Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom and I'm not in any way affiliated with the creators.

Monday

The next morning started off like any regular day for Jazz. She even forgot that she had ghost powers until her hand phased through a plate that had toast on it. It was very rare for Jazz to be clumsy, so everyone paid a great deal of attention to it.

"Jazz are you okay?" Maddie asked her. "You don't usually drop things."

"I must have thinking of something and wasn't paying attention." Jazz replied. She had to get control of intangibility and fast. It was probably the most annoying power for Danny since it would go off at the worst times. The same seemed to be happening to her.

"Okay, clean it up please."

"Sure." Jazz looked over at Danny. He was looking at her suspiciously. Jazz got a little nervous. She quickly cleaned up the broken plate and made herself more toast. Danny wasn't paying any attention to her again. She sighed in relief. After eating Jazz picked up her bag then opened the front door waiting for Danny. "Come on Danny, we're going to be late!"

"I'm coming!" he grouched. He didn't feel like going to school. He looked toward Jazz. She was already in her car. They had been spending a lot of time together lately. With his friends practically gone until tomorrow she was the only person he could talk to. He got in the car ready for whatever was going to happen today.

"So, Sam and Tucker are going to be finished their week of quality parents/child bonding. I guess that means you won't need me anymore." This got Danny's attention. His mouth was open wide.

"Jazz! How could you say that? You're my sister, I'll always need you."

"I'm sorry. It's just that, we've been getting so close this week. I've really enjoyed it. We don't usually talk so much even after I found out you were half-ghost. I'm going to miss hanging around with you." Jazz found it a little difficult to talk, think and drive at the same time.

"Oh, I get it. I guess that's kind of my fault. I admit I have been spending a little too much time with Sam and Tucker and not enough with others. I'm surprised mom and dad haven't said anything about them being everywhere. Well, we're going to see this movie tomorrow. Do you want to come?"

Jazz smiled. "Yes, I'd like that. Are you sure Sam and Tucker would be okay with that?"

"You know about my powers, so they'll be fine. If I was inviting someone like Valerie then they'd yell at me, but I'm not."

"How are things going between you and Valerie anyways?"

"I haven't seen her in her ghost hunting gear in a while. She didn't seem like she was ready to give up on hunting Danny Phantom after the Danielle incident, but I think she trusts me a bit now. Maybe she's thinking about what she should do."

"Still, be careful. You never know what she might do to you." Jazz didn't know Valerie as well as Danny or even Sam or Tucker, but she didn't like the fact that Valerie was hunting her brother.

"I will." Danny said as Jazz parked her car.

"See you later Danny!" Jazz waved to her brother as she walked to hang with her friends, Brenda and Tyler.

"Hi Jazz, I haven't heard from you all weekend!" Brenda exclaimed. "What have you been doing?"

"Oh, nothing much." (besides getting in a fight with a ghost and then becoming part ghost!) "What about you?"

"Well, Tyler came over yesterday. We were playing video games and…actually I think that's all we did."

"That's all you guys did?"

"Pretty much. Brenda got a new game. It was REALLY good." Tyler answered twitching a lot. He looked like he just drank 10 cups of coffee. Jazz guessed that they had been playing all night.

"You two should get some sleep. How do you expect to get in to University if all you do is play video games?"

"We will, I promise!" Brenda assured her. "Our marks may not be close to yours, but they're not bad."

"Okay, just remember, this year is important. You can't afford to slack off." As soon as Jazz was about to pull a big speech on them the bell rang.

"Oh, don't worry we won't. Now, come on, we gotta get to class." Brenda was thankful for the bell ringing. She couldn't stand Jazz's speeches even though she knew Jazz meant well.

Jazz sat down in her regular seat behind Brenda and above Tyler. For the first time since she had found out about Danny's powers she couldn't concentrate on her schoolwork. Her mind was occupied with all that had happened within the past 24 hours. Right now she was extremely weak. The only thing she could do in ghost form was go intangible and with great effort invisible.

(As soon as school's finished I'm going to practice flying. It seems so hard, but Danny said it was easy. Maybe he's right. If the Box Ghost can do it then why can't I?)

Jazz turned her head towards the window and imagined what it would be like to fly. She would be able to go wherever she wanted to, the wind would be in her face and flying would surely be relaxing. Walking had way too many limitations. You had to be on ground and it was slow. All of the traffic lights make it even slower. Flying would give her access to a whole new area. The view from above would probably look amazing. Maybe that's why Danny liked to go out flying.

"Jazz….Jazz…JAZZ!" a voice yelled.

Jazz broke out of her daydream. She found her teacher a metre away staring at her. "Yes?"

"Were you daydreaming? You usually work diligently throughout the entire period." Her teacher was clearly disappointed.

"I'm sorry, I just have a lot on my mind."

"I understand. This is your last year in high school. I can only imagine how worried you must be for University. Nevertheless, you have to push those worries aside and concentrate on the present. Okay?"

"Okay." Jazz did as much as the schoolwork as she could in the remaining minutes. She wasn't surprised when she finished 5 minutes early. She was used to finishing things in half the time other students in her class did.

"Class, I have important news." the teacher announced. "Next Tuesday, our mayor is coming for a visit. He wishes to get make a presentation explaining what he does and why we're all important to society. This is a great opportunity for you all to learn about politics."

(I'm so sure Vlad wants to teach us. I know it's another plan to get mom, hurt dad, get revenge on Danny/get Danny to join him or he could be after me now since I messed with him. Why can't he just leave us alone? We're all involved in his twisted plans. Mom and dad aren't even aware of it.)

"…so be sure to come to school next Tuesday!" That was the last thing Jazz heard her teacher say. She missed everything in the middle. As soon as the bell rang, Jazz got up and walked to her next class. She had a test that period, so things were uneventful. After that Jazz hurried to the school cafeteria with her friends.

"Do you guys really think Vlad has changed?" Jazz asked her friends.

"I know he destroyed the Burger, put a curfew, banned electronics, made it illegal to wear anything dark, but he realized his mistake and changed it back to the way things were." Tyler replied. The hype seemed to have disappeared from him.

"Yeah, I think he deserves a second chance." Brenda agreed. "He was just trying to protect us. I mean, it's not like he's some sort of diabolical villain."

"If they only knew…" Jazz muttered to herself. "You guys don't know Vlad like I do. He invited my dad to his college reunion party before he was mayor. I was allowed to go as well. He's not a nice guy, trust me!"

"He seems pretty nice. Jazz, you're always the one telling us about morals. You say it's never good to hold a grudge. Why can't you do the same?"

"Because I know he's still crazy. Just yesterday he tried to…do some bad stuff."

"And that bad stuff was?" Tyler inquired.

"I can't tell you that. Vlad would go wild if the public knew. He would make sure that my family pays for it."

"I still can't picture him being like that. I think you're exaggerating."

Jazz sighed. She was getting nowhere fast. "One day you'll see who he truly is. It's going to scare you. I'm sure of it."

"We'll see next week." Brenda said. She just couldn't understand why her best friend was behaving so strangely. First, Jazz completely loses focus in class and now she thinks that the mayor of Amity Park is crazy. What next?

"Ack! Did you trip me!?" screamed an angry . The entire cafeteria went quiet. Jazz turned to see Paulina with Danny backing off.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to." Danny tried to apologize. Danny actually did mean to trip her. A ghost was about to grab her, so he threw his lunch tray at Paulina's feet making her trip. She narrowly avoided getting kidnapped.

"Didn't mean to!? I know you're clumsy, but nobody could have done that by . You and your friends are jealous of me right? Tripping me isn't going to make you popular. You'll still be a loser!"

This made Jazz seriously angry. She got up and walked to her. Tyler and Brenda followed. Paulina's eyes were still fixed on Danny with an intense amount of rage.

"Look Paulina!" Jazz started. Paulina was so mad with Danny that she didn't notice Jazz approach her. "Quit picking on my little brother."

"Why are you defending him? Didn't you see what that loser did to me?"

"He said it was an and he said sorry. Isn't that good enough!?"

"That was not an . He did it on purpose." Paulina paused for a moment then continued. "Jazz, if you just forgot about your brother do you know how much better your rep would get? Hanging around with him makes you look bad. Just because his life is a failure doesn't mean yours has to be."

"What!? Don't you have a heart!? How can you say that to anyone!?" Jazz was screaming very loudly. It shocked everyone including Danny.

"Because it's the truth. He's got only 2 friends, he's doing terrible in school, he gets in trouble every other day and now he's got his sister defending him."

"You have no idea what he has to go through! I've never seen anyone with as much to do as my brother. He doesn't need you making him feel worse so back off!"

"You sound just like that Goth . You're becoming one of them! No, you always were, but you were just pretending to act like someone important. I can't believe that you've had the whole school fooled for such a long time."

"You're even crazier than I thought." Jazz wished that she could use a ghost power on her right there, but it would probably fail and there were too many people watching.

"I'm going to ruin whatever popularity you had before. Nobody messes with me, not even you."

"Yeah, we'll see about that! I've made friends the hard way. I get to know them personally. I know they wouldn't abandon me because of a selfish person like you." Jazz calmed down a little then spoke words only those that were close could hear. "You'd better watch what you do Paulina. Strange things might happen to you. Strange…things…" Jazz walked back to her lunch table leaving Paulina totally freaked out.