We ended up sleeping with our clothes on, forgetting everything else, and can't believe how happier we were. There were hardly any time to think about the rest of the world, but somehow we woke up to reality in this world and already wearing fresh clothes for the day.
"Lavada, are you hungry? I'm cooking since I don't have college courses to deal with." And it's already getting to the end of the week.
She hummed a song and my ears danced to the beautiful voice I was hearing. My fingers playing her hair and remembering that I was with the same person in the entire time.
"I like some French toasts again, it was rather tasty when you made them yesterday." She decided.
I chuckled, "Great, cravings are going to be crazy with you." I rubbed her stomach.
She blushed, "Well, like I said, I may have some, all, or none of the pregnancy symptoms that most pregnant women goes through."
I agreed, "True, you did mention something like that."
I got off our bed and Lavada followed. She immediately grabbed my hand and how startled I was when she did that. I breathed and calmed down to the fact she hardly leaves me alone, even when I try to go to college. I remember Vlad followed me the entire week at college for the first week. In a way, I felt violated with our trusting and space. Since then, Vlad kept himself busy with work. Now, Lavada hardly let me do anything unless it's necessary.
"Are you planning to go to work as Lavada today?" I thought having some conversation would be nice for a change.
She looked confused, "And leaves you home alone today?"
I chuckled, "Well, I can start packing up since I will be working soon enough."
"Danny, I did most of the work yesterday. You can't possibly want to be alone after the good news?"
"Lavada," I held her hand up, "We can't pull ourselves away from the society or people will think otherwise." I kissed her hand, "I'll make breakfast, but you will need to go to work." I grinned, "Beside, you know how obsessed I am with the exams. I want it to be a perfect score." I smirked wider.
Lavada loosens up and allowed me to cook us breakfast. It wasn't as difficult as long I was patient about all of this. I made plenty of her and me to eat and enjoyed it for a while. I never seen Lavada so into French toasts, considering it was too sweet for Vlad. Maybe reading into pregnancy books wouldn't hurt so much. I know I did my studying for the nurse course I took last year, but how much can I learn the right way? Luckily for me, I held that book for emergency and paid it off about twice the original amounts. The store didn't refuse that offering and Vlad never knew the entire time. If he did, he would continue to encourage me or manipulate me into some sort of situation.
I set the French toasts onto our plates and handed one of them to her, "Alright, eat up, Lavada. You got a full day ahead of you."
Lavada shook her head, "Are you still sure you want me to go to work?"
"I'm sure." I insisted.
She watched me like a hawk or a ghost hawk that is, "Fine. If that will make my badger happy."
I rolled my eyes and we began to eat our breakfast for a while. Then, I started to wash up all the dishes while Lavada eats the last few bites. Of course, I knew she was stalling her time and I couldn't push it more than I could. I gathered her suitcases and laptop together with the rest of the work sheet. I made sure the backup phone was set to go and charged up well. I came over to her and handed her the suitcase with a lovely smile.
"You better get going, Lavada. They may think Vlad Masters is very busy at the moment, but they really get away from you. I checked everything you needed in here and knowing you always travel with your wallets."
Lavada shook her head in full disappointment, "You're this persistence, Danny." She gets off her chair and held onto her suit case, "I will be back by dinner." She started to head out.
I nodded and she started to head out the door. Without a second thought, my hands prevent the door to be opened and Lavada gotten confused. She turned around and wondered what was going on now.
"Danny? Are yo-"
I kissed her to get her to be quiet for a minute and she melted a bit into my arms. No matter what I did, I can't help myself for wanting more, and loving Vlad or Lavada.
"He, I wanted our goodbye kiss before you left to work." I smiled.
She blushed, "Right. I always forget that." She kissed back and then, she went out the door.
It has been a while, but I knew how the mind of my lover works. Since she left, I turned over to the stairs and took care of packing some of my things up. It's funny how long it takes to pack half of the bedroom and I'm already going through eight boxes within an hour. I guess there are less fragile things in the house and we don't normally worry about it much.
After spending a couple more hours with packing up through the entire closet and under the bed, it was getting less busy to clean the bedroom up. I avoided using any use of my ghost powers but strength. It wasn't like I was going to need to deal with that.
"Graduation, a new member of the family, moving back home, and a career to look forward to. Can this get any better?" I chuckled, but I realized the house was too quiet.
I finally spotted the radio and turned it on to play music. It's amazing how Vlad saved one thing out of the entire mansion he used to live in. He admires this thing because it reminds him of his generation, but it was worth many valuables to listen the entire world. I ended up tuning into the popular news channel through the radio and people were talking so sad.
"…a recent incident has occurred nearby the mall. The mall will be blocking all roads except for arrival assistances. All citizens, please subdue your plans until further noticed."
I blinked, man…this cannot be happening and I rushed over to the television to see it for myself what was happening. I flipped over to the news channel and saw the helicopter's point of view and then, changing it to distance view. They were in the middle of the parking lot, surrounding the few cars that had an accident, and an older man who seems to hold up a gun against an innocent girl's head. She's crying and terrified of her life and I knew I had to be there.
My body jumped to action and flew into the sky with my usual power. I transformed to Phantom during the flying sensation. The wind helped me to speed up as much as I could and hoping that everything would be alright. No one deserves to be in this position otherwise, but why was this man scaring the young girl in a car accident position. It was obvious to see they were bleeding and in pain, but there wasn't an escape.
Everyone was struggling to save both of their lives, but the rest of the innocent bystanders. I knew I had to plan a distraction for the shooter. I flew down within ten feet from the police officers and fire fighters to take action. In this town, everyone knew I have been here for four years and felt unusual to my unexpected welcome. I didn't care much to what they thought about me and focused on saving people. Whether they seen me as a hero or just some ghost. I spotted a familiar police officer and she greeted me shyly.
"Danny Phantom, what brings you here?" She greeted.
I huffed, "I heard about the problem over there which pretty much caught my attention. What is his intention for keeping their distance from everyone?" I needed to know before I could distract the shooter.
She sighed, "Currently, we are still investigating on the man and the girl. She's obviously kidnapped today since she has no idea who this man is, but the other cars were her parents. They might be alive, but it's difficult to see."
I kind of wished Tucker was here with me, he would have figured it out within five minutes, and figuring that I'm all on my own.
"So, he has nothing to claim this issue? Does he have any medical records or crime history? School background or job difficulty?" I was dragging my brain out to figure this case out.
The police blinked, "You think he got the girl randomly?"
I shrugged, "A possibilities, but if you feel there's a connection between the two. There's got to be a way to find a quicker loophole. I might be able to distract the man and somehow get the girl and the others."
Another police officer came up and he was the chief of this town. I heard of him a few times, but I never met him before. He looked like a strong and natural leader. Hopefully, he wouldn't be so brutal with my in burst invitation to help out the problem.
"Danny Phantom? What brings you here?"
Seriously? I can't wait to move back home as soon as enough, but this is ridiculous! How can they say those things to my face when I practically saved a lot of people in this town? Ugh, never minding the officers. I sighed to bear my patience with anyone today.
"Uh, I thought that was obvious. I want to help and save that girl's lives, possibly her parents too."
The chief officer refused, "No, you may be a ghost and a hero from another town. We cannot afford to allow you meddle in. What if the girl dies?"
I growled lightly, "I can duplicate and get the girl while that man has the main attention on me. He won't noticed with the girl."
The chief officer continued to refuse, "No! What about the others in the crowd? He can kill or hurt innocent bystanders!"
My hands curled up and knowing the consequences myself. I knew what it was meant to be a hero, but there was more to it. In a way, I wasn't going by the orders of this police officers who may be in charged. I didn't need his permission and I phased through the entire crowd of workers who are here to save lives, but I could do much more. I eyed on the man who looked frighten.
"STAY BACK! I WARN YOU! I'LL KILL HER!" He snapped at my sudden presence.
I held up, didn't bothered to move, and let him focused his attention on me.
"Sir! Please! You're scaring the girl! Let me help you! I can save you!" I reacted to his part, let him expect a ghostly hero was trying.
Everyone around me cannot stop me, they watched, and learned to my taken action. Little did others know, my powers have grown powerful, and I took advantage of being invisible to duplication at least two of me. The first copied of me checked out the unconscious victims from the other two cars. They were alive, but might be in a coma or just haven't been awake to the scene of the accident.
"NO ONE CAN HELP ME! YOU IDIOT PHANTOM!" The man got all shook up about his anger.
I sighed, "Then, it won't make any different if you're involving anyone! It won't get you anywhere!" I snapped, "You can go to jail for murdering and kidnapping a little girl like her! Please! I know you have a human heart!" That sometimes make a key to remind people we are still human, even if they think I'm still a ghost.
I was still human to the rest of the world, even if they had no idea I'm half ghost and half human. In a way, I'm still that Danny. The second duplication was getting close to the girl and I turned her invisible and intangible. She was surprised, but confused to what was happening in her surroundings. The man wasn't away the girl was out of sight. I let the duplicates take the innocent people over to the fire fighters to handle the rest of the situation themselves. I kept my attention on the man. Now, I made one of my duplicates disappear and allow the first one to go after the man by overshadowing it.
I smirked, "Officers, we're good now." I turned my head behind myself, "I overshadowed the man."
The woman officer was shocked to my action, "Overshadowed him?"
"Uh…I took over his body for temporary reasons. He won't shoot anyone or do a thing. The girl and her parents are with the firefighters now for their safety now." I started to walk up to the car.
The two officers followed me and the chief didn't expect my action was simple. Of course, no one bothered to look closely at my powers. I was happy and satisfied to save others' live if possible.
"How did you…?"
I rolled my eyes, "I'm a ghost and my powers are only based on energy and element. I used my energy to create another Phantom and saved their lives without letting him know I am capable of doing that." I smiled.
"Huh, I guess you're called for a hero not for nothing then."
"Exactly, chief."
"Hm, next time. I will let you go on, but don't think you'll be treated easier here just because you're famous in Amityville. We do not need ghosts attacking this town." I considered his warning.
I nodded and flew over to where the girl who seemed to be nine years old and soft brown hair with much worried to her face. I smiled and bent down while the others were nursing her back to health.
"Hey kid, I thought I come and check on you."
She stared at me, blinking to the fact a ghost was talking to her, and saved her life.
"…I'm Danny Phantom, I just saved you from that man." I thought maybe she'd ease up if I explained.
She nodded. I blinked…did I miss something?
"Ginger! Oh, my! I was so worried about you!" A woman came up to the little girl, trying to hug her without interfering the medical at work, and all.
The woman was signing with her hands and it dawned on me. The girl didn't speak, but she signs. Did she understand what I say to her? The woman glanced up and smiled gratefully.
"Thank you for saving her. She was telling me that man has signed to her that he was a new teacher at the school and lured her into his car. She says the man frighten her so much, she didn't know what to do. Did you save her?"
I nodded, "Yes…she's deaf or something?"
The woman nodded, "Yes, she was born this way due to family genetic. Thank you, Phantom." She bowed to me.
I chuckled awkwardly, "Yeah, you don't have to bow. It's what I do. Tell Ginger I'm glad she's alright." I smiled.
The woman nodded and Ginger eyed on me. She gave me this strange look and she walked up to me. She kept looking at me and I had no idea why.
"Uh…hello Ginger." I waved with a smile…trying to be considerate of myself.
Ginger signed something that looked poetic to me, I never knew how magical that was, and how much expression she put into. It's like seeing a little play. The woman came up and watched Ginger signing. I continued to smile at the girl.
"She's saying that she is glad you saved her life and she loves your adorable smile." The woman interpreted.
I blinked, "Oh," I smiled and patted the girl's head, "Tell her she's welcome and thank you for the compliment." I floated back up and waved at Ginger to say my good bye.
The woman spent her attention on Ginger and I disappeared from the people's sight. To me, it's something else and inspiring to see another language. Sure, there's Spanish and French and Latin around school. The languages are exposed everyday whether people noticed it or not and that Ginger girl caught my attention especially.
Then, I started to think about the possibilities of my child could have a disability. Dang, I never thought of it before…maybe talking to Vlad/Lavada about that just in case.
I flew back home and back in the apartment of our bedroom. I changed to Masters and felt glad to be myself again. I noticed the news are discussing and reviewing how the heck Danny Phantom saved other's lives. I knew personally they were able to arrest the man and I removed myself from him after he was cuffed up and in the police car. He literally got so confused with everything. Then, they were saying that the parents' of Ginger may be saved or in coma for a period of time. If I didn't interfere, they may have died instantly from the cause of accident. In a way, the girl would be cared for by her interpreter until further noticed.
My cell phone started to ring off and I hurried up to answer it.
"Hello, Masters here." I answered.
"Mr. Masters, this is your boss of 'Air News' company."
I smiled, "I was expecting you to call, sir."
"I wanted to let you know I am far impressed to your journalism involvement at your college year and how much you are able to obtain information. I would like to say that your first location to check out for me is going to New York City and find that teenage hero."
I blinked and felt confused, "You mean, Amityville?"
"No, I mean the actual city of New York. Are you able to deal with that when you are graduated afterward?"
I can tell the man wasn't kidding about the specific location, but what teenage hero is he speaking of? I couldn't understand why that place, specifically and alone, and I figured it'd probably be the best start of my career.
"Yes, I will be able to attend there by then."
"Great! Once you are there, you have two weeks to report back with everything you picked up." He sounded delightful about my accepting his offering start.
"I will, Mr. Snow."
"Consider your hotel payment set up for you when you get there, Mr. Masters. You just do your part to find out more with this teenage hero and we will be able to spread this information nationwide."
"Okay, Mr. Snow. I will do the task." For some reason, it felt odd about this.
"Have a good day, Mr. Masters."
"You too, sir."
We both hung up and I rather felt unsure about the first part of the piece of my writing. My head shook, maybe I'm being ridiculous here and out of my mind, and I started to gather my books. I went back to where I last time left off to study and focused on most of the details. I had the television left on just in case I might need to save people again, but I doubt I'd be needed that much.
After studying through the last of Science, math, and English, I knew I had to start cooking for dinner. I had something better in mind and hoped Lavada would be looking forward to the meals. I headed downstairs and grabbed my cooking tools to get started.
"Let's see if she'd be up for spaghetti and garlic bread with melted cheese on them." I smirked.
Luckily for our last week shopping, I got all of the extra food might come in handy and waited for the water to be boiled up first before putting in the pasta noodles. Today went faster than I ever expected and not once I felt lonely. It was perfect timing to get things done.
I turned my attention on setting the oven to certain degrees and made the flavor bread with garlic shredded on and popped it into the oven to blend in. I set it for several minutes. Then, I moved on to making the meatballs and molded them into a ball up to ten of them.
BAAM!
My shoulders tensed up and froze my entire body by doing so. I blinked and heard someone muttering out of frustration. I turned around and saw Dani marching around like crazy. Certainly, she was furious by the way I felt. I sighed and started to get the tea.
