Chapter 1

The echo of someones footsteps was heard, big silver clad boots, tracing the floor beneath them. The sound resonated through the empty hallway. This hallway was always burned in silence. Such a deadly silence that even the remnants of the intonation of the once screaming and clattering hallway, were hard to be heard. The only sounds that reverberated were of the silent breathing of the man who was sprinting towards the chamber at the end of the hallway, and the sounds of his heavy boots.

The man heaved a sigh as he stood outside the slightly ajar door. He didn't knock, just peeked in the room to help him keep his sanity.

He breathed a sigh of relief as he saw her unharmed and sitting on one of the window seats. That was the place where he always found her. Her back was to him. But she was shaking her head lightly, that was enough for him to know that she was alright. Her black hair cascaded roughly on her face and some on her back. Her dull violet dress swaying as the cool air from the outside swirled pass her.

He blinked his eyes, and silently tiptoed in the room. She didn't turn. He kept his distance from her. Not wanting to get the same reaction she always showed.

Just as his clumsy figure passed her bed, she arched her back. She had found out, she knew he was here. She started cowering further in the plush seat. His eyes rimmed with tears as he saw her like that. She always flinched when he came, and it pained him to see her like that. His voice was suddenly lost, he looked at the silken mat bellow him. She kept cowering, and suddenly a sob escaped her lips, and he gazed back at her with wide eyes.

Tucker was calming him down. Danny had been pacing since the moment he found out that they found her. They had found his Sam. He just couldn't wait to see her, to hold her in his arms, and never let go. A hand was placed on his shoulder as Danny looked up at Tucker. He was looking pointedly at the other direction. Danny looked at him with his eye brows furrowed, then scrutinized at what had caught his friend's eye.

The sight made him both exhilarated and depressed at the same time.

There she was, his Sam, hunched, and she looked so lost. She took broken steps further. His feet were planted on the ground, he couldn't move. His mind raced and was left with one question, 'This is not real'. The reality of the situation was mocking him. Taunting him that this was real and he had to face the demons that he had locked and sealed away. Her whole body was stiff and was shaking at the same time. She didn't meet his eyes. She knew that if she did, then she would lose the last string of sanity she had left.

His mind was frozen, his eyes wide and his lips parted.

What had happened to her? She looked so broken, like someone had broken his porcelain doll, and the broken pieces were glued back in front of him. Her face was pale, paler than it used to be. Her lips were chapped, and her hair tousled. Her body was aching from the pain that her body had suffered constantly for two years. Her broken steps screaming at her to turn around. That he would never accept the monster she had become, and even if there was a slight silver lining for her, and he did accept her, she would always blame him for doing that.

He wanted to see her eyes, the eyes he fell in love with. That held a passion for what she believed in. The way her eyes shined when she saw him. The way she would look at him with such adoration and passion that he had trouble breathing afterwards. The shade he began to adore with all his might.

She was there, almost there. Just a few feet away. He didn't move forward, he wanted to, but he couldn't. Her head was still lowered, and she was only a few inches away from him. He looked down at her, and she didn't bother shifting her gaze from the floor. She wanted to keep her sanity. She wanted to stay sane, but...

"Sam!" just a whisper, only for her ears to hear. She lost it completely. She slowly looked up at him with an emotionless and empty gaze, then back down.

A soft sob escaped her lips, and she placed her head on his chest and sobbed. He gathered his strength, that had kept him standing, then wrapped his arms around her and her sobs broke into tears. He knew from that moment that she had faced life. And she would never come back to the land that both had created for each other.

He backed away from her, and she calmed down. The sobs still escaping her lips. He took a few steps back at the door, but his eyes fixated on her crouched figure. Then he didn't lose another minute and ran for the door. He sprinted out of the chamber, out of the hallway and into his own chamber. Where he locked the doors and punched the walls with his knuckles. He kept punching as the hot tears cascaded down his face.

After a while, his knuckles started to bleed, and he saw holes in the wall. He leaned against it, then slowly slipped down. His tears flowing freely as the love of his life sobbed in her room.

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"How is he doing?" asked a very traumatized Tucker to the maiden who came out of Danny's room.

Jazz turned her sad gaze towards him, "He has a fever for going out in the rain. But he'll be alright after some rest!" Although, Danny was not her brother, but she still loved him like one. It was strange for her to watch as her uncle died and left his entire property to a man who had taken care of him for two years. When she first heard this, she had become angry. She had thought that her deceased uncle had lost the sense of decision in his final moments.

But the moment she met Danny, she had found out why he made that decision. Danny had taken care of a man who he barely knew, and had cared for him more than any son or family member would. While her uncle, Vladimir Master's sons had left him to rot in his time of need. Danny had taken this taken upon himself to take good care of him. Vladimir had trusted him, and she knew that Danny was a fine and trustful gentleman.

Both Danny and Jazz had become close, and she loved him like a little brother.

When she had found out about Danny's past, she had vowed herself to retrieve the girl who had taken his heart. And she would bring those two back together. But the way the girl acted, or maybe how she always stayed hidden in the depths of her room, and cried herself till no tears were left to shed, Jazz knew that it was a lost cause to get the girl talking. She hadn't talked in 8 months since she had come back in Danny's life. And she doubted that the girl was even going to give subtle hints about what she had endured.

She sighed softly and turned to shut the door behind her.

And she swirled past Tucker and to the broken girl, who was most likely lying on her bed. She waltzed in the chamber, and as she had guessed, the girl was lying on her bed, her ebony hair sprawled on the bed, her hands on either side of the bed. Her eyes wide open. Jazz just stared at her, "Danny is ill. He has a fever!" she said softly, the girl's eyes and body posture wavered at the mention of the name. Jazz bit her lip, and closed the door behind her, as she walked in and kept her distance. The girl was not prone to close proximity.

Sam's eyes stung, already read and puffy with dark hallows around them. But no matter how hard she tried, the tears wouldn't go away. This time the tears weren't for her distressed life, but for the man she thought she was in love, is in love with. She never stopped loving, not one second. Not one second in her life passed without her thinking about him.

The thunder outside her roared, and Sam screamed as she was hit with a wave of nausea, and a bad memory that always haunted her. The pictures flashing behind her eye lids...

She crawled out of the lake.

She walked past it, her hands clutching her hurting abdomen.

She fainted in the way.

They picked her up.

She felt pain.

The pain increased and the lightening in the sky struck.

They dragged her limp body.

She opened her eyes and resisted.

Her body felt like it was on fire, she felt pain all over.

They kicked her and she squirmed beneath them.

Her feet twisting, kicking and turning.

Those vile monsters dragged her all the way where the light was unwelcome.

She stayed in the darkness for a year.

Sam clutched her head with her hands and screamed, Jazz came over her and tried to calm her down a bit. Sam started kicking, as she recalled the memory. They were taking her away. Her mind was swarming with memories.

She pushed Jazz away when she offered her some comfort, some solace.

And just like that, she was out cold. Her protesting body calmed down, and she fell on the bed. Jazz looked at her tear streaked face and placed her under the covers. Her own tears welling up inside her. She pushed them back and tended the girl's rising fever.

Both Danny and Sam lied in their beds, writhing in pain, as they tossed and turned. Both haunted with the same memory...

"We have to stop meeting like this."

Sam and Danny were walking in the forest, that connected the two glorious kingdoms of Casper and Amity. This place was usually 'their' place. Right after the revelation between those two, they chose to meet in the woods, since non of their families would want to see them within ten feet of each other, much less see them walk beside each other. The woods were their sanctum, and they could waltz as they pleased, side by side with each other, welcoming the warmth of the other. Relishing the thought that they were truly at peace here.

They both reached the lake from where they knew that their journey ended. Sam was twirling the daisy that Danny had given her during their walk. She looked towards the lake and Danny quietly followed. He picked up a pebble from the ground and splashed it across the water. The splashing of the water surface reached their ears. "Well, what do you expect me to do?" asked Danny, but answered his question himself, "You can't expect me to knock at your door and tell you're parents that..." he turned towards her and said, "Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Manson, I came here to see Sam, can you call her down." smiling like a goof.

"Yes, I expect that from you" replied Sam as she grinned at Danny's behavior, "We can't keep hiding the truth, now can we."

"You're parents will kill me for coming at their doorstep." then he added as an after thought, "And if they don't kill me then, then they will obviously skin me alive for saying your name." Danny inched forward towards Sam, but she turned her attention towards the lake, still smiling with the daisy in her hand.

"Huh! and here I thought that you'd die for me, at least that's what you always assured me of." She said in a mock hurt tone and her smile turned into a frown, "Guess you don't care about me." She knew that teasing him like that would only set him of the edge and he will try to do something stupid to prove her wrong. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes, her suspicions were right, he was gaping like a fool and had a hurt expression across his face.

He moved towards her and held her small hands in his, and turned her around so that she was facing him. He brought her hands towards his lips and brushed his lips lightly against her knuckles. "Your doubting me now?" he breathed out. She just smirked slightly at him then told him, "Your giving me a reason to doubt you, you can't even die by the hands of my parents knowing that you did that for me" she huffed and pulled away from him, she wanted to know how far he would take this.

His eyes widened then he moved towards her and lifted her hand and rested it on top of his chest where his heart was, "I'll do anything for you, Sam, I am willing to die for you" he searched the place then moved towards a big rock that rested on the bank of the lake and told her, "I can hit my head with this for you" he pointed towards the rock. She only snorted and crossed her arms over her chest, and gave him a look that told him that she was daring him to do it, but quickly gave up and turned around, as if telling him that she was leaving.

He called her, she turned slightly with the victorious smirk on her face, still.

"I'll drown for you." he shouted.

Then she turned around and laughed fully at him, "Hilarious" that was all she said when she fully turned. She wasn't doubting him or anything, she was just making fun of him, but he didn't understand. When she turned her back towards him, she simply meant to wander in the woods for a while, then return to him and tell him that this was all a joke. But she stopped dead in her tracks when she heard a splash.

That caught her attention, she turned and walked towards the lake which had waves rippling on it, eyes wide in recognition that he had actually jumped. But she then frowned heavily, she was the one joking around, not him.

"Ha ha Danny, very funny."

He didn't come out.

"Your going to need to breathe at some point..."

She met silence.

He's just fooling you, wait a while, he'll come around.

She waited for a while, but he didn't come out. She saw the last of bubbles on the surface of water, indicating that he lost his breath. She waited and waited.

At that moment she got scared, beyond scared. She called his name over and over, told him that she didn't mean what she said earlier, that this was all a joke. Sweat was pouring from her face. She finally screamed out, "I don't care if this is a joke or not, I'm coming in." And with that she jumped in the lake, she wasn't a best swimmer, but at least she could paddle in the water. She looked around in the water and saw a dark silhouette figure in the depth of the lake, it wasn't moving. She dumped herself further in the water and grabbed onto him. She started to move towards the surface. Her lungs killing her at that point.

They finally reached the surface and she heaved Danny along with her, and dropped him on the ground. He was breathing but very lightly, both were soaked.

"Danny, D-an-nn-yy" she started whimpering, tears sprung in her eyes for what she had caused. She started pumping his chest to let the water out and whimpered his name. She begged him, pleaded him to wake up, telling him how stupid she was, that she never doubted him. Finally, for what looked like an eternity for Sam, he started coughing the rest of the water from his lungs and slowly opened his bright sapphire eyes to be captivated by the beauty lurking over him. The only thing he understood was, "Am I dead? Are you my angel?"

Sam let out a shaky laugh, tears still pooling out of her eyes. At least he was alive, that's all that mattered to her. She pushed his soaked raven hair out of his eyes, and then leaned closer. By this time he gained much conscience to see that it was his angel who had saved him. "Now I hope you won't doubt me." a sense of plea exited his lips, and hit the raven haired girl's heart. She looked him in the eye and buried her face in his chest and started crying.

"Never!" she croaked.

She jerked up and leaned closer to him, their lips were just inches apart. Warm breath washed over her face as she whispered "I love you, and there is no doubt in that." Then she brushed her lips softly with his. That was enough to knock the senses in him. He kissed back and cupped her cheeks and started caressing it.

"I love you too, never doubt that." he murmured between the kiss.

The lovers stayed in their embrace for some time and then passed out in each others arms.

The sun was setting, both didn't know that this might be their last embrace.

Both were in a fitful sleep. The same dreams, or maybe memories, haunting them.

Okay people. Here is a new version of the story. The plot line is the same. I didn't want to be mainstream and write the way it everyone did. 'Write from the start and to the end'. I will be explaining what happen through memories. You'll like it, I hope. And since my writing improved form the time I started writing this. Well for that fact I started writing this. I wanted this story to be well written. Because I love this.

Anyway, review y'all.

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