Prompt 02: "I take very enthusiastic walks" (WC:514)
A/N: Alternate title - Lee Brown tries to bullshit her way out of a situation but Danny Fenton is having none of it.
"We're all guilty of hiding things - it's the nature of the world today.
We hide our feelings, we hide our feeling, we hide our pasts, we hide our true
intentions. There's no way to know what's real anymore."
~ Suzanne Young, The Treatment
Lee Brown prided herself on the fact that in her half a decade of ghost seeing powers nobody alive had ever figured it out. She lived in a haunted house with a man that was actively seeking proof of ghosts, in the most haunted city in America and her secret had not leaked to even one living person. That record came to a screeching halt at age 15, in the form of Danny Fenton.
"What did you just do?"
Lee looked away from the spot where a ghost had been standing before she had pummeled it with her iron cross. It dissipated and that ecto-energy would come back together and form the ghost again relatively soon. Lee wanted to have put distance between her and this alley before that happened, but now there was a confused Danny Fenton confronting her.
Lee guessed it didn't matter. If it reformed and realized that there were two of them instead of just one easy-prey girl, it would flee. Still, this was not a conversation she wanted to have. It wasn't exactly a revel of her abilities, but it spoke to a familiarity and ease with dealing with ghosts that would lead to questions. There went her spotless record.
What in God's green earth was Danny Fenton doing walking around Amity Park at night, anyway? At least Lee had a reason (though she would lie if asked). She had been visiting the Box Ghost who had introduced her to another ghost who needed some therapy (it was a serious shame none of this could ever end up on her resume without some serious lying). The whole event had snowballed, ending with Lee walking home way later then she intended.
"I don't do things." Was her clever reply. Okay, it wasn't clever, but she was panicking, even if it wasn't showing at all. Right after seeing ghosts, Lee counted her poker face as a supernatural ability. Unfortunately the poker face was only skin deep.
Danny stared at her in incredulous disbelief, "You just hit a ghost with a cross and it vanished!"
Lee considered her options of reply and decided that she had started down the path of snarky and obstinately lying in the face of truth so she might as well stick to it, "I take walks." She replied, as if that was enough of an explanation.
"You call that a walk?" Danny's voice rose an octave and cracked at the same time. It wasn't a pretty sound. In some ways girls got off puberty easy. Though Lee would take her voice cracking over having a period any day.
"I take very enthusiastic walks." Lee clarified with obvious false cheer. Her tone signaled that the conversation was over. She walked past Danny, out of the alley, "Be careful, Danny," She warned with false cheer, looking at him over her shoulder, "Amity seems rather dangerous at night."
And she strolled on her way. Danny gapping and too surprised to respond.
A/N: Hahaha, yes I did borrow a quote from Hellsing Abridged. It's too good a line to just leave. Sue me. Haha, nice try. You can't, because I'm not making any money off this! Annnyway, please review. They make my day. Also favoriting and following is also nice. But reviews are the best.