Welcome to chapter 12! Only 4 more chapters left for this story. I hope I make it over 100 reviews and hopefully another of my stories will go over 200 reviews. Can anyone help me with that? Ahh, it's almost done. I can hardly believe it. Two years of hard work finally over and I am so proud of my two stories!
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Chapter 12: Unnoticeable
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but I might own a new phone soon!
Sam awoke with a jump, her heart racing until she realized that she was ok, she was alive. She touched her arm and winced at the pain, she would have to go to the hospital or something. Her eyes drifted around the unfamiliar room and she slid off the bed. When her feet were lightly brushing the floor she remembered and jumped off the bed and ran to the curtains. She flung them open and looked outside, disappointed. Danny was not there.
She turned away and ran her good hand through her long, tangled hair. Had he been here at all during the night?
'Stupid! Stupid! Stupid Sam! Why did you fall asleep so quickly!' She chastised herself as she hurried into the bathroom. She pulled her brush through her hair and caught it in a ponytail. As she brushed her teeth, her imagination was running out of control and she began to worry about her children. She was wondering if while she had slept, they had been murdered.
She was glad that her feet were no longer wobbly as she raced up the stairs. She got to Zoey's room first and knocked viciously on it. She didn't wait for a reply, she flung the door open and marched in.
"Mom? What are you doing in here? And so early too. I was actually sleeping you know," a sleepy voiced Zoey said as she sat up in her bed throwing her covers back. Sam let out a loud sigh of relief as she plopped beside Zoey and did her best to pull her into a hug.
"Oh my goodness. You have no idea how happy I am to see you right now," Sam said into Zoey's short hair. Zoey rolled her eyes and pushed Sam away gently.
"What's wrong with you?" Zoey asked as she looked Sam straight in the eyes. Sam smiled.
"Nothing, nothing. I'm just glad you're ok," Sam said. Zoey was her confidant, the person who knew the most details of Sam's life next to Tucker. Sam had never hidden anything from her before. But this time, she knew that she had to. There was no telling how Zoey would react knowing that they were being haunted by ghosts.
"You're acting even stranger than usual Miss Samantha, but you're not stopping me from getting all my 8 hours of sleep this fine morning. The morning that I don't have to go to school. Did I tell you that I love you yet?" Zoey asked. Sam laughed and rolled her eyes.
"You don't have to tell me for me to know, now go back to sleep. I'll be heading out for a bit, so you're in charge," Sam said. Zoey groaned.
"Does that mean that I have to cook and take care of Ben? Please say no!"
"Ben doesn't need our help. If he wants something, he'll go get it himself."
"Good, cuz even if you did tell me that I had to take care of him, I'd lock him in his room until someone eventually asked for him," Zoey smirked. Sam was thinking that Zoey's idea was actually a good one.
"I'll see you a bit later. I'm going to go check on Shai," Sam said. Zoey made an unrecognizable sound and pulled the covers over her head. Sam smiled and left her room.
Before she could even knock on Shaire's door, he opened it and stared at her.
"This is starting to freak me out," Sam said.
"The door thing was just a coincidence," Shaire smiled. Sam smiled back, she couldn't help it.
"I'm glad you're awake. You might be late going to school today, I have something to do before I bring you to school," Sam said.
"I'm not going to school," Shaire said.
"Excuse me?" Sam asked, stunned, "are the children being mean to you? Or even worse, the teachers? I didn't even get to ask about your first day of school."
"I wanna stay home with Zoey," he said. Sam sighed and leaned against the wall. Unconsciously, she had leaned against her right arm. She moved away from the wall with a cry of pain and held her arm to herself. Shaire's eyebrows immediately furrowed with concern and he looked much older than a 7 year old.
"Mommy…what's wrong with your arm?" He asked.
"I thought you knew everything," Sam said, immediately regretting it, she was forgetting that he was a child.
"No, I thought so too, but no" he answered wisely. Sam sighed and threw her head back a bit.
"Something pushed me down the stairs last night and I broke my arm," she whispered. His eyes widened and he gripped the door tightly. Sam could see his eyes glaze over with tears.
"It'll be alright, I going to see Danny right now and we are finally going to get rid of this ghost that haunts us," she said.
"Mommy," he whimpered. Tears started to stream down his face and he reached out to hug Sam. His arms clamped around her thighs as he pressed his head to her legs. He was trying to keep his sobs silent. She reached down with her good hand and smoothed his hair back. How could he have not seen it, he was wondering. If he had not seen this coming, what else did he not know about?
"Take care of Zoey and watch out for Ben, I have to find Danny. I can't allow anything else to happen," Sam said. She bent to kiss the top of his head and then she turned away from him, determined to carry out her mission.
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She drove into the parking lot of the observatory, her right arm in a brace. She had made a quick stop at the doctor's office. Having a lot of money had its advantages. The doctor hadn't even asked what had caused her injury.
She pushed open the door and stepped out. She locked the car and ran into the building.
"Excuse me, miss. May I help you?" A security guard asked as she pushed the glass doors open and stepped inside.
"Yes, I need to speak with Danny Fenton right now. It's an emergency," she said.
"I'll go get him then, please wait over there," he said, pointing to some seats against the wall. Sam quickly walked over to them and sat down. She crossed her legs and started tapping her foot nervously. She was praying that her children were alright. She was so anxious to get back to them, to get them out of harm's way. But there was no way she could have brought them with her. Zoey would have been freaked out to the extreme and gone insane when she had found out that a ghost had hurt Sam. And she had a strange feeling about Shaire. He wanted to stay home with Zoey for a reason and Sam wasn't going to let him face that reason alone. She glanced up and saw Danny sprinting over to her.
"Good morning, Sam," he smiled as he sat next to her. He seemed happy. Why was he happy?
"Did you come by last night?" She asked.
"Yeah, I did, but you were asleep so I didn't wake you. Oh and the weirdest thing happened…" he began, Sam cut him off.
"What happened?" She asked, pulling herself closer to him. He pulled back a little, wondering why she was so wound up.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing," he smiled, "I was surprised to come by last night and not sense a ghost. There are no ghosts in the whole of Cambridge. I checked it out less than half an hour ago," he added.
"What? Are you sure?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm positive," he said. Danny's happy mood was not affecting Sam. She was even more anxious and suspicious now than before.
"Danny, check again. You have to check again. A ghost is in my house," she hissed under her breath.
"There are no gho…what happened to your hand?" He asked, just noticing the brace.
"Something pushed me down the stairs last night and I fell on my arm. That same thing almost choked me to death when I had just gotten home yesterday. It was absolutely terrifying! Having something invisible push against your lungs, and not from the outside, from the inside. I couldn't even fight it off," she whispered, choking on the words. Danny's eyes widened and he gripped the chair.
"It attacked you?" He asked, trying to control his temper and his voice.
"Yes," she replied. She watched his expression. He looked like he was trying to control his thoughts and the words he wanted to say. Like he wanted to control what was happening, but he just couldn't.
"Let's go," he said. Sam remained seated, taken aback by his tone of voice.
"Who are you talking to?" She asked.
"NOW!" He yelled and the few persons around them turned immediately to see what the scene was about.
"You cannot shout at me Danny! Or order me around!" She yelled back, not one to step back from a challenge. He ignored her and grabbed her by the hand. He pulled her up and after him, the look on his face terrifying her.
"Sam, I wouldn't have shouted at you if it wasn't for a reason," he said, his voice a little calmer as he slammed through the doors and outside.
"I didn't see your reason, Danny and I still don't," she said as she unlocked her car.
"Well, I did have a reason and it was damn good. I'm driving," he said. He pushed her over to the passenger seat and sat in the driver's seat. He didn't even put on his seatbelt, he slammed on the accelerator and sped off, the sudden plunge forward pushing Sam back into her seat.
"What the hell is wrong with you? A minute ago you were so damn happy because no ghosts were in town! What are you worrying about now?" She asked in a raised voice.
"Sam, I did not sense any ghosts this morning, neither did I sense any yesterday evening. I haven't sensed one since your car accident," he replied, voice unusually calm. Sam sat, staring at him, utter shock crossing her features. What was he saying?
"What…what does that mean?" She asked, quite aware of how stupid she sounded. It could only mean one thing.
"It means this ghost is flying under the radar. I can't detect him, and I know why," he said, teeth barred as he sped down the road to Sam's house. Sam slid down her seat, her heartbeat dangerous. She realized what Danny was getting at and it was more than shocking. She felt as if she couldn't breathe as everything came into focus. She now knew why Shaire really wanted to stay home so badly and why Danny could not sense this ghost. And most of all, she knew who the strange blonde haired man who had caused her accident was. She felt helpless as her vision swam and she put her hand to her head in vicious realization.
"I...I…I can't believe. I thought that after all these years…why…Shaire…Zoey…danger," she said, incoherency caused by fear.
"7 years is never enough time for any ghost. They'll come back if their business isn't finished," Danny hissed as he drove down her street.
"I thought you had killed that son of a bitch!" Sam said, hands now covering her face, hiding her tears.
"I thought I had killed them, both of them. How wrong I was. I won't make the same mistake again," Danny said as he stopped outside her gate.
"Open the gate!" Sam yelled out her window, but it seemed the security guards who were supposed to be managing the gates weren't there. Their booths were empty. Sam pushed open her car door and rushed over to a booth. She opened the door and stepped in…only to step back out almost immediately, hand over her mouth, eyes wide with fright. Danny noticed her expression and jumped out of the car, not caring to close the door. He ran up to Sam, stopping when he saw what she was seeing. He swore under his breath as he saw the security guard lying on the floor, blood splashed everywhere. He couldn't tell how the man had died; his body was covered with blood. He left Sam standing there, staring, and went to check out the other booth.
"Damn it," he whispered as he covered his mouth. He was feeling nauseous as he looked at the scene. It was worse than the other one. This man had been decapitated and de-limbed. He slammed the door and walked over to Sam who was still stuck staring, tears running down her cheeks. He pulled her away and pushed her into the car.
"The other one is dead too, isn't he?" She asked Danny as he slammed the door shut. His silence caused more tears to fall. He left her there and stormed up to the gate. Without hesitation, he burned a huge hole through the gates, anger determining his every move.
Sam was a mess. She knew it and she was ashamed. It wasn't time to cry and hide in the seat of a car. If this was what had happened to just her guards in such a short time…what had happened to her children? She looked up at Danny, tears gone, and made up her mind to walk into the house and confront the ghost responsible. She was about to open her door when Danny came flying towards her, landing on the windshield and smashing it. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw who had done it.
"Aww, Daniel, it has been so long, son. I see you and Samantha are somehow still together. I'll have to do something about that, won't I now, young badger?" The powerful ghost spoke as he looked at both Sam and Danny. Danny pushed himself from the pieces of smashed windshield glass and slid down the hood, ready to face the ghost he had not seen for seven whole years.
Am I writing under the correct rating? Somebody please tell me. And I know what you're thinking…you all are going to have to wait for chapter 13 to really find out who this ghost is. It's time for another preview of Boarding School: Summer Edition! But this time it's from chapter 2! I'm working on a preview from my new story in every chapter of Love Me that I'm gonna put out. Is that a good idea…hmm…I wonder…
Everything seemed to go pretty slow. Val turned to her and winked as she approached a table with two boys sitting around it. She could identify Tucker immediately, and it wasn't because he was facing her. Dark skin, forest green eyes hidden behind glasses and a beret on his head. He wasn't bad looking himself. Val slid in next to a surprised Tucker and his mouth was slightly open. Then he turned to look at Sam, then at the person sitting in front of him, the guy whose face Sam could not see. Sam held her breath as she slid in next to the strange boy. She smiled and turned to him. Her heart stopped.
Since I couldn't get to reply to my reviewers, here it goes. I hope those who reviewed see this.
Thoughts-of-Nothingness – Review Reply For Chapter 11
Thanks soooooooo much for reviewing and I'm glad you didn't think it was that bad, made me feel much better and more motivated to continue. And I think…I hope with all my heart that I can update quickly, I'm working on it now. Thanks for saying you liked the action, I was kinda worried about that.
hauntedgal26 – Review Reply For Chapter 10
Well, remember when Tucker was rubbing his eyes cuz Danny transformed, I'm thinking that if he was wearing contacts then that would make it harder to rub so vigourously. It worked. The whole aim was to be confused. I just hope I can clear this up. Thanks for the review!!
Review Reply For Chapter 11
Aww, thank you so much! Aww, I rock. Thank you for saying that it wasn't a waste because I definitely thought it was the worst chapter I have ever written! And you should get an account or sign in, makes it easier to get messages to you :).
Devilchild93 – Review Reply for Chapter 11
I envy you. I wish I could go on a sweet vacation, but instead I am stuck at home with next to nothing to do! But I guess that makes you happy…me at home with nothing else to do but write, write and write. And it's ok about the reviewing thing, if you can't do it every chapter I won't kill you…maybe :D
ShortSweet'NToThePoint – Review Reply for Chapter 11
I share your feelings about Ben as I'm sure everyone does! I really, really, really hate him! And thank you for saying it was a good chapter, I feel so loved and supported! Yes, Ben is definitely evil, just you wait and see what he plans to do. Real evil.
Extant – Review Reply for Chapter 11
Lol! I got the whole 'BS' thing when I was writing it. The coincidence is just…strange, let's hope the second 'BS' is better than the first. Cross your fingers.
You really think it's one of the better chapters? *Aww, gives you big hug*, thanks so much! I used to read until 4 in the morning, so you're not the only one who likes to do that. :)
Flaming Water – Review Reply for Chapter 10
I am truthfully honoured and really appreciative of you saying that the chapter had awesome content. And I am worrying that I made some MAJOR mistake but it seems either I didn't make any or there were so insignificant that they aren't noticed. And thanks for actually reading my A/Ns. I didn't think anyone did. And since you asked about pushing Ben out a window…I'll see what I can do :D
bloodmoon13 – Review Reply for Chapter 10
Don't worry, that'll come soon. :D!!!!
DinoButtons – Review Reply for Chapter 10
I named it 'Again' because ghosts are after Sam…again. Thanks for reviewing!!
Review Reply for Chapter 11
Of course I have to reply to your review, aren't you a loyal reviewer? I wouldn't wanna lose any of my reviewers! I love you and them all sooooooooo much!! Seems you like the new version of the story I'm working on, I've been writing more and while doing that becoming confused about which chapter of Love Me I've just posted. LOL! I know, funny! And yes, even better than Jack :D. I know you luv my cliffies!!
Jessi – Review Reply for Chapter 11
I like making things confusing, challenges me as well as you and sometimes, keeps you, the reader hooked! Thanks for reviewing! I appreciate it so much! Thanks for loving the chapter and for making me feel like the best person ever!
Skaties – Review Reply for Chapter 11
Aren't my chapters always evil…thanks for reviewing and just making me wanna write more!!
Magma823 – Review Reply for Chapter 11
I wanna cry. Thanks for still liking my fic and for reviewing and would you believe it, only 7 more reviews until I get to 100 reviews. I feel proud of myself. Thanks for making that a possibility!
