Chapter 19: I Can't Tell You

Something was off about this, like the flow of time had been disrupted. Danny's face held an expression I couldn't quite make out. It was as if he was trying to figure something out but he really didn't want to know the answer. His gaze kept shifting between his mother and I and then he'd stare off into space. Something had happened while I was out. He had been pretty calm before the most recent Plasmius episode, but now he seemed to be freaking out over the simplest thing.

I finally got to question him when his mother and Mrs. Stuth left to go retrieve something from the car.

"What's wrong, Danny?"

He gave me an impossibly fake smile. "What are you talking about, Sam?" Has he not learned that will always get the truth out of him one way or the other?

"Don't bullshit me, you know exactly what I'm talking about. What's wrong?"

He sighed. "I can't tell you, okay? It would only fuck things up more." Oh look, the truth...even if I didn't really like it.

"You know you can tell me anything, right?"

"I know, Sam, and I will tell you once it happens, but you can't know right now. It'll royally fuck up the timeline and it's apparently already on its last leg." I wished he would tell me, he was really stressed about this.

"This doesn't have anything to do with Plasmius, does it?"

"I don't know. I really don't. I don't know what causes it, all I know is it's gonna make my life a living hell regardless of what happens." Danny wasn't one for dramatics, whatever was about to happen really was going to suck big time.

I wrapped my arms around him, pulling him closer. "Just don't leave me out of the loop, okay?" My gut was telling me to trust him on this, telling me that he was going to have to get through this on his own for the most part. I just wanted to make damn sure that he knew I was there for him when he needed me.

He pulled me in for a kiss, but we were interrupted by the return of our teacher and his mom.

Mrs. Stuth just shook her head in the background as Maddie walked over to us. "We're probably going to be working all night, but you two need to get some rest. Go ahead and fly home and we'll call you in the morning, okay?" Danny nodded before transforming and picking me up without a word.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of the thought running through my mind as I snuggled into his chest on the flight home. A few had to do with trying to figure out what the hell had him so worried all of the sudden, but the rest were far from it.

Simply put? My thoughts had run to the gutter and were making a home down there. I don't know what the hell it was, but I wanted to go way farther with him than we had before. It was probably just hormones trying to run rampant, but I was questioning why we didn't. We both knew damn well this was a relationship that was probably wasn't going to die until we did, and even then it'd probably still burn strong.

My control slipped as we got home and an image floated through the psychic doorway that was almost always open now.

Danny froze for a second and I realized what had happened. My face was rapidly heating up. "Sam, what was that?"

God only knows what made me say my next words, but I don't think I could honestly say I regret them. "Do you want it or not?"

My hybrid boyfriend was surprised by the request to say the least. "You know damn well I want it, but are you sure you do?" Did I want it? Was I really ready to go that far with him?

"I'm sure, Danny." I was sure. Maddie was going to kill us when she found out (it was most certainly a when, not an if - she had a finely tuned mother's instinct), but there was nothing else holding me back at this point. I wanted this to happen, and if he thought he was ready for it, then so was I.

He stepped closer and kissed me deeply before carrying me to our room. "Just tell me if you want me to stop, okay?"

I nodded as he laid me out on the bed.

Shirts were thrown to the floor without rhyme or reason. Hands started wandering before pants and undergarments met the same fate as our shirts.

Thank god there was no one to walk in on us.

Told you there'd be an extra update! :P

...I don't know where that ending came from, it just had to happen...

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Invisible One