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"Thoughts"

Meet Sam

Waiting in a dark alleyway with her violet eyes looking out into the busy street was a 14 year-old goth girl named Sam.

She had short black hair with a small ponytail on the top back side of her head held by green hair tie.

She wore a black choker around her neck, and two bracelets of the same color at both wrists. Her clothes consisted of a black tank top showing off her midriff with a purple oval in the center. With a green and black crosshatch designed skirt, light purple colored leggings, and her big black combat boots.

Sam had been living on the streets ever since she was 7 and escaped from a horrible orphanage. How she got there in the first place, no one really knew or cared.

This didn't bother her though, being on the streets had taught Sam to only and always look out for herself and to be quick on her feet.

And to do what you gotta do to stay alive by using everything to your advantage. Sure life was hard and she had to do things she hated, but she had found a way to live with it.

A lot of people who hanged or lived on the streets had heard about her. She was pretty much your typical sneaky and cunning thief. She even had her own hideout that some other street kids stayed at too, which was just an old bankrupt abandoned bookstore.

The many places that Sam would steal from were just some small eating establishments with food that didn't come from an animal. Despite food being a very delicate and hard thing to find out there, Sam still had specific diet and belief for animal rights.

Not only would she steal food but she would pickpocket unsuspecting people and rob some knick knack carts that you would find on the streets trying to sell you cheap knock offs.

But there was another way she got food and money, and that was by using and tricking some poor lonely kids. The school near her part of the streets had a good number of geeks and nerds that got bullied and wanted someone to help them out.

And Sam did just that.

But in return for her being their personal bodyguard, they had to give her some of their money or food by the end of each week for her services.

Today being Friday meant it was payday. After hearing the bell to go home and watching all the kids make their way out through the front door, she made her move by jumping over the fence to the courtyard to where most of their meetings took place.

Sam leaned up against a tree that hide her from any teacher that might spot her, the last thing she wanted was to get chased away by that out-of-shaped balding English teacher again.

After a little bit of waiting, one of the band geeks named Lester came out with a plastic bag along with two other nerds behide him with their own pay.

Sam smirked, "Its about time guys." She called out. "Now hurry up, I don't want to be here all day."

Nodding his head in fear, Lester walked over and handed her the bag. Watching with nervous eyes as she went through the bag finding 20 bucks and a container full of salad.

"All nice work, just next time bring some ranch dressing okay?"

Lester nodded his head in relief. "Yes Sam, thank you very much!"

He ran back in to the school as Mikey walked over with two bags filled with apples along with some more money.

"Oh! Is that all for me Mikey, attaboy." She said very pleased.

"Good day Sam!"

And with that he left, leaving only Sidney Poindexter.

He had buck teeth and freckles hidden by his wire-frame glasses. He wore a white-sleeved t-shirt with tweed-styled pants with a bow-tie and pocket-protector.

He was the biggest target at Casper High and most of the time was the one Sam had to save from bullys.

And just for that he had to pay double, but this time instead of have twice the amount as his buddies did he had one burnt, sad looking, little muffin.

He quickly ran over to Sam and placed it in her outstretched hand as she continued to count the money that was in the two bags of food and tried to make a run for it before she-

"Poindexter!"

Noticed...

He stopped right in his tracks in front of the school doors with fear running up and down his spine. Sam walked up to him slowly with the sorry excuse of payment in her hand.

"What is this?"

"Well-... Well it was a slow week. That's all I could get for you." He stuttered.

Suddenly, to make matters worse, Sam's stomach rumbled in protest for more food. Causing Poindexter to jump back, this only made Sam even more annoyed with the situation.

"You hear this, Poindexter? I'm starving here." She said moving closer to intimidate him.

"And when the old stomach starts talking, it ain't talking to me."

She stopped right in front of him with a mocking smile to match the tone in her voice. "It's talking to my left and right fist, along with my sharp combat boots.

Poindexter flinched away from her, whimpering more scared than he had been before.

"No not the boots! Please."

Sam smirked as she started to walk circles around him. "I'm holding my temper back best I can but, thing is, it's really not up to me."

She then stopped right in front of him Crossing her arms while tapping her foot. "The stomach's got a direct line to my self control..."

She started to waive her closed fist in front of his face.

"And I'm picking up a lot of chatter."

Sam walk away feeling he had gotten her point and stared off into the busy streets. "So, I'll talk to the little mad monster in me, but in exchange, next week all your money comes to me."

She looked down at her nails not really caring if it was unfair or not. Life was never fair to her, so why should she be.

"But-..." Poindexter ran to face her. "Buts that's not our deal."

Now he could live with having to pay more than the others since he was the one to get bullied more, but this was...

"I bring you half, you give me protection. That's our deal."

"Yeah, well, the deal just expired." Sam then punched him just hard enough in the arm for him to get the idea that she was serious. "Now get lost."

Poindexter rubbed the sore spot on his arm walking slowly away from Sam, more angry then scared he glared at her. "Mark my words, Sam." His nasally high-pitched voice deeping a little.

"One day someone's gonna stand up to you." He turned away and started walking for the doors to leave the courtyard like his fellow classmates.

"Someone's gonna teach you a lesson."

However his words did nothing but make her roll her eyes and laugh on the inside. Like anyone one would care enough to help them, not to mention everybody was scared of her because of the way she looked and acted. And she had yet to have met her match out here in the concrete jungles. She was the tough and brave Goth that always won and got away. "Yeah I am really scared now."

"YOU SHOULD BE!"

Out of nowhere before she could even look for the new voice, she was shoved harshly against the tree she was leaning on earlier by a strong force!

Boy, was she wrong, so much for the undefeated Goth.

Sam opened her eyes and yelped as she stared back into the glaring unnatural green eyes of a boy who had snow white hair wearing a black and white jumpsuit with a D symbol on his chest. She tried to move but he had a good hold on her arms and he trapped her legs so that she could not kick him. But even though she was thrown off by this, she went into fighting mod and glared back at the strange teen.

"What do you want!? Let me go!"

He ignored her question. "Where is she?"

"Uh..." Sam wasn't expecting that. "Who?"

Wrong answer... Or really, wrong question?

This only made him more angrier then he looked. "You know why I'm here."

"I actually really don't know," Sam thought.

"Where is she?" he demanded again.

"Okay, okay." Sam said trying to calm him done. None of this was making any sense! If he wasn't looking for a fight but instead looking for someone then why was he asking her, she's never seen this guy before.

"Look, I don't know what you're getting at, but..." She was cut off by somebody on the other side of the fence laughing at them she turned to look and saw three men who she remembered very well. The tallest of them smiled and spoke over the over two's laughter.

"Come on, Sam. Just tell the guy where she is. Tell the superhero, make him happy."

"Yeah, yeah come on, Sam. Tell him!"

Then all three laughed once again at her predicament.

Sam chuckled nervously at them. "Joey, Vinnie, Bobby, its been a while..."

And indeed it had been a little while since she robbed them of their food and money. Now looking back on things, Sam knew she should have seen this coming. And she wondered if maybe it was a little too late for an apology.

"Look really sorry about last month and I will make it up to you guys, but... Would you tell the crazy costume geek that hes got the wrong person?"

All three looked at each other for only a moment, seeming to have the same idea and made their decision.

"You got her, pal."

"That's her."

"She the one."

"That is definitely the right sneak thief."

Guess it is a little too late. Sam looked back at the teen with a nervous look as his face turned from angry to REALLY ANGRY.

"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way."

Next thing Sam knew, she was being held by the back of her shirt over one of the city's aqueducts!

"Whoa! Whoa! Hey your crazy!"

Sam had been scared before and had many strange and weird things happen to her. But being dangled 30 feet over rushing water by some crazy superhero calling himself Danny Phantom and looking for whoever this Jazz or Vlad person was, really takes the cake.

Not too far away Vinnie, Joey, and Bobby were watching and wondering what would happen next.

'Hey, Joey. Did we go too far in this?" Vinnie asked a little frighted that this was getting out of hand.

"You kidding?" This is the best day of my life."

Back with Danny and Sam, he started calling her off on things that made no sense to her as she watched the water rage on with fear. Hoping that he would not let go, she knew for sure that she couldn't swim.

"You work for the man in white who work for Vlad Masters, also known as Vlad Plasmius. They've taken Jazz. Where is she?!"

"I don't know what your talking about!" Sam yelled back, seriously she had no idea why this was happening or what he wanted from her.

"This is becoming tiresome, spy. In fact I think my arms are about to fall asleep." Danny threatened.

"Okay, Okay! Okay! Okay, I'll talk! I'll talk!" She cried out. "I know where Jazz is. Yeah. They have her. Yes!"

Danny smirked for his victory at finally getting Vlad's spy to break and tell him everything she knew. Now he would be able to find Jazz and his parents for sure.

"The man in black and the guy, the guy named Glad Plastic!

"Glad Plastic?" Unfortunately his victory was short-lived.

Hearing that she got it wrong, Sam tried again. "Uh... Oh! Vlad! Yes Vlad! Vlad Plasmius!"

Danny didn't fall for it. "You just cant stop lying can you, sneak thief? it's in the genes. It's just gross."

Sam sighed, even though she made a living doing things like lying, cheating, and stealing. It didn't mean she enjoyed it. At the end of each and everyday she would feel the wave of guilt and try not to drown in it.

"I know. It's disgusting. I disgust myself." She said, she turned to look up at Danny, but a tag hanging off of his suit a little bit in the back caught her attention and she read a word on it in bold black letters.

"Hollywood."

After a few seconds of thinking, Sam realized something and had an idea. An idea that could possibly save her and hopefully make this freak go back to where he came from.

"But if you put me down, I'll show you where she is."

Danny thought this over. How did he know that she was telling the truth. He looked at Sam as she chuckled nervously, what if this was a trick so that she could make a run for it.

He then looked to the water down below.

"Well... it's not like she has any other choice but to comply."

So after thinking it over, Danny took Sam back to the streets, and to make sure that she couldn't get away if he wasn't looking, he tied both ends of the jumping-ropes he still had from before together making it longer. Then he tied one end around his waist and the other very tightly around Sam's waist.

Sam of course was not happy about this, but Danny made her a deal that if she was telling the truth, then he would untie her and let her go. She thought about this and took the deal, if anything really this made her fully believe that her plan would work and she would be scot-free.

Now in an alleyway beside a fast-food place called Nasty Burger, Sam was digging though it's dumpster where she said she hide one of Vlad's secrets that would surely help him find who he was looking for.

"You know, I hope you appreciate the risk I'm taking here." She called out, finally finding what she was looking for.

"Every bone in my evil body is telling me not to betray the trust of Vlad." She jump out holding some paper close to her chest and away from Danny.

"Okay. This is a top..." Sam started as Danny tryed to see what she was holding. "Top secret map of the entire Earth."

She then opened it up to real revel just a map that Nasty Burger gave out to it's costumers that showed all the other Nasty Burger establishmentss that they could stop at in the United States.

Sam lad it out on the ground for both her and Danny to look over as she pointed at a picture. "Now we're over here, by the big green lady with the big torch, and my boss has Jazz locked up..."

She paused as she looked all over the map. "Uh... Right... Right over... Here, here!" she pointed at the mascot of nasty Burgers behind a tv camera wearing big sunglasses. "By this little guy with the sunglasses."

Danny was a little confused by how this supposed secret map looked, but the spy did seem to be telling the truth and this did feel like something Vlad would do.

"Now all you need to do is get from here to there." Sam continued as she pointed back and forth between the two citys.

"Hmm."

"Well, I told you where to find her so if you just untie me, I'll be on my way." The plan worked! He totally bought it and now she was free!

"This will diffently be a wild story to tell everyone back at the book store."

I'll release you, spy, when we find Jazz." Danny clarified standing up straight and crossing his arms.

"Excuse me? That wasn't the deal!" It felt like some one had just taken Sam's high hopes and threw them down on the ground for them to break into a million pieces.

"We had a deal!"

Danny only glared and repeated the very words she said earlier and regretted. "Your deal just expired."

Still not too far away Joey and the guys join by Poindexter now watched as the Goth's whole plan had taken a turn for the worst. Poindexter smiled when he heard Danny. "She said that to me not 10 minutes ago." He chuckled.

"The irony."

So after holding up the map and putting in his...belt? (dose he even have pockets in that suit?).

Danny looked for anyway form of transportation that could take them to were Jazz was being held captive, dragging a very angry Sam by the rope as she tried with with all her might to get away and even untire it, but it was no use.

Walking out of yet another alleyway he saw a white and red moving truck with the city named Hollywood on its side.

"Perfect" Danny ran towards it with Sam still trying to ran the other way only to fall her ramp and get dragged with him. But when they get the the back of it, he discovered it was locked by a padlock.

"Some of my power has to of come back by now." He thought as he got ready to use his ice powers on the lock or as Jazz like to call it, his ice eyes. Sam however tugged on the rope as Danny stood as still as a statue just staring wide-eyed at the lock, after a few more tugs Sam got tired of it and stomped up to him.

"Listen freak, I am not going to just let you take me all the way to another state just so you can keep role-playing or whatever it is your doing. So do not, I beg of you, do not make me hurt you!"

Danny didn't flinch, he wasn't even paying attention to her, for all if his focus was on the padlock.

"It will get ungly!" She warned him. But he still wouldn't move no matter what, Sam was beginning to think that maybe he finally lost it.

She walked a little bit in between him and his target asking him what he was doing only for him to snap at her to stay back!

"If I stare at the lock really hard, it will become frozen allowing me to break it off with my ghosts Ray." Danny explained never taking his eyes off of it.

Yup, Sam was pretty much convinced that he lost it, and that she was now dealing with a nutcase. "Now I'm concerned on a number of levels."

Suddenly they both heard two men which Sam figured to be the movers as they came out of the building the their tuck was parked in front of, carrying a green couch. But to Danny they were...

"Intruders!" Danny then took off running to the other side of the road, catching Sam off guard.

"Hey, slow down! Your scraping the bottom of my-"

*Wham!!!*

Sam had ran head first into a stop sign that Danny had gone around, knocking her out cold. Danny had had stoped when he realized what happened and went back to check on her, but his attention went back to the two men.

Seeing as they weren't coming after them, he watched as one that was tall and thin tell the other that was quite short and pudgy to put the couch down so that he could unlock the truck.

This gave Danny an idea.

When the first man had unlocked the back and went back to help with loading the furniture, Danny picked up Sam and quickly jumped into the back and hid behind some boxes that were already packed inside as the two finished their job and, shouting and locking it back up with out a clue that they had two more passengers.

From afar, the three shop owners watched as the truck started up and started its long journey to it destination, wondering exactly what was wrong with that strange boy, and hoping that they wouldn't have to deal with the Gothic Thief ever again.

"It's on the tip of my tongue. I know that kid. I'm telling you, Joey." Vinnie ooked back at his friends. "Bobby, you guy are looking at me like, "He don't know. Telling you, I know this kid. I seen him somewheres."

Joey laughed and went back to his grocery store. "Hey, you'll remember it tonight when you're restocking your cart."

Vinnie chuckled in response. "Right, that's what'll happen."

But as they all started to go their separate ways, none of them still ever noticed that behind them was a building sponsoring Danny Phantom on it's side with him looking off into the sky.

Hey guys, sorry that I was so late on updating the story, a lot of things have been going on as you all know with this whole virus thing.

And other life stuff is happening right now, so I don't know when I might ever be able to update any of my other stories.

But don't worry I am not going to abandon them, I promise!

Also please review, I accept any help I can get, I'm still really new to writing, and I want to get better so that other stories I have on my mind can be perfect... or you know, a little bit better.