A/N: Gah!! Danny!!! Get out of my head!! You're not getting tormented anymore!! Go away!!!

Danny: I'm still not out of that damned place!! And you TORTURED me!! What the hell?! How much more torture are you planning?!

Chibi: um . . . . (pokes index fingers together guiltily)

Danny: 0.0 . . . Oh no . . .

Kara: Yes . . . Torture is wonderful . . . I love it . . . I need more . . .hehehehe . . .

BlueMouse: We own NOTHING!! (happy smile)

Danny: WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SMILING?!! (panics)

Chapter 18: Running and Reunions

Danny ran as fast as he could. He didn't know where he was going, but he knew what was pursuing them. And he did NOT want to go back there! However, his vision was failing. His energy was just too low to continue running for much longer. "Come on! Up the ladder!" Tucker said urgently. Danny noticed that as he headed towards it, the others moved out of his way to let him go first. It was a good thing too, because as soon as he got to the surface, he took two steps forwards and collapsed in a dead faint.

Sam continued to fend off the GiW as best she could, but she was starting to get overwhelmed. "Sam! Come on!" she heard Tucker yell to her and she turned to find that he was already on the ladder and Jazz and Danny were apparently up-top. Blasting a few more agents, she high-tailed it for the ladder and started climbing madly.

Jazz was freaking out over her brother, who she had found unconscious on the floor. Tucker sighed and grabbed his friend's legs, "Get his arms! He's probably just sleeping." he said in an attempt to calm down the red-head.

"With how we found him, I'm not really surprised." Sam said as she climbed out of the hole. She repositioned the tile so that it covered the entrance, in an attempt to keep the GiW away from them, if only for that much longer.

By this time, Jazz had grabbed Danny's arms and, along with Tucker, started moving him towards the Specter Speeder. Jazz followed them, keeping an eye, and her gadget, trained on the tile, watching for any signs of it moving.

Tucker and Jazz placed Danny in the backseat before Tucker ran around to the driver's seat as Jazz hopped into shotgun. That's when the Guys in White came up through the floor. Sam's eyes widened. "Tucker! Start up the Speeder!" she yelled as she sprinted towards it, hopping into the back seat, though she left the door open as she shot ectoplasmic energy at the GiW.

Tucker messed around with the controls and soon, the Speeder was off the ground and flying away from the site. Sam sighed as she closed the door and looked over at Danny who was still passed out. She shifted him a little so that she could sit down. However, there really wasn't a way for her to sit in the backseat without having Danny's head in her lap . . . She was very still, but a blush grew over her face anyways. Sam really just hoped that Danny wouldn't wake up until she'd gotten out of the Speeder.

Jazz turned in her seat and looked in the back, unable to help but worry about her little brother. She saw Sam sitting with Danny's head in her lap, but said nothing in an unspoken rule between girl friends not to embarrass each other in front of boys. "Is he okay?" she asked softly.

Sam shrugged. "I don't know . . ." she said softly as she looked down at the dark-haired teen.

Tucker continued to focus on steering even as he added his own input. "Most likely, whatever experiments they were doing to him just drained his energy . . . when he wakes up though, he should probably eat something . . ." he murmured. For some reason, no one wanted to speak loudly. It was as if something bad would happen if they did.

000

Maddie Fenton woke up, hoping that the past ten years had all been a nightmare. She hoped that she would wake up and find that her youngest child was safe and sound, sleeping innocently in his bed. She got up and as always went to the room that had been her son's. Her eyes watered as she opened the door and found the room just as empty and untouched as it had been when she checked on it for the past ten years. She hadn't touched anything in his room . . . she merely left it as the detectives had once they had finished gathering evidence. Ten years had gone by, and still there was no sign of Danny . . .

She sighed and went down to the kitchen and fixed herself some coffee. It was awful, not knowing where her baby boy was . . . He was the reason why she was so fixated with ghosts now. Before the incident, her husband, Jack, was the major ghost fanatic. But now, Maddie was just so obsessed with knowing if Danny was dead or alive that she threw herself into the ghost research . . . Their latest invention was a portal into the Ghost Zone. They had even built a vehicle to maneuver through the ectoplasmic realm safely, but that hadn't worked. It didn't even matter . . . The Fenton Portal had failed as well . . .

A hand was placed on her shoulder and she looked up to see her husband looming over her with an empathetic expression. "We'll find him Maddie . . . Danny's a tough kid . . . And more than that he's a Fenton!" he said and then wrapped his arms around her, chair and all. "And Fentons don't quit."

000

There was tension in the air of the Specter Speeder . . . Danny had woken up and so he and Sam, sitting in the back seat, were feeling very awkward. Jazz tried to help by talking about theories of psychology, but it didn't help. Tucker was trying very hard not to burst out laughing as he focused on steering. Everyone was relieved when the gaudy neon sign of FentonWorks came into view.

Tucker landed expertly in front of the building and opened his door. "Okay! Ready to see your parents again Danny?" he asked, looking into the back seat.

Danny went pale. He wasn't sure if he could even remember what his parents LOOKED like . . . he knew his father was a large man . . . and his mother had red hair like Jazz . . . and that they both wore jumpsuits . . . but that was about it . . . and then there was an even greater fear that welled up in him. What if his parents didn't recognize him?

His face must have shown his worry because Jazz reached back and placed her hand on his shoulder as she smiled encouragingly at him. "Don't worry. They've never stopped looking for you." she said. And her words calmed him down . . . though he was still a little nervous. He nodded. "I want to see them again . . ." he said, putting on a determined face. At least he was human again . . . he would have hated it if he was stuck in his ghost form . . . what with his parents being ghost hunters . . .

Sam smiled a bit at Danny before exiting the Speeder. Tucker exited after her while Jazz stayed inside and tightened her grip on his shoulder slightly. "It'll be okay." she said, smiling. She then let go and headed out of the Speeder. Danny followed after her, comforted, but insanely nervous all the same.

Jazz sighed as she saw her brother exit the Speeder. She was rather nervous too about bringing Danny home . . . she knew her parents would be thrilled, but she didn't know how Danny would take it . . . it surprised her at how little she knew about her brother . . . ten years . . . It was a long time to be separated from one's family . . .

She walked up to her door and opened it using the key she had. "Mom! Dad!" she called out, knowing that they should be up by this time. Sure enough she saw them come from the kitchen to greet her as she came in. They had become slightly protective of her since her brother's abduction, so they were always very happy to see her walk through the door again.

"Jazzipants!" Her father boomed as he wrapped her in a big bear hug. Jazz smiled good-naturedly. Her father was rather childish at heart . . .

Maddie smiled at her daughter. "Did you have fun at your slumber party?" she asked.

Jazz frowned slightly. "Mom, Dad . . . I lied to you last night . . . I didn't go to a slumber party . . . I . . . I found Danny." she said and jogged out the door to reassure her brother once more, and bring him in the house.

Maddie's eyes had widened and she looked to Jack with tears in her eyes. However, these were not tears of the sadness that had been weighing on her for the past ten years. She could barely dare to hope, and yet . . . why would her daughter say something like that and not have it be true? Jack smiled back down at her and she moved into his embrace, waiting for their daughter to come back through the door, hopefully coming with Danny next to her.

000

Jazz exited the house to see Danny slumped against the wall, his head in his hands, Sam and Tucker next to him, trying to comfort him.

Jazz figured that he was panicking and she went over to him and hugged him. "It's alright Danny . . . just be yourself . . ." she said softly.

Danny drew in a shuddering breath, his nervousness beyond his control . . . "Wh-what if-" he started, only to be cut off by his sister as she pulled away, frowning at him.

"Danny. They're our parents! There's nothing to worry about!" she said, smiling at the end.

Danny smiled back. "Okay . . . let's go!" he said, swallowing his fear of rejection and preparing to reunite with his parents.

A/N: Awww . . . The Jack and Maddie scene made me cry!! And I wrote it!!!