Chapter 15-Bedtime

Danny kicked open the door to Sam's room, and looked around before cautiously stepping in. He didn't know what to do. Sam smiled, seeing Danny's curiosity.

"Look how curious the kid is," she said, pretending to be a narrator. She stepped in her room, next to Danny, and spread her arms, motioning around her. "This is my room," she said, then walked over to a mattress on the floor next to her bed with some blankets and a pillow. "And this is your bed," Danny just sniffed a response, saying that he didn't really care. He walked around some more, getting himself used to Sam's room. His new room.

Sam picked up Scrum, her ratty old doll, and a bottle filled with a light brown liquid. "This is your dolly and bottle," she told Danny, who looked over, now interested in the bottle. Sam turned it upside-down and shook it. "See? Doesn't spill," Danny snatched it and shook it violently upside-down, but nothing spilled.

"I filled it with coffee," Sam said, and Danny put is mouth over the top of the bottle and sucked hard. With the slightly bitter taste, he made a face, but then he took another sip, starting to like it. "Good boy," Sam said, noting that he liked coffee. "Now get into bed," she pulled the blankets partially off his mattress, motioning him to go under them.

Danny simply pushed Sam down and climbed onto her bed. "Hey! That's mine!" Sam cried, upset. She crawled on and stood on her bed. "Down," she told him, pointing to the floor.

But Danny had already gotten comfortable. He had flopped onto his back, lying lazily on her bed and sucking his bottle of coffee. Danny just rolled his eyes, grabbed the pillow and threw it at her. Sam grunted as she was knocked onto her knees by the strength of the pillow and its weight.

Danny noticed that under where the pillow was, where there was an open spot now, there was a picture. He leaned down to pick it up, but Sam grabbed it from him. "Be careful with that! You don't touch this! DON'T EVER TOUCH IT!" She screamed, waving it to Danny's face so that she knew that he knew not to touch it and that she made her point.

Danny didn't like being pushed around, so he just jumped off her bed and walked over to Scrum, who was laying deserted on the floor. Danny mumbled something in his ghost language, then started pulling on Scrum's overly large head.

Sam's eyes widened at the ripping, and she ran over to Danny. She snatched Scrum away. "No! Don't pull on her head! She's recovering from surgery!" Sam gently stroked Scrum's hair.

She watched Danny run to another corner of her room, to a picture she had painted. She threw Scrum down and ran over to Danny, screaming, "No! That was from my blue period!" Danny just ripped the picture right down the middle anyway.

He then started tugging on the easel the picture had been sitting on, trying to break it. Sam looked around helplessly for something to calm him down. She found a lei with beautiful flowers on it.

She grabbed it quickly and placed it around Danny's neck. He stopped pulling, and actually fell to the floor, frozen in a shocked position. No one had ever done anything nice to him.

As he lay on the floor, Sam leaned over him, holding her hair out of her face. "There. You know, you wreck everything you touch. Why not try and make something for a change?"

Danny came out of his daze and slowly sat up. He held his chin, thinking, then he pulled the lei off. He started pushing piles of books together, some boxes, and anything else he could find. Sam sat on the edge of her bed and watched Danny as he actually built something.

In a few minutes, Danny finished. It was a very accurate replica of a city, complete with the Golden Gate Bridge. "Wow," Sam commented. "San Francisco."

Danny couldn't help himself. He grabbed the lamp and pulled off the lampshade so the light shone brightly. He then became a "monster," like the giant spider in the movie he saw in the window of the TV store earlier that day. He stomped around, growling and roaring. He picked up a small car, and pretended to be the person inside of it. "Eee! Save me!" He said in falsetto, then started biting the car violently.

Sam stared at him, slightly openmouthed, and said, "No more caffeine for you,"

From a hill close to Sam and Jazz's house, Vlad and Holographic Maddie spied on Danny. Well, Vlad did; Maddie was trying to get comfortable in her sleeping bag. Vlad held some binoculars to his eyes and chuckled. "This little girl is wasting her time! 626 cannot be taught to ignore his destructive programming!" Vlad laid down on his bed, next to Maddie's, only to sit back up, giggling to himself. He couldn't stop watching Sam try to control Danny and fail. Maddie, however, picked up the wig she had used that day, and put it on her head, admiring how it looked in the mirror.

Vlad turned around to laugh and talk to Maddie some more, but saw her trying on the wig. His eyes widened. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing!" Maddie exclaimed, and pulled the wig quickly off and shoved it into her sleeping bag to try to hide it.

"Say, I want to try it on," Vlad said, reaching over to Maddie.

"No!" She cried and held it away from him.

"Share!" Vlad called and tackled Maddie, pulling the wig from her grip.

"Ow! You're just jealous cause I'm pretty!" Maddie called over Vlad's grunts of trying to grab the wig. He finally did, and placed it on his head, giggling. Maddie gasped and looked at her arm. "Don't move. A mosquito has chosen me as her perch!" Maddie leaned in and stared at it. "She's so… beautiful!"

Then another mosquito landed on Maddie. "Look! Another one! And another one! Why, it's a whole flock!" Maddie smiled very big as the millions of mosquitos covered her whole body. "They like me! They're nuzzling my flesh with their noses. Now they're… um… they're… AAAHHH!" Maddie screamed as she realized they were sucking her blood.

Her scream echoed all around the woods near Jazz and Sam's house.

Back inside, Jazz was looking in a book of all the human races and trying to find one that looked like Danny. She was on the phone with Tucker. "I think it may be a Koalan. An evil Koalan." (Nani really says "I think it may be a Koala," but a human can't be a Koala, so I made up a race: Koalan!) "I can't even touch it! It keeps staring at me, like it's going to eat me— aah!" Jazz gasped, and dropped the phone and the book as she saw Danny's shadow on the wall, but instead of the "regular" kid she usually saw, she saw a long, translucent tail, and Danny was floating above the ground a few feet, an inhumanly white glow around his shadow. But as soon as Jazz looked at the real Danny, he had changed into his human form, so he was standing on the floor and had legs again.

He stood at the fridge, holding the door open, and narrowed his eyes as Jazz looked at him. He just went back to what he was doing, but kept his stare on Jazz. He reached in the fridge, and pulled out a can of soda. He held it in his hand, and closed the door with his foot as he walked away, back up the stairs to his and Sam's room.

Jazz stood there, shocked. She knew she saw a tail and that he was floating. She had dropped the phone and her book, and from the phone, she could hear Tucker's voice, "Hello?... Hello?... Are you there?"