Chapter 4: Embarrassment

As I wake from my dream, Danny is right there to pull me into his arms as I break down from that damned nightmare. I keep having to remind myself that Danny is right here in perfect health. He's not about to die, Plasmius hasn't gotten to him.

I sat there in his arms for what felt like hours as he ran a comforting hand up and down my back telling me that it's okay, that he's okay and that he's right there for me. I finally calm down back into a logical state of mind and I notice something: the Danny in my dreams never speaks as he lays there at Plasmius' mercy. Then I realized that Danny seems to know more than he should, a detail he let slip by telling me that he was okay.

"Daniel James Fenton!" He cringed at that. "Did you see my dream?"

He rubbed the back of his neck nervously with the hand that wasn't coiled around me. "Whatever would give you that idea, Sam?" I give him a slight glare.

"You know, for a guy with a secret identity, you suck at lying." Insert his sheepish grin here. "Now tell me the truth." His face changed into a more serious one.

"Fine. I did see it, alright? Box Ghost woke me up and when I got back you were thrashing in your sleep. What was I supposed to do, Sam? I was worried and you sure as hell wouldn't have told me on your own." He may have had a point on that last one, but still! It's a violation of my privacy!

"I know you were worried, Danny, but you still shouldn't have done that. I would have been fine."

"And that's exactly why you broke down into tears when you woke up. It makes perfect sense." I couldn't tell if that was his witty banter practice coming into play, or if my sarcasm was rubbing off on him.

"I wouldn't have broken down if you were there! It's the fact that you were begging me to come back the caused that!" I noticed I had formed a rather mean glare on my face and calmed myself down. I wanted to prove a point, not scare him to death.

"Okay, fine, I won't do it again, okay Sam?"

I actually smiled at him. "Just be there for me when I wake up, okay?" He nodded and I realized just how tired he looked. "Danny, how much sleep have you gotten?"

"Uhh…half an hour? Maybe?" I shook my head in mock disappointment.

"You've got all of about two hours before we have to get up for school, you better sleep. You're already going to be working off less than you usually manage." He'd only get two and a half hours if he was lucky compared to his normal four. He was either going to be extremely goofy all day or extremely irritable. I wasn't exactly sure which one I was hoping for.

"Very well, Oh Sam, master if controlling me." He gave me a lopsided grin at this even though there really could have been a touch of truth in that statement.

"And don't you forget it!" I gave him an equal grin as he lay down and I curled up beside him. With any luck, I wouldn't have to endure another nightmare.

The next morning, I found out that Tucker did in fact have a key to me and Danny's apartment. I don't know if he's really had it all along, or if Danny only gave it to him after being called out for lying when I first got here. When he got it is not really the point though, the more important detail would be the fact that on this particular morning he decided to use it without giving Danny or I any kind of notice.

Fifteen minutes before our alarm went off, Tucker showed up.

"Hey, Lovebirds! You up yet?" Me and Danny shared a mutual 'oh shit' look when we woke up and realized what was about to happen. Danny would have phased through the wall to the room he was supposed to be in, but Tucker moved too fast for my hybrid boyfriend to get out. Tucker was standing at the door to our bedroom in seconds and half a second later had a cross between a stunned expression and an exceedingly amused one on his face. God, we were never going to hear the end of this.

Danny spoke up before Tucker managed to say anything. "Hey, Tuck." He tried so damn hard to keep the slight shake out of his voice…let's just say it didn't actually work.

"Since when have you two been sleeping together?" I would have loved to believe that was a perfectly innocent question, but this was Tucker and he simply didn't do "innocent" too well when it came to stuff like this.

I let my voice show my agitation. "It's not like that, Tucker!"

"Hey, I didn't say it was!" He defended.

"You certainly implied it!" There was no way in hell I was letting him off the hook on this one.

"Fine, fine! Just answer me one question." Oh god, at this rate Tucker was not going to leave here alive.

"What, Tuck?" Danny spoke up, his voice had lost its nervous shake and displayed his own irritation.

"Have you two…you know?" I wondered how many different forms of torture I could pull from my nightmares. I certainly seemed to have a friend standing here practically begging for it.

"No!" Me and Danny shouted in unison.

"Okay, good. It would have felt so weird to know my two best friends were doing that." My face was burning from embarrassment and my urge to kill Tucker was only growing by the second.

"Hey Tuck?"

"Yeah, Danny?"

"Leave. Now." I saw Danny's eyes go green, he was just as tired of this as I was.

"Fine, I'm going." He turned and left.

"We are never going to hear the end of this." Danny held his face in his hands, clearly just as embarrassed by the previous conversation as I was. "I swear to god, if he ever does that again, we'll be more human than he is." I laughed, apparently we were on the same wave-length on that one.

Okay! I admit it! This was mostly filler, but atleast it was funny filler! ...at least I think it was...

On a different note...

I had what could either turn out to be a bloody awesome idea or a complete disaster and I'm looking for some opions on it. The idea? It's essentailly a DP choose your own adventure story. I'm practically begging you all to go respond to the poll I have up. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. :)

Comments and feedback are as welcome as always! :D

Invisible One