ShadowDragon357, yeah pretending is never the right way, but what happens when the plan is really just a subconscious want or wish. Also, repression is a horrible thing because when things from your past come back it just makes your heart hurt and you want to cry because all those feelings just hit you at once.

Hellbreaker, yeah. Adam? That was part of a saying I heard growing up. You don't know me from Adam. Sorry, old saying.

Fantasma29, lol.

sammansonrepilica, and cooling down! lol.


"What?" the halfa questioned as he leaned back from her for a moment. "Some one tried to kill you? When?" Sam released him and headed for the house, the raven haired male following her quickly. Opening the door the pair headed in where Sam went to the living room. Danny joined her on the couch a second later.

"I think it's from my past, but I can't be for sure," she muttered. "I am sure of one thing." She looked at him. "The fear. I can feel it clawing at me, griping me so hard that I find it so hard to breath."

"When d- You remembered this days ago." Sam nodded. She could tell that the halfa was upset with her hiding it, but she hadn't been super sure, but with all the visions entering her mind of the same thing over and over she grew more sure that she was being hunted. That was what it truly was because she could feel it, the feeling of someone so close to her and yet she never saw them. That was what hunters did. They watched and strategized how they would get their prey and while most of the time the prey had no idea, there was always that feeling in the back of your mind. Some people failed to listen to it, but Sam wasn't one of those people. "What do you remember?"

"I can see a pair of people, a male and a female, both older than me. They are both well to do, their appearance wealthy with the jewels and the cloths that they wear. The male has blue eyes and blond hair while the woman is a red head with teal eyes."

"Like my sister," Danny said, the pieces starting to come together.

"Yeah, like Jazz, but this woman seems to hate me. Don't ask me why, but she does. The guy looks at me with indifference. I don't think that he hates me per say, but I am sure that the woman does." Sighing she told him the part that bothered her the most. "She accuses me of something having to do with her husband and she has a broken bottle neck in her hand." A shudder ripples through Sam as the hair on her neck stands on end. "She wants to kill me and then these last few weeks I have been feeling like someone is watching me."

"But Sam, everyone has been watching you." She shook her head.

"While that's true, this gaze comes at the weirdest times like when we are walking home or to school. It comes when I am in the hall and there is no other student save for you or Tucker. Danny, I can't explain it, but I am sure that someone is watching me." Danny looked deep into her eyes, the fear that reflected back at him was strong. Sam was truly scared. He wasn't sure if she was telling him the truth, but for now he would humor her. Little did he know that she would need his protection.


A day later Sam sat between the pair of males' desks, the pair of teens that she had come to know as friends and more than that as they were her life at the moment, her lifelines. Danny excused himself to go the restroom, his lips falling on her own by instinct drilled into him over the weeks and she accepted, the instinct drilled into her. He had become more comfortable with them kissing and had even initiated it on his own a few hours into their first day. As she threw him a smile the pair watched the male go.

"So how long are you going to date each other?" Tucker inquired as he sat on the other side of Sam in the first class after lunch. "I thought that if she really wanted him she would have made her move on him." Sam smiled, her smile wavering slightly.

"She has made her move, more than once in fact. He spurned her for the sake of making the relationship look more realistic but she will have her chance soon enough." Tucker's right brow rose in confusion.

"Aren't you upset?" The Goth looked at him in confusion. "That she would do that when you two are dating?"

"Why would I be upset? This is a fake relationship." The techno-geek gave her a look of skepticism, the look telling her he didn't believe her. "Seriously, you are taking this somewhere it didn't even go."

"So all the kissing and hand holding..." he faded off to let her work that out. While they had been dating for a while now she hadn't realized that something had changed between the pair. There was more comfort, but she had just assumed that it was from the routine that had begun to take place between the pair. Living with Danny and then going to school with him they were almost always together. At some point you had to grow close to someone that you spent all the time with.

Shit! Am I falling for someone who I am helping get another girl? Shaking her head she tried to dispel that thought. She didn't love Danny! That was crazy talk. Before she could answer Danny took a seat next to her while Tucker looked to her with questioning teal eyes. Before Danny could say a thing to her she turned on him, her eyes flashing.

"Danny, I know that you want to break up with me," she stated to the shock of everyone, including the halfa sitting before her. He frowned at her in confusion, but Sam stood up, the action forcing Lancer to stop in the middle of his lecture. The teacher opened his mouth to tell her to be silent only to be silenced himself as her hand flew up. "If you want to break up you should have done it instead of just dragging me along for the ride!" She stepped back as she glared at the halfa. "I shouldn't have had to hear about you and Paulina through the damn grapevine! How fair is it to me when you use me and then to make it worse trash me behind my back!"

"S-Sam, I don-" the halfa began as he stood up. Sam shoved him back in his chair.

"Don't pretend that you don't know what I am talking about! We are through!" Turning her back on him she stomped off. As soon as the door slammed Danny found all eyes on him, looks of shock at their break up. Paulina smiled from her desk on his left side and the halfa found that he was still watching the door that Sam had just exited.

"What the fuck just happened?" the halfa muttered looking to a very shocked Tucker. The techno geek had not even known she was going to do that! She had talked about breaking up with him, but had thought that she was all talk and no action. In fact he had thought she liked Danny more than she was letting on.

"I think she just broke up with you," the techno-geek stated. "You did want that, right?" Danny nodded, but in his heart he felt a pain at the loss while a Hispanic teen smiled at his side. He had wanted that, but now he wasn't so sure.


Sam didn't leave the grounds, the fear of someone sill following her grounding her to the building. She headed down the halls of the school the library where she sat and waited for the bell to ring. She knew that Danny was in shock, but what had shocked her had been the pain in her chest as she had broken it off with the halfa. Tucker had been right about them staying together for so long. She should have broken it off with him so much sooner, but somehow she had never been able to. Maybe it had been the affection or the fact that she liked the attention he gave her, but whatever it had been she had enjoyed it. Shaking her head she laid said head on the table as she allowed her eyes to drift shut.

Whatever, it was it is over.

"You are so w-wort- so fucking worthless!" a red head screamed angrily as she shook the bottle at her. In truth her mother had become worse over the last ten years with her drinking and smoking, the house a wreck from the lack of care. The adult looking at her had also seen better days. Around her she found bottles that littered the ground around her feet, some with liquid in them others drank dry.

A whimper escaped Sam's lips as she felt disgust at the appearance of the woman in her dream.

"S-Samantha-a, you make me want to just strangle you every time I se-ee you," she slurred out before taking another swig. "You are the spitting image of Tyson, the bastard," she spat before throwing the bottle on the ground, the glass shards flying everywhere. Sam felt the shards of glass hit her legs while others fell under the other female. "I guess that makes-s you a bastard's child and a b-bastard child too," the older woman said with a dry chuckle. "Because of you my hu-usband le-eft me!"

Samantha? Was that her name?

She watched as the woman she called mom reach down to grab the neck of the bottle before looking at her, the raven haired girl standing before her in total fear. The fear that Sam felt was so strong...

Sam sat up with a scream tearing from her throat and echoing around the large room. The librarian rushed to her side as sweat rolled down Sam's face mixing with tears that fell down her cheeks. Her eyes were glazed with sleep and fear.

Was that her mother? Was her mother trying to kill her? Something told her that was the mystery surrounding her. She had run from home because her mother had cracked and was after her!

"Are you okay, dear?" the older woman questioned as the other woman took in her pale coloring. Sam blinked as her mind cleared. Looking to the woman at her side she nodded. "Are you sure, you look a little pale."

"Just a nightmare." After assuring the librarian that she was fine she got up, her eyes landing on the clock above the library doors. It's already three? Walking out of the library she headed for the front door to find a car that looked out of place in the nice streets of Amity. In the driver's seat was a shadow that seemed to be watching the doors. Backing up Sam found herself back in the school. What was she going to do? Who was that?


As the male teens walked down the street toward Danny's house the techno-geek stopped, his eyes growing wide at the picture on his screen. At first the halfa didn't notice until he realized he couldn't hear the sounds of Tucker's PDA. Looking back he found the other teen still standing there in the middle of the street, cars passing him while his teal eyes grew wider as he scrolled down. Waiting as the teen continued to scroll, his finger stopping only to read more. Around them the sun sank lower as the wind blew around them.

"Come on, Tucker!" Danny called, but the geek shook his head as he continued to scroll. What is he looking at? Walking back toward the other male he found Tucker reading something on his Facebook page. "What is so important that it couldn't wait un-" He stopped when Tucker flipped back up to the picture of a girl that resembled Sam. "What the hell?" Snatching the PDA he looked closer at the image of a girl with a sad look reflecting in her large eyes. The girl in the image was so much younger than the one that they had found, but it had to be her because those eyes that looked back at him were her own amethyst orbs. This Sam looked beaten, her eyes like saucers, but the image was only of her upper body, the small bruises on her face making her pale skin seem paler.

"Is that Sam?" Danny nodded. Scrolling down he found his mouth falling open.

This is Samantha Alexandra Manson at the age of ten. She was last seen at her mother's house several weeks ago. She has since gone missing, her mother's car gone from the front of the residence. Her ex-husband, Thurston Manson, is looking for both females after receiving a call from a neighbor that heard yelling from the residence weeks earlier and has heard nothing since then. There is suspected foul play as the are reports of the young girl showing up in the hospital several times in the past with bruises and broken bones. There were no charges brought against the single mother, but now that they are missing people are beginning to speculate whether the mother killed the small girl and has fled the state. Others report seeing the young girl fleeing from her house after the reported shouting. Sam is now seventeen years of age. There are no current photos of the teen. If you see her please notify the police.

Danny looked to Tucker. "When did this-"

"Just now." Tucker took the PDA back, his fingers beginning to type on the small handheld device. "One of my facebook buddies forwarded it since they live in the area where this happened." The halfa frowned as he thought back to what Sam had confided in him. The fear that had been in those eyes was evident in the eyes of the ten year old girl. The Goth had been right and she was in danger. "There has to be more on this and we need to find it." He looked up to find his half ghost friend spacing out. "Dude, you okay?"

I don't know who I am, I can see images and not a single one of them is good... And I think that someone tried to kill me.

"She told me that she was being watched, but I blew her off." Tucker said nothing, but the look in his eyes was of confusion. Placing his arm on the shoulder of the male next to him he waited because he could feel that there was more to this then just that one sentence. "I thought that she was just being a little strange and with all the attention from us dating that maybe she thought she was being watched."

"Dude, you can't beat yourself up about this. Not like we had any proof." Danny grabbed Tucker by the front of his shirt, his cerulean eyes flashing green. He had known and even without proof he still should have kept a better eye on her!

I have been feeling like someone is watching me...this gaze comes at the weirdest times... walking home or to school... in the hall and there is no other student...

"She told me that when she felt that feeling of being followed it was in the school!" Releasing Tucker he rushed back toward the school just as a really slow driving car passed them.


Sam knew that Danny had long since left and she knew that she couldn't stay in the building forever, that just wasn't going to happen, but she didn't want to leave the safety of the school grounds either. Sending a quick prayer to the heaven she looked out again to find that the car was gone.

"Thank God!" She took a step out of the building to hear someone calling her name. Her first instinct was to back up toward the school as she looked around.

"Sam!" It hit her that it was Danny that was calling her so stepping back out she rushed at him, her relief at seeing it was just him so strong. Rushing out into the street just as Danny reached her, she crushed herself against him as fear made her body shake. "Are you okay?" he questioned. The Goth's brow rose in question when she realized how this must look to him.

"Yeah, just.." she faded off as she heard the sound of tires squealing. Looking up she saw the car from before as it turned a corner and was off. "Was just so glad to see you."

"Sam, we found something that you have to see," the halfa said just seconds before Tucker arrived, "But first we need to get you indoors." The Goth looked to Tucker for an answer, but the geek in question just shook his head. "Come on!" Taking her hand the trio rushed toward his house never seeing the car from before stop at the corner to watch them.

"There she is," a voice said as the shadow leaned forward. "Now how to get to her?"