Disclaimer I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.

DarkDragonQueen: Here I am again with a new story. I know, I know, you're asking me hey aren't you working on the Black Phoenix? Well I am and I'm way ahead so you'll still get your update. This is different from my other stories. It's more of a drama/angst story, which is something I've never done before... well I have but I didn't like it and took it off. Anyway, it's a very high Rated T on the brink of M, but not violent enough for that. It contains mentions of rape and graphic birth at the end.

I am so sorry. I know, it's late, but I have a good reason not excuse. I went to Atlanta to see my grandmother and also my father who's a minister had some business to take care of so we spent the night and though I can get a connection on my laptop it's weak and I can't upload chapters on it. We didn't get back until Friday night and I had no time to update (I mean we ate at ten o'clock). Anyway, I was gone all day today doing a chicken fundraiser, so I just got back. Really sorry about the late update!

Yeah, you read this next part from me all the time. Grammar is not my best subject. I can apply it well to writing but I'm not perfect people. If you see a few mistakes here and there dismiss them. Luckily my spelling and use of words makes up for that.

Without further interruptions I give you the second chapter of Trial, Transition, Growth: Book I.

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The Fentons

By

DarkDragonQueen

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Sam stared at his eyes almost feeling like she was being pulled into them until she blushed a bit as she broke her gaze from his eyes and looked down. How silly did she, a fifteen year old girl who had been welcomed into this household, look after having just arrived at someone else's home and the first thing she did was try to find something to eat. He probably thought she was and idiot now.

Danny cocked his head at the raven haired girl. He could use her blush to break the silence and strike up a conversation.

"What's wrong? Why are you blushing?" he asked and Sam gasped almost dropping the soup.

"Sorry," Sam said in a high pitch voice. "I didn't... I mean I was just... Your mom said."

Danny saw that he had just made her a bit more embarrassed than she had been. Jazz would kill him if he made her uncomfortable, so he went over and just took the soup out of her hands shaking his head in amusement.

"Why are you apologizing? I was just going to warn you about that soup. It's radio- active which means my mother cooked it. The first thing you need to know if you're going to live here is never to eat my mother's cooking, except her cookies." Danny smiled as he threw the stuff that was supposed to be soup away.

"Oh," Sam replied and the blush went away. "Well what should I eat?" Sam then regretted asking that. "Sorry, you don't have to help. I'll find something." Her hand unconsciously went to her lower abdomen.

"It's okay." Danny said closing the refrigerator. "You don't want anything in there that's already cooked and easy to warm up." He went to the pantry and took out some instant roman noodles and tossed it to Sam who caught and looked at. It had chicken flavoring in it but she couldn't have cared less, as long as there was no real meat she was fine.

Sam went to the sink filled it with water and popped it in the microwave as the directions stated. She sat down and there was an uncomfortable silence between the two before Danny decided to break it.

"So, do you like Amity Park?" he asked and he though he could have slapped himself for that. She hadn't even seen any of it except in the car on the way he was sure.

"From what I've seen so far it's fine I guess." Sam replied.

Danny nodded. "So you like your home city better?"

Sam's eyes hardened. Her parents had disowned her, she had been raped and then became pregnant, and before that she really had no friends except her god- sister. She couldn't say she loved her home. She never had, she just thought that as long as her parents were happy she would stay, but she realized it didn't matter. She hated that city.

"Not really. I never did like my home, especially after-." Sam cut herself off. No one was supposed to know about that.

Danny looked at Sam and decided to change the subject. Obviously she had been about to say something she didn't want to say. He noticed that she had gotten up and got the noodles and managed to find a fork and then this brought up another question. He blurted it out not really meaning to say it.

"So you have or had a boyfriend?" he asked and then his eyes widened. That was a bit personal for someone he had just met.

Sam blinked. Why would he think that? Then it dawned on her. She was pregnant and he didn't know about the rape so it only seemed logical that she had had a boyfriend. She looked down at her still flat stomach which would soon not be so flat.

"Oh, I had one." She lied. She still didn't want anyone here to know about the rape yet.

Danny nodded and sat there as she finished off the noodles and threw the container out. He stood up. By this time all her stuff was in her room.

"Want to see you room?" he asked and Sam looked up.

"You mind?" she asked

"No, it's this way." Danny led her up the stairs and down the hall to the room that was after his own. He opened the door and then stepped aside to let her through.

She gasped at her purple and black room.

"Jazz said your favorite color was purple and black so my parents painted it... Well it was mostly my mom and Jazz, but it got done." Danny explained

Sam felt like she wanted to cry, but managed to control herself... Barely. Stupid hormones, she thought.

"You all didn't have to go through all the trouble, really." she said sitting on her bed.

"It was no problem Sam." Jazz said coming into the room. "It was the least I could do for you, especially since you're Aly's god- sister. Knowing her she'd kill me if I didn't make you comfortable during your stay."

"Did she really threaten you with that?" Sam laughed.

"Yeah, she-" Jazz cut herself off and looked at Danny who seemed to shiver a bit and gasp.

Danny groaned to himself. A ghost just had to come today. "I just remembered. I need to go do something down in the lab. Be back." he ran out the room with a curious Sam watching him.

"The Lab?" She asked dismissing the disappearance and looking to Jazz.

"Oh yeah, Aly didn't tell you. My parents are ghost hunters." Jazz sighed. "They can be a bit... eccentric when it comes to talking about ghost but in this house it's the norm."

"Ghost? There are ghost in this town?"

"Yeah, the city's haunted, The most haunted place I would have to say is Casper High. There's not a day that goes by and someone hasn't spotted a ghost," Jazz seemed to smirk. "Especially the most infamous one, Danny Phantom."

"Danny Phantom," Sam echoed raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, he started off as Public Ghost Enemy number one, but soon it turned out that he was trying to protect the city for us and a lot of people think of him as the hero." Jazz filled in.

"Why would a ghost protect the city?" Sam asked with a frown.

"Every ghost has an obsession Sam and sometimes it's so bizarre and farfetched the simple mind of the human being can't grasp it or even begin to understand it." Jazz shook her head with a sigh. "Anyway, today's Saturday, so you start school in two days on Monday at Casper."

Sam nodded more than a little curious about the ghost she was most likely going to see as Jazz left her room. She then went to her laptop to chat with her god- sister online.

GothGirl: Aly are you there?

It was a private conversation so they didn't have to worry about people online trying to read and get their names and adress.

MissKeenEye: Sam! You made it there safely, right?

Gothgirl: Yeah! I'm just trying to get settled in.

MissKeenEye: Good, I forgot to tell you Jazz's parents were ghost hunters. I hope you don't mind.

GothGirl: No problem Aly, it's fine.

MissKeenEye: So did you meet her family in particularly her brother.

GothGirl: Aly!

Sam blushed at Aly's straight forwardness.

MissKeenEye: You're blushing aren't you?

GothGirl: I am not.

MissKeenEye: Easy to say that when you know I can't see you, huh.

GothGirl: Okay that's it. I'm signing off. I was just trying to tell you I was here and everything went fine. Later Aly.

MissKeenEye: Later Sam and Sam Jr. Hehehe...

Sam signed off rolling her eyes at Aly's last comment. She put up her laptop and decided to start putting things where they belonged and were supposed to go. About two hours later Jazz poked her head in the room telling her it was time for dinner and Sam eagerly dropped what she was doing since the noodles she had had earlier didn't hold her that long.

She went downstairs and seemed to shyly enter the kitchen.

"You can sit next to Danny, Sam." Jazz said referring to the seat across from herself.

Sam sat down and saw that there was a salad already prepared for her.

"Jazz told me you were a... What was it dear?" Maddie asked her daughter.

"Ultra recyclo vegetarian," Jazz replied.

"What's that mean?" Jack asked loudly and Jazz shrugged.

"It means she doesn't eat anything with a face." Danny replied and everyone looked at him.

"What?" he defended. "I pay attention in class sometimes."

Sam looked back at her food and at then a silver and green gun on the table caught her eye. "What's that?"

Maddie looked at the gun on the table and then grabbed it. "Now Jack didn't I tell you to take this down to the lab?"

"And miss out on even a minute of dinner," Jack asked

Maddie sighed and took it back down herself before coming back and apologizing to Sam.

"Sorry, I didn't even notice it on the table. It's an ecto- gun to fight ghost. We caught Danny Phantom and another ghost who likes boxes in the basement trashing it and tried to scare them away." she sighed.

Danny seemed to be a bit annoyed by this comment Sam noticed but assumed that he was one of the people that didn't think the ghost boy Jazz had told her about was so bad.

"Where do these ghosts come from?" Sam asked.

"Well most of them come from the Fenton Portal, but we're not really sure about Danny Phantom." Maddie answered.

"Yeah, he's the ghost boy." Jack exclaimed. "Nasty little ghost too. Tried to kidnap the mayor if we hadn't stopped him."

"We means mom." Jazz sighed. "And just because of that one stunt doesn't mean he's such a bad ghost."

"Don't be silly Jazz." Maddie laughed. "All ghost are malevolent spirits trying to accomplish things they never accomplished when they were alive and they destroy whatever gets in their way of doing that."

"Not all mom. I bet-" Jazz stopped when Danny gave her looked and nodded over to Sam. "I still don't think he's that bad."

"Well you're entitled to your opinion dear. I won't argue with you." Maddie then looked over at Sam who was finishing off her salad. "Do want anything else Sam?"

Sam who had been looking down but listening to the whole conversation looked up. "Well..." She had to admit, she was still pretty hungry having not eaten breakfast or lunch that day.

"Don't be afraid to ask Sam. You're apart of this family now." Maddie said kindly and Sam couldn't fight back the smile that crept onto her lips.

"You have any more vegetables?" she asked.

Maddie passed her the bowl of green beans and Sam scooped a helping onto her plate. She could get used to this family most definitely.

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This was hard to me. God it took a minute to figure out how to end it. Okay guess you just have to wait on your next update. R&R.