"I'm telling you he won't last that long!"

"You underestimate him. My money is on ten or more minutes," Tucker told Sam from the safety of the corner of the room. Mr. Lancer's class was currently interrogating Danny Phantom, who looked like a deer caught in headlights.

"If it's under ten I win," was all she replied with, before going to participate in the ring around Danny.

"Deal," Tucker said, even though she couldn't hear him anymore.

****

"So when are you going to marry me?" Paulina asked Danny, breaking the silence.

"Um... what?"

"When will you marry me?"

"Never," a different voice said. It was Sam.

He shot her a greatful look, but she was currently too engrossed in a glaring contest with Paulina to notice.

"H-how did you die?" A timid voice asked the hero.

Danny quickly looked over at the student who had asked that.

"Lab accident," he said quietly. Nobody in the class dared to speak for almost a minute.

"How old are you?" Dash said, breaking the silence.

"14."

"Sweet, you're the same age as me!"

"He's the same age as most of us, idiot." Kwan said, mostly teasing Dash.

"Hey!"

"Why do you help us?" Star asked, ignoring the two arguing jocks behind her.

"It's the right thing to do. Also, I lived here all my life. I don't want to see this town destroyed." Danny said, not truly knowing the answer himself.

"Did you know any of us before?" Kwan asked this time, already done arguing with Dash.

Danny hesitated a bit before answering. "Some of you."

"Am I one of those people?"

This time, Danny didn't respond. Instead, he focused on Mr. Lancer who asked his own question.

"Do your parents miss you?"

"They don't even know I'm gone."

Everyone gasped at this statement.

"Do your friends know you're gone?" Someone else asked, almost fearing the answer.

"Yeah. They got over it though," he replied briefly, looking at Sam and Tucker. They smiled at him in return. Nobody noticed this small exchange.

"Why are you so different?"

"I- uh.... um.... I'm only half ghost," he blurted out, the pressure of this entire situation catching up to him at this moment.

Danny almost smacked himself. He was doing so well! If only someone hadn't asked that question.

Everyone in the class stared at him, except Sam who glanced at the clock with a smile. It had been 7 minutes, and if the interrogation continued at this rate, she would win the bet.

"Does that mean you have a human identity? Can we see it?" A very enthusiastic Dash asked.

"Yes, I have a human identity," Danny said, figuring they already knew enough. He purposely didn't answer the last question.

"Can we see it?" Kwan asked again for his friend. The class would be lying if they said they didn't want to see Danny Phantom's human form.

Danny shot a desperate look at Sam and Tucker. Sam was enthusiastically nodding her head, and Tucker looked horrified. Danny sighed and looked back at the pleading faces of his other classmates.

"Fine. You have to promise not to tell anyone or freak out."

"We won't," everyone replied at once, holding their breath.

A ring of light formed at Danny's waist, momentarily blinding everyone who wasn't used to it. It suddenly spilt in two, one traveling up his body and the other traveling down. Nobody dared to speak as this was happening. When the light went away, a boy with black hair and blue eyes stood in Danny Phantom's place.

"Suprise?" Danny Fenton asked, more as a question.

"WHAT?" Dash yelled, breaking the silence. He couldn't believe it. Not many people in the class could.

"Hah! I win! Now pay up," Sam said, shocking many people.

"No fair," Tucker looked at Danny, "you couldn't have waited one more minute?"

"Wait.... what?"

Only nine minutes had passed.

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Hey! So yeah I have a Danny Phantom one shot book now. I hope you enjoyed that... hehe. I will take requests! I don't know how often I will be updating this, but I do have a few more ideas for future one shots. Sasha, OUT! (Also, feel free to point out any mistakes I made!)

Date published- June 23rd, 2018