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Part 1 of Ectoberweek 2023
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2023-10-26
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We Love You

Summary:

Jack and Maddie are good parents, and good parents help their children move on

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Ectoberweek2023
day 25- It finally sunk in for Jack and Maddie: no matter how alive he seemed, Danny was actually dead. So they buried him.
TW- buried alive

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It had finally sunk in for Jack and Maddie that no matter how alive Danny seemed, he was actually dead. 

It had taken them a while to notice. And when they had, they were devastated. How could their little boy have become a monster? Sure, he wasn’t that monstrous now, but everyone knew that hte longer a ghost stuck around the more monstrous they became. The more they couldn’t relate with humanity, and the more their base instinct for destruction came through.

They knew their son wouldn’t want to be a monster, that he was just struggling to move on.

They had to be good parents; they had to help him move on.

But how could they do it? If Danny disappeared, there would be questions asked, investigations made. How could they send their little boy off peacefully?

In the meantime, they could prepare the coffin. It had to be specially made, so the ghost couldn’t escape. This way the ghost would be left with no other option than to move on.

They worked on it while Danny was at school. Thankfully Jazz was already at college, so they wouldn’t have to hide their activities from her.

Maybe they could just say Danny had gone missing? But that would be a hard ruse to maintain. There would be too many investigations, too many questions.

If they were going to do that, then they needed a plan.

It took them a while to make the coffin, find a place to bury it and dig the hole, and plan how they were going to deal with investigators. The mourning wouldn’t have to be faked. Their son was dead, had been for a while and they’d been too preoccupied to realize it.

But finally they were ready.

“Danny,” Maddie called from the lab, “could you come down and help us move some equipment?”

“I’ll be down in a second!” Danny called from the kitchen. He headed down to the lab. Hopefully this wouldn't take long. He was going to meet up with Sam and Tucker in a bit to play Doomed and go to Nasty Burger.

“What do you need?” he asked as he stepped into the lab.

“Over here.” Jack said with his back to Danny.

He walked over and Jack motioned to a sliver box. As soon as Danny touched it the box emitted a jolt of energy that made Danny’s muscles seize. He fell to the floor unable to move.
“Dad?” Danny’s voice trembled.

“I’m sorry sweetie.” his mother said with tears in her eyes.

“We’re doing this for your own good, Danno.” his dad said, advancing on him with a set of ecto-suppression cuffs.

“No. please. I’m your son. Please!” Danny felt tears come to his eyes.

“We know, Danny. But you have to move on. You can’t stay here.”

“We know you would never want to be a ghost, Danny.”

“We’re just trying to help you.”

“No. please. I’m not fully dead! I’m half dead! I'm still alive. Please!”

“We’re so sorry Danny. We should have noticed sooner.”

“You need to move on Danno.”

Danny was crying no, pleading with them, but they weren’t listening. His skin buzzed and he couldn’t access his powers.

Jack placed a piece of tape over his mouth. “I’m sorry, but we can’t risk you manipulating us into letting you go. You understand, right?”

“We love you.”

The Fentons loaded their son into the GAV and drove out into the woods where they had left the coffin. Danny was still limp, the cuffs keeping him from recovering from the shock. His face was wet with tears and snot, and the Fenton parents avoided looking at him. They couldn’t risk letting a dangerous ghost go. They had to help free their son.

They laid him in the coffin.

“Remember we love you, Danny.”

They closed the lid and shoveled the dirt over it.

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