Surprise! I updated! Yay! Did you know that writer's block is the main cause of this chapter being so late? But you don't need excuses! You need another chapter filled with toddler Danny cuteness and a tortured Vlad!

This chapter is dedicated to Shewhodanceswithdragons, also known as Silverwolf, who had asked me to update about a month (or more) ago and I promised her I would. I really need to work harder at updating more frequently, but I don't. Sorry!

We ate ice cream, Danny more than me. I tried to stop him but I have a feeling he ate a lot more invisibly. By the end of our meal he was so sugar high that I had to hold him down or else he would float away. "Hey Meanie? Where did the angry guy go? Is he going to get some more ice cream? I like ice cream. I scream for ice cream!"

Then he demonstrated this by blasting the fridge with another ghostly wail. It collapsed to the ground in several pieces and Danny floated over and patted it gently. "I liked this fridge. It didn't talk, but it gave me ice cream." He floated up and down, still sugar high enough to not be exhausted from his ghostly wail.

I sighed and closed my eyes for a second. The little bit of ice cream I had had didn't give me too much of a sugar high, and I was very tired. I opened my eyes again and Danny was gone. At first I didn't realize it, but then I jumped out of my chair and looked around. "Danny, come back!" I said as loudly as I dared. Vlad was probably around here somewhere, and I didn't know how angry he would be to have me screaming at - I looked at my watch – three in the morning.

My footsteps echoed as I walked through the empty hallways. Several portraits of Vlad glared down at me, and I avoided looking at them as best as I could. How vain was that guy? "Danny!" I called out softly. "Where are you?" No one answered.

I walked up and down stairs and entered too many rooms to count. Finally I opened a door and saw Danny sitting on the floor laughing quietly. I picked him up and almost left the room when I realized where we were. Green and gold lined the walls and the floor was very soft carpet. It was Vlad's bedroom.

He was lying in his bed, (with pajamas on, thank god,) and he was fast asleep. Danny was still laughing, and I noticed that there was a marker in his hand. My eyes widened and I stifled a gasp. I walked a little closer to Vlad's bed, trying to see him clearly when Danny snorted loudly, still laughing at whatever he had done.

Vlad sat up and looked around, but since it was dark I couldn't see him. He didn't see us either, and I looked down and saw that Danny had turned us invisible. Vlad muttered something and then laid back down on his bed. I quickly spun around and left the room with Danny.

I walked until we were several rooms away and set Danny down in a spare bedroom near the stairs. That way we might be able to have some chance of escape if Vlad came. "What did you do to Vlad?" I said. Half of me was angry that Danny had run away from me, and another half of me was curious.

"Nothing…" He said, trying to casually drop the marker he had been holding.

"Danny, you won't be in trouble, just tell me why you ran away from me and what was so funny."

He swayed back and forth on his feet, trying to look innocent. "You fell asleep and I wanted to explore, and I found the angry guy. He was asleep too." Danny still didn't answer my question. Instead he yawned widely and walked over to the bed. "I'll just go to bed now…"

I followed him over and helped him into the large bed. He wasn't going to answer my question. Hopefully he hadn't done anything too serious. I yawned and remembered how tired I was. Danny had already pulled the covers up over himself, and I climbed onto the huge bed. It was so strange to be sleeping next to Danny, even though he was three, and I hoped that he wouldn't change back to his fourteen year old personality in the middle of the night.

When I was just about to drift off to sleep Danny somehow managed to come over next to me. He gave me a small hug and whispered, "I love you Sammy." I smiled, knowing that Danny would never remember saying that to me, but silently loving the fact that he had said it.

"I love you too." I whispered back, and we fell asleep hugging each other in a small corner of the huge bed.

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Unfortunately my wake up call wasn't nearly as pleasant.

"Where is he?!" I heard someone yell. Danny woke up with a start and instantly hid under the covers. Vlad burst into the room looking furious. He was in his ghost form and glared at me sitting next to the lump under the covers. "There you are you little brat." He came forward and I jumped off of the bed to block him.

Apparently he was too irritated to remember that he could phase through me. "Move, Samantha, or be prepared to suffer the consequences. Daniel needs to learn that he can't always escape being punished."

"My name's Danny." Danny said, still hiding under the covers.

I didn't move. "What did Danny do?" To my surprise Vlad looked embarrassed, and shook his head.

"It's none of your business. Daniel knows what he's done and he's going to pay." He pushed me aside and took a step towards the bed. Danny gasped and the lump in the blankets suddenly vanished. Vlad frowned angrily and said, "You might as well come out Daniel. I know this mansion much better than you, and you can't leave." Wherever Danny was hiding, he kept quiet.

Vlad stormed past me, apparently not considering me as much of a threat. He didn't know who he was dealing with. I couldn't resist sticking my leg out and making him trip down half a flight of stairs until he finally floated into the air and glared at me once more before floating through the ceiling.

"Is he gone?" A voice said by my head. I nodded and Danny appeared. "He is really angry. I wonder why?"

"I think it's because of whatever you did to him last night." Danny's eyes widened and he landed on the ground.

"He didn't like his new look?"

"What?" I asked, totally confused and worried at the same time.

"Spazzy likes to put on makeup sometimes. She says it's her new look. I thought the angry guy would like a new look too. All I could find was a black marker though…" He looked worried now too. Then he instantly cheered up as if he were remembering something. "I need to show you something!" Danny grabbed my hand and before I could stop him he was phasing me through walls and floors.

Then we were suddenly in a very creepy copy of the Fenton Lab. Everything looked more sinister, and instead of the trademark green of the Fenton's, the inventions all had red on them. "This is where I found the marker!" Danny said cheerfully, not even seeming to realize where we were.

I looked around carefully, realizing that this must be the secret lab Danny had described. One invention caught my eye, and I picked it up to look at it closely. Danny had described this to us too, after he came back from a symposium that was actually an evil plan from Vlad to get Maddie to join him.

It was the device that caused Danny to lose his ghost powers for three hours.

Vlad floated down through the ceiling and noticed that we were here. "You two just can't mind your own business, now can you." He landed and walked towards Danny. I quietly snuck up behind him and pressed a button on the invention. Vlad yelled out in pain and then changed back to his human form before falling to the floor.

Danny burst out laughing.

Now that he was in his human form, I could clearly see what Danny had done to Vlad. Vlad's goatee and hair looked like they had been died black by a blind hairstylist, and there was a black mustache on Vlad's face. His eyebrows had been colored black too, but Danny had scribbled so much that Vlad now had a unibrow. Danny had also drawn a smile over Vlad's mouth, so no matter how much he frowned it wouldn't show.

"That's… a new look alright." I said, trying not to laugh. Suddenly Vlad's hand was wrapped around my wrist and it started turning, causing me to gasp in pain and drop the ghost shocking thing. Vlad stood up with the device in his hands.

"I need to stop letting this thing get used against me." He muttered angrily. With one final glare he walked past Danny and me and began to walk up the stairs leading out of the lab.

"Where are you going?" Danny asked, still laughing.

Vlad scowled, making the black smile on his face look more like a sneer. "To scrub my face with permanent marker remover, and to buy a lock for my door."