Chapter 19:
Sam POV-
"Danny, what are we doing up here?" I asked arching an eyebrow at him as I looked over the side of the flat roof of an abandoned office building that stood five stories tall below my feet. Danny had kept his word about a surprise, because up until this point I had gotten nothing from him aside from a few mischievous grins.
"Surprise!" he exclaimed.
I arch an eyebrow again, still not understanding what he meant.
"I'm going to train you," he told me, grinning widely. I smiled back, happy to finally be learning how to use these ghost powers. I know I might not have them forever, but it would still be nice to occasionally be able to walk through walls while I am pregnant.
"Great! What first?" I questioned, rolling up and down onto my toes.
"Hmm…" Danny thought, probably going through an entire list of his powers in his head, "I think the first thing I learned how to do was become invisible."
I nodded, waiting for him to tell me more.
"So um…" he rubbed the back of his neck, "Just close your eyes," he walked over and put his hands on my shoulders, "Relax, and focus on becoming invisible." I did as he said, closing my eye and releasing the tension in my shoulders, and willing myself to become invisible. A few seconds later, I peeked open my eye to see if it had worked
Nothing.
I looked at Danny, who merely looked thoughtful.
"Hmm…okay, let's try this," he made his hand invisible and placed it on my arm. Although I couldn't see it, I felt his cool skin against my arm, then I felt the invisibility spread over my body with a tingling sensation, "When I remove my hand, just try and hold it, okay?" he asked me.
I nodded in response, collecting my focus.
I felt his hand leave my arm, and, almost instantly I felt the tingling begin to retreat from the point where his hand had been. But I maintained my focus, closing my eyes and concentrating on expanding the sensation to the point where it had been before.
"You did it!" I heard Danny beam, I opened my eyes, and for a split second, my body had disappeared. But, with my loss of focus, I returned to being visible directly afterwards.
I sighed; this is a lot harder than Danny makes it look. Even when he first got his powers, sure he screwed up a lot, but he was always able to fix things quickly.
"Hey, it's okay," he told me encouragingly, "Try it again, just do what you did before."
I nodded, once again closing my eyes. I felt the tingling spread over my body again, somehow warmer this time, radiating outwards from my chest until it had stretched to the very ends of my fingertips.
I hesitantly opened my eyes, not wanting the invisibility to fade, but, this time, it didn't. I still could not see my body.
Next to me, Danny was smiling like a kid in a candy store.
"Whoo! Way to go, Sam!" he cheered, clapping for me. I'm sure, if I had been visible right now, I would have been blushing at the praise.
I moved my foot, although it was weird not to actually see my foot moving, and, surprisingly, the invisibility held. I walked a full circle around Danny before finally making myself visible again.
Danny POV-
The look on Sam's face when she had been able to get the hang of the invisibility on her own was priceless. She looked like she had just won the lottery, and it made me happy to see her so happy. If there's anything I know about Sam, it's that, most of her life, she hasn't been told how great she is and she hasn't been given any admiration about anything.
So, I hope that I will be able to spend the rest of my life making her as happy as she is now.
…
We stayed on the roof for several hours before the sun began to fall behind the horizon and we decided to go home. I was impressed actually; Sam had learned a hell of a lot more in a few hours than I had learned in the first two months I had my powers, already mastering invisibility, intangibility, and ghost rays. We were even able to get a little flying in. However, Sam was not as confident in this.
It's one thing for her to enjoy flying when I am the one completely supporting her, but when I let go, and she looks down, she falters and drops about ten feet, where I have to catch her.
But I have faith in Sam, she'll get there.
Another thing is, no matter how hard we tried, we could not get her to transform like I usually do, which, unfortunately, leads me to believe that these powers are only temporary.
We flew home…well, I flew home, with Sam's hand in mine. We stopped directly outside of my house where I changed back into my human form before we walked up the front steps into the living room.
Once we were inside, I noticed that all of the lights were on, but nobody was around. I glanced at Sam to see if she was picking up any bad feelings like she had when Vlad was here. There was no anxiety on her face, only confusion, the same as me.
"Hello?" I called to the empty room.
"We're in the back, Danny," my mother's voice replied. I glanced at Sam, who merely shrugged before walking towards the back.
Outside the screen backdoor of my house, it my small backyard and a little gravel strip that leads to the garage, which houses only Jazz's car and a mountain of junk.
The garage door, however, was open, with the light on, which is a relatively unusual occurrence.
Sam and I walked into the garage.
"Surprise!" my parents and sister exclaimed all clustered around a black SUV.
"What is this?" I asked questionably.
"Well, Danny, your father and I have been thinking about getting you a car since your birthday, but we wanted to make sure that you could handle the responsibility. Well, now we know you can. Plus, you can't continue using Jazz's car," my mom said, and Jazz nodded enthusiastically in agreement, "So now, this car belongs to you and Sam."
The car was nothing special, a Chevy Equinox. Not new; in fact, if I had to guess I would say it was about four years old, but I thought it was great. This is exactly what Sam and I need, a safe, spacious, car, which would allow us to transport ourselves and our babies from point A to point B.
"You knew about this?" Sam accused.
"No, I didn't, I swear!" I told her. I knew she probably didn't believe me because she has this weird pride thing where she doesn't want to be a burden, financially or otherwise, on anyone else.
"No, Sam," my mom smiled, putting her hand on Sam's shoulder, "Danny didn't know anything about this. And don't you dare say that it's too much, because I'm not listening. This is our gift to you."
Sam smiled at my mom, giving her a hug and taking my mom by surprise, "Thank you, Mrs. Fenton, it's wonderful."
"You're welcome, sweetheart," she replied.
"Yeah," I added, "Thank you guys soo much, this really means a lot."
My mom nodded at me with a smile as a way of accepting my gratitude.
"Danny Boy, why don't you two come and check it out?" my dad exclaimed. I looked at Sam, who grinned, obviously eager to do so. The two of us got in the front seats, with me behind the wheel. I adjusted the mirrors and the seats and I noticed Sam doing the same.
The inside was nice, it didn't exactly smell like new car, but it did smell nice, like someone had had a vanilla scented air freshener in it recently. Sam and I looked in the back to check out how much space there was, when we noticed two car seats already set up, in fact, they were the exact same ones we had ordered in the store, which, somehow, I knew, my mom had already discovered, and, no doubt cancelled them on our order.
I laughed out loud.
Even though I knew Sam didn't like the idea of anyone paying for anything else, I saw the corners of her mouth turn up happily.
Finally, we got out.
"Well, what do you think?" my mom asked.
"It's perfect, we even already bought the same car seats," Sam replied.
"Oh, I know. I found your receipt, called the store and had them taken off of your order so that we could buy them," my mom smirked a little.
I expected Sam to argue and say that they shouldn't have done that but instead, a bright smile lit up her face with happiness and gratitude, and she thanked them again.
"Don't think anything of it, honey," my mom replied, pulling Sam into a hug, "We just want you and our grandkids to be happy."
Guess what happens next chapter, that's right, we get to find out the genders and I will have all of you vote on the final poll of the names that you submitted earlier. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Thank for reading!
