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Danny leaned his head back for a moment, his eyes feeling heavy as his body sagged with the need for sleep. He really needed to sleep, but he was unsure if he would have that same dream as before. Moments later found him passed out, his eyes twitching behind his lids...

As he again found himself in that same darkness, the light around him the same as before... but there was something different here. He could see a light moving around on the other side of the darkness so the raven haired male moved to find this other light. It took a bit of time to catch up with the light only to find that the lighted area he found was vacant save for shadows on the edge of it. As he grew closer to the light source he could hear voices, well, one voice that caught his attention while the other one made him scowl. He took a step closer to reveal Sam sitting on a bed, Vlad standing before her. He could see chill in those amethyst eyes as the older male began to speak again.

"Now, Samantha, you know that you aren't allowed in the home unless you are with your guardian," he said as he moved closer to her. "And as your parents never de-"

"They did!" the raven haired girl spat. "It is in their will and once they find that then I will sell that house and you will be gone."

Danny was surprised at the venom in her tone, her eyes seeming to harden as she stared down the male before her, but he could also see her trying really hard to hold it together. While he had never seen her be so cold, she was uneasy about being in the room alone with the one that wanted to be her guardian. He could see that she remembered him and really hadn't wanted anything to do with male. Danny raised his dark brow at the way the male was eyeing the small female. He was like a shark stalking its prey. His familiarity with the raven haired teen making Danny growl as he spoke her name.

"There is not, Samantha," the male said.

"My name isn't Samantha, not to you especially," she stated. "As you are my employee then you will call me Miss Manson." The younger male smirked at her snapback. She really wasn't afraid of the male, though she seemed leery of the older male.

"Miss Manson," he practically hissed, "Your parents had no will or I would have been aware of it." That was strange, Danny had been sure that the servant had remarked about the same thing about the will's existence.

"As I was telling you, you can't do anything to that house or me until you have a guardian," he stated. "You can't even leave this place until that either and even then you will be under protection until the people responsible for your parents deaths are caught." Danny watched as the white haired male seemed to be waiting for something, his eyes narrowing on the Goth on the bed. Blue eyes flickered over and noted that Sam's amethyst gaze, though hardened, was also darkening.

"And you think that I want you as my guardian," she sneered. "Think again. I don't want you to ever step foot in my room again." Danny noted that the male's eyes flashed red for a moment, like a camera going off at just the right moment and while Danny wanted to question what he had seen, he did remember what the other ghost had said... That Vlad was a half ghost. "That means leave." Vlad gave her a glare, harsh words muttered too low for either human to hear him. The raven haired male wanted to go to her side, to comfort her as a lone tear slid down her cheek.

"I didn't want to be like that," came a soft voice spoken just behind him, but when he turned around there was no one there. "I had to be cold to get him to leave." He had figured as much since Sam hadn't even wanted to be rude to his mother for hugging her. Turning to walk away from the darkening space he noticed a light in the distance moving again and he was off. He found that light again, but this time he noticed that there was another Sam there, her eyes taking in the scene with new eyes as she watched from the sidelines. He turned to see what was going on, the red headed woman having moved to stand next to Sam, the Goth on the floor, before taking a seat on the bed behind the raven haired teen.

"Oh, Miss Manson, I am only here to aid in getting you free," the woman said softly. "After all, no one wants to be abandoned into the system with no one to claim them." Danny growled at this. There was no way that he would let Sam be lost like this woman was claiming. It didn't appear that the Goth on the floor believed this woman's words.

"I have not been abandoned," she growled. "The Fentons are worried about me and since the will my parents wrote is still missing they are forced to wait until it is all cleared up." The raven haired male nodded, he knew she wouldn't believe such lies when he had promised her that he would get her back. The red headed woman was trying seem so torn, Danny could see it and looking up he saw that the other Sam was gone. He looked around for a moment, his blue eyes searching the darkness for her when the older female spoke.

"You don't know, do you?" the red head whispered, her eyes moving toward the white haired male that Danny had failed to notice upon coming up to the scene. Had he been there the whole time? The male made a sad face, Sam's eyes seeing his emotion façade. They spoke for a moment, the red head looking rather concerned about the secret, but Danny could tell from this angle that it was rather fake, the acting rather stiff, but then again he hadn't been where Sam had been. He could see that she was trying to fight, knowing that the male before her was a bad man, but she had been away from him for at least a year... and had only known him for less than a day.

"It seems that the Fentons are no longer willing to wait for state to clear you. In fact they have given up the search for the will." He wasn't surprised at the words that fell out of the ghost female's mouth, though he was still pissed off at her implications. He looked at Sam, willing her to not lose hope that he would do as he promised, though he could see the shock and hurt in her amethyst gaze.

"That's not true," the Goth muttered. "Danny wouldn't give up." She looked down at the woman before her, the red head looking even more upset. "He promised," she whispered. "He promised." The woman stood up, her slender hand falling on the small girl's shoulder. She was falling for it?! Danny wanted to jump in there and rage at her broken look. He wanted to knock the other two back while shaking the female in question.

"Did you really believe him?" she asked the Goth, Sam nodding at the question. "You were only in his home for a few no longer than a day, hon. He felt bad for you but you weren't anything to him." Sam blinked, the tears cascading down her cheeks. "He only wanted to help you, to make you feel better so that you would leave his home." That had just been what he had been thinking, the fact that this woman, this ghost, had known what to say bespoke of what her actual life had been. She had been a head doctor or something. "Good people are rare and while the family were worried about a young child being alone on the streets, who would want another mouth to feed?"

Danny could see the flicker of something in the amethyst gaze, but he couldn't see what it was as the red head continued to speak.

"You were nothing but a stranger to them," the red head said sadly. "A small girl that had disrupted their life with her own troubles. They didn't even try to fight for you." Sam stumbled back before falling to the ground, the tears still leaking out of her amethyst orbs. "If they had wanted you back do you think you would have still been here? Alone and not allowed to be free to walk around in the outside world?" Sam shook as she sat there, her eyes wide and darkened, like they were lifeless and that's when Danny noticed that this whole time that the small Goth's demeanor had changed from one with energy to the point that she was slouched over, her eyes almost sunken in.

"I want to be left alone," the raven haired child murmured. The pair left her, though they looked triumph, Danny paid them little heed as he turned his attention to the zombified female now laying down on the carpet. He crouched down to her level, though his hand couldn't physically touch her, he still tried to touch her shoulder as sobs wracked her body.

"I don't blame you," he whispered to her shuddering form.

"You should," came a response from behind him, the raven haired male knowing that no one was there still looked and was surprised to see the very Gothic female before him. "I may not have known you for but a day, but I knew you wouldn't do that to me... sorry." He reached out to pull her to him, surprised when she was a solid form, the heat of her body relaxing him. She stiffened for a moment, but then smiling wrapped her arms around him...

Danny blinked awake as a groan came from the prone body on the bed, the small female twitching as her eyes fluttered. The young male quickly stood, his hand reaching for hers as she finally opened her eyes to look at him. "Danny?" she asked, confusion in her tone as her amethyst eyes looked around them. "Am I in a hospital?"

"Yeah," he said before explaining about his father and the GIW that had crashed into the life that Vlad was planning. "They caught him and the red headed ghost." She blinked in surprise.

"Spectra," she whispered. "She's the one who came to the hotel room." She sounded ashamed and Danny couldn't fathom why she would feel that way when he had told her he didn't blame her. "I was weak. I trusted you when you spoke it, but I couldn't explain it to myself when someone questioned that faith." He leaned over her and hugged her close to him.

"I wasn't much better," he stated. "I knew that something was wrong, but when you...well, not you but a look alike of you, came to school I really thought for a second that it was you." At her look he explained about how he had come to find out that she wasn't herself and that she had been under a spell that day that she had come home with Vlad. "I should have realized it, but I was just so shocked." She could see that since she hadn't really known him long, and at the same time she was surprised that he had stuck with finding her. After the way that she had acted and then the ghost at her school portraying her had also acted, she would have understood if he had walked away.

"I just don't understand why you never walked away?" she voiced and as if she realized how it sounded she slapped a hand against her lips. He shook his head, moving her hand away.

"I don't know," was his response. "Why didn't you?" That was a good question. She hadn't given up, that much was certain when she was just on the verge of death. The light in her dreams had been the line between life and death. She was given a choice by seeing all that had turned her away from the ones that loved her... And the fact that Danny had been there... that was a question... "I saw it, all of it from the moment that he came to visit you before he came back with Spectra." That hadn't been a dream?! He had been there? "I could have understood, well, not really understood but could have seen it from your point of view and I don't blame you for losing hope." He looked down at her. "You didn't give up though because according to the ghost that was playing you, Amorpho, Spectra was planning on killing you with her powers. They drain the life out of the person under her spell."

"I think he wanted to keep me alive for just long enough to claim my parent's fortune," the Goth said as she pulled away from him to lean against the headboard of the hospital bed, though she was still too weak to really move properly. Danny assisted her before sitting back down, the chair being moved towards her bed. How long would that have been? "Until he was legally able to claim the money thru me. I don't think I can sign it over to anyone but..." she faded off with a shudder. "My betrothed." Danny frowned at that thought. If that was the truth then Sam would have been left in that sleeping state for another five years. Who knows what her health would have been at that time.

"Well, he won't talk and so we need a way to prove what he was trying to do," Danny stated. "While the GIW are trying to get information from him and Spectra, they will need more to prove that Vlad is a half ghost. Right now he's just charged with endangerment of a minor. His custody is being challenged and with your laptop we have a more solid stance on you being removed, but Sam, that would mean you would go back to that hotel."

"There's a will, Danny, I know there is," the raven haired female stated. Danny nodded.

"Yeah, my parents said something about it, but we haven't been able to find it." This was the final piece. The way that Sam could be free from the claws of Vlad. Little did they know that the Fentons knew about the one stipulation and Sam was only a few days from getting that will.