Sam moved quickly in the darkness and while she wasn't sure on the hours of the bus that she had taken here, she knew that she needed to get away from the motel. The male behind the counter, the same one that had tried to break into her room, was out to do something vile to her. She wasn't about to find herself in the same situation as before and so running across the street, she made sure to stay in the shadow, her amethyst eyes ever alert for the male. She wasn't sure if he had been waiting for her to leave her room or if he thought she would just fall asleep again. The Goth was relieved that she had placed the chair in front of the door, barring the male from entering her room. She could see why he had done it though. Here was a female, alone and obviously young so that made her easy prey in his eyes, just like her father had thought.
She made it to the bus station, the place silent save for a few people waiting around inside the building. She rushed to the door, ready to enter when she saw her face looking back at her from a poster on the glass. She could just tell the person in the ticket booth who she was and she would be taken back to the Fentons and as it was safe with all the people under her father and the man himself, behind bars she really debated it. It would be faster. Ripping the picture off the glass of the door she entered the large space. The light nearly blinded her from being in the dark for several hours, but she forced herself to move toward the person behind the glass of the booth. "Where do you need to go?" the brunette asked from behind the glass.
"I need you to call the police," Sam stated before holding up the flyer with her image on it. "I am the girl in this poster." The brunette squinted her eyes at the female before her, Sam removing her glasses to reveal her strange eye color, one that was very rare. The blue eyes of the woman behind the glass told the Goth that she believed her and moving quickly she grabbed her cell phone, calling the authorities for the teen before her. The Goth watched her, her mind racing with the thought that she was free, really free and soon she would be reunited with the family of the halfa who had saved her and while she was excited and happy, another part of her worried about how she would be treated because of what her father had done to her?
Even Maddie's words about it happening to others couldn't stop that shame, the fact that she had willingly allowed Jeremy to rape her repeatedly, never fighting back because she had believed his words about killing the Fenton family... because she wouldn't allow him to hurt the one that had saved her and the one that she had deep feelings for, but now... He wouldn't be able to look at her without seeing what had happened to her and while she knew that he wouldn't blame her for those disgusting things that had been done to her she couldn't make herself forget them. They would haunt her for life. What she failed to know about the male that had been her father, and the one that had held her, was that he had recorded it all...
That morning Danny was heading for the Ghost Zone, his parents working down in the lab amazed at what he had told them and glad to know that there was another way to find the Goth. They had been unsure if she had seen the broadcast, the video being replayed not only over the air but also on the internet as several people shared the post to aid in finding the Goth and ensuring that she knew, wherever she was hiding, that she had people who loved her and were waiting for her to come home.
"Hopefully wherever it drops me off is close enough to her that I can bring her back quickly," the halfa stated, his green eyes flashing brightly at the fact that he would soon be reunited with the female he had saved. He had been so worried and angry over her going missing and the fact that the one who held her had abusing her before he had met her. With a quick 'goodbye' the halfa was off. His parents stood there, still worried about the fate of the missing Goth. There was still no word on her being alive or dead and while the people who had called in to report her father hadn't said a word about the state of the girl in question, they hadn't said if she was in the home either. Their musings were interrupted by Maddie's phone, the ringtone a loud one that echoed around the large space of their lab.
"Hello," the red head said, her face relaxing as the person on the other end filled her in on the whereabouts of the raven haired teen and after expressing her joy she hung up before turning to her husband. "They found Sam!" The hulking male smiled at the news. They had been worried that the small girl was dead, but to know that their son's belief concerning her fate, was correct was a comfort, but now the male was gone, heading to where she was. Jack rushed to the Spector Speeder, a contraption made to fly around in the real world and the Ghost Zone, and climbing in headed off to find their son and share the good news while Maddie rushed to head to the police station where Sam was being taken.
The halfa was just about to Far Frozen when his father caught up with him, the horn nearly scaring the white haired male who had been unaware of his father following him. Turning around he raised a brow when he saw his father in the Speeder, but with a wave he continued onward to his destination. Maybe his father had wanted to help him, but this was a task that was better off being done alone. His father didn't stop following him, in fact the older Fenton male honked the horn several more times to get his attention.
"What?" he called back, stopping again to turn to his father. When his father's words were unclear from the distance the halfa went to the window of the driver side of the large vehicle. "Dad, I nee-"
"They found her!" his father crowed in triumph. The halfa's face relaxed, the thought that the young female had been found. He wanted to know if she was okay, but before his father could tell him a blast knocked the white haired male away from the ship. Jack turned to see a familiar face, the male having once been a friend. "Vlad!" he growled just as Danny recovered enough from his strike to float nearby, his green eyes glowing in warning to the enemy. Vlad had once been their mayor, his plans to use the ghosts to keep his role a thing of the past. He had revealed himself to the world, an attempt to gain favor as he talked about saving them from the large asteroid that had nearly decimated the planet. They had been sure he was in space, never to bother them again, but here he was now, glaring at them in a haughty manner.
"Thought you were done with me, little badger?" the older male inquired, more energy flickering in his hands. "Thought that I would never come back?!" The teen halfa glared up at the older one, sure that with the year that had just passed he was stronger than the dark haired male. "Seems that you under-" He was cut off as Jack blasted him with green goop, the substance coating the older halfa and shocking him moments later. "Oh, Jack, you buffoon!" Vlad spat. "I will enjoy ending your life as well as the brat you spawned and when you are dead I will take Maddie as my own!"
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Danny yelled back, anger giving his powers a boost. He didn't have time to deal with the obsessed halfa, not with Sam found and his need to see her, to know that everything was okay. That she was... that she was what? He knew that she had been raped, the bastard had admitted to it, and she was hurt... so was she okay? His mother had felt that she was strong and he believed that, but how do you help heal someone who has been hurt in more than just a physical sense? Throwing those thoughts to a space in the back of his mind he rushed to fight his enemy, to kill him if he needed to.
Sam was sitting in an interrogation room, the officer across from her asking about how she had managed to escape the house that had held her for the last year. She wasn't going to lie, but she wasn't going to reveal the two people that had helped her. Beside her sat the wig, her own raven locks shorter than the ones of the wig. She ran her fingers thru her hair, the locks wet with sweat. She hadn't taken off the wig once since the woman had helped her put it on. She had been too afraid to do anything until she was in a safe place. The fear that, like the woman selling tickets, would see her coloring and capture her. That she would be forced back into the clutches of her rapist.
"Some robbers came to the house," the raven haired girl said, taking the glass of water that had been offered to her once she had reached the station. Taking a sip she set it back on the table. Her stomach protested to the water, the liquid not what the empty organ wanted. "and he was gone so when they headed up the stairs they broke the gate... I escaped."
"How were you able to leave the state so quickly when from what was in that room you had no clothing," the male stated, his partner entering with a couple cups of coffee. "There was no female clothing in the house." He hinted at her attire. "And yet you have female clothing on."
"Why does it matter?" she asked, her anger starting to coil around her heart. Why did it matter how she had gotten out of the house? It was because they wanted to capture the ones who had robbed the place. "I know that you want to catch them, but I can't tell you much about them anyway. They wore masks that covered their faces and the house was blacked out." The officer frowned at her tone, the slight hitch of her chin as her eyes flashed angrily. The experiences in that house had been dark, and while she was still very jumpy, she was also tired of them treating her like evidence to another crime. She was a victim and while she didn't like to think of herself like that, it was true. She was traumatized and ready to be where she felt comfortable, the only place that she knew she would feel safe, and these bastards were more concerned with a petty theft and that of the man who had killed several people, raped his child, and killed his wife!
"We just want to do our job," the partner stated, her green eyes tinted with brown. "They may have been the ones to free you, but they still st-"
"From a murder? A rapist? A pedophile?" They glanced at each other, aware that while what she said could very well be true, but the simple fact was that she wasn't going to spill on those that had gotten her out of that house. They had seen the pictures and heard about the island that he had wanted to keep this same girl, they could see why she was angry and while they would love to drop it, they were only doing their job to aid the officers in Kansas where she had been kept. It may not be their case, but they were aiding their own. "Hell, I heard that some of your own were in on what happened to me!" Now her voice was raising, the anger at how she had been treated from the moment she came into the world to this point, making that emotion rise. "The people who are supposed to protect people, the child that I was, from such things happening!"
Maddie stood behind the glass, watching the pale face of the Goth turn red, her eyes narrowed as she released all her feelings onto the two people before them. She felt for the girl. All this could have been avoided. The door next to her opened to reveal Jack and Danny, the halfa looking a little worn out, but worried. His blue eyes turned to the glass his mother stood before. He had heard of the two way glass from all the murder mystery shows he liked to watch and with the next outburst of the raven haired teen, the halfa came to stand before it in confusion and relief at the rather feisty female. She had never been like that, not when he had saved her. It seemed that her capture had not broken her... in fact it seemed to have unleashed all that had kept her so shy and quiet. The girl who had feared her shadow had become a woman with the attitude to fight against that that once caused her to tremble.
"Hell, if you had just let me stay with the Fentons I would have not have been taken and..." she faltered, her body stiffening. "I would not have been violated in such a way! How would you like to be forced to walk around naked, if you could walk around, unable to hide your shame. To know that the reason you were forced to be in a state of undress was so that your captive had easy access to what he considered his!?" The pair leaned away from her, her small hands flat on the table as she glared at them. "To be kept in a cold house so you didn't have the power to even try and escape!? Hell, I was lucky if I ate anything in a weeks time!"
"Oh my god," his mother muttered, a tear escaping her eye while Jack fisted his hands in frustration. To think that you would ever be a witness to such a cruel fate. It was one thing to see such horrible things spoken about after the fact, a screen keeping it impersonal save for the feels you had for that victim. Danny could feel his own emotions rising, the regret of not killing the male behind this growing stronger. He wished he had blown the male to pieces like he had done to Vlad just before they got here. He had used the other halfa as a stand in for the real piece of trash that he wanted to kill. Though Maddie had been behind the glass for longer than the other two, she had no idea what had set the small female off.
"What did they say?" The red head shook her head at her husband with a simple 'I don't know'.
"How about knowing that if you didn't do what was commanded of you that the person causing you all that pain held the lives of others in his hand?" Neither said anything. "Yeah, how would it feel to know that what he threatened was no only a threat but nothing for him to baulk at? He had done it already!" That was news. They hadn't thought she had been aware of the killings as she had said nothing to them about that. "I thought they were only nightmares, but when he told me he killed my mother..." she faded off with a shake of her head. "I knew they were memories that I had blocked... I saw it happen just once. That was all it took to remind myself never to follow your father's angry words with anyone." She shuddered. "So, when a burglary is more important than a real victim..." She left it at that, the three people behind the glass growing angry. Maddie was the first to move, her small frame disappearing out into the hallway before the appeared in the room with Sam and the two officers.
"Are you ready to go?" the red head asked, the Goth surprised to see her appear nodding. Grabbing the small girl's hand the two women left. "Good day," the ghost fighter spat as the door closed. Jack smirked with Danny, the pair quite proud of the two females, before following the two females out of the station.
Sam didn't say a word when they got to the car. She sat silent next to the halfa in the back seat, her eyes cast downwards and even when they finally got home she still remained silent. Danny watched her the whole way, wondering on what he should say to her to let her know how he felt about her. He didn't know what to say to let her know that no matter what he would always be there for her, that he cared enough about her to know the story of darkness and see the light that outshone the darkness. He looked at his parents and with a smile they walked away. The halfa hadn't expected that reaction. He turned back to the Goth, the straight posture of the small female telling him that she was afraid, but while he knew she no longer had anything to fear from her father, he knew that that was not what the fear was from. She was afraid of how he would look at her. That was easy to see.
She had been stuck to him, trusting him without knowing him, the connection strongest between the two of them. He took her hand and drew her over to the couch, the sounds of his parents in the lab a faint sound in the otherwise silent room. Once they were sitting on the large piece of furniture he turned to her, his hand still holding hers, but now he grabbed the other one. "Sam, do you mind if we talk?" She said nothing. "You don't have to talk, but I want to tell you something important." She nodded, though her eyes still stayed downcast.