Hidden Connections

Disclaimer – Danny Phantom and Young Justice don't belong to me. Sadly

Chapter Two:

Danny spent the next hour pacing the room. He had so many emotion raging through his body. Anger being the strongest emotion he was feeling seemed to make his blood turn to fire. 'How could they keep something like this from me? I had a right to know and a long time ago not just now! It didn't make sense!' these thoughts had been jumbling around in his head coming up over and over again as he circled his room. With a sigh Danny sat down at his desk and banged his head onto the hard cool surface but no comfort came from the sudden smack on the surface. Turning his head Danny saw the family photo album his parent kept. They had given it to him after showing him a picture of his parents coming to visit him.

"Why did you never tell me?" Danny asked the picture of his birth parents.

He remember it been taken during his 8th birthday party. He had his party early that year due to a school trip he had begged his parent to attend. Maddie and Jack had always called them old business partners that they had an ongoing deal with. Danny just had never considered that that deal was him. As Danny looked through the photo album he noticed that their faces showed up at least 3 times a year.

'They were around so often why didn't they just tell me. It doesn't make sense! There has to be more.'

Danny quickly picked up the album and threw it across the room hearing it make a resounding bang as it hit the wall. Calming his feelings and allowing him to think. He picked up his phone and texted Tucker "Meet me at Sam's place in 15 mins!" Staying here wasn't helping he needed to vent to someone that always helped him think more clearly. Sam was always the logical thinker of the group anyways. Moving across the room he locked his door. Hopefully that would keep his parents out for now they wouldn't try to sneak in until at least 9 which gave him a good 5 hours to think about things and what he wanted to do. Taking a deep breath as two white rings circled his waist and moved along his body leaving behind his ghostly other self. Turning invisible and intangible Danny flew through the wall and sped toward Sam place.

By the time Danny made it to Sam's house Tucker was already there waiting for him.

"Why do you always win? You have to be cheating!" Tucker demanded as he rapidly smashed the x button on the PlayStation controls.

"If by cheating you mean better then you, then yes I'm cheating." Sam laughed as she landed the killing blow onto Tuckers avatar.

Danny fell to the ground as he changed back into his human form.

"Danny!" Sam called in shock as she ran over towards him. "What's the matter?"

Danny tried to respond but he couldn't seem to find the words. It was like a bomb had gone off in his life destroying what he once knew. Transforming everything into something new and disgusting.

"Danny, you can tell us anything. Whatever it is we will beat it like always together." Tucker encouraged.

"There is not beating this Tucker." Danny said sadly looking at the floor "everything has changed and there is no going back. Ignorance really is bliss."

"Danny, tell us!" Sam demand pulling him up to stare at her. Danny couldn't keep it in anymore and he broke as the words flowed out of his mouth as Sam and Tucker stood there in shock. In the Danny collapsed into the chair exhausted from the day's events.

"Wait, wait, wait! What I don't understand none of that make sense! Mr. and Mrs. Fenton aren't actually your parents they have been keeping you for your parents because you were sick? Why didn't your parents just get a normal job?" Tucker exclaimed.

"What I don't get is why no one told you anything if they always planned on you going back and you saw them at least once a year." Sam added.

"I really don't know. At the moment I'm just trying to get over the fact that the people I've known for my entire like are not actually my real family. My parents aren't my parent and my sister isn't my sister."

"Hey don't think like that family isn't always blood, something it's about the people that care. Your sister loves you. The Fenton's also love you or they wouldn't have keep you this long even after you biological parents died." Tucker said getting usually serious. Danny look at his friends will himself to believe his works. Danny felt like there was a war happening inside of himself with part of himself believing Tuckers works and holding tight to them and the other half that wanted to know his biological parent and know why they hadn't told him the truth.

"Face it, they probably saw they klutz that I am and knew that I would never fit into their circus world. They didn't want me. I was too much of a problem for them. Plus they had my undoubtedly perfect twin brother." Danny spewed and his self-loathing took over.

"Danny maybe that's the truth but there is no way of knowing that unless you ask. Even if that is the truth that doesn't or had never stopped the fact that the Fenton's love you like their own." Sam whispered.

"Oh hey!" Tucker shouted "You have a brother a twin! Why don't you ask him?"

"That's not a bad idea Danny, maybe you're not the only one going through this. Why don't you go see him? I still think you should talk to the Fenton's though to find out more."

Danny took a deep breath and found the last bits of energy he had so stand and face his friends "You're right. I have to go. I'll keep you in the loop." He then quickly changed back into Phantom and flew through the wall.

Danny crept down the stairs toward the kitchen where the lights were on and he knew the adult Fenton were. He pressed his ear to the door to try and hear any conversations that were happening. Nothing 'Bummer' he thought as he pushed the door wide open and walked in to see them both sitting at the table with drinks. They both looked up startled. They probably didn't expect his to come out of his room tonight.

"So I've thought about it and you're my parent not these Grayson's. Blood doesn't matter to me." The relief that he saw in their faces added warmth to his heart knowing that he made the right choice. "I still have questions though."

"Ask anything Danny my boy and we will tell you to the best of our knowledge."

"Why now?" he asked his most pressing question.

"Well other then you walking in on us talking about it," his father laughed "you are 12 almost 13 a teenager you are old enough to handle it. We as a family will figure it out together."

'Okay that makes sense.' Danny pondered to himself and then felling into silence. He had to ask this question to move on but he wasn't sure if he could. Danny could hear the clock ticking off to his right as he keep telling himself after the next tick he would ask, but he just couldn't.

"Danny what is it?" his mother asked with pleading eyes.

"They were never going to tell me were they?" Danny finally asked after mustering up all his courage. In the end he couldn't even look at his parents.

"To tell you the truth Danny we don't know." Danny head whipped up and saw nothing but truth in their faces. "You see the plan was for you to go back but sometimes they would say things and do thing that never would fit that scenario. At other times they desperately wanted you back and would get angry at us for how attached you had gotten to us." His Father finished.

"We would always offer to tell you then but they would get this look on their face like they were scared of something." His mother added on.

'Okay, that's weird' Danny thought in puzzlement as he thought over what he now knew.

"I want to get to know my brother."

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