Ok so struggling against really thins semi sharp wire with a passion and hissing at my best friends probably wasn't the best idea… but honestly you stay the same age and then have your friends grow up around you and not want to face the idea that you're still freaking fourteen. Sam looked at me curiously. I looked up at her.
"I can honestly say that I have not aged anymore than Tucker gave up meat at anytime during the past ten years." I said. Tucker was pacing, I looked over at my friends who had tied me to a freaking chair, "No that you have me, what are you planning on doing with me?" They stayed silent.
"Come on, you have to give me something to quip off of, or I'll just start making fun of your hair… that and the fact you actually seem to have a wife. You were always a ladies man." I could tell I was getting under Tucker's skin, "I just hope you didn't have to sing to her." I smiled, "She might have run screaming from the room."
"Danny would you grow up." Tucker said exasperated, he thought this would be easy didn't he. I let the false smile fall from my lips and I looked at him coolly.
"I believe we've already established the fact I cannot, otherwise we wouldn't be here like this." I said it coldly, from a distance. I couldn't help the fact that they were fourteen years older than me anymore than they could. My childish quips were part of my charm.
"You know what I meant." Tucker said looking very parental all of a sudden, I raised my eyebrows.
"Who died and made you my dad…" I looked away, "Don't answer that I don't want to know." Sam sighed kneeling in front of me.
"Danny?" she asked. I looked back at her, her eyes, which were the only thing familiar in her adult face. My heart clenched.
"Yeah?" I asked swallowing the lump in my throat.
"What happened?" Sam asked, I closed my eyes.
"I kicked ghost but as usual and came home to a town empty and barren, bodies pilled sky high, buildings in ruins, everything was gone, dead, destroyed or abandoned. I was left alone… alone in the aftermath of hell." I didn't open my eyes, "I had to take care of all the bodies myself, then I've been here ever since… seems fitting doesn't it, my obsession… as a ghost, my town." I laughed bitterly.
"He's a ghost?" The other woman asked, I looked at her.
"Boo." She jumped a little and held onto Tucker, "You forgot about me… no you chose to forget, ignore that I ever existed… not that I can't blame you, if I were you I'd want to forget me too." I looked at Sam, "You wanted to forget, but felt like you were betraying me to do so, that's why you were the first to come here, driving like a bat out of hell I believe." I blinked at her, "You wanted to prove I was still alive," then I looked from Sam to Tucker then down at my lap, "But neither of you could talk about me, it was too painful for you."
"Well did you talk about us?" Tucker asked kind of childishly, I looked up at him.
"To who? Ember… she really dislikes humans, and since she knew you were adults, well she hates adults to." Then I cocked my head, "Youngblood like the stories of what we used to get ourselves into, but he got bored of it after a while, Skulker still wants to skin me and adorn his fireplace with my pelt… or the foot of his bed… he still can't make up his mind, it's a good thing he's not an interior designer."
I sighed, "Spectra would just feed off the misery I had from missing you, Johnny and Kitty are not the kind to associate with kids," I thought, "Clockwork would listen but I haven't really left Amity Park, Vlad isn't around here anymore, don't know if he's alive or dead, I stopped watching TV a while back."
Then I looked up at the ceiling, "Um… Frostbite listens sometimes when he comes over, but he doesn't very often, lets see… Dora listens to… Pandora has only been here once since and that was because of a minotaur problem, Nocturne doesn't like me, Amorpho promised he'd stay away, but I'm not sure if he hasn't been around.
"Ghost dog just wants to play fetch, but I do talk to him, lets see… Vortex is still with the Observants, Danni stops in every now and then, she likes to hear about you guys, um… Technus… well he's still so lame, and the box ghost just comes around to hang out in the old box store, I have to keep replacing the boxes to keep everything perfect… lets see…Poindexter is till chilling in the fifties, and Walker pretty much keeps to the ghost zone.
"Desiree hasn't really been around since everyone left, I did see the Dairy King a couple years ago… the Ghost Writer is still sore at me. The lunch lady is still pissed off that there is no more lunch; I have to keep fixing the school cafeteria… it's not like the ecto-pusses really talk, and I haven't seen the ghost vultures since Vlad left… Um…"
"Ok, we get it." Tucker finally said cutting me off. I looked at him, "What have you been doing all this time."
"Rebuilding the town, it's more of a duty really, or maybe it's like unfinished business people are always going on about. What ever it is, I need to finish it."
"Dude, that'll take you another year." Tucker said looking at me, I looked up at him.
"Not really, just a couple hours or so… what?" I asked, Tucker started thinking about that.
"But... you'd have to have the reality gauntlet to do something like that."
"Tucker have you ever heard about that one law… oh what was it... matter cannot be created or destroyed only transformed… or something like that." I said, "Well I figured it's kinda the same with the power in the gems… the gauntlet was just a vessel, and once the vessels was destroyed, the power had to go else where right? Too the nearest ecto powered thing… which just happened to be…"
"You." Sam said her eyes lighting up. I nodded.
"Me." I looked up a the ceiling, "The thing about it is I could live my dreams, any of them, I could probably have made myself grow older, but something about the town drew it to me first… I'm not sure how to explain it, but it must be the ghost in me." I looked at Tucker's wife, "You don't understand a word of what's going on do you?" She shook her head, I laughed, "Then you can continue thinking I'm a ghost." I smiled.
"Wait you're not a ghost?" she asked her eyebrows scrunching up, I didn't have to answer because someone was up stairs. I checked it out.
"Valerie." I said, Sam and Tucker looked at me, "Does my past insist on biting me in the butt?" I head Valerie coming down the stairs, oh this should be fun.
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Valerie sighed driving into town, her boyfriend hummed looking out, they almost passed Fenton Works.
"Whoa!" Derek said looking at it, "Slow down, slow down." Valerie pressed down on the break.
"That's Fenton Works." Val said.
"I know." Of course he did, he researched everything he could find about this town, he was such a supernatural junkie, "Can we go inside?"
"I doubt it's even open." Valerie said rolling her eyes. Derek gave her puppy dog eyes, Val sighed, "Fine, we can go check it out, but if it's locked we leave." Derek smiled. Val turned the corner and pulled up to the house. The couple got out, Derek rushing to the door and turning the knob.
"Whoa… freaky." Derek said, "It looks like people lived here yesterday. Valerie's senses went into overdrive, the bio-suit that she'd gotten years ago was ready to come out.
"Derek. There's a ghost in the house." Val said, "Get behind me, don't make a sound, and keep your hand on my shoulder the entire time." Valerie heard noise downstairs. Something told her it was the ghost boy. She opened the basement door and went downstairs, stopping stunned at the scene below her.
(Sorry that was so short, just had to Val and Derek to the house)
I looked up at Valerie wondering what she was thinking, finding me there like that, probably along the lines of GHOST! But honestly who know.
"Hi Val." I said cheerfully, "You gonna untie me or what?" I smiled. Val just gapped.
"Don't do it, he'll run." Sam said looking at Valerie, I stuck my tongue out.
"So… it's note every day that you're best friends tie you up." I sighed. Valerie was still gapping.
"But… you're dead." Val finally spat out.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Danny, I presume." Said the man behind her, I looked up at him curiously, did every one have a partner?
"In the flesh, you gonna untie me?" I asked hopefully.
"I'm not sure." The man replied.
"Don't trust him, he's a ghost." Val said suspiciously, "We don't even know if that's Danny."
"You dumped me before we were even really going out because of your stupid ghost hunting job… oops." I said, "You weren't supposed to know I knew." I blushed. Val looked unsure.
"You knew about that?"
"Honestly Val, when Tucker fell on you did you think it was an accident?" I asked. Valerie pondered this.
"You used to hunt ghosts?" asked the man behind her, Val looked at him sheepishly.
"Uh… yeah, ever heard of the red huntress?"
"That was you?" The man blanched.
"Yeah, while I'm sure you two would love to hear everything that she did, I'm really uncomfortable here." I told them. Sam and Tucker looked at me.
"Promise you won't run?" Sam asked. I nodded.
"I promise I won't run." I said with a smile.
"Or fly, or walk through the walls, teleport either." Sam scolded.
"I still haven't learned how to do that trick." I sighed, "Fine I promise." Sam sighed untying me.
"How are you bleeding?" asked Val.
"Because I'm human." I told her.
"Then how can you fly?" Val asked growing confused, I sighed.
"Because I'm a ghost."
"But you just said…"
"Danielle." I only said, then waited for her to put it together. I watched as a light bulb came on over her head. "It's time you knew." I said looking away going and fiddling with one of the ghost weapons on the table, putting pieces of it in.
'That was you the entire time." Val gapped mouth moving like a fish.
"Yeah… kinda funny isn't it?" I asked, "You hate one of me and crush on the other, its quite the dilemma isn't it."
"It's weird to hear something like that coming out of the mouth of a fourteen year old." The other woman said.
"I'm actually the same age as Tucker." I told her, "Ghosts don't age, but all the free time on my hands has given me time to contemplate things. Like what I'd do if I ever met any of my friends again, or even if they came here, which I admit I didn't expect." I shrugged, "honestly I'd like to pretend this was all a dream and I'd wake up the next morning back in my bed the day before graduation… but the ache I feel every day in my chest reminds me that it's not so." I closed my eyes. I really didn't want to be here right now. I opened them and stared back at the table.
"What are you talking about?" the man asked. I looked up at him.
"I'm Danny Fenton, I'm half ghost, and I have lived in this town for twenty-eight years." I said simply, "I have been dreading and wishing for this day, yet it never really turned out how I imagined it. The conversations I had with the Sam and Tucker replicas really can't compare."
"Replicas? You replaced us?" Sam asked offended.
"No… not really, I relived the days when you were here, not really replaced." I told her. Sam sighed.
"That's not healthy." Sam told me.
"Nothing has really been healthy for me." I sighed. "But… I got to go. So I'll catch you later." I smiled, "Goin' ghost." I let the rings form and jumped off the ground floating before them, "Oh… and I'll say it again, that wasn't my dog, and I really am sorry, maybe you'll believe me now." I phased out of the basement and all the way to the op center floating above it for a minute before flying downtown to sit on a building and sulk.
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Tucker watched his friend go out, he was so young, yet so old. Like he'd grown up but had stayed young… it was a strange thing to hear him talk, he was childish at first, then he became more mature. He still held onto his childishness even though he had grown old, if not physically then mentally. Something was different in Danny whether it was being left behind or whether it was seeing Tucker and Sam again Tucker didn't know. He looked over at the new guy. The guy was gapping at the spot where Danny had left.
"Was that?" the guy asked leaving the end open.
"Danny Phantom." Valerie said.
I'm just going to leave it there, muhwa ha ha, I'm evil. I have writers block so, that's kind of why I left it there, that and because I have to type up the whole fifth chapter to another one of my fan fics, because my back up jump drive broke to… I don't even know how it happened. It was in my lap top, then I moved my lap top, and some where along the way the while it was in the computer it got bent the end all sticking up, the little plastic part kind of broken. I'm not sure how that happened but it did, now I'm torn between strangling the computer or going to my room and never coming out again, so I'm sorry for the short chapters and slow updates. I'm also running out of the time I'll be able to type all this stuff so... yeah. I guess that's it. R&R.
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