xLa Reyna Phantasmax, he will fade, but I refuse to kill him. Hope you continue to enjoy the story and I know that you are joking. elise-hale913, thanks. *blushes* I try. I am glad that everyone is enjoying the story. I am sorry about the mix-up with the chapters. That last chapter seven was from another DP fic. Oops. Anyway enjoy the real chapter seven.


Sam and Dan sat in her room now huddled close as they thought about how to go about what they were about to do.

"I think I should talk to him first," Sam said as she turned to her lover. He looked at her, a frown on his handsome face. "It makes more sense then us together. Just think. If we showed up in front of him he would just lash out without any warning. I need to talk to him alone and then bring you in. Not like he knows where I have been." Dan understood, but he feared that his younger half knew more than she thought he did.

"Yeah, right," a voice said. The pair looked up to find Danny walking from the shadows, his blue eyes flashing green as he transformed. Dan immediately stood up and moved in front of Sam. "I have a feeling of where you were even if I don't want to imagine something so vile and disgusting." Sam peeked around Danny as he began to power up before the couple. "Sam, this is not like you to run away from home and into the arms of a monster like this!" The Goth frowned as she pushed Dan to the side so she could approach her friend.

"I didn't run away!" she yelled, her voice echoing. "Dan took me to-" She was cut off as Danny looked to his older half.

"See! I knew that she wouldn't go to you willingly! You kidnapped her!" He glared over at Dan who was glaring right back. "You need to come over here, Sam before he does something else." The dark haired beauty looked at him in shock as she shook her head. "Come on Sam," he beckoned her. Again she shook her head as she backed away.

"No, Danny," she whispered, her eyes burning with tears. She never thought she would find herself so scared of her friend, the love of her young life, and torn between his other half. "You are scaring me," she whispered as she continued to back up. It might have been her backing up, it might have been the words she used or it might have been the fear in her voice, but Danny blinked as he realized that his hands were glowing with power. He looked at his hands as if they were not his own before looking at his friend of several years, tears streaming down her face even though he could tell that she was trying to hold it in. He backed up as his the energy in his hands faded.

"Sam, you are afraid of me?" he asked in a soft voice as Dan reached out to grasp the small girl's pale arm. Danny watched as Dan pulled her back behind him. She didn't fight him and as soon as she was behind him he heard her burst into tears. What the fuck? "You did this to her!" he accused his other half who just looked exasperated now.

"No, she is being hunted and now you are acting so out of character...You are acting like I did." That was like throwing gas onto a flame as power burst around Danny, his eyes almost white as he growled.

"I AM NOT YOU!" he screamed as his power began to burn the walls, the colors that had once graced the walls turning black. "I will never be you! You are dead!" He ran at Dan only to come to a sudden stop as Sam moved in front of Dan, the older male yelling at her to get back, but she paid no heed as she looked up into his eyes.

"You are him!" she said loudly. "You are him with a soul! Just because you are a human too doesn't mean that he isn't alive." She turned to Dan with a smile as she turned back and grasping Danny's hand forced his hand onto Dan's chest on top of the DP emblem that she had made him all those years. "Feel it?" she whispered. Danny didn't want to touch his other half and as he began to pull away he felt it. A heartbeat. Slow, but still a heartbeat. Did ghosts have those? "Danny, he is you and you are him. Can't you see that he is just as much alive as you and I?"

"Sam," Danny said as he pulled away to look at her. She was glowing and she was smiling. "You made a point, but he is still evil." She shook her head. "How can you tell?"

"Danny, he came to save me from another more powerful form of him and you."

"What?" Another Dan? "Are you kidding me? There can not be another form of us!" Dan stepped forward now, his eyes flashing green and then red before resuming their green tinge.

"His name is Vladmius and he is a form of us that can never feel. He wants to kill her," he said as he looked to Sam who nodded. "When you came to the tower earlier he followed you. We are lucky that Clockwork sent him off to give us time to escape. We need your... help." It took a lot for the male standing between them to ask for that assistance, but he had and Sam hugged him at that moment as she looked to her childhood friend.

"Danny, I saw him," she whispered as fear filled her voice. "He looks just like Vlad, but his eyes," she shuddered. "His eyes are yours." Danny was taken back by that. "They are that same blue gaze, but they are almost white too with such malice in them. Danny, he wants to kill me, please help us." Danny stood there looking into his friend's wide amethyst eyes, her fear evident in them, but he could see other emotions in them. He looked to Dan, the male's green eyes his own that is made him rethink he opinion on the other ghost. He had always thought that Dan was a monster, a monster that had truly once been himself. In the male's green gaze were also emotions, but Danny couldn't tell what they were, the ghost blocking his attempts to read him as his gaze became shuttered.

"I don't like you with him, but I will help you," he said as he turned his gaze to the girl before him. She smiled, her eyes twinkling, the fear still there, but it was smaller now as she realized he would help her.