(A/N: OK, I'm really sorry this has taken so long to get up, but I was having some problems with it, mostly in getting it just right. I think it could use a little more work but everyone's waited long enough.)
Disclaimer: I don't own DP, if I did there would be a lot more new episodes.
Family is always there
Chapter 7: A kiss in the rain
The rain pounded heavily against the windows of Jazz's car. Danny, Sam, and Tucker had decided to go to the movies and Jazz had offered to take them. They were meeting Valerie at the theater, she had been gone with her father for nearly a month. She was still hunting Danny Phantom but other then that was now pretty nice.
Jazz pulled up to the theater, "You'll have to take the bus home because I have to study at the library today."
"Don't worry, we'll find a way home" Sam said climbing out of the car. Danny and Sam stood under his umbrella as Jazz drove off, Sam had forgot to grab hers before she left her house so Danny was sharing his with her.
Valerie was waiting for them under a yellow umbrella, "Hey guys" She walked over and hugged Tucker. He blushed but Valerie pretended not to notice, "So Sam, having fun with your uncle"
Sam turned her head away and Dannys smile disappeared. "Did I say something wrong?"
Tucker put his hand on her shoulder, "Come on, I'll explain inside" He steered Valerie threw the front door.
Danny turned to Sam, "You alright?"
"Yeah, it still hurts."
"Come on lets see the movie" he put his hand on her shoulder. Sam head was turned away from Danny so she didn't see how nervous he was, and he didn't see her blushing.
Danny had chosen a comedy about talking animals hoping it would help lift Sams sprits, it did. When the movie let out they were all laughing at Tucker because the squirrel in the movie sounded just like him.
As they walked in to the lobby Paullina walked up to them, "Danny, can I speak with you, in private?" With out waiting for a reply she pulled him away from them.
Sams blood started to boil, how dare she just walk over here and steal Danny like she owned him! "I'm going to make sure Dannys alright." Sam ran after them leaving Tucker and Valerie alone.
Neither of them noticed Dash walk up behind them, "Look, Two of the loser patrol, I can't believe I ever hung out with you."
Valerie clinched her fist but Tucker saw small tears gathering in her eyes. She had considered the popular kids her friends, then when her dad had lost his job and they became poor the popular kids dumped her. When her dad had gotten his job back, with a little help from Danny Phantom, she had chosen to stay with Danny, Sam and Tucker.
Tucker took a step forward, "Lay off Dash!"
"Oh, Did the techno geek get a backbone? I'll just have to break it!" Dash lifted Tucker up by his shirt collar and pulled back his fist to punch him. Tucker pulled up his legs and slammed his boots in to Dashs face. Dash dropped him clutching at his face which was already covered in blood, Tucker stood up and Dash punched him in the right eye.
Tucker was thrown back against the wall with a guarantied black eye. Dash rushed at him but Valerie brought her knee into his stomach and he doubled over gasping for breath. She crouched down next to Tucker, "Tucker are you alright?"
"I'm fine" He said still dazed, Dash was already getting up.
"We need to get out of here" Valerie pulled Tucker to his feet and they ran threw an exit in to the rain outside. They ran threw the rain to a side parking lot, they crouched down between some cars hiding. Dash ran out and down the street. Tucker and Valerie wait a minute to make sure he was gone before they stood up. 'You didn't have to do that tucker"
"I didn't like what he was saying about you." Valerie put her hands on his cheek and brought her lips to his, they lightly brushed for a moment. The pain is Tuckers swollen eye was reduced to a dull thud then was completely gone. He couldn't feel the cold rain pouring on them, all he could feel was the warm feeling spreading from his lips threw out his body.
The kiss had lasted less then two seconds before Valerie pulled away, "Thanks" She took out her umbrella and made her way to the street.
Her dad was waiting for her, she climbed in the back. "Valerie why are you so wet?"
"No reason daddy" Valerie said smiling. It wasn't one of those fake smiles he had seen he us for years with her old friends or the king she used when she wanted something, it was a real smile. He didn't know what had happened but he was glad it had.
Sam followed Paullina and Danny till they were in an empty hallway Paullina moved closer to Danny, "Danny, do you want to come back to my house? My papas away and its very lonely." She out her hand behind Dannys head and lightly played with his hair.
Sam felt a tug at her heart// There goes his brain/
Danny was really tempted to go with her, and probably would have if she hadn't opened her mouth again. "Come on, I'm a lot better then that goth freak."
/Sam, how could I just forget her. Earl might come back for her. Screw this! I'm not losing my friend for anyone, even Paullina/ "Sorry, I'm busy" Danny stepped away from her. Sam smiled.
"What? You can't be turning me down I'm, I'm me!"
"Sorry" Danny turned to walk away.
"You Can't Chose That Goth Girl Over ME!"
"I already did" Danny pushed past her.
Paullina shoved Danny against the wall, "No one turns me down!"
"Well he did" Sam said stepping around the corner.
"You" She let go of Danny and punched Sam in the chin.
"Why you" Sam hit her in the side of the face then grabbed the lower part of Paullina's shirt and tore it off.
Danny didn't know what to do, two girls were fighting, over him! This was every guys dream but if he didn't do something soon someone would come and kick them all out. Danny stepped between them to try and get them to stop.
Sams boot hit his side hard, she had been aiming at Paullina's face when Danny had stepped in the way. Danny fell to the ground clutching his side, " Oh my god, Danny I'm so sorry."
Paullina lunged at Sam, Danny grabbed Sams boot and turned her intangible. Paullina sailed straight threw her and hit the wall, hard.
Danny stood up holding his side, "come on, lets go". Paullina was still to dazed to follow.
"Danny you shouldn't have done that, what if she saw?"
"Does it matter? People are going to know soon enough."
"Danny, I'm sorry"
"It's alright, lets get Tucker and Valerie." They walked out the front doors to the street, Danny's side was burning him. They looked up and down the street then spotted Tucker coming around the side of the theater towards them, his eye was already swelling.
"Tucker what happened to your eye?" Sam asked looking at it closely.
"The best day of my life" Danny and Sam looked at each other confused. "After you two left Dash showed up and called Valerie a loser. I told him to stop it and we got into a little fight, I'm pretty sure I broke his nose. Then Valerie kissed me"
"She kissed you!" Tucker nodded his head. Danny and Sam smiled, they had thought something like this might happen sooner or later.
Sam clapped Tucker on the back, "Way to go Tucker, so what should we do now?"
They thought about it then Danny said, "Ice cream, my treat"
Sam smiled, "I haven't had ice cream in years"
Freezy's was empty when they walked in. As they ordered the girl behind the counter started to flirt with Tucker but he didn't seem to notice. Danny had ordered a milk shake, Tucker had gotten a banana split, and Sam had a Mt. Everest which had nearly every flavor of ice cream, sprinkles, bananas and a few cherries. They sat near the front window and watched the rain fall.
Sam finished her ice cream before either Danny or Tucker, "That was great, I can't believe how long its been since I had ice cream." Sam eyed the half a milk shake Danny had left, "Hey Danny?"
"Yea?" Then Danny saw where Sams eyes were staring, " Sorry Sam, you can't have it" Sam stuck out her bottom lip pouting. Back when they were nine, the same summer they had meet Shadow, Dannys mom had given him some money so they could go get ice cream, the three of them had gotten the same things they had gotten today. Sam had gotten half of Danny's milk shake with her pout.
"Fine" Danny shoved his glass over to Sam. He hated when she used that pout on him, she could never resist.
"Just like when we were nine" Tucker said finishing off his banana split. When Sam finished the rest of Dannys milk shake they left.
"So what do you guys want to do now?"
"I don't know" Tucker said taking out his PDA and started flipping threw it. They were standing under a large umbrella out side freezy's. " We've never had this long to hang out with out a ghost showing up."
Sam looked at Danny, "Yea, why is that?"
"Before you got back my parents put a new lock on the Fenton portal, I guess it works." Just then there was a beeping noise and something sliver shot past them. Half way down the street it turned around and shot back at Danny, he instinctually put up a ghost shield. The sliver thing hit it and bounced to the ground. Luckily no one was around to see Danny use his powers.
Sam bent down and picked up the boo-merang , "I thought you said your parents took this with them?"
"They did" Danny Sam and Tucker went back to Dannys house, when they got in Jazz was on the phone
"Hold on, they just walked in I'll ask" She covered the receiver with her hand. "Dad wants to know if you've seen the Boo-merang, he says he was demonstrating with it when it flew off."
Danny handed it to her. "Yea, it went for my head again"
Jazz turned back to the phone, "Hello? Yes it flew back here and went after Danny again" Later they all ordered pizza from Caption Tony's, they had the best pizza in Amity Park.
"Danny how can you eat all that?" Sam said laughing, Danny was on his eighth slice of pizza.
"Well you stole my milk shake."
After they ate Tucker went home and Danny Sam and Jazz went in to the living room. Sam shivered a little, "Its cold in here" Danny bent over the fire place and started a small fire to warm the room "I don't want to know how you got so good at starting fires."
Danny gave her a slightly evil smile and she shivered. "Still kind of cold in here" Sam said trying to cover up the real reason she had shivered.
Danny looked into the fire debating something with himself, " I'll be right back" he said running up the stairs. Danny went to his room and straight to his closet. Turning his hands intangible he reached threw the ceiling and felt around, "There it is" He pulled it out.
Sam turned her head as Danny ran up the stairs, "Whats he up to?"
Jazz already had her head in a book and just shrugged, "Who knows"
A minute later Danny came back down holding a wrapped gift, "Whats that?"
" It's a Christmas present for you but I thought you should get it a little early." Danny said handing it to her. Sam smiled as she ripped the paper of, inside was a huge black blanket. In one corner was a poorly sown lilly// Danny must have sown that himself/ "Thank you, I love it" Sam wrapped herself in it.
Danny smiled, he had gotten it for Sam because she always complained that her parents kept the house to cold. He wasn't going to tell her that thou, he didn't want to upset her.
They watched the news for a while, it said the storm was moving out but several more were moving in. Then they watched some cartoons before Sam went to bed. A little later Danny got up and turned of the TV. Jazz closed her book and gave him a look, "What?"
"Oh nothing" She smiled slightly and stood up.
"No, you didn't give me that look for nothing" Danny followed Jazz in to the kitchen.
"You and Sam just look so cute together" Danny sighed and left, he didn't want to deal with Jazz. He went up to his room, but first he checked on Sam. She was covered in the blanket he gave he and holding Phanty. Danny smiled, he didn't know why she had kept Phanty but he was happy she had, and that she brought it with her.
Danny went to bed happy that Sam was here and safe.
(A/N: Ok, I know that took a long time to get up but I think it was a fairly good chapter don't you? Well I hope everyone has fun tonight! Happy New Years to all! Oh and I bet a lot of you thought when you read the title that Danny and San would be the ones kissing right? Hehe, I'm just evil cause they didn't get to kiss in this chapter, and they might not in the next either.)
