Well hey guys! Guess who's alive! *jazz hands*

Sorry for the long wait!

Oh, I also have news, you guys (according to my poll) like all the parings listed except for walker.

Right, so there are three winners to this poll (mainly because Danny is going to be interested in all of them at one point, after all this is not a Disney movie and people don't fall in love in a Day. This soul mate business is important!) So our top three winners are

*Drum roll*

Val, Ember, and Sam! And not really in that particular order!

Ok so here's what we are going to do! I am going to take down my old poll and put up a new one, and as I write this story you guys are going to decide which of the three he's going to end up with. This also means even if your pick loses there will still be some fluff between her and Danny as he makes his decision.

As for the rest of you, I am very, very, very, sorry that your vote didn't get chosen! (Should I do a mini-series were they do? Let me know in the reviews!)

Alrighty, that wraps up the longest authors note I have ever written! I bid you adieu!

-DP-

"Aww you look absolutely adorable!" Maddie cooed as she knotted the bow tie around Danny's neck, causing the young hybrid to gag.

"There," Maddie said. Her hands dropped back to her sides as she took a step back to admire her work.

She was happy to have the young hybrid out of the ratty clothes he had worn last night. She was also happy that the poor boy agreed to shower. She had been hoping that he hadn't found her rude when she asked him to take one before bed last night….

Danny slowly turned to look at himself in the mirror while Maddie was lost in thought. He didn't mind the blue polo that he had on, but he hated the black hooded cardigan sweater that was over it. It was way too constricting just like the pair of skinny jeans he was being forced to wear. Not to mention he couldn't breathe thanks to the deathtrap around his neck, Lord, he hated bow ties!

"Do I really have to wear this?" He pouted, Pulling Maddie from her thoughts.

Maddie pressed her lips together and fixed the young halfa with her infamous evil eye.

"I'm sorry Phantom but it's the only spare clothes we have. I'm just happy that you seem to be the same size as my little boy. It makes all of this easier. Besides he never wears these things, so it's not like he's going to miss them much."

"I can see why he doesn't." Danny murmured under his breath, after all he was fully aware of how much 'Danny Fenton' hated these clothes.

"What was that?" Maddie asked, her mom voice was clearly evident.

Danny when ridged.

"Oh nothing!" He said with a nervous rush as his brain scrambled for an excuse. "I just said that I don't see why he doesn't like them!"

Danny sighed in relief when Maddie bought it.

Accepting defeat he strolled down the steps and into the living room. The Fentons had decided to let him sleep in the guest bedroom last night; they apparently trusted him enough to sleep on the same floor as them now. He grinned at the thought—glad that he was making progress with them—as he grabbed his new back pack off the couch.

"You look very…. Snazzy, Daniel." Clockwork said without lifting his gaze from the book he was reading.

Danny jumped, where the hell did he even come from?

Danny snorted and rolled his eyes, trying to play off the fact that the time ghost had made him jump; though that just seemed to amuse clockwork further. With a scowl, Danny cast a curious glance at the paperback in the time ghost's hands.

"What are you reading?"

"A Clockwork orange, Jasmine suggested it to me after Mr. Thunder and his crew left last night. She was worried that I was going to get bored while everyone was sleeping" Clockwork smirked, clearly finding his sisters gesture to be entertaining as well. "It's actually very engaging; although very gory and graphic…. I normally don't enjoy human literature for such reasons."

Danny raised an eyebrow, but didn't comment any further on the subject as he slipped his backpack over his shoulders and called on his ghost side. Soon a familiar white ring appeared at his waist and split into too, changing him into his ghost form.

Maddie almost fell down the steps, startled by the blinding lights of the transformation; she didn't think she'd ever get used to that.

Danny turned his attention back to Maddie and shot her a look of concern.

"You ok?"

"Of course why wouldn't I be?" she said in a rush, a blush dusting over her cheeks. She was completely embarrassed; here she was, an experienced ghost hunter jumping at an unexpected light show!

"Well, I guess I'm off." He said hesitantly as he began to linger in the air. Looking her over one more time before shrugging off Maddie's odd behavior as early morning jitters. After all, he knew his mother wasn't much of a morning person.

"Are you sure you have everything?" Maddie asked, eyeing the boys backpack. "Do you remember how to get to Casper high?"

Danny shook his head yes and offered her a reassuring half smile, before phasing through the ceiling with a shout of 'See ya later'.

-DP-

Danny swallowed as he pushed the heavy building doors open. The overall intensity of the situation didn't hit him till right now. He was going to school….as phantom….sort of…

He took a deep breath and pushed the thought out of his head as he walked down the schools empty hallways. He was kind of glad that the school had arranged for him to arrive in the middle of first period. Apparently they were worried that he would cause a little too much commotion. They wanted to make sure all of the first period teachers thoroughly briefed their students on 'the behavior they expected of them.'

Like that's gonna work, Danny thought with a snort.

He turned the corner and stopped in front of the offices scuffed up white door. He took in another deep breath before opening the door and peeking inside. Mrs. Brown, the office clerk looked up from the transcript she was checking over. She smiled when she saw Danny lingering in the doorway.

"Well," She said as she waved the young boy in. "Don't just stand there."

Danny gave the woman a soft awkward smile and stepped inside, the door shut behind him with a soft click.

"You got here in the nick of time." The woman said with an impatient laugh "I just finished your schedule for the classes you'll be taking."

Danny took the papers that Mrs. Brown had handed him,

"Thanks." Danny replied as his lips stretched into a nervous smile. Unintentionally flashing the woman his new fangs, (he had asked Clockwork why they were present in his human form and Clockwork had, more or less, chalked it up to freak genetics; so to speak..) Mrs. Brown paled at the sight of them before nervously shuffling through the pile of papers in front of her.

"You're very welcome," Mrs. Brown replied dismissively, her kind grin almost seemed forced. "Why don't you go ahead and take a seat. Your student guide should be here soon."

Danny blinked. "Student guide?"

"Well of course sweetie. We can't have you just wandering the hallways all on your lonesome. You wouldn't have any idea were to go! After all, Casper high is a huge school." Mrs. Brown explained with a laugh. Though Danny figured that this was just a nicer way of saying 'we don't trust you so we want you under constant supervision.'

"Yeah, and you especially don't wanna get stuck with some losers on the first day of school! You need someone experienced to show you the ropes."

Danny nearly jumped out of his skin at the sound of the new voice. He immediately whirled around to see who it was, landing in a defensive stance.

Dash? The halfa thought in surprise and dawning horror, his defensive stance giving way to an array of graceless movements once he realized who it was. "wh-your my student guide?"

The young halfa wasn't exactly looking forward to being stuck with the jock all day. That and he was starting to second guess his previous thought, after all, if they wanted someone to keep an eye on him then why would they have Dash do it? Sure the guy was an all-star athlete, but he was also a slightly obsessive Phan boy that lacked a few important brain cells. In other words Danny would have no trouble giving Dash the 'Run around' if need be.

"Oh good! You're here!" Mrs. Brown said in a rush, Ignoring Danny's stunned behavior. "Mr. Baxter will you please show him to his first class."

"Sure thing, Mrs. B!" Dash called over his shoulder as he practically pulled Danny out the door.

Danny had been starting to get the impression that Mrs. Brown was close to having a small break down. Didn't Tucker tell him once that she was terrified of ghosts or something? Danny frowned at that thought, the woman must have been terrified of him…..Maybe that's why dash had pulled him out of the room so fast?

Once in the hallway the jock snatched the schedule from the young halfa's hands without even pausing to ask permission.

"Eh, so…." Dash began awkwardly as he looked the halfa over, breaking Danny from his thoughts. "Nice bow tie…..?"

Danny dragged a hand down the side of his face. Dash had barely completed a sentence and the halfa already had a strong urge to bang his head repeatedly into the nearest concrete wall.

"I'm glad you like it." He grumbled.

The jock hummed in agreement as they continued down the hallway, not picking up on Danny's sarcasm in the slightest.

Danny rolled his eyes.

"Right, um… I just realized I didn't even tell you my name yet!" The jock continued on in a nervous ramble, after all he was talking to his hero. "I'm Dash and I'm a HUGE Phan."

"Yeah, I remember." Danny said, unimpressed, but he tried his best to at least seem a little friendly. "It's kinda hard to forget, you almost got me eaten by a mouse the last time we met."

Dash burst out laughing and swatted the halfa across his back, causing the young hybrid to stumble forward.

"You remembered! I didn't think you would!"

"Right…" Danny said, slightly horrified by the jocks behavior. "So….. where are we going first? I didn't really get a chance to look at what classes I had before you ripped the paper out of my hands."

"Oh, uh, Right. We're heading to English first. The teachers name is Mr. Lancer. You've probably seen him around here before. He's kinda short, Bald and….well he's not exactly skinny." Dash said with a snicker. "Anyway, that's the class room door up there."

Danny's eyes landed on the classroom door out of pure habit.

"Hey Uh…Phantom….lis—."

Danny cut Dash off, "My name is Danny."

The jock jumped in surprise. "Oh, right….Sorry…. I'm just so used to calling you Phantom. I mean…well….I uh.."

Danny sighed; he didn't know how he was going to be able to take a full day of this.

Dash coughed and tried again.

"what's it like?"

Danny blinked.

"What's what like?"

"When you change, with those ring thingies?" Dash asked, honest curiosity burning behind his blue eyes. "I mean it kinda looks like it hurts…."

That question threw Danny for a loop; no one had ever asked him that before. Not even Sam and Tucker. He glanced up at the jock, shock leaking out into his expression.

"Well, it did the first couple times. But the more I changed the more the pain faded. Now I just feel….numb…I guess that's the best word to describe it. I feel numb when I change." Danny said with a shrug, suddenly feeling overly self-conscience.

A beat of silence passed between the two. Neither of them knew what to say and Danny felt the most unusual urge to laugh at the irony of the situation. It wasn't even a minute ago that he found himself wishing that Dash would shut up.

-DP-

"Tucker." Sam whispered as she poked the techno geek with the sharper edge of her folded note.

He let out a yelp, before turning around and ripping the note from her pale fingers, all the while fixing the Goth with a heated glare.

"Will you stop it!" Tucker seethed through clenched teeth.

"God, you don't need to be such a crab ass." Sam muttered.

"Crab ass? Did you just call me a crab ass?" Tucker whispered back, note be dammed he'd had it! "I was up till the butt-crack of dawn last night, hacking the schools web-site to cover for Danny! I have had no sleep what so flipping ever and I have every right to be a crab ass, if I want to!"

"Ok, ok, no need to rip my head off. All I was trying to do in the first place was say thank you." Sam said as she pointed down at the note that tucker was currently strangling.

Tuckers attitude deflated as he uncrinkled the note.

Thanks for hacking the site last night. I'm sure Danny will appreciate it when he gets here later. Well until you and I tag team and grill him with questions! I can't believe he just ignored us for two Days! Anyway you look tired. I've got an unopened monster in my backpack if you want it.

"I think I'll take you up on the monster." Tucker whispered as he dragged his hand down the side of his face. "I could really use the caffeine."

He watched as she leaned over the side of her desk and dug through her back pack before finding what she was looking for. She tossed the energy drink up to Tucker as she zipped her bag closed.

Tucker wasted no time. He had half of it gone before Sam was even sitting properly in her chair.

"Careful, I read somewhere that if you drink those to fast they cause heart palpitations." Sam warned.

"Ah, America," Tucker chuckled. "The land were your food can kill you."

Sam rolled her eyes.

"Speaking of food killing you, I'm surprised you drink this stuff. I mean aren't you into the 'all-natural hippy wonder juices' from your green house or something?" Tucker asked as he took another swig.

Sam rolled her eyes.

"Those 'wonder juices' are often referred to as tea." She dead panned. "I only carry those things around for Danny. You know how much he hates both tea and coffee."

"Love birds."

Sam's eye twitched. "Tucker I swear, if you say call us that one more time I'm going to steal your PDA and flush it down one of the toilets in the girls restroom!"

"No! I won't let you have Carla!" He squawked as he hugged the electronic device close to his chest.

"Mr. Foley!"

Tucker grimaced and turned his attention to a very annoyed Mr. Lancer.

"If I see that PDA, in my class one more time I'm going to smash it to smithereens!" Mr. Lancer growled. Satisfied with the look of pure terror on his students face, Mr. Lancer Continued on with what he had been saying. "Now, you are all expected to treat Mr. Phantom with respect. The boy was raised in a world that was completely different from ours so he might not understand our way of things—."

It was just then that the classroom door opened.

-DP-

And that's where I'm going to end because it's really late and this ten pages long. Please leave a review guys and tell me what you think! Also I haven't really got a chance to edit this all to much, I've got a splitting headache and I figured you guys would want an update. Right?

Have a nice night guys!