Chapter 4-Please Leave a Message After the Beep

Danny slowly woke as he felt the painkillers wearing off. He grunted a bit as he tried to sit up, but failed as the pain from his ribs came rushing up. He gave up and looked around the room. It had dark blue walls, with a small bit of light coming from a balcony door and dark blue curtains. He noticed on the dark cherry wood nightstand a small buzzer with a speaker. Feeling a bit of hunger and pain, he slowly reached over with his good hand to pick it up and pressed the button. A few seconds later, he heard Vlad's voice saying, "Yes Daniel?"
"Uh, can I have some food, dad and maybe another pain killer."

"Is there something wrong?"
"No. I'm just a little hungry and I'm starting to have some pain."
"Alright. I'll be up in a few minutes."
"Thanks dad."Danny said as he put the buzzer down. He stared up at the ceiling as he waited for the medicine. He couldn't really lift up his left arm that much because of the black cast that wrapped around it. He sighed again as he waited. After a few minutes, Vlad came upstairs with a tray of food.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm in a little pain, but I think I still got some painkiller still left in me."Danny smiled abit.

"Well, we'll wait for it to completely wear off before I give you the next one." Vlad said as he put the tray down, "is chicken soup alright for you?"

Danny nodded slowly as Vlad felt his head. "You still have a small fever, but it's better than it was a couple days ago. Let's get you sitting up again."

Vlad helped Danny to sit up and then placed the tray on his lap. Danny with his good hand started to eat the soup as Vlad pulled up a chair.

"So how's your memory?"
Danny stopped eating, "What do you mean?"
"Like what do you remember before you woke up?"
Looking up and closing his eyes but reopened them again, "Nothing. It's like a complete blank." He looks over with a worried look, "Is that bad?"

"It's not really bad. You couldn't help it." Vlad lifted up his hand and ruffled danny's hair, "Just don't worry about it. You should just worry about getting better right now."

Danny smiled, "Okay." He then resumed to eating the soup. After a few minutes, Danny looked back over with a confused look after getting a feeling of being watched, "What's wrong?"
Vlad was just staring with an odd look himself, "Nothing. I...was making sure you were doing fine."
"Okay?" He went back on to the food.

'Daniel's eyes, why are they like that? They were never like that until last night.' Narrowing his eyes, 'Why are they becoming lighter, almost silver?'

"Dad?" Danny's voice broke Vlad out of thought, "Yes?"
"I'm done." he set the spoon down and leaning back groaning a bit.
"What's wrong?"
"I think they wore off now."
"Alright alright." He had a glass of water off to the side along with a pill and placed it on the tray. Danny quickly grabbed them and swallowed the pill with some water fast.

"Calm down, Daniel. It's not like it was going to run away from you."
"I know…but the pain…realllllly bad."
"I'll go away soon, just close your eyes and go back to sleep."

"Kay…"Danny sunk back into the bed as Vlad took the tray and closed his eyes.

"If you need anything you know how to call me."
"mkay…"

Closing the door behind him, the older halfa swiftly walked down the hallway, biting his lower lip.

'Dammnit, at this rate the kid's going to get addicted to the painkillers. I thought his healing powers would had already mended the ribs or at least his arm. But at least the amnesia is still keeping hold.' He stopped. 'I need to research what the hell attacked Daniel. Maybe if I called Maddie to see if anything strange had happened other than her son missing…'

Downstairs: A Few Minutes Later

"We're sorry, but the number you have dialed is currently unavailable. Please make sure you have dialed the right number or use an alternate method of contacting." The robotic voice chimed after Vlad had dialed the home number.
"Strange..heh, maybe Jack forgot to pay the phone bill again. Well there's always her cell phone." He started to dial another number.

"Hi! You're reached my cellphone. Unfortunately I currently kicking or ripping molecule by molecule an ectoplasmic life form. Please leave your name, number and message! *small laugh* bye!" then 'To page this person please press one. For all other options press two. Please leave a message after the tone.'

When the beep happened, Vlad opened his mouth, but then shut his cellphone closed, ending the call. 'Least it's easier than breathing into the phone like I did back in college…I hate to do this…but….'

He reopened his phone and pressed some numbers. The usual dial tone beeped, but Vlad jumped while pulling the phone away from his ear at the sudden booming voice, "HEY! You've reached Jack Fenton's Fenton Cell phone that not only makes calls, but tracks and blasts ghost to kingdom come! BANZAI!" a young female voice rang out, "DAD! JUST TELL THEM TO ANSWER YOUR PHONE!" and another voice, which was Danny's, nervously asks, "The phone does what now?" 'To page this person, press one now. For all other options press two no. Please leave a message after the tone.'

Hanging up the phone, he almost laughed at what was going on in the background. "I'll try them later besides, I can set up a sob story script for when they mention about Daniel."

Several Hours Later: 10pm

Vlad sat down in front of the television that was currently off, with the phone by his ear. He had gotten his office work done and got Danny to go back to sleep after he woke up for food. The fourteen year old had mentioned about his ribs not hurting anymore, but assumed that the pain killers were still working in his system.

'Please leave a message after the tone…' he slammed the phone shut with an angry sigh. He had tried all three numbers, but got nothing but error and answering machine messages.

Leaning back, "Maybe tomorrow before they go out searching."

Picking up the remote, Vlad turned on the tv for the evening news….

and dropped the remote with his mouth a gaped in horror.

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SG: I'm sorry for not updating in a long while. No excuses, no sudden medical problems, I just had problems. Mostly to do with a slight writers block and rewriting the original plot behind the story. The original was too long, too confusing and everything. SO hopefully this one will be better.

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