Heh, sorry guys I've been sick for the past 4 days, (probably only be sick for one if I decided not to miss school the whole week), and I'm going on my fifth. Whoot, not. So my first football game was yesterday... It was raining, to ad to my sickness, we had to play music in it (they wouldn't let us put our instruments away) try not to slip, try not to catch a cold, the water was like ice not to mention there was a cold wind, top of the bleachers, grr. And not to mention we're in shorts and short sleeve shirts. XP

But, enough about me complaining, sorry I couldn't get this up sooner.

Enjoy

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Chapter 3: Snowy Thoughts

The alarm clock jolted Sam awake, falling out of bed, in the tangle of covers. She landed with a thud on her back, on the opposite side from Danny. "Sam? What was that sound?" Danny asked, sitting up and turning off the alarm clock. He rubbed his eyes and saw feet and part of legs sticking up over the bed. He chuckled to himself, thinking of what Sam did. He stood up and walked over to where Sam was struggling with the covers, trying to untangle herself. He turned her intangible for a moment, freeing her from the tangled mess.

"It's not funny!" Sam glowered as Danny continued to laugh even as they headed towards the school. Tucker was at home sick, or at least, pretending to be sick. "Danny, stop it, please!"

"Fine." Danny snickered before stopping completely, a large grin on his face. "I'm guessing you liked flying last night?" Danny changed the subject, watching Sam's violet eyes light up with excitement.

"Danny, I can't thank you enough! It was so amazing! It was like I was free, that no one could hold me, except you of course since you were flying and all, but at any case it felt so good!" Sam's voice was animated, Danny noticed, like she got a brand new toy or a puppy or something.

While walking in the hallway students stared at them in disbelief. "What's going on?" Sam asked Danny as the day progressed. Danny shrugged at the comment. "You'd think that they thought we were dating or something like that." Sam murmured, Lancer began talking at the end of the day.

"Ms. Manson, would you please pay attention!" Lancer snapped at Sam later on in the class. Sam looked up at Lancer, her eyes barely showing concentration. "The roles for Casper high's Of Time and Snow are as follow." Lancer went back to his cheerful self. "Samantha Manson will play the role of Elizabeth and the role of Prince Allen will be played by Daniel Fenton." There was a pause, silence in the classroom, like thoughts were reeling.

"What?" Paulina yelled, followed by other girls in the classroom. "I'm prettier than that Goth! Why can't I be the star?" Paulina was furious.

"Why does Fentonio get to be the Prince? The Prince shouldn't be a wimp!" Dash asked, just as furious if not more at Danny.

"The votes were counted for and majority wanted Ms. Manson and Mr. Fenton as our two stars." Lancer replied, the list of actors in his hand. "Now on with the roles, the archer will be played by Dash, Kwan will play –" Lancers voice seemed to die in Sam's mind. She was Elizabeth and Danny was, Danny was the other lead role. Before class ended Lancer passed out scripts to the nine actors.

"I so don't need this right now." Danny groaned as the two walked towards Nasty Burger. "Congrats on getting the part though." Danny smiled at Sam for a moment. "What if in the middle of rehearsal a ghost shows up and I can't leave?" Danny asked, completely frustrated.

"I don't know, maybe your parents could finally handle a ghost." Sam replied, she heard Danny let out a burst of laughter. "I'm serious Danny." Sam gave Danny a sincere look.

"Yeah, I know. It's just gonna be a hectic three months." Danny sighed. Making props and memorizing lines wasn't easy with everyone's busy schedules. "Tofu burger? My treat." Danny asked as he walked inside the Nasty Burger with Sam.

"Sure." Sam nodded. Danny seemed to be getting nicer, he wasn't always frustrated like he usually was when he first got his powers. He was acting like a kid, playing with her hand, saying she was mean, giving Sam a puppy dog look. Maybe he was finally letting go of his anger and frustration or at least hiding it really well.

Danny's parents, Jazz and Vlad were all sick to their stomachs when Sam and Danny entered the ghostly household. "I only ate it because your/our father/dad made me." Were the responses of Jazz, Danny's mother, and Vlad through their sick expressions. Jack Fenton would only say, "Ghost Ham!"

"I'm glad I skipped dinner." Danny declared triumphantly as the night progressed. Sam and Danny cooked a dinner together for themselves and the five sick people in the Fenton household. "I didn't know you could cook." Danny said amazed as he brought food to his sister, Jazz.

"Just because I don't want to be stereotyped as a housewife doesn't mean I can't cook, sew, or whatever." Sam replied, rolling her eyes. She never wanted Danny and Tucker to know she could be a housewife just like she didn't want them to know she was rich.

"Uh huh." Danny replied, scanning the script he was given. "This play is kinda lame. I don't even get what it has to do with the title."

"That's weird." Sam said aloud. Snow was still falling and it wasn't even fall yet, it was still summer. She turned her attention back to Danny. "The title Time and Snow portrays the ending of the story. It really is a tragedy in life and in their death. Time has stopped for Elizabeth and Allen, they won't change and they'll be dancing forever, in their own happiness. Forever is a long time Danny, never changing, never going past that dance. Then snow itself is a bittersweet topic." Sam stared at the snow that descended outside of the window. "What do you think of when you see snow?"

"Something pure, unmarked, just pure." Danny shrugged. "Isn't that what it's always supposed to mean?"

"Something like that." Sam sighed. "Snow does have a really dark meaning too. I know it's very Goth of me but it means death. Snow's cold, it freezes, it can stop your heart from beating, it can stop your time."

"So you're saying that Snow has two meanings, a dark and light?" Danny asked, confused. "So if we take me for example, my human side could be the pure side of the snow and my Phantom side could be like the darker side to snow?" Sam nodded.

"Why is it snowing now?" Sam wondered, staring at the window where snow continued to fall.

"Ha!" Danny threw a snowball at Sam during lunch the following day. It had hit her square in the face. The two had started a snowball fight at the beginning of lunch and it showed no signs of stopping. No one could explain the freak weather that was occurring in Amity Park but people were enjoying the snow. No ghosts for the second day, Danny was enjoying himself.

"Ha, yourself!" Sam replied, hitting Danny twice. Tucker seemed like he would be sick the whole time he couldn't walk. For some reason Sam could only think that Tucker was planning something. The bell rang signaling lunch was over. Sam and Danny each hit each other with a snowball before heading back inside.

The snowball fight resumed as soon as school was out. There was a time out when Lancer passed by and when Sam's cell phone rang. "Hello?" Sam asked, her parents shouldn't be calling, they still had a few days to go. "Yeah Mom," Sam felt her mother cringe as her mother said something on the other end, "I'll ask, I don't think they'll mind. Don't worry about it, I don't mind. Bye." Sam hung up her phone, sighing.

"Who was it?" Danny came over to her side of the snowball fight. He was trying desperately to keep a straight face.

"My parents. They were wondering if I could stay at your house for a month, they won't be able to come home this weekend because of the snow" Sam replied, keeping a straight face. "DANNY FENTON YOU ARE THE WORST LIAR EVER!" Sam yelled smashing a snowball on Danny's head. Danny let out a laugh as he smashed his snowball on her head.

"Mom'll probably be excited." Danny replied as the two ran back to his house. A sudden wisp of blue air flew from Danny's mouth causing him to slap himself in the face with annoyance. Youngblood was flying above them, looking for his parrot. "I'll get him and meet you in my room." Danny checked around to make sure no one was around before going ghost. "See you." Danny Phantom shot up into the air, prepared to fight.

"What are you doing up here?" Danny asked as he flew over to his home, setting down at the top of the Op center. Sam was sitting with her knees to her chest, her arms wrapped around her legs. "You look frozen, maybe you should go insi –"

"Family issues, Danny. My Family finally cracked." Sam replied, her cell phone sitting beside her, vibrating softly. Danny reached out his hand to her shoulder, Sam swatted it away angrily. Danny sat next to her, silent towards her newfound mood. "My parents," Sam said into the wind, catching Danny's attention after what seemed like hours, "they're finally gonna get a divorce but they're both gonna move away from Amity and I have to live with one of them. I don't want to leave. I want to stay here and fight ghosts with you." Sam's voice seemed to fade away in the blowing wind. "But I'm not supposed to have wants, I'm a girl, I'm just supposed to push my wants aside and follow orders. It's the twenty-first century and my parents don't seem to grasp that." Sam sighed.

"Come on." Danny smiled softly at Sam, extending his hand towards her. "I wanna show you something." Sam hesitantly took his hand.

Danny pulled Sam into his arms and flew off towards the plains. "You said you wanted to see what was beyond those plains, hopefully you won't fall asleep this time." Danny smiled at the girl he held like a bride in his arms. Sam wrapped her arms around his neck smiling softly to herself, how did he always know how to make things better?

"Mountains!" Sam exclaimed in amazement as the plains finally ended. They had passed by a small dimly lit town before reaching the end. "I never would have guessed that it went this far!" Danny noticed her eyes light up like a Christmas tree. He could only smile to himself; he was watching his best friend act like a little girl running through the edge of the plains, her arms thrown up in the air. He cherished her laughter; hopefully he could hear more of it in the near future.

"It's like you've never seen mountains before." Danny laughed as Sam ran towards him. He was hit playfully in the shoulder. "Hey!"

"You jerk! Mom and Dad always said this was to far! They never wanted to take me. But now I can finally see it." Sam glared at Danny for a moment before spinning around in the dirt road as Danny leaned against a wooden post.

"Ready to go home yet?" Danny laughed after some time had passed by. Sam looked so excited. Sam nodded, yawning. Danny picked her up once again and flew home.

"Mom and Dad, they wanted me to fall into a boring rut. But ever since I met you, I've been far away from it." Sam buried her cold face into Danny's chest. "Thank you." Minutes later he could hear her faint breathing, telling him she was asleep once again.

"You are the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me." Danny whispered into the night sky. "And look at me, I'm half ghost." He chuckled to himself, setting Sam down in his bed.

"Did you have fun young Daniel?" Vlad asked from a dark corner of Danny's room. Danny turned around, his green eyes glowing bright in the dark. "Ooo, your angry eyes, seriously, do you think that alone would make me go away?" Danny could feel Vlad was smirking in the corner.

"What do you want?" Danny demanded, his fists clenched, ready to fight. Vlad let out a soft chuckle, amused by Danny's reaction.

"I had to cover for you Daniel, you and Samantha," Danny fought back the urge to demand Sam to be called Sam. "You should at least listen to me. I only wish to congratulate you on receiving the part of Prince Allen in your class play. I myself was an actor in high school..."

"Get out!" Danny didn't want to listen to what Vlad had to say about anything. It was annoying enough that Vlad was staying with them but having him try and treat him like a son ticked Danny off. "I don't care what you have to say, just leave me and Sam alone!" Danny watched as Vlad left his room before locking it. What was the purpose in locking the door anyway? Vlad could just phase through. Danny shook his head, not bothering to argue with himself.

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" ' Allen, I – I don't think I should be here.'" Sam said completely annoyed as she read her script the following week after school.

" ' I want you here,'" Danny replied in a monotone voice, he took her hand, as the script said, " ' we may come from different backgrounds but I still want you here beside me.'"

"Cut!" Lancer fumed. "I can't understand why you two can't act. I'm sure Paulina and Inviso-bill can act better than that!" Sam's eye twitched at the mention of Paulina, she would prove to Lancer that she was better than the skank. Danny fumed but didn't let it show on his face, Lancer thought Danny Phantom was a better actor? Danny Phantom or Inviso-bill was him! He would show how much Lancer knew about acting, he would be better than Lancer could imagine. "Now, from the top!"

"Allen," Sam sounded breathless at the name, her expression worried. "I – I don't think I should be here." Sam stuttered worryingly. Her eyes looked around; as if she was worried someone followed her. She looked at Danny, her hands clasped together below her chin, the script on a desk.

"I want you here," Danny replied, softly as a loving boyfriend would to soothe fears. He reached out and gently pulled her hands to her side and brought her closer to him in a hug. His left hand pressed against the small of Sam's back, the script pressed against her back too while his right hand was at the back of Sam's head, pressing her chin lightly into his shoulder. Sam wrapped her arms around his waist, going along with Danny. "We may come from different backgrounds but I still want you here beside me." Danny continued in a caring manner. His face was so close to hers, Sam realized as she felt his jaw move just beside her ear.

"Bravo! Now do that for the next three months. You two just needed a bit of encouragement. You did enough acting for today." Lancer looked excited as Sam and Danny pulled away slowly, blushing. Other people within the cast watched in annoyance as Sam and Danny acted one of their many scenes

"Go figure, the two losers would act like that with each other." Paulina huffed as Lancer began a scene with Paulina in it.

Sam picked up her backpack and script, exiting the door before Paulina could continue. Danny called her name when she reached the end of the hall. Sam turned around at her name and smiled as Danny came running towards her.

"You did great, you had me going there." Danny smiled while catching his breath. "But I know I was bad. I can't believe he compared me to me!" Danny seemed slightly ticked.

"I think Danny Phantom does act better then Danny Fenton." Sam joked. Danny playfully hit Sam in the arm. "Yeah, I know, one and the same." Sam laughed. "Tucker said he'd be at school tomorrow, are you going to buy comics with him?"

"Nah, we have a long rehearsal tomorrow and I need to patrol Amity later on." Danny shrugged.

"What do you see in the future?" Sam asked as they climbed the stairs to Danny's room. "What do you see?" It was one of those random, serious questions Sam liked to ask.

"I see me being an astronaut." Danny said in an obvious voice. "What else would I see?" He was smiling an oblivious smile. He also saw his evil self but he wasn't going to turn into him.

"Nothing, just forget what I said." Sam replied. "Allen, what are we to do? The King and Queen would not be pleased." Sam recited her lines out of boredom while opening the door.

"Forget whether or not they are pleased, do what you want dear Elizabeth." Danny recited his own line, dropping his backpack on the floor. "I can't believe every teacher is putting on a play." Danny sighed. "They're probably betting on who has the best play. But the good news is, is that they're not giving us homework!" Danny grinned.

"Yeah, remember when you tried to escape detention during Halloween? Lancer was trying to beat our gym teacher. Maybe he's going against the faculty." Sam recalled, pulling her laptop from underneath Danny's bed. "Hey Tucker." Sam smiled, turning on the video camera to her laptop.

"Hey Sam, how's it going?" Tucker seemed cheerful. He began talking about his PDA accessories. "Am I boring you?" Tucker asked after a few minutes when Sam lost her attention.

"To put it lightly? Yes. Tucker you need to find yourself a girlfriend." Sam sighed. "When a girl tells you that that seriously means you need one."

"I'll get one as soon as you get a boyfriend." Tucker smiled. Sam glared at the Tucker on her computer screen.

"Fat chance, I don't think Sam wants to go out with anyone anytime soon." Danny laughed, appearing over Sam's shoulder to look at Tucker. Sam hit Danny's closet arm.

"Val told me you two were acting like a serious couple at rehearsal." Tucker grinned.

"We were ACTING!" Sam said loudly in aggravation. "We were acting like a couple because we HAD to ACT like a couple! Part of the play, remember?"

"Sam, tell him." Tucker looked at Sam seriously.

"Tell who what?" Danny asked.

"I'm not gonna tell!" Sam replied, glaring at Tucker.

"Tell who?" Danny was confused; the two knew something he didn't.

"So Tucker, you can finally walk?" Sam asked through gritted teeth.

"Yeah, why?" Tucker asked, a confused expression on his face. Somehow he didn't like where it was going

"If you ever mention that again I'll make sure you'll never walk again!" Sam looked embarrassed and angry at the same time.

"Harsh much?" Danny asked. "Hey Tuck, we gotta go, Mom's calling for dinner." Danny lied.

"Just don't make out too mu –" Sam slammed her laptop closed. I hate him, Sam inwardly thought.

"More snow!" Sam said in sheer surprise, her anger pushed aside as she stared out the window. "I can't believe it's only August. Danny, I bet I could beat you in a snowman contest."

"I bet you I can beat you." Danny smirked. "If I lose you get five wishes from me. Any type of wish that I can grant, I'll do it. If you want me to take you flying or go to school wearing a dress. But that's if you win."

"And if you win?" Sam asked, folding her arms across her chest.

"I get five wishes from you." Danny whispered in Sam's ear. "Now lets go!" Danny was already out the door.

"You're on!" Sam ran out the door after him. The Jazz found herself looking out the window, unable to think watching Sam and Danny attempting to build snowmen. Jazz could only laugh on how the two could not act their age.

"Cheater!" Sam yelled hours later. Danny laughed at the comment. His snowman looked exactly like Danny Phantom while Sam's looked like a regular snowman, Gothed up of course. "You used your ghost powers to sculpt it!" Sam huffed in his ear, so the public wouldn't hear.

"Hey, I used my hands to makes this! Granted I can do more with them than you." Danny said that looking proud of himself. Danny stopped and his eyes widened as he thought about it afterwards.

"That sounded really perverted." Sam had one hand cover her face in embarrassment. "So, I owe you five wishes, don't spend it all at one time." Sam smiled. "I guess we have to go inside." Sam sighed as Jazz tapped on the window.

"Ghost! Ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost, GHOST!" Jack Fenton ran out of the house as Sam and Danny walked in. Jack took out a Fenton bazooka and blasted Danny's snowman.

"Ha! Show's how much appreciation your snowman gets!" Sam laughed enjoying a cup of hot cocoa with Jazz and Danny.

"At least it could pass off as decoy Danny Phantom." Danny grinned as Jack Fenton came back inside, looking completely bummed out.

"Aw, it wasn't a ghost." Jack complained with a frown. Sam and Danny smiled at each other concealing their laughter.

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Poor Jack... no ghostT.T

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