Okay, I'm just a little disappointed in the fact that not a single person reviewed since the last chapter. As such I'm posting this as the last chapter and am not Going to add the new content I recently recovered. Do not fret however because this chapter does have a solid ending so it won't leave you hanging.=^-^=
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Ch. 5 - A Warm Sight
After a couple of hours Jack came strolling up the stairs Where Danny was waiting just outside the guest room. "Is it ready." "You betcha it is." He held up the syringe to show Danny and then made his way through the door where Maddie was sitting at the foot of the bed. She noticed Jack immediately and stood up.
"How's she doing?"
"There hasn't been much change for the last few hours aside from the lessoned appearance of the morph ring, but we should administer it as soon as possible."
Jack held out the syringe to Maddie who quickly took it and turned to Dani. "We could only be so lucky, I'm pretty sure she's still asleep." Maddie quickly pulled Dani's arm out from under the covers and pushed up the sleeve. Dani didn't seem to react so she went ahead and administered solution. It took less than a minute and Maddie was sure to put pressure over the site of the injection, though once she did Dani began to stir again.
She only opened her eyes a little but it was enough that she was able to make out that Mrs. Fenton was standing over her with a needle in one hand and her arm in another. Her mind could only wrap around the fear of turning into a lab experiment as she jerked her arm away and jumped up and back to the wall.
"What are you doing!?" She then felt the twinge of pain in her arm and immediately covered the spot with her hand. "What did you do to me?!"
"Calm down Danielle!" She looked around the room in panic and saw Mr. Fenton making his way over. She felt an overwhelming feeling of being trapped as she activated her transformation only to watch it fizzle out in front of her.
"Whats… going…on…" She then collapsed on the bed right in front of Maddie.
Jack quickly picked her up and tucked her back under the covers. "I didn't mean to scare her."
"I'm sure she just misunderstood."
Danny came running through the door. "What happened?!"
"Don't worry Danny, Danielle just woke up while I was giving her the injection and got scared. She's fast asleep now."
"She's probably still exhausted from earlier." Danny's nervousness seemed to fade and he calmed down. Maddie walked past him and through the door.
"Danny why don't you stay in here and watch her? I need to get dinner ready anyway." She left down the hall followed closely by Jack.
"Danny be sure to let us know if anything changes."
"Sure." He then continued down the hall.
It was quite some time before Danielle stirred again and as she cracked her eyes open she could barely make out a figure moving over her. "Finally awake are we?" She then felt a cool hand on her forehead.
"Hmm..?" She opened her eyes more and realized it was Mrs. Fenton holding her hand on her head.
"At least your temperature seems to have gone down but you should still stay in bed." She looked around a little to realize she was back in the guest room.
"When did I get back in here?"
Maddie seemed confused. "You were in here earlier when you woke up remember?" Dani thought for a moment and began to remember that scene were Mrs. Fenton had injected her with something. She started to scramble to her feet but Mrs. Fenton held her down. "Just calm down Danielle, it's alright, but you still have to rest." For some reason, even though she was scared, when she looked at Mrs. Fenton she seemed to calm down. "Good, now you just stay put."
Mrs. Fenton sat down the bed and held Danis' hand. "I really have to thank you for earlier. You knew it was dangerous downstairs and still you wanted to keep Danny from getting hurt."
Danny came walking in to the room. "How is she?"
"Come look for yourself." Maddie got up off the bed and Danny noticed the Danielle had woken up.
"Oh! You're awake." He walked over to the bed. "How are you feeling? Any better?" Dani slowly nodded.
"Alright Danny I'm going down to help your father clean up."
"Alright." She then quickly left shutting the door behind her. Danny then turned back to Dani to see a confused look on her face. "What's wrong?"
Dani looked at her hand and then over to Danny. "I don't know…. She just thanked me."
"Well of course. You saved me from being hit by that energy beam without any regard for your own life. It's only natural to be thankful."
Dani sat up a little. "It's not just that it…"
"What?"
"When I woke up and saw her at first I was scared but for some reason when she looked at me I felt relaxed….. safe….. I don't think I've ever felt that way before."
Danny sat down on the bed. "You probably felt how much she cared when she looked at you. Mom's tend to give off the feeling of safety."
"But she's not my mom…"
Danny put her hand on her shoulder. "If you want to be technical then she is, seeing how she's my mom and you're a clone of me, but just because she's not doesn't mean she can't care."
"But she just met me, why-"
Danny cut her off. "Feelings and bonds like that can't be rationalized with logic like time. The only thing you need to understand is that my parents care about you whether you want them to or not." Danny smiled as he pat her on the head.
"I guess I'll have to live with it." Dani responded with a smile.
The next morning Dani woke up late and headed down stairs. She was just about to turn and enter the kitchen when she heard her name come up in conversation. "Though we are pleased at your enthusiasm in taking her off our hands it seems as though circumstances have changed. Apparently due to her specific origins she is not covered under the half-ghost protection act like we originally though since she isn't given the same rights as a normal human."
"But she is human!" She instantly recognized it as Danny's voice. "You're not even trying to understand that!"
"Danny calm down a minute. You both already put her in our custody, you can't just come and take her back."
"Yes we can, our authority supersedes any guardianship rights you have in this situation."
"So that's it? You're just going to take her and go? Well you better be ready for a fight!" Danielle peeked around the corner to see Danny stand up.
"What do you want!? I know you would have just left with her right away if that's all it was about."
Agent K smirked. "Catch on quick don't you? You're right we did plan to trade her for something."
"Namely you."
"What?!" Jack and Maddie responded in unison.
"I figured as much."
"Yes, of course the anti-ecto amendment still stands, given certain permission from the half-ghost in question, we are allowed some variations of experimentation."
"We'll be more than happy to place her permanently in your custody if you come with us for the next week. Don't worry, you'll still be in one piece by the end of it we promise." They both looked at him with sinister smiles.
"There's no way we'd allow that!"
Agent O pointed to Danny. "Unfortunately that's his decision to make." Danny wore a frustrated expression as he clenched his fists and then looked to his parents.
"Danny….?"
He turned back to the two agents. "Then she's completely free right?"
"Within the terms of the previous agreement of course."
Danny glared at them. "Fine, you've got a deal."
Before agents K and O could react, Dani busted into the kitchen. "No Danny! You can't!"
They all turned to her. "Dani!?"
"I can't let you do this for me!"
"Don't worry about me.."
"But I am! Besides, do you even think they'll keep their word?!"
Danny looked over at them and then back to Dani. "I really don't have much of a choice."
"No! I won't let you!" She ran over and got between him and The Guys in White.
"Dani!"
"Neither of you is going!" Maddie pulled both Danny and Danielle behind her. "You're going to have to get through us first!"
"I doubt you need to worry about that Mr. and Mrs. Fenton." They all turn to see a Large mustachioed man in a white suit in the entrance to the kitchen.
"Who are you?"
Both agents K and O became nervous. "Please excuse me but I am their commanding officer. Due to certain circumstances I assigned them to watch her, imagine my surprise when I heard they'd dumped her onto someone else." He gave them an angry glare.
"Who told you?!" Tucker walk out from behind him dressed professionally. "Sorry, but a good friend of mine was worried you two were trying to take advantage of the situation." Tucker's sarcastic quip was followed by the obvious smirk that spread across his face.
"I should have known you were trying to pull something." Danny turned to Tuck. "You're back early."
"Sam filled me in, I've got this situation handled."
"It's about time we wrapped this up." He looked over to K and O. "Disciplinary measures will be taken immediately upon our return to HQ." He then walked over and grabbed Dani's arm.
"Hey!"
"Wait, let her go!"
"Sorry Fenton but she is still in our custody but relax, she's still protected under the amendment of the Anti-ecto code."
"There's no way I'm letting you take her back to sit in a cell for the rest of her life!"
The commander looked at him confused. "What are you talking about? We only contain her powers, that doesn't involve sticking her in a cell."
"But they said…."
He looked at them and then back at Danny. "Whatever they told you, as far as I know she hasn't done anything that merits being incarcerated for. She will simply be kept under observation in one of our facilities but still kept in a completely humane setting."
"If you're only supposed to keep her observation because of her powers, why not just leave her here?" He turned to Mr. Fenton.
"I cannot ask a civilian.."
"You're not asking us, we're asking you," Mrs. Fenton chimed in. Dani turned to look at both Jack and Maddie.
The commander hesitated for a moment and then proceeded to respond. "I… uh.."
He turned to Tucker. "I don't see any problems with that, after all, the Fenton's are ghost experts."
He turned back to Maddie and Jack. "Are you sure you'd be willing to take responsibility for anything that may result from this?"
"Definitely!"
Danny looked down to Danielle. "So Danielle… What do you say to that?"
She looked back over to Mr. and Mrs. Fenton who beamed warm smiles at her. "I think… I want to stay.." She walked over to Maddie and Jack. "Can I?"
"Of course you can." Maddie kneeled down to hug her.
Danny turned to the commander who was already forcing K and O out of the house. "Well I guess they ended up getting rid of her after all, but it's better this way, wouldn't you say."
"You've done more in the short time you've been here than our entire organization, so if you think you can take responsibility, far be it for me to stop you. I'm going to give you a warning though, if she does anything to get our attention in a negative way I'll be back, and I won't be as lenient." With that he pulled out a small remote and pointed it at Danielle. After a few seconds a small click is heard as the tracking band fell onto the floor. Danielle rubbed her wrist while still in Maddie's embrace.
Once the agents left Tuck started to leave too. "By the way Danny. Sam told me to tell you that you owe her big time and she expects you to pay up big time tomorrow at 7 p.m."
"That's a price I'm more than happy to pay!" With that Tucker left and Danny noticed Jazz just outside the kitchen.
"Well it's just like you said, it worked itself out in the end."
"Yeah… I was starting to think for a minute it was taking a turn for the worse."
"Well, all in all it seems we were able to make it happen."
"What happen?" Jazz pointed behind him and he turned to follow. Their Danielle was being hugged by Jack and Maddie and hugging them in return.
"Yeah, you're right, perhaps all of that needed to happen before this could."
"And you know what? Danielle seems to the happiest I've seen her so far." They both looked onto the warm sight with broad smiles.
Okay now it's time to say awwwww! Anyway, I might post the other half of the story later as a sequel, haven't really decided yet. And I'm next going to start a crossover story with Kim Possible! If you like that show and this one, look forward to it! And as always Review!=^-^=