Hah! We are now at Chapter 13! What a lucky number! Well maybe not for Danny! Muahahahaha. Ok, ok, I will stop being so mean. Also a big apology for the no, no language in chapter 12, but honestly, c'mon they aren't going to have the manners of Mormons, okay? But anyways on to chapter 13 and more time taken outta my life to entertain you people.
Friends forever…right?
Chapter- 13, Falling further
The ride to the Fenton home was an uncomfortably quiet one, and the tension in the van added to it. Tucker seemed to find himself staring out the window wondering if he should let Danny's family know what really happened. But after a few moments he decided against it. It was Danny's place to tell them, not his. Finally arriving at the house, Jack slammed on the brakes and looked back at Jazz and Tucker.
"Alright you two, get moving. We're counting on you guys to let us know if Danny calls so if he does immediately dial the Van, alright?" Tucker and Jazz nodded then swiftly exited the van. After watching the van speed off, Jazz turned to Tucker.
"You know exactly what's going on here, don't you." She began matter of factly. Tucker, surprised by her words began to stutter out a response.
"I-I…U-umm…"
"Don't, I already know about Danny's special abilities, and I also know that you and Sam are usually the only ones who can help him when things go wrong. So do me a favor and find out what's going on alright?" Jazz asked, while unlocking the front door. Tucker, shocked, stood on the steps for a few moments then eventually followed her inside. Without any further discussion he headed for the basement and ran down the stairs. Almost immediately he came face to face with the Ghost Zone shuttle that he and Sam had used to rescue Danny when he had been imprisoned in the ghost zone before. Climbing inside he began to go over the controls, trying to remember how they worked.
"Don't worry you guys, I'm coming…" Tucker whispered to himself as he tinkered with the buttons and levers.
(Back in Ghost Zone, at the unknown, prison-like facility)
The sound of Bane's zipper was the only noise that echoed throughout the now deathly quiet cell. Sam, who was still being held down by Jyn had long grown quiet with a submissiveness that she loathed. As for Danny, Sam was almost afraid to know what he was feeling, she didn't even know if she could. He had saved her from being violated by trading himself in instead and she couldn't help but continuously ask herself why. Finally Bane walked over to where she was being held and bent down over her. Placing a finger underneath her chin, he forced her to lift her gaze up and meet his.
"When your boyfriend wakes up, let him know that we had a good time and wouldn't mind coming back for a reunion any time soon." He whispered while smiling, Sam, disgusted, turned her head away from him.
"Lets go." Bane ordered and at that Jyn released Sam and Axial Dropped Danny to the ground with a soft thud. A loud creak filled the room as they unlocked the cell door and then a slam followed up as they shut it. Sam could hear them laughing as they walked off. Taking a moment to take in what had just happened, Sam slowly willed her body to rise up from the ground. Finally standing she half ran half walked over to where Danny had been carelessly left. Bending down next to him, she bit her lip to stifle a sob.
Both Danny's shirt and pants were half torn off of his body, barely covering the bandaged flesh underneath. His face was pale and swollen from being battered. She shivered to think what the rest of him looked like. Coming closer, she gently put her hands on his shoulders and began to softly shake him.
"Danny? Danny, can you here me?" Sam whispered. Danny remained unresponsive. "Danny? Danny!" Sam shouted, shaking him a bit harder. This time Danny moaned a little. Slowly opening his eyes, they immediately went wide in fear.
"W-what's happening! W-what's going on! W-who…W-where…?" He mumbled still half unconscious.
"Danny, it's me, Sam." Sam replied in a soft tone. "It's alright, calm down." She added stroking his hair. Realizing that it was indeed Sam, Danny relaxed a little.
"Sam?" Danny began in a weak voice.
"Yeah?"
"I know what happened. I remember it, I remember it all." He whispered, his voice horse from screaming.
"Danny, I-"
"No, don't try to make it better by lying about it. God knows, I have done that so many times before and it NEVER works."
"So what do you want me to do, Danny?" Sam asked in a frustrated tone.
"There's nothing we can do except try to think of a way to get the hell out of here before those 'things' come back." He replied closing his eyes in exhaustion. They both grew silent, the only sound coming from the other prisoners down the hall. Finally, Sam decided to speak.
"Can I have a look at your wounds?" She asked scooting closer.
"No, I'll be alright, Sam. Don't worry about me." Danny replied his eyes still closed.
"Danny, would you just stop? I know your hurt; now let me have a look!" Sam shouted as she began to un-button Danny's ripped up hospital shirt. "Honestly! How can you ask me not to worry about you?" she added.
"B-But-!" Danny began, trying to squirm away.
"But nothing, just hold still" Sam ordered. Finally undoing all the buttons and opening his shirt, she gasped. Almost all of his bandages had been ripped off and from his shoulder blades all the way down to his lower abdomen he was covered in huge black and blue bruises.
"Danny, oh my god…" she stammered.
"I-It's nothing. They don't even hurt." Danny replied, trying to cover his chest up.
"Danny, your not fooling anyone so just stop. These injuries are serious." She warned placing a hand on the bandage that covered where he had stabbed him at. "And this one, you…you haven't even begun to recover from yet." At that she grew quiet.
"Sam, I'm going to be fine, just don't worry so much. We're both going to get out of this. It may seem impossible right now…but…but…I know we'll get out of this." Danny reassured, placing his hand over Sam's.
"It's just…" Sam began. "I don't even know where to begin." She paused for a moment and looked at Danny to see if she should continue. When he gave her a weak smile she regained her confidence. "Danny, I have been trying to tell you this for a really, really long time and I am almost afraid to say it now. Considering all that has happened…but I can't hold my feelings in any longer. Danny, I-I love you...I think that I always have...but things just kept getting in the way. Now were stuck here in the equivalent of the seventh circle of hell and only now am I finally confessing..." Sam turned her head to avoid being seen blushing and began to giggle. "I'm pretty pathetic, huh?" Her cheecks began to burn with embarrasment and then suddenly a firm yet sensitive grip grabbed her chin and turned her around.
"No, you're not" Danny whispered pulling her close and finally into a tender kiss. Sam's mind went blank at first, stunned from Danny's actions, then finally she loosened up and closed her eyes allowing herself to forget her surroundings, forget her pain and just think of Danny and how much she truly loved him. It was almost as though she were in a dream... at least untill Danny suddenly pulled away.
"Danny whats wrong?" Sam asked scooting closer. He looked at her with a pained expression on his face.
"I-I...I'm not f-feeling to well
all of a s-sudden..." He managed to mumble before passing out.
Panicking, Sam began to frantically shake Danny in an attempt to
bring him back to consciousness.
"Danny? Danny! What
happend? Whats wrong!" He remained unresponsive, a single line
of blood trickling down from the corner of his mouth.
"Oh my god..." She mumbled to herself. "Is he bleeding internally?" she wondered aloud. Gently placing one hand under his head and wrapping the other around his chest she cautiously moved him into her lap. "Danny you have to hang on a little longer...you can't leave me like this..." She whispered to him while pulling him closer only to find that he was hot with fever.
"Oh Dammit!" Sam shouted into the silence of the cell while placing Danny back onto the floor. "It's worse than I thought..." She added while undoing the patchup job she had done on Danny's shirt to keep it closed. "His wounds are infected..." Sam whispered as her worse fears were confirmed by the pus and dark coagulated blood that was now covering and seeping out of what was left of his bandages. "Oh god...what am I gonna do?"
(Somewhere in the Ghost Zone)
"Ah! Dammit! Why does this place have to be so confusing?" Tucker shouted in frustration. He had been floating around in the ghost zone for nearly an hour now and still had no idea where Danny and Sam were being held. Restless and Annoyed he began to pace around the empty Van-sized vessel. "I wonder if Danny and Sam are ok." He mumbled to himself. "This whole thing has spiraled completely out of control. One minute everythings fine and normal and the next its thrown upside down... How are we supposed to live like this? Is this even a way that the normal teenager should live?" Tucker asked aloud but was answered by no one. Finally, after a few more minutes of pacing, Tucker slumped down onto the floor, mentally exhausted. Staring up at the ceiling and more lonely than he had ever remembered being, he could feel tears welling up in his eyes. "I-I miss you guys..." He whispered a tear falling down his cheek. "I don't know what I would do if somthing happend to you two..." He added rubbing the tear away. "That's why...that's why I have to keep going. It's not going to end like this." Tucker said in a determined tone while standing up.
Walking back over to the control panel he began to search for a UBS port that would possibly allow him to hook his PDA up to. Finally finding one he connected the wires and turned on his PDA.
"I may not know where Danny and
Sam are, but I'm 100 sure that wherever they preside they're
probably heavily guarded. Now thats where this new program I have
been working on comes into play. After fighting so many ghosts and
collecting so much data I was able to compile a tracking program.
Which would enable me to search for and find low-level to high-level
ghostly auras." Tucker explained, forgetting that he was alone.
"Therefore..." Tucker continued as he feverishly
clicked away on his PDA. "Ahh bingo! Theres a large collection
of paranormal activity centered in that sector and with this much
energy there has to be something big happening." A few more
minutes of button crunching went by and then finally Tucker smiled
triumphantly. "Danny...Sam...I'm coming for ya" Tucker
said, now fully determined. Setting the ship to maximum speed it
disappeared into the muggy abyss, aiming to crash into the walls of
the prison.
(Back in the Cell)
An hour had passed since Danny had lost consciousness and things were only getting worse. Not only had Danny become completely unresponsive and filled with fever, but he now shook with the chills. Sam was at her wits end. She had never felt more helpless and alone. Danny was suffering...no possibly dying and there was nothing that she could do. She could barely look at his pale face without crying. In the past few weeks she had almost lost Danny too many times for comfort. It almost seemed like there was some force trying to keep them apart. Some evil being that took sick joy in their misfortune. Whatever the case Sam didn't know and was tired of thinking. Closing her eyes and laying her head against the cool walls of the cell she could feel that somewhere deep down inside, she was begging for death to come and take her. It was a selfish wish and she knew that but everything just seemed so hopeless.
Slipping into an uneasy sleep she was startled when she heard Danny suddenly cough. Quickly standing up and running over to Danny's side she was surprised to see that he was awake.
"Danny?" she called.
"Yeah
(cough) I'm still here..." he replied wincing. "I'm sorry
that I...passed out on you...like that." Danny added trying to
smile apologetically.
"Oh Danny, don't apologize for that. Your sick, very sick. We have to figure out a way to get you out of here before you get any worse.
"Don't worry about me Sam...I'll be f-fine..." Danny managed to reply before passing out once more.
"Aww no! Danny! Wake up! Damn!" Sam shouted, slamming her fists into the cold, hard cement ground. She could feel anger, hatred, despair, regret, all the emotions she had been enduring taking their toll and finally she just started to scream. Louder and louder until it could probably be heard through the whole entire facility. Then finally, running out of breath, she stopped and let her body fall to the ground in defeat. Staring into the blackness of the cell, her throat burning, she thought she was just imagining it when she heard loud voices and shouting from outside the cell.
"There's a disturbance in the upper floors!" a raspy voice, that could only belong to a guard, exclaimed.
"What could it be, dammit? This place is supposed to be inpregnible!" another voice asked in the same distressed tone.
"I don't know and I don't care! All I know is that we're supposed to guard these- gagh" the guard managed to get out before he was cut off and a loud crash caused the whole room to shake. Sam, wondering what was happening, stood up and walked over to the bars. Trying her best to peer through at the commotion, all she could see was that smoke now filled the corridor.
"Hello! What the hell just happend out there!" She shouted, but no one answered her. She glanced back at Danny to see if he had been awakened by all the noise, but he still laid motionless.
"Sam! Danny!" a familiar voice called over a P.A. system.
"T-Tucker!" Sam shouted back in surprise. "Tucker is that you!" She added trying her hardest to see where his voice was coming from.
"The one and only." He replied, the smoke clearing enough for her to see his form marching towards them. Sam could feel tears coming but she blinked them away. There was no time for crying, this was going to be their one and only chance of escape.
Hey everyone! Long time no update right? Well you call can blame school for that. When I started writing this fanfic things were kinda slow and I didn't have too much work, but then we started getting project after project and I got a job working at good ol' Wendy's and well you can see where this is going. But none the less I wanted to pick up my story again since you all seemed to like it so much. Also since school is out for the summer I have alot of time on my hands! That is when I am not working sooooooo be ready for more chapters coming up! In fact...I may just turn this whole thing into a series! How's that sound? Lemme know in some reviews! Also, some saddening news. I don't have Microsoft Word on my computer anymore. It was a free 60 day trial that came when I got this new PC for christmas and I don't have the $$ to renew it soooo I am writing through WordPad which doesnt have a spell and grammar checker. Now I am not going to say that I have horrible grammar and spelling but sometimes I slip so please don't start writing reviews complaining about my wording. I CANT HELP IT! IT'S NOT MY FAULT:'( Okay so anyway chapter 14 will be up soon. Until then? Jya Matane!
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