-- Author's Note -- Greetings all! Well, my laptop's gone for a week. Let me tell you, I am bored out of my mind without it. It was really strange writing this chapter because I wrote it out by hand first and then typed it up. Now, that was my preferred way of writing before, but since I got my laptop I've been working more on the computer. It sure saves a lot of paper! I kept crossing stuff out and rewriting stuff, and it was a huge mess. Of course the one good thing I think that came from it, is the fact that there are at least a few less errors. I think I will be so happy when I get my computer back though that I will have to post two chapters! LoL. A large part of this is because my laptop is a Mac (because that's the only kind of computer we use at my school), and every other computer in my house is a PC. And while I do still work in Word, the PC doesn't understand the fonts I use. It looks so dull and boring... Anyway, the rest of Sam and Danny's fight is in this chapter. I doubt you really liked that cliffy, huh? LoL. Sorry, I couldn't really think of a good way to end it at the end of the chapter. Now someone mentioned in a review a while ago (sorry I can't remember the name!) that they wondered if Jazz knew about Danny's being a Halfa in my story. Originally she didn't, at least in the first one, because of course 'My Brother's Keeper' hadn't aired yet. After that I tried to make it slightly seem like she knew. That was hard because it kinda went against how I do fanfics. Anyway, it still might be kinda out there in this story. In 'For the Love of a Halfa' I tried for it to seem like Jazz knew in the scene where Danny and Tucker are going to get the thermos before going to the docks, although that may not have come across very well. So I'm hoping in this chapter when Jazz and Danny talk that it does seem like she knows. And now is where all of you who noticed in the last chapter that I said I would be posting a short author's note and thought 'That's not that short,' you see that it was short. LoL. As always, thank you for your reviews and of course for reading! I probably still would be writing this even if I didn't get any reviews, but you never know. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and will keep reviewing. Reviews make me happy, and when I'm happy you get more chapters faster. LoL. Thanks again!
Chapter 6 Something's A Little Bit Funny
Danny couldn't understand anything of what was going on with Sam. All he knew was that she wanted to hurt him, and hurt him bad!
So he ran. Around the swings, over the see-saw, under the slide, past the baseball field, through the basketball court, and around the lake. All the way Sam followed right on Danny's tail. What was worse she kept throwing plasma bursts and fire balls at him!
Where did she learn to do that, Danny wondered as he fazed through a tree. At first Danny had this was just a joke, but when one of Sam's fire balls burned off one of his gloves and burned part of his hand, he was sure something was wrong.
"Please Sam! Stop! I'm sorry, okay?" he shouted as he darted past a couple of benches.
"Sorry? Sorry for what? Coming to this world? Or for getting caught?" She sounded really pissed off.
"I'm sorry for what I said Saturday night! I'm sorry for letting Jessica find out! I'm sorry for getting you changed!" Danny apologized for everything he could think of, but this only seemed to annoy Sam more.
"You know nothing!" she screamed in pure rage and tackled Danny to the ground. "Stupid ghost! You speak lies to taunt me!" Sam had him pinned to the ground now.
He tried to break from her grasp, but she held him down tightly. In desperation he went intangible. He would have broken her grip then except that she had followed suit and gone intangible as well.
"You think I'm stupid ghost? Do you?"
Sam kneed him the gut. "Please Sam!" he cried out in pain. What was wrong with her?
Thing were starting to get black around the edges of Danny's vision. He couldn't keep this up much longer. "Please Sam, why are you doing this? I thought we cared about each other. Please Sam, I need you," he coughed out.
For a moment Sam stopped and stared at him with her yellow eyes. Her eyes flashed with anger before she spoke. "You need me? You need me! You need to be shown your place!" With that she released his arms and began beating the crap out of him.
Danny was completely torn. He knew that he should fight back, but this was Sam. There was no way that he could hurt her. Even if he could fight back, Danny knew he wouldn't. Instead he tried to block her punches.
The world went black for a moment and when everything came into focus again Danny knew what was happening. A small flash engulfed him. In that flash he was transformed back into Danny Fenton.
It seemed like everything had stopped. All he could hear was the beating of his heart. After a moment Danny realized that all that he stopped was Sam. She was frozen in horror.
"Wha-what did you do? What trick is this?"
"It's no trick, Sam. Remember? I'm a Halfa just like you."
"No. No. No!" she cried and flew back away from him. "You lie! I am the only Halfa! I am the destined on. Me! Me! Sam Spectre!" With that final word she flew away.
At least it seems like she hasn't learned any new tricks except for the fire balls, Danny thought as he cradled his burned arm.
He lay on the ground breathing heavily for almost fifteen minutes. When he finally had gotten some of his strength back Danny managed to pull his cell phone out of his pocket.
Looking at the ghostly faceplate brought a sharp pain to his heart. Danny pushed and held the number two mutton, speed dial for Tucker's phone. It barely even ran once before Tucker picked it up.
"Hey Danny. Did you find Sam?"
"Hi Danny! Have you guys made up?" Jessica called in the background.
"Yeah. I found Sam all right."
"What's wrong Danny?" his friend asked sounding slightly worried.
"Can you guys come to the park? I need your help."
"Yeah, sure. But where?"
"Don't worry. You'll find me."
"Okay. We'll be right there."
There was a click as Tucker hung up. Danny ended the call and dropped the phone to the ground. He then grabbed his injured arm and held it against himself as he waited.
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Half an hour later Danny heard voices. Maybe it's Tuck and Jess, he thought. The park had been empty all afternoon.
"Dan-ny!" Jessica called out.
"Hey, Jess. Look over there."
Danny heard footsteps coming closer and opened his eyes. Above him stood Jessica and Tucker. "Hey guys," he managed with a slight smile.
"See, I told you it was Danny and not a hobo," Tucker muttered elbowing the girl. She glared at him as he turned his attention back to Danny. "What happened?"
"I found Sam. Guess she wasn't happy to see me," he joked.
Jessica snorted. "That's an understatement if I ever heard one."
"Aww, come on. I don't look that back, do I?"
"That's not important right now. Let's get you cleaned up."
"We can take him to my house. It's only a block away,
the girl offered.
Tucker and Jessica helped Danny up and practically carried him to Jessica's house, which turned out to be an apartment rather than a house.
"Sorry it's so messy. It's just me and my dad you know," she said with a slight shade of red on her cheeks from embarrassment.
"Nah, my room is usually a lot worse than this," Danny offered.
"All right, let's get you cleaned up."
The two helped Danny into the bathroom and turned on the light. In the harsh lighting and the slightly dirty mirror, Danny saw that he really was that bad.
He sported a black eye, as well as a fat, bleeding lip. The Halfa was slightly surprised to see that he hadn't lost any teeth. Sam sure could hit hard, and not just for a girl. His arm looked like it had first degree burns and was oozing some kind of yellow puss.
Jessica punched Tucker over to the side of the bathroom and ordered him to sit down. She told Danny to sit on the toilet. Once the two boys were seated the girl went into her element.
First she cleaned up Danny's lip and the cut by his non-black eye. She put a small butterfly bandage on that because it was so small.
Next she moved onto his arm. She carefully washed it in ice cold water. Danny only flinched a couple times. Once she had cleaned all the puss and the small amount of blood off, she checked for rock or anything that might have gotten lodged into the skin. There was nothing so she wrapped it with an ace bandage.
Then she pushed up Danny's pant leg to work on the gash there. Again she washed it and checked for foreign objects. A couple small rocks had gotten pushed into the long cut, most likely when Sam had tackled him to the ground. These she pulled out with a pair of tweezers. After the rocks were removed she wrapped his leg in the same fashion as his arm.
Once his arm and leg were tended to she told Danny to stand up and she checked for any broken ribs.
"Okay, everything looks good. Let's go put some ice on your eye to take down the swelling and you can tell us what happened."
The two boys nodded, still in awe of her nurse-like abilities.
After Jessica had wrapped a bag of ice in a towel and had Danny hold it against his eye, she started asking him the questions he didn't want to answer.
"Who did this to you?"
"Sam," he mumbled.
"What do you mean? What happened?" Tucker asked now.
So Danny did the only thing he could. He told them everything that had happened after he left school. They listened in silence, nodding their heads every so often to show that they were still listening. Danny was so embarrassed. Sam beat him up. A girl had beaten him up. And he was a super hero! Well, Sam's a super hero too, he thought, but that didn't help.
"She didn't recognize you at all?" Tucker asked.
"If she did, she was putting up a really good act," Danny muttered.
"And she stopped when you transformed back?"
"Yeah. I think she was in shock or something. Like she didn't know I was part ghost too."
Jessica was silent as she listened to the two boys talk. When they noticed this they asked if something was wrong.
"I think there is something wrong. But not with me, with Sam."
"What are you talking about? Okay, so maybe she hit her head or something and forgot who she was. But we can fix that."
"No Tuck. Danny said she knew who she was. It had to be something else. I know that I've seen this sort of thing before. I just can't remember where."
The group grew silent for a moment before she spoke again. "Danny, you should go home and rest. If anyone asks what happened tell them it was Dash, and you got burned doing a science project."
"Even Dash? I'm supposed to tell Dash that he beat me up?"
"Yeah. He's too stupid to realize he didn't."
"What about me?" Tucker wonder. "What should I do?"
"I would say find Sam, but after what happened to Danny I would say that's a bad idea. I guess you can take Danny home. But that's really it for right now. After all this time it's my kind of research," she said with a wink.
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Tucker helped Danny home and again ordered him to get some sleep. Once Tucker had left, Danny got up and limped over to his desk. He dropped into the chair and pulled the single picture frame towards him.
It was a picture taken at the school dance of Sam and himself. Tucker had taken it right after the pair of them had danced. As he looked at their smiling faces, Danny wondered how they hadn't known the truth. How could they have not known they liked each other as more than friends?
A small knock came from the door breaking Danny from his thoughts. "Come in," he said as Jazz opened the door.
"Hey Danny, is something wrong? Tucker just left and I didn't hear Sam with you guys. Oh my gosh, what happened?" she asked seeing his arm and came rushing into the room.
"I'm fine Jazz. Really, I am."
"What happened?"
"I got into a fight with Dash, and our science project blew up."
The red-hared girl gave him a look that said she didn't believe him. Although she didn't press the matter. "All right Danny. So long as you're okay." She turned to leave, but paused at the door. "You know, if there's anything you want to talk about, I'm here for you Danny. I promise not to tell Mom and Dad."
He just nodded and she left. After the door was closed Danny climbed back into his bed and fell into a fitful sleep.
