ShadowDragon357, wow, that sucks, but I doubt that Tucker would be that way if he had a child. I mean, he can be a tad too much into it, but he did a reasonable job with the Flower babies. Yeah, I would have thought that too about Tucker, but once again he is a tad unemotional unless it comes to himself or to his electronics. Remember when in Urban Jungle he was strapped to a tree with Danny. His first words were about how unfair it was that he was about to be eaten by plants when he never ate vegetables. No concern for the rest of the city. Hellbreaker, good point about Vlad and you know me. I love to make Vlad a sadistic fruit loop. You are also very close to the answer to the bad guy, but at the same time it is not quite the full answer. sammansonrepilica, I am glad that you are pleased and I was wrong. "Apparently with Vlad being the crazy and very twisted fruit loop that he was had tried to take over the world a few years back in the form of helping it when a meteor had come toward it. The townspeople had barely trusted him after that even though he had saved it from said meteor without charging them." (Chapter Two) I thought that I had mentioned it somewhere. PP has happened, but not at the time that it would have happened in the series. I hope that clears it up. I would like to welcome the first follower of this story. Thank you for adding me to your list, twolf25.

Sam opened her eyes for what had to be the hundredth time, the cold having seeped into her bones as she fought to stay conscious. She knew that if she fell asleep then there was a very big possibly she would die.

"Now is the time," said her captive as he floated down to her, his red eyes flashing in triumph as he overshadowed her, his form taking control of her. She fought him, her body jerking around like a person having a seizure.

"No! You wi-ill not!" she screamed as she fought him. Again she did as she had before, her mind searching as she concentrated on Danny, his face in her mind's eye as she called for him. "Danny! Help me!" were the last words she said as her energy gave out and the ghoul was able to gain full control. He thrust her soul into a corner of her mind, the darkest part of it as she screamed once more, the sound echoing in the void of her mind as he closed the door, a click reverberating as he locked her in.

"You will stay there as I use you to enact my revenge on all of you for what you did to me!" he said, her lips moving and her voice still escaping, but her mind no longer in control. She glared from behind the door.

"I will get out of here and when I do so help me I will kill you Vlad!"

The male smiled, her lips curling up giving the Goth an evil appearance as he headed out of the cell, her form phasing through the cell doors.

"Danny! Help me!"

Danny stopped mid flight, Vlad's mansion in the below him now.

"Was that Sam?" he inquired out loud as he looked around. Below him the mansion was eerily quiet, the lights off and not a single sign of someone even being in the house or having been in the house. Lowering down to stand in the yard, his white boots flattening the grass below him. Where was she? Walking toward the house he was surprised when his phone rang. He would have ignored it, but he couldn't afford to do that with Sam missing so on the next ring he answered it. "Hello?"

"Danny, we have good news."

"Really?"

"Sam is safe." Danny looked confused.

"How do you know?"

"Because she is here right now. She just showed up on the doorsteps. A little worn for wear, but other than that she looks fine." Danny smiled, but he was still confused. Little did he know that if he had gone into the house he would have found that the place was abandoned, all Vlad's furniture covered with dust and webs, but Danny turned and headed home.

Maddie smiled at the dark haired adolescent before her as they waited for Danny. She was a slightly confused as to the fact that Sam had not said a word, no; the girl had just sat there with this weird look on her face. She hadn't asked about her parents nor had she seemed all that...well, it was hard to explain it. It was like she hadn't been missing for over a week. Sam was acting off, but normal at the same time. Was she in shock? What was weirding the mother of two out the most was how clingy Sam was, but maybe that was from the kidnapping so she allowed her to cling even though a few times she had to admonish the teen when her hands wandered inappropriately. The only thing was the fact that her hair had been cut off to be about the same length as Danny's.

"Sam, you are doing it again," Maddie said as sweetly as she could manage as she removed the girl's hands from her butt again. "Please stop doing that." The girl smiled up at her, though it looked somewhat apologetic it also looked...evil. The Goth's face was dirty and her attire covered with grime as well.

"Sorry Maddie," Sam said causing Maddie to cringe. That was another thing that was bothering her. She was acting like someone else, but the red head was having a hard time placing a finger on it. That's when the front door burst in and Danny rushed in, his eyes searching everywhere for one person. When his eyes landed on the dark haired girl curled up at his mother side he smiled, his eyes never noticing the uncomfortable look in his mother's eyes as she looked to him for support. Rushing over he sat before his friend, her amethyst eyes looking to him.

"Are you hurt?" he inquired. The Goth shook her head. "Who took you? Was it that bastard Vlad?" At this the teen glowered at him before relaxing. It would have bothered Danny, but he was so concerned that he just seemed to write it off. She shook her head at his question. "I'm sorry about your parents." At this the female looked rather confused and at the same time there was another emotion, but the halfa couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"I don't know what you are talking about," the girl said. "What about them?"

"Sam, your father and mother are dead." The teen before them didn't look shocked nor did she look upset. There was no emotion in her eyes and then she sighed. There was no sadness to the sigh, it was just a sigh. "Are you okay? You seem different." Now he was beginning to wonder about the female before him. Then his sister appeared.

"She is just in shock, Danny. Don't be so paranoid," the red headed sibling said as she sat on the other side of Sam, her arms falling around the other girl as she pulled the Goth toward her. It almost seemed as if the dark haired girl fought being pulled from their mother, but that had to be wrong. "She just doesn't know how to feel about this whole thing. We don't even know what was done to her." Danny turned to his sister and then back to Sam in shock. This was true. They had no idea what she had gone through and what had been done to her! "Don't even think about it," Jazz warned. "She is much too fresh from what has happened to go badgering her about the details. When she wants to tell us she will." She looked down at the Goth who turned to look at her. "Isn't that right Sam?" The girl nodded.

"Seems that you don't have any feelings," the Goth mocked from her cell in the darkness, her words echoing as she smiled. Maybe she had a chance. All it would take was for Vlad to fuck up and then Danny would know, but she was sure that her friend would notice that she was not acting like she normally would.

"Don't worry little Goth. It won't matter about my feelings now will it?" That was a strange question and Sam would have voiced more, but she could feel what little energy she had wasting away. The darkness seemed to be seeping it away.

"I am a little worn out," Sam said as she faked a yawn.

"Sam, the police are going to be coming tomorrow as they decided that it would be better to wait for you to be well rested for questioning," Maddie said as she gazed down at the girl in question. "You will stay with us for now since your...parents..." the red head faded off. Even if she hadn't gotten along with the Manson's it was still horrible that Sam had lost her parents so young. Sam should have been able to have her parents longer. For them to watch their child grow. With a cry she launched herself at her son, her arms falling around him. Jazz rolled her eyes. Now her mother was getting all weird.

"What our mother was trying to say is that you will stay with us while all of this is being figured out. You will sleep in my room tonight." Grabbing Sam's hand she headed up the stairs, her voice echoing down the hall as she continued to talk to the Goth. Danny looked down at his mother, who sniffled.

"Mom, are you okay?" His mother sighed with a nod. "Do you feel like something is off-"

"With Sam? Yes. She was acting weird and she was..." she faded off with a shudder. "I don't even want to go there." Turning to the stairs the two ghost hunters pondered about the girl under their roof. "I need to hit the sack since we all have a long day tomorrow." Kissing her son on the forehead she headed up the stairs. Danny watched his mother disappear up the corridor as his father appeared from the kitchen.

"Hey, dad," the male called out. His father turned to him, in his hand a plate loaded down with fudge while his face was covered with the brown sweet. His mouth was stuffed with said sweet so when he tried to talk food spewed out instead of words. Sweat dropping he shook his head. "Never mind." His father tried to say more, but the ghost boy was gone in an instant.