Ok guys, back to working on this story again. And yes, this story isn't far from over, not the first part at least. I dunno, I might just add the 2nd and 3rd part onto this one, that way its kinda all connected… but I dunno for sure yet. Anyhow, please review, although it seems as though Fanfiction has been REALLY slow for a while, ever since summer started, lol, I guess it just messed with everyone schedules, or peeps just lost the interest in reading, I have no idea. But ANYWAY, here is your next chapter!

Chapter 17: Valerie's last battle

"So, what is it Manson?" She said, threatening the life she had held at the end of her gun. Would she really kill him? After everything else she had done…. I was pretty sure she would do anything, she was just plain nuts… or totally evil, something I didn't know.

"I…" I said, but then thought of something. I moved my hand over ever so slightly, but she started to put her finger on the trigger.

"Don't you dare push that, I'm not stupid, I've been in hospitals before."

"Valerie, let him go, please?" I pleaded, and placed my hands back where she could see them, so she wouldn't think I was trying to pull a trick on her. I could feel my heart beating heavily as I sat there thinking, I had to think of someway to trick her, but I couldn't, there was nothing I could do without moving.

Danny wasn't waiting anymore though, he slid through his bed, luckily he was able to move down fast enough with his intangibility. He had thought of something, before I had even, but I guess if your life was put to the test, you would be thinking fast, and that was an easy thing to think of. Even if I did think of it, how would I have told him?

"Grr," She said, and shot at the bed, a hole forming through the floor, and you could see the room below us, people looking up in disbelief.

"It's her!" Someone shouted, and she looked down, and realized what she had done. The whole town was after her, and she was all over the news, that was a stupid mistake she had made. Danny appeared back in front of her, and smile on his face. How did he know she would do that? Or maybe he was just hoping she would do something stupid in her rage.

""You'll pay for this," she threatened, and she flew away, before anyone could even get up here to take care of her. Even if someone had called the police, it wasn't going to help any, she was outta here, and out of sight fast. Danny appeared back again, and landed himself on the floor, but he looked like he was in pain.

"To fast of a move for ya, huh?" I asked him, and he nodded, looking at his destroyed bed. Someone was upstairs to check on us really fast.

"You guys… what have you gotten yourselves into?" A nurse asked, as she started to move the bed out of the room. Danny came and sat down on the side of my bed, the intangibility act had wasted a lot of energy in his condition, and I could tell he was in a lot of pain. He was holding his stomach, and his head was half hung over, and once again, blood was coming out of his back, but that wasn't from the intangibility, that was because well… it had been that way for the past couple of days.

"I have no idea how you managed to move off of that bed in time to avoid the gun," the nurse said, rolling in another bed, "But, you are lucky. I will give you points for that."

Once the bed was back in place, Danny once again got his wounds tended too, it must not have been anything new to him, but to me, it felt weird to have people touching you, and washing out the dried out blood. Danny just sat there, and almost made it look as though it was enjoyable.

"All right, you're all set," she said, and began to walk out of the room after she had finished wrapping him back up. He sighed, and limped back to his bed, and almost fell onto it, but not quite, he had to put some effort into it to avoid hurting himself.

"Danny, you doing any better at all?" I asked him, since to me it seemed as though things were going worse than before, but I could never tell, I didn't know exactly what he was feeling, I had it better.

"Better, a lot better. You think we will ever find Amy again?" He asked me, and I was kinda shocked by his worrying over her. I never thought he would ever, care, I thought both of us would be happy when she was gone, but it seemed as though we had parenting instincts, we couldn't help but worry.

"Yea, I hope so," I said, and sighed. Why did Valerie have to get them involved? They weren't even a year old yet!

"You know… we should be outta here in about a week?" He said, and smiled at me, thinking he wouldn't have to be in here much longer. I set on a small display of happiness, but I wasn't to sure of him leaving in a week. I knew I would be out of here by then… but my heart sank when I thought of him heading back home. It wasn't going to happen as soon as it was going to happen for me.

"You don't look to sure about it," he said, catching on to my fake act. I jerked up, and tried to think of something to say fast.

"What do you mean?"

"You don't look to sure… you don't think I'm going to be out of here any time soon, do you?"
"I dunno, I was just thinking…. Maybe I would be out of here before you. In case you haven't noticed, I am doing a whole lot better than you are Danny…"

"Yea, I noticed… but who knows? I could heal quickly… I might just be going through a couple of bad days…"

"Yeah, let's hope so. If I make it out of here before you though… I promise you, I will find Amy…"

"Yea, well, be careful if, and when it happens."

I smiled, but left him alone, he was getting drowsy, and it was only minutes, and he fell asleep. I sat there for a while, and turned the TV on, so I could have something to help me fall asleep as well…

Waking up to the nightmare you were just dreaming… wasn't exactly a good thing on your stress level. Especially when you know that most likely nightmares aren't going to come true, almost anything you dream while you are sleeping… you are not going to wake up to. But when I woke up this time, my nightmares were there right in front of my eyes…

I woke up to Valerie, a gun pointed to an injured Danny who was just barely standing up straight. He was in his ghost mode, and ready for battle, but it didn't look it. How could I have slept through whatever had gone on to cause this to happen in the first place?

Danny had his hands up, ready to attack her if needed, but she was more ready than he was, and much faster than he was, given the fact that he was in no shape to hardly take a walk in the park, let alone fight the enemy that made him the way he was now. But I knew what the problem was, Valerie had Amy strapped to her back, not in a baby carrier or anything, just tied to her back with a rope, an easy way for her to just take her out and do anything she wanted to do to her. I was frozen solid there, nothing I could do about any of it, and I didn't want to get myself into it, unless there was a way for me to help.

"Come on, if you want to battle go ahead, just notice what your going up against," Valerie sneered, giving him an evil grin, but keeping her eyes locked on him. Which was a clear sign that she was still afraid of him, despite his injuries, and the fact that she knew she had a high chance of being able to kill him right now. Danny was strong though, and he knew about her tricks, he was more alert than I had ever seen him before, and despite his injuries, he looked like he was ready for anything.

"I realize it Valerie, and I'm not stupid," he said, but she just laughed a little.

"Last time I attacked you, you were a little off-guard, don't you think?"

"Yea, but I learn from mistakes," he said, staying focused, and he didn't sound weak at all, and he was looking less weak every second, as though he was just healing all the sudden. And literally, it seemed as though he was.

"Oh, really? Then I'm sure we can take it out of this hospital, right? You can fight outside of this room, can't you?"

"No, I don't want people to see us."

"Why not? We would be caught more easily in here."

"I don't think so Valerie, and why do you have to continue to bother me?"

"I'm not bothering you, you're the one that brought this onto yourself," she said, remembering the dang thing with the ghost dog, once again. Couldn't she just forget about it? It was a thing of the past anyway, it was all done and over with, and no matter how much she tried to make it better, it was already over with, nothing was going to undo it.

"Valerie, at least put Amy down if we're going to fight," Danny pleaded, he at least wanted to make sure she was safe, he really was acting like a true parent, although, I think he would have asked that even if it was a baby he had never seen before, after all, it wasn't right to get a baby mixed up in a teens drama life.

"I don't think so Fenton, she is the one thing I have to force you to do something for me."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I dunno yet, but if you DO end up about ready to kill me, or find a way to get me turned into the cops, I can use her, I'm not dumb."

Danny only smiled, he had something on his mind, or at least he looked like he did. I was kinda happy, if Danny could trick her into getting caught, it would be worth everything, I would love for her to get caught, and then we could get on with our lives, and not have to worry about her any longer.

"Come on, we can go outside," He said, agreeing to it at last. I wanted to get up and watch out the window… but I decided not to, not until they were both totally gone where they wouldn't notice me, I at least wanted to see what was on his mind, because there was nothing happy about this, yet he had a smile on his face when she followed him outside.

One thing I forgot about was that she had attacked us earlier. I looked up at the ceiling, and noticed red and blue lights reflecting off of it, from outside. There were cops here now, why didn't Valerie notice that before? Oh yea, how smart she really was. It was kinda obvious, but she went outside, following him with no problem.

I heard a pain stricken scream belonging to Danny, and I hopped out of bed like as though nothing was wrong with me, and ran to the window. He was falling down fast, out of his ghost mode now, and all Valerie could do was smile happily, as he fell down, but he switched back quick enough to catch himself, yet he let himself fall all the way down, just without any pain, and then he switched back. People had heard the scream, and came running out, Danny pretended as though he was hurt, and they all looked up at Valerie, who was in total shock, and realized how dumb she had been. She stood there froze, but she was all the way at my level, there was no way they were going to reach her unless they took the chance at shooting her board down, but they wouldn't do anything like that to a kid.

I heard people open the doors, and it was cops. I moved out of the way, and watched eagerly as they managed to get her to come in with no problems, but then she stopped, and flew backwards, her mind coming back to her, as she was probably trying to think of something fast. She had Amy… she had told Danny she might have needed her for something, and she was right.

"You either let me go, or she dies," Valerie said, Un-wrapping her quickly, and holding her out above the ground below, ready to drop her if needed. My whole body froze, was there anything I could do?

Danny's POV:

I sat there lying on the ground, but kept my eyes focused on Valerie, who was now holding Amy in the air, ready to drop her if she didn't get her demands. Was there anything left I could do? People were around me as well, as if I needed help, but it was as though all my anger, and frustration with Valerie had helped to cure me. I was saddened, and angered by the fact that she was messing with my life so much, that I could hardly feel any pain any longer. Was it a new power I had discovered? To recover myself somehow… maybe in the times when I needed it?

"I'm all right," I said, shoving the people away from me as I sat up like as though nothing had happened. They all stared in shock, at how I could have 'fallen' from that high up, but I just walked away like it was nothing, and retreated back inside the building. I ran for the closest bathroom, and once safely away from any cameras or people, I transformed, and went flying out of the bathroom, ready to make a rescue for Amy.

I flew up to the room, and stayed invisible though, seeing that she was not safe yet, I flew around to where Valerie had her held, and grabbed her, taking her away from Valerie. I stood intangible though, and when Valerie noticed she was missing Amy, she looked around confused for a second, but when I became tangible again, her eyes filled with rage. I had her caught now, she had no place to go any more, she was totally surrounded, and if she even tried to make an escape, I would make sure she wouldn't get to far.

"It's Danny Phantom!" Someone from below shouted out, and the cop inside the building smiled at me, as though I had just made everything easier for him. At least this way, I was getting three things, people would trust me more, Amy would be safe, and most of all, Valerie would finally be gone, and out of my life (A/N don't we all wish Valerie would be gone?)

Valerie gave up, and just let herself get caught, she would have wished she hadn't done anything at all though by now, because she was in some pretty big trouble. As I made my way back down to the ground with Amy in my hands, I had to pretend as though I didn't know anything about her, but that she needed to be saved. Sam's mom happened to be there at the scene, and took Amy from my hands, tears in her eyes. I smiled at her, and flew off up into the sky, but didn't go to far, I just went up above the hospital, and down through where people wouldn't have seen me going back in.

"Hey Sam, you feeling better too?" I asked her, returning to our room, my body feeling fully recovered, and she at least looked to be all better.

"Yea, I am… I guess that knowing Valerie is gone helps out a lot as far as stress goes," she said, and threw her arms around me. Sam's mom walked in, followed by a few other people I had never seen before, my parents, and Jazz. They had all been there, I guess when they heard that our room was attacked they all came, since after all, I was only asleep for ten minutes. I guess they could have come unknown.

"Oh, Danny!" My mom said, running up to me and hugging me, replacing Sam. I hugged her back in return shortly, and I knew she had been crying too.

"Everything is over now?" Sam asked me, and I nodded, everything had to have been over, Valerie was caught, we had everything back to normal… except for a really big scar on my back to keep the memory of it all engraved on my forever.

"I just don't get it," Jack said puzzled, as all of us, including Sam and her mom, rode back to our houses.

"What's that?" Maddie asked him, as he gave a puzzled look.

"How could you have fallen that far, but didn't get hurt?" He asked me, turning around to face me. I smiled, trying to hide the fact that what I was about to say was just a big lie.

"I guess Danny Phantom was our family's hero today," I said, acting as though he was a totally separate person.

"I don't get that either…" he said, and we all laughed, of course he wouldn't. After all, my parents didn't believe ghosts were anything good at all.

"How did you recover that fast Danny?" My mom asked me, they had so many questions as to the mysterious events that happened.

"I dunno… I guess I was just lucky enough to recover that well."

"Well, we're happy to be able to have you back home," Jazz said, sitting next to me, and I looked at her, she knew what had happened that day, and she wanted to get my parents to stop digging into it all.

Sam had her head leaning on my shoulder on the other side. I was most happy to know she was all right, and that maybe from now on, things would be running smoothly, after all… how much more better could my life get right now? I wasn't living the average teen life at all, but there was nothing wrong with how it was going, I liked being different, having adventure, and having risks to everyday life. I just didn't like bringing Sam into any of it, or anyone else, it should all be just my problems.

I got dropped off at Sam's house, my parents decided it was all right, since after all I had been through a lot, it was nice to be able to just hang out with Sam, and enjoy myself for a day or so.

"Let's just hope Amy and Tiffany don't have to deal with this?" Sam said, as we entered her room.

"Yea… I hope not," I said, tired from a stressed out day, we had to go to court, and deal with some stuff with Valerie, but it was obvious that she was found guilty. And then after that, we had to go back to the hospital, and get another checkout, they had to make sure we were all right. Then, we finally got to retreat home, the rest of everything would mostly be taken care of without our needs.

"Well, I guess not every person gets to have a story like ours though," Sam said, as she threw herself down onto her bed.

"No, not really, we have a different life, but I will always love it."

Sam smiled, and I leaned over and kissed her goodnight. Everything would go well, as far as I knew, our troubles were over, and now all we had to do was go through every day troubles, at least… I thought that was the end of our problems…

Oh… heehee, what do ya know, I ended it already, didn't plan on that to happen, until I got to writing it. Well… I guess you can review, and let me know if you want me to just attach the next part onto this one, or do them separately… just need opinions to help me decide :P

Thanks guys for sticking through this thing for that long, it was only… 17 chapters… but it was kinda long, and I love it when people stick to reading it! If you have read it, I would love to hear from you to know what you thought of the whole thing, and a rating too please, a 1 being the worse, and 10 being the best, just wanna know how I did for one of my first stories on Fanfiction!