Summer Home

Chapter Seven:- Gone

Danny flew home as fast as he could and succeeded in beating Sam back to the house.

"Tucker!" He yelled flying through the door. As he did, Tucker jumped off the couch in shock.

"God! Don't do that! I hate it when you do that." He said sitting back down. Danny ran in front of him blocking his view of the TV.

"I don't know what to do!" He shouted. "Sam's mad at me, I'm making it worse, Travis is a ghost, he's killing innocent people, he might go after Sam, she won't believe me, she doesn't realize I love her and want nothing more than to have her love me, I'm going insane, and she's going to walk through that door soon!" He yelled in one breath. He pointed at the door as he said the last part and without meaning to, shot a ghost ray.

"Oookay." Tucker said staring at the hole in the door now giving off a green smoke. "First of all, breathe." Danny turned human and started pacing. "And second, what do you mean you're- wait a minute." He stopped mid-sentence. "Did you say Travis is the ghost?" Danny nodded still pacing. "Alright then." Tucker covered his mouth trying to gather his thoughts.

"What do I do, Tuck?" He asked a little more calmly.

"Get out of the way."

"What?"

"Move out of the way. The TV." He explained. Something caught his eye on the news. "It's more on the Kaley Larson case."

"I don't need them to tell me what happened." Danny said sitting down.

"Travis isn't the ghost, believe me." He said.

"You sound like Sam." With that they turned their attention to the TV.

"And now we go to talk to Miss Larson's friend James." The reporter said as the view changed to a sixteen year old boy with a firm voice.

"I tell you this," He started. "Whoever did this, has a really cold heart. What kind of person would make someone realize their worst fear?"

"So her worst fear was drowning?" Tucker thought aloud but then the TV went black. "Hey! I was watching that." He yelled when he saw Danny with the remote.

"Look Travis killed her and we already know that." Tucker stood up and faced his friend.

"Travis is not NOT the ghost!" He stomped into the bedroom calling Danny a 'half ghost hybrid freak'. He fell down on the bed. "I need to call Travis." He said whipping out his cell phone.

Meanwhile Danny was sitting on the couch trying to figure out what to do. Am I thinking too much into this? What if Travis isn't the ghost? But who else could it be? All points to him. Why is it still so hot in here? He was thinking too much and he didn't even hear Sam come in.

"Please don't tell me that this hole is from you trying to shoot Travis." She said examining the hole in the door. He got up and rushed over to her.

"Sam I'm so sorry." Her eyes went wide.

"Oh my god. You shot him didn't you?" She asked.

"What? No." He said shaking his head.

"Oh thank god." She walked passed him and sat on the couch.

"Sam please," He rushed over and sat next to her. "I'm going insane and I didn't know what I was saying. Any guy would want to date you. I mean you're fun, nice, beautiful-"

"That doesn't matter!" She cut him off even though she loved hearing those words coming from him. He hung his head down. "I never thought the guy I loved would make me cry! I was wrong. You did! You made me cry!" Danny's head snapped up.

"The guy you what?"

"The man I love. I love you, you moron." Danny scooted closer to her and hugged her.

"I love you too. I'm so sorry." He said still in her embrace.

"I know you are." She slowly pulled away. "But stuff like that hurts even a goth. Especially when it comes from your best friend." She stood up and he slowly let her hand slip away from his.

"Getting closer." Tucker smiled listening in on their conversation.

That night dinner was a little awkward with Sam and Danny being tense around each other, not knowing Tucker knows, the 'unknown' ghost, the added heat, not to mention what was about to walk in the door.

"You know you have a hole in your door?" He asked walking in.

"Why don't you ever knock?" Danny asked gripping his fork so tight he thought it might bend.

"Or call?" Tucker seemed to be glaring at Travis but Sam and Danny didn't notice.

"Sorry, I think I left my wallet here." He said. "Let me find it and I'll be out of your way."

"I'll help you." Tucker said standing up. He grabbed Travis' arm then pulled him into the bedroom leaving Sam and Danny alone. They stayed silent for awhile.

"Sam?" Danny started. She looked up at him.

"What can I do? What do you want me to do? I'll do anything to just get us back to being friends."

"Danny, you never stopped being my best friend. I'm just mad at you."

"Oh." He looked down at his plate and cleared his throat. "Umm..." He had a burning question he just had to ask. "When you said you love me... did you mean, as a friend or as... more?" Her head snapped up and looked at him.

"Well what did you mean?"

"Well... I..." He paused and before he could finish, they heard Tucker yell.

"Does no one understand how this works?" Then they saw him push Travis out the door. "You people are going to ruin this!" He looked over at a very confused Sam and Danny. "Oh whatever! Don't ask!" He went back into the bedroom and the two just started laughing.

"I think Tucker's the one going crazy." Sam commented. She started fanning herself noticing the heat again. "Whatever happened to fixing the air?"

"The guy couldn't figure out what was wrong." He told her. "Willing to bet it's a ghost's fault. I think they just like me."

"No, they hate you. That's why they follow you." She smiled at him.

"I'll never get a real vacation, will I?" He asked standing up. "Sometimes I hate this 'gift' as you call it." She stood up and walked up to him.

"It is a gift. It makes you special, one-of-a-kind." She smiled at him again. "It's the one of the reasons I like you." Sam touched his arm as she told him this. The way she said it and the look in her eyes made his stomach flip and him blush. He swore he saw her blush too before she walked into the living room.

Danny cut through the bathroom into the bedroom to talk to Tucker.

"What's with you?" He asked him.

"This was not the way this was supposed to go." Tucker mumbled. "I thought I had it all planned out right."

"Okay suddenly I don't seem as insane and you sound like Jazz." Danny said. Tucker was sitting on the bed, hat off, hair a mess.

"It was all perfect. Now everything's unraveling!" Danny just looked and him confused and a little scared.

"Guys!" They heard Sam yell. "Get in here."

"Let me guess," Danny said walking out. "Kaley Larson?"

"Nope." She said which surprised him. "Marie Rae." They all went silent as the reporter started talking.

"We've just received news that 19 year old Marie Rae has just died." She started. "Miss Rae was a woman who worked and lived on the beach. She was found in her home a few hours ago by her boyfriend and was taken to the hospital. She was found in a locked plastic box filled with poisonous spiders not found in the United States. She was taken to the hospital but was unable to talk due to the poison in her body. This case is similar to the Kaley Larson one started early this morning. The green liquid, defensive wounds, and dying from a worst fear are the same in both cases. Could they be related? Will this person strike again? This is Cindy Jolney leaving you now." She ended as it cut to a commercial.

"Okay so let's recap here." Sam said. "2 women with defensive wounds and green blood, died from their worst fear..." She paused. "We have nothing."

"This guy is just sick. He seems to be going after girls too." Tucker stated.

"He? How do you know?" Danny asked

"I'm just guessing."

"Okay Sam, I don't want you going anywhere."

"It's raining. Where would I go?" She asked him. He rolled his eyes at her. "I can take care of myself anyways."

"Sam, lets not get into this now." She nodded in agreement.

"I'm not going anywhere tonight apparently so I'm going to go change into my PJ's." They boys nodded as she went into the bedroom.

"Little protective?" Tucker asked him.

"What?"

"Don't go anywhere!" He mocked Danny.

"Look, I just got her back and I don't want to loose her again."

"Okay, you told her you love her. Does she know what you mean by love?"

"How do you know I told her?" Danny asked looking at him accusingly. Tucker realized his mistake. Danny quickly caught on. "You've been listening in!" He yelled with wide eyes.

"Uhh," He knew he was stuck. "Not really...the walls are thin."

"Tucker!"

Around ten o'clock that night, Tucker went to bed complaining about the heat.

"Hey Sam?" Danny started sitting beside her on the couch. "We're okay right?"

"Yeah, we're fine." She smiled at him. "Don't worry, I couldn't stay mad at you long anyways. You're too adorable." He blushed at her compliment and turned away. Uncomfortable with the silence, he broke it. (A/N: with what I call a guy move lol)

"So... How about that Paulina and Vivian?" She turned and gave him an 'unbelievable' look. "I mean... yuck! They're so... pretty they're ugly." He tried to cover.

"Danny stop talking before you dig yourself into a deeper hole." She stopped him.

"So why can you talk about Travis but I can't talk about them?"

"Because it's different."

"How?"

"Drop it."

"No. Why is it different?" He kept pushing and she broke.

"Because it makes me jealous!" She shouted.

"Yeah well you talking about Travis makes me jealous!" He blurted out as well.

"It does?" She asked a little unsure of what to do now. He nodded. "That's kinda cute." He looked up and smiled at her. She took his hand which was resting on his leg and leaned in toward him.

Outside looking in was that ghost Shifter. He shook his head at Sam.

"You bitch." He said then pointed his finger toward the sky. A streak of lightning came from his finger, through the rain, into the sky and made the sky light up with a loud clap of thunder which made Danny and Sam jump back when they were only a few inches from each other. "You're next Sam. I wouldn't do that if I were you." He said in a low voice. He watched her caress his cheek before getting up and leaving. "You really are a bitch." He flew away to go find a plastic box to help in his plan.

Danny's ghost sense went off and he went ghost. He flew out into the rain looking for any signs of a ghost. He looked and saw nothing but he did hear a voice in front of him. He continued to fly forward looking for something, anything. He saw out of the corner of his eye, a black blob that looked like Johnny 13's shadow but when he turned his head to look. It was just a black lab dog sniffing a box. He shrugged and flew back home.

"Where were you?" Sam asked as he flew in and turned human.

"Ghost sense. I couldn't find anything though."

"Doesn't mean that there's nothing out there." He nodded.

"I know but, I can't fight it if I can't find it." He said and she nodded this time. "You ready for bed?"

"No... I think I'm going to stay up. I got some things I need to think about." He smiled knowing what she meant. He knew what she had to think about, him or Travis.

"I'll go to bed and let you think." He walked up to her and kissed her cheek before walking into the bedroom. She felt herself blush and went to sit on the couch. Not five seconds after she got comfortable, the wind started howling, thunder started roaring, the lightning lit up the room, and the power went out.

"What the?" She asked herself. The weather was getting stranger by the moment. She saw something fly through the window and stand right next to her. She jumped up and backed away. "Who are you?" She couldn't see to clearly.

"I'm the one who's gonna teach you a lesson." The ghost said.

"A lesson?"

"You've been a bad girl you son of a bitch." His eyes started glowing a bright green and she heard him growl.

"Who are you!" She shouted.

"You know who I am." He walked so she could see who he was.

"Oh my god..." Was all she could get out. He just smiled evilly at her and grabbed her arm. "Let me go!"

"That's the difference between you and me. You let go, I don't." He tilted his head and pulled her toward the window. "Now it's payback."

All Danny heard was her scream. He jumped out of bed stepping on Tucker in the process. He ran into the living room to see she was gone. The wind was still howling but he still heard her scream.

"Sam!" He yelled. His ghost sense went off as Tucker came out of the bedroom.

"What's going on?"

"Sam's gone!"

"Gone where?"

"He took her!"

"Who?"

"Travis!"

Oh people, just wait until the next chapter.