"Ah, the rain finally stopped." Tucker yawned as he looked out his window. "I hope Sam's feeling better today." Tucker thought opening the door to his room making his way into the living room. Tucker immediately noticed Danny nervously pacing around the room with Sam nowhere to be seen. "Are you ok?" Tucker asked Danny unsure if he had seen him walk in or not.

Danny's head jerked towards him. "Tucker thank goodness your up. Have you seen Sam? Do you know where she is?" Danny asked quickly almost running up to him.

Tucker gave him a confused look. "Isn't she sleeping in your bed?" Tucker asked not quite understanding what was going on.

Danny moaned in frustration. "No, she got up earlier and got me up." Danny groaned in irritation.

"Hey, calm down." Tucker said getting defensive. "I didn't know."

Danny instantly look away regretful at his actions. "I'm sorry Tuck, it's just. We were going to go out to breakfast since we were up early. She wanted to change, but I forgot to put her clothes in the drier last night. So she said she was going to run home real quick a change while I took a quick shower. She said she would be back in half an hour. That was over an hour ago." Danny explained swiftly.

"Ok, ok, calm down." Tucker said seeing Danny getting worried. "She probably just got tied up at home. Did you call her cell phone?" Tucker asked as he pushed Danny to sit down.

"Yeah, I got no answer." Danny said taking deep breaths. "She always has her phone on her, why wouldn't she answer." Danny asked getting more anxious.

"Chill out, maybe the battery died. Did you call her house phone?" Tucker asked as he sat down on the sofa next to his troubled friend.

"No." Danny breathed jumping off the sofa. He walked into the kitchen where he had left his cell phone.

He quickly dialed Sam's home number and hoped that Sam's voice would be on the other end. "Hello?" Mr. Manson's voice answered.

Danny clenched his fist in frustration not hearing Sam's voice as he had hoped. "Hello, Mr. Manson, this is Danny, is Sam there?" Danny asked trying to be as polite as possible.

Danny could hear Mr. Manson grunt in annoyance. "She had better not be." He quickly responded.

"What do you mean?" Danny asked not understanding what he meant.

"I kicked her out over a week ago." Mr. Manson answered.

"What?" Danny asked confusion evident in his voice.

Danny could hear Mr. Manson getting angrier as he talked to him. "For reasons beyond our control, but not beyond her control, we were forced to disown her and have her removed from the property." Mr. Manson said with emotion lacking from his voice. "Since she is no longer associated with us we would appreciate it if you never called us again. Good day." He added quickly hanging up the phone.

Tucker walked in hearing the silence, and saw Danny looking stunned still holding the dead phone. "Danny, you ok?" Tucker asked waving his hand in front of his face.

"They kicked her out." Danny said more to himself than to Tucker.

"What are you talking about?" Tucker asked still not getting much of a reaction from Danny.

"That was her Dad." Danny finally said turning his head to Tucker. "He said they disowned her."

"What?" Tucker said in shock.

"They threw her out over a week ago." Danny finished.

"That's probably why she's been acting so funny." Tucker assumed.

"Where has she been staying? Why didn't she tell me?" Danny asked himself aloud.

"Her pride probably stopped her from telling us, you know how she is. She probably thought we'd be upset." Tucker answered for him.

"Yeah I'm upset." Danny yelled angrily but Tucker could see his tears building in the corner of his eyes. "Where is she? Where did she go?" Danny asked panic beginning to over take his mind. "We have to find her, now." Danny said instantly changing into his ghost side. "I'll fly through down town, you head north towards the suburbs." Danny ordered. Tucker just nodded as he watched Danny take off through the roof.

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The sun quickly set, ending the beautiful day, but Danny and Tucker's search was still with out end. Danny had spent his day searching the streets of the city, while Tucker searched though the suburbs of Amity Park. "Still nothing." Tucker spoke anxiously into his cell phone.

"What happened to her Tucker? How could she just disappear? Where could she be?" Danny cried on the other end.

Tucker could tell from his voice that he was getting more fearful as the sun fell. "I don't know, but we'll find her." Tucker tried to assure him as he continued searching the streets for Sam. As Tucker turned down the next street he saw a small group of teenagers walking towards him. "Excuse me?" He called walk up to the group. "Do you have a minute? I'm looking for some one, maybe you've see her?"

"What does she look like?" One of the girls asked wanting to help.

"Her name is Sam, she a little shorter than me, black hair, violet eyes, she's been missing since this morning." Tucker explained.

The teenagers looked from one to the other with blank looks on their faces. "Nope", "Sorry", "No", "Haven't see her", the group answered.

"But we'll keep an eye out for her." The same girl responded.

"Thanks, I've been up and down these streets all day. I guess the next place to look is the woods." Tucker said looking to the wooded area behind the residences.

"Oh no you don't want to go up there." The girl quickly responded. "At least not now."

"What do you mean?" Tucker asked looking at her questionable.

"Dude that's where the dragon lives." A boy in the group cut in.

"The dragon?" Tucker's ears perked at the word.

"Yeah, it's Danny Phantoms dragon. He hides her up there when there not battling ghost." His statement got a few chuckles from the other kids in the group. "It's true, I saw her my self." He said defending his story.

"When did you see her?" Tucker asked ignoring the comments from the others.

"Two days ago." He explained.

"Maybe the dragon ate your girlfriend." One of the boys called out causing the rest to break down laughing.

"Hey that's not funny." The girl immediately defended. "Danny Phantom's dragon is not like that, she's very nice and caring, just like Danny."

"What ever, take a joke." He apologies.

"Are we going to the movies tonight or not?" Some one in the group called out.

"Sorry we've got to go, but we'll keep an out for your friend." The girl said as the rest of the group began to leave.

"Thanks a lot." Tucker thanked as he quickly pulled out his cell phone. "Danny." Tucker almost yelled as Danny picked up. "I've got a lead." He yelled excitedly. "Meet me up at the forest outside the suburbs." Tucker said quickly hanging up the phone and started running up towards the forest. As Tucker turned to look for Danny he saw his silhouette zooming across the city skyline heading strait for him.

"So where is she?" Danny asked quickly landing next to Tucker.

"I was taking to a group of kids and one said that seen 'your' dragon flying in and out of the woods. He saw her two days ago." Tucker quickly explained. "She's probably been camping out in there. Where do we start looking?"

Danny sighed looking at the tree line before him. "Well knowing Sam she most like wanted privacy, so I would say the thickest part of the woods would be a good place to start." Danny said starting to float in the air. "Come on." He said extending a hand to Tucker. "We'll get a better view from the air."

Tucker cringed as Danny pulled him into the air over the small forest. "How about over there?" Tucker said pointing to a denser part of the woods. "That looks like a good place to start." He added as Danny flew them over the area.

As they landed they found themselves in total darkness, the moonlight did not reach through trees. Danny formed an ecto energy ball in his hands to help light the way. "She's not going to be easy to find." Danny said. "It might be better if we split up." Danny added.

"Sounds good." Tucker said as he fished in his pockets for a minute, then produced a small flashlight from his back pocket. Danny nodded then started walking in one direction. Tucker started off moving towards the middle for the woods. He soon came into a clearing in the dense trees. "That's weird." He said walking out into the clearing. As he took another step forward his foot caught itself around something on the ground. Unable to stop his motion, Tucker found himself hitting the ground with a loud thud. "What the hell." Tucker cursed shining his light down to see what he had fallen over. Tuckers eyes went wide when he saw the object he had fallen over; he then shined the light over the area around him. "Danny!" Tucker yelled panic evident in his voice.

"You alright Tuck?" Danny's voice quickly entered the clearing. He saw Tucker on the ground on the verge of tears. "Are you ok?" he asked growing more concerned. Tucker said nothing, just shined his light on the article of clothing that was still tangled around his feet. As Danny looked closer he recognized it as his shirt he had lent Sam. He also noticed the blood that now stained the shirt. Danny expanded the energy ball he was holding so it would light up the entire clearing. "No…" Danny breathed as he saw the destruction around them. Sam's supplies littered the clearing, the trees held burn marks, the ground was ripped up and the entire clearing had specks of blood coating.

"What happened?" Tucker whispered looking around at Sam's supplies scattered though the area.

Danny closed his eyes and shook his head hoping it was just a dream and he would wake, but as his head cleared he found himself in the same awaking nightmare. He silently walked over the one of the trees coated with the blood of his love. He lifted his white gloved hand to the substance and whipped a finger over it. He looked back at his finger seeing that the blood was dry. "We're too late." He whimpered softly as the tears he was holding back began to fall.

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"Get up!" a voice rang through Sam's throbbing head.

She growled as she held her eyes shut at the pain that consumed her body. "What happened?" Sam growled to herself as she lifted one eye open. Suddenly Sam saw a strap of leather crack right before her open eyes making her focus her sight in front of her. "I said get up!" Freakshow's voice demanded again as he leaned into her vision.

Sam instantly jumped to her feet as the reality of her situation came racing back to her. She looked around seeing that she was on a platform with metal chain wrapped around her feet holding her to the platform. Freakshow stood in front of her with a whip in one hand and the remote in the other. Behind him, Lydia and his ghost staff surrounded her all of them holding some kind of weapon. She snarled at her captor and grabbed to her neck, still finding the collar still embedded in her. "Danny." Sam thought to herself as she lifted her head to the sky and released an ear-piercing roar over the area hoping that he would hear her.

Everyone around her, including Freakshow, held their ears as Sam continued to roar for Danny. "Stop it." Freakshow commanded holding his remote, pressing a button.

Sam stopped hearing a familiar crackling coming from the collar. Suddenly she was hit with a blast of electricity that brought her to her knees. She wailed as she tired desperately to remove the collar. As the wave of current passed Sam found herself unable to move from the pain, every one of her nerve ending was on fire. "Now that I have you attention." Freakshow started walking up next to her prone dragon body. "First of all, you've been out for almost two days now, and we're more a state away from any one who would care about helping you. Second, that was a mild blast compared to how much pain I can bring you, so you'd better listen when I ask you to do something. Now I believe I told you to get up." Freakshow commanded looking at Sam strait in her eyes. Sam could tolerate the electrical abuse, but she would not bow to Freakshow. She snarled as she forced her body to rise. "See, any beast can be tamed with the right motivation." He bragged to his ghost staff. Sam snarled again, getting back his attention, then formed her energized tail and swung it at him. Lydia jumped next to her master and made him intangible as Sam's strike flew right threw them. As soon as he became solid again he hit the button on his remote sending another wave of electricity to Sam. Sam roared but fought the pain and managed to throw a poorly aimed fireball at Freakshow, as it flew passed his head he pressed another button, doubling the electric shock making Sam fall complete immobilized. As the current intensified Sam was finding it impossible to stay in her dragon form. "The more you fight the more pain I can send to you." Freakshow taunted as he walked up to her. "Change back to your human form." He commanded.

Sam couldn't hold her form any longer and was forced to change back to her battered human form. Sam instantly started coughing up blood as she grasped her throat finding that the collar had shrunk to fit her human neck. "Here's the plan." Freakshow began to explain as he rolled Sam onto her back so that he could look down on to her. "A few strings have been pulled in my favor, giving me my freedom back along with my former life in the Goth circus. You are going to be my star attraction; people will pay a lot of money to see a real life dragon. And I, I will be the dragon slayer, in complete command of the unruly dragon, that's you by the way." He said seeing Sam loosing consciousness. "Ahh, get her caged up." Freakshow moaned seeing that Sam wasn't going to be of any used to him tonight. "We'll have to work on our routine tomorrow." He ordered as he walked away from is new attraction.

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Sam's eyes glazed open as the bumpy motion of what ever she was in gently woke her. In front of her were bars, as she lifted her head she saw all around her were bars. As her eyes began to focus she began to see she was caged. She was caged in a small container that was almost the size of a single bed. Her arms, leg and neck were all bound to the cage with thick metal chains. Next to her she could see other, ghost, also trapped in small cages. They were all stacked, one on top of the other crammed in a train car. "Hey your awake." A voice caught Sam's attention next to her. She looked to her right seeing a small tiger like ghost looking at her. "Are you ok?" The cat ghost asked gently.

"Yeah." Sam uttered softly. "What happened? What's going on? Where are we?" She asked hoping for answers.

"First of all, you were knocked out when Freakshow shocked you. We all saw what he did. We didn't think you would wake up. That was a strong blast. Second, were on our way to the next show, last, were in his train." The cat ghost explained. "Any other questions?"

"Your name?" Sam asked quickly.

The ghost smiled and extended his paw through the bars. "I'm Riley. Are your cursed?" He asked shacking Sam's hand.

Sam smiled and shook her head. "No, I am the accursed, but my name is Sam." Sam corrected him.

"Oh sorry." He apologized rubbing his neck in embarrassment.

It was then Sam noticed that he also had a collar wrapped around his neck. "So you got one too?" Sam asked pulling on her collar.

"What? Oh, yeah." Riley sighed softly. "We all have them." He said motioning to the rest of the prisoners. "But it's not like yours. We're all ghost, and these collars were made to discipline and control ghost. Yours is different."

"What do you mean?" Sam asked not quite understanding.

"Well, for one, we are all controlled by one remote. Freakshow just points it at who he wants to shock." Riley started.

"Well that seems kind of silly, what happens if he drops and breaks the remote, he loses control over all of you?" Sam questioned.

"I wish, if it breaks we all get shocked until he gets to the main control panel. You see one of these train carts monitors all of us and can shock us with out the remote. Your collar on the other hand is not like ours. The only control is the one Freakshow holds, and I don't want to know what would happen if that one broke. It shocks at a much high voltage, it's more intense, more extreme." Suddenly the train came to a halt. "Here we go." He moaned softly.

"What, what's going on?" Sam asked not knowing what was going on.

"We're here, our next show. It's time to sit down, shut up and perform." Riley sighed defeated.

Sam snorted seeing the doors open reveling Freakshow and Lydia. "If he thinks I'm going to perform he's going another thing coming." Sam said definitely.

"Don't Sam." Riley whispered as the cages of ghosts were being unloaded. "It's not worth getting hurt like that again."

"I bow to no one." Sam said looking back to her new friend.

"Ahh, look who's up." Freakshow said walking towards Sam's cage. "You've got a performance to give tonight, and we've got to get you ready." He said mockingly. "Get her out into the ring so we can get her trained before tonight's show." He commanded his ghost staff.

Sam soon found herself in a huge circus tent with Freakshow pacing in front of her, a whip in one hand and the remote in the other. The bars were lifted from her cage but she still remained bound to the platform. "Now transform." Freakshow commanded for the fifth time, he was starting to getting annoyed. Sam still ignored his commands. "Fine have it your way." He finally pressed the remote. Sam jumped as the shock ripped though her body. Sam tried not to yell or cry in pain but she was not succeeding to well. "Now transform." Freakshow yelled as the shockwave ended. Sam looked up and closed her eyes transforming into her dragon side. "Finally. See how much easier it is when you do what your told." Freakshow smiled at her as the transformation ended. But as soon as she regained herself she launched a fireball at him. Lydia again protected him from the blast. "Dam it, what don't you understand." He cursed pressing the remote again sending a stronger shock to her. "You will learn to listen."

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"We've searched the ghost zone and Amity Park and no one has seen her. What could have happened to her?" Tucker sighed softly as he flopped down on the sofa. It had been almost a week since Sam had disappeared. Since her parents disowned her and didn't have an address, the police couldn't put out a missing persons report unless she lived in the city. Danny and Tucker had searched the ghost zone trying to find anyone who might know anything about what happened, but no one seemed to know anything. Danny had told his parents that Sam had disappeared so they could help in the search, but left out the part that her parents threw her out.

"I don't know." A distressed Danny moaned wiping a stray tear from his face. "She wouldn't run away, someone has to be holding her." Danny sighed taking a seat next to Tucker on the sofa. "I feel so helpless." Danny muttered as tears quickly flooded back to his face.

"We'll find her Danny." Tucker said comforting his friend. Suddenly a knock was heard from their door. "I'll get it." Tucker said seeing that Danny was in no shape to deal with who ever it was. Tucker opened the door reveling Jazz on the other side with bags in her hands. An early November's snow fell faintly behind her as she entered their home.

"Hey, I brought dinner." Jazz said as Tucker took the bags from her. "How is he?" She quickly asked taking her jacket off.

"See for your self." Tucker said softly pointing into the living room.

Jazz winced seeing her brother crying softly into one of the throw pillows on the sofa. "Danny." She whispered softly walking up to him. Danny didn't respond, he just continued to grieve. "Danny, we'll find her." Jazz soothed as she pulled the pillow from his face.

"What if she hurt? What if she's trapped?" Danny cried.

"This is Sam were talking about." Jazz said taking a seat next him. "Remember what happened last year, we all thought she died." Jazz stopped to make sure he was listening. After getting a nod gesture she continued. "And looked what happened, she was just fine, and managed to save help save all of us. You've got to believe that she's strong enough to defeat what ever comes her way."

"What if she's scared?" Danny sniffled as he tears subsided.

"When have you ever known Sam to be scared?" Jazz smiled giving him a soft nudge. "Come on, I brought over dinner. Let's eat. Sam wouldn't want you going hungry."

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"I said fire!" Freakshow yelled cracking his whip against his dragon's side. Sam growled in response and sat filmy not moving. "Dam it!" He yelled pressing the button on his remote sending an electrical blast to her. Sam snarled as the electricity ripped through her beaten body. As the wave passed Sam looked up into the snowy night's sky. She no longer remembered how long she had been in Freakshow's grasp. The weeks were all starting to run together. Her body was cut, burned, scarred from all the abuse Freakshow unloaded on her. She still refused to obey his commands and he was beginning to lose his patience with her. "Forget it, just change back." Freakshow sighed giving up for the night. Sam still didn't listen and fired a ball of fire at him. Lydia as always protected him from her blast. Freakshow bit his lip trying to control his temper, but failed. "That's it!" Freakshow yelled pressing the button on his remote giving Sam the strongest blast he could. Sam screeched as the electricity surged through her body, forcing her to change back to her human form. As the light faded it reveled her crushed human body. "When I tell you what to you do it." He screamed striking her weakened body with his whip. Every contact he made left a large gash that immediately oozed blood.

"Why should I listen to a freak like you?" Sam taunted not even trying to stop the blows. Her body was so warn she no longer felt the pain he brought her. Freakshow's eyes burned with rage she continued to ridicule him. "Your nothing by a scared psycho who can't even rise above ghosts."

"That is it!" Freakshow screamed losing his control pulling a knife form his side. "Hold her down!" He yelled to his ghost. It only took four ghost to hold her down in her weaken stat. "I'm going to shut you up for good. I'm tired of listening to your toxic mouth." He hissed leaning over her with a knife.

For the first time Sam felt fear begin to rise in her as she saw the rage in Freakshow's eyes. "Let me go." Sam pleaded as he eyes widened at the sight of his knife. She struggled to free herself but couldn't break free.

"What's the matter? You finally realize that you should be scared." Freakshow laughed. He suddenly thrust the knife into Sam's neck and forced it up to her jaw where the collar didn't allow him to continue. He then ripped open the incision and threw his hand inside her neck and pulled out her larynx. He ripped her voice box out form her body and throw it next to her head. "That will keep your dam mouth shut. Let her up." He hissed whipping the blood form his hands. Even though the ghost no longer held her down Sam couldn't move. The shock of pain and blood lost was too much for her frightened body. "Take her to my trailer, I'm not done with her yet." Freakshow commanded. The ghost picked up her prone body and flew her into Freakshow's room. They tossed her on to the floor and left her. Sam managed to sit up, placing a hand to her open neck. She opened her mouth to try and speak but heard nothing but gargling come out. "Like that trick." Freakshow's voice boomed though the trailer. Sam jumped and pressed herself against the wall of the train car, for the first time she was afraid to face him. "I was hoping that you would just obey me out of fear of pain, but now I'll make you listen from fear of me." He laughed walking towards her pulling the knife from his side. Sam was to petrified to move, what more would he do to her. He grabbed her by her shirt and held her down. Sam started crying not knowing what to do; she was frightened and knew that no one would save her from her fate. "Scared?" Freakshow laughed seeing her tears as he ripped the shirt off of her. Sam closed her eyes silently begging for him to stop as he struck her.

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"No!" Danny yelled as he jumped out of bed in a panic, vomit followed as he gasped for breath. His heart was pounding in his chest, tears flooded down his face, and he could feel another wave of nausea coming on.

"Danny!" Tucker yelled racing into his room. Danny was sitting up in bed tears streamed down his face his whole body trembled. "Are you ok?" He asked worriedly seeing him looking ill.

"Something happened." Danny muttered not really noticing Tucker.

"What?" Tucker said getting his attention.

"Something happened to Sam, something terrible." Danny gasped looking into Tucker's eyes. He threw his hand over him mouth as he ran past Tucker towards the bathroom as another surge queasiness took him.

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Sam woke the next morning in her cage gasping for air. She reached her neck and felt the wound that Freakshow had left. As she rolled onto her stomach tears began to fall as she cried realizing that what had happened was not a dream. She cried into her arms as she tried to hide her face from the world. For the first time she was scared. "Sam…" Riley's voice came from next to her but sounded like it was miles away from Sam. "Sam, what happened?" he asked softly placing a paw on Sam's back. Sam lifted her head not bothering to hide her tears from him. "Oh, Sam." He gasped seeing the wound under her collar. Sam opened her mouth to talk, but she only managed to produce a small whine. "He really did take your voice." Riley said softly.

Suddenly the doors opened and Freakshow walked directly towards Sam's cage. "Get her into the tent." He instructed his ghost. They pulled her cage out and took her to the tent where she spent her painful times when she was not caged up.

"Alright let's try this again." Freakshow said confidently. "Now change to your dragon form." He commanded to Sam who sat of the platform in front of him. Sam looked at him, but as he looked back Sam felt fear rise up and she quickly changed. "Very good." Freakshow laughed walking up to her. "Now, throw some fire." He said pointing to a pile of sticks placed in the tent. Sam didn't even hesitate and threw a well-aimed blast at the wood. "Very good." Freakshow growled at her obedience.

"Now fire!" Freakshow yelled standing in front of Sam pointing up into the night air. Sam obediently fired getting a roar of applause from the audience. "Perfect." Freakshow growled looking back at his enslaved prisoner. Sam looked from the sky back to the ground. She felt embarrassed, a shamed, and still terrified of what would happen to her. "You've been a wonderful audience." Freakshow yelled to the packed tent full of people that had come to see his ghostly creatures and his dragon. "For an last minute thrill before you had back to your normal lives, for just an extra five dollars you can get your picture with my dragon." He added as the audience began to leave the tent.

"Do you think it's real?" A group of kids remained, trying to figure out how Freakshow managed to make the dragon obey his commands. Most of the people had left, only a few remained to get a last minute photo with the dragon. Sam sat not really paying attention to what was going on around her. She hated her self for what she had allowed her self to become. "No it's got to be fake." The kids continued to argue. She was just some pet, a creature that had lost all will to act on her own. Most of all she hated herself for being weak, allowing her self to be vulnerable, to be scared. Suddenly pain filled Sam's senses as she was pulled from her thoughts by a rock well aimed at her head. Sam growled seeing the group of kids holding rocks and stick. One stood empty handed with a pleased look on his face. "I got it." He laughed to his friends. Sam felt rage build inside her as the child continued laughing. Sam suddenly unleashed a ground-shaking roar at the group. All the delinquents looked petrified at Sam stood baring her teeth at the group of pre-teens. Sam then took a step forward making all the kids drop their ammo. "Let's get out of here!" one yelled but as he turned he found himself face to face with Freakshow.

"Having fun?" Freakshow asked bending down getting into the kid's face. The group just stood still not sure what to say. "My dragon was right to stop you." He said sternly. Sam looked at him strangely, there was no way Freakshow would defend her. Freakshow looked over the kid towards Sam and smiled sinfully. "If you want to throw rock at my dragon, that will be another five dollars." He laughed extending his hand for their money.

Sam looked away disgusted at Freakshow, but was more upset for thinking that for once he would not bring her pain. The kids breathed relived that they were not in trouble. "I'm in!" One of the kids jumped towards Freakshow, slapping five dollars in his hand. "Me too." "And me." The whole group paid Freakshow and grabbed there weapons again, and started throwing them at Sam. Sam sighed defeated looking at passed the children, seeing Freakshow chuckling happily as he counted his money. Sam looked back towards the stars allowing a tear to escape as she wished for something, anything to free her from her prison.

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