had blamed her. It all flashed right before her eyes, but he interrupted by sighing loudly.

"You won't go Vlad; I'll call the ambulance." She said quickly as she tried to stand but he told her not to bother.

"It's painful to be like this, it's pulling me away so I'll say it and let myself go." He replied, resisting the urge to lay back and relax, to let death take him forever.

"Don't go…" She cried, she hated this attitude of his; it was just as stubborn as when he lived in Wisconsin so many years ago. "Don't go…"

"I must, but no tears… two things… just… two." He replied in a whisper, barely audible.

"I'll get Phantom for this… how can you say that he helped you when you cut yourself anyway!?" She sobbed helplessly.

"I made him leave by sending my messed up clones after him." He gasped out.

"Why did you… do this?" She asked gently pointing to the blood.

"Listen closely, Maddie… number one… I love you; I always did." She stared at him like if he had grown another head but nodded sadly anyway. He continued painfully. "Number two… you have a good boy, dear… he's always trying to help."

What do you mean?" She asked, but he didn't answer. She shook his shoulder but nothing happened, he just lay there, and never woke up. She screamed in fright and pain but a soft deep voice told her to relax; he was finally in peace.