Title: Appendix
Theme: Surgery
Pairing: None
Rating: K
6. Surgery
When his appendix exploded, and his parents drove him to the hospital, the only thing he could think was about his secret. They would find it, wouldn't they? For some reason he imagined them sliding the scalpel into his skin and tearing it open. Then Danny Phantom would crawl out with his eyes red and screaming, jaw twisted, and somehow he would be awake and trying to push the phantom back inside, and saying there wasn't anything, that he was normal that it really wasn't true in the least.
That was the fever, of course. It was far too high and he was delirious, because once that dream ended he was tossed into a dream about a penguin and a camel who desperately needed him to help them save the world's ice cream from a heating lamp. The heating lamp didn't talk or move or anything really, it was just a lamp.
Then he was awake, and very confused.
"Hey, little brother," Jazz picked up his hand. "Are you lucid yet?"
"What happened?"
"They took out your appendix."
"Oh." He sighed, trying to shake off his sleep, looking around at the white, fuzzy room. "Did they find out?"
"Find out?" she blinked, then laughed. "Danny, they didn't test your DNA. How would they figure it out?"
"I don't know."
"Want to go back to sleep?"
He nodded, and then he did.