Disclaimer: I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-

Yeah, I know. Been a while, but for once, laziness or Writer's Block was NOT any part of the reason. Long story short: Fell in love for the first time, best friend told crush without my knowledge, crush is in love with best friend, they're possibly going out now. Rejection. And I threw in the always wanted, but a hated pairing of mine in, DxS, and it was kind of hard to write because of that.

The police were ALL OVER this case.

They couldn't believe the that this call came in, and more police than necessary charged into the police station. After a billion pictures were taken of the crime scene, and another two billion of just Danny himself, they put both in cuffs and dragged them down to the police station. There, they both got mugshots (and Danny didn't question the officers, but they seemed to take too many pictures of him) and got their thumbprints taken.

After much pleading from Danny, Valerie's kidnapping and keeping somebody against their will charges were dropped. Her very, very angry father picked her up shortly afterwards. Danny, however, was charged with kidnapping, property damage, disturbing the peace, and many, many more lovely charges. There was a $300,000 bail and he was thrown in prison.

To Lance's luck, the news office was notified and told that the ghost boy was finally in jail, due to a ghost-proof cell the Fentons had given them in case they were to ever catch Danny Phantom. To his unluck, the news station wouldn't pay for his bail. But again with the luck, Lance didn't have to be on-scene with a bunch of angry fan/protesters screaming for his release. Instead, it was some poor intern that kept getting shoved, hit and even pushed over and stepped on for a brief moment.

Thankfully, Danny was released the next morning thanks to Sam's massive wealth bailing him out, but given a mandatory court date. To make matters worse, so that they can track him down later, since he was a ghost, they put a GPS detector on his foot. Similar to house arrest people, only he wasn't restricted to a home.

Which leads us to Danny sitting at Sam's house, in ghost mode, with Tucker trying to take off the ankle bracelet.

"Any luck Tucker?" Sam asked.

"I'm working on it!" Tucker half-exclaimed as the technogeek worked his magic.

Soon, the bracelet popped open, and Danny eagerly took it off.

"What do we do with it till the court date?" Sam asked, picked it up and examining it. "I mean, maybe we can take turns carrying it, then pass it on to Danny when he goes on patrol or something. Mix it up a bit."

"Sounds good," Tucker agreed. "That way, it's not always at the same place at the same time."

"Yeah. I should get home now. My parents are probably freaking out because I never came home last night," Danny told them, standing and wincing at the thought of facing his parents. "Hopefully, I can convince them that I was home the whole time, but just came home past curfew or something.

"Good luck with that dude," Tucker told him as he began to float towards the window. Tucker began to go out the door. "I gotta get going. Mikey's parents are taking us to that new technology museum."

"Have fun," Sam told him as he left the room. She turned to Danny, who was about to phase out of her room. "Hey Danny?"

"Yeah?" he replied, turning to look at her. She fiddled with the bottom of her shirt.

"Uh...you know that date you said you'd think about with Paulina on the live interview?" she questioned. Danny nodded. "Are you actually...you know, gonna do it? Or was it just a way of you letting her down gently?"

"Uh, I dunno actually," he admitted. "I mean...I don't see why I shouldn't give it a chance. Why?"

"Cause I was wanting you to go with me," Sam admitted, a tad quiet.

"Of course, if I don't go with Paulina, I'll hang with you and Tucker there."

"No, Danny, you don't get it. Just me. You and me going together, no Tucker."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"...With Fenton or Phantom?"

"Fenton."

"..."

"..."

"Festival starts at nine. I can pick you up at like, eight-thirty."

"Sounds perfect."

Danny smiled slightly at her as she walked up a little closer to him. He briefly kissed her cheek before he phased out her room and flew home.

Next chapter will probably be a filler-chapter, then festival chapters, then after the festival/during festival, I'll end it somehow. I don't plan on making the court appear in this story, but I might do a spin-off of it. I had plans to include lots of DxS in the festival chapters at reviewers' requests, but now I don't think I can.