Now this will be my first Danny Phantom Fanfic and I wanted it to be an AU based around the idea of Danny's parents not accepting him as a halfa. The Danny we know would be from the main timeline where his parents accept and love him for being half-ghost while the Dan timeline is where Danny's parents, Sam, Tucker and Mr Lancer all die and he fuses with Plasmius. However this timeline would be where Danny's parents don't accept him, he doesn't fuse with Plasmius and his family and friends are still alive. However it goes on the concept that Danny feels betrayed and hurt that his parents didn't believe him and it causes him to become something similar to Dan without the fusion.
While this is an AU story; we know that main timeline Danny is the sole timeline, so his choices determine his future and also altercations to the timelines. In other words - this AU Danny would've used to be main timeline Danny before whatever happened to him. Clockwork just fixes the time-stream, so that it's just another alternate universe to the main timeline. Anyways, this also takes place before Ultimate Enemy, so Danny wouldn't know anything about becoming evil.
Anyways, hope you enjoy!
Chapter 1: It Begins
Fenton Residence - July 20th - 2005
It was cold.
The sudden temperature drop inside the house was discomforting to the teenage boy.
He sat on the blue couch in the living room, ice-blue eyes glancing between his two parents, gulping.
They had seen him change.
He had just finished fighting a ghost, sucked them into the Fenton Thermos and hid in the alleyway by the house and changed. He didn't realize his parents had followed him, wanting to capture the infamous Phantom and had seen the whole thing.
They now wanted answers.
He shifted, uncomfortably under their gazes as he looked away from them. "Umm..."
"Are you going to tell us what that was?" Maddie, his Mother, asked him, frowning.
"I ... umm..." he stuttered out, trying to find words of how to explain to them of what he now was.
They were ghost hunters and scientists ... would they believe him when he told them that he's half-ghost?
The silence dragged on as the teenager bit his bottom lip, trying to think of what to say to them.
There was no way out of this.
No more excuses.
Nothing.
He had to tell them.
He turned his head back to face his parents, noting the scrutinizing looks on their faces as if they were analyzing him, causing him to wince.
He took in a breath and let it out, "I'm half-ghost..."
Fenton Residence - September 10th - 2005
It was a mild Summer morning in Amity Park as the oldest child of the Fenton family got up out of bed, yawning. She looked at her alarm clock, still feeling the last bits of sleep drifting away. She threw her arm over her eyes, releasing a silent sigh and sniffle.
'It hasn't been that long since he told them, but it feels like so long ago to me...'
She took her arm off of her face, trying to hold back the tears that tried to pour out.
She wouldn't cry.
She's cried too much already.
He wouldn't want her to cry for him.
"Oh Danny..." she muttered to herself, hiccupping to herself slightly.
She slowly sat up from her bed, got up off it and stretched. Her aqua coloured eyes scanned her purple wallpapered bedroom; a sigh releasing from the confines of her lips.
The house didn't feel the same since that day.
It didn't feel right.
It had felt empty.
It had lost it's friendly charm.
It's spirit so to speak.
And it had been all because of that day when her parents had seen Danny change from Phantom back to Fenton. He had to choose to either tell them or continue to lie.
He chose to no longer lie.
However things didn't work out for him the way he had wanted.
Every-time the teenage girl thought about what their parents had said to him made her angry and want to comfort her little brother about it.
But she couldn't.
Not anymore...
She shook her head, taking in a shuddering breath as she stepped out of her room and headed across the hall towards the bathroom. The door was wide open, meaning no one was using it yet which was good news for her. She could have a shower and get changed for school before either of her parents woke up.
She hadn't really spoken to them since that day.
She was seventeen and next year she'd be eighteen.
She'd be on her way to college and away from them.
She'd just have to handle one more year of their obsessiveness with ghosts.
The teenage girl walked into the bathroom, closing the door behind her and locking it.
A flicker of a shadow and she turned her head, her long orange hair waved around her body as she scanned the bathroom for what she thought she saw.
"Hello?" she called out, wondering if she'd just seen things or not.
When her gaze turned back to the mirror, she froze.
It wasn't the fact that the lights were flickering on and off behind her that shocked her, but there was writing on the mirror. The girl, slowly approached the sink before stopping and covering her mouth and shaking her head as tears cascaded down her cheeks.
"No..."
Written on the mirror is green, dripping ectoplasmic blood were the words 'WHY?' in capitals.
So, this is a story that jumps between past and present which is why I involved dates. I'm also not so good at horror or descriptions, so forgive me when scary scenes don't seem so scary. I'm more of a tragedy author not a horror author and this fic is categorized as tragedy, supernatural with elements of horror.
Now, can any of you guess what's happened to Danny before it's revealed?
LdR OUT