"Why would he want to kill me?" Danny asked, still more than a little dazed that someone was out for his blood. So he can drain your powers. He wants to take over the world and marry your mom. "Did you really need to tell me that last part?" Danny complained. Sam just gave him a very Sam smile. "Right, of course you did."

"Anyone wanna tell me?" Tucker asked again.

"Not in public." Danny replied.

"Your house after school?" Tucker sighed.

"Sure."

"Sam," Tucker turned to the girl who looked at him suspiciously. "Who was the girl who'd love to date me?"

Sam grinned and wrote her answer on Danny's palm, and he answered out loud for her, "Your wife."

"I'm not married?" Tucker said slowly, his reply coming out as a question in his confusion.

Danny, following Sam's orders, replied, "No, but she will be your wife in the future." Tucker glared and stalked off.

He does know he's going the wrong way, right?

"Probably not."

***

Danny, Sam and Tucker filed into his kitchen. Tucker made a beeline for the fridge while Danny and Sam just sat at the table, it was very deja vu. After piling a plate full Tucker collapsed in front of them.

"What's going on?" Tucker asked, beginning to pick at what looked like pepperoni.

"Someone wants to kill me and marry my mom."

"Why would someone want to kill you?" Tucker demanded point the pepperoni like thing at Danny. Sam fielded this one, scribbling it down on a piece of paper.

Danny Phantom him. And they want to use me to get to him.

"Two questions now." Tucker picked up a glass full of something brown and resumed speaking, "How are they going to use Sam? Why don't you two just stay away from each other? And who wants to kill Danny?"

"That was three questions Tucker." Danny pointed out. Wow, you actually did math? Congrats. Danny growled at Sam for her little comment and Tucker shook his head, wondering why they denied the obvious attraction. "Anyway, I don't know how the plan on using Sam, probably as bait and staying away from each other . . . that was what Sam was attempting this morning, but she had to come talk to me regardless," ooh big word. "Shut up Sam. She had to come talk to me about our doom, so staying away doesn't work. And Vlad Masters wants to kill me."

Sam shook her head and corrected Danny using her ever useful pad of paper. Vlad Plasmius wants to kill you.

"What's the difference?" Tucker asked, trying to decide on whether he wanted ham or salami next.

Vlad's half ghost like Danny and like Danny he changes his last name when he's in ghost form.

"Wait, could I have gone up against this guy before?" Danny asked curiously.

Sam shook her head and grabbed her pen again. It's very unlikely. It seems to me like this guy has been keeping track of you and your powers to see how far you've developed. He knows that you're extremely powerful and while he wants your powers to be strong when you take them he also needs you to be weak enough that he can overtake you.

"So if we manage to boost Danny's powers before this guy comes after him then Danny could blast him into oblivion and all will be well?" Tucker wondered, poking at something pink. Sam shook her head, remembering her vision from a few days ago. Somehow Danny would end up protecting someone, someone who was in his arms at the time of the attack. And then the male, who was now identified as Vlad Masters/Plasmius, would tell Danny that she herself would be coming after him. Sam bit her lip, Vlad did not say when she would be going after Danny, but obviously she was being sent by Vlad.

Vlad's first attempt will fail, Sam decided, writing on paper to get her thoughts out, that's why he'll end up coming after me. So that I can go up against Danny and probably end up defeating him . . . but if I'm stronger than Danny (which I'm most definitely not) then why not drain my powers? Unless he needs a halfa's powers, and with Danny being the only other halfa in existence he would have to be Vlad's prime target. But who's the person in Danny's arms at the time of the attack? Sam smacked her head against the table.

Danny, who'd been reading over Sam's shoulder suddenly said, "You could be if you were trained." Two pairs of extremely confused eyes trained on him. "What I mean is if Sam really does have powers she could be stronger than me, but I've been training, in a way, for a couple of years. You know, against ghosts wreaking havoc," two big words, that would mean three in one day, I'm so excited for you! Danny gave her a look but continued, "what I was thinking that if we trained Sam then we could see how strong she really is."

"What if she's, like, mega strong and kills us all? What if the power goes to her head and she turns to the darkside and really does kill you?" Tucker shrieked hysterically. Danny gave a pointed look to Sam's goth clothes.

"Want to rephrase?"

"Just because she's already on the dark side and friends with you doesn't mean she's not going to kill you."

Oh. My. God. An update? Whatever happened to glorious procrastination? I miss it already! I think it was the review addict in me that needed to put this out. Anyway, onto boring stuff (with an announcement at the end).

I do not own Danny Phantom he belongs to some other guy (by the way, I'm not a guy). I have Danny Phantom summaries if someone is looking for something to write. If anyone is confused please ask so I can clear things up for everyone.

ANNOUNCEMENT PLEASE READ! No, I am not giving up this fic, why would I put a chapter out if I was? My announcement is that I'm looking for a beta. I know that I've expressed no interest in a beta before because just recently I realized how important a second opinion is and how useful it can be. So please pm if you are interesting. Thanks.

~DI4MGZ~