A/N: Yay! It's chapter five! You don't know how excited I am to finally get here! I've been looking forward to writing all the stuff after this chapter for so long but I promised myself I wouldn't because this is the chapter where things get start to get interesting. This chapter triggers the start of their journey for answers. Yay, I'm so excited!

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Chapter Five
Meeting Danny

Kimberly awoke with a start. She sat up and looked around her room, wondering what could have happened to wake her so abruptly. She looked over at Noelle who was still fast asleep. It couldn't have been a noise; Noelle was a much lighter sleeper than she was and she would have definitely woken up. Then she started shivering and felt extremely cold. She gasped as she saw blue vapor emerge from her mouth, like she could see her breath. She shook Noelle awake, hoping to get some answers.

"Mmf, what do you want?" Noelle asked as she buried her head further into her pillow.

"Noelle, are you cold?"

"No why?"

"Because I'm freezing."

"Then cover up."

"Noelle, I can see my breath!"

"Well I don't know. It's like three in the morning. How'm I supposed to know what's going on, I can't even think coherently."

Then the two of them heard repeated bumps and rolls, like someone was falling down the stairs. Noelle sat up quickly, her groggy feeling gone and replaced with terror. They both looked at each other, not really knowing what to do. The blue mist was still emitting from Kimberly's mouth.

"Did you hear that?" Kimberly asked through her chattering teeth.

"Yeah, did you?"

"Yeah. What do you think it was?"

"It sounded like someone falling down the stairs," Noelle stated as they heard more bumps as the mystery person fell down another flight of stairs.

"I've never heard anyone fall down the stairs in your house before, especially at this hour."

"No one's usually awake at this hour." Suddenly Kimberly didn't feel cold anymore. That's really odd. Why was I so cold just then?

"Do you think maybe it was Jacob?" Noelle suggested.

"No, he knows the house too well to fall down the stairs. He always runs downstairs for a midnight snack so he's used to maneuvering around the house in the dark."

"But how could anyone get in? You guys have the best alarm system on the planet!"

"I don't know."

Then they saw the door to Kimberly's bedroom creak open. Kimberly grabbed Noelle and turned both of them invisible, just in case there really was someone in the house. Kimberly sighed in relief to see that the mystery person was only Jacob who had obviously heard the noise as well. He looked around curiously, wondering where the two of them had gone. Kimberly let go of Noelle and turned visible as Jacob jumped.

"Don't do that!" he whispered harshly as he walked in and shut the door. "You scared the crap outta me!"

"Sorry," Kimberly apologized. "I thought you were the person in the house."

"You heard that noise too?" he asked.

"Yeah," they both answered.

"But wait, how did you hear it?" Noelle asked, puzzled. "You sleep like a rock!"

"Well, I woke up a few minutes before the noise with the munchies, so I got up, used the bathroom, and was about to head downstairs when I heard that noise. I didn't know who it was, so I headed over to your room."

"Well, it wasn't us," Noelle stated.

"Well then, who was it?"

"There's only one way to find out," Kimberly stated, her eyes flashing green as she pulled herself out of bed.

The three of them quietly sneaked out of the room, heading towards the master staircase, since it was the only staircase in the house that had two flights of stairs next to each other.

When they reached the steps they stared down into darkness.

"I can't see a thing," Noelle whispered.

"Me neither," Jacob agreed.

"Well I don't think we should turn on a light; that might be slightly dangerous if it is a burglar," Noelle advised.

"So then what do you propose we do? If it is a burglar I'm not going down there!" Jacob whispered angrily.

Kimberly lifted her hand up, a ball of the green energy forming in her hand, casting an eerie green glow around them.

"I still don't see anything. Do you think we need more light?" Jacob asked.

"I don't think we should risk anymore," Kimberly answered.

"Maybe we just imagined it?" Noelle pondered.

"How could all three of us imagine it? Someone or something fell down the stairs!" Jacob retorted.

"Well then they got up and ran away," Noelle replied.

"Who can get up after falling down two flights of marble stairs?" Kimberly asked. "They'd be unconscious at the least, maybe even dead!"

Kimberly started walking gingerly down the stairs until she reached the landing. She gasped as the green glow beheld a teenage boy lying face down, sprawled out on the last few steps. She ran down to him, praying that he wasn't dead. She heard Noelle and Jacob stand over her as she checked his pulse. She breathed a sigh of relief, the boy was still alive. A little cold, but still alive.

"He's alive," she stated thankfully.

"Well then, let's wake him up," Jacob suggested.

"He just fell down two flights of stairs, I don't think he's going to be waking up anytime soon!" Noelle reasoned.

"Well then what are we supposed to do with him?"

"How am I supposed to know?" Noelle asked. "It's three something in the morning and my brain doesn't officially function until the double digits."

"Well we can't leave him here, my parents would freak, and we can't put him in my room because my parents would freak even more." Kimberly tried to think of a place to put him. She really didn't know what to do. She knew she couldn't leave him here, but she didn't really think it was safe to bring him anywhere, just incase he was dangerous. But, if he was, she could protect them. "I know, let's put him in one of the spare bedrooms."

The three of them turned the boy over and realized he had a pretty handsome face that was bumped and scraped from the fall. They picked him up and carried him upstairs and then set him gently on the bed. They pulled three armchairs next to the bed and sat there, waiting for him to wake up. Eventually they drifted into sleep.

"Kimberly, wake up!" Jacob commanded as Kimberly opened her eyes.

"What is it?" she asked sleepily.

"The boy's awake."

She immediately shook herself awake and gazed at the boy. He had raven black hair and startling china blue eyes. Upon looking at him, she noticed that he looked almost exactly like her. The nose was different, but everything else was the same. The boy must have also noticed because he was looking at her in disbelief and shock, and she knew her expression was mirroring his. Noelle and Jacob must have also noticed the similarities because they started looking back and forth at both of them.

"Wow. Do you guys see what I see?" Noelle asked.

"Yeah," Jacob and Kimberly both answered.

"It's like he's your long lost twin brother or something!"

"I do not have a twin brother/sister!" Kimberly and the boy yelled at the same time.

"Alright, it was just a suggestion. How else do you explain this?"

"I don't. This must just be a weird coincidence or something. They say that everyone has a look alike on the planet somewhere, but they don't necessarily need to be related," Kimberly responded.

"The Doppleganger effect," Jacob added.

"Yeah, that."

"Um, I'm sorry to interrupt," the boy stated "but who are you and what am I doing here?"

"We were just about to ask you the same question," Jacob remarked.

"I'm Danny," he introduced.

"Jacob."

"Noelle."

"Kimberly. Now, I hope you don't find me rude, but what are you doing in my house?"

The boy called Danny sighed. "I know this'll sound a little strange, but I have no idea."

"You don't know why you're here?" Noelle asked suspiciously.

"Not a clue."

"Then how did you get in here?" Jacob questioned.

"I don't know. I woke up and it was all dark. I walked a few feet and then I fell down the stairs. I stood up, feeling a little sore, walked a few feet, and then fell down some more stairs. Then I woke up in here."

"What were you doing before you woke up?" Noelle drilled.

"Oh…I was…just…sleeping."

"You were sleeping?"

"Yeah."

Noelle and Jacob looked at her, conveying their thoughts through their looks. After so many years of knowing each other the three of them had a form of unspoken language communicated through looks and small gestures. Right now, Kimberly could tell that they believed him just about as much as she did, which was very little. No one goes to sleep and wakes up in someone else's house, especially if that house is protected with some of the best security known to mankind.

"So…how did you get from your bed to the second floor of Kimberly's house without setting off the alarms?" Jacob asked.

"I told you I don't know! I don't know how I got here or why I'm here!"

"Alright, we weren't accusing you, we were just curious," Noelle assured.

"Kimberly's got the best security system a home could have. Tucker Foley himself designed it."

The name seemed to trigger something in Danny's mind. "Wait, Tucker Foley?"

"Yeah, he's a friend of the family and as a favor he designed and installed the security system," Kimberly explained. "Even I have a hard time getting past it, and I live here. So, needless to say, we're really curious as to how you were able to get in."

"And we know, you don't know," Jacob responded as he saw Danny open his mouth to protest.

"So, you're what, fifteen?" Noelle asked, trying to establish casual conversation.

"Sixteen. You?"

"We're fifteen," Noelle responded.

"So…does that mean you go to Phantom High?" Jacob asked.

"What? Oh, yeah," he replied after some hesitation.

"How come I've never seen you around?" Kimberly asked suspiciously.

"Well…it's a big school and…I'm not that popular, so I just…like to hide out on the side and not be noticed."

What he said had some truth to it. She didn't know everyone at the school, and she was the most popular one in it, so he could still be telling the truth. Still, something didn't seem right.

"So then you must live around here, right?" Jacob asked, trying to sound conversational.

"Yeah."

"Where?"

"Amity," he answered slowly, sounding a bit unsure if he should answer the question.

"Amity?" Kimberly asked, confused.

"Dude, this place hasn't been called Amity since Danny Fenton disappeared fifteen years ago," Jacob stated, eying him suspiciously. "It's now Jordan Park, after Kimberly's parents."

"You just had to bring that up, didn't you?" Kimberly asked, knowing that Jacob liked to tease her about her family's insane wealth.

"Oh…I knew that. It's just…my parents…they still call it Amity."

"Weird, I thought everyone wanted to get that name out of their heads because it reminded them too much of Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom," Kimberly remarked.

"Oh, well my parents like to be reminded of them."

"So, where do you live?" Noelle repeated.

"Over the hill by the Nasty Burger."

"You mean by Danny Fenton's old house?" Kimberly asked as Danny nodded. "That's the old part of town. I didn't think anyone lived there anymore. Well, I guess that would explain why your parents still call it Amity."

"What's with all the questions?" Danny asked, a little annoyed.

"We were just trying to be conversational. We just wanted to keep a conversation going while we try to figure out what to do. I don't really like silence," Kimberly answered calmly while smiling slightly. It's true that she didn't like silences, but the "trying to be conversational" part was a lie. She really wanted to know how he got here and the only way she'd know that was if she asked him more questions, but the last thing she wanted was for him to get angry. If he got angry, he'd get defensive, and that would lead to no answers or cooperation at all.

"Well, I appreciate what you're doing, but I don't usually pour out my life's history to people I've just met."

"Really? I thought that's what people usually do when they get introduced, they ask each other questions about their life," Jacob replied smartly.

Danny sighed, looking a little ashamed. "I'm sorry. I know I'm probably sounding like a jerk, but it just sounded like I was in an interrogation room and I got a little defensive. I mean, I've just woken up in an unfamiliar room surrounded by unfamiliar people asking me a ton of questions. I have no clue how I got here and to top it all off, I've got a massive headache," he explained as he rubbed his head gingerly.

"Don't worry about it. I'm sorry too. We were being a little too forward," Kimberly apologized.

"We just wanted to help," Noelle added.

"I know, and I appreciate it, but I just…I need to…get home," Danny stated as he sat up straighter in the bed.

"But aren't you curious as to how you ended up in here?" Jacob asked.

"Well, I guess, but curiosity doesn't lead to answers. I probably just sleepwalked; it's the only logical explanation. My parents have all these stories about the weird things I've done while sleepwalking, so it's not too far of a stretch."

"But then how did you get past the alarms?"

"They weren't turned on? Look, I don't know and I don't…" Danny started to say before Kimberly interrupted him.

"Oh my gosh, you're bleeding!" Kimberly yelled, seeing a line of red blood dripping down the side of his face and onto his shirt. Danny placed his hand to his head and drew it back, his fingers coated in blood.

"Here, I'll go get the first aid kit," Kimberly stated as she left the room. "This should stop the bleeding." She put some ointment on a cloth and started to move towards his head but he jerked his head out of the way.

"I've got it."

"Alright," Kimberly conceded and handed him the cloth. He put it to his head and held it there, letting it soak up the blood. "You should probably have someone check that out."

"It should be fine, I've had worse," Danny stated quickly. "Thanks for your help though. Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to go…"

"Go where?" Noelle asked curiously.

"To the hospital?" Kimberly asked. "Because that's where I think you should go."

"No!" Danny yelled as the three of them jumped in shock. "No, no, definitely not the hospital. It's not that bad, seriously. I'm totally fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Totally. That's the last place I need to go."

Kimberly continued to look at him before turning to Noelle and Jacob. They were just as suspicious as she was. Danny obviously didn't want to go to the hospital, and she could tell by his reaction that it wasn't because he was afraid. He was hiding something, something that the hospital might be able to uncover. But what could a hospital uncover? Sure they could run DNA tests and stuff like that, but why would that be bad? Was he in fact some kind of wanted criminal? But if he was he would have done something by now, like tried to hurt them or try to steal something.

Danny obviously could sense her apprehension. "Look, it's not a big deal. I'm just really scared of the hospital. When I was little my grandfather died in the hospital. Since then I haven't entered one unless I really had to."

"So, if you don't think you need to go to a hospital, then where do you need to go?" Noelle asked.

"Home. I'm sure my parents are really worried."

"Aren't they asleep?" Jacob asked.

"Well yeah, but my mom wakes up during the night a lot and likes to check on me. If I wasn't in my bed, well, let's just say I wouldn't get to see the light of day for awhile."

"But you really shouldn't be walking. You just fell down two flights of stairs, you have a concussion, and your head is bleeding," Kimberly advised.

"I know, but I think I would have much worse injuries if I didn't get home."

"Alright, but we're coming with you. I can't let you walk alone injured like this," Kimberly reasoned. She also wanted to get more information out of him. She could tell he was hiding something, and he seemed nervous when people asked him questions. There was definitely something interesting about Danny.

Danny looked like he wanted to argue, but thought better of it. "Alright, fine."

A/N: And the adventure begins. Stick around, things only get more interesting from here...