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 Nine
And touched my hand.
Danny glanced up as the boy across from him almost choked on last Tuesdays hamburger patty covered in beef gravy that they were trying to pass off as Salisbury Steak. Tucker took a drink out of his chocolate milk and shot him an incredulous look. "So you just promised he could make you his puppet."
Danny sighed staring at the almost solid mashed potatoes he was stabbing with his plastic spoon. "Yeah, pretty much," he stated. Not looking up. He already knew what Tucker was thinking, he didn't need to look. It was the same thing Danny had been thinking for two straight days. What he had done was stupid and could very well end up with him or someone he cared about dead.
"Do you realize how stupid that was? I mean, did you think at all?" Danny rolled his eyes before raising his head and looking at the darker skinned boy sitting across from him.
He sighed dropping his gaze back to his tray as he toyed with his food. "It wasn't exactly one of those situations where you have a choice, Tuck. I mean I can't see him just letting me walk out of his office. He's not like that. He doesn't seem the type to do anything unless there's personal gain in it for him."
The other boy sighed, pushing his glasses further up on the bridge of his nose, a nervous habit he had picked up when he was much younger. "It still doesn't seem smart, Danny." He sighed. "Not as if my opinion counts for anything anymore."
Danny snapped his gaze up. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing," he responded tartly. He grabbed his Biology II and Basic HTML book from off the table next to him. "I'll talk to you later," with that Tucker made a swiftly exit. Danny stared down at the meal he had had little interest in to begin with. He glared down at his fork, as if blaming it for all the problems he currently had. His mind churned over the unfairness of Sam's pregnancy, her getting taken away, Tucker become more and more withdrawn from him. In the past year he had gone from being normal to being a mutant. In the process he'd lost his openness with his family, his chance to be normal and his two best friends.
His gaze intensified on the plastic little utensil. He had nothing better to take his wrath out on at the moment. He glared at the fork. Without any warning, it floated up about two inches in the air. Danny jerked backwards, eyes going wide. The plastic fork fell to the table bouncing a few times before it settled. Danny stared in shock at the little object. He could move stuff? In some strange way it made sense. Vlad and the Box Ghost could.
He pointed his finger at the little utensil and it took on an eerie green glow, as did his fingertip. He pointed to a spot about four inches to the right. The fork slid silently to the spot. Danny grinned. He floated it up into the air and watched with a triumphant grin as it fell back onto his tray. With that Danny grabbed his tray. He walked over and dumped it into the garbage can, leaving the cafeteria.
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Sam sighed as Amanda lowered the study sheet and smiled over at her. "I don't know why you're so worried. Mrs. K always gives easy quizzes. Besides you know all this stuff." She gestured to the list she had just dropped.
Sam sighed. "Yeah, I know. He's just got a much harder grading scale then we ever had back at CHS."
Amanda rolled her eyes and tucked the sheet back into a blue folder with English II scribbled on it. "You'll be fine." The two sat in silence for a moment or as near to it as you can get in a courtyard with thirty other high schoolers . "So how is everything?" Amanda asked.
Sam sighed inwardly. That was how Amanda always worded it when she was wondering about the baby. "Not much. Doctor says the baby should start kicking soon."
Amanda got the sort of happy look and cooed. Sam rolled her eyes. If she could be half as happy about the child as Amanda was everything would be okay. Of course Amanda only had to listen to Sam talk about being pregnant. She would be going back to Amity Park when the baby was only three months, so it didn't really affect Amanda. No wonder the concept of having a baby seemed so romantic to her. Plus she was the type of girl who would never get pregnant in high school. A little voice in the back of Sam's head whispered that would have described herself just as easily as anyone else. She suppressed the thought.
"Amanda!" Both girls looked up to see Amanda's friend Beth signaling for her from across the courtyard.
Sam forced a smile as Amanda looked at her. "Go ahead and go. I'm fine. Thanks for helping me study."
"Sure thing," Amanda grinned. With that she shouldered her bag and grabbed her folder. Sam watched her walk away. With a sigh she got out her homework from this morning. She uncapped her pen, trying to focus on anything other than the fact that she didn't have a close friend here. She was probably closest to Blake and Ryan. Suddenly that just seemed pathetic.
Suddenly Home Ec sheet she was working on fell into shadows. Her pen paused mid word as she looked up. "Hey Chris," she said, glancing from the blonde senior back down to her homework.
"What ya working on?" He dropped onto the bench next to her and glanced over her shoulder at the workbook in her lap.
"Home Ec. Kitchen Safety Chapter." She capped her pen again and slid it back into the loop on her bag. She looked up at him.
He grinned at her. "Ah I remember that class. The cooking with Vegetables chapter sucked."
Sam looked up from unzipping her bag to put the book away. "I don't think that'll be an issue for me." She continued before he could say any more. "Is there a reason your talking to me?" She sounded snippy but at the moment she really could care less.
Chris flicked absentmindedly at a little piece of his hair that wasn't staying spiked like the rest. "Yeah, actually. I heard a rumor that you're around here to learn how to work with children."
"Ah, so I'm no longer running from my lovers crazy wife." She pushed a lock of hair behind her ear.
"Nah," he laughed. "That one got old last week. Anyway, I wanted to offer you a job."
"A job? I don't need a job, thanks a lot." Sam shouldered her bag and started to get up.
A hand on her elbow stilled her. "Now, hang on a second, Sammy, I—"
"It's Sam," she interjected. For some reason the nickname bothered her more than it should have. Probably because the only person who called her that was Danny and only when one of them was really upset.
"Sam. I work at the library uptown and we need another person to help shelve books after school. Real easy. They're in alphabetical order. Other than that, all you'd have to do is make sure the little kids don't kill each other."
Sam shook her head. "Thanks but no thanks. I have my hands full between school, brothers, and trying to get the hang of a new life."
"Whatever." He shrugged. "I gave them your name anyway."
Sam's violet eyes went wide. "You did what?"
"Gave them your name and number. Last night my boss asked me if we knew anyone. You popped into my head for some reason so I wrote your name down." He shrugged. Before Sam could retort the warning bell to get to class rang. Sam just spun on her heal and marched the other way. Sam glanced back but Chris had already gone over to his friends and had his back to her. Sam sighed. Whenever she thought she'd finally got the hang of something, it just had to get worse.
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