I know, please be shocked and amazed at this turn of events…

But not this one… I still own nothing… how depressing

"Hold on. We'll get you some help."

As Valerie climed into the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle, her body suddenly became heavy, more tired than she had expected. She felt herself be lowered to the ground and held there securely as the doors were slammed closed and the large car began to move.

She stared upwards, seeing it was Danny who held her still, weak form. She should have left for a hospital as soon as she saw how hurt she was, or called for help. Damn stubborn streak. A subconscious voice spoke in her ear, suspiciously reminiscent of her father's disapproving tone.

"We're almost there. Hold on." Maddie Fenton's voice spoke, strong and sure, from where she drove, but it sounded distant, as though Valerie's entire head had been pushed under water.

Valerie held onto those words as the GAV bumped through the rain, the harsh slams of the raindrops pelting the windshield becoming more soothing as the drive went along, the cruving of the GAV's motion feeling more like a rocking, telling her to sleep.

Then, Valerie felt herself be shaken lightly, but enough to jar her from a light slumber.

"Don't let her sleep… " Came a that same, distant voice from the front of the vehicle before she tuned it out, looking up at the gray ceiling, concentrating on not giving into the sudden, gasping pains that were seeping across her entire body. "She probably has a concussion…"

Danny held Valerie, following his mother's instructions to keep her awake as she did not know how badly the girl had been hurt, whether she had a concussion from the fall, or if it could be anything worse.

He snapped his fingers in front of Valerie's eyes every time they tried to close, if it will help in the long run… and was just snapping them again as his mother slammed on the brakes, arriving at Amity Park General Medical's ER.

Immediately Jazz was running through the double doors, grabbing the closest nurse she could find for help. Maddie pushed open the back door, looking from her son, to Valerie's bruised and bleeding form, and back to the hospital.

"What's taking so long?" Danny all but demanded, seconds before a stretcher and an emergency staff rushed out of the hospital doors.

Immediately it was as though the world had turned up the volume and doubled the speed. Hands flew everywhere, demands just as quickly following them as Danny was rushed to the side, into his mother's waiting arms and Valerie was loaded onto the stretcher. The emergency team ran into the hospital, still at a record breaking speed as mother and son hurried to keep up.

The stretcher continued into the back of the hospital, the stampeding mass of doctors continuing to evaluate her condition.

Danny looked forlornly at the door before to where his mother and sister were already in the waiting room, preparing for a long wait through the night. But, instead of joining them, Danny pulled out his cell phone, he had an important, if painful, phone call to make...

Ring… Ring… Ring…

The apartment was dark, through the rain and night. And, at 12:00 at night, Damon Gray was hardly expecting phone calls. As he searched in vain for a light switch, only to give up and stumble, blindly through his living room, the middle-aged man had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"Damon Gray." He said gruffly, there was no reason for pleasantries in the middle of the night.

"Hello? Mr. Gray? T-this is Daniel Fenton." A long pause followed the name, "I-I'm a friend of Valerie's and I thought you might want to hear it from me… i-instead of someone else…"

He cut off again, but his tone was unmistakable. Bile filled Damon's gut as he listened to Danny continue to ramble on for a few minutes before cutting the young man off.

"Danny, please, calm down… Can you repeat what you were saying slowly?" He spoke far calmer than he felt.

"It's Valerie… She's been hurt… My m-mom has taken her to Amity Medical… She's in the ER now…"

Damon's eyes grew wide, it was worse than he had expected. The hospital? He knew that darn ghost hunting business would eventually get her into trouble but… The hospital?

Shaking, the single father set the coat down, going into autopilot as he grabbed his car keys from where they hung by the door and just barely registering that he had put on a jacket before he was out the door, thundering down the roads, despite the risk to his own life as the gale threatened his small vehicle. He had to get to his daughter… She was all he had.

Danny went back to sit with his mother, shoving his phone closed with a definite snap. He didn't like that him telling Mr. Gray would cause the worried parent to most likely rush out in the horrible weather but, better for him to hear it now than to get a phone call from a nurse or thoughtless intern.

The tired teen closed his eyes, preparing himself to wait for a very long time.

In the back, it was looking like it would be a long, intensive surgery for the Miss. Valerie Gray although the hospital was rushing through its nightly routine, one doctor was just getting the call to rush into surgery for the young woman.

The Doctor had been rushed away from her break, reading the latest Medical Journal Monthly and drinking coffee from Java Hut when her beeper went off. Now, Dr. Angelina Stevenson, 3rd year resident, top of her class, who was now working extra night shifts at Amity Medical just to make ends meet was staring down, shaking her head in dismay as she did not like the bruise that was forming on the young girl's abdomen and knew that there was most likely internal bleeding.

"Jacobson, prepare for surgery, and make sure that Joseph is scrubbed and ready 5 minutes ago, this girl needs to be in there." She was just signaling her nurses to get the girl into pre-op, having her wheeled down the aisle and through the final double doors when a hand came an grabbed her shoulder, steering her momentarily away from her patient.

"Excuse me! I have a pa-" Dr. Stevenson was cut off by two steel blue eyes, shock at seeing the owner that they belonged to, the normally outspoken doctor was at a loss of words. "Where?"

"Yes… I know, it is a shock to see someone such as me in a place like this," Vlad Masters, billionare, entroprenour, business giant, said smoothly, "especially seeing as I disappeared! A few months ago." His left eye twitched at the small rant.

"But that is beside the point Angelina," he looked her dead in the eyes, "I know that you are one of the top doctors here and that patient you just wheeled in is of high priority to me and my company. Now, it might be in your best interest if she had the best treatment possible while she was here."

Dr. Stevenson nodded her head, What does Vlad Masters had to do with my patient?...None of your business… That's what Stevenson! Then aloud, "Not to worry, she will be just fine Mr. Masters."

"As she should be." And he let her go, letting the young doctor get back to the patient as quickly as possible.

As the doctor turned to leave, one thought crossed her mind, Vlad Masters? Hadn't he been missing for several months? Why was he here?

But…Despite her quandaries into the missing billionarie's sudden reappearance, the thought never even began to cross Dr. Stevenson's mind of where Vlad Masters had come exactly come from, not to mention how he had known so quickly that he was talking care of Valerie Gray in the ER. She also never thought to look back to see him disappear through the back wall, a sly grin across is face.

Vlad flew out into the alley, grinning as he landed and pulling out a cell phone, despite the late hour. "Yes, Harriet Chin? This is Vlad Master's… I believe you and I have a few words to discuss…"

A few curt replies were and gasps were shot from the other side, but Vlad would not listen, instead he snapped the phone closed. Better to keep her on her toes until tomorrow.

After all, now that he had returned, Vlad had some important business to attend to.

After the urgent emergency, the hospital was relatively still and quiet, as far as emergency rooms go, despite the storm continuing the rage outside. Valerie was quickly rushed in and out of surgery and into a small, bare, white room where she could sleep off the lingering effects of the anesthetics and recover from the night's trauma.

Damion arrived through the storm just as his daughter was wheeled into post-op. Through the doctor's he was able to learn little about her condition, other than medical jargon and nod's of "she will be okay." He too had been sent to wait with the Fentons until Valerie rested and visitors would be allowed in.

The weary father nodded to the three Fentons as he took a seat across from Danny to wait. "Thank You for getting her hear." He spoke to Maddie, who reached across the aisle to counsel to worried father.

"She'll be fine… She is a strong girl."

"Sometimes too strong," the mad mumbled, somewhere deep in his numbed mind knowing that it was Valerie's late-night job made him frustrated at the entire situation. But now, here he was, forced to sit and wait for news.

"Wha-?"

It wasn't until a few hours later that Valerie fully opened her eyes and slowly comprehended that she was, in fact, in a hospital.

It was two minutes after that that she remembered how she had gotten the injuries that put her here.

With an audible growl-ghosts- the girl lay and stare up at the ceiling, vowing revenge on the ecoplasmic wastes of energy that had ruined her life and put here in the hospital.

"Especially that stupid Danny Phantom… Always butting in… What was he doing there in the first place?"

Valerie tightened and untightened her fists in frustration, knowing she was stuck here for a while and, from the numbness throughout her body covering what she expected to be horrifying pain, she would be out of commission on the ghost hunting front as well.

So here she was, stuck and frustrated, her anger at the ghosts that had put her in this situation just bottled up inside.

Alright, slowly but surely, another chapter done.

So… here the big questions right… What is going to happen with all of Valerie's anger? And where the heck did Vlad come from anyways? To be answered next time!

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