She couldn't be away from her son for too long. If she did, her mind would slowly start to lose its grip on reality. Who is her son? When she would look at him, she knew. She knew he was her Danny, the same sweet boy he always had been. When she was lying on her bed, with nothing but her thoughts and Jack's snoring to keep her company, she was not so sure anymore. Who is Danny? He's a ghost. Well, part ghost. He's that ghost boy she and Jack had been trying to capture for so long, Danny Phantom. She discovered the truth a week ago, and could barely sleep since.

She hadn't told Danny about what she discovered, she didn't know how to approach the subject. She knew that once she came clean, things will never be the same between them, not ever. But isn't this just part of life? People change, relationships change, even those between a parent and their children. Especially those between parents and their children. "Even normal children", she couldn't help but think to herself.

No, she just can't take it. She got out of bed and sneaked into her son's bedroom. She had been doing it quit frequently since she discovered his secret. There he is, there's her Danny. Just sleeping peacefully, breathing in and out. All curled up inside his blanket, hugging a pillow.

It wasn't that hard to figure it out, she felt so stupid that it took her this long. One day, she decided to stop ignoring the fact that some of the Fenton Gadgets always lock onto Danny. She scanned him with an ecto-scanner while he was sleeping. Sure enough, he had his own ecto-signature. She inserted his ecto-signature into their database, where it was revealed his signature matched the one of Danny Phantom. It was that simple, and from then on every little fact just popped into place. She hadn't told Jack yet, of course. She couldn't even tell Danny.

Said boy looked so small and innocent, it was hard to believe he had so much power. Maddie sat down beside him. She knew she shouldn't wake him up, but she just had to talk to him. Her hand stroked his black hair, making the boy shift a bit. He then slowly opened his eyes and looked at his mother. He was too sleepy to make any sense of the situation, his eyes didn't show confusion or annoyance, just sleepiness.

"Mom…?" Danny asked quietly. He then closed his eyes and fell back to sleep.

"Danny? Danny?" Maddie shook his shoulder gently.

"Whaaaat?" her son whined, not opening his eyes this time.

"I need to ask you something."

"What?" he murmured.

Maddie paused. What did she want to ask him? She realized she hadn't thought it through. She kept silent for a minute. Danny fell asleep for the second time since she first sat on his bed.

Maddie then got up from her son's bed and went back to her own. She will talk to him another time, when she actually knew what she was going to say.