Alright, sorry about this being a little shorter, but if your attention span is the same as mine at the moment, i suppose you could thank me.

Disclaimer: Don't own show. I own Ben...(awkward...)

Guardian Angel

Chapter 5:

Shared Secrets

Ben couldn't help but smile when he saw the disaffected expressions at Tucker's attempt at being funny. He stealthily placed his belongings behind the massive couch, which by the way was striking even more awe into Ben.

The trio quickly spotted Ben, and the should-be-couple smiled at him, as their wish for someone who was much more fun to hang around with Tucker. Not to diss Tucker, but his jokes weren't exactly the most…well, FUNNY. All of his jokes were inside jokes… I mean REALLY inside…that only he knew. Like I said, REALLY inside…

"So…what's the plan guys?" Ben asked with an excited grin on his face.

"Well… we could watch a movie, but we've already seen all these half a dozen times." Sam trailed off.

"Nah, it's ok, none of these really appeal to my…uh interests." Ben said politely.

"I thought as much hehe, well why don't you just play your guitar for us or something." Sam said trying not to sound too excited, although she didn't fool Danny. He didn't understand why Sam, or any girls for that matter were so impressed with some loser playing 4 chords on his guitar.

"Yea Ben, whip out that sucker!" Tucker said with a similar amount of enthusiasm as Sam.

Danny was really the only one that wasn't really wanting for Ben to hog Sam's attention. He would deny himself to admit that he was jealous, though a third party could easily say he was.

Ben blushed a little and opened up the 5 locks to his case. He carefully opened up the brown top to the case and gracefully pulled out the guitar. It was his baby, and would treat it like one.

He sat down on the massive, yet incredibly comfortable couch and practically melted into it. Ben regained his composure and adjusted his guitar on his lap. He plucked a few strings to check the tuning, he was set.

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker all got some big, fluffy pillows from the corner of the room. Sam rushed the fastest and placed the pillow on the ground and promptly sitting upon it, leaving the two boys in her dust finally catching up to her.
Ben had known his newfound group of friends for a few months, and has never seen Sam so perky like this. Although just to be fair, what went on in her rebellious teenage mind could never be predicted.

Danny wasn't expecting much, maybe just a couple songs that were played horribly and then Sam would reject him and give Ben a "Just Friends" speech. Then Sam would cuddle up with Danny on the couch, then the rest would leave. Giving some quality time to the duo. Danny thought this blindly for several moments before realizing what he had just dreamt.

"No…she is just my friend…she's just my really attractive, smart, caring, loving friend…OH STOP IN DANNY!" He thought to himself.

Ben was still nervous, he had never really played in front of anyone except his foster parents, and they were barely listening. He knew he was pretty good, but nerves can do anything to anyone.

"Well, heh heh.. I suppose I could play a little something by my idol. Anyone familiar with John Mayer?"

Sam smiled a toothy smile and gave an incoherent girly squeal.

"Well, at least one of you has.. Heh heh."

Danny was actually impressed by his musical talents. He began to play a riff of notes that he could recognize from what he heard from the radio…

Ben was gaining more confidence as he saw Sam whisper: Why Georgia. In which he only nodded, and began to sing.

Sam was enjoying herself thoroughly. She closed her eyes and laid on her tummy (I prefer that over stomach, or belly). She let Ben's music calm her down from her anxious mood, and his surprisingly soothing voice bring it back into a state of restlessness.

Ben was glad everyone was entertained. He finished the song, and was fidlin' around on the neck of the guitar hitting some random notes has he began to speak with his friends.

"So whaddya think?"

"BENJI! That was awesome! Wow! I never knew you could do that!" Sam blushed, as did Ben when she accidentally called him that.

"Uh..heh heh, thanks Sam, there's a lot you don't know about me."

"Cool man, what else can you play? Anything more upbeat? Like a nice dance song…" Tucker winked in Ben's direction, insisting for the should-be-couple to get up and dance.

He only smiled back and knew exactly what he was wanting. "Well here is a piece I wrote not too long ago."

Ben had a feeling that they wouldn't dance together like his and Tucker's ambitions, but at least it's something that will bring them closer together.

Ben played an upbeat tune, and got all three of the listeners swaying back and forth. He tried to get Sam's unusual gaze off of him and onto Danny, who was gazing at Sam lovingly. Ben stared directly into Sam's eyes, while still trying to remember the name of his song. He never realized until that very moment that her eyes were easy to get lost into. But he snapped out of it, and kept shifting his eyes from her eyes to Danny's. And even cocked his head back and forth trying to get Sam to notice Danny.

Eventually he succeeded. Sam turned her head to her right and behind to see Danny quickly turning away. She also caught the sight of his upper teeth clenching shut on his bottom lip, and his cheeks roar into a fiery red.

Sam smiled back at Danny, and he could see from the corner of his eye. Sam also blushed a little and scooted closer to him, leaving her warm pillow to the cold carpet next to Danny.

Tucker as well as Ben were smiling up a storm, and mentally gave each other high-fives.

"He's pretty good ain't he Sam?" Danny whispered, not wanting to disrupt Ben.

"Ya, he is…" Sam trailed off, looking down at the pillow that Danny was sitting on.

After about a half an hour of playing, Ben grew tired and put the instrument away, and rejoined everyone on the massive couch. He knew all about his friends, he loved his friends, and as far as he knew, they loved him back.

Ben thought about it long and hard, and decided this would be the night to show him his powers as well as reveal his horrendous past in which he acquired those powers. He preped himself, because he knew that he would visit a place in his mind that he dreadfully wanted to forget. I mean it only seemed fair, he knew about Danny's powers and how he got them, and has seen them in action, even went ghost hunting once.

"This is it…"

"Hey guys…I uh…I mean there is something I need to tell you." Ben said, not looking any of his friends in the eyes.

"Sure Ben, what's up?" Danny asked.

"Well, you know how we made ourselves promise not to hide anything from each other?"

They all nodded in agreement.

"…well, there is something that I've been hiding, and this is a good time to tell you guys. It's about how I got adopted and how I moved here to…Amity Park." He said this with his eyes beginning to moisten. Ben wiped his eyes clean and told himself to be a man, that it'll be over in 5 minutes.

"You see, my dad never really loved me. And uh, well he sold me off to a secret testing place in Nevada…" He said this half expecting for his friends to laugh, but he only got sympathetic remarks from them, and nodding their heads, begging for him to continue.

Ben didn't want to continue, he just sighed and ran his hands through his dark, thick, messy hair. A silent tear fell down his soft cheek and he continued. He went on and on explaining what they did to them, and he cried harder and harder the more he went on. He went on explaining how he got no sleep and read his dilapidated bible each night. How he was injected with dozens of lethal diseases. How he could barely feel things the way he could due to these injections. The poking and prodding raced back into his memory

He could now see himself in a large glass vat full of a fluid. He remembered the taste of it. Tasted like blood. He went on crying and explaining about his last day there, how he could heal rapidly and etc, etc. How he broke out, and how he wound up collapsing in front of an adoption agency.

Sam was the first one to come over and give him a comforting hug. The others were still in shock from his story. Was he telling the truth?

"And that's sorta how I stood up to Dash today… I could barely feel his punch, and I don't bleed very easily…" Ben explained after leaving Sam's sympathetic embrace.

"And if you want more proof…" Ben leapt over the top of the couch and reached into his bag and pulled out his pocket knife. "Let me show you…"

Ben opened it up and lifted up the hem of his pants. He made a small cut that drew a decent amount of blood, and his friends, especially Sam were shocked.

"BEN what are you doing?" Sam cried and quickly snatched out her hand, taking his knife. By the time she was going to scold him for cutting himself, she looked back down at his leg. It had stopped bleeding. It took around a minute, but they watched in awe as his leg fully healed.

"Didn't that hurt?" Tucker asked.

"A little… but it's nothing compared to what I've been through before." He said smiling the first time in a while.

They were all amazed at this…Ben must have been telling the truth. They just saw proof before their very eyes.

Ben used his trademark optimism and had a major mood swing. "Well…im getting hungry again? Sam, let's order some more pizza and we can get down to watching some movies!"

Sam heartily accepted, and everyone was happy now that Ben was.

A/N: well there we are. chapter 5. Ben told his secret, had a little trace of DxS fluff, and trust me... no matter what it seems like i'll do with this story. Im a die-hard DxS fanatic, and would die before this story is otherwise.

OOh danny is sorta jealous...teehee. lucky for me, he wont half to be...its so good to control everything in a story. lol

RnR! please.