Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom – I never have and I never will, simple as that. You know exactly what would happen if I owned Danny--oh wait, it did happen! Silly me. ;)

Author's Note: All right, I am very excited that I am more than halfway through with this challenge. I only have five left! I'm very excited about that. There are a couple more that I plan on going through before I start the sequel to "Ten Things..." so we'll see how that goes. Thank you for reading, my lovelies!

025 : Fall on the First Try

Rating : PG

Theme : 17. Garden Vista ; Elysium El Dorado ; Carnival

July 14, 2007

"Come on, Sammy! Hit me!" he chimed, grinning as he sat atop a bench, perched above the small pool of water.

She rolled her eyes, casually throwing the ball in the air and catching it. "We have to wait for kids to donate and throw the ball. I can't be dunking you without purpose. Well, more of a purpose than usual." As she finished her sentence, she grinned.

"Excuse me?" a small voice asked, catching Sam's attention. Looking down at the small girl with blonde hair, she smiled.

"Can I help you?"

"If I give you five dollars, will you dunk him?"

Tucker, sitting casually by the money box, in charge of the funds, chuckled, "It's only a dollar, though."

"I know," the young girl smiled. "I have a feeling it will go to a good cause." She turned, grinning up at Sam, seemingly more wise for her age than other children.

Sam grinned back at the small girl, then turned to Danny with a menacing smirk, "Well, well, well, I see your wish has been granted."

"Whoa," Danny replied, suddenly getting scared, forgetting that it really was no threat. He forgot he was half-ghost at that moment, relying completely on his human emotion. "Don't hurt me, now!"

Her expression dropped and she gave him a blank stare, dead-panning, "Are you serious."

Sitting upright again, he cleared his throat, his "hero bravado voice" ringing loudly, "Never! You could never hurt me!"

"Uh huh," she dead-panned again, rolling her eyes. She watched the small girl give her five to Tucker, who locked it in the money box, then decided to take action. "I can't hurt you?"

He had to duck quickly out of the way of the ball that soared past where his head had just been. "Dude!"

"Sorry," she said passively, glancing at her nails, "I wasn't really paying attention."

"You could've knocked me out!"

"You already have," Tucker laughed at his own joke, as well as the expressions on Danny and Sam's faces.

"You're next, Foley," she threatened, then looked down at the blonde-haired girl. "I'll hit it this time, don't worry. He may look pretty, but he goes down real hard."

"That's what she said!" Tucker chimed in, then scrambled out of the way of the ball which was pegged in his direction. After the fact, Sam realized how dirty that sounded and flushed in embarrassment. Thankfully, the little girl who was looking up at her didn't catch on.

"She has weapons, you fool, why are you egging her on?" Danny yelled to his fallen comrade, smirking.

When she glanced back at Danny, he wiggled his eyebrows at her with a different type of smile on his face. She loved that lopsided grin of his.

"Later," she mumbled loud enough for him to hear, blushing yet again. "Right now, I'm going to prove to this girl I can make you fall on the first try. Right?" she asked, looking down at the girl, a grin matching Sam's on her face.

As she moved to throw the ball, Tucker calling out her name as a distraction made her lose her aim, nearly hitting Danny in the head again. "Sorry!"

"Aw, look, Sam, you couldn't make him fall on the first try," Tucker teased.

"You are such an ass–" she looked down at the girl who was watching her with innocent eyes. "–asinine human being." Phew, nice save.

"Sure, I am," Tucker said in an unconvinced manner, the word 'asinine' going right over his head.

She rolled her eyes, then without another warning, took the second ball, which had been in her other hand, and threw it towards the target, hitting it dead-on. With a yelp, Danny fell into the tank, splashing about. The little girl laughed and clapped her hands at the show.

"Thank you! I knew you could do it. Stupid boys always try and distract us," she said, and with a wave, she walked away to another attraction.

After a few seconds, Danny came to the surface, letting out a loud breath. He decided his round for being the dunk-ee was over and got out of the tank, dripping wet, and headed over in Sam's direction.

"Hey, Sam!" Danny came over to her, with arms wide open.

"Oh, no, no, no," she said quickly with eyes wide. He was still sopping wet, though this time reaching out to give her a squishy hug. She tried getting away from him, but her efforts were fruitless. He grabbed her in a wet hug, making sure to press as much wetness of his onto her dry clothes.

Bending his head down so his lips would be right next to her ear, he whispered, "You did make me fall on the first try."

Blushing ever-so, she turned her head to meet his lips in a sweet kiss.

End Note: I thought that this would wind up being the hardest out of the remaining to complete, but when I was brainstorming in work today (I tend to have a lot of time to myself to think), I came up with this cute idea. I have no clue where it came from, but I believe that it works out pretty well.

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- A