Depths | By : Chickzilla18 Category: +1 through F > Danny Phantom > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1897 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Fun fact!
When Phantom said that Hades would kill him if he returned to the ocean, he had no idea that Hades meant that Phantom would not change into a merman in sea water.
Phantom doesn't know how to swim as a human, and so he would simply be swept up by a current that Hades makes just for him, and he will drown.
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"You know," Danny said as he turned the corner to the street that would take them to the lake, "it's a little lame that you can read my thoughts. I can never surprise you. This would have been so romantic if you didn't know where we were going."
Phantom chuckled in the passenger seat, the moonlight dancing in his excited green eyes, "So sorry my powers bother you."
Danny had noticed that Phantom appeared to be sad and uncomfortable during bathtime, and the raven knew that Phantom missed being able to swim and stretch his fins out as he used to in the ocean, so he planned a trip to the lake. It was separated from the ocean so Hades wouldn't hurt him, and usually nobody ever went there at night. It was safe, and as long as they checked to make sure that no one was around, Phantom would be able to swim there and enjoy himself without an issue. After all the stress that poor Phantom had gone through trying to keep him safe, taking the merman to stretch his fins seemed to be the least that Danny could do.
"We're almost there, you sensing anyone?" Danny asked as he turned the car onto the rocky path leading to the lakes parking lot.
"No, I think we're alone." He could see the moonlight reflecting off of the water, and the sight of it brought a longing that Phantom didn't know was so powerful until right then. The water looked so beautiful, so inviting, and the merman was itching to get in.
When Danny finally parked the car, Phantom waisted no time in unbuckling his seatbelt and getting out of the car. Danny giggled at his boyfriend's giddiness as he followed and watched the hybrid strip off his pants and shirt. Before Danny could even get their lunch boxes out of the car, Phantom was already running into the water, bare as the day he showed up on Danny's doorstep. A loud splash was heard and Danny grinned to himself and shut the car door, glad that he did something good for Phantom.
Lunch boxes full of cooked salmon and potatoes in hand, Danny walked over to the edge of the fishing dock. There was nothing in the lake other than Phantom, some fish, and a few turtles, so they didn't need to worry about any unwanted surprises in the water.
The raven looked out on the lake as he sat down, placing their dinner next to him so his hands were free to take off his socks and shoes, and a moment later his feet were dipping into the coolness of the water. It felt nice between his toes, the cool liquid kissing his flesh and massaging away the stress as he opened up his own dinner and started eating.
He could see Phantom's bioluminescent figure swimming around a few yards away, and Danny sighed at the majestic beauty. Phantom was the most incredible creature that he had ever laid eyes on, and he legitimately missed watching him swim around freely like this, even though it used to scare him. Such beauty could not be expressed in words, but the smooth movements that the merman made were so striking in their dramatic grace, it damn near broke Danny's heart.
Phantom's head peaked up from the surface of the water, and blue eyes met glowing neon green ones as the merman swam closer. His lips were curled in a devilishly handsome smirk that Danny knew was hiding the sharpest set of razor teeth, and the knowledge that they were there caused the raven to shiver.
The raven couldn't tell if it was a pleasant shiver or not, and the lack of distinction scared him a little. He should probably see a therapist about these borderline horrifying masochistic kinks of his...
"I'm sorry you can't stretch your fins as often as you'd like," Danny said to the merman who slid against his submerged feet much like an affectionate cat.
"It is what it is," Phantom responded as he swam around some more. The water felt wonderful, and the lake was deep enough that he could stretch without cutting his tail on the rocks at the bottom.
"You can come whenever you want though, all you have to do is ask and I'll bring you." The promise had Phantom rubbing his scaled cheek against the boy's ankle, and Danny pet his silky white hair.
A couple of minutes later, Phantom was swimming around enjoying himself while Danny finished his dinner, and things were calm and peaceful. It was nice to have a break from all the drama that had been stressing the two out for months now. It didn't help that Danny had been questioned by both his father and his father's lawyer the other day.
His father had asked Phantom to go out and pick them up some lunch, but the merman knew that Jack just wanted to question his son about Vlad alone with Ms. Peter. After that though, Danny was sat down at the kitchen table next to his father while the lawyer sat across from them with a note pad and tape recorder.
"Hi, Danny," She had said sweetly, "I just have a couple of questions for you."
Danny had nodded, not sure what to expect. Ms. Harry may have been a lawyer, but she was much more approachable than the FBI agents were, less intimidating. It allowed Danny to be a little more relaxed around her than when the FBI agents were around, whether they were talking about murder or not.
"Did Vlad ever do or say anything inappropriate to you?" Her voice was soft, and though she was much less stressful with her presence alone, she was still one of the most facile people Danny had ever met. She lacked emotional depth, and Danny could see nothing in her empty eyes. They were blank, her façade disguising the lack of compassion with a sweet face. Maybe Danny just didn't like her, but he could see right through the lie.
Danny's unsure and insecure silence was taken as being shy, and Jack put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay son, you can tell the truth, you're not going to get in trouble." It wasn't him getting in trouble that he was worried about.
What was okay for him to say? He wanted to tell the truth, just because his father was around and he wished above most things that he could confide in his Dad... but how much closer to finding what happened to Vlad would they get if he said too much?
He decided it was best to only speak half-truths, better to leave self-incrimination out. The best lies were built off the truth, and if telling the full truth even had a possibility of leading to Phantom's arrest, then a lie it shall be.
"I mean... he made me uncomfortable sometimes. I would catch him looking at me like I was naked and had an apple in my mouth, but I always thought I misread the expression." Danny shrugged sheepishly and did his best to shrink down to the size of a pea, uncomfortable with the conversation.
Ms. Peter nodded with fake sympathy, and Danny's blood boiled. It was like she wasn't even trying to hide how fake she was.
The raven sighed on the inside, she was just doing her job, and she was a lawyer; he couldn't really blame her for being basically being an emotional desert.
"Did he ever make any indecent proposals? Like maybe to disobey your parents and do something he wanted you to do?"
Danny shook his head, Vlad was never that loud about his obsession. It was like he knew that Danny knew about it and didn't find any reason to attempt manipulation, as if knowing trying to distance him from his parents that way would prove to be unsuccessful. "No, he never did anything like that."
"Did he ever attack you? Or make you feel unsafe? Did he touch you inappropriately at any time?"
There it was, the golden question that would either let them know everything they needed to hear or shoot down any chance of them finding out, assuming he was actually able to pull off the lie. If he was obvious, they would know.
Jack looked down at his son, the younger's red ears and his lack of eye contact was so out of place and incriminating it made the father want to barf at the implications. He had been wrong to allow Danny to make him think the only problem he had was his lack of confidence for the acceptance of his sexuality. He had been such an unobservant idiot when it came to his son for so long, but it seemed the trend had not stopped. It was a daunting fact that filled him with self-hatred and melancholy.
When would he be good enough for his son?
"No." Jack searched for it as Danny spoke; any indication that it was the truth. "Vlad never touched me." He looked. Long and hard, but he didn't find even the slightest bit of what he wanted to see.
Danny was lying.
The raven had no idea that his father was basically choking on reality at that moment.
Now though, as Danny watched dreamily as Phantom did dives and splashed around in the water, he could feel the stress from the months leaving him. For now, at least for tonight, they could escape.
When Phantom swam up to him with a mischievous smirk, Danny all but shrank. What was doing?
He got his answer in the form of water being sprayed at his face like a water gun. It shot out from Phantom's lips and hit him directly in the eye. For a brief second, it hurt, but that pain quickly vanished and became amused irritation as he tried to block it. That only served for it to be misdirected to drop all over his pants.
"Phantom!" He yelled with a giggle, "my clothes are all wet now."
"Get in with me," the merman said suddenly, shocking Danny out of his giggling fit.
The raven blushed and looked down, he hadn't been in any large body of water at night in a long time. During the day was fine but at night?
Flashbacks to when Dash almost killed him corrupted the front of his mind, along with the anxiety that came along with PTSD brought on from being kidnapped.
"I don't know, I don't have my swimsuit," he muttered an off-handed excuse, though he wasn't sure what exactly he was scared of. Phantom wouldn't hurt him... badly.
"Then I guess you'll have to skinny dip," the smirk calmed a little of the irrational fear, but brought on a whole different kind of blush.
Danny stuttered, "Uh-um. I uh- clothes. Duh-." The blush spread to his entire face, and Phantom nearly laughed. Danny has never been naked in a lake before, and the merman has not forgotten that the raven was pathologically shy by nature.
Phantom chuckled, "get those clothes off and get in here, dumbass." He swam off, poor Danny was too shy to strip with him swimming right there watching. Even though they had been sexually active for months now and his body was nothing new to Phantom.
Whatever, Phantom smirked with a shake of his head, let him feel like he has some privacy.
A moment later, Phantom could hear Danny beginning to enter the water from 20 feet down, and sensing the fear he felt from being alone, Phantom swam up. He surfaced and found Danny half in and half out, pale as a white sheet of paper, and holding onto the dock with a death grip. The merman sighed and swam over.
"Come on," he said gently, reaching a webbed and clawed hand out for him before retracting his talons in an attempt to look less threatening.
Danny took his hand and Phantom would have chuckled at the tight grip of it weren't for the ever-present fear invading every nerve in the boy's body like an emotional terrorist attack.
"Come on, Precious," the nervousness that wracked Danny's form could be easily extinguished, but Danny needed to trust him. "Let go of the dock."
Danny hesitated, but after deciding he would rather hang on to Phantom, he let go and grabbed around the merman's shoulders.
The siren smirked, not swimming too far from the dock, but just far enough that the raven couldn't chicken out without trouble. "Look at you," he praised Danny, "swimming with a vicious siren. In his own domain no less."
Danny grinned, swimming with dolphins was one thing, and petting stingrays was overrated, but swimming with something as dangerous, as beautiful, and as intelligent as a mermaid was the greatest life experience anyone would die happy achieving. Assuming they didn't die right afterward, which was almost unavoidable when it came to sirens.
But how many people could say they swam with something so phenomenal and lived? Danny was sure that the number of people in all of history could be counted on 1 hand. It was truly amazing, and Danny was honored.
It didn't stop him from shaking though, to which Phantom's smirk curled down a little. "You don't ever need to be afraid of me anymore, Danny."
The sound of his name leaving the merman's lips brought heat up to Danny's cheeks, contrasting against the coolness of the merman's body and the chill of the water they floated in.
Phantom wasn't the problem though, Danny was sure of it. He fully trusted that the siren wasn't going to hurt him... badly.
"I'm not afraid of you, Phantom." He didn't notice until then that the merman was slowly taking them further and further away from the dock. They were now a good few feet away from it now.
"Then why are you shaking so much?"
Danny didn't say anything, but Phantom heard him in his head anyway. Danny was just afraid of being in the water at night. The memory of being trapped so far down from the surface, deep where the light of day didn't touch haunted him.
Phantom fully frowned into Danny's throat at that. He did that to the raven. He was afraid because of him. It was his fault Danny couldn't enjoy night time swims like he used to. If he had just let Danny spend more time in the sun, fed him more, treated him better, and didn't teach him to associate the dark with pain and suffering, then maybe Danny wouldn't be so scared.
"I'm sorry for what I did to you, Pet." He would never regret kidnapping Danny, but boy, did he regret making him suffer. Phantom had made Danny suffer so much, that at one point the raven wanted to die so bad that he stopped eating, refused to drink anything, and begged him to end it all.
He had never felt so despicable before in his life.
Danny shook his head roughly, "No, Phantom. I don't regret anything. Not even what I had to go through when you took me. I wouldn't change anything. I don't know what would have happened if things didn't end up just the way things are right now." What they had was too good to regret anything, and Danny didn't. Not a thing. He couldn't bear it if things had gone differently and Phantom didn't end up in his bed every night like he was now. If he had to go back, he would gladly go through all that pain, over and over, if it meant he could keep the merman.
Phantom shook his head and smirked as he kissed the ravens cheek. "Silly boy."
...
Jack put the submarine in park and rechecked his headset for the 6th time. He had to make absolutely certain that the headset was securely in place so that the mermaids would be unable to hypnotize him or read his thoughts. It was nighttime, but that was okay, his son was on a date and wouldn't be back until much later.
The radar on his brand new and upgraded submarine was blinking in the background, keeping track of all the heat signatures close by. A little screen next to the radar told him that there were hundreds of fish, a couple of harmless sharks, and lots of crustaceans around.
Danny has done well with his new job, and the percentage that his son was giving him did well for the mermaid hunting equipment, and the new sub.
He knew that capturing a mermaid would not answer all the head-scratching questions; like how a mermaid ended up in Amity Park, or where it disappeared to after killing Vlad, but it would confirm at least a few things. Like, the fact that it was, in fact, a mermaid that killed Vlad or not. If he could prove this, then murder would be out of the question, and he and his son's name would be cleared off the suspect list. After that, everything would be turned into where the mermaid was now, and how they were going to catch it and kill it.
Perhaps he'll keep it alive for a while, the number of tests he would probably wanna take on it was unimaginable. The fact that a mermaid was on land was incomprehensible in itself, what if there was a molecular reason for it? What if there was a deformation in its DNA? What if they were evolving? All these questions and Jack was excited to work in figuring out the answers.
He had always taught his son and Daughter that greed didn't get anyone everywhere, and they would be ashamed if they found out that he risked his life to capture a siren. But he could only imagine how proud they would be if he succeeded and accomplished his dream in studying merpeople inside and out.
He would have to perform a dissection, he needed to know what their organs looked like, and if they looked anything like a human's. He needed to know how they were able to hypnotize people, how they breathed, why they were so gorgeous, why they needed to eat human flesh.
It was just a bonus that Jack's career in mermaid hunting would be reawakened. To prove that merpeople existed and to study one for the first time in history, he would make a fortune.
Jack waited after turning on the sonar and dropping the invisible net and watched the open water near the familiar cave. He was well equipped and prepared, this submarine was made with titanium and was impossible to break through even if he got swarmed. He was smart this time around, coming with more weapons and better means to capture. There was an 89% chance thing would go smoothly and successfully without incident.
All he had to do was wait.
...
The amount of fluff in this is starting to get a little nauseating.... time to up the drama.
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