Disclaimer: I wish I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-
Alley sighed as she settled down in her new guest room. Mr. and Mrs. Manson had, of course, freaked out and put her in a new room as they hired people to fix the giant gaping hole. All of the research papers, including her stolen files, were sitting on her new desk.
Opening the first Danny Phantom file, she flipped to the more interesting page. It wasn't useful information or anything, but interesting pictures. Phantom with Sam and Tucker, Phantom hugging Jazz, Phantom fighting, Phantom just floating around, Phantom being chased…where did Vlad get all of these personal, scrap-bookish type pictures of Phantom? Was Phantom his child? He did have Vlad's hair color, stubborn attitude and choice in clothing. They both wear a black suit, it's just that Phantom's was a lab suit and Vlad's was a regular one.
What was that flash of light?
Alley, having seen all the pictures, put the file down and thought about it. Was she right? Could Phantom take on a human form? If so, Sam must know about it. And those pictures…Tucker, Sam and Jazz were in there. Where was Danny? Was he left out because of his parents? Or does he just not like Phantom?
She yawned and began to open the next file. Her eyes widened and she gasped.
"Vlad Masters knows how to clone people and he's keeping this a secret!"
Before she could read further, there was a knock at her window.
"You should have been more careful!" Sam lectured. "Alley could have seen you!"
Danny winced as he followed her to the stairs.
"Is she in the hallway?" he asked.
"No," Sam replied after glancing. "Why?"
Danny sighed in relief and quickly flew up the stairs before resuming his position on his crutches and following Sam to her room.
"Sam, I'm starting to think I should come out to Alley before she finds out," Danny admitted after they reached her room."
"WHAT!" Danny winced.
"I know it's stupid…but she's so much smarter than my parents and the Guys in White," he explained, sighing. "She's also not going to leave until she finds out anyway. Besides…maybe she can give me more information about my powers."
"Danny, she's going to expose you!" Sam yelled at him. "She's going to tell everybody that you're half-ghost to get herself more fame and fortune."
"Sam, not everybody is shallow," Danny argued, giving her a Look. "I mean, think about what this girl could do to me. I could make her promise not to tell."
Sam shook her head.
"No," she said firmly. "If you do this, there is no reality gaulet to undo this."
Danny paused. She was right. He couldn't undo this, unless he went to Clockwork. Then again, Clockwork already told him repeatedly that he couldn't keep undoing his mistakes and Danny could sense he was getting kind of peeved at him about it.
"I'm going to talk to her. As Phantom." Before Sam could yell at him, he quickly added, "I'm not going to tell her! I'm just going to talk!"
Danny handed her his crutches and went ghost. He floated into the air and flew out the window and around the house. He turned invisible when he saw people beginning to examine the damage done to Sam's house. Quickly browsing the windows, he saw Alley sitting at her desk reading something.
He knocked on her window.
I was originally going to leave it here. Then I looked at it again and thought to myself, this is kind of short. Your lucky day people.
Alley glanced at the window, to find nothing there. Suddenly, Phantom appeared in her room. Alley nearly fell over in surprise, but smiled and stood.
"Hey!" she said cheerfully. "I'm so glad you decided to come over and talk to me."
"Yeah...well uh," Danny stuttered slightly, doing his famous neck rub in nervousness. "I decided that you were okay…and that you really don't want to rip me apart molecule by molecule like some other people I've met."
"Jack Fenton?"
"Jack Fenton."
Alley rolled her eyes slightly at the name. She pulled up a chair.
"You can sit if you want," she offered.
Danny awkwardly sat in a chair.
"So…what do you want to know?"
"Lots of things," Alley admitted. "So many I barely know where to start. Can I start with your age?"
"I'm sixteen," Danny replied.
Alley nodded as she wrote that down.
"Are you comfortable telling me about your relationship with Vlad Masters?" she asked. Danny gave her an odd look.
"We're enemies more than anything else," he replied honestly.
"Is there any blood relation?" she asked. It took Danny a minute to get over this kind of disturbing question.
"Absoluately none," he confirmed. Alley smiled slightly. She hoped he didn't have anywhere to go. She had a lot of questions.
I know that this is still kind of short, but don't complain. It's something. The next chapter should be up by Tuesday at the latest.
