Val had two important jobs to deal with. She had to find Ember. First place was to check the Fenton Portal. This was going to be dangerous, especially since she still hadn't worked out to pass through objects. Besides it wasn't something she was likely to be able to do successfully. This she would check herself, and as quickly as possible. After checking through the house and the Fenton Portal's opening times she sighed. Next thing to do is check back at the Stadium.

And there was Dani having difficulty with the new board, but she seemed to be doing OK. Less unstable. It wasn't perfect, but, Dani seemed to have been effectively stabilised. Time to check in.

"Dani, did you find Ember or Phantom?"

"I couldn't find them." Dani lied. She hoped Clockwork would turn up soon, She wasn't much better at lying than her brother. But then she noticed Valerie had re-entered the righteous anger stage. Dani then had to stop a breath she didn't know she had been holding from escaping. If it had then Val would likely know that Dani had lied.

"Damn. And I can't get to Vlad's easily from here. It's not as if he's the Mayor of Amity Park, and has moved his entire mansion here." Val stated. "And it's not as if I wouldn't be spotted. I can only take Vlad if I Ambush him. He's got more experience and is more powerful. With the Danny's, I could. And I can't really bring either"

Sam looked at Dani and at Valerie. "We need to get you in Valerie, so do you have another spare suit? You're weird side-effect of looking less muscular in the suit could well enable me to pose as you."

"Let's keep this plan shelved for a while. But it's a good idea. But a bit desperate as yet."

"TIME OUT! Nice to see you both again."

"Clockwork, what are you doing here?" Valerie asks.

"I've never met you before." Sam states. "Though you do seem familiar."

Clockwork mentally kicks himself. While this Sam will have a feeling of Deja Vu, this Sam has not met him as such. Still its time to show them that has Val has reasons. It is important to do this. "Come with me you two."

Once he arrives he finds the dead timeline of Dan Phantom and gets ready to open it. But first things first. "Valerie, this is a dead timeline. It is no longer possible. Even if you kill him or defend Ember, Danny will understand why."

Sam looks at Val "See?"

"What you don't understand Sam, is that a timeline similar to this is still possible though now highly improbable It was not Plasmius who was dominant but Danny. And Val knows this. She knows that is Danny ever takes off his gloves, there will be no chance of stopping him."

Clockwork opens the window to Dan Phantom's timeline and Sam looks at it. This was a very powerful person indeed and a very dangerous one. He sighs. "In one timeline you two actually swapped position because you were both able to explain your reasoning to the other, and you both agreed the other's version made sense. The only thing you never realised was why he wiped everyone's memories. And since Val didn't know her memory had been wiped, and you did, Sam."

"I became the hunter, while Val acted as protection to Danny."

"It's a distant and unlikely possibility, because well, you are less likely to listen to Val, than she was to you."

"I'm less likely to listen?" Sam protested in rage and denial

"Afraid so. Valerie may have to be hit over the head with the obvious at times, but she does alter her worldview."

"And I don't?"

"You never have, in some ways you act like Vlad Masters or Plasmius. And yes, Val now knows. You have never really been punished for your more dangerous or selfish actions. While Val and Danny have had a ton of bricks fall upon them, sometimes literally, for theirs. I could show you view from Val's end. But I think I'll show you a likely end if Danny does choose Val over you. It's an if, not a certainty."

A timeline arises.

"Sam, Valerie and Danny's emotions run too deep for them not to end up with each other. Take what you had and don't become like Vlad cursing that someone who really likes you took who you hoped your significant other would be. Accept that they'll share there family with you. If Vlad had done that he would have had Danny as a son and Maddie as a friend."

"She stole him from me. She stole him from me."

"You dumped him remember, not the other way around."

"That's because I headed for my future."

"And Val and Danny work well together you know that. I just want you to understand, that it's not too late to give up on Danny. Don't become a person reading "Romance for creepy rich dimwits."

The timeline closes. Sam groans. "How did Val get him?"

Val sighed. "You weren't listening. You dumped him. You had him and let him go. I had good reasons from my end, when I let him leave."

"But you and Paulina only love half of Danny."

"The same could be said of you. And in your case it is probably more accurate. You like clueless Fenton who you can boss about. You need to learn more of who Danny truly is." Valerie sniped back

"What about apparently clumsy, cowardly Fenton. Val would never go for him."

Val laughed. "You're right. I wouldn't. But what about a potentially dangerous man who restrains himself from hurting people?"

"Yes, that's more to your taste. But why would you..." Sam's eyes widen. "The Cafeteria fight. But still there's Phantom? You couldn't have liked him you tried to kill him."

"You're confusing ruthlessness with hatred there. At the time I felt that Phantom had to be put down for his own good. That doesn't mean I didn't like and respect him. Would I have reacted so badly to his betrayals, if I didn't like Phantom?"

Sam grimaces. That makes too much sense. "Okay what about Paulina, she doesn't try and attract Fenton."

"Because he never shows her the competent and fun side as Fenton. As Phantom, however..." Valerie pointed out.

"Not quite true." Clockwork stated. "The one time he did he was winning her over until he got thrown overboard but then he went back into cowardly klutz mode."

"Oh. Your mother's second attack." Sam mused. "So to you two he has presented all of himself, just in different guises. He gave you his entirety of Fenton, and he gave Paulina his entirety as Phantom."

"And you see his entirety in both. But I think it is time to look at things from Val's eyes. I'll just let you remember one thing 'Danny adopted the dog.'"

Sam is assaulted by images. What Val has seen of Danny, both the positive and the negative and looks at both. His denial of responsibility for the ghost dog. The ghost invasion. Him robbing the place. The destruction of Axion. The kidnap of the flour baby. The revelation of her identity to her father despite her plan. And him "killing her" The echoes of a lost timeline filtering through to her judgements.

"Sorry about that, Sam. You needed to see everything. As a Valkyrie Val has a limited fate sense. It's just focused on the wrong timeline."

"I also need to see it from Sam's view don't I?" Valerie stated. "I need to know exactly where my judgement was off."

"Indeed you do" Clockwork replied. "But I think it's time for lunch."

The two girls looked at each other. That much time had passed?"

"I had to keep you both away from Danny somehow."