DP - He's mine now

Made for the challenge over at -angst with possible death.

Please read my explanation down here, it might help with understanding the pic. ^^ I think it's angst enough for that challenge now, is it?

EXPLANATION EDITED to make it more understandable. Sorry. It was very late when I wrote all of that...

In the alternate timeline from TUE, when Danny's family and friends died, Danny was so hurt that he reacted by rejecting all his feelings and emotions, asking Vlad to remove them.

But a ghost side, for me, is made out of regret and other such negative feelings (thus creating obsessions and clinging at things in the living world), so Danny's emotions (pain, regret, anger at his inability to save his precious people...) were absorbed into his ghost side.

So, when Vlad went to 'remove' his emotions, he removed Danny's ghost side instead.

Danny's ghost side felt rejected by his human side, because Danny didn't want to feel any of it, and all those emotions were part of the ghost side, who then attacked Vlad and removed his own ghost side (which was probably even more stuck with regret and pain and loneliness).

So, Vlad's own ghost side and Danny's ghost side became one, but they didn't really make a perfect full ghost -they were unstable as they were NEVER a full ghost to begin with. SO they reacted badly, and created Dan.

The newly created Dan, even more instable, was then faced with his human side that had rejected him, and hatred took control. Dan killed his human half because it was weak and it had rejected him, wanting nothing to do with ghost powers anymore.

Vlad's human side was left alive simply because that was the worst punishment Vlad could ever get; he was once again a normal human, with no powers, and with all the ones he cared for now dead. Alone for real.

Dark Dan, gone insane due to merging with another half-ghost part, started rampaging through his timeline.

Then he then met up with a Danny who still had his ghost self AND his precious people alive. They fought, and Danny's clear hatred towards him made Dan feel like he was being rejected once again.

Once again, he is rejected. Unwanted.

Danny traps him into the Fenton Thermos, and there Dan remains, alone without way out. Thinking. His insanity grows even more.

That is why Dan decides that there is only one way Danny would ever accept him -by dying. Death is definitive. Final. Absolute. Ghosts go through death. Death is what created Danny's ghost self, and by dying again, this time for real, there would be no more Danny. No more Dan.

Just death forcing them together again.

That is what brings Dan out of the Thermos, and that is why he kills Danny. Because he wants Danny to accept him, accept himself fully. Accept his powers that are part of him.

(Dan is truly insane, and this made more sense in my mind... orz)

Vlad just happened onto this scene when it was too late. Danny was gone, and Dan won.

As a follow up, you get a small drabble that depics the scene.

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Accept me. Accept me. Accept me!

Dan knew he was holding Danny's body too close, glaring down at him with eyes full of rage, but it didn't matter; Danny was slowly dying, he could feel it in the way his ghost luminescence was disappearing from the teen's body, in the way his ghost core was growing progressively less strong.

Blood and ectoplasm were marrying his hands and his clothes, but Dan didn't care about that, either.

He needed to be there, he needed to see -he couldn't lose a single moment of this slow descent into death, because otherwise, he would miss it...

There.

Danny was looking up, a trail of blood rolling down his chin, and his lips were moving -he was speaking, but he was far too weak for any sound to manage it past his lips.

Green, helpless, fearful eyes -the most beautiful expression Danny ever had- met with red ones -crazed, possessed, greedy red eyes.

Dan felt his own lips twitch into a pleased smile.

Yes. Look at me. I am here. You are dying and I am here -look at me as you die. Recognise me. Accept the truth. Accept me.

He didn't know what was going through his younger self's mind as he let him bleed there. He didn't want to know. It didn't matter anymore. It never had.

Soon now. Soon.

Gently taking Danny's hand into his own, Dan observed as light vanished from the green orbs of his younger self, the way his body went lax into his grip.

Yes. Finally.

Danny was dead.

The loss of his ghostly core shuddered through Dan's body like a cold wave, the human Danny gone from that body, and soon, the remains of his ghost half would disappear as well.

With his death, Dan knew his own would soon come. They would be together then. As it had to be.

Accepted.

Accept me. We will be one soon.

Dan didn't have to look up when he felt familiar footsteps approach, but he did it anyway, meeting a pair of equally crimson eyes with his own.

"He's mine now," he murmured, taking in the shocked, stricken expression of the one who had aided in his creation -Vlad Plasmius. "It is how it should be. Finally".

Lips stretching further and further, bringing his smile into a demented, stretched mask, Dan slowly looked down again.

And waited.

Vlad was screaming at his side, but the sound was nothing to him.

Accept me.

There was nothing left to do anymore. Finally. Finally.

His own core dimmed.

Accept me.

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DP belongs to Buuuutch Hartman, baby. Yeah. Remember his name! (Embeeer)