-- Author’s Note -- Sorry for the delay in posting this. Just a small case of writer’s block. Nothing too bad though. I got the idea for part of this chapter from another Danny Phantom fanfic, but I don’t remember what it’s called or who it’s by! Otherwise I swear that I’d give you credit! So if you know the fanfic please tell me so that I can give credit where it’s due. Of course my version of events aren’t quite so... what’s the word I’m looking for?... oh yeah, perverted. Anyway, I really like this chapter, and I hope you do too. I think it’s funny and cute. Now, for those of you who were wondering ‘What about the bad guy? Where’s the bad guy in this story? You can’t have Danny Phantom –not- fight somebody.’ Well, maybe you’re not thinking it in those same words, but something close. Well, here’s the bad guy in this chapter! I got the names from the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook that I took from my brother to look up cool names for characters. These two were high on my list, so I used them here. There’s nothing really important about them. I was originally thinking of using Captain Jack Sparrow, as a ghost of course, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. First I’d have to admit that I don’t own PotC, or Jack Sparrow, or Johnny Depp. But I’m not about to do that. Heehee. Also, I just really couldn’t make Jack Sparrow into a bad guy, no matter how hot he is.

Danny: Not as hot as me, I hope.

MoonHawke: No, of course not Danny. I love you more than Johnny.

Jack: Ahem. That's –captain- Jack Sparrow luv.

MoonHawke: Sorry! Sorry, Captain Jack Sparrow. Okay, now let's get on with the chapter before I wreck the whole thing!

Chapter 5 Mystery in the Night

After Sam left Danny went back up to his room. He turned off the movie and the TV before sitting down to finish up his English homework for tomorrow. It was hard though because if he let his mind wander too far he would end up writing 'Sam' all over the page.

Finally after the third time of doing so he ripped out the page and crumpled it into a ball then threw it into the garbage can. He didn't know how much longer he could take it.

During the movie Sam was so close to him, he couldn't help himself he had to touch her. He put his arm around her, but then he had to be all friendly so it didn't look like it really meant.

He heard Jasmine come in and went downstairs to see what she had been up too. "Hey Jazz. Where have you been? Doing more research?"

"Yeah. I swear though, Dash is un-tutorable. This is completely killing my thesis."

"I'm sorry."

She quirked her eyebrow at him. "What's going on? What have you been doing all day?"

"Well, Tuck, Sam, and I watched a movie, then Sam and I watched another one after Tucker went home. Nothing big."

She grinned at him, "Why do I fell like you're bringing this up for another reason?"

"Umm..."

"You can tell me Danny. I promise not to tell Mom and Dad."

"Okay, well let's say you liked this person, you're liked them for a long time. And there was something about you that you thought would keep them from liking you."

"Like what? A wart or something?"

"Something like that. Then say you find out that they have the same thing that you have but thought that they couldn't like you for."

"So you both have warts?"

"Kind of. Now, you're not sure if they like you as more than a friend or not, but you also don't want to wreck the friendship if they don't. What should you do?"

Jazz smiled at him sweetly, "Danny, Danny, don't worry so much about it. I think that you should tell Sam that you like her, even if she doesn't like you back, because then at least you know. You follow me?"

"Yeah, but how did you know it was Sam?"

"Because I've seen the way you two look at each other when you're over here. Just tell her the truth."

"Thanks. Good night Jazz."

"Good night Danny."

Danny went upstairs felling better. He should tell Sam. The only question was how, and when? It had to be soon, the not knowing was killing him.

He plopped down onto his bed and buried his face in his pillow. He took a deep breath and paused. It smelled like Sam, his whole bed smelled like Sam. He made a small groan in longing. All he wanted to do was hold her and be close to her. Why was that so hard?

It was hard for him to tell when she looked more beautiful, as human or ghost. He had been looking into her purple eyes for almost a year, but there was something eerily beautiful about the glowing yellow eyes of her ghost form.

Danny sat up and looked at the clock, it was nearly midnight. Downstairs he heard his parents come in. He got up and went over to his desk to look over his paper one last time. He heard his mom and dad talking with Jazz for a few minutes then all of them came upstairs and headed to bed. Jazz came in to wish him good night again before going to bed.

"I better get to sleep too," Danny thought out loud. He stood up and pulled off his shirt. A breeze came in the window that sounded like a small gasp. That's weird, he thought going over to shut the window.

After throwing his shirt on the back of his chair, Danny climbed into bed. Oh man, this is so wonderful, he thought taking in another deep breath. He'd probably never be able to sleep though once his scent replaced hers, but for right now it was wonderful.

While drifting off to sleep he could have sworn that he felt someone climb into bed with him and wrap their arms around him. "Umm... Sam..." he whispered for giving himself over to his dreams.

The next morning Danny woke up with a small start. He had been dreaming about Sam, but then all of the sudden it had started snowing in his dream. Why was he so cold?

Looking around Danny saw that the window was open. "That's odd, I thought I shut that. Oh well," he said getting up and going over to shut the window.

The sun was coming up in the distance but Danny turned away and looked around his room. It was almost sickenly clean. His mom had made him clean the past weekend because of company, but he hadn't really had a chance to trash it back up again. Well, at least other than that piece of paper on the floor.

"Wait, I didn't put any paper on the floor." He picked it up and saw that it was what had once been his English paper. Looking it over he sighed. "Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam. Sam and Danny? Okay, I'm pretty sure I didn't write that."

Under one of his random 'Sam's someone had written 'and Danny' in neat handwriting that was nothing like his. They had also added a heart around it for affect. Danny then laughed, "It was probably Jazz. I'll have to get her back later."

That didn't stop him from ripping the heart out and putting it into his notebook. Danny went to take a shower before Jazz got up and starting hogging the bathroom, like she did almost every morning.

When he returned to his room his cell phone was going off. He smiled; thinking about Sam for a moment, then noticed that the id said it was Tucker.

"Hey Tuck, what's up?"

"Nothing, did I wake you?"

"Nope, I just got out of the shower."

"Good. Listen I found something out about that tentacle."

"Really? That's great."

"Yeah, I'll print it out and bring it to school, okay?"

"Sounds good. I'll see you there."

Danny hung up the phone and started getting dressed. He changed his socks and pants, and then went over in front of the mirror to brush his hair.

Downstairs someone knocked on the door and Jazz answered it. Danny figured it was one of her friends, when they started talking so he just ignored it and kept brushing his hair.

A minute later the door to his room opened and Sam walked in. He dropped his brush as it fazed through his hand. "Oh my gosh! I'm sorry Danny! I thought you were up and ready to go," she babbled, going bright red and turning away from him.

"Don't worry about it Sam. It's not like I'm naked or something," he joked. "Lemme grab a shirt and we can head out."

She nodded, but didn't turn around until Danny had put his shirt on. "Ready?"

"Yeah, let's go," he said ushering her out. He just remembered that he had forgotten to throw that paper out.

They said goodbye to Jazz as they headed out. Half way to school they ran into Tucker. They all talked and joked around for the rest of the way.

The trio arrived early to their first hour so Tucker pulled out the print outs that he had found the night before and showed them to Danny and Sam.

"It says that the tentacle belongs to this giant squid thing, where did it say what is was called?" Tucker said pulling the paper closer to look it over. "Oh, here it is. Enialis the giant squid. He's hunted by Rurik the pirate, and for those who are unfortunate to come across Enialis, they too will be hunted by Rurik."

"That doesn't sound good Sam," Danny said getting worried.

"No, but I mean it's been two days and nothing bad has happened, right?"

"Yes, but we don't know when Rurik will come after you. I think you two might want to speed it up with the Halfa lessons in case something happens soon, right?"

Danny nodded, "Yeah, after school good for you Sam?"

"That's fine. I was actually practicing some last night."

"What were you practicing? It wasn't anything dangerous, was it?" Danny asked getting worried. Sam didn't have complete control over her powers yet, not that he did himself, but anything could go wrong.

"Just going invisible. I got it to work a couple times, but I think I still need somemore work on it."

"Sure, we can work on that today too." Danny felt a huge weight lifted off of him. Turning invisible was fairly simple, and he doubted that anything horrible could happen if Sam practiced that on her own. He would feel so responsible if anything happened to her when he couldn't protect her.

"You look really tired Danny. Didn't you sleep much last night?" Tucker asked.

"Yeah, I was up late though working on my English paper and then I talked with Jazz for a bit. No, but I slept great."

Sam just smiled at him. It was at this moment that the teacher came in and started class.