I'm Bent, But I'll Never Be Broken

Chapter One

A Whole Load of Flashbacks

A/N:

Dear Reader, whoever you are, if you are reading this I am warning you that this has a lot (well, like, a mild amount, but if you're squeamish, leave quickly!) of gore and violence, a tonne of swearing (I swear a lot) and a small bit of homophobia and a few homophobic slurs (so basically people say 'faggot' sometimes -this is very rare).

#~*TRIGGER WARNING! *~#

This has abuse in it! There is physical, verbal and mental abuse. If this is a trigger for you, then please go read something else, or if you think I crossed a line with the abuse or homophobia, then feel free to tell be in the comments! (reviews?)

#~*IMPORTANT START*~#

Timeline:

12 years old - Danny's in the Ghost Portal Accident, he's half-ghost.

((He is acting as the hero Danny Phantom))

13 years old - Danny comes out as being gay.

((He is acting as the hero Danny Phantom))

14 years old - Danny gets captured by the G.I.W.

((He is Danny Phantom up to this point))

15 years old - Danny's still being "studied" and "examined" by the G.I.W

((WE ARE HERE))

#~*IMPORTANT END *~#

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Constructive criticism will be welcomed with open arms!

Last Updated: 13/11/17

'Thoughts', "Comm Links/Telepathy" and ((authors note))

Dang, this thing is long.

I have warned you, so please don't judge me for this!

Enjoy!

Screams echoed through the cold, stark white hallways. All of them making their way to a small, gently rocking figure.

His hands covered his ears in a failed attempt to block them out. Memories haunted the teenager's mind, blood and death, so much death.

The heavy, metal door slamming open brought him out of his internal torture.

"Get up, ectoplasmic scum!" The ever-angry voice of Agent K growled.

The boy shakily stood and revealed the mess he was. His hair, once a bright, snowy white, was stained with the fifteen years old's own blood and ectoplasm. His bland, sterilised hospital gown was torn and ripped revealing horrific scars and burns, still seeping red and glowing green. Out of all that the one thing that stood out the most were his eyes, they glowed a defiant, toxic green. His orbs had dulled, though. Once as bright as the shining stars, they were now worn and tired. He wanted to sleep and never wake ever again, but, he knew he couldn't let himself show any weakness in front of his torturers.

Danny glared at Agent K and stood taller, he still determined that one day he would be free. He was bent, but he would never be broken (hehe. Yeah, I did that). He would die fighting, he would die defiant and he would die knowing that he never gave in to his demons or these monsters.

The teen was brought down to his knees by the collar around his neck shooting hundreds of volts of pure electricity into his body.

Agent K smirked and tossed the remote in his hand up before catching it again.

"When will you learn, you unnatural ectoplasmic freak, you're nothing but a monster made to be caged and beaten"

This hurt, dear god did this hurt. But he didn't scream, the collar injected his voice box every three hours with a numbing drug -something that was yet another thing that was very, very painful-.

He didn't cry, not since the first night he was here. He had still been mourning the loss of his family and friends. They beat him, tortured him, for hours on end. After a while, he stopped letting the tears out, he wouldn't let himself. It was the one bit of power that he still had over these fruitloops and he intended to exploit it.

Another agent stepped through the open doorway and saw the teenager writhing in agony on the cold, hard cell floor. She quickly grabbed the remote off of Agent K, shut off the electricity and slapped the other agent across the back of the head.

"You idiot!" Agent E hissed "He isn't to be harmed before the next experiment!"

Agent K quickly stood up straight and saluted his commanding officer.

"I sincerely apologise ma'am! It was a foolish and highly unprofessional thing for me to do"

She just sighed angrily at him before helping the boy up off the floor.

"Ok Phantom." She started, looking deeply into his tired, toxic green eyes, "This next test is going to hurt, a lot more than the others, you better prepare yourself"

Phantom looked down at her -Agent E standing at 5ft 5in, while Danny stood at 5ft 8in- and nodded in understanding. He knew that she never wanted to do this. She was a police officer, a good, clean and fair one. But when he had started beating all of the G.I.W agents they sent, she was forced into it. Still, even though she was putting herself at risk, she helped the prisoners here as best she could.

Agent K roughly grabbed Phantom's arms, shoved them behind his back and handcuffed them together tightly.

The man pushed the teen down the maze of hallways, they passed other cells -ghosts crying, screaming, muttering- and different torture rooms -more screaming, crying. The sound of sharp tools, drills and saws cutting into flesh and bone. The sound of ectoplasm splattering and the clang head falling limp on the hard, metal table as yet another soul was lost-.

The rooms were sound proof for the humans, but for the teen, he could hear everything -the hiss and crack as a ghost's core died and was ripped out. Scientists maniacally taunting their trapped prey-. He heard it all.

They finally reached 'Tartarus' -named in tribute of Queen Pandora's son, Tartirious, he was a fighter and could always lift everyone's spirits. But everything came crashing down when he was tortured until his untimely demise in that damn room. That day every ghost wept for the loss of a hero. Phantom never knew him, but he did attend the funeral and he helped make the shrine in Dora's castle-.

Agent E placed her hand on the reader, once the confirming ping rang, she took her hand off of it and opened the heavy metal door.

It opened and Phantom wrinkled his nose at the over powering smell of blood and ectoplasm hit him like a tidal wave.

Agent K was joined by Agent H in the task of strapping Phantom to the cold, blood and ectoplasm splattered metal table. Agent E sent Phantom one last apologetic look before leaving with Agent K and H.

Two scientists entered after the agents had left and walked over to him. Two people who haunted his night terrors.

Maddie and Jack Fenton.

He had long since given up on pleading with them. They had jumped at the chance to be Phantom's personal torturers after the G.I.W took him in to be 'tested' on. But hey stopped carrying the title of his parents long before they found out about him being half ghost…

#~*Flashback Start*~#

Danny was sweating, today was the day. His boyfriend grasped his hand and Sam put a reassuring hand on his shoulder, also making sure that he didn't back out. Tucker put a hand on the door knob and glanced at Danny.

"You ready, dude?"

Danny swallowed thickly before nodding. Tucker opened the door and closed it after everyone had stepped inside, sealing Danny's fate.

"Mom, Dad?" Danny called out, his voice was dry, "I could you come into the sitting room? I have something I really need to tell you"

Danny winced as his voice cracked half way through. There was a muffled 'we're coming sweetie!' before he heard footsteps coming up from the basement. His mom and dad walked through the large metal door leading to the downstairs lab, both of them having bright smiles on their faces despite being covered from head to toe in grease and ectoplasm.

Danny led them into the sitting room and gestured for them to sit down. His parent's eyes locked onto his boyfriend.

" Oh! Who's this, sweetie?" Danny's mom asked, smiling her kind smile at them.

Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously before answering.

"Well, em, h-he's the reason I w-wanted to talk to you" He stuttered, "This is A-Alex Summers, he plays football at our school, he's the same age a-as us a-and he-h-he's, um, kinda m-my- "

"Go on Danny-Boy! You were going to say that he's your new friend, right?" His father interrupted the half ghost's horrible attempt at speaking.

"W-well, ac-actually, um" Danny stumbled over his words -he was trying to find a way to put the news he was trying, and failing, to break-, his eyes were darting about until they met the calming gaze of his boyfriend.

"Danny is my boyfriend, we've been going out for two years now." Alex stated strongly, "I truly love your son, Mr. and Mrs Fenton"

Alex grasped Danny's hand and squeezed it reassuringly. Danny flushed, his parents had a different reaction.

Their eyes and mouths were open wide from shock.

Danny turned to his best friends and his boyfriend.

"Uh, why don't you guys head home? It's getting kinda late"

Tucker and Sam nodded, heading towards the front door while Alex gave him a quick peck on the cheek and a 'love you' before leaving with Sam and Tucker.

Danny noticed a figure looming over him, he looked up to see his mother and father glaring daggers at him.

"My own son, a miserable, unnatural, excuse for a human?!" His father roared.

Danny tried to stand up, but was struck by a hand he thought would never hurt him. He was splayed across the ground with a hand gently feeling his now cut and bruised cheek,

"M-Mom? D-D-Dad?"

They just growled at his

"You are no son of ours!" His mother hissed.

It only got worse from here…

#~*Flashback End*~#

"Be prepared, you disgusting, filthy, unnatural, freak. This will hurt –a lot!" Jack taunted, bringing his face a little closer to Danny's. Which put his eye in perfect range for Danny spat in his face. That earned him a slap from Maddie.

"How dare you, you ectoplasmic freak!" She shrieked.

Danny glared and glowered in return.

"What's that freak? Alex got your tongue? Oh, sorry. After his little accident, that isn't true. Now is it?" The man he used to call his father taunted him.

#~*Flashback Start*~#

(A/N: Yeah, yet another flashback. There will be less of these in the next chapter -that is, if you guys enjoy this)

Danny was wearing his lovely boyfriend's football jacket while he and Alex walked hand in hand, Danny's head on the taller boy's shoulder.

Everything was perfect, the stars were shining beautifully in the night sky. It was their anniversary and they were going to see a movie, 'Zombie Blood Wars: The Deadening', it was the third instalment in the series.

But nothing could ever top what Alex did last year. He had taken Danny's hand and stood up on a table in the cafeteria -bringing Danny up too- right in the middle of lunch and announced that he and Danny were dating, so if anyone messed with Danny they were messing with Alex too.

After that, his school life got a whole lot better. Kuan and Dash got to know him better and he got to know them better too, he found out that Dash was dyslexic and Kuan was the best baker he had ever had the pleasure of meeting -his brownies were the best! The two taught him more about football so that he could understand the games better. He and Star bonded over their love of the night sky and astronomy. Paulina taught him about fashion, cheerleading -he often joined the girls on the field and he ended up becoming a member, he still had the badge and certificate- and how to do make up, though it took him a while to get it right.

Danny sighed in contempt, he was safe from the horrors that awaited him at home -for now.

"Oh Alex, I'm in love with you"

Alex stopped walking and put his hands on Danny's cheeks, now facing the smaller boy.

"Oh Danny, I'm in love with you too"

Their lips met with a soft passion, there was no tongue, no touching other than the taller boy's hands on Danny's flushed cheeks and his hands on Alex's arms.

This was perfection.

They were in their own beautiful, little world of happiness, love and sheer bliss.

They knew that they loved each other, and that their love world last forev-

BOOM!

CRASH!

Sirens blared around them, loud screams of pain and horror rang out from every corner of what used to be Amity Park. But they could only hear their heartbeats sounding loudly in their ears.

Danny reached out for Alex and their hands met. They dragged themselves towards each other for one last embrace.

"I-I lo-love you, Sunbeam"

"I love y-you t-t-too, Spooks"

Their lips met for one last time before the light died in Alex's eyes, never to spark again.

Tears cascaded freely down Danny's face as he sobbed.

Gloved hands grabbed his arms roughly and dragged him away from his boyfriend's limp body.

"No! Nonononono!"

Danny tried desperately to rid himself of their tough grasp.

"Please, no! Alex! You have to save him! Please!"

He grew limp and let himself be dragged away as he took in his surroundings.

Everything was gone.

Dust was thick in the air, he could make out the sounds of gun shots and people screaming, crying.

A little girl and her parents were dragged out of the rubble that was once their home. He recognised the little girl, she was five and her name was Annabeth, she was the sweetest little girl he had ever met. Always smiling, helping out where ever she could. She was ripped away from her parents, a gun held to her head.

"M-Mama? Daddy?" Her voice was quiet and shaky.

"It's going to be alright little Pea, just close your eyes and count to ten. Just like when we play hide and seek." Her mother was trying to stay strong, trying to hide her fear.

"Betha, your Mummy and Daddy love you so much. Start counting, baby. And remember, no peeking" Her father said.

Annabeth's eyes were sad, she knew what was coming.

"I love you Mommy, I love you Daddy. This isn't your fault, remember" She ran over and gave them both a hug and a kiss on the cheek before being grabbed, the gun being put back into place.

"1…2…3…" -the gun clicked- "4…5…6…7…goodbye, I love you- "

A gun shot rang out through the smoke and dust.

Her mother gave a cry of grief and began sobbing into Annabeth's father's shirt. He couldn't help but start crying too, his baby girl was gone forever.

The mother and father were dragged away from each other's arms and guns were put to their heads, they let themselves be dragged. They'd join their baby in death.

Two gunshots rang out.

Danny didn't see any more as he was thrown into the back of a dull, stark white van.

#~*Flashback End*~#

A/N: Ok, that was the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. I know the Mam, Da and daughter being shot was kinda filler, but I want each chapter to be at the very least, 2,000 words. I'll try update every second Monday or Tuesday, but I'm terrible at keeping a schedule.

'Til next time, toodlu! ;D