#this does have some unforeseen consequence of Jason now being a ghost dad to a ghost baby that was buried to death

[noxcheshire]

We’re gonna make this angsty and say Danny had been forcibly trapped in a coffin by his parents.

They did believe he was Danny, did believe he had died and come back, but couldn’t force themselves to harm him. Instead they put him into the ground in an effort to let him ‘rest’ in death.

After all, Danny Fenton had died, and the dead should stay out of sight, and out of mind.

Danny for his part had tried to reason with them, tried to fight back, screaming as he was caged and buried.

They never came back.

They had abandoned the grave they made for him.

And so Danny staid there, hurting and trapped for so long in a box that actively felt as if it were on fire.

Danny staid, caged and starving, long since numb to the abandonment.

And as he’s fading slowly, silently wishing to himself alone that he would never return to a world that had left him aching, it is then when he senses it.

It’s so potent and heavy that it causes Danny to surge and lung at the coffin’s door.

He shrieks when it burns, but he doesn’t stop.

Danny doesn’t stop even when his skin begins to peel nor when his nails chip and bleed down to the soft muscle below. Danny doesn’t stop when the coffin cracks and seems to glitch for one brief moment before ceasing it’s functions all together, only knowing that he was digging up and up and upupupupup

He’s hitting dirt, and it’s easier and harder all at once.

He doesn’t have the power to use his intangibility to fly through the dirt. But he had the determination to keep digging, desperate and renewed with a vigor that was burning into his racing heart.

Danny pierces fresh air, fingers grasping at hard dirt and grass.

Danny hears shuffling and then a large hand grabbing his own.

The connection is instant, and Danny wails, instinctively drawing onto the ecto the other has in spades. Rotting, burning, and angry simmering down into something more easier to digest.

The man — and it is a man, despite the strange garble of the voice — pulled Danny through and Danny breathed.

The Outlaws are investigating a small town in Illinois. They don't get very far into town though when Jason feels a weird tug at his chest. He can't help but follow it to a graveyard and then to a specific grave. It is there he witnesses something he never thought he'd experience from an outsider's perspective. A boy trying to claw his way out of his grave.