Random authors note: In case some of you don't realize this I'll tell you now. I'm trying to be as fair as I can by drawing the character names at random out of a box. It's fun for me because I always have to be ready for whatever plot twists they bring.

Anyway, here's chapter six. This one is dedicated to Epona Harper for creating Dr. Lauren Goddfrey for me to use!

Vlad pulled his costume out of the washing machine and groaned. It was still just as tie-died as when it went into the wash. "Hippies…" He muttered dismally. He could just imagine Daniel's reaction when he saw him in this.

Maybe he would ask the maid later what to do. She didn't seem to mind a ghost haunting the laundry room. Vlad turned the costume intangible to dry it off and then put it on. As much as he disliked the costume, the idea of changing into his ghost form and finding that he was wearing nothing was even worse.

He sighed and changed back into his human form. Vlad never really liked staying in his ghost form too long, and changing back to normal felt like waking up in your warm bed after dreaming that you were freezing to death. Right as he changed back to normal, his ghost sense went off.

"This had better not be a hippie ghost who thinks she's a human." He said, following his ghost sense to the front door. He opened it, not really surprised when he saw a female ghost. "Let me guess, you're here to date me." She seemed taken aback.

"That was either extreme cleverness or extreme cockiness, Mr. um, Plasmius." She looked at Vlad for a moment, adjusting her glasses as she did so. "Oh, pardon me; you're not Mr. Vlad Plasmius." Vlad closed his eyes and began to explain. He thought all ghosts knew about him being a halfa.

"Look, I am Vlad Plasmius. I'm part ghost and part human, and at the moment I am in my human form." Her lips turned into a flat line and she had a look of scorn in her green eyes.

"It is impossible to be half one species and half another." She said.

"But I am." Vlad said. He could tell right away that he was not going to like this woman.

"Sir, I have a double doctorate in microbiology and biochemistry. Before I died I was a career teacher at a major university." She laughed shortly. "I proved many séances and psychics and other 'paranormal'" when she said paranormal she held up to fingers on each hand and made the annoying little quotation mark sign "sightings to be frauds."

"Tell me then," Vlad said beginning to get annoyed, "How do you explain the fact that you became a ghost?"

She blushed embarrassedly and said, "Well, er." She straightened up and said. "I am a manifestation of emotions of the real, late, Dr. Lauren Goddfrey, nothing more than a memory brought to life through delusion." As she said this she looked sad, as though she didn't like thinking of herself as a deluded manifestation, but then again, who would?

"Fine, okay, you win. I'll go get… Vlad Plasmius." He closed the door, and almost just walked away from it, but since Lauren Goddfrey was a ghost she could just phase through the door. "I have got to get a better security system." He said changing into a ghost.

He had completely forgotten that his white costume was now tie-dyed, and groaned. Vlad looked at the door just as Lauren phased through it. "Unreliable staff, leaving me waiting at the door like that." She saw Vlad and said, "Oh, you must be Mr… Oh no. Not a hippie!"

Vlad held his composure. "Ah, my um, staff told me to expect you. Miss Lauren Goddfrey I presume?" She looked very unhappy

"You can call me Dr. Goddfrey, sir." She floated around Vlad, as if inspecting him. "You do realize that the sixties ended almost forty years ago right?"

Vlad sighed and began once again to explain. "This wasn't my fault… Dr., I was trying to save someone when this happened." He hated calling the woman, Doctor, but it seemed like the only way she would allow Vlad to address her.

"Mmhm, sure. Tell me Vlad, what kind of hero has blue skin and vampire teeth?" Vlad looked embarrassed. He did look like a villain more than a hero… "If you ask me you are just a hippie."

Vlad rolled his eyes. "Just a hippie, huh?" He disliked Dr. Goddfrey more and more as time passed.

"Yes, but it just so happens I can prove anything you believe, false." She smiled proudly. "I am a professional skeptic after all."

"That's a wonderful trait." He said very sarcastically.

"What!" she demanded.

"Nothing, Dr." Vlad said smiling widely and showing off his vampire teeth. Lauren shuddered, much to Vlad's amusement. "Something wrong?"

"No." she said. "So, what is it you personally believe as a hippie? That flower power is real? That it's the Age of Aquarius?"

Vlad smiled. He decided he might as well have a little fun while he was being forced to listen to this woman who had no intention of listening to him. "Yeah man, peace, love, and all that jazz." He closed his eyes halfway, only feeling slightly humiliated. "Can't you feel the um, closeness we all have?"

He was so glad that only Lauren Goddfrey was watching.

Dr. Goddfrey seemed shocked at the sudden change in Vlad's attitude. "Mr. Plasmius," she said sounding nervous, "Are you, um, alright?"

"Everything's groovy Dr. G." He said. "But I thought you were going to prove my beliefs wrong? Is something," He laughed, "harshing your mellow?" She became very angry when she realized what was going on.

"You're mocking me!"

Vlad smirked, and dropped the hippie act. "You caught me." He said simply. "But who can blame me? You're a ghost who doesn't believe in ghosts."

She glared furiously at him. "How dare you! I'll have you know that I am incredibly intelligent and you are nothing but a disillusioned, stupid, illogical, hippie!" Vlad just smiled again.

"And you are a simply a ghost who can not accept her fate." He said. "And guess what?"

"What now hippie?" she said angrily.

"You've been wrong since I first opened the door." Two black rings changed Vlad into his human form. Dr. Goddfrey gasped and began to stutter.

"But, that's not possible! You can't just change from one creature into another, it just isn't scientifically correct!"

"Boo." Vlad said, still smiling.

"I must be dreaming." She said. "Yes, that's it. That is the only explanation for all of this nonsense." She looked at Vlad. "I'm going to leave now."

"You do that." He said. She floated through the door and Vlad sighed. Then he changed into his ghost form again. Maybe he could find that maid and ask her how to get the tie-dye out of his costume.

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"You were right, ghost child. This is a most amusing way to get revenge." Skulker had been watching the whole date with Sam and Danny. In fact, he was the one who gave Lauren Goddfrey Vlad's address.

Danny had decided that Skulker deserved to see Vlad humiliated too, and now Vlad had not only acted like a hippie in front of Dr. Goddfrey, but in front of three other people.

Skulker smirked as he replayed the date, if you could call it that, in his mind. Literally. He had the whole thing recorded. "Most amusing indeed."

Sorry Unrealistic, I stole your idea to have Skulker join Danny and Sam. Do you mind? I thought it was a very good idea.