A/N: Short. Very short. Not sorry 'cause you're getting this one for free with the previous chapter :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom

Mirror

He was lying on his bed, staring at the strange ceiling. It was green, like everything else here, but it didn't seem quite solid. Sometimes he thought he saw it move, swirl, wobble. He was in the Ghost Zone. He took a deep, painful breath, and looked at the IV that was dripping into his arm. He didn't know how they had managed to get that here, in fact he didn't know anything, not even how long he had been here. Then he tried to move his hands and discovered that his entire left arm was covered in bandages.

The door on the far end of the room opened and a woman with long blond hair entered. She smiled at him when she saw he was awake and walked over to the bed. She seemed human, only when she got very close you could see she wasn't human at all with her slightly pointed ears and her sharp teeth. That and her red glowing eyes of course, no one would mistake those for human.

"Hello Vlad," she said pleasantly.

He glared at her, immediately suspicious of her tone of voice. She was always trying to trick him, betray him. She couldn't really of course, he held power over her, but he had to be very careful. She might be weak, but she was poison.

"Vesa. Where have you taken me," he demanded.

She pouted. "Now Vlad, is that the way you talk to the person that saved your life?"

She took his right hand and stroked it, but he quickly balled his hand into a fist and hit her. The ring, after all, was still there. She fell to the floor without making a sound. When she got up, he saw that her red eyes were burning with hate.

"Maybe," she hissed, "You would like to take a look at yourself!"

She walked to the side of the room, yanked the mirror from the wall it and held it in front of him.

At first, he didn't know what he was looking at. The face before him was hideous, severely burned. Part of his nose was missing and half of his hair was burned off too. Then it hit him. He was looking at himself. He started hyperventilating and raised his hand to touch his face. The monster in the mirror did the same.

He did that, he thought, that... thing that had been his son had blasted him, burned him, turned him into a monster. He felt tears brimming in his eyes and he tried unsuccessfully to push them away. Maddie would never want to look at him now, his chances at her were lost forever. And he had trusted Daniel, he had been convinced the boy had started to like him, maybe even love him. He had wanted to share his power with him and the boy had betrayed him.

He pushed the mirror away violently and it crashed to the floor. He glared at his demon mistress.

"Take all the mirrors down," he ordered harshly, "All of them. Even the ones in your room."

He remembered her room. It was huge, a dark green carpeted floor, green walls, a huge king sized bed in one corner, cushions on the floor everywhere, inviting you to make yourself comfortable. And mirrors everywhere. She wanted to be able to see herself from every angle.

Vesa looked stricken at his command, but he knew she had to obey him. After all, he still had the ring. She obviously hadn't been able to take it from him when he was unconscious. Speaking of which...

"How long have I been here?" he asked her.

She snarled at him but answered anyway. "Six weeks"

"WHAT!" He almost jumped out of the bed and regretted the move instantly. "And the boy?"

She shrugged. "We can't find him. He changed his ecto signature. And all your equipment was destroyed."

"Have you looked in Amity Park?" Vlad asked at her, "What if he manages to get through to his family!"

"He can't go there," she said, "They won't accept him. I made sure of that. And he can't get through to them if they won't listen to him."

"You fool. This is Daniel we're talking about. He'll find a way."

Vlad leaned back and smiled. On his ruined face, it looked distinctly evil.

"He'll be there, he won't be able to keep away. Send out your demons. Let's see if he's ready to handle those over there. But don't kill him!"

Vesa smirked at him. "Still attached to the boy?"

She took a step back when she saw Vlad's eyes burn an even brighter red.

"I'm going to crush him so completely he'll wish I'd killed him. I'll make him suffer for this for the rest of his life! And to do that I need him alive!"

Anyone notice the plot hole yet? Hmm, I'll need to fix it at some point...