I was happy when receiving the kiss, but I had learned that when I am around Vlad, happiness happens rarely, and when it does happen, it is for a short amount of time. Why do I say this? Well…

While we were kissing, I then felt a sudden shock in my arm, and I pulled away fast, and clutched my arm. Sam looked at me funny, but then realized what was going on.

"Danny, are you Okay?" She asked, as she looked at me. Obviously, there was nothing she could do, but watch.

Even after the shocking had stopped, I was still clutching my arm, and now I was shaking. It felt as though someone had taken a saw and was grinding on my arm with it. I heard the door swing open, and there was Vlad.

"Daniel, if you are wondering why I have done this to you, it is because I don't want you two to be all over each other all the time. I had fun watching you for a while, but then I got bored with it. Besides, I needed to make sure this thing even worked," he laughed evilly.

"Why? Aren't we family? You can't shock your son." I managed to get out, although I was still bundled up, holding my arm in pain.

"Why can't I? I can do whatever I want to with you, especially if you are not behaving," he said, annoyed. He then continued, "We are going to the store right now, today. Oh, and if you don't mind, you will be going somewhere new tomorrow. Your grandmas, or, my mom's house. She has always wanted to see my children."

"You don't really even have any!" Sam shouted at him.

"And what she doesn't know, won't hurt her."

"grr.." Sam said, quietly. She then clenched her arm, and I noticed that Vlad was pushing a button on a control pad, which was obviously shocking her.

"Sam!" I hollered, and ran over to Vlad, to steal the remote, but he shocked me too, and I had to stop from the pain.

"And don't worry, this isn't nearly as high as the shock will go," he snickered.

"Now, let's behave, and head to the store," he told us, as we all headed for the door.

"You two sit in the back seat," he said, as we all got into the car.

We both slid into the back seat, and sat there silently. It was cold in the car, because Vlad had the air conditioner at full blast, and it was already not all that warm outside. Sam and I sat close to each other, trying to stay warm, and I think both of us just wanted to cuddle with each other.

"So, you two ready to go away for a couple of days tomorrow?" Vlad asked, looking in the mirror back at us.

"No." I said sternly.

"Well, why not? You will get to get away from me for a while," he insisted.

"Yeah, like I want to meet your mother."

"Well, you have to go anyhow, no matter how much you would hate to."

The rest of the ride there, we were all quiet. Sam kept on glancing over at me, and I was just sitting there, trying to think happy thoughts, and pretend I wasn't here. Vlad's car had a musty smell though, and it didn't help me to think of another place. I knew I was in Vlad's smelly old car, on my way to the stupid store, with my so-called 'Dad'.

We soon pulled into a huge mall, and Sam's eyes lit up, as though now, it didn't matter, because we were in the mall.

"All right, you two may go in there," he said, handing us each 200.

"Who says we don't run away?" I asked him.

"If you don't return to me, in 3 hours, I will hold down the button, until you show up, so I suggest you do return. Or, I will come in and look for you first, but if there is no sight of you, prepare for the worst," he sneered.

"Come on Danny," Sam said, grabbing ahold of my hand, and dragging me into the mall.

"Ok, now all the sudden, all that matters is the mall?"

"No, I wanted to get away from him!"

"Oh, then why were you so excited to be here?"

"I don't know, I just wanted to get away from him, I didn't care where we were going! I just totally hate him! I bet even his mother is better than him!"

"Yeah, and we are going to make our escape tomorrow while we are over there too."

"How? We have a tracker on us! Anywhere we go, he will know!"

"I know that, but Sam, there is one thing we are going to have to do to each other. No matter how much it will hurt, we are going to have to get these things out of our arms."

"Danny, I can't cut you open!" Sam said, with a shiver.

"You will if my life depends on it," I reassured her.

"Danny…"

"Ok, let's just go shopping, and try to take our minds off of it," I told her, as I placed my hand on her back, and we began walking into the mall. I knew it would be impossible to forget about what was going on in our lives, but I knew there was a way to get out of it. I was happy that maybe, I was going to have a chance to escape him. Vlad was so sick for catching Sam in the first place, and then getting me, and pretending we were a family!

"Danny, I still can't get it out of my mind," she whined, trying to look at stuff in the stores, but she couldn't.

"Yeah, I know."

"Danny, why don't we just run?"

"Because, he will shock us, and it will hurt way worse than getting cut open again."

I knew that cutting me open wasn't the worst part for Sam. The part of digging inside me to get it out, was probably what was on her mind.

"Sam, is there anything we can do to have some fun?"

"I don't know," she sighed. We soon came up to a bench, and we sat down next to each other.

"Danny?"

"Yeah?"

"About tomorrow, do I have to… get it out of you to?"

"Uh, yeah, I can't do it myself. Let's just stay off of that topic, and we will worry about it when the time comes," I said, as she cuddled up next to me.

"Danny?"

"Yeah?"

"Where do we go after we run away?"

"Home."

"If we go home, then he will know where we are though."

"Yeah, you do have a point. But where else can we go?"

"I don't know. Not home though, there is no possible way. Maybe… Maybe we will have to live on our own."

"Sam, we can't do that!"

"Who says we can't? You are a ghost Danny, you can get us anything we need!"

"Sam, I can't steal."

"No, but you can take stuff from Vlad before we go. He has harmed us, so why not harm him back? He has so much money anyway, so I don't think it would hurt if we took some from him, do you?"

"Sam, let's just stop worrying about this. We can talk about it later. I want to relax for a little bit, Okay?"

"All right, I will stop talking about it," she replied, as she snuggled up to me, and took ahold of my hand in her own.

Ok, that Is your update! Yeah, it was a lot of talking, but it leaves open a lot of options for further writing! I can go into a million different directions with this story! I could make it so they don't escape, I could make it that they do. If they don't there is a lot of things I can do with them with Vlad… And if they do escape, what will happen with them then? What would you like to happen?