It felt like there were weights on my eyelids as I dragged them open. I was in a hospital room, on my left hand I had that thing they put on your finger and and IV and in my right hand there was a hand.

Danny was sitting in a chair next to my bed, his head was on the bed with one arm across the bed holding my hand.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

I squeezed his hand a little bit, a tear fell off my face.

He sighed and squeezed my hand back using his thumb stroking the back of my hand. After a few seconds his thumb stopped and he slowly raised his head. His beautiful eyes staring back at mine.

"Sam, are you in pain?" His eyes were wide with concern, his voice slightly raspy.

"E-" I rasped, my throat hurt and it hurt to talk. I took a deep breath

"Everything feels so heavy... Sore but nothing hurts too bad." I whispered.

He sighed.

"You really wore yourself out and managed to scare the literal fuck out of me Sam, you know that?" He said with a small worried smile.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Suddenly I had so many questions and my heart started picking up again from the stress.

"What time is it? What happened? Where's my mom? Where are your parents? Is everyone okay? Is-" I winced my throat was killing me.

"Calm down Sam, everyone is okay. You are safe now. What hurts?" Danny asked while slowly rubbing his thumb on my hand trying to help calm me down, which did but also didn't help my heart calm down.

I raised my left hand and pulled at my neck.

"Your throat hurts?" he asked, then let out a small chuckle. He looked up at me with a smile and worried eyes and whispered-

"If I let out a ghostly wail as long and as strong as you did I bet it would hurt after. Don't worry I'm here, I'm going to call the nurse and then I'll explain everything."

He pressed a button next to me and a second later a nurse came in.

"I see she's awake." The lady said.

"If you will please wait outside I have to do a few checkups but then you may come back in." She said to Danny. She checked my eyes and vitals and asked a few questions.

"What time is it?" I asked, I still had no idea how much time had passed.

"It's about 5 PM, you slept for a good 17 hours, your mother went to get dinner I believe, she's been here all night. Your boyfriend has been here ever since we gave him the okay that he was good enough to leave a few hours ago. Don't worry he wasn't banged up too badly, he is fine now." She said soothingly.

"You didn't break any bones amazingly, we did some blood tests and it just seems with the explosions some ectoplasm got into some cuts but after speaking with a specialist you have nothing to worry about, once you are ready to talk about everything we will need to know what happened from your perspective. Does anything hurt? Other than the bruises or anything? Everything will remain confidential." She said looking seriously into my eyes.

"My throat hurts and I'm tired, that's it really" I managed.

"Yes it would seem both you and your boyfriend-" I felt myself blush, "- both have sore throats, it's probably from shouting for help, don't worry we have some painkillers for that but for now just take it easy. Okay dear?" she said with a small smile.

"Well everything is looking better now. You my dear are quite strong and are healing well, I will check up on you every couple of hours. We will probably keep you overnight and you can leave in the morning."

"Thank you" I said weakly with a small smile.

She smiled and turned to walk out opening the door as Danny walked in with a pink ice cream cone.

"Everything looking okay?" He asked looking at me and the nurse.

"Everythings good, we will probably keep her overnight since it's already evening and just to ensure she's okay." She smiled and left.

I moved to sit up.

"Ah ah ah! Wait, check this out." Danny said pressing the remote on the table next to me which started moving the bed to a sitting position. I rolled my eyes.

Fancy ass hospitals.

"Strawberry ice cream for the lady." He said handing me the cone. I had a huge smile on like an idiot and my heart picked up.

Beep. beep. Beep. beep.

Fuck this was just like Twilight, he can literally hear my heart beating.

"Thank you." I said taking a lick, it was delicious and felt amazing on my sore throat.

"So I thought I could explain everything while you have your ice cream" He said. I nodded

He sat back down into the chair next to me and took a deep breath.

"So I went to the bathroom and as I was walking back Vlad came up to me and baited me into his lab and that's how I ended up… where you found me." We still hadn't addressed the 'ghost in the room.'

"What did he do?" I asked. Danny looked away for a second.

"He told me he had you." He said quietly.

"I don't know why I believed him I should have checked back to where you were first but I wouldn't doubt him to have taken you to get to me, I didn't realize until it was too late I wasn't…. The only one" He squeezed my hand.

"What happened after…." I trailed off.

"I'm not really sure…. One second I felt like I was on fire and I could hear you two fighting then you screamed something and then everything started shaking." My eyes were wide and I could feel some ice cream dripping. Danny handed me some napkins and I tried to lick up and threw away the cone since it would hurt my throat.

Danny took another breath.

"Things started exploding and the power was going in and out and suddenly I felt my power coming back to me but I still immediately turned into my human form. Then the table restraints suddenly opened and you stopped screaming and…. You fell to the ground and changed back." He stopped his voice getting thick. He took a few breaths and continued.

"It was so quiet suddenly, the lab was a disaster. I don't know how I had the energy in me but I got up and somehow made it to you. I passed out right next to you and that's where they found us."

"Where is he?" I said so quietly it surprised me that Danny heard.

"Vlad got flung into the wall and is in a medically induced coma right now, I think he changed back when he hit the wall and a cabinet fell onto him." My eyes were wide, I didn't know what to think.

"When the doctors said I was okay to leave I immediately came here and your mom was sitting here, she asked me what happened…"

"What did you tell her?" I immediately asked. He spoke barely above a whisper.

"I told her… I said I was looking for you and Vlad had brought you to his ghost lab and that… I got scared of what a middle aged man would want with a young teenage girl…. And that I got there and you looked scared and I confronted him and in the process somehow one of his experiments must have went off or something and I just remember a small explosion." I stared at him.

"Your mom looked like a ghost, well, you know what i mean, but she immediately called your dad and if he gets better you won't have to worry about him, I've only known your mother for so long but you know her, so she's pressing charges and so we hopefully won't have to worry about that." He looked conflicted.

"I feel bad implying something so wrong but I couldn't think fast enough and that was the first story I could think of that would work." I squeezed his hand.

"You did what you needed to protect me… protect us." I said seriously yet with my face slightly flushed.

"So…" He said his face looking a tad pink. I looked at my hand very curious about the thing on my thumb taking my pulse.

"It was you the whole time?" I looked up at him expecting his face to be disappointed or irritated but when I did I was met with his goddamn puppy eyes.

I gave a small nod. Suddenly self conscious, but I also had to ask,

"You're really Phantom?" I whispered. He nodded then he looked down and his puppy eyes slowly turned into a look of disgust.

"I… I am so so sorry Sam, now I understand. While you were sleeping I was thinking of everything that has happened and you thought, you thought I hated you because you were Spectra." He whispered. My heart clenched at the memory but my hand still grabbed his.

"I have had the same fear for years, of my family hating me and then of you hating me. And I caused you to feel that pain, I will never forgive myself for that. Or for letting you get hurt" He said his voice nearly cracking.

"I almost lost you" He choked.

"But you didn't, it is not your fault you couldn't have known. Also you don't hate me." I whispered. Then a bit louder,

"Right?" I asked raising an eyebrow. He looked up his eyes softening.

"It's just the opposite Sam." He sighed.

"I am crazy about you."

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Danny held back a smile.

"I'm hoping that means you feel the same?" He teased.

"I need to ask them to take this thing off I don't like it." I mumbled feeling my face warming up.

"So is that a maybe?" Danny asked confused.

"You really are captain clueless aren't you?"

"Captain Clu-" Danny started but was cut off my me letting go of his hand and grabbing the front of his shirt and pulling him towards me.

It was a messy, chapped, wonderful kiss.

"I'll take that as a yes" He whispered taking my face in his hands and kissing me again and again until we were interrupted by,

"SAMANTHA!" My mother said wide eyed.

AN: this is all the stuff I had prewritten but dont worry I'm writing the next chapter right now and I plan on wrapping it up in the next two or three chapters so lets all hope I don't loose my umph, I will not read any Miraculous Ladybug fanfics until I finish this so that will make me finish writing hopefully.