AN: I do not own Danny Phantom. Butch Hartman does.
Okay so I've been working on this story for a while before I actually got around to posting so I'm going to be spitting chapters out like mad for a little while. Reviews are really appreciated. I want to be able to write something that both the readers and myself love and only you can help me do it :D
Chapter Two- Taking the Weekend Off
Danny rolled over and yawned. He glanced at his clock. 11:13 AM. He grinned. Sleeping in felt great. He pulled his cell phone off of the carger and checked it.
One New Message From: Sam
Hey Danny, I'm gussing you're sleeping so when you get this text call me. Tucker and I have a bunch of stuff planned and you better be ready to have a blast.
Danny smiled and pressed the green call button. The phone rang a few times before Sam picked up.
"Hyello?" Sam asked, music playing in the background.
"Hey I got your text." Danny said sleepily.
"Did you seriously just wake up?" Sam asked, laughing.
"Yeah. I never get to sleep in, so cut me some slack." Danny said, sitting up.
"Okay well get up, get dressed, and get over here." Sam said.
"Yes ma'am." Danny said.
"Peace." Sam said before hanging up. Danny shook his head and put the phone down before heading to the shower.
A half hour later Danny showed up at Sam's bright eyed and bushy tailed. Sam opened the door and Tucker was behind her.
"It's about time you got here. Jeeze Danny, did you take some sleeping pills or something?" Tucker asked as Danny walked into the house.
"No. It's called I've been exhausted. Nice job getting Valerie to agree to take the weekend by the way Tuck. Who would've thought she'd believe Danny Phantom was in her computer?" Danny laughed. Tucker had created a new IM account for "Danny Phantom" and convinced Valerie that she needed to take over for him this weekend. Not that it took much convincing. Valerie hated ghosts and was glad to kick some ghost butt even if it interfered with her mall time.
"Thanks, I try." Tucker said, grinning. They headed down to Sam's basement, where her home theater was. A stack of movies was on the table next to heaps of food.
"Okay, first thing on the list. Watching a movie without going ghost halfway through." Sam said. Danny shook his head.
"You guys are taking this way too seriously." Danny said, picking up the first movie on the pile.
"No we aren't! You need fun Danny!" Sam said, poking him in the chest. Danny began to look through the movies.
"The Crazies, Dead Teacher 4, 28 Days Later...are all of these zombie movies?" Danny asked, holding up a few cases.
"Yeah. Zombie movies are the only scary thing Tucker will watch, remember?" Sam sighed, dropping onto the couch behind the table and resting her feet on the table.
"Oh yeah. Let's watch this one then." Danny said, holding up 28 Days Later.
"Nice choice. I haven't watched it yet, but I've heard it's really good." Sam said, taking the movie from Danny. She stood up and popped it into the player before turning off the lights.
"Let the flesh eating madness begin!" Sam said excitedly before hopping onto the couch next to Danny. Tucker sighed and sat on Danny's other side.
After the movie, Tucker pulled out his PDA.
"Next item on our list, go to the mall without being attacked by ghosts." Tucker said, poking the screen with his stylus. They walked to the mall and when they got inside Danny began to laugh.
"What?" Tucker asked. Danny shook his head.
"I've been fighting ghosts for so long, sometimes I forget what a normal weekend is." Danny said, chuckling. They walked towards the food court but stopped when they heard someone calling them.
"Hey Fenton! Long time no see." Dash called out before grabbing Danny by the front of his shirt.
"Um, Dash you might not want to do that." Danny said, his face emotionless.
"Why not Fentonia?" Dash asked. Danny pointed to the mall cops watching the teenagers with increasing interest. Dash scowled and put Danny down before slapping him hard on the back. Danny winced and straightened out his shirt.
"See you around buddy." Dash growled before walking off.
"Well that was...unexpected." Sam said, walking over to Danny.
"What do you mean? Dash does that kind of stuff all the time." Danny asked, sitting down at a table.
"He isn't actually beating the crap out of you lately. He's roughing you up a bit, but that's it. Think about it. No getting locked in a locker, no getting thrown in the trash at lunch, nothing. It's weird." Sam said, folding her arms. Tucker sat down across from Danny and shook his head.
"Sam, I don't know if you've noticed but Danny has gotten kind of big over the summer. He's taller than Dash now and he isn't exactly scrawny any more. Maybe Dash is realizing that one day Danny is going to kick his ass." Tucker said, leaning back in his chair. Sam looked at Danny for a second and then nodded.
"You are a lot bigger than you were last year. I'm not saying your a beefy jock like Dash but Tucker is right, you're not scrawny any more." Sam said, dropping down into the chair between Tucker and Danny. Danny shrugged and looked around.
"So...what do you guys want to do?" Danny asked, glancing around the food court.
"Walk around, duh. What else do people do at the mall?" Sam said, standing up. Danny stood up and threw a balled up napkin at Tucker.
"Let's go Tuck." Danny said before walking off with Sam. Tucker frowned and watched them for a minute before following.
Several hours later Sam, Danny and Tucker walked out of the mall. It was getting dark now and Danny checked his phone.
"Wow, 8 o'clock and no ghosts bothering me. That's a first." Danny said, smiling. Tucker and Sam highfived.
"So what now?" Tucker asked. Sam shrugged.
"Up to Danny really." Sam said. Danny thought for a minute and then snapped.
"Let's go to the park! We haven't done that in a while except for ghost attacks." Danny suggested with a grin.
The group walked to the park and they were pleasantly surprised to see that it was empty.
"Wow, it's really quiet." Danny said, walking down the path.
"You can say that again." Tucker said, looking around.
"I don't mind. I mean, it's a beautiful night and nobody is bothering us. It's like when we were in 8th grade." Sam said, smiling as she looked up at the sky. A crescent moon hung high in the sky and stars twinkled brightly. The noise of Amity Park was far off. Danny walked over to the playground and sat on a swing, wrapping his hands around the chains. Sam and Tucker each sat on a swing on either side of him.
"You know, I wouldn't mind getting another weekend off like this every once and a while." Danny said. Tucker laughed.
"I bet. Well we've still got the rest of today and all of tomorrow to have some ghost free fun!" Tucker said. Danny grinned.
"This was the best idea ever." Danny sighed happily, swinging back and forth slowly.