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.

Damn, when you people want something you make sure you get it. I got TEN reviews! TEN in less than twenty- four hours! I didn't update this until around ten o'clock at night! You must have really liked it. The same rule applys if you want the last chapter tomorrow and read the authors note in the chapter after this one alright. It's really important and it's about the sequel to this.

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 to last chapter of Trial, Transition, Growth: Book I.

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Lilith Danielle Manson

By

DarkDragonQueen

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"Are you sure we aren't sentencing ourselves to death?" Tucker asked.

"We have to risk it. Do you know that if mothers don't deliver their babies in time they and the child will die!" Aly asked.

"Well we could at least not risk our lives and only risk Sam's by hoping that the storm clears up in time."

Aly lunged to the front passenger seat and grabbed Tucker in a head lock. "Take that back right now."

"Aly…" Tucker struggled. "I can't breath!"

"Take it back!" Aly demanded.

"Al-!"

"Guys stopped it. It's hard enough to see without you two about to fight. Stop it!" Danny yelled as he carefully backed out the drive way.

Aly sat back down still glaring at Tucker. Sam rolled her eyes. Here she was in labor and in a great deal of pain needing a great deal of comfort and Aly was instead about to kill Tucker. This was just perfect. She winced as another contraction came. She was starting to be able ignore the pain by thinking of something else.

"Okay now Danny, look out and watch where you're going. You may have ghost powers but you need to be really careful. We're-"

"JAZZ!" Danny cut her off. "I'm nervous enough as it is, so would you please do me a favor and shut up?"

Jazz seemed a bit surprised by her brother's outburst but said nothing else and decided to keep watch over Sam.

Thunder boomed and lightning struck outside. It was raining cats and dogs and yet Danny somehow managed to see through it all. Sam sat up a bit as she struggled to see through the rain.

"Danny, are you going the right way?" she asked.

"Hopefully we'll end up at a hospital Sam." Danny replied.

Sam slapped him upside the head for that remark and the car swerved.

"SAM!" Everyone shouted as Danny was thankfully able to get back on the road.

"Don't 'SAM' me."

"If you don't stop it, we'll never make it to the hospital alive." Tucker exclaimed.

"You're not the one having the baby here techno- geek." Sam glared.

"And for that I will forever be grateful." Tucker replied and this time Sam, despite her oversized belly tried to grab his neck and strangle him.

Fortunately for Tucker, Sam had another contraction and stopped herself so she could lean back against the seat. "You know," she breathed. "I considered suicide when I found out I was pregnant, but decided it wouldn't be worth it to throw away my life. Now though, I think I would have preferred death over this."

Jazz and Aly looked at Sam quite alarmed by the confession.

"After all this is over Sam, we are so getting you a psychiatrist." Aly noted as Thunder boomed and lightning crashed again.

The ride, which normally would have taken no longer than fifteen minutes at most, had dragged out into a long forty- five minute ride. Unfortunately, they still had at least a mile to go.

"Can you drive any fast than a mile an hour?" Sam asked irritable from the pain she was in.

"Well sure if you don't want to make it to the hospital alive." Danny said just as irritated a Sam was.

"Well, you're already half dead." Sam shot back.

Danny breathed out slowly. "And I don't want to end up fully dead." He tried to reply calmly.

"We don't want to end up dead at all." Tucker put in.

"Did anyone ask you?" Sam glared at him.

"Well his mouth runs faster than the speed of light so I'm sure he couldn't help it." Aly smarted.

"Okay guys, let's stop acting like immature-." Jazz screamed as thunder boomed and lightning crashed again. "Danny, watch out!" she cried.

Danny's eyes widen as he looked ahead and saw the large truck that was head straight for them. On instinct he made the car and everyone who was in it intangible before they crashed head on into the truck and they instead went right through it.

They all let out a breath of relief.

"Thank God!" Aly said out loud.

Sam would have nodded in agreement if she hadn't been more concerned about other things. "How long until we get the hospital Danny?"

"It's right around the corner, why?"

"We need to get there quick. If we don't I think I'll deliver right in this car."

"Why?" Jazz asked.

"My water just broke." Sam replied.

"Oh no, girl. Not in my car. I will not have blood and slimy fluid all over my leather seats. I just got this car, It's brand new." Aly exclaimed

"And you were fussing at me." Tucker grumbled rolling his eyes

"Everyone SHUT UP!" Danny yelled as they finally pulled into the hospital parking lot and just in time to.

"Sam, breathe!" Jazz exclaimed as Sam tried desperately to take in a breath.

Sam let out a long slow breath. "I forgot."

"How in the world did you forget that? We don't even make a conscious effort to do that." Tucker exclaimed.

"Why don't you try going through labor and being scared out of your wits to give birth you good for nothing, big mouth, jackass, techno geek." Sam said so loud no one could here the thunder that boomed outside the car.

Tucker looked deathly pale and looked as though he was ready to throw up. "I really didn't need to imagine that." He said as they got out of the car with a large umbrella.

They all supported Sam's weight as she could barely walk and went into the hospital where tonight a child would be birthed.

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Aly carefully led her god- sister to sit down in the waiting are while Jazz, Danny, and Tucker went to go sign her in. They of course were getting some weird looks which was to be expected of course. They were a group of five teenagers, one whom was pregnant and in labor, soaking wet, and looked like they had just had a traumatic experience.

"Yes." The receptionist at the desk said not looking up.

"Our friend's in labor." Jazz replied quickly.

"What?"

Danny rolled his eyes. "Do I need to give you a definition? Our friend's in labor."

"In other words, having a baby." Tucker added.

"Okay, which one of you is in labor?" She asked still looking down.

Tucker almost fell out at this question. "Does it look like one of us is pregnant? Heck, two of us aren't even capable of ever being that condition."

"No, our friend is pregnant. Not us." Jazz sighed.

The receptionist nonchalantly passed them a clipboard. "Your friend or a family member will have to fill these out. We'll be with you momentarily."

Jazz, Danny, and Tucker looked at the receptionist with a look of utter disbelief.

"Hello! What part of, 'our friend is having a baby' don't you understand?"

"Hospital policy,"

At that moment Aly pushed them out the way.

"Listen lady. You may not want to be here and you may want a raise on your paycheck. You may not even like the person who employed you, but God Damn it, my god- sister is in labor. Now I don't care what you have to do, my sister needs a doctor!" Aly glared and if possible was just about shooting daggers with it.

"I told you," said the receptionist. "It's hospital-."

"Oh my Sam, are you alright?" came the soft soothing feminine voice.

Everyone turned around to see Sam's OBGYN rubbing her back in a comforting motherly way.

"Hey Julie." Sam smiled despite her pain. "I guess you won't need to induce me after all, huh?"

Julie laughed for a moment and then became quite serious as Sam had another contraction. "How far apart are you contractions?"

"Five minutes,"

"How long have you been in labor?"

Sam moaned. "Forever!"

Julie looked back at the four other teens for assistance.

"She went into labor around five o'clock, so I would say," Jazz counted on her fingers for a moment. "Eight hours."

Julie nodded. "Okay, lets get you settled in and we'll check your progress, alright?"

"Fine, whatever. I really don't care. Just get this thing out of me." Sam growled.

An hour later, Sam was just getting settled into the hospital bed and hooked up to a fetal monitor. According to Julie she was seven centimeters. Tucker and Jazz were waiting out in the waiting room. Tucker got sick when Julie went to check Sam and Jazz had offered to stay out with him and keep trying to contact her mother and father.

Sam sighed and leaned back. She had made it his far without medicine, so she might as well keep going.

"Oh, this is so exciting. I'm going to see the birth of my niece. I bet she'll look just like you Sam. Strawberry blonde hair, violet eyes… Well of course they'll be blue first, but I know they'll turn purple in a month I bet."

Sam sighed. "I just want to get through this pain and let this be over with."

"Well," Tucker said as he stepped back in the room with Jazz. "If this is labor, I wonder what actually giving birth will be like."

Sam gasped in fear and at that moment stopped breathing, literally.

"Sam," Aly grabbed her god- sister who was staring in anxiety.

"Sam!" Jazz tried again. "Tucker look what you did." She shouted.

"Sam BREATHE!" Danny shook her roughly and Sam let out a breath.

Julie walked in at that moment with a concerned look. "Are you alright?" she asked checking all the monitors in the room.

"I'll be fine." Sam relaxed a bit.

"She just forgot to breathe again." Tucker shrugged and he got three glares thrown his way. "What?"

"Again?" Julie asked.

"She forgot on the way here too." Danny laughed.

"It's not funny." Sam growled glaring at Danny.

"Well, it's not just you. I've had patients who forgot to breathe on more than a few occasions. I see it very often, especially from first time mothers who are nervous about giving birth." Julie smiled. "It's not as bad as people make it out to be."

Sam relaxed a bit more at that only to tense back up with the pain of another contraction.

"If it keeps up at this rate, we'll have a baby before noon. I'll check in on you in a few minutes and if you forget to breathe again I'll bring you an oxygen mask."

Sam nodded as the pain receded and then she registered what Julie had said. "Did she just say before noon?"

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"Okay, Sam we're ready to go."

Sam closed her eyes and moaned. She really just wanted to die right about now. She had been here for three more hours since she had gotten in the room. It was five o' clock now and what her nurse had just said as she walked out the room was the best news she had ever heard in her short fifteen going on sixteen years.

"Okay, who's staying and who's going out to wait with Tucker." Jazz asked.

"I'm staying and that's final." Aly declared.

"I'll go." Danny said heading for the door.

"No, Danny, you stay." Sam's muffled voice managed through her pain as she clutched a pillow to her face.

"No, really, I'll-."

"No Danny, I really want you to stay." Sam growled.

"Why?" Danny asked nervously.

Sam slowly raised her face from the pillow and glared dangerously around. "You'll be the first victim in my quest to make sure no man ever does this to another woman again." She said barely above a whisper. "Or it can be Tucker. Either way, I need one of you to be here so I can start as soon as this is over."

It didn't take Tucker and Danny a split second to get to the door.

"Let me go Danny. You've got ghost powers. She wouldn't be able to get you." Tucker said trying to push Danny out the way making Jazz and Aly laugh tears.

"I wouldn't put it past Sam to find a way. You forget she's Goth. She can come up with all kind of insane and cruel ways of punishment." Danny said standing his ground.

"I'll flip a coin." Aly rolled her eyes though amusement was still visible in them. "Heads, Danny goes Tucker stays and vise verse if tails." Aly tossed the coin in the air, caught it flipped it onto her hands. She lifted it and sure enough.

"Ha, Tails. I get to leave." Tucker shouted in triumph and didn't waste a second in getting out the room.

"Well, I guess I'll go sit out with-." Jazz began as she headed to the door, but was cut off by Sam.

"Jazz, stay. Tucker's not a child. He can take care of himself. He's not a six year old." Sam buried her face back in the pillow.

Jazz nodded and sat down. "What the girl in labor says goes." Jazz said under her breath though she was glad Sam had asked her to stay. How often did one get to see the birth of another person's baby in real life?

Julie walked back into the room as Danny reluctantly sat back in his seat next to Sam. The nurse was behind her preparing for the birth. Sam despite her pain was a nervous wreck and screamed into her pillow.

"It's alright Sam. I'm a twin. Just think my mother had to give birth to two a one time. You just have one. She had to make twice the effort." Julie commented as she put on her gloves.

That seemed to relax Sam a bit, but then the prospect of ever having twins entered her head. She pushed the thought from her mind. She would focus on now and worry about the future later.

"Now on you next contraction I want you to push." Julie said as the thunder continued to boom outside.

Sam nodded and grabbed hold of Aly's hand and then grab Danny's who was startled by her sudden actions. The contraction came and Sam pushed. After a ten second count she stopped and Julie nodded her head.

"That was good Sam. Now,"

"How many more times do I have to push?" Sam asked as the ponytail holder holding in her strawberry blond hair popped.

"It varies dear. Sometimes it takes ten minutes."

Sam sighed. It was almost over.

"And sometimes a few hours," Julie shrugged.

The grip Sam had on Danny's hand almost made it numb and he considered phasing it out. Instead Sam sent him a glare that told him not to even try it. He side and hoped that by the time this was over he wouldn't need a prosthetic hand.

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Two agonizing hours later, not only was Sam exhausted from labor and pushing, but so were everyone's hands. She let Aly and Jazz alternate, but she wouldn't let Danny's go. Danny couldn't even feel his hand since it was so numb from Sam's grip. Surprisingly, it was still thundering and lightening outside.

"Okay Sam I see the head. Now push, push, push, push, push." Julia said as she held her hand out preparing to grab the head.

Sam grunted in pain and gave it as much as she could put in.

"Okay Sam. The head is out." Julia said grabbing the aspirator and clearing the baby's mouth and nose.

Jazz squealed in excitement. "Oh my God. Sam, her hair is strawberry blonde. It's a bit darker than yours but it's just like it."

Sam heard the words but couldn't find the strength to smile.

"Okay Sam one more good push should do it. Now push."

Sam hugged the pillow still in her lap and buried her face in it, not aware that she had yanked Aly and Danny's hand with it. She gathered the last of her strength and used all her will power to push.

"Hold it." Julie urged.

Sam screamed into the pillow and then…

A loud cry filled the air and Sam collapsed back to the bed still hugging the pillow, but releasing her grip on Danny and Aly's hands. She took the pillow from her face and looked around the room weakly; her child's cry still filling the air. Not so surprisingly the rain had stopped though it was still dark.

"Where is she?" She asked softly and Aly took the pillow as Julia laid the child on her chest while wiping her with a towel.

"It's a little girl." Julie announce though Sam already new that.

Sam looked down at her baby, almost afraid to touch her. She looked so fragile. Finally she cradled the little girl to her chest at the same time wiping her with the towel.

"Lilith." She breathed out looking at the girl who was the spitting image of her mother. She hadn't opened her eyes yet, but it was alright. Sam knew they would eventually be purple.

"Aww, she's so cute!" Aly exclaimed as one Julia came up with a pair of scissors.

"Who wants to cut the cord?"

"You do it Danny." Sam said absently almost not aware of her surroundings.

Danny wasn't about to argue since it seemed she had momentarily forgotten her threat to his manhood. He took the scissors and cut the cord in the spot Julie told him to. The nurse then came over and took the baby so she could be weighed.

"Six pound, two ounces, born at seven o seven a.m. July 7th 2006." Announced before bring Lilith back to be with her mother.

"So what's her name?" Julie asked.

"Lilith Danielle Manson." Sam replied eager to have Lilith back in her arms.

"Alright then, I'll let you have some time with Lilith and then we'll come back and get her so mommy can get some rest. You did a good job Sam." Julie nodded and left the room just and Sam positioned Lilith to her breast to feed her. Lilith eagerly accepted.

Danny blushed. "Let's not forget I'm in the room." Danny said turning around.

Sam scowled at him. "It's a completely natural thing Danny. That's the purpose the growth on women's chest, unlike what they're publicized as on TV and in magazines."

"You're certainly going back to yourself rather quickly." Danny turned back around with a smirk on his face.

"Ooo," Aly took a camera out her purse. "Picture time!" She announced.

"Not while I'm feeding her, Aly." Sam exclaimed.

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I can't believe next is the last chapter. Oh and that forgetting to breathe part… It's not a joke. It actually happens in real life according to my sources. Also that part about the rain stopping but it still being dark after Lilith is born has some signifigance. You'll see why in the authors note of my next chapter. R&R.