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[He sees the girl hiding and wonders what's up.]

Hey, are you okay?

[Flinches at being found. Dru stares at him for a moment, trying to determine if he was one of the bullies who hurt her. Or one of their friends]

[He wasn't. In fact, Danny was frequently beaten up and shoved into his locker by those same bullies. Fortunately, with his ghost powers it was pretty easy to get back out of said locker. However, he notices her flinch and wonder what's up.]

Don't worry, I won't tell anyone you're here, [he said, thinking she might be worried about him outing her location to...whoever she was hiding from.]

[Dru too was a target for bullies. And she didn't talk much. In fact, she hardly spoke at all while at school]

[He can tell she is upset. Scared to come out of hiding]

[Danny had never noticed her around, likely because of how quiet she was. After a few more moments of awkward silence, he began looking around, somewhat unnerved by the lack of answers to his questions.]

Uh...I don't think anyone followed you or anything. Uh...if you want to be left alone, I guess I'll just go, then.

[Danny turned, beginning to walk away.]

Wait...

[Her voice is so soft, that is sometimes is hard to hear.]

I'm hurt.

[Fortunately, Danny did hear her, so he paused, turned around and came back.]

You are? What happened?

[She pointed to her head, where there was a slight bloody gash near her eyes]

They hit me. I didn't hide in time. [She was used to hiding]

Oh. You mean the stupid jocks at our school? I mean, I'm assuming we go to the same school. [Danny dug around in his pockets and pulled out a tissue and handed it to her.]

Here. So you can wipe it off at least, I don't have any bandaids or anything. I probably should with how often Dash pummels me. [Dash being the name of one of said jocks.] They probably gave up on finding you by now. They have the brains of a grapefruit, so I they probably forgot about you.

Thank you [She dabs at her wound delicately. Listening to Danny talk at full speeds with a lot of interest. She smiled softly, Danny reminded her of her brother.]

I can be forgettable.

I didn't mean you were forgettable, although...considering I don't remember ever seeing you around--[He cut himself off, realizing how that sounded.]

I mean, that's not what I meant.

I hide. Its my special ability. [She senses something about Danny that allows her to talk about it. And not fear... retribution]

Yeah, you could say that I have a special ability for hiding myself.

Do they... call you freak too?

[So she meant literally as well. Huh. Interesting.]

There aren't a lot of people who know.

[At least, there weren't a lot of people who knew that the ghost that everyone talked about was him.]

You keep it hidden? [She knows others who do that]

I can't.

It's more like...they don't know that it's me. So...uh...how do people react when they find out?

They talk about me in bad ways. Behind my back. They don't understand me. Or my abilities.

[This is the most she has said in a while]

Yeah, that's kind of what I was afraid of.

[That, and being hunted down by government types and being experimented on, not to mention being hunted down by his parents and experimented on.]

[Dru senses that she has accidently upset him]

You could make a friend. Who understands. That is what daddy did.