Jazz never found out about Danny. PP happened but no one found out. I think that's all you really need to know haha. Happy reading!
Jazz Fenton never could've dreamed she would be where she is today. Psychiatrist in practice by day, ghost hunter by night. Something about being both of those things doesn't quite seem to fit… It's not every day that you meet someone who is such a skeptic believing in the supernatural.
But alas, Jazz grew up with this life. Her parents insisted that she follow in their footsteps, and, when she came face-to-face with the truth, there was no looking back.
On the contrary, her brother Danny was still pretty skeptical about the existence of specters. He had denied the existence of ghosts as soon as their parents' ghost portal started working and that ghost boy started wreaking havoc in Amity Park. He eventually agreed that ghosts were real but he still seemed to have doubts. For that, Jazz was always perplexed by him. Before the portal was created, he seemed really interested in the idea that ghosts existed. In fact, he was much more interested in becoming a ghost hunter than Jazz ever had been. Yet, his fantastical idea of ghost hunting wore off almost instantly.
What could have caused this? It isn't normal for someone to have such a strong interest in something one day, and then the next, avoid the topic completely. For a while, Jazz thought Danny may be depressed. She constantly diagnosed him with different medical conditions for his strange behavior… Years had gone by of her nagging him and telling her parents he needed to be mentally examined, but them brushing it off as part of growing up. Jazz wasn't convinced with that aspect of it.
However, after their family, with Phantom and the rest of the Ghost Zone's help, stopped a large planet from plummeting through Earth and ending the world as we know it, Danny seemed to lighten up on the idea of ghosts. Yet, he remained guarded…
Not even a year had passed when a horrific event ensued where Phantom went on a killing spree, and was deemed evil and highly dangerous. Jazz and Danny's parents made it their life's goal (for a second time) to destroy Phantom. That's when Jazz began to become more into the idea of ghost hunting. She wouldn't let some evil teenage ghost kid get away with murder.
And that's when she thought Danny seemed to be depressed again. Everything about him was very off. And he wouldn't let Jazz in. Not even for a second. They began to drift apart, as Jazz got her Bachelor's in psychology, and he skipped college altogether, getting a job at Lowe's, earning minimum wage. Not long after, he moved out of the house to God knows where and seldom visited his family.
The ghost kid - well he was now growing up to be taller and more muscular-looking thus making him more frightening, and perplexing most since he was a ghost growing up - tried to redeem himself on a daily basis but everyone saw him as a villain after what he had done. Yes, he saved people, but who knew when he would start killing again. He tried to tell the town of Amity Park that it was all a big misunderstanding and that it wasn't him, but there was undeniable evidence that he did it so what could they think?
Jazz wanted to believe him, but she saw the security footage. It was Phantom.
Years had passed without any sign of Phantom or Danny, and Jazz was beyond worried about the latter.
Thinking about her brother made Jazz confused and sad. She wished she could've helped him but his answer was always 'no'. She grabbed her phone and typed in his number.
It went straight to voicemail. "Hey! It's Danny! If you are listening -"
Jazz hung up and sighed heavily. She worried so much about Danny. What could he be up to right now?
Danny woke up from a long slumber. He had to have been out for almost 3 hours. 3 hours was long for him considering his odd work hours. And by work, I mean ghost-hunting. Now that he lived in the Ghost Zone, fighting ghosts was much more of a daily occurrence.
"Great One, your friends are here," a polar bear ghost with yellow eyes came into Danny's ice-encased room and smiled.
"Thanks Frostbite. They can come in."
Two seconds later, Sam and Tucker came rushing into his room and hugged him. They were dressed in head-to-toe winter clothes, freezing their asses off in the cold of the Far Frozen, while Danny just wore shorts and a T-shirt like he was on vacation in Hawaii. "Hey guys!"
"Danny, we've been looking everywhere for you. How come you aren't answering your phone?"
"No service in the Ghost Zone… And you guys really shouldn't be going around the Ghost Zone by yourselves."
"We know our way around," Sam put her hands on her hips.
"Why are you guys looking for me anyway?"
"We think you should come back to Amity," Tucker said.
"What? No way. Not after what happened."
"Danny -"
"NO!" His eyes glowed red for a split-second. He shrugged and his blue eyes looked very sad now. "I can't. Not after what I did."
"That wasn't you," Sam insisted.
"As Amity saw it, it was. And you know what? They aren't completely wrong either. I felt compelled to kill those people… Everyone's lost faith in me. They fear me. And I don't blame them… I fear myself. How can I come back knowing that?"
"Seriously dude. It wasn't you. We know that and you know that," Tucker sighed. "Come on, at least come back to Amity to see your family. They miss you and they're worried. Besides, they don't know you and Danny Phantom are the same person."
"Yeah. That's why I'm staying away. If I make one slip-up, they could find out. Before, the thought of them finding out was pretty scary considering all their threats against me, but now they have legitimate reasons. If they found out Phantom was their son, it would break them," Danny explained. "And it would break me too…"
Sam frowned and nodded. "We get that. But you can't avoid them forever. Otherwise, they will get more suspicious about where you spend all your time."
He scoffed. "It's not like they are gonna go to the Ghost Zone to look for me."
"You'd be surprised…They are pretty desperate at this point. And you saying that them finding out you were Phantom would break them - well, I'd say they are pretty broken already with you running away from home," Tucker told him.
Danny sighed and rubbed the back of his neck anxiously. He got out of bed and grabbed his duffel bag on the opposite side of the room. "I'll give them a visit."
"No, Danny. Stay with them." Sam said.
"No. No way. The Far Frozen is the best place for me. Let me get changed."
So a question you've probably been asking: What happened all those years ago?
A ghost happened of course. A new terrible enemy of Danny… His name was Gregory, but he was better known in the Ghost Zone as The Master, a title he had gotten by being able to control other ghosts' actions and putting thoughts into their minds and words into their mouths.
Like he did to Danny…
A black and red-streaked specter with completely white glowing eyes, The Master was a terrifying spectacle and had evil intentions. He knew Danny had saved both the natural and the ghoulish world. For that, he was actually rather angry, contrary to most. He had plans to disconnect the Ghost Zone from the human world so that only the human world would be destroyed by the Phantom Planet. He'd been working on this for years. When Danny convinced all the ghosts rush to the human world to save everyone, including themselves, The Master was furious. He couldn't disconnect the worlds if all of his friends were in the human world. This was also one of the only opportunities he had to disconnect the worlds. He couldn't do it in fear of living the rest of eternity alone.
So he wanted revenge. And he took it out on Danny Phantom by controlling him to kill twenty five of Amity Park's citizens. He knew Danny's obsession as a ghost was saving people - what an idiotic goody-two-shoes obsession… - and so he made Danny Phantom go Hero to Zero. All the faith Amity Park had in him as a hero completely dissipated and now he was doomed to a future of self-hatred and regret.
And it worked. Danny hated himself, even after he and his friends had found out the truth behind this. Danny tried everything to prove he didn't do it, but no one believed him. It was undeniable that he killed those people. He had the same mannerisms - killing while making the usual quips as if it were a game or a fight against the Box Ghost, the exact appearance - snow-white hair, glowing green eyes, the silly facial expressions, et. Ghost-hunters alike reviewed the evidence tapes and agreed it was indeed Phantom who killed all those people. Statues that were put up to commemorate him were immediately taken down and he became Public Enemy #1 worldwide.
Danny's self-loathing grew as years passed. He didn't bother with college because he saw that his future wasn't going anywhere. All aspirations to be an astronaut went away. He was actually really depressed like Jazz expected, but the reasons for it, Jazz had no idea… He got a job at Lowe's which lasted for about 3 months, then he was MIA for the next 2 years, residing in the Far Frozen where ghosts respected him and believed that he would never have killed a single soul if he weren't compelled to do so. He visited his family very rarely because he feared they would somehow figure out the truth. Anyone finding out who he actually was would mean the end. Despite hating himself, some part of him cared about what other people thought of him, especially his family.
And now, after a year of not visiting his family, he was going back. He wasn't sure for how long.
Not entirely sure where I'm going with this story. I just started writing about Jazz in the beginning because I was wanting to write a Danny Phantom fanfiction. I came up with an idea as I wrote it so I apologize if things are confusing. To clarify if the passage of time confused you:
- I'd say this is set 4 years in the future
- set in the summer
- Jazz has a bachelor's degree in psychology and now has an internship in Amity Park for convenience's sake
- Danny has been living in the Far Frozen for 2 years and visited his family once or twice in those 2 years
If anything else confused you message me. Hopefully, it wasn't too confusing. I just kind of wrote whatever came into my head. Hope you like the idea… Anyway, have a good day!