Sam frowned worriedly at her boyfriend. He looked distracted. He had just fought a ghost and sucked it into the thermos now in her handbag for safe keeping. But he didn't look exactly tired, but he did look agitated. They were in the middle of a date but Danny's mind seemed somewhere else.
"Danny, you sure you're okay? You're acting a bit weird," Sam ventured again. Danny nodded and wrapped an arm around her shoulders as they sat back to watch the movie on Sam's home cinema screen. Sam decided to let her boyfriend's weird behaviour go and settled against him.
However a few minutes later, Sam scowled at him again. His leg was bobbing up and down and his fingers on the seat's arm were tapping rapidly. He also kept glancing at the time anxiously. If Sam didn't know better, she'd think he had somewhere important to be. Except, she knew he didn't because he promised her the entire night together. She'd noticed this behaviour before though. He'd have a ghost fight, come back and get fidgety. But then, sometimes he'd disappear into the bathroom and come back absolutely fine. Sam frowned worriedly at him when he glanced at the clock yet again.
"Danny, is there something wrong? You seem anxious," Sam muttered with concern. Danny sighed softly before shaking his head.
Sam frowned. She was not letting this go again. He was obviously distracted. She grabbed the remote and paused the movie. She spun around to face him with a worried but angry look.
"Don't lie to me! Danny, I can see something's wrong! So tell me," Sam requested firmly. Danny grabbed her arm and tried to pull her back down.
"Sam, I'm fine. Just a little tired from that ghost fight. Let's just watch the movie," Danny pleaded.
"No! You're not even watching it Danny. Did something happen with that ghost? Do you need to go somewhere? Are you hurt?" Sam questioned worriedly. Danny blinked at her before shaking his head.
"No. No, there's nothing wrong. I promise Sam. I just… I need the bathroom. I'll be back in a minute," Danny muttered and got to his feet and left before Sam could stop him.
Sam frowned again. She was seeing a pattern and she didn't like it. She had seen this behaviour from her roommate at college. She was trying to quit smoking and every time she disappeared like Danny just had, she came back stinking of smoke. But Sam knew Danny. He'd never get into drugs. It just wasn't something he'd ever want to try, let alone allow himself to get addicted. But she couldn't ignore the signs any more. She got to her feet and followed her boyfriend out of the cinema and edged towards the nearest bathroom door. She bit her lip. She didn't want to suspect Danny of anything but she was worried. It wasn't like him to hide things from her. She knocked but there was no reply.
"Danny? Are you okay?" Sam called tentatively. There was still no answer. She shakily took hold of the handle. She didn't want to invade his privacy but… she was scared for him. She pushed down the handle and opened the door to find… an empty bathroom.
Sam blinked before frowning worriedly. Maybe he had gone to another bathroom upstairs. This was usually reserved for her grandmother as it accommodated the woman's limited flexibility. Sam shut the door and quickly walked upstairs. Her boyfriend could fly so if she wanted to catch him, she had to be quick. Each bathroom she came to, one on the ground floor, one on the first floor and the one near her bedroom on the second floor, she knocked before opening the door to find the room empty. She was getting even more worried and scared now. Her boyfriend had even lied about where he was going. Getting desperate to find him, she went into her bedroom to grab her ghost detector.
But when she opened the door she stopped, shocked to find Danny sitting on her bed holding her ecto-gun. The side panel was open and Danny was pulling out a power unit. Stunned into silence, she did nothing as she watched him grip the unit tightly in his hand. Seconds later he replaced the unit but this time it had no glow. It was dead. Danny pulled out a second unit and gripped it tightly in his hand before letting out a soft content sigh. He put the now dead unit back into the gun and plugged the weapon into Sam's ghost generator. It had been a gift from Danny months ago, created by his parents. It had a massive reservoir of condensed ghost energy that Sam could use to charge her weapons at home. The generator needed to have its main components replaced every few months in order to remain functional. Her parents rarely came into her room but she had a lie already for when they finally questioned what the device was.
Danny sat on her bed for a moment longer, no longer fidgeting franticly, before getting to his feet and turning around. He froze when he spotted Sam watching him with barely concealed concern verging on fear.
"Sam," he began nervously, knowing he'd been caught.
Danny's been caught. How will he react and how will Sam take the news?
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