Okay cool story about this story. This is one of those stories I lost with my tumblr account. But recently someone messaged me saying they'd saved it (thank you RedofBloodBlackofNight) and sent it to me! You people are the best and I love you guys. I edited it up a little and am now posting it here. Without further ado:

Fool's Gold

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The first of April had long ago evolved from harmless fun into a full blown warzone in the Fenton household. These days their extended families steered clear until the storm had passed, and even Tucker refused to come over until the clock had ticked to 12:01 on the second of the month.

James tried not to think about it as he trudged downstairs, the first one awake for once. He was still half asleep when he poured a bowl of fruit loops, so when a rain of bright red flower buds—were those—blood blossoms? He dropped the box, flinging fruit loops and flowers all across the counter (did a ghost get in here? was someone out to poison dad?) and phased through the chair in fright, landing squarely on his butt on the tile. It was only when he heard Annie's disembodied laughter that he realized the stupid flowers were plastic.

And so it began.

"Danny!"

James paused en route to tackle his sister, and both young adults peered upward at the ceiling in curiosity and dread. Their parents room was just above them.

"Danny you let me out of here right now so help me god Danny I will hurt you don't think I won't you'll be sorry—"

James and Annie made skittish eye contact, each wondering what the bizarre shenanigans their father had cooked up this year. They could hear him cackling. But the laughter was followed by a painful-sounding thud, and a delayed, "OW. Sam what did you do to the floor?"

A moment later Danny came shuffling down the stairs, rubbing his head.

"What the heck did you do to Mom?" Annie asked, deftly hiding the blood blossoms in her pajama pockets before Danny spotted them. She won't have gotten a full day's use until she spooked him too.

"Froze the water in the shower," he beamed. "But I think she installed a ghost shield in the walls again, like last year." Remembering that fiasco, Danny paused for a moment and had a full-body shudder before returning his attention to the fridge. "Or at least in the floor. Now that, that's just low."

James raised an eyebrow.

"That was not an intentional pun!"

Annie just giggled. "Nah Dad, not all the walls. I've already been through my bathroom door and my closet door—oh and the sliding glass door to the backyard. What?" she defended against her father and brother's skepticism. "Cujo was out there. I had to say hi, obviously. Oh and I went through the upstairs floor earlier too... Are you sure she put a shield there, Dad? Maybe you're just dumb."

"Hey," he snapped, catching her by the frayed ponytail. "If I'm dumb that means you're dumb, ghost girl. Genetics."

"You're an engineer, not a biologist. I think I'll take my lessons from school, if that's okay with you."

"Genetics," he stressed, hitting her with his most serious face. "Deal with it." Annie squirmed away with a loud groan and contemplated wasting her blood blossom prank by dumping them all down his shirt right now. "Now go get dressed!" Danny commanded. "Or you're both gonna be late."

Annie leaned past Danny to pull an apple from the fridge and took a generous bite. "Fine. But you should really let mom out. She's still yelling up there." And with that she transformed and flew up through the ceiling.

"Okay now what is up with that?" Danny complained to James, who wasn't really listening. He was poking around his cereal bowl, trying to reawaken his appetite. "I swear that same floor wouldn't let me phase through it five seconds ago…"

Danny went back upstairs to free Sam, phasing her out of the cascading icicles which had stuck her to the shower floor while Annie and James rushed to get ready for school. The look on her face curdled his blood and he knew he was about to be murdered, so he turned tail. But instead of phasing through the bathroom wall through which he'd just entered, he slammed into it and almost broke his nose.

"WHAT GIVES!" Danny yelled at the wall. "What did you do Sam?" But his naked wife was doubled over the sink, looking like she was about to pee from laughing so hard. As he retreated from the bathroom with his metaphorical tail between his legs, he heard a loud thud from down the hall.

"WHAT GIVES?" a small feminine voice screeched. "I JUST CAME THROUGH THERE." Well, that must be Annie trying and failing to phase through the floor again. At least he wasn't nuts. Danny just knew Sam was behind this. She'd toyed with installing ghost shields in odd and unexpected places on past April Fools Days in order to mess with the resident Fenton ghosts. This time, he didn't know quite what she was doing or how she was doing it, but he had something up his sleeve that was gonna make them all forget about the walls completely.

Danny transformed with a big fat smirk on his face and left the house, flying away to Tuck's. He didn't think he wanted to be here when they figured it out.

When Sam finally stopped laughing and emerged from the bathroom, she came out just in time to hear her kids scream out in abject terror from their respective bedrooms. Now, that couldn't be good…

Sam looked in the rearview mirror at the two pouty faces in the back seat. The severity of the pouting made it look like they were on their way to preschool instead of high school. "It's not that bad, you guys," she tried. No reaction. Not that she expected one. Her heart wasn't in it… it really was that bad. But she sighed and tried again. "Annie, you used to wear a tutu and devil horns to school."

If anything their frowns deepened. Annie muttered, "Not helping, mom."

"Sorry." She was a little sorry. She turned the corner and the high school came into view. Annie and James wriggled uncomfortably as they drew closer.

James caught his mother's eyes mournfully in the rearview mirror. "So I guess Dad wins this year, huh?"

Annie wrinkled her nose, her cheek puffed up as she leaned desolately against the inside of the car door. "Dad always wins."

When they arrived Sam nearly had to drag them from the vehicle. They were quite reluctant to get out. "I think you guys look cute," she offered. In all reality, they looked so funny she thought she might bust a blood vessel in her eye from how hard she was trying not to laugh.

"Sure you do, mom," James deadpanned, hands on his hips. "Don't forget that you look like an idiot too. I hope you have a lot of errands to run today."

She grimaced, remembering that she did have a lot of errands to run today. Danny was going to have hell to pay for this. "Hey!" she countered. "Jumpsuits are stylish." If she said out loud maybe it would be true?

Both of her children rolled their eyes in hilarious synchronization. They really did look pretty cute in their custom fitted FentonWorks jumpsuits. Danny had insisted on their existence for whenever the kids wanted to come into the lab. Never had she dreamed they'd wear them. Sam straightened the color on her own jumpsuit self-consciously. She understood the importance of lab safety, but she would never go out wearing this getup for no reason.

Unless your smartass husband hid every item of clothing in the house, save for the official FentonWorks jumpsuits. She was going to get him so bad.

There was a group of teenage girls walking up to the steps and as they past they huddled together, shooting the Fenton's suspicious glances like they carried some sort of plague.

"You got a problem with jumpsuits?" Sam called after them.

Annie stuck up her middle finger and Sam flashed her a thumbs up. "It's not so bad, James," Annie added. "Extra pockets for snacks!" She unzipped two of her cargo pockets and pulled out two complete handfuls of fruit loops. "Look mom, snack room – "

But Sam was looking at her phone, which had just buzzed. "I think it's safe to say your father hasn't won," Sam mused. "The day isn't over yet."

Annie and James leaned curiously over her phone, spying the latest series of missed calls and texts she'd received.

[!] 17 missed calls from skulker's pelt

[V] skulker's pelt (11 unread)

04-01-2015

7:21AM

SAM YOU PUT THE SHIELDS IN THE WALLS ON TIMERS DIDN'T YOU

04-01-2015

7:21AM

THAT'S NOT OKAY WHY DID YOU THINK THAT WAS OKAY

04-01-2015

7:22AM

YEAH THIS IS REEAL FUNNY SAM

04-01-2015

7:22AM

NOW COME HOME

04-01-2015

7:22AM

I WAS HIDING A WALKIE TALKIE IN THE WALL BEHIND JAMES'S BED AND NOW I CANT PHASE BACK OUT

04-01-2015

7:29AM

I love you honey im really really sorry about the shower thing pls come home and turn this shield off

04-01-2015

7:35AM

SAM THERES A SPIDER BY MY FOOT IM SERIOUS

04-01-2015

7:36AM

SAM

04-01-2015

7:42AM

are you coming yet this is really not cool tucker is not helping he just laughs and hangs up when I call

04-01-2015

7:47AM

its really dusty in here

04-01-2015

7:51AM

sam?