Sam yawned and sat up. She felt a breeze and quickly wrapped her body up in her blanket. The events of last night were more or less a blur. She glanced at her clock and the red glowing numbers told her it was just past four thirty in the morning. "You better get going!" She looked over, but the spot next to her was empty. "Danny?" She got out of her bed and reached down for the pile of clothes. Danny's clothes were gone. She put on a pair of sweats and a shirt and turned her bedside lamp on. "Where did he get too?" She looked in her closet and bathroom, but he was gone. "Maybe he already went home." She sighed, "Probably didn't want to wake me up." She sat back down on her bed and yawned. "Guess I'll see him tomorrow!"

Danny wasn't at school that morning. Sam was a little concerned, but figured he had just over slept. She almost did. The two had started going out a few months ago after another attack from Vlad Plasmius. Danny had time and time again expressed his concerns about them being together, but Sam made it clear she didn't care. She wanted to be with him. She was tempted to call his house, but she didn't want to cause any trouble. Neither of their parents knew and they were careful not to leave any clues. Sam left school during lunch and headed to The Fenton Home. She needed to make sure he was alright. Sam snuck up to the house and looked up. Danny's window had been left open. She smiled as she pulled out a small gun from her backpack. She aimed at the window and fired it. A small hook and cable shot from it and the hook griped a small metal rod that Danny had attached to the frame of his window.

"Good thing he had that installed." Sam climbed the cable and jumped into the room. "Danny?" The room was a mess. The bed was unmade and clothes were tossed into random corners of the room. "Normal so far. Where is he?"

Two weeks later, there still wasn't a sign of Danny. His parents had gone ballistic and were spending most of the time they had spent on ghost hunting, looking for him. Sam, Tucker, and Jazz had gone to Wisconsin to talk to Vlad. He claimed innocence and even let them search his mansion and labs. The only thing they had found was a stock pile of photos of Maddie Fenton. Next on the list was a trip to The Ghost Zone, but no luck there either. Skulker had offered to find Danny for a price. Sam sold some of the jewelry her parents had bought her. She wasn't going to wear them anyway. Without any leads, Sam was stuck waiting.

"You want me to walk you home?"

"Huh?" Sam looked up and remembered she was eating at The Nasty Burger with Tucker. The dark skinned boy had just finished his fifth burger, while Sam had just stared at her shake.

"They are starting to close up!"

Sam looked out the window. It was almost ten at night. "Sorry!" Sam hated to bore Tucker like this. He had been the only real support she had gotten figuring their relationship had more or less been a secret. And the fact her parents secretly celebrated the fact he was gone didn't help matters any. "I'll be fine!" Sam stood up, "I'll see you tomorrow." She walked out of the restaurant and towards her home. It had been nice earlier so she had forgone using her car. Now she regretted it. She hugged herself as a cold breeze whipped up, "Should have at least brought a jacket." A warm blanket suddenly dropped on her shoulders.

"Better?" A raspy voice sounded from behind her.

Sam spun around and grabbed a small can of mace from her belt, "Stay back!" She aimed the small can up, but dropped it when she got a good look at the one behind her. A bunch of white bandages was floating in front of her. They formed a rough shape of a human and the head looked like a mummy's. A small pair of blue pinpoints shined in between a pair of wrappings on the head. "Your a ghost!"

"Only in a limited sense. I am a spirit."

"And the difference?"

"I will soon be departing this world, but I must warn you first."

"About what?"

The spirit floated up to her, "He is coming!"

"Who?"

"A dark ghost who has spent the past thousand years at the far reaches of The Ghost Zone. He is coming and will want what is growing inside of you." Sam's face went pale. The spirit started to float away, "Run child! If he gets what he desires, this world and the next will be his to control." He vanished.

"My parents are going to kill me!"

Despite the fact Sam had been scared out of her mind, she waited until she could actually take a pregnancy test before she lost it completely. When it came back positive, she then officially lost it. "First Danny vanishes and now this." Sam was sitting in Jazz's room. She figured Danny's sister was the best person to talk to first.

Jazz closed her door to insure no eavesdropping, "So what do you want to do?"

"If I tell my parents, they kill me."

"I'm sure they won't take it that bad."

"They hate Danny! They'll either say he forced himself on me and then took off, or this is my way of getting back at them for trying to control my life." Sam held her head in her hands, "I don't know what to do."

Jazz walked over and sat down next to her. She rubbed her back, "Look! I'm sure my parents will be glad to help out."

"Or they'll think I seduced him and he ran in shame."

Jazz nodded, "Me and Tucker will gather the two families together and we can tell them together. Best to let all the fire out all at once."

"Thanks!"

"While we do that, you better try to figure out what that ghost was warning you about."

"I have a good idea of who to talk to. Can I borrow The Specter Speeder?"

"Sure!" Jazz hugged her, "Your family now!"

"I'm afraid I can't tell you where Danny is." Clockwork floated in front of his time portal as Sam stood in front of him. The ghost of time changed from a small child in a robe to a full grown adult. "I cannot allow my time portal to be used as you universal problem solver."

"I'm not asking about that Clockwork." Sam stepped closer, "A ghost warned me of something that would come after me and this child I am carrying. All I need is a name."

Clockwork's eyes narrowed as a few tears dripped from her eyes. He turned into an old man, "The ghost's name is Malice!" Clockwork floated next to her and snapped his fingers. The time portal shinned and an image of a ghost appeared. Dressed in purple silk robes, he had a royal look to his pale face. He had dark eyes that seemed to absorb light. "This ghost is completely obsessed with the conquest of the human world. Before he exiled himself to further his research, he had been trying to make ghost human hybrids."

"Like Danny?"

"Exactly! I've tried to keep the news from him, but such old ears are hard to deafen."

Sam looked at Clockwork, "Did he take him?"

Clockwork turned into an infant and floated away. "I cannot tell you. If I tell you anymore, I risk the timeline."

"You can shove that timeline." Sam stopped herself and took a few deep breathes. "Is he alive? Please give me that much."

Clockwork turned away from her, "Yes! Please leave!"

"Thank you!" Sam left a much quieter tower.