This is a continuation of Day 1: Electricity, and Day 9: Power Surge.

Day 14: Flowers

Sam marched up to the door and rang the doorbell. Then she rang it again. And again. And again, until she was just mashing the button. She knew Tucker was in there. She had seen him through the window.

Finally, the door flew open, revealing her dark-skinned friend.

"What do you want?" he demanded irately.

"We need to talk," said Sam, her voice neutral.

Tucker barked off a humorless laugh. "About what, Sam? About how I screwed up? Because, newsflash, I can tell that I screwed up on my own, thank you very much."

"It isn't about that," said Sam. "Although, since you brought it up," she shrugged, trailing off. "Can I come in?"

Tucker frowned, then nodded and stood aside. Sam walked in, and looked around Tucker's small, neat living room. On the couch end table she caught sight of what she needed.

She pointed. "One of your mom's?" she asked.

Tucker glanced at the wilted flower and shrugged before looking back at Sam. "Yeah," he said. "But it isn't like its going to live. None of us have green thumbs. So what is this about, if it isn't about you chewing me out?"

Sam rolled her eyes and walked to the little potted plant. "C'mon, Tucker, I'm not that bad. Besides, what happened yesterday clearly wasn't your fault. Danny's electrical powers have been acting up all week."

Tucker flinched. He remembered how hard it had been for Danny when they had first come in.

"But I don't think that was all that was going on," Sam continued. She put her hand on the wilted plant. "Watch this."

The plant began to glow slightly, then the stem began to lift, the leaves to fill out, to turn green. Finally, the wilted buds unfurled, revealing violet flowers. Sam pulled her hand back and sat heavily on the couch.

"What was that?" demanded Tucker, prodding the delicate purple petals.

"Leftovers," said Sam. "Remember the thing with Undergrowth?"

"Ugh. Yeah. You mean, this is from that?"

"Kinda. After the fight Danny brought me to the Far Frozen, remember? So that they could make sure that there weren't going to be any lasting effects." Sam shrugged. "Well. There were. Not from Undergrowth specifically, I guess. I didn't follow everything that Dr. Iceclaw was saying. But apparently, between Danny's weirdness, being near the portal when it turned on, growing up in Amity, and getting mind-controlled by Undergrowth, I've developed a little, tiny ghost core."

"But," said Tucker frowning, "I've had all that stuff happen to me, too."

"Yeah. And, if you'll remember, after the Egypt incident, Danny wanted you to get looked at too, but you said that you'd rather stab yourself in the eye with a blunt pencil than go to anything that even vaguely resembled a hospital. So."

"Oh yeah. I remember that." Tucker blinked. "Wait. Are you saying that that had happened to me? That I have a ghost core? But I haven't done anything like," he gestured to the flowers, "that."

Sam rolled her eyes. "Think about what we were talking about before." Tucker stared at her blankly. Sam tried another tactic. "Remember when Danny first got his electrical powers? He kept getting shocked? Just like you were today?"

"You think that I'm getting lightning powers."

Sam shrugged. "Yeah. I guess. Anyway I'm pretty sure that the power outage at the school is on both of you. Speaking of which..." Sam pulled an envelope from her back pocket and held it out to Tucker. "Here."

"What is it?"

"A letter. From Danny. You do know what those are, right?"

"Why?"

"Because he's afraid of touching his phone right now, and he doesn't want a repeat of what happened at school. Are you going to take it or not?"

Tucker reached for it, then hesitated. "You'd better just put it on the table. I don't want to shock you or... whatever."

"Okay," said Sam, putting the letter to one side and standing up. "Look, I've got to get home soon. Just try to get under control. Remember what Danny did when his were coming in. Or just try to expend it all. That's what I did for the first couple of weeks."

"Okay. Thanks, Sam."

"Hey, what are friends for? And water that plant more often!"