Let's Make A Statement

What We Want

It was officially the end of the school day and Danny had been avoiding Richard, if he saw the others in the hallway he found a way to avoid them too. He left the school before any of them and only managed to get across the street before they all caught up. Artemis grabbed his arm to stop him, "Okay, why do you keep avoiding us, what's going on?"

Danny snatched his arm back, "What's going on is that I'm sick of your bullshit, people aren't nice to me, ever, so what the fuck do you get out of this?"

They stared at him before Isabella spoke, "We aren't getting anything out of this Danny, why do we have to get something out of this?"

"Because that's how it always is, it didn't matter what city I went to or how many places I was forced to stay. They all got something out of it, I don't have friends, I never have, and I seriously doubt you actually want to be."

They wanted to say something but they had no idea what they could say that would make him believe them. Danny just turned around and jumped the fence, they lost sight of him pretty quickly and they were left to think. They knew Danny had been to at least one orphanage and probably several homes but they didn't know how many.

All they knew was that he ran away from all of them and he'd been abused in all of them, they couldn't blame him for not believing them. They didn't want him to feel like that, like he couldn't trust anyone or that they wanted to hurt him because it wasn't true. They all either started walking to their homes or waited for their rides at the school, they needed to think of a plan.

Danny went back to the foster home and when he walked into his room he felt like punching something. He hated this, he didn't want to admit that he cared about them but part of him did, Toxin wouldn't let him say otherwise. But he couldn't believe that they cared about him, he just couldn't, because if they did that would make it so much harder when he had to leave.

Danny sat on his bed and the more he thought about this the more frustrated he got, then he felt something on his face. He touched it and found that he was crying, he tried wiping the tears away but they just kept coming and it made him angry. He didn't like crying and the fact that he couldn't stop made him want to punch something even more.

He laid down on his bed and tried to wait them out but he kept thinking about this whole situation and they wouldn't stop. After several incredibly long minutes Toxin spoke, 'I did not mean to make you sad.'

"I'm not sad, I'm frustrated."

'Why?'

"Because I hate this, I know they don't actually care so I wish they'd just cut the bullshit so I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore."

Toxin was quiet for a few seconds, 'I do not think they are acting, I think they really do want to be friends with you.'

"Then they're idiots, nothing good comes out of being friends with me and the sooner they realize that the better."

Danny could feel Toxin settle, 'You are wrong, you may have problems but they make you better then you will admit. You are kind, you are strong and no matter what happens you keep getting up, and you saved me when you had no reason to.'

Danny didn't say anything, he wanted to argue but he didn't know how, how do you argue with someone that's in your head? He wasn't kind but Toxin pointed out that he was when he was Phantom, and he had helped Toxin. But his problems didn't make him better, he didn't want to get hurt so he wouldn't let anyone get close to him.

But he didn't want his problems to come back and hurt any of them so he felt like he had to push them away. It took a while after that for him to stop crying completely and when he did he was both tired and dehydrated. He got up and went to the bathroom to splash water on his face, it made him feel a little better.