Disclaimer: Butch Hartman owns Danny Phantom, Lindsay Lohan owns "Over."

Chapter Three

My tears are turning into time

I've wasted trying to find

A reason for goodbye…

Sam woke up, lying in a beautiful garden. She frowned, thinking, how did I get here? She looked around and the garden seemed all to perfect. The green grass was perfectly cut, the sky had no clouds in it, and all the flowers were in perfect alignment with each other. The air even smelled pretty and fresh. Surrounding the garden was an open field surrounded by many trees. Yup, nothing can be this perfect. Hmm, wonder if I'm in the Garden of Eden. Better watch out for snakes.

She walked around, observing the garden and its surroundings. It was really empty; she was probably the only one there. She smiled—finally a peaceful place to be alone. She walked over to a tall oak tree and sat down there.

A few seconds later, she was suddenly falling. She looked above as the oak tree and everything else became smaller and smaller and everything, even light, ceased to exist. Finally she hit rock bottom. The ground was hard and damp, and a faint purple glow was around everywhere. She couldn't see many walls, just many pointy rocks. All she heard was water dripping. I must be in a cave, she thought.

Suddenly, something poked her shoulder. She turned around and was able to see a figure that looked a lot like a demeanor from Harry Potter. Its sickly arm grabbed her wrists; however, she was able to break free. She stood up and started to run for her life.

As she ran, she could hear more footsteps following her. Pretty soon she turned around to find hundreds of demeanors following her! As she continued running, she found a skinny pathway that lead to a rope bridge. She figured that if she took the skinny pathway she could lose some of the demeanors. Either that or die. So she ran on the very unstable path and across the bridge. As she ran she could hear the screams of demeanors dying. Looking back once more she saw tons of green smoke slowly rising up as the demeanors were quickly falling down, their bodies falling apart. Sam shriveled in disgust, deciding not to look back once more.

Finally, she came to a wall. She looked left and right, but there was no other pathway, which meant only one thing for her—DEAD end. This was it. She saw the remaining demeanors coming, they were cornering her, coming closer and closer and closer, she could smell their breath and their decaying bodies, she felt then an arm on her shoulder, and another arm slowly trying to touch her head. "Sam, Sam, Sam," they all said.

"What?" Sam screamed. "What is it that you want from me? Leave me alone!"

"Sam, Sam, Sam…." They started to shake her violently.

"NOOOOO!" Sam shut her eyes

"Wake up, Sam come on," That voice sounded sort of familiar. Who was it?

Then one demeanor grabbed a bottle of something. Sam assumed it was poison, lava, anything that would kill her to keep these things alive somehow. She screamed and the liquid came to her closer, then suddenly…

SPLASH!

Sam looked up and this time instead of seeing demeanors and a bottle, she saw Danny Phantom and a pixie cup. She was wondering, what the heck is going on here?

"Sam, do you always talk in your sleep?" Danny asked.

"Huh? Wha…mmm…Danny?" Sam rubbed her eyes. She looked around. The setting was no longer a dark, scary cave but her own room. "Danny, was that all a dream?"

"I guess so," Danny said. "You seemed pretty scared in your dream, and you've been pretty quiet at school lately too. Are you alright?"

"Mmm-hmm," Sam said. "Yeah, I had a nightmare, and…oh, I don't really want to talk about it anymore. I'm just so happy it was a dream. It just seemed so real."

"Well that's how nightmares are. Alright, get dressed, we've gotta go like, now."

"What? Where?"

Danny looked at her like she was crazy. "Um, Canada? You know, to save Tucker? In case you're still not functioning yet, Tucker's one of your best friends and he's been captured by a weirdo and today's Saturday so we've gotta go; we're already late as it is. I reminded you and we talked for about three hours last night about the plan. You know, that thing?"

Sam finally woke up. "My reunion!"

"Sam, remember what I said to tell you to do? Tell your parents you're working on a school project for protesting against dissecting frogs."

"That's not a school project then; it's a protest."

"Whatever, just get dressed or something! Wait, forget it, just come in your pajamas; we should be home by midnight."

"How do you know?"

"I don't! Come on Sam, we've gotta go!"

"Alright, here's the note." Sam put her note on her bed. It wasn't the best note, all she managed to scribble on the paper last night was Dear Mom and Dad, I'm sorry I cannot attend the reunion. Me and Danny are working on a school project. But don't call his parents. Cuz we won't be at his house. We'll be at the library and tons of other places. So call my cell phone or Danny's cell phone. But not his parents cuz they don't really know where we are. I hope this makes sense to you. TTYL—Sam

"Alright Danny, let's do this thing." Danny reached for her hand and they were off to Canada.

Sam sighed. It was wonderful, flying with Danny above the city. All of their problems were temporarily gone from them for the moment and she could just enjoy the tranquility around them and being with Danny alone. She looked up at him. Hmm, this is kind of like when Ember came here and I was flying with Danny that one time. Good times, good times. It's too bad it's Walker that's got Tucker and not Ember—I wouldn't mind another Ember spell.

An icy breeze came over Sam and Danny. Sam shivered, and Danny held her a little closer. "Sorry about this," he said.

"That's alright, it's not like you control the weather or anything," she replied. "So, like when are we gonna get there?"

"I'm not sure, probably in a few hours I guess, um five maybe? So around noon?"

"We're going to be flying up here for five hours straight?"

"Well I guess we could stop by for lunch or whatever. I have the tracker thing so I can still find out their current location."

Sam sighed and lay in Danny's arms trying to stay warm and drifted off into a pleasant slumber….

"Sam wake up! Sam, come on!"

Sam looked up. She was on a damp bench, and the sky was still kind of dark all around her. Great, another nightmare. But she found this time Danny Fenton above her.

"Sam, we're at Panara. Wanna get something to eat?"

"Oh, um, sure I guess, do you have the time?"

"About ten-thirty. I started to get hungry too. So come on, let's go inside and eat."

The two walked inside Panara, which was slightly busy. Danny found one open table. "Here Sam, go to that table over there. I'll get us food; do you want a bagel or something?"

"Bagel would be nice." Sam yawned and walked over to the empty table. She sat down and looked out the window. She wondered where they were at the moment, what state, how far away they were from home, what their parents were thinking. Her parents would probably call the Fentons, and of course the Fentons would have no clue where they were. She was grounded when she got back home, that was true.

A few minutes later Danny came back with a tray of food. He handed Sam a blueberry bagel and coffee. Sam frowned. "Coffee?"

"Well we've gotta wake up somehow," Danny said. Sam took her coffee and drank a sip of it. The bitter taste was awful, and she then thought, hmm, so this is how this stuff wakes people up—its taste. Then she realized she burnt her tongue and ate her bagel. "Ow," she moaned.

Danny wasn't really paying attention to her. "Alright, we're about two hours away from Tucker," he said. "After eating and taking a break, we should be there around one P.M. I've got everything—thermos and all that stuff so hopefully Walker won't be paying attention and I can get him while he's not looking. I just wish it wasn't Walker, though, I mean for once I just wish it was like the Box Ghost or something."

"Yeah." Sam ate her bagel quickly and slowly drank up her coffee. She saw Danny messing around with the tracker and organizing his backpack. She knew he was busy but still, it still hurt that he cared more about Tucker than her. And why was that?

She looked out the window. Why had he dragged her out into nowhere? Why did he need her help? Couldn't he just save Tucker by himself?

She sighed. Why was she thinking all of this? Could she, Sam Manson, be in love with Danny Fenton?

No, not love. Lust. Lust worked for now. Lust was mostly what the world got.

"Alright Sam, we've gotta get going," Danny said. He took the tray and gave it to a waitress, and then he and Sam left the building. They went over to an unusually large bush and Danny transformed there into Danny Phantom. Their arms slipped around each other's waists and Danny flew into the sky and headed straight for Canada.

Sam decided that during this flight would be her thinking time. She couldn't deny that she liked—no, was in LUST—with Danny Fenton. She could see that it was coming anytime though—she's known him forever. And as they say with lifelong boy-girl friendships—fate keeps on happening.

It was obvious that he didn't like her, though. On Tuesday, while he was trying to stick up for her he had totally forgotten about her and was staring at Paulina. She knew he liked the shallow Paulina forever. It had always bugged her, and at this moment she finally knew why.

He was always forgetting about her, though. Paulina, Tucker, and everyone else was always before her. Well, maybe I should forget him too!

She then felt a tear on her hand. She knew that she couldn't do that. Danny was her best friend, her love, her everything. She could not let him go like that. It was impossible. But he had let her go. And that was killing her inside.

She lay in Danny Phantom's arms, crying over the fact that she couldn't say goodbye and he had, that their friendship was possibly a lie, and that she couldn't live without him, but may be forced to someday because of someone else.

(A/N: Well that was probably my longest chapter! It wasn't my best I'll admit, probably because I was trying to save Tucker and put in the lyrics in here too. There will probably be some chapters where I won't have lyrics since it's kind of hard sometimes. Anyway—thank you purrbaby101 and shepyt for reviewing my story. I'll definitely be updating a lot more often. Well, until next time!)