"Guys you need to slow down!" Tucker cried out at his two best friends. "You know I can't keep up with you when you fly that fast!" He ran faster to try and catch up with them.

"Maybe if you'd let me have one of my vines carry you..." Sam started to say and rolled her eyes at Tucker.

"Absolutely not. I hate plants and yours just remind me of that awful day," Tucker shuddered at the memory.

Sam glared at Tucker. "Then don't complain when we fly to fast for you. It's not my fault your scooter is being repaired."

"It wouldn't have to be repaired if someone hadn't crushed it with a TREE!"

"That was an accident! Danny had just as much trouble controlling his powers when he first got them as well."

Tucker made a sour face. "He never threw a tree at me by accident. He just fell through floors all the time!"

Danny intervened before something bad could happen. "Guys! Focus, we have TWO ghosts to catch!"

The two of them glared at each other but kept running/flying after Skulker and Ember whose ideas of a date was running around terrorizing the citizens of Amity Park. Unfortunately for the couple of a month, Danny and Sam, their idea of a date was not chasing after ghosts and having their best friend tag along even if they loved him like a brother.

"Whelps, as much as I would love to have all your pelts on my wall, today is not that day as we are celebrating our anniversary. So leave, before I change my mind!" Skulker cried out to the trio.

"Then take your anniversary elsewhere!" Shouted Sam, "Tucker, grab the Thermos!"

"Oh no you don't, dipstick," said Ember before she wailed on her guitar, causing Danny and Sam to cover their ears while Tucker dropped the Thermos. It rolled away and Tucker scrambled to get it while Danny and Sam distracted the ghostly couple.

Unfortunately, in his rush to capture them, he accidentally sucked up Sam in the process.

"Whoops..." Tucker said as Danny glared at him.

"Dude, I know you're mad at her, but that's just plain cruel."

The geek boy shrugged, "It was totally an accident, but she deserved it. Did I mention she dropped a tree on my scooter?"

"I was there, remember? Although I do have to admit, her powers are kind of funny to watch go haywire. Was it this funny when it happened to me?"

"Yes, absolutely. Watching you fall through the floor and chairs all the time was priceless. You don't find comedy like that all the time."

"We'd better hurry back to Fenton Works and let her out of there before she kills us. I'd like to stay on her good side if you know what I mean," Danny said with a wink.

"Gross dude," Tucker said, "I don't need to know about that. Those bruises around your wrists leave too much to the imagination as it is."

Danny looked surprised at his comment, and then looked down at his wrists back in human form. "Shit, dammit Sam! Those vines of yours are worse than rope!"

"Too. Much. Information."

"You're the one who brought it up."

An hour later, the three friends were sitting in Danny's room, Sam still livid from being caught in the Fenton Thermos. More times than he could count, Danny had to stop his girlfriend from binding Tucker with vines and throwing him out the window.

"I said I was sorry and that it was a complete accident."

Sam said nothing but continued to shoot daggers from her glare. Tucker knew it would take a little while for her to calm down so he excused himself and went home, leaving the couple alone. The ghost boy sat down on the bed, leaned over to Sam and put his arms around her waist, kissing her on the cheek. She sighed and turned towards him, frowning.

"I never realized how hard it is to have these ghost powers. How did you manage it? I'm so sick of phasing through things and having plants go crazy around me."

Danny shrugged, "You get used to it. The phasing through things happens but it should stop once you have your powers better under control. As for the plant part... I can't really help you with that, but control will come with time. Do you want to go practice? I've been taking extra time to better control everything. There's less ghosts hanging around here lately for some reason, but I'm taking full advantage of it. I can't wait to show you what I can do!"

Sam giggled and nodded at the blue-eyed boy as they phased into the lab, two floors below his room. Danny's parents had recently renovated their lab to have an anti-ghost practice room to test their new inventions without destroying the walls, which the hybrid and his girlfriend used on occasion when no one was home. Lucky for the two, his parents wouldn't be home for a few hours giving them plenty of time to practice.

"So what new trick did you want to show me?"

"My ecto-rays. They're slightly different than usual. They're more... precise."

Sam looked quizzically at him but he smiled and turned towards the targets that were set up along the far wall. Controlling his powers into his hands, he created spheres in his hands that were a darker green than usual. Sam watched in wonder as Danny shot the ecto blast clean through the middle of the target with barely a scorch mark in sight. The half ghost boy smiled before holding up a finger as if to say 'I'm not done yet.'

Sam nodded and waited where she was for Danny to show her the next trick up his sleeve. Concentrating again, Danny duplicated himself flawlessly into two Phantoms. He performed the same ecto-blast and then in the blink of an eye, they both vanished to reappear on either side of Sam.

"Danny, that's nothing new, you've been able to duplicate for a while now."

"Au contraire Sam. Did you not see how fast it happened?" he said and did it again, this time with her understanding.

"You can teleport now? Why haven't you told us this before?"

"It's still a little glitchy and even when I do you can't notice, like just now. There's not puff of smoke like there's supposed to be," he said and the duplicate vanished.

"How did you learn to do that?" She asked wide-eyed.

Danny didn't know how to answer that. The truth was, Vlad had finally accepted some form of truce and agreed to spend two hours a week training with him. He hadn't told Sam and Tucker, just telling them that he was training alone on the outskirts of town. He had realized Vlad wasn't all bad and was just a lonely guy, which is why he had offered the truce.

Sam looked at Danny who was looking anxious and conflicted. She put her hand on Danny's arm and said "Danny? What's wrong?"

He came back to reality and nervously said, "Oh, it's nothing. I just knew Vlad could do it and tried to imitate him like when I did with duplication and shields."

She seemed to take that as a plausible answer, and Danny visibly relaxed a bit. He needed to ease them into it and show them Vlad wasn't as bad as he once was. They both phased back into his room and sat back down on his bed.

"Speaking of Vlad, he hasn't been harassing us as much lately. I haven't gotten to pummel the mayor since I got these powers."

"I thought you were more of a pacifist?" Danny said smirking and raised his brow.

"No avoiding my question. You've changed the subject at every mention of Vlad since the Vortex incident not too long ago. What happened while Tucker and I were in Italy?"

Danny sighed. "Nothing happened Sam, we just agreed to lay off each other for now. He has more important things to do than torture me and my family. Did you know aside from being mayor he owns and co-owns like, five or six companies?"

"Wait, you're meaning to tell me you and Vlad have a truce? And how do you even know that?"

Danny paced his room, not knowing what to say. He hadn't even told her the whole truth and she was already raising her voice at him. "Look Sam, it's nothing. I just don't have time to be fighting Vlad, not when my grades are slipping as well as the other ghosts I deal with. So I told him that and he agreed to not bother me as much. We aren't friends or anything, we just aren't necessarily arch-enemies anymore."

Frowning, Sam lay down on Danny's bed. "Fine, but I still don't trust him."

"I didn't expect you to..." He muttered.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" Danny said and lay next to her. He held up his wrists which were slightly red. "Tucker noticed."

"Oops, looks like I'll have to loosen them next time. It's not my fault we can't use regular rope. You phase out of it when we do things because you aren't focusing your powers AT ALL."

"Sheesh, accidentally blast an ecto ray and phase us through the floor ONE TIME, and you can't let it go," he said with a smile and pulled Sam close to him.

"Hey, that blast totally hurt and totally killed the mood when you almost phased us into the kitchen where your sister was eating a snack. The vines are there to stop your powers from going haywire."

"Even that part of Undergrowth's powers transferred to you. It's interesting, but remind me not get on your bad side. I like my freedom and powers."

"You'll be on my good side for a long time. You're my boyfriend and best friend. I like you a lot."

"I kinda like you more than that."

"You're a cheese ball."

He kissed her forehead and said, "yep, but only for you."