Hey guys! I'm so happy that you all loved the rescue chapter! Thank you so much for all your reviews, I appreciate it so much. Thank you to: Icypoolthewarrio, SamXDanny, Savirox, Great, BloodRedPhantom, ShadowDragon357,ShyMudkipGal, rulenosha, CaptainDorito and Turkeyhead987!
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So i asked about the lengthy chapters and since only one person responded and said that they liked them long, i'm going to stick with the chapter lengths i'm doing now with a few longer ones thrown in at times. Sometimes you have to appeal to the masses. Don't worry though, the story will still get across and be the same, I just know that a lot of people don't like those insanely long chapters.
Anyway, this past week has been super crazy with final projects! and This next week is finals! Ugh, it's crazy. That being said the next update will be on Monday! I repeat the next update will be next week Monday 12/21/15. That next weekend is incredibly busy for me because my team that i coach will be performing on Saturday and i will honestly have no time this week to go over and fix the next chapter of this story. I'm so sorry for the delay but my University education is more important. Thank you so much for understanding.
That being said, i hope you enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or the song lyrics from 'Empty Gold' by Halsey
We're the underdogs, in this world alone
I'm a believer, got a fever running through my bones
We're the alley cats, and they can throw their stones
They can break our hearts, they won't take our souls
I Walk The Line: Memories to waste
Word count: 4,961
12/13/15
September 14th, 2014
Sunday
Sam's Room
Morning
Tucker, Sam and Jazz were amazed at everything that Tucker was able to gather from the GIW systems. They focused on three top priority items: information on Danny, who their contributors were and what they knew about the ghost zone. They figured it was best to start with their information on the Ghost Zone then their plans because that might give them better understanding to what they were doing in Amity Park.
The information that they found on the Ghost Zone surprised them. Many ghosts had told them the information they now had and the group wasn't sure whether to be mad or annoyed or both that they knew so much information. They knew how the doors in the Zone worked. They knew who the Observants were and about Clockwork. The GIW knew about how ghosts fed on each other, knew about Pariah Dark. So much more was found that they decided to put it away for later to be able to focus on what they found on Danny. While they had been searching through this information however, they found a file labeled 'Contributions' making them stop there first.
They didn't have as much information on the GIW contributors as they had hoped but the information they did have was more than what they thought. Fenton Works was listed as their 2nd benefactor, giving them weapons, weapon designs and information on ghosts they gathered. Well, give wasn't exactly the right word; there were payment stamps with their information. They figured that the GIW had gotten in trouble last time from taking from the Fenton's and then the whole fiasco with the large check, probably took its toll in Washington. They were getting paid a pretty penny, which made Sam wonder if they were saving that to pay for Jazz's college and they just hadn't told either of their children about it.
Someone that they hadn't heard of from Washington D.C. was giving the GIW large sums of money every six months. His name was Charles Krestlon; when they googled him they found that he was a CEO for a Defense Company called Bridgeton International. His business focused on weapons and turning out vehicles for the army. They couldn't find anything bad on him.
Lastly DALV showed on their records. The GIW was receiving a donation once a year from DALV and ghostly weapons details as well as other weapons that were not focused towards the army. The trio rolled their eyes when they read this because none of them were surprised.
The weapons that were received from both Vlad and the Fenton's were not found under their listings and the group decided to search for them later once they found information on Danny. Tucker had been able to obtain videos and reports written through the time Danny was there. They had gone through a few reports and half of a video of Danny in an interrogation room when Tucker decided that it was time for lunch.
At this point in time Tucker struck with a golden idea. "What if Dora's healing tea could heal Jazz?"
"What tea?" Jazz asked as Sam stared at him wide eyed. She couldn't believe she hadn't thought of that earlier.
"It's this tea that Dora has, and she gave some to Danny and Sam and it healed them really quickly. It's like Sam had Danny's healing when she drank it. She had a concussion and it was completely healed in a couple of hours." Tucker said excitedly.
Jazz looked down at her covered bicep. Her arm was still in incredible pain and she could barely use her entire arm. She had really wanted to go to a hospital but she knew there was no way she could do that considering they had pulled off something illegal and she was too worried about Danny last night to suggest otherwise. She turned to look at Sam, "It worked on you?"
"Yeah. You see they infuse some sort of magic into it or something. I didn't really ask how it worked. But I don't have any ghost powers and I don't have super healing abilities without that tea, so it's apparently okay for humans."
Jazz wanted to try it so her and Sam went on to Dora's kingdom. Sam wanted to stay home at first and watch over Danny, but Tucker insisted that Danny would be fine in his capable hands and that he'd continued reading over what information they had gotten. Tucker mainly wanted her to go because everyone in the kingdom loved Sam and they didn't particularly like him very much. They were nice to him, but he figured they gave him the cold shoulder because of how technologically forward he was; but he couldn't be sure.
To get the Fenton parents clear of the basement Sam called Maddie and told her that when they were driving back to her house they saw Danny Phantom by the park and that she saw the GIW already on their way. The phone conversation turned longer however when Maddie wanted to know where Danny was. Sam could hear the anger and worry in her voice so she told her that Danny was staying at her house at the moment. Maddie sounded relieved and told Sam that he needed to answer his phone and to call her when she saw him. After Sam told Maddie she would pass along the message they didn't have to wait long before they were able to go into the house without worrying. Dora was excited to see them but extremely mad for what had happened to Jazz and to Danny. It took a few hours but the tea was brewed and Dora made Jazz drink one glass while she was there to make sure nothing bad happened.
They made it back easily. Jazz made a quick call to Maddie to make sure she and Jack were still out searching for Danny and then continued back to Sam's. It was late afternoon, just past four when they got back and Tucker was excited to see that they had gotten the tea for Jazz. They weren't sure what to do about Maddie wanting Danny to call her when he was still unconscious but they decided that texting would be the best option. They used Danny's phone and told her that he was staying the night because there was a project due for Ghost 101. Maddie gave the all clear but said that if he wasn't home tomorrow he was going to be grounded for more than a week. After that it was pretty somber as they all went back to work looking at the information they had gotten on Danny.
They were disappointed – not at Danny, but at the situation – of some of the things that he had let slip when they tortured him. Of course they would never hold anything that happened against Danny, it was not his fault in the slightest. But the GIW now knew that Danny was rumored to be the new Ghost King by more than just Plasmius – at this point Sam reminded Tucker that they needed to get in touch with Clockwork as soon as possible to find out the truth. They also knew how the Ghost Zone stretched on infinitely and then how he had died. Danny seemed to have been conscientious enough though, to not drop anything on being a half ghost.
In the reports that they read over Danny's stay there, they found how the GIW were amazed at Danny's human emotions. They were very confused on how the human emotions always stayed front and center in his mind and he never acted like a true ghost as other level 8s had done. They kept expecting him to turn savage with each new burn with the blood blossoms, but when that didn't happen they knew they needed to try something else to figure out why his emotions were much stronger than any other ghosts.
While they had been at the headquarters Tucker had been able to grab the samples of ectoplasm they had gathered from Danny. They had been sitting behind him and Jazz on a counter; while he had quickly fixed up Jazz he grabbed them and put them in his pockets. He was happy to inform them that he had been able to erase all the data they had on Danny in their systems but he was unable to promise that they didn't have more samples from him. Sam and Jazz were happy as well he was able to do this; they just crossed their fingers hoping that the GIW didn't have any more samples. They agreed they needed to check out everything Tucker pulled in the lab, they would just have to wait for the Fenton's to be clear of the area for a while.
Soon though it was too late and Tucker had been complaining about eating dinner enough for them to stop looking through the information. They were sitting in Sam's room, the T.V. on some show none of them were concerned about because they were lost in their own little worlds.
Jazz was seated in one of Sam's arm chairs for a change of pace from the bed. She was annoyed by the sling and gunshot wound but she was dealing with it as she felt the healing tea take reign and start fixing her muscles. It was worth it, but it didn't make her anymore happy. Tucker sat in a trance in another of Sam's arm chairs. Sam herself was seated on her bed, lost in her thoughts of what they discovered. And there was so much more. The images of Danny in the video kept flashing through her mind. She knew how cruel they could be, but seeing it was different. Seeing the evidence was different.
A loud gasp sounded from the floor taking her from her thoughts. She looked down to see Danny with his blue eyes open.
"Danny!" She yelled, throwing her plate of food to the side, her pieces of tofu falling off onto her bedspread. Tucker jumped up as well his entire plate of chicken and mashed potatoes falling to the floor, but he didn't care. Jazz herself had to move at a slower rate because of her arm.
Danny looked up at her, "Sam?" his voice croaked, "What… where?" He tried to sit up but cried out in pain.
"Stay still, stay still." She ordered, kneeling down by his head, Tucker following suit. "You're okay. You're in my room." She brushed his hair away from his forehead.
His eyes moved from her face to Tucker's and eventually Jazz's face as she came down on the opposite side of his head as them. "How did… I don't remember?" His voice was still broken and scratchy.
Sam shared a worrying look with Tucker and Jazz before looking back down at him, "What don't you remember?"
"How you got me out."
"But you remember everything else?" Jazz questioned.
"Everything until you guys showed up." Sam let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding.
"We can jog your memory." Tucker said, "You were pretty out of it, even though you seemed focused so we can forgive you not remembering one of the best rescues of all time. Seriously dude, we made James Bond jealous with how awesome we were." Danny chuckled with everyone else at Tucker's enthusiasm but coughed halfway through.
"Easy, Danny." Jazz told him. Sam stood up and grabbed him a glass of water and helped him take a few sips.
When he got his breath back they told him everything about their rescue, taking turns at certain parts. They started from when they went to investigate the GIW on Thursday night till they got him to the house. He was amazed at what they had gone through. When the group reached the part in the story where Jazz had gotten shot Danny went into panicked brother mode. It took them a while to calm him back down, but Jazz reassured him that she was going to be fine and that the tea was already at work.
Before Tucker had thought of the healing tea, he and Jazz had done more research on the internet to find out if they needed to go the hospital. But they had come to the conclusion that she wouldn't have to because many sites informed them that if the bullet was only lodged in the flesh even a doctor would not take it out. Now that she had the healing tea she felt better about not going to the ER, but she would watch it and make sure it didn't become infected just in case.
When Danny was calm they finished what had happened and he could only look at them with amazed eyes. "Holy crap guys."
They all chuckled humorlessly, "Yeah, well it was worth it. We got you and so much information on the Guys in White that it's going to take a couple of weeks to go over everything." Tucker said.
Danny let out a sigh, "That's good." There was a pause as everyone just stared at the other, "Can I have another glass of water?"
"I'll get it." Sam popped up and made her way to the bathroom.
"What happened to Seraphina?" Danny asked.
"What do you mean?" Tucker's brows furrowed in confusion and Sam walked back in with the glass for Danny.
Sam helped him lift his head and sip from the glass before he could answer Tucker's question. "Did they get her? Did they get the thermos?"
"Uh," Tucker looked at Sam and Jazz for help but they didn't have anything to say. "We didn't know that you had captured her. We knew that you had defeated her or got her to fix what she did to everyone but we…" When Danny's eyes narrowed he tried to cover his tracks. "But I can find out. I can read the repot they wrote when they got you." He moved quickly, sitting down at Sam's computer and began pulling up the information.
Sam helped him taken another slow drink for the glass.
"Wouldn't it be easier through a straw?" Jazz questioned.
"Probably." Sam titled the glass again, "But we don't have any." She pulled the glass away when Danny said he didn't want anymore. "So what happened? How did you capture Seraphina?"
His voice was only a tad smoother this time when he spoke. "It was hard, I remember that. Actually," he paused a thought-full, confused look crossing his face, "I don't remember how I started fighting her now that I think about it. I remember trading a few blows and I was really angry, she kept blasting me with different moods and I was able to get in a few good hits and I had to use my wail, then I made her change everything back before I sucked her up in the thermos."
"You don't' remember how you started fighting her?" Sam tried to keep the waver out of her voice.
He laid there thinking over what he could remember and was surprised how much was incredibly fuzzy. "I think the last clear day I remember was Tuesday, possibly Monday."
"Tucker?" Sam looked up at her other best friend who had turned around to listen to Danny. "Why is it that our memories are fine and his aren't?"
"The stress." Jazz answered. Sam almost slapped herself for not turning to her first. She would have a better knowledge than either of them did over this type of thing. "What the GIW did to him added with the time that Seraphina's powers kicked in at the school it would make sense that these last few days have been hazy."
"But that's practically a week!"
"The mind is strange, Sam; I don't have all the answers. This is what I know. His mind probably took a safe guard and shut down. I don't know why till Tuesday or Monday and we probably never will. Now's the time to take our time to help him through this."
"Um, guys I'm right here."
"They don't have the thermos or Seraphina." Tucker said at the same time as Danny.
"They don't?" Danny asked.
"No. I have all their recent catalogues and even in the report they did not say they picked up a Fenton thermos. They don't have her."
"Then it's still lying in the street?" Jazz questioned.
Tucker shrugged, "Probably."
"Me and Tucker will go look. Jazz take your other medicine. Do you need anything Danny?"
"No. Well, maybe some food."
Sam looked to Jazz who nodded, "I'll give him some bits from my plate."
She nodded in agreement, "Let's go Tuck." She grabbed two flashlights from her closet and made their way down to her car. She was berating herself for not thinking of it sooner. They didn't want to leave the thermos on the street or the side walk or under a car in case someone found it and opened it. Though most people would leave anything marked Fenton alone if they saw it on the street.
Tucker reached the car ahead of Sam, who was still back by the door that opened to the house from the garage. He opened her car door and gasped her name. She closed the door to the house before turning to face him.
"What?" He reached into her black car and pulled out the last thing Sam was expecting to be in her front seat at that moment. "What does that note say?" She quickly made her way to him, hoping that it was a thermos she had left there from earlier.
"Thank you for the new friend." Tucker pulled off the cursive written note taped to the thermos. "I'm pretty sure that it's Vlad's writing." He held it out to her to read.
"One way to find out." Sam turned on her heal and Tucker followed her back up the stairs. "Jazz!" She called entering her room. "Tell me whose handwriting this is."
Jazz set down her plate of food again, while Danny asked them what was going on. But they said nothing as Jazz read over the note and studied it for a couple of seconds. "This is Vlad's handwriting!" She looked up at them with wide eyes, confusion evident.
"I was afraid of that." Sam grumbled while Tucker asked,
"How can you be so sure?"
"Well his 'Ts' are always a bit sloppy when he writes and his 'a' and 'd' are sharper pointed considering he writes them the best because they're in his name. Also I read a lot of his handwritten reports when he tried to take me in to be his daughter."
Danny sighed, "So that means Vlad has Seraphina and whoever else I had in there?"
"Is it bad that we would rather have her in the hands of the GIW than Vlad?" Tucker thought aloud as he moved to pick up his food again and began eating.
"Kinda." Everyone else replied.
"Just checking."
"This all had to be Vlad's doing." Jazz spoke up, holding her arm tightly. "He was the one to call in Danny, which is something he normally wouldn't do. He didn't have any reason to be anywhere near Danny that we know of, and now he's taken Seraphina and whoever else. But he left us the thermos with a note. If he didn't plan this to get Seraphina, then I'm lazy and don't like to read."
"Wait," Danny locked eyes with each of them, "what do you mean Vlad called it in? Our Vlad? The one who still wants me as his son, Vlad?"
"Yes, he called the GIW and told them where you were fighting and that's how they got you. They said on the report we read that you had been knocked out when they arrived on scene." Sam growled out.
"Does that mean he's not trying to make clones of me anymore? Because I have to tell you that that is a relief." He tried to laugh but ended up coughing instead.
"Danny! Is that the only thing you got out of what we just said?" Danny could see the fire in Sam's eyes. Like brilliant purple flames that continued to burn brighter.
"No, I'm sorry." He really didn't want her to be mad at him, not after that night searching for Seraphina. He wished he could remember the next day overly well except the morning and his fight with Seraphina. "This just gives us another thing to look into about what Vlad is doing. Why does he want Seraphina in the first place? I doubt she's one to do someone else's bidding. She's not like Skulker."
"We'll need to keep our eyes out more." Sam agreed, "But right now since you're awake we need to go over your injuries."
Danny groaned in response. He always hated that he had to be taken care of. Though he did hurt pretty badly so he guessed it was okay considering it was Sam who was taking care of him.
"Alright we'll start simple. What still hurts?" And soon everything was coming out about what they did to him. His bones were still mending and his ribs were worse off, his body was almost rid of the bruises there. His cuts were almost healed that Sam decided to take out the stitches before his body covered them to insure that any scaring received by these wounds would not be incredibly bad. His burns were still touchy and Sam figured that his body was focused on healing so much that it would take a bit longer than normal. Finally, they came to the red burns that covered him in certain areas.
"We weren't sure what to do with them." Sam's voice dropped low as she peeled back a bandaged red burn on his bicep. "We couldn't tell what they were using, but they haven't changed since I first checked you over." She wanted to say that certain areas on her body felt numb compared to the dull ache she was feeling all over. She wasn't quite sure where it was coming from but a nagging voice in the back of her head told her it was because of Danny. But she ignored it, not wanting to get into that idea again.
She pulled off the last of his bandages over the burns; the one over the numbers on his arms came off last. "They're like the Nazi's." she growled. The others nodded in agreement, but Danny was staring at the numbers lost in thought.
"Do they still hurt?" Tucker asked quietly.
"No." His voice was think. The group had to settle themselves as he sounded too much like Dan at that point. They had gotten use to his voice of course, but sometimes… sometimes they were reminded too much of that evil version.
"Don't lie to me." Sam snapped. Their eyes locked, Danny's in shock, Sam's in determination.
It took a minute or so for Danny to answer them; his eyes still looked upon Sam's. "They're numb. In each spot it's numb." He sighed and looked away from her.
"Does it hurt anywhere else? Like around the burn?" Sam asked.
"No, it's fine. It's only numb on the red burns but nowhere else."
"What did they do?" Tucker asked as Sam got up to grab bandages and ointment she had used on his electrical burns.
"It was liquefied blood blossoms."
Everyone let out an outraged cry at this information. It took a few minutes for everyone to calm down, though they were still seething with anger.
"How did you find this out?" Jazz was the first to speak. "In the videos we watched blood blossoms were never mentioned in them or the reports. Unless of course we haven't reached that portion in the reports yet?"
"They turned off the cameras when they did these. They said, or well Agent Mendoza said that the top boss wasn't a fan of blood blossoms being used to torture. So they kept it out of the reports and the videos."
Sam put down the bandages, reached for a notebook on her desk a long with a pen and wrote something down before putting it back. The others looked at her questioningly until she answered. "I wanted to make sure I wrote down what you just said, just in case something happened with the GIW or you know, we took them to court or something."
We can't take them to court." Tucker told her before Jazz or Danny. "There's no rights for ghosts in the human realm."
"True. And no we can't take them to court now. But if we know the Guys in White and we do know them pretty well, then they're going to do something against Danny or someone else again. And after I have a good list, then we could take them to court."
"That doesn't exactly get us around the whole ghost side factor and secret ID." Jazz said before her brother.
"No, but it's nice to have." She shrugged. She knew it was better to be prepared then not at all.
"So I know that this is important and all, except I haven't eaten in like 3 days and I'm starving over here." Danny finally spoke up distracting them all from the heavy conversation.
Alright man," Tucker laughed. "I'll go make you some soup and get you some vitamins. Considering those burns we'll need to get you as much liquid as possible. And I'll bring up another glass of the tea." He got up, ignoring Jazz's grimace of disgust at the drink and made his way downstairs, leaving the plates of food.
Sam helped Danny take a few more drinks of water until she couldn't hold it in anymore. "What don't you remember?"
"Well if I knew that then I would remember." Danny smiled cheekily up at her. Or at least as best he could with a stitched cheek.
"Don't make me hit you." Sam said as Jazz spoke at the same time as well,
"Danny." Her tone reprimanding.
"Sorry!" He rolled his eyes, "gods get a little tortured and no one has a sense of humor anymore." Both of them spoke his name in a reprimanding tone again. "Okay, I get it I'm sorry." He sighed out. "What I don't remember?
"Let's see, I don't remember how I got to school that morning. Though I do remember being in the car and Tucker was acting weird. I barely remember going out and looking for Seraphina the night before. But I do remember we were out together." He looked up at Sam. She smiled at him to continue. "I remember bits and pieces of Monday and that day of school, but really I just remember feeling a sort of anger that day. I don't remember my ghost sense going off, but I do remember forcing her, Seraphina, to change everyone back and she sent a green pulsing wave again out around the school, then I captured her." He sighed heavily, as if what he was about to say weighed him down. "I do remember that first interview with Agent Mendoza…"
"You mentioned him earlier, is that the guy with part of his ear missing?" Jazz interrupted.
Danny nodded, "Yeah, that's him. But after that interview things get kinda hazy again. I honestly couldn't tell you how long I was in there. If felt longer than 2 ½ days. But I do remember some of what happened but it all seems to just blur together. Then next thing I know you're barging in and that's about it." He tried to shrug it off, but with his injuries and position on the floor it only left him wincing in pain.
"It's okay Danny." Jazz laid a hand on his shoulder, "You'll remember eventually. And if not, maybe it's a good thing. Though it really isn't good for your brain to suppress these memories, it might be best to talk through what you do remember there."
Sam let the two siblings talk it out as she got lost in her thoughts as she replaced the bandages over all his burns. She couldn't believe that this was happening. Everything that had happened Wednesday night and Thursday didn't matter. Well, no it still mattered but if Danny couldn't remember then what was the point of making it matter. She still wasn't sure if the things that had happened were because of what Seraphina had done or if it had been there all along? She knew her feelings hadn't changed. It was as though they had been intensified but nothing had really changed except her driving force which made her act unlike herself.
She remembered the way his lips felt against hers, her hands in his hair, his burning touch on her waist. She wanted that again but she wanted to make sure Danny was okay before she tried anything again. She looked up at his face to see him still conversing with Jazz about his memories. God, she wanted to kiss him.
She would have to go back to how they were before. Which wasn't much different except no kissing or touching or anything that came with being with another person. But she would do it. She wanted him to remember on his own and if he never remembered then she would only be his best friend. She would rather have him as her best friend and dream for something more than not have him in her life at all. She would do it because she was in love with him.
And love was always a strange force to be reckoned with.
September 14th, 2014
Sunday
Sam's Room
10:10 p.m.
Please Review! I want a minimum of 7 reviews again. It would mean so much to me :)
Good Luck everyone on Finals! I believe in all of you!
Answers to Reviews:
Icypoolthewarrio: Thank you so much for your comment! It made my day when you said that and it warmed my heart about this story. Sometimes i have doubts about how this story is going but you made all of those go away :) For updating I try to write as many chapters as i can and then update every sunday, that way i keep on a good track and don't get behind on the story. i just wanted to let you know for further updating times :) And don't worry about Danny's parents that will all come up soon. About the teachers though, in the last chapter i mentioned that Tucker called Danny in sick with a recording of Jack's voice. It was only a sentence but that's why the teachers weren't all over Sam and Tucker about him. Thank you again so much and i hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Savirox: Thank you for saying that about the escape. I really am not very good at those kinds of scenes but i did plan them out as best as i could. Yes, Captured!Danny and tortured!Danny are my two favorites as well. Don't worry you will definitely be seeing those scenes. Patience my young grasshopper.
Great: Yeah those 'gift horses' were in there twice but the way i see it the GIW are idiots so you know :) anyway, they won't be getting those for long. Shit's going to hit the fan soon. And i just wanna ask - are you a mind reader? hahaha you'll find out everything soon enough!
BloodRedPhantom: Thank you so much for all your reviews! I'm incredibly happy that you like my story.
ShadowDragon357: yeah, i thought about having Sam just buy the supplies but then her parents would be asking why she needed those certain things because she doesn't have any medical problems like that. And her account would still be monitored by them and her grandma so it would make it tough to buy those medical supplies. it sucks but another reviewer gave me a great idea and i'm going to see how i can work it into the story.
rylenosha: Thank you so much for your idea. I'm not really a computer person and the deep web idea is so good! Thank you so much!
CaptainDorito: Ugh! i understand about studies. Finals are this week and they're gonna suck. Anyway, thanks i really really wanted to show that Tucker and Sam are not friends just because of Danny, that they have their own chemistry and we never really got that through the show because there was always so much focus on Danny and Sam. I also wanted to show that they don't need Danny to fight because they've been doing this for three years now and they definitely know how to handle themselves. my thanksgiving was good too, lots of turkey lol. Good Luck on your finals!
Turkeyhead987: I'm happy that the last chapter kept you on your toes :) that was something i tried really hard to accomplish. I'm sorry you didn't like Seraphina. Was it only because of the character acting OOC? if you could let me know either in a PM or review that would be greatly appreciated because she will be showing up at another point in this story. I'm happy that she didn't turn you away from the story and i hope that you liked this chapter! :)