"Calm down Danny, we've had to explain worse." Sam said. Danny groaned then looked up at Sam.

"Can we just not get into this right now, I just want to go through the rest of the day as a normal person with no ghost issues."

"Dude, that isn't gonna happen." Tucker said.

"And why not!" Danny asked defiantly. Tucker pointed over his shoulder.

"I'll give you two reasons."

"Danny, are you ok?" Maddie came running up to Danny who turned bright red and proceeded to try and escape. The encounter ended with Maddie taking Danny in a head lock and feeling his forehead and cheeks.

"Well you feel fine to me." She commented to herself. Danny pushed her away.

"Well I am NOT FINE!" He yelled, "Mom, you're embarrassing me and I'm this far from a nervous breakdown as it is." Danny said holding his fingers up measuring a centimeter between his thumb and forefinger, "I know you mean well, but mom… back off, at least at school. Please." Danny begged. Maddie crossed her arms.

"Daniel, I know we've raised you better than that!" Maddie scolded.

"Yeah Fentoad." Dash said catching Danny in the second headlock of the day. Danny gulped and Dash beamed up at Maddie, "Don't worry misses Fenton, I'll keep the do- I mean Danny in line." Dash promised. Maddie's eyes narrowed and she took Danny from Dash resting her hands on Danny's shoulders.

"Well isn't that sweet of you." Maddie said satirically which Dash didn't catch on to, "But I think I'm capable of taking care of my son by myself." Maddie said. Jack gave Dash a thumbs up.

"But don't think we don't appreciate your gesture." Jack beamed. Danny, Sam, Tucker and Maddie gave out a perfectly synchronized sigh and face palm.

"Mrs. Fenton, we kind of need to get to Chem now so if you don't mind, we're going to take Danny." Sam said grabbing Danny's wrist and pulling him away from his mother's grasp.

"Oh… Well… have fun you three, goodbye." Maddie waved. Danny blushed again.

"You know dude, we really need to talk to your parents about boundaries." Tucker commented. A large meaty hand clamped on Danny's shoulder as they turned the corner. Danny looked up at the blonde jock.

"Dash can we please not do this I'm not in the mood." Danny sighed, Dash curled his lips and got up in Danny's face.

"If you complain to your parents about me wailing on you and I get kicked out of Ghost then you're going to have bruises from months." Dash glared. Danny held his hands up in surrender.

"Ok, I get it, jeeze Dash if I said anything before now do you think they would have let you take the class in the first place. I didn't even want to be in it to begin with." Danny sighed. Dash blinked then glared again.

"Still, bruises for a month." Dash said then released Danny who fell against the floor on his butt. Danny stood up dusting himself off. Sam stood with a hand on her hip and sighed.

"Do you think he realizes he could get charged with assault if he leaves a mark like that?" Sam commented. Tucker handed Danny the book he'd dropped when Danny had been grabbed by Dash.

"Like bruises would stay on Danny long enough to get the evidence. His healing rate wouldn't really make things that easy to charge Dash with anything.." Tucker commented. Danny sighed.

"Let's just get to Chem, I don't need to be tardy again this time without a ghost as an excuse."

(PAAASSSSTTTTTAAAAA!)

Danny and Tucker were sitting on Danny's floor, both with a controller in hand and looks of intense concentration on their faces.

"We could just say Danny at a lot of ice cream before he had his temperature taken." Sam said.

"Yeah sounds good Sam." Danny commented his thumbs expertly working the buttons as his character dueled with Tuckers.

"Or we can just outright tell them you're half ghost." Sam said offhandedly.

"Great idea, keep thinking." Tucker commented. Sam rolled her eyes.

"So I am the only one thinking here?" Sam asked. Neither of the boys responded. Sam sighed heavily and closed her note book that had ideas littering the pages along with numerous random doodles.

Danny's ghost sense went off and he paused the game sighing.

"I am the Box Ghost!" Danny looked over at Tucker.

"Keep playing?" he asked. They both nodded at each other.

"Keep playing." The both responded heads swiveling back toward the screen thumbs vigorously working the buttons once more.

"Great… fine I'll handle this." Sam said grabbing the thermos off the bed and walking out into the hall way.

"GHOST!" Sam dodged a net as the Fenton parents went racing down the hallway after the Box Ghost. Sam sighed and stepped back into the room.

"Never mind your parents have it covered." Sam said sitting back down on the bed.

Danny grunted not looking up from the game. Sam sighed throwing herself backwards on the bed indignantly.

"Can we please just talk about today." She said while the sound of video game fights continued to be emitted from the TV. Sam glared in the general direction of the boys then stared up at the ceiling.

"You know ignoring it isn't going to make it go away; we learned that with the ghost portal accident remember." Sam chastised.

"Fine, we'll talk about it." Danny said, Sam perked up.

"Really?" She asked.

"Yeah, after I kick Tucker's butt." Danny smiled as his character slashed Tucker's in half. Danny did a victory punch then turned the TV off and put the controller away, Tucker following suit.

"How about we just not go to GHOST anymore?" Tucker suggested. Danny sighed.

"My parents are obsessive they'll make me, I don't know about you guys, but they'll make me." Danny said depressed.

"Which is not what we need, we need Danny out more than anyone else and with us out and him in, there's no one to cover for him." Sam said. Tucker nodded.

"The thing with Vlad does set things back a ways. I mean, now they'll be suspicious since they know about Vlad." Tucker said. Sam nodded.

"I can't believe that happened. And your parents…"

"Yeah thanks I know." Danny said, "I always knew they'd accept me if I came out but after the Vlad thing… well I can't be sure. It changes things, changes their perspective of me." Danny flopped backwards groaning, "well not of me as they see me now, of me if I were to tell them I'm half ghost." Danny sighed putting his hands to his forehead. "Why can't this be easy?" he asked no one.

"Nothing is ever easy for us… well except maybe catching the Box Ghost." Tucker said.

"What if we changed your parents' position on ghosts?" Sam asked. Danny raised one skeptical eyebrow at her.

"All I'm saying is maybe if you do a lot of heroic stuff they'll think twice about you if they do find out." Sam said.

"That's a good plan." Tucker said.

"Except, remember that time with Amorpho, if that's even his name or whatever, and I was doing all those good things, I was on a roll really, hadn't been framed for a while, hadn't been controlled by evil circus ringleaders, hadn't been-"

"Ok Danny we get it." Sam said.

"Well the point is that just made them even more suspicious of me." Danny said sitting up again, "Nothing I do seems to please them, I could even save them from something horrible and they'd think it was all just an elaborate plot of some sort." Danny sighed deeper.

"Danny, its ok. You're parents love you. No matter what. More than I can say for my parents."

"Hey Danny!" Jack said bursting into the room, "Wanna come down stairs and help us rip apart this ghost?" Jack asked. Danny looked frightened for a moment then sighed.

"Pass… I didn't have a good day today." Danny said.

"Oh right… your mom and I have been meaning to ask…"

"Jack! What are you doing! You're letting the ghost escape!" Maddie said grabbing the Box Ghost and holding him by the scruff of his neck, Box Ghost looking guilty.

"Sorry sweet cheeks, let's roll!" Jack said both parents vacating the hall and going down stairs. Danny sighed standing up and closing the door.

"I probably should go save him, covertly and stuff." Danny said changing into Danny Phantom.

"Probably, but are you going to?" Tucker asked. Danny nodded resigned.

"You know with Box Ghost ripped apart molecule by molecule, there would be a lot less ghost hunting on your hands." Tucker said. Danny shrugged.

"Yeah but well… you know." Danny said with a sigh, "I'll be right back." Danny floated up then turned invisible and dove through the floor. Sam looked at Tucker with exasperation.

"And this is why Danny got the ghost powers, not you." Sam said.

"Funny, I though Danny got the ghost powers because you convinced him to go into the ghost portal and it turned on while he was inside." Tucker snapped. This earned him a punch in the shoulder.

Meanwhile, Danny was floating above his parents and they dug through some boxes for weapons or equipment. Danny didn't much care. He opened up the container holding the Box Ghost and before Box Ghost could let out a beware Danny tossed him back through into the open Ghost Portal. Sighing Danny phased back through the floor and landing changing back surprised to find (ok not that surprised) Sam and Tucker argueing.

"Yeah well you're the one who let the gorilla out!" Tucker said.

"You're the one who let your PDA get destroyed, AFTER GETTING THE FIRST ONE STOLEN!" Sam yelled back.

"You're the one who got kidnapped by Aragon!"

"You're the one who thought having an evil mummy ghost as a pet would be fun!"

"You're the one who changed the menu!"

"You're the one who told the ghost I changed the menu!"

"Yeah because you did!"

"For your information that food is organic and low in calories!"

"Guys." Danny said.

"Meat is high in protein and helps you grow, which is probably why you don't fill out our figure like Paulina!"

"For your information beans have protein to, and Paulina doesn't even eat that much meat!"

"Yeah, but she eats it."

"Guys."

"So what! You lack the ability to monitor your eating habits and eat way too many red meats and carbs, which is probably why you have a hard time keeping up when we're running!"

"So, Danny has a hard time to!"

"Guys!"

"Danny, has super powers and can fly!"

"And now you're using his argument for not doing well on a fitness test when you previously mocked him before!?"

"Well, it is true… though Danny should probably eat more healthily. One day he's going to short out his powers and have to run."

"Well maybe Danny should eat more meat then his powers wouldn't short out!"

"Well maybe Danny should eat healthier in case his powers short out."

"GUYS!" Danny yelled both Sam and Tucker looking up, Danny put a hand to his forehead and exhaled heavily, "Seriously, when did this argument become about me?" He paused. Then he looked up.

"How about this, let's all go on patrol and we can forget the whole meat no meat and if I can run fast enough to save my life if I lose my powers somehow." Danny said. Sam and Tucker exchanged looks then sighed both looking defeated.

"Fine."

(When you don't know what I am I am something, but when you know what I am I am nothing, what am I?)

"Well, your breath smells like beef."

"Your breath smells like broccoli farts."

"Your stomach is too big."

"Your boobs are too small."

"You get bad grades."

"You're a teachers pet."

"You talk you loud."

"You talk more than me!"

"Your arguments are irrelevant."

"So are yours."

"Ok seriously, I will disconnect my Fenton Phones I'm warning you!" Danny broke in.

"He started it."

"She started it."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" from both ends. Danny sighed and they started bickering once more then took the Fenton Phones out of his ears turning them off and putting them in his pocket. He flew across the sky in a bad mood because his two best friends were arguing, wouldn't listen to him, and wouldn't make up.

Danny landed on the side of a building and proceeded to walk along the space between the windows down the block before kicking off into the sky once more. So far it was a clear night. Danny flew upward then toward the park landing in a tree and settling against the bark. He needed to think.

There was still the issue with his parents, which he was avoiding. The whole GHOST class was a nightmare, and Danny knew it. He wished that he could just drop out but his parents already told him he needed to know this stuff if he wanted to carry on the Fenton Legacy. And since Jazz was only interested in ghost hunting to save Danny… well the weight of carrying the Fenton Ghost Hunting Legacy fell to him.

With a sigh Danny became airborne again but his heart seemed to be six feet below and he flew lower than usual. Danny trying to wrestle the Fenton Phones back out of his pocket to see if Sam and Tucker were done with their arguing or had even noticed that Danny had been gone when a bright pink blast of energy caught him off guard and sent him flying into a nearby building.

Shaking his head to clear it Danny looked up, blurry eyes trying to focus on the blue skinned pointy haired ghost in front of him.

"You ruin my cover boy, I ruin yours. All's fair in love and war little badger." Sneered the malicious voice.

"Aw crud." Danny said before another blast headed his way filling his vision with pink.