Summary: His careful planning didn't prepare him for the results.
Characters: Vlad and Danny
Prompt: Ectoplasm

Day Fifteen

He stared at the neon green dripping down from the boy's mouth, and he realized everything had gone horribly wrong.

It was a simple experiment really. He tried it before on small ghost blobs with little ill effects. They were easily controlled, following after his commands like little puppets. It was his madness in wanting to take Daniel under his wing like a son that drove him to this. The clone project failed, so he decided to try another avenue of gaining the boy's allegiance.

He never could have predicted this outcome, and his stomach churned with sickness as he watched the boy dig his hand into the unmoving form of another ghost. With a wet slurping, Daniel ripped out a long sinewy rope like an intestine that dripped more of the bright green ectoplasm. He brought one end to his mouth and sucked it in greedily. When the last flopping end of it disappeared into his mouth, he looked up and a wicked grin flashed upon his face.

Vlad resisted the urge to run from the room as the bile tried to bubble up his throat. The dark look in those eyes with the red bleeding into the green sent chills through him. When Daniel stood and stepped over the body of the ghost, Vlad nearly flinched. Would Daniel do the same to him that he did to that ghost?

He kept very still when Daniel stopped before him. He barely breathed when Daniel touched his hands to his face, smearing ectoplasm over aged flesh and the silvery hair upon his chin. He tried to blind himself to the crazed grin and the madness in Daniel's eyes.

"Bring me another," Daniel whispered, almost cooing at the older half ghost. His eyes were alight with hunger. The experiment apparently produced a craving inside the young half ghost. Daniel tasted the blood of another ghost, and the effect was like a drug that drove him to need more.

Vlad was terrified over what he had done. He wanted an obedient heir, but he ended up creating a monster.

maltese: (11) Thanks~ (12) =) I had Clockwork in mind when I wrote it. XD;; (13) More college era! Back when things weren't horrible between Vlad and Jack. D: (14) I'm loving them together. X3