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Heart to Heart
"Look out!"
The red form zipped to the side just as a flying box nearly hit her. A large ecto-gun formed in her hands, shooting quick pink lasers back at the annoying ghost. Sadly, none of them hit their target.
"I am the box ghost!" The ghost announced for the tenth time that fight. "How dare you underestimate the awesome power of my cubic containers?!"
Another wave of boxes flew towards the two teenagers, who easily dodged the lame attack.
"Beware! I am the— AHHHH!" The ghost screamed as he was sucked into the thermos. "This isn't the last of meeee-!"
"This is the second time today I've had to deal with him." The huntress sighed in annoyance.
"Third for me." The ghost boy replied with an identical sigh. "I have no idea why he keeps coming back so often."
"Must be his obsession. Maybe it's launching his stupid boxes at us endlessly." Valerie laughed.
"Must be." Phantom agreed with a chuckle. He looked up at the evening sky, a breathtaking gradient of orange and blue.
"Oh yeah, I don't think you've ever told me your obsession, Phantom." The girl said curiously.
"That's classified." The halfa said smugly. "And don't you know that asking about a ghost's obsession is considered bad manners?"
She scoffed. "I honestly don't care if a ghost thinks I have good manners or not. Except for you, though. You're different."
"Different, huh?" The boy grinned at the irony. "Why do you say that?"
"You don't try to destroy the town every day, for one thing." The huntress shoved the other teenager jokingly. "Except for the occasional property damage."
"Ha, ha." The ghost boy muttered, playfully shoving her back.
The two floated in silence for a few uncomfortable seconds.
"I should get home." Val said sheepishly. "See you tomorrow?"
"Sure!" He said a little too excitedly, and the girl obliviously turned to leave. "And maybe, would you like to, you know, hang out sometime when our lives and/or afterlives aren't endangered?"
Valerie smiled under her helmet. "That would be great, Phantom." After a brief wave, she was gone.
Danny sighed as he sat down with his friends at lunch. The day was only half over, and there had already been two ghosts that made him leave class.
Mondays were always rough.
The trio looked up in surprise when Valerie decided to sit down at their table. The halfa could hear the gossiping whispers of the A-List from the center of the large room. Since Valerie was an ex-A-Lister, there was still some bitterness towards her for leaving their group.
"Hey, guys." She said shyly.
"Hey." Tucker greeted. "You know, sitting with us is probably hurting your reputation more than helping it."
"As if I care." The Huntress said with an eye roll, smiling at her new friends.
Danny chuckled at her statement. "Well, you're always welcome here."
The girl seemed to blush. "Thanks." She looked sheepishly at Sam, who fumed at the exchange. Of course, it went completely unnoticed by the ghost hunters' son.
"If you want, we can meet up after school to work on our homework together." Tucker invited, holding back a laugh when he received a kick under the table from the scowling goth girl.
"Sorry, I'm busy this afternoon," Val answered nonchalantly, "but thanks for asking!" The trio looked at each other knowingly. The Huntress was supposed to patrol the town at that time to give Phantom a break.
Little did she know, Phantom was quite literally right in front of her.
Danny had been wanting to tell her for a long time. He had known her identity since the beginning, and he felt guilty that she was left in the dark about so much even after being friends for such a long time.
He thought back to a conversation he had just a few days before...
"Do you think I should tell Val?"
The elder half-ghost paused in thought for a moment before shrugging. "That's ultimately your choice."
"I just think I... might want to be more than friends." The boy said shyly.
"Really?" Vlad said in surprise. "What about Sam?"
"What about Sam?" Danny scowled defensively. "I told you several times that we're literally just friends! Besides what's wrong with me liking Valerie?"
"Nothing." The man said after a moment. "But she can be a bit... 'shoot first ask questions later,' if you weren't aware."
"I know." The green-eyed ghost chuckled, knowing fully well of the girl's hotheaded nature. "I want to tell her about my double life first. But I'm afraid that she'll get mad when she finds out I was hiding everything from her." Danny sighed. "I just hope she doesn't start hating me again..."
He was startled out of his thoughts by the bell. The four teenagers stood up along with the rest of the lunchroom.
Time to conquer the second half of the school day, he thought with dread.
Phantom crept up invisibly behind the unsuspecting Red Huntress, who was floating above the school and intently typing on her cell phone.
He had just come from the Nasty Burger, where he and his friends had gotten a lot of work done on their homework. And since he had the whole afternoon free, why not use that time to annoy Valerie for fun?
He grinned in anticipation of what he was about to do.
Once he was as close as he dared, he turned visible right beside her.
"Hey."
"Ahh!" The phone flew out of her hands and she almost fell off her hover board. "Wha-Phantom!"
He started laughing uncontrollably at her response and flew down to catch her falling phone. "H-how was I supposed to know that would happen?" He shouted up at her, continuing to laugh.
"You jerk." She glared at him and grabbed her phone back out of his gloved hands. She willed her hover board to fly away.
"Aw, you don't hate me now, do you?" He followed her, still out of breath from laughing so hard.
She stopped in midair but didn't turn around. "Not exactly." She sounded annoyed but not angry.
He came up beside her. "Well, your answer wasn't 'yes.' That's a good thing."
She shook her head and sighed. "You're impossible."
"I try."
The teenage girl rolled her eyes, but the ghost boy could almost feel her smiling under her helmet.
"So, any pesky ghosts yet?"
"Besides you, nope. It's been pretty boring actually."
He grinned. "Well you know, the only time you've been in the Ghost Zone, we were being chased around by Skulker and fearing for our lives and/or afterlives."
"Yeah... Let's not do that again."
"Well, how would you like a proper tour?" Phantom wiggled his eyebrows invitingly.
"But if we both leave, won't the town be at risk? And are you sure that it's safe for me to go there again?" The red-clad ghost hunter asked, not sounding very convinced.
He waved his hand dismissively, knowing that his best friends could handle it. "Amity Park will be fine for a while. And don't worry, it's mostly safe... probably..." He coughed and rephrased his statement. "I know my way around."
"I'll be the judge of that." She teased, following the ghost as he zoomed off.
They flew across the town for a few minutes. Some appreciative teenagers below waved as they passed. By now, they were pretty well known as the town heroes. Some of the adults were still suspicious of them, especially of Phantom since he was a ghost, but overall the media and general population was supportive.
"Isn't this trespassing?" The girl questioned condescendingly once they came to a halt outside of the Fenton house.
"Only if they catch us!" He gently took her hand and turned them both invisible and intangible.
She looked back at the house with the huge neon sign reading 'FentonWorks.' "In that case, lead the way."
A few second later, they had descended down to the portal. Luckily, the lab was deserted, and the portal was wide open.
"Ladies first."
She rolled her eyes before hesitantly flying into the swirl of green. The ghost followed close behind, pausing as she stared wide eyed into the never ending atmosphere all around them.
"Last time, I was too busy fearing for my life to notice the beauty of this place." Valerie commented. "Beauty in a spooky way, at least."
"Yeah. It probably doesn't feel very inviting to humans, but it feels like home to me. Being in the Ghost Zone is ghosts' main way of getting energy." He explained.
"Interesting." She said. "Where to first on Phantom's Tour?"
"Anywhere except that way." He pointed to the right. "That's where Skulker's island is, if you don't remember."
"So, not that way. Got it."
"Come on." He led the way, going left of the portal and preparing to point out all of the lairs and landmarks he was familiar with from months of exploring.
They wandered around for a while, losing track of time. They had run into several benevolent ghosts who were obviously wary of the human ghost hunter, but as soon as Danny introduced them, the tension seemed to lessen.
Valerie was surprised, to say the least. Not too long ago, she had believed without a doubt that all ghosts were evil.
Then she had realized that Phantom was the exception.
But he isn't the only exception, she thought as she waved goodbye to two friendly senior ghosts who had just rambled on about their childhood adventures and interesting experiences in the Ghost Zone.
"Most ghosts just stay in their lairs and want to be left alone. But some do love to socialize." The ghost boy explained. "So basically, a lot of things that the Fentons believe are misconceptions based on the small percentage of ghosts that come to Earth. There are only a few dozen ghosts that come to Amity to wreck havoc, and as you can see, it's nowhere near the majority."
The girl wordlessly looked around, noticing ghosts talking and laughing in the distance like groups of friends would in a mall. "This is huge. If the Fentons actually saw this for themselves, everything that they assume about ghosts would change!"
"Could change." Phantom sighed, clearly pessimistic about the subject. "But only if they're open to realizing that they're wrong."
"That's true." The Huntress agreed. "But why do they even have that portal in their basement if they haven't gone inside and used it for research?"
"Beats me." He shrugged. "The only thing the portal does is allow ghosts to go in and out freely. But there are occasional temporary portals that open up, and also some ghosts that can create their own portals to the human world. So even without the Fentons' portal, ghosts could haunt the human world if they really wanted to."
She nodded in understanding. "So, overall the portal is a good thing. It allows you to get rid of the ghosts once we catch them, after all."
"Yeah." He said simply before flying on. "So, am I a good tour guide so far?"
"Sure." She laughed and caught up to him. "It's crazy that almost no one knows about this place. No people, I mean."
"Yeah. But there are some ghosts who aren't fond of stuff from the human world being in here. Especially one ghost in particular." He rolled his eyes.
"Who's that?"
"That would be me." A deep voice answered from behind them. Phantom's ghost sense went off a few seconds too late.
"Uh oh." He muttered and floated protectively in front of the surprised ghost huntress. "Be ready to run. And by run, I mean fly away as fast as possible."
"You're under arrest, punk. This is the third time you've brought human contraband into our realm." The deathly white ghost growled. "You hybrids never seem to learn."
Human contraband? Hybrids? The girl thought in confusion and fear.
"She's not human contraband." The halfa replied, green eyes lighting up with anger as scowling guards surrounded them on all sides. "And Plasmius had a deal with you, remember?"
"His pathetic 'deal' doesn't extend to the likes of you, punk." The warden laughed. "Go tattle to him all you want after your time is served."
"Is this really how you're going to treat me, a savior of the Ghost Zone?" He didn't like playing that card, but he had to do something. "Let us go and we'll leave. Simple as that." He couldn't stop his hands from lighting up aggressively. Valerie summoned a blazing gun, following her friend's lead. The ghosts surrounding them didn't flinch.
Walker only laughed and motioned to his guards. "Secure them."
The two teenagers nervously met eyes, and all of the sudden they shot off in different directions. The warden furiously yelled for their capture. Dozens of green beams from the officers' batons shot past them, only narrowly missing.
A buzzing sound filled the air, and the Huntress yelped in surprise as her suit was electrocuted. Phantom looked back to see Walker holding a taser and smiling triumphantly. Half a dozen ghosts surrounded the sparking suit.
"Hey, let go of me you ghost freaks!" The Huntress growler and struggled futilely.
The white-haired ghost sucked in an angry breath, but before he could do anything, at least two guards grabbed him from behind. Power restricting cuffs were thrown on him roughly.
What was going to be a wail came out as a pathetic coughing fit.
"Nice try, Phantom. But I know about your little tantrum trick. I'll add on another hundred years for resisting arrest." The warden snapped his fingers with a grin, and suddenly the world around them dissolved into darkness.
"Fudge buckets... Cheese logs... Shiitake mushrooms..." The boy muttered, pacing back and forth in the small cell while Valerie stood off to the side watching amusedly. Her red and black suit was luckily back to functioning normally since it was built to withstand a multitude of attacks, including ghost electricity. The warden hadn't bothered to remove her 'damaged' armor, but it wouldn't be very much help anyway. The cell was obviously ghost-proof, and that trait extended to ghost weapons.
"This is a great tour so far." The girl commented dryly.
"Shut up."
She chuckled, not seeming very concerned about their current situation. "What exactly did you do to make him hate you so much?"
"Oh, Walker? I brought 'human contraband' into the Ghost Zone once a long time ago, and he's held a grudge ever since. I think I owe him, like, two thousand years of jail time by now." He let out a nervous laugh, dreading what was about to happen. "He's nothing like the police on Earth. He has a book full of his own stupid rules that he forces everyone to follow."
"Got any ideas to get outta here?"
"Sort of." He swallowed. "All you have to do is take off your suit. Humans can walk through walls here." And hopefully Walker hasn't fixed that loophole yet, he thought with dread.
"Really?" The suit immediately folded back up into a binder-sized pack, leaving just the human girl standing in front of him. She experimentally touched the wall, gasping when she discovered that the ghost was right. "Woah, cool!" She looked back to the ghost. "Wait, but how are you gonna get out?"
He shrugged nonchalantly. "I'll be fine. You have to go."
"No! There's no way I'm leaving you here." She crossed her arms, and Phantom's green eyes lit up in annoyance at her stubbornness.
"Just go! I'll find my own way out! I've escaped before!"
"But how?"
"That doesn't matter, just go!"
"No! I'm not leaving you, Phantom!"
"Why not?" He whined. "I'm just a ghost!"
"You're not just a ghost! You're my friend!"
Valerie argued stubbornly. "I'll be right back." She hesitantly stepped through the cell door, poking her head out the other side to see if any guards were in sight. Seeing none, she emerged fully from the wall and began to fiddle with the cell's touch-screen electronic lock. "Nothing's happening!" His enhanced hearing picked up her whisper from outside.
Danny could feel his hands shaking. He knew he was just postponing the inevitable. Unless Val agreed to leave alone, there was no way he could think of to keep his secret intact.
Well, this is technically what I wanted, right?
No. I can't do it now. Not like this.
Valerie came back into the cell. "Are you sure intangibility wouldn't work-?"
He tested it quickly in front of her, which was enough of an answer.
She frowned in concentration.
"Please just go. I have an idea! I'll be fine! I promise!"
She bit her lip. "But-"
"Go!"
"What's your idea?"
"A way for me to get out."
"Well, why can't you do it now?"
"Because you're here!" Right after he said it, the ghost flinched at his poorly chosen words.
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
The hushed conversation suddenly became a shouting match.
"Why are you so stubborn?"
"Why are you hiding something from me? I thought we were friends, Phantom!"
"Wha-who said I was hiding anything?!"
"You just did! Why don't you trust me?"
"That's not—I do trust you!"
"Obviously not enough!"
He facepalmed. "Ughhhhh! They're gonna kill me the rest of the way for sure this time."
"Wha—the rest of the way? Who?"
"I'm so dead. I'm so dead." He went back to floating back and forth in a frenzy. "I'm stuck in a cell with you, and you're gonna kill me, and they're gonna kill me again afterwards."
She roughly grabbed his shoulders and shook him as hard as she could. "Stop having a panic attack and just do what you have to do so we can get out of here!"
They froze in that position and stared at each other in silence for a few seconds, catching their breath from shouting.
"I'm still so dead."
She took her hands off his shoulders with an eye roll. "I know! You're a ghost!"
"I'm going to be even more dead."
"What does that even mean?!"
He waved off her disgruntled question. "You'll get it in a minute. That is, if you don't shoot me on sight."
"I'm not going to shoot you!"
He sighed tiredly. "You don't know that."
"Listen, I may have hated you at one point, but things are different now. I care about you. To me, you're more human than most humans I know!" She angrily tossed her metal backpack down onto the ground, and it landed several feet beyond her reach. "There's nothing you could do or say that would make me want to hurt you! Why can't you understand that?"
"You have no idea what's about to happen. You'll take that back." He sounded miserable.
She simply shook her head.
He looked down at her discarded weaponry, then back at her. "I don't know where to start."
"We have two thousand years. Is that enough time?"
He rolled his eyes, failing to hold back a choked snicker. "Not nearly enough."
The girl sat down against the wall, reluctantly followed by the ghost.
"Ugh, okay, so I've never actually explained this to anyone before. They just found out on their own by... seeing it happen."
Her expression changed to confusion. "Seeing what happen?"
"I'm just... gonna show you. Then, if you don't kill me afterwards, I can explain. I promise."
She gently grabbed his hand to reassure him and smirked when she noticed a slight green blush.
He took a breath. "Here it goes. Oh, and just a warning, you might wanna shield your eyes."
"What—?" She tensed in shock and scooted away as two hoops of pure white appeared above and below the ghost. The girl watched in shock and raised a hand up to cover her eyes as the they advanced towards each other, filling the dark cell with light.
Once the blinding light flickered out, she uncovered her eyes and blinked a few times. "What was tha—WHAT THE—?"
"Um... hi." Danny Fenton sheepishly waved from where Phantom had just been sitting. With even the small movement, Valerie could almost envision the white-haired ghost, the exact same height and build, doing the same. Hidden in the black-haired boy's voice was a hint of Phantom's familiar echo.
"...UHHHH..."
"Hehe... um... surprise?"
The girl opened her mouth as if to say more, but only succeeded in looking like a fish out of water.
"You did say I was different, remember...?" He said awkwardly. "If only you had known how right you were..."
More shocked silence.
Phantom. Fenton. Danny. One and the same? She thought of all the times she talked to Fenton and his friends at school. That had really been Phantom the whole time? And she had fought ghosts for months with the cocky, heroic white-haired ghost she had come to befriend. Had he really been the dorky, bullied kid in her grade, right under her nose?
...What?
"Well... this is what I expected, to be honest." He muttered, interrupting her thoughts. "So, uh, do you want to talk about this now, or get out of here first?"
The girl was too busy studying his face almost creepily, as if trying to fit the last pieces of a puzzle together. The boy looked back at her with a guarded expression, obviously scared of what she would say or do.
"I'm sorry that I've been lying to you this whole time. I really wanted to tell you, I just... didn't know how... I was just afraid of how you would react, and there was a possibility that you could, like, turn me in to the government, which is stupid, I know, but I didn't want to take the risk because anyone knowing about this is in danger and also could put me in danger if they told the wrong person, and I—"
"Who else knows?" She interrupted his ramble. Her voice was softer than he must have expected, because he seemed to relax a little.
"Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and pretty much all of the ghosts." He answered simply and truthfully.
"What about Vlad Masters?"
The boy froze in surprise at the name. "What about him?" His voice rose a few pitches.
She noted the reaction, suspecting that there was more to the story than she was being told. "Remember Pariah Dark? You were with Vlad then. And before that, he seemed oddly defensive of you. He knows too, doesn't he?"
Danny pursed his lips for a few seconds before cautiously responding. "Yes..."
Everything is starting to make sense, She thought before continuing to ask questions. "So, your parents don't know? And how did this," she awkwardly motioned to him, "even happen, anyway? No offense, but... what even... are you?"
"This is where it turns into a really long story." He said with a nervous laugh.
"In that case," Valerie smiled for the first time since the revelation, "let's get out of here."
Danny led the way, sticking his head through the wall and looking back and forth for anyone in sight. When he saw no one, he booked it towards where he hoped led to the outside. He heard the girl's light footsteps not far behind him.
His ghost sense went off.
Hearing voices down an adjacent hallway, he flickered into invisibility. The girl gasped behind him, clearly not used to seeing her human friend randomly disappear. He gently grabbed her hand just in time as two guards rounded the corner. She shivered at the cold touch.
The two intimidating ghosts wandered down, checking every cell for evidence of a breakout. The two teenagers held their breaths and backed up against the wall, only feet away from the spirits as they passed.
"The human and hybrid are in a human-proof cell, correct?"
"Should be."
They inspected the outside of the cell that was now empty. "Doesn't seem to be any sign of an escape."
"All clear." The other guard responded into his walkie talkie. "Now, let's go finish that game of checkers."
"You bet. But if I win, you have to take over my cafeteria duty for a week."
"Deal."
After what felt like hours, the prison guards rounded the corner at the other end of the hallway.
When they were out of sight, Danny continued running, closely followed by the huntress. They passed through several walls before they finally reached the outside around the back of the prison. They both sighed in relief when they saw the swirling green sky.
"Well," he transformed back, smirking when the girl flinched and squinted her eyes. "That was fun."
"Totally." The red suit formed around her once again.
"I know this has been an amazing tour, but let's get out of here as quickly as possible."
"I second that."
Phantom led the way back to the portal, the Red Huntress flying alongside atop her hover board.
"Ugh. Now I have to tell Sam and Tuck that you know. They're gonna be mad."
"Well, tell them not to worry. I won't tell a soul." She paused and realized what she just said. "Pun intended."
"Nice one." He laughed. "My whole life is a pun."
"Don't you mean your afterlife?"
"More like half-terlife." He snickered at his own joke, then remembered that she still didn't know a lot about the topic. "Darn, that would have been so much better if you already knew. Halfa and half-ghost are terms that full ghosts use to refer to u—I mean me."
"Oh." She looked over mid flight. "So that's what you are? That ghost warden did call you a hybrid."
"Yep. Half-a-human, half-a-ghost. Get it?"
"That sounds impossible." She shook her head. "I still want to know how this happened."
He smiled as the portal came into view. "In due time."
When they went back to school the next morning was when the two other members of Team Phantom found out.
In first period before the bell rang, the trio sat down in their seats.
"I have a test today in fifth period." Sam sighed.
"I have one tomorrow." The blue-eyed boy beside her said, frowning at the extreme lack of studying he had been doing.
Valerie walked in, immediately smiling when she saw Danny. She made her way to her seat on the other side of the room.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you last night... Valerie sort of knows now."
"WHAT?" Sam practically shouted, drawing the annoyed attention of the other twenty teenagers in the room. Danny coughed to hide his urge to laugh at the girl's response.
After everyone turned back around and continued their own conversations, the trio resumed theirs.
"How did that happen?" Tucker wondered, not sounding as concerned as the goth girl. "And how are you still alive?" He sounded as casual as if he was asking about the weather.
"We got arrested by Walker, and I honestly don't know."
"You took her into the Ghost Zone?" Sam hissed, staring at her best friend accusingly. "Are you insane?"
He shrugged. "Not my brightest idea, I admit."
"Well at least she can help now with protecting Danny's identity and fighting the ghosts with us." The techno-geek said helpfully, returning his attention to the beeping PDA in his hands.
"You haven't told you-know-who yet, have you?" The purple-eyed teenager asked.
"Nope."
"You need to tell him."
"Yep."
"Quiet down." Mr. Lancer entered the classroom just as the bell rang. "You might want to study for the pop quiz that's happening in the next two minutes. Just some friendly advice."
"Great." Danny said with fake optimism. "What's this on again?"
Tucker shrugged, and Sam sighed knowingly as she pulled out her own detailed notes.
Before they knew it, it was lunchtime again.
"How much does she know?" Sam asked her ghostly friend. They hadn't gotten a chance to talk much about it until then.
"I already told her almost everything about me. But she knows nothing at all about you-know-who, except that he knows about me." He said sheepishly. "So try not to spill anything until I ask how much he wants to share."
She nodded in understanding. "We can work with that."
Just like the day before, Valerie came over to the trio's table. "Mind if I join you?"
"Sure." Tucker agreed just like he had the day before.
"This is déjà vu if I've ever seen it..." Danny muttered, shaking his head at the thought that yesterday at that time, the girl had no idea about his secret.
"We gotta catch you up on... well, everything." Sam said, trying to warm up to the thought of the Huntress being in their group.
The halfa shrugged. "I already told her most of it." He was interrupted by a breath of icy blue air. The huntress blinked, wondering how she hadn't noticed that happen in school before. "Duty calls. I'll be back."
"Don't die." The techno-geek called back as loud as he dared, taking a bite of his meat-filled sandwich.
"No promises." With that, the younger half-ghost exited the lunchroom.
"If you hurt him, I swear I'll—"
"Sam!"
"What? I was just giving her a warning." The goth girl looked in annoyance to the techno-geek who had just interrupted her.
"What she means is, he's our best friend." The boy took over. "We know your relationship was rocky in the past, which is probably why Sam is being so... touchy."
"I'm not being touchy!"
"So, we just want to protect him. As well as we can, at least." He said, referring to the secret identity aspect of his friend's problems. "And we want to know that you're in on it, too."
"And that you're trustworthy with keeping such a huge secret." The goth girl piped in, sounding significantly more sincere this time, before muttering crossly under her breath. "But there's not that much we can do about that now..."
"Of course I'll try my best to protect him." Valerie finally responded, feeling angry and insulted that the two would think anything less of her. "I know that at first, I didn't even give him a chance, and I realized a long time ago that that was a mistake. And now I realize that it was even bigger of a mistake than I thought. I had no idea about... all of this." She sighed, looking around briefly before continuing. "When I got to know Phantom, I realized that I was such an idiot for thinking that all ghosts were evil. It sounds so stupid now, especially knowing Danny and some of the other ghosts I've met. I'll try my best to help out in any way I can. And I will definitely never hurt him again. I promise."
The two other teenagers nodded, Tucker appearing more welcoming than Sam for obvious reasons.
"Welcome to Team Phantom."
"Welcome?" The black-haired boy exclaimed from off to the side, looking slightly disheveled and holding a thermos. It seemed he had just gotten back and didn't hear much of the conversation. "My name is literally in the title of our team name and you didn't even wait until I got back to welcome her?"
"Don't give yourself too much credit, ghost boy." Sam muttered with an eye roll. "Who caused you to get those powers, again?"
Tucker burst into laughter. "She got you there."
Danny scoffed. "Fine. I see how it is." He sat down. "Why don't you guys fight the ghosts and save the town alone then? Who needs me anyway?" He threw up his hands in exasperation.
"Don't worry, I can do all of that." Valerie butted in with a smile. "We can be Team Huntress now. How does that sound?"
"I'm good with that." The techno-geek said, taking out his PDA and suppressing a laugh at his half-ghost friend's offended expression.
Sam looked towards the shocked boy, hiding a smile of her own. "Sorry. You've been unanimously replaced."
The bell rang, right on time.
"I leave for five minutes and suddenly I've been kicked off my own ghost-hunting team." Danny sighed, finally unable to hide a smile. "I'm obviously not wanted here. Guess I'll just have to move to Wisconsin, won't I?"
"Guess so." The goth agreed with a lighthearted shove, and the four teenagers went to dump their trays.
So I hope you enjoyed that! I knew I wanted to make a Danny/Val chapter but I wasn't sure if I wanted her to learn his secret quite yet. But here we are. I hope it turned out okay!
I like the DxV pairing in some ways more than DxS, but the ultimate pairing in later chapters will be Sam/Danny. I wanted to throw in a few chapters with Val though, just to mix things up xD
Next chapter will be Masters of All Time... which I have LOTS planned for! I'm really excited for it and I hope you are too!
Anyway see ya next update! :D
-Specter14