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.

Thursday is really becoming a bad day for me to update. I have decided not to make it just one day tough. It will either be Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. I'm sorry it's just my Thursdays are getting so hectic. Anyway, I hate this chapter. I hope you like it though.

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 adu I give you the second chapter of Trial, Transition, Growth: Book I.

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Exposed Part II

By

DarkDragonQueen

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Sam tapped her fingers on the table as she sat bored and daydreamed when she was supposed to be doing homework she had missed in the last two weeks of school. After her early labor at five and a half months which they were easily able to stop since it wasn't that bad, the girl was put on bed rest or a long week and the other week she stayed in the house because she didn't feel like facing school right now. As a matter of fact, the reason she had gone into that labor was from the stress of school so it was actually better that she just didn't go at all right now and let Danny bring in her homework and just go for the last test of the year.

Just then her cell phone rung and Sam picked it up thinking it was maybe Jazz calling to check on her from school.

"Sam," came the familiar voice

"Aly!" Sam replied surprised.

"Oh my God. It's so good to hear your voice. The last four months without you have been a pain." Aly squealed

"Oh I know. Guess what though." Sam started.

"What?"

"It's a little girl."

Sam had to pull the phone from her ear as Aly screamed in excitement.

"Oh, I'm going to have a little niece. Let me guess. You're naming her Lilith, right?"

"Yes. Where are you? You can't be at home, my parents would hear you." Sam abandoned the homework and went to the refrigerator to get some of the salsa in the refrigerator and the tortilla chips out the cabinet.

"Their on a business trip and I have the house to myself except for the maids, but you won't believe what the sorry excuses for parents did."

"What?" Sam asked as she paused before dipping her chip into the salsa as she stood at the counter.

"They removed all traces of you. Pictures, things you gave them for presents, everything. They're even planning on renovating your room to get rid of you essence. They were going to burn them."

Sam could picture Aly rolling her eyes at this point. "What do you mean were?"

"I convinced them it would be a waste of time to burn them when they could just throw them away and so they told one of the maids to put them in the trash. I went out later on and got the stuff right before the garbage man got to it. So now I have a box full of stuff from you in a secretly broken wall in my closet."

"You didn't have to keep it." Sam replied.

"Don't start Sam. I'm bringing it with me when I come and visit you."

"Visit me?" Sam asked going into the living room.

"Well you remember next month is my birthday, right? Well, your parents are buying me a car and I'm coming to visit you so I can be there when you have the baby."

"Won't they be a bit suspicious of you going?" Sam asked.

"No, school will be out and they'll be gone again in June for a long sad three months." Aly said sarcastically. "So how's your friend who's a boy?"

Sam rolled her eyes as she flipped the TV channels. "Aly... If you must know he's fine and so is Jazz. The whole family has been really helpful, especially in the past few weeks."

"Some school queen or whatever found out you were pregnant, announced to the whole school and you had an early labor, right?" Aly asked.

"You know, if observation was a super power, you'd be the strongest heroine in the world?" Sam asked dryly.

"I know. So, I bet you and Danny have gotten close. He has taken the role of father to be, I assume and I mean that like, he's become protective and watchful over you, nothing more."

Aly had gotten into a serious mode and something was coming with it. "Yes, I guess."

"I mean both."

"How did you-? You know what, I won't even ask, but yeah sort of, when the other one's around." Aly had meant Danny Phantom whom Sam had been talking to in the last two weeks quite frequently. When he found out she was stuck in bed, he had decided that she might need some company sometimes. Sam had to admit, he was a weird ghost, but she liked that. "But you know, they both claim to know each other, but I've never seen them in the same place as each other one time. I've seen Phantom speak to Tucker but Danny's never there."

There was a pause on the other end and it seemed that Aly was get into her putting the very hard puzzle pieces together and seeing the big picture even when some of the pieces were missing.

"Do the two of them have the same...? How do I put it? Do they like say something that you might have just heard the other one say."

"Yeah, but I mean they know each other." Sam shrugged as she put her hand on her stomach where Lilith had pushed her foot against.

"And do they have the same habits."

"Well both of them tend to rub their neck when they're nervous, but it probably just rubbed off." Sam said not seeing where Aly was headed with this.

"Sam, it's obvious and deep down, you know it. Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom are the same person." Aly declare.

"What... That's not... Aly that's like saying Danny's half dead. It's not possible." Sam managed.

"Sam, until you moved there you weren't even sure ghost existed. Spirits, yes, but ghost. I mean come on it might be possible. We just don't know how."

"Well, Jazz did tell me about an accident that happened with the Fenton portal around two years ago." Sam sighed. She couldn't believe this.

"Hold on a minute." After a moment Aly came back. "Almost two years ago was the time Danny Phantom made his first appearances."

"Aly, it might not be true. Just forget I told you all that, okay?"

"Sam,"

They were both stopped by a loud boom that even Aly heard through the phone, "What was that?" Sam asked into the phone before going to window next to the door to check it out. She only opened it a little just in case, but she could still see Danny Phantom fighting what appeared to be a mechanical ghost.

"See Aly, Danny's at school right now and Phantom's right here. How could he-?"

"You told me yourself Danny's skipped a few classes before." Aly said dryly. "Besides, school ended thirty minutes ago, why do you think I'm at home?"

"Really? Still though," Sam said as she looked held the phone between her ear and shoulder with one hand opening the curtain and another hand rubbing her stomach for her little girl had become agitated at something as it shifted positions.

Just then Phantom caught the ghost in the thermos and Sam smiled, but then frowned when she noticed he was sticking around and looking around him as though making sure no one was around. Then...

Sam gasped. "Okay Aly, you know your little assumption?" Sam asked as Danny Fenton came from the spot where he had changed from Danny Phantom and up the front stairs. "You were right."

"You saw him transform."

Sam nodded mutely forgetting Aly couldn't see her.

"Tell him."

Sam went back to the living room and sat down as she waited for Danny. "Tell him what?"

"Tell him the truth about how Lilith came to be. You know his biggest darkest secret, so he should know yours." Aly replied.

"I can't do that." Sam said as her eyes widened and the front door opened.

"Put me on speaker. I'll help you out, but you have to tell him now. It's time to. You're going to have to do it sooner or later. So why not sooner? Besides you need to practice for later anyway."

"What do you mean?"

"What are you going to tell Lilith when she wonders where her real dad is when she's older and I mean when she's twelve or thirteen and when she won't accept that her father was a bad man."

Sam sighed as she put the phone on speaker and put it on the coffee table.

"You're right." she couldn't deny it as Danny came in the room.

"Oh there you are." Danny said as he gave her a manila folder with sheets and assignments in them.

Sam put the folder down next to her phone and sighed. "We need to talk."

"She means right here and right now." Came Aly's voice.

"Who is that?"

Sam rolled her eyes. "My god- sister, Aly."

Danny dropped his book bag at the door and went to sit next to Sam on the couch who slumped back against it.

"First things first." Sam took a deep breath. "I know your secret."

Danny's hand went to his neck as he rubbed it. "What secret?" He asked nervously.

Sam laughed as Aly's voice came through. "He sounds nervous."

"He looks nervous." Sam added. "So I should change that I to we. Actually Aly's the one who figured it out and I just witnessed it."

"Witnessed what?" Danny asked looking everywhere but Sam.

"Your transformation from Danny Phantom to Danny Fenton." Sam decided not to delay it.

"Sam, listen, I-."

"No, it's alright. It was your secret and you were afraid to tell it because you were afraid of how people would look at you." Sam decided. "Now here comes the hard part."

"Blurt it out Sam."

"Okay, you know Lilith." Sam avoided looking at Danny out of fear of what he would say. "Well, I didn't have a boyfriend. I was..."

"I say it for you Sam." Aly said over the phone and Sam nodded. "She was raped."

Whatever Danny had been expecting Sam to talk to him about it wasn't this. He knew she didn't want to tell him, but as shocked as he wa that she told him, the announcement itself wasn't.

"I must admit. I kind of knew."

Sam looked up in surprise. "You did."

"Don't take it as being nosey or anything, but I was concerned with your nightmares and went to Jazz who, being the psychiatrist she's trying to become, told me her assumption. That's why I didn't ask you again after I asked you two weeks ago." Danny admitted.

"Looks like we both went to older sister for help." Sam had to laugh.

"You know, you two are a lot alike. You should get married after high school."

Sam's cheeks turned a bright red. "Aly,"

"You know I-. Aw man, your parents are calling on the home phone. Gotta go. Hugs and kisses. Bye."

"She sounds a bit..." Danny searched the right word.

"Outgoing and isn't afraid to tell people her opinion even if it hurts the person's feelings?" Sam asked.

"Actually I was going to say bright, but that works." Danny laughed.

"She wants to come visit soon. Tucker's not going to be able to stand her though. She's amazingly observant and what takes him five minutes to look up on the internet takes her fives second to piece together in her head." Sam stood up with a hand on her stomach.

"So a secret for a secret then." Danny said the thing that was in their head.

Sam nodded. "Agreed."

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You know, I had no clue how this was going to go, but I knew I had to finish it when I set my mind to it or I would never get to it. I knew that this was the chapter where they found out each other's secrets, but I couldn't just delve into it. I had to set it up and then Aly came to my head as a filler in for this. She gives it the perfect flavor, don't you think? Oh well, enough ranting. R&R.