*Sigh* I am not the almighty Butch Hartman who's magnificient brain created Danny Phantom then turned evil and against him then made him end the series... That last part almost made me feel better about it...

Danny opened his mouth to explain and apologize, but was interrupted by his mom.

"Come inside... sweetie. This is a... family issue and I would like to settle this privately. We'll talk in the living room." With that she turned on her heel and went into FentonWorks with Jack bounding behind her. Danny waved to the crowd that had gathered outside, then phased through the door and walked into the living room.

Maddie and Jack sat on the couch while Danny sat on the single-sitter (I don't know the name! Its a couch with only one seat? If anyone knows, please tell me!) across from them. For a while they just sat there and stared at each other as an akward tension settled around them.

"Welllllllll... how's the weather?" Danny asked, trying to break the silence between them.

"It's nice today. Couldn't you tell when you were flying?" Jack was practically bouncing in his seat from the realization that his son was a ghost with ghost powers. He could test out his inventions on him!

Maddie knew the look on Jack's face. He had obviously believed the ghost boy's trick, but Maddie wouldn't cave until she was absolutely sure this was her baby boy. If it wasn't... let's just say Phantom better have enjoyed his afterlife while it lasted. His presence was unnerving her and her hand was itching to grab ectogun and blast him.

"Could you change back please?" She asked, and studied the rings that washed over him. Now that she noticed it, they were the same if you inverted the colors and gave Danny, her Danny, a jumpsuit. She shook these thoughts from her head. She had to stop guessing and be sure it was him.

"Thank you. What does Danny hate more than anything?"

"You mean what I hate more than anything? Toast."

"Fine. What do you want to grow up to be?"

"An astronaut, but I doubt that will happen now." He had muttered the last part under his breath, but Maddie still heard him.

"What do Fenton's consider bonding?"

Danny shuddered. "Backwash." (You can find that in Maternal Instincts)

"Danny! It is you!" She ran over to give him a hug which was soon joined by Jack Fenton. After they were done, Maddie held him at arms length and started checking him for bruises. "We haven't hurt you, have we?" She turned to Jack and wailed "We shot at him! We shot at our own baby boy!" She burst into tears and Danny tried to comfort her. "Why didn't you just tell us?''

"Originally the reason I didn't want to tell you was because I was half ghost and you were ghost hunters. Since when do those add up and equal acceptance? When I realized you would accept me no matter what, I knew it would hurt you more to know that you had hunted me and wanted to tear me apart 'molecule by molecule.' I thought it was better to carry on like I always had- capture ghost, avoid ghosthunters and the GIW, and not have painful experiments tested on me."

"You still should have told us! How did you carry on on your own?" Danny nervously started to rub the back of his neck and Maddie narrowed her eyes. "Wait, did anyone else know?"

"Heh, funny question. Um, Sam and Tucker were there for it"

"How exactly did that happen?"

"-and Jazz figured out later on-"

"Could none of our kids trust us?"

"-and I'm pretty sure everyone in the ghost zone knows by now."

There was a pause and then a simultaneous "WHAT!" rang out through the neighborhood.

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