Sam tapped her fingers against the roof of Steve's car as he stood waiting for her to give him information. Although she was trying to sort out what she could and couldn't reveal. It would take some careful thought, she wanted Danny back but she didn't want to ruin his life for it.
"Ok." She said after a deep breath. "What do you two need to know?"
"What have ya got for us girly?" Steve asked with a grin as Sam's face darkened from the "girly" remark. He really did find this girl interesting.
"Well that narrows it down." She replied sarcastically, she was just as willing to play games with Steve as he was with her. The was she saw it, they needed her, they needed her bad.
"Please, we only want to help." Marie reasoned she shot a glare at Steve who innocently smiled at her.
"Ok, well first off the Wisconsin ghost's name is actually Plasmius. As far as ghosts go there's a good ghost and a bad ghost. Plasmius is a bad ghost, a down right putrid being and waste of ectoplasm." Sam spat out his name angrily, she was sure she was jumping to conclusions but it wouldn't exactly surprise her if Vlad was behind this. "He usually dwells in Wisconsin. "She paused and said the next sentence in a complete rush. "And has some horrible grudge against the Fenton's and wants Danny."
"Wait. If the Fenton's don't really know him then why does he have a grudge?" Marie asked as Steve quickly jotted down some key facts.
"It has something to do with something twenty years ago, some sorta ghost related accident, or something. I'm not sure, I know he doesn't like Jack and I think he has an unhealthy obsession with Maddie. He for some other reason I don't know about wants Danny, perhaps as a son or a slave." Sam explained, she hoped to the high heavens that she hadn't given out too much information.
"So this ghost just wants to get back at Jack Fenton?" Steve summarized. "He's doing it by taking away his son and gaining Danny for his own, is this what you are trying to say?"
"Yeah basically." Sam answered in a matter-of-fact way.
"Now this seems a little odd." Steve remarked, but caught another glare from his partner. "But so far it's all we got. We'll look into it. And we'll keep in touch Samantha."
Sam gave a nod before walking back towards the house. The investigators climbed into the car and drove away. Sam opened the door and walked in Maddie had already dispersed to the kitchen and Jack was numbly twisting the screwdriver on one of their many machines on the couch. Sam smiled but let it drop from no response and walked up the stairs.
Jazz was in her room and the goth walked in. The redhead saw her and smiled warmly and Sam joined her in sitting on her bed.
"So what did you tell them?" Jazz asked closing her book.
"Not much, just that Vlad's name was Plasmius, he would be found in Wisconsin, and that he hated your dad. "Jazz nodded as Sam finished explaining. "We should go talk to Tucker now."
"Yeah we probably should." Jazz responded, the tow got out and walked out of the house to go to Tucker's.
Maddie watched them go. She walked back in and sat next to her husband. He put down the machine and put a hand to his head. Maddie sat there, she had nothing to offer him, she couldn't even comfort herself.
"Maddie I'm sure they'll get him back."
"What if they can't?" The woman asked her eyes were filled with sadness. "What if Danny has been taken from us for good?"
Jack stopped and wrapped an arm around her. "Danny's tough, he's got to be alive, and I bet right now he's trying to get away." Jack said his story weaving a fabulous lie that he wished was true. But even the optimistic father knew that he might've seen the last of his son.
"Wherever our boy is..." Jack began. "I'm sure he's thinking of us and loving us."
Sure like any parent Jack desperately wanted to see his boy alive again. But he also knew the facts that lay firmly in front of him, there wasn't a chance. Maybe, in Jack's mind, Danny would escape from where he was being held and some back, he would just come back. His Danny would break free and come home to them. But Jack never fell too far into the idea. Or at least he tried not to.
"I know Jack, and I'm sure he knows we're doing the same."
Maddie sighed and leaned against Jack. There were a million things that the mother thought about. Where was he, was he being tortured, was he being lied to, was he alone, was he even alive? The woman just did not know, she wanted to, but she was starting to doubt if she would. Maddie wanted to cry but couldn't a person only had so many tears and she cried for him every day. She was tapped out.
Jack and Maddie both stared at the door without blinking. They held tightly to the firm belief that anytime Danny would open that door and walk right in, his face would bring the life back to the broken home. And that everything would be fine and they could be a happy family again. One day they believed he would return to them. But so far the door never brought him in and their hope was slowly failing them.
Nothing to say here, except everything seems to be running smoothly. Erik chapter is next, as always, and I'll be posting that really really soon, maybe even today, maybe tomorrow. I don't know, but those chapters are so much easier to write.