xLa Reyna Phantasmax, stop making the Canadians mad! Yeah, time to save her again. Thanks to all that read and thanks to those who reviewed. Thank you.
Danny flew beside his now quiet girlfriend as they headed home. Dash had wanted to go back to Sam, but both Valerie and Danny had told him that it wasn't wise. Valerie hadn't even looked at Danny in the time they had been flying, her gaze spacey as she stared straight ahead.
"Do you really feel like me and Sam are too close?" The dark skinned woman didn't even respond as she sped up. "Valerie, is there a problem with me and Sam hanging out?"
"I had a problem, but there will never be a problem again as she has told me that she doesn't want us to come back ever." Danny stopped mid-flight as his girlfriend followed suit. "Not that it ever occurred to you or her, but I knew how you felt about her and still asked you out again. I told a long time ago before we first dated that she needed to make her move or someone else would."
"You mean she's liked me for that long and you knew?" The woman nodded.
"I knew because I am not in denial of my feelings like you both are." Now Valerie was sounding ticked off, her brows drawing together as she glared at her boyfriend. "You both were in denial of what you felt because you are friends, the only difference was that Sam came to terms with it and moved away to leave you in peace. You moved on without thinking about it. Did you ever think that she moved away kind of suddenly? Did it ever strike you as something that she would ever do?" Valerie's mouth kept moving, but Danny went back into the time he had spent in the closet with Sam and the words that Dash had said.
"I know that you loved Danny and that you never truly moved on from that.."
"Sam, everyone knew that you loved him,"
"Paulina even saw that and you know this good and well because she tried to take him from you for that reason."
Had everyone known like Dash had implied? Valerie had known and she had pushed Sam toward him, but his friend hadn't made that move. She had been just as afraid as he had been. She had let another date him... hell, she had watched Danny hit on other girls and date other girls without so much as a remark. There were times she had warned him against some of the girls, but had claimed it for other reasons.
"I feel what I feel, but Danny it wouldn't be right of me to even touch you when you have a girlfriend."
"You belong with her because you chose to be with her. That is your girlfriend and that shouldn't change."
"I chose to move on past what I had felt all those years ago."
Had he really made her lose those feelings? Suddenly they heard a yell. Turning toward it they found Dash driving below them, his car stopping under them as he waved at them.
"Sam needs our help!" Valerie turned to Danny now, her teal eyes sad yet happy somehow.
"If you chose to help her that is your choice as we are done. I can't take what you have already given away." She turned from him and flew off into the distance as Dash kept yelling. Danny didn't even have to think twice as he rushed down toward Dash as he revved his engine. The halfa phased through the ceiling of the small sports car as Dash took off, the pedal to the metal with tires squealing.
"What happened?" the former jock inquired.
"She left me," was the answer he received. "She said that I gave my heart to Sam a long time ago." Dash smirked.
"Smart woman. Sam did the same thing and she has given up on you ever being with her."
"Enough of that subject," the halfa said. "What happened? Why do you think that Sam needs our help?" Dash became serious as they sped back to Sam's apartment.
"I headed back to check on her because the last time she was like this she didn't leave the apartment for like a month so as I headed back I heard someone moving around and began to knock on the door, but before I could I heard the sound of a male talking." He glanced over at Danny. "Eric is in the apartment."
"Crap," the halfa said as they entered the city again.
"Wake up little woman," Eric said as he leaned over her bound form. "I said wake up," he yelled as his open palm made contact with her face. Groaning the Goth blinked, her face stinging.
"You mother fucker," she hissed as she fought against her bonds around her arms only to wince when she realized they were zip ties that held her wrists together. "What the fuck are you doing back here?" Then it hit her that they had just changed her locks. "How did you get in here?" He smirked, his face twisting into something so demonic.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" A dark chuckle escaped his lips. "And I would love to tell you so I will." Sam shrunk back as he sat down next to her, his body pressing into hers. "You remember your little maintenance men? Yeah, they aren't part of the living anymore." Sam gasped as tears welled up in her eyes at the thought of what he had done to those men who had helped her on more occasions then she could count. "In fact I do believe that they fell apart when they saw me." At that point Sam realized that her former boyfriend wasn't just sadistic. He was insane. "So, what shall I do with you first?" he questioned out loud. "Should I break a few bones or shall I put a bone in you?"
"Fuck no! I don't want you near me much less in me!" Eric paid her response no heed as he shoved her on her back, her arms twisting painfully as she was forced into the floor. A whimper escaped her lips as he pulled out a knife, the blade at least three inches. It gleamed in the light coming in from the semi curtained glass door that led out onto a balcony. Sam began to struggle as he straddled her, his legs digging into her as the blade touched her stomach, a small line of blood forming as the blade cut into the skin below her belly button. She whimpered as she stopped struggling. "What do you think are doing?" she whispered trying to keep her stomach even so he wouldn't cut into her stomach.
"What does it look like I am doing, babe?" he asked as the sharp blade cut into the pair of black jeans that her lower body was clad in. The blade cut into the jeans like a hot knife through butter, the material parting. "I am doing what I want now and not what you didn't want to do." As the blade drew lower Danny phased through the door and tackled the male on top of the raven haired girl.
"Get off her you fucker!" he hissed as he knocked the other male's hand into the ground repeatedly until the human was forced to release the blade. Sam whimpered as more blood spilled from the wound and with every breath she took force her cut jeans revealed more of her skin that was bleeding.
"Thank god you don't do what I ask," she breathed as the door shook before falling in, the edge of it just inches from the downed female. Dash fell in on top of the door.
"Sam," he said as he fell over her to the shock of the female as she wanted to cover her exposed body, a blush creeping over her face. Danny growled low at the position the two were in.
"I am going to need you to get off of her Dash," the halfa hissed before turning to Eric who was just pulling his hand free before trying to punch the halfa on him only to punch through Danny.
"What the fuck are you?" the human inquired as fear entered his eyes.
"He's a hero and he is going to kick your ass!" Sam yelled out as she turned her head to look at Eric and that was when Danny saw the new bruise forming on her cheek. His eyes flashed green as he turned his gaze back on the human before him.
"You fucking hit her again?! Did you not learn from the first time?!" This time Danny reared back before laying his fist into the male under him. Sam turned away as Dash stood up as Danny landed another punch into the dark haired human's already swelling face. Blood came out this time as power appeared in Danny's fist. It wasn't enough to harm the human, but before he could lay another one into the scum under him Dash grasped his wrist causing the halfa to turn to the blond.
"He isn't worth it." Suddenly sirens filled the air as police arrived. Danny stood up as the officers entered the room, Sam still laying on the floor as the officers were pointed by a neighbor toward the downed male.
"That's him officer!" the older male said pointing to Eric. "He killed those men and he was beating up on that girl and her friends came in to stop him!" As the officers took Eric Danny leaned down and using just enough power cut the bindings on her wrist. A little whimper escaped as she moved her wrists. Danny's gaze softened as the officers asked Dash questions upon insistence from the blond to leave the couple. He took her small wrists in his hands and began to massage them as he looked into her amethyst eyes.
"Sam, we really need to talk," the halfa said as Sam shook her head. "Really, we do. I won't take no for an answer this time."
"Danny," she began only to be cut off as the halfa's lips crashed down on hers. She moved her hands to his chest to push at him, but as soon as she did she found that she didn't have the energy or was it the willpower to force him off. He pulled back.
"I guess dad was right," the halfa said with a smirk as she looked at him in confusion. "That is a good way to silence a woman." Sam would have smacked him, but instead she pulled him down for another kiss. When they parted he said, "Sam, I love you and it took my ex telling me to realize that I have for a long time and that I was just too afraid to say anything. I didn't want to lose you if it didn't work out." Sam smiled as they kissed again, all the madness that had taken place around them forgotten as he pulled her closer.
