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Chapter Three: Nightmares

"Wait, I what?" I was hoping and praying I had heard that wrong.

"You became Plamius, Sam." No, this isn't possible. I can't be Vlad Plasmius, I'm Sam Manson. I'm not a goddamned frootloop!

My eyes were drawn back to the burn on Tucker's arm. "Please tell me I didn't do that." The look on Danny's face told me the answer I really didn't want to know.

Danny must have seen my not-so-internal internal freaking out. "That wasn't you Sam, that was Plasmius."

"But it was me! I turned into that frootloop whether I wanted to or not!"

Tuck put a hand on my shoulder. "Sam, it's okay. We both know I've dealt with worse. One little burn won't be the end of me." I forced myself to calm down, more for their sake than mine.

Danny spoke up again. "Did you have any sort of warning that was going to happen?"

I hesitated for a minute. "I did feel like I was about to pass out." I cut off there, still debating with myself whether or not to tell them about the nightmares.

Danny gave me look, I knew I shouldn't have taught him to be more observant! "There's more, isn't there? Now spill."

"There are the nightmares…" I trailed off, even though I knew it wasn't going to do me any good.

"What nightmares, Sam?" Tucker spoke up, he was nearly as worried as Danny was.

"It's nothing." There was a shake in my voice that slipped past my defenses, but that didn't stop Tucker's line of questions.

"It's not nothing. What nightmares, Sam?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Sam, we need to know what's going on." Tucker wasn't getting the message, and seeing as he wasn't too intent on shutting the idiot up, I'd guess Danny didn't get it either.

"I said, I don't want to talk about it, Tucker!" I blew up, my carefully constructed defenses crumbled. I should not have lost control so easily, Tuck was just worried. I knew he didn't mean to badger me, so why the hell did I blow up on him?

"Take it easy, Sam." Danny was in front of me, slightly on guard. I saw a faint reflection of red in his eyes. I forced myself to relax and the red disappeared. Shit, my eyes were turning red when I got irritated now, not the neon green they should have been. This wasn't good, what the hell was happening to me?

"Sorry, Tuck. I'm just not comfortable talking about it." Tucker backed down, probably because he didn't want to risk me blowing up again.

Are you going to at least tell me later?

I don't know Danny. I really don't want to talk about it.

Can you at least tell me the next time it happens?

"I don't know, Danny. I just want to stop talking about this." I didn't feel like letting him into my mind right now. He had learned to open our link on his own and if I wasn't careful, he could sometimes even find the thoughts I hadn't meant for him to hear.

Tucker wasn't even fazed that we'd been talking telepathically. He moved for a change of subject that I was very grateful for. "Your laptop's clean. You shouldn't have any problems with it."

"Good. Thanks Tuck."

"Anytime. If you don't mind, I think I'll take the guns back to my apartment to fix them."

"And just what do you intend on telling your roommate?" Danny asked. It was a good question.

"Who? Nate? He won't care, and even if he does ask, I can just say its Danny's. It's no secret you have ghost hunting stuff even if you never really use it."

"Alright, but if anything funny happens, I'll have your head on my wall."

"God, that sounds like something Skulker would say, Sam."

The town lay in ruins around me, death and despair filled the air. The town's favorite hero and last hope lays at my feet, vulnerable. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

"Are you enjoying this Daniel? I certainly am." That's Plasmius' voice coming from my mouth. I have no control, but I have to watch every last detail go down.

A grunt of pain is the only response. Danny's not dying yet, but he can't defend himself anymore, he's at my mercy.

"I think the most amusing part of this is that you can't do anything to stop me. You destroy me, and you destroy your little girlfriend as well. Isn't that delightful, Daniel?"

Another grunt as Danny manages to look me in the eye. "Go to hell you damned frootloop." He collapses onto the ground again.

"You'll learn to behave, boy! And I suggest you do so fast!" Ectoplasm shoots from my hand, why am I doing this to the one I love? Why?

I watch Sam as she starts to writhe in her sleep. The Box Ghost had woken me up, and when I got back she was thrashing around in her sleep. It's another nightmare, and I already know she won't tell me about it when she wakes up. There is one thing I can do to find out just what the hell is going on with her; she's going to kill me for it though.

I open the connection between our minds, going out on a limb and guessing it'll let me see her dreams.

My hair is matted, blood oozing from several open wounds. I don't have the energy to heal. Plasmius smirks at me, staring down from above and quite obviously enjoying this.

"I think the most amusing part of this is that you can't do anything to stop me. You destroy me, and you destroy your little girlfriend as well. Isn't that delightful, Daniel?"

This may be a dream, but I'm not letting that asshole talk to me like that, even if he had taken over Sam's body. "Go to hell you damned frootloop." I had gotten my head up and my weight resting on my arms, but as soon as I said that, I couldn't hold myself up any longer and I fall back to the ground. I see a blur of purple out of the corner of my eye before the pain hits.

"You'll learn to behave boy, and I suggest you do so fast!" I barely bite back a scream. Sam has to be in there somewhere. I need to get through to her, at least enough to wake her up.

"I know you're in there Sam, this isn't you. Come back to me." Both my dream body and the real me start speaking. "Wake up, Sam. Wake up."

I'm thrown from her dream world and back to reality as she wakes up, shaking and crying. I've never seen her cry over a nightmare before. I wrap her in my arms and try calming her down.

This is a bonus update, not the one for tomorrow, meaning you will get another chapter then too. :D

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Invisible One