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Disclaimer: I do NOT own Danny Phantom. (I bet you didn't know that did you? Just Kidding) All I own is the idea for this fic and any made up characters I add.

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Chapter 10- Lights in the Night

Danny met with Sam just like he promised. He was tapping at her window by 9:30 and she was glad to see him, especially now that he had a chance to calm down and sort things out in his head. He did not really want to see her tonight, but her 'We need to talk' tone told him that she meant business. If he didn't show up at her place, he knew she was more than willing and able to sneak into his place. He went intangible and entered her room just like she asked.

"Ok Sam. I'm here. What's going on?"

He asked the moment he went from ghost to human. Then Danny noticed it. How the moonlight shone through her window to cast its glow about her gorgeous body. For a moment, he was awestruck, staring at her with his mouth hanging open. Sam blinked questionably at him. She knew that look. It was the same one he uses whenever he saw Paulina. Sam smiled then, Paulina was no longer a threat, and his eyes were focused on her alone. She'll accept it with pleasurable dignity.

"How are you feeling?"

"I really wish everyone would stop asking me that. I feel fine."

"I understand your frustration Danny. But you've got to understand that now we're together, I'm going to worry about you whether you like it or not."

"I suppose I don't have a choice?"

Sam shook her head, only to force Danny to hang his. He never knew everyone he knows worried about him so much. But then, he is only 14. How was he to know? Danny then sat on the side of her bed and she in turn sat next to him.

"Thank you Sam. I do feel much better knowing you care about me."

"And I know you care about me. That's why I know you won't do anything to upset me."

She looked deep into his eyes then. She knew what she said was true.

"So Danny. Would you mind if we went out?"

Danny thought a moment.

"Of course. When?"

"Right now."

She took Danny's hands and stood up, pulling him with her.

"But...But Sam, it's after ten. Nothings open this late..."

"I just want to fly around with you. That's all. Remember? It was about two weeks ago."

Danny thought back. The day Ember came to town and hypnotized nearly every student at Casper High. Danny wasn't affected because he was part Phantom. And Sam was also unaffected because of the Fenton phone she wore as earrings. Of course it was the same night when Ember played some kind of love spell and Danny had no protection against it. It was then he fell head over heals for Sam, only to have her break his heart in order to break the spell off of him.

"I remember. The look on Mr. Lancers face when we escaped from him was priceless."

Danny then fell to his knees and as best he could, imitate Lancer's reaction.

"'My God! They're slipping though my fingers!'"

Sam couldn't help but laugh. It was one of the most priceless moments she had the honor of witnessing before Danny carried her along over the city. It was back then when she realized she really loved him.

"Could we Danny? Please?"

"Anything for you, Sam. You know that."

He held her hand, then they went intangible and phased through the wall into the world outside.

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Hours later, the two sat on the edge of the malls rooftop, looking down upon the city below. The city lights burned at the darkness as the stars did the same. It was as it the world did not subsist, only stars in a dark sky. Sam hugged her knees as she took in the whole view.

-Nothing but stars...-

She thought as a smile crept across her lips.

-Stars in which Danny and I alone can dance upon.-

If there was music playing, she would have grabbed Danny and start dancing right there on the roof top of the mall. Privacy, starlight and music. Many a woman's dream date. She glanced at Danny and saw the moonlight shimmer about his ghost white hair and green eyes. He was like an angel cast upon this earth to watch over her... A Guardian Angel. Or rather Guardian Phantom. When Danny felt her gaze, he turned to her.

"What? What is it?"

Taking a moment to choose her words, she smiled at him and chuckled.

"Nothing. I was just noticing how handsome you are."

She felt his arm go around her shoulder and pulled her closer to him.

"Oh, so now you're teasing me right?"

He chuckled back.

"Don't be so hard on yourself. That's my job."

"And I take it that Tuckers job is to humiliate me, right?"

"Something like that."

The two fell silent as they leaned against the other in peaceful bliss, watching the stars and lights twinkle at their love.

"Danny?"

"Yes my Sam?"

"I love you. Please don't turn me away. Don't make me cry. Please?"

Danny turned to her to see real concern in her lavender eyes. Such eyes were never meant to be sad. Gently, he pulled her to him and planted a chaste kiss upon her forehead.

"I swear to you by my powers and my love for you, I shall never do such things. I love you too much to allow anything come between us."

"What about the space between us now?"

She chuckled, noticing the gap between her and him. Danny smiled at this.

"I can remedy that."

And he did. He pulled her against him tightly, but lovingly and kissed her as only a lover would.

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Meanwhile, he waits and watches Danny from a distance. The same ghost who prayed to die, but had not done so. His yellow eyes tightened at Danny. Because of the Phantom's failure, he was unable to be erased from existence. Unable to cross over into Heaven or Hell. Such a destination was this ghost's goal. Danny Phantom, being part ghost, but also part human bordered between the two realities, thus he must know the secret from shifting from one plane to another. Hoping for some answers, he read into the hearts and minds of Danny and Sam. Only to get a completely different response.

-Love... Twas once a thing I knew of.-

The ghost thought sadly.

-I have forgotten it all... Thy loving wife... thy daughters and sons... Revenge I do not seek on this boy. I cry to the Heavens for absolution of what I must do. Forgive this tortured soul oh Lord and deliver me from the hands of the wrath that swells in my chest!-

And he vanished to plot what he must do to rest in peace. A tortured soul in need of respite. One must be cruel in order to be kind, and cruel is what the ghost wants if he wishes to traverse to his destination.

TO BE CONTINUED

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I do apologize for cutting this chapter so short, but I was running out of ideas on how to lengthen it. I'll get the next chapter up soon

Until Next Time

Theo