Hey!

So, a while ago, I made an AU one-shot in a collection of Disney Love Song For Danny Phantom Pairings one-shots, which was titled Strangers Like Me, was DXS, and was basically Danny, after being in the Ghost Zone for ten years, came back to the human world when he was badly wounded through Sam's bedroom and re-met her again. She tended to his wounds while teaching him about the human world and they fell in love. But of course, Danny had to go back. Now, I felt like that one-shot needed a full-on story, so here it is!

I don't own anything in the Danny Phantom universe. That all belongs to Butch Hartman. I only own this story.

Please read and review!

GhostWriterGirl out!

Prologue:

How It Began

Ten Years Ago…

The sounds of sneakers and flats slapping on concrete sounded as two four-year-old kids ran to a huge red brick building, a neon sign attached to it that said "Fenton Works" and a mess of metal on top. One of the kids was a boy with dark skin, glasses, and wearing a short-sleeved yellow shirt, green shorts, and brown sneakers. The other kid was a girl, with black hair tied into two pigtails, violet eyes, wearing a purple shirt and black skirt and black flats with white socks. The boy knocked on the door, and it was opened by a huge man in an orange jumpsuit, with blue eyes and short black hair.

The man, Jack Fenton, grinned at seeing the kids and shouted, "DANNY-BOY! YOUR FRIENDS ARE HERE!"

At that, a boy came running down the stairs towards the door. He had messy black hair, big blue eyes, fair skin, a faint smattering of freckles on his cheeks, a white shirt with short sleeves and red trimming, blue shorts and red and white sneakers with white socks. The boy, Danny Fenton, smiled at seeing his two best friends.

"Tucker! Sammy!" Danny greeted as he and his friends, Tucker Foley and Samantha "Sam" Manson, hugged. The three smiled and Tucker and Sam walked inside, eager to play a game of hide and seek with their best friend in his two-storey house. They met Danny's six-year-old sister, Jazz Fenton, and were about to play hide and seek when Maddie called up from the basement, "Jack, it's ready!"

Jack grinned, and was about to head down before he turned to Sam, Tucker and Danny and asked, "Do you three want to see something cool?"

All three kids nodded. "YES!"

"Well, Danny, Sam, Tucker," Jack started as he, Danny, Sam and Tucker walked to the basement, Jazz following them, "me and Maddie have made something called the Fenton Ghost Portal. It, if it works, will bust a hole into the dimension known as the Ghost Zone!"

By now, Danny, Sam and Tucker were completely and thoroughly interested. Jazz, however, sighed.

"Daddy, you know ghosts aren't real," Jazz pointed out, though she still followed her father, brother and his friends down the steps to the basement/lab.

"Well, we'll see about that when your mother and I bust a hole into the ghost dimension, Jazzy-Pants," Jack told her as they entered the basement/lab. He turned to Maddie, who was just re-checking over everything, and said, "Maddie! The kids are gonna see us turn on the portal."

Maddie looked up from her calculations and noticed her daughter, her son and his friends.

"Okay! Just make sure they're not in the path of any ecto-blasts. We don't want what happened to Vlad happening again," Maddie advised.

"Sure thing, Mads!" Jack said. He turned to Jazz, Danny, Sam and Tucker and said seriously, "Now kids, stay a few feet away from the portal when me and Maddie turn it on, just in case."

They nodded, and the Trio looked in awe and excitement as Jack walked back to the portal. Maddie, after overlooking everything again, shouted, "Jack, hit it!"

Grinning, Jack held up a plug and plugged it into the connector. The portal hummed as it started to create a spiral of green energy, causing Jazz, Danny, Sam and Tucker to look at it in awe, until…

It died down to a spark. A single, lonesome spark, and then that disappeared to.

Maddie and Jack looked at the portal in shock.

"But… but it should have worked! I checked and double-checked the calculations. Everything was correct. Why didn't it work?" Maddie asked herself.

Jazz leaned down and whispered, "Told you so." With that, she left the lab.

Jack slumped and pouted, "It didn't work. All our hard work…and it didn't work."

Maddie looked at her husband and walked over to him, placing a hand on his broad shoulder.

"Look, maybe we made a miscalculation, or overlooked an error. Right now, let's call it a night, look at whatever mistakes we made tomorrow, and have some fudge?" Maddie offered.

Jack, although still sulking, nodded, and the Fenton parents walked out of the lab, crushed that their invention hadn't worked.

Tucker looked at the machine and shivered at look at it. "Scary."

"Cool, though," Sam said. She walked to the portal and looked at it in awe.

"Sammy, be careful!" Danny hissed, shaking. "What if… what if there's a ghost in there?"

"Danny, there's no ghost in there. And if there is, I'll always scare it away for you. And come on, a Ghost Zone? That sounds super-cool. You've got to check it out."

Danny walked up to the portal and said, "Sammy, you're right. Ghosts may be scary, but who knows what kind of super-cool things exist on the other side?"

He took in a breath and said, "Okay, I'll go in. But I'm coming straight back out."

Sam smiled at him and Tucker high-fived him, saying, "You're braver than me." Danny was about to go in, before he remembered that his mommy and daddy always told him to wear a suit like theirs before going near one of their inventions, much less inside one. Walking to a nearby closet, he pulled out a white and black jumpsuit and put it on. When he finished, Tucker and Sam looked at him in awe.

"You look like a superhero, Danny!" Tucker complimented.

Sam frowned and said, "But not with that on your chest."

She then ripped a sticker of Jack Fenton's face off the jumpsuit and chucked it into the bin.

Danny gulped once, before entering the portal.

Inside, it was dark, barely lit up with the faintly glowing blue circuitry of the portal. It was so dark, Danny didn't even notice that he had pressed a button until he heard a click.

Humming started, the circuitry's lights changed from a dim blue to a brilliant neon green, and before Danny could run, green electricity and energy began electrocuting him.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" Danny screamed.

"DANNY!" Tucker and Sam screamed. Sam ran towards the portal, but was held back by Tucker.

"LET ME GO!" Sam yelled. She began trying to fight Tucker, but he held firm, as Danny continued to scream in agony.

"LET ME GO, TUCKER! DANNY'S IN THERE! I GOT TO SAVE HIM!" Sam yelled, tears streaming down her face at hearing her best friend's screams.

"Sam, if you go in… you're going to be like Danny," Tucker said.

Realising that Tucker was making the hard choice of keeping her from saving their best friend by saving her from the same fate, Sam watched helplessly as Danny continued to scream, crying and screaming, "DANNY!" Soon, their screams attracted the attention of the other members of the Fenton family, and they ran down the basement steps.

Maddie gasped when she saw her baby boy being electrocuted inside the ghost portal. She screamed, "NOOOO! DANNY!", and was about to run in to save him when Jack held her back.

Jazz too screamed, "LITTLE BROTHER!", but knew if she went in, she too would get electrocuted. So, they watched, as a spiralling green and black vortex of energy appeared… and sucked Danny straight into it.

"DANNNY! NOOOOOOOOO!" everyone screamed. Sam wrested free from Tucker's grip and ran to the portal as it died down, but there was nothing inside; Danny was gone. All that was left was a char mark on the ground where Danny once was.

"Danny! No, no, NO!" Sam screamed, and she began to sob. Maddie wailed and collapsed against her husband's chest, crying at the loss of her son. Jazz was also crying, while Tucker stood there, shocked, that his best friend was gone.

Sam continued crying, before she got an angry look and punched the portal.

"Sam!" Maddie cried, brought out of her sobs by Sam punching the portal.

"This is my fault!" Sam shouted. "If… if I hadn't told Danny to go in, he would still be here! This is all my fault! My fault, my fault, my FAULT!"

Sam went into another crying fit as Tucker, Jazz, Jack and Maddie watched, before the Fenton parents looked at the invention they were so proud of, the invention that had taken their son.

"Our Danny's gone. He's gone," Maddie whispered, and she began to cry again.

In that lab, all that was heard was the sounds of crying and inventions whirring and humming, as a family and two friends cried over the loss of their son/brother/friend.

Danny Fenton was gone.

Or so it seemed to be.

Please read and review!

GhostWriterGirl out!