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 Seven
Have you forgotten all I know and all we had.
Danny dropped into his seat in Bio II and blew out a breath. He took out his notebook and doodled on the margins of yesterdays notes. If trying to pass Bio I with Sam's help was hard, trying to pass Bio II without her was darn near impossible. He was proud of himself for pulling a low C and he was only two weeks into the grading period. He rested his forehead against his head.
After a few seconds Tucker walked in and dropped into the lab seat next to him. "Hey," Tuck grinned at him. "How was your weekend."
"It was okay. I went and saw Sam on Saturday," he tossed out casually, as if she still lived just down the street. Tucker shot him a look.
"You got a reason why you convinced your parents to drive three hours this weekend."
Danny stopped doodling on his kite and started in on another random sketch. "I didn't. I flew. Friday night, technically."
Tuck arched an eyebrow. "If I'm remembering right, didn't it rain?"
"Whole way," he said without looking up.
He could almost hear Tucker roll his eyes. "Still doesn't answer the why."
Danny opened his mouth just as the finally bell rang and Mr. Lancer started calling for roll. Danny mouthed 'I'll tell you later'.
Half a class period later, Danny kept glancing up at the slide show of notes and copying everything as fast as he could. He felt something hit his arms and looked to his left to see the notebook Tucker had slid into his arm. The top line said, 'It's later'. Danny rolled his eyes as if it wasn't hard enough to focus without his best friend wanting him to do other things. He scribbled back. 'I asked her about my eyes.' He slid it back.
He went back to notes and was very proud that he had caught up by the time Tuck had finished his response. 'Couldn't you have just called?'.
'It was an excuse to see her,' Danny scribbled more illegibly than usual. It bought him enough time to even get a little ahead of what Mr. Lancer was droning on about. He still understood none of it. He could ask Sam tonight and hoped they were covering it in bio at her new school.
The blue lined notebook hit his arm again. 'Oh, did she figure out what to do about it?'
'No. So we decided I'm going this weekend to ask Vlad about it.' He was turning to the next page in his notebook when he heard Tuck gasp.
"Mr. Foyley," Lancer drawled. "Do you have something you would like to share with the class?"
Tucker's eyes went wide but, as answer to a silent prayer he didn't look at Danny. "No, sorry. I just was so enthralled by the fact that we have chromosomes…it just all got the better of me."
"I do not like being decieved," the science teacher warned. "I'll ask you again. Would you like to read that note Mr. Fenton passed you."
Danny could have died on the spot. He sank deeper in the brown plastic chair. "Why of course I wouldn't mind," Tucker said cheerily. He cleared his throat. "'Yo, Tuck. Did you catch that last thing Lancer said? I missed it.' to which I replied. 'he said "Through reproduction humans get a full set of chromosomes, half from each parent". You should really pay more attention, Danny.'"
Mr. Lancer glowered at him. "I'm glad you find yourself amusing, Mr. Foyley. Hand me the note." Danny could feel himself start to sweat. If Lancer read the note out loud, he was done for. He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath as he heard the notebook paper. Torn out and handed to Mr. Lancer. There was a moment of silence he was just waiting for Lancer to ask what they were talking about.
Lancer suddenly cleared his throat. "As I was saying. Human chromosomes come in pairs of two alleles. The absence of one allele can result in a syndrome, defect, or even spontaneous abortion." Blue eyes flew open. They had been spared. He had no idea how; he shot a glance at Tucker. Tucker looked at him, 'take notes' written all over his face.
Danny grabbed his pen and went back to scribbling notes on human genetics. The rest of the class passed in a blur of notes and jumbled thoughts. The two grabbed their books and took off towards the boys lockers for phys ed. "What the crud did you do?"
Tucker laughed throwing a glance over his shoulder as the pair skirted a group of giggling freshman girls. "I've only known you for eleven years and you've always been the lousiest note passer in the world. The second it hits your hand, all three of us would get caught."
"Excuse me," the blue-eyed sophomore bit out indignantly. "But wasn't it you who gasped."
Tucker shrugged. "He'd been eyeing us the past two times. So I needed a reason for him to take it. I skribbled out a fake note and forged your handwritting. Speaking of which you'd better have gotten all the notes, cause I need to borrow yours."
Danny shot Tuck and incredulous look as Tuck opened the door to the locker room. "You want to copy my science notes. Wow, Tuck you're stupider than I thought."
Danny felt Tuck's eyes on him as he set his books down on the bench. He looked up to see his friend grinning at him as Tuck began opening his locker. "You know who's the stupid one?"
"I'm not--"
Tuck cut him off with a laugh. "I meant Lancer. The note we were passing back and forth had just gotten to me, meaning you wrote the last thing. The note I handed him, I had the last word."
I know a nothingness chapter but does anyone notice that I have one of these before the hardcore plot takes off? Probably not. Thankies to my wonderful reviewers: Medisti, Sakura Scout, Mr. Delmont, gothmiko, Kagome51, Samster The Hamster, WormmonABC, Spice Of Life, Ryo's destiny, Moody Maud, cheerin4danny, q.t a.k.a spice, Silverflare07, Storm Sword, Red Jack Malicious, autumngold, The Good Girl, Mrs. Granger-Weasley, MayB, Aeris9919, RavenForever, Fox of Light, Hwoarangsguardie, and RainbowSerenity. Thank you to all of you.
P.S. to Aeris9919: It's okay I'm supposed to be working on MY Beowulf paper as I write this author's note. Hehe.