I had extreme writer's block, that my only excuse as to why this chapter was so delayed. I'm soooo sorry, but I finally got around to it, and it only took a few weeks to write.. sorry again.

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Chapter 5 - Wait for the right time

Danny woke up to the sun shining at his face through the window.

Groaning, he turned over so that he was lying face down, and being to lazy to move his body more than that, simply phased his head through his pillow in an attempt to protect his head from the light.

Of course, because there was no space between his pillow and his mattress, as soon as he turned tangible again, his head was stuck in his bed and he nearly suffocated.

Turning intangible once more to get out, but too shocked and tired to focus properly, he turned his entire body intangible, and fell on the floor.

That woke him up, and turning over again, so that he was facing the underside of his bed, Danny sighed and closed his eyes.

At least I didn't go through the floor.

After he got out from under his bed and got ready for the day, Danny was walking down the stairs.

Despite what happened earlier, he was in a good mood. He had gotten a good night's sleep, and now he would be able to relax for the next two days, as it was currently Saturday morning.

As he got closer to the bottom of the stairs he saw the metal floor of downstairs approaching.

Wait a minute..

Metal?

All of a sudden, he was standing in what he immediately recognized as his parents' lab. And there, in front of him, they were.

His parents looked at him, he couldn't see their eyes, they were covered by their goggles, but he could tell from the rest of their face and their body language, that they were not happy.

Before he could react, they grabbed hold of him how did they get here so quickly? and dragged him over to an examination table wait where did that come from?

Danny couldn't think straight as his parents threw him violently at the table and strapped him to it.

Still not saying anything, Maddie grabbed a scalpel where did she get that? and began to cut open his jumpsuit when did I change into my ghost form? along with his skin underneath.

Ectoplasm and blood was seeping out of the cut, but Danny wasn't focused on that.

He looked at his mom, tears forming in his eyes.

He finally found his voice, and it didn't come out nearly as loud as he would have liked.

"W-Wait.. M-Mom.. W-What are y-you d-doing?"

She still didn't look at him, so he tried again.

"C-Can't you s-see that it's m-me? Your s-son? D-Danny?"

He almost whispered the last few words, but at least his mother turned to look at him.

She took off her goggles and looked him straight in the eyes with nothing but hate.

"Don't you dare talk to me, ghost. I will never think of you as anything but a test subject. You're not my son, never were, never will be."

You're not Danny...

…

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..ny..

..da..

..d..ny.

..da..ny..

DANNY!

Danny woke up to hear his parents' voices talking around him.

He tried to open his eyes, but they were too heavy to move.

So instead, he focused on the voices.

His parents seemed to be concerned about him.

From what he heard, he could draw the conclusion that he had somehow passed out.

That did make sense, considering what had happened yesterday.

At the memory, Danny groaned silently.

He heard two gasps, followed by:

"Danny, are you okay?"

His mother's voice brought him out of his thoughts, and he tried to open his eyes again.

This time his eyes slowly slid open. He saw both of his parents' faces hovering over him.

As carefully as he could, Danny sat up, and faced his parents.

"Yeah.. I'm fine. What happened?"

"You just completely blacked out, then you fainted."

Fainted?

So what just happened wasn't real?

Relief flooded Danny as he realized that everything was normal.

His parents didn't hate him.

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After making sure that Danny was alright, the Fentons were all sitting around the kitchen table having breakfast like any other morning.

Well, Danny's parents cared for him even more than usual, but that wasn't really all that out of the ordinary.

Jack Fenton was, alongside inhaling more food than the others in the family combined, tinkering with one of his many odd inventions.

Then, all of a sudden he slammed the screwdriver down on the table and held up the device in both of his hands.

"Ha! It's done!"

When no one asked about it, he kept going, assuming that they were all too excited about the latest ghost hunting technology to ask.

"This baby will make sure that we capture the ghost boy! It uses a spedcial type of ecto-energy, that will weaken him and..."

At this point Maddie started paying attention, just as interested in capturing the ghost boy as her husband.

Their kids on the other hand, looked at eachother with bored expressions.

Jazz scooted over so she was a little closer to her brother, and said in a quiet voice:

"You know, it would be easier if you just told them. You know they would accept you, and it would make your life much easier."

…

As soon as he had spotted the clocktower, he had been flying towards it at top speed.

But after going inside and finding Clockwork in the main room, he had been disappointed.

"I will not help you".

"Come on Clockwork, please! Obviously something went wrong when I told my parents my secret, so shouldn't you let me try again?"

Danny really did not understand. The last time they had found out, Danny's parents had been accepting. But this time, something must have happened.

But then again, Clockwork had already told him the usual "Everyting is the way it should be", so why was it different this time?

Before he could think more about it Clockwork spoke again:

"I will not let you go back and tell your parents again. I will, however, let you go back to how things were before you did."

"But why didn't they accept me? I don't get it…"

"Just because someone reacted to something in a certain way at one time, doesn't necessarily mean that they will react the same way at another time."

"So.. you're saying that I just picked the wrong time to tell them? Then when is the right time?

A time portal opened in front of Danny, and as he went through he heard:

"That, is something you will have to figure out for yourself"

Then the portal closed behind him, and he was back home.

Checking the time on his phone, he realized that it was only a few minutes before the time he had told his parents.

But this time, he knew better.

He would wait for the right time.

"You know, it would be easier if you just told them. You know they would accept you, and it would make your life much easier."

As Jazz said this, Danny looked over at his parents, and then back at her with a smile.

"No, I kinda like it this way. I'll tell them some other time."

He looked over at his parents again.

"I'll tell them when I'm supposed to. After all, there's a right time for everything."

End of Chapter 5 - Wait for the right time

End of Story - Is everything really as it should be?

I did it!

Again, I am soooooooo sorry that it took this long! I don't have any excuses, it was just extreme writer's block.

But I'm really happy with the ending of this story. The ending was actually the part I came up with first, and then I based the rest of the story around that.

Anyway, there is a very small chance that I'll do a sequel to this, but it would only be a one-shot about Danny finding the right time.

But that won't happen anytime soon, I have a lot of ideas for other stories that I want to write first, and I don't like working on several stories at the same time.

So we'll see.

I'll just have to find the right time to write ;)

But that's all for now, thank you to everyone who read, followed, favorited and reviewed this story! You guys are what made me write this at last!

THANK YOU