I sat there, looking through the bag I had opened up first, looking around inside of it, tons of pictures were in it of Danny and I. Most of them taken by Tucker. One of them I stopped at, it was a picture of Danny and I kissing. Tucker… getting into our business! Oh well…. I guess it came to use for me now… all I had left were pictures, and his ghost lurking around somewhere, but that I didn't know yet.
"Sam?" I heard someone say, someone I knew I didn't like… that didn't belong here… Vlad.
I turned around, and there he was. I screamed seeing him there, in my room, where he obviously just appeared from no where, because I hadn't seen him since the funeral, and never expected to again.
He placed a hand over my mouth, to keep me from making to loud of a sound.
"Sam, are you all right up there?" I heard my mom call out.
"Tell her your fine," he ordered me, and I looked at him, and thought that I should tell her something was wrong… but then what would he do?
"I'm fine," I called out unsure of what to do.
"All right," she said, and I could tell she left the stairs where she had stood to call up to me.
"What do you want, you creep," I asked him angrily, and he grabbed ahold of my arms, and went intangible, taking me out of my house. He went down to the park, which was empty, since it was 9:00 at night after all.
"What do I want? He hasn't told you yet?" He asked me, as though it was a surprise for me to not know. I knew now that he mentioned it, but should I play stupid, and act as though I didn't have it?
"Who told me what?" I asked him, and it sounded perfectly as though I didn't know.
"Daniel, he hasn't told you to be careful of anything? He hasn't seen you yet?"
"No, why do you even bring him up? You know what happened the last time I saw you, were you the one messing around with the stuff in my room?"
"No, I have nothing to do with your room at all, the only thing I would get into your room for, is what Daniel had given you, and you know what I'm talking about," he smirked, as though he knew I was going to try and play stupid.
"I have no idea what your talking about, let go of me," I screamed, and struggled, but he was to strong against my weak body, that was hardly even able to stand up as it is.
"You know what I'm talking about. The key? What's that?" He asked, pointing towards my chest, where the key was down my dress.
"A necklace, what's
it to you?"
"That must be a big necklace," he grinned, and
started reaching toward it.
"Don't touch me, you freak," I said, and he pulled back instantly.
"Why would I? I just want to see it, you pull it out then," he said, a bit shocked at what I had said.
"No, I don't want you looking at any of my stuff," I told him, still trying to struggle away from him.
"You couldn't escape me the first time I took you, and now that your weaker, you think you can all the sudden? Daniel isn't around anymore to protect you, so I suggest you just behave, and do as I say," he ordered angrily.
"Who says I'm
weaker?"
"I do, because I can tell you are. Looks like you
haven't ate in months. I think that I would prefer to keep you
alive so that you can suffer with the loss of Daniel, if you died,
you just might get to stay with him, and I wouldn't want that."
"Why are you suck a jerk? You're a fucking ass hole is what you are! Let me go!" I screamed at him, but he just tightened his grip on my arms, and it hurt for his fingers to crush against my bones. I closed my eyes tightly from the pain, and stopped pulling.
"You have a temper worse than before, do you? I didn't think that was possible," he laughed, as though all of this was just some big joke for him to enjoy himself. I felt a tear slid down my cheek, thinking of how miserable my life was. Not only had Danny died on me, but now I was getting teased for it by a creep that has nothing better to do than to torture a 14 year old with a dead friend.
"DO you take all of this as a joke?" I asked him offended of all he had been doing to me.
"Yes, I think it is funny, and I also find it funny for you to be mad at me for it, if you would laugh with me, you would feel better, now wouldn't you?"
"No… I wouldn't. I respect people, unlike you. Why do you have to go picking on people for something that happened when you were in college? Just let go of it why don't you?"
"Ahh, you have it all wrong my dear. I don't care about any of that anymore, I want what you have, I need what you have, and I will do anything to get it."
"Leave her alone," I heard a voice behind us, and we both turned around, and Danny was standing there.
"Danny," I mumbled softly.
"Well, here's the star of the show," Vlad said happily, and I looked at him, he could hurt Danny still.
Vlad still held onto me, but with his other hand he shot an ecto-blast at Danny, but Danny dodged it, luckily.
"What are you doing here? Risking your chances to be free in the world on this dumb girl, eh?"
"Can't you just leave her alone? She has nothing to do with this," he said sternly. I wished it could be just us again, not Vlad being here. I wanted to talk to Danny, the real Danny, and I could tell this one was.
"Oh, really? Then how about you take the key from her, and give it to me, Hmm?"
"She doesn't have it," he lied, or at least I knew he was lying, but he sounded as though he was telling the truth.
"Oh, then I can yank that off of her neck?" He asked, pointing to the chain going around my neck.
"I'll take it off of her for you," he said, and I looked at him confused. I knew he knew what he was doing, but I didn't know what he was planning to do.
"All right," he said, but he still kept a tight grip on me.
"Let go of her first," Danny said, since he was cautious of going even close to Vlad for some reason.
"Why should I? I know you'll take her away, she won't be in my grasp anymore, you have every bit of reason to just take off and run."
"I'm not taking another step closer to you," he admitted, and Vlad raised an eyebrow, "Oh? Your scared of me now huh?"
"No, I'm not scared of you, I just know you have as many tricks, if not more than I do."
"Yes, I have more tricks than you do, like this one," he said, and stuck his hand up to my neck, a knife held in his grasp. I tightened up, and looked down at it, and back at Danny. Vlad said he didn't want to kill me though…
"Now that I know he has indeedly been seeing you, and still can see you, I will hurt you, but I won't necessarily kill you." He explained to me, "Besides, when you go home with your throat slit, your parents are going to send you right back to the psychiatrists, especially when you say someone just came into your room and attacked you. They would never believe you."
"Don't hurt her," Danny said, and he took one step forward, to come get me, but then he stepped back after he realized what he was doing. Vlad was using me against him, yet again. How many times was he going to do that?
"You going to stop me?" He asked, and I felt the blade touch my throat, and I watched as Danny stepped forward, no longer caring about his safety.
"Danny, get back!" I shouted to him, not caring about myself, he mattered, but in yet, he didn't listen. Once he was in front of us, he asked Vlad, "Let go of her right now, and I'll show you what it is," he ordered, and Vlad let me move forward to Danny, but still kept ahold of my arm.
"What are you doing?" I whispered, but Danny just ignored my need to know what was going on, and he reached down and grabbed the necklace, revealing not a key, but a heart necklace that I had never seen in my life. How was that possible.
"Now will you let her go?" He asked, as though he had proven something, but I was still confused as to how he did that.
"Humph… I know she has it," he said ashamed, as though the whole world was coming to an end because of him… although… he might want that to happen… but still.
"Give her over now," Danny ordered, as though Vlad was a mere dog that needed to obey his orders.
"Oh no, you think I'm giving up that easily?" He asked, and he stepped forward, causing Danny to move back.
"Your scared of me, I don't have to obey you," he snickered, and I felt myself lift up off the ground, and watched as Danny disappeared below me.
"Ready to go home?" He asked me, and I thought about him doing this to me before, the trouble it caused
"No," I said, and I kicked his leg really hard, and he let go of me, although I knew I hadn't kicked him that hard. I realized what had happened, and looked up at him and he just waved at me, as though saying bye, but I felt myself stop falling suddenly, and found myself in Danny's arms.
"Danny, what's going on?" I asked him, and he gave me a look saying, "I'll explain later." I was with him again, but it wasn't anything to make me feel as though I was happy with him, more of just proud of him for saving me. I wanted a romantic moment with him, one of those moments that I wished I could have all the time, but hardly ever get. And now with all of this going on, I desired to see him all the time, but in yet when I got to see him, everything seemed so serious, and it didn't feel like what I thought it would.
Back in my room once again, Danny set me down on the ground, and looked at me.
"You gonna be Ok?" He asked, and I could almost cry, why didn't things seem like they should? He didn't have that loving voice he always had…. Wait… PS: Remember my eyes it made sense now. I remembered in the hospital, the cold look in his eyes, nothing was normal, just like now. All those ghosts were fighting over what Danny had given me, but what was it all about? I knew it wasn't anything to do with trapping Danny… he lied to me, or maybe it wasn't him that wrote that. But why would that have made me give it up anymore?
"Who are you?" I asked him, and he looked at me confused, yet his eyes held no expression, just his face. Not like Danny's at all. Maybe I hadn't seen my Danny yet at all, he was hiding somewhere.
"You know what I'm talking about," I said, and looked at him sternly.
"No, I don't Sam…. I have no idea what your talking about."
"You're not Danny…"
"Maybe I'm not… but what are you going to do about it? Where's he key?" He demanded, and grabbed my hand, before I could even think of running.
"I don't know… Why did you write that note? That was all a lie."
"Not all of it… I hinted you of who I was, to keep you safe from me… just to put a twist in the game. Your little boyfriend thinks I'm a joke, he thinks I couldn't do anything. But he's wrong, now isn't he? I even let you know what to look for, and look, I have you."
"Explain what's going on," I demanded, and he looked at me like I was nuts.
"You're ordering me around now? I'm not telling you anything."
"Well… then tell me what you are? A copy of him?"
"Maybe… maybe not, I'm not telling you anything. Give me the key now."
"What's it for? And the powder?"
"I'll tell you, if you hand it over."
"No," I refused, and tried to pull away from him, but despite my effort, nothing happened. He grinned, and swung me around so I was face to face with him.
"You're sure you don't want to hand it over?" He asked me, and I nodded, closed my eyes, and turned my face from him.
"You're scared of me, huh?"
"No…"
"Oh? Then why are you pulling away like that? You want Danny?"
"Yes…"
"Then let's pretend I'm him, kiss me."
"No, you creep! You're not Danny! Where the hell is he?"
"Oh? You don't want to? I look just like him, there would be no difference," he smiled, a smile that didn't at all feel warm, or comforting, more of evil.
"Yes, there's a big difference, leave me alone," I stuttered, and tried as hard as I could to pull myself free, but there was no use, he was as strong as Danny at least, maybe even stronger.
"You want to fight with me? Danny isn't here to save you, now is he? He protected you in the past, it's all your fault he's dead now anyway, never to return again."
"What are you
talking about?"
"You can save him, but like as if you would
know how to," he laughed, like it was all a huge joke to him,
something he had planned all along, hoping for one day, the whole
world to be in laughter over it. To me, it was a sad thing, not only
sad, but miserable. Not only misery, but the kind of thing that could
lead to suicide, and right now, I could do such a thing, he was
making things worse, he was making me believe all of this, all the
things I had been saddened over in the past, and even now, because I
had believed all of it. And right now, I still argue with myself over
whether or not it was my fault for causing his death, or it was
Vlad's. I knew it was someone's, and more of me, led it to
myself, but I tried to overcome that part of me, but I never
succeeded, and all he was doing, was bringing it out farther.
"How, please tell me? I would do anything."
"Anything?"
"Yes."
"There isn't anything much I want from you, except the key, and the powder… but without that, you aren't saving his butt. You're out of luck kid," he told me, as though now he cared for what was going on, yet the tone of voice he was using wasn't at all caring, more greedy, and not caring about what went on with Danny and I. I couldn't tell, he pretended to be Danny so well, he had the ability to be nice, but was I ever going to get that side to come out? If he's Danny's evil side, he must be pretty close to pure evil, because Danny was like an angel to me, there was nothing he did wrong, everything was right.
"You have to care somewhat, right? I mean, you are a copy of Danny, right? If it weren't for him, you wouldn't be here right now."
"So true, yet so not true. I'm over 100 years older than Danny, Sam. Did you think that was possible?"
"I don't get it… you're his twin? Right?"
"Yes, very much so, but I am also way older than him, but that doesn't mean he isn't a copy of me."
"That isn't true," I told him, because I could tell he was lying, which up until now, he had a poker-face, everything he said seemed right, but not now, I was paying closer attention now. I was so confused right now, nothing was making sense. Had I seen Danny at all? I thought I did, but was it all him? Where was Danny? Is anything he is saying true? Maybe Danny didn't give me the key, or the powder, maybe he did, to keep me side-tracked… Nothing seemed to be believable anymore, the world I was living in was all fake.
"I'll let you go just this once, Samantha, but do be warned, this isn't over," he said, releasing me from his grasp, and I fell right to the floor, so dizzy, confused, and lost, I needed time to think. If there was just someone I could talk too… but there was no one. Everyone would think I was insane. The only person that might believe me would be Tucker, but he wouldn't be of any help, I was all on my own.
"Danny, where are you?" I asked up towards the sky, as though some miracle was to appear, but all that happened was tears came running down the side of my face. Not all sad, but mixed emotions, all woven inside of them, I didn't know what to think, except I had a miserable life, nothing to live by anymore. Everything was a mystery now, why not just kill myself and be done with it all?
I couldn't give up on Danny… that's why. Somewhere out there, I know he's around. He promised me he would come back. He kept me safe, now it was my time to do him a favor in return, if only I knew someway to understand what was going on.
I crawled up onto my bed, and sprawled out, looking at the ceiling fan, spinning in circles, watching one blade, which seemed to make it all slow down, or at least look as though it was. Everything looked different now, everything was different. My family treats me as though I'm some insane person, Tucker treats me as though I'm going to die… Jazz was the only one treating me normal. Maybe she could help? No… why would I go to her? Tell her that her dead brother was trying to find a way back, that wouldn't be right. Although… nothing was right for me right now either, but I couldn't lead anyone else into this miserable rush of confusion.
"Sam? Hunny, you in there?" I heard my mom knock on the door, and I sat up. I brushed the tears away from my eyes, as though trying to make it seem as though everything was Ok, but my mom noticed something was wrong when she walked through the doorway.
"You Ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, what do you want?" I asked her, trying to rush her out of my room, I just wanted to be alone, and when I wanted to be alone, it seemed impossible to do so.
"Well… I have someone who will be visiting you daily, they just like to talk to people, and help them settle down with their losses. Not a shrink or anything, she is just going to help you get over this," she smiled lightly, and brushed a piece of my dark hair out of my eyes.
"I'm settled mom,
I'll be fine."
"But your crying all the time hun, you nee
someone's help, at least for a little while."
"Is it not normal for someone to cry around here? I don't want someone getting into my business! I've been through enough mom, can't I just be left alone for a while? I think that would be the best for me."
"At least one week?
I just want to see if it helps?"
"Fine, one week, but no more
than that," I gave in, and sunk my head down.
"All right, I think it will do you some good in the end," she said, and patted my back lightly, but then gave me a weird look.
"Sam, are you Ok?"
"Yea… you asked me that already."
"Turn around for a second," she said, and I was puzzled, but did as she said.
"Sam, we need to get you some help, your back!"
"What are you
talking about?"
"You have a huge cut across your back, you're
bleeding terribly!"
"I never even noticed," I said honestly, and got up, and noticed there was a bloodstain on the bed where I had been laying. Nothing hurt though, one more thing to add to the 'not making sense' list. How much more puzzling of a life could someone have?
"Come on, let's get you some bandage wrap," she said, and she sounded stressed. She couldn't possibly be going through more than me right now. Although… I do think that having a crazy daughter couldn't make a life easy.
We went into the bathroom, and my mom grabbed out a box, which was full of brown, elastic bandage wrap.
"Ok, let's get it cleaned up, I'll be right back," she said, and she left the room. I stood up and looked in the mirror at my back, which was totally red from bleeding so badly. How come it went unnoticed? I touched my back, but felt nothing. Vlad…. Or the evil Danny was trying to kill me. They had numbed it, hoping I would bleed to death without noticing. I don't think it would have been Vlad, but there was no telling, he killed Danny, so why not me?
After it was all done, and cleaned up, I had to live with a dang bandage wrap, wrapped around me for a while, which was going to suck, and imagine when the numbing went away? Whoever had done it, they had numbed it pretty good, and it was amazing I didn't notice that, although I didn't have to move to much. That could have been why I was so weak.
Maybe it would have been good to die that way? No pain, no suffering, no anything, I could have just died right then and there, but no, my mom had to ruin it, and let me live, as though there was a purpose for me at all. Except for Danny, but so far, there was no sign of him anywhere. Maybe he gave up on me, no reason for him not to.
I went back into my room, and switched into my normal clothes again, no use for walking around in a cut open dress, especially one that I didn't need to wear in the first place, Danny hadn't done any of that stuff, he was just a lost hope.
The key was nothing, Danny never gave it to me, Danny did none of this. With that, I just threw the key in a drawer, forgetting about it totally would be the best thing. They were just playing tricks with my mind, trying to make me more miserable than I already was. They weren't going to anymore though, I was done with trying to keep Danny with me, he was gone, there was nothing I could to about it. He said he would come back, but chances were low, all of this wasn't an adventure, it was all a bunch of shit to make me get even more upset. Why were they bugging me, just to be mean? Maybe so…
No, this isn't the ending. Yes, this is confusing, isn't it? I even got lost a little when I was writing it… I honestly got confused myself… that's why it took so long for me to update, I had to stop and think about what in the heck I was writing, lol. Yes, there was a point in everything I wrote, yes it has something to do with Danny. Yes, ask me as much questions as you want, I will answer them, since I'm sure it's really confusing when you're the reader as to what's going on. Most of your questions will be answered in the next chapter though, I assure you. BUT… you may not get the next chapter till a couple of weeks, unless I get time to update again this week. I will be leaving for vacation for the rest of the month on Friday… Anyhow…. Enough of hearing me talk, please review, ask questions, make comments, I will clear things up for you if needed.
