Arghh, so sorry about the wait.

It's just been so busy this past month that I've barely had time to work on the chapter, and when you include writers block... Welcome to my March.

But now it's April and hopefully it'll be easier to update...

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Chapter 19

It was complete agony when Danny started to wake up. The pain was unbearable. It felt like he'd been skewered and left on hot plate to burn dry.

Even when Danny was awake he refused to open his heavy eyelids. He just wanted to curl up his wounded body and wait for the pain to slowly go away.

But it wouldn't go away, at least not in the near future. He had to get up and patch himself up. Usually this job would go to either Sam or Jazz both with the both of them across the world in Amity Park, so Danny had the unfortunate problem of trying to bandage his back while his whole body felt as stiff as a board.

Danny tried to open his eyes but even an easy task like that was a challenge. Danny's dusty covered eyes cracked open. He moved his stiff neck ever so slightly to take in his surroundings.

In front of him was a shrub or bush and noticed that there was a wall of bushes in front of him. Looking at the ground below, he saw that he lying in soft garden soil.

'How did I get here?' Danny wondered.

Danny tried to use his muscles to get himself off the ground but found that his back had screams of pain resonating from his wounds. Just as he got a few inches off the ground, Danny's body would give out and land on the soft dirt.

Danny took a few deep breathes as he got ready to get up again. With one last breath, Danny's muscles sprung into action. He sprung fast from the ground but stopped halfway to a sitting position struggling to get his body up.

Just as Danny had his body in a 120 degree angle his back cracked upwards and sent his body into a comfortable sitting position. Well, it would've been comfortable if his back didn't throb so much.

Just as Danny oriented his body to the upright position his head started to feel dizzy for a moment as the blood pumped to his head. He closed his eyes trying not to groan from the dizziness.

With his eyes still closed he heard a soft crunching noise coming from behind him.

Danny turned his head around and saw a girl with brown bushy hair wearing a black robe. Beside the strangers robe sat the Fenton thermos, sealed and safe on the dirt. The figure that saved him from Spectra sat behind him. It was Hermione Granger.

Danny looked into her eyes in complete confusion of why she was there beside her. She had backed away from Danny as he made eye contact at her.

'She looks afraid of me?' Danny thought confused.

Danny went to get closer to Hermione but the pain was too much to move in any way.

Danny looked down to see his body wearing his signature hazmat suit but instead Danny saw a white tee-shirt stained in green and red blood.

"Oh no." Danny said in disbelief as he clutched his wet and bloody chest.

He felt his bloody chest noticing that his wounds continued to run with blood. He felt them before he looked up at Hermione.

"I can explain this, just don't scream or anything" Danny said distressed.

As he spoke Hermione backed away from him even more. "Get-Get away from me!"

Hermione quickly armed herself with her wand, ready to cast any spells if Danny did anything.

"What are you?"

Danny put his arms up in defence as he stared at the outstretched wand. "I can explain!"

Hermione's eyes were rapid as she surveyed Danny's body.

"How are you bleeding red and green? Ghosts aren't supposed to bleed?" Hermione said confused.

"I'm not going to hurt you, and I can explain all this." Danny said point to all of himself.

Hermione continued to point her wand at Danny, seeming to be unconvinced.

'Danny needed to calm her down' Danny thought. So he explained his situation to her.

"I need your help ok. I'm still bleeding and I need to get the wounds covered up and I can't reach my back." Danny explained.

"But how can you bleed?" Hermione asked again.

"I can explain that" Danny said trying to get up.

He tried to get himself up again but the muscles were in too much pain to move.

Hermione kept her wand armed at the ready as she stared at Danny trying desperately to get himself in a sitting position.

"I'll help you if you answer one question for me." Hermione said.

Danny looked up at her unconvinced. "And what's your question?"

"What is a halfa?" Hermione said.

Danny stopped moving as he stared into Hermione's eyes, thinking how he should respond.

'I've got to tell her' Danny thought.

"A halfa is..." Danny started, but he hesitated.

'Am I able to tell her? Am I willing to tell her my greatest secret? Maybe I could lie...' Danny thought hopefully.

He just shook his head. 'No, I need her help. And she's too smart for a lie.' Danny thought determined.

"A halfa is a half human, half ghost. A halfa can change between the two forms at will" Danny said nervously.

Hermione froze her wand lowering as she processed what Danny said.

"But, how is that possible?" Hermione asked.

Danny just frowned at her.

"I thought we had agreed on only one question?" Danny said sarcastically. Hermione's eyebrows creased together giving Danny a glare in the most menacing way she could muster. Danny was unimpressed by her glare. He did face some very menacing figures in his life or after-life, half-life. He didn't really know.

"You're telling me that you are both alive and dead at the same time? That's impossible." Hermione said with an orderly tone.

Danny chuckled at her comment.

"And yet here I am" Danny said flatly.

The two of them stared at each other for a moment before Danny started to get himself up. He took a deep breath and started to push off the ground trying to bend his stiff joints.

He got onto one knee he bent his head down gasping for breath. His dark bangs went across his eyes, obscuring his view from Hermione.

When he finally caught his breath and prepared himself for another painful session of getting up, Danny felt something grab his arm and pull him up.

He was slow but he finally up straight, he held onto the body beside him as his vision went blurry from the lack of blood.

Once Danny regained his bearings and he looked down at Hermione holding him up.

"You're helping me? I thought you were afraid of me." Danny said surprised.

"A deals, a deal" Hermione said reluctantly. "And, you needed help."

Danny smiled to himself. "No, you're obviously just too curious."

Hermione looked down at the dirt in shame; it seemed that he was right.

With Hermione holding him up on Danny's side, he tried to take a step forward. But, his chest and back was under too much strain to move even in a limp.

'I need a way to get to the tower?' Danny thought exasperated.

Danny thought it over and there was only one way and it might be painful. Flying.

"OK, I'm going to transform into my ghost form to fly us to my tower. You've got to hang on to me." Danny explained

"What?" Hermione asked confused.

"Just hang on." Danny said exasperated, shaking his head.

He closed his eyes and concentrated briefly on the cold core inside his chest. Once he tapped into it he felt his spirit form start to form from his waist going up and down his body. As the rings travelled down Danny's body the pain in his chest and back increased.

Once the transformation was complete, Danny nearly fell to the ground because of the pain. But Hermione stood her ground and kept Danny from falling head first into the dirt.

"Phantom, I can't hold you up much longer!" Hermione exclaimed.

Danny gritted his teeth and brought himself up standing again. Such a simple action was excruciating for Danny. His back as though it had been struck with lightning as he straightened his back. His neck felt like a thick board, unwilling to snap into place. The wounds on Danny's chest and back started to bleed ectoplasm running out of his body like a dry waterfall.

Hermione looked at Danny's battered body with shock in her eyes, as though she could barely believe that he could stand.

"Ok hold on to me. Real tight." Danny warned.

Hermione listened to Danny as she immediately wrapped her arms around his neck, and brought herself close to his bloody ghostly body.

Danny concentrated all his energy on his power to fly. Slowly Danny's body started to rise off the ground. As he rose higher Hermione gasped and tightened her grip around Danny's neck.

Once they were out of the bushes Danny started to make his way towards his tower up above.

Hermione stared with wonder as Danny's legs morphed into his ghostly tail. Once they both made it to half way up the outside of the tower, Hermione had a question.

"Wait, where are you taking me?"

"To the top of my tower." Danny answered flatly.

Once Danny got to the top of the tower he gritted his teeth as he turned him and Hermione intangible.

When the two of them were completely inside, Danny instantly collapsed on the floor transforming into his human form. Hermione screamed as she fell onto of him.

Hermione's body landing on top of Danny made him nearly scream in pain as his stiff back was hit by Hermione's heavy body.

'I didn't think that it took that much energy to go intangible.' Danny thought sadly.

Danny lied there in pain thinking of what he needed to do.

'I need to bandages for my chest...and my back and I need Hermione off me!' Danny thought frustrated.

"Hey Hermione, could you get off me?" Danny said in an aggravated tone.

"Sorry about that." Hermione said embarrassed as she got up.

Danny sighed in relief as he felt the weight get off his back.

"I need you to get the bandages from the desk." Danny explained

"Which drawer?" Hermione asked confused

"The top left."

Hermione opened the drawer but couldn't find it.

"It's not there" Hermione said frustrated.

"The med kit is in the desk somewhere." Danny explained.

Hermione looked at the desk and came up with a plan. She took out her wand from pocket and with a flick of her wrist she opened all the drawers of the desk.

"Accio med kit" Hermione said while pointing her wand.

Instantly in a right middle desk drawer flew a medical kit. Hermione caught it and went to Danny's side.

"I've got it." Hermione told the immobile Danny.

"OK I need to take off my shirt" Danny explained.

"OK" Hermione responded

Hermione gripped her hands around the bottom of the shirt and pulled up on the bloody mess of the shirt. Once she was halfway up the back, she gasped.

The wounds in Danny's back were deep into Danny's back; his white skin was stained with red and green. Some parts of his back were dark black from intense bruising.

Hermione shook her head and tried to ignore it. She then continued to pull the shirt off.

Eventually Hermione had gotten Danny's shirt off after some difficulty in getting Danny to raise his arms.

"Good. Now I need you to bandage my back." Danny directed.

Hermione pointed her wand at the med kit. "Fascia"

All the medical equipment in the med kit started to get to work on Danny.

While the magic cleaning potion purred the perfect amount to clean each of Danny's wounds, Danny gripped his hands into fists as the potion burned through his sensitive tissue. Danny sighed in relief as the pain faded away. Then perfectly sized bandage strips were placed on Danny's back and taped down so no blood could get leak out.

"You're going to have to turn over." Hermione told him.

Danny groaned but obeyed. He slowly turned his chest and Hermione her wand once more.

"Fascia"

The potion levitated over Danny's scratch wound and poured heavily into the scratch. Danny gripped his hands into fists and yelped at the intense pain coming from the large wound.

'10...9...8...7' Danny counted in his mind.

He continued to count until the pain went away. The bandages then wrapped around his chest and back to completely cover his scratch wound.

Once all the wounds were covered Hermione took out a bottle from the kit. She looked at the label for the potion, figuring out how much Danny would need.

"OK, open wide" Hermione said holding a glass of potion out to Danny.

Danny raised an eyebrow at the glass but didn't question it. He took a sip, and immediately started to gag and spit out the potion.

"Come on you've got to drink it!" Hermione instructed Danny.

"What is that!" Danny said in between spits.

"It's a pain relieving potion." Hermione answered. "And it'll help with the pain. Now drink it!"

Danny shook his head, not believing he had to put the foul tasting drink in his mouth again.

He took full glass in his hands and drank as quickly as possible trying to desperately not to have any of the potion touch his tongue. He shivered once it was down his throat.

The potion must have been the flavour of puke.

Danny then leaned his head back and left it go limp on the floor, enjoying the peace after the beating he just gotten.

"How did you become a halfa?" Hermione asked.

Danny opened his eyes and looked at Hermione. She looked curiously at the young halfa, eager for answers to her questions.

Danny looked over to his bed, which looked like it was beckoning to him.

"I'll answer your questions if you help me onto my bed" Danny said with a sly smile.

Hermione gave him a short glare but gave in quickly.

"Fine" Hermione said extending her hand to Danny.

It took some time for Danny to get himself up from the floor but once he was standing it didn't take long to make it to the bed.

Once Danny was lying in the bed he turned to Hermione.

"You want to know how I became a halfa?" Danny asked.

Hermione nodded, "Yes"

Danny sighed before he continued.

"See... I became a halfa in a lab accident. I was inside a ghost portal when it turned on...Somehow I survived and was half human, half ghost" Danny finished softly.

"Why did you help me?"

"You're a member of the Order, and you needed help." Hermione said nicely.

"But, you barely know me. And I'm a ghost." Danny replied.

"Just because your ghost or technically half a ghost... doesn't mean you're any less of a person" Hermione said passionately. "It was no problem Phantom."

"Or..." Hermione paused.

"Is that really your name?"

"No it's not, that's just the name for my ghost form. My real name is Danny. Danny Fenton."

"And you weren't a wizard before turning into a halfa?" Hermione asked.

Danny started to scratch the back of his head, nervous about how he should answer. "Yeah... Before the accident, I was a muggle."

Hermione's eyes widened at that. "That means, your a magical creature. At least according to the ministry"

"Yep, according to wizard laws I'm less than a human being!" Danny said venomously.

Hermione was silent after that, not sure what to say after Danny's outburst. The two of them were silent for a while, at least it felt long. But in reality it was only thirty seconds. Hermione was the one brave enough to break the silence.

"You have a family?" Hermione said glumly.

"Yes" Danny said staring into the wall.

"They know your here?" Hermione said as nice as possible.

"No" Danny said looking into the bed sheets.

"You miss them?" Hermione said softly.

Danny got back into focus and looked at Hermione with some anger, but her nice, caring eyes dulled his anger.

"Yes. I do, everyday." Danny said softly. "My parents don't even know about the accident, you know that. My own parents hunted me thinking that I was some 'evil manifestation of ectoplasmic energy and post-human conciseness'. I probably would have gone insane if my sister and friends didn't know."

"Wait what? Your parents hunted you?" Hermione said shocked.

"Yeah my parents are ghost hunters; they are the ones who built the portal. They probably think that I've been kidnapped by someone, or maybe I'm just dead in a ditch! Maybe they think I ran away." Danny finished sadly.

Danny held back tears that were coming to his eyes, not wanting to look weak in front of Hermione. He didn't know where the rant came from. Maybe it was months of stress and emotional pain pent up towards this outburst. Maybe he needed some sort of release.

Hermione was shocked, unsure of what to say. So, she just kept quiet as she watched the young halfa pant roughly.

"That...That sounds horrible" Hermione said, as though she didn't know what to say.

Danny just ignored her, staring off into space as all his stress and pent up feelings came out. His rigid shoulders slowly slumped downwards as his pants became slower and softer than before.

Hermione continued to watch, just in case his anger would come back.

"Sorry about that" Danny said.

"Don't worry about it" Hermione said while placing her hand on Danny's arm as a sign of friendship.

Danny smiled, "Thanks, for everything."

"Hey, if I went through what you went through, well...I would have exploded as well" Hermione said with a laugh.

Danny chuckled at that.

"I'll take you back down, that potion really helped."

"Are you sure?" Hermione asked nervously.

"Positive" Danny said slowly getting out of the bed

Once Danny was standing again, he transformed into his ghost half.

Danny winced from the pain from transforming but kept his knees from buckling.

Hermione stepped forward and wrapped herself around Danny.

He lifted himself off from the ground and fazed through the floor. He continued down the tower until he reached the ground.

Danny landed softly, Hermione immediately latched herself off of him.

Danny raised an eyebrow at her. Hermione noticed this and went on the defence.

"What, I really don't like flying."

"How could you not like flying?" Danny said sceptically.

Hermione shrugged her shoulders at that. "I don't see what's so great about air"

Danny just shook his head and started to drift back into the air. When he was nearly ten feet in the air Danny stopped his upward glide and dived down in front of Hermione.

"What?" Hermione said surprised.

"You can't tell anyone! I mean anyone! Not Ron, not Harry, anyone! They can't know about my human half." Danny said quickly.

Hermione nodded in agreement, "Don't worry Danny. I won't tell anybody. Your secret's safe with me."

I swear this chapter has 5 different versions for how the beginning starts! This was a tough chapter. Writers block came in when I constantly questioned how to start the chapter. I tried to desperately make the dialogue seem human, and I still think it was pretty bad and the pacing of the chapter was terrible. And the flow of it sucks!

I hate tough chapters. They can never how you want it...

Hopefully I had Hermione in character because that was one of my main worries of this chapter.

For next chapter I promise that it won't take as long to update.

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Until next time,

Prophet =P