DP Fanfic - One and One

One and One

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom and I'm not making profit off this story.

Rating? NC-17 for yummy yaoi goodness ^_~"

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One and One
Sapphire Sophilia

Part 1 - Broken

Vlad Masters was currently locked up in his lab, hidden deep within his mansion. For the better part of the day, Vlad had been working on yet another plan that would drive that oaf Jake and his beloved Maddie apart so Vlad could swoop in and claim what was rightfully his ever since college. Vlad thoughts were interrupted only for a brief moment when a breeze just barely gusted through the air and a slight chill ran down his spine. Vlad shivered briefly as his eyebrow arced at the oddity of the phantom wind when his cell phone rang. Vlad jumped at the first ring but quickly grabbed the thin silver cellular device and answered it on the second ring.

"Hello?" Vlad asked in a slightly put off voice at first.
"Vlad Masters?" a slightly confused male voice asked on the other end of the line.
"Speaking," Vlad said as he turned away from all his plans and leaned up against the table with a annoyed expression on his face.

"Mister Masters, this is Barry Lowes down at WoodWard General Hospital. I'm afraid I have some bad news for you…" the man continued. The millionaire's face paled as the man told him the one thing he never expected to happen and as his jaw dropped slightly, Vlad started to lose his grip on the phone.

"Mister Masters?" the man's concerned voice came from the phone and Vlad shook himself in time to catch the phone before it slipped out of his hand.

"Yes, I'm still here. Where did you say you were located?"

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Slowly but painfully, Danny came back to the waking world with a low groan. Part of the boy had wanted to stay asleep, the sounds of medical equipment nearby was rousing him out of his slumber like his annoying alarm clock. Danny forced his heavy eyelids to open and he groaned again as his dazed blue eyes were hurt at first by the glare of the bright white light of the hospital room. After a couple of blinks, Danny's eyes started to get used to the light as his vision finally cleared up enough to see where he was. The first thing he saw was the white washed popcorn ceiling right above his bed, which was stereotypical of most hospitals.

"Danny?" came a familiar female voice to Danny's left. The boy turned his head to find his sister Jazz was sitting next to his bed, the red head was sitting in a wheelchair and she was wearing a lot of clean white bandages.

"Jazz," Danny said hoarsely as he tried to sit himself up only to let out a strangled cry of pain before he fell down into his bed.

"Danny," Jazz said in a worried tone as she reached out for her brother.

"I'm fine…" Danny said after a couple of deep breaths to ease his injured body, "Where's mom and dad?" Jazz's eyes widen for a moment before she looked down at her lap and Danny raised an eyebrow.

"Jazz?" Danny asked in a worried tone.

"Danny…they didn't make it," Jazz finally said as she looked up at him with her green eyes as Danny's eyes widen in shock at the news,

"So, it's true," came a almost hollow male voice from behind Jazz and both siblings looked to find Vlad Masters standing in the open doorway of the room.

"Vlad!" Danny gasped and tried to get up only to wince in pain all over again.

"How'd you…?" Jazz started as she skillfully turned her chair around to face the older man.

"I had my number listed as a emergency contact…but I never…" Vlad started but found himself unable to finish his sentence as Jazz and Danny swapped concerned glances.

"How did they…?" Vlad started as he recomposed himself but remained where he was in the doorway.

"We were hired by this client," Jazz said as both she and Danny glanced away from the millionaire, "This man wanted to renovate this old mansion into a hotel, but he didn't want the ghosts. So, he called us in to remove them."

Vlad frowned deeply at this and part of him wasn't liking where this was going.

"What the man didn't tell us was just how violent and territorial the ghosts really were, we went in ill prepared for the job and…" Jazz continued but stopped as her lower lip began to quiver as she remembered how her parents fought tooth and nail just to get her and Danny to safety only to die themselves in the end. As Jazz's hand flew up to cover her mouth, a mask of anger had painted itself on Vlad's face.

"I'll kill him," Vlad hissed at what he had assumed was under his breath.

"He's already dead," Danny said and Vlad snapped his head up to stare at the injured boy.

"He was first one to die. After that, we high tailed it out of there but the ghosts…the ghosts were too ticked off and chased after us. We all put up a hell of a fight but…" Danny continued but stopped as he got this far off look in his eyes that actually worried his nemesis.

"I see…I'll leave you two alone then," Vlad said as he slowly turned away from the Fenton children and left the room. The moment that he's gone, Danny started to relax and Jazz released a breath she didn't know that she was holding.

At the same time, Vlad Masters easily navigated his way through the small to him hospital and it wasn't long before he found the morgue. Finding no one staffed in the room at the time, Vlad's cold eyed scanned all the tags on the steal doors of the drawers until he finally found Maddie. Vlad then wrapped his hand around the cold handle and with a single tug, the drawer opened easily to reveal her white sheet covered body.

Vlad pulled back the sheet just enough to reveal her head, neck and shoulders; but even this little bit of exposed flesh was peppered with deep bruises and angry red cuts that would never have the chance to heal. Vlad starred at Maddie in silent shock for a moment as a burning rage started to grow inside his chest.

In the blink of an eye, Vlad turned away from Maddie and he started to search for Jack's drawer. He didn't have far to look because he was right next to his wife. Vlad viciously pulled out the man's drawer, yanked off the white sheet and was about to give the dead man a piece of his mind when he stopped in his track out of shock at what he saw.

While Maddie looked like she had been in a bar room brawl, Jack looked like he had been through the meat grinder. Vlad starred at the mangled remains of the man he hated so much before he took a step back and let go of the sheet that he didn't realize that he was holding. Vlad bumped into something and he let out a small gasp as he turned to look at Maddie, turned back to Jack and then looked back at Maddie again. Vlad did this a couple times as he visually absorbed just what the couple went through the get their children out of that death trap.

It was at that moment that it finally hit Vlad that Jack and Maddie were dead.

Dead and gone, forever.

With that, Vlad sank down to his knees and cried for the first time since this nightmare began with that cursed phone call.

TBC