I'm not looking for a fight now,

And I don't care who's wrong or right now,

So release the dove into flight now,

So we can start right now

-Rancid-

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"Hush now don't you cry." Danny whispered to Sam.

The girl slowly raised her head and stared into the gentle ice blue eyes. She felt pathetic and worthless as she knew she couldn't take back the horrible things she ever said to him. And he put her to shame without ever knowing it, he was so faithful and loyal and yet she was so quick to run from him at the first sign of deception.

Sam lowered her gaze to the red oval on his t-shirt. She knew he was still staring fondly at her but she couldn't meet with his eyes yet. So she busied herself with the small design on his shirt. And even though it seemed she was studying it she was in reality, thinking of what was behind it. Under that shirt, in that chest there was a beating heart, the very same one that she felt stop long ago.

Danny averted his gaze from Sam's head, he knew what she was thinking. His shinning eyes found the sky again and he realized that he missed it as well. Danny watched the solid gray sky pensively, and as if it expected to present a show a small snowflake fell from above and landed on his nose. He crossed his eyes to see it but it had melted against his warm skin. And Danny couldn't help but smile.

"Sam we should go." He said as he felt Sam shiver in his arms, he was glad he could provide her with the warmth he had.

Danny shifted and stood on his feet. Then he offered a hand to Sam. She was reluctant at first to take it but she finally accepted it. He noticed her hesitation and he already knew, she was slowly gaining her trust back for him. That's when Danny realized that nothing could be like it was before.

Danny and Sam walked together with a reasonable amount of space between them, although Danny wanted to keep his arm around Sam. He let her have her space as she gradually began to mend the distance. Snow slowly fell from the grayed sky above and landed around them and in their raven hair.

"Danny?" Sam began interupting his thoughts.

"Yes Sam."

She throated a grunt at first as she became frustrated for words. "Why, why am I not happy that you're back."

Danny was taken aback by her words. He froze in his steps and she stopped slightly ahead of him and turned her head. She stared at him wating patiently for an answer. All the while Danny was ripping apart and she didn't even know it.

"I don't know Sam..." He muttered closing his eyes to fight back tears that threatened to weaken him in front of her.

"Danny I'm sorry, it's not that I didn't miss you and I don't care, it's just that I don't feel happy. This isn't like anything I thought it could be." She explained solemly.

"Yeah, I know." Danny returned dully as they began to walk along.

"Look Danny I didn't mean to...to hurt you." Sam sadly said. She knew it hurt him. "You don't understand."

"What don't I understand?" Danny replied bitterly. "I'm the one who had to die."

"Yeah well you didn't have to watch and you didn't have to live with the guilt and the pain of knowing that I would never see you again." Sam replied deffensively.

"I had to see you but couldn't touch you and I had to watch my family fall apart and you fall apart without being able to do a thing. Don't tell me about suffering." Danny quickly snapped back.

Sam's face distorted into a sour scowl. She hid her face and Danny knew he crossed the line with her. He sighed again all his random anger dissapated.

"Did you think I forgot?" Sam sighed with a cracking tone. "Did you think I forgot the day that you slipped away from me, nothing was ever the same for me Danny. I was lost I was hurt and, and I wanted to die with you."

Danny looked away from his weeping friend. He didn't want to see her crying anymore.

"Sam..." Danny whispered slowly moving towards her. "Look I didn't mean..."

"You never meant anything, did you?" She asked. But she didn't wait for a response. "Nothing makes sense anymore, nothing ever did. The only thing I ever knew was true was the day you went away. But I don't even have that anymore." Sam remarked her eyes staring out into the street ahead of them.

"Yes you do, that all happened. Please Sam we can't keep doing this, you need to believe in me and yourself."

Sam stayed quiet for the rest of the walk. Danny took special care to not bring attention to himself, surely people had seen him by now. And he knew how much they adored him for everything he ever did. But with some luck that Danny didn't even know he had, they made to his house without being seen.

Danny opened the door and Sam follwed. Maddie had been waiting patiently. "There you two are." She greeted.

"Hi Mrs.Fenton." Sam returned shyly with an embarassed way.

"Uh hi mom." Danny said with a nervous laugh.

"Care to explain why you two decided to run off?" Maddie asked folding her arms across her chest with a smirk on her face.

Danny grunted lightly. "Yeah, I think you should sit down, both of you." Danny gestured to Sam as well. "I've got a really long story."

So the girls obeyed Danny and listened to his story about all that happened. He explained how he stayed with ClockWork while working as protector of the human and ghost realm. He told them of how he kept order and had to deal with the renegade ghosts and that he had set loose rules and a very important list of all the humans that were not to be touched ever. The list he said contained of them and any ghost to disobey that list would be destroyed on contact without a question.

Danny then went on to say that he had been tracking two horrible ghosts who not only attacked humans but ghosts alike and that they had eluded him for quite some time. And out of pure cockiness the ones called Shapeshifter and Sparks decided to go after Sam, in the knowledge that Sam was at the top of the list. He told his mom in a more contained way about what they did to ghosts and what they were gonig to do to Sam, and how he stopped and saved her without her knowledge.

Danny explained his purpose for coming back vaguely to them before finishing. He stopped and looked at his mother than at Sam. The goth wore the most ashamed look, which he expected from her in a sense.

"Oh my god..." Sam muttered. They both looked at her, her head was lowered and her eyes were searching the ground as if it had a script written for her somewhere. "I can't believe it. Danny you've been, here I thought you, oh my god Danny forgive me." Sam cried out throwing herself on him.

The boy was shocked, once again at the girl's sudden display of apology. But he quickly wrapped his arms around her as she held tightly to his neck. Maddie beamed at the children. But the moment was automatically killed by the blaring of the news.

"Breaking news, Vlad Masters has just escaped from prison only moments ago authorities are trying in all their power to stop the homicidal half ghost." The news reporter spoke, her normal perky tone was grave.

Danny broke away from Sam immediately his mouth was slightly agape. He walked over to see the screen better.

"We don't have much information on how he got out, but one thing is clear, we are all in danger."

"Also, reports are filing in that Danny Fenton, or better known as the Danny Phantom has been spotted downtown. Is this a second war in the making? This is Tiffany Snow, hoping that we live to see tomorrow."

"No..." Danny gasped as he plopped down on the couch and held his head in his hand. "It's happening ahead of schedule."

"Danny?" Maddie asked as she and Sam made their way over to him. "What's going on? What aren't you telling us?"

Danny opened his mouth to answer her, but he felt a large wave of dizziness overwhelm him. He blinked to try to shove it away but he was unable. And before he knew it his world was spinning into darkness. He wasn't able to hold on to their images and all he could hear was them shouting his name.

Here's another chapter. I've got a story for you guys, it would probably make you laugh like it made me laugh, or it might not and you'll all think I'm crazy. A little kid thought I was Sam a few days ago, which made me laugh. Apparently I sound like Sam, a lot, which is a weird thing to be told because we can't really hear our voices unless it's recorded. I don't think I really look like Sam all that much, but I guess you can kinda see it, sorta... Anyway that was my story.I think it's funny how I ramble in almost all my author notes. Also if you think you've got good lyrics then feel free to tell me about them, and maybe I can fit them in somewhere, because PotterPhan21 did that and I might just use some of those lyrics I was sent in the review.