Hey! Me again. You guys ready for chapter 3? It's really adorable! I hope you like it! Scroll down to the bottom if you want a synopsis, if not enjoy! A little S+D, I promise you'll go awwwww.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, AMC or anything else famous in this story.
Danny rolled out of bed. Literally. He hit the floor with a thud and woke up. A nightmare had caused him to toss and turn all night. He shook his head, partly to wake up and partly to get the tale of terror out of his head. It was almost Christmas, you shouldn't get nightmares. Of course surprise, surprise, he kept getting them. The same one too.
Flashback to the nightmare
"Well if it isn't the great Danny Phantom on his knees. That's right Daniel bow to me, for I am ruler." Vlad hissed.
Danny was struggling to push himself up, he was battered and bruised. Vlad had been bouncing him around his private study like a cat with a mouse. Vlad smiled his fangs showing.
"W-what are you going to do Plasmius? Bite me?" Danny asked stuttering because of pain more than fear.
"Ha, your last moment would end with your witty banter. Too bad it does you no good." He said.
"You will go down before I do." Danny said in all seriousness.
"Ha! Oh yes, here you are in my mansion your stupid friends are roaming around aimlessly looking for you while Skulker and Spectra track them down, your parents are being kept at bay at home and you are beaten tired and out of power. My dear boy you will never see my demise. Though I have to say this, too bad she's not here to see you die." He said and aimed an ectoplasmic beam at his head.
Sam came rushing in.
"Danny!" She cried. Vlad turned around and looked at her.
" Oh for the love of-". He was cut short by the ectoplasmic beam being shot at Sam. Danny was shocked, he never thought it happen, but it had.
"Now where were we? Oh yes, here!" He said shooting at Danny. Danny slowly dodged and lifted himself up.
"Masters! You will pay!" He said his anger rising.
"Funny Daniel, I won, even better than before. She's gone and you'll never be the same." He said.
End of Nightmare
"She's gone and you'll never be the same." The words echoed through his head as he got dressed. They taunted him, and wouldn't leave him alone. What would happen if she wasn't there? No, it was almost Christmas he shouldn't think like that. He slid down the banister and sat at the table. Score! Jazz left the milk, cereal and a spoon on the table.
Halfway through his breakfast Sam and Tuck came in and dumped armloads of wrapping paper, bows and boxes and bags on his table.
"Uh yeaaah, why are you in my house with an assortment of potentially messy and dangerous objects." He said eyeing some glue and scissors.
"Well you might of forgot but we didn't." Tucker said.
"Yeah, it's the Saturday before Christmas. We came over to wrap presents, remember?" Sam said taking off her jacket.
"No." He said with the spoon halfway to his mouth as he watched them spread everything out on the table.
"Well we did, so get your stuff, Christmas is on Wednesday." She said.
Danny got up and put his breakfast away and got his stuff.
"Ok. Let's get this over with." He said. They pulled out their boxes as Tucker looked at his.
"What's wrong?" Sam asked.
"I cannot wrap presents, when I do they look like lumps that have been run over by a truck." He said.
"Well I am not doing them for you. Ask Jazz." Sam said.
"Ask me what?" She said as she walked into the kitchen.
"Help with my wrapping." He asked.
"Sure." She said and came over.
"Hey there's a Christmas bonus movie-a-thon on AMC. The viewer's and poller's favorite top 20 movies." He said while trying to shake a piece of tape off his hands.
"Yeah I heard about that TBS is doing the same thing." Sam said as she put a bow neatly on a finished box.
"How does this look." Tuck asked. He held up a box with wrapping paper sticking off of it, the ribbon loose and hanging and the bow was lopsided.
"Ummm yeah, it's different." Sam said
"Interesting." Danny said wrapping paper scattered around him as he himself tried to tie a ribbon on. He succeeded in tying his hand to the present.
"Hmmm, hey Sam do you mind if your present is delivered like this." He said sticking out his hand.
"I'll bet she would." Tucker said under his breath.
Jazz just sat their wrapping presents and watching everything happen.
"What?" They asked in unison in a suspicious tone.
"Nothing." He said a bit too quickly.
They looked at each other and blushed. Sam quickly tried to untie Danny from the present, all the while the blush on her cheeks grew even more. He was finally free and rubbed his hand and went back to work.
Then it started.
Sam looked at Danny and quickly stuck a piece of tape on his hand. He smiled at her and tried to ignore it. Tucker came around and put a piece of tape on his nose. Jazz then went to make popcorn and left it popping in the microwave.
"Alright be that way." He said and threw a bow at Tucker it bounced off of his shirt. Tuck put tape on Sam's hand and threw stray wrapping on Danny. Then he unrolled this bluish white paper and put it on his shoulder and let it hang there. He pointed a finger at Danny and smiled.
"Now young Daniel will you succumb to my power or do I have to defeat you once more." He said in a very deep and menacing voice.
"Never!" Danny replied in a dramatic tone.
"Fine Daniel I gave you a choice and now you'll pay!" He said and threw wads of paper at Danny.
Danny backed up and started throwing bows at Tucker. The battle of paper and bows raged on and then Tucker grabbed Sam's arm and dragged her toward him.
"Ha! I have your girlfriend now what will you do Daniel, save you or herself." Tucker said laughing in between. Sam took the hint and put a hand to her forehead and dramatically said "Oh Danny save me!"
Danny couldn't take it anymore and fell over laughing. He got up and wiped a tear from his eye and rushed toward Tucker and grabbed Sam.
"Your plan f-fahaha failed P-Plasmius." He said laughing.
"Oh butter biscuits." He said using the lingo that Danny had told him about. He then chased Danny with some ribbon trying to lasso him. Sam then cardboard tube and smacked Danny on the head as he was coming around the table.
"Ow. Hey Sam what are you doing." He said and looked at her.
She held the long tube diagonal across her and strummed her fingers along the imaginary lines.
"I'm rockin my world. See ya later dipstick." She said and hit him (lightly) with her cardboard guitar.
Vlad (Tuck) and Ember (Sam) then began to try to tie Danny up with ribbon and wrapping paper. 10 minutes later A very tired Ember went to go bring their drinks into the living room.
"Hey Tuck, do you think you could unwrap Danny while I bring the drinks and everything in the living room." She said walking away.
"Ok." He said and smiled. When she was finally out of sight he wrapped Danny twice as much and stuck a bow on his head.
"Uh Tuck what are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm wrapping you up." He said. The dark green wrapping paper was wrapped around his legs, arms and chest, mainly because that was the only place they could get it on him.
"Tuck let me out now." He demanded.
"I can't so just relax ok." He said writing on a piece of a paper.
"That's kind of hard because I'm wrapped up like a Christmas present!" He shouted. Then Tucker put a To and From sticker over Danny's mouth.
"You are so going to thank me for this. You two are way too shy. So I'm helping you out." He said as he carried Danny into the living room.
Sam was under a quilted blanket watching a movie on TV when Tucker came in and threw something on top of her.
"Merry Christmas Sam!" He said. He went upstairs to get Jazz and show her what he'd done.
Sam looked down to see a pair of wide crystal blue eyes staring back at her.
"Danny?" She asked puzzled and took the sticker off of his mouth.
"Yes." He answered.
"Ok, this is odd." She said. Inside though she was happy, Tuck had gotten her the one thing her money couldn't get her for Christmas.
"I've been in worse situations." He told her and smiled. That smile made Sam's heart skip a beat. Danny was also overjoyed, not by the fact that he was the present but by the fact that Tucker had helped give him the thing he wanted most for Christmas. He looked into her eyes and his heart thud in his ears. That nightmare would hopefully never come true, but the good thing about it was it made him realize right then and there he loved her.
"Well if you're my present the I guess I better unwrap you." She said tearing off the paper and smiling at him. When he was paper free they stared at each for a second. The snow was coming down, it was warm and cozy and basically perfect.
"You unwrapped your present too early, it's not Christmas." He said coming in closer to her.
"Well this is one present I couldn't wait to unwrap." She said and moved closer to him. No more words needed to be exchanged. Their lips met in the middle and after a few seconds they pulled away. He hugged Sam and looked at her.
"We should have told each other. It would have saved us a lot of time……and paper." He said and smiled.
Tucker and Jazz who were watching smiled, they were finally together.
" So you had my little brother gift wrapped. Ingenious Tuck." She said and walked back upstairs.
"Yeah well the whole point I came over was to wrap my presents." He said and turned into the kitchen. He looked at the mountain of mess they had made earlier
"Great. Now I have to clean up." He said.
Ok, I hope you like it! Now it was like 1:00 am when I wrote this so if there are like pronouns out of place or misspellings I'm sorry. So review, please! Just hit the button and review! I have another chapter so tell me if you want it.