Danny Phantom: The Dark Secret Chapter 8: Shocker!

Jazz puts aside the book after reading up to chapter 10, that was titled "What to do when you have separation pains" and lets out a sigh, "Why don't my parents ever want to listen to me about my ideas on how to raise Danny? Sometimes I just don't get them." She thinks about her words and then shakes her head, "Scratch that, I don't understand them at all."

Her thoughts are interrupted when there is a soft knocking at her door, which she call out, "Come in!" without even waiting to see who it was first.

The door opens to show her brother Danny as he slowly sticks his head in to look at her, "Hey Jazz, Do you have time to talk?"

Jazz brightens up a little bit until she sees the expression on his face, "Sure thing, come on in."

Danny shuts the door and sits on the foot of the bed. He looks down for a moment before he says, "Do you remember anything about why you were crying earlier?"

Jazz shakes her head, "No, that whole thing is a blank for me. The way I see it, I was possessed by whatever ghost you were fighting and forgot about whatever happened during it."

Danny just nods, "That's good, because I was worried that you'd been hurt or something. But there is another thing that I've been meaning to talk to you about but I just didn't know how to go about it."

Jazz tilts her head in confusion, "Is this about you and Sam? Are you two having trouble?"

Danny's head bounces up and he quickly answers, "No! This isn't about Sam! Why would you say a thing like that?"

Jazz just shrugs, "I don't know... I just been getting this vibe lately that she is really upset or hurting over something. So I guessed that it had to do with you since you two are best friends and all."

Danny shakes his head, "There's nothing wrong with Sam or Me!" He almost shouts before getting off the bed, "Oh forget it, I'll just talk to you later!" He starts walking from the bed towards the door when the door opens to reveal Sam and Tucker.

"Hey there, did you finish talking already Danny? Boy that was quick!" Tucker says as he pulls out his little computer from a pocket, "Because boy have we uncovered a lot more that we ever thought we would."

Danny tries to hush his friend even as Jazz says, "Oh! What did you uncover? I want to know!" As she thinks that it was about the usual ghost stuff that they were into.

Jazz hops off the bed to quickly approach them just as Tucker says, "Oh, we have more information about that baby you had. Isn't it great?"

Sam sees the shock on Jazz's face, combined with the wincing, "Good grief Tucker" and she knew instantly that Danny had not managed to tell Jazz like he was supposed to. She closes her eyes and groans as she slaps her own forehead hard enough to sting as she thinks, "This is just great!" Before she says aloud, "Great going Tucker! You just let the cat out of the bag before Danny could tell her!"

Jazz was frozen from the moment that she'd heard that she had a baby and tears start to flow down her cheeks while she tries to keep her voice under control, "Wh-What? Is this some kinda joke? Danny? Tell me he's kidding! Isn't he?"

Tucker cries out, "What? I thought you were going in to tell her Danny?"

Danny growls, "Shut up Tucker! I was going to but then she... and I..." He stops and turns to his sister, tilting his head forward and says with a sigh, "Yes, it is true."

Jazz just opens and closes her mouth wordlessly in shock as she hears her brother and his friends talk about this as if they'd known about something like this for some time. What they were saying just didn't make any sense, yet she totally believed it because the absurd usually was the truth when dealing with her brother and his friends.

Sam spots the parenting book in Jazz's room and suddenly slams her palm with a fist like a sledgehammer, "Suddenly it all makes sense! Your obsession with giving parenting advice to your parents! Somewhere in your subconscious you knew the truth and was trying to prove you would have been a good mother!"

Jazz turns quickly, looking at the book and brings her hands up to her face as she whispers to herself, "No... this can't be happening! This can't be rea..." She trails off as she feels her cheeks wet with tears. "Tears...?" Looking at her wet fingers, she wonders what is happening to her when she suddenly feels a pain in her heart and clutches, dropping to her knees.

Danny cries out, "Jazz! What's wrong?" Even as Danny's father was quickly running up the stairs, having heard the shouting.

Jazz holds one hand over her chest and one over her head, feeling like she is going mad as it felt like she was being split in half in heart and head! Groaning in such agony, like that she had never felt before in her life, or had she? She wasn't sure anymore! All she can do is weakly say, "Somebody help me... help my baby..." not even aware of what she was saying anymore but Danny heard right before his father steps up and takes one look at Jazz and bellows, "What's going on? Who hurt Jazz?"

Sam and Tucker turn to him and quickly say, "It wasn't us! She just fell to her knees!" With Tucker adding, "I guess the shock about a baby was too much for her!" Sam knew that Tucker was blabbing something that they shouldn't be talking about and shouts, "Shut up Tucker! They don't need to know about our family history project!" She hoped that was a good enough cover.

Mr. Fenton grabs Sam and Tucker, picking them both up and putting them over his shoulder as he quickly says, "This is a family matter! So don't call us, we'll call you!" He then puts them down onto their feet out on the porch and quickly shouts, "Goodbye!" as he slams the door in their faces!

It is a good few moments before Sam turns to Tucker and hits him in the arm, "Way to go Tucker!"

Tucker rubs his arm as he whines, "Sorry! I panicked!"

Sam sighs and turns away to start walking, "Yeah, I know. C'mon, let's get going. I doubt that they're going to just let in for a while and we need to plan."

Tucker walks alongside Sam as he says, "Plan? What kinda plan?"

Sam glances back at Danny's house, hoping that everything would be alright before she says, "In case things take a turn for the worse."

(Few Days Later)

Danny walks up to the school slowly, his head hanging even as Sam and Tucker spot him and come running up very quickly to their friend.

Tucker quickly says, "Danny! We've missed you! Where have you been?"

"We've been trying to get a hold of you ever since we were thrown out so rudely!" Sam says to Danny.

Danny lets out a slow, drawn out sigh before he says, "Yeah, sorry guys. My parents put the whole house into full lockdown. I couldn't even get on the computer and I had to help Jazz the whole weekend." He raises his head up to show his tired, red eyes, "I don't know what to do guys. Jazz is really messed up. Now that she knows, she won't stop crying and begging for her child." He starts to walk again towards the school, "I've had to spend all my time watching her while mom and dad disappeared off to somewhere. We've got to find Jazz's kid and soon guys, I don't know how much more of this I can take."

Sam and Tucker glance at each other before Sam gives the nod to Tucker.

Tucker nervously says, "About that... when we couldn't get ahold of you, we kind of took things into overdrive with a little help."

Danny looks at her with some confusion, "Help? What help?"

Tucker just blurts out, "We used Danielle to help us find out by having her possess a high ranking military guy who was able to get the files we needed that had the information without the black outs!" He then quickly takes a couple of deep breaths before he says, "Whew, that is a load off my chest."

Danny just looks at them for a few moments as he took this in before he shouts, "What? Danni knows now too? Wait, wait, who did she possess and what information did you find exactly?"

Sam grabs Danny as his outburst had created some attention and pulls him off to one side, where they could talk more privately. "We would have told you about the idea sooner but with the lockdown... well, we sort of had to take things into our own hands Danny before your parents could do anything."

Danny remembers walking in through his house to get some water for Jazz and coming upon his parents as they were finishing up a phone conversation. He couldn't remember what it was that they said exactly but they had stonewalled him through every question that he had asked them that had to deal with Jazz.

Danny sighs for a moment, "Sorry guys, I just... well, this has been really hard on me, you know?"

Sam let her sadness show on her face even as Danny looked down at the ground, having had her own share of sleep lost over how things might be affecting Danny. "Yeah, we know."

"Yeah, same here buddy. We're your best friends. If anyone knows how you're feeling, it'd be us!" Tucker chimes in as he slaps Danny on the back in a comforting way.

Danny takes a deep breath and the closes his eyes to collect himself before he says, "Alright, give it to me straight. What did you guys find out?"

Just then, the school bell rang, signaling for everyone to get to class.

Sam didn't want Danny to react like how she thought he would, so she sighs and says, "Let's talk about this after school. We can't do anything more until we're out anyway, right Tucker?"

Tucker takes a moment to realize she was talking to him, "Huh? Oh yeah! She's right Danny!"

Danny looks at his two friends and hated the fact that they were keeping something from him but he trusted them with his life and knew that they would tell him after school anyway, so he nods to them, "Alright, after school it is."

They walk into the school but not one of them was focused on school or they would have remembered what homework assignments they still had to turn in.

AN: Well everyone, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. It has been a while in coming. What do you think of the way Jazz found out? What do you think will happen next with Jazz? What do you think Danielle found out? What more is there to uncover? Any suggestions?

As always all thoughts, reviews, ideas, suggestions, villains for the story, and more are always welcome.