I was born to walk in the Rain

A Danny Phantom Fan fic

Chapter 2

What you think you did

Danny had done it again. He had yet again managed to piss of Lancer and was sitting in Detention. He hated it, especially because it was Dash who was the one that caused the whole mess. He hadn't even gotten a chance to tell Sam and Tucker yet so there where probably outside waiting impatiently for him. Instead of worrying about it though, he simply looked around the room in hopes to see Liam.

It had been about two days sense Danny and his friends had meet Liam. Through those days Liam has shown up quite a bit to visit the three friends. He especially seemed interested in the concept of video games. Apparently they didn't exist when Liam was alive. Slowly Tucker had began to trust Liam, especially because Liam found Tuckers electronics so interesting. Sam Still was a little suspicious of the ghost but found that she was sort of getting use to having him around. Danny, well he was just glad that he finally met a ghost he didn't have to fight with.

Danny had hoped to see Liam in the room because then he could tell Liam that he would be a bit late. Liam could then tell Sam and Tucker so they wouldn't worry. However, all Danny could see right now was Mr. Lancer sitting at the desk at the front of the detention class room. Danny just hoped that Sam and Tucker wouldn't be too mad.

Sam tapped her foot against the hard sidewalk. "Where the hell is Danny?" A rather annoyed look had crossed her pale face as she stood outside Casper High. She held an umbrella over her head. It was black and soaking wet, just like everything else. It had been raining for the last few days in Amity Park, and none of the weather specialists could understand why.

Tucker, who had a yellow umbrella, sighed. "Just chill, I bet he just got a detention or something." He began to fiddle with his PDA under his umbrella. "What I'm really wondering is where Liam could have gotten too. I haven't seen him all day."

Sam looked at her watch. "I'm going to go look for them. Something may have happened." She began to walk towards the school, closing her umbrella before she entered the school again.

Liam watched from inside one of the empty classrooms as Sam ran by. He had turned himself invisible so that she wouldn't see him. He almost couldn't believe how well this was going. However, he had learned at a very young age that humans where gullible. He hadn't expected just Sam to go searching for Danny today though. He was glad though, because now was his time to strike. He went over to a table and grabbed a knife he had picked up from the kitchen. He smirked darkly and he began to glow slightly. Liam, as said before, was not a very powerful ghost. However, he did have one power that proved quite useful if used correctly. Liam's appearance slowly began to change as a blue coloured light moved over his body. His red hair with black tips began changing totally black. His blue eyes grew pale to become a slightly different shade and two black pupils appeared in the center. A white shirt with red lining and a pair of blue jeans replaced his school uniform. He did not even look remotely like Liam anymore, but he did look exactly like…Danny.

Liam took a quick look over himself to make sure he got everything right. Though, he was sure he did because the whole point of spending so much time with him over the past two days was precisely for the purpose of getting this right. He gripped the knife in his hand he began to check to make sure he had gotten Danny's voice right. "Hello, I'm Danny Fenten." Liam smile widened when he found that it sounded exactly the way he needed it to. He then walked out of the classroom and headed towards Sam.

The halls where empty in the school. All the kids had left and the teachers that remained were either in their offices or sneaking junk food from the vending machines. Sam was the only one walking down the hall, so she jumped a little bit when she heard a voice say "Hello Sam." She recognized the voice as Danny's so she turned to face him so that she could lecture him. However, when she saw the look on Danny's face she stopped. It was a crazed, insane look that looked out of place on Danny's face. The smile was abnormally wide and twisted in such a way that sent shivers down Sam's spine.

"Danny, why are you looking at me like that?" This was the first time that Danny had made her feel scared. She had never felt it before, but today she did. Paralyzing fear that seemed to be emanating from Danny. She had backed up against a door as Liam, what she thought was Danny, was walking closer and closer to her.

Sam grabbed the doorknob and began to step into the empty dark classroom. "Your not afraid of little old me are you Sam?" Liam said with almost hurt in Danny's voice.

Liam grabbed the door and closed it on him and Sam. He then pulled the knife out from behind his back. "Danny…why do you have a knife?" She said trying to back away further. Stopping when she came to the wall. At first she thought that maybe Danny was possessed, but the eyes where the right colour, and they weren't glowing. "This isn't funny Danny!"

Liam chuckled at Sam's response. "It's not meant to be Funny." He continued advancing on her until he was practically nose to nose with her. "Let's have some fun, shall we?" Liam said with a dark smirk on his masked face. He then quickly clamped his hands over Sam's mouth to prevent screaming.

Danny had finally gotten out of detention and had headed outside into the gloomy atmosphere. He had pulled out his umbrella but didn't put it up when he noticed that only Tucker was waiting for him. "Tucker! Where's Sam?"

Tucker looked up from his PDA. "What do you mean 'where's Sam'. Shouldn't she be with you? She went into the school after you." Tucker asked. This got Danny worried. He quickly grabbed Tucker and dragged him into the school. They began walking through the halls until they saw an open classroom.

The two slowly opened the door and what they saw caused them both to give a scream of horror. Sam was lying face first on the ground with cuts all over her body. Blood splattered all over the floor and some of the desks and chairs "SAM!" Both boys cried out and ran to her side.

Tucker began to slowly roll her over so he could see her face better. Blood dripped down her face and stained her black cloths. One major scar that they noticed was a large cut on her stomach in the shape of a cross. "Sam! Sam wake up please!" Tucker said with tears filling up in his eyes. Danny too had tears forming in his blue eyes.

Danny was on the verge of screaming. Who could possible do something like this? He would never EVER forgive them, who ever they were. Sam's eyes then slowly opened. Sleepily she looked over at Danny. Her sleepy face then turned quickly to anger as she looked at Danny who just sat there with clear tears streaming down his face. "Sam! You're alive!" He called happily, but his voice cracked slightly. "Who did this to you!" Danny sad angrily.

Sam's face twisted with anger. "What the hell do you mean by that!" Sam spat. She tried to sit up but found she was too weak and fell back onto Tuckers lap. "YOU'RE the one who did this to me! Or don't you remember coming at me with a knife!" She hissed.

Tucker's eyes went wide as he turned to face Danny. "Danny is this true?" Danny stared in shock. How could Sam accuse him of such a thing!

"Sam, what are you talking about? I've been in detention this whole time." Danny said frantically. He couldn't stand being looked at the way Sam was. It looked like she really hated him…only ghosts had ever given him that look. Not even Dash's beatings had been this hurtful to him.

"Shut up! I know what I saw! I don't even want to talk to you ever again!" she screamed. Tears mixed with the blood on her face to make an even bigger mess. Danny felt like he had been slapped across the face with a mace.

Tucker just looked at the two for a minute. He couldn't believe that Danny would hurt Sam, but he couldn't believe that Sam would lie about something like this. He didn't say anything but took out his cell phone instead and pressed the numbers nine-one-one.

"I didn't do this Sam.." Danny said while trying to hold back his tears. Sam just turned her head away from him making an unimpressed noise she often made when she was dealing with Jocks. Danny stood up and turned around. "Why don't you believe me?" Danny just stood there for a second before exiting the classroom.

He got as far as the hall, the then broke down and began to sob into his hands. He sat on the cold tiled floor with his knee's pulled into his chest. He barley even noticed the blue smoke rising from his mouth. "Danny…why…are you crying?"

He turned his head out of his hands and looked beside him. Liam was starring right back at him with a rather puzzled look on his face. Danny whipped some tears from his face and said "Sam…she's hurt. For some reason she thinks I'M the one that hurt her." Liam's face had shock spread all over it. Or at least that's what Danny thought it was. It looked like shock, but in reality it was just Liam's good acting skills.

"I'm…I'm sorry." Liam said softly. "I know you where attached to Sam but if she really thought it was you that attacked her then…maybe she wasn't as close a friend as you thought she was." Danny said nothing to Liam's words. He figured that Liam would say something like that. After all Liam was betrayed by his friends wasn't he? At least, that's the story Danny heard.

Danny stood up then and began to run. Crying as he went he bolted out of the door. He didn't care that it was raining outside. He didn't care who saw him. He was too pissed off and upset to care at all. An ambulance drove by but it didn't ever register in his mind as he ran down the rain covered streets. His face was soaked with tears and was getting even wetter from the rain pounding down on his face. He was barely paying attention to where he was going.

Liam floated out of the school and watched Danny run. He smiled and gave a small dark laugh. "Well, that was easy enough." He laughed again as he let his powers work again. Slowly changing his appearance to look like Danny's. "Time for part three of my plan." A sick looking smile crossed his face as he walked down the drenched streets towards the large building that read 'Fenton Works' on it.

Danny had lost track of time. He was standing on mushy grass leaning up against a soaking wet tree. He hated this, he had been framed for sure. Through an hour of standing there he had thought trough many scenarios of how this could have happened. His best bet right now was that it was some sort of imposter. What else could it have been?

Danny sighed and began to walk home. It was still raining, and he was starting to get rather cold. His tears had stopped, but his face was still wet because of the ever falling rain. Streetlights began to turn themselves on as he walked.

He sighed as he went up to the big front door expecting his parents to burst out and lecture him about not telling them where he went. They didn't though…Danny stopped as he looked at the door. It was unlocked. Now, in a normal situation I would not suggest doing what Danny did in this situation, and that's enter the house. It was dark and quiet. This scared Danny more than the unlocked door. His house was NEVER, EVER this deafeningly quite. It was unnatural, especially in the Fenten Household.

He walked through the house and stumbled around looking for a light switch but for some reason couldn't find one. He stumbled around until he found himself in the kitchen and stopped dead in his tracks. Blue smoke came from his mouth again. By this time his eyes had adjusted to the darkness, but he wished that they hadn't. His eyes went wide with horror at the sight in front of him.

His dad, his sister, and his mom littered the ground. Blood splattered against the table and the walls and the sent of the red liquid filled the room. It rolled across the floor and stained their clothes. One figure stood in the center of the carnage with a knife clutched tightly in his hand. The figure turned toward Danny.

Danny tried to scream but his mouth wouldn't let him. The figure walked closer and as he did his features became more apparent, sky blue eyes, black hair, a white T-shirt with blue jeans. "Don't worry, they're not dead, but they will be unless you get them to a hospital." The figure said in Danny's voice. 'Of course, by then I'll be gone and your family is bound to blame you for this."

"You…"Danny stuttered. "You did this? Who are you! Why did you hurt my family? Why did you hurt Sam!" Danny quickly lost his fear as it was converted to anger.

The other Danny just laughed. Danny had NO idea that the figure in front of him was Liam. "Why, I'm you. Or at least part of you." Liam lied as he began to walk around Danny like a vulture circling its prey. "You're a murderer. You're the one who really wanted to do this." Liam stopped only a few centimeters away form Danny.

Danny couldn't believe what he was hearing. It's not possible for a part of his mind to manifest itself outside of his body…was it? Liam smirked as Danny obviously had a look on his face that reflected he was fighting with himself over the information he had just given him. Liam would have let him fight with himself for a little more, but Liam could only hold the form of Danny for so long so he had to speed this up a little. "You don't belong with the humans because you're not a human. You don't belong with the ghosts because you're not a ghost." A large smile crossed Liam's masked face. " I wonder where you belong." He said coldly. He leaned even closer to Danny who was once again who's courage that he had found only minutes before had left him rather abruptly. Liam whispered into Danny's ear. "Go to the Highhill Hotel. Vlad Masters is staying there."

Danny's eyes went wide at that. He had not even thought about Vlad sense that day he last saw him. Vlad was evil, he would never join him…right? However…where exactly did he think he was going to go if like the doppelganger in front of him had said, he was blamed for the pain inflicted on his friends and family? If this imposter really was part of him…then what's to stop him from coming out and killing more of his friends? He fell to his knees then and splashed blood on his pants and he fell.

The fake Danny smirked and turned to exit. Danny just looked terrified at the bodies. "I was born the walk in the rain." Liam sung as he walked past Danny.

"What?" Danny said shooting a scared look at what he though was himself.

"It's just a song I herd a while ago. Now, you should really call that ambulance." Liam said before exiting the house. He was a good block away from there before he removed his disguise. He flew up to get a better vantage point, perching on a nearby building. It took a good solid five minutes for the ambulance to arrive.

Liam smirked widely as he saw Danny running out of the house in the direction of the hotel he had spoken of before. "Pin pon." Liam said jokingly referring to Japanese game shows. It sounded strange for him to try and imitate a Japanese accent when he himself had a slight Scottish accent himself. He gave a slight chuckle and began to fly ahead of Danny so he could tell Vlad the Danny was coming.

To be continued…