Discalimer: Sadly I don't own Danny Phantom
Return of an Enemy
"Okay, Fenton, you can do this," Daniel Fenton reassured himself as he unsuccessfully tried to tame his raven hair. "Come on, man, you are the most famous individual in Amity Park. You fight ghosts for Pete's sake. You are going to ask her tonight."
Danny turned to face his dresser mirror and lost any confidence he may have previously attained. "God damn it, Dan. What are you so scared of?" He absentmindedly began rubbing his temples until he heard an ear-shattering screech float through his open window.
"I LOVE YOU, PHANTOM! WILL YOU MARRY ME!" called a stalking Hispanic woman.
"GO HOME, PAULINA!" Danny screamed and slammed shut his window. "What is wrong with that girl?" Dan asked to no one on particular as he collapsed onto his bed, but the voice that answered him made his heart skip a beat.
"Aw, Danny, why don't you marry her? Paulina has many redeeming qualities," spoke a gothic woman whose sarcasm was even noticed by clueless Danny Fenton.
"Oh really, Sam," Dan replied as he sat up to face her. "Name one."
"Don't turn this around on me, Fenton," Samantha scolded from the doorway of Danny's bedroom, though she tried to hide the grin that was creeping onto her pale face, "You're the one who was in love with her for two years straight."
"Uh! Don't remind me," groaned the blue-eyed hero while he laid back to face the ceiling.
"So it's a no, huh?" Sam asked as she sat down beside Dan.
"A hell no."
"Well, gosh, Dan you have to marry somebody."
"Why?"
"Because the public wouldn't like it very much if Danny Phantom didn't get hitched."
"Why do you care what the public thinks of me, Samantha Manson?" Dan asked as he sat up to meet her lilac eyes.
"I'm just looking out for ya is all."
"Sure you are."
"You better believe it Fenton."
"So I have to marry somebody."
"Yep," Sam replied, smiling like a kid in a candy store.
"Okay then. Let me think," responded the hybrid as he tapped his chin in thought before a sly grin etched upon his face. "I guess I can ask the Box Ghost."
"EWW, DANNY!" Sam spoke before going into a fit of laughter.
"I don't think that the Lunch Lady would like that much, huh?"
"No-I-don't-think-so," replied Sam through giggles.
At that moment an epiphany stroke our favorite hero. Suddenly his question seemed to be easier to ask than it did before Sam graced himself with her presence.
"Fine, I guess I'll have to go with the alternative," Dan stated as he sprung from the bed and began rummaging through his top dresser drawer.
"What do you mean alternative," questioned Sam, now completely confused.
"Sam…?'' Danny asked as he found the item he was searching for and spun around to face her. "Will you marry me?" Dan revealed a small box to the goth's view.
"IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE!" Sam yelped, jumping of the bed in surprise and puzzlement.
"No, Sam. Why would you think that I'm joking about something as important as this? Way to kill the moment."
"I'm sorry I just-I mean I-I didn't think that you would want to-uh-"
"Sam, I love you," whispered Danny as he walked up to the confused woman. "We've been dating since high school. Why would you think I wouldn't want to marry you?" He was slightly hurt, but he knew Sam didn't mean to be so skeptical of him.
"Danny, I am so sorry. Please forgive me," Sam pleaded, sinking into the bed and burying her face in her hands.
"Sam, you have nothing to be sorry about. You have a tendency to overreact. I understand."
"Yes," Sam replied bringing her face back to Fenton's view.
"Yes, what?" Dan asked, confused.
"Yes."
"Yes, what." Danny asked again.
"Yes, I'll marry you." Sam explained, partly agitated.
"Really?" Danny asked, his face aglow. Sam nodded. "REALLY?" he repeated in disbelief and jumped to his feet.
"Yes, Danny. Calm do-"
"SHE SAID YES! SHE SAID YES!" Danny ran out the door in complete bliss. "TUCKER, SHE SAID YES!"
Sam rolled her eyes and followed in pursuit of her newly titled fiancé.
Clockwork smiled to himself as he watched the hero celebrate his new joy, though the grin upon his ghostly face was a half-hearted one. He knew the trials that were soon to come into Danny Phantom's life, not only in this period of his existence but the past and future as well. So it pained Clockwork even more than one who didn't know before hand that The Ultimate Enemy was moments from escaping and would once again try to destroy his other self's happiness.
A crash, the sound of an opening Fenton Thermos, and an evil laugh was all that was heard before Clockwork waved his staff and transported himself to the year when Danny and his friends were fifteen.