Disclaimer: If I owned Danny Phantom Danny would have found out about Vlad's cat and then proceeded to tease him about it.
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Shadow – (9) an attenuated form or a vestigial remnant
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-/ a. / an inseparable companion or follower
-/ b. / one (as a spy or detective) that shadows
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When Vlad Masters returned to earth, it was a quiet affair – as in no one knew. How could anyone have even recognized him now that he was only a thin skimming of the man he once was? Time had done its job, as had the lack of civilized essentials, and left him a fragile, old man with to many regrets.
Regrets he harbored little hope of redeeming.
But he was different now, didn't that count for something? He had changed just like everything else had in his absence. Didn't he at least get a second chance? He had, after all, fought his darkness and won, which was a feat not easily accomplished. Didn't he deserve something of a reward for that?
Vlad set up the chessboard one more time.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
- Edith Wharton
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Sam was not happy.
(Okay, so that was a lie. She was so happy she put her preppy mother to shame.)
She had gotten everything she'd ever, grudgingly hoped for and more. Life should have been just dandy even with the expected set backs of having a famous, half-ghost boyfriend/best friend.
But Paulina was quickly turning Sam's already dark disposition in to a pitch-black nightmare.
That thing was a constant bother, following Danny everywhere like a love-sick puppy. There were times Sam wanted to even attempt physical violence despite the automatic assumptions of a cat-fight it would bring.
(Screw just physical violence, Sam wouldn't have shed a tear of remorse after feeding her to the ghost animals that lingered in the Ghost Zone.)
Danny had more patience with Paulina than Sam did. He had done a lot of maturing here lately and calmly explained to Paulina time and time again that he was not interested in her.
But even Danny's new found patience was stating to wear thin when the popular girl crashed their first formal date.
(Sam could swear she saw Danny's eye twitch in annoyance as he talked to the girl.)
Well, Danny could grit his teeth all he wanted at Paulina's behavior, but Sam was not going to put up with it.
That next Monday would go down in history.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot
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