OMG! I am soooooo sorry, but you gotta understand! School has been very stressing and I'm sure you all know about the exams I have next year. I'm thinking of just giving this whole story thing a break until next year, but I can't do that to you guys, so, I'm going to have to stop the one chapter a month promise. I'm sorry, but I have so much to do and no time to do it.
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Chapter 3: Sam's Love Story
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom
"You mean…THEE Danny Fenton who killed THEE Vlad Masters? No way, Sam!" Zoey said. Sam smiled slightly at her daughter.
"Trust me, he didn't kill him, but…in a way, he didn't," Sam said, wishing she could tell Zoey her secret…and Danny's too, but she couldn't, no matter what, she told herself, she would never and could never allow herself to betray Danny's story. Not even to her daughter.
"Huh? You got me confused, Sam," Zoey said.
"What I want to say is that…well…don't judge him by that, by him currently being in prison because he doesn't belong there. Danny…Danny wouldn't hurt a fly…unless he had to of course. His parents were in danger and he was miserable."
"But being miserable doesn't give anyone the right to kill," Zoey said, being her usual self and always being the one to voice her opinions.
"Just ignore that part of his life, that part is a secret that only a select few know of and its one of those, 'If I tell you, I gotta kill you' things," Sam said. Zoey's eyes widened and her mouth formed an 'O'. She liked secrets especially those kind.
"Ok, Sam, fine, continue with your story," Zoey relaxed, totally ready to hear about Sam's convict boyfriend. She had so many questions but she knew when to wait and she could tell that most if not all of her questions would be answered by the end of the story. Sam took a deep breath and began.
"Danny is by far the most interesting man I have ever met. When we met, he hated me…and I hated him too, but something happened during the first few days in Amity and it was because of one mistake on my part why we ended up stuck together," Sam started.
"What does he look like?" Zoey asked.
"Oh, he was absolutely gorgeous. The sexiest man to ever walk the Earth," Sam said, sounding as if she was imagining bar of tasty chocolate. Zoey giggled at this and Sam continued.
"I never admitted it for a long time, for like 3 or so months, but I always knew. He had wonderful raven hair that grew so uniquely over his eyes just a bit and he was tall and well built. His eyes were the most amazing blue ever! At first, they were like ice because he shut everyone out of his life, but then, when we started to get along they were this lovely baby blue, nothing icy about them at all.
"So…why did you two hate each other?"
"Because he was a loner. Ghosts were after him and they spotted me talking to him once. They got the notion that we were together, so they added me to their list."
"Why were ghosts after him?" Zoey asked, now very curious.
"Because he was friends with Phantom, best friends I would say," Sam replied.
"You mean that ghost kid who used to fight ghosts in Amity a while back before all the ghosts plus Phantom disappeared?"
"How do you know all of this?" Sam asked.
"I was like 7 or 8 when this happened and my memory is awesome," Zoey boasted.
"Then you saw it on TV," Sam stated.
"Yup," Zoey replied with a smile. Sam turned her head to the 14 year old and couldn't help her smile. She may not have Danny, but she knew Zoey could help to pull her through all her troubles…along with Tucker…and if she knew where Jazz was.
"Earth to Sam! Continue with your story! Its interesting!" Zoey urged.
"Ok! Ok! Anyway…because we were spotted together and the two ghosts saw us, I was assumed as his girlfriend, which was funny seeing as I despised him then. But the whole ordeal meant that he would have to keep watch on me 24/7, so he started to spend all of his nights in my room…"
"Did you guys do…you know…it?" Zoey interrupted. Sam laughed.
"No Zoe, we didn't, but we did call a truce over time and he became my second best friend, my first being Tuck of course," Sam said.
"Talk about love/hate relationships."
"It took a while for me to realize I was in love and actually admit it to him. It happened when I was doing this HUGE favour for him…"
"What favour?"
"That story is for another night," Sam said. Zoey pouted and folded her arms. Sam rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll leave," Sam teased, but before she could get up, Zoey's hand was holding her down.
"I still wanna hear the rest." Sam nodded and thought for a second, then she exploded in laughter.
"Joke please."
"Well, I remember this time he came into our room with just a towel on after his shower, he was standing there looking really sexy and it took everything I had not to jump on him. He told me a lot later that he was tempting me to be bad," Sam smiled.
"Wait a sec...OUR ROOM?" You shared a room with him?" Zoey screamed.
"Yeah, because my parents kept pressuring me. I slept right beside him and he would hold me when necessary, tease me, make me laugh, kiss me and love me and I liked it. Going to sleep with his arms around me and waking up to magnificent blue eyes, unmatched in beauty."
"So, it was like you and he were married then?"
"Well, kinda, that comes in at the last part of the story."
"What? Marriage?" Zoey asked eagerly, the story getting better and better.
"He gave me a kind of promise ring, though it sounds dumb. It meant that we were supposed to get married in the future," she said holding out her hand with the ring poised below her wedding ring.
"Oh! That's it? I've always wondered about that ring! Its beautiful!" Zoey said as she grabbed Sam's hand to get a better look at the ring.
"Yeah, that's it," Sam said, smiling as Zoey made a fuss over the ring.
"Ooh, I never your past was so interesting, but what I don't really get is why, if you love this guy so much, you got married to Benny the stiff and why you don't ever visit him," Zoey said. Sam sighed and her smile faded.
"Because that was what he wanted. I visited him every day after his arrest and court appearances. He assured me that he loved me, but waiting for him was foolish and he said I should just move on and forget him because he would ruin any chances I had at a future. I told him that he talking nonsense and that I would wait for him…for as long as he took…"Sam said. Her mind brought her back to her last visit with Danny. It all seemed not so long ago and she was surprised that she could even remember his exact words.
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"Sam, I won't be getting out for many years to come. And I know I'm guilty. I did kill Vlad!" Danny said to her through the glass. He held her hand through the small semi-circle cut out of the bottom of the glass.
"But Danny, you can use your ghost powers! You could leave a clone and get out!" Sam said in a loud whisper that only Danny could hear her. Danny smiled and she saw the boy she loved. At that moment, she wanted to feel him in her arms, to feel his tall, well-built body gently pushed against her. She felt the need to run her fingers through his hair and to capture his lips…to make him a free man. But it was impossible on her end, all it needed was Danny's skill and cooperation.
"Sam…this…this is all for you," he said, his eyes roaming the room. Sam's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
'Wha…what…what the hell are you saying?" She asked.
"Think about it, Sam. Being the girlfriend…or even the wife of a former criminal. Your parents wouldn't support you any more, people would start to treat you differently and I won't be there all the time to protect you because if I did follow your plan and get out every now and then, I wouldn't be able to get a job or be seen anywhere with you. You would be alone."
"No, I won't! Jazz and Tuck will help me and you know I've never cared about what people say and Danny…your all that matters to me. I don't care!"
"Sam, listen to yourself, that's just your hormones talking. I don't matter at all, I am just a setback for you, something blocking you from reaching your goal in life and I won't be that setback for you Sam, because when I tell you I love you, I mean it and no matter how love is smart and beautiful, it is pain also. And now, Sam, I have to say goodbye, because after today I won't be seeing you again," Danny said, getting up. Sam held unto his hand and he sat back in his seat. His words had hurt. They had burned her and she could feel tears prickling at her eyes.
"But, Danny," she said, her eyes glittering with tears. If they had been somewhere else, he would have kissed those tears away and held her close, but that was something he could never have again. He would never have Sam.
"Don't cry, Sam. Just get out of Amity and start a new life, try not to let me hold you back. I wish I could tell you not to go and to stay with me forever, but look at the logics. It's all impossible," he said.
"But…but…I love you, Danny," she said, trying to hold on to him even though she knew deep down that what he had said was true.
"I know and I do love you too, but, I can't hold on to you, that would be wicked and so I have to let go. I have no other choice and neither do you," he said, stroking the ring he had given her. He stood from his chair and with a final nod and a look of utter pain, Danny was taken away. Sam sat on her chair for the next five minutes, everything washing over her and soaking in.
'Danny,' she thought. With that word on her mind, she rose from her chair and left. She never returned.
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"But what happened?" Zoey asked.
"Basically he told me that a man in prison could be of no help to a girl who had a bright future," Sam shortened it.
"Its all so romantic, makes me wanna puke," Zoey said.
"Whatever Zoey, I know your all into the romantic stuff especially the dark kind, and the forbidden ones and my previous romance was definitely forbidden."
"So, Benny," Zoey said.
"Well, my parents moved me again trying to save their reputation. They told me that the next man they chose for me would be my husband and if I rebelled, they would disown me. I didn't have any fight in me then and I did what Danny wanted me to do, then I decided that I wanted a daughter…and a son. I thought that a few children could live off of my parent's money and become something in life. I thought of helping children. So far it's you, but I want more."
"OH!! I GET IT!! So that's why you're married to Ben, that's why you let the old man and the hag run your life and that's why you're getting me a little brother! Wait…you're getting me a little brother?" Zoey exclaimed.
"Ben doesn't know about my past or more importantly, my relationship with Danny, so he was perfect. He was the perfect man to start a new life with. Then I saw you and I needed to adopt you. One day, one day very soon you'll have a brother. He's 7 right now and the only reason I don't have him yet is because Ben just gave me the go sign to get him, so I'm going to pick him up this week."
"So, I'm going to have a little brother," Zoey said. It was more of a statement than a question. She was excited about it.
"Yes you will and he's absolutely adorable! He has curly raven hair, blue-violet eyes and he doesn't care much for trouble. He's a well-behaved child who is just the cutest thing I've ever seen," Sam smiled. Zoey almost jumped in joy. Finally, someone to boss around.
"But I won't allow you to boss him around…"Sam said. Zoey's smile fell.
"…much," she finished and Zoey's face was all alight. Sam sat up and thought of the little boy she had loved so much for the past 7 years. It was a love filled with pain, he was always so close yet so far.
"I love him, Zoey," Sam said.
"Who? The kid or Danny?" Zoey asked, sitting up beside Sam.
"Both of them, but I was talking about Danny. We did things that you shouldn't be thinking of. We slept together, wrapped in the sheets. He had respect for my body; he never once took advantage of me. He protected me, he stood up for me, he was on my side, he lived for me. We took showers together Zoey. We were one and never before him had I felt any of my emotions so strongly. And its now after I've lost him and will never get him back that I feel a million times what I felt when I was with him. You never know what you have until its gone," Sam said. She burst into tears at the end, feeling ridiculous.
"Sam, come on, stop crying. It's…it's going to be okay. Just, please stop crying," Zoey tried to get Sam to stop. She hated when Sam cried because Sam rarely did. Sam's crying subsided almost immediately and she wiped her tears from her eyes.
"That's not true, Zoe. It won't be alright. That day, I actually thought that what he said was right, but now I realized that he was indeed the only one that mattered and I wanted him, no one else, nothing else because right now, my life is miserable. It doesn't matter how rich or famous you are. No, it's the person who stands beside you through thick and thin, who suffers with you. Who rises with you, who rules with you and who dies with you."
"Sam, that's…that's," Zoey began but could not finish, tears were being held painfully behind her green eyes.
"The love that Danny and I shared was out of this world, it was supernatural. It wasn't normal," Sam said.
'After all, Danny wasn't normal,' she thought.
"I'm sorry, that's it. See you at breakfast tomorrow. Goodnight," Sam said and slipped outside. Zoey looked after the closed door and collapsed on her bed. A shiver ran down her spine. She had always dreamt of having such a romance that could only be found in books and having such relationships with a creature of the supernatural world: a vampire, a werewolf or a ghost, especially a ghost. That relationship would be interesting considering her past. But here was Sam, the lady who had adopted her, her mother, with the story of a romance that surpassed all the ones that Zoey had ever imagined. Sam had been in something different, like she had said, it was supernatural. Zoey believed in vampires and ghosts because she knew they were real. They had after all, killed her parents.
Sam made her way through the now dark hallway and to her room…well, the room she shared with her husband, Benjamin. Then it all clicked to her and she felt tears running down her face. She had to let go of Danny. She was married, and Danny was in prison. She harshly wiped her tears away as she stepped inside the room. It was dark. She walked past the bed and slid into the bathroom. She flicked on the light and stared at herself. She reached behind the door and took her pajamas from the hook. She slipped off her clothes and into her pastel pj's. She brushed her teeth and looked at herself once again.
'You have to make this work, Sam! Forget about him! He's not here anymore and he will never be here! Its time to let go!' She thought. She took a deep breath, feeling like she was going down the right path. She turned to leave and almost screamed when she saw Benjamin at the door.
"You scared me, Ben…jamin," she said. Maybe calling him Benjamin instead of Ben would help. Maybe she could even learn to love him. She smiled.
"But that's okay, I kinda like being scared," she flirted.
"I was just about to fall asleep when I remembered that I forgot to tell you that I invited a friend over for dinner tomorrow. I am so sorry, Samantha. I hope you don't mind cooking extra tomorrow," he said.
"No I don't. I'm actually glad you're inviting a friend over because I was going to invite one over also," Sam said, seeing a big opportunity.
"Well, sure, Samantha. Who is your friend by the way?"
"Who else but Tucker," she said, her smile widening. She hadn't seen him in ages.
"You know I don't really fancy the fellow, darling, but I can stand him. So, yes you may," he said. The rebel in Sam wanted to push him hard in the chest and tell him she never asked him a question and he wasn't the boss of her…but she suppressed it and managed to smile her way though it.
"And whom might your friend be?" She asked. His face seemed to brighten when Sam asked and he answered immediately
"Well, I thought you would never ask, Samantha. I met him last week in a bar. I was drunk with happiness because I had won yet another case! So I bought myself many celebratory drinks and I must admit, I was extremely drunk! I got in an argument with a regular: a guy who was much bigger than I will ever be and I was so close to being socked in the face. Then out of nowhere this tall man steps out of nowhere and right in front of me. He exchanged a few threats with the man and the regular actually backed down. I was relieved and thanked him, then I founf out that he was a rather intelligent man. I've seen him twice after and I invited him over to see my lovely wife. Since he said he wasn't in love like I was, I decided that he must meet you! Oh, Samantha! He's absolutely brilliant! And I think Zoey will like him!" Benjamin said excitedly.
'When did he start caring about Zoey?' Sam asked herself.
"Why would she?" Sam asked.
"Because he dresses in black all the time and he's the mysterious type. I don't worry about you though darling, I know you only have the hots for me," he said reaching out and touching Sam on her arm. Sam smiled and kissed him.
'This is right, Sam. He's your husband, you have all right to do this!!' She told herself as the kisses got less innocent.
"I thought you weren't feeling well," he said as they fumbled backwards, into the room and unto the bed.
"That's why I'm here, you're my remedy," she said and slipped off her top.
School has been very stressful and I am asking you all to be easy on me as I don't see this story progressing much till next year. I am sooooo sorry, but I thank you for sticking with me and for all your great reviews. If there are any grammar issues, you can point them out. I may not be able to correct them, but I'm not on top of my game now-a-days. Thanks again and hopefully you'll see chapter 4 next month.
P.S. I hate Ben too :)
