Prologue: Bloodstained T-Shirt

It's been about two months. Two months since the world was saved by the new well known hero Danny Phantom. The heroic glory, however, was finally starting to die down. My Best frien- I mean- Boyfriend now... Oh you get it. That well known Hero? He's always been a hero to me... Danny Fenton, however, Is the name I know him by. It seemed like now... he was free of any worry.

Oh... but how wrong we were...

Me and Tucker walked through the somewhat empty hallway of Casper High School. It was the middle of our Sophomore year...but it was pretty easy work considering the teachers were very kind to the worlds hero and his best friends... or in my case, his girlfriend. (I can't seem to get over that one.) Though it all seemed like peaches and cream, it was actually far from it in my book.

"Come on Sam... Lighten up!" Tucker told me, a serious look on his fifteenth year old face. "Danny's just, he's popular now. It's bound to happen when you save the world and all. You should let him enjoy it."

"Tucker, Danny's not really the problem here... It's-"

I was cut off as Danny came into sight around the corner. Palena and her satellite Star were practically right on top of him. I gritted my teeth, "Case and point..."

Danny looked nervous, though, he hadn't seen me. At first, I was concerned, that is till I heard what the young girls were pressuring him about.

"Danny! Come on, come hang out with us! You don't need to hang around those losers anymore! Dump that goth chick and come with us!" Star hounded him, being somewhat loud, It took every ounce in me not to kill her right then and there.

"No way..."

"Wha? Danny! Are we not good enough for you?" Palena said, batting those sad eyes at him. It made me want to hurl.

Danny seemed to hesitate at first, but he took a deep breath and replied to the shallow popular girl; "No, You're not. And you never will be..." He pushed through them and tried to walk away, but Palena grabbed him. I was about to step forward when he abruptly shook her off, "I said no! And I mean it. Now leave me alone!" He turned away and stormed off, leaving the two females baffled.

"Woah..." I whispered to myself. 'Good boy Danny...'

Danny then came over to us and announced, "We're going to the Nasty Burger... I've gotta get out of this place."

I had noticed throughout the past few months, a change in Danny. One I deemed for the better. After everyone learned Danny's big secret, everyone wanted to hang out with the ghost kid. At first, Danny was all for it, "Popular at last!" He cried. it wasn't long before he found out, popularity? It's overrated. Real friends don't love you for what you have, but rather, who you are as a person. A lesson I was so glad to see Danny learn...even if he had to do it the hard way.

. . .

"What was that about anyway?" I asked, concerned, sitting across from Danny and Tucker at our usual booth at the restaurant of doom. " I thought you wanted all the girls all over you?" I said, half joking.

"Hey, that's me. Don't get us confused." Tucker interjected in between shoving a nasty burger in his face.

"Sam, You know I'm not that shallow... I've got you. I couldn't be happier."

His words made me blush, but, the solemn look I saw as he glanced back at the table worried me. I took a hold of his hands and squeezed them tight. Looking into his blue eyes... Oh. I could get lost in those sometimes...but for now, I had to take care of something. "Danny..."

"Sam, don't do that. I'm happy with our relationship. It's just..." He glanced around us at the people, whispering and gesturing to him. In an instant, I got the message. "I liked it better before everyone knew who I was. Back when we could have a moment because no one ever cared who Danny Fenton was..."

I guess I could defiantly understand that... the attention would wear thin after so long. It already had for me, and I wasn't even the popular target. It seemed like Danny and I couldn't even get a second together anymore without the media, fans, or parents... it makes a real relationship between us near impossible. Plus...now. People are beginning to get very curious about Danny and how he's got those ghost powers to begin with...

"I guess I can understand that...but. It's not like we can unsave the world."

"Yeah...you're telling me."

I looked at him... how could I fix this? Well, I couldn't...All I could really do was try to make this as painless as possible for him. After all, it would be like this for the rest of his life...

"Hey... Danny?"

He looked up at me, blinking in confusion.

"I...I..." I suddenly grew nervous, a big red blush burned my cheeks.

"Uh...? Yeah...? He looked at me with the utmost confusion. I could feel my blush getting deeper.

"N-Nevermind... It was nothing." I turned away and looked at the floor.

That's when I heard him chuckle and My eyes flashed to him. When he was finished, he looked at me with a soft smile. "Sam, Don't worry.." At this point, I realized he must have guess my words... " I love you too."

I had no idea a blush could get so deep. It felt like it was coloring my cheekbones red.. This warm feeling inside was so not goth. Yet, at the same time, I loved it, it was an exhilarating feeling. It made me happy...and don't believe the critics, Goths can be happy too! Just because we dress dark on the outside doesn't mean we're dark on the insides too! Hm. I wonder if this is the feeling my mother gets when she wears her dumb pink floral dresses...eww.

"That is gross! Keep your mushy love stuff to yourself you guys!" Tucker cried out. I had totally forgotten he was even here...

"Sorry dude."

Right on cue, Danny's ghost sense when off with a gasp. He looked around fantically, but nothing was around. Still, he jumped up and called his battle cry. "I'm goin' Ghost!" And with that, the ring of blue light consumed his living half, and transformed him into his afterlife self that we all knew and loved at this point, Danny Phantom.

Me and Tucker still weren't used to him being able to go ghost in public like this, but at the crowd cheered, we were ungratefully reminded.

"I'll be back after this, alright? I promise." Danny told us. "Don't eat all my nasty fries, Tucker."

"Hey, no promises!" Tucker said through his mouthful of food.

"Wait, don't forget this!" I dug through my backpack and pulled out the Fenton Thermos. "This might be useful" I tossed it to him and he caught it with ease.

"Thanks, I gotta run!" He smiled, "Meet me at the house later if this takes long. Hopefully it won't."

I smiled. "Hope not. Either way, See you later! Go get'em Danny." I kissed his cheek.

"Haha, you bet." And with that, he phased through the Nasty Burger ceiling. Off to fight God knows who.

. . .

It's been three days now. I don't understand it... I'm nothing but a big ball of jitters. " I should've went with him!" I kicked my pillow.

I waited for him all night at his house before I finally told his parents he hadn't come home yet. I fear he's been captured. But I don't know for sure. I couldn't find him in the ghost zone and no one there had seen him. Everyone in the real world was already searching for him. When I found out who has been keeping him, I was going to give them more than just a piece of my mind...

My phone started to ring. I got hopeful for a moment before seeing it was only Tucker.

"What do you want?"

"Sam? Listen, I think we should go out again."

"What? Why? It's dark outside. We wouldn't be able to see anything."

"Sam, come on. Please? I haven't been able to sleep in days. Danny said he'd come back. He doesn't lie. Plus, I have something from Fenton Works. A ghost flashlight, or, I think they called it the EctoRevealer. It's used to shine the light on any ghost any time of the day. It might lead us right to him."

I finally gave in, "Alright. Meet me in the ally behind the Nasty Burger. That seems like good place to start."

"Alright. I'll be there in ten."

. . .

I waited for Tucker patently. For a Goth, I didn't much like being in the dark like this. The star littered sky was pretty though... I couldn't have asked for a better night sky. " I wish you were here too Danny..."

A loud crash turned my attention away from the sky as Tucker tripped.

"Tucker! Do you want the whole city to know we're out here?!"

"No, but Geesh, I didn't see those metal trash cans!"

"What metal trash cans Tucker? there's nothing there!" I looked over to the spot he tripped, and suddenly, something dawned upon me. If there were no trash cans... what made the crash?

Suddenly, a scream filled the air. One of utter terror and confusion. It was so bad I covered my ears. It was unbearable! It could've been coming from anywhere! Yet other people didn't seem to hear it... Just me and Tucker.

Tucker flashed on the flashlight and it beeped loudly. "It says there's ecto energy all around us!" And abruptly, the scream stopped. the ecto reading died down... reading an ecto energy in the Nasty Burger before disappearing altogether...

I looked at Tucker. Both of us knew... we had to go in there.

Going to the back door, we discovered it unlocked... it was terrifying actually. What was in here...? We used the flashlight, scared. Would that ghost come back? Who was that? What was that... and as we reached the dining room...

Tucker dropped the flashlight.

"Tucker! Ugh, what the hell-" I stopped, my face pale. Blood. There was a pool of blood under the table..

I swallowed.

That was our table...

The flashlight shaking in my hands, I moved the flashlight up...

Revealing the horrid truth... In Human form... liquid spilled off the table onto the floor , cold skin was pale... Blood turned his white shirt forever red...and a note that read. "Promises are meant to be BROKEN." sat next to his unmoving body...

I felt my heart bust...and I hit the floor. "...Danny..." This just couldn't be... "How could you...you...you promised..."

TO BE CONTINUED...