Hellbreaker, I can imagine that even as he hates them, he still cares for his friends. He did admit to missing Tucker in his weaker (human) moments and when Sam hugged him he didn't immediately throw her off.

ShadowDragon357, lol.

sammansonrepilica, yup. I hope you continue to enjoy.

Renting, thanks for adding to your alerts.

They landed outside Sam's house, her curtain closed as it was every morning. Dan sat against a tree, his body going invisible making Danny realize he could be seen so he followed suit in changing his form to being invisible. He didn't understand what they were doing her since Sam hadn't seemed to want to talk to either of them, but then Dan asked a question, one that Danny wasn't sure if he could give an answer to.

"How long has she been like this?" When the younger halfa failed to answer Dan clarified it. "Emotionless?"

"Well, since the movies, but what does that have to do with this?" Dan shook his head as he asked the halfa another question. "I don't know. She seems more withdrawn than I have seen her in a few years."

"Well, that might be part of why he thinks she called him. She has been picked by him, but it can't just be her because when he comes he takes more than one soul back. He picks groups. Who did you see at the theater?" Danny listed a few people, ones who had seemed like nothing to him, but when Dan heard those names something seemed to hit him as he noticed a connection. "Those are the people who picked on you, the ones that singled out Sam and Tucker as well when it came to tormenting people."

"Paulina never did anything to them." Dan's gaze narrowed. "What? They had their fights but she never did anything to them."

"You never saw the whole picture the way I did," he stated as he looked toward the house that housed the woman who had stood by his side for more years than she should have. She had taken a lot and in the end he wasn't able to save her. It had truly been his fault, but that had been a human error that should not have killed his close friends and certainly not his family. "Paulina made it a habit to bother and put Sam down. If Paulina hadn't shown up when she did then Sam would have been the one that was possessed by Kitty that one year at the park, but instead you dated a Kitty possessed Paulina. Funny how that would have worked out because if Sam had been the one taken over then what would have happened? The simple fact is that since living in the Clock Tower with that idiot Clockwork I have seen and heard things about Paulina and her fun games that she plays with Sam."

"I didn't know." Dan shook his head as he turned to look at Danny.

"Neither did I, but that's just it. We failed to see it because of our infatuation with Paulina. We were teenage boys and we thought more with our dick than our heads. Not an excuse, mind you, but still that's how it goes." Standing up now he walked across the street with Danny in tow, the pair having no idea what they were going to do. "We need to find out more." Flying up to the window, still invisible, Dan and Danny peeked in to find the Goth still passed out, her limbs everywhere as she rolled over.

"She looks like she's having a nightmare." Dan threw Danny a no duh look before returning his gaze back to the rolling female. The older halfa inquired if anything had happened in the last few months that would turn the Goth's normal attitude ary and Danny instantly said, "Her parents died."

"She hated her parents." It was a fact.

"That's the only thing." Then it hit Danny that Sam had been stressed before that, but after that it seemed like she had been a little more tired when he called her or not in the mood for anything that they used to do. "Well, I remember that after that she was hospitalized since she was in the wreak with them. She was the only one to survive, but she didn't tell anyone. She just stopped talking to us for a while. I found out from my parents that she had been in the back, the one time she had let them drive her to a banquet she had to attend with them."

"Really? That could be a sparker if we find out more in regards to that accident." Turning from the window Dan headed off in the direction of Fenton Works. This time Danny stayed behind, his gaze locked on Sam as she tossed and turned. "Come on idiot!" Blinking the halfa shot the other male a look before following him.

Sam awoke with a groan, her body aching in so many places, but what bothered her the most was the fact she had met Death and he was after her. Sitting up she looked around, the feeling of being watched gone now, but knowing that he had been in her room had unnerved her leaving her with a feeling of unease. Crawling toward the edge of the bed Sam found herself looking into the dead eyes of her parents and with a yowl she fell forward, her head hitting the space where their head met. With a groan Sam forced herself back onto her bed, but when she looked down at the picture it looked odd.

There in the middle was a splash of blood that seemed to get bigger with every splash. Touching her head Sam found more blood, but even with the spot covered the blood on her parents picture spread out. Jumping off the bed the Goth rushed to the bathroom where a rather large spot of blood began to leak down her face. The Goth wasn't afraid of blood, but for some reason this set her off as she scrambled to stem the flow, her mind going back to that day in the car again and the blood that she had found on her clothes. The blood that had been her own, but every time she had looked at it she had imaged her dying parents.

"Sam?" came a familiar voice, one that Sam didn't want to talk to at that moment. Turning to the door she opened her mouth to say it only to come face to face with herself from that day. "What are you doing?" Sam dropped the rag she had been using to stop the flow as she took a step back. The woman before her looked happy. "You need to let it go. The pain, the guilt, the regret. You need to admit to all of it and let it go."

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about!" She reached for something to protect herself, but found nothing within her grasp. "Leave me the fuck alone!"

"I can't because I am all that you deny. I was there when your parents died and all they could think of was the hate they felt. I was there when you realized you liked Danny more than you thought you should. I was there when the rape happened. I was there through all of it and I will always be there, but you always force me into the back refusing to listen to me. I don't want to die. I want to be where I should be." The Goth couldn't understand where this was coming from! "Don't let me die."

"I don't know what you're talking about! I am not going to die!"

"But you will. There is little in the way of time." With that the woman was gone, her form disappearing like dust in the wind leaving Sam there alone, her eyes watering as she tried to crush the fear, but there were no other emotions to replace that except for anger and depression. What had happened to her?! Rushing out of the room she ran back to her room to grab some clothing before heading out. She needed out of the house and fast.

Danny stood before his parents, their weapons drawn as they looked at the ghost behind their son. Dan just looked rather bored at this attempt and waited for Danny as he calmed his parents down, explaining who Dan was and ensuring that he wasn't here to do any harm.

"What do you need, son?" Jack inquired while watching the older, other dimension Danny looked around. Maddie watched her son's other half walk around, the look on his face one of interest even as he tried to play it off. When Dan was the one to answer the older male almost responded in anger, but Danny pulled him back with a reiteration of Dan's response. "The car wreak? Well, she was in it and she was of course the only one to survive, but it seems that something big happened in that accident. The fireman who pulled her out came to us as we were the people listed on her emergency contacts."

"What happened?"

"Seems her parents had been arguing again and in the midst of it had run into traffic as a man was running from the police for being under the influence," Jack stated.

"Sad to say that if they hadn't been arguing then it wouldn't have happened, but that wasn't the brute of it. The man that pulled her out remembered them fussing so violently, talking about how they hated each other and something else as they bled out. They refused to stop even as the officer tried to calm them down. They died in that car."

"Shit."

"The sad fact is I think Sam heard something in that argument because the night afterward I went to check on her to hear her screaming in her sleep." She shook her head. "I can't imagine what it was like for her living with them and then watching them die like that. They had all anyone could wish for and to die with such hate is unthinkable." Danny and Dan turned to each other, the same thought going through their minds. Telling his parents goodbye the halfas rushed back toward Sam's house only to run into Death.