a/n: so, here's the next one, we only got a couple chapters left. This chapter is pretty short. Please review. Thanks for my reader's and reviewers hope everyone is enjoying. see you guys in 3 days.

chapter 10: Time Waits For No Man

over looker's pov

The next few days passed rapidly for Danny and Sam. They had talked every day. No arguments had been had and they were closer than ever but there was an overlying, big, fat, cold, sniveling, unrelenting elephant in the room, and now had come the day to address it.

They could no longer hide from said beast in the shadows or corners of the inn. They had to say it, lest it never be said for it was Christmas Eve. The night of the party and Danny's last night on earth, for a while.

Sam sat in her room, used to the cold air that Danny brought. It didn't seem so cold anymore. It felt warm and familiar like home, like how her childhood home felt when her grandmother was alive.

How she felt when her grandmother was close telling her old forgotten stories about being a Jewish immigrant in the early 60s. She listened to the stories of adventure and love her grandmother had before settling down for marriage. She supposed she got the way she loved from Ida.

She was a late mother, pregnant with Jeremy Sam's father at 36. Sam quickly remembered how her grandmother used to joke about being "this close" to a being an old maid. Ida Manson would have loved this place Sam thought.

In her hand she held an antique bronze necklace with the Star of David as the pendant. A silent tear slipped from her eyes. "Rest well you crazy old woman." Said Sam quietly with a dark chuckle. She glanced once more at the necklace and briskly walked to Danny's room.

She knocked and he hollered "come in!" She opened the door and smiled. He was wearing white pants and a white shirt with a white vest, he hadn't yet tied his black bowtie. Sam chuckled beside her self.

"What's so funny?" Danny asked. Sam laughed some more, "It's not, it's just that all this time, this is the first time I've seen you with your tie untied..." she paused and laughed some more a bit more manically this time. "... but then again it hasn't been that long has it... why should I hope, why did I even come in here god... shit! You're leaving me tonight and I couldn't help you. I'm a liar! I broke my promise! I broke my fucking promise!"

It all happened so fast, one minute Sam was laughing, then she was screaming then involuntary tears began streaming from her eyes has she screamed. The next thing she knew, she was on the floor sobbing in away she never had before.

It was like a dam broke and everything she had felt her whole childhood, with her busier than life parents, the death of her grandmother, all her failed relationships and now this. It opened the floodgates and she couldn't stop crying. Danny got on the floor and held her rocked her has she cried.

Time seemed to pass slowly for the pair, she didn't know how long they'd been like that and neither did he. His white shirt was wet with tears and eyeliner smudges. This had been the first-time Sam had cried, I mean really cried in her adult life. It gave her a new since of being, to let go and make her peace with the past.

Time was a cruel bitch and it didn't wait for no man or woman she had to let go. "I didn't go to the funeral I just stayed in school. I just focused on class. Then I graduated and I focused on work but I forgot of about something more important than school and work… love." Sam said softly the crying finally ceasing.

"You know for most of this 95 years I've only seen lancer when he started coming here. I just shut myself off from everyone. I hated my brother, I hated Valerie I was mad at the world." Danny confessed. Sam's Red rimmed amethyst eyes searching his blue ones.

His eyes were serene and calm. She took note they had been like that, the pass few days but this is the first-time Sam had noticed. "So, what changed?" Sam asked her eyes curious smiling up at him from her position the floor.

"I don't know some hot-headed lawyer forced her way into my inn and my life, and brought me back." Sam gave a smile and Danny smiled back. "I really am sorry we couldn't figure out who Vlad sent to kill you." Sam sad sadly.

He waved her off. "You hear that party downstairs? I am in the land of the living again and that's because of you." The boy said smiling at her with his signature lopsided grin. Sam held out the necklace she had been holding.

He looked at the pendants aged beauty. "It's a family heirloom my great grandmother gave it to my grandmother before she left for America... I want you to have it. Wherever you go after tonight, I want a part of me to always be with you. if I could, I'd go to the abyss with you. But I can't, I just don't want you to be alone." Sam finished.

Danny looked deep into her eyes searching them to find if she had lied. She had told the truth. He took the necklace from her hand and held it tight. "I can't ask you to wait here for me but I don't think I could survive the abyss without kissing you at least once." A blush tainted both of their faces.

Danny said his baritone voice sultry and low. His breath was husky as they both began leaning. Soon the gap between them was closed by a passionate kiss. Their eyes closed simultaneously, and neither of them had never felt another kiss like that in their life.

Lancer cleared his throat awkwardly in the door way. This broke the newfound pair apart cheeks flushed red in embarrassment. "There is a party downstairs you know." The older man said before walking away. Danny smiled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck. "We had better get to the party." He said standing up and beginning to tie his bowtie finally.

"I'll meet you down there, gotta see what I can do about these red rimmed eyes." The woman countered standing up has well and heading toward the doorway. She walked out of it silently much to Danny's dismay, but then surprised them both by turning back around and peeking her head through the door. "Save me a dance?" She asked her heart pounding. Danny gave a reassuring smile. "Always." She smiled in return then sauntered off to the bathroom.

a/n: so that may be the shortest one yet, hope you enjoyed anyway see you guys next time