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Sam's Plan of Action

Chapter 2 - Finalization

As Sam left Danny's house she made sure to take the long route home. Sam desperately needed to straighten her mind out. She had thoughts running in and out of her mind not even taking the time to slow down or be considered. One moment Sam was walking down the street the next moment she was in the park over looking the lake. Sam took a moment to sit down and attempt a little bit of self control. As Sam tried to calm her mind images of Danny kept creping in to her conscious mind. The only thing Sam knew for sure was that she was going to tell Danny how she really felt about him. That she wanted to be more than just friends. Even knowing that Danny felt the same way Sam was a little afraid that Danny would try and deny his feelings or would claim to want to be nothing more than just best friends. Sam looked out over the waters of the lake and let the beautiful view take her mind off of her current situation. Time seemed to escape Sam as the next thing she knew her cell phone was going off. Taking a moment to look at the caller ID she noticed that Tucker was calling.

"Hello," Sam answered; not exactly sure why the techno-geek was calling.

"Hey Sam, why did you tear out of the Nasty Burger like that; I expected you to go on over to Danny's," Tucker asked concerned. "You know Danny appeared to be disappointed that you were not coming over," Tucker added trying to tug on those elusive heart strings that only appeared to work when he mentioned Danny.

"Well, I just felt the need to take a walk," Sam stated trying to sound convincing.

"Well, what ever Sam. So are you going to tell me what you have planned? I mean exactly how are you going to tell Danny that you like him. You know that he is still drooling over Paulina," Tucker asked hoping to finally get the information out of Sam.

"Like I told you in school Tucker; I am not going to tell you what I have planned. But, I am going to have to ask a favor of you though," Sam asked hoping that Tucker would not push to know the full details in order for him to grant her this favor.

"Like what Sam," Tucker asked with as much fake irritation that he could muster.

"Well, Sam asked hesitantly, have you and Danny made any plans for the weekend yet."

"Well, nothing out of the ordinary. I think that we were going to go to the movies on Friday and I was going to spend the night since his parents were going to be out of town."

Sam could feel the butterflies in her stomach as she contemplated what she was going to do. "Well, I need you to cancel all of your plans for this weekend with him," Sam stated very plainly.

"Why would I want to do that," Tucker asked trying to get under Sam's skin.

"Well, Sam stated in the most threatening tone she could, for starters if you would like to live to see Christmas. Do I really need to state the other reasons?"

Tucker got Sam's message loud and clear. He had intended to mess with her but he did not expect her to get that mad that quick. He hoped he had a little bit more room to maneuver. "Alright what ever you say," Tucker sighed. "I'll call Danny tonight and make up some excuse. Will that work for you?"

"Thanks Tuck, I knew that you would do as asked," Sam said in a sarcastic tone.

"Yeah, like I had a choice in the matter," Tucker said. "Alright Sam I will see you tomorrow at school."

"Later Tucker" Sam hung up the phone and started down the street towards her house.

Tucker laid down his phone and headed over towards his PC. Tucker had managed to get a hold of the new OS upgrade. He had managed to download it from Vlad's PC the last time Danny had battled him. Tucker dug around in his backpack for the disc and set to work installing the upgrade.

After a couple of hours Tucker had finally managed to graph the upgrade in to his system. Tucker took a look over at his phone and decided that this was as good a time as any to call Danny and cancel his plans like Sam had requested. Tucker reluctantly dialed Danny's number. After a few rings Danny answered obviously trying to wake up enough to answer a phone.

"Hell-hello," Danny answered half awake.

"Hey Danny, I need to cancel our plans for this weekend," Tucker stated with what he hoped was a regretful tone. However, Tucker knew that this being Danny he would be clueless to the fake tone.

"Why man you know I have nothing else to do. My parents are gone and Sam won't stay the night here. What am I going to do all night with nobody to hang out with," Danny said disappointed that Tucker was canceling on him.

"Sorry Danny but my parents have grounded me for not; not doing my chores," Tucker made up in a hurry.

"Well, you can't help parental involvement can you," Danny said trying to be sympatric to his friends' situation.

"Well, I guess I will see you tomorrow at school Danny. Good luck with your patrol tonight."

"Alright catch you later Tucker," Danny said hanging up his phone. Danny looked over at the clock: 09:45. Well, it was fifteen minutes early but I guess I could start my patrol early. With that Danny transformed from Fenton in to Phantom. Phantom went intangible and flew out of his window and headed out on his nightly patrol making a brief stop by Sam's on the way. Danny loved to take a moment to stop by and make sure that his favorite Goth was doing ok. Danny so desperately wished that Sam could be more than just a friend but Danny was not about to do anything to compromise his friendship with the Goth.

Once at home Sam went straight over to the kitchen. Having only eaten a salad at the Nasty burger Sam was feeling a bit hungry. After getting a rather large helping of fruit salad Sam headed up towards hr room. Once Sam up there Sam plopped down on her bed and reached over towards her night stand and grabbed her diary. Sam had asked Mrs. Fenton to make her a diary that prevented both ghosts and humans from reading it. Sam knew that Danny had tried once before to read it and unfortunately for him he had been in ghost mode when attempting it. Sam figured it out the next day when Danny came to school with bandages on his hands from the powerful shock.

Sam took a moment before entering the password. She wanted to make sure that Danny was no where in the room. She would hate to have that kid know the password. Although maybe after this weekend having Danny knew the password would not be that big of a deal. After checking her room with a pair of thermal goggles she browed from the Fenton's Sam proceeded to type in her password Samantha Fenton. After writing down her thoughts for the day Sam proceeded to make an area strictly devoted to the events of this weekend. Once Sam was finished she laid her diary down on her bed and closed her eyes.

Danny flew towards the Manson Mansion and headed straight for the second story windows that belonged to his best friend Sam. Danny neared Sam's window and flew in. Danny found Sam fast asleep on her bed with her diary lying open on the bed next to her. 'Do I dare touch it? What if she has the protection turned on? Oh well, I guess I will just have to take my chances. I most certainly pass up this opportunity, now can I,' Danny thought to him self.

With that Danny reached over and picked up the book. Nothing happened. 'Yes, now I can finally see what this thing contains,' Danny thought. Danny turned the book over in his hands. Danny quickly scanned the blank pages until he saw the heading scribbled on the top of the page: Weekend at Danny's.

A/N: I would like to thank Catgirlversion30otakufan05 for pre-reading my story. Hope you guys like this chapter I should have the next chapter up within the next 2 to 3 weeks. Please read and review.