Catch-All for May

[schrodingersghost]

Characters: Danny Fenton and Anyone
Date: Throughout May
Location: Throughout Keeliai
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: pain, because Danny just found the local anti-supernatural flowers


1. With everything happening this month, Danny had decided to up the number of patrols he was doing. Throughout the evening and into the early hours of the night he can be spotted as a ghost, searching through the city for trouble. Or even someone who feels like talking to a ghost.

2. Unfortunately that meant that by the end of the month, the lack of sleep was starting to get to him. Even in the parts of the days he spent as his human self. Daily stops for coffee had become a necessary habit.

He yawns as he waits in line for his caffeine fix of the day.

3. For Adrien
Even more unfortunately, his nightly excursions had taken Danny out further than he usually traveled. Early one evening, late in the month, he stumbles across a patch of flowers growing wild.

They looked harmless. He'd intended to just pass by them, like every other plant he'd seen in Keeliai.

But as he steps close enough to notice their scent, his senses are suddenly overwhelmed with pain, like he was being electrocuted all over again. He screams.

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3.

[purrns]

Luckily for Danny, Adrien makes a point of patrolling the nightime as Chat. It was natural, felt natural, to give the night over to his alter ego. Made his plausible deniability of his two lives a little easier to deal with, too.

Still, that screaming absolutely catches his attention, and he's racing off towards the source of it as quickly as he can. When he finally comes across Danny, he comes to a skidding stop.

"Danny? What happened?" he looks around, trying to find the cause of his friend's pain. "What's...happening?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny had already collapsed to the ground near the patch of flowers, convulsing in pain as he tried to crawl away from them. He squints at Chat as he comes running up, and tries to focus past the pain.

"It's the flowers!" he manages to get out.

[purrns]

The flowers. Chat glances down at them, brow furrowing. Seriously. Flowers?

Then again his weakness is feathers so he can't really say much here.

"Okay, hang tight, I'll get you out of here," he could probably cataclysm the entire lot of them, but that would go against his no living thing rule.

Instead, he crouches down, offering an arm.

"Can you walk at all, otherwise, I'll carry you."

[invisibill]

Danny's teeth are gritted as he tries to ignore the waves of pain.

"Just get me out of here." He grabs on to Chat's arm and tries to climb to his feet.

[purrns]

"Hang tight, buddy. I'll get you out of here in no time."

He extends his baton, using it as a level to help pull them up standing proper. He starts to head forward, but he keeps his eyes on Danny, too. If he shows any sign that he's struggling to move, he's carrying him.

[invisibill]

With the help Danny was up, but wasn't moving much on his own. After the constant shocks from the the flowers he was barely holding onto consciousness.

Walking was a little beyond him at the moment.

[purrns]

Chat frowns, real concern on his features. Walking is so not going to happen. Luckily for Danny, he's got more than a little extra strength with his miraculous functioning.

"Okay, this is gonna be a little ungraceful, but just hang on, alright?"

And with that, he'll heft Danny up over his shoulders like a bag of potatoes. Sorry pal, sorry. He closes up the staff, putting it back before starting to run off away from the flowers as fast as he can.

[invisibill]

Danny was hardly in the position to object to the undignified carry. As they move away from the flowers and the pain starts to fade, the tension fades out of his body and he relaxes into a slump.

[purrns]

Chat keeps moving until they're in the Water Sector. Close to the Healer's Guild, to HELP. If needs be, he'll just drag Danny back to the Sky Sector too, home. Give him a place to stay. But help...that is forefront to his mind. He glances over his shoulder at Danny's hair.

"You still with me, buddy?"

[invisibill]

Danny had held onto his ghost form as long as he could, but now the exhaustion finally gets to him. In a flash of light, he loses his grip on his ghost side and shifts back into his human form. White hair changes to black as he suddenly becomes much more solid.

"Yeah," he manages. "Put me down. I think I can walk now."

For a certain definition of walking.

[purrns]

Chat carefully puts Danny back on ground, glad at least no one was watching him transform back. He knows better than anyone how important secret identities are, and Danny has a whole wealth of reasons to keep his own secret. His hands remain on his friends' shoulders, just in case.

"You want to go into the Healer's Guild? They might be able to see what caused it."

[invisibill]

"There's really no need for that! Promise."

He shifts awkwardly.

"Besides, I'm pretty sure I know what happened. Those were probably anti-ghost flowers."

[purrns]

"..Anti-ghost flowers."

Chat gives him a sidelong glance, he's seen some weird stuff, but that's...really weird.

"Are those...actual things?"

[invisibill]

"Of course they're a thing," he says grumpily. "Back home there was a kind of anti-ghost flowers called blood blossoms. I got trapped in a circle of them back when I got mistaken for a witch's familiar during the Salem witch trials."

[purrns]

Chat stands there for a moment, staring. He has a hundred questions, all popping into his mind at once. Witch's familiar??? Anti-ghost flowers??? The Salem witch trials?!???!? He opens his mouth to voice some of them, before putting a hand very slowly to his face.

"Nope. Nope. Don't even know why I get surprised any more. Nope."

[invisibill]

"Something wrong?"

Danny didn't think there was anything too weird with what he'd just said.

[purrns]

"Oh, no no, everything is fine."

Which it was..kind of. Mostly. At least when it came to this subject.

"I'm just accepting I will never understand your world at all for as long as I live."

[invisibill]

Danny stares at him blankly.

"Was there something weird about what I just said?"

[purrns]

"You mean beside doing what I can only hope is time travelling back to the Salem witch trials? Unless that's...suddenly not a weird thing. Or you're actually an American Pilgrim?"

[invisibill]

"Nah, that's pretty much exactly what I did. Although in my defense I didn't know that was where I was going to end up. That was my-"

He stops and frowns as he tries to count up all the times he'd gone through time.

"Do alternate dimensions count as time travel?"

[purrns]

"...You know, I'm not even sure, so let's go with 'yes' to save ourselves some time and remaining sanity."

He pauses, tilting his head.

"...Is it a big number?"

[invisibill]

Danny shrugs. "Well, if I count alternate timelines and dimensions, maybe a dozen times? Not counting the time Dad sent our house to an alternate dimension when I was a kid."

[purrns]

"Did he do that on that weird quest he is to deal with all ghosts?"

He frowns, it's not cool, that. He fights with his father a lot, but he never has to imagine his father trying to kill him all the damn time.

"Or was that just...a thing he did?"

[invisibill]

"Nah, if he'd been doing that he would have missed. Dad has terrible aim. It was an accident when he was still trying to get the ghost portal to work."

This had been Danny's life for long enough that he didn't even think it strange to laugh about being shot at by his parents.

[purrns]

"Oh, okay. He...accidentally sent your how to another dimension."

There's a pause.

"...You are way better adjusted than you strictly should be, you know that, right?"

[invisibill]

He shrugs. "You'd be surprised how often that kind of thing happens."

Danny gives Chat a skeptical look. "Now you're sounding like my sister. SHe lectured my parents about that kind of thing all the time."

[purrns]

"Well, she's got a point. I mean, that's a pretty crazy way to live, and I'm saying this form the point of view of someone who sees his father maybe like twice a week if I'm lucky."

[invisibill]

He shrugs.

"I guess you can get used to anything. You know, my sister's complaints aside."

When he'd first started high school and run straight into the high school rumor mill, he'd desperately wished that his family was normal. Or at least didn't make a habit of causing death by parental embarrassment on a daily basis.

But considering what he was, normalcy was never going to be an option.

[purrns]

He was sure used to his father ignoring him. And yet...yet he still hoped that it might be different one day.

"It's kind of a big thing to get used to. I just...feel bad for you sometimes. It just sucks for you."

[invisibill]

"My life back home isn't that bad, you know. I mean as long as I don't get back home and find out Vlad has managed to get into my house again."

[purrns]

"...You've mentioned him before," Chat squints. "Isn't he the creepy ghost guy who wants to push himself into your family?"

[invisibill]

"He wants to kill my Dad, marry my Mom, ignore my sister and turn me into the perfect half ghost son and evil apprentice," Danny rattles the list off with annoyance. "And buy the Green Bay Packers."

[purrns]

"Yeah. Exactly. All those crazy things," a pause. "I don't- are they a sports team?"

[invisibill]

"Yeah. Football. Trust Vlad to pick the one sports team that's owned by city and won't sell."

[purrns]

"I'll...uh, take your word for that one, I don't know much about Football."