"Okay Daniel, whenever you are ready," Vlad nodded as he, Jasmine and Desiree watched with baited breath to see how Daniel's transformation would go. "If you start to hurt, just stop, don't push yourself, that could be a sign of something worse."

"Yeah, yeah," Danny rolled his eyes. "I'm going ghost," he cried out as he formed the rings that would transform him into his ghostself, however this time was slower, more tiring and it did feel uncomfortable to do so. "Hrrg," he grunted with his eyes closed trying to force the transformation through the pain.

"No, stop, Daniel," Vlad called out as he saw the difficulty that the teen was having with changing forms.

"I can keep going," Danny panted as sweat started to drip from his pores.

"Danny, stop, you're hurting yourself," Jazz shouted at her strong willed little brother, who also tended forgo his own safety.

"Just a little more," he said as he felt the rings wavering.

"Beloved, please, no more," Desiree cried out.

Exhaling deeply, Danny let the power slip back into him, as he stumbled forward. "Did I, do it," he asked as he looked around the room.

"No, it would seem that you are still too unstable to fully manifest your ghost half," Vlad sighed.

"Dammit," Danny swore as he slammed his hands onto the tile cracking the stone. His human side had seemingly recovered completely over the last couple of days and most of his powers had returned but he still wasn't able to go ghost.

"Do not fret beloved," Desiree said calmingly as she floated next to him and gently rubbed his back. "It will just take time," she whispered as she lifted up his chin only to see tear streaks. "Why does this bother you so?"

"It's like I'm missing a part of me," Danny sighed. "I'm not whole, even if you complete me," he teased.

"Oh you are incorrigible," Desiree giggled as she kissed him gently. The kiss slowly growing more passionate before Jazz coughed into her hand.

"Still here little bro," she said as she awkardly looked away from the couple.

Vlad clapped his hands. "All well and good, but you do need to return to school sometime, unless you plan to retake the year," Vlad asked.

"Well," Danny slowly stood up. "It has been almost a week," he shrugged. "Who knows how much homework the teachers will have waiting for me." he laughed it his joke as he picked up his backpack, already knowing that he would need to return to school that day after Vlad cleared his human half.

"As for your absences," Vlad said as he pulled out a form. "I sent a letter to your principal stating there was an accident in your parent's lab and that you would be out of school for an indeterminate amount of time, which is technically the truth. You will just need to hand her this to confirm it."

"Technically, the best kind of anything," Danny laughed as he took the form from Vlad.

"Now this will also get you out of gym, so that you do not have to display your scars to the rest of the school," Vlad continued unabated. "However you will need to speak to your school nurse, should your powers start to act up," Vlad said with emphasis. "You will have an excuse to go see the nurse and then call me."

"Sure Vlad," Danny nodded as he took a deep breath. "Well, I'm off to school," he chuckled as he started out the door before coming back in. "I uh, walking would make me super late and I can't exactly fly right now, could one of you maybe give me a lift."

The older people in the room sighed before Jazz started to walk Danny out the door. "I'm borrowing one of your cars Vlad," she called out as she took the keys to an expensive European sports car.

Vlad turned to Desiree who was whistling to herself. "You're planning on spying on him all day, aren't you," he asked.

"Of course, I'm just giving them a head start," Desiree answered.

"And you still won't grant that wish of mine?" Vlad inquired.

"Nope," Desiree smirked. Utterly delighted that Danny had wished away that part of her curse. It really showed how much trust he had in her that she wouldn't abuse being able to choose which wishes to grant now.

"Gah fine," Vlad threw his hands in the air as he stormed off, knowing now he would have to hire someone to do what he wanted.

Danny held onto the grab handle as Jazz cackled loudly flying around the corner to stop the very fast vehicle in front of the school. "You-you-you kn-know ju-ju-just becau-cause, I am l-l-late," Danny stuttered as he fell out of the car and onto the sweet, safe, non-moving ground. "And half dead," he said as he started to compose himself. "Doesn't mean you have to get me there on time," he glared at his smug older sister.

"I have always wanted to drive one of these," Jazz giggled. "Shame that Vlad is going to get a bunch of tickets for all those red lights I ran, but I was going, two hundred," she cheered loudly.

"That's my top speed when I'm flying," Danny commented. "You want to know the difference? I'm not dodging traffic," he shouted at his sister.

"Bye Danny, I love you," Jazz said loudly to her brother and stood grinning as she watched his brothers frustrations die.

Sighing Danny walked back over to his sister. "I love you too Jazz," he said as he hugged her tightly.

"If you have any trouble, seriously, call me," Jazz said as she looked her brother in the eyes.

"I will Jazz," Danny said as hurried into the school just after the bell rang.

Danny headed straight to the principal's office, ignoring that classes were beginning and he'd be late, he needed to drop off the note Vlad gave him. "Principal Ishiyama," Danny said as he knocked on her open door, she had been having a meeting with Vice Principal Lancer, who surprisingly didn't have to sub for a class that day. "I needed to give you this note," he said as he passed her the slip of paper.

"Dr. Xiangtsu-on MDMS," she questioned.

"I had an accident a couple of weeks ago and," Danny nervously rubbed his arm. "This guy's pretty good, had to be flown in all the way from China to fix me up," he honestly praised the surgeon's talent as not many people could or would be able to help keep a halfa like him alive while he was missing most of his internal organs.

The two adults just looked at the teen for a moment. "I'll need to go to the nurse so she knows about the injuries," Danny added on. "But I might have some issues in class, I'll try not to be disruptive."

"Daniel, walk with me," Lancer nodded to his boss as he started to walk the troubled student down the hall to the nurse's office. "What happened, you disappeared for a few days and then we get a call from the Mayor saying there had been an accident and you wouldn't be coming in for quite some time."

"I promise, I'm better now, it was just a mistake in the lab," Danny said, lying to himself more than Lancer as he didn't want to confront how he felt about his parents at the moment.

"Alright Daniel," Lancer said dropping the subject as he tried to get a feel for if this was another one of Daniel's strange habits, he could only tell there was something more to the story, but he knew he wasn't in a position to inquire further.

After explaining some of the situation to the nurse, she kindly asked for Daniel to specify where the injuries occurred so she might know what to do in case of an emergency. Danny nervously pointed to his chest to answer her question.

"Goodness," the nurse exclaimed. "Your heart, were you electrocuted?" she asked further, concerned that Daniel could have a heart attack on school grounds.

"No," Danny sighed as he took off his t-shirt, revealing the patchwork of scars on his chest.

Lancer swallowed the vomit that shot up into his mouth as he noticed the massive crosswork, but something about the way the scars looked reminded him of something but he couldn't remember what it was, but he knew it couldn't be good.

"We-well, you will certainly be excused from p.e.," the nurse chuckled as she tried to not look at what she could easily identify as the precision cuts used during an autopsy. "Do take it easy, any pain at all and you come right here," she instructed as she gently led the teen out the door. As soon as she saw him walking down the hall she turned to the vice-principal. "Do you know what those were," she hissed furiously.

"No, but I think I should, something about them is familiar," Lancer admitted.

"Think back to those biology classes you subbed for," the nurse reminded him.

"Wait, biology class, yeah the frogs," he remembered. "Oh no, he was dissected?! How is that, an accident!" Lancer pointed angrily at the door.

"I don't know," the nurse said. "I always thought the Fenton's were weird but, I don't know what to think now."

"I'll keep an eye on him today," Lancer promised as he left the nurse to fill out her notes on this situation.

After Lancer left the room, the nurse picked up the phone, she had a responsibility to report any and all suspected child abuse, and if the wounds on Daniel's body weren't a red flag, then she was colorblind. "Hello, Amity Park Police Department, I need to report an incident with a student," she said into the receiver.

Danny shuffled down the hall to his fist class. "This is going to be awkward he realized as he hadn't seen or heard from his friends in days. As he looked into the classroom before opening the door he could see that Sam and Tucker looked awful. Their hair was a mess, they looked as if they hadn't slept in days and they were constantly looking up at the sky for signs of a ghost. Slowly he turned the knob and entered the room, the teacher stopping the lesson to see which student was late. The class however reacted differently to Daniel's presence. Sam and Tucker bowled over their classmates to get to him.

"Dude, where have you been, you went missing for over a week," Tucker shouted as he felt Danny's arms and legs to make sure it was him.

"Oh my god, would it have killed you to call or something, we have been looking everywhere for you," Sam sobbed as she hugged Danny tightly to her.

Danny looked at his two friends. "Sorry, there was an accident in my parents lab and I had to spend time recovering at my Uncle Vlad's," he said with a nod.

"Well you are still late Mr. Fenton, do you happen to have a pass," the teacher asked.

Blushing Danny remembered he forgot to ask for one. "Sorry, I forgot to get one."

"I'm his pass," Lancer said as he entered the room. "We need to have a quick meeting," he said as he pulled the teacher out of the classroom. He had done this for all of Daniel's teachers to make sure at least in his classes he wouldn't have issues until they could have a meeting later in the day.

While the teachers were talking in the halls, Danny was led to the back of the room by his friends. "Dude, where did you go?" Tucker whispered.

"Vlad's," Danny answered.

"He caught you," Sam gasped.

"No, he helped me, I was in really bad shape," Danny answered.

"Ghost attack, Skulker finally get some new gadget that worked," Tucker asked as he readied his PDA to take notes.

"Actually Skulker saved me, my parents got me," Danny said as his voice quivered. "They, they didn't listen," he said as he choked back a sob.

"Hah, Fenturd is crying," Dash said loudly as he started to laugh at Danny as he and a few others had eavesdropped on the conversation, curious as to why one of their classmates was missing for so long.

"Oh I wish you would shut up," Sam screeched in anger.

"So you have wished it, so it shall be," Desiree smirked as she revealed herself to the room.

Suddenly Dash was completely unable to make sound as he pointed and silently screamed about the ghost.

"Desiree," Sam gasped as she looked to Danny to see what he would do.

"Hey Desiree," Danny said as he wiped his cheeks. "I'm a mess," he said quietly.

"You just need time," Desiree responded softly as she floated over to him. "It's going to be hard to understand everything you are feeling right now, and you should not be ashamed of showing your emotions," she advised as she gently wiped a tear from his eye..

"Yeah, you're right," Danny smirked. "So are you just going to follow me all day or?"

"I don't see why not," Desiree smiled as she disappeared from sight.

"What the hell was that," Tucker shouted as he waved his hands at where Desiree had been.

"It's complicated," Danny chuckled as he already felt better by letting out some of his emotions.

"Children," Lancer said as he stuck his head in the room to quiet the class down. "Please."

After the teacher came back in the other students were unsure of how to explain what happened, so the teacher just dismissed their ramblings. "Oh Mr. Baxter I can see you are practicing miming, an odd choice, but I once knew a mime, he was my brother, great mime, hated the man," the teacher rambled on. The rest of the day Dash would keep trying to get someone to take his lack of voice seriously, to no avail.

"Dude, okay, it's lunch," Tucker said as the group sat on the bleachers having their meal, outside and away from any other listeners. "Spill, what happened?"

"I got caught by my parents and they did an autopsy on me," Danny answered as he lifted up his shirt.

"Oh I'm going to be sick," Sam said as she covered her mouth.

"Me too, also that's kind of sick," Tucker concurred with his friend after he looked away from the scars.

"Well they took most of my organs out," Danny continued. "I guess I got lucky that Skulker was feeling merciful that day," he shrugged. "He took me back to the ghost zone and Ember went to get Vlad, it was touch and go for a while, at least that's what they say. But I'm alive, can't exactly change right now," Danny said as he looked up to the sky.

"Okay, that explains where you've been," Sam slowly absorbed the information her crush told her. "Now what about Desiree?"

"Well, we're dating," Danny happily said.

"WHAT?!" the other two exclaimed in shock.

"Yeah, I was shocked she liked me too, she is way out of my league," Danny laughed.

"Considering you are one of two half ghosts, I'd say I got lucky," Desiree sighed as she appeared floating above Danny, playing with his hair. "There are other ghosts, many of whom are quite beautiful in their own right."

"But they aren't you Desiree," Danny smiled as he tilted his head up to look at his girlfriend.

"This is weird," Tucker said as he looked at the couple being cute, he was happy for his bro, but him dating a ghost was so strange after fighting them for so long.

"You'll need to fix Dash though," Danny said as he hugged Desiree who sat in his lap.

"Aww, do I have to, he was mocking you for expressing your feelings," Desiree pouted.

"Yeah, but you don't have to do it right away," he said with a smirk. "I wish that at some point today you would give Dash the ability to speak again."

"So you have wished it, so it shall be," Desiree hummed as she snapped her fingers. "I'm thinking, midnight," she mused as she leaned into the crook of Danny's neck.

"That's nice," Danny said softly as he waited out the rest of the lunch period holding onto Desiree.

"You know," Tucker started as he walked to the gym with Sam. Danny stayed behind on the bleacher with Desiree for a while longer, informing his friends that he had a pass out of p.e. For a while because of his scars. "They are pretty cute together," he smiled that his friend was having good things start to happen to him.

"It's obviously a trick," Sam huffed in annoyance

"Oh that's just because you've had a crush on him for so long and waited too long to tell him," Tucker rolled his eyes at the girl he was fooling around with. "I know we aren't dating and this is just to destress from all the ghost hunting. But you can't do this to yourself, you know that."

"Ugh, it's so hard, he's just so oblivious," Sam kicked a ball that had rolled her way, it bounced off Dash's head as he couldn't get anyone to help him due to not being able to call plays during the weird game the teacher had come up with.

"Well it's too late, you know Danny's not the guy who's going to two-time anyone," Tucker shrugged as he ducked under a throw.

"Obviously Tucker," Sam hissed. "I'm not going to be the other woman in this situation. I'll just wait until Danny sees what she's really like," she said as she didn't expect the other ghost to give up her conquest to take over the world just for Danny so easily.

Danny closed his eyes as he sat with Desiree in his arms. To avoid suspicion she had turned herself invisible so that no one would notice he was seated with a ghost. "So what is the plan for after your school is let out?" she asked.

"I, I don't know," Danny answered as he wasn't sure if he should go home, or if he could even go home after all that he suffered.

"I'm certain that Vlad would allow you to remain with him," Desiree said. "And if not there is always my domain you could reside in, it's quite nice, all it's been missing is a nice stud to warm the bed," she purred as she raked her nails along his back, sending shivers down his spine.

"That's very tempting Desiree," Danny sighed. "But I have to go home, I have to face my parents. I think it's time to reveal myself, maybe get some answers."

"Whatever happens, I will be there for you," Desiree promised as she held on to him tightly.

"I love you Desiree," Danny whispered as he hugged her for comfort and security. She had been his rock through these last few days, keeping him from losing his mind.

"Is this not a little fast?" Desiree asked.

"I think it's just right," Danny smiled where he figured her face was. Leaning forward he planted a kiss on an exposed part of her body, he had been aiming for a cheek or maybe her neck.

"Beloved that was my breast you just kissed," Desiree raised an invisible eyebrow.

"Oh," Danny squeaked as he realized he had missed by quite a wide margin.

He felt her shift in his arms and wrap hers around his torso. "If you want to play those games," she said coyly. "We can, just say the words and we'll be out of here in an instant."

Gulping Danny rolled his head to the side to not show how fiery red his cheeks were. "I think, if I did that, I would have more to explain to my parents than just the ghost powers, like how I'm a father," he said nervously.

"A bold claim," Desiree chortled. "We'll have to test it some day."

The ringing of the bell was a savior to Danny as he was not sure how much longer he could hold out and keep from giving into his desires. "Time for my last class of the day, then," he said as he earlier thoughts returned. "Home."

"I will be with you for every moment, beloved," Desiree promised as she floated along with Danny through his last class.

When Danny stepped out of the school, after reassuring Tucker and Sam that he was going to go home and talk to his parents and maybe have the big reveal, he said he'd call them later tonight and if they didn't get that call to go to Vlad for help. While they were unsure, they still decided to listen to their friend's wishes about how he handled the situation with his family.

"Danny over here," Jazz called out to Danny from next to the same four wheeled death machine from the morning. Danny passed by all the onlookers who were oohing and awwing at the expensive vehicle.

After getting seating into the passenger seat. Jazz waited a moment for her little brother to collect himself. "So, how was today?" she asked hopefully.

"It wasn't bad, Desiree being with me really helped a lot," Danny said as he reached over and took her hand as she turned visible once again.

"That's really sweet. Now where am I taking you?" she asked, knowing that it could one of any number of places.

"I think you know where we have to go Jazz, home," Danny sighed as he buckled up.

"Dammit," Jazz swore under her breath, hoping it would be a little bit longer before he was wanting to confront their parents.

When they arrived at Fenton Works, instead of clear streets the building was surrounded by police and other clearly government vehicles. "Oh no," Jazz said as she and Danny stepped out of the vehicle to watch as their mom and dad were dragged out of the home in handcuffs.