Guest, thanks. I appreciate it. elise-hale913, welcome to the story and I am glad that you like Dan. I don't think anyone thinks about what happened on his end. The pain and misery. Yes, he made a bad decision, but he is still Danny. ShadowDragon357, I will have to check that out. You and Hellbreaker have both said interesting conversation, but think. Can you put yourself in his shoes and what Danny saw being different then being there and feeling all that. Danny saw that they had died, but he still had them whereas Dan lost his two only friends that stuck next to him. Must have pissed him off that for all the good in the world he did he still got screwed. Hellbreaker, I would like to think that he would save her, but I know that he would be torn. Truth be told I don't know where he would go with a situation like that. Spider-man was able to save MJ and help the kids from falling into the ocean so I think he could do it all. And thank you Hellbreaker for letting me know that I put the wrong chapter in the wrong story. Dang it!
Danny didn't know what to say. He had never looked at it on the other side. He opened his mouth to say more, but Dan silenced him with a look.
"I didn't come to you for this meeting of the minds," he spat, his anger coming out. "I came because of Sam and only for her. She is important to our life and I would rather her not be hurt again. You must come to this path of what is wrong with being with your best friend and what you want." With that the other male was gone leaving Danny to his thoughts. What did the halfa want? Could he be with his best friend like that? Wasn't that against the rules? He laid back on his bed as a headache began to form. What the hell was he supposed to do?
Past...
Dan watched her sleep as he headed downstairs to grab more food. He was glad that she had money to spend for people to go out and get her food. He knew that if she had her way she would never go out. She would have let herself fade off and it made him so mad.
"She can be such an idiot," he muttered as he began to make her some more soup. He knew her body could only take that particular food for right now since his parents had made him take that stupid health class. Now he was glad that he had since it was helping him bring his friend back from the grave. She had been on the edge. He could feel it in his mind, her life thread being pulled and the blade being placed on it. She had done some stupid things in her life, but by far this had to be the worse. Heading back upstairs he found her awake, her eyes wide in fear. "What is the matter?" he asked, his voice harsh. What would she have to fear? She had escaped death in this timeline.
"I saw you fade," she whispered. "I saw your green eyes disappear." He chuckled which made the small female mad, her amethyst eyes flashing in anger. "It is not funny!" she spat.
"Sam," he said as he sat next to her, the bed sinking with his weight as he began to feed her again. They had been like this for a week now and this was the first time she had had a dream in the entire time. "You are smarter than that. I survive only on the side that stops time. My time in that thermos," he paused to think of a word. "It preserved me, but now that I have spent time in your world I am fading. You must know that I have to pass on." She let out a whimper and knocking the food out of his hand she clung to him like a child clinging to that last dream of a fairy tale come true. "It is okay," he said. "We still have plenty of time together."
"I don't want you to go, Dan," she whispered, her voice breaking. "You are the only one that understands."
"Sam, I don't understand because I don't know why you do what you do. I know that you are hurting right now and I can tell it is my younger self's fault, but I don't understand why you nearly killed yourself and I don't understand why you don't tell him of your hidden feelings." She looked at him in shock. "Yeah, I have grown up enough that looking back I should have seen that you had stronger feelings for me then you let on. I realized it too late as we could have had a good time and maybe you wouldn't have died with regret."
"I regret nothing," she said with a huff as she wrapped her arms around herself. "I treasure every time we had together growing up and even though we had our rough spots I still treasure it. I don't know what it would be like to be in your position but I can respect what you did to survive, but you didn't really." He looked to her. She knew him so well even just knowing his younger half. He regretted the decision that he had made to remove his ghost half, the half that had tried to rectify what he had done by trying to fight Vlad's ghost half. He should have realized that he didn't have enough mental power to overpower the not so broken male. He had been far too broken to take on such a power, but he had wanted the pain to end not knowing that even separating the parts of his soul he could still feel the pain. It had been a mistake and now he regretted it.
"I regret a lot," he said as she moved closer to him, her warmth entering him again. She was what he needed, her warmth and understanding and she needed him too. He was evil, his form that of only a ghost, but she needed him. "I regret all those times that I didn't see you for what you were, a blessing." She smiled against his chest.
"Dan, I am sorry for all that you went through because of me." He didn't know what she was talking about so he said nothing as he pulled her thin form next to his once non-existent heart. I beat now. Maybe it had always, but he had never paid it any mind as he had thought he had no heart. The one person who, though not always right, was his conscious with her wisdom.
"Sam, you did some stupid things, but you never put me in any harm." He looked down to find she was asleep, the soup from earlier staining her comforter, but even with that he managed to lay down with her and find sleep.