Hey there! Yes, I am back with another chapter. Arent you happy? I am. Truth be told, I didn't expect it to go the way it went in this chapter, but otherwise, all is going to plan. I'll let you get to this chapter now. Enjoy!
Chapter 6 - All My Fault
Danny was fast asleep when Sam walked into the room. His hair was a mess and the covers lay exactly how they were when they were placed over him. It wasn't right...it just wasn't right that Danny lay that still. What made the situation worse was that he would be like that for four or five hours of the day. You could barely see the covers move up and down, his breathing was so light. She brushed a dark strand of hair covering her left eye and walked over to the bed. She sat down and removed the dark strands of hair covering his forehead.
His fever hadn't gone up but it hadn't really gone down either. Whatever it was that was going on was causing Danny a world of pain. She jumped a bit -her nerves were at an all time high after a week of being worried that he might never wake up- when Danny opened his eyes and looked at Sam.
"Sam?" her eyes gazed down at Danny's glassy blue eyes and she smiled. "What time is it?"
"Not to sure," she replied, "And I don't really want to know. We were really worried about you. Why did you have to go and fight that ghost?" Danny looked away and was about to say something but Sam stopped him, "And don't say it's your job." Sam felt her smile fade as she gazed at Danny, "Please...look at me."
"I thought it was...I thought he was going to hurt you guys. Morace has a sharp sword you know." Sam sighed and nodded. It was about the only thing she could do now. Her hands moved on their own as they gently touched Danny's shoulder wound.
"Danny why didn't you leave the fight? Why didn't you get into a more open space?"
"I was..."
"You can tell me."
"I was..." Danny looked away again and felt his heart beat speed up. Admit it to her. That same female voice from his dreams spoke, Admit you were scared. Admit you felt your life would end at the moment. Admit that my cute little ghost boy and you'll be on your first step to victory. Danny glared at the voice in his head but he knew she had left. Her pressence was no longer there to torment his mind for now. For that he was glad, at least she was gone.
"Danny...what happened up there?" Sam knew she had traveled into dangerous territory but she had to ask. Danny closed his eyes, the memories were fuzzy. He couldn't remember if he had told Sam before but he really didn't want to anyway. He didn't want to remember at all really but that girl wouldn't let him forget.
"I don't...I don't remember. It's fuzzy." Sam frowned, she had to get him to talk about this. Truth be told she couldn't remember him telling her either. Her nerves had been on an all point high. She didn't remember the entire week Danny had been in his coma. It was like someone had turned her best friend and crush, though she hated to admit it, off for that week. It was like Sam's calm and rational thought pattern had been disrupted and removed and been replaced with her crazy and sleepless state. She did remember Tucker telling her that they had to eventually force her to get some sleep.
"It's okay. It'll come back." She replied but didn't expect the reaction that she recieved.
"I don't want it come back!" Danny screamed angrily, "I don't want to remember that horrible ghost or that horrible place! I don't want to be half ghost half human! I want to be normal! I want to have a normal life with normal parents." Danny had to stop because his breathing was coming in short sharp gasps. His blue eyes were all glassy and his mind had slipped off into a place that was faraway.
"So you want friends that are normal too?" Sam asked, her eyes narrowing dangerously with their gaze still focused on Danny. Danny looked at Sam, his eyes fixed on her, a frown on his lips as he tried to come up with something rational to say to her. That question oozed out anger and, if he wasn't mistaken, sadness.
"I didn't-" he spoke, intending to tell her that he didn't mean it like that but it was too late. She stopped him in mid-sentence.
"You didn't have to!" Sam got up and looked at him, "The way you look at me tells me everything!" Sam walked toward the door, "Good luck with a normal life!" She slammed the door on her way out. Danny felt that part of his world had just crumbled and he knew that he had meant at least some of what he said. He felt regret wash over him like a wave washed over the beach because he knew he had just really hurt someone he deeply cared about. He handn't meant to make it sound so mean but it had and Sam was upset. He was considerably upset himself and he could understand why Sam had reacted like that. He realized, at that moment, that he wasn't the only one under stress. If his mother and father were any example, he thought he would have realized that but he didn't and it was too late to take anything back...or was it too late? His mind then switched to his own guilty mind and how bad he had been feeling. Since when would someone ever give a damn about him? Both parts of him at that. You idiot. You just let the one girl you really really lov-like to to get away. Danny sat up even though it caused him a tremendous amount of pain and looked out the window.
He felt horrible. He just hurt Sam worse then anybody ever could. He blamed a part of that towards the fact that he had been stuck in one place for so long but he was also scared. He was so scared to tell her how he had felt. He knew he had done something wrong and he knew he had to correct it but his mind and body seemed to be having a disagreement. With a new found strength Danny managed to stand up and wander toward the door. His feet would stumble slightly every now and then.
The pain hit him in a huge wave but he refused to crumble and let it win. He opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. He frowned, the pain building with the temples of his head. Danny moved foreward, one foot in front of the other, trying to make it to Sam's temporary location. He stopped and hid relitivly quickly when Jazz came round the corner.
"That's right Tucker, Sam just took off from the hotel. She said something about going to the coffee shop down the street or the park to cool down."
"Thanks. Well, I'm going to go help the manager with his virus protection program. Tell Danny I said hi." Jazz nodded and Tucker rushed off. Jazz went back into their parents room to look for something to do. It was lucky for Danny that both had left. He tried to go ghost and found that his body allowed that. He went intanagble and flew through the hotel and outside. Sam wasn't in the local coffee shop so that had to leave the park. Once he made it to the park he felt the light blue rings appear and cause him to become his human self again.
Danny fell to his knees and had one hand against the tree, the other on the ground to help keep him up. His world was spinning like crazy, so to remidy this situation he put a hand to his head and waited for the dizzy spell to stop. Once his head was clear he stood up, ignoring the raging pain in his body and continued foreward toward the deepest part of the park.
Danny saw Sam stand, watching him suspicously as he approached. She ran away from him and he realized that he must look pretty scary to her, wobbling around outside like he was. His feet hurt when he stepped on the twigs beneath his feet. Sam wipped her eyes making Danny feel even worse for makign her cry. It was his fault she left and it was his fault she was crying. Danny didn't like to make people cry, especially Sam. She was his best friend, other then Tucker, and he had to say sorry but as he approached her she ran. She finally tripped and wrapped her arms around her legs, hiding her face from him. He touched her shoulder in a comforting way but she screamed and pushed him to the ground.
Danny fell back from the force of her push and his head hit the grass and caused it to start pounding away. He coughed slightly and sat up. "Sam...it's just me. Danny." Sam looked up at him and her face was all bloody. Her eyes had been gouged out and her mouth was missing teeth. Danny backed away as a light blue mist surrounded Sam and she was lifted up onto her feet. Her hands, with now melted skin, came closer to him and he backed away. He looked at her and she smiled at him, though this smile was far from friendly and it made her look twisted and easily angered. Sam's arms twisted this way and that as she came toward him. The more he backed away the faster she came at him.
He got up and ran with all his strength. He had found new energy as his body moved more freely. Suddenly he had no energy left and felt that he was being supported. He looked up and his blue eyes widened in fear. The trees were holding him, wrapping their branches around him trying to choke him. Don't you like what I've done to her my cute little ghost boy?
"No! Why did you do it? Why her? She didn't deserve that!" Danny struggled in the trees grip.
You didn't tell her the truth. You let her guess. I don't like when people don't play by my rules. I warned you that next time the punishment would be far worse. Danny found some more energy in his tired and beaten body and went ghost. He fired at the brances and broke free, going intanagable for the rest of the way out of the park. Sam was following close behind, her gouged out eyes bleeding red.
"It's your fault. All your fault." Her voice was low and hollow. "It's all your fault this happened. If only you had told me the truth. If only you had said what you felt..." her lips, which had blood running down them and onto her pale chin, smiled. The blood seemed to be burning her face away and the bridge of her nose was completely gone and was soaked with blood. "It's all your fault I'm dying like this. It's all your fault." Danny plucked up enough courage and ran up to Sam.
"No! No! I was scared alright! Scared of how I felt about you-"
"All your fault."
"Scared of Morace!"
"All your fault."
"I was scared of my parents finding out. I'm so sorry Sam...I'm so so sorry! Don't die Sam! Don't die."
"All your fault!" Her voice was screaming now, and it was echoed all over the park, "All your fault she's killing me! All your fault! All your fault! ALL YOUR FAULT!" Danny covered his ears and shook his head from side to side angrily.
"NO!"
"ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"STOP SAYING THAT! STOP!"
"I BLAME YOU! ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"NO! STOP!"
Isn't it though? Danny covered his ears but couldn't stop her voice. Isn't it? You're the one who went inside to fix the machine. You're the one released the ghosts. You're the one who keeps hunting them down and letting your parents hunt you. You know you don't belong anywhere.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Danny stood and ran again but Sam's alreay melted arms had a tight grip on him. "LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!"
"All your fault..." Sam bent down and made him face her. Sam's face was barely there now, except for some stray pieces of skin that refused to come off. His ghost powers disappeared and he couldn't call them back.
"NO! NO...no..." Danny was on the ground, laying in the fetal position. "No...not Sam...not Sam..."
They're not the only ones but you'll see soon enough. Come to the school. I'll give you your powers back for that. Come and save the rest of your friends and family. Oh and don't worry, that wasn't your little girlfriend but that's what could be left of her. Hurry up if you want to save her and the rest of your little group.
"NO! WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?"
That's for me to know and you to find out. I can promise their safety for now. I can't promise anything with Morace around though. Come on now. That voice was gone. She was gone for now. Danny felt his ghost powers returned and felt some of his injuries heal. He took off down toward the school. Anger and sadness fueling his flight. He had to come up with a plan and soon. His family was in danger. His friends were in danger. He had to help, even if it meant him dying. If he died at least they would live. He put a hand on his shoulder, his white hair was waving around in his face but he didn't care. The school came into sight and it was almost time for him to face whatever was happening.
Hey guys! I have another chapter set to go after this one! I hope you enjoyed this one.
