The next morning comes and Damon and Ember wake up. Damon looks at Ember. "You're sure she's our daughter. You do remember the Dullahan, who tried to claim they were a Valkyrie? And even if you are certain, from what you said she's trying to keep it down. I wonder why?"
"I'm certain she's our daughter Damon, but unless we have proof when we confront her she won't admit it to us. But she's been slipping recently. I wonder why does she always switches this off when we come into the room." Ember says lifting up an MP3 player. She then heads for the main computer and turns it on, after plugging the player in. Then she told the computer to play the tracks. And out came a song Ember had never heard before, but it undoubtedly had her style.
The first verse both recognised. It was the during the period when Ember had trusted Damon with the truth and he had run off confused. But the tone was different in this song. Ember's first playing had some depression but was full of hope. Here the hope was still just there but the depression was main theme instead. Then there change happened a verse neither had heard before. But the keys were there.
"'Remember my Name'?" Ember sighed. "I just couldn't write or perform this, I'm too happy with my life, but the thing is I undoubtedly did write it. We finally have proof of Val's origin."
"And yet she's let us carry on as if nothing was wrong?"
"Why wouldn't she? Either she's shifted time-lines, in which case she's got to deal with the major problem at the centre of it - Vlad Masters, before she returns, or her universe has unravelled, in which case why kill us? You did a good job with her."
"Yes, but she has has your temper, unfortunately."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Ember literally erupts, her hair ponytail increasing in size and throwing small flames throughout the room. Damien cursed inside his head, he should have realised that Ember had been strained, and the disappointment would have put her literally on a hair trigger. Time to comfort Ember then carefully apologise.
Meanwhile in the park, Daniel Master's waits for his girlfriend, not quite understanding where she is at on the issue of ghosts. He plans to talk to her and finally reveal himself. The question would be which would be the best way to do so.
"Where did you come from?" Sam asks Daniel glad to see an unchanging rock in her confusion. Little does she know that Daniel is about to remove her last support in a misguided attempt to help. Good intentions lead to hell, if the results of actions are not considered carefully.
"Oh, I was nearby and am glad to run into you. I just wanted to talk to you about something. I hope you can understand my actions. I have a secret, but I can't see why you neither remember nor understand."
"Get to the point, Danny."
Sam was rapidly losing patience if she's calling him Danny. She looks at him expectantly. Daniel then speaks. "You remember that time you can't remember?" While badly phrased Sam understood and nodded. "Still don't know what happened."
"True. But if you could, you'd probably act differently. Oh you'd still be a ghost hunter, but more like your new friend. During that time you encouraged me to do something, and in order to do so you wore pink to get close to me."
"It wasn't me."
"I know that now. But I like you, and since I want more than this it's best if I tell you. You encouraged me to move across a barrier and straddle the two realms. I survived- barely. Or I just died. I'm not certain which. I became something very rare indeed. I became part spirit. And I'm telling you because I trust you with this secret to do the right thing."
"Part-Spirit? and who are you?"
"Look at me and think, Sam. You would know if you just could admit it to yourself, that ghosts aren't necessarily evil. Please look."
Sam thinks, and feels sick when she realises the that Daniel Phantom was masquerading as Daniel Masters. This makes her feel more lost than ever, and she screams. "Get away from me. I don't ever want to see you again,..." Then lost for words, "you ghost!"
Valerie heard the yell because she was flying hoping to head off this problem before it got this bad. Still she would have to talk to one of them, and both were problems. She decided to lower down and talk to Sam. She'd have to be careful with how much Sam had been rocked, but Sam would need to be stabilised.
Val landed carefully for once. She settled down. Valerie looked at Sam, and decided not to mention the red eyes. Sam spoke. "The foundations of my world are wrong. I just can't cope. The two people I most trusted claim to be spirits. I can't see Ember as one, but Daniel Masters said he was, and proved it. Worse he claims, it was my fault that he became an evil spirit."
Sam was obviously distraught. She doubted Daniel had actually said that, but more likely that it had happened during this Sam's memory loss period. Of course, that would explain why the overshadowing was so hard to detect. It was Sam's fault. Danny's Sam. Not her and Daniel's Sam. This was something she ought to ask Clockwork. This might give her a way to save everyone, rather than having to choose between trying to save a doomed reality, and murdering everyone in it.
