Tucker was fidling with his computer after he left the observetory that night. He was bored and still had a lot of things to think about. Gregor lied to Sam, Danny came through in the clutch, and he nearly got himself killed for that Elliot and he wasn't even sure why he did it. It had to have been a force of reflexes from all the fights he had been in with Danny. Someone's in trouble and he could do something so he did.

He heard his phone ring and he picked it up.

"Tucker?"

The forgotten friend

Tucker smoothly answered Danny. "Yeah man what's up."

He wasn't mad at Danny for being jealous of Gregor, but then again Danny still didn't know what that jerk had done. And Tucker feared to tell him because he was sure that Danny would go out and rip the boy to shreads. And he didn't want his friend to be a murderer.

"I'm going to abandon my pride and say sorry to Sam. I was wrong to stand in the way of her happiness."

"Aw our little boy is growing up." Tucker teased.

"Ugh I'm trying to be serious Tucker." Danny sighed on the other line.

Tucker laughed lightly and flicked a paperclip across his desk. "Yeah I know, I..." He heard a beeping which meant someone was on the other line. "Can you hold on?"

"Yup."

Tucker pressed the flash button and answered. "Yo."

"Tucker?" It was Sam, she sounded weird.

"Yeah Sam." Tucker replied he heard her sigh.

"Can I talk to you?" She asked.

"Well that's why you called right? Can you hold on for a second."

"Sure."

Tucker transferred back over to Danny. "Man, I gotta go talk to you tomorrow. Ok?"

"Oh yeah sure, bye Tuck." Danny said and he hung up.

Tucker than transferred back over to Sam and he heard her trying to steady her breathing, unsuccesfully. "Sam, so what's..."

"I don't understand why he did that, I thought he loved me, no one is going to love me. And now Danny hates me and I don't know what to do anymore Tuck." Sam sobbed.

Tucker stayed silent for a moment because he was so shocked that Sam was crying. Sam doesn't cry, she never has. Even after all the times she's been hurt physically and mentally, she always just shrugs it off. And that's when the boy realized something, he hadn't seen Sam as a girl before untill now. She was crying and desperate for help.

"Oh Sammy please don't cry." Tucker coaxed gently, he had no idea what he was doing, he was simply playing on his instincts now.

"I'm sorry Tucker." Sam apologized through tears.

"Don't feel bad, you didn't do anything wrong."

"Yes I did, I screwed up everything, ugh if I wasn't so stupid I wouldn't be in this mess. I hate myself." She cried.

"Now Sam you're going to listen to me. You didn't do anything wrong, Elliot was a jerk for breaking your heart what he did was wrong. Danny was being unreasonable with you and the fight you had with him wasn't wrong. And you should never hate yourself, because no matter what Danny and I are still going to stand by you like you have for us. And I promise you Sam that tomorrow will be so much better."

Sam sniffed slightly and her voice perked up a bit. "You really think so?" She asked hopefully.

"I know so now try to get some sleep ok?" Tucker cooed.

"Ok, goodnight. And thanks Tuck."

"No problem."

They hung up and Tucker placed the phone down on his desk. He massaged his temples tiredly. He never knew how hard it was to be the one in the middle, untill now he only did little things, but this situation was a little more difficult. Sure he always cleaned up for them but this would take some getting used to.

"God Danny you better fix things tomorrow." Tucker muttered before heading off to bed.

Tucker's fun to write with because he's a happy medium, he's never onesided strongly, where as Danny and Sam are both on two very different sides, which are also fun to write about. And I've noticed that DCMH has lots of little fill in the gap places to write about so I took my advantage.