One again, don't own Danny Phantom blah blah blah. I finally got to finish what I wanted to say in Chapter 2. Thanks for all the kind reviews, and sorry if I didn't get Sam's age exactly right on the tombstone. I'm bad at math. Plus I was 17 when I graduated, so I figured Sam could be, too. This is my skewed logic. Anyway, I'm glad people are enjoying this and putting faith in it...I promise if you stick around until the end, you won't be sorry. If you think THIS part is jacked up, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Danny seemed to be doing fairly well, when suddenly Plasmius stopped, grinned, and shoved him hard onto the ground. The older man had just been toying with him.

"And now, Danny, my point!" With that, Plasmius produced a rather large syringe from inside his cape and quickly jammed it into Danny's left arm. Danny winced and yelled out in pain.

"Danny!" Sam cried, running over to him.

"Sam, stop! Get away!" Danny called to her, but it was no use. Within mere seconds, the formula Plasmius had injected him with began to do its dirty work.

Plasmius turned back into Vlad and stood a safe distance away to enjoy the show.

Danny tried desperately to turn back into his human form, but found he couldn't. That was obviously an effect from whatever Vlad had injected him with, but something told him that wasn't the main purpose.

With Sam crouching down next to him and lifting his head onto her lap, Danny suddenly realized what was happening to him.

Before Sam's eyes, Danny had begun to twitch and spasm. His whole body shook with pain, and his eyes were squeezed shut tightly. Through gritted teeth, he moaned, "Get away…please…get away…" But Sam wouldn't listen. She shook her head, savagely.

"I won't leave you!" She yelled down at him, barely controlling her tears. From his place several hundred feet away, Vlad smirked. He didn't think the girl would leave her suffering boyfriend. After all, she never had before.

"But…Sam…" Danny struggled, but he found he could no longer speak. The pain was too great.

And then it happened.

Without his consent, and unable to control them, Danny's eyes flew open and green bolts of ghostly energy shot out, right at Sam. Using one's eyes as weapons was something Danny had seen Vlad do on occasion, but he had never done it himself.

And now he had no choice but to use it against the woman he loved.

Sam was struck once in the forehead, her bangs being burned from her scalp. The blast was enough to knock her back away from Danny. Danny crawled to his knees and tried to close his eyes, but he couldn't do it, nor could he see where he was going.

He had ended up facing Sam again, and as she struggled back into a sitting position, another blast caught her directly in the chest.

At that moment, Danny's vision cleared. The effects of Vlad's serum were extremely short lived, but it had never mattered. Vlad knew it would do what it was meant to do.

Sam lay lifelessly on the ground. Her violet eyes wide with shock and fear.

Danny crawled over to her body, shaking all over. Two familiar rings of light appeared around him, and he knew he was changing back into his human form. The serum had definitely worn off, but the damage was done.

Sam was dead.

Danny had killed her.