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Experimental Love	By : Kyuugi Category: +1 through F > Danny Phantom > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 4392 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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It was early in the morning when Danny once again made his way down to the lab. He had wrapped the white hair into a small coil and hidden it in a small box inside his dresser, away, he hoped, from prying eyes and nosy parents.
Danny made his way to the side of the medical bed. The boy was still strapped down, and the wires still attached, but Danny was relieved to see that it didn’t look like he was hurt or scared. That might have been because the boy was asleep, but Danny was fine with that, just as long as the boy wasn’t scared.
Danny didn’t touch the boy, just stood by the bed and watched him sleep. There was just something about this teen that made him irresistible to Danny, and though he couldn’t pinpoint it yet, Danny was determined to find out the reason.
Danny’s hand drifted to the soft white hair and gently slid over it. A slight touch, meant to comfort Danny more then anything. This boy was real. Danny knew he was, he had seen the boy being made, he had been in the lab the first time the boy woke up.
Danny’s hand was slowly stroking the white hair. He could feel his eyes closing as his own lack of sleep and emotional battles caught up with him in a flash, leaving him nearly asleep on his feet.
Danny opened his eyes.
He was in the lab, his hand still tangled in the boy’s long white hair. At some point he must have been too tired to stand, for he found himself on his knees, torso resting against the cool side of the metal table. Danny stood up slowly, wincing as his legs were again flooded with blood, and carefully removed his hand from the soft white hair.
Still on unsteady legs Danny walked back to his room, crashing onto his bed and falling asleep within seconds of hitting the blanket. Just a little more sleep was all he needed…
“DANNY! GET UP!”
Danny groaned and pulled his pillow over his head, trying to drown out his mother’s voice.
A knock came from his door.
“Danny! Time to get up honey!”
The door opened and Maddie walked in, wrinkling her nose at Danny’s room before stepping over to the side of the bed. “Come on sweetie, it’s time to get up.”
She shook Danny’s shoulder.
Danny rolled over and swatted the air in the direction of his mother’s voice, hoping she’d leave him alone this once.
Maddie laughed as she shook his shoulder again, easily avoiding the waving hand as she snatched the pillow from Danny’s face. “Up Danny.”
Danny cracked open an eye and scrunched his nose at his mother. “Five more minutes please?”
Maddie whapped him with the stolen pillow, “Nope. Your friends will be here any minute and you are still in pajamas. Up. Now.”
Danny made a face at her, but swung his legs to the edge of the bed and stood up, stretching and yawning as he did so. He was still tired, but at least he’d gotten a bit more sleep. Enough he hoped to keep him awake in Lancer’s class…
Maddie, satisfied that Danny was getting ready, left the room and shut the door behind her. Danny stuck out his tongue at the door and picked up a pair of jean and a shirt from the floor. He gave them both a sniff, decided that they were clean(enough), and put them on. Picking up his backpack and realizing again that he had ‘forgotten’ to do his homework Danny gave a grimace. This didn’t seem like it was starting out to be a good day.
Danny pulled on socks and his white sneakers, ran a comb through his hair once before realizing that it probably wouldn’t make a difference, and walked out of his room.
He reached the kitchen to see Tucker and Sam talking with Jazz at their table.
“Hey guys. Have you been here long?”
Sam shook her head as she gave him a half smile. “Just got here. Jazz says she’ll give us a ride if we leave in the next ten minutes.”
Tucker, who was facedown on the table, raised his hand to Danny in a lazy attempt at a wave. “’Sup man.”
Danny laughed at Tucker and popped a piece of bread into the toaster, pulling bologna and mustard out of the fridge as he waited. When the toast popped up and Danny began to make his breakfast, Sam pointedly turned her head and ignored him.
Danny gave her a mustard yellow grin. “Aw come on Sam. Just because you don’t eat meat doesn’t mean I can’t.”
At this Tucker raised his arm and pointed straight up, his face still flat on the table. “That’s right Sam. Men need meat. We can’t live without it. Its like women and shopping, the two are inseparable.”
Sam knocked Tucker in the back of the head as Danny laughed, his breakfast finished.
Jazz stood up, “Alright boys and girl, time to get out the door.”
Sam pulled Tucker up from the table and they all walked out after Jazz.

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Danny was exhausted. Because he had forgotten to do his homework, the teachers had made it a point to call on him for EVERYTHING.
Well, that might have been an exaggeration, but it hadn’t felt like it at the time.
He tossed his backpack on his bed and gave a yawn. He still wanted to talk to his parents about teaching the teen to talk. It was Friday, so he had some time over the weekend to try to convince them if he needed too.
Danny walked into the kitchen, fully intent on procuring a snack before talking to his parents, couldn’t negotiate on an empty stomach after all.
Halfway across the room Danny heard a shrill keening from the lab. He whipped around and ran to the lab, throwing open the door and skidding inside, looking immediately towards the boy on the table. Danny’s mother was beside the boy, a stethoscope pressed to his chest while the boy keened and shrilled, struggling against the straps holding him down.
Danny was upset, but made no move toward either of them. His mother wasn’t hurting the boy that Danny could see. It just looked like he was scared.
After his mother had put away the stethoscope and clipboard, she turned to see Danny standing in the doorway.
“Danny? Are you alright?”
Danny nodded. “I just wanted to talk to you and Dad about something.”
Maddie nodded back, “Sure Danny. Let me get your father. Meet you in the kitchen?”
Again Danny nodded. “That’s fine. Be there in a sec.”
Maddie gave him a smile and pulled off her gloves, tossing them onto a metal tray near the door before leaving the lab.
Danny’s attention turned back to the still struggling boy on the table and walked over to him. The boy’s movement lessoned and he keened softly at Danny. Though his awareness and knowledge was limited, and the boy didn’t really know why, he knew that Danny made him feel safe. Like newborn kittens curling up to their mother because even though they couldn’t see, they knew that that body made them sleepy and warm. Safe.
He pushed at the straps again, trying to touch Danny with his head, tears leaking from his eyes. He didn’t like the man and woman that were in here most of the time. Everything they did was scary and new, and the thing that the woman pressed to his chest was cold and uncomfortable, it was too much too soon.
Danny reached out and rested his palm against the boy’s cheek, the other hand wiping the tears away gently, soothing noises coming from his mouth.
The boy leaned into Danny’s palm, nuzzling and cooing at him, trying to convey in the only way he had that he liked Danny. That he needed Danny.
After a minute Danny heard his mother calling him. He pulled back slowly, but didn’t break eye contact with the boy.
“I’ll only be gone for a bit, ok?”
Danny knew that the boy couldn’t understand him, but he hoped that the other was settled down enough so that when he left the boy wouldn’t start keening again.
The boy looked at him with sad eyes, but did nothing as Danny walked to the door of the lab, head craned so that he could see Danny until the last second. Danny slipped out the door and walked quickly up the stairs to see his parents in the kitchen waiting for him.
Danny sat down across from his parents and looked at his hands for a second, gathering his courage, before speaking.
“Mom,” his first statement was directed at Maddie. “You know that I haven’t really been interested in much of anything so far. Not academically or in anything fine arts wise. I just, you know, didn’t really want to do get into something I didn’t enjoy.”
At this both Jack and Maddie nodded, this wasn’t new information, but kept quiet and let Danny speak.
Danny took a deep breath. “Well I’ve decided that I want to learn more about your guys’ experiments. You know, what process you went through to find a working formula, what substances you tested, calculations, stuff like that. I want to do what you guys do, be a ghost scientist.”
Jack was the first to speak. “Danny that’s wonderful! We can have real man-to-man talks about ghosts!”
Maddie tapped her husband to settle him down. “What made you want to become a scientist Danny. “ She was fairly sure she knew what it was, but it never hurt to ask.
Danny twisted his hands together. “I saw you create that boy and… and I though it would be awesome to see how far he can progress as compared to a human. You know, his learning capabilities, the things he has problems with compared to the things that he excels at. I want to study HIM.”
Maddie understood. “So what you want isn’t really to create and experiment, you want to study the psychological aspects of the subject, see how he matures given less time and instruction then a human of his age?” She realized that Danny was interested in the boy, not the process, and though she wasn’t sure if that was a good or bad thing at this point she was willing to let Danny become a part of the experiment. Maybe he would find that he was truly interested in a certain part of it. If not, well… she could cross that bridge when she came to it.
Jack, however, was not as happy with Danny as his wife was. “I though you wanted to help me test out all our ghost hunting equipment and stuff? Not mess around with the screwed up mind of a test tube baby.” He was unhappy and feeling slighted, his son would rather mess around with an experiment then his own father.
Danny’s eyes hardened at his father’s words, but Maddie jumped in before either of them could speak again. “I think that would be alright Danny, what did you have in mind?” She ignored Jack, who had started sulking and poking the sandwich he’d made, and focused on Danny.
Danny pointedly turned away from his father and began to tell Maddie what he wanted to do. He wanted to teach the boy to communicate first of all, and also all the necessary things that humans did each day. Eating, drinking, and using the restroom. Danny wanted to start from the beginning and work his way from there, seeing how far they could.
“I’ll record all his progress, like how long it takes him to understand a certain concept, and things that he picks up be watching others. Stuff like that.”
Maddie furrowed her eyebrows, thinking. Danny seemed to have everything planned out, and his enthusiasm had grown as he’d talked about it but, she wasn’t sure she wanted the experiment to learn everything Danny was proposing. She still needed to test out the powers that the boy had, what was still dormant and what was active, and she needed to be able to monitor the use of them at all times. Still… Danny had obviously put more thought into this then he did into anything so far…
Jack started talking again. “No way Maddie. We don’t know what kind of powers this one has and I don’t want him near Danny. No good can come out of teaching a mutant test tube baby the anything that he doesn’t need to know to not kill anyone.”
Maddie made to talk, but Jack wasn’t finished yet. “And what happens if you let Danny teach him anything and he freaks out and kills? No good can come out of it, none.”
Danny was clutching the edges of his chair, his knuckles white with exertion. Tears threatening to fall from his eyes, his face down turned to avoid looking at his parents.
Maddie looked at her husband, then back at Danny. She knew that there were risks involved with teaching the boy, but simple things like talking and eating? She didn’t think that those would be a problem, and she didn’t want to push Danny away, so she looked at her husband and made a motion for him to keep his mouth shut.
Jack glared at her, but obeyed, she could be scary when mad, and he didn’t want to sleep on the couch for a week either.
“Danny, how about this.” Maddie touched his shoulder. “I let you teach him to talk as long as you keep everything simple. Teach him how to eat, go to the bathroom, clean himself, stuff like that.”
Danny looked up grinning.
“But!” Danny’s grin fell a bit. “When I tell you its enough, you stop. When I tell you to avoid a subject, you avoid the subject. If I tell you I need him back in the lab you stop what you are doing and bring him back to the lab right away. No questions. If you break any of these rules I revoke your privileges and you will be banned from talking to him, or even seeing him. Do I make myself clear?”
Jack looked a bit happier after hearing the rules, but it was clear that he did not approve of this in the least.
Danny’s grin was back full force. “I promise to follow the rules. I promise!”
Maddie grinned back at Danny, “Well then, you have yourself a research subject. I hope you are prepared to spend long hours with no pay and horrible working conditions on your report.”
Danny stood up laughing, and saluted his mother, “Yes m’am! You can count on me!”
“Alright then, I expect a full summary at the beginning of each week on what you plan on teaching, Sunday mornings at eight am sharp. Got it?”
“Got it!” Danny said as he ran out of the room.
Jack turned to his wife. “You know no good can come out of this. Why did you let him do it?”
Maddie sighed. “Because he is finally interested in something. He might find that after a while he gets bored of this, or he might find that another part of the process that interests him. I don’t want him to be apathetic for the rest of his life Jack.”
Jack snorted. “Well then, when we all die because you didn’t want Danny to be stuck in a desk job I hope you’ll be happy.”
Maddie got up and walked out of the kitchen.
“Have fun sleeping on the couch tonight Jack.”
Jack groaned.
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