AN: WOOOHOO!! Thanks for the reviews, once again! *Bows before reviewers amazing greatness* But now, without any further ado,

Chapter 5!

"DANNY!! I thought you…it doesn't matter. Get up Danny! We have to run! GET UP!!" Samantha screamed, tears streaming down her face. She grabbed frantically at Danny's arm, trying to lift him up.

"Sam! You're awake! You're awake! How did you-" Danny fumbled, staring at Sam, fighting to get up.

"What?! What are you talking about?!" she whimpered, looking fearfully behind her as she continued to drag Danny along, clutching desperately to his hand.

"Sam, what is going on?!" Danny asked in utter confusion as he surveyed the scene around him. It was like no place he'd ever seen before. Like some sort of Dr. Seuss book gone horribly wrong, strange and frightening objects poked out from the rocky and dreary scenery. It definitely wasn't the hospital.

"Chasing us…" Sam panted, still running, pushing back bizarre shrubbery as she went. "Something…chasing us. It….It got you and Tucker…I watched it kill you…How did you-?"

"Okay…and that doesn't answer my question. Where are we?! How did we get here?!" Danny asked again.

"Look," Sam bit back as if she expended any of her breath talking instead of running they would be caught. "I'm just as confused as you are…I thought you- no…we'll figure this out later, now we have to run."

Danny nodded, unable to find the breath for words. He was scared and confused but he knew no matter what world this was, Sam was awake, Sam was alive, and that was all that mattered.

So they ran and ran until finally they reached a cliff. Danny screeched to a stop and turned too make sure Sam had done the same. But Sam wasn't there…and neither was the cliff. His demon-Seuss surroundings dissolved around him and had been replaced by something vaguely familiar.

School, that was it, it looked like school except…much darker as if whoever had painted it only had dark purples, blacks, and grays on their canvas. He looked around curiously and noticed large metal bars over the windows and doors. What was this? Was this some bizarre image of the future?

He looked to the center of the room, instead of desks, the students stood in one large circle closing in on some unseen center. Still curious, Danny squeezed his way through the thick lines of bodies to whatever was in the middle. "LOSER!" Someone yelled. "FREAK!" yelled another. Danny froze. Maybe this was some kind of twisted future. Maybe this is what happened when they found out about his powers. Maybe he was what was in the center of the circle. At this, he quickened his pace, ignoring the continuous jeers from the crowd until he finally broke through.

A crumbled figure kneeled in the center with their hands over their ears. The figure was crying heavily, the slender frame shaking with every breath.

"SAM!" Danny yelled. He rushed over to his friend and fell to her side.

"Danny?" she whispered. As she lifted her face, Danny saw it was bruised and bleeding. Her scared eyes searched his for an answer. "But-But…"

Her eyes darted over to someone in the crowd whom Danny hadn't noticed before…It was…him.

"The freak said your name!" Tucker, who stood beside Danny, jeered.

"Tucker!?" Danny shouted but he didn't respond. In fact, no one in the circle did so much as twitch at his scream. Only Sam turned back toward, looking even more distressed then before.

"Stupid bitch," satanic Danny laughed maliciously, "Look at her! Not only was she crazy enough to believe we were her friends but now she's talking to herself too!"

"Please…" Sam whimpered.

"Sam, I-" Danny started but was interrupted.

"Please what, you goth loser?" the other Danny sneered. "Ooohh pwweeaassee Danny," he mimicked, "I…thought you like…liked me for the pathetic piece of crap I am. I'm in individual!"

With this, the crowd broke out in laughter and Sam cowered into an even smaller ball.

"Yeah right!" he continued. "Like I could ever like someone like you. Look at you! You're horrible! You're an ugly, wretched waste of space. The world would be a better place if you were never even born!"

"Sam! I don't know what's going on here but that's not me. I don't hate you. I would never say those things. You know that," Danny reassured her quickly, putting his arm on her shoulder.

She jumped back quickly, her eyes darting back and forth between the two Danny's. "No," she whispered. "No, you're not real. You hate me. I don't believe you. You hate me and so does everybody else. YOU HATE ME! YOU HATE ME! YOU HATE ME!" As loud as she was screaming, her voice began to fade and the suddenly, the scene changed again.

"Well, what I mean is-" Sam stumbled, obviously trying to get out something that was hard to say.

An impatient looking Danny sat across from her as she nervously played with a wrapper from a straw.

"Well we've been friends for a long time and I just…I think maybe…you mean a little more to me then that…and its okay if you don't feel the same way! I just…"

The Danny sitting across from reached over and put his hand on top of hers. "That's cute Sam, really, but I just don't feel the same way. I could never think of you as any more then a friend. You're so…you. You're not like the dating type. You're more like…a guy really, or a little sister. You're not like Paulina." He dazed out a little at the word and on queue, Paulina appeared.

"Like, ready Danny?" she asked.

Danny nodded. "Sorry kiddo," he told Sam insincerely and then left. Sam sat by herself and watched in horror as Danny and Paulina kissed.

Danny made a quick move towards the table, ready to cease the opportunity to figure this crazy place out before he was thrown somewhere else. But of course, he was too late, and instead of his surroundings morphing into new ones, they simply disappeared all together and were replaced by a sort of…infinite darkness.

"Hello?" he said weakly, looking around and seeing absolutely nothing. No light, no sky, no ground. He looked in front of him once more. Not surprisingly, there was Sam.

"Sam," he said, his exhaustion clear in his voice and his appearance. Whatever this place was, it was far too crazy for him and he was more then ready to go home.

Sam looked up, taking a second to fully absorb the figure before her.

"How did you get here? I...I thought I was all alone?"

Danny looked around at the surrounding blankness. "Well, I see where you could get that idea. But Sam, quickly, what the hell is going on?"

"What do you mean?" she asked in a mixture of anger and confusion. "What are you doing here? Who are you?"

Danny stepped back in surprise. "Who am I? Sam, I'm Danny. Danny, your best friend since preschool Danny?"

She shook her head in disbelief. "No. You're wrong. I've never had any friends. I've always been alone."

"How could you say that!? How could you even think that? Sam-come on, we have to go…this place…it's doing something to you- it's doing something to both of us." He reached for his friends hand. She jumped back in fear.

Danny kneeled down beside her, concern in his eyes. "Sam, you aren't alone. You'll never be alone. You'll always have me," he whispered and linked his hand with hers.

Her soft violet eyes gazed questioningly into his soft blue ones.

FLASH! The surrounding changed again. He saw the familiar white walls of a hospital.

"SAM?!" He gasped loudly. Somehow his eyes where still focused on hers and he could see the reflection of the hospital room. Suddenly, there was darkness again. Black, then white, black, then white. Flashing back and forth from whatever place he and Sam had been stuck in to the hospital.

"Danny!"  someone cried out. "DANNY! DANNY!"

There was one last violent flash before Danny jolted up.

"He's awake!" someone cried out.

"Danny, Danny, can you hear me? Danny, answer me!"

"Sam?" Danny asked weakly.

"Dude, it's me," Tucker said, leaning over him looking concerned.

"SAMANTHA!" Ms. Manson wailed, clutching her daughter's limp hand. "Sam, baby, no! Come back! Samantha!"

"What's going on?!" Danny asked for the hundredth time.

"You must have passed out man. We came in here and you were knocked on the floor. We kept trying to wake you up but you wouldn't. Then Sam, she must of come out of it for a minute, because her eyes opened up and started darting around. You woke up a second later and she was out again."

Danny let the gears in his head slowly process.

"It was her mind Tucker. I was in Sam's head."

AN: Okie dookie! ;) I know that was a short chapter but I'm just working on getting things out quickly for everyone :D Hope you liked it! Chapter 6 should be up relatively soon!

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