Chapter 8:

Dani POV-

Issa and I went down to my bedroom. I glanced over my shoulder just in time to see Tony give Pepper a nod, and watch the two of them go towards that secret place I can't access. I pursed my lips in frustration as Issa continued to babble about this awesome house. Finally, we arrived in my room. Issa immediately threw down her backpack and pounced onto my bed, landing on her stomach.

"Wow! This bed is soft!" she exclaimed with her head still buried in the comforter, so it sounded more like "Mhmm, mhm mhm m mhmhmble." I laughed, setting my stuff down on the bed.

"And you haven't even seen everything," I smirked. Clarissa shot up, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Show me, show me, show me!" she pleaded like a five year old. I smirked again.

"Jarvis, the TV please," I requested.

"Of course miss," he replied and the TV came out of the wall. Issa grinned.

"Yeah, it's okay, but I did kind of expect that," she shrugged trying to play it off like she was unimpressed. I smirked again.

"Maybe," I shrugged, "But did you expect this." I clicked the remote that activated my closet. Immediately the clothes on my automated conveyor belt started to move. Issa's eyes widened and her jaw went slack as she moved like a zombie towards the closet.

I giggled at her reaction. Hard core rocker chick or not, Clarissa still likes her clothes.

"Or, what about the bathroom," I suggested, pushing open the bathroom doors. She quickly followed.

"Awesome!" she fist-pumped into the air, "You have a hot tub!"

"Yeah I do!" I agreed with pride as I closed the door behind us. "Listen, you stay here, I'm going to do some um…surveillance work," I told her changing into my ghost form.

She nodded, a grin playing on her lips, "Okay GG (ghost girl) you do what you got to do, if you need me, I'll be here, riding your closet."

With one final smirk, I phased through the floor.

Invisibly, and quietly, I floated down the hall. Finally I found the staircase. I decided that, instead of floating down the stairs, I would float through the wall directly next to the stair just in case Tony had some kind of ghost sensor. From somewhere within the pitch darkness of the inside of a wall, I heard muffled voices. Still staying within the wall, I managed to poke only my face into what looked like a high tech lab/ garage.

"I don't understand it Pepper, it's like she doesn't exist," Tony said. I froze, somehow knowing that it was me they were discussing, "Now, you know I have one of the largest hacking systems in the country, but Danielle shows up on nothing except for the adoption papers you gave me."

"Maybe she's in the witness protection program, you did say she said something about there having been domestic violence in her home life," Pepper suggested.

"Impossible, I have access to all those files too," Tony shook his head. "However," he continued, "I did find something about a Daniel Fenton, and is it just me or does this kid look a hell of a lot like Danielle?" he asked, mostly rhetorically, considering he already knew the answer.

"Wow, no kidding, he looks exactly like her, they could be brother and sister," she gaped.

'Or clones,' I added in my head.

"Yeah, I know. It says this kid is from a little town called Amity Park, and I was wondering why that name sounded so familiar and then I remembered," Tony typed furiously and pulled up a new set of pictures and I gasped, although it was only audible to me.

"Vlad Masters," Pepper confirmed my fears, "But what does he have to do with any of this?"

"I don't know," Tony shook his head, the frustration obviously eating at him.

"Why don't you call him, maybe you can find out a little bit more about Danielle?" Pepper suggested. I held my breath, hoping, no praying that he would say no.

"No, whatever Vlad has to do with this, something tells me it's not good. Besides, he's creepy and an asshole," Tony announced. I released the breath in relief, and unconsciously drifted into the lab a little bit farther.

Suddenly, an alarm sounded.

"Sir, I'm picking up an electromagnetic field radiating from somewhere in this room," Jarvis announced. I gulped and quickly phased out of the room, racing at full speed back to my own bathroom. I was still panting when I got there, whether from fear or adrenaline, or anger, I didn't know. I quickly shifted back to my human form.

Suddenly, I loud knock startled me.

"Dani, are you okay in there?" Issa asked from the other side of the door.

"Yeah," I replied, struggling to control the shake in my voice. I opened the bathroom door and pulled her in, quickly telling her everything that I had witnessed downstairs.

"Can you really blame him for wanting to investigate you? I mean he is a billionaire with some of the world's most powerful and secret technology, and well, he still doesn't know you very well," Clarissa rationalized with me after I had finally gotten my heart rate to slow down.

"No, I guess not," I sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bathtub. "But what he does end up getting Vlad involved? What do I do then?" I asked.

"He said he doesn't like Vlad, at least you have that going for you. If Vlad makes any move in your direction you have a billionaire weapons expert on your side," she told me. I laughed.

"Yeah, I guess that's true," I agreed.

"Then, no worries right? And you know, if you really need to, you could always tell one of them your secret, what's the worst thing that can happen?" she asked.

'Actually,' I thought to myself, 'I can think of a million bad things that could happen.' I decided not to say this. Instead, I put on a smile.

"I'll think about it," I told her, and she seemed to accept this answer, "Now come on, let's change, I want to go swimming!"

"Awesome!" she cheered and ran into my room, no doubt to brose my closet for the best bathing suit. I rolled my eyes and followed after her.

Hey peeps, sorry it took so long, busy with school you know. And it's not like I have these chapters typed before hand, I know what happens when you know what happens. Anyway, next chapter should have Danny in it and maybe a little bit of everybody's favorite fruitloop. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review if you did!