Hello my lovelies. Ok, I was told I needed to continue this one so here it is. :D ok… to start off, I still own nothing and let's just suppose that holds true for the rest of the story because I'm tired of typing it even in a funny way.
This chapter dedicated to: Riqis Inna Sunja (did I get it right?)
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ONTO THE STORY.
"Jack…" Maddie said going over the data again, "I've extracted the human DNA, maybe now we can find out who this boy was before he died." Danny stared up at the ceiling drooling a little his mind gone. No flicker of life sparked in his mind. He was just dead, he was tired of fighting, tired of it all. He just gave up. Danny let himself be moved like a puppet not registering that the two people doing so were his parents. Jazz came down every day and tried to talk him out of it, but as soon as his eyes showed any life it seemed like his parents were there taking him to do something else.
"Mom…" Jazz looked down stairs then her eyes flickered to Danny, "What are you doing now?" She asked.
"We're comparing this DNA sample we got out of the ghost's ecto-signature to see who he was when he was alive."
"How long do you think that'll take?" Jazz asked curiously
"Anywhere from five days to a month." Jack said looking up from the limp ghost boy, he then brightened turning to his daughter, "You know he has an actual bone structure, almost a sturdy as a human, and made up of cells very similar to them. He also needs to breathe, it's strange, his lungs actually function, he can go without breathing for long periods of time, but he will eventually need to breathe, that's why he got so unstable when we were messing with his lungs." Jack beamed proud of this information.
"Yeah, it was really strange, he started having a fit, then we almost lost him… he actually has a heart in there to." Maddie said tapping her chest over her heart, "it actually works too, it's very slow, we could hardly pick it up with our instruments, we had to fine tune them to find out he actually has a heartbeat." Maddie smiled looking over at the ghost boy on the table.
"Mom…" The boy said all of a sudden. His eyes opened, instead of the vivid green ones they were baby blue, filled with tears. Everyone in the room froze.
"Danny?" Jazz asked, Danny looked up slowly focusing on Jazz.
"Where am I?" he asked eyes dull, his hair stringy. Jazz inched closer. Danny's hands twitched, he looked broken, the vibrant ghostly glow that usually surrounded him had dulled making him look almost human. His normal blue eyes made this seem even more so.
"Oh Danny." Jazz whispered looking at her brother. Danny's hands twitched again and his brow slowly furrowed as he looked over to where he was cuffed, the table set at a vertical angle, him limply hanging from it.
"Mom…. Dada?" Danny asked struggling. Then he looked down.
"I'm… I'm a ghost." He said looking at the jumpsuit, and the faint barely there glow. He looked around the room wildly.
"How did this happen, mom, dad, what happened to me!" Danny started yelling pulling harder freaking out.
"Repressed memories." Jazz said under her breath.
"Can it ghost." Jack pointed a scalpel at the boy. Danny drew back in fear.
"Dad?" he asked, "Dad… it's me, Danny!" Danny pulled away in fear.
"Shut up." Maddie said working her way over to the ghost boy, "Stop it, you are not my little boy, my boy has been missing for a month, whatever vile thing you did to him, you are not him." Maddie snapped. Danny's eyes filled with tears.
"How can he cry he's a ghost." Jack asked suddenly, Danny's strange blue eyes with his white hair was throwing them off.
"Jazz… what happened to me, why won't they believe me, why am I a ghost?" Danny begged. Jazz hesitantly walked over to Danny.
"What is the last thing you remember?" she asked.
"I… the portal didn't work." Danny said, "It didn't work then I went to school…" Danny's eyebrows furrowed as he thought, "Sam wanted to see it… then I…. I don't remember… mom and dad were gone… they went to talk to someone about the portal not working, and you… you went to pick them up at the airport. Danny squirmed tugging at the restraints, "Then… I don't remember." Danny said, "Why don't I remember." Jazz patted Danny's hair.
"Danny, that was a year ago." She said quietly, she hadn't meant for him to hear but he did.
"A year… I don't remember anything!" Danny fought harder. Jazz continued petting his hair.
"Calm down, it'll be ok, it's ok."
"STOP TRYING TO TURN OUR DAUGHTER AGAISNT US!" Bellowed Jack. Danny recoiled.
"Dad?" he asked.
"SHUT UP!" Jack roared back handing the boy, Danny's head snapped back a pop was heard and Danny's hung limply from the restraints again. Jazz screamed checking Danny over for injuries, Danny's neck hadn't broken, but he was knocked out again.
"Get away from him Jazz." Maddie said pulling her daughter back as Jazz cried, "He's trying to get you to feel sorry for him, but he's just a ghost, he isn't really Danny. Danny is alive, ok, this one is a ghost, just post-human con…"
"Post meaning after, meaning he was human at one point!" Jazz screamed at her parents, "You guys see anything different and immediately it's evil. If he was human at one point why does dying automatically make him evil!" Jazz turned and ran. Danny's head hung there, one of his fingers twitched. Maddie and Jack exchanged a look. They turned to the boy on their table.
"Jack…" Maddie asked, "Do you think he knows where Danny is?" Maddie looked up at her husband.
"I feel it in my boots." Jack insisted. He stepped over a pile of ectoplasm.
"What if Danny was overshadowed by Phantom, what if he's still in there." Maddie asked. Jack looked at his wife.
"I'll get the ghost gauntlets."
(LA CUCARACHA, LA CUCARACHA, ENCHILADA BLAH. BLAH, BLAH)
"Uhh…" Danny looked up at the professor then to Logan who could only see Danny.
"I… you can't see them?" Danny asked. Logan cocked his head.
"See who kid?" Logan asked.
"Them." He pointed to Jean and then to the Professor, "there and there." Danny said looking at each one then to Logan.
"Kid, come with me, I think you might have hit your head harder than you thought."
"No, they are there!" Danny insisted. He turned to the Professor, "Why can't he see you?" He asked.
"I was surprised you could see us, see we no longer exist in this world." Prof. X said. Danny blinked.
"What does that mean." Danny asked. Logan just stood there for a minute.
"It means you need to come with me." The Professor said. Danny looked a Jean then to Logan who was studying Danny.
"Where?" Danny asked, Prof. X was walking away. Danny looked to Logan then followed the Professor. Logan grabbed Danny's shoulder.
"Where are you going kid?" he asked.
"I don't know." Danny said, "I have to go find something." Danny said. Logan hesitated then nodded.
"Let me come with you." Logan said, Danny turned and followed the professor who was walking to the door. The door opened as the professor walked out Danny followed, and even Logan, who was a little creeped out. Danny walked out into a garden, following the professor till they came to three graves. Danny looked at the professor.
"Now what?" Danny asked.
"Read the names." Prof. X said looking at his own grave. Danny nodded then turned to the tombstones.
"Professor Charles Xavier…" Danny read faster, "Jean Grey, and Scott Summers." Danny looked back up, "You're all ghosts?" he asked. Logan was getting upset, sure the kid wasn't lying, but if he was under a delusion he would know. Logan went up to Danny who was thinking.
"Well I guess that makes sense, that explains why I can't seem to see any ghost when my ghost sense goes off." He was talking to himself more now, completely forgetting Logan was there, "That means that the ghost was you and Jean and Scott… now that I think about it one of you were there every time… but that still doesn't explain why no one else can see you… the ghosts where I come from are still very visible to the rest of us. In fact Johnny flirts with human girls without any of them suspecting anything." Danny said.
"Kid." Danny jumped at the voice.
"Oh… you're still here… you didn't tell me the Professor died." Danny sighed.
"That's because it's a sore subject, who are you talking to?" Logan asked again. Danny rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'm kinda talking to the Professor's ghost." Danny chucked nervously. Logan raised an eyebrow.
"Really now?" he asked.
"Yeah." Danny said, "I… yeah…" Danny looked at the ground, "You're gonna lock me up now right?" Danny sighed, "Or maybe try and spin the crazy out of me."
"No I know you're telling the truth, or at least think you are." Logan said looking at the boy.
"I know…" Danny said, "You think I'm crazy, delusional or something, this isn't the first ghost I've seen that no one else has been able to… actually that's not true, no adults could see that ghost. But still I get it." Danny sighed.
"Look, I just want to have you seen by a doctor."
"Logan…" The Professor sent… Logan looked around, "I'm still here." Logan choked up all of a sudden. Danny was shocked to see this big burly guy tear up.
"Where are you?" He asked. Prof. X turned to Danny.
"It takes a great deal of energy to communicate with the living." He told Danny. Danny nodded.
"So… what am I supposed to do about it?" Danny asked.
"Be my voice of course, us mutants need to stick together, they still need me here, whether I'm alive or not." Prof. X said.
"He's right here… and says you guys need him." Danny said pointing with his thumb over his shoulder at the bald man beside him. Logan looked at the boy.
"So are you psychic?" Logan asked. Danny looked at his feet.
"Actually I kinda died." Danny said, "Well half died, but that's another story." Danny looked uncomfortable. Logan backed off.
"Why did he stay, doesn't he have to go into some light?" Logan asked.
"Oh yes, I see the light, but I need to be here for the children." The professor answered.
"He sees the light but he is here for the children." Danny said looking between the two men.
"Tell him that we miss him." Logan said.
"I Know." Prof. X smiled.
"Dude, he can hear you, and he says he knows." Danny said awkwardly. Logan smiled.
"Tell him I miss then too." Prof. X said looking down at Danny.
"Uh… he misses you too." Danny said looked back at the professor.
"Logan… there you are… and Danny." Storm said looking around. Logan was still teared up, "What's going on?" she asked hesitantly.
"He says he sees the professor." Logan said.
"Uh huh…" Storm moved over to Danny, "Are you ok sweetie?" she asked the boy. Danny nodded.
"I'm fine, just found out I was talking to a ghost the entire time, but I'm fine." Danny said. Storm nodded.
"Ok sweetie, we're going to get you some help."
"You don't believe me." Danny said shaking his head, "I may have some issues, but I'm not crazy." Danny said. Storm looked at Danny.
"Tell her about the song I used to sing to her." Prof. X said.
"What song?" Danny asked. The professor hummed it. Danny tried his best to imitate him. Storm backed up a step.
"Ask her if she remembers the first time I met her." Prof. X.
"He wants to know if you remember when you met him?" Danny asked looking at Storm.
"No… no." Storm shook her head more in denial than anything else.
"I walked up to her and…"
"He say he walked up to you and asked if your hair was natural…"
"Stop… please." Storm asked.
"She said that it was…"
"You told him it was as natural as your skin and that if he didn't like it he could… oh I am not repeating that!" Danny turned to the professor.
"She always thought that people were going to…."
"He says you though that everyone was going to criticize you, that's why you ran away, you're skin made you a target for racists, and your hair made you a target as a freak… and that when you got your powers is when you had it and decided to run, you didn't."
"STOP!" Storm yelled, the sky was dark and cloudy the blue skies vanishing. Danny jumped back.
"I'm sorry." Storm said then turned and ran out of there. Danny bit his lip.
"Uh… I'm sorry." Danny said turning to Logan. Logan was pulling out a cigar.
"She's mourning over the professor still, that's why her hair is so short." Logan lit the cigar, he took in a breath and exhaled a cloud of smoke, "Where'd you get all that stuff, the professor tell you, or are you psychic?" Logan smiled. Danny looked at him.
"No, not psychic, but the professor did tell me." Danny insisted, Logan shrugged.
"I've seen some weird things in my life, most of which I probably don't even remember. But this is pretty high up there." Logan said. Danny smiled.
"Yeah, I've seen ghost weenies and this is still pretty strange." Danny laughed.
"Ghost weenies?" Logan asked.
"My parents are inventers and ghost hunters, they tried to cook the hotdogs ten times faster and ended up bringing them to life." Danny sighed.
"You're parents…" Logan asked.
"Yup." Danny said walking over to the graves.
"The same ones who dissected you?" Logan asked, "Dissected alive?"
"You can't dissect alive something that isn't alive… or in their eyes wasn't." Danny closed his eyes his back turned toward Logan.
"Not alive?" Logan asked.
"Yeah…" Danny said then laid an ice rose on each grave, the long stems and perfectly formed flowers glittering like glass in the light. Danny stepped away.
"You're a mutant?" Logan asked looking at the ice flowers.
"No… just half dead." Danny said.
"I'm lost kid." Logan said taking his cigar out of his mouth, "How can you be half dead, you should have recovered right? You're either one or the other?"
"Not unless one half completely died, and the other was still alive." Danny said.
"Half dead…" Logan thought he stuck his cigar back into his mouth, "I is that why your parents did what they did?"
"Yeah." Danny said moving away from the graves, "And since I've spilled my guts enough for one day, I'm going to go take a nap." Danny moved back toward the mansion, "Enjoy your cigar." He said. He turned back and waved at Professor Xavier. Prof. X gave a slight wave back. Danny left.
"Half dead…" Logan repeated.
"Meaning half ghost." Prof. X said looking at the boy as he walked off. Prof. X turned to Logan knowing that he couldn't see him.
"Take care of him my friend." The Prof. X patted Logan on the shoulder and continued walking. Logan turned back around looking for the source of the pat to be met with nothing.
"Professor?" Logan asked feeling stupid, there was no reply, Logan stuck the cigar back into his mouth.
Ok, I have over 2,000 words so I'm gonna end there for today. Yes I got it posted.
That ends this segment.
And one note, never try to write ectogun with autocorrect on unless you double check it first. :P
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