I'm really sorry it took me so long to update this. I really wanted to make sure I got it up before I leave though. Thanks to all my reviewers!
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Sam gently stroked Danny's hair as he slept. She hadn't moved and neither had he. Maddie went into the lab to try to figure out a few things and Tucker and Jazz went to help her. She was alone to take care of the one she loved.
She gently hummed the tune to the soon-to-be Danny Phantom theme song her Danny and Tucker had thought up. All in all, it was pretty good for a bunch of fourteen year olds to think of.
Gonna catch em all, cuz he's Danny Phantom
"Danny…please make it out of this. Amity park needs you, your family needs you…I need you." Sam started talking to him, although she knew he couldn't hear her.
Gonna catch em all, cuz he's Danny Phantom
Sam sighed. She could hear faint talking from the lab. She looked at Danny. He had so much to decide…so much to think and worry about. So much that a kid shouldn't have to think about until they were what, thirty?
Gonna catch em all, cuz he's...Danny Phantom!
"I'm going to tell her…the truth," Danny's voice rang in her head. He had finally decided to tell his mom. What would her reaction be? Surly she'd accept her son…she did when Freakshow changed Reality. But it'd be an entirely different situation here. Everything could go in a seriously different direction.
Sam leaned back on the couch and closed her eyes. This was just too much to think about at one time. She stopped humming and simply waited in silence…there had to be an answer…something that would clear all this up.
Yo, Danny Fenton he was just fourteen, when his parents built a very strange machine
Sam snapped back to attention when she heard that voice. Her eyes met Danny's shimmering blue ones. He was smiling.
It was designed to view a world unseen
"You're awake," Sam smiled and hugged him gently, before she pulled away to hide a blush. She was showing him her feelings way too much lately.
"Yeah," Danny blushed too. He didn't mean to fall asleep on Sam…it just sounded…wrong.
"Sorry…about, falling asleep." He carefully moved away from her, ignoring the pain in his limbs.
"That's okay," Sam absentmindedly brought a hand to her neck, but quickly brought it down when she realized that was what Danny did when he was nervous.
"Uh…so…where-where are the others?" Danny tried to change the subject.
"In the lab…how are you feeling?" Sam brought her legs up to her chest and rested her chin on her knees.
"Umm…better than…before I passed out," Danny smiled weakly and tried to bring himself into the same position, but decided against it after feeling the effects.
"Are you hungry?" she asked...trying to get his thinking back to normal.
Danny shook his head. He didn't think he should eat anything right now…his body wouldn't agree with it.
"Oh…okay," Sam led them into an awkward silence, until Danny tried to stand up. Sam gasped and jumped, just barely catching him before he hit the floor. She pulled him back unto the couch.
"Don't try to stand," Sam laughed a little. He should have known already that he wouldn't be able to.
"Thanks," Danny's stomach growled and he brought his hand to it automatically.
"Not hungry?" Sam crossed her eyes and raised an eye brow. Danny smiled. Once again, he had given himself away. She could always figure out when he was lying.
Sam smiled back and stood up, "I'll get you something to eat." She left him to his thoughts.
Danny sat back and tried to piece together the week's actions. Why would the ghosts overshadow all the girls? It was a good opportunity, but he never knew they were that smart. Well, except Vlad, he was probably the master behind it all. They didn't kill him yet, which means this poison would, or they would be coming back.
He turned towards the kitchen as a glass plate broke and a small scream was heard.
"Sam!" Danny knew that scream. Sam was in trouble.
"Dan-" someone covered her mouth and all Danny could hear after that were a few muffled cries.
Danny shot up from the couch and ended up falling flat on his face. He groaned and lifted himself up with his left arm, and grabbed the side of the coffee table. He stumbled over to the kitchen; his cast dragging on the ground as he did so.
His eyes widened when he saw Sam's limp form on the kitchen floor. He went over and kneeled down next to her. He picked her up, her body putting pressure against his ribs, causing pain to shook through his body, but he didn't care. A small trickle of blood ran down her forehead.
"Sam?" Danny shook her, "Sam wake up."
His only response was a groan. He grabbed a towel off the table and dabbed away at the blood.
He took her hand and held it in his, "Sam, please be all right."
"Danny?" her eyes opened just a little, "What…happened?"
"I don't know," Danny said as he squeezed her hand.
Sam's eyes were blank, like she was trying to remember something. Danny helped her stand as he lifted himself up by the table.
"Danny, you need-" she didn't finish as someone rammed Danny in the back, sending him skidding across the floor. He hit the back wall with a painful thud.
"Danny!" Sam tried to run to him, but someone pulled her back.
Danny groaned as he tried to get up. Pieces of glass from the bowl were scattered around him. His chest ached and his back burned. Who knew being the ghost boy would bring so much pain?
He lifted his head to see Vlad's face inches from his. He gasped purely from surprise.
Vlad grabbed Danny by the neck and lifted him up. His red eyes bore into his blue ones.
"Oh please Daniel. Don't say I'm going to beat you like this," Vlad mocked. Danny tried to break out of Vlad's grasp, but he didn't have the strength. He wanted to go ghost, but his body couldn't even do that.
"Let him go!" Sam yelled from behind him as she struggled against the bond Vlad created around her wrist. She pulled at the counter it was attached to, but couldn't break it.
"Listen here, boy. In a matter of hours, your powers will be faulty. You could release something powerful and dangerous around you family, and you might even kill them. So, I suggest you come to me, to get the antidote. If you don't, then you will kill all of your loved ones and you'll have no choice but to come to me."
Danny stayed still as Vlad's words ricocheted in his brain. There was no way he was going to surrender to Vlad, he'd just have to stay away from his family until he figures out what's going on inside him.
"No..." Danny managed to mutter.
"Very well," Vlad tightened his grip, "But you will come soon, at your own will." He dropped Danny, letting him fall on the shards of glass that covered the ground.
He snickered, "Soon." With that, he vanished into a swirl of red.