"Come on its safe now open your eyes" A small voice rang in Danny's ears it was unfamiliarly hollow wispy and haunting.
But with that comment Danny opened his eyes. Wincing due to the bright light he could barely make out that he was laying on a hospital bed. He was in a large white room he could hear voices right outside the room the room was pretty much barren of anything other than medical equipment and other such things there was two chairs beside his bed one had a purse hanging off of it which he recognized as his mom's on lying on the chair next to it was a long black jacket he did not recognize.
"Ugh …" Danny groaned sitting up and stretching his arms which caused a tingling feeling to shoot through his body.
"Hold on I need to grab my wallet out of my jacket" He heard a familiar voice say as the door to his room opened up and in walked his best friend Sam.
It only took a tenth of a second for Sam to realize her eyes were not deceiving her. Without saying a word she rushed over to his bedside and wrapped her arms around him. Within seconds she was sobbing Danny wrapped his one free arm around her his other am was slightly less immobile due to the IV in his wrist. He did his best to try to console her but to no avail.
It wasn't long before Sam's crying had attracted the attention of the other people outside the room and in came rushing in was his mother and his father as well as several nurses and a doctor.
Suddenly Danny was being bombarded with question to which he had no answers like how he felt or did he remember anything and on and on it went. They ran several tests and after a while the medical staff left leaving him in the room alone with Sam and his parents.
"Oh honey I'm so glad you are ok" Maddie said leaning over the side of his bed and embracing him in a tight hug.
Sam still had stopped crying yet did not let go of him Jack just ecstatic to see him.
"Would someone please tell me what is going on" Danny said once everyone stopped hugging him and he could take a moment to breathe.
Everyone gave him a somewhat puzzled look and finally Sam spoke realizing that no one else was going to.
"You mean you don't remember what happened" Sam asked seeming quite confused at his question.
"No not really..." Danny said beginning to scour his brain for information but coming up with nothing.
"Well we were hoping to get the details from you but you were in a fire inside an old home on 12th street" Maddie said with somewhat of a look of disappointment on her face.
Suddenly Danny remembered he was at the house looking around and when he flicked the light switch it sparked and as he hurried to leave their was already smoke and flames blocking the way out although as much as he was sure that was indeed what had happened it still didn't seem right to him.
"Why didn't I just fly out" he thought though he dismissed these thoughts unable to think of any answer and the idea was making his head hurt.
"Oh that's right I went down to that house to take some pictures but the front door wasn't shut all the way so I decided to look around inside, but when I was upstairs it was dark so I hit the light switch and it sparked next thing I knew the house was up in flames." Danny said running his hand through hair trying to force more memories to appear because he just knew that isn't what had happened.
"But why were you taking pictures of that old place anyway" Jack asked sitting down in the seat with his wife's purse on it.
"For a report for school that is due on Monday' Danny said which got some more odd looks from everyone else in the room especially Sam.
"You don't know how long you were out do you" Sam said giving him a questioning look.
"Uhm not really the slightest?" Danny said truly having no clue
"It's been close to three week's" Sam said taking a seat on the edge of his bed.
Danny seemed confused it couldn't have been that long could it have been? He thought to himself.
"Oh…"Danny said just beginning to realize just how serious what had happened was.
For the next hour and a half Danny Sam Maddie and Jack sat around Discussing what had happened what Danny missed and everything else that went on in his absence. After a while Sam got up to use the rest room and Jack went to go get a bite to eat confident now that Danny was going to make a quick recovery.
"You know you're a very lucky boy" Maddie said softly
"Yea I know I can't believe that I survived" Danny said still in shock
"Well the firemen found you quickly when they saw the open door they rushed in and their you were" Maddie said
"I can't believe I was out for three weeks" somewhat in shock
"Neither could anyone else the doctors were sure you were going to die" Maddie said grimly
"Oh that explains why Sam was so shocked to see me awake then" Danny said attempting to piece together the events of earlier that day.
"Yea you know the entire time you were in here she stayed by your side she slept here many nights" Maddie said giving Danny a much welcomed and warm motherly smile
"Wow really?" Danny said surprised by the extreme loyalty of his friend
"Yea she really cares about you" Maddie said with a bright smile still lightening up her face.
Danny just sat in silence after his mother's last comment he was very confused he had no idea he was that important to Sam and still there was something nagging at the back of his mind like he was forgetting something really important.
Just then Sam and Jack returned and were followed soon after by a doctor.
"Ok so Daniel how are you feeling" The doctor said checking the monitor next to his bed and glancing at the chart he held in his hand.
"I'm feeling fine" Danny said with a slight smile
"Good good no chest pain when you breathe no headache not sore anywhere nothing like that" He continued
"No I feel fine a little stiff but other than that I feel normal" Danny said
"Alright well I want to keep you one more night and I think tomorrow you will be able to go home is that alright" The doctor said giving Danny a very pleased smile.
"Yea that is fine" Danny said not really caring one way or the other
The doctor quickly scribbled a little on Danny's chart and then left the room leaving Danny alone with his friend and Family.
They continued to sit around and talk for about two more hours. Danny was still scrounging for something to help him finish putting all the pieces back together as far as memories went. But finally after all the topics they could come up with had been covered an awkward hush fell over the room.
"So you don't mind staying another night" Jack said breaking the thick awkward silence after about a minute.
"Not really free food comfy bed unlimited TV what is there to complain about." Danny said
"Well I think me and your mother are going to head home tonight will you be alright by yourself" Jack said checking the time on the wall.
"Yea I'll be fine" Danny said shrugging
"Don't worry he won't be alone" Sam said somewhat quietly
"Oh you're still going to stay?" Maddie asked standing up and slipping on her jacket.
Sam blushed heavily and let out a weak laugh
"Yea I was going to, do you mind Danny?" She asked looking away from jack and towards Danny.
"No by all means some company would be nice" Danny said giving Sam a warm smile.
"Well then it is settled then" Maddie said now standing next to Jack.
"We will see you two tomorrow morning alright?" Jack said
"Alright dad" Danny said
"I will see you tomorrow sweetie you two behave ok?" Maddie said walking over to Danny's bed side and giving him a tight hug and a stern look only a mother could.
With that Maddie and Jack left the room and went on their was leaving Danny and Sam alone.
"You know Sam you didn't have to stay I would have been fine." Danny said once the door was shut and they were alone.
"I know I didn't have to but I wanted to" Sam said sitting down in the seat next to Danny.
Danny blushed slightly he was extremely touched at the loyalty of his friend.
They sat quietly for a little while neither of them having any idea what they should say next, but after what seemed like forever Sam finally spoke.
"So what actually happened back at that house?"
"Well it's like I said I went there to do research for that report and I went inside phasing in through the front door and I was looking around and wandered up stairs I guess the house was a little too out of repair because when I flipped on the light switch in a random upstairs room I saw sparks panicked and ran for it but I didn't quite make it out in time." Danny explained still with the nagging feeling in the back of his head trying to force him to remember something what it was he still had no idea.
"That's really weird…" Sam said abruptly with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yea I know but I don't believe that's exactly what happened..." Danny said staring blankly at the ceiling lying back down.
"What do you mean?" Asked Sam now looking very confused and curious at the very same time.
"I just can't seem to shake this really eerie feeling like I am forgetting something really important but I don't what it could be" Danny said looking just as confused as Sam.
Once more they sat in silence it was quiet for a very long time until Danny broke the silence.
"Hey Sam would you hand me my jeans please?" Danny said glancing over at the counter across the room and noticing his clothes lying in an untidy pile near a small sink.
Sam nodded and quickly retrieved his pants without a single word and handed them to him still wondering about what he had said a minuet ago.
"Thanks would you mind turning around so I can put these on" Danny asked standing up and realizing just how skimpy the hospital gown he was wearing truly was.
Once Sam was turned around he pulled his pants on and sat back down on the bed and it was there that the memories came back to him.
"Wait I remember now" Danny said as he reached into his pocket it was empty except for a small photograph which he pulled out and examined.
the photograph was folded down the middle it showed a scene of a mid-teens girl with shoulder length purple hair holding hands with a boy about the same age with short cut black hair they both looked very happy and even now it took Danny a few moments to realize it wasn't him in the picture.
"Wait what did you remember" Sam said somewhat excitedly as she stood up so she was now standing next to where Danny was sitting.
"Everything what I couldn't remember about what went on in the house how the fire really got started all of it" Danny exclaimed showing Sam the picture.
Danny continued to talk going into extreme detail about everything that went on so much so that Sam's head was practically spinning by the time he had finished.
"So you were attacked by what a ghost?" Sam asked replaying Danny's story in her head over and over.
"I'm not sure exactly I think so but it seemed strangely human at the same time." Danny answered lying back down on the bad resting his head in his hands Sam now sitting on the edge of the bed.
They discussed Violet the old house what Danny had learned about the history if the house all of it until late in to the evening the rest of the day blew by uneventfully while they sat and talked.
"Ughhh I think we should get some sleep" Sam yawned looking up at the clock on the wall above Danny's bed revealing it to be a little after two in the morning.
"Yea I'm getting pretty tired to let's get some sleep." Danny agreed as he once more slipped off his jeans crawling back under the covers of his bed and burying his face in the pillow.
Sam curled up on a chair with her head on Danny's bed Danny was curled up under his covers with his head buried under the pillow and without another word they both drifted off to sleep.