(A/N: Well, a lot more people seemed to like my story then I thought would. I'm very pleased so many of you like it, so I worked really hard to get this chapter up sooner then later. Hopefully if you reviewed I sent you back a reply, If I didn't I'm very sorry for that and please forgive me. Ok, I'll just get to the story now.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman does.

Runaway Cruise

Chapter 2: Late night, fast flight

Danny landed near the docks and walked half a block to a small building where he could buy his ticket for the cruise. He took his arm out of the sling before he went in, it hurt like hell but at least now he could move it Thank you ghost powers.

Danny reached out his hand to open the door and it closed around some one else's hand that had grabbed it a second before he did. He pulled his hand back, "Sorry"

When no one answered he looked over to see a girl, a very beautiful girl with shoulder length black hair that with a few strands hanging over her face, and amethyst eyes that were misted over slightly. Her mouth was open a little and she was staring straight at Danny. "Are you alright?"

Sam had been really annoyed and intended to explode at who ever had touched her but then stopped, this dude was beautiful, no hansom. He had messy short black hair and ice blue eyes that seemed to have a tent of green around the edge, she had never seen anything like them, him. It took her a while to realize that he was talking to her, "Oh sorry, I spaced out."

Shit! I was staring at him like a nut job. Great, you find a hot guy and act like a stupid fan girl or something.

"That's alright, I just said after you" Sam was about to ask after me what? Then saw that he was holding the door open for her.

"Thanks" Sam walked in to the small building followed by Danny, the line for Spectrum cruise wasn't long but it still had a few people in front of them. Thinking she should be polite and make conversation with him she turned to Danny, "I'm Sam"

"Danny" Sam waited for him to say something else but he wasn't going to.

"Nice to meet you Danny, ever been on a cruise ship before?" Sam asked.

"No, this is my first time on a boat." The line moved up and Sam turned to the guy behind the counter.

"One bed cabin for a day and night please." Sam said smiling at him.

"I'm sorry, we only have two bed cabins left and you'll have to pay for a week, you're free to get off at any of our stops before the week is up but we can only sell in one week increments." Great, I probably have enough for that but if I could get a one bedroom it would be better, or if I shared it with someone.

"Hey Danny, sense they only have two bed rooms left you want to share a room with me? We can split the cost." Great, you probably look like a hooker to him and now you offer to share a room with someone you've known less then five minutes.

Danny could not believe this girl, for all she knew he was a cereal killer or something. Is she for real? Well I could use her help paying for my room, and it would be cheaper to split a room sense they don't have a one bedroom left. "Umm, ok."

"Really?" Sam couldn't believe he had said yes. I guess he doesn't think I could do anything to him, but if he tries anything on me he'll learn. Sam turned back to the clerk, " We'll take a two bed room please."

"Ok, you room is on the third deck, room 372." He handed Sam two key cards. "The pool and hot tubs are on the main deck but are closed from 9 pm till 6 am. You can order anything from room service but it will be an extra added to your bill. The movies you can order on your TV thou are free. Lower deck 1 and 2 are mostly stores for your enjoyment. Please feel free to ask any member of the crew if you have questions." He turned back to his book.

"Here" Sam handed Danny one of the keys. "Shall we go to our room?" Sam led the way on to the ship and up the outside stairwell to the third floor, "Um, which way to 372?"

Danny looked down the hall one way and then the other, "Lets try that way" He headed off down the right hall way. Luckily he was right and they found their room at the end of the hall. The door wasn't fully closed and Danny reached out to hold it open for Sam, Sam tried to do the something, this time their finger intertwined as they grabbed the handle.

"Sorry " They both said pulling away. Sam looked at Danny's eyes and forgot why she was sorry, she even forgot where she was. Those eyes seem to hold so much more then they should, something's hidden in them, something painful. I wonder what it is?

"Hello? Earth to Sam? Are you still alive?" Danny waved his hands in front of her face trying to snap her out of it.

"What, oh sorry, I normally don't just space out like that, really." God! I must look like a crazy teen hooker with some serious brain damage. When Danny reached out again to open the door she smiled and walked in, the room had two beds and TV one the nightstand. There was also a window that looked out over the decks to the ocean beyond but the blinds were drawing across it. "So, Danny, which bed do you want?"

"I don't really care, I guess I'll take the one by the window." He walked over and set his bag down on his bed. Sam gave a silent sigh of relief, she love swimming and stuff but had a fear of the ocean, Dam! I should have thought of that before I got on. At least it's not that bad anymore. When she was little she had two big fears, one the ocean which she had slowly lost. She used to freak out when she saw the ocean, now she could be on a boat and feel ok as long as there wasn't a big storm. Second, darkness, she had hated it so much she had a huge night light in her room. She still slept with a little light on.

Danny walked over to the bathroom, "I'm going to take a shower ok?"

"Sure" Once Danny closed the door and Sam heard the water running she lay on her bed and picked up the phone. She dialed the cell number of her friend Marry who Sam knew was on the ship too.

"Hello?" Marry answered slightly tired sounding.

"Hey Marry, guess where I am"

"Umm, Home?" Marry was now interested, Sam wouldn't have asked that if she was some where she would normally be.

"No, I'm on the ship!" Sam smiled knowing that Marry would be freaking out wanting to know why.

"What! Why? Sam what's going on? Did you sneak on or something?"

"I'll tell you in half an hour if you'll meet me at the hot tubs, But no, I didn't sneak on, I'm in room 372"

"What? The third deck is only two bed rooms, you got an extra bed?"

"No, they were out of one bed rooms so I'm sharing it with a guy I meet a little while age." Sam didn't realize how insane that sounded till it was already out.

"Really? Is he hot, wait you just meet him? What's going on, did he kidnap you?" Marry sounded like she was really starting to get worried.

"No, we each needed a room and it was cheaper to share one then each get different ones."

"Ok, so is he hot?" Same old boy obsessed girl Sam had known for years.

"You'll have to see for yourself, I'll ask him if he wants to come for a swim with us, alright?" Now why did I say that?

"Alright, see you soon" Marry hung up her phone. Sam set her down and started going threw her suitcase looking for her bathing suit.

Danny let the warm water run over him, how the heck did I end up here? With a really hot girl, no, stop right there. After this cruise is over I'll never see her again, this was just the most convent arrangement for both of us. Danny stood there letting the water wash over his arm, he could now move it pretty well and in an hour or so it should be as good as new. It would help if her could go swimming or something, water always helps loosen his muscles up after his powers healed him. Danny wrapped a towel around his waist and stepped out into the room.

Sam was waiting for Danny to get out of the shower, but she wasn't expecting him to come out with only a towel around his waist. My god! Hes got a great body! It was true, fighting ghost for three years had done wonders for Danny. Turning his body from lanky to muscular, but not those large muscles like football players, more like a swimmers. I wonder if he plays sports, or has a girl friend. Wait, stop right there Sam. You'll only be with him till you get off, a few days at the most. Then she realized Danny had caught her staring at him, and his body.

Sam turned away, "Sorry, didn't mean to stair like that" She looked back at Danny and was surprised to see that he was blushing too as he got his clothes and went back into the bath room to change. Was he embarrassed?

Danny quickly got dressed and then went back in to the room, Sam turned to him, "Hey Danny, want to go to the hot tubs with me and my friend?"

"Sure, but aren't they closed?" Danny was already looking of his trunk thou.

"We'll sneak in, it shouldn't be to hard." Sam walked in to the bathroom to change in to her swimsuit, Danny quickly did the same before Sam walked out. When Sam did come out Danny was the one starring at her, she was wearing a two piece bathing suit that was black and purple. "Umm, Danny?"

"Uh? Oh what?" Danny was still starring at her but he moved his gaze up to her face.

"You were starring" Sam was blushing, well, I did the same thing to him. But why was he starring like that? Maybe he likes me? Yeah right. "Shall we get going?" Sam asked trying to draw attention away from herself.

"Sure" They walked out into the hall and down to the main deck, sense it was the middle of December it was really cold out and they had to hurry to keep from freezing. The hot tube along with the small heated pool were behind a tall metal fence, it had fancy decoration one, not one of those chain link fences.

Standing next to the gate was a teen girl, about Sams age with red hair and green highlights. Her bathing suit was a lot like Sams except that it was red and green too. When they got closer to her she ran up and hugged Sam, "Its great that you decided to come along, but you almost missed the boat, its leaving in an hour." Danny had walked over to the gate to see if he could open it, "You didn't tell your roomy was that hot"

"Hes ok I guess" A slight blush rising in her checks. Say it, you know you want to, say hes the hottest guy ever. SHUT UP, I'm not the kind of girl to go mushy over a hot guy. Then why are you arguing with your self about it? Sam was blushing even more now. "Hey Danny, did you get the lock open? " Sam asked trying to turn Marrys attention away from her.

"Yep" Danny pushed the gate and it swung open. Didn't even have to use my powers. "After you" He held the gate open for them. Sam and Marry walked past him to the hot tube.

"Umm, how do you turn this thing on?" Marry asked looking around for a control box.

"I think this is it" Sam pushed a few buttons on the wall and air jets kicked in to life in the hot tube. She adjusted the temperature dial then stepped in, "Hey, this is pretty warm already."

Marry got in with Sam. Danny dove on to the pool, the water was cold but he didn't mind. He started doing laps around the pool while Sam and Marry talked. "So Sam, anything happening between you two?"

"No, would you just drop it. We're only sharing a room because its cheaper." Sam tried not to blush as the image of Danny in a towel crept in to her mind.

"Sure, so why are you suddenly concerned with how much it coasts? Seems like your more concerned with, Danny?" Marry put on a sly smile to emphasize her point.

"Sense I ran away, I have no intention of ever going back so I have to be careful with the money I, um, had to steal from my dad." Sam hung her head, she knew she did what she had to do but it still was wrong.

"Why did you run away?" Marry looked at Sam concerned.

"You remember that guy that wanted to date me and I turned him down so he said he was going to tell my parents that we were sleeping together? Well he did and they believed him, and this" Sam moved her arm aside so Marry could see the bruise on her side.

"Oh my god Sam, did your dad do that to you?" Marry reached out like she was going to touch it but then pulled back.

"Yeah, I left before her could do anything else." Sam looked off in to the night sky, I have enough money for a little while, but after that.

"Sam I'm so sorry, you can stay with me when the cruise is over." Marry put her hand on Sams shoulder.

"Thanks, hat means a lot." Sam smiled.

"Of course, if you get to know Danny he might ask you to stay with him, then you could stay with a hot guy." Marry smiled thinking about what she'd do if someone as hot as Danny invited her to stay with him.

"Get your head out of the gutter." Thou it would be cool to stay with him, wait, where the heck did that come from?

"I wonder, HEY DANNY!" Marry yelled to him across the pool.

"Marry, shhh!" Sam put her hand over Marrys mouth. To later Danny was swimming over to them.

"Hey, Danny. Want to join us?" Marry asked

"Ok" He pooled himself out of the pool and got in to the hot tube, the jets and warm water felt great on his body. He sank into the water up to his chin.

Marry looked at Sam with a smile on her face, "So Danny, what brought you to this ship so late at night?"

"Umm, I just wanted to take a little vacation." He wasn't looking at them thou and they could both tell he wasn't telling them the whole truth. "What brought you two here?"

Marry looked at Sam for an answer not wanting to mention anything she didn't want Danny to know. Sam said, "Same as you, just wanted to get a break."

Marry decided to change the subject. "So Danny, how old are you? Nineteen?"

"No, Seventeen. Eighteen in three months. How old are you?" Danny was glade they didn't press why he had shown up so late to get on the ship.

Sam answered again, "Were both seventeen too, I'll be eighteen in five months and Marry in three." Before anyone could ask another question the whole ship lunged forward and started to move. "We must have been in here a while if the ship is already moving."

"You three, Don't move!" They turned to see a security guard running towards them.

"Shit, we need to get out of here, split up so they can't get us all" Danny said. They all jumped out and ran, Sam ran up the stairs, Marry ran anlong the deck and Danny ran below deck. Ok, I'll go below then ghost up and see if I can help Sam, wait why did I just think that? Danny came to a door that was locked and ghosted in to it, it was a storage closet for food and it was really cold inside. He heard he guards foot steps running along the hall out side, they tried the door then moved on when it wouldn't open.

Danny waited a minute then ghosted up to the next floor, luckily it was a closet too. He checked to make sure the coast was clear then ran down the hall. He kept going till he was on the second floor, then started looking for Sam.

Sam ran up the stairs and down a hall, she could hear the guards behind her. She tried a couple doors but they were a locked, she kept running but her side was starting to hurt. The Danny was running next to her, "You alright?"

Sam nodded not having enough breath to talk. Danny grabbed her hand and pulled her along, her heart started to beat faster. My heart shouldn't be beating this fast just from running, is it because of Danny? Sam looked over her shoulder to see if the guards were still following them.

Danny grabbed Sams hand and pulled her along, they turned a corner and he realized to later it was a dead end. Only one thing to do. He turned both of them intangible, luckily Sam was looking behind them so she didn't see them pass threw that wall. Danny tripped on a mop on the other side of the wall and they both fell down. Sam landed on top of him and he put his arms around her to keep her from slamming in to the floor. It took him about two seconds to realize how close he was holding her, Shit, shes going to kill me. "Umm, sorry about that" Danny said letting go of her.

"No problem" Sam said breathing heavily, and not from the running. She tried to get up but fell down clutching her side.

"Sam, are you ok?" Danny moved closer to her and saw the bruise. "That looks nasty."

"I must have hit it when I fell running from the guards" Sam could see Danny frowning and could tell he didn't believe her but didn't ask anything else. Danny helped her up and she turned to open the door and check to see if the guards were still around, but there was no door. She was sure they had come in that way, "Wheres the door?"

"Right here" Danny held it open for her. They walked out and went down the hall to try and get back to their room. They found their way back to their room in about ten minutes, Sam was about to open her door when she realized she must have dropped her key. "Dam! I lost my key."

"Don't worry, I have mine right here." Danny reached in to the pocket of his trunks and pulled out his key card. He slipped it in to the door and turned the handle, "After you" He said holding the door open again.

"Thank you" Sam walked in followed by Danny, she turned to Danny but her side gave out and she fell. Danny reached out and caught her in his arms and they both fell on to her bed. Danny was on top of her and their faces were inches from each other, "Sorry" Danny tried to get off of her but she had put her hands behind his neck.

"That's alright, I haven't said thanks for helping me out when the guards were chasing us." Sam moved her face closer to Dannys. Right before their lips touched the door to their room opened and Marry stepped in.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt." Danny rolled off of Sam. They were both red in the face.

Sam was the first to speak, "No, you didn't interrupting anything, how did you get in here?"

"I found your key by the hot tub but they showed up before I could give it back to you." She handed Sam back her key.

Danny walked over to the bathroom, "I'm going to take a shower." Danny shut the door. He had taken a shower earlier but needed time to think and this was the first thing to come to mind.

Marry looked at Sam, "I thought you said that nothing was going on between you two, and also weren't you the one who said all boys were perverts?"

'I know, I don't know whats happening, I've never acted like that before." Sam put her head in her hands.

"Your sure that your ok?" She leaned closer to Sam, "Danny hasn't done anything to you has he?"

"No, nothing. I'm going to bed." Sam lay out on her bed and was almost asleep before Marry had walked out. Danny stepped out of the shower and walked in to the room. Sam was asleep on her bed, the covers had fallen off and she was still in her swimsuit. Sam shivered a little and Danny pulled the covers over her. Then changed and went to bed himself.

(A/N: Ok, I wanted to make this chapter longer but decided to stop here so I could get it up, I would like some reviews for this one, and that means at least 7 if you want another chapter. The next chapter is where things start getting really different from paper hotel. I hope you all like this, and all reviews are welcome even flames,(Summons Phanty the giant ghost panda.) Have a happy new year!)