Part Two
Ember smiled when the girl ran from the room. She could see the girl's tears streaming down her face as she left. 'Perfect…' She thought. 'The girl will be destroyed now…'
Danny's hands ran down Ember's hips. They were still locked in the kiss, but Ember pulled away and slapped him. "You only do what I tell you…" She growled, "…got it?"
Danny's eyes were clouded over, but he nodded. His heart was confused and lost. He wasn't sure where to turn. Sam was heart broken now, because he had gone to Ember. If he tried to go back to Sam, who knew what the hell Ember would do… He then thought of them both. He was still in his ghost form, and he floated up to the top of the lab. Ember buzzed around in his brain, and he hardly thought of Sam at all. He then saw Ember throw Tucker out, and he sighted stupidly, like a lovesick freak.
"Quit staring you idiot," Ember demanded.
Danny fell slowly back to the ground, and stood close to Ember. "What do we do now?" He said quietly, staring at the ghost portal, which was currently swirling and giving off a vibrant green glow.
"Wait for goth girl to spill out to you…then let me know. For now, I'm going back in the zone," Ember said and she flew into the portal.
Danny smiled, and then changed back into a human. Suddenly, his heart yearned desperately for Sam. He stopped in mid-step, and grew confused. Just seconds ago he knew that he was all over Ember, but now he wanted Sam? Was he crazy?? He sighed slowly, attempting to reassure himself that he was indeed sane, and went upstairs and fell onto his bed. 'Damn does this feel good or what…' He thought as he just lied on top of the comforter. His breathing then slowed, and he fell into unconsciousness as the moon bathed him in the cool light.
He heard a girl crying. Then she whimpered.
'What's going on…?' He questioned himself.
Danny opened his eyes, and he was in a field. The details were fuzzy, but he knew that he'd been here before. He then looked around, and walked quickly towards the girl's cries. He then ran into a problem. A wall of blue fire flickered around in the center of a semicircle of trees. He went ghost, and phased through them. He then saw Sam, bruised and bleeding, tied up in the center of the flames that were closing in on her. Even from a distance he could see the sparkling tears that clung to the edges of her lashes. He growled. 'Damn them whoever did this…' He thought. He raced over to Sam and fell to her side, and burned the ropes around her wrists and ankles, and pulled off the tape that secured her lips.
"Danny!" She cried as she threw her arms around his neck. Her tears dampened his shoulders. He smiled, and tried to act calm, but deep within himself he was concerned about the girl before him.
"Sam…" He whispered, "who did this to you..?" He was then cut off suddenly when a loud crack was heard. They both looked up and saw a burning tree falling to the earth, dooming them to death if they didn't move in the next few seconds.
Danny grabbed Sam around the waist, and zipped out of the fire. Sweat dripped down his face as the cool breeze tore past him. He looked at Sam, and she was smiling right up at him. 'Thank god for her…' He whispered in his head.
The next day, the three met up at Sam's place again, for they hadn't actually got to watch movies the day before. Tucker came in wearing a bunch of Ember supplies that he had locked away in his closet, yet, lucky for everyone else, he wasn't wearing imitation Ember hair. He also insisted that they watch the concert live on DVD, but both Sam and Danny yelled at him upon this thought. Danny was quite angry with himself falling for Ember, and he folded his arms and closed his eyes. He hated that Sam had witnessed that.
"Geeze what's up with you guys? I mean before you would at least tolerate her music…now you're practically refusing it," Tucker cried out.
"Shut up Tucker," Danny growled viciously. "Sam, just put something in." His tone didn't change at all when speaking to her.
She sighed and slammed something into the player, and they sat through a movie that they had only seen three times before. Tucker was at least trying to enjoy it, while Danny was lost in his anger, and Sam was lost in her heart. Both of them were thinking over what they had dreamed, but they never spoke. Every so often Danny's fist would clench and he would close his eyes. Sam didn't even want to know. She herself often acted unsettled; she would shift around in her chair every few minutes. She felt like crying, yet she thought she'd been acting childish enough, thinking that Ember had stolen Danny from her.
'Did she really do that?' She thought. 'Is she trying to get to me through him?'
The movie ended and none of them were too thrilled. Danny got up and said that he was bored, therefore he left. Tucker sat contently in his chair and listened to his PDA, but Sam ended up throwing him out because he was so annoying. Thus, leaving all three of them alone, and weak.
"Why can't I just tell Sam how I feel?"
"Why can't I just tell Ember how I feel?"
"Why can't I just tell Danny how I feel?"
They all said on their own. Needless to say they didn't know they all said similar things at the same time. Sam sighed and sat in her windowsill, staring towards the sky. "Some times I wish I'd never met Danny.." She whispered tearily. "But he means the world to me…" She groaned. "I sound so pathetic," She mumbled.
"…Sam... If I'm gonna hold on to you, you've got to protect my heart against Ember…" Danny whispered.
He reached home a few moments later, and the air was still as he entered. "Something's not right.." He whispered. He then went down to the lab, assuming that's where the trouble would be (considering it had been there during the past few days). Still in his human form, he snapped on the light, and his dream became reality…somewhat.
Sam was struggling in a ghost cage that Ember had indeed made. "Sam!" He cried. She shook her head quickly, but didn't speak. Danny continued towards her prison, and fell right into Ember's trap.
She threw a punch with her guitar, and sent Danny hurtling backwards. "Damn…she can attack me even when I'm human now…?" He groaned.
'Danny please don't come any closer…she'll kill you…' Sam cried to herself.
He found his footing again, and his hands formed into fists as he went ghost. Ember smiled even greater. "Silly boy…you can't possibly stay sane around me in your ghost form…" She cackled.
Danny's heart seemed to rip in two at that very moment. His feet collapsed beneath him, and he fell to his knees. He closed his eyes tightly, and felt Ember's spell tearing him apart on the inside.
'I have to fight on for Sam… Even if it kills me…' He growled. Flames erupted from his eyes as he spoke to himself.
Ember chuckled. "Aww, dear Danny is feeling the pain of love!" Her tone was cute at the beginning, and turned venomous at the end of the statement. She walked over to him, and grabbed his neck, digging her nails deep into his flesh, drawing his blood. "You see how I once was. Torn between everything. My heart couldn't take it, and I died. You will suffer the same fate…" She hissed.
A final struggle from Sam and she managed to break the ghost cage somehow. "Get away from him Ember," She growled.
She threw Danny to the floor, and he moaned painfully. "You want him? Go ahead…take him… He won't live much longer at this rate," Ember spat.
Sam's eyes tore between Danny and Ember. She then rushed over to him, and stared at him. Never had she seen him in so much pain. "Danny…" She whispered. She no longer cared that she was falling apart emotionally. She cared not that his blood was coating her clothes. She didn't even care that she herself was in pain. All she wanted was for Danny to be alive, and okay. "Release him," She growled.
"He'll still die," Ember said in that voice of hers.
"Just do it," Sam snarled. She couldn't bear it anymore.
Ember flicked her wrist a few times, and a shadow surfaced right about where Danny's heart was. The shadow then rose out of him, and dissolved as would steam when blown.
And Sam cried as an unconscious Danny lied in her lap.
Note: Okay, I meant to put italics are dreams. Sorry about any confusion!
Thanks to everyone who has been reading this story, I enjoyed all the reviews on the first chapter and I hope to hear more about what you guys think!
Also - this story was inspired by a picture that I found while surfing my art hoster. The picture is here: