Chapter Twenty-Six - Sorry For What I Am

Sam and Jeremy walked back to the house trying to keep the atmosphere light, it had worked for awhile, but when they neared the house Sam felt herself freeze on the spot. Jeremy turned to her, concern all over his face.

"Whats the matter Sam?"

Sam looked down at the ground avoiding his eyes.

"I cant go in, I don't want to have Danny look at me differently."

Jeremy sighed.

"Sam, he is going to love you no matter what, he can handle whatever gets thrown at him. Please don't let him get away, I can see you love him with all your heart."

Sam was crying again and she smiled and hugged Jeremy tight, whilst they were hugging the sound of footsteps caused them both to look up, standing a few metres away was Danny, Caitlin was standing in the doorway of the house a few more metres down, looking on.

Sam pulled away from Jeremy and ran the few metres to Danny and straight into his open arms.

"Sam, I was so worried, where did you go?"

"To the park, I needed some time alone, I'm sorry Danny."

Danny kissed the top of her head and pulled her closer, Jeremy walked past them and patted Danny on the shoulder and smiled at him. Jeremy walked into the house and hugged Caitlin.

"Lets give them some privacy."

With that Jeremy and Caitlin closed the front door and left Danny and Sam alone in the street.

"Just promise you'll talk to me, don't leave me hanging."

Sam nuzzled into Danny's jacket and held him tight, and she whispered something that Danny couldn't hear.

"What was that Sam?"

Sam looked up and was instantly drawn into Danny electric blue eyes.

"I said, I'm sorry for who I am, I'm sorry I'm so tainted."

Danny's eyes instantly widened, he cupped Sam's face instantly and stared into her eyes.

"You are NOT tainted, damaged or whatever way you want to say it, you are none of those things, and I don't want you to be sorry about who you are, you should never be sorry about that Sam. I love you, for you, and I wouldn't change a thing. Obviously I wouldn't wish you to have been hurt the way you have, but we can move past that, together."

Sam felt the tears falling from her eyes, she knew she was going to be exhausted tomorrow, the last time she cried like this was after she was raped.

"I love you so much Danny, this is something I never want to lose. I don't intend on letting you go, I hope you know that."

Danny nodded and kissed Sam gently.

"I don't intend on letting you go either, and that's something I never thought I would say."

Sam gave Danny a confused frown.

"What do you mean?"

Danny laughed.

"I never thought I would find love, I always thought I would be a player for life, you know one of these old dudes that you see all the time back home."

Sam started laughing, she was getting images of a eighty year old Danny with a leggy blonde sitting on his lap, she couldn't help but laugh out loud. That's when Sam realised that she and Danny were walking through the streets of Sam's old neighbourhood, but she said nothing, she felt safe with Danny.

"I'm pouring my heart out to you and your laughing?"

Danny feigned a hurt look, but he couldn't hide the smirk that was forming on his face.

"Sorry, but when you said that I got mental images of you as an eighty year old man with a leggy blonde sitting on your lap."

She started laughing again, this time Danny joined in.

"Ok, I think I can forgive that, that is a funny thought. But going back to what I was saying."

"Sorry, carry on."

Sam smiled and took hold of Danny's hand.

"Yeah, I didn't think I was gunna do it, find love, but then you walked into my life. I fell for you the moment I met you, it was so frustrating to me, I hadn't even spoken to you and I was already getting butterflies when I heard your name mentioned."

Sam looked up at Danny, and could say she honestly didn't know that.

"Really, you felt that way?"

Danny nodded.

"That's why when you got with fuck face, I was hurting so bad inside, but I didn't know how to tell you."

Sam stopped and jumped up to reach Danny's lips and kissed him passionately in the middle of the street, her hands became entangled in his hair, she was fighting the urge to fuck him there and then. When she pulled away Danny's face was still in shock and his hair was now ten times messier, both of them were out of breath and breathing heavily.

"Sam, remind me to say things like that to you more often."

Sam slapped him on the chest and kissed him on the forehead and straightened out his hair.

"You have no idea how turned on I was right then, and to think we have to wait until we get back home before we can relieve ourselves."

Danny sighed.

"You had to remind me of that didn't you."

Sam nodded.

"I think I'm ready to go home Danny. But if you want to stay and look at the sights then we can stay."

Danny shook his head and kissed Sam lightly, he didn't trust himself or his body to deepen the kiss.

"I don't need to see anything Sam, besides, I don't think my body can take much more."

Sam laughed and held him tight, they had walked around the cul-de-sac and were back outside Jeremy and Caitlin's house.

"So everything's good now?"

Danny nodded but didn't follow when Sam walked down the path to the front door. She turned when she saw Danny wasn't behind her.

"Danny?"

He looked up.

"Why didn't you tell me about what happened before you left England?"

Sam closed her eyes and opened them slowly and walked back towards Danny and took hold of his hands.

"I didn't tell you because I wanted to pretend it never happened, telling you meant it was real. I had managed to convince myself it never happened. Can you understand that?"

Danny nodded and kissed Sam on the forehead and took her by the hand and led her back into the house where the atmosphere had become one of understanding.

TBC

A/N - This story isn't receiving much rav reviews so I am going to end it soon, my muse is getting thin on ideas for this one. Thanks I will update soon.