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"If you don't stand up and fight for what's yours, you won't have anything left worth fighting for." -Black Canary
She woke with a start, her heart pounding behind her chest from the sudden jolt, her ears trained on the footsteps bounding down the hall. She looked beside her, no sign of Danny.
Her bare feet swung over the bed side and landed on the cold wood floor of the master suite.
"Danny?" She whispered into thin air, waiting for a response that never came as she scanned the expanse of the large space, ectoplasm lighting up the room from the palm of her hand. "Danny?"
The door swung open to reveal a teary eyed Jazz, and a tired looking Tucker, making her drop the ectoplasm in her hand and turn on the lights. "S-Sammy." She sniffled, holding up a piece of paper, which she took.
"What's this? What's wrong?"
"I-It's Danny," The geek couldn't look her in the eyes. "He's gone, Sam."
The girl froze, dropping the paper, and looking up at the boy, her eyes glowing. "What do you mean he's gone?"
"He left, Sam. And he wants us to tell Mrs Fenton about him. Read the note."
She swiped up the paper, reading it over and over as if trying to believe it wasn't real. "Sam?"
"No! He's still gotta be here! He has to be! He couldn't have left me!" She moved to phase through her friends, until Tucker jabbed a needle in her arm. "Ow! What the hell was that for? Let me go Tucker!"
"I neutralized your powers, you're not in the right mental state right now to be using them, or to be going after Danny."
"Tucker!" She swung at the geek, who caught her fist, and turned her around to restrain her, holding her arms behind her back. "Let me go!" She sobbed, her head fell forward as she stopped struggling. "Please." She whispered, looking at him, her head turned in his direction. "He was all I had left." She whispered. "He was all I had and-"
He spun the goth around and pulled her into a tight embrace, a tear running down his face. "He's gonna come back, he went to go find Lilith and Danielle... He didn't just leave you, Sam."
"No, Tucker. He told us to tell his mother, a-and we all know that he would only say that if-if he..." She trailed off, choking into his chest.
"If he thinks he might not come back." The red head finished, a tear running down her face, the geek pulling her into the embrace.
"We can't think like that." The geek spoke as soothingly as possible, making the girl growl amd pull away.
"Well, what if he doesn't come back, Tucker?" She pushed him, looking in his direction. "All those times, we got lucky. What if our luck is running out? If Clockwork can't find her, how the hell would Danny find her, Tucker?" She yelled, tears streaming down her face, which was beat red. "This is blind faith, that we have in Danny. This is blind faith in general. And last time I checked, you were the one who told us never to run in blind. To always know the enemy. And, obviously, we don't know Vlad Plasmius at all, if he is strong enought to get out of a thermos that even he hasn't escaped from for four years! So yeah, Tucker, I'm preparing myself for the worst. Maybe if the worst does happen, my world won't fall apart as bad as it did when I found out that I had two missing daughters." She turned, and stormed out of the room.
"Sam, where are you going?"
"To go get Mr Fenton and Valerie, if we're gonna tell her, might as well get it over with, and tell her as a team in case she decides to kill me and hunt for her son." She spoke monotonously.
"Sam-" He tried, but she was gone already, and he sighed, pulling the red head into a warm embrace, burying his head into her shoulder.
"I know that Danny's gone, and I know that you're strong, Tucker. But, please, don't shut me out." She spoke, walking in Sam's direction. "That's the worst thing you can do."
"Yeah." He walked after them, sighing.
"So, what are your powers?" He looked at her, as they walked down the path. "And, why can't we fly?"
"Balance, and basically the rest of your standard ghost powers." She kicked a green rock into the abyss. "And, you're saving energy. He's gotten stronger, so you need to save your strength."
They froze when they heard a rustle in the distance, and a small figure with black hair and glowing blue eyes stumbled out of the bushes with a small bundle in her arms.
"Hey!" The halfa shouted, making the girl snap her head up to look at him, and she almost dropped the child in her arms.
"Danny!" She breathed, and in seconds she was in his face, handing him the bundle in her arms. "We need to go. She needs warmth. Now." She panted, and a dripping sound made them look at her feet, which were pooling into ectoplasm. "And so do I!"
-ourinvisibleink