Writer's block...I hate it with a burning passion...

Heading Home

God only knows how long we sat there on the ground, bawling our eyes out like school children. Danny didn't give a damn about who was there to see him breaking down, and I sure as hell couldn't blame him. How could any sane person just kill their own mother, regardless of the reasons, and not break down?

He clung on to Maddie's form for ages before he finally let go and grabbed on to me instead. About ten minutes after that, he finally calmed himself down enough to let go of me and stand up. "We need to get going." Even though he managed to keep his voice steady, I could tell he was one wrong move away from breaking down again.

Jazz moved to place a hand on Danny's shoulder. "We'll take care of mom," she said, with a small, reassuring smile on her face.

Danny nodded in response before turning to me and the silent Ms. Stuth. "Let's go home." He grabbed the two of us and Tucker and phased us up through the roof of the ghostly dwelling before setting us outside the waiting Specter Speeder. The door opened seemingly of its own accord as Tucker approached it. Ms. Stuth went to close the door after entering behind Tucker, but stopped to wait on me. I just shook my head in response and, for the first time in months, let my rings of transformation pass over me to reveal my true ghost form.

"I'd rather fly." I smirked half-heartedly as I said it knowing that the real reason I was flying now as because Danny would be and I wasn't going to leave him alone after what had just happened, no matter how short the time. He was bound to start retreating back into the slightly unstable state he was in when I first found him again at the beginning of this school year.

It felt like it'd been forever since I'd really flown and I now knew it was a freedom I'd never take for granted again. Even with the wacky laws of physics that resided within the Ghost Zone, the pure sensation of flight put a real smile on my face. More than that, it returned just a little light to Danny's eyes to see me so happy again.

It wasn't until we finally got home that it fully hit me that Plasmius was gone. He couldn't function without a body to inhabit, and the sacrifice Maddie made would keep him from latching on to someone else nearby. He was gone, asshole was really gone. Now, our biggest problem was figuring out how we were going to pull of being teenage parents in an all boys academy.

Would Lancer help us out? He had said he wouldn't help us hide anything at the beginning of the semester, but one whole hell of a lot has happened since then. Would he at least let me continue living in the apartment with Danny even if I couldn't actually attend classes anymore here in a few months? I couldn't leave Danny, not now, and if the vice principal tried to make me, there'd be hell to pay. I may not be a part of the GIW anymore, but one phone call to grandma Ida and she could make our money really talk for the first time in years.

...that was not the type of chapter I wanted to put out...

I apologize severely neglecting this story... Writer's block hit hard with this one. I reached the end of what little planning I do and it kinda just crashed and burned on me for a while...

Regardless, I WILL finish the final few chapters of this story...even if it makes me want to bang my head on the desk several times over... :P

Comments and feedback are as welcome as always! :D

Invisible One