Things were going fairly well for the new couple during the first few days of their relationship. Casper High was divided between those who felt that Sam and Tucker were both geeks so it was okay for them to become an item, and those who had always placed their money on Sam getting together with Danny. The two teens decided that they were ready to tell their friend that they had decided to get together. The only problem was, they couldn't find him.
"Mr. Fenton?" Lancer asked as he called the role during first-period English. The out-of-shape teacher glanced around the room and, upon noticing that his student wasn't present, again, marked him down as 'absent'.
"You think its ghost trouble?" Sam whispered into Tucker's ear.
"Probably. He'll be here third period, at the latest," he whispered back.
"Excuse me, is there something you lovebirds would like to share with us?" Lancer interrupted the hurried conversation.
"Uh…n-nothing in particular…" Sam nervously responded as a blush crept up her neck, giving the perfect impression of one who was just caught whispering naughty things to their neighbor.
"Good. Now, on with the lesson…" Lancer droned on as the rest of the class snickered at the incident.
Unfortunately for Sam and Tucker, Danny didn't show up by third period. Or lunch. In fact, he didn't come to school the entire day. Tucker and Sam were leaving school and walking in the direction of the Nasty Burger. They were about to try and find Jazz to ask if he was sick or something when she found them.
"Guys, have either of you two seen Danny today?" She asked them.
"No, we were just going to find you to ask you if he was sick today; he never came to school," Sam replied.
"Do you think it's, you know," she glanced left, then right to make sure that nobody was listening in, "Phantom stuff?"
"We thought so at the beginning of the day, but usually if something happens in the morning he'll be in before lunch at the latest. Unless it was a really powerful ghost, or Danny's really hurt…"
"WHAT? We have to go find him then!" Jazz exclaimed as she grabbed Sam and Tucker's wrists and made to drag them to the park.
"Whoa, easy Jazz, you don't have to tear our arms off," Sam said as she and Tucker extricated themselves with difficulty from Jazz's iron grip. "We'll go to the park and see if he's there. You go check the arcade, and then see if he's in your house."
"Works for me," Jazz replied as she walked to the nearest intersection and turned left. They could see her pull out her cell phone as she walked, probably to call Danny and maybe get in contact with him. Tucker and Sam went to the park and sat down on a bench. He put her arm around her and she rested her head on his shoulder.
"I hope Danny's okay," Sam mumbled.
"Me too…you don't think he saw us, do you?"
"I'm not sure…if he did, then that explains why he left."
"You think he's jealous?"
"Why would he be? It's not like he ever liked me as anything more than a friend…" She started crying softly into Tucker's shirt, and he enveloped her in a tight hug and let her cry onto his shoulder.
"Shh…" he cooed. "He didn't mean to break your heart all those times, you know that."
"I know he didn't mean to, but he did. I hope he's feeling what I felt while he was dating Valerie." Tucker paused, as a sudden thought struck him.
Nah, she wouldn't go out with me just to make Danny jealous. Sam isn't like that. Tucker silently berated himself for even thinking that and softly stroked Sam's raven hair.
A pair of red eyes invisibly watched the two of them, and then flew away rapidly. Snow-white hair blew back as the watcher sped back towards Wisconsin.
Slowly, ever so slowly, days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months. Sam and Tucker were happy together at first, but they inevitably began drifting apart. They simply had too many differences to continue to be so close together for an extended period of time, and they realized that Danny had been the mediator, the glue that really held the trio together. It was a sad day for both of them when they broke up. Tucker went to join the other tech geeks, and Sam started hanging out with the other Goths. But it just wasn't the same.
Tucker found that the geeks didn't have any sort of social life whatsoever. He could only chat with them online, whereas he'd always at least get to go hang out somewhere besides the internet when he hung out with Danny and Sam. And computer games were fun, but not when they consumed his entire life outside of school.
Sam realized that her views were actually mild compared to some of the other Goths. It wasn't long before she was under pressure to get tattoos and more piercings, and start doing drugs. Since she felt that she wasn't ready to go to those extremes just yet, she decided to leave the Goth group and remain by herself. She grew depressed and angry over the fact that she had lost her two best friends to jealousy. After all, she had only really gotten together with Tucker to make Danny jealous and feel what she felt all those times. With him gone, she couldn't stay with Tucker for an extended period of time, and she ended up losing both of them. The only thing keeping her from attempting suicide was a small hope that maybe, someday, Danny would return and forgive her for ever trying to play with his heart like that.
Danny began to change as well. Despite his assurances to Vlad that he'd be able to forgive his friends for getting together behind his back, he couldn't stop evil thoughts from popping into his mind now and again. His eyes were now constantly red while in ghost form. His daily sparring sessions with Vlad became ever more intense, and after the second week his ecto-signature changed from green to bright red. He grew a couple of inches, and the constant fighting caused him to develop sleek muscles. He began fighting dirty, and in the third month, he actually beat Vlad. As he stood over Plasmius' unconscious body, he laughed a dark laugh that caused even Walker to get goosebumps. His ghost form also began to change. Instead of a one-piece jumpsuit, his costume was divided in two. The lower part looked the same, but the upper part was now white with three black lines that converged just over his heart. The place where they intersected was adorned with his DP insignia. He looked like a younger version of Dan, save for the hair. His hair was still the same as it had always been. As time went on, he found himself thinking about Sam with an obsession that nearly rivaled Vlad's obsession with his mother. If only they could see each other again…he would make her his, and they would be together for all eternity. Even if that meant removing Tucker from the picture. Of course, Danny didn't know that Sam and Tucker had broken up, nor did he realize that Sam was still in love with him.
Well, I didn't want to end that with a really corny line, so I had to stick with that somewhat weak ending. Anyway, what did I tell you? I can't write an entire fic based on TxS! Next chapter I bring the two real lovebirds together, and hopefully work in some fluff. The end of this chapter was way too dark; hopefully I'll be able to turn it around next chapter.
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