Invisible to You
He took a deep breath as he turned around and quickly tried to get a surprise attack on his intruder, failing as Plasmius quickly deflected the energy bast back at the ghost boy. With little time to react, Danny took his own blast right in his chest and felt a bit winded by it. Plasmius took advantage of this and pushed Danny aside to get a good look at what had grabbed the boy's attention moments before.
"Checking up on your friend Samantha I see, or just being a curious young man?"
"How do you know Sam's name," Danny quickly composed himself properly in mid air.
"I'm sure we went over this before, Daniel," Plasmius looked away from the window and back at Danny.
"Oh, right, I keep forgetting you're a crazed up old fruit loop. Sorry about that," a smirk made its way to his face as the older half ghost glared at him, "That still doesn't explain why you know my friend's names--"
"More than just names, of course you knew that too I'm assuming. Aside from that I have too keep track of everything that goes on around my dear boy."
"...I'm not your son now, or ever. You've caused enough damage to me, my family and even my friends," Danny glanced over to Sam's window, the light now off.
"And you've caused about equal damage to me," his eyes narrowed on Danny, recalling the clone incident, "How is Danielle lately? She... still around?"
"Like I would tell you if I knew anyway."
"Of course not, it would be unlike you to do so," he eased back into his sly way of talking.
"What are you after this time? Its not like you to show up for no reason," Danny kept his eyes on Plasmius.
"Didn't you hear? I'm strictly here on business! Nothing more."
"Yeah right! As if that were all you came here for," possible schemes started to run through the young half ghost boy's head.
"Well you've got me... I also had a lovely dinner with Maddie, your darling sister and that idiot too."
"I know you're up to something! Until you're gone I'm on high alert for whatever you've got in the works," Danny yelled at Plasmius as he floated down to the asphalt and changed back to his human self. The older man followed and did the same while staring at the young man in front of him.
"Honestly, do I ALWAYS have to be up to something, Daniel?"
"You always are," his eyes narrowed with a flash of green in them.
"Well keep riding that train of thought there, my boy. Perhaps you'll stop somewhere," Vald patted Danny's now black hair and left him there to continue to mull things over.
His eyes never left Vlad, leaving him open to the surprise of someone poking him incessantly. For a moment he thought it was probably Vald back to bother him even more, instead finding the girl he had originally planed to see.
"Sam," the name came out roughly.
"Are you ok? I saw your fantasic archenemy lurking around," she looked at him with concern.
"Er, yeah... About that--" she cut him off.
"Yeah, yeah I know. You've told Tucker and me enough times to watch out, be careful, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera," Sam sighed.
"Sorry about that... Puting you in danger... well.. kinda. If I hadn't have come here..."
"...What did you come here for," her heart skipped a beat as the question came out in a rush.
"Um... I'll tell you tomorrow," Danny yawned, "Sorry about bothering you."
"Its okay, I'll see you tomorrow," only a small bit of disappointment showing in her voice.
"Yeah, tomorrow," he waved a goodbye to her and started on his way home.
Watching him leave put Sam back into her dreary mood. Seeing him outside of her window staring down one of his enemies had made her excited that he had risked seeing her and such a situation arising. She had practically ran to the door when she had lost sight of him and saw the older ghost float towards the ground. Everything was runing through her head in those precious seconds before she opened the door and saw regular Danny Fenton glaring down the street unscathed. Ending their talk with the promise of saying what he had intended to the next morning only left her with a dim glimmer of anything hopeful.
Danny walked into the door of the Fenton home and started up the stairs to his room until someone grabbed him by the back of his shirt. He turned and saw Jazz behind him, pointing up. Confused, Danny continued up the stairs with his sister close behind. The two walked into Danny's room and Jazz closed the door behind herself.
"Vlad was here!"
"Yeah, I kinda know that already," Danny sighed and flopped on his bed.
"The nerve of that guy! If it weren't for Dad he wouldn't have been here at all," Jazz fumed over the memory of dinner.
"Is that all you came to tell me, Jazz? I really would like to go to sleep," he said, staring at the ceiling. Jazz looked at her brother with concern.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh well Tucker kinda chewed me out, I was about this close to talking to Sam again and then I ran into Vlad and that pretty much ruined my life ten times more than it had been. Ever since then I've had this really bad headache," Danny placed his hand on his face.
"Tucker yelled at you? Sam's not talking to you? Do you need an asprin," she started tossing out questions left and right causing Danny to groan even more.
"Look, I really don't want to talk about it right now."
"If you don't talk about this now, then when," she took a seat next to him on the bed, "You have to remember you aren't just a super powered ghost hunting kid but also a normal teenager with friends who... seem to be becoming distant."
"Its not like that at all," he quickly sat up and glared at her, "Sam told me that she liked me and then Tucker got mad at me for telling her that I just wanted to be friends because that was the only thing I could think of saying at the time and then when I try to talk to her she ignores me. So when I went to the movies with Tucker he practically called me shallow and then I decided to check up on Sam and ended up runing into Vlad before I could get he chance to talk to her!"
"I was wondering when that would finally happen," she mused to herself.
"... Did you even hear what I said!"
"Yes, I did. This all started because Sam told you her feeling and you paniced at the last minute and messed everything up," she nodded at her summary of the events.
"Well... really! What was I going to say," Danny growled, grabbing a pillow and burying his head under it.
"Its really too late to take back what you said, but that doesn't mean you can't fix this," she sighed and took the pillow off her brother's head, "Just tell Sam how you really feel and things will work out from there."
"Yeah, I intended to do that before Vald showed up but I told Sam I'd see her tomorrow morning."
"Then do it then! Don't hold back and if you have to write it all down and read it to her, that's the only way to fix it," Jazz threw the pillow back at Danny.
"Right... tell her how I really feel."
"Yep, you start thinking about that. I'm going to go to bed," she yawned, "Night, Danny"
"Night."
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The trio greeted one another the following morning, taking Tucker by surprise at Sam and Danny's willingness to speak to one another. Soon after, the akward feeling started to flare up between them.
"So... Are you two...," Tucker started, wanting to get rid of the akwardness in the air.
"Hey, um, can Sam and me be alone for a few minutes," Danny looked over at Tucker and grabbed Sam's hand. The other nodded and watched the two walk off a good distance out of earshot.
Once the two stopped, Sam stared over in the dirrection they had just been for some support from Tucker, only receiving a thumbs up and a smile. Danny cleared his throat, grabbing Sam's attention immediately.
"Sam, I wanted to talk to you alone... because... I know that you've been feeling really bad since you told me you... er... yeah that... and about what I said about it," Danny said holding her hand still, not wanting her to run off in the middle of what he had to say.
"Just forget about it. I... It was a mistake," she tried to pull her hand away with no results.
"I can't just forget about it. I said something that upset you. I didn't know what to say at the time. I'm sorry about that," he held her hand tighter, "I know you never make mistakes and what you said was no mistake at all. If it was, it wouldn't have bothered you as much as it did."
"Really, Danny, you don't have to appologize ok? It was just hormones taking over. I just had a stupid moment and said something that ended up making me upset afterwards," Sam tried to cover up the whole thing, hoping Danny's dense nature would kick in soon.
"No, what you said came from your heart and no where else. I'm sorry for ignoring that. I know I'm dense sometimes and I may not understand things right away but I know that this is the right thing to say to you this time," he losened his grip on her hand as she stopped fighting to get free, "Sam, you are and have always been the only girl for me. I should have realized that sooner. I'm sorry."
"Danny..."
Tucker took a sip out of the bottle of coke he had just bought and pulled out his PDA. Things were finally going to be back to normal between the three of them, Danny and Sam would make up and since Danny still was too dense to realize Sam's feelings they would have to wait until... Senior year maybe? That, or never. Then again, Danny could completely mess this conversation up and end up saying the wrong thing again and he would be the one Sam would go to in the end.
A scream brought Tucker quickly out of his train of colliding thoughts causing him to jump and look at Paulina and Star, who was the one screaming in the first place. The blonde stopped her screaming and pointed in the dirrection that Sam and Danny had left him to be alone at.
"EWW," she screamed, still pointing at the dirrection Danny and Sam were, "Unpopular kids kissing!"
He hadn't heard Paulina's response, or anyone else's that had joined in the conversation. There in front of him were his two best friends kissing. A fake-out-make-out? No, there was no reason for one. No ghost, no adults about to find out anything they didn't need to know. This was for real. This was upsetting him and he didn't want to believe why. Tucker dropped his PDA as he came to this sudden realization.
"I'm in love with Sam!"
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Er... not nearly as long as many would like me to write... sorry about that. I have a habit for wanting to cut off at 'important' moments or whatever. So I'm sorry about most of the ending sounding forced... Back to brainstorming what to write now...
- ChibiChibi-chan