Hellbreaker, I tried on the battle, but once again my lack of experience with writing ghost battles holds me back. The names are horrible and I had to research because I never called my husband any of those silly nick names.
Jaded Jimmie Productions, lol. I plan on changing the relationships around for a moment so be prepared.
When Danny caught up with them later he found only Tucker, the Goth having gone home due to what the school nurse deemed exhaustion never mind the fact that she had been knocked into a wall. Seems that even with the knock on the head the school refused to see what had really happened, that Sam had been a casualty of the ghosts haunting the school!
"She okay?" Danny inquired as he sat next to Tucker in their last class of the day. The techno-geek nodded as he tapped something out on his PDA.
"Just a minor thing with her head, in fact she didn't even like the fact that I took her to the nurse, but as she knows that took a lot since I hate that place with a passion." The halfa next to him had forgotten that Tucker hated nurse's offices, well, he hated anything that had to do with hospitals. There had been one time that Sam had had to walk him past the nurse's office with a bag over his head so that the dark skinned male wouldn't hyperventilate.
"I still don't understand why you hate them so much." The geek looked at him, his look one of disgust, but Danny knew it wasn't directed at him. Tucker was thinking about the hospitals.
"I just don't do them because they are stinky and full of people who are hurt or sick." He shudders. "I can't even imagine ever wanting to be in one and don't ever plan on being in one." Turning back as his PDA buzzed he smiled. "Sam says that she's fine, just a minor bump on the head and feeling a little drained, but as the whole having powers is new that makes sense."
"I didn't have that problem," Danny stated raising a brow when Tucker turned to him.
"Sam entered the fight before you so therefor she used more power and the fact that her body is small that also means she doesn't have as much stamina, well, at least not at the moment." The halfa blinked as the teacher called on them to be quiet.
I didn't think about all that and what in the hell is going on between Tucker and Sam? Not that he was jealous, but Sam didn't really date, well had never had a boyfriend anyway. Turning back to the teacher he found his mind stuck on that one subject. When the bell finally rang signalling the time for them to go Danny still found that he had yet to shake that thought from his mind, even when his hot girlfriend tried to distract him with a smoldering kiss a few minutes later.
"Danny," she whined as she tugged on his arm, her teal eyes narrowing in frustration. "Danny!" The halfa blinked and smiling down at his girlfriend took her hand before heading off toward the Nasty Burger where the couple were going to be hanging out for the next hour or so while Tucker headed toward Sam and Danny's house. For a moment all was well, the halfa with his girlfriend, actually paying attention to her.
In her room Sam was resting peacefully, well as peacefully as she was allowed with Jazz running around tending to her. When she had gone to the nurse's office, at the insistence of Tucker, she had been instructed to go home and to rest. Jazz had been called to escort her home and the older female had mothered her the whole way there too.
"Now you know that you need to get some rest," the red head said even as Sam protested because Tucker had told her that with a head injury that she needed to stay awake as long as she could. Watching Jazz run back and forth to attend to non existent needs the Goth finally found she had enough.
"Jazz," she said as the red head passed her trying to tidy the Goth's room to said Goth annoyance. "You can leave me alone now. Tucker said he is on-" She was cut off as the doorbell rang and the red head was off. "his way." With in minutes the dark skinned male was in the room and sighing Sam closed her eyes. "Thank god. Can you close the door?" The geek nodded before doing what she had requested. As soon as the door was closed he headed back to her computer desk where he sat in the computer chair.
"So, the resident genius bugging much?" Sam groaned, the answer was that simple. "That fun? Glad that I stayed at school." Sam shot him a glare. "Hey, you know it was the right choice to visit the nurse and after all I could tell that you really didn't want to be at school." The sad fact was that Tucker was right. Sam had wanted to leave with all that was going on with Danny. In fact it was disgusting to watch him and the Queen date especially with how she had been so clingy during the battle.
"I was so tired of looking at that stupid thing and her whining was grating on my last nerve!" the Goth groused. "Did you hear her?" Sam winced. "I had to sit with the geeks and all those weirdos! I can't believe you left me with them!" Tucker chuckled at the perfect pitch of the female before him. "I can't see what he sees in her, but that is his own choice."
"You know you are right on that and I have to agree with you, but why did you encourage that?"
"It makes him happy so why not?" She shrugged. "He would do the same for me, but I will be making a better choice than him." At that the pair grew quiet and Sam realized that Tucker was looking at her rather strangely.
"Sam, we have been friends for a long time and I find that I like you a whole lot," he began. "I was wondering if you would go on a date with me?" It took a moment for that to process, Sam's eyes growing wide in shock, but she didn't say no. In fact she looked like she was thinking it over.
"You know what, why not?"
"That sounds very encouraging," was his response. Sam smiled at him and he found himself giving her an answering smile. Sam was different, that was sure, but she was a great woman with her feet on the ground and a good head on her shoulders. "Was that a yes?"
"Yes, it was a yes. So what should we do for our first date?"
A few hours later Danny returned home with an aching head and a weary body. Paulina had been all over him and as much as he had found some enjoyment in her touches he found her talking rather annoying. She was still upset about him leaving her in the care of what she considered under her while he had aided the ghost girl. That was the one part of it that he could tell really annoyed her. It wasn't just the fact that she had been left without him, but the fact that he had been at Sam's side. Then again, Paulina didn't know that the pair of teens were the ghost fighters that had defeated the large meat ghost.
"Why can't you just let me go and get my own food?" came the sound of a very irritated Sam. "I was discharged from a school, not a damned hospital!"
"You didn't even rest!"
"Jazz! Leave me alone!" Stomping was heard as Sam appeared on the top of the stairs with a rather anxious looking Jazz at her side. "I told you that I am fine, but if you want me to fall down the stairs I would suggest you back off!" The red head took a step back as Sam took a step forward, the pair of females having failed to notice that Danny was home.
"I'm just worried is all. You were sent home for exhaustion and yet you didn't even rest!" the older female stated as she followed behind the raven haired teen. "In fact Tucker just went home like twenty minutes ago when he should have let you rest." The halfa blinked in shock.
Tucker had been here all day? That was odd. Danny didn't know what to think about that information. Then again, why should it bother him either? Tucker was both of their friends and as Danny had been with Paulina it was only natural for the pair to hang out during that time.
"He came to check up on me and then we talked. As for what I was sent home for the nurse was obviously stupid because I have been getting good sleep!"
"What is going on?" Danny inquired, both sets of eyes turning to look at him, but Sam's was the only one that didn't look too shocked as the set of amethyst orbs narrowed.
"What's going on is the fact that Jazz won't leave me alone! I am not a damned invalid," Sam accused as she walked past the other halfa in the room, her bare feet making as much noise as if she were wearing her boots. Danny's next words stopped her cold though.
"Well, you did take a hit," the halfa stated which drew Sam's eyes back at him, the anger in them growing stronger as the shock on Jazz's face became apparent.
"You DID what?!" Sam turned to the older female.
"I got hit by that damned ghost that attacked the school, but I am fine." She then smirked as an idea hit her. "Danny battled her though for Paulina." As the older sibling turned on her brother Sam headed back upstairs, food forgotten as she went back into her room and slammed the door. Sighing she listened as Jazz ripped into the male that was her brother. "Damn you, Danny." Grabbing some clothing from her dresser she changed, the sweat from the battle still on her body, but she ignored the sticky feeling as she did not want to venture back out of her room at that moment. Turning off her light she crawled into bed and found that as soon as her head hit the pillow she was out.
Downstairs Danny listened to his sister tear into him about taking on a ghost, but Danny knew what he could say that would make her leave him alone. As she started to wind down the door to the house opened to reveal his parents and that was when it really got interesting.
"Dad, mom, do you know what your son did this afternoon?" Jack looked past his daughter and ignoring the female headed for the kitchen for his snack... fudge as usual while Maddie looked to her daughter.
"What did Danny do, hon?"
"He put himself in danger for a girl!" Jazz said in her most appalled voice. The other, older red head narrowed her purple gaze at her son, the look questioning. "There was a ghost at school and Danny fought it for this girl!" Maddie blinked in confusion. She did find it bad that her son had took on a ghost with little training and yet if he had done it to protect the girl then she was proud.
"Danny, you battle a ghost?!" came his father's shocked question as he re-entered the room with a plate of fudge.
Munching on a large bite of the chocolate squares he managed to continue. "That is great! I am so proud of you son, but you really should get some more training so that you can protect this girl better." Smiling at his wife he took another bite. "Like I do for your mother." The other ghost fighter sighed in annoyance. Yes, she loved her husband, but in any battle it was obvious who protected who.
"And Sam was hit by the same ghost!" Jazz cried, not understanding why her parents would encourage their teen son to battle. "She was sent home from school because she was hit by it." The pair of older ghost fighters looked to their son for an explanation.
"She was... helping me." It was the only thing that came to mind, but it seemed to satisfy his father even as his mother frowned.
"I don't know if it's a good idea for-"
"Maddie! Don't worry about them! They took one down!" Walking off Jack left the trio standing there, all of them with different emotions.
