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Depths	By : Chickzilla18 Category: +1 through F > Danny Phantom > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1897 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom. I made no money or profit in the making of this Fanfic.

Chapter List
- 1-Mortality
- 2-Fishing
- 3-Feed
- 4-Tough Love
- 5-Depths
- 6-Desperation
- 7-Deep Trouble
- 8-Virtually Proven
- 9-Troubled Intentions
- 10-Paradise Lost
- 11-Place in Hell
- 12-Stronger
- 13-Sacrafice
- 14-Face
- 15-Void
- 16-New
- 17-Student
- 18-Heat
- 19-Firework
- 20-Christmas
- 21-Ugly
- 22-Hysterics
- 23-Record
- 24-Visitor
- 25-Beat
- 26-Rights
- 27-Feel It
- 28-Hurt
- 29-Red Hands
- 30-Tempt
- 31-Poison
- 32-Law
- 33-Splash
- 34-Wet
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Danny couldn't sleep anymore. It was the morning after what happened at the peer, and Danny had woken up at 6 am because of a nightmare. He had always been afraid of the dark when he was younger, but after he turned ten he had grown out of it. That is until he was kidnapped by Phantom at least. Now though, as he recalled the horrifying memories the nightmare had brought, he was forced to turn on the lamp by his bed. The sight of darkness, after waking up from such a cruel reminder of his experience, was maddeningly scary.
Unfortunately, after waking up screaming and being forced to turn on the lamp, Danny was too awake to even attempt to go back to sleep. So now at 6 in the morning, Danny had nothing to do but get out of bed and go downstairs.
Danny had told his father what had happened the night before, minus seeing Phantom. If he did actually see Phantom; he may have been hallucinating.
He just told his father that Dash and Quan had beaten him so hard that they accidentally threw him off the doc, and he had to swim back to shore to get out of there and drive home with Sam and Tucker.
His father had been completely outraged when Danny explained what had happened, and not only had Jack chewed out Dash and Quan's family's on the phone, but he also told Danny that he was going to the courthouse early in the morning to make a claim. That was where he was now as Danny walked down the stairs into the kitchen, in desperate need of some lavender tea.
His mom had moved in with Vlad a year ago, and Jazz was still away at college, so he was in the house alone. Though the solitude was welcome after his father being protective and overbearing the whole year, he couldn't help feeling slightly put off. PTSD was a terrible, terrible thing.
'Nothing good old lavender tea can't solve though', Danny thought as he put the tea bag in the hot water and added a little sugar.
He briefly considered calling Sam or Tucker and inviting one or both of them over, but he turned down the thought. It was too early in the morning, and they were probably both still asleep. He used to not care, too swept up in anxiety to consider their comfort when they continue to tell him he could call them whenever he needed them, but he didn't want to make them live like that forever. It had already been a year since he has been back home, and he needed to grow out of the anxiety as soon as possible. He needed to be stronger than that, and more independent, and learn to comfort himself in favor of his friends getting a good night sleep.
Danny turned on the TV in his living room and sat down on the couch, covering himself in a fuzzy blanket as he did so, and put on his favorite cartoon.
He wanted to work on his songs, but it was too early and he was too tired. He had many songs that were written and recorded with an automated singer going along to the music, but the auto recording brought the quality of the song down from where he wanted it to be. He enjoyed making music, and he loved it a lot, but he was too shy to sing them himself. So after he made the songs with garage band on his computer, he often just left them in a file. Nobody knew that he made them, and if he had anything to do with it, nobody ever would.
He sipped his tea and laughed when his favorite character on the TV got hit by his boomerang. Avatar: the last Airbender was by far the best cartoon in the world, and he had all three seasons on his playlist.
There was a knock on his front door, and Danny was shocked out of his tranquil state by the gentle tapping. He turned his head and regarded the door with curiosity, wondering who would be knocking on his door this early in the morning.
He figured it must be Sam escaping to his house again after her parents grounded her from her phone and put her under house arrest, so he got up and headed to the door. This happened a lot and Danny was just grateful that he would have some company, but Danny dropped his glass mug when he opened the door and saw who was occupying the front porch.
Shock made his heart stop briefly as his eyes met a pair of familiar green ones, and his mouth dropped open as his brain tried to process the number of questions running through it. Glass shattered around his feet, and Danny was only brought out of his shocked trance when hot tea splattered across his pajama pants.
"Youch," Danny exclaimed as he felt the water burn through his pants and onto his skin, but he wasn't distracted long as he looked back up at Phantom. The merman or the now human Danny noticed, was looking at him with a strange look that Danny didn't know how to process. It was like a playful smirk but also it was like Phantom was in physical pain or something. Danny wished he knew what he was thinking.
"Phantom? What the heck are you doing here?" Danny whisper/shouted at the other boy as he yanked him into the house, looking outside to make sure his father hadn't come home yet before shutting the door harshly.
He turned back to look at Phantom, and it was only then that it registered that not only did Phantom appear to be human, but he was also naked.
Completely naked.
Danny blushed as he made a conscious effort to not look down as he waited for Phantom to answer. He waited patiently for Phantom to explain, but he wasn't getting anything in response other than a shrug. As if he was protecting some big secret that he didn't want Danny to know about. Phantom made a whole new meaning to a fish out of water as he stood there awkwardly trying to hide the fact that he was very nervous and scared.
Danny rolled his eyes and took in a deep breath to calm his sudden anxiety, but it was then that he noticed the smell.
Phantom reeked of fish and seawater, and it made Danny wince and hold a hand up to his nose. He decided he would worry about the how later, right now he would just take care of the nervous human and look for answers after he was clean and had clothes on.
Danny definitely felt nervous to be around Phantom again, flashbacks kept flying through his head, and the fact that he didn't know what the other was doing there so suddenly wasn't helping his insecurity. None the less, he took pity on the lost look on Phantom's face and grabbed his arm to lead him up the stairs and into his bathroom. The white-haired boy was walking like he still wasn't used to the new limbs, so Danny could only assume that he had been human for only a very short time.
He started a bath and waited for the water to warm up, testing the temperature with his hand to make sure it was at a comfortable level. Until Phantom stopped him.
"I can't be in hot water." He said, "I'll get sick." It was the first thing that he had said to Danny, and the boy looked up at the green eyes to make sure that he wasn't hearing things. "Or die," Phantom finished.
Danny adjusted the temperature back to cold and waited for the tub to fill up, motioning for Phantom to stay in the bathroom as Danny went back into his room to get some clothes.
Phantom looked around, wondering if coming to Danny was the best option. He didn't know what to do when he first crawled on the beach, and it had taken him a while to learn how to walk. He decided the best thing to do was fallow the only thing that was familiar to him, the only thing that he knew for sure, and that was Danny's scent. He had followed it all the way up to the boys front porch, hoping that the kid didn't still feel any hostility.
He didn't know what else to do.
Danny came back with a pair of white pants and a thin black T-shirt and set them on the counter before helping Phantom into the tub.
Phantom looked down at himself nervously as he sat in the water and waited to see what would happen next. Danny turned away to grab the shampoo and conditioner off the shelf, but when he turned back to Phantom, he dropped both containers.
The ex-merman was suddenly a merman again, and his black tail was dangling off the edge of the tub, Phantom's eyes were glowing brighter and his teeth were once again sharp and elongated. Danny stared down at him, wondering what the hell the merman had gone through to not only change him so much but to make him express such fear on his face.
He decided it was best not to stare at the merman like that for too long, remembering how strong and prideful Phantom was. Danny figured the white-haired male would eventually feel better if he stopped acknowledging the obvious petrified expression marring his pretty face.
"Lean your head back," Danny said as gently as he could, unsure how stable Phantom was, the white-haired boy seemed to be panicking slightly. His face was paler than he remembered and he was a lot less witty and talkative than he was before.
'How long ago did this happen?' Danny wondered. It must have been very recent if Phantom still hadn't recovered from his shock. Danny remembered the night before, and once again questioned if he had really seen Phantom or not. If so, then how did this happen to the merman so fast, and why?
Danny poured some of the cool water on Phantom's hair, dragging his nails through it to make sure the strands were wet enough. He then grabbed the shampoo and worked the soap into the white hair covering the merman's head, glad when the strands became sudsy and slippery with the milk and honey wash.
"Do you want to tell me how you ended up on my front porch?" Danny asked as he scrubbed at Phantom's scalp with the tips of his fingers, rinsing out the dirty suds when he was finished and preparing to repeat the process with the shampoo and the conditioner, just to make sure that his hair was completely clean and healthy.
Phantom stared at his tail, the tub was cramped and uncomfortable, but he was just grateful to see his tail again. He felt like himself again, like the sight of his tail brought him comfort that he didn't know he needed. He held up his hand and was glad to see the familiar tan scales and the long talons on his webbed hands.
"Hades is punishing me, I'm going to have to live like this for the rest of my life." Phantom didn't elaborate on what Hades was punishing him for, but somehow Danny knew that the merman wouldn't answer even if he asked. Danny was amazed, did that mean that he had made it all the way from the beach to his front door completely naked? How the heck did he manage that? Danny had barely gotten by with a beach towel and shorts. Why did Phantom have to do that in the first place? What did he do to deserve this sort of punishment from the god of the underworld?
Danny couldn't help it, he had to ask, "Do you still have your powers? What exactly did he do to you?" he rinsed out the shampoo and conditioner from Phantom's head and grabbed the body wash and put it on a loofa. The merman was surprised at the amount of care that Danny was giving him, he hadn't even expected the boy to let him in the house, let alone take him up to his private bathroom and clean him.
"I still have all my powers, I can still read your mind, I can still get hungry for human flesh and all that good fun stuff that you definitely miss." Phantom's try at humor to calm himself in a stressful situation actually put a smile on Danny's face. It shocked the merman for a moment, he had never made Danny smile like that before. "The only differences are, I get legs when I'm dry, I'll age like a normal human, and I'm not allowed to return to the ocean ever, or Hades will kill me."
Danny blinked with wide eyes, again wondering what Phantom did, that was so bad, that Hades was punishing him this way. It could be anything. What was considered so wrong to the god of the underworld, someone who was considered Satan or the devil to most of America?
Phantom shrugged, and Danny wished that he could know what was going through the merman's head as he gently dragged the loofa across Phantom's shoulder blades. He went along with the scales to avoid hurting the merman as he did so and was extremely gentle, even though he knew the male had very tough skin.
As he cleaned Phantom, Danny examined the scales that decorated his body. Most of them were a light tan color, but there were small patterns of forest green scales that glimmered from the light. This wasn't the first time that he had seen them, but it was the first time that he actually took a moment to appreciate how beautiful the patterns were.
"I'm wondering how my life is going to continue now," Phantom said aloud, obliging to Danny's request to know what he was thinking, it was the least he could do. "I don't know where I'm going to stay, how I'm going to take care of myself, how I'm going to hide my true form from the humans, or how I'm going to eat-" Danny cut Phantom off with a shush, the raven had heard enough. He may not like Phantom very much, but Danny wasn't a monster, and he couldn't just allow the merman to sit there in that tub and fear for his future with so much terror.
"You can stay here," Danny said, "I'll protect you." The promise shocked Phantom, who didn't expect Danny to be so welcoming after everything that he's done to him. He actually paused and stared at Danny, waiting for him to announce the catch. There was probably some devious lot, right? Danny was going to treat him badly just like Phantom did to him, right?
Danny just looked back at Phantom, and the merman couldn't identify any malicious intent like he expected to see. Danny didn't smell like he was angry, nor could Phantom catch any dark thoughts running through his head.
... That meant he was serious.
"Why would you do that for me?" Danny had always been a strange human, Phantom could never understand how the raven could have thought he was in love with such an evil creature-who, by the way, had actively tortured him every single day for a whole 6 and a half months. He couldn't understand how in that entire time, Danny would rather kill himself than kill anyone or anything else, including Phantom. He especially couldn't understand now, why Danny would allow him-after everything that he has done to him-to stay under his roof. Why would Danny protect him? Why would he save him? Why would Danny treat him with so much respect and care?
He didn't understand.
Especially not when Danny just shrugged and looked at Phantom like the answer should be obvious, "You saved my father, and you let me go eventually. I seriously doubt you normally do that for humans, but you did it for me. You gotta feel something for me, Phantom, even just a little bit."
Phantom's eyebrows scrunched in something that felt like a mix between confusion and denial. Why did everyone insist that he felt something for this brat? "But Danny," he said, "I am a monster. I was not created to feel things like sorrow, or joy, or sadness, or compassion."
Danny regarded him with an unafraid and confident expression, and Phantom could smell that the boy wasn't scared anymore. As if he was absolutely positive that the merman wouldn't hurt him. How could he be so sure though? How could he trust the worlds most dangerous predator so easily?
"You feel anger. Don't you?" the boy asked, blue eyes staring down at Phantom with an unreadable gleam.
"Well, yeah, but-"
"And you feel fear. Don't you?"
"Yes, but I don't-"
"Then you can feel joy," Danny confirmed, sounding so sure of himself, "and you can feel sadness, and pain, compassion, and even love." Rinsing off the suds from Phantom's body and pulling the plug to drain the water, Danny said, "You've just never felt them before, so you don't know what they feel like. Yet."
Danny was wrong, Phantom had felt sorrow before. He had felt sorrow, and regret, and sadness, and a couple other things that he hadn't cared to acknowledge at the time. What had this human done to him to allow him to be able to feel such human emotion? He was never supposed to know what any of that felt like, and none of this was ever supposed to happen.
The worst part is, Phantom wasn't even sure if he regretted that it did happen.
"How do you know I won't try to hurt you?" Phantom asked, he knew he wouldn't hurt the boy, but he was curious to know how Danny knew that already.
Danny looked at him and smiled, "Because you're not stupid Phantom. This isn't the ocean, and I'm the only one who knows what you really are. What are you going to do without me, huh?" the smartass asked, "Live on the streets and hope it doesn't rain? Eat rats and hope you don't catch the plague?"
Phantom smirked, adoring the fire that burned in Danny. He had missed how witty the boy was, and he decided that Danny was definitely worthy of being a step above the merman. No one else would ever have this much power over him. "You got me," was all Phantom said with an amused smirk and a shrug.
The raven got up and grabbed a towel when the water finished draining and set it around Phantom's shoulders, he then looked Phantom up and down and the merman knew that the boy was contemplating how he was going to get him out of the tub. He decided to just grab around Phantom's torso and under his tail and pick him up bridal style to carry him onto the carpet in the bedroom where he could dry.
Danny left to go to the kitchen and get a glass of water with a sandwich full of turkey and lattice when he came back, Phantom was already dry and attempting to get up on his feet.
The human blushed when he caught sight of Phantom's human body again and made sure to avoid eye contact with his lower half as he went to the bathroom and grabbed the clothes that he had taken out. Hades may be punishing him, but he sure as hell didn't make Phantom's human body unfortunate.
Danny couldn't stop blushing as he got on his knees in front of Phantom while the merman stood and helped him into the pajama pants. Danny continued to ignore how great the other boy looked- and now smelled-as he stood and helped Phantom into the t-shirt.
Phantom could only smirk, and smirk wider when Danny tried to ignore the smirk. Danny then handed the sandwich and water to Phantom, explaining that the merman was human now and had actual human needs, and needed to eat and drink water.
Danny gulped when he saw the intense stare that Phantom was giving him, "Um," he stuttered, trying to ignore the hot shiver running down his spine, "I need to call Tucker and ask for a huge favor; you need more than just food and a place to live to survive in this world."
Danny walked to the other side of his room and picked up his phone from the table on the side of his bed. He opened it up and dialed Tucker's number, no longer caring how early it was in the morning, this was an emergency now.
Phantom took the time to look around at Danny's room, the boy obviously had an interest in outer space, and liked the color blue a lot. He took a seat on the bed and was surprised that he found it comfortable. All his life he had always slept underwater on a rock, and to allow himself to fall back on an actual human bed was like falling back and landing on a fluffy cloud.
"Tucker I need you and Sam to come over literally right now."
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