Title: Secret Doors.

First of all I gotta say that this isn't exactly the best or most original title I have ever come up with, in all honesty I'm not satisfied with it but then again it's better than nothing right?

Second of all this fan fic is dedicated to all those artists over at Deviant Art who bothered to enter the contest I was holding a few months ago involving Ember wearing Danny's jumpsuit.

So thank you very much: Cordria, Tsaalyo, Timmy22222001, Invader Ali/Nolay and M07anna.

Third of all I had to re-write this fan fic like 10 times since I was not satisfied with the different versions I came up with but I FINALLY managed to write it, so I really hope all of you out there enjoy the story and don't forget to check out the artists art work over at DA.

This takes place After "D-Stabilized" but BEFORE "Phantom Planet".

This is probably gonna be considered a DxE friendship fic at first just so you people know but then it MIGHT be something more, who know?

You'll have to read to find out, heh.

Synopsis: Everyone has secrets some that you don't want to tell but that doesn't mean people won't find out, Danny and Ember are the perfect victims of that example.

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The Ghost boy was very confortable on the couch, for once he was getting the right amount of sleep.

"Danny… Danny… Danny…"

"Leave me alone Jazz" The young hybrid said sleepily. "I'm not getting up… It's the weekend; I need all the rest I can get".

"Lucky for me I'm not Jazz".

That definitely woke him up, the teen hero shot up from the couch and saw none other than his reluctant ally staring down at him with sympathy.

"Why are we still here?" He mumbled rubbing his eyes.

"Because we were stupid enough to leave our guard down, because we don't want anyone to find out about our extremely humiliating secret, but most of all we fell asleep, Ember counted as she lifted a finger each time she said a reason.

The half-ghost stretched and got up from the black couch "Think this nightmare will ever end?"

"Unless we find a way out of THIS situation … Not likely".

He nodded, slowly transforming to his ghost half, watching Ember as she started to comb her hair down and then put it in the fiery ponytail he was used to seeing.

"You hungry?"

"Huh?"

"I asked if your hungry dipstick".

Before Danny could say anything a taunting voice was heard

"Well, well well, look who finally woke up."

Both teens turned their heads sharply as another ghost entered the room, a smug smile on his pale face.

"How did you two slept?"

Ember narrowed her green eyes dangerously, her flaming hair intensifying with rage, while Danny on the other hand was simply counting to ten as a pitiful attempt to not fly to the ghost at full speed and beat the crap out of him.

Neither villain nor hero dared to do anything to him since they knew it would do no good.

"I'll ask you again" Johnny 13 said smiling cruelly "How did you two slept?"

"Why do you care?!" Ember snapped, all rational thought left her mind; she got up from the floor where she was sitting and was just moments away from blasting Johnny's face off had Danny not restrained her from doing so.

"LET ME GO!!"

"I will, ONCE you calm down" Then he whispered in her ear sternly "You know hurting him is not gonna do any good".

"Like hell it won't!" She hissed "It will make ME feel better".

"Are you sure about that?" He asked as he quickly moved his arms around her bare midriff since she got her arms intangible and he had to stop her before she did something they would both regret.

The fact that the greasy blond haired ghost kept smiling smugly was not helping the situation.

"YES I AM!!" Ember bellowed madly.

Danny was beginning to lose the battle since the ghost rocker was twisting violently, kicking him and waving her arms as if trying to strangle Johnny.

"So I'm guessing you had a bad night?" The biker asked jokingly.

Needless to say THAT was the last straw.

Ember completely lost it just then.

She screamed while turning intangible and Danny found his fingers grasping cold air, he dared to look up and saw the pale ghost flying towards her current target.

Danny signed, he would have loved to see the angry rocker beat the older teen senseless but he knew that if she did that, then both their reputations would be ruined both here and in the human realm.

And he couldn't afford that so he had no choice but to exploit her main weakness.

Danny quickly looked under the couch and grabbed Ember's prized possession. He quickly twanged a string of the guitar and a random tune resonated through the room, causing the owner of said guitar to stop in her tracks and swivel her head around slowly to see the half-ghost carelessly plucking away.

"What do you think your doing?!" She snarled.

"Saving both our asses". Danny said calmly.

Meanwhile Johnny 13's shadow came to life and was preparing to protect his master should the crazy ghost chick decided to lose interest in Phantom and maim Johnny in his own house.

"You break even ONE string of my guitar and I'll kick you from here until next Saturday!!."

"Not thinking of doing anything to your instrument, just wanted to get you attention"

"And you got it!" She screamed, her blue hair flaring bigger by the minute "So what the hell do you want?"

"I want you to THINK for a moment and tell me what's going to happen if you actually attacked him".

Ember glared at him and then at the other male and his shadow, she looked down at her boots and mumbled something.

"What was that?" Danny asked gently.

"…."

"Could you speak a little louder?"

"It would end badly for you and more importantly… Me". Her left eye twitched repeatedly.

Danny knew Ember was struggling to actually admit defeat; he also knew how much of a proud ghost she was and didn't want to antagonize her further.

So instead he got up and hovered slowly towards his reluctant ally, he stretched his gloved hand and gave her the instrument she took with her everywhere, she gladly accepted it, but she bring herself to look into his eyes.

By doing that two pair of green eyes locked just then.

"Well as fun as it is watching you two argue I got places to go". Johnny said breaking one of their awkward moments.

"Yeah go and spend time with your bitch". Ember muttered sardonically.

"What was that?!"

"Nothing, nothing".

Despite his better judgment Danny snickered which earn him a kick in the shin, courtesy of Ember McLain.

"OW!!"

"Serves you right" She muttered vehemently.

Danny just gave her the evil eye which she coolly ignored and was about ten seconds away from blasting her if Johnny hadn't interrupted.

"Well since you two got the job done I guess you are free to go."

"Thank God" Danny and Ember thought at the same time.

"Oh and don't forget, tonight is Youngblood's turn" The biker ghost reminded his "guests" while giving them both a malevolent smirk.

"Oh crap, I am NOT gonna stand this much longer". The blue haired teen thought in dismay as she strapped her guitar to her back.

Danny on the other hand groaned, obviously not looking forward to tonight's events, "its official… blackmails sucks… BIG TIME". He thought in annoyance.

"Have fun". Johnny told them evilly.

The door slammed loudly.

Once they were out of that offending place, Ember screamed her lungs out and without a warning she slammed her fist into the same door that they just came out of.

"Woah, easy there, you don't want to make a bad situation worse." Danny warned nervously as a pair of now bloody red eyes glared daggers at him.

"Don't toy with me dipstick" Ember threatened "I am NOT in the mood".

"I'm not toying with you, just saying that the jackass could and WOULD tell about…"

"DON'T" Ember interrupts rudely "The last thing I want is a reminder of what could be the WORST experience of my afterlife".

"Oh and you think I enjoy this?!" He questioned exasperatedly.

"I don't know!" Ember snapped "You probably do since you get to see one of your enemies as a vulnerable and pathetic excuse for a ghost!"

"Ok, do we have to go through this AGAIN!" Danny raised his voice "I would NEVER take pleasure knowing any ghost gets treated horribly even one of my enemies".

The female teen snorted coldly.

"Keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll believe it someday baby pop". Venom dripped from her words.

"Why do you do this?"

"What?"

"Start an argument every time we are forced to work together".

Ember turned her back on the ghost hybrid and he grabbed her by the arms roughly, turned her around so they could see each other face to face, both their green eyes giving the other a glare of pure loathing, annoyance and hatred, but soon their eyes melted into desperation, tiredness and… fear?"

Danny let go of Ember's arms slowly but she never moved away from him.

Or tried to hurt him.

"Sorry I was just…"

"Caught up in the moment?" Ember guessed.

Danny nodded weakly.

They started to fly further into the Ghost Zone; they just keep looking ahead of them until they had to go their separate ways, finally after minutes of silence Ember spoke "To keep things interesting".

"Huh?"

"You asked why I start arguments with you" She clarified "It's to keep our predicament more interesting and hopefully less miserable".

He just had to smile here "Oh I see."

"Sometimes you gotta do things in order not to lose control of your mind, or situation or whatever the case may be".

"Really?" He asked amused "And what exactly do you call what happen in Johnny's house?"

Ember turned her face sharply and growled at the Halfa.

Seeing the fiery ponytail getting bigger and bigger by the minute he decided to calm her or another fight was sure to happen, and since his day was just beginning he was not into any rush to fight with a ghost even if it was a temporarily ally.

"S-so are you hungry?" He stammered attempting to change the subject.

Ember rose and eyebrow skeptically "Why do you care?"

"No reason".

She grinned from ear to ear as an idea popped up on her head "Did you asked because you wanted to take me to a nice place for breakfast?" … An invitation so to speak?"

Danny's eyes widened realizing what the rocker was insinuation "N-NO!" He stammered "I meant since you asked me inside a while ago and I just thought that… that…."

Ember giggled "Man, making you blush is more fun than fighting with you".

Indeed, Danny's face resembled a tomato right about now, but since he's not the kind of person to let one of his enemies win at ANYTHING, he retaliated in the only way he knew how.

"I wouldn't be laughing if I were you Miss-I-hugged-my-enemy-in-my-sleep!"

The singer stopped laughing and looked at the younger teen completely and comically mortified.

"W-what?" She croaked.

Danny grinned "You heard me; I know I wasn't the only one sleeping on the couch last night".

"But how… when… who?"

"Let's just say someone should learn to control her ponytail."

The pale ghost blushes three different colors of red in pure embarrassment.

"Who's blushing now?" Danny taunted, smirking playfully.

"I wasn't expecting you to wake up in the middle of the night" She confessed softly, still blushing.

Danny was now intrigued "So mind telling me WHY you did that in the first place?"

"Not telling".

He raises and eyebrow at her sudden change in demeanor. "Ember whatever the reason is is nothing to be ashamed off".

"Easy for you to say".

"You know I'm only going to keep asking if you don't tell me".

The pale ghost bit her lip uncertainly. "Well it's like this, I have...this… condition," she said at last looking at any particular direction and avoiding Danny's eyes.

"What kind of condition?" He coaxed.

"If I tell you this do you PROMISE not to tell anyone?"

"Who am I going to tell?" Danny asked in exasperation.

"Oh I don't know, I don't know, YOU'RE FRIENDS MAYBE!!"

"Ok, ok chill!" He puts his arms in a calm down gesture and says "I promise I won't tell anyone. So what's the big secret?"

After a few seconds Ember sighed in defeat and answered meekly "I'm...I'm...nocturnally emotionally insecure".

Danny blinked several times, well he wasn't expecting THAT.

"Uh-huh".

Ember was beginning to rub her left arm nervously "You see I have to hold onto something while I sleep otherwise I sometimes lose control of my powers and get a bit…."

"Violent?" Danny guessed.

"I was going to say unstable". Ember replied quickly.

"Well you nearly gave me a heart attack when you almost burned my face with your hair last night so don't blame me if I stick with violent".

Ember was about to open her mouth but then shut it, she just didn't felt like yelling at him for that remark so she simply decided to let him voice out his thoughts, but of course if he went too far then she was sure to break his neck and damn the consequences!.

"So anyway when we had to spend the night finishing our job"

Danny didn't miss the cold tone at the word "job", and simply nodded his head solemnly to let the ghost rocker know he was listening.

"And we were done at last; I couldn't sleep after hours of turning around so…"

"You hugged me" He finished for her. "Man, just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder" Danny thought.

Ember nodded shamefully and gave him a very scary glare afterwards "Now remember you PROMISED to keep this a secret so if I find out you told this to even ONE PERSON I'll hunt you down and kick your ass!"

"Always with the threats" Danny thought dryly "I guess I should be used to them by now".

"It's bad enough, Johnny and three other idiot ghosts know what happened between us, I swear if my boyfriend finds out about this I'll never hear the end of it." The pale ghost ranted.

"Wait… you have a boyfriend?"

Again the scary glare returned.

"Uh… right, not right to get into your personal afterlife" He stuttered nervously but afterwards he grinned and told her playfully. "But in case that this happens again how about you take a teddy bear with you to bed."

The joke however just pissed Ember off big time.

And she started to chase him around while using her guitar to throw ecto-fists randomly at him.

But strangely enough not one fist was intended to hurt him.

She made sure of that.

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Fenton Works:

Another cup of coffee was in her hand, Jazz was beginning to despise that drink but she needed it, not for school work, not because she was having nightmares, actually the reason involved her brother.

Yes… her brother.

For the past few weeks Danny has been going into the Ghost Zone and sometimes he didn't return until the next morning.

Sam and Tucker didn't know this but they still had the hunch that their half-ghost friend was up to something.

They have been trying to plan something to do with Danny after school but every time he gave them an excuse saying he was busy, he never said what exactly but whenever his two friends tried to pry some information out of him he said it was personal business or he would just change the subject.

Jazz asked him about it but too, he assured her it was nothing important.

However she knew better than that, after all the redheaded girl knew Danny better than anyone else.

She remembered one night that her parents were showing both her and Danny a new invention that her suspicions started.

After all it just wasn't normal for Danny to eye the Fenton Portal every 5 minutes.

Almost as if he was waiting for something.

… Or someone.

As a result, Jazz told Sam and Tucker about this, unfortunately they shrugged it off saying that maybe Danny was just starting to become paranoid.

But she knew better.

She started spying on him.

Yes spying on her own brother, she felt bad that she was violating his privacy but deep down she kept telling herself "It's for his own good."

So every night Jazz would wait in the basement where the Fenton Portal was wide open, in retrospect leaving the portal open was a stupid idea but a worse one was leaving it closed.

If she did her little brother would be stuck in the Ghost Zone with the only other way out was Vlad's portal.

"Like that fruit-loop would allow my brother to go through it". She thought dryly.

What worried Jazz the most was that the dire consequences of his actions, what could happen if she didn't try to put a stop to whatever it was he was doing in there?

But a better question was what would happen if she did try?

The sixteen year old girl tried to keep her mind in positive, that maybe Danny was not doing anything dangerous, that he was simply helping other ghosts within the Zone.

After all he had told her that not all the ghosts he knew were his enemies; that he was on good terms with a few.

However "a few" wasn't a very reassuring thought to the teenager.

Despite everything she waited patiently near the portal, wishing that her little brother would come out soon. The sun was rising and after having gone through this routine several tines she knew that Danny usually came before seven AM so he could go to school or just sleep some more before starting his day.

She stared at the swirling vortex that led to the spectral world impatiently.

No signs of life were there.

But after hours of waiting she heard something.

Jazz just hoped it was her brother and not one of his enemies.

She ran out of the lab, she didn't want the hero to know that she's been waiting for him.

Several times she usually closed the door, this time however she left it a bit open to see that her brother was not hurt in anyway.

She heard footsteps and from the doorway she could see that in fact it was her brother, not hurt in any way, he simply moved his hands over his head as if he was trying to get rid of some dust.

The redhead couldn't help but sign in relief but said relied was short lived since she realized that her brother was not alone.

Ember came out of the portal.

Jazz's eyes widened in shock.

"No way".

Ember felt repulsed to be in the lab, it wasn't because of the many weapons that were meant to hurt ghosts but because it became a routine to do something with the ghost boy after the little nightmare that just didn't seem to want to end.

"So, what now?" Ember hissed, she was still pissed at the "teddy bear" joke and she wasn't about to let her ally get away with it scotch free.

Danny however wasn't a bit bothered by her animosity in fact he seemed amused.

He turned around to face her and grinned.

To Jazz's surprised he turned human as if it was completely normal to have the ghost around.

For all the she knew that was probably the case.

Danny just shrugged, "I don't know my folks aren't going to be awake for a while so like I asked you before, are you hungry?"

The redhead just thought that her brother went nuts.

Ember's stomach growled.

"Looks like that answers my question" Danny snickered.

The ghost rocker glared at him "You're just lucky enough I need you right now otherwise I would have wasted you long ago!"

Her enemy/ally rolled his eyes "If you haven't done it yet you aren't going to do it now."

"This is SO not right" Jazz was yelling inside her head, she was just seeing both her brother and one of his enemies talking as if they were old friends.

She felt like ripping her hair off.

"Don't be so sure about that dipstick!" Ember's voice brought the oldest member of Team Phantom back to reality.

"I been asking myself when you were going to call me that again" The half-ghost questioned trying to keep a straight face and failing.

From Jazz's perspective she could see the pale ghost blush.

"I must be seeing things"

Ember looked at Danny with a face that said "You couldn't resist could you?"

In return Danny gave her a smug grin, something that infuriated the blue haired teen a lot.

"So last chance, want to have something to ear or not?"

Ember's stomach growled again and this time she just pouted and crossed her arms with a "HUMP".

"You know, it's not MY fault you call me dipstick a lot."

"It's an insult and nothing more Phantom!" Ember screamed.

"And I know that but apparently the others seem to believe otherwise"

"Others?" Jazz whispered "What others?"

"Well they should know better!"

Danny shrugged "Well there's no point arguing about this"

Ember felt defeated at that last statement and after much consideration she decided that she could go up for some food.

"Please tell me that you don't have some of the ecto-dejecto after a while you start to hate that thing"

"And I' tired of giving my parents excuses as to why it keeps disappearing so how about ya try some of the food I got I the fridge?"

She gave him a wary look "Just as long as you don't try to give me some of those hot dogs that tried to eat us a few weeks ago"

"No chance in hell!" The raven haired boy shuddered "I don't want to clean up the kitchen again.

"Lead the way baby pop" She said sarcastically.

Danny was going up the stairs and the female ghost was following him.

Jazz's eyes widened in fear, she ran as fast as she could out of the kitchen and into her room as fast as she could but quietly enough so as to not arise suspicions, once she as in her safe haven she collapsed into her bed and even thought a few of her questions have been answered a whole bunch of new ones arose.

"What is Danny thinking?!"

"Why has he been giving Ember something that could make her stronger?!"

"For how long has this been going on?!"

But the question that she feared the most was the last one.

"Is he… secretly dating Ember?"

"This is gonna kill Sam".

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Indeed this is going to kill Sam but are things really what they seem? Only I know and that's going to keep you wondering for a while HA HA.

Wont it be fun?

Well that's it for now, this fic is already written from beginning to end but I decided to split it onto two or maybe three chapters long depending if I feel extremely generous or extremely evil on my updates.

This unlike my other DxE is going to be a short story, it was only written to get rid of some really dark thoughts so I'm being real sadistic towards Danny and Ember but mostly Ember since it's a lot of fun writing about her in awkward situations and I'm guessing that you are having fun reading it huh?

Well anyway I'm going to go back to work on my other DP fic "Ghostly Emotions" I'm sure most of you guys are waiting for a long overdue update.

So erm yeah, hop you enjoyed the fan fic and tell me what you thought about it, where the characters OOC? Needs to be spell checked? Ya know even give me some constructive criticism.

Invader Johnny Signing Off.