Seducing Sam
There is a holiday lock-in during senior year, the last Friday before Christmas break, and none of the trio wants to participate. Sam's mother bends her arm into it, and Danny and Tucker sign up for moral support. It's fairly juvenile, so the trio heads off to their own little corner to chat and whatnot. Valerie ends up joining and Tucker convinces them all to play truth or dare (he wants to get a kiss from Valerie) and that leads to more of the A-List coming over as they realize exactly why the four of them are doing ridiculous things, and to Valerie asking Danny how many times he and Sam have kissed. The answer is given, twice, and then the stuttering addition that they were just fake-out make-outs. Val tries to ask then, if they didn't mean anything, but her turn is over. A few turns later she corners Sam. Sam starts to take dare so she doesn't have to answer a question, but she can see Val looking fairly evil and goes for the truth. So she has to say that the kisses didn't mean anything, even though they meant something to her. Danny gets the shock of his life as he realizes that Sam is lying.
Thus and so the conflict; Danny has the epiphany that it meant something to Sam, even if she says it was fake, and also that Dash is a jerk who tries to get Sam to mess around with him. That happens at the lock-in itself. Dash thinks now that Sam is a little freak who likes to make out with her friends, and since he's cool and popular and way better looking than Fenton, she'll probably go all the way with him. Because dash, though he'll never admit it, is a virgin. For all his talk he's never been able to convince any girl he dated (Paulina included) to have sex. So he manages to corner her in the wee hours as she's heading back from the bathroom and tries to convince her to sneak into a classroom with him. At one point he actually grabs her and tries pulling her into one, but Sam can take care of herself and gets him with her steel toed boots, then punches him before leaving him groaning on the floor. Danny discovers what happened, but Sam isn't really upset or anything. Just furious. So Danny lets that slide but sets out to see exactly what this lie is all about.
The first time he tests it out is just before Christmas. There's a ghost problem, and Danny is taking care of it and dealing with Valerie too. When it's over and Valerie is randomly searching for Danny Phantom, Danny finds himself kissing Sam senseless by the fountain in the park in the middle of the snow. He murmurs, "Fake-out make-out," against her lips before he kisses her, but Valerie was never anywhere near them and Sam is thoroughly confused and more than a little weak in the knees. Danny isn't actually a bad kisser when it's not a surprise attack he's hiding from.
The second time is on Christmas Eve, where he steals a kiss with some mistletoe. If no one else realizes exactly how intense that chaste kiss was, that's their problem.
The third time is on New Year's Eve, and Danny works quite hard to get Sam off and alone when the countdown begins. That way he can kiss her as thoroughly as the fake fake-out make-out. To his surprise and pleasure, this time, Sam kisses him back. And because she wants to, not because he told her it was a fake-out make-out.
The fourth time is just after school starts back up and Sam is on her way to a much hated science class that she had planned to ditch—until Danny convinced her not to. She's four doors away when she's startled into nearly shrieking as she's tugged through a door, literally, and into the anticipating arms of Danny Phantom. An entire period, alone, in a locked and empty closet? Things get hot and heavy, and Sam makes the decision not to ask Danny what it's about, why he's doing it, but to just go along and enjoy.
After that random make-out sessions become frequent, and when Danny drops in on her one night in the wee hours of the morning, a habit of longstanding when he's been pulled from bed to handle a ghost, he wakes her with one of those kisses that leads to making out. And a bit further than that. He takes care of her tension and she responds in kind. Two weeks later she drags him into bed to finish what they started. It's a first for both, and they admit it to each other before going for it.
(Must make sure to intersperse beginning with Dash and others pulling their stunts and the gossip.) That's when things begin to escalate on the other front; Dash has been telling his cronies that he nailed Manson at the lock-in, but none of them says anything for the longest time. Though they are randomly hitting on Sam and propositioning her following the holidays, Sam doesn't really pay it much mind because Danny has most of her attention. Then, after Sam and Danny have had sex, finally, one of the girls on the A-List overhears Dash and a random teammate gossiping about how good Sam is in bed. None of them have slept with her, but since Dash claims she's so easy none of them can admit that she didn't even give them the time of day. So they all resort to lying. But when it's overheard, rumors begin to circulate, rumors that Sam and Danny both know aren't true, and Tucker too. But it causes trouble.
Sam finds herself pulled into Ishiyama's office along with Lancer and a counselor as they begin to quiz her about her sexual activities with the football team. Lancer doesn't really join in, he's already said that he doesn't believe the rumors for a heartbeat, Samantha Manson isn't a girl who would do the things she's been said to. Alas, Sam's temper is at the breaking point because of the stress, and she lashes out verbally. She accuses them of being hypocrites and whatnot for having her in the office to interrogate her and threaten her with repercussions, but did they for a second even consider punishing the people saying these things about her? All they have are rumors to go on and yet she's being tried and judged without so much as an excuse for real evidence. If she had indeed had sex with any of them it would have been rape because she would never consent to any of them, and beyond that, her sexual activities—which are nonexistent with those brainless excuses for human beings—are none of their damned business. Gets up, storms out, skips out and refuses to return to school the next day, too.
Unsurprisingly, Danny seeks her out when he finds out what happened. From Lancer, of all people, but he doesn't manage to find her. Her grandma is the only one home right now, thank heaven, but even she doesn't know where Sam is. Sam told her she was going out and not to worry, so Danny does the worrying for her. When she doesn't show up for first period English Danny decides to ditch school, gets a pass from Lancer to go the bathroom, and Lancer says nothing when Danny takes his backpack with him. He finds her this time, she's at her computer lounging in the chair, not worried or anything, but angry and hurt that anyone would just assume such things about her. This will be the turning point in their relationship, about three months after it began.
Insert the chair sex. Must not forget the hand down chest, stomach.
Afterward when they've moved to her bed, she tells him she feels like it should be true. After all, she's been… with him… and… To which Danny tells her in no uncertain terms that this is nothing like what they're talking about. It's not just sex, it's more than sex, and even if it were just sex, they're both 18 and consenting. It ends on that because Danny kisses her into silence.
Alas, trouble is brought down on them in the form of the law and her parents. The school is stupid and still inclined to believe in their star jocks, and so decide that she must have been trying to tell them she was raped, and that involves the parents, and in one massive confrontation that comes while Danny is dealing with a powerful ghost and Sam's too worried to be thinking straight, she falls into a trap to admit she's not a virgin. Admin and cops hear her as she says again that she's never had sex with any of the people who say she has and no she will not consent to a rape kit because she wasn't. With her mother insisting that she has to Sam says she won't, and the football morons are all saying they were lying, the police ask her if she's protecting someone. She is, but she denies it, and when they press she admits that she is, but it's none of the accused, and won't they please let it go?
The police crap goes on for a month or so before the charges are all dismissed, though Lancer manages to get the school board to investigate the way the whole situation was handled from the beginning. Lancer gets Ishiyama's job when they decide that she should never have confronted Sam the way she did and to completely ignore the behavior of the rest because they were athletes for the school. Sam is in tons of hot water with her parents, but she pretty much tells them that she's eighteen, has already received her inheritance, and has an above 4.0 average in school. If they have a problem with her having a monogamous relationship with someone then they can take a long walk off a short pier.
End it just before prom. Toss in some more smut (because smut is always good) and growing admissions of feelings between Sam and Danny. Her parents are right when they accuse him of being the one Sam is sleeping with, though she tells them to leave him alone, she's not answering any questions. Even Tucker isn't getting straight answers. Danny asked Sam, Tucker and his date (by popular demand, Sarah from the Ice Cubes arc) are all meeting at Sam's to take a limo to prom, and her parents accuse him of seducing their daughter to his face. He evades without saying no, so Tucker is positive now.
In limo Tucker says it to his face. "Dude, they were right," he exclaims. "You seduced Sam." Danny smiles smugly as she arches an eyebrow at him, pervy smile included. Danny shrugs. "So? I happen to have a lot of fun seducing Sam." Tucker dies as his brain explodes and there's an orgy in the limo. (Kidding.)