Summary: Of all his fears, he never predicted this one.
Characters: Danny
Prompt: Ghost Hunger
Day Nineteen
"Dad, I'm hungry."
Danny frowned when he heard those simple words from his son. "We just had breakfast," he said, turning his frown onto his son.
"No, I'm hungry." Lex stressed the word with an anxious look upon his face.
His frown deepened as the meaning of the words hit him, and Danny didn't miss the eerie glow within his son's eyes. With a sigh, he stood from his seat at the desk where he was busily typing out last chapter to his latest story, which he hoped would for once be handed in on time. Betty called him every day to remind him of the nearing due date for his novel.
"What do you want this time?" Danny asked as he led the way back into the kitchen. They didn't stop there though, instead venturing down to the laboratory in the basement.
In all his worries about his child being born, he never considered this. When Lex was still a baby and crying for almost all hours of the day, Danny felt at a loss for what to do to calm his son as nothing seemed to work. Vlad provided no help, having never had to raise a child especially one with possible ghostly properties. Danny had only one choice, only knew of one ghost couple that produced a child together, so he went to see the Box Ghost. It turned out that newborns, the children of ghosts, those born as a ghost instead of dying to become one, had a craving for ectoplasm. His own daughter Box Lunch went through it too, was still going through it, which made Danny worry about how long Lex would have this craving.
When it came time for Lex to go to school, Danny feared what would happen. He couldn't concentrate on writing even a little for that entire day. He waited with an ear strained for the phone to ring, but no call came. When he returned home, Lex proudly said he remembered the importance of keeping his ghost powers secret, and all the while he kept trying to bite at his father's fingers, seeking the ectoplasm that he knew to be there to sate his craving.
"Eggs!" Lex cried happily.
Danny rolled his eyes as he retrieved a few eggs from a special storage unit within the laboratory. There was, as he discovered, a farmer within the Ghost Zone that raised the ghosts of animals, harvesting things like ectoplasm eggs and milk. It was a convenience for him because it meant he didn't have to capture random ghosts to feed his son or draw out his own ectoplasm for his son to drink.
"How do you want them? Scrambled, over easy, sunny side up, hard boiled?" Danny rolled the glowing green eggs in his hand as they returned to the kitchen.
"Scrambled!" Lex grinned, and he hugged onto his father's leg as Danny started preparing the eggs.
Author's Note: This isn't really canon to Doctor Dash, in that I don't think I'll actually be giving Lex ghost hunger in it. XD;; And I left it open, so it's possible this takes while Sam's still alive, or it could be after Danny moved.
MsFrizzle: Thanks! =) Some of them took me a while to come up with some good to write for them. XD;; So I'm glad you like them! =)
Just Will: Haha, I was being kind of vague with it as it was Vlad's perspective. But it's more that they (Jack and Maddie) created an invention that plays to a certain frequency that cause some mind control effects within a ghost. XD;;;;