Merry Christmas! Lookie here a present! It's an all new story from me, Nonny. That means its from: A. Nonny Mous to (looks at the name on the tag) Pottersparky! Anyway. Different story. Not related to my previous two. Just a jolly little snow story. If you want to place it in "my version" of the Danny Phantom world, just imagine that this story takes place before Just Like Dear Old Vlad. :-) Cheers! What? What does the A stand for in my name? Why, Anonymous of course. :-)

Standard disclaimer here: I do not own Danny Phantom or any other characters etc etc except the ones I create to further this story along, and even then they are characters inspired by something which someone else owns and we all know who that is so lets just move on.

Summary: School is cancelled. Danny, Tucker and Sam decide to have some snowy fun, but instead they learn a little secret Dash has been hiding.

Snow Dazed

Danny looked out the window and smiled. It was a day just like any other, except for the snow, and the fact that school had been cancelled. An early call to Tucker had set up plans for general snow merriment which would of course include Sam and hopefully no ghosts.

"Hey Danny you Dork!" Jazz called from downstairs. "Your friends are here getting snow all over the living room. "Wanna come down here or let them stand here while they fill the house with their wet dog reek?"

"Who are you calling a wet dog?" he heard Tucker exclaim in indignation.

Danny was laughing as he grabbed his coat and hat. He ran down the hallway then slipped, literally down the stairs. If it wasn't for his ghostly ability to phase through things like steps and walls Danny would have had quite a few fractured bones as he came to rest at the bottom of the stairs, at the feet of his friends Sam and Tucker.

"Nice landing," Sam said blandly as Danny lay at on her feet his stomach. "But your execution could have been a little better.

"He had nice form though," Tucker said thoughtfully. "Don't you think?"

Jazz looked at her brother, who was still laying on the floor laughing, then at his friends, then out the window as the snow. "You guys are actually taking him out. In the snow? And the ice?"

"Yes," Tucker and Sam said in unison then started laughing.

Jazz shook her head as she watched Danny stand. "Good bye Danny," She said as she hugged him and making sniffing noises. "It's been nice knowing you." Danny rolled his eyes and Jazz turned to walk into the kitchen.

"Mom," She yelled. "You took out that extra insurance on Danny right?"

"What Sweetie?" they heard Maddie ask.

Danny looked at his friends. Tucker was wearing a bright yellow ski suit. Sam was wearing a big bulky black and white fur lined coat. They were just about to walk out the door when it hit Danny. "Wait!" he said. Both friends turned and looked at him questioningly. He grabbed Sam's sleeve and showed it to Tucker.

"What is this Tucker?" He asked as he tapped the fur. Sam smirked.

"Uh," Tucker said then thought for a moment. "A sleeve?"

"No!" Danny said. "It's fur! Sam is wearing fur!"

Sam jerked her arm away from Danny and said, "As if! It's fake!"

"Fake?" Danny asked rather dumbly.

"Fake" Sam said "Can you say synthetic? Say it?" Sam grinned then put her hand on the side of Danny's mouth and squeezed so she could move Danny's lips as she said. "Syn-thet-ick." Danny smiled. Sam smiled back and they stood there. Looking at each other, with Sam's hand still on Danny's face.

"Can you say. Loooove birds!" Tucker said then waited….for the blush. Which came quickly as Sam jerked her hand away from Danny's face and they both looked for somewhere other than each other or Tucker to rest their embarrassed eyes. "Ummm hummm," Tucker said as he went out the door. "That's just what I thought."

The world was a beautiful winter wonderland, it was the only description Danny could think up for the world covered in white glistening snow. He could hear thesnow flakes falling to the ground in the hush. He smiled and inhaled the cold air and the smell of wood smoke. There could never be enough moments like this in his life. He looked at Sam who was fixing her hood over her head, then at Tucker who was adjusting his PDA warmer over his PDA. PDA warmer? What? Well yeah, that's Tucker for you. He couldn't let his baby get cold.

They were halfway down the street when Danny shivered, it was different from shivering at the cold. It was a feeling he recognized all too well, along with the mist coming from his mouth. He looked around in expectation then froze. All three of them watched as a big ghostly school bus pulled up beside them and the doors opened. A rather harried and annoyed looking ghost was sitting at the wheel.

"Get in!" She ordered. "I don't have all day to wait for slow pokes like yourself!"

"Danny," Sam said as she took a few steps back hoping Danny would have already changed to ghost form to dispatch the scary looking school bus driver ghost.

"Cool!" Was all Danny said as he climbed up on the bus. He looked over his shoulders. "Are you coming?" he asked.

"Are you kidding?" Tucker said in bewilderment.

"It beats walking," Danny laughed. Sam and Tucker looked at each other, shrugged and climbed aboard the ghostly vehicle.

"This is weird," Tucker whispered as he made notes in his PDA.

"You don't suppose this is the bus to hell do you?" Sam asked.

"No it's the bus to school," Danny said as he pointed out the window.

"Same difference," Sam whispered under her breath.

"Be quiet!" The bus driver roared. "There will be no talking on the bus! There will be no seat changing! There will be no standing while the bus is in motion!"

"This could turn really ugly," Danny whispered in Sam's ear, making her blush as she shivered. "But it's kinda fun riding a ghost bus." Sam only nodded as she balled up her hands into the sleeves of her coat and admitted that the tremendous crush she had on Danny had not been rendered as powerless as she thought, but had just received a tremendous boost thanks to the feeling of his lips nearly against her ear.

Tucker looked over the seat and caught a good look at Sam's pensive scowl as Danny, still smiling and oblivious, gazed out the window. He grinned until Sam looked up at him, then raised his eyebrows.

"Shut up Tucker!" Sam mouthed at him. Tucker laughed.

"Sit down!" The bus driver yelled at Tucker. "Face forward!"

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"Bye!" Danny yelled as he waved at the departing ghost bus! "Thanks for the ride!" The ghostly bus driver was smiling and waving in return. Tucker and Sam shot each other worried looks. At least they had made it safe and sound to the school, which was where they planned to head in the first place.

"What nerds we are," Sam said as she looked at the grey building. "We get a day off of school in the middle of the week and where do we end up?"

"Yeah but it's fun when you don't have any work to do," Tucker said.

"And there will be no teachers around." Danny added.

"Or Paulina," Sam said happily.

Danny was just about to say, "And no Dash" when a tremendous snowball blasted him on the side of the head.

"You really nailed him good!" Kwan yelled as he smacked Dash on the shoulder.

"Let's play geek bowling!" Dash yelled as they started toward Danny, Tucker and Sam. The three friends looked at each other then started running. They ended up skidding on a patch of ice and almost hitting a wall, except Danny, who was holding on to both Tucker and Sam for dear life, phased them through it. They crashed into a stack of boxes.

"Oh great!" Danny said as he looked around the dusty store room. He was expecting The Box Ghost. This was the perfect place to find him, but so far…nothing.

"At least we got away from Dash!" Sam said as she dusted herself off.

"I wonder what he's doing here," Tucker said as he made sure his PDA was all right.

"Probably the same thing as us," Sam told him. "He's here to play in the snow."

"Or just to make our lives miserable Danny added as he opened the door to the store room and looked down the hall. The school was empty. There was no one to impede a mad slide down the hall. No Lancer! No Dash or Kwan or Paulina.

The three friends skidded madly through the school. Well not really, Tucker and Danny dragged a protesting Sam with them. She didn't think a mad dash through the hall would be as fun as a mad dash down a snowy hill. But then with a mad Dash outside, inside was probably better.

Danny had taken a card board box and improvised it into a sled. Each friend took turns being pulled down the hall and released to bang up against the lockers. Sam took her turn, but being lighter than both Danny and Tucker and with the advantage of their strength she went flying, high speed into the lockers, hitting them with a bang.

"Ouch!" she cried as she laid on the floor laughing. She was about to say something else when a locker popped open and a book fell out on her head. This gave Danny and Tucker an opportunity of their own to laugh, though partly in relief that she wasn't hurt. Sam picked up the book. It was a journal, the type with the fancy cover and blank lined pages on the inside. She didn't really mean to look. She was simply going to close the book and put it back in the locker it had fallen out of. But, something in the book caught her eye and she looked and looked. Danny and Tucker walked over and looked down at her wondering why she looked so dazed.

"Whose locker is this?" she asked as she pointed up.

Danny and Tucker looked at the locker than each other. "It's Dash Baxter's locker!"

Sam's eyes widened and she looked back down at the book. She read again for a second then took a deep breath and said, "Oh boy!"

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This is going to be a pretty short story with no REAL resolution, just a few revelations. Hmm wonder what Sam found in Dash's locker!