Danny Phantom Fanfic
Error's Love
Chapter 26: Deal
Sam lifted her head up from her sleep, her eyes puffy and only half open, she took in a gasp of surprise, what woke me up? Then her question was answered when she realized that the phone beside her bed was ringing. Not many people knew her number, mainly her parents and others that worked at their house, but also, Danny knew her number…her eyes widened, Danny? She reached over and cleared her throat before she grabbed a hold of the telephone and put it up to her ear, "Hello?" She tried her best to not sound tired, but miserably failed at doing so.
"Hey, Sam." Danny was speaking, just as she had hoped! "I'm sorry, did I wake you? I can call back later-,"
"No! No!" She cried, "It's fine, really. I was just dozing off, but I'm fine." She assured him.
Danny laughed, "You stayed home too? Slept in?"
Sam chuckled and glanced at the clock, "yeah, I did." It was already noon! Holy crap! "You too?" Then she jokingly added, "I didn't know that ghosts had to sleep."
He laughed, "Well, what can I say, I'm just different." He paused, "so, do you have any big plans today?" Danny asked, "'cause if you don't, I was thinking…ya' know, maybe we could hang out or something…"
"Yeah, totally." Sam glanced down at her wrinkled outfit from the night before, "but, uh, can I have a little time to get dressed and everything?"
"Sure."
"Okay, so, you can probably pick me up in a half an hour or so."
"Alright, see you then."
They both hung up. Sam immediately jumped up and roughly tore her clothes off, throwing them into the corner, then rushing to her closet and pulled out a black skirt and a hoodie sweatshirt. She put on deodorant and quickly ran to her mirror, putting on eyeliner on top of the left over eyeliner from the night before, then she quickly placed some deep crimson red lipstick on, brushed the tangles out of her hair, and even had a few minutes to stare directly at her reflection, giving herself different face expressions for some reason.
When trying to get ready, time manages to fly faster than hoped for. Because the next moment, Sam was interrupted from a knock on her bedroom window; she turned to face the teen ghost-boy, giving him a warm smile and running over to open the window for him. "Hey!" She beamed.
"Good evening sleepy head." The second that Danny's feet touched the floor, the two teenagers wrapped their arms around each other for a long moment, feeling the energy radiate off of the other's body and enjoying being close. After a moment, they both tilted their head toward the other, searching for the other's lips and allowing the spike of excitement flow through their body as their mouths met. He pulled away after a minute or so, so that they could catch their breath. "You ready to go?" He asked.
Sam nodded and allowed Danny to scoop her up into his arms, wrapping her arms with a death grip around his neck, feeling the growing jitterbugs inside her belly at the thought of flying again. She admitted that it was a thrill and amazingly fun, but at the same time it was beyond frightening and you start to see your life flash before your eyes! Either way, she looked forward to it.
Danny launched into the air and soared up into the sky at a break neck speed to avoid being seen by anyone. Mainly because he didn't want anyone to see Sam with him, because then she might be in danger of being attacked by reporters! His feet and legs morphed into a transparent tail that waved around behind him. He grinned and began flying in all directions, never growing tired of watching Sam's face light up.
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The being slowly opened his dull red eyes, his vision was faded, but he managed. He then realized that he was face down on a stone floor, so he quickly put his arms under himself and pushed his top half up a few inches from the ground, but that's all he could manage at the moment. He groaned.
The being took a deep breath and focused on saving his strength. But then, he heard footsteps. The being was up on his feet in less than a second, his cloak whipping around his body from the sudden movement, but slowly went steady.
"So, I see that you're awake." A male voice spoke from the shadows.
"What do you want? Why am I here? Who are you?"
"Wow, you ask a lot of questions…let me first say that you have been in a dormant state of sleep for some time. And you are here because I have a favor to ask you."
The being scoffed, "why the hell would I do anything for you?"
"I think that we might be able to work something out, Venom."
The ghost let out a small laugh, "yeah right. Whatever you want, I refuse. I work for no one."
"I wouldn't be so quick to come to conclusions if I were you. See, I can give you what you want in return for doing this task for me."
"What could you possibly have that I would want!?" Venom snarled. There was a pause, and then Venom barked, "Who are you! Show yourself!"
The man that stood afar off in the shadows walked forward into the dim light, "I'm Rafael. And I have heard of you, Venom, I know that you seek to destroy the ghost boy, Danny Phantom. Well, I can give you that opportunity."
Venom's red eyes glowed with hunger, "keep talking."
"You bring Phantom to me, and once I'm done with him, he's all yours."
Venom's cracked and dry lips pulled into a malevolent grin, the fangs in his mouth now shown and gleamed against the light, "deal."
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Pamela held her coffee up to her lips and took a sip of the steaming liquid. Her husband, Jeremy, sat on the opposite side of the table reading the newspaper; in front of him was a half eaten omelet. Because of the length of the table, when they were on opposite sides, they were at least twenty feet from each other! Pamela finally sighed and put her cup of coffee down, "Honey."
Jeremy lowered the paper to look at his wife, "yes darling?"
"Sweetie, I'm worried…"
"About what? I told you that the bill was a mistake from that company, they didn't even have-,"
"No, not that." Pamela cut him off, "I'm worried about Sammy. She seems…too…happy. Don't you think?" She shuttered, "she's even started saying 'hi' to me! It isn't normal. And I'm worried."
"What isn't normal about that?"
"Well…it isn't normal for her! Do you think…could she be…"
"Doing drugs? Sleeping with guys at school?" Jeremy suggested.
"Well, uh, I was going to say 'becoming a mature young lady,' but I guess that works too. Haven't you noticed anything? And also, she doesn't spend all of her time in her room anymore. She actually leaves the house and goes…god knows where…"
"Ah ha! So it is drugs!" Jeremy exclaimed, slamming the paper down on the table, "I knew it! All kids at her age get addicted! She's probably sneaking out to go get some pots or something!"
"Pots? Why is she getting pots?"
"I don't know. But I've heard people use that word when they are referring to drugs. I guess that they smoke the pots, but I can't be sure. We should go and ask her! Or better yet, let's get her to a hospital right away! We can't risk our only daughter to become a drug addict that ends up living on the streets! I'm going to do something about this!" Jeremy slid his chair back and began marching out of the room and up the stairs.
Pamela sighed, "Somehow, I imagined this conversation to go differently." She said to herself, then returned to drinking her coffee.
The next moment, Pamela was startled by her husband's cry of: "Pam! Sam's gone!" He ran down the stairs, "I told you! It's the drugs!"
"She's not doing drugs!" Pamela barked, "Our daughter doesn't do drugs! Let's just call her cell phone."
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Sam and Danny sat on the ledge of the building that towered over all the rest. Sam loved this place, she thought of it now as "their" spot, because this is where Danny confessed his love to her. She would never forget that night…was that just last night? It seems like years have passed since then! It is all so unreal. Sam turned to Danny, "you okay?" She asked. He was staring down at his hands with a blank expression on his face.
"Huh?" He was pulled from his thoughts, "oh, yeah, I was…just thinking." He smiled to her. "What are you planning to do after high school? You'll be a senior next year, what do you plan to do? Are you going to go to college?"
Sam thought about that, "Well, I never really took time to think about that. I guess…I'm just waiting for the right opportunity. I'll just take whatever life throws at me." She chuckled then reached over and grabbed onto Danny's hand, "what are your plans?"
"Nothing." Danny flatly stated, "I don't have any plans. I'm not going to be staying long. In a year at the most, we will live here, then we'll have to move again." Danny replied, "There is nowhere I can settle for good. There is no where that I will be safe. The longer I stay in one place, the more danger I put others in. I have to constantly move to different locations to keep the SEHS leaders off of my track. Eventually, they will find me though. I know what my fate is, but I guess I'm not ready for it-,"
"Stop!" Sam wailed, "That's not true! You can defeat them right? You can stay in hiding! You can do something! Don't say that they will find you! That won't happen! They will never hurt you!"
"Sam, listen-,"
"No, you listen! I don't care if you have the entire army force up against you, I will not let you quit! You can't give up! Didn't you just tell me that you have a reason to live? A will to live? You have just as much reason to live as anyone else! Don't give them everything that you deserve! Please! Danny, you can settle down someday. And when that happens…you could…" She felt tears come to her eyes.
"Sam, I do have a will to live. But, that doesn't mean that I deserve to live. My life is nothing but death and pain, and I am like a curse or a disease that easily spreads. I can't live with the feeling that I am causing this damage."
"But…what about the Fentons? Will you just leave them? After everything they've done to protect you? And what about Amity Park? You've saved Amity Park from ghost attacks and dangerous things that come through here! Will you abandon them? And…what about me? You're going to leave me? After everything we've done and everything we've been through? Will you just throw that all away?"
"Of course not." Danny replied softly, "Sam, please try to understand," he wiped away the tear from her cheek, "The reason I fight is because of all of these people. They all need a hero, and I try to help them whenever I can, but…I have to think of others before myself…and if I leave, it is best for all of them."
"Danny, I want you to promise me something."
"Sam-,"
"Promise me! Promise me that you won't give up! Promise me that you'll continue to fight! Promise me that you won't give yourself up to Rafael! Promise!" Sam pleaded with water filled eyes.
Danny turned away, taking in a slow breath, "If that's what you want, Sam. I promise."
Sam sniffled, and then threw her arms around him in a bear hug. "Thank you." She whispered into his ear. When she pulled back, she smiled, "Guess what? Prom is in a few days! We need to practice our dancing!" She proudly announced while sniffling silently.
"Wow." Danny smiled, "you must be really happy if you're going to dance willingly!" He laughed, "Alright then. You're probably right; we don't want to look like complete idiots out there!" He stood up and reached down and offered his hand to her, "Sam, may I have this dance." He chuckled.
Sam gave him a sneer look but laughed and grabbed his hand, letting him pull her up to her feet, "yes you may." She stepped up to him, so that they were mere centimeters from each other. Danny put one of his hands on her waist and grabbed onto one of her hands with his free hand. They both looked down to their feet to make sure they weren't about to step on the other, and they also kept glancing at their hands to make sure they were still in the same place.
After a few minutes of getting set in place, they both tried their best to move back and forth at the same speed, but both were nervous about messing up as they tried to keep a rhythm. They constantly stepped on the other's feet, mumbling a quick apology when they did, but soon got the hang of it. They stayed at a slow, steady beat, even without any music on. Sam stared into Danny's eyes the entire time, her eyes glittering with happiness while being able to spend time with him. She took a step closer so that they now leaned up against each other's body, and Sam rested her head on his chest, using his heartbeat to keep her rhythm.
Just then, Sam's cell phone set off into a musical ring tune. She and Danny both stepped away from each other and looked down to Sam's pocket, where her cell phone rested. She snarled and pulled it out and looked at the number, "oh shit." She opened her phone and put it up to her ear, "hello?"
Danny could hear the conversation. Both because of his super enhanced hearing, but also because Sam's mother was speaking much louder than necessary.
"Sammy! Oh god, where are you? You're father and I weren't able to find you, and you weren't in your room!"
"Wait, mom, it's a school day, didn't you think that I had gone to school this morning?"
"Well, honey, the maid went into your room this morning at about eight o' clock and said that you were still in bed. So we figured that you were staying home! And then you were gone! You're father and I are worried!"
"Ugh, mom, I'm fine."
"Well, where are you!?"
"I'm uh…" Sam sighed, "I'm with Danny." Suddenly, she felt the phone pulled away from her hands, and saw Danny put the phone up to his ear.
"Mrs. Manson." Danny said, "I assure you that Sam is fine, she and I are just working on a project for school. I'm sorry that we worried you. I hope that you don't mind too much, because this project is really important and counts for one third of our grade." There was a pause as Pamela replied, but Sam couldn't make out the words, then Danny continued, "Yes ma'am. I'll have her home before dark. Thank you. Bye." He closed the phone and handed it back to Sam with a smirk.
"Rub it in." Sam sarcastically growled. "I think my mom likes you. She normally wouldn't let me stay out of the house if I wanted to, she would be worried that I would be kidnapped or something."
"Well, with your luck," Danny replied, "I guess I can understand her concern."
"Hey!" Sam gave him a glare, "That's insulting." She couldn't help smiling though.
Danny looked over the side of the building, "I think that we have the basics of dancing down…maybe a little more practice though…but the prom isn't till next week. So we have a little time. I'm looking forward to prom though." He grinned.
Sam returned a smile, "same here."
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One week. It seems like a long time when you are waiting for something to happen, but really, compared to a lifetime's worth of days, a week is nothing. It is a saying that if you count down the days, then it goes slower, but once that day comes, you wonder why you thought that a week would be forever. The entire time you want the day to come, you think it is taking forever, but then when that day does come, you think that it didn't take long at all. For Sam, the week went by so slow, yet, so fast. She anxiously waited for the day of the dance to come, and thought that it would never come, but then, it did. Prom night. With my luck, Sam thought, this will probably end in a disaster.
She wore only her towel around her body, brushing out her wet hair with a comb while she stared down at the dress laid out on her bed. It almost reminded her of a black wedding dress…maybe a corpse dress or something. It had no straps, it only came across her front above her breasts and pulled tightly back behind her. It laced along the back down her spine, and the top was basically in the form of a corset. The top also had gleaming flat beads that almost reminded her of a black disco-ball. The bottom half was a layered piece, which was a silky black texture with the same gleaming beads aligning the edges. Beside the dress, a pair of black, open-toed dress shoes that crisscrossed along the feet lay there.
Sam put her hairbrush down and walked over to her sink to brush her teeth, then rinsed her mouth with Listerine, and put on all of her face makeup. She was pretty nervous at this point. Yes, it was just a dance, but still, all the juniors and seniors were going to be there, and never before had Sam thought that she would be invited to go to the dance. Sam put on some earrings, but not any bracelets or anything, because she had heard that her date was supposed to give her one of those flower bracelet things.
Just ten minutes before Danny arrived, Sam put on her dress. She didn't want it to get too worn in before the dance! She struggled to put on her shoes once she had her dress on, but she managed. Sam grabbed her cell phone and her purse before leaving her room and going down the stairs. She could see her parents in the kitchen, sitting at the table eagerly, wanting to greet Danny when he came. Sam smirked, this time you won't get a chance to make me feel like an idiot! She thought.
She glanced at her watch, 8:00 exactly. Sam was in and out of the door in less than a second, coming face to face with a well groomed, dressed up Danny. The back of his hair was attempting to stay flat by the gel and water, but it was having troubles, the front of his hair, however, was still messy and spiked as always. He wore a black tux with a white shirt underneath. Sam grinned at him, "Come on! They might have heard the door open!" She barked, and they started speed walking away from Sam's house. But once they were a block clear of it, Danny turned to Sam.
"Hang on, I got you something." Danny said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small box, "I know that I'm supposed to give you a bracelet thing, but I hope that this is an okay replacement." He smiled sheepishly and handed her the box.
"Oh, Danny, you really didn't have to." Sam blushed but took the box, "thank you." She held the box up to eye level and opened it. Inside, she saw a necklace. But not just a regular necklace, her eyes widened at the sight of it. "Oh my god." She whispered. The necklace was a thin chain, and hanging on the chain, a small orb was attached to it. But not just any orb, it was glowing a bright green colour and had a mass of green swirling around inside like clouds on a windy day. She looked at it for a good amount of seconds, and then she realized that she recognized that green glow: Danny's eyes when he was in his ghost form. "Is this-,"
"It's ecto-energy. It was actually not easy to make." He smiled with a chuckle.
"You made this? How?"
"Uh...Well…I had to find a material that could be formed into a small, hollow cylinder, and also, at the same time, a material that could contain ecto-energy. My parents helped me find the material, then after that, I basically had to be careful and put some of my ecto energy inside…I actually had to retry a bunch of times, I kept accidently putting too much in and blowing it up." He smiled with embarrassment, "but…it was worth it."
Sam was still in awe by the gift. Inside of this small orb was a small piece of Danny. It must have been hard to find the right things for this, and he did it all for her. Such a small thing had such a huge impact on her heart. "Thank you so much Danny." She gave him a hug and kissed him deeply on the lips. "Want to help me put it on?" She held the necklace out to him and turned around so that he could place the necklace around her neck.
The second that Danny touched the necklace, the glowing orb's light intensified to an almost white light; he brought it around her neck and clicked it on. The orb was warm against Sam's skin; it came down to the center of her chest and brought a light up under her chin, almost like a firefly in the night. When Danny released the necklace from his grip, the light dimmed once again.
Sam smiled up at him as she turned to face him once more. Then he reached out and grabbed a hold of her hand, then lifted her up into his arms, before transforming into Phantom and taking off into the air. The school was, of course, very much within walking distance, but Danny didn't want to make her walk to school on prom night. He wanted to do his best to be a gentleman! Jazz had gone over the basics to "being a great date" with him, but he had forgotten almost all of it. Oh well.
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Venom turned to all of the men that were lined up in an order of stations and levels among them, the closest to him were the strongest and the ones farther back were weakest. However, any of them would help at this moment. He didn't have a whole lot of time, so he needed to get moving. That Phantom kid's dance thing would begin in half an hour! He chose the men that he needed to bring along with him. Even if he didn't want to, because he worked better alone, he had to. Rafael told him that he would need to bring some of his own men. Venom figured that it was for backup, but also so that Venom stayed with the plan.
He quickly read over the list in his hands of the men and their 'stats,' before reading out the names of the men he would bring. With that done, Venom turned and gave them a death clutching glare of flaming red, "we leave at once! And if any of you so much as fall one step behind, I'll show no mercy in annihilating you in the most painful ways possible!" He snarled like a rabid dog to show that he was being serious. Then Venom turned to Rafael who stood in the back of the room, "Don't you forget about our agreement! I expect you to keep your end of the deal just as I will keep mine!" Venom then turned to the doorway of the room and held his hand out, immediately the doors swung open, and the group of men, lead by Venom, left.
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Danny and Sam, (Danny now in his human form) began to walk up to the school. Danny had landed them just off to the park near the school so that he wasn't seen when he changed. The two of them gave each other assuring looks as they made their way up there. Cars were parked all along the streets, and couples were walking while holding hands or sometimes the girls draped over the boys like limp cloth. Sam scowled at their idiotic performance to impress their dates.
The two of them looked at the school's decorations outside. It almost looked like someone had puked on the school! Sam thought to herself. The place was covered from head to foot with different creativity. When they got closer, they saw that there were some seniors standing at the doorway, greeting everyone that passed with a nice wave or 'hello.'
The two of them walked in the doors of Casper High School. Danny was too distracted by all of the music blaring in the background, all the hypnotizing colours everywhere, and most of all Sam, to notice that there was a cloaked figure standing on the rooftop of Casper High, smiling mischievously and narrowing his blood-red eyes.
Inside of the school gym, the lights were off, but there were plenty of lights to see! For a moment, Danny thought that he would have a seizure because of the blinding blinking lights coming from all directions. There were students crowded on the gym court, dancing their souls out to the beat of the music. At the moment it was a fast song.
He watched for a few moments, taking in everything that he saw. There were tons of people in groups, laughing and joking together, then there were couples that were grinding on each other disturbingly, and then there were some that just stood in the distant and passionately kissed, not giving anyone else any sign of interest. This is what everyone looks forward to? Wow, they really have some issues. Danny said to himself, but he decided that he ought to try and enjoy himself. It wasn't exactly his type of environment, but that didn't matter, he wanted Sam to have a good time!
When the song ended, some of the couples stepped off the dance floor and went over to go get drinks, so Danny and Sam decided that now was a good time to go out there. Both of them showed signs of reluctance as they walked out, but didn't verbally complain. It was a slow song now, which was what they had been working on the past week! They hadn't practiced all of the crazy dances that the others were doing during the fast dances. Danny held Sam close as they swayed to the music, when he grabbed onto her hand and waist, the necklace on her flared up with energy. There were hundreds of others that did the same as well. Neither of them spoke, neither of them had to, their eye contact spoke for them.
When the song ended, there were a few minutes of silence while the band got ready for the next song. Sam bumped against someone, and immediately turned to see who it was, she was just about ready to apologize, but instead gave a sharp glare, "Oh…you!" She growled with fury at the boy standing near her.
The teenage boy that she had bumped into had caramel coloured hair, chalky pale skin, and his eyes were a little off. "Well, well, well, if it isn't my darlin' little girl. I haven't seen you in a while. How you doin'?" He grinned with a smirk. This was the annoying drunk guy that Sam had met while she was standing in the line for the movies a little while back. His name was…Zach? Sam thought, but wasn't positive.
Danny immediately took action, with narrowed eyes he stepped in front of Sam, lethally glaring at Zach, teeth bared. "You take one more step and I'll make sure that you get your ass kicked so bad that you'll be feeling it for the rest of your life!" Danny snarled.
Sam tried to pull Danny back away from Zach, "Danny, ignore him, come on. Don't start a fight!" She hissed at both of the boys. She knew that Danny could take Zach down easily, but she still didn't want to have him fight! "Let's go!"
"Yeah," Zach smirked, "you should listen to your little girlfriend. She knows what she's talkin' 'bout. You should just go before you start something." He looked at Sam, "You want me to take you home later tonight? I have a nice car." He grinned.
Danny's eyes flashed green and glowed brightly, he could feel the fangs begin to extend in his mouth with fury; nobody talks to Sam like that! He thought to himself. (When his anger increased, the necklace around Sam's neck began to glow brighter) "You want to take this outside!?" He threatened. He hadn't noticed that Zach had a date standing a few feet behind him, she came forward and grabbed onto Zach.
"Come on Zach-ey, let's go." She gave Sam a hard glare and led Zach away from them.
Danny let out a laugh, "yeah, didn't think so!" Once they were out of range, he turned back to Sam. She was giving him a cold stare, "what?" he asked.
"Why didn't you walk away? You shouldn't have encouraged him like that! That is how you end up getting hurt!" She cried.
"I could've taken him! You know that. He is a terrible fighter."
"That's not the point! I don't like that you have to fight for me. I am always the reason that you end up in these situations, and I don't want to be the cause of your pain! Please, Danny, don't do that for me."
Danny looked down, "I'm sorry that you feel that way Sam. But I just don't want you to be in those kinds of situations. That jerk needs to back off! He's just an alcoholic bastard that wants to get laid!" Danny was fuming with anger.
"Come on," Sam grabbed Danny's hand, "we should go take a breather." She led him off of the dance floor. When she grabbed his hand, her necklace once again filled up with energy, and it became warm against her chest. They walked to the doors that led outside, and Sam pushed open the doors and walked out. It was a lot colder out here, and her skin crawled from the sudden change in temperature. She took a deep breath, "it's much nicer out here!" She exclaimed.
Danny smiled, "well, we weren't in there very long. I think I have a habit of making situations worse. It seems like whenever we go somewhere, we have to leave early." He laughed. They started walking around the school where it was quiet; they could still feel the beat of the music coming from the inside though.
The two of them watched the stars and the moon in the sky, and then Danny turned and pulled Sam up to him, pressing his lips against hers. They stayed like that for a few moments, enjoying every second of it, but at one point, they had to pull apart to get some air. Then they continued walking, both feeling the aftershocks of the kiss running through their veins. Danny thought to himself that this night was going much better than he thought it would, just a normal, teenage dance with normal issues. But…that changed in an instant.
Danny didn't see or sense the attack until it was far too late to react. He did not have a spare second to even blink before he felt the agonizing effect of ecto-electricity coursing through his body, ripping a blood curdling scream from his throat and making him collapse onto the ground from the pain. He couldn't hear as Sam cried his name because of his own screams, and he couldn't think straight from the pain. However, he was able to know exactly who it was: Venom.
A/N: Okay, I am sorry for the delay. I have been going through a writer's block. But, we all know that even in a writer's block, we're supposed to keep writing! So I did, I wrote this chapter despite the fact that I was having major issues with my writing! So yeah. But also, all of those boring parts of this chapter are necessary for later chapters, especially Danny and Sam's conversation!
Also, one last thing, that scene earlier in the chapter between Venom and Rafael was a flashback to an earlier time. It shows who Venom has been working for. I had mentioned before when Danny and Venom were fighting, that Venom couldn't kill Danny just yet because of his job. Well, now you know who he's working for.