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A quick note: It took me FOREVER to find Ember's stupid song, so you people had better feel pretty special that it's in here. And just so you know, this story's supposed to be short. I had no hopes whatsoever in making this thing longer than one chapter, but it ended up squeezing itself out into three. I should've kept it as one, but oh well! Also, after this one I'm going to be starting a new story based entirely on Ember's song and Ember. I don't know; I guess I felt like doing the history of a ghost or something.


Chapter 2: Ember's Revenge

Oh, Ember, you will remember!
Ember, one thing remains!
Oh, Ember, so warm and tender!
You will remember my name!

Your heart, your heart abandoned,
You're wrong, now bear the shame,
Like bad dreams in cold December,
Nothing, but ashes remain...


Tucker walked into the school fiddling with his PDA once more. He only looked up when Danny and Sam greeted him. "Hey, gu—Holy shit!" He stared at them.

Sam was leaning against the lockers, her arms wrapped around Danny's neck while his arms were wrapped around her waist. They had apparently been making out but broke apart again at Tucker's exclamation.

"What?" they asked, looking at Tucker with identical looks of "You were interrupting something important."

Tucker pointed at Danny. "You were…" Then he pointed at Sam. "And she was…" He shook his head quickly, which gave the couple time to return to their business. "When the hell did this happen?" he demanded.

"Last night," Sam answered, reluctantly pulling her lips away from Danny's again. This only made the ghost boy begin on her neck instead.

Tucker's face went pale, and Sam was afraid he was going to faint. "You… you…"

"Tucker, get your head out of the gutter," Danny said, chuckling lightly, and Sam giggled.

"Oh…" Tucker looked shaken, but he wasn't pale anymore. Something was definitely wrong with those two because they never acted like this. "Did you guys run into anything… weird last night?" He was racking his brain, trying to think of something—anything—that would make his two best friends suddenly fall in love.

"Nope, nothing weird," Sam mumbled, returning her lips to Danny's.

"If I had known this was how you guys were going to act after you got together, I never would've pushed you guys together so much," Tucker muttered, shaking his head, and at that exact moment, the bell rang. "Yes! I never thought I'd be so releaved to hear that sound."

But Danny and Sam's bizarre, mushy behavior didn't end there. They stole glances at each other all through class and passed notes that Tucker was certain he didn't want to read. Everyone in the classroom was staring or glancing at the couple, and whispers started to circulate around the room that the famous love birds were finally together.

During lunch, Tucker may as well have been an empty seat. Danny and Sam only had eyes for each other, and more times than once, Tucker caught them playing footsie under the table. It was so disgustingly sweet that Tucker actually had to offer to do Dash's homework just to sit with the popular people's nerds and get away from them.

"I never thought either one of them would ever work up the courage to ever say something," Valerie said when Tucker talked to her about it later.

The couple in question was sitting in a booth in the Nasty Burger, laughing and sharing a chocolate sundae. This, at least, wasn't as sickening as much of the other stuff they'd been doing: making out in the halls, playing footsie, and just staring at each other. Something had to be wrong with one or both of them. This wasn't normal for either of them.

"You're not even worried at least a little?" Tucker cried in exasperation.

"Hey, you know them better than me. I don't know what normal is for those two," Valerie said. "But I do know Sam shouldn't be so smiley," she added as an afterthought.

"Thank you!" Tucker said, throwing up his hands. "So, you believe that something's wrong with them too, right?"

"I guess." The ghost hunter shrugged. "But they look happy. Why should we mess with them?"

"Because there's a ghost behind this, and if Danny doesn't fight it then it'll take over the world!" The techno geek blurted out. Then his eyes widened. "Uh, oh…"

"Wait, Danny fights ghosts?" Valerie grabbed Tucker by his collar as he moved to leave. "If you want my help, you're telling me everything now."

"But—"

"NOW, Tucker."

"Yes, ma'am."

Over the course of an hour (Danny and Sam had now moved to the park, probably to make out again), Tucker carefully explained Danny's secret to Valerie and anything else he thought she might need to know. Valerie seemed to be understanding but a little upset that Danny didn't trust her enough to tell her himself.

"I still can't believe that Danny didn't tell me that!" Valerie said for the fifth time that day.

"It doesn't matter now," Tucker said. "Right now we need to fix this problem that we have with Danny and Sam."

"Okay, so let me review what you told me." She was silent for a moment. "You said that Danny acted like this before toward Sam but she never returned the feelings. When was that?"

"That was during the whole Ember fiasco when she hit him with a love spell that didn't affect Sam because she was wearing…" Realization hit the techno geek hard. "Ember's back!"

"And I'm guessing that love spell affected Sam this time too, right?"

Tucker slapped a hand to his face, groaning. "We've got to get them to break up or something so that we can find Ember!"

"Well, I can easily find the ghost, but I'll need Danny's help to fight her."

"Good, so we'll just find Ember, bring Danny and Sam along, and figure out something to snap him back to normal so that you guys can fight her and save the world or whatever," Tucker said.

"I'll get her location, but do you have something we can use to get us there?"

"Oh, trust me. The Fenton house has loads of neat gadgets."


Valerie tapped her foot impatiently, glancing at her watch every few seconds. "Took you long enough!" she yelled as Tucker zoomed up in the Fenton RV.

"Sorry, I had to convince Danny's parents that we wanted to go on this ghost hunt alone," Tucker said as Valerie climbed in.

She looked in the backseat to find Danny and Sam making out. "Doesn't seem like it took much trouble to convince them."

"Well, duh. Put one in the car, and the other follows like a love-sick puppy." Tucker made a face then started up the RV once more. "Everybody hang on!" he called then zoomed off.

"All right, she's over at the edge of town hanging out at an old recording studio," Valerie said, handing Tucker some directions.

"Cool. Put these on." He held out a pair of Fenton Phones.

"Uh, why? And what are they?" Valerie took them and examined them.

"They're Fenton Phones to keep us from falling under a love spell too."

"Oh, joy…"