Chapter 4

-V-

Daniela

"I'm so proud of you. My little baby boy is growing up." Remarked Maddie Fenton whilst walking down the corridor. Young Danny smiled uncomfortably while watching as his mother fought her tears. He looked away to read the numbers on each door they passed and stopped at one he knew was his own. He looked down at his copper-colored key and inspected the numbers written in a fine red sharpie. It was a match.

Jack Fenton swiped away his tears in the most masculine way he could muster and raised his chin up. He and Maddie were never this emotional when Jazz when off to college-

Then again, Jazz opted more to stay home than pay room and board at any school.

So, this moment was more bittersweet for the couple to send their son off to school in Chicago. Danny seemed not perturbed about the prospect of being so far away from home and jumped at the opportunity to analyze the ghost-scene here in Chicago and promised to text and call them every day until he settled in comfortably (But they all knew this was more for their benefit of missing him than his own).

Danny opened the door to his dorm and met the eyes of someone already sitting on a bed. The halfa jumped back in a slight surprise before giving them a polite smile. The person stared blankly at Danny for a moment before their lips slowly turned upwards. The movement was enough to send warning chills down Danny's spine and he inwardly sighed. 'Great, I think I'm rooming with a weirdo...I wish Tucker was here instead.' Danny attempted a greeting and stuck his hand out to the stranger.

"Hi, my name is Danny Fenton." He smiled. The stranger looked at his hands for a moment and Danny felt an awkwardness seeping into the exchange. The stranger slowly lifted their hands as if a delayed action and shook Danny's. A chill seeped into his bones and Danny knew at that moment, this guy was more peculiar than he thought.

"My name is Zue. Nice to meet you." Zue's fiery magenta eyes glinted Danny's reflection unnaturally in their orbs and Danny felt the intense need to break their pleasantries. They released their awkward handshake and Danny moved back to assist his parents in unloading his belongings. All the while, he could feel the unnerving stare of Zue's eyes watching him carefully.

The two shared a room and bathroom but had two full beds on the opposite sides and a catwalk of hardwood flooring that separated their respective spaces. Zue had already marked his territory with his items aligning his shelves and desk. His bed was neatly made with a dark green comforter and matching pillowcases and it seems Danny had intruded into the middle of Zue reading a book while lounging on his bed.

Danny gave his roommate one more glance before fully turning his attention back to his parents who were fussing over how to decorate his space.

-V-

Maddie and Jack made their leave after spending more time with Danny at an on-campus cafe where they made their heartfelt goodbyes to their son. Danny felt a little hurt in his chest as his mom gave him a tight hug accompanied by his father's bigger stature enveloping them both. The couple left, leaving Danny to travel back to his dorm alone finally in the new big bowl he was going to have to swim through for four years.

When he returned, he climbed the stairs to his floor and walked down the hall just as he did before. Since it was approaching night time, he saw more new students excitedly hopping from one room to another and most of the floor's dorms were open to attract new potential friends. Danny noted how his floor was shaped almost like a divided square in the designing aspect. On one side of the square was the girl's dorms and on the other side was the male dorms. His room was at the very corner that looked down the hall to a female dorm.

Danny didn't know anyone from a can of paint at this school, and he was uncharacteristically reluctant to stick a hand out and meet anyone new. Yet, his roommate was furthest from who he wanted to interact with now. The raven-haired man passed by girls who flowed down the male halls and poked their heads through open doors to introduce themselves. He walked to the end and spied his dorm was tightly shut to any potential visitors.

'Hm, I guess Zue isn't the friendly type either' He deduced. Danny mentally weighed whether he was ready to awkwardly sit in his dorm and turned around to assess what he could do instead and spied the dorm down the hall that led to the female dorms. The door was open and he could see a shadow of someone moving around and walked towards it. With some type of courage, he didn't know he had, the halfa poked his head through and smiled.

"Hi! I hope you don't mind, I just saw your door open and I…" His words trailed off as he watched the figure jump at his intrusion. She turned around and her green orbs caught him in pure surprise. Danny felt his words choke in his throat and his mouth hung slightly ajar as he marveled in bewilderment.

"Danny…?" Said the figure as she took a step closer. Her eyes sparkled as she spoke his name and he felt his heart flutter at the sound of it rolling off her tongue, like gentle chimes in the summer breeze. Danny, realizing how he might look, snapped his mouth closed before it could catch flies. He straightened up and stepped into the room and instantly scooped the woman up in a tight embrace.

"Valerie!" He cried in happiness as he wrapped his strong arms around her. He took in her tart scent of fresh green apples and the argan oil in her hair. It sent him a spiraling sense of nostalgia that comforted him immensely at that moment. All the while, Valerie hugged against his chest, noting how solid his body felt against hers and realized Danny didn't feel like a scrawny teenager anymore.

They reluctantly released each other and proceeded to ply the other with multiple questions at the same time. Danny wanted to know everything about her since she moved away. She also plied him with an equal amount of questions regarding Amity Park and ghost hunting.

"How is the ghost scene here in Chicago?" Asked Danny who took a seat on her bottom bunk bed.

Valerie visibly winced at the thought. "You don't wanna know, they're rougher here in the big city than our mischievous suburban ghosts. I've fought seven on the way here! But, we have a network of hunters here who collects and banishes ghosts, so I'm not alone."

"Wow, when do you guys meet?" Danny's eyes widen at the thought of an underground network of people like Valerie.

"We meet once a week, usually Sundays when everyone's free."

"Who's your leader?"

Valerie's smile widened. "Me, I created the network. I've trained my highschool peers and other people to do it since I moved here."

"Wow...That's amazing." She wanted to laugh at how shocked he looked.

"Yea," She looked away bashfully outside her window that overlooked her Lincoln Park campus. "But I'm sorta stepping down to focus on school. A lot of us are stepping down since we're in school now."

She looked back at him and stared into the depths of his blue eyes. "I'm going to actually be sorta normal now." A warm smile graced her lips and it caused Danny to match it. The word normal was anywhere but in their vocabulary, but as they looked at one another and listened to the laughter and happy footsteps and chatter of other normal students in their hallway, they realized they felt almost a part of the fabric of normalcy and they were excited for what it held-

Danny's body jerked sharply as he gasped from his sleep. He stared in wide-eyed shock at the emptiness of the darkroom with the only indication of time being the sun's pink rays creeping behind the trees outside his window and allowing in slithers of light.

He remembered that time. He and Valerie went to the same college in Chicago and he remembered that moment they shared rooms across the hall. He fell back into the plush of his pillows and ignored how hot and uncomfortable he had gotten in his restless sleep.

His head throbbed at the memories forcing their way back into his consciousness. It was a dull pain behind his eyes and across his head. He slowly settled back into his pillow and willed his tired mind to get rest.

-V-

Danny couldn't believe he was here.

On top of Valerie and she looked as nervous as he was.

He's done this before, giving his first go-around with Sam but this time was different; he didn't know the contours of Valerie's body and he was hesitant to have to inflict this pain on her.

It felt like so much time had passed since she sashayed into his dorm room and told him her roommate would be gone for the weekend and wanted him to hang out in her room. He and Zue were playing Smash bros when she arrived at his door in a school shirt and blue shorts.

Zue- who he had found out had a big thing for Valerie, had asked to join, but she politely told him she had to tell Danny something important. The secret couple barely made it down the hall with their steamy kisses and foreplay and their clothes had gone cold from their fleeting heat after being tossed aside at her door. They were too occupied to climb her top bunk so they fell onto her floor instead and made out heavily in each other's arms until they gasped for air.

Finally, Danny had positioned himself on top of Valerie and took out the rubber he kept in his wallet. She watched with a mix of anticipation and natural fear for what was about to transpire. She felt his member pressed against her warm core. He smiled reassuringly to her "Its gonna hurt a little but you can do this. If you want me to stop at any time, I will."

He leaned to kiss her all while sliding himself inside her unyielding womanhood. Valerie's body instantly tensed as she gripped his forearm and cried out against his lips. Danny's heart twisted and he pressed his lips harder into her, all while shamefully reveling in the utter tightness that enveloped him. Goodness gracious, it's been a while.

He had finally nestled himself deep enough inside her and kissed her neck affectionately, unwinding her legs from the tensed up position they were, pinching into his sides.

"How do you feel?" He asked warmly.

"A..little in pain but alright." She smiled weakly, her eyes glossed over in unshed tears.

Danny decided to go slow with his thrusts and began to move his hips fluidly. Valerie closed her eyes and felt his lips back against hers. She gripped his hair and wrapped her legs around his waist as Danny took that as a cue to stroke slightly faster and deeper.

Valerie's body responded positively to the change and she felt a pleasant pressure building up in her. She moaned against his lips and pulled away to be more vocal.

Danny felt himself come over the edge and with a few more good pumps, he spilled his seed inside the condom.

He abruptly yelled this time as he jumped from the bed, drenched in sweat.

"My God," he groaned as he grabbed his head and rubbed his temples. What had he just remembered? He and Valerie. In college, getting it on?!

-V-

Valerie watched in covert concern as Danny played around with his oatmeal. He looked worse for wear since he dragged himself out of bed. She heard him wake out of his sleep abruptly since their rooms were next to each other, and she almost jumped out of bed but stopped herself after she listened to him settle back in his sheets.

"I remembered something last night." Danny started, "I remembered us in college, in Chicago."

Valerie quietly gasped, her hopeful eyes peering intently on him. "Anything else?"

Danny shook his head. "No, that was it, the last thing I remembered was us sitting in your dorm on move-in day." He wasn't ready to broach the other memory he had of being between her legs, taking her virginity and feeling her grip him in painful pleasure. The memory sparked his interest, but it also was a little weird for him to mention too.

Valerie turned away, trying to hide her disappointment. She nodded her head as she took in his words. "Ah, I see. You and I were both in Roosevelt Hall." Said Valerie. Right across from each other. You came to me one night and we talked all night while my roommate was at a party." She laughed.

She continued, "When my roommate wasn't home, you use to spend the night talking to me till we had class in the morning." She also omitted the fact that on one of those nights Danny came over and they made out and touched each other for all of ten minutes before they couldn't take the lack of proximity and skin and Valerie ended up losing her virginity to him that night. After that, they would bounce from each other's rooms trying to experiment with different sexual kinks like horn dogs.

Danny was thoughtful as he took it in. "I didn't know we got so close."

'You don't even remember the half of it, baby.' She thought with an eye roll.

"Do you still have that underground network?"

"No, I stepped down senior year, but I hear they're going stronger than ever. Do you remember anything else?"

Danny hummed thoughtfully. "Yea, I remember Zue, my weird roommate." Valerie's eyes darkened at the mention of that name.

"Zue," his name dripped venom from his lips. "Do you remember more about him?"

Danny shook his head. "Why does it sound like you hate him?"

Valerie was uncomfortable as she contemplated her next words.

"Zue is evil, Danny. He hurt you really badly and he's the reason you have no memories."

Valerie's heart ripped from her chest watching the color drain from Danny's face.

"What?" He whispered tersely. His head tried to force memories to come to him, but all he received was a more aching headache. The room seemed to become brighter as the pain in his head became acute. He crushed his eyes closed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

Just as he felt he was going to boil over at the overwhelming pain, he felt a cool, soothing hand rest on his face. His eyes snapped open and locked against alarmed green ones. Valerie tried to soothe him and pressed his head against the warmth of her chest. He felt a sense of familiarity and security. He rode out the passing headaches and clung to Valerie as he did so, feeling it take everything out of him.

Valerie almost didn't realize how intimately she was holding him, but she didn't care as she soothed his aching head. "Please don't exert yourself, I shouldn't have told you something like that in the state you're in."

After Danny felt enough to sit on his own, the young woman scrounge around her kitchen for a cup and Danny's medicine to give him.

"Here, the doctor says this should help with the headaches, from your concussion," She opened a few different bottles and laid out a small assortment out to him on a napkin.

Danny frowned. "I hate pills, just as much as I hate oatmeal." He pushed away his bowl in a child-like manner.

Valerie placed her hands squarely on her hips. "Daniel Fenton, if you do not eat this oatmeal, so help me-"

"So help me God, I'm gonna force it down your throat." Danny finished in his mocking manner, rolling his eyes as he did so. "Yea, yea, you always say…" He stopped and they both exchanged a shocked look. "You always...say that when you make me oatmeal." He quietly finished.

"My goodness, how many times have you forced oatmeal down my throat?" He laughed nervously.

"More times than you can imagine. You're such a child when it comes to things like this." She pushed the bowl back much to his chagrin.

"Nope, not gonna happen," he deadpanned her.

Valerie huffed as she narrowed her eyes at the halfa. Suddenly, she saw he had an idea.

He smirked mischievously. "I might eat it, only if you spoon-feed me."

"You ghost brat…" Valerie lifted his spoon ushered some delicious oatmeal his way. Danny shot her the most handsome smile as he raised his palette to take in her spoon, revealing a hint of his ghostly sharp canines before biting down on the spoon. Valerie tried not to blush as he chewed in triumph, scooping him another dollop of oatmeal.

Danny liked the way he made Valerie huff. Her brown cheeks were tinted red as her eyes averted under his gaze. It made a feeling in his chest swell at her beauty even while annoyed at him. When he finished his breakfast, he reluctantly downed his pills with a glass of water.

"So Danny, I have to go somewhere really quick and I'll be back soon. Try not to leave or draw attention to the fact that you're here in case there's some ghost lurking around. Sam should be here soon to keep you company too." Danny finally noticed that Valerie was fully dressed in a white strapless top that barely concealed her hardened nipples poking through and generously hugging high waisted jeans that cuffed at the hem above the rim of her Chelsea boots. She shrugged on a denim jacket and slung a black backpack over her shoulder.

Before trotting out the door with her hoverboard, she turned to give Danny one more smile but it faltered at the look of fear lurking in his blue eyes. He was afraid to be alone by himself in a world that was still virtually new to him.

Guilt gnawed at her gut but Valerie reasoned with herself that this other situation needed her far more. Besides, Sam texted her that she was down the street. Valerie walked back over to where Danny was sitting and grabbed his hand the same way she did at the hospital.

"It's going to be alright Danny. I swear I'll be back as soon as I can and I'll whip you up something you'll love for dinner. Plus, there are still leftovers in case you get hungry." She smiled. Danny laughed nervously.

"I'm not worried or anything, I just feel a little weird as all. What if I have an episode when you're not around. Does Sam know how to deal with it?"

"She can call me if anything happens. I have to go now." Valerie's phone began to ring off the hook and she quickly fetched it from her back pocket as she walked out the door.

"Dad?"

"Valerie, am I glad to hear from you!" Said Jack Fenton on the other line between the sound of wailing in the foreground. "Daniela is not a happy camper right now! We ran out of milk, so we tried to give her formula, but she hates it. She's been wailing all night long without even so much as a 7th inning stretch. It's driving me bonkers."

"I definitely hear." Said Valerie as she hopped on her hoverboard and headed that way. "I'm heading there now with some bottles. I figured she was going to hate the sudden switch to formula."

Valerie flew towards Fenton Works that since has gotten a few needed renovations since their ghost hunting family joined forces. The home looked more and more like a lab than its previous brownstone appearance and brought up most of the block to accommodate its new look. Valerie landed at their doorstep and took her own key to unlock the door.

The first sound she was greeted with was the unholy wail of a halfa baby piercing her ears. Valerie slapped her fingers to her ears as her eyes winced at the onslaught of pain. She scanned her eyes and found most of anything made of glass in the house was shattered and everywhere. Sitting in the living room with a dead look in their eyes was none other than the Fenton Hunters. Jack turned his tired eyes towards the young woman and all but chucked her beautiful bundle of joy in her arms.

"Here, take her!" Valerie quickly took the baby from him. "Now, I may finally sleep." With that, he fell out on the floor in an instant. Maddie took haste to join her husband in collapsing on the ground next to her him, both fast asleep.

Valerie gazed her eyes down at the tiny child and delicately wiped a tear away. She smiled warmly with all her heart as the child's cries settled to whimpers at the familiar feeling of her mother holding her. Her little eyes gazed open to her best friend and a tiny hand reached out to pat her chin.

Valerie chuckled warmly and stepped over her inlaws to take a seat on the couch. "Are you hungry, my little ghost girl?" Valerie was grateful she chose her specific top and pulled down one end to release a breast. She latched Daniela on and rubbed her back as the baby began to suckle. Valerie hummed a random tune as she examined her baby. She reached and played with the cute loose curls beginning to grow in and caressed her cheek. Her baby's beautiful eyes began to roll back as she finally closed them in contentment all the while still suckling.

"How have you been Daniela?" Asked Valerie. "Mommy hopes you're treating grandma and grandpa well." She didn't expect the infant to dignify her with an answer while she was busy biting Valerie's nipple from time-to-time.

"Did you know Daddy is getting better? soon he'll remember the both of us and I'm sure he's going to love you all over again. I bet he won't be able to contain himself when he gets better. You're his little ghost girl after all." She chuckled at the overbearing father that Danny was growing to be over his first child. Valerie sighed as she continued to watch the baby whilst rubbing her little back.

It was something so intimate about a mother nursing her child, she remembered her first moment of latching Daniela shortly after she was born. It was a bit daunting at first to do it in front of Danny, but it only made the moment more beautiful in his eyes, he nearly shed a tear.

He had read up on so many books and overly prepared for his first child, a child with his ghost DNA nonetheless. He was so proud when Daniela was born, he held her before anyone else could and felt a sense of belonging with her being a halfa just like him. It was similar to how Danny had come to be a father figure for Danielle, raising her and having her live with them before she went off to college.

Daniela eventually felt full enough and Valerie adjusted her top and went on to burp her. After cooing over her adorable burps, Valerie held her child until the young infant finally fell asleep.

Stepping over her inlaws again, Valerie made her way to their bedroom where she laid the child down to rest, holding her breath as the child stirred before finally resting. Valerie kissed her forehead and crept from the now sound home. She filled the fridge with her bottles for Daniela and laid out fresh blankets, clothes, and diapers for her as well.

When Valerie returned home, She fumbled for her keys and unlocked the door. Inside, she seemed to have been interrupting something personal. Too personal for her tastes.

There, Danny and Sam were staring deeply into each other's eyes with Sam's hand resting on his cheek and smiles on their faces. Her eyes also spied their fingers interlocked in his lap. Valerie wanted to run over and wring Sam's neck but instead, she cleared her throat and the two broke their trances and quickly turned their eyes to their intruder.

"Am I interrupting?" Valerie tried to contain her seething anger bubbling beneath the surface of her words.

Danny and Sam were sitting in the living room with their feet on her coffee table and letting a movie play. Sam shot Valerie a look almost as if she was the intruder in her own home but Valerie had no energy to deal with the woman when she had just had to forcibly leave her newborn baby across town. Her postpartum was making her near the brink of tears, but more than ever she just wanted some normalcy. She wanted her husband, she wanted her baby, and she wanted that bastard Zue to taste the end of her blaster.

Danny tried to break the tension. "No you weren't, Sam just bought over a cheesy goth flick for us to watch-"

The gothic woman looked comically offended at his description. "I'll have you know this is regarded as a classic amongst the occult genre." Sam rolled her eyes mocking with a smile as she tossed some popcorn in her mouth, ignoring the daggers Valerie was shooting her. She was wearing a purple smokey shadow that fell away to her equally purple blush. She looked like a beautiful marionette doll with her hair pulled back into a half ponytail that fell with beautiful luscious curls and her iconic triangle bang. She was adorned in a black, silver, and purple tweed dress that looked awfully expensive paired with black stockings and shiny black boots. Valerie was absolutely envious of how more appealing Sam managed to look compared to her worse for wear appearance. She decided to just move away to the kitchen to get dinner prepared.

Nonetheless, she noticed Danny's eye wander over his shoulder a few times to catch glances at her as she moved about the kitchen area to get dinner ready. She noticed he finished off the rest of the leftovers and cleaned the rest of the dishes.

"Do you need any help with dinner?" Danny offered, feeling a little weirdly guilty to have been caught so close to Sam in Valerie's home.

Valerie resisted the urge to pour herself a glass of wine, instead, she went wracking around her cabinet for a more herbal alternative to calm her nerves. "No, I'm fine, thank you though.." She gritted angrily. She made herself a cup of tea and got back to chopping ingredients.

Sam instantly took it as her cue to get the hell out of dodge. She didn't anticipate Valerie to return so soon and knew she had a lengthy argument waiting for her later. Even so, she doesn't regret her actions, instead, she wished she was able to lean in close and do more with Danny.

She smiled down at the man who looked a mixture of indistinguishable emotions, the confusion being stark against the others mixing beneath his ocean orbs. Sam quickly concocted an excuse to return in order to do more paperwork for a collection of Victorian portraits coming into her hands and took her to leave.

As Valerie heard the door close behind her, she tried to hold in the tears and anger boiling inside her. She wanted to turn and slap that man across his face and tell him that he was a married man with a newborn and shouldn't be almost kissing another woman in their home!

But she couldn't, it wouldn't be fair since he didn't know any of that information anymore. But it didn't make the pain in her chest any less painful.

Danny turned off the tv and sauntered in the kitchen to sit in his favorite spot as he watched with puppy-dog eyes, Valerie gathering ingredients to and filing the table with the variety of spices from the cabinets.

"Smells so good~" Danny groaned with a grumbling stomach.

"Just wait till you have my dad's gumbo."

Valerie switched on some music in the kitchen from her soundbar above her cabinet as she moved about cleaning her seafood and chopping sausage for her boiling pot.

"Can I help?"

"Sure! Do you wanna take over for me here?" She handed him the knife and showed him which vegetables she wanted him to cut up. Valerie watched with careful eyes as he took a moment to figure out how he was going to approach cutting the okra since his arm had healed. She could see the apprehension in his shaking fingers and decided to assist.

Danny was taken aback from his thoughts as he flinched at the sudden heat pressed against his back. Valerie's arms wove under Danny's since his width was too wide to encircle him. Her gentle fingers wrapped around his more rougher ones as she carefully positioned his hands to begin slicing through the raw vegetable. "Just like this," she said warmly. Danny allowed her to guide his hand all the while aware of their proximity.

"Now you go ahead," She smiled and turned around to get the pot ready.

The two spent the rest of the evening preparing dinner together. Danny felt a sense of inclusivity that gave him a grip of normalcy that he hadn't felt since he woke up.

-V-

"You lowdown bitch!" Valerie bit into her phone angrily. "You're never invited back here."

"Excuse me?! After you left him so distraught in your living room earlier? I'm the bitch!"

Valerie wanted to scream. "I had something important to do! I. had. To take care. Of some. Business!" She emphasized heavily.

"While you're out 'taking care of business, you're not doing your job as a wife or friend if you leave a sick, scared man all alone and gripping to the first person to give him attention!"

"That doesn't mean you prey on that scared and lonely feeling to confuse how he feels!"

"Valerie, give it up, you're not what he needs,"

"Stop telling me that! I'm doing the best I can," The tears welled in her eyes and started rolling down her cheeks. "I have more on my plate than you can imagine and I'm not getting much help from you when you're trying to take him away from me!"

"I'm not trying to take him away..." She lied. "If Danny wants to be with me, even with all his memories, he has that right."

Valerie was shaking at her words. "Don't ever let me catch you around here again. Goodbye Sam." With that, Valerie pressed the 'end' button on her phone and sighed into her hands at the edge of her bathtub. She wiped the tears away and quietly wept as more fell from her eyes.

After a moment, she heard a knock at the door and stiffened. She reluctantly stood up and opened the bathroom door, meeting a pair of concerned blue eyes staring down at her.

"Hey...are you okay?"

Valerie frowned deeply. "Did you hear anything?"

"No, not really, I just heard you...crying." his voice dropped at his last word, feeling uncomfortable at the thought of intruding on her while she clearly wanted to be alone.

Valerie tried to ease his concern with a sad smile. "I'm sorry, I'm just a little overwhelmed, as all."

"May I sit with you?" he gestured inside the bathroom.

"Of course" She allowed him entrance and they both sat at the edge of the tub.

"I know this can be a little much with all that's going on. Just know, if I can become too much of a burden for you, please, please, let me know. I don't want to be the cause of you in here crying at midnight, all alone." she watched his brows furrow and his eyes grow warm and tender.

Valerie tried to smile through her tears and cupped Danny's chin. "You're definitely not too much, ghost boy. Please don't think you are. You're my best friend and I'd do anything for you and I mean it."

Danny smiled in response and pulled Valerie in for a tight hug. He took in her scent, tart apples and fresh jojoba oil in her hair sent sparks of visions in the back of his head. Visions that involved running his fingers through curls, tasting the brown sugar of her skin and relishing in the touches that she brought that warmed a trail under his ghostly cold skin. It sent chills down his spine and pleasure ebbing the blood in his veins. He pulled back to stare into her dark emerald eyes with a renewed sense of the woman in his arms.

Valerie looked momentarily perplexed at the sudden surprise look on Danny's face and she reached to cup his cheek. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Yea," he breathed, a throbbing feeling following the sparks of memories like magazine cutouts in his mind. "I think I need to lie down now."

-V-

I really hope you all enjoyed it. This and the next chapter has been sitting somewhat done for a while now, but I just didn't know if I liked it or not! I decided to get out of my own head and just post it lol.

Cootles to the reviewer, SweetestChick for figuring the hidden child! Poor Val, she has so much on her plate.

Thank you for reading and tell me whatcha think!