"Here, try this." Jasper said running up to Danny who had fallen again. Danny was having trouble staying on Sam when she would get a burst of speed. Jasper had run off to the field that he and Sam were testing in earlier and was now running back.
"What is it?" Danny asked pulling himself out of the snow.
"It's a makeshift bridle. I used it a few times while we were testing her speed and agility." He explained as he slipped what looked like a small tire with rope around Sam's dragon neck. "It will give you something to hold on to." He said handing the ropes over to Danny.
"I don't know." Danny said seeing how uncomfortable Sam looked.
"Just try it." Jasper encouraged.
"It's fine Danny, it just makes it a little harder for me to make sharp turns." Sam explained as Danny floated back onto Sam's back. They took off towards the obstacle course again. Jasper was right, it was easier for Danny to hang on but Danny could see that it was making Sam have to work harder to evade the falling ice. As they rose higher Danny was paying more attention to shooting the guns than how Sam was flying. "Get off!" Sam roared suddenly. Danny instantly felt Sam pulled down. He looked seeing that an ice pillar had caught around the ropes of the bridle and was pulling Sam by her neck out of the air. Danny held on as they fell faster, suddenly he was hit with an idea. "Duh, ghost powers." He said quickly as he turned himself and Sam intangible, allowing the pillar to fall away from them and gave Sam enough time to stabilize before they hit the ground.
As they landed Sam lifted the bridle up slightly, Danny immediately saw a red forming on the scales under it. "Let me take it off." Danny said as he flew off of Sam and lifted the bridle off of her. "Were not using it again." Danny said seeing a red ring forming where the bridle had rubbed on Sam's neck. "I'm sorry Sammy." Danny said softly as he watched Sam transformed back into her human self.
"No big deal." She said rubbing her neck. Even though the injury had happened when she was a dragon, she still had the injury in human form as well. "I'm sorry, I just couldn't move fast enough." Sam apologized.
"It wasn't your fault." Danny said softly.
"You've been practicing for hours and you two look excused." Frostbite cut in. "Why don't you go and get some rest. You can't go battle anyone with out being fully rested first." Frostbite offered. Sam and Danny nodded in agreement. "Jasper, why don't you show them where they can rest." Frostbite asked.
"No problem. Come on you two." Jasper said leading them off the field.
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Jasper showed them to their separate rooms so they could get some rest. This brake gave Sam for the first time to relax since she woke up in a coffin earlier. But she didn't even try to sleep, her mind was still wondering too much to allow her to sleep. Why didn't the pendant take her life? What was the 'cursed rider'? Why is it Danny? What could, would happen to him? Would he be cursed to death like her? Her mind raced as she fingered her pendant when suddenly there was a knock at the door.
"Hey Sam." She could hear Danny's voice from the other side of the door. "Do you have a minute?" Danny called.
"Yeah, door's open." Sam called from her seat on the bed, tucking the pendant back into her shirt.
"Hey Sam." Danny greeted as he walked in, closing the door behind him. "I just wanted to apologies for how I acted earlier." He said softly standing before her with his head down.
Sam was a little taken back by his action. "It's ok Danny, I know you don't like accepting help." Sam said softly.
"It's not that." Danny started sitting next to her on the bed. "It's just…" Danny lost his courage to finish the sentence.
"What Danny, you can tell me." Sam said gently. She placed her hand over his hoping that it would encourage him.
Danny looked down at her small hand over his feeling some of his courage come back. "I'm scared Sam." Danny said softly still not looking at her but he squeezed her hand lightly.
"Scared?" Sam questioned not really understanding what he could be afraid of.
"Well, more like terrified." Danny said hesitantly.
"Of what." Sam looked at him astonished.
"Of loosing you." Danny said gently looking back at her squeezing her hand more firmly. "I can't loose you again." He whispered as his eyes filled with tears. "I frightened when Clockwork told me that your were the 'accursed' and he told me what happened to the others that had it before you. I scared of what would happen to you, but like you said, you never got hurt enough to cause it to take your life. But then when I came back and saw you fighting Dan, I hated seeing you fighting my battle, then when Dan attacked you, and I couldn't even get to you, I felt so helpless watching him…" Danny stopped unable to finish his sentence. Uncontrolled tears were falling freely from his eyes.
Sam placed another hand on his shoulder hoping to help calm him. "Danny,"
"I watched him murder you Sam." Danny cried cutting her off. He finally looked into Sam's eyes; not bothering to hid his tears. "And I couldn't stop him, all I did was watch. I lost you Sam." Danny finally broke down sobbing unable to continue.
Sam instantly wrapped her arms around him holding him as he sobbed. As soon as Danny felt her hold him, he wrapped his arms around her tightly, afraid to let go. He buried his head in the corner of her neck as he continued to cry. "Danny, you didn't loose me." Sam soothed placing one hand over the back of his head; the other rubbed his back softly.
"Yes I did Sammy." Danny cocked not moving from her embrace. "The doctors were shocked your were alive, your parents said that you were dieing. They wouldn't even let us see you." Danny continued softly but never let go of her. "Then when I just had to see you, your parents were working on their will, the doctors said they pulled the plug. And when I did get in the room…" Danny stopped again over come with grief. Sam didn't move, she just continued to hold him, rubbing his back softly and holding his head against her. "I watched you die." He whispered before another wave of sobs shook him.
Sam remembered that day when she blacked out. "Danny, you may have saved me." Sam whispered forcing him to sit up a little so she could look at him. Danny still had tears streaming down his face. "Oh Danny." Sam soothed as she rested one of her hands on the side of his face and whipped some of his tears away. Danny instantly leaned into her touch as she continued. "Danny all I remember after the fight was begin in intense pain, and you next to me. Once you put me on that hospital bed I was alone. Even though I was not responsive I could hear and sometimes see every thing that went on around me. My parents only came in once to confirm that I was their daughter, but after that, I could hear their voices on the outside of the room but they never came in." Sam stopped feeling her own sorrow coming out. Danny seemed to sense this and placed a warm hand on her shoulder. "I was alone, the whole time Danny. Then when the doctors finally pulled the life support I actually wanted to die, I had lost my will to continue fighting." Sam stopped feeling her own tears start to fall. Seeing Sam starting to get upset Danny pulled her close. "And that's when you came in. I could hear your breathing and feel you when you sat next to me. I was happy that I wasn't alone anymore, but I was worried that you were disappointed with me. Then you explained about Clockwork and that you weren't upset and I felt my body no longer struggling to stay alive. Just you being there gave me hope and the last thing I heard was your reassuring voice beside me right before I blacked out. Next thing I knew I was waking up in a coffin." Sam said softly regaining control of her tears. By now both had stopped crying, but they continued to hold each other. "I lived when I should have died." Sam continued looking into Danny's eyes. "Why did I live? Why did everyone else before me die?" Sam questioned.
Danny smiled not sure how to answer her questions. "I don't know Sam, but you don't know how happy I am that you did live." He said squeezing her shoulder reassuringly. "That's why I'm so worried about you. I don't want you to fight. What if you get hurt again? What if you don't come back?" Danny said feeling tears forming in the corner of his eyes. "I can't lose you Sammy." He said softly looking away from her gaze not sure how she would react.
Sam took his hand gently, this made him look back at her small hand over his larger one. "You won't lose me." She said softly.
"How do you know? How can you be so sure?" Danny said looking back at her.
"I'm not. But I haven't died yet." Sam said happily. Danny looked back at her questionably. "I've had the pendant on longer than anyone else. I'm the only one who can control it. And so far, I'm the only one who has survived it. And I'm also the only one who has a rider." Sam watched, as Danny seemed to realize what she was saying. "Why would they have a legend about a 'cursed rider' if there wasn't more to this." She explained pulling at the chain around her neck.
Danny smiled contentedly as he watched her. "You shouldn't hide it." Danny said softly placing a hand behind her neck pulling the chain. He was finally feeling himself relax about the whole 'accursed' issue. As he watched Sam he felt his stomach begin to knot in a good way, now realizing how close they had gotten. Tucker had told him that she loved him, and he had admitted that he loved her, but they haven't said it to each other yet. Sam looked at him shyly and pulled the pendant out and placing it in his other hand. "It's a beautiful piece." He said seeing the dragon shaped silver.
"You said that at the hospital." Sam said blushing slightly. Sam smiled seeing how close they had gotten. She was practically sitting in his lap, facing him. He had one arm wrapped around her; the other held the pendant.
"Yeah I know, but it is a beautiful pendant." He said fingering the necklaces. "I love the eyes." He said seeing the same lilac eyes that the pendant and Sam shared.
"They were black when I first got it, about a week after, they changed." Sam explained. Danny smiled softly letting the pendant fall back to Sam. He loved feeling her so close to him; it brought a reassurance feeling that she was alive. He looked over her and sighed contentedly. His sigh caught her attention and caused her to look into his eyes, seeing him staring at her blissfully. "What?" she said shyly blushing.
Danny smiled happily as he let out another sigh. "I'm just so happy your alive." He said never looking away. He didn't know what came over him, but he needed to feel her close to him. He raised one of his hands and cupped her face and let his head fall until they gently bumped foreheads. "I don't know what I would have done if I had lost you." He whispered softly. "I lo…" Danny started.
"Hey!" Jaspers voice boomed from the other side of the closed door. Danny and Sam jumped in surprise at the noise. "This is your wake up call Sam!" He yelled banging on the door a few time. "Frostbite said it's time to get up. I'm going to get Danny up, if your not up by the time I'm back I'm coming in!" he shouted.
Danny and Sam looked at each other, blushing slightly at how close they were. "I guess we need to get going." Sam said getting, leaving Danny's embrace turning away from him.
Danny could see that she was embarrassed, but he wasn't going to hold back any more. He stood up and walked up behind her. "Sam wait." He said pulling her around, back to face him. Danny didn't hesitate; he cupped her face with both hands and placed a kiss on her lips. Sam was surprised at his forwardness, but soon gave in and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled them deeper into there first real kiss. As they separated Danny rested his forehead on hers and rested his hands on her shoulders. "I love you Sam." He whispered staring deeply into her eyes.
"I love you too Danny." Sam whispered allowing a smile to cross her lips.
"Promise you'll be safe." Danny begged softly never moving.
"I promise." Sam reassured pulling him back down into another kiss.
"Hey! Is Danny in there?" Jaspers voice shot through to room making them and move apart.
"Yes!" Sam yelled back to the door. "We were working on a strategy to bet Undergrowth." She lied. Danny laughed quietly at her lie.
"Well let's get going." Jasper said opening the door seeing the two human standing ready to go.
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"Your finally here." Frostbite said seeing the group walking towards him. "Undergrowth has become even stronger. He now has control over all of Amity Park, and two surrounding areas." He explained.
"Then we'd better get moving." Danny added.
"We've also discovered something else." Frostbite added. "It turns out that one of his roots, if burned will cause loss of memory." Frostbite explained.
"What good will that do us?" Danny asked.
"A lot." Sam cut in. "If we can get to it we can erase everyone's memory, like your parents, they won't know your Danny Phantom anymore, and no one would remember that I died." Sam explained.
"Exactly." Frostbite added.
"We would just need to cut Tucker and I guess Jazz before we burn it." Sam finished.
"Ok, but where is this root?" Danny asked.
"It is actually runs right along his main root that starts at his spine. If Sam can get behind him without him seeing her she can burn it." Frostbite explained.
"Sounds easy enough." Sam said.
"Good, now, we really should get going." Danny agreed.
"Now you two be careful." Frostbite said as they we getting ready to leave. "Trust in yourselves and work together."
"We'll be fine." Sam said transforming into her dragon half, getting ready to take off.
"I'll make sure we'll be fine." Danny said transforming into his ghost self. He jumped and stood on top of Sam's back a waved goodbye as Sam started to rise off the ground.
"Trust her Danny, she's very strong, she can handle herself." Jasper yelled as he watched them begin to leave the land of the Far Frozen.
"I know you're strong." Danny said floating just above Sam's back.
"Fast too." Sam growled speeding up a little, sending Danny off of her.
"Yeah, yeah, just promise me you'll be safe." Danny said catching up and jumping in front of her.
"Of course." Sam smiled. "And you promise me that you'll trust me." Sam added.
"Of course." Danny laughed slightly as they came up to the Fenton portal. "Here we go." He said softly as they moved through the portal.
"Wow." Sam growled as they entered the vine-covered lab. "His vines are everywhere."
"I know." Danny said evenly. "Go find Tucker and Jazz and cut them loose, I'll find Undergrowth." Danny said rising off the ground.
"If you need me holler, I'll hear you." Sam growled taking flight leaving the lab and heading out of the house.
"Please be safe." Danny sighed as he went intangible and flouted out of the house.
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Sam flew low to the ground as she searched for Tucker and Jazz. She found no signs of life, not even any of Undergrowths troops, just vines that covered every inch of the city. She soon found herself heading towards the park. Once there she saw hundreds of huge buds reaching up towards the sun. "What kind of plants are these." Sam said to herself as she flew up to one of the buds. She pealed back one of the pedals and found Dash's face behind it. "What the hell." She said seeing Dash unconscious wrapped up in the flower bud. Sam looked down seeing it attached to one of Undergrowths roots. "He must be holding them now that his roots cover the whole city." Sam though as she left Dash and started to peek into the buds looking for Tucker and Jazz. After opening a few bubs she found her parent's bodies. "They must have gotten back in town and were caught." Sam assumed seeing them. In the next few buds she found Danny's parent's and then Jazz and finally Tucker. "I just need to cut you two." She said opening her tail and swinging it, cutting Jazz's stem. She then went and cut Tucker free. Sam watched hoping that they would wake, but they did not move. "You'd better stay here so Undergrowth won't realize you're not attached anymore. Now that your free, I'd better find Danny." She thought as she took off, still staying low to the ground so she didn't make herself to noticeable.
Suddenly the vines that lay below her rose up and grabbed her. Sam flew a fireball at the vines and struggled to pull herself free. When she blasted one group of vines, another would take their place. "Hold it right there." Undergrowth's troops began to rise out of the vines. "We still owe you for what you did in the Far Frozen." One member said as he began to advance on her. Sam sent a fireball right at him, turning him into ash, but another took his place. "You can not escape Undergrowth." Another said. The vines were still holding her down, so she could not take flight. Sam closed her eyes, allowing her energy to build. "What is she doing?" She could hear one ask. Suddenly Sam opened her eyes and let released a loud shockwave that blazed with fire as it moved. "What the hell!" One yelled as the fire wave hit him, burning him. The blast mowed the army down, turning them all to ash.
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Danny flew high in the sky seeing the city covered with Undergrowths vines. He didn't see anyone on the streets. "What happened to everyone?" Danny said to himself, as he over looked the city.
"And ghost boy returns." Undergrowths voice yelled from behind Danny.
"What have you done to everyone?" Danny shouted as he turned to face Undergrowth.
Undergrowth smiled happily as he lifted his vines to his fingers. "They have simple warn out there usefulness." He growled. "Just like you." He finished sending the vines towards Danny. They caught Danny and held him tight. "I shall feed you to my more carnivorous children." He laughed as a group of flytrap ghost plants surrounded Danny. "They were getting hungry."
"Not today." Danny shouted as he unleashed his ice power through his body, turning the vines that held him into ice.
"What, what's going on?" Undergrowth questioned as he watched Danny brake free from the icy vines. "No matter. I'll just harness that power once I take your mind." Undergrowth laughed.
Danny felt something grab him from behind. As he turned he saw the mind vines heading strait for him. He threw an ice ball, stopping some of the vines, but not all. "Get away!" Danny yelled as the vines took hold of him. Just as one of the vines v-lined towards his head it burst into flames.
"What was that?" Undergrowth shouted seeing his vine turned to ash. Suddenly Undergrowth yelled in pain. Danny watched seeing his back hit with a fireball. Sam flew in while Undergrowth was distracted and used her axe tail to cut Danny free from the vines. "Just in time Sammy." Danny thanked flying next to Sam. "Did you fine the others?" he added quickly.
"Of course." Sam nodded.
"You will pay for this!" Undergrowth cut in firing an ecto-blast at them.
"Plants can't handle cold." Sam started as they evaded the attack. "Go freeze his roots, while I'll keep him busy." Sam growled firing another fireball at his arm rendering it to ash.
"Good idea. But be careful." Danny shouted as he turned intangible and flew into the ground under the huge ghost plant.
"You'll pay for that you little firebug." Undergrowth yelled as he grew back his arm. "Let's see how you handle four of us." He yelled splitting himself. As they surrounded Sam she flew up high in the sky, above the four plants. "You can not escape." They growled firing vines from their hands towards her.
"Predictable, just like with Dan." Sam growled to herself as she allowed the vines to consumer her.
Suddenly the vine ball began to fall back down, inside Sam threw a fireball that consumed the vines allowing her to escape. "No!" The four shouted as the fireball fell right towards them. The fire consumed three of the copy's just leaving the original fight off the fire. Sam broke free from the burnt vines and quickly soared behind the distracted Undergrowth. She quickly located the vine that when burned would erase the memories of everyone attacked to his mind vines. Sam quickly fired a blast of fire at the vine. Undergrowth roared in pain as the vine quickly caught fire. Sam flew into the air and saw Undergrowth begin to shrink. "What's happening?" he roared watching his body reduce in size.
"So that's why plants don't like the cold." Danny cut in flying up next to Sam.
"My roots!" Undergrowth shouted as he looked down at his roots seeing ice rising from the ground. "You will pay for the death of my children!" Undergrowth roared firing an around of ecto-blast at Danny.
Danny easily evaded the attacks then fired his own ice blast at him. "Now to unfreeze him." Danny said as he smiled looking towards Sam.
Sam roared as she fired a fire blast at the frozen plant. As he melted he caught fire and began to shrink even more. Sam flew close and fired another blast as she caught his attention. "Get back here." Undergrowth yelled as he reached for Sam.
"Time to pull this weed." Danny's voice shouted from behind him.
As he turned he saw a light that began to pull him out of the ground. "My children!" Was the last thing Undergrowth yelled as he was pulled into the Fenton thermos.
"Well that was easier then I though it would be." Danny said as Sam joined him.
"See what happens when you have help." Sam teased.
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"Ah, I feel like I was in a salad bar." Tucker moaned as he sat up looking around him. Almost everyone is Amity Park was getting up from there flower cocoons.
"What happened?" Jazz asked sitting up next to Tucker.
"I don't know." Tucker said looking around seeing everyone beginning to leave the park.
"Where's Danny?" Jazz asked looking around not seeing him.
"Again, I don't know. All I remember is being attacked by a vine and that's it." Tucker explained.
"Everyone ok?" Danny's voice came from behind them.
"There you are." Tucker said happy to see him in his human form unharmed.
"Are you ok?" Jazz asked giving him a hug.
"Yeah." Danny answered simply.
"How did you beat that over grown plant?" Tucker asked amazed that Danny defeated him with out a scratch.
"I had help, and I got ice powers." Danny explained.
"Just like Frostbite? That would explain why you've been so cold lately." Tucker cut in. Danny nodded in a yes gesture.
"Are you kids alright?" Maddie's voice shouted over them as the two concerned parents joined the group.
"Everyone said that the ghost kid had something to do with this." Jack said holding the Fenton bazooka.
"That's impossible Danny di…" Tucker stopped seeing Danny gesturing wildly.
"Hey where's Sam?" Maddie asked not seeing her.
"What are you taking about, Sam is dead." Tucker said looking at the two strangely.
"Oh that's not nice. Just cause she's a Goth doesn't mean she dead." Jack said looking strangely back at Tucker. "Come on Maddie we've got to find the ghost kid." He said changing subjects.
"Coming Jack." Maddie sighed watching him fun off. "You kids be careful." She added following her husband.
Tucker and Jazz looked at each other questionable then looked to Danny. "What was that about?" Tucker asked not understanding what was going on.
"Undergrowth whipped their memories, you two were cut free from his vines before it happened so you didn't loose your memories." Danny explained.
"Ok, but that means they don't remember Sam dieing, how are we going to explain where she is?" Jazz added.
"We just tell them the truth, she's right there." Danny said simply.
"Look, Danny, I know your upset about her death, but pretending that she's alive isn't going to bring her back." Jazz said softly placing a comforting hand on Danny's shoulder.
"Oh come on, that death joke is getting old." Sam's voice rose from behind them.
Tucker and Jazz jerked their heads around to see Sam, completely uninjured, standing behind them with a smirk on her face. "I think there surprised." Danny laughed as he watched them stared in disbelief.
"Sam!" Tucker yelled launching himself at her, hugging her tightly.
"Your ok!" Jazz shouted excitedly running over to her.
"Yeah I'm fine." Sam laughed pushing Tucker away. "I just needed some time to heal." Sam said simply.
"She just likes to scare us." Danny laughed walking up next to her.
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The group stayed at the park talking about what had happened. Sam explained what she knew about the 'accursed' and Danny explained that there was a 'cured rider' and that he was it. Jazz had left early, wanting to give them some time alone with out the big sister listening in. It was now hours after sun set and they were starting to head home. "I'll see you guys tomorrow." Tucker said waving by as he walked away from Danny and Sam.
"I guess we'd better get home as well." Danny said looking back at Sam seeing the moon light shine over her face. He smiled happily still grateful that she was safe.
"Yeah, we don't want to brake our curfews." Sam said looking back at Danny seeing him smiling blissfully down at her. "What?" Sam said seeing that he was still staring at her with shining eyes.
Danny didn't response, he just lowered his lips to hers, pulling her into his embrace as he wrapped his arms around her. Sam moaned softly as she kissed back, pressing herself to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I love you Sammy." Danny sighed pulling his lips away, but still held her close.
"I love you Danny." Sam said softly but gave him a nasty look. "I've noticed you've called me Sammy a lot lately." She added giving him a teasing smirk.
"Well it's not like I called you Samantha." Danny smiled. "Besides I like it."
Sam rolled her eyes at his silliness. "Alright, but if Tucker starts calling me that your both in trouble." Sam agreed.
"Deal." Danny whispered as he stole another kiss from her.
"You want a ride home?" Danny asked finally releasing her, but still held her hand.
"I can fly myself." Sam smiled. Knowing that they were alone she transformed into her dragon side as Danny transformed into his phantom side.
"Alright, but be safe." Danny said as they rose into the air.
"Of course, but really whose going to mess with me?" Sam growled showing her claws.
Danny smiled knowing she was right. "Yeah, but still…" Danny said giving her a loving look.
"Ok. Night Danny." Sam said starting to fly away.
"Goodnight Sammy." Danny called to her as he also began to fly home.
Danny quickly flew to the alleyway next to his home and transformed back to his human side before entering the house. "You guys were out late." Jazz greeted him as he walked in.
"We had a lot to talk about." Danny said walking past his sister. "Night Jazz." He called as he started up the stairs to his room.
"Night Danny, you should finally get some sleep now." Jazz added smiling at her brother.
Danny shook his head as he entered his bedroom, but he knew she was right. Now that Sam was back he wouldn't be pledged by his nightmares anymore. Danny sat down on his bed and instinctively pulled his purple pillow to him and hugged it tightly. As he sat there holding the pillow something hit it. "Sam's room." He whispered softly releasing the pillow. "Everything is gone." He thought looking towards her photo album and memory box. "I should return them." He said turning into his ghost half. He grabbed the book and box and finally the pillow he had grown to adore. He then became intangible and invisible and headed strait to Sam's house.
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Sam flew unseen to the rooftop of her house. Once in the shadows she transformed back to her human self and headed inside to her room.
"What happened?" Sam gasped as she entered her bedroom. Everything was gone. Her computer, her cloths, her bed sheets, her bookcase, her books, all that remained was a bed and an empty desk. She rushed over and looked under her bed hoping that a box was still there. "Darn." Sam whimpered sadly coming back with nothing. She lifted the mattress off the bedspring hoping that her files may still be there. "Also nothing." Sam sighed sadly. How could her parents just forget her so quickly, it was like they didn't even notice that she was gone? She stood up and looked over the empty room seeing that everything that she held her memories were gone.
"They threw it away." Danny's voice whispered from behind her.
"Why?" Sam asked not even bothering to look back at Danny.
"I don't know." He said walking up to her, transforming back to his human side. "I was here right before they came in, I did save this." He said handing her the box and album.
A wave of relief washed over her seeing her priced possessions safely in his hands. "You saved them." Sam said taking the items but noticed that he was still holding her pillow. "Where were you doing here?" She asked sitting down on her bed, opening the box making sure everything was in there. "And why did you save my pillow?"
Danny instantly turned red in embarrassment, but Sam didn't notice. " I was, well, I was." Danny stuttered not sure how to explain himself.
"What?" Sam said gently finally noticing his awkwardness.
Danny let out a defeated sigh as he sat down next to her and began to explain what happened. "While you were still in the hospital me and Tucker came here to find out more about your curse. When I was with Clockwork I saw that you had books and information on it and I wanted to know more." Danny started still feeling awkward. "Tucker couldn't find anything on your computer and I couldn't find anything in your books. We knew you were keeping it a secret so I thought that maybe you had information hidden. Tucker found your box and photo album under the bed, and I found your files under the mattress, that's where I hide stuff too."
Danny stopped seeing how Sam would react that they were in her room. But she just smiled and placed her hand his. "Keep going." She said softly.
Danny smiled and intertwined his fingers with hers as he continued. "We figured out that the pictures in the book had symbols on them, and Tucker found a program that decoded it. We went though what you had already decoded, but by that point it was getting late so we had to leave. Tucker downloaded your program to his PDA and took your book so he could work on it that night. I went home then ended up coming back really late after I couldn't get back to sleep." Danny stopped again becoming unsure of himself. Sam squeezed his hand hoping he would finish. "When we were in your room before I just felt… I felt calm, like you were still with me. When we left I lost that feeling. Ever since the fight I had been having nightmares that I would wake up from screaming." Danny stopped needing a moment to calm down.
"What were they about?" Sam questioned.
"You." Danny said simply. "I would hear you screaming my name, I would search for you. Sometimes I would find you, sometimes I wouldn't. When I did find you Dan would be attacking you, and I won't be able to stop him." Danny looked away, wiping a stray tear away. "That night I couldn't take it anymore so I decided to fly around for a little, that's when I went back to your room. As soon as I was inside I felt better. I pulled out your box and album and looked through them for a little bit, and then I just ended up falling asleep. I woke up hearing your parents talking about where you were going to be buried, that's when I found out they were taking you to England. Then my cell phone went off. They thought it was one of your alarms, and that's when they told your staff to gut your room. I grabbed your box, album and pillow, I wanted to take more, but I didn't have time." Danny finished.
"And why the pillow?" Sam questioned not understanding why he took that.
"When I fell to sleep… I could smell your scent on it… and it made me… you know, feel better." Danny said nervously. Sam laughed softly at him. "Stop." Danny cried hiding his face in the pillow and allowed himself to fall back to the bed.
"I'm not laughing at you." Sam chuckled as she fell beside him and pulled the pillow of his face enough to see his face. "I think it's cute." She said letting the pillow go, allowing it to fall to his face.
"So your not mad?" Danny asked still holding the pillow protectively over his body as the turned to her.
"Of course not." Sam said gently. "And to show you I'm not, you can keep it." Sam said seeing that he never let the pillow go since he came into her room.
"Really?" Danny asked surprised. Sam nodded softly letting him know she was not joking. Danny smiled warmly and pushed the pillow behind him and scooted closed to her. "Thank you, but I'd rather hold the real thing." He said softly wrapping his arms around her, pulling her to him.
Sam snuggled close to his warm embrace and tucked her arms against his chest. "I love you Danny." She said softly letting her head fall to his chest and closed her eyes lightly slowing drifting to sleep in his warm protective arms.
"I love you too Sammy." Danny whispered lying his head down above hers as he drifted into his own content sleep still holding her affectionately.