Mindless Behavior

Chapter Six:

Johnny's POV:

I took the phone and went into the hallway. Danielle's sudden change of attitude was a big shocker and I was sure Danny was freaking out, having her randomly call him in the middle of the night.

"Hello?" I said, pressing the phone to my ear.

"Johnny? What's going on? Is Danielle alright?"

"She's fine. Kitty caught her coming back in from somewhere and talked to her. She finally broke down."

"Where was she?" he asked.

"I have no clue, but I'm sure we'll find out. Why don't you come by in the morning, well, actually in a few hours?"

"Alright. I'll see you then."

I hung up and went back into Danielle's room. She was sitting beside Kitty now, talking like a reasonable person for once, even though she was still crying. I sat on the other side of her.

"I just wanted to be different," she said.

"Different?" Kitty asked gently.

"I'm a clone. I shouldn't have even been created and I'm nowhere near as good as Danny. He's a superhero who saved the world. I'm just...a wannabe version of him."

"Danielle, that's not true," I said.

"Yes, it is," she argued. "It seems like everyone is expecting me to be just like him, some big superhero, and I'll never be that. I don't even know if I want to be that... I didn't want people to get their hopes up."

"So you'd rather rebel against everything Danny says and sneak out to parties and put yourself in dangerous situations?"

"Well...no," she replied. "I don't like this either... I just... I want to be myself and it's nearly impossible to be an individual person. Everything in me was created to be just like him. I was supposed to be him. And everywhere I go, someone is either pointing out that I'm his clone or there's some huge reminder that he's a hero- like the statues or posters..."

"Danielle, you are not him," Kitty said. "He's never expected you to be him. He just wants to protect you."

"I know," Danielle said quietly, yawning. "But I want people to know me as Danielle, not Danny Phantom's clone."

"Why don't you go to sleep and we'll talk about this later?" I suggested, pulling back her comforter.

She climbed under the blankets and laid down. Kitty and I both kissed her forehead. "Goodnight, Danielle," I said. "We love you."

"I love you guys, too," she said. And for what's it worth, she seemed like our little girl again. The little girl who came running to her uncle Johnny after nightmares and baked cakes with Kitty. The girl who needed her father in her life more than anything else. Our Danielle was back.

Danny's POV:

A few hours later, once I'd woken up, I started to get ready to go to Kitty and Johnny's. Just as I was about to leave, I noticed that I had a voice mail on my phone...and a missed call from Danielle. I hit the button to listen to the message.

"Hey, Phantom," an all too familiar voice said. "It's Youngblood. Danielle left her phone on my ship. Tell her that I'll bring give it to her the next time I see her...oh- and that I had a great time last night."

I saw red. My precious daughter had been with Youngblood?! Why the hell had she been with him. I was beyond furious. There were no words to describe how angry I was. I shut my phone and phased down to the portal.

When I arrived at their lair, I didn't bother to knock. I walked through foyer and to the living room, where Danielle was sitting. When I walked in, she looked up. "What the hell were you doing at Youngblood's last night?!" I roared.

"Dad, I was just-"

"I can't believe you! Disobeying me is one thing, but hooking up with trash like him?!"

"Dad, how did you even know?" she asked, sounding close to tears.

"You left your phone there. He called and left me a voice mail," I snarled, my voice laced with venom.

Johnny walked in at that moment, seeming surprised and even a bit frightened by my anger. "What's going on?" he asked.

I turned around to glare at him, "My daughter is a little brat and you let her sneak out to go hook up with Youngblood!"

"Danny, calm down," Johnny said reasonably. "Danielle's sorry for the way she's been acting and Youngblood has grown up a lot." However, I caught him shoot an irritated look at Danielle.

"You knew about this?!"

"Well, no, but he isn't a bad-"

I turned away from him toward Danielle, "What were you doing there, Danielle?!"

"We went to his ship after the party," she barely whispered. It was then that Kitty walked in from the kitchen, immediately going to comfort Danielle, who had begun to cry.

I turned and started toward the door with only one thought in my mind; find and destroy Youngblood.

"Where are you going?" Johnny asked, grabbing my shoulder.

"I'm going to go and obliterate Youngblood for whatever he did to my daughter."

"I think you'd better calm down first-"

"Don't you dare try to tell me what to do," I snapped, jerking away from him and going out the door.

Youngblood was history.