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---------(Sam's Perspective)----
'Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!' Sam kept yelling in her mind, 'I came here for some peace but, then I see the boy who I loved years ago! Oh my God did I just say loved? Oh my god I did I said. I couldn't have. Why did I?...' "Mmmhhh." Sam was interrupted form her thoughts by the sounds of someone moaning. She looked at the elevator floor and saw a little girl. The girl had jet black hair which contrasted nicely with her blue uniform like outfit. 'She's so small, she can't be older than 5 at least.' Sam thought while watching the girl. Sam noticed the girl's eye's started to open slowly. As the girl opened her eye's fully, Sam was taken aback by shock.
In front of her sat what could easily be called a female Danny Fenton. 'She look's just like him!I can't believe it Danny, a father! Mabey, mabey I'm wrong. So what if she looks like him. There are lots of people with black hair and blue eye's. Oh wait she looks like she's about to say something.'
---------(Ashley's Perspective)----
Ashley looked at the lady before her. She had short black hair and intense violet eye's, that went perfectly with her black and purple ensemble. Ashley could see the lady looked panic stricken, she thought with an internal giggle it looked like the lady had seen a ghost. She watched for a moment or two as they lady paced the small elevator mumbling to herself in an inaudible tone.
"Are you alright?"Ashley asked when she saw the lady stare at her. "Uh,...yeah I think so, thanks." Sam replied with a calmer voice than she expected to. "Your Welcome,"Ashley said as she picked herself up off the floor, " I'm Ashley by the way." "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sam. Would you mind if I asked you something Ashley?" Sam looked at Ashley with a friendly smile. "No, shoot." Ashley replied returning the smile. " Why were you on that screaming man's back?" Sam then noticed Ashley look at the floor than back at her with a large sheepish grin. "Well, lets just say he uh,... thought he saw a ghost, and I was just trying to, uh... sorta help but I got caught up in the action, and here I am." Sam was a little shocked as Ashley finished. ' What are the chances! I mean really a ghost!' Sam thought surprised.
"Can I ask you something, Sam?" Ashley asked interrupting Sam's thoughts yet again. "Sure." Sam said quickly. Ashley looked at the button panel on the wall then at Sam, "Is your floor 10 through 16?" Sam looked over at the panel to see all the buttons between 10 and 16 glowing brightly. "I must have hit them when I stood up. Sorry." Sam said with a sheepish grin of her own. "That's okay all we have to do is hold down the shut doors button and we can go straight to 16. What's your floor anyway?" Ashley said while holding down the button. "I'm staying with my friend on the 29 floor. What about you, you know an awful lot about the hotel?" Sam said looking curiously at Ashley. "Well, I am a frequent guest, you could say. You know my floor is just above yours." Ashley said fudging the truth a little.
"So you're here with your boyfriend?" Ashley asked. She was beging to think this lady might get along well with dad, but if she had a boyfriend it would be darn near impossible to set them up. "Well, no actually I came here with a friend from work. My boyfriend and I split a while ago. And between you and me I'm glad he's history." Sam said not evan noticing she was spilling her story to some random six year old girl in an elevator.
"Yes!"Ashley said under her breath. "What was that?" Sam asked hearing Ashley's mumbled words. "Oh. I uh said that's to bad." Ashley said trying to act cool and calm. "What about you, you can't be here alone can you?" Sam asked watching Ashley's face look thoughtful then happy. "Actually," Ashley said taking her hand off the elevator button, " I'm here with my dad." "What's he like?" Sam said growing curious. "Well he's a lot of fun, usually. Unless he gets mad, then he has this stern face he makes and he's hard to cheer up then. It usually takes a lot to fix things if he's that upset." Ashley said not sure exactly what quality Sam might find appealing about him. "What's the face like?" Sam said as the door slid open. "I'd say, like that." Ashley said pointing out the elevator door at a stern faced Daniel Fenton.
-----------(Sam's perspective)----
Sam watched as Danny came closer to them, he bent down to his knees and started asking Ashley if she was okay and such. After Ashley told him she was fine he hugged her and told her the usual don't scare me like that again. Sam found herself entranced by the picture before her, 'Mabey he really is a good dad. Wait a minute! This means I was right! He's a dad which must mean he's happily married too. Why, do I feel disappointed? I should be happy for him. Yes I'm happy for him, because he's happy.'
"Sam is that really you?"Sam was shaken from her thoughts for what seemed like the millionth time, to see Danny smiling at her. "Hi Danny.",she said blushing slightly under her makeup . "Hi Sam." Danny said in the same tone as Sam did before. "Your daughter's really good with the elevators's. Thanks to her we could get up here in no time. You and your wife must be proud to have such an intelligent daughter." Sam said trying to make peaceful conversation and not bombard him with questions.
She looked at Danny to see a look of, pain on his face and although it went away quickly she was sure she saw it. "I'm a widower, Sam.," Danny paused to take a breath and change the subject, "I live here with Ashley, which probably explains her expertise with the elevators. She would spend hours on these things when she was a little younger." "I'm sorry about your wife Danny. So what have you been up to in all these years?" Sam decided to keep off the wife subject she could see it was still an open wound in him. "Your in it."He said with a grin.
"You own this hotel?" Sam said a bit shaken up. "Yes, I own the Notnef hotel line.," Danny said laughing at Sam's surprise, " What have you been up to?" "I'm a writer for, Star Shot magazine. But I'm hoping to be in a more serious journalistic career soon." Sam said smiling at Danny. "You wright for the magazines we used to make fun of as kids? That's so funny." For a reason unknown to her, Sam found herself compelled to laugh; and so she did. Sam laughed out loud and was quickly joined by Danny.
-------(Ashley's perspective)--
Ashley stood by the wall watching Her Dad and Sam talk about old times. 'This is so great!' she thought, 'not only is she single, sweet, and cool but she also knows dad already!' 'But, just how well does she know dad?' Ashley wondered. Thinking constantly about her dad's and her's special ability's.
That's when her ears picked up something from their conversation. "Are you still fighting the ghost's Danny?" Ashley looked at her father hoping to judge by his reaction wether it was okay or a total shock she knew.
She saw him smile and say, "Not really, it's been a while since I relived those days." Ashley decided to rejoin the conversation at that moment.
"Dad, is a great teacher though! He made sure I learned how not to fall through the floors and stuff. I mean sure he's busy a lot of the time, but when he's not he's really good at teaching., and-" "Okay," Danny said interrupting her softly, "I'm sure we've held up Sam for long enough."
"Okay, but Sam." Ashley said. "Yes." Sam said in reply. "Would you like to go to dinner with my Dad? You could catch up on all those old times and stuff." "Uh,..I guess so." Sam said taken aback. "How about tomorrow?" Ashley said as her dad started to try and make a protest. "Okay, it's a date." Sam said smiling. "You go over the details dad I'll wait over there by the wall." Ashley then walked over to the wall and waited.
"Did what I think just happen really happen?" Sam asked Danny surprised. "If you mean the fact we just got set for a dinner date by a six year old than, yes." Ashley sighed contentedly as Sam and Danny agreed to have dinner in the Peach room's restaurant at 6 tomorrow. And evan though they saw it as a friends get together, Ashley saw it as the beging of an old time romance.
-------(Sam's Perspective)---
After they settled the date arangments, Danny bid her good bye. Sam stepped into the elevator happily, while hearing Danny ask Ashley what she had to say for herself. Sam then laughed out loud upon Ashley's answer, "I would just like to state I had no way of knowing, that Peter was almost deathly afraid of ghost's."