#schnuffel-danny

He was out in the Ghost Zone for the last 3 days, searching for some ancient ghostly artefact or whatever it is a lonely old man in his 40s does in the world of the undead.

This thing he was looking for was definetly an important one.

For sure.

That's why he took 3 days off of mayor work just for this. (not like anyone would notice him gone. he didn't really do much mayor stuff tbh)

Unfortunetly, his trip was for naught. He didn't find the thing. He spent 3 fucking days in this green tinted fuckery of a world and found nothing (embarrassing)

SO YEAH. He was TIRED.

At last he finally reached the portal to his lab. Stepping inside he barely spared a glance towars the mess of papers he found about the artifact laying all around his lab. Every single one of them a reminder of his unsuccsesful endeavour.

He sighed loudly to himself and phased thru the ceiling up to his library. There was an even bigger mess there. Even more papers about the artifact.

He rubbed his temples annoyed as he transformed back. And fucking good thing he did, because the moment those post-transformation black rings disappeared Jack McFucking Fenton blasted his fucking library wall down.

"DON'T WORRY VLADDY. I GOT YOU COVERED!" he yelled shooting some Fenton GooTM everywhere.

"JACK." Vlad could barely contain his anger. He was too tired to deal with this right now.

"Where's the ghost?" Jack asked looking around and totally ignoring the fuming little guy in front of him.

"What. ghost.?" How the fuck did that idiot even get in here?

"The ghost! From the readings!" Jack pulled out a big screen from one of his pockets. That pocket was definetly too small to store that screen btw. "There was a ghost here just a second ago, that's why I drove over!"

"What is that?" Vlad asked pointing to the screen thing.

"Oh! It's just the Fenton Ghost DetectorTM! I noticed you were gone for a few days, so I broke into your mansion and installed the detection scanners everywhere to make sure no ghost messes with your stuff or tries to set up a trap while your gone!"

That was... certainly something Jack Fenton would do. Breaking and entering that is. A little warmth crawled into Vlad's insides at the realization that his college buddy actually noticed his short absence and cared about his sorry ass.

He punched himself in the gut to stop the warmth from spreading.

"Uh, you're good there V-man? You're not possessed, are you?"

Vlad took a deep breath before stretching a fake smile across his face. "No, I am quite fine. Just... had a little stomach ache."

"Ah! And you deal with it by making it hurt more! Just like in college!"

"Yes... Exactly like in college..." Vlad was not ready for the powerful shoulder slap he recieved in that moment (he should've been ready, he's known this man and his shoulder slappng tendencies for years). Straighting out his back after Jack almost snapped it in half, he cleared his throat. "Well as you can see, I am now back. So you can take all the scanners off."

"What? No way! I'd rather know of any ghostly threats in your house!"

Vlad was ready to argue, but before he could say anything Jack grabbed him by the shoulder he slapped half a minute ago and brought him into a half hug, placing a very soft kiss on his forehead.

"Gotta make sure all the people I love are safe!"

And that made Vlad.exe stop working. The warmth in his intestines came back tenfold and he was pretty sure he was blushing.

He hated this man so fucking much how DARE he make him feel LIKE THIS.

As he was standing there unrespodning for a few seconds, Jack took a look at the papers laying on the ground. He pointed at a picture of the artifact Vlad was looking after for the past 3 days.

"Oh hey it's that weird paper weight i found and stole from Danno's room!"

That was enough to bring Vlad back to earth.

He promptly punched himself in the gut again.