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On the outside of the FentonWorks building it looks like business as usual. On the outside.

Inside the building is a different story. The common areas look like they've been cleaned within an inch of their lives. Any ghost-hunting paraphernalia that was left laying around has been put away for the time being; better that it stays out of curious hands. There's a buffet of various snack foods laid out on the island in the kitchen. On the table in the dining room is a sheet cake (chocolate, of course) with the words "Happy 18th Birthday Danielle" written in blue icing on the white frosting. There's another cake for Danny but it's still in the freezer; ice cream cakes do have a tendency to melt if left out too long.

And where's the birthday girl in all of this? Up in her bedroom, anxiously awaiting the arrival of their, *ahem* 'out-of-town' guests.

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Her closet door opens, and her brother re-enters her room, holding the door.

"I, uh." He presses his lips together and tries again. "I got 'em..."

A snicker is stifled. Something appears to be funny.

Dani blinks, then arches an eyebrow.

"What?"

Danny raises his hands in a Nothing, I swear! sort of gesture and tries to keep a straight face. Then he beckons through the door.

Enzo comes through first. "Happy birthday!" he says as he approaches to give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. (Well, Danny's present.)

"Hey, Enzo! Thanks." The hug and kiss are reciprocated, though Dani chooses to kiss her boyfriend on the lips instead of on the cheek. (It's her birthday. So there too, Danny.)

"So what does my brother think is so funny?"

Mmmm. He can go along with that.

In reply, Enzo grins and calls, "C'mon, people!"

There's a slight clamour from Milliways, and a sound of parental acquiescence, and two little girls come running out of the closet, shouting, "Aunt Dani, Aunt Dani!"

Prepare to be hugged!

"Hey, girls!" Dani's face breaks into a huge smile as she lets go of her boyfriend. She crouches down and opens her arms to the two little girls.

After hugs, Dani pulls back a little and looks at the pair as if examining them. "You know, there's something different about you two today."

The freckly one shrieks with laughter and declares "We Users!"

"I can't fly," declares the one in cornrows, jumping a few times and feeling gravity pull her back down. "You can fly."

"She doesn't have to store her form in the digimat," Mairi's uncle reminds her. "Remember what I said about filesize."

Heck, if that weren't a consideration, he'd still be a halfa whenever he visited.

"Oh, that's what it is!" Dani replies, chuckling at Ana's excitement.

She ruffles Mairi's hair, or ruffles it as much as one can ruffle cornrows. "Tell you what. When the party's over, and if it's okay with your mom and dad, I'll take you up flying with me. Does that sound good?"

"Yeah!"

"Me too!" Ana demands.

"I heard something about flying..."

Well, she's smiling about hearing it, so maybe Dot is actually planning on okaying the flight of her niece and daughter.

Maybe.

Okay yes, it will make things easier for getting Mairi to bed later.

"Come on Mairi, let me give Aunt Dani a hug too."

"Hey, I said only as long as it was okay with you and Bob and AndrAIa and Matrix," Dani says as she lets go of both girls and stands up.

Hopefully they won't ask to go at the same time. Though maybe she can rope Danny into helping out...

"It's all right by me if it's all right with your mom," Bob tells his daughter, and, "Happy birthday, Dani."

"Thanks, Bob."

"And it's fine by me," comes the next person to enter the room. "I know you'll be careful."

"Hi, Dani, Happy Birthday."

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"It's fine as long as Dani is very careful with those two." Dot's not fighting this one at all, and honestly...by now she trusts the Fentons.

That and Jack probably knows full well that both she and Maddie will be on him if he decides to experiment on -anything- today.

"Of course I'll be careful," Dani says, and pretends to be offended that they'd think she'd be anything otherwise.

Oh, he knows Dot. He also knows that once Maddie and Dani get through with them they'll give whatever's left to the girls' families.

Now that "Be careful" has been taken care of, Matrix doesn't have to say it himself.

And so long as "what's left" is worn out despite high sugar intakes? He'll be fine with that.

He smiles to himself.

Might even get a decent night's sleep afterwards.

Well, that's almost everyone in. The room's getting fairly crowded, as evidenced by the fact that Danny has phased through the bed to make space.

And now a wisp of fog is escaping from his still-smirking mouth.

At the same time, a similar wisp of fog escapes from Dani's mouth.

That's strange. Nobody appears to be there, but there was now a familiar voice emanating from the closet doorway...

"Happy birthday, Dani."

Welman Matrix, everybody. Not compiled, but here in spirit, at least.

Now that is going to take some getting used to, but—

"Grampa!"

—Analog seems to be adjusting just fine.

Dani grins. "Thank you. I'm glad you could make it, Professor Matrix."

"Dad," Enzo murmurs out of the corner of his mouth, "focus."

"You're 'vis'ble again," Mairi declares more loudly.

"What? Oh, sorry. Still getting use to it, I suppose."

A quick refresh of concentration and we're back in the green!

...and precisely one inch off of the ground, but he doesn't notice.

Eh, close enough. "Looks like you're doing all right to me."

Seeing as how everyone's in, Danny phases down through the floor, then back up again.

"Looks like everyone's ready, waiting, and hungry."

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Analog's ready all right. But she sure isn't inclined to wait.

"Cake?" she asks with a child's impatience, tugging at Matrix's hand. "Cake?"

Mairi, in agreement with Ana, drags on Dani's arm in the direction of the door. "You hafta party now!"

"Well, I can't really argue with that," Dani remarks as she allows herself to be dragged toward the door. She looks over her shoulder at the others.

"You guys coming or what?"

As the birthday duo descend the stairs properly, with Matrices in tow (or towing), from below comes the obligatory chorus of "Happy birthday!"

This is followed, as the entire party comes into view, by a considerably less obligatory cry of "GHOOOOOST!"

In a flash, Welman Matrix remembered where he was standing and acted quickly to defuse the situation. He shouted back: "Scientist!".

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Dani manages - just barely - not to facepalm.

"Relax, Dad. It's just Professor Matrix."

"Oh!" Jack and Maddie lower their weapons (yes, of course there were weapons). "That's okay, then."

"Hiiiii, Welman," Maddie greets him with her usual cheer.

Don't worry, Dani. Danny has the facepalming covered.

Well...that certainly happened. Fortunately, it was over just as quickly as it started.

"Hello, Jack. Maddie. Sorry about the ghost-form, but it was about as good as we could get it, considering I have essentially no data to work with."

You know you're hovering again, right Welman? Because you totally are.

"Oh, that's just fine. Sorry about the, er..."

"Trigger-happiness?"

"We didn't warn them in advance," Enzo allows. "As long as they don't shoot my dad," he adds loudly, "I think we're good."

Or try to use him as a test subject or anything. Seriously.

And so there is singing, and cake, and chatting, and a general short-lived attempt to fit seventeen people into one living room.

What this place really needs is a compression field. Human or sprite Matrix is easily one of the biggest people in a room.

And it doesn't make Analog's day any easier, though, given that she's A: small and B: a child, she's not restricted to getting about in only two-dimensional space.

If you can't go around? Go over.

"Analog!" Matrix calls out as, now fueled by sugar and Natural Kiddie Exuberance, she attempts to scale Mount Whoever Is Closest.

And that would be the only person present who's actually bigger than Daddy. (Although considerably squishier.)

"Whoa! Um... hey, kid."

"Hi!" says Ana cheerfully on her way up, tiny fists twisted into orange Spandex. "You Aunt Dani's daddy?"

"That's meeeeEEEE watch the hands!"

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