A/N: Thanks for your reviews: Sam. I only got one review this time! (runs away crying)
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Chapter 4: Ember
Sam sat on her bed scowling. She had reluctantly agreed to let Chloe and Kim pick out her outfit. They kept teasing her about how much Danny liked her new outfit.
"He wasn't even looking at me!" Sam argued.
"Not that you saw," Chloe replied.
"He couldn't stop looking at you once your back was turned," Kim added.
Sam blushed, but it was quickly covered up as Chloe threw a pair of black hiphuggers out of Sam's closet. They unceremoniously dropped on Sam's head. "I don't want him to like me because of my outfit." Sam pulled the jeans off her head.
Chloe laughed. "The outfit will just have him drooling over what he already loves."
Kim tossed a black jacket in Sam's direction. "You can cover up a little."
Sam sighed. "I'll go change." She stepped into the bathroom with her new outfit.
Chloe and Kim sat on her bed to wait. Chloe flipped through one of Sam's goth magazines while Kim checked in with her parents on the communicator. Sam stepped out of the bathroom. The clothes hugged her beautiful form, and the jacket only made the whole outfit more stunning.
"You are going to knock 'em dead!" Chloe cried.
Danny spun around on a computer chair in the lab. Jack had constructed a ghost-proof cage, which is where Ember now sat pouting. His dad knowing his secret wasn't as bad as Danny thought it was. Jack did do a couple of tests, question about his powers, and draw some blood from Danny's ghost form. At least it explained why most of his experiments went after Danny now…except for the Boooooomerang. It just seemed to be attached to Danny.
"It just really likes you," Tucker had said.
Clark was upstairs when the girls knocked and easily answered the door. "Hey, Danny, your girlfriend's here."
Danny sighed then yelled, "She's not my girlfrie…" His jaw dropped as Sam walked down the stairs. If he thought she had looked hot before, she was smoking now.
"Close your mouth, Danny," Sam said, casually walking past him. "Flies don't taste good."
Danny did close his mouth, his face burning. He didn't notice Sam's nervous glance toward Kim and Chloe, and he didn't see the two girls smile encouragingly. Tucker elbowed Danny who shoved the techno geek over. ("Ow…") Sam sat down in one of the other computer chairs.
"So did we get anything out of her?" Sam asked.
"You mean, aside from the complaints because your boyfriend broke my guitar?" Ember muttered.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Sam said just as Danny said, "I'm not her boyfriend!" The two glanced at each other then looked away, blushing.
"No, nothing new," Clark said, answering Sam's earlier question.
"Maybe we should use this!" Jack pulled out the Fenton Ghost Gabber.
"Dad, that never worked because ghosts speak like we do," Danny said. The Ghost Gabber echoed Danny with a "fear me" at the end. "See?"
"Hmm…" Jack scratched his head. "Why does it add 'fear me' to the end like that?…"
"Hey, it's another thermos," Ron said, twisting it open.
Danny, Sam, and Tucker sighed as a blue ghost dressed in overalls appeared.
"I am the box ghost, master of all things cardboard and square!" the ghost shouted.
"Ghost!" Ron cried, dropping the thermos as he ran to hide.
The blue beam yet again locked onto Danny just as he had gone ghost. He glared at Ron as he was sucked into the thermos yet again. Sam released him again while Tucker caught the box ghost in another thermos.
"Stop touching the thermoses!" Danny yelled at Ron.
"Okay, obviously you don't have my mom so…what'd you do with her after you gave her the backstage pass?" Danny asked.
He, Sam, and Tucker were still in the basement trying to get something out of Ember. Clark and Chloe had gone for a walk, Kim and Jazz were discussing things the others didn't even want to hear about, and Ron was playing a game on the communicator.
"What?" Ember murmured, staring at Danny. "I didn't hear a word you said. I was too hypnotized by your beautiful blue eyes."
Tucker and Danny exchanged a glance. "Either she really wants out, or she's stuck under her own love spell," Tucker said.
Neither noticed Sam's clenched fists and Ember's smirk in the goth girl's direction. "Just answer the question!" Sam growled.
"Question?" Ember had returned to staring at Danny. "Wow, Danny, I never realized how strong you are."
"This is wierding me out," Tucker said.
Sam grabbed one of the ghost weapons and shot it at Ember. "Ow!" Ember cried.
"Oops, sorry." Sam smiled innocently, tossing the gun aside.
"You know, Sam, if I didn't know better I'd say you were jealous," Tucker said.
"I'm not jealous!" Sam said hotly, crossing her arms. "I'm just trying to get her to talk!"
Danny squirmed as the two continued back and forth while Ember leaned back and examined her nails.
"Why'd you change your outfit?"
"I like how I look, thank you!"
"Yeah, sure. You're just wearing it 'cause it gets Danny's attention."
"Guys, I'm right here!" Danny interrupted, turning red.
"Maddie never showed up for her backstage pass," Ember said finally.
"Hey, Danny!" Jack walked down the stairs. "Check out my latest invention! It's called the Fenton Truth Teller." He held out a small PDA-shaped object.
"Hey, this would help!" Tucker grabbed it and pointed it at Ember. "Where's Mrs. Fenton?"
"I don't know. Plasmius hired me to capture her and give her to him," Ember said, and her eyes widened. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that!"
"Cool, it works," Tucker said.
"Where are they?" Danny asked.
"In his mansion in Colorado," Ember growled.
With difficulty, the teens managed to convince Jack to stay behind and hold the fort back at home. Jazz opted to stay with him. Jack wouldn't let Danny go until he promised to bring Maddie home safely. This, of course, made every teen groan at Jack's stupidity.
A/N: Don't worry. The Fenton Truth Teller comes more into play later. It's going to be a lot of fun. Mwahahahahahaha! (sighs) I just love to torture poor Danny. Don't you:D
