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A quick note: Since you guys enjoyed this one, do you think you guys would read Ember's history too? I don't think it's going to be too long either. Maybe six chapters at most and three at the least.


Chapter 3: Feelings

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

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


"Okay, remind me what the plan is again?" Tucker said.

Valerie rolled her eyes even if he couldn't see it behind her mask. Their love-sick couple was over in the shadows making out yet again. "I'm going to distract Ember while you guys stand near the stage. When I give you the signal, you're going to push Sam forward into the fight, making it look like an accident… somehow. Sam might get hurt, but it should make Danny angry enough to make him go ghost and start attacking Ember."

"Right…" Tucker nodded slowly. "And what if Danny attacks you instead?"

"Then we are in deep trouble." Valerie jumped onto her hover board and zoomed off.

Tucker ran over to the stage to watch her confront Valerie. The noise of battle broke the two kissers apart too, and they came to watch. "I don't think Valerie's going to be strong enough to defeat her," Tucker said.

Neither of them seemed willing to comment on that. They watched her for another few minutes then started to head back to their new make-out spot when Tucker heard Valerie through the Fenton Phones telling him that it was now or never. Having no idea how to make it look like an accident, Tucker merely grabbed Sam and threw her onto the stage towards the fight.

"Sam!" Danny cried. His eyes flashed green as Ember shoved the startled goth girl aside. "I'm going ghost!"

Tucker cheered loudly as Danny went ghost and flew off. "It's working, it's working!"

Danny fired an ectoplasmic ray at Ember as she moved toward Sam. Danny moved between Ember and Sam, still fighting while Valerie helped when she could. The crowd was cheering, thinking they were witnessing some kind of laser show. Green, pink, and blue rays were fired and dodged. Ember managed to get a few shots in on Valerie before turning on Danny. She hit him with a power chord, making him fly back into the wall. He slumped against it, unconscious.

"Oh, this is bad," Tucker said to Valerie through the Fenton Phones as Sam ran to check on her "boyfriend."

"Get out here and break the spell on the crowd," Valerie muttered. "I'll get her guitar."

"But last time I sang, I was laughed at for days afterward!" Tucker whined.

"Do you want to save your friends or not?" Valerie snapped.

Ember's power chord had been pretty strong, and it looked like Danny was bleeding a little from a gash on his forehead. It looked like a piece of the wall he'd knocked intoand left a dent in had decided to fall on his head. Valerie continued to fight against Ember, but the ghostly rock star teen was too much for her. She practically cheered when Tucker finally ran out on stage with a microphone and began singing in his highly off-pitch, off-key voice.

The crowd stopped cheering and chanting, and Ember's fiery blue hair shrank before disappearing entirely. "No!" Ember cried before turning on Tucker with her guitar.

"Oh, I don't think so," Valerie said, taking aim and firing.

The guitar was blasted to bits.

Sam blinked as the spell suddenly released her. Her cheeks immediately flamed a deep red, but she tried to ignore her embarrassment as she dabbed at Danny's cut. He groaned and stirred before finally opening his eyes. He looked at her, and his face went bright red. Even though the spell was gone, they remembered everything.

"Uh, I'm okay," he said, standing.

Sam stood as well, reluctantly, as Tucker and Valerie walked over. "Yay, you guys are back to normal!" Tucker hugged them both.

"Yeah, I guess so," Sam said, masking the disappointment in her voice.


Danny sat on the roof gazing down at the town. He appreciated that Valerie and Tucker had teamed up to snap he and Sam out of their spell, and he was only a little angry that Tucker had told Valerie his secret. What he was most upset about was Sam. After all the making out and boyfriend-girlfriend stuff they had done under the spell, she acted as though everything could go back to the way it was.

Danny didn't think so. Even if the kisses had been part of a spell, he knew the feelings were real. He liked, no loved, Sam, and she had to have some kind of feelings in return. Even a love spell couldn't make two best friends act like that toward each other unless the feelings really were there. Ember had no control over who the person chose once she'd hit them with that spell. Danny could have gone after Paulina instead, and Sam… She could have gone after anyone, even Tucker. He looked up at the sky, determination shining in his eyes. He and Sam had to talk.

Sam wasn't sure how she was supposed to react after being under that spell. She had a secret crush on him, but now it was almost in the open. The spell had been fake, she kept reminding herself, and the feelings and the kisses and the handholding… She quickly wiped her cheek, cursing the tear for appearing. For once, though, she actually felt like crying because she knew nothing would be the same.

For once, Danny loved her, and she loved him back openly. For once, she and Danny were actually kissing for real… sort of. For once, Paulina was the girl in the background, and Sam was the one Danny wanted. She just wished it could have lasted. Now, she didn't know what would happen. For once, she didn't feel strong. For once, she felt more alone than she would ever let herself admit.

Danny didn't know why he was here. Sam was probably asleep. He flew over to her window, confirming to himself that she was asleep. The light was off, and she was in bed. But he didn't leave. He phased in through her window, floating slowly over to her bed. The sudden temperature drop at his arrival made the goth girl shiver and clutch her blankets so he returned to his human form.

"Sam?" he whispered. He didn't receive a reply. He crawled onto her bed, kneeling on his knees near her shoulder. "Sam, wake up," he whispered, shaking her gently.

She groaned and rolled over, rubbing her eyes before opening them. "Danny?" A light blush crossed her cheeks. "Wh-what are you doing here?"

"We need to talk, Sam." This time he blushed. "A-about what happened today."

"It was a love spell. None of it was real." She rolled over, intent on going back to sleep. "We can just forget it."

"But Sam, I don't want to forget it," he said, sounding nearly frantic. "It meant something. Didn't you feel it?"

She rolled over again, looking up at him with frightened lilac eyes. "Danny… I-I don't know if… Maybe we shouldn't."

"It did mean something, didn't it?" he whispered, moving to lie down beside her.

She looked away, blushing furiously. "Why are you here?" she asked softly.

"To figure this out," he said.

"This?"

"Us, Sam. What are we? After everything that happened today, you can't say that you think I'm just a friend."

"You've been more than a friend to me for a while now, Danny," she whispered, a tear trailing down her cheek. She wiped it away impatiently. "Why would things change now?"

"Sam… A-are you saying you actually do like me for more than just a friend?"

"No, Danny." She turned her face back to his. "I'm saying that I'm in love with you." She was about to say more when Danny's lips suddenly descended upon hers. "Mmm!" She closed her eyes, wrapping her arms around his neck and melting into the kiss.

This time, it was real. There was no spell, no need for a fake-out make out. No, this was their first real kiss.

He pulled away slowly, setting gentle kisses on her cheeks and forehead. "I'm in love with you too, Sam," he whispered softly.