The warm summer breeze whipped through the half ghost's hair as he flew back home, Danny was rejoicing in his newfound freedom after finishing his last exam of the year. He, along with Sam and Tucker planned to finally relax since the ghosts had been calm for some time. Although instincts warned that it might not be a good thing, seeing as Vlad had been awfully quiet for the last week and there were some rumours in the zone that the Guys In White were actually starting to get better and capture some ghosts. Sure, it was a problem, but Danny's major concern right now was to get some sleep.

Up ahead the neon Fenton Works sign still glowed in the afternoon sun, clearly showing everyone in a wide range where the local ghost hunters lived. Danny scanned the street, sighing in relief when he found it empty. Quickly flying into an alley close to his house, the teenager transformed back into human form and put his backpack over his shoulder. A feeling of intense foreboding overcame the half ghost as he approached his front door, he pushed it to the back of his mind but still entered warily.

Inside nothing seemed out of place so he shrugged and closed the door behind him with a click, keeping alert for anything unusual. It could be nothing, but over the years he learned that it's usually best to listen to weird, possibly ghostly, senses. Before he could take more then a few steps into the living room, Maddie Fenton rushed out of the kitchen to intercept him. "Hi Danny!" That alone shouldn't have been worrying but something sounded wrong with the way she said it, almost fake.

"Hi Mom…" She didn't seem to be possessed or anything, so it was unclear what could be wrong.

"So, did everything go alright at school today? Anything happen?"

Besides a quick interruption of the Box-Ghost today had been decent. "Nope. But it is officially summer vacation now, so I'm going to relax for a while." Danny started towards the stairs, planning to relax for the next three days, but his mother stood in front of him before he could go any further.

"Danny is anything wrong? Has something been going on? If something has you have to tell me." Some panic showed through the teenager's eyes, preparing to bolt, Maddie took hold of his shoulders tightly.

"What's going on?!" This phrase was said harsher than before, and Maddie seemed to be looking down at her son differently. With worry and a bit of desperation.

"Mom what are you talking about? Mom let go-" Danny was tugged closer to the kitchen where his sensitive ears picks up the whine of charging ecto-weaponry.

"Why are you lying to me? You aren't Danny! You aren't my son!" This was going downhill very fast. What does she know? Or at least, what does she think she knows? "Get out of my son Phantom!"

The world for Danny seemed to go into slow motion, everything was just wrong. Guys in White agents suddenly burst out of the kitchen, the half ghost ripped himself away from his mother and ran towards the staircase, the door was too far. Maddie pulled out her own hidden weapon, but as Danny reached midway up the stairs he was blocked from above by his own father with three other agents.

He reeled to a stop and observed the situation, every weapon in the room was trained on him. Both ways of escape were blocked, at least for normal people, he could just go intangible but that might be revealing to much. Before Danny could execute any brilliant plans, what seemed to be the lead GIW agent stepped closer, this should be good. "Phantom, under the anti-ecto movement, you will be taken into government custody."

Despite himself Danny shivered, he knew very well what the implications of government custody would mean for any ghost. "You are also under arrest for your many crimes, including the prolonged possession of Daniel Fenton. You are to release him immediately."

Danny let out a small chuckle, that's what they thought was going on, sure he may be in danger but there is no way he could 'release' his human form. Honestly, it's been a long two years, if they're trying to arrest him now, there's not much point in keeping it a secret anymore.

"You think this is funny Phantom?!" Danny's head snapped up to look at his father, he looked very ready to shoot the ghost out of him. "Get out of him! Stop overshadowing my son!"

That almost made Danny laugh more but he restrained himself, it was comforting to know that his parents wanted to save him, but they definitely didn't realize the real situation. "How could I overshadow myself?"

Confusion crossed Jack and Maddie's faces, while a strange unidentifiable one crossed the lead agent's. The half ghost shook his head "Well, I gotta go now. Bye!" With that Danny gracefully jumped into the wall, turning invisible and intangible. He moved and settled himself at the top of the stairs and made sure to cover his core as much as possible, it was a bit exhausting to do but it could keep him undetectable in human form.

The agents and Jack went downstairs to start looking for him, spreading out and starting up different tracking devices. The lead agent snarled at the spot Danny had disappeared in "We should have shot it first."

Maddie looked at the agent beside her. "That would have hit my son."

Danny started heading towards his room, but not before hearing the agent say one last thing. "I don't think there's any of your son left."

Well that was kind of hurtful, he may be going through puberty but that doesn't make him a monster.

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After grabbing his packed emergency backpack and some extra cash, Danny escaped his house, remaining invisible while in human form. He considered flying to go faster, but the GIW and his parents would be able to track him that way. Once the half ghost deemed it far enough away from all the people searching for him, he turned visible in an alleyway and continued walking down the sidewalk at a slightly slower pace.

Danny remembered to text Sam and Tucker, pulling out his phone and quickly sending them a message. "I gotta run, meet me at the Nasty Burger in ten minutes." As an afterthought he also texted a second message "No info to parents." Jazz was still at the library and probably would be for a few hours, so he also sent her one, opting against calling and disturbing her. "They've found out, the GIW are with them. I'll see you later, stay safe."

Within a few minutes Danny arrived at the Nasty Burger, sitting at a table in the back, far from the windows. Sam and Tucker arrived minutes later, also carrying bags which he knew didn't contain school supplies. They didn't order food and they were all a little tense. Sam spoke first "What happened?"

Danny sighed, letting himself drape dramatically over the table. "The GIW believe that Danny Phantom is overshadowing Danny Fenton, and apparently my parents do too."

They were serious sure, but both of them also looked amused at the idea. Sam patted the half ghost's head sympathetically. "How did they come up with that?"

Another sigh went into the table from where Danny was contemplating his life decisions. "I have no idea, they all just attacked me when I got home. Cornering me to arrest Phantom."

Tucker put down the PDA he'd been typing on "Ouch. Wait, did your parents attack you?"

Danny shrugged, "Kind of? They did think Phantom had taken over their son, but Mom did seem concerned about hurting me, or Danny Fenton at least." Before the conversation could continue, Sam's phone started ringing and after that Tucker's did too. Both calls were from the Fenton parents. "I should get going. They're probably going to start searching all over."

Standing up Danny noticed with dismay that both his friends immediately followed him. Tucker scoffed at him "Well you're not leaving without us."

"But-"

His protests were quickly cut off by Sam. "No buts! We're coming with you, it's summer anyways, nothing much we'd be missing."

Before the half ghost could try anymore to dissuade them, blue mist came from his mouth, his ghost sense. Sighing for the last time Danny handed his bag to Sam. "Fine, but you better both be unharmed by the end of this."

Tucker raised an eyebrow at him "Sure thing, buddy."

Danny knew that promise would most likely not last, but he'd do his best to protect them. The half ghost ran into the bathroom, changing into ghost form, and flying intangibly through the ceiling to go find the ghost.

Little did Danny know it may be one of the most normal things he would be able to do for a while.

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AN: So, the start of a new story, I will do my best with it and we'll see where it goes, I suppose. At some point this might have been inspired by a prompt I read, but that could also be a fever dream. If I ever find the prompt that supposedly inspired this, I will give the credit here. Until next time!

(Edited/Completely re-wrote this chapter because I hated it 05/6/2020)