Disclaimer: I do not own Person of Interest or Danny Phantom. I'm just borrowing their characters.

AN: I'm using Bailee Madison as the face claim for Danielle.

AN2: This story is set several years after the Danny Phantom series ended, although in this universe Phantom Planet never happened {more like I'm ignoring that it ever happened in cannon at all}. And the first few chapters are set between Season 2 Episode 5 'Bury the Lede' and episode 6 'The High road' of Person of Interest.

AN3: So I went back and reread this story and decided I didn't like it all that much. So I'm going back and rewriting the whole story as of 1/13/2020.

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Phantom of Interest

Chapter One: A Phantom in New York City

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Danni's P.O.V.

New York City

Night

It's true what they say, New York is the city that never sleeps. I'd been in New York for the past week and no matter the time, day or night, there always seemed to be dozens of people walking around. Someone was always bumping into you or giving you a dirty look because you didn't move out of their way fast enough. Car horns could be heard throughout the city at all hours of the day, and the streets always seemed to be jam packed with cars. And the city was always brightly lit. So much so you couldn't see a single star in the night sky. Which is one of the reasons why Danny would never want to live in New York.

But I didn't really mind not being able to see the stars all that much, I wasn't as into Astronomy as Danny was. Thinking of Danny's obsession with the stars made me think back to the last time I'd seen him several months ago. Danny had finally told his parents about him being Phantom so when I went to visit I was able to stay in the house with them without having to hide from Jack and Maddie. I spent a couple months there, and Danny taught me how to better control most of my powers. He also taught me his ghostly wail, and how to speak Esperanto. And then he taught me something he'd just learned a few months back before I showed up; how to use his ice powers to heal wounds.

It had been fun hanging around with my 'cousin' and Sam and Tucker, but I just didn't belong in Amity Park. Amity Park already had Danny; they didn't need me. And honestly Amity Park just didn't feel like home. I'd been all over the world, been to dozens of places, seen and met so many different types of people. But none of those places felt like home, and really that's what I'd been looking for all this time, a place where I felt like I belonged. Where I felt like I was making a difference and was able to help people.

So I left Amity Park and headed back out on the road. Which is how I found myself in New York City. And so far, I was liking New York City. The pace of the city was just my style, and I was thinking about sticking around for a while. I'd made a little home for myself in an old abandoned warehouse. I'd pilfered a cot, sleeping bag, and one of those camping cooktop things from a camping and hunting supply store and had set it up in one of the offices in the warehouse. It wasn't much, but it was some place to sleep at night and it was better than nothing at all.

I'd spent the past week here in New York between wandering the city and helping out anyone in trouble that I came across. Which usually just meant stopping muggings and stealing food for other homeless people. I was currently headed back to the warehouse after a day spent stopping dozens of muggings throughout the city, and I was taking a short cut through a park across the street from my warehouse when I caught the sound of people arguing up ahead of me.

I veered off from my path to the warehouse to move closer to the voices and found a group of five people surrounding another person. The group of five people all had guns, and they all looked pretty angry. The man they had surrounded on the other hand looked terrified. I sighed and rolled my eyes.

"A superheroes work is never done," I uttered, moving towards the group of people.

One of the five guys with guns was yelling at the man they had surrounded but I wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying. It was obvious they where gonna kill this guy, and I wasn't about to let that happen.

"You know, five against one isn't exactly fair," I stated, moving into the groups line of sight.

"Mind your own business kid, you'll live longer," The leader of the group with guns stated, barely even sparing me a glance.

"Well, I was never very good at minding my own business," I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

"Get rid of the kid while I take care of this guy," The leader of the group ordered, nodding in my direction.

The four goons turned towards me and it was obvious that they didn't see me as much of the threat. Which was a really big mistake, seeing as Maddie had taught me all of her fighting moves, and I'd spent months training with her, Danny, Sam, and Valerie on how to fight.

One of the men reached out and tried to grab my arm but I ducked out of his reached and kicked him in the back of the knee sending him to the ground, then delivered a punch to his throat causing him to gasp for air. I twirled around out of reach of the second man who came at me, snatched a rock up off the ground, and beamed it at the man's face. The rock hit him squire in the forehead and he dropped to the ground unconscious. Shit, I might have put a little to much power into that toss!

But I didn't have time to think on that to much, because the other two men where coming at me. I ducked under the third guys arm, punching him in the ribs, and then the kidneys. I kicked the fourth man in the face, then turned back to the third man and brought my knee up into his chin. The third man dropped to the ground, and I turned back to the fourth man and hit him in the face two times, knocking him unconscious.

The sound of a gun clicking reached my ears, and I ducked out of the way at the last second as a bullet whizzed over my head. I turned to see the leader of the group aiming his gun at me. The man he'd been about to kill was standing off to the side watching with wide eyes as the last man fired on me again. I dove out of the way of the bullet, not wanting to use my powers. I knew there where camera's in the park and I didn't want to be caught on video using them.

I rolled out of the way of another bullet, picked up another rock, and flung it at the man's gun hand. The rock hit his hand and he dropped the gun cursing in pain. I took the opportunity to tackle the man to the ground and start raining blows to his face. When I was sure he was out cold I rolled away from the him and stood up. I took a moment to catch my breath, then looked around for the man I'd just saved, but couldn't find him.

I shrugged my shoulders, then glanced around at the five unconscious men around me. They all looked like hell from the beating I'd given them. I shrugged my shoulders once more and took off back towards the warehouse…

Unbeknownst to Dani, the machine had been watching the whole thing. She watched as Dani took out the men and then retreated back to her hide out. She watched as twenty minutes later the men woke up. She watched as the leader of the men started shouting at his men, and then ordered them to find the girl and take her out.

The machine tried to find as much information on the girl as she could, and what she found confused her servers. She couldn't find a social security number for the girl. But what she did find was a series of videos from a camera in an underground lab in Wisconsin, showing how a man named Vlad Masters cloned her from a young boy named Daniel Fenton.

She reviewed all videos she could find of Daniel Fenton A.K.A. Danny Phantom, and she reviewed all videos she could find on Danielle. She compiled all the data she'd found on her newest irrelevant number and reviewed all of it. She came to the conclusion that this newest number could very well be a great asset to her Admin. But first the threat to her would have to be taken care of.

Since she didn't have a social security number for the newest number she was forced to take a still image of the girl from the park and sent it straight to her Admin…

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AN1: Okay so yeah, the only Person of Interest character that made an appearance in this chapter was the machine. But next chapter will have Finch and Reese, I promise!

AN2: Okay so the part at the beginning about Danny teaching Dani how to use they're ice powers to heal is my own personal head-cannon. I've always believed that Danny's obsession was to protect people and given that obsession it would track that he would eventually gain the ability to heal people. And since Dani is his clone she has all the same powers as him. And trust me this ability will make an appearance later on in the story, there is a method to the madness!

AN3: I first wrote this story in 2013, that was seven years ago, and my writing has definitely evolved in that time. I definitely feel like I'm a much better writer now then seven years ago. And while I do like the original version of this story, I feel the way I'm rewriting it makes it so much better, and I feel like it flows better than the original ever did. So I hope those of you who did read the original version like this new version of the story!