Hello all! Welcome to my little story. Some insight into this is that I am hoping to just post a little section of stories. These stories will go through the day and lives of Danny, Sam and Tucker. A lot of this was inspired by re-watching the series thinking about what could have been and an attempt to elaborate on little stories told in the show. Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
-Captain Seaton.
"But Mommy, I don't want to go!" cried the little blue-eyed ebony haired boy. His bottom lip trembled, and tears sprung into his crystal eyes. He gripped the baby blue hazmat suit on his mother praying that she wouldn't leave him in a place like this. Daniel Jack Fenton was about to enter the world of Pre-K. He had never left his mother's side in the four years that he had been alive, and he wasn't plan on detaching himself away anytime soon. His mother, however, had different plans.
"Now sweetie, you know that you can't stay at home with mommy forever, you need to make some friends. Pre-kindergarten is a great way for you to experience social, emotional and mental development before you make it into 'big kid school', don't you want to be like your big sister?" Maddie Fenton soothed to her crying child. The tears didn't stop flowing from young Danny's eyes and he clung desperately onto his mother's legs as she tried to walk out of the door. Little Danny didn't care about this fabled big kid school and he didn't care about being like Jazz. His older sister may be in big kid school getting excellent marks, but in his mind, that was light-years away and he had everything that he needed from his mommy. She gave him snacks, gave him back-rubs when he was ready for nap time and took him on mommy-son picnics. Daniel Fenton could not stand the thought of being away from the woman who had taken care of him for as long as he remembered.
"Come on now, little one, let your mommy go back to her day and stay with us, we have some chocolate chip cookies and milk for snack time!" chirped the fluty voice of the pre-k teacher. Danny turned his gaze towards the young teacher. She smiled a white toothy grin and grabbed his little hand leading him to the small tables laid out with the delicious molten chocolate refreshments. In that instant Danny forgot all about his mother making her way out of the door leaving him in the place that he once dreaded. "Now you just sit right here and join in with the others and make some new friends!"
Danny sat down among his fellow peers, all of them blocked out by the sight of the sweet morsel spread in front of him. His little four-year old stomach growled in anticipation and his mouth watered. He reached for a warm cookie and touched another kid's hand. Danny's eyes traveled up the small pale arm to a little girl with long onyx hair that rivaled his own and bright amethyst eyes. Young Danny was stunned by how pretty the little girl was. He looked at her in admiration of being so pretty, and then immediately felt disgusted. Girls were like Jazz, and Jazz had cooties.
"Hey, this is my cookie, my hand touched it first," the little girl pouted grasping at the sugary delight bringing Danny out of his train of thought.
"I- I-…" the little boy stuttered. The little girl's pout did not waver as the bright blue-eyed boy stared at her. She let out a little sigh and grabbed another cookie from the platter.
"This one, is your cookie, this one, is my cookie, since I grabbed it first, that makes it mine you see?" she explained this to him slowly as if she thought Danny had no understanding of how snack time and dibs worked. Danny blinked and hesitantly grabbed the cookie from her small hand. She paused waiting for the fellow four-year-old to respond. "What's the matter with you, don't ya know how to talk?"
"I know how to talk! I just… didn't feel like it," Danny said with a small shrug. The little girl giggled into her cookie.
"Good, I didn't want my first friend not knowing how to talk, I'm Sam,"
"I'm Danny, I like rockets and one day I'm going to be a spaceman flying among the stars!" Danny puffed out his chest a little as he made his declaration. He was the kid who would always have his head in the clouds, dreaming of far off places in the universe that he knew that he was one-day destined to explore. Sam giggled with a toothy grin.
"Spaceman don't fly! Grand-mama told me that if people were in space they would burst!" Sam imitated an explosion sound to seal her point.
"They can too! They have rockets that keep 'em safe and stuff. That way I won't get bursted when I am in space," Danny argued, crossing his tiny arms.
"Why do you wanna go to space?"
"Cause I wanna 'splore, and there's a lot of stuff in space that we don't know about! I'm gonna be the best space man!" Danny flashed a small smile.
"That's cool! I wanna change the world when I grow up. Not sure what I wanna do yet, but I will when the time comes!" Sam said proudly. Now it was Danny's turn to giggle at the little girl.
"Girls can't change the world, everyone knows that! That's a boy's job," Danny explained to Sam. As if she wouldn't understand the concept of boys' superiority. Sam pouted at Danny.
"That's not true! Girls can change the world like boys can!" she argued indignantly. Danny frowned back at her.
"But… I have never seen a girl do anything really that special. Except for my sister, my parents say that she is very special,"
"Just cause you haven't seen girls do anything special doesn't mean that we can't. My grand-mama says that we just need the chance to,"
Danny thought about what Sam had said. Never giving much thought to what girls were capable of. He shrugged and extended out his hand.
"Then one day, I wanna see you change the world. Then we will see if girls can do it!" Danny smiled at his bright idea. Sam took his hand and shook it.
"You're on Danny!" Sam smiled at the challenged and bit into her cookie. This was the start of a beautiful friendship.