Author's Notes:

Yay the two goofballs are finally talking XD
I drew a chibi comic, it's cuuuute.

Danny shot up in bed, gasping, as if he had been underwater for a hundred hours and had finally resurfaced. He hugged his knees close to his chest, trying to swallow his sobs and failing. "No, no, no." he cried shaking his head.

A hand hesitantly placed itself on his shoulder. He flinched, half expecting that if he turned around he would see that awful grin again. Then all at once the halfa knew who was behind him.

"Vlad!" Danny sobbed, half in relief, half still in fear from the nightmare, he turned and buried his face in the other's shoulder.

"It's okay, it's okay." Vlad said gently, repeating the phrase and stroking the other's hair until the halfa finally calmed down. "Geez, I don't care how heavy sleepers your family is,someone should have noticed what's been going on by now." the man asked, more to himself than to Danny.

The teen pulled away, feeling stupid for once again breaking down and crying in front of the other and shrugged. "The walls of the house are pretty thick, so you can't really blame them for not realizing."

"Daniel you were thrashing in your sleep. How do you usually deal with these dreams?"

"Wake up, cry, fall back asleep, repeat." He said as if he were talking about the weather.

"Cheese and crackers Daniel how long has this been going on for?"

"Two years," he admitted and then blurted "I went to see Clockwork after we talked."

"For what?"

"To ask about you and stuff like that." Danny muttered, leaving out his breakdown.

"Oh...well did he answer your questions?"

"More or less. He mostly answered like he usually did, saying that he wasn't permitted to say and so on. There was one question I forgot to ask him though. I was wondering if you could answer."

"Sure, what is it?"

"Well I've been there a bunch of times in the last four years, how come I never saw you?"

Vlad groaned. "The son of a bitch would freeze me in time and hide me whenever you were going to visit. At first I didn't realize but after five times I figured it out. I tried hitting him over the head with his time staff; let's just say it didn't work out well, for me at least."

Danny snickered and then started full on laughing.

"What's so funny?" the other asked absolutely not about to smile or laugh as well.

"E-everything! First of all you used an actual curse word and not a cheese or pastry name. Second you really tried whacking Clockwork?! With his own staff?! He's the master of time dude, c'mon." he said, still laughing and clutching his sides.

Vlad chuckled. "Okay, okay I admit, it wasn't my best plan, but I was angry. Anyway, so how did you meet Clockwork err Grandfather clock as you call him."

"Oh, futuristic stuff, he tried to kill me, more than once in fact."

"You're kidding right?" the older halfa asked slack jawed.

"It was for the right reasons," he held up a hand "Please don't ask what that reason was though."

"I won't," he reassured, once again respecting the other's boundaries. "But how come you haven't told anyone what has been going on with you. How has no one noticed r seen the signs that something is bothering you?"

The teen sighed. "I haven't told anyone because I don't want them to worry. And people have noticed the signs; it's just that my signs are different. I just smile like everything is alright, over joke about serious stuff, things like that."

"So you just pretend that nothing is wrong?"

He smiled sadly. "That's my job. I'm playing hero remember? I have to smile like everything okay, like I'm a'okay. I have to stop people from falling apart even though I'm falling apart. I have to shield people, even when I'm cracked," Danny realized what he had said and cleared his throat awkwardly "So uh yeah."

"Badger why has this happened to you?" Vlad sighed.

"I think it's a conspiracy."

"A conspiracy?" he deadpanned.

"Yep, I call it the FUDFLA." He said smiling

"What the sugar cookies does that mean?"

His smile widened. "The fuck up Danny Fenton's life agency."

Vlad let out a snort as he tried not to laugh as the other's ridiculous acronym.

Danny laughed "I'm serious! First the universe is like 'Okay, let's make this kid hate Christmas, then we're going to make him the perfect target for bullies. Hm something is missing, oh I've got it! His parents are ghost hunters right? Let's make him half ghost! That'll be perfect'"

"The universe must have an agency to screw with my life too."

"Hm maybe, oh guess what?"

"The Packers won the super bowl."

"Huh what?"

"You told me to guess didn't you?" Vlad said grinning.

"You know fruitloop, most people just say 'what' instead of actually guessing." Danny deadpanned, trying not to smile

"Fine, What is the secret of the universe that you wish to share with me?" he said dramatically, smiling.

"Okay does your sass meter go up at night or something?" Danny laughed. "I'm going to see Frostbite with Dani next week. We're going to see if she develops ice powers."

"Um she might not get those specific powers Daniel."

"Hm, why not?"

He sighed. "There's a great possibility that she will but... at the time that I didn't have a mid-morph DNA sample from you so I used some of mine. She's the only on I tried it one, might be why she's the only girl. Even so my DNA wasn't stable enough to make her whole."

"So you're saying she might get that electro lightning power thing you have." Danny said eyes wide. Vlad nodded. Then the realization him like a brick wall. "Wait so you are literally Dani's father?!"

"Technically yes, she has a small amount of my DNA, only about eleven percent, but yes she is."

"I can't believe Plasmius tried to kill his own daughter."

"Me Daniel, not Plasmius."

"No. I told you before and I will keep telling you until you get it through your skull. You are not Plasmius, you are Vlad, just Vlad." He said firmly, looking the other dead in the eye.

"Thank you."

"It's the truth." The other huffed, crossing his arms before looking away "Could you stay with me? It's just... I don't know, I don't get more nightmares when you're around." He asked, definitely not red in the face, luckily for him the room wasn't very well lit.

Vlad smiled warmly at Danny and the halfa swore he could melt from that smile no matter how cliché it sounded. "Of course Badger."

Like the night before, they laid down on opposite sides of the bed, though definitely not as awkward as last time. Danny let out a sleepy chuckle. "You know what's funny? You've only been back for two days and you know more about me than anyone else."

"Hm, I could say the same to you."

The halfa kind of doubted that, but decided to let the matter slip out of his mind as sleep came to claim him. 'So who would be Terminatra and who would be the soldier in our case?' he asked himself right before sleep dragged him into its realm.

Author's Notes:

Okay I read the FUNNIEST thing while writing this, nearly shot tea outta my nose, it's called 30 surfire ways to annoy Vlad Masters.
Number 26 was and I quote: " Write him a letter from a secret admirer asking him to meet them in a dark secluded place. Send an identical letter to Danny. LMAO! I HAD A FRIGGIN VISUAL OF THAT AND EVERYTHING!!! XD