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"I am sorry that I never said anything. I am disgusted by my own actions as well. I wanted something and knew it would never happen, but I never learned. I kept on going for it. I am disgusted in the fact that I never learned from my own mistake. We are only human after all." With that the room disappeared and Sam was gone.
Sam frowned as she watched what had happened just before she had been in the accident. She watched as she grabbed her food, placing her salad on the tray with a smile as she thought of sitting with the teen that she loved. She was also apprehensive because he was the guy she loved. So many emotions and none of them trumped the emotion that she felt when she moved through the crowed room, the students watching something that was in the direction of their table.
"What is going on?" she wondered out loud as she finally was able to reach the inside of the circle only to drop her tray at what she saw. It clattered to the floor without her even hearing it as her vision was transfixed on Danny with Paulina at their table with their lips locked. "Danny?" she whispered in shock before she turned from the sight.
"That was the day that I learned that I couldn't change who we were," the goth muttered as she felt her heart beat in pain. "I knew then that I needed to leave. You didn't need me anymore."
Danny opened another door, this one was green, the color so much darker then his ghost eyes. It was like the pine trees that adorned homes during Christmas time that he was unsure as to what the emotion could be. Opening the door he found out what it was as there was no one in the room, but he could hear whimpering. What in the hell? Walking further into the room he saw it, but had the room been black or green like the door then he probably wouldn't have seen it, but as the room was a bright white he was able to see the ponytail above the mattress that lay on the floor. There was no bed frame which Danny found strange. He walked over to the edge of the bed and looking over found a pre-teen Sam cowering low. He found that really strange since Sam was never afraid.
"What are you hiding from?" he inquired and watched as the girl on the ground stiffened, her whole form becoming like a statue, but she refused to look up. "Sam, what are you doing?" A muffled response was what he got. "I can't tell what you just said."
"Can't you just go away," the girl muttered loudly. She still didn't look up at him, her head still kissing the floor. When he failed to do what she wanted she looked up, her amethyst eyes completely green. He couldn't see any amethyst. "I want you to go away," she said as she moved back, her bare feet squeaking as she used them to push herself away from him and into the corner. "Can't you tell that I am..." she looked around. "Afraid. There is just too much in this world that scares me and you are one of them."
"Okay, that is a new one. Sam, you aren't afraid of anything," the halfa stated as he sat down before the teen. "Hell, you have stood up to more ghosts then any other person that I know." The girl before him didn't even blink. "Sam, don't you remember all the times that you have stood up to something that should scare you like the Dragon King and Pariah?" She nodded.
"Physical things like that don't bother me," the teen said as her eyes watched him. "Things that you can't see that constantly are with you is another thing altogether."
"The wind bothers you?" he inquired causing the girl to growl at him.
"Emotions, Danny!" she screamed as the walls shook making her shut her mouth as she closed her eyes. "Emotions are with you even when you don't want them." That was true.
"What emotion are you truly afraid of?" the halfa inquired. "Emotions can be good things too."
"What emotion could be so good? They all hurt you in the end. Sadness, that one hurts your heart. Anger, that one does you no good in the end..." she continued to name off the emotions and what they got you in the end until Danny pointed something out.
"What does fear get you?" Sam looked confused as she thought about that one. "It keeps you from having a life with people who love you." Her eyes began to drain of the green color as they were replaced with her natural color.
"That is true," the female admitted. "I guess I wasn't looking past the fear to see the big picture." Danny wanted to ask her about the thing she had said about fearing him, but he was cut off as she said, "I will be forever changed by you and your emotions." She was gone as the room faded away leaving him in a new room. Looking around he wondered what had happened. Usually after defeating an emotion he was forced back into the hall, but now he was in a light blue room, almost a teal color at that. There was no furniture and no Sam in this one. Not like she had anyplace to hide. Suddenly he heard a war cry and looked up in time to see Sam come crashing down from the ceiling, her arms open wide as she tackled him.
"What the fuck?!" he growled as he hit the floor on his back, the teen looking down at him with a smile as she straddled him. "Surprise?"
"Damn right!" the female said. "I knew that I surprised you, but you did a great job of that just days ago, huh?" Danny knew what she was talking about, but before he could say anything she continued on, "Not that I should have been surprised. You will have to take it up with the last emotion for that though." With that the room disappeared and the teen that had been straddling him was gone with a smile. "I won't be so surprised next time," she promised. Danny now lay in the middle of what once had been a hallway that was not reduced to two rooms. One door was green like his eyes now in his ghost form. The other was clear and in it he could see Sam laying on the ground with her back to him. He rushed to the door and tried to open it only to find that it was locked. Sam just lay there in a way that frightened the halfa. Was she okay? He tried to bang on and scream at the door, but to no avail. The only thing that changed was his expression when he saw what was playing on the screen. Sam was in the taxi, her phone in hand as she dialed a number, the expression on her face torn between pain and sadness. What had she been thinking at that point. She began talking into the phone as tears fell down her face as a flush began to rise on it.
"I think that you are looking for me," a female voice hissed. He turned to find Sam, her eyes sparkling green like his, but hers looked a little distant and yet full of so many emotions. "You can't get to her before they send her on unless you confront me."
"Who are you?"
"Trust," was her simple reply. "That which you have broken so many times and yet she seems to keep coming back for more."
"I don't do that!" The woman before him chuckled.
"You don't see that you do it every day!" the female said as she threw her hands in the air. "That is why she was leaving you! She put her trust that you would make a good choice but you didn't and you don't seem to do it very often! Sure, she's not much better since she breaks your trust by doing the same thing like asking you to do something horrible while telling you not to use your powers for you to get revenge."
"Oh, I guess I do do that," Danny said looking back at all the times he had done such things like using his powers to get back at Dash, but she also had admitted to doing the very same thing.
"You guess?!" the girl stormed. "You don't realize how often her trust has been broken and that her putting her trust in your hands is a big thing! Her parents don't even have that anymore!" He looked back in the room as Sam was thrust sideways, her head striking the window with such force that she was knocked out as blood leaked from the wound. Trust. That was big thing for someone of her age to have already lost from people who you were supposed to be able to count on.
"I have done it," he affirmed. "How do I gain that back?" he inquired as he looked back at her as the screen in the other room went blank. The Sam before him smiled as she disappeared.
"You are well on your way, Danny." The clear door appeared before him as a white robed figure appeared, their wings closed on their back as they approached the teen standing up.
You're insecure
Don't know what for
You're turning heads when you walk through the door
Don't need make up
To cover up
Being the way that you are is enough
"Sam!" yelled as he burst through the unlocked door. Both people turned to look at him, shock in the goth's eyes.
"Danny, what are you doing here?" she inquired. "Why couldn't you just leave me alone?"
"I can't do that Sam. I have done so much to you that is unforgivable, but yet you stay with me and continue to be the person closest to me." That made the robed figure smile. This is what they had hoped would happen, but as the time had drawn closer they had worried that Sam would have to pass on.
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you-ou-ou
Of course she would be let into heaven as she had felt bad and had corrected her many mistakes, but they had known that that would alter the future to a degree that their master would not appreciate. The timeline was already wrong as Sam had not completed her path. She should have told Danny her feelings so long ago, but she had been too afraid, her trust in Danny shaken.
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
"I have caused you sadness when I broke your trust by not coming through for you. I have also caused you anger when I could have brought you joy. I know that you have anticipated me so many nights that I promised I would be there and then disgust in the reason I flaked out on you. I have also surprised you when you feared that I wouldn't come through. Sam, I want you to know that I love you and I always have I have just been to afraid to see the emotions that I felt for you for what they were."
"Danny," the teen said, her voice filled with sadness. "You shouldn't say things that you don't mean. I saw you kiss her and I knew that you had finally gotten the girl you had wanted since the beginning of high school."
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know (oh oh)
You don't know you're beautiful!
(Oh oh)
That's what makes you beautiful!
"Sam, I don't know what I can do to prove my love for you shy of kissing you, but I can't do that." Sam nodded as she turned from him. "I don't want our first real kiss to be in your mind, but in reality." She turned back to him in shock. "Sam, we were meant to be together. What you saw was not really what it looked like. I was just sitting there when she told me that she wanted to ask me something. I turned around to tell her off and she kissed me. I haven't had feelings for her in a long time. She just wasn't who I could see myself with."
"Really?"
"Yeah, you were right about her. She is shallow and I need someone a little more deep." Sam smiled as she got what he was trying to imply. "Sam I love you."
"Glad to see that you have found your love," the cloaked figure said. "It is time to go home now." The teens were about to ask, but then everything went white...
So c-come on
You got it wrong
To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ong
I don't why
You're being shy
And turn away when I look into your eye eye eyes
Danny found himself in the hospital room surrounded by his family, Tucker, Valerie and Jazz as Sam opened her eyes. Danny leaned over her, a smile on his face as he pulled her into a hug. Everyone smiled at the couple and that's when Danny leaned back, his hand dipping into his pocket as he pulled out something that glimmered in the light of the hospital florescents.
"Sam, I want to spend the rest of my life with you through all the fights and all the nights that we have." Sam smiled broader now as Danny slipped the blue jeweled ring on her finger.
"I love you Danny," the teen said just seconds before his lips met hers and I cheer went up around them, the teens paying their audience little attention as the kiss became deeper. With a blush Jazz grabbed her parents who in turn grasped Valerie and Tucker as they left the room, the door clicking into place just as the teens pulled apart, the look in both their eyes relaying their feelings. Pulling him back onto her they continued their make-out, his hands slipping slowly under her top, the girl below him arching into his touch encouraging him to go further. As his hands ran his fingers over her exposed skin Sam whimpered as goosebumps broke out over her skin...
The end. I hope that you have enjoyed the final chapter to this story and am looking forward to my next one.
Sneak Peek
Sam groaned as she sat down at their usual table at the Nasty Burger, her amethyst eyes scanning the masses of patrons around her. Where could those two be? Shrugging she pulled out her test from earlier as well as her report card. Today was the last day of school and Sam had passed with flying colors. She was just glad to be out of the school of her worse nightmares. Not that it was all bad, no; having her best friend had been awesome. That was what had made it so bearable. As she shoved the test and her report card back into her purple spider bag and pulled out a book entitled, "Death, Life, and Everything In between." She had found it at her Goth store that was also the place where she went to read poetry and listen to others that were like her in some respect or another. Danny and Tucker were not aware of her readings or the fact that she liked to sing, but those were things that she kept to herself since she felt that they wouldn't understand. Sighing again she re-read the same line over for what felt like the hundredth time. Closing the paperback with an audible thump she shoved it back into her bag just as Tucker appeared before her, his PDA in hand as it usually was.
