Disclaimer: If you think I own Danny Phantom, you obviously haven't been paying attention this whole time.


There was a couple of seconds of blackness before someone had the sense to remove the lens cap. As soon as they did, the video camera showed two raven-haired teens, a boy and a girl, standing in what appeared to be a teenager's bedroom. The walls were painted a soft blue and there were pictures of astronauts and spaceships everywhere.

"Tell me again why we're doing this?" the cameraman asked.

"Because, Tucker," the boy replied, exasperated. "This moment is way too important for the only recorded copy to belong to Nickelodeon Studios. I want to have one of our own as a memento. Trust me, by the end of this tape, you'll be thanking me for giving you solid proof."

"Proof of what, though?" the girl asked. "What are we supposed to be doing that's so important?"

"Well, remember how I told you that there was a studio devoted entirely to me when I went to Florida?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

"Well, I was looking at some clips of us, and from looking at it from an outsider's perspective I saw things that I'd never really seen before. Like how jealous you got when I was dating Paulina. Or how heartbroken you got when I was dating Valerie. Or how insanely clueless I've been over the past year. I really have been an idiot all this time, not to have noticed." Somehow, he managed to keep his gaze set on her instead of turning away and blushing.

"Sam, I'm so sorry for hurting you all those times. I know now that you have feelings for me that transcend that of mere friendship. And I want you to know that I have the same feelings for you." He gently cupped her face in one of his hands.

"Danny, I…" she was cut off by him leaning over and brushing his lips over her own. He held the kiss for a few seconds, then pulled away and turned to the cameraman.

"See? And now you have proof. What did I tell you?"

Butch chuckled as he reached the end of the copy of the tape that Danny was kind enough to mail to him. His employers had obviously gotten their own shots of the scene, just as Danny had predicted, and it was those clips that had made up part of the final episode. There had been a huge positive reaction to the lovebirds finally getting together as DxS shippers finally got what they'd been waiting for. The ratings for that episode were off the charts, but the Executive Board stuck to its guns and cancelled the show anyway. Butch couldn't blame them though; a deal was a deal.

He wondered, though, what would have happened had the Flying Dutchman not gone AWOL and tried to enter Amity Park. Danny wouldn't have sucked him into the thermos, and his show wouldn't have gotten cancelled. But then, he'd never have seen the studio and would never have gotten together with Sam. So Butch supposed that it was all for the best that things had turned out the way they did. Even so, he couldn't help but hope that wherever in the Ghost Zone the Flying Dutchman was now, he was having a miserable time.

Meanwhile, in the Ghost Zone…

"Will you be my friend?"

"Argh! The Flyin' Dutchman has no friends, ye scurvy cur! Now leave me be!"

"Aw, pleeease?"

"Grr…"

THE END