Depths

37. Luck

Fun fact: In case I didn't make it obvious, Tucker is straight, but he is gay only for Danny. Which is why Phantom is able to hypnotize him; because he has an attraction to guys, even though it is very, very slight. Tucker remains unaware of the attraction though, and Phantom can never stop internally laughing because he is currently the only one alive that knows about the crush.

Sam still wishes that Danny wasn't gay. Povresita...

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Constant clicking was the only current sound in the room as Danny played around with the soundtrack of the new song he was working on. Phantom sat on the bed, playing with the bandage that Jack had put on after taking a harmless blood sample. Not that he needed it anymore.

He tore the bandage off, and the sound of it ripping filled the room, shocking Danny out of his concentration for a second before he went back to what he was doing. The song was only half finished, and he wanted it to be done before the end of the week. These things usually took him a month when he did it leisurely, and under pressure, it took him, at the fastest, a week.

The board of music was usually flexible with him on the account that he was a full-time high school student, there were times though, that they became more demanding.

It was okay, this was a good week for them to be demanding; he had already finished all the projects and turned in all the essays, so this school week should be more or less mellow in regards to homework. He had plenty of time to work.

"How come you never sing the song?" Phantom asked out of the blue, still sitting on the bed, now reading a book.

Danny side glanced him, his father had kept his word that he would not perform any experiments without Phantom's strict consent. The man had seemed to treat the merman almost the same as he did before he knew that he was a siren, just more aware. Aware that Phantom had the power to manipulate and lie, aware that he was stronger than the man of steel, aware that underneath the human disguise, he was hungry.

Jack didn't seem to be mistreating him though, and he kept his promise about letting him stay in the house instead of kicking him out. The merman still had all the freedom that he had before, and though the adult human seemed tense around Phantom, he didn't necessarily treat him badly.

Already in the two days that Jack had known, he had gotten a blood sample, a hair sample, a saliva sample, performed some eye scans, cat-scans, X-rays, and had asked thousands of questions ranging from how old Phantom was, to what kind of powers he had.

All with permission, and as long as it was okay with Phantom, then Danny was alright with it.
Danny had been mad when Phantom admitted that he had hypnotized Sam and Tucker in order to stay close to him, and that talk had been long and stressful. It had called for many silent breaks in the conversation to keep the yelling to a minimum, but sooner or later, Phantom called Sam and Tucker over and released them from his spell to apologize.

The two friends had been annoyed, to say the least, and had threatened that Phantom wouldn't hear the end of it if he ever did it again, but they let him off the hook with a warning and a couple of bad attitudes.

"I don't sound as good as you," Danny started typing the lyrics, coding them to match up with the rhythm of the music.

'bittersweet memories

that is all I'm taking with me

so, goodbye

please don't cry

we both know I'm not what you, you need.'