Man, that other DP story I've been doing is taking a real long time to wrap up. And I'm pretty sure that this story won't be wrapped up any time soon. Just letting you know now since I'll be going back to school in less than two weeks, and that I might do an additional chapter between then and now plus a regular chapter before summer break ends, but we'll see because I have a lot of other things to do before then.
And I'm also letting you know now so that you'll know if I don't update as often. But once a week shouldn't be too hard for me to pull off, we'll just have to wait and see.
Okay, no more delays, questions will be answered in this Chapter. So, enjoy Chapter 6 of Forgetful Love! ^^
DP (C) Butch Hartman
Not long later, the doctor came in to see Danny again. He requested that Jazz and Tucker leave the room while he asks Danny some questions, the very same questions that were asked to Sam by another doctor.
"Now Danny, as far as you can remember, have you consumed any drugs or alcohol?"
Danny looked down in thought, he rubbed his neck feeling unsure but certain he didn't take any alcohol or drugs; he was worried that it may have been the thing that Tucker wanted him to remember.
"No...Well, as far as I can remember that is."
"That's okay." The doctor assured him. "Now, have you had any unprotected intercourse that you can remember of?" He asked.
Unprotected Intercourse. Danny knew those words rang a bell somewhere in his head, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He thought long and hard before he replied. He could be certain he heard the word protection somewhere, but he couldn't remember.
"I...I hope not. No, I don't remember any of that."
The Doctor nodded in reply as he wrote down some notes. "Okay, I'll be back soon to take the blood test. I'll let you spend some time with your family and friends." He said as he began to walk towards the door.
"Wait." Danny hesitated. "I want to know if Sam is alright." He demanded with a serious expression.
The doctor let go of the handle of the door and sighed as he walked back to his young patient. He looked sympathetically at Danny before smiling a little in hope.
"No need to worry, she'll be fine." He assured him.
"When can I see her again?" He asked, desperately wanting to see the one he cared about the most.
The doctor looked down in guilt and then started to slowly walk away from Danny. He looked up and smiled briefly at Danny.
"You will see her soon." He replied in a quiet tone before exiting the room.
Danny looked down in sadness and desperation; he wanted to see her more than he wanted to make himself feel better, even more than worrying about anyone finding out he's half ghost due to the blood test. He loved her so much, and he wanted to see the damage he took her through. He could never forgive himself for what he couldn't remember.
Jazz and Tucker came back in, expecting to see the same Danny they saw minutes earlier, but only saw Danny looking very saddened and desperate to see Sam.
"I want to see her! I just wish my ghost powers weren't so weak or that I could actually have a moment to myself alone!" He cried as Jazz and Tucker approached him, feeling neglected.
"Danny, I know you're feeling very bad. But you just need to relax. Sam is fine." Jazz assured him.
"I need to see for myself that she's okay." Danny implied.
About an hour later, the doctor returned to take the blood test. He asked for the two other teens to back away slightly so he could have some room to collect a blood sample from Danny.
As the needle pricked through Danny's skin, he thought of them finding out he's half ghost. This worry surfaced because now he knew it was only a matter of luck that the doctor didn't pick up any traces of ghost DNA in his human blood. Jazz and Tucker were worried too.
When it was over, everyone sighed in relief. Danny looked at the doctor as he left the room with a tube containing Danny's blood. He sincerely hoped that they didn't find out about his ghost half. He had managed to keep it a secret for nearly four years, he didn't want to blow it now.
Throughout that day, both Danny and Sam's family members and friends visited for a while before leaving them be. Their doctors popped in every now and then to check on them to make sure that they were doing okay, sometime after sunset, Sam was given yet another blood test, and so was Danny a few hours later. They were both told that their results should return to them within the next twenty four hours.
Tucker still hadn't had the chance to talk to Danny about what happened prior to the accident, but he was determined to the next day, he decided to come in as early as possible to see Danny
When visiting hours closed, and the hospital fell silent. Danny felt that he had enough strength to find where Sam was and check to see how she was. He hoped that she didn't need an operation and that he'd see the inside of her.
So, Danny transformed into his ghost half and phased the cords that were connected to him off so he could fly freely, he felt very weak, but he was strong enough to fly through the walls to look for Sam.
"She'd better be around here somewhere; I need to know that she's okay."
After flying through a few walls while remaining invisible, he managed to find Sam's dimly lit room. Danny saw her beautiful face as she slept peacefully in the hospital bed. He smiled, but then it vanished when he saw her bandaged arm. Regret and guilt ran through his veins as he approached her and caressed her cheek.
"Sam...I'm so sorry I did this to you. I don't remember anything, but hopefully one day, I will."
He closed his eyes and kissed her softly before leaving back to find his room. Before he went through the wall, he took one last look at Sam before reluctantly finding his way back to his room.
Unfortunately, since it took Danny a long time to find Sam, he had forgotten which way his room was. So he flew slowly as to make sure he wouldn't lose too much energy. He flew through countless rooms that look almost exactly the same as his and Sam's, but when he passed through a room that was different to the others, his curiosity forced him to stop and have a look at the place.
The room was full of people in lab coats, and test tubes on almost every cupboard. He could see that there was a dark red liquid in almost all of them; it was then that he assumed that this place was where the blood from a patient was taken to be tested. Danny was about to leave when a scientists sound of astonishment caught his ear.
"This is incredible!" the scientist stated holding a test tube with blood in it.
He waved the test tube around a little before receiving the attention of several other scientists rushing to see what caught his eye.
"What is it?" A female scientist asked.
"This blood sample...it contains something I've never seen before!" he replied feeling astonished.
"That's impossible, what is it?"
Danny bit his lower lip in nervousness as he began to think that the scientist had his blood sample, he went for a closer look to see if his name was written on it, but there was only a bunch of random numbers and letters. He outed then paid attention to the scientist who was holding the test tube, seeming speechless.
"I...I don't know...but if looked underneath a microscope, you could see some colour traces of green."
Danny felt a strong panic and worry build up inside him as soon as he heard the words 'traces of green'. He knew that the blood sample he was holding had to belong to Danny, no one else had ghost DNA in their blood except him. He left the room in a panic just in case if they sent word to his doctor already. He eventually found his room. He didn't realise that it was so close to Sam's. He had to remember where Sam's room was before he would forget again.
He transformed and rested back in bed, trying to remember how he was hooked up so no one would know that he was gone. Afterwards, he lay in bed and waited for the moment for the doctors come in and know his secret.
For a few hours, he waited but no one came in. Danny wanted the fear of the moment to pass by already, but he assumed the doctor thought he was asleep. So, Danny fell asleep and decided to take it all in the next morning. He knew that the next day wasn't going to be pleasant.
When morning arose, and when visiting hours were still closed, Sam and Danny were visited by their doctors to check on how they had been going. Both Sam and Danny asked about the blood tests, but Danny was even more worried than she was.
Both doctors had not yet received the results from the blood test.
"Sorry Miss Manson, but I assure you, we will get the blood test results soon enough. I am expecting good results since you seem to be holding up very well." The doctor assured Sam.
Meanwhile, in Danny's room, he was receiving a similar answer.
"Not yet, but hopefully within the next several hours."
"Thanks." Danny replied shifting lower and lower into his bed in worry and doubt.
Once visiting hours were now open, Tucker was one of the first people to walk through the front entrance; he went upstairs in a slight hurry since he thought going up the stairs would be quicker. Eventually, he made it to Danny's room. He knocked on the door just in case if Danny was still asleep, but was surprised to hear that he was awake.
Tucker entered the room and saw that Danny was alone, Tucker sighed in relief while whispering to himself 'finally' as he walked up to Danny and sat on Danny's right side.
"We need to talk about what happened before the accident." Tucker stated in a serious tone.
"What happened before the accident?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow in confusion.
Tucker took in a deep breath before beginning to explain all that happened.
"Look, Sam called me minutes before the crash and telling me that you and she were on your way to the mall."
Danny looked confusingly at Tucker, he was uncertain of why he would call Tucker if he was just going to the mall with Sam. It didn't seem like Sam to call Tucker about what they were doing if they were doing something as simple as going to the mall to presumably just got shopping or have lunch.
"Why would Sam call you about where we both were?"
"Well, originally you were going to come over my house that day but you had to take Sam to the mall because-"
Tucker was so close to revealing the whole reason as to why Danny and Sam were in hospital to begin with, but then there was a knock at the door.
"Oh man, can't I have a minute to talk to my best friend?" Tucker complained, assuming it was one of Danny's family members, only to find out it was Danny's doctor.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I believe I have the test results from your first blood test." He stated briefly looking at his forms.
Danny gulped in nervousness, Tucker looked at Danny in worry that they might have found out about his ghost half through what Danny had seen the night before. He knew that the news he was going to receive wouldn't be good.
"And, I forgot to mention about what I saw last night." Danny whispered to Tucker as his doctor approached him still looking at his forms.
There was a moment of suspense before Danny received what he was not expecting.
"Your internal organs are functioning as normal, most of your levels are reading normal, but we need to keep an eye on your carbon dioxide levels for a few days. Until your carbon dioxide levels have returned to normal, you'll have to stay here. But once all your levels are good, you can go home." The doctor explained with a smile near the end.
Danny felt very confused and unsure of whether the doctor had missed anything or was keeping the green traces in his blood a secret.
"Are you sure that's it? Was there any problems when the scientists tested my blood?" Danny asked, wanting an honest answer.
The doctor looked at Danny worryingly and slightly suspiciously, he was confused as to why Danny seemed unconvinced to his results.
"Um...yes, what seems to be troubling you?"
"Oh...nothing..."
The doctor then left the room to let Danny and Tucker presume what they were doing before. Danny sunk back into his bed while Tucker eyed the doctor suspiciously, but saw that he was just as confused as Danny was. Danny placed a hand on his forehead as he looked down in thought.
"He must have my sample mixed up with someone else's. It doesn't make sense."
"Why?" Tucker asked.
"Last night after I saw Sam, I found the room where they looked at the blood tests, and one of them was holding a sample and he said that there were traces of green in it."
"Maybe the doctor didn't want to tell you and thought it was a genetic thing?" Tucker assumed with a shrug.
"No, it's too strange to be a genetic thing. The scientist said it was nothing like he had seen before. That sample had to have been mine!"
Meanwhile, at that very same time, the doctor who was looking after Sam entered Sam's room with her results from her first blood test. He seemed very nervous about what to tell Sam.
"Miss Manson, I have your blood test results..." He said uneasily.
He approached slightly shaken by what he had read previously before entering the room about Sam's results.
"Are...you okay?" Sam asked, sitting up and looking at the doctor in concern.
"Um, miss Manson...there was something that we found in your blood sample that we're not sure you know about."
"What?"
"It seems that you have an unknown green substance in your blood. Also, you have human chorionic gonadotropin in your system."
Sam had been to school much more than Danny, but had never heard of what the doctor was talking about, she grew very worried when she heard that two things she didn't know about were inside her. A strange green substance as well as something she had never heard of before.
"Um...can you simplify that? The last part you said." Sam requested specifically.
"It means that you're pregnant."
There, finally got that part out of me before making it another chapter away. So, that twist at the end there huh? It turns out that Sam has green stuff in her blood, but why does she have it in her blood? Next Chapter will answer that for you! ;)