A/N: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! (smiles happily)

BlueMouse: To treat you all, here's the next chapter of Phantom Castle!!!!!!!!

Kara: . . . You both had sugar didn't you?

BlueMouse&Chibi: YEP!!!! (smiles happily)

Kara: (sigh) We don't own Danny Phantom so don't sue us.

(This chapter was written 3/27/09 even if it didn't get updated in time . . .)

Chapter 12: Conversations Part 2

Sam dragged Tucker into a sitting room that was decorated in blues, purples, and reds. The walls were a light shade of blue, the soft carpet, a lavenderish shade, and the furniture was light shades of red without crossing the border into pink. If they had been pink Sam would have gone to another room on principle . . . or spray painted the couches and loveseat black . . . The table was traditional wood . . . probably mahogany, so it would have escaped her rampage.

She practically threw Tucker onto one of the light-red-but-not-pink couches and then placed herself in the loveseat across from him. She crossed her arms and glared at the techno-geek, waiting for an answer. "What the hell are you and Danny hiding from me?" she hissed out angrily.

Tucker shifted uncomfortably on the couch. "I . . . Well . . ." he murmured out, his voice cracking a little before he cleared his throat and sighed. "Listen Sam . . . It's not my secret to tell . . . If Danny doesn't want to tell you, then there's nothing I can do. He's my best friend, so I'm not going to betray him." he said, meeting Sam's eye for his little speech before losing his confidence and going back to shifting uncomfortably. "I-I'm really not the person you should be talking to if you want to learn anything . . ." he mumbled. To be quite honest, Sam scared him. Well . . . when she was angry, she scared him.

Tucker had seen the tapes of the night Sam was brought to the castle by those men. He saw the way she practically crippled Danny with her punches. If Danny wasn't half-ghost, he'd probably have been SERIOUSLY injured. That made Tucker exceedingly wary of Sam's punches and getting on her bad side.

Sam sighed. "I just . . . I wanna know more about this place, about the two of you. I mean . . . before that night I was kidnapped, I thought that this was just an abandoned building . . ." she sighed again and slumped into the chair.

Tucker sighed, at least Sam wasn't on a warpath anymore, "Listen. Danny . . . doesn't really like people knowing about his secret. I guess he's . . . well . . . scared that he'll lose anyone who gets close enough to be his friend . . ." he said and shook his head. "Once again . . . I just . . . I think that if you want to know what's going on, you should talk to Danny about it."

Sam nodded. "Alright. I guess so . . ." she said and then sat up, a fist clenching. "But if he doesn't give me answers, I swear I'll punch him all the way to China!"

End Chapter 12

A/N: Short? Check. Writer's block? Check. Disappointment at self? Check. T-T