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Danny walked down the stairs of the Manson household. After his shower he had changed into the new clothes Sam had gotten for him and then decided to wear her ring instead of keeping it in his pocket. He'd have a less chance of loosing it that way. On his way down the stairs he heard Sam yelling at someone. He assumed it was her parents considering she was always in some sort of a fight with them, untll he heard the voice of a child mocking her and then her parents spoke up.
"Samantha will you please stop yelling at some imaginary ghost!" Pamela snapped.
"He's not imaginary! How can you not see that little brat!" Sam yelled back at her mother. Dann walked through the door only to see Youngblood laughing like crazy at Sam. No one even noticed Danny come in.
"Of course they can't see me! Hello I'm Youngblood-"
"And only children can see you, hence the name." Danny rolled his eyes out of boredom, "Honestly will you just get lost you brat."
"Danny you can see him?" Sam asked in shock. Youngblood pouted at Danny.
"You ruined my fun." He said. Danny ignored Youngblood and turned to Sam and her parents.
"Like I said, or he said, only kids can see him, hear him, whatever it is so Sam's not going crazy." Danny explained then turned to Youngblood, "Get outa hear before I suck both you and your parrot into the thermos."
"Whatever you say Phantom, but I'm not gonna go for long, just giving you a break considering what just happened." Youngblood said with a bored look before flying out the window.
"Don't call me that." Danny muttered under his breath.
"He called you Phantom?" Sam asked a little confused. After all, Danny just explained that Phantom was a ghost he knew that is supposedly good. Danny bit his lip slightly and shrugged.
"We look alike and the ghost's sometimes call me by his name?" Danny said trying to think up a good excuse. Sam raised an eyebrow at him.
"I thought I told you you're not a good liar." She said. Danny just sighed and shook his head. He looked over at Pam and Jeremy to see them just staring at him.
"What?" He asked.
"Are you telling me there really is a ghost here?" Pamela asked, a little stunned. Danny shrugged.
"Yeah you just can't see him, I thought I explained that." He said. Jeremy shook his head.
"We were starting to think Sam had gone nuts with this 'non-existent' ghost. I can't believe you actually saw him." Danny laughed.
"Give me the right tools and I could create ghosts sensors for you to put around the house," He shook his head, "Though it would probably drive me crazy having the alarm go off every time there's a ghost around. Or just remind me of my family." Danny sat down and propped his chin in the palm of his hand as he thought back to his old time line.
"Were your parents ghost hunters?" Pamela asked in confusion. Danny gave a small laugh.
"Yeah, much to my disadvantage. They were crazy about ghosts, even tried to create a portal into the Ghost Zone. I picked up a thing here and there but it's not something I like doing." Well it wasn't really a lie. He managed to tell the basic truth. Jeremy cleared his throat.
"Well let's stop the ghost talk and eat dinner shall we?" He asked.
"Fine by me." Danny said with a smile. Sam looked at him before she moved over and started to dish out some food for herself and him.
"Sam you don't have to." Danny said. Sam just shook her head.
"You're a guest, I'll serve your food but if you want meat you're getting that yourself." She said. Danny smiled.
"Vegetarian?" He asked. Pamela sighed.
"We've tried to get her to eat meat but she just won't." She said. Danny shrugged.
"Shouldn't you just be proud of who she is?" He asked. He reached over and took a slice of roast to put on his plate.
"The Gothic outlook on life just wont do for a Manson." Jeremy said sternly. Danny shrugged before eating some of his food. He looked over at Sam who was doing the same thing he was. He held back a laugh and looked up at the ceiling before sighing. How long will I last like this? He asked himself before resuming his meal.
Danny lay awake in the bed he was using at the Mansons. The events of the day ran through his head over and over again. He just couldn't believe what was happening to him. One minute he was hanging out with Sam and Tucker in his timeline and the next thing he knew, everything disappeared all because of Plasmius. Danny gave a sigh before getting out of bed and walking over to the window. He opened it up and looked out. Maybe a short fly would help clear his mind. That idea disappeared as soon as he heard a soft voice singing just next to him. He leaned farther out the window and looked in the direction of the singing. He noticed Sam out on her balcony, softly singing one of Evenesense's songs. He smiled and just listened. He never knew Sam could sing, and she sung really nicely. When she was done he leaned farther out so he was practically climbing out of the window.
"Sam!" He called out, load enough for her to hear, yet softly as to not wake up her parents. Sam looked over at him and smiled before gasping slightly.
"Danny what are you doing, you're gonna fall." She said. Danny just laughed slightly at her before climbing out of the window, placing his feat on the ledge just under his window. He looked over at Sam, smiling, before pushing off of the ledge towards her balcony. Sam gasped and closed her eyes, expecting the the worse. She opened them when she felt Danny tapping her shoulder. Danny stood there, on the other side of her balcony holding onto the railing smiling at her.
"Scared ya, did I?" He asked. Sam stared at him before answering.
"Well I think anyone would have been a little freaked out considering what you just did." She snapped. Danny laughed slightly at her.
"I do this a lot. You don't really have to worry, it's like second nature to me." He explained before climbing up onto the balcony, jumping up and pulling himself onto the roof. He looked down at her and smiled, holding out his hands.
"See," He said, "Come on up, I'll help you." Sam looked at him a little uneasy before locking her hands around his wrist's, just in case he dropped her. Danny did the same to her before pulling her up with him. Sam stood up on the roof before gasping.
"You can see the whole town from up here." She whispered. Danny laughed.
"The view's better from the clock tower." He muttered. Danny sat down just staring out over the city he used to protect. The city where he first got his ghost powers. The city where he, Sam, and Tucker used to catch ghosts together. The city that had a statue of him in the town square. Wow he actually misses that statue, and here he was wanting it torn down. Sam sat down next to him, noticing the far off look on his face.
"Something bothering you?" She asked. Danny looked over at her before looking back at the city and nodding. He played absently with the ring on his finger, "Anything you want to talk about?" Sam asked again. Danny shook his head this time.
"I can't tell you yet, sorry." He said quietly. Sam frowned slightly then looked out at the city as well.
"Well can you tell me the truth about why Youngblood called you 'Phantom' during dinner?" She asked. Danny laughed.
"Not a chance!" He said still laughing. He looked over at her, "You'll have to figure that out by yourself." Sam frowned at him.
"Whatever." She muttered. She smiled at a breeze blew over the two of them.
"Do you wanna know why I talked to you today in the first place?" She asked after a moment. Danny looked shocked for a moment. He never really thought why she even bothered helping him out in the first place.
"Why?" He asked.
"I saw you a lot, out in that park and every time I saw you got a strange sense of Deja Vu...almost like a know you from somewhere." Danny frowned slightly at her explanation and looked down. How could he tell her that it was because of the change in the time lines, that they used to know each other and were dating at one point. He couldn't. He just couldn't risk loosing what they had now, no matter what he couldn't tell her. He looked back up at the sky, then noticed something.
"I natural ghost portal?" He muttered to himself. Sam looked at him in confusion before looking over at what he was looking at.
"Oh that? That's what it's called? That's where all the ghost's have been coming from." Sam said, "No one knows how to close it though." Danny chuckled before standing up.
"Wait here, I'll be right back." Danny said before jumping over the roof where Sam's balcony is.
"Sure..it's not like I can go anywhere, anyway." She muttered. She shivered slightly as another wind blew over her. All she was wearing was a thin black nightgown and it wasn't very warm. Danny came back quite quickly. He had his thermos and a blanket. He threw the blanket at Sam and smiled.
"Thought you might be cold." He said before pressing a few buttons on the thermos and pointing it up at the portal. He shot out the beam sending it flying at the portal and the remains of Skulker got thrown back into the Ghost Zone. Danny looked back at the thermos before pressing more buttons. He muttered something to himself before shooting the ray back at the portal. There was a small sucking sound and the portal closed. Sam stared at him in shock.
"How...How..." She couldn't get the words out. Danny laughed.
"Just a trick I learned thanks to my friend Wulf." he said, "I closed the portal he opened."
"Wulf?" Sam asked. Danny shrugged.
"Ghost." He said. Sam nodded still a little confused. Only then Sam's phone went off. She pulled it out of the pocket on her nightgown before looking at the caller ID.
"Tucker..?" She asked quietly before answering, "What's the deal calling me so late?" She asked him when she answered. There was a nervous laugh on the other end before Tucker spoke up.
"That late already?" He asked.
"Hm Hmm." Sam said, "Hang on a sec, I'm putting you on speaker." She put the phone down, clicking the speaker button as she did so.
"Why?" this time Danny could hear him.
"Hey Tuck." Danny said.
"Wow! Do I wanna know what's going on?" Tucker asked. Sam blushed at his comment.
"Nothing's going on Tucker! We're just talking!"
"At midnight?" Tucker was definitely teasing them.
"We're on the roof talking about random stuff. Ghost's being the main topic I guess." Danny said. Tucker laughed.
"Gotcha. Anyway where'd you get all this information, Danny? Not even the GIW have this much info." Tucker said. Danny rolled his eyes.
"That's because the GIW sucks at anything ghostly, despite the fact that they're a secret government organization that catches ghosts, who by the way, have yet to succeed in that area." he said.
"True." Sam agreed. Tucker laughed again.
"In any case, this Plasmius sounds like a real baddie." Danny froze for a moment. What if Plasmius also still existed, but as a full ghost? Danny shook his head. That's not possible, Plasmius doesn't exist in this word. Vlad does, but not Plasmius. Then again he shouldn't exist either. Danny sighed and lay down.
"Just erase Plasmius from that list please." Danny said with a sigh.
"Why?" Tucker asked.
"He's not needed anymore...wait. Does it just say Vlad Plasmius? There's no split personality or something?" Danny asked.
"None that I can see." Tucker said. Danny paled. If the information of Vlad Master's has been erased and not Vlad Plasmius could that mean that...
"Plasmius is still around.." Danny whispered.
"What?" Sam asked. Danny shook his head.
"Great," He muttered, "I won't be able to sleep at all tonight now."
"Danny, you okay?" Sam asked.
"No I'm not." Danny said. He stood up and held out a hand for Sam, "Come on, we're getting you back inside."
"I guess we'll talk tomorrow?" Tucker asked.
"Sure, and bring my disc with you. I wanna go through it again." Danny said.
"Kay! Night guys." With that, the line went dead. Sam snapped close her cell before putting it back in her pocket and standing up with the help of Danny. He got her down to her balcony safely before climbing back over to his window and into his room. He lay down on his bed, just lay there for a moment.
"Damn it!" He cried after a moment, punching the sides of his bed as he said this. He rolled onto his side and stared at the wall, "I thought I'd at least be rid of him. I guess Clockwork made some changes so I'd no what to be aware of but still...I can't believe he's still around." He squeezed his eyes shut, rolling onto his stomach before opening them and looking out the window, "I hope Dani's here then as well. At least I'd be able to talk to someone I know about this without lying."
Umm okay I know I said there'd be a surprise in this chapter but I just couldn't fit it. I promise it will be in the next chapter...unless of course the whole Plasmius is around counts as a surprise. the next chapter will be up sooner as well alright.
R&R please.