Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom… credit goes to the talented Butch Hartman. The song "She's No You" doesn't belong to me either, credit goes to Jesse McCartney.

"She's No You"

Epilogue

A chilling breeze blew through the night air in Amity Park, causing several brown, yellow and gold leaves to dance on the ground indicating that winter wasn't too far away. The streets were pretty much empty most likely due to the cold weather, or, would have been practically empty if a certain affluent resident of Amity Park wasn't throwing a party in her large home.

Different colored flashing lights shown through from several windows of her home in sync with the loud, muffled music being played inside. The shadows, visible through the white curtains of the windows, moved and danced to the music signifying the presence of her many guests despite the fact that there was still a line of teens outside her front door, waiting for entrance. Two larger male teens were positioned at each side of the front door with their arms crossed over their chests. A stand was set at the right side of the door where a young blonde sat with a large folder and a pen in her perfectly manicured fingers, speaking to each teen before they were allowed to enter.

The door opened to reveal a young girl with long flowing black hair and a tanned complexion. She wore a shimmering pink tank top, black mini skirt that ended mid-thigh and thin black strapped heels. After searching around the crowd of people that were waiting to be permitted inside her mansion, Paulina sighed and turned towards Dash.

"Where is he? It's almost 9pm and he's still not here!" she cried in a low voice but loud enough for Dash to hear.

"How should I know?" Dash replied staring down at her.

"Argh! I swear, he better show up in the next ten minutes or I'm-" the door opened as the head of a girl poked through.

"Paulina, where is he? I thought you said that he'd be here since you two are 'so close'?"
Paulina let out an exasperated sigh "We are and he is coming! He's just…a little late."

'He better just be late…' Paulina thought menacingly.

The girl sighed as she went back inside "What ever you say…"

Paulina, already irritated, turned with her arms crossed over her chest and started to look through the throng of people again, hoping to see a head of white hair amongst them.

"Guys, seriously… with all the surprises that I got today I don't think I want another one until my 20th birthday."

Danny and Tucker laughed after they placed the cake down onto the kitchen table. All the servants of the Masons' were standing in one side smiling at the sight in front of them.

"Don't forget to make a wish!" Danny reminded her. Sam gave him a warm smile as she walked up to him.

"What more could I wish for? I got everything that I could possibly want today" She wrapped her arms around his neck and placed a quick kiss onto his lips. The couple smiled at each other lovingly, completely oblivious to the audience that they had. That is, until…

"Ahem! Guys! I'm still here ya know?" Tucker cried. He was happy that his best friends were finally together and all but they didn't need to be all mushy in front of him! It was going to take some getting use to.

They parted with blushes on both their cheeks and apologized. Sam went back to her cake, the candles already melting. Before blowing out her candles she pushed her hair behind her ears and closed her eyes and made a wish. Then blew the candles out, one was in the shape of a number 1 and the other number 6.

One of the maids handed her a knife to cut the cake with along with some plates, napkins and forks.

"Thanks"

She handed Danny, Tucker and her servants some cake before joining her friends. The three of them went into the living room leaving the help in the kitchen talking among themselves.

Tucker plopped down onto the armchair while Danny took a seat on one end of the sofa. Sam soon followed and snuggled next to Danny, legs folded next to her while he draped an arm around her shoulder, placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
Tucker rolled his eyes "Get a room!"

He flinched half expecting for Sam to retort with one of her infamous sarcastic remarks or even have a pillow thrown at him. However, none came. What did happen… left him staring after his two best friends wide eyed.

Danny looked down at Sam with a mischievous spark in his eyes, which Sam noticed causing a sly smile to form on her lips.

"Alright, if you insist" Danny stood up and grabbed Sam's hand "Let's go, Sam"
She held onto Danny's hand laughing as they ran up the stairs to, presumably, her bedroom.

Sam sighed contently as Danny ran his fingers through her hair. She was snuggled comfortably next to him drawing shapes on his chest with her forefinger while they both lay on her bed. This was the best birthday she ever had. She was telling the truth when she said that she had everything she could ever want right now.

Danny was thinking along the same lines as Sam. His thoughts revolved around how happy he felt at that moment, now that he was finally able to hold the love of his life in his arms. Yes, everything seemed perfect. He looked down at her when she began to move out of his arms.
"I just remembered something," he didn't remove his arm that still held her but she had no objections to that "didn't you promise a certain someone that you would make an appearance at her party tonight?"

"Yes, why?"

"Nothing, I just thought that you should probably keep your promise."

"Is that your way of telling me to leave?" Danny pouted with playful blue eyes.

"Danny… of course not. Now that we're finally together I want you here, with me." Sam lied down again wrapping one arm around him. "I just don't want you to get hurt on Monday." Danny chuckled and kissed the top of her head.

"Don't worry, I can handle it." Danny reassured her "Besides, I'm half ghost remember?" He added as an afterthought.

Sam gave him a playful disapproving look.

After a few moments of silence a thought occurred to him. He let go of Sam and sat up then swung his legs over to one side of the bed.

Sam stared at him in confusion "Danny? Where are you going?"

"To Paulina's party," he simply explained while stretching. Sam felt a twinge of pain in her chest "and you're coming with me." Sam's frown instantly turned back into one of confusion. Danny laughed seeing the look on her face as he held out a hand to help her up. She took it then was suddenly brought up and held firmly against his chest, his lips instantly found hers in a tender kiss.

After parting Sam's eyes fluttered open to look into his green eyes. 'Wait…green eyes? Oh… he must have transformed while we were kissing.' Even though they were officially a couple now, that thought still managed to tint her cheeks a light shade of pink.

"Ready?"

Sam nodded as he carried her and made them both intangible then flew right through her closed window.

Paulina let out an irritated growl "Where is he? It's 9:30 and he isn't here yet!"

"Um, if he isn't going to show up… can we go inside now?" Star asked hesitantly seeing her friend's rising temper. It was cold outside and everyone except her, her boyfriend Kwan, Dash and Paulina were having a good time inside. Where it was warm too!

"NO! You are to stay out here with me and wait for him," she then pointed to Dash and Kwan whom she saw were attempting to escape "and that also goes for you two!"

"Argh…" Dash cursed under his breath while Kwan settled for pouting childishly.

"He's here! Paulina he's here!" Star cried enthusiastically pointing behind Paulina.
Paulina quickly turned and sure enough, he was there… Danny Fenton. The ghost boy she had been expecting was nowhere in sight, or so she thought.

A frown immediately formed on her lips. "You're late! Where is he? I told you to-"

"Relax, Paulina" Danny held his hands out "he's here, like I promised."

"Alright, where is he then? I don't see-oh… wait, is he invisible or something? Yoo-hoo! Um," Paulina held a finger to her chin "Invis-o-Bill!" she called into the night air.

"Actually, he's just around the corner behind me with a… a friend, that he brought along. Hope it's alright."

"Yeah, yeah whatever," Paulina walked pass Danny towards the end of the block, which wasn't that far.

"Paulina, wait!" Danny ran in front of her to stop her. "I'll go get him, ok?"

Paulina stared at him with a raised brow then rolled her eyes "Alright, fine. Just hurry up" she walked back a few steps towards her mansion before turning around to watch Danny run around the corner with her arms crossed and hips slanted.

As soon as he turned the corner he made sure nobody was watching him before allowing two familiar white rings transform him into his ghost form.

"Are you sure about this Danny?" Sam asked after seeing him transform. They were shrouded by the shadows of some trees plus hardly anybody was passing by that street anyway.

"Yeah, why? Are you backing out?"

"Pfft, no way, if it'll knock down 'Miss Egotistic' down a pedestal, then count me in." Danny chuckled at his girlfriend before placing a quick kiss on her cheek.

"OK, I'll go first and call you when it's time, alright?" Sam nodded.

Danny decided to float invisibly towards Paulina first then he would make his appearance. Looking down at the girl he became visible again.

"Hi Paulina…err… I mean, that is your name right?" Danny covered. Someone might have gotten suspicious if they thought that he knew her name.

"You came!" Paulina was ready to pounce him but before she could, Danny held out his hands and floated back a little.

"Uh, yeah…"

"Well, now that you're here, let's get inside. My friends are just dying to meet you I told them all about you and me, well actually they were the ones who made that whole thing up about me and you I don't know why probably it's because you and I make such an adorable cou-"

"Yeah! Let's get inside, uh," Danny interrupted her incessant rambling "but let me just call my friend over here."

"Oh, yeah sure, no problem. Is he a ghost like you too- What in the world is she doing here?" Paulina was shocked to see Sam walking up to them and even more when Danny landed on the ground and held her by the small of her back.

"Paulina, this is Sam" Danny introduced them pretending that he didn't know that they already knew each other.

"Why is she here? How do you know her! And more importantly, why is she here with you?"

"She's my girlfriend" Danny answered simply as he drew Sam to his side by her waist.
Paulina froze when she heard those words. After the feeling of shock disappeared anger slowly began to rise within her.

Sam smirked seeing the expression on her face. "Hey Paulina" she said as she waved at her.
Finding herself still speechless, unable to voice how she felt, she settled for tackling the Goth to the ground.

Sam was too surprised to move out of the way or react and ended up just closing her eyes waiting for the weight of a very angry Paulina to come crashing onto her. However, instead of feeling the impact all she heard was a crash of something behind her. She slowly opened her eyes only to see the shocked faces of Dash, Kwan and Star. That's when she felt Danny's hand still placed on her waist.

After becoming visible again she turned and found where exactly Paulina had landed.
Right into the garbage cans that were behind her.
Had Danny not 'saved' her, she probably would be in an all out 'cat fight' with the self-proclaimed "Queen of Casper High".

Paulina screamed after a few moments realizing that she had missed her intended target and landed into her garbage cans. With a horrified look on her face she attempted to shake all the trash off of her and her new outfit. Some green, gooey substance was smeared all over her skirt, legs as well as arms, crumpled up papers clung to her skin with the help of the semi-liquid goop, some brown liquid was leaking from the box she was currently sitting in giving more color to her initially midnight black skirt. Her perfect hair now had a few sticks, white mush and liquid dripping from it and rather than smelling like expensive perfume, she smelled like… well, garbage.

Sam covered her mouth with her hand in a futile attempt to smother her laughter. Even though she disliked Paulina she still felt a small twinge of regret. However, that wasn't enough to stop her fit of giggles. Danny clamped his mouth shut and turned his head trying to stop himself from laughing as well. Failing miserably, they allowed their laughter to erupt.

Even Dash and Kwan were having a hard time trying to stifle their laughter as an occasional snicker left their covered mouths. Star was the only one who had an equally horrified look on her face as she ran to her fallen friend and tried to figure out how to help her up without actually touching her.

"Argh!" Paulina squirmed and attempted to stand but ended up falling back on her butt again, squirting some of the disgusting goo onto Star as well.

Star glared incredulously at Dash and Kwan "Don't just stand there! Help her!"

"Uh… we, uh…" Dash looked over at Kwan. Both boys obviously did not want to be anywhere near the girls fearing for their poor noses. "Oh, um, sorry, Star. We can't... I think someone's calling us from, um… inside! Yeah um, catch ya later." Dash and Kwan slowly stepped inside the house. "Good luck with that, though." Dash added before fully shutting the door.

"Argh… Manson! When I get my hands on you-"

"I don't think you're in a position to be throwing threats, Paulina." Sam quickly took out her digital camera and took several pictures. Satisfied, she sighed and held her camera in one hand while the other was on her slanted hip. "I love blackmail, don't you?" She smirked seeing the enraged expression on her face.

"Argh!" Paulina, still unable to get up, settled for crawling towards her, the box still attached to her behind.

"Uh, Sam, I think we should leave." They caused enough damage for one night.

"Yeah, I think so too." After putting her camera away she wrapped her arms around Danny's neck as he carried her bridal style.

Floating into the air to avoid Paulina's sticky hands, Danny and Sam faced her before flying off.

"A little advice," Sam said looking down at her "you might want to take a shower before going back to your party."

Paulina glared menacingly at the two departing figures.

"Oh, and I hope you had a nice trip. Toodles!" Sam imitated one of Paulina's infamous lines that she used all the times she tripped someone in the hallways.

With that said, Danny flew off holding Sam securely in his arms.

The End

Special thanks to my little sister for the idea for this chapter!

Always, Mina