(A/N: Ok This is my first Danny Phantom fiction. To all that read my CCS fic, I will still wright it but I'm having a few problems, read below for more info bout it. I Hope you guys enjoy this.)

(About Fragile Time: My computers down and I can't get the couple of chapters I had on it. I'm going to try and get them back soon but if I can't then you'll have to wait till I get my computer back in three weeks. Sorry about this Bows head. Oh and if anyone knows why FanFiction dumped all my hits tell me please! At least I still have all my reviews.)

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Family is always there

Chapter 1: Safe

(A/N: I was originally going to call it sam and ham but that sounded to weird even to me)

"Speech"

/Thoughts/

Both Danny and Tucker stood on the docks, despite the fact it was barley past sunrise and near freezing on this early fall morning. Both of them were wide awake, well Danny was anyways. Tucker stifled a yawn, "Why does Sam's ship have to come in so early?" Danny just shrugged. There friend Sam had been gone two weeks, her parents were going on a half a year trip around the world and were leaving Sam in the care of her uncle. They had flown Sam out to meet him and then booked both of them on a cruse ship back. The ship that was now pulling in to the dock.

They stood off to the side as sleepy looking people stumbled off the ship. Danny and Tucker scanned the heads of the people looking for Sam. Tucker was the first to see her, "Hey Sam over here!"

Sam's head bobbed towards them as she made her way out of the crowd , Sam was wearing a long black sweet shirt. "I missed you guys" Sam said hugging Tucker then she walked over to Danny and hugged him too. As she wrapped her arms around him she said so quietly that Danny wasn't sure she said anything "I really missed you". There hug lasted longer then either of them intended.

"So is this Danny?"

Sam and Danny let go of each other and faced the man who had walked up behind them. He was not someone you would have expected to see near a luxury cruse liner. He had a beer belly, red suspenders, and a white shirt that was stained with what looked like ten years of spilt beer, cheese, and sweet. His suspenders looked like they shouldn't have been able to hold his pants on.

"Uncle Earl" Sam said with surprise.

"Well, this that Danny kid or not?"

Before Sam could answer Danny stuck his hand out and said, "Hi, I'm Danny Fenton"

Earl just grunted, his eyes were colder then most ghost and he had a small, evil smile on his face. It was the same smile the dark Danny had had. A limo pulled up next to them, "Finally" Earl said grabbing Sam and getting in. Sam's head popped out the window, "You guys want a ride?"

Before Danny or Tucker could answer the limo speed out on to the street. "Hey" Tucker yelled after them.

Danny grabbed his arm and pulled him behind a stack of carts, "Don't worry, I'll fly us home"

"Oh no! Don't you dar" Danny had already gone ghost and turned them invisible. They were flying towards Danny's house before Tucker could try and get away. He flew them in to his room, Jazz was still asleep and both of his parents were down in the lab, just as they had been for the past three days working on a new invention.

Tucker lay flat of the floor chest heaving, "Next time give me some warning, you know I hate flying!"

"Come on aren't you used to it by now?"

"Danny, you never get used to having a ghost fly you across the town at 90 miles an hour."

"Really? You think I got up to 90?"

"Ugggg!" Tucker got up and walked out "I'll be finding food"

"Ok, I'm going to call Sam and see if she wants to get breakfast at nasty burger with us." Tucker was already gone.

He picked up his phone and dialed Sam's number, she answered on the third ring, "Hello?"

"Hey Sam, its Danny, want to go have breakfast with me and Tucker at nasty burger?"

"Sure, see you there in twenty minutes" click Danny went downstairs to find Tucker. As he walked down the last few stairs alarms shot out of the wall. Red lights flashed, Both of his parents burst out of the lab. "Whats going on? Is it a ghost attack?"

"No" Jack said "Thats the emergency ham alarm, someones stolen my ham". He ran in to the kitchen, "I'm coming hammy"

Danny and his mom turned to each other, "Hammy?" Tuckers girly scream sounded from the kitchen, "Tucker!" They ran in and found Tucker fighting the Fenton weasel for his hat and Jack cradling a half eaten ham. "Why, you were so far from your expiration date!"

"Umm, mom? How long has it been sense Dad got any sleep?"

"Far to long." Maddy turned the Fenton weasel off. Tucker put his hat on and looked at Danny's dad who was still weeping over the ham.

"Come on Tucker, were meeting Sam at the nasty Burger for breakfast."

"Good I'm starving!"

"Hammy! Why!"

Danny's mom pushed them to the front door, "Don't worry, he'll be fine. Have a good time"They walked to the nasty Burger and ordered then found an open booth. A few minutes later Sam walked in still wearing her long sleeve sweet shirt. As she entered she glanced over her shoulder nervously, she sat down next to Danny and gave a sigh of relief.

"Something wrong?" asked Tucker.

"Nothing" Sam said as there food arrived. Danny had a nasty burger, Tucker had the monster meat mountain, and Sam had the nasty jungle salad, with twenty eight vegetables. Several of which science had yet to prove existed.

"Ok" Tucker said between bite, "You just seem out of it"

"Jet lag"

"But you were on a boat"

"Fine then, I have boat lag, whatever!"

"Ok sorry" Tucker said

"I'm sorry too Tucker, I'm just tiered"

"If you two are done" Danny said "Your salad is getting cold, umm, warm." They spent the rest of breakfast talking about Tuckers new PDA. Then they decided to head back to Danny's house.

When they got to Danny's they ran in to Jazz running out of the house,"Hey guys, I'm so late." She ran to her car and took off. "So, what should we do?"

"Movies in my room?" asked Danny.

"Ok, I'll get the popcorn" Sam said going I to the Kitchen.

Danny and Tucker went up to his room and flipped threw the channels looking for a movie. Danny found an old movie called The Brain. Sam walked in with two bowls of popcorn, one she set down in front of Tucker who was sitting in front of Danny's bed. Then set the other next to Danny and sat on his bed next to him, "so whats on?"

"The Brain" Danny said

"Ohh, I love these cheesy old monster movies"

"I know"

"Hey Danny?"

"Yeah?"

"Why was your dad in the kitchen with a half eaten ham and some hamburger?"

"Don't ask" Said Tucker

"Now I have to know"

"My dads really upset that Tucker ate his emergency ham"

"Well I would be too, that bore cow" They spent the day watching monster movies, The Brain, Return of the Brain, A new Lobe, Four Eyes, and The New brain. About two, half way threw Four Eyes, Sam fell asleep. She leaned her head on his shoulder and put her hands on his chest.

"Umm, Sam what are you doing?" It took him a second to realize she was asleep. He didn't know what to do so he put his arm around her. / She feels smaller, du, of course she does in that big sweet shirt/

When Danny put his arm around Sam she wasn't completely asleep, she had enough energy left for one last thought to flutter across her mind.

/ safe /

(A/N: Ok theres the first chapter. I hope you all enjoyed. I just found out my computers going to be gone for a while so everyone reading Fragile Time will have to wait a few more weeks for the next chapter, sorry! I hope you guys will keep reading, let me know what you thought, Flames will be fed to a pack of ghost monkeys, after I've read them of course. I will welcome them.)