HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I'm single, but I still love romance, so to everyone spending the day with that special someone, enjoy it!
And now, for the story, the pairing is once again DannyXSam and the song is I'll Be Your Candle On The Water! Hope you enjoy it, but a warning-this chapter is sad at the start, but it will get better at the end(hopefully).
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GhostWriterGirl out!
I'll Be Your Candle On The Water
Five years.
Five years since he disappeared.
Five years she and his family and best friend have been grieving for him.
Five years since he entered the Ghost Zone and never came back.
Five years since he promised he would return in a day's time and hadn't.
Five years since he proposed to her.
Five long, miserable, lonely years.
Five years Sam had waited for him, and waited for him still.
The Goth girl looked out sadly at the twinkling lights of the stars, grief deep in her heart, the wind biting her face as she leaned on the windowsill of her bedroom window and looked at the lonely streets. It had been five years since she had patrolled those streets with him and their best friend, but with him gone, they couldn't bring themselves to continue.
Sam looked at the sky, but she already knew; no ghost was flying in those star-speckled skies, not even the tiresome Box Ghost. Five years ago, she would have been annoyed at having to catch him. Now she would give anything for that ghost to shout, "BEWARE!", one more time. But the ghosts had gone strangely quiet, ever since he disappeared into the depths of the Ghost Zone five years ago. She was grateful for the five year-long break, but she wanted to go ghost-fighting again, along with him and their best friend. She and her friend could hunt ghosts together as a duo, but without him, it just wasn't the same.
Sam sighed as she continued to look at the starry sky, absently fiddling with her engagement ring. He had proposed to her a month before he went into the Ghost Zone. He promised her when he came back, they could start preparing for their wedding. She promised him that she wouldn't stop loving him, even though it was seemingly going to be a short trip.
Now, five years later, their wedding still hadn't come to pass and Sam still wore her engagement ring. Many asked why she wore it, since the guy she was engaged to was probably never coming back, but Sam didn't want to give up hope just yet. She still grieved over him, but she hadn't stopped loving him. She knew he would come back; he always did.
But why does it have to be five years or longer until he can come back?
Many times, Sam had wanted to give up hope, that he was never coming back. But, she persevered in her fragile hope that he was coming back. He had always been her light in the darkness, her candle on the water during her darkest hours, where she wanted to drown in her overwhelming feelings of misery and depression. The least she could was be his candle on the water, to hope that he was coming back.
Candle on the water...
Sam looked at the velvety black sky, sprinkled with diamond stars, and remembered a song from one of her favourite movies when she was little... a song that describes her and her relationship with him at this moment.
Sam cleared her throat, and before she convinced herself otherwise, she sang.
SAM
"I'll be your candle on the water
My love for you will always burn
I know you're lost and drifting
But the clouds are lifting
Don't give up, you have somewhere to turn.
"I'll be your candle on the water
'Till every wave is warm and bright
My soul is there beside you
Let this candle guide you
Soon you'll see a golden stream of light.
"A cold and friendless tide has found you
Don't let the stormy darkness pull you down
I'll paint a ray of hope around you
Circling in the air, lighted by a prayer.
"I'll be your candle on the water
This flame inside of me will glow
Keep holding on, you'll make it
Here's my hand, so take it
Look for me reaching out to show
As sure as rivers flow
I'll never let you go
I'll never let you go
I'll never let you go."
All of the loneliness, the grief, the heartache, the yearning, the overwhelming love she had been feeling for these five years for him poured into her voice and in those lyrics, making them clearer, stronger, more meaningful. Her heart throbbed with new love for him, battling with the heartache and grief she felt for him as well. When she finished, a tear threatened to slip down her cheek, but she resisted; she wanted to be strong, she didn't want to cry, not until she heard him say-
"Sam?"
Sam whirled around, her black hair spinning like a fan around her face, her violet eyes wide with shock. When she saw who had spoken her name, she couldn't believe it. It was...
"Danny?"
He had a few scratches on his face, a light beard, his hair was more unruly than it was five years ago and his clothes were dirty and tattered, but it was him.
Danny nodded.
A choked sob escaped her throat and Sam ran towards him, flinging her arms around him as she leapt into his arms, joy and happiness flooding out of her as tears of happiness poured down her cheeks.
Danny was here. After five years, he was here! He was here, hugging her and smiling in joy, the two lovebirds finally reunited after five years.
For five years, Sam had been Danny's candle on the water, and Danny had been Sam's while he had been lost in the Ghost Zone, desperate to come back home and reunite with his family, Tucker and his fiancée, Sam.
And now, both candles had been reunited at last after five years.
Well, I did well for most of the one-shot, but those last two sentences are cruddy.
Anyway, I hope this was a good Valentine's Day one-shot and don't worry! I'm still writing these one-shots, so they're not finished because it's Valentine's Day!
Also, for those who haven't already known, Butch Hartman has left Nickelodeon. He has been on that channel for roughly twenty years, and has created the shows of our childhood like Fairly Odd Parents, Tuff Puppy, Bunsen Is A Beast, and of course, our favourite of all Butch Hartman shows, Danny Phantom. So, to all Butch Hartman fans, let us remember him as the man who created our childhoods, and has gifted us with the awesomeness that is Danny Phantom. May the future be bright for you, Butch! Keep continuing wonderful shows and hopefully, one day, you'll buy the rights of Danny Phantom back from Nickelodeon and give us Phans either a long-awaited fourth season or a reboot of the series ten years later!
Anyway, happy Valentine's Day y'all!
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GhostWriterGirl out!