Time's Reflection
By: Wilona Riva
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom.
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~Henry Giles
Twilight Rose
Danny picked at the carrots on his plate. The clock read seven o'clock and he sighed again. "May I be excused?" he asked.
"No," Maddie told him. "Danny, you've only taken maybe three bites of your chicken and moved everything else artistically around your plate for the last half hour. What happened today with Plasmius?"
"I was late," he answered, wary of the huntress. It was the ghost in him, of course, but she was not to know what he'd done. Plasmius had been explicit, as had the Time Master.
"Something must have happened, Danny, because your eyes haven't changed back to blue yet," Maddie pointed out. Jack and Jazz stared at him, both nodding in agreement.
"It is a secret of our world which I may not divulge in," Danny finally stated, "and my eyes won't ever change back to blue."
"Danny dance with Ember," Plum sang from the safety of the ceiling above them; Danny shot him a dirty look.
"Plum," came the warning.
"Ember dance with Danny," came back the taunt.
"Plum!" Danny warned again, a bit of an angry glow glittered in the depths of his emerald orbs.
"Phantom sing with the Fates," came the final taunting cry, as Plum lost his balance, and fell face first into Jazz's water glass. "Plum! Plum! PLUM!"
"Serves you right," Danny grumped, taking up the water glass and walking over to the sink, he upended it and hit the bottom of the glass until Plum popped out.
"Sorry, Danny," he apologized.
"It's okay," he said, getting a new glass out of the cupboard and refilled it with ice and water for his sister. "Sorry, about that."
Jazz smiled. "That's alright. So, I can hazard a guess that Ember seduced you and you were both caught lip-locked by her father."
Danny's cheeks turned cerise. "And by my father," he mumbled.
Jack chuckled. "To the ghostly lovebirds," he said, raising his glass in a toast. The rest of his family drank, while Danny wanted to die then and there.
"What did Plum mean by 'singing with the Fates'?" Maddie asked. She and Danny were cleaning up after dinner, while Jazz and Jack retired to the living room to watch Dancing with the Stars.
"Neither Master nor my parents would tell me. Clan Leader Frostbite hinted that it had something to do with the outcome of my choice, but I would have to wait and see. He did tell me that the first sign of becoming a full ghost though, would happen before nightfall."
"Which would be the permanent eye color change," Maddie pointed out. "So any other news?"
"Ringmaster Lydia is setting up the snow carnival," he said, emerald eyes glowing with excitement. "Clan Leader Frostbite said I could invite you guys and anyone else I wanted to. I'm going to go call Sam and Tucker when we're done, if that's okay."
"So long as its a short call," the huntress reminded him. "And quick looking at me like I'm some sort of predator."
"You do hunt my kind," he said, a smile tugging at the edges of his mouth.
She wacked him with the dish cloth. "Get out of here," she teased.
"Going," he said, bowing low to her with his hands raised in surrender.