Imaginary
Summary: Everything has a consequence now Sam has to learn to live with hers. All Danny can do is hope it doesn't kill her.
Rating: PG-13 for mature themes and language.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman does. I do not own Imaginary, Evanescence does.
Chapter Eleven
Where the raindrops, as they're falling, tell a story.
Sam squeezed Danny's again, as if maybe if she didn't, he would turn and walk away and leave her here to face her nightmare alone. She stood on the steps of her old house just staring at it wondering if she could ring the bell. Everything seemed so surreal. It hadn't even really dawned on her where she was yet. She was all but lost in the floating detached sensation.
"You need to knock at some point, Sam." She nodded, yet she didn't move. It was all coming back to her now but some how the place seemed more cold and threatening then she remembered. But maybe that wasn't her memory. Things had changed. This was no longer a safe place for her, it was a tangible reminder of a living nightmare.
And now she had to go in. Danny sighed. It sounded tired and defeated not frustrated. "Do you want me to ring the bell?"
She shook her hair lightly her hair fanning out slightly. "I can do this." She paused for a heartbeat. "And even if I can't, I need to." He squeezed her hand, then slowly slipped his hand out of hers. Sam glanced at him for a moment and then took the two steps up to the doorbell. It was two of the hardest steps she had taken in her life.
As she pushed in the button the cheerful sound of chimes floated out to them. They seemed to laugh at her, reminding her of her happy childhood spent in this cold stone structure. She whirled around suddenly and almost lunged of the steps. Danny managed to snag her wrist. "I can't do this," she whispered fiercely.
"You don't have to all you have to do is be present. That's what Bryce said," he assured her.
She shook her head. "You don't get it. I can't handle going back in there." She opened her mouth to say more but the door slowly opened at the same instant. Sam turned around horrified.
"Sammy?" An elderly woman in a motorized wheel chair sat there. It took Sam a moment before memory came flooding back to her, her grandma on her mom's side. Probably the closest thing to a positive influence Sam had had growing up. But she hadn't moved in with them till right after eighth grade graduation. Sam hadn't gotten to see her a lot before then though her mom would let Sam talk during there once a week phone calls.
"Grandma," Sam whispered. Sam stood there for a moment wondering what to do.
Her grandma cast a nervous look over her shoulder. "You're dad's running late for work so he's still around. Run down to the basement I'll call you guys when you can come up."
Sam froze. He was here. The girl that hadn't done anything had been forced to leave her home while the monster stayed her with out consequence. "Thank you," Danny murmured to her grandma and grabbed her hand. He pulled her through a lounge sort of room then down a flight of stairs into the movie area. He turned and looked at her.
She walked over to a chair and dropped heavily into it. They sat there in the dark in silence. "He still just living his normal life. He doesn't care," she murmured. Danny sat down on the arm of the chair, rubbing her arm. He stayed silent letting her get what she needed to out. "I mean everyone has told you don't get pregnant cause then your responsible for a life other than your own. I believed them. But then he doesn't care what happens to me."
"You're just a better person than he is, Sam," he breathed. "He's sleaze, don't even worry about it."
She shock her head. "Don't you get it? This whole time I haven't been thinking of it as a baby. I've been thinking of it as a pregnancy. It's going to grow up. It's going to go through kindergarten and grade school, junior high. Danny, someday it's going to be our age. It's not something I have to worry bout for the next nine months this is the rest of my life we are talking about. I don't know if I can handle that," Sam whispered desperately.
"What do you mean?"
Sam looked down at the carpeting. "Danny, if I get rid of it. Does that make me a horrible person?" She looked over at him.
She saw Danny swallow nervously. They were getting onto dangerous territory now and they both knew it. "By 'get rid of it', are we talking adoption or abortion?"
Sam stared a head blankly at the off TV screen that was barely visible in the light from the runner lights on the stairs. "I dunno. I don't know anything anymore, Danny. I'm so confused. About everything. I don't know what to do." He squeezed her shoulder. "What should I do?"
Danny shook his head slightly, long bangs brushing his forehead. "I don't know, Sam. I honestly have no idea."
"Maybe we are just horrible people," she said softly. "I've always seen abortion as wrong but now…I'm just confused."
He raised his hand and rubbed the back of his neck. "It's harder when you in the middle of it, that's for sure."
"Is there even a right decision?" she breathed. Danny just shrugged and once again they lapsed into silence. Suddenly for the first time, Sam realized she wasn't the same person she was at the beginning of the school year. Dreams got crushed, ideals were shattered, and all she was left with was moments that had faded into memory. And sometimes she didn't even have those.
I know I'm so mean to Sam. I'm giving her a two-book break after this. Time to pick on Tuck! Hehe. I'm so mean. Danny and Sam both get tortured in book Five. Hehe I moved book four up to book five since so much plot got added to Imaginary it was hard to cram it all into one book. So I'm moving the plot for their Junior Year down to the Sophomore year and came up with a new plot for there Junior Year. But enough about the future lets talk about now! Thanks to my wonderful reviewers: dannyandsambelongtogether, The Good Girl x2, gothmiko, Fox of Light, autumngold, Rabid-Tortise, Annie, Silverflare07, PyroDragon2006, Moody Maud, Possesed Angel, Sakura Scout, IceSugarHigh, Ryo's destiny, Spice of Life, Shadow Sakura, Wind Cat, Samster The Hamster, Lady-Ashanya, RavenForever , RainbowSerenity, CoLdPLaYeR813, AngelicxDeath, and Weeble Wobble Chic. I love you guys!
P.S. – By Request I mean I've had a few people ask if I write one shots if they give me a couple guidelines and a theme. Yeppers. It's my new thing. So if you've got a challenge/Request go ahead and bring it on! Hehe.