Taking Over Me

Summary: With Sam gone, Danny has enough to deal with. At the same time he runs into the first ghost he can't beat, and that's Danny Phantom.

Rating: PG-13 for mature themes and language.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman does. I do not own Taking Over Me, Evanescence does.

Chapter Six

To live, to breathe, you're taking over me.

Danny watched as Ryan reached over and pulled Blake's hair, resulting in the screaming becoming even louder. "I was sitting there!" Ryan yelled as he grabbed his brother by the neck and shoulder and pulled him onto the floor. The preschooler picked himself up and ran over to curl up on his foster-sisters lap. She held onto the edge of her purple t-shirt and rested his head on her shoulder.

Sam absent-mindedly rubbed his back with her left hand without looking away from the monitor. Danny shook his head as Ryan started screaming the theme song for Spongebob at the top of his lungs. "Is it always this noisy."

Sam shook her head. "Ninety-five percent of the time its worse." She sighed as she clicked for the next and last page on google search results. She scanned it quickly before falling back in her chair. "That's it, Danny. We've tried everything we can thing of. Nothing is coming up about that thing with your eyes. You sure you didn't imagine it?"

"I'm positive! I mean if I was imagining it, why did Tuck run away? And what was the stupid bird of Vlad's talking about talking about?"

Sam just shook her head. "That's what I don't get. Why he was there at all? I mean, maybe I'm just stupid but I don't get why Vlad would send him."

Danny scoffed, "Join the club." He glanced over at the little face staring at him. Blake blinked right back. Danny flashed him a small smile and Blake clung tighter to Sam and buried his face in her shoulder. He turned his attention back to Sam. "And he said something about a trial. That mean anything to you?"

"Nope. In all our ghost research, I've never come up with anything about it." She raked her fingers through the back of Blake's hair.

Danny rubbed the back of his neck, trying to ignore how hopeless this was starting to look. "So what do I do?"

"Same thing we've always done," she grinned. "Deal with it as it happens."

Danny groaned. "Being a ghost would be so much easier if there was a handbook."

Sam laughed. "Idiots guide to being a genetically mutant ghost boy."

"I am not genetically mutated. I'm just like every body else," he bit out.

She grinned closing out the browser window on the computer and disconnecting. "Of course you are." Her tone sounded like Blake had just told her he was going to be a groundhog when he grew up.

"Okay. So maybe I'm a freak."

Sam smiled shifting Blake's weight so that she was more comfortable. "You're not a freak. You're just not normal."

"Wow," Danny said in over-dramatized awe. "So I'm unique."

"Being unique is a good thing," Sam defended, and for a second Danny could almost pretend that the past four months hadn't happened; that everything was fine. It was then that Blake whined, bringing him crashing back down to reality.

"Sam, can I go watch Spongebob?" Sam nodded, helping the little boy off her lap. She watched him dart off towards the couch and sit next to his brother. Ryan shot him a dirty look before returning his attention to the screen.

Danny smiled. "They're not that bad," he said.

"They make me scream, cry, and so frustrated I could pull all my hair out; but they do have there moments." She sighed. "I'm getting better at the big sister thing. It's the mom thing I'm worried about."

Danny glanced over at her and shrugged. "I don't know. Seems like the same thing to me."

Sam shook her head. "No. I'm gonna be a single parent. I can't get frustrated and pass the baby off to someone. It's my responsibility. I have to pay for it, make sure that I have food, clothes, toys for him or her. It's totally different."

He couldn't help but notice the nervous hitch to her voice. "You'll be great," he assured her softly.

Sam shook her head, as if suddenly waking up out of a daze. "You didn't fly all night in a storm to listen to me complain. We still haven't fixed your problem." Suddenly, he felt tremendously selfish to have come all this way to bother Sam with something that may have been a one time freak occurrence. Sam was struggling with issues bigger than any he'd ever faced so far.

"I'm sorry. This is petty. I shouldn't have come." He started to get up. Sam grabbed his wrist and latched on.

She stared up at him, violet eyes reflecting the open, honest look on her face. "So, what? You're just going to go out in my yard and fly home in broad daylight?" He just stared down at her with a vacant look on his face. "Sit your butt down. We've got to think of something before I let you leave."

He dropped back down in the chair. "Sam, it's not a big deal. I mean I don't know what I expected you to find. It's not like anyone's been through this before. Well, except for Vlad. And it's not like he'd know what's wrong."

Sam's eyes went wide. "Danny, you're a genius!"

He raised an eyebrow. "Maybe…Maybe it's just me but I totally lost you there."

"Go ask Vlad."

"Go?" Danny asked in disbelief. "That would be a great visit. 'Hi Mr. Masters! I'm sorry you hate my dad but can you help me out with this whole ghost thing without me having to "renounce my idiot father"?' Great plan, Sam. I love it."

She shrugged. "Maybe he's like all the villains on TV. You just ask him for his master plan and he'll tell you."

"No one's that stupid," he added as he rolled his eyes.

She grinned at him. "I don't know…You have your moments."

"Not nice," he murmured. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "You really think I can pull that off."

He opened his eyes and locked gazes with her. He couldn't help but catch the nervous look in the purple depths. "I don't know. But as of now, it's the only plan we've got."

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