-- Author's Note -- Hello once again. Thankfully this week's update isn't going to be late because of whatever they were doing with First, I'd like to mention that I'm going to be starting another fic because I can't get it off my mind. This one will be a Teen Titans story, so if you're a fan of that, please check it out. No worries though, it shouldn't upset updates for FtLoaH. All right, next order of business. I should have brought this up sooner, but I just got another review about it that reminded me. This has to do with Danny and Sam's children's names. Yes, they are Japanese, and no, I don't care if you don't like them. Are you really so uncultured that you believe people will refuse to name their children from a culture that they aren't a part of? If you really like, go ahead and change the names in your head when you read, I can't stop you. I would just like to point out that I selected those names for a reason, and it's not the names themselves, but rather what they mean. It took me quite a while to select what I thought Sam and Danny would be thinking when each of their children were born. Sanjiro means praised, or admired. Yuri means lily, or lovely one. So, if anyone else has a comment about the kids' names, keep it to yourself. I don't care, and you're not going to make me change them. Go write your own fic if you want Sam and Danny's kids to have different names.

Chapter 6 Wake Up Danny

After they watched a couple hours of TV, everyone moved into the kitchen. Sam began cooking dinner, and Danny helped the two kids with their homework. Yuri worked on writing her name somemore times, and Sanjiro had a sheet of simple math problems to work on.

It filled his heart with joy every time one of the children was able to complete their task without his help. When they were finished with their homework, they helped to set the table for dinner.

Once everyone had eaten their fill, they cleaned up, did the dishes, and then settled down to watch another hour of TV before bed.

Sam gave Yuri a bath while Danny tucked Sanjiro into bed and read him a bedtime story. After he was sound asleep, Danny headed down the hall to Yuri's room. Sam was inside hugging the crying child.

"But Mommy, why is everyone at school so mean to me?"

"It's not your fault honey. They're still getting used to having ghosts, and Halfas around."

"It hurts my feelings though."

"I know, baby, I know. You just remember that they're probably jealous of how special you are," Sam told the girl as she rubbed her back to sooth her.

"But they said that I wasn't special. That I was a freak."

"You will never be a freak in my eyes baby. I love you, and Daddy loves you, and Aunt Jazz loves you, and Grandma and Grandpa love you all very much."

"Will you sing for me Mommy?"

Sam smiled softly at the girl. "Don't I always?"

The small girl nodded with a smile and crawled further under the covers.

Taking a deep breath, Sam started her song.

"Some girls are fair, some are jolly and fit. Some have a well-bred air, or a well-wholed wit. Each one's a jewel with a singular shine. A work of art with it's own rare design. Dear little girl, you are terribly blessed. But it's your heart of gold I love the best.

"And that will be your crowning glory your whole life through. It'll always be your crowning glory, the most glorious part of you.

"Some boys can waltz."

"Some guys can groove," Yuri added in with a smile.

"Strike and elegant pose."

"With the really good clothes."

"Some seem to have no faults."

"But we never like those."

"No we don't," Sam put with a laugh.

"He'll praise your eyes."

"Your melodious laugh."

"Call you more lovely than others by half," they sang together in a way that made Danny think this was something that happened nightly.

"The one who's right," Sam continued.

"My gorgeous prince," Yuri sighed.

"Will be honest and true."

"He'll believe in me too."

"And prize your heart of gold the way I do."

The two girls sang together making Danny smile, "He'll know that will be your crowning glory your whole life through. Your love will see that it's your crowning glory, the most glorious part of you.

"That will be your crowing glory, darling, when they tell your story. They'll call your heart of gold your crowning glory, the most glorious part of you."

Danny couldn't help himself; he clapped softly for them as they finished the song. The two girls turned to see him standing in the doorway watching them. Sam blushed slightly, but Yuri only smiled.

"I came to give my favorite girl her good night kiss."

Yuri laughed and held out her arms as Danny walked over to her and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead.

"Good night, Daddy. I love you."

"I love you too, now you should go to bed."

The girl nodded and crawled back under the covers. Sam gave her a kiss goodnight and turned the lights off after her and Danny.

After Sam had closed the door behind them, Danny took her hand and gave her a small kiss on the lips. "I love you," he whispered.

Sam smiled back at him, "I love you too. Come on, we should get to bed too."

Hand in hand the two walked down to the end of the hall and changed for bed. Once in bed, Sam cuddled close to Danny and smiled softly to herself.

"I don't think I've ever told you this before, but you sing beautifully."

"Yes you have," Sam said blushing.

"Maybe, but it was amazing watching you two. You should have been a star."

"Maybe," she said with a slight sense of sadness to her voice. "Maybe, but I like where I'm at much better."

It was quiet for a moment before Danny gave a small sigh. "Does that happen often?"

"Us singing? Yeah, every night."

"Um, actually I was wondering about what Yuri was crying over before that. It sounded like the kids at school picked on her."

Sam nodded, "Yeah, sometimes Sanjiro gets picked on too, but he's over it for the most part."

"Why do they pick on them?"

"Because in their eyes, they're ghosts, or half-breeds at best. It's been almost five years since the world learned that ghosts were real, but a lot of people are still against the idea."

"Why? Most people would think this is a great discovery."

"Some do, but remember a lot of people hold hatred in their hearts. It's almost like when people first started moving to America, they were racist against the Irish, and then later against the African Americans. It's like that. We're the new minority, so people don't want their children around us or our children."

Danny frowned. It was hard for him to understand why people would act that way, but he knew it was possible. "It was harder before, wasn't it? Back when we were still in school and people found out the truth about us," he said taking her hand in his.

"You mean when your parents and everyone in Amity found out that we were Halfas?" Danny nodded. "Yeah, it was a lot harder. I don't think I could have gotten through it without you," she said squeezing his hand.

"What happened?"

"Hate notes were plastered on our lockers, hate mail filled our mailboxes, and there was a couple times that we got egged outside of school. Once someone even set a small bomb off inside your locker," Sam said trailing off.

This caused him to squeeze her hand back tighter. "But we're past all that now. Our children will never know that kind of hate."

"No, not ever. Anyway, we should get to sleep. It's late and we have to get up early."

Danny nodded and Sam turned off the lamp on the nightstand. He sat awake for a few minutes thinking about everything Sam had told him. He didn't think that he could handle that sort of thing. No, he told himself, he could handle it because he had to be strong for Sam.

He looked down at her sleep form still holding onto him. Watching her he slowly drifted off to sleep. As he was falling asleep he heard someone crying, calling out to him.

"Danny, please wake up. Please come back to me, this is all my fault. Please, just wake up."