Alright, after long wait, i finally updated. Sorry bout it, but ive been busy/lazy, whatever you wanna call it. But i thought this was an interesting chapter to bring out Ben's new power.I appologize still, but i have to explain everthing about Ben, because he hasn't been fortuneate enough to be in any episodes of the show... lol but i just have to make sure everyone knows whats goin on...
disclaimer: do i have to keep repeating myself? i don't own danny phantom! quit buggin me!
Guardian Angel
Chapter 6:
Growing Pains?
Ben got his wish, as Sam hit the number 6 on her cell phone speed-dial. She must have known the lady on the other line pretty well, due the only words that escaped her lips were.
"It's Sam, need 2 large pepperoni's, thanks Jill."
"Well actually Sam, I was thinking about going back upstairs to the rest of the pizza in the fridge…" Ben told Sam in a 'I-should-have-told-you-sooner' sort of voice. Sam chuckled slightly and went ahead and tipped the delivery boy as she took the pizza's that arrived several minutes later.
The gang somehow found enough room in their iron stomachs to wolf down two more pizzas, Sam of course peeling off the pepperoni. The rest on the night went like they normally do for the original trio, except for the added weight of an extra guy. They all watched some scary, mind-wrenching movies, ate boatloads of fluffy, buttery popcorn; and bowled around 6 games of bowling.
Ben was actually pretty good, despite the fact that he rarely bowled. He just figured it was this natural concentration and decent arm strength.
More of the gangs usual hijinks went along as unplanned and they quickly wore themselves down. Danny was the one to instigate "sleepy-time" as he liked to call it, not because he was too dreadfully tired, but because he saw more and more often of Sam's clumsy "come-ons' onto Ben. Although they weren't really come-ons, but rather Sam was 'accidentally bumping into' Ben. She'd always sit right next to Ben instead of Danny. She'd pay a little bit more attention to him, and clueless as they might say, Danny saw all of this.
"fake yawn So how bout we hit the sack already? Its 4 in the morning, and I got to do my bi-daily patrol of the city." Danny lied to his friends.
"Yeah, I suppose you're right man, I need to do stuff tomorrow.." Tucker looked at his watch, "I mean today…"
Sam pulled out some sleeping bags from a nearby closet, along with some real fluffy pillows. She passed them out to the guys, giving the last one to Ben, along with a sly smile said "Good night Ben."
"G'night Sam. Good night Tuck… Danny."
"Night Ben." Danny and Tucker replied on cue.
Danny was a little upset that Sam didn't say 'Good night Danny' But rather a "g'night guys."
What really got Danny mad was when he could almost hear an inaudible whisper of "Sleep tight Benji."
Danny felt his heart drop a little when he heard this. "I guess this is what's going to happen if I wait too long. Jazz was right, I need to make a move…soon."
Most everyone had pleasant dreams that night, especially Sam. She had a pleasant one involving Danny and Ben. They were fighting over her. Danny would use his ghost powers to fight Ben, but he would just get back up after his ghostly assaults, and fight back. It was a strange dream, but she enjoyed seeing boys fighting over her, even if it was only in her dreams.
The gang got about 5 hours of sleep, waking up around 9:30. All the guys had things to do that day, so they left Sam all to her lonesome. She got bored after an hour in the quiet house so she thought she would do something she hasn't done in ages: write in her diary.
Sam walked the marble staircase to her room. It was dark, even with the lights on, due to all the black and gothic appearance of the whole room. She sat down in her comfortable chair and bent over to look through countless drawers that the desk had. She finally found a black book with some torn up pages. Success. Sam pulled it out, and hastily grabbed a black pen.
Meanwhile…
Ben was walking home from Sam's. He didn't know quite how to act after how Sam acted the previous night.
"Does she like me? I mean I know she likes me, but….grrrr" He was frustrated Ben had a lot on his mind and didn't want to deal with it at the moment.
Lately, Ben had been feeling a constant pain all throughout his body. It didn't make sense to him. The accident should have prevented all this pain. It wasn't a sharp pain like being stabbed or shot, but more of an ache that couldn't be relaxed. Like he had just got done wrestling Thor, or the incredible hulk. All his muscles hurt like hell, and he had a massive headache. This all seemed to get worse and worse. Ben felt like he was going to black out. He felt that this had to do with him going through puberty, his step mom said that he'd have some growing pains, and he didn't know how right she was.
Ben was on the verge of collapsing, his legs were getting weaker by the second and he was sweating profusely, even though it was un seasonably cold. He finally managed to reach he house, Ben dropped his guitar case and clothes on the floor and proceeded to faint upon the couch.
Fortunately for him, his parents were grocery shopping, so he wouldn't be bombarded with questions, knowing that whatever his answer might be, they'd blame Sam, Danny, and Tucker.
He woke about a half an hour later, still pretty groggy. His body seemed to be in less pain, but he still had a massive headache. Ben managed to get some aspirin from the kitchen cabinet, get a glass of water and get the pills down his throat. He laid his glass of water down and tried to get his focus straight. Ben waddled back over the couch and laid down again. He couldn't imagine what was causing this. Ben had never went through any sort of pain this immense since the incident.
Meanwhile…
Danny was angry. Well, not really, just jealous. But when Danny was jealous, it was hard to distinguish it from anger. He wished that Sam was subtly flirting with him, he wished Sam would always sit uncomfortably close to him, he wished that Sam could love him back.
Danny patrolling over the park when a familiar blue wisp of air was blown out his mouth. He stopped suddenly hovering over some trees when he heard some screams coming from behind him. Danny quickly turned around and unsheathed the Fenton Thermos from behind his back only to hear the familiar call of…
"I AM THE BOX GHOST! RUN AWAY IN FEAR AS I DESTROY THIS CITY WITH MY SPECTRAL POWER OVER ALL OBJECTS SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR! BEWARE!"
Danny only smiled, as he just thought where to put all his aggression. He put the thermos back, and just flew in the direction of the pudgy specter. His hand glowed a bright green as his thoughts about Ben and Sam grew in his mind. He let loose some ecto-blasts flowed by some kicks and punches. The Box Ghost was terrified and started to fly away in horror.
Danny only smiled more as he went invisible flew ahead of him, and reappeared, stopping the fleeing ghost in his tracks.
"PLEASE DON'T IMPRISON ME ON YOUR CYLINDRICAL PRISON! I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG!""
"Please… what do you call that big rant about destroying the city 2 minutes ago?" Danny smirked, uncapping the thermos.
Before the Box Ghost could answer, a bright blue light appeared, and the ghost was sucked in into the thermos, squelching his plans to rule over all objects square and rectangular.
"Phew… I feel a lot better, maybe I should just keep you in here so I can fight you whenever I want." Danny joked, he wouldn't really, because that would be doing something Dash would do, and that was a priority on Danny's "Must Avoid List".
Back at Ben's house, Ben finally got up from the couch and had decided to take a walk around town to ease his troubled mind. He kicked a soda can with his foot, listening to the clanking noise it would make as it randomly rattled around the concrete. Ben's head felt a lot better, it was clearing up, it was calm, silent, quiet…
"HELP! MEE!" some lady cried.
"Shut up and give me your purse bitch!" Ben heard this and started running towards the voice. He followed it to a nearby alley where he saw a man with a knife lunge a woman, take a purse from her fallen body and run away.
On instinct he ran to her. Ben looked down into her eyes that were filled with tears of pain. She had been stabbed in the arm twice, and was clenching on to the wounds for dear life.
He knelt down to her.
"Ma'am? Are you ok? What happened?" He asked gently placing his hand on hers to console her.
"Someone mugged me.. Call 911 quick… tell them I was stabbed in the upper arm twice…" She looked down at her arm with a baffled look and continued… "at least I thought I was." She removed her hand from her wounds only to see nothing but few traces of blood, no wounds, no scars even.
Ben had already rushed to the nearest payphone, because he hadn't gotten a cell phone yet, and dialed 9-1-1. After his adrenaline slowed, he felt a sharp pain in his arm. With his ear to the receiver still, he looked down at his arm and let the phone fall out of his grasp, he didn't even hear the operator yell out "Hello? Is anyone there? Is there an emergency?" As it was dangled by his legs.
He was in awe by what he witnessed on his arm, 2 deep cuts about half in inch in length, in the exact spot the lady claimed she had been stabbed…
The only words Ben could udder were.. "Holy shit…"
A/N: ooh suspenseful sort of. I updated, sorry again about the long update. I was too lazy, and had a lot of distractions. sorry again. So basically Ben just absorbed someones injuries... interesting...very interesting... i wonder how this could possibly help Danny... hmmm hmm hmmm... and looks like Sam has some internal conflicts with her love life. More details, along with her diary entry coming up in chapter 7.
please RxR... it makes me all fluffy inside.