The next morning, Danny was putting back the now fully charged weapons into the weapons vault when Maddie checked in on him.

"Sweetie? How are you today?" she asked with concern. Danny looked up from the shelf he was organising and smiled at her warmly.

"I feel fine mom. Sleep well?" he answered calmly. Maddie smiled and nodded.

"I did. Thank you. Did you get any sleep?" Maddie replied hopefully. Danny shook his head as he passed her to collect an armful of wrist rays to return to the vault.

"I did an inventory too. I wrote it down on the page," Danny informed her and pointed with a nod to a handwritten sheet of paper on the nearby desk, his arms full with the ghost weapons. Maddie smiled and picked up the sheet and skimmed it casually. While it was nice that Danny had volunteered to do such a large and time consuming job, she was concerned for her son. She knew he didn't need sleep for energy anymore but she was worried that his condition might have long term consequences for his human half if not his ghost half.

"Are you hungry?" she asked as Danny passed her with a bunch of rifles. He nodded slightly.

"A bit," he admitted. Maddie nodded.

"I'll make you something to eat then," she decided as she went upstairs, putting the page back onto the desk behind her. Danny glanced at his mother as she left, a small appreciative smile aimed at her back. He knew his family were worried about him. Heck, he was worried about himself. He knew that his elevated energy could be a bad thing. He missed sleeping. He missed being able to just turn off his body and escape into unconsciousness for a few hours. He had always been a night owl, stargazing wasn't a morning person's hobby. But night time was fast becoming a lonely and boring time for him. He had managed to find jobs to do so far, but what would happen when he eventually ran out of chores to do. He loved stargazing, but he wasn't sure he could spend the rest of his life spending the night on the roof. Movies and videogames were great too but hours and hours of them could get boring, especially alone.

He had just put the last weapon in place in the vault when his mother called him into the kitchen to eat. His mother wasn't the only person awake. Most of the household and guests were around, Fu dog and Jake hadn't gotten up yet but they had both had a late night.

"Here you are sweetie," Maddie remarked warmly as she placed a bowl of fruit salad and a ham and cheese sandwich on the table at an empty seat. Danny smiled, thinking that he wouldn't be able to finish that. He dropped into the seat and decided to start with half of the sandwich before tackling the salad. If he had room, he'd have the final half sandwich. The room was filled with comfortable chatter. Jimmy frowned at Danny though across the table. The teen looked a little pale. Jimmy wasn't a doctor but he could see that the halfa didn't look completely healthy.

Once he had eaten all he could, Danny stood up and cleared his breakfast.

"By the way, Jake got here last night. His grandfather forced him to bring his dog too but don't worry, mom, dad, he's well trained," Danny informed the room.

"What time did he get in?" Jack wondered, surprised that the teen had come back the previous evening.

"I think it was about midnight or something. I didn't look at a clock but I hadn't started on the lab yet," Danny recalled thoughtfully. Jack nodded in understanding.

"Did you get the lab finished?" Jazz asked. Danny sighed disappointedly and nodded. Everyone gave the halfa sympathetic smiles. Danielle tapped her chin in thought.

"You could tidy every room. You know a room a night. That should keep you occupied for a while," she suggested. Danny smirked and nodded gratefully.

Danny excused himself to get changed, sneaking into his room to grab the clothes from his closet to avoid waking the talking dog and teen still sleeping in there. He changed in the bathroom and brushed his teeth. He looked at his reflection and winced. He looked like he hadn't slept in days. While it was true, he didn't feel that way. It was concerning. Did this mean that his ghost half was taking over and he couldn't care for his human half anymore? He couldn't sleep. He didn't want to eat. Could he be making his human half sick? Danny swept a hand through his hair and blew out a sigh. What could he do? He turned to go but he suddenly felt like he was punched in the chest and he stumbled into the sink. He groaned and massaged his chest in discomfort. What he didn't know was that his eyes had pulsed bright green the moment he felt that sudden pain. The pain faded. Danny breathed a soft sigh of relief before turning to his reflection again. What was that? Did he have a heart attack?! Danny pushed away that fear and shook his head.

"No. It was probably nothing. If it happens again, I'll tell the others. But there's no need to worry them about nothing," Danny mumbled to himself. However he did resolve to search online how to identify a heart attack.

Danny returned downstairs as Sam and Tucker arrived. He greeted his friend and girlfriend. They returned to the kitchen and found the others still there, nursing cups of tea or coffee or nibbling on slices of toast.

"What do you kids plan on doing today?" Maddie inquired curiously.

"No idea. We could play some videogames," Tucker suggested. Danny shrugged. He didn't mind as long as he got to spend time with his friends.

"Videogames only lets like four people play. Do you have any board games?" Artemis pointed out hopefully. Maddie hummed in thought.

"We might do. Jazz, Danny, can either of you remember where they are?" Maddie answered. The only game she knew the location of was the checkers board, after the last time she and Jack played, she had hidden it. The arguments weren't worth it. She wasn't a sore winner, her husband was just a sore loser, that's all.

"We had them out last Christmas," Jazz muttered in thought. Danielle nodded. She remembered the games, she had needed to learn each game and often lost as she had no experience. Danny snapped his fingers as he recalled where he put them.

"I put them away. We were still settling Dani in so I put them in the Ops centre since she got the spare room," Danny informed them. He turned into his ghost form and phased through the ceiling and went to the Ops centre.

Minutes later, Danny returned with a tower of dusty board games. There was mousetrap, cluedo, monopoly, snakes and ladders, twister as well as other classics. The teens grinned. With the wish to keep Danny out of trouble and out of the public eye, they were running out of ideas to occupy themselves with. But with the discovery of so many board games, they knew they had today sorted at least. Half an hour later, the teens had finally decided on playing monopoly first and once enough people got knocked out, they could start another game. Jake and Fu dog appeared just as they started the game.

"Hey Jake, want to play? We haven't gone around everyone yet. We're using these instead of the normal pieces," Sam offered and held up an ice figurine that looked like herself and glanced at the others that Danny and Danielle had made. Jake grinned.

"Sounds great. Let me grab some breakfast first kay?" Jake called. Danny nodded and while they waited, he made a figurine of Jake and put it on the start square. Jake returned a minute later with a seat from the kitchen table, dropping it beside Zatanna who happened to be next to play. Jake blinked at the figurine of himself before smirking at Danny. The halfa returned the smirk and offered the dragon a shrug. He wasn't going to admit that he made figurines of people he knew as practice.

After half an hour of playing, Fu dog made a half bark, half cough sound and tugged on Jake's jacket.

"Kid, potion," he hissed. Jake blinked before nodding.

"We should have snacks. Zatanna, mind helping me?" Jake announced and dragged the magician into the kitchen before she could answer. He pulled out the potion and quickly explained what it was to her. They returned a few minutes later with packs of junk food and Zatanna informed the group of the potion and handed it to Danny. The halfa sighed and rolled his eyes but drank the liquid obediently. He cringed at the disgusting flavour and quickly excused himself to get something to drink and get rid of the taste. But Zatanna and Jake breathed soft sighs of relief. The potion had had no effect on the halfa beyond leaving a horrible after taste in his mouth. Danny hadn't needed the potion after all. The headache at the press conference must have been a coincidence or a side effect of his elevated energy.

Danielle was the first out of the game, closely followed by Rocket after she landed on a number of Sam's properties. Once Conner and M'gann got knocked out, the four decided to start a game of snakes and ladders, Danielle's favourite as the rules were so simple. Three hours later, Sam and Robin were heads up.

"How come you're so good Sam? I get Rob as he's been trained by Batman to strategize but…" Wally wondered curiously. Sam blushed lightly.

"It comes with being from a rich family. Money management kind of comes with the class. Plus my dad is involved with property development. You pick stuff up," Sam admitted shyly. Despite having grown up rich and later surrounded by Danny's fame since the beginning of last summer after the asteroid, she didn't like confessing her true rank. Her family's wealthy background had been revealed in a massive exposé, her classmates had been absolutely stunned. Everyone blinked at her as she bought a hotel for one of her properties. Danny chuckled at the dumbstruck expressions on a number of the others' faces.

"She's more than a pretty face guys," he commented as he lazily put an arm around her shoulders. Sam rolled her eyes but smirked proudly as her boyfriend complimented her.

Just a lazy day for the group, keeping Danny out of trouble. But… what happened in the bathroom? Any ideas?

Let me know what you guys think so far.

Until the next chapter.