Danny's POV

River grabs my shirt and menacingly threatens me. I look at Clockwork for help and he shakes his head at River. "River, please stop scaring Daniel. He will help."

I twist toward him as best I can without tearing my shirt. "Really?"

Clockwork puts a hand on River's shoulder and she drops me. I fix my shirt and glare at her. She sticks her tongue out at me while Clockwork pretends not to notice. "River's in the same predicament as you were two years ago. Though, while you couldn't control your ghost half, she can't control her human half. You have to help her. Unless you would rather me point her in the direction of Vladimir? I'm sure he'd be ecstatic to help."

I sigh. "Fine. But only because it'd be a pain in the butt to have Vlad and Vlad junior running around."

River smugly smiles at me. "Just know, I'm not going to be a goody two-shoes just because you're helping me. I'm still a thief through and through."

Clockwork sends us back and I hear him say, "For now, River."

Sam punches me as soon as we step out of the portal. "How come you didn't take me?"

I shrug. "Ask Clockwork. He told me that I have to help River."

A little while later...

Sam, Tucker, River, and I are standing in my parents' lab, staring at each other, well we are staring at River who is concentrating on changing form. For the fourth time, she threw her hands up. "I can't do it! I just can't do it! If only genius over here wouldn't be so vague, maybe I could even begin to try! But, όχι! Maybe I'd be better off with, who was it, oh yeah, Vladimir!"

I flinch, knowing if she doesn't calm down, someone will get hurt. Small energy bolts crackle around her clenched fists as she rants. "River? Calm down." Sam steps in front of me and I reach to pull her back, only to have my hand smacked away. "I get that you're frustrated, but you have to be patient."

River turns her piercing gaze on Sam. I notice that, instead of her eyes being gold, they now are silver. She takes a deep breath and tries again. This time, silver washes over her head, sending small streaks through her hair, but other than that, she stays human. River groans. "At this rate, I'm not only a half-human freak, but I'm going to be a tacky one at that."

Sam and I share a look, and I laugh at her expression. River rounds on me, shooting me with an ice blast, effectively freezing my mouth shut. "I think I got that down." Her hair washes back to the golden color of her human form. She groans and an energy bolt shoots out of her hands when she flung them up out of frustration. "I give up. I just give up." She sits on the table and takes out gummy worms that had mysteriously appeared when she went to 'use the bathroom'.

Sam takes them from her and shakes them in her face. "Apparently you have enough control to go and get candy in the span of three minutes."

River grins, calmly taking them back to show she was completely unfazed by Sam's outburst. "Daniel shouldn't leave them in the most obvious place, well obvious for me. In the wall, what are you, two?"

I involuntarily flinch at my full name. "It's Danny."

River waves a gummy worm at me in a dismissive gesture. "I like Daniel better. Besides, didn't you want these back?" She sticks the worm in her mouth and reaches for another one.

I fly at her to grab them, but she effortlessly dodges me without her powers. She jumps onto me, flipping herself over, while making me crash down onto the table she was sitting on. "Too slow, Daniel."

Tucker sniggers, ducking Sam's smack to his head. "Dude, you just got owned by a girl."

Sam can't help her own smirk. "Not only that, but she didn't even use her ghost powers."

I sulk, glaring daggers at River, Tucker, and Sam. "Who's side are you on?"

Tucker shrugs, Sam avoids eye contact, and River smirks, eating another of my gummy worms. I blast the table that River's sitting on. I grin when she jumps, glaring daggers at me for the second time today.

River throws the gummy worms to the ground, her eyes glowing silver as she changes from her human form to her ghost form. She doesn't register this as she flies at... through me. I shudder as a feeling of cold rushes into my veins.

"Freeze, gummy worm thief! I have you surrounded!" I duplicate myself, four of me surrounding River. She turns invisible and sends her voice around the room.

"Now you don't. And I can't freeze, so deal with it!"

I hear movement behind me and turn, blasting the table next to Sam. She glares at me and launches herself in my direction, yelling at me to be careful. River reappears and tosses the rest of the gummy worms on the table.

"I surrender. Anyway, I just wanted a few."

How did you like this chapter? I'm sorry I kinda dropped off the face of the Earth, but I'm still writing this. I made Danny like gummy worms. Hope nobody yells at me because I made him hide them in the wall, but it's what I would do... along with my money and notebooks... but there's a matter of spiders... Anyway, please tell me what you thought of it.