Author's Notes:

Sorry if this chapter seems short, I blame the fact that I kept having them basically say paragraphs of stuff. Plus the fact that this looks a whole lot longer when I originally typed it on word.
Geez my brain is fucked up XD
Well here you go, your dose of drama

They stared at each other for a few minutes; Danny angry and shocked by what he had just admitted, Vlad just shocked.

The older shook it off and spoke, choosing his words carefully. "Daniel I sincerely doubt that what you just said is possible."

The teen let out a humorless laugh that could have qualified as a bark. "Oh do you, well guess what? It's possible, it is very possible. Remember when I said that when I first meet met Clockwork he tried to kill me? Think about it, what reason could a master of all time possibly have for killing me?"

A look of realization came over the other's face. "Daniel-"

The way that they man had said his name broke the youngers' heart a bit. He didn't want to hear the other's pity. He cut him off before he could keep talking.

"Let me tell you something, once upon a time in a reality that nearly came true I cheated on a goddamn test, my teacher called my parents for a meeting a Nasty Burger to discuss the matter. There was a retarded sauce explosion and my parents, friends and teacher died. I went to live with you because you were the only one I had left. You-" he shook his head and got back on course. "I didn't want to be in pain anymore so I asked you to take out my ghost half. And..."

"I did, didn't I? I understood how you were feeling so I did as you asked even though it was a horrible idea." The man said more to himself than to the other.

He nodded. "You felt so bad for me that you did it. The operation worked, but my ghost half went bat shit crazy and attacked you. I-It ripped out your ghost half, merged with it and killed my human half. Then it went into a tyrannical sadistic killing spree and k-killed almost everyone in Amity."

At some part of the story the teen had started to cry but he wiped away the tears away while pretending that he wasn't crying and chose to look to the side rather than at the other, not wanting to see the naked pity that there would surely be on the man's face.

"Clockwork started sending my future enemies to the past so that they would be able to kill me while I was still weak. But I as able to beat them, and I went to the ghost zone with my friends found Clockwork. And for some reason he didn't kill me, he gave me a chance to stop myself."

"He sent people to kill you?" the other asked, nearly shouting, not wanting to believe what he was hearing.

"Yep. He sent me and my friends to the future. And t-that future was... it was unlike anything I had ever seen. I can't put it into words it was - everything was destroyed. There was only a small piece of Amity left and when I think of how many people were...anyway I found future me we fought in the present and I beat him by using the ghostly wail. That's how I got that power by the way. I was only able to beat him because of you."

"What did I do? Didn't the future you kill me?" he interrupted, immediately regretting his choice of words. "Sorry I didn't mean-"

"No, it's fine. Future me was called Dan by the way. No I didn't kill you...uh well you were able to send me back to my time where I was able to beat him. He had fused the time medallion inside me, which prohibited me from going back to my time but you were able to get it out."

"Clockwork explained how time medallions worked during the time that I was staying with him, I tried taking one so he would stop freezing me, needless to say that plan was a bust."

"I beat him but that doesn't mean that I don't still think about it. My friends have no recollection of what happened. So I'm the only one stuck with the memory. T-That's what my nightmares are about, you know that horrific future and me being powerless to change it. So yeah, I let Dash mess with me to punish myself I guess. That it'll keep me from turning into that."

"You could never turn into that." Vlad reassured.

"But I did! I did okay?! I'm still afraid that I'll turn into him! If there was absolutely no chance that I would turn into him then he should have disappeared before we even had to fight!" Danny shouted, running a hand through his hair, trying to calm down.

"I'm sorry Daniel," the other said lacking words for once. "You don't need to have to let that boy treat you in such a manner though, because from everything you just said I can tell that you're punishing yourself enough. You said it yourself, it was an alternative future. You're not him."

"Yeah well I could be. Every day I see more than him in myself." The teen said, squeezing his eyes shut.

"Because you force yourself to." The other halfa said

Danny looked up at him with teary eyes only to drop his gaze a second later. 'I don't have to force very hard."

"You're so convinced that you'll turn into him that you force yourself to compare him to you. Badger, I know where you're coming from; sometimes I still wake up afraid that I'll turn back into Plasmius again. Hell, sometimes I'm scared to get angry because I think that I'll turn into a ghost version of Hulk and go back to what I was."

The younger looked up and gave him a teary smile "So you're saying that our lives have been fucked over in the same way?" he said with a slight giggle at the end.

"Two sides of the same coin might be a better way to put it." He chuckled and brushed the remaining tears from the others face with his thumb.

The teen's face heated a bit at the gesture but he didn't pull away. "Why? I thought that the way I said it was charming." He said with a grin.

"Oh yes, extremely." The man teased, dropping his hands back to the chains of the swing set.

Danny immediately missed the warmth of the other's hands. "I already told you to stop being so good with words." He mock reprimanded.

"Sorry I cannot, it's my curse." The older halfa replied with a chuckle.

He laughed. "It's more of a gift than a curse in my opinion."

"Not when it gives me a tendency to ramble." He pointed out.

"Which one of us was the one talking about an alternative reality? And who says that you ramble?"

"Don't you remember those horrible monologues that I used to give?"

"Oh geez and the speeches." The younger recalled with a facepalm.

"They weren't all that bad." The other said, pretending to be insulted.

He giggled. "True, can we pick this up later? I kinda promised my friends that I would join them soon. And...sorry that I keep using you to vent." He apologized lamely.

"I want you to stop apologizing for things like that. I'm just glad that you're telling me about things like this rather than hiding them from me."

'I always think about doing so though.' He thought, feeling a smidge guilty as he recalled how he had been debating whether he should tell the other the truth or not.

I have to drop around the act around someone." The teen mumbled, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Thank you for making that someone me." The man replied.

"Like you said we're two sides of the same coin," he got up from the swing, wanting to stay longer but knowing better than to do so. "Bye Fruitloop, I'll talk to you later." He said smiling.

"Do you want me to walk you home?" the older halfa offered.

Author's Notes:

Welp Danny spilled everything... VLAD JUST FUCKING CUDDLE HIM ALREADY!!!! I'm yelling at my own story X'D
I'm nauseous as fuck ;-;

Why I haven't been updating:
A: I puked my guts out and died
B: I'm being a lazy little shit
C: My creativity/brain is dead
D. My internet has been shitty lately.
Or a combination of everything.