Hellbreaker, no she's not talking about just that one moment, but more of how they get repeatedly captured, but you must realize that Death is twisting her images to get her to give up. The part with Dan was the clue. She wasn't there so how could she know about dying unless Death wanted her to step toward the edge?

sammansonrepilica, thanks and yeah, I wanted to lean toward the show along with what happens in the story.

ShadowDragon357, yeah, foul for me is another set of words all together, but remember she was a teen and not overly vulgar either.

Note: The song is one that most people know, but may hate because of who sings it. I don't really like the person either, but for me the song is all that matters. I don't like most artists, but I love music and live by the rule that just because the one behind the song is a horrible person or I don't care for them does nothing for what I hear in my ears.

Later that evening Sam sat in her room, her head resting against her pillow as Dan stood off to her left in the darkness. Danny had gone home to do some research, his distrust of the darker side of him put on hold for the moment so he could ensure Sam's survival. She turned her head slightly to Dan, his green eyes watching her with such intensity that it made her shudder, a feeling of fear and anger mingling in her heart.

"I can see beyond those shutters," came Dan's dark tone. At her blank stare he let out a sigh. She really was just the darker emotions, her lack of normal emotions making her a dark person. "You're afraid of me because of what I attempted to do and yet on the other side of the same coin you are angry at me for the same thing, right?"

"No," came her surprising response. "I fear you because you tried to kill us, that part is true, but no, I am not angry for the same reason. Anger does very little good when you're looking Death in the face, but anger at someone who once looked you in the eyes and told you that they would protect and they attempt to kill you." She looked away, her eyes shutting. "What's worse is trying to kill your human half because you think he makes you weak with emotions."

"You don't know what it was like after that stupid accident!" She scoffed.

"No, I don't, but how do you think killing the rational side of you makes that better. Obsession is still an emotion, not one that rationalizes whether destroying the city you once vowed to protect is right or the fact that you tried to destroy our town to ensure that future was the answer." She turned toward him to find the dark halfa closer, actually he was right next to her bed, but she found there was no fear at this moment. She couldn't feel that emotion as she felt a chill in her heart.

"Obsession? I have no obsession!" She chuckled now.

"Your obsession was to destroy the town and kill everyone. Why?" That brought a true look of confusion to his face. "Why kill the people that innocent of wrong?" He growled as he closed his eyes, images from that day taking root in his vision. "Were those people involved in some diabolical scheme?" Then she remembered that he not only had he tormented the humans, but the Ghost Zone had suffered. "What about the ghosts?"

"They were all responsible for it!" the older halfa screamed in anger. "All of them had a hand in it and they all deserved to die for it!" He disappeared and before Sam could react he was on top of her, his green eyes flashing like Danny's did when he was pissed off, seriously pissed off.

As long as you love me

"You were in the wrong place at the wrong time and it was my fault that you were with me that night, but they should have remembered what that kid had said at the CAT assembly! That stupid kid who worked at the Nasty Burger warned us without realizing it!" He leaned close to Sam, the chill from his body filling her own with more chill as she looked deep into those eye that belonged to the one she had crushed on so long ago. "If they had done something after the Nasty Burger was trashed then you would have still been alive."

As long as you love me

It hit her then like a smack in the face as the older halfa looked at her in dismay. He felt guilty, but he also felt another emotion.

"Dan, did you like me?" she questioned feeling like a teenager again, the angst of feeling feelings for a guy that couldn't see you you as more than one of the guys filling her petite form again. He blinked at the question, the one that he had had an eternity to dwell over. For a guy who had been emotionless for over ten long years he still found that one question taunting him, calling him, forcing him to release the anger that came from that question.

"Yes, I did like you, so much more than a friend should," he said softly as he moved to lean back from her. "One of the many things I never got to tell you in my timeline. I watched you die, watched that blast from just feet away." He looked toward the window as he sat down on his ass, Sam sitting up to look at him.

As long as you love me

"I can't believe you felt that way," she stated. "You acted like I didn't exist half the time I was around." He looked ashamed for a moment. "Is that guilt?" Then she remembered what she had told the two men in her life. She had told them on so many occasions that she didn't have much interest in all the things females had interest in. She hated how women wore scant clothing and makeup and while she demeaned those things she herself wore clothing that exposed her creamy skin and wore some makeup. "I guess I wasn't all that much to look at, not that I was looking for a relationship when we were teens."

"No, I was clueless as well as in a bit of denial until you were gone. It was a real wake up call, but I don't have my Sam to tell my feelings to because I waited too late." Then it was like he realized who he was talking to and the halfa moved as far from her just seconds before Danny appeared, the younger halfa looking between the pair in confusion.

"What's going on?" Danny inquired and Sam shook her head as she turned from the two men, her amethyst eyes reflection more of their original color than before as something filled her heart. "Sam?" When she shook her head again he looked to Dan. "What the hell, Dan?"

"It's not him," Sam clarified. "I was just talking to the dark side of you and realized a few things that I didn't see in the past." She looked to him now, her eyes shuttered again. "I was someone that I was proud of, but at the same time I held too much in that I should have put out there." She looked to Dan now. "Some Things were never said before and regrets are something that you live with for the rest of your life, but life goes on and the best thing you can do is remember the good times."

We're under pressure

Now Danny was really confused, but when he looked between the pair he could tell that he had definitely missed something. She smiled at Dan and then at Danny as the emotion that had touched her heart moments ago filled her heart with another emotion.

"Danny, when this is all over we need to talk." He nods and begins to tell them about what he learned from the computer as he pulls up the site on her computer. As the pair listens to the halfa talk Sam leans over and grabs the darker halfa's hand, her touch reassuring before she releases it again.

"Death needs to collect a certain amount of souls and when he doesn't reach that quota he comes to Earth to collect the sad and lonely souls, ones who think they don't deserve to live. When he finds them he steals their good emotions, the ones that bind them to someone or something that keeps them on Earth." He clicks on a few images for them to see what others had lived through, people who had found those things and made it back to where they were happy again. The images of people who had been possessed was very minimal, but in the few images you could see several similarities.

Seven billion people in the world trying to fit in

"So he preys on their insecurities, but how did he get to Sam and who else is infected?" Danny shook his head. "So even though we have all this information we are still at square one?" The older halfa let out a frustrated breath. "What about that movie you said the pair of you went to see?"

"What about it?" Sam questioned. "I really don't remember much about it."

"It must have been the place they used as a cover, but how did he get people, selective people to come there." Danny turned to Dan, one idea of how.

"A commercial." Dan blinked. "Sam told me she saw a commercial for the movie late at night, one I had never seen. She invited me to come, but I wasn't taken over." The Goth in question looked thoughtful. If that was the case then Danny hadn't been selected and she had brought him inadvertently. She voiced this idea to the pair of halfas and both agreed that it seemed the case. "Only ones that fit his profile are brought in to drain."

"Now what do we do?" Sam quired.

Keep it together

"We go to that theater and check it out." Sam sighed. So Mystery Incorporated!