Three Times Is A Promise.

Summary: A couple Danny x Sam fluff scenes rolled into one one-shot.

Rating: G

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. Butch Hartman does. I do own Jeremy, Lexi, and Tracey.

Dedication: This one's going out by request to I LUV FLUFF, who asked in a review to see a fluff piece that ended twenty years in the future from Sam's Pov.

The eighteen-year-old stared straight up into the sky despite the tiny flecks of snow that drifted listlessly downwards. Violet eyes wide, she laughed and spun around a few times just for fun. The strapless blue gown swirling with her. "There you are," came the voice from behind her. She spun on her heel still laughing.

"Danny!" He leaned against the back door from the gym, the loud music from the DJ still blaring. She stared at him for a moment before spinning a few more times.

Her boyfriend laughed at her. "Your going to get sick, and your parents won't let me take you to prom."

Sam stopped and looked over at him, she shrugged her bare shoulders. "It's just Sweethearts Swirl and it's so pretty out here. And I don't care what my parents say, I'm going with you no matter what."

He shook his head and she watched his dark bangs brush his forehead. He shoved himself off the wall and dropped the jacket from the suit over her small shoulders. Sam grinned up at him. "There," he said, slipping his arms around her waist. She threw her head back and stared at the flurry of snowflakes again.

Sam didn't look at him. "When I was really little, I used to wish I could live in a snow globe so I could just watch the snow come down all the time."

She felt Danny's hand brush her check but she still didn't look down. "I love you, Sam."

She looked down and almost lost herself in his ice blue eyes. "I love you too."

They stared at each other for a moment till she tore her eyes away. Sam blew a thin stream of air out and watched with a childlike excitement as the cloud of vapor appeared. She laughed and beamed up at Danny. He shook his head. "You've changed a lot through high school, you know that?"

She laughed. "You have too." She bent down in the snow and sprinkled some of the loose pieces on top over the navy material of her dress. "We're growing up, Danny. Whether we want to or not." Sam sighed, her breath visible. "Remember last year when we rolled your car?"

Danny snorted. "How could I forget? It's a miracle we all go out alive," he said softly.

Sam stood up and turned to face him most of the snowflakes falling off her dress. "Exactly! Life's to short for any of us to go around being critical of every aspect of life. And that's what I'd been doing. I can't believe how horrible I was."

Danny sighed. "You weren't horrible."

"Maybe not, but I wasn't far from it." Danny opened his mouth, but she cut him off. "I know you don't think so, but I wasn't the greatest person. I'm still not perfect but I am trying."

He grinned. "Love you, Sam."

She smiled over at him. "I love you, Danny." A slow song came on and filtered through the closed doors into the courtyard, where the couple stood. "Oh, I like this song!" Sam glanced over at him expectantly.

He grinned at her, "I guess that's my not-so-subtle cue to take you back in?"

Sam looked at the door for a moment, the loud crowds and screaming just to hear each other. "Can we just stay out here? We can hear the music okay."

Danny stared at her for a moment and she felt slightly self-conscious. He just held his arms out slightly and she slipped right into them. They stood there quietly for a while just swaying to the music, standing in the snow. She felt him brush the some snowflakes out of her hair.

"I've always wanted a winter wedding. At first I just wanted it because everyone else wants a June wedding, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's the right thing for me." She paused for a moment and Danny pulled her closer, giving her the courage to go on. "It's just everyone seems so much happier in winter. Between Christmas and New Years and Valentines, there just seems to be this whole good feeling in the world. Like maybe were not living in a fallen world after all," Sam sighed just leaning against Danny's chest. "It's probably just me."

"Nope. Your right, everything just seems better around the holidays. I think it'd be perfect for you. I love the idea," Danny said softly. "And I love--"

Sam pulled back slightly and put a finger over his lips. He gave her a quizzical look. "That'll be your third time. You have to be careful, say things like that three times means it's a promise forever."

Danny reached up and took her hand in his and kissed her fingertip. "I love you," he whispered. "Now your stuck with me."

Sam felt tears well up in her eyes. "No one but you," she breathed.

. . . . . . . . . . . .

The twenty-year-old sighed as she walked towards the food court with two girls in her dorm. College was fun but she really missed it being just her and the guys. Since Tucker had gone to a different college, just being the three of them hanging out was becoming fewer and far between. They still talked almost all the time over emails but it wasn't the same.

The girls slid into a table near the edge of the court. "Sam!" someone called out. She didn't even bother turning around. It was a common name it happened a lot.

"Hey," whispered Lexi. "It's Danny and Jeremy." That got her attention. She whirled in her seat and spotted the guys waving them over. "Come on," Lexi proded.

Sam picked up her shopping bag and walked over to the guys table. Danny pulled over a chair from the next table over and put it as close to his as he could. "Hey," she said dropping into it.

Danny just smiled as he slipped his arm around her shoulders. She smiled back at him. "You two are the cutest couple I have seen in my life," cooed Tracey.

Jeremy just grinned at them all and winked over at Danny. Sam rolled her eyes at the 'guy gesture'. "Look what I got," said Jeremy in a five-year-old secretive manner. He reached into an Osco sack at his side and dropped a bag of valentines candy on the table. "It was on clearance since it was a week ago."

"Conversation hearts?" Sam laughed. "I used to be addicted to these things."

Jeremy glanced at Danny, who was opening the bag. "So I've heard."

Danny got the bag open and tipped a generous portion of them onto the table and began flipping them over. Sam leaned forward putting her arm on the table so she could see better. Tracey, Sam's roommate, grabbed a handful and started reading sayings. "'Call me', 'Be Mine', 'Email me'…'So fine'?! Who writes 'So fine' on a candy heart?"

Jeremy laughed. "You think that's bad? I just found one that says, 'You wish'," he handed over to Lexi, Tracey reading it over her shoulder. Sam felt something hit her in the arm she looked down to see Danny dropping a little yellow heart next to her arm.

"No kidding!" Tracey grinned. "I want a 'fax me' one. Sam, help me look." Sam proceeded to shift through candy hearts when she felt something hit her arm again. This time Danny had pushed over a purple heart. She looked down to see both little candies were imprinted with the words 'Marry me'.

Sam glanced quickly over at Danny. He was digging through the pile of candy sayings with a blank look on his face. His bangs fell in his eyes, but even still she could tell they were a darker blue than usual, something that happened when he was nervous. At that moment Tracey elbowed Sam. "Keep looking!"

Sam went back to digging when Danny grabbed her hand he turned it palm up and placed three candies in her hand, curling her fingers around them. Sam pulled her hand back and peeked down at them. The last heart was white. But the important thing is that staring back up at her in dark pink lettering was 'Marry Me'.

Sam stared at the candy for a moment, not sure what to think or feel. Danny whispered in her ear. "There. That's three times, now it's a promise."

Sam went stiff and stared down into her hand at the three tiny heart-shaped sugar candies. She looked at Danny who looked more nervous than she had ever seen him. Sam looked down at her hand again and dropped the three candies onto the table. Her fingers shaking she reached out and started flipping candy again. She found what she was looking for.

She heard a chair move and turned to see Danny getting up. Total heartbreak was written all over his features. No one seemed to notice but Sam. She felt her heart shatter at the look on his face. She grabbed his hand and pressed the little candy heart into his hand and curled his fist around it. She gently pulled him back down.

Danny stared at her for a moment before daring to uncurl his hand. His fingers were shaking badly but Sam knew hers were too. Danny stared blankly at the candy for what seemed to be an eternity as the message seemed to sink in. He slowly raised his eyes and met Sam's. She gave him the most reassuring smile she could muster, which was shaky at best.

Danny's slowly smiled back at her what sounded like a strangled sob escaping his lips as he reached out and pulled her to him. Dropping the candy heart back onto the table, right next to Sam's and on a green heart in orange writing was the simple two words, 'I do'.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sam held the brushed the tiny head as she stared into the little crib. She had never thought she'd see this day. Her and Danny had a daughter. A little tiny baby that was half her and half Danny. It was so amazing. She had wait way too long for this day.

Danny and her had discussed children more times than she cared to remember. Danny was always afraid that because he didn't have typical DNA the child could turn out to be a half ghost, or worse something that couldn't even be called human. He was always so worried about it. But accidents happen and life's full of surprises.

That was the best way to describe Kayley, a surprise. Sam had thought she had gone crazy when the doctor told her she was pregnant. "But we took precautions," Sam argued.

The doctor had just shook his head and in a moment of expert medical prognosis said, "Stuff happens." Sam shook her head. Danny didn't know what to think when he found out. It had taken till the first ultrasound for him to even admit that maybe it would be alright. She saw the headlights through the window. She smiled down at the tiny infant. "Daddy's home," she cooed scooping the 3-week-old up.

Kayley whimpered at being picked up but put her head down on her mother's shoulder and let her eyes close. Sam kissed the tiny fragile neck and padded down the stairs slowly. The front door swung open and Danny stepped in and grinned at her. "There's my beautiful angel."

Sam smiled as she reached the bottom. "Is that meant for me or the baby?"

Danny grinned as he bolted the door behind him. "One of you."

He gave Sam a quick kiss and she slipped the baby into his arms. He just stared down at her and Sam walked over and put her head on his shoulder. "She's so tiny," he breathed. "I don't think I was ever this tiny."

Sam shook her head. "According to Maddie, you were smaller."

He stared down in disbelief. "Just think she's going to grow up, fall in love, and she's going to have a baby."

"Just like we did."

He grinned over at her, kissing her forehead lightly. "No, I fell in love in kindergarten then I grew up."

Sam laughed slightly. "If we would have told you that when we were fourteen, you would have died rather than believe it."

"You'll have to give me a break I was dealing with a lot that year."

Sam laughed. "Don't worry, I was there."

"Thank God you were. I don't know where I'd be without you, Sam." He looked over at her. His blue eyes a little too intense. "I'd be totally lost with out you."

"If you keep telling that to me and I might start to believe it." She grinned.

"Three times is a promise," he whispered.

Sam looked down at their daughter. Her eyes were drawn up to Danny's bright blue ones, the same blue that his daughter shared. She grinned. "Of course it is."