#hmm... I wonder if I should write a few little snippets about the other candidates the GIW approached for a job.

[asjjohnson]

Random GIW!Danny.

Wow, over 385 notes! Thanks for liking my silly little thought. :) (I kind of thought it'd get, like, nine notes, so I hadn't put much effort into it, and almost didn't write it down at all).

Would you like to see a few snippets of Danny on the job? If so, keep reading (and scroll past the prev tags I've pasted in).

Here's my original tags:

#I donno how the GIW would be able to monitor search results but probably something to do with cookies#...I just thought it would be amusing if Danny has a repeat of his home life but with a whole government agency.#Like they're all about finding and capturing ghosts and Danny's just... there with them.#Oh and whenever Danny's team comes across a ghost? It's a little like a Wes moment but with the entire Ghost Zone.#The ghosts—who know who Danny is—are just incredulous about it. Danny's a foot away from the other agents and they just... don't Notice?#The GIW job is part joke; part for the money; part to keep up-to-date with what they're up to.#everyone who knows Danny thinks he's crazy to get that job.#...but well it's kind of fun

and here's some tags from @ghostly-shade:

#honestlly i kinda imagined this as being like a strategy so danny could work as a spy or something#like danny is just there to get info on the giw's plans. free the captured ghosts and mess with their tech if he's lucky#danny just slowing destroying the place from the inside while no one noticed he's doing anything#i think that would be fun

I did imagine Danny doing some of that type of stuff, just a bit more... unorganized and depending on his mood and the situation. No one's asking him to be a spy, and it's just weird and dangerous. And this version of Danny does a lot on a whim, and isn't going to be able to keep a high-stakes job if it's too serious.

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Danny's dressed in a white suit and sunglasses and stands beside two other GIW agents—or I guess they're called 'operatives', oops. Before them, their ecto-guns aimed at him, is Vortex.

Vortex asks, pointing straight at Danny, Why, if Phantom is their top priority, they don't capture him instead.

Operative O says, "We're not falling for that old 'Phantom is behind you' trick again."

Operative D lowers his sunglasses a little, bright green eyes glowing as he gives Vortex a secretive little smile.

"He's literally... right beside you! You truly don't... see him?"

(A pretty typical ghost interaction while on the job. Although if it's a ghost Danny's friends with, like Frostbite or someone, they would act like Jazz. "Oh no, a government agent. Ahh!" and trust that Danny will let them go soon.)

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Danny's at GIW headquarters, showing his co-workers a Fenton Thermos.

"See, you catch a ghost like this," he says, unscrewing the lid to demonstrate, "and then you leave the thermos here on this table—and the ghost will be completely gone in one to two business days."

"Oooo..." the other operatives say, staring at the thermos (and apparently disintegration device).

"But the technology and design are completely copyrighted, and if I find out anyone's tried to figure out how it works, I'll quit on the spot and take all my parents' tech with me."

An operative gasps. "Even the Fenton Portable Destablizer!?"

Danny nods. "Yes, even the Portable Por— ah, 'Destablizer'."

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"How does Phantom keep breaking into our facilities?!" the director rants. He suddenly spins around, pointing a finger at Danny. "You!"

"I didn't do it!" Danny shouts, raising his hands high in the air.

"Operative D, guard our top secret files and plans tonight!" Then the director frowns. "...And put your hands down."

"O-oh. Right. Got it."

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Danny, in civilian clothes, flops onto a couch with a sigh. He turns to look at Sam and Tucker.

He starts counting on his fingers as he says, "So, this week I've released Skulker, the Lunch Lady, and a few blob ghosts; made some copies of the GIW's newest plans and gave them to Frostbite to distribute; and I'll transfer Vortex over to Walker on Monday. Or maybe Tuesday. Oh! And I've managed to raise the priority level on Phantom by flying through the hallways with a full Nasty Burger dumpster and pouring trash on everyone I could find (including my on-the-clock duplicate)." He shares a quick high five with Tucker.

Sam just frowns at him, her arms crossed. "I still say you're crazy for taking this job."

Random Danny Phantom thought.

Danny and them are sitting around somewhere and Dani's there, and Tucker warns Dani to never search for ghost stuff online because the Guys In White monitor that type of thing. And Sam mentions how, a few years before Danny got his powers, she'd done a search for something about spirits and then had to prove to them that she wasn't a ghost or had ties to any ghosts.

And Danny's like, "Wait, they do what? Because every time I get frustrated with my powers, I start searching the web for help with them. ...Never find anything useful, though."

So everyone stares at Danny for a moment, and Tucker asks how he's not in a lab right now.

(A week earlier at GIW headquarters, an agent at a computer mentions to his co-worker that someone just searched for 'how to ghost' from a certain IP address. His co-worker says it'll be coming from Fenton Works. One of the Fenton's kids does that exact same search every so often. It sounds like they're following in their parents' footsteps and searching for how to hunt ghosts. The Fenton kids and Valerie Gray are both on a list for possible recruits.)

When Danny's eighteen (and still has his secret), a Guys In White agent approaches him, and Danny blurts out that no, he's not a ghost.

The agent says he didn't ask if he was...? And then goes on to invite Danny to join the GIW.

So then... Danny might end up deciding to join the GIW. With them never realizing they have a ghost working under them.