Again, I've been busy with peliminary's and test's and final senior year at highschool *Breaths out* I've been working on my fics in my spare time along with my other original stories, Shots of a bystander chapters are coming soon.

Chapter 3: School

"So how was your date with Valerie, Danny?" Jazz asked the next morning. Last night her brother was out the whole night, he told her about Vlad blackmailing him and the Huntress. Vlad actually helped with their parents and sent them on a week cruise, with him off coarse keeping an eye out for the young Fentons. They had arrived home that morning and luckily bought the story of him sleeping over at Tuckers.

Danny choked on his orange juice. "It wasn't a date! It was a meeting, a ghost meeting."

"Right, and how was this meeting?" He did not like his sisters tone.

"Horrifying. Everyone that hates you, everyone that's heard of you, looking down on you and watching your every move, and about ten seconds later tried to blast you out of existence."

"I would be scared too." Jazz admitted. "And?"

"I told them the plan." Now it was Jazz's turn to choke.

"Seriously? Seriously?" She asked, "How did they take it?" Jazz was there when the representative came to their house late at night to talk to their parents about the portal, she overheard them speaking of the expansion project. She was supposed to be clueless about it,

"It's being voted on at a later date." Danny took some more juice out of the fridge. "But by the looks of it, majority is yes."

"Wow." She gasped, exicted. "This is going to be so big." She said, one of the first humans to get word back, one of the only humans to even know of this plan. "How do you think the government is going to present this to living people?"

"Actually, I never thought of that." Danny frowned, trying to think of something. Ghost took it well, other then Walker no one showed complete hate of the Idea. umans on the other hand, were a different story. Ajusting to the ghost zone had taken his parents years to actually step inside, and they've only got inside twice for data collecting.

"It's going to be a big step, the future is going to be so weird!" Jazz smiled.

"Oh yeah, in a few weeks, I'll be going to the ghost zone again." Danny said, "A ball with Dora, she's making her queenly debut or something and wants me to be there."

"With Valerie?" His sister teased.

"Yes…" He said in the same tone. "Jealous?"

"Who am I to steal your work wife from you?" She grinned.

"Pardon?" he asked, "Do you come up with these terms or do you have a dictionary full of them?"

"Jeeze Danny, it only means she's your partner, it's named so because the partnership works like a relationship." she smirked.

"The difference?" he asked, but caught himself. "Wait! Shush! Forget I asked!" He grabbed some bacon from the table. "Going to school!"

"I'll drive you!" She got up with her bag, it looked absolutly stuffed with books.

"No it's okay I'll Fly was his unspoken word, but Jazz cut him off.

"No seriously, I'll drive you." She was smilling a little too much, it freaked Danny out a litte.

"Hi kids! Have you finished breakfast yet?" Their mum popped out of no where, Danny jumped and nearly dropped his bacon.

"Yes mum!" They said together.

"Have you seen our new invention?" Their dad asked, a moment behind his wife, he proudly waved a satilite dish in the air. "We call it the Fenton Grounder!"

"…What does it do?" Danny asked, both curious and humouring his father. Though keeping tabs on the family inventions was a good idea, never knew when they came in handy.

"It give ghosts a gravitational hold on earth, that way, they can't fly away!" Jack grinned, "Though, we haven't tested it the theroy is-"

"As soon as we get permission to hook it up, ghost will b dropping out from the sky! It would be so much easier catching them!"

"Hey sis, how about that ride to school?"

LINE BREAK

Inside the cramped car, Danny was pouting, looking longingly at the sky. He never realized how figetly he was in closed spaces now a days, probably because he was close to suck-you-in-the-thermos-Jazz for six hours. Or he just didn't like the car.

"They're watching the skies Danny, it you were to take off in front of the house they would see you. Not good." His sister explained to him, not that he needed it explained, he could have figured that out on his own.

"I won't be able to fly anymore?" Danny asked. Again, he found himself looking up into the sky, birds, planes, the occasional ghost. He wanted to be up there among the clouds. It was cold the higher he went, it was oddly... nice. He felt at home in the sky.

"Aw it will take a few days to get the mayor to accept it. So no worries yet." Jazz smiled. Danny made a face, he knew secretly she was analysising him, tryig to figure out how a half dead kid thought, the damage done to his poor fragile mind, is it effecting his with his every move every thought-

Stop that, she's your sister. He shock the misrable thoughts from his head, actually surprised from the vensom of his head. If he had to trust someone, it was his sister, his friends, and no matter what Sam said Valerie. Just them.

"Still. I might be able to fly soon…" Jazz noticed the down cast look from her brother. She frowned slightly, more in sympathy then anything else. According to her books, most teenagers had a reality escape, something they do that lets them forget their troubles and be happy, some drew, some wrote, some video games, her little brother had chosen flight. She couldn't help but think of the devastating consequence of not being able to have his escape.

"BUT, as soon as the stupid thing is up it's going to get a very annoyed older sister knocking it off its tower." She saw him smile. "Nobody grounds you by our parents!"

"But it was made by them, technically they are grounding me." Jazz made a face, getting the weird logic behind that. He grinned. "Thanks, Jazz."

"Hey Danny!" He heard Sam call. He got out of the tiny car as she came to a stop at the front of the school.

"See ya, I'll find a parking spot." Jazz said, not waiting for an answer and drove off.

"Hey Danny, no flying today?" Tucker asked.

"My parents are apparently watching the skies, so I couldn't fly." Danny explained, he sighed. "And I probably won't be flying soon."

"Why?" Sam asked, not much else to ask.

"My parent's made a new invention. The Fenton grounder."

"Your parents are grounding you more than usual." Tucker smirked, Danny shot him a look.

"It has something to do with ghost having a different gravity thingy than humans, it suppose to target an ecto signature and change their gravity so they can't fly." Danny said, A blue wisp escaped his mouth. "Lovely."

"We have tem minutes to school starts, so be quick." Tucker said while looking at his watch. Danny Nodded and dived into his lock, abit making sure no one was watching. He transformed and took up to the sky.

He breathed in a large lung full. it haddn't been long, only four hours out of the sky. Maybe the prospect of having it taken away had really worried him. He looked around to try and spot the ghost, no screaming, not ghost blasts. For a ghost sense it was really boring.

Then a second passed and Box ghost went wizzing past him, not even stopping to throw somethign at him.

"Box ghost? Geeze! It hasn't even been a day since the bloody meeting!" Danny cried out.

"I, the box ghost! Was trapped in the cylinder container! I missed the Meeting!" he said in his usually loud tone, Danny raised a confused eyebrow.

"That wasn't me…" Danny was sure he had emptied the thermos, wait, if he didn't who let him out? He felt panicked. "That wasn't-!"

"Phantom, locked on!" He heard a mechanical voice say, he quickly pin pointed the voice to the Fenton Family RV, a satellite was pointed at him,

Without time to move, He felt his stomach launched. He felt the air around him start to push on him, particularly down.

He couldn't fly, panicking he screamed. The ground was getting closer, and he couldn't think of a way out of this. What happens when he hits the ground? Would he go splat like a normal person? Would he die a second time? He swore.

He felt a pair of hands catch him, he heard his shoulder pop. He was on his stomach on Val's board. Dazzed, it took a few moments for him to regeister Val talking to him

"What happened? You just started She sounded concerned, concerned. Mellowing cream or something because the attitude was freaking him out, the whole thing was freaking him out, dropping out of the sky freaked him out.

"Huntress, you got the ghost kid!" A voice said, Danny tried looking down, but fond an overwelming fear of falling off. They were about three stories up.

"Val…" He said weakly, His arm hurt, was it possible to break Ghost bones?

"Huntress! Down here!" TV cameras? crowded street? Crazy Ghost hunting parents? Not a good sign, why were they there in the first place? Jack and Maddie Fenton finally find a way to ground the ghost boy premedently! There were still a lot of Anti ghost people that would like him out of the skies. The cheering was deafening almost enough from him to bloke his ears is one of them wasn't broken. Was he having a panic attack? It felt like one.

"Fenton's, I don't think you've noticed." She said, she stared down the TV camera, intending for the whole town to hear what she wanted to say. Danny couldn't help but see the paralells, she was freaked out about talking to the ghosts, however now, on home field advantage she was doing fine. "Phantom and I have a partnership. I'm not hunting him anymore." A silence as she talked, then a gasp rippled through the crowd. She turned to the Fentons. "AND I'm not letting you hurt him. He's a weird ghost, but a good guy."

Danny smiled. Finally, she trusted him. Telling her was coming soon, he couldn't stop it now that they were partners. She would hate him keeping it form her if he put it off for to long.

"And I'm not letting anything hurt her." Danny choose to speak up. "It's better with two people able to get ride of the ghosts. And Mr Red! don't worry, I'll make sure she doesn't run into any walls." He snickered to himself as the crowd was pulled between confusion, anger and confusion.

"You did not just do that!" Valerie mock gasped. "Make the board invisable please so we can leave without being followed."

He did so, while the crowd scrabble below them they made their way back to the school. Landing on the roof Valerie depowered the armor, Danny sat next to a wall. Beathing deeply. He knew Val was looking at him oddly, first time close up she saw how promidently he used his lungs.

"Thanks, Val." He said after a few moments.

"No problem." She said slowly. "I've beening to ask Phantom, do you just live on the school roof? Because you got to Boxy quickly, and I'm here at school, so I thought..." she trailed off, not knowing how to word her thoughts.

"Well, I'm only here on week days and daylight." He said, the full truth, not even a lie. "For some reason the schools a big haunting target."

"Oh yeah you're going to hate me for this." She said, holding his sore arm. He whinched.

"For what?" He asked. She was still holding his arm. In a moment she used her other arm to pop it back into place. He yelped in alarm and pain.

"Sadist!" He muttered as he rubbed his arm, it still hurt, but not much as before. He wasn't even sure I would heal if he left it like that.

"Weird ghost with breakable bones!" She shot back, he whiched again, she had already began to go for the stair way. "I'm going to class, I'll see you later."

"Valerie." He blurted out, She turned confused. He would have hit himself for sounding so anxious.

"Yeah, Phantom?"

No backing out now. He thought. He swallowed.

"After school, meet me back here okay? I have to tell you something." He said quickly, she was able to hear him as she nodded.

"Sounds like a date." She grinned.

"Not a date!" He huffed, he felt his cheeks turn red. "Important thing that's important!"

"Date!" She had the final word as she ran down the stairs. The bell had rung, as soon as she was gone Danny flew down into his locker and out again and dashed to class. Today was a good day, he got there without a detention.

Link Break

Somewhere High and close.

Dan couldn't take the shameless flirting his younger half and Valerie were doing. He flew passed the lockers, all the students were finally in class after such an eventful day. He pasted a familiar locker, he remembered what was inside and grinned. A plan had formulated, and by tomorrow His younger half will be breaking in two.

He felt the air shift around him, it was a strange feeling. Suddenly, every noise stopped. No faint ticking of clocks or students or heartbeats. Dan didn't flater.

"Finally had the guts to face me old man?" He asked, turning around. The Ghost of Time floated a few metres away from in, changing into his old man form as he spoke.

"Daniel, you have no idea what you're going to do to the timelines." Dan rolled his eyes. 'Breaking time' this, 'chaos' that, does this guy have anything new to say?

"I don't care." He said. "Since I exist, I can really do what I want, and what I want is for little Danny to enbrace his dark side."

"Then you will have a rival for power, Daniel." Clockwork pointed out.

"You are the only one that still exists that calls me that." Dan growled. "Only because I can't touch you." Or he would have strangled him long, long ago.

"Listen to me, come back to my tower so I can find you somewhere to haunt and destroy, but not here or now."

Dan pretended to think it over, one hand under his chin.

"Nah. I like being a wild card, and I distinctly remember another wildcard, still young, at this school and right for the picking." Dan grinned, rivaling the cheschire cat himself.

"You're blocking my vision for this timeline, however I know who you are talking about." He said, reverting into a child. "Bad idea, you killed her in the other timeline-

"It was very bloody." Dan reminded.

"-And that was fine, using her here is going to pull this time into chaos."

"Why do you think I'm doing it then?" Dan asked, "Really, shits and giggles all the way."

"Time in." Clockwork said, pressing the button on his staff, knowing there was nothing he could do at the moment. Warning current Danny would be hazardous. So he had to form his own plan with little time to spare, a feeling he was no likeing on bit.

Else where

She gasped loudly, breathing in deep breaths. Why did it feel like she had been holding her breath?

"Are you okay?" her friend whispered to her.

"N-no." She answered, felling faint. It felt like the time of the C.A.T exams, the whole time it was hard to breath and even think, Everything felt so wrong somehow. The people blurred like they were walking at high speed, but not moving at all, Words slurred as they spoke, she couldn't understand a single word. She thought she was having a nervous breakdown. "I'm going to the bathroom!" She yelled out. She ran out, looking for the closest bathroom. She wanted to throw up, she could barely walk stright. At the taps she washed her face, almost pushing her whole head into the sink. When she resurfaced she let the water drip of her face.

"They're not panic attacks." She told her reflection, delicate latino feature looking back at her. "I know that much. Why is this happening?"

When you think you got everything, you publish it and suddenly when you go look at it EVERY SINGLE mistake is glaring at your face, *head desks* thanks Surreal Prince for telling me, Glad you're interested.

I know there are a few grammer mistakes, and for some wierd reason, 'ing' is going 'ign' so 'runign' and the like, my finger memory is off, not cool Dx

Everything comes together in chapter 4, hopefully. can you guess who the person is? She somehow wiggled into the main story. Next chapter for details.