With a deep breath she started walking home. She wasn't going to wait for him since she needed to get to her room. It was coming. She could feel it. She wasn't sure what it was, but it was there in every breath that she took and every step she took. It was a darkness.

Something has been taken from deep inside of me

Danny looked around a few minutes later. She had left him. She had followed him since they were children learning their first words and walking those first steps. What was going on with her? He closed his eyes and tried to sense her. He had learned that he had this power just days ago and it seemed to only work with her. Was it because they had been changed at the same time? Was it always like this? He knew that when they had been children they had known when the other was hurt or happy. It had always seemed to be there. This feeling. Now, their ghost powers seemed to amplify that. He could feel it now. Confinement. Fear. What was going on here? With a quick sprint he headed for her house. He would have turned ghost, but there had been too many people around him so he had opted to run. Within minutes he found himself in front of her house, the rooms dark, her curtains closed. That was normal since Sam hated the mornings almost as much as he did. She always complained that she was a dark soul forced to live in house full of sunshine people. He had laughed at her, but he could tell that she was quite serious.

The secret I've kept locked away no one can ever see

Sam sat on the edge of her bed, her eyes closed as she tried to contain the panic welling up inside of her. This was bad, but she wasn't sure what was happening.

Oh, Samantha, you can't stop me. Sam looked around the room. It was broad daylight! It doesn't matter what time of day it is. I will find you. You will bleed out for me. The dark haired girl closed her eyes again. What was going on.

"Leave me alone!" she screamed as Danny appeared in the room, his ghost form invisible, but Sam knew he was there. With a deep breath she tried to calm down. "Danny, what are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing," was his reply, his form becoming solid as he stood before her in his Phantom form. "You would tell me that you live here though." That seemed to bring a smile to her sad face.

"I just needed to get away from school after today. I have been..." she faded off. Should she tell him? He would help her!

He can't help you. You have one choice. Die or your most cherished one dies. I know what you will pick. Sam shuddered. He was here. He was watching them.

"I haven't been feeling so well today so I needed to rest," she said as she turned from him. "I just need to rest and I will feel so much better." Danny wasn't so sure what was going on, but he knew that she was lying to him and that wasn't like her. He wanted to call her on it, but as she laid down, her back still to him, he decided to give up on that. "Please," she whispered as she clenched her eyes so tight that the tears that threatened would not fall. "Please." It was almost as if Danny could hear those words.

"Um. I guess I will see you before I head out tomorrow for Space Camp." There was no response. "Bye Sam."

The next morning as Danny readied his stuff for the trip down to Florida he wondered when she would show. Sam would show. He knew she would. Looking at his clock, the red numbers flashed as the changed to seven-thirty three. She would come.

"I can't believe she didn't come," Maddie said as she waved good-bye to her very upset son. "That's not like Sam at all." Jazz shrugged.

"She's almost a teen so we should expect such behavior." Maddie was unconvinced That was not Sam. She had always been so mature like Jazz had been at a young age. Her daughter hadn't gone through all the stages most girls went through. Her childhood had been short as the girl next to her matured quickly. The red headed mother hugged her daughter close.

"Hi," Pamela said as she waited for her husband to park the car. Maddie waved as she approached the passenger side of white Lincoln Town car. "Could you check on Sam every few days. She refuses to come with us and I don't want to force her." Maddie nodded.

"Our little daughter is becoming quite moody," Mr. Manson said with a scowl. "I have no time for that. Pamela, hurry it up. We can't be late." The red headed mother thanked her friend before rolling up her window just the car pulled away.

"I'll check on her, mom," Jazz said as she headed down the street to Sam's house.

When Jazz got to the other girl's house she found the door unlocked.

"And I thought my parents were bad," she muttered as she closed the door and headed up the stairs to check on Sam. When she entered the door she found Sam asleep in her bed, her small form still save for her breathing that moved her sides. "Ah, she must be tired from school today." Leaving the way she came she failed to notice the shadow that moved from the corner of the room, it's green form glowing as it waited. It needed the night darkness to survive. It could not come out into the light or it would die. Its eyes were closed so there was no real orbs to watch the sleeping girl, but it could see her still. Soon, his master would have the girl and her blood would turn the world red.

"Danny," the small girl whimpered.

Hope you like. I might upload more tomorrow. My vacation also starts tomorrow! YAY! *Dances around* Oh, the song is Linkin Park's Its Easier to Run.