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The next morning at just after dawn found both ghost fighters on the bus, the same one ironically for the woman with raven hair as they headed for the back where she had once again reserved most of the chairs to Danny's shock. She explained that she didn't want to be harassed or stared at like she had on trips in the past. She had learned that when you were an heiress people gawked and wanted to get close to you just to find out something they could sell and she didn't take chances.
"And I couldn't just take us instead of the bus?" he grumbled as they found their seats. Sam glanced over at him with a thoughtful look on her pale face, the dark circles under her eyes worrying him.
"First off I did this to save you the energy taking me from here to home and second I don't know with my pregnancy how air travel will affect me so unless you want to test my body and see if I vomit from the height then I suggest you do this my way." Danny nodded. He hadn't thought of all that and now that he knew that she had been thinking about both of them he accepted it. What had he been thinking? Sam hated even riding on the school bus growing up so the bus that was an over-night trip seemed less like her idea of fun. Shaking his head he sat down next to her just as a male stopped before them, his shadow from the sun in the background falling over them. Sam paid it no mind as she made herself comfortable.
"How is the sickness?" the male inquired to Danny's displeasure as he looked up at the person invading their space. For some reason he felt uncomfortable with this male so close to Sam. Sam looked up to find the same green eyed male from before and smiling she stood up and held out her hand.
"Much better thanks to your suggestion. Thank you for helping a complete stranger when I was feeling just down right crappy." The man smiled as he took her hand.
"You're welcome. I just looked at you and you reminded me of my wife so I just felt compelled to help you." Danny stood up now, his eyes flashing green at the male before him.
"Nice to meet you. I am her fiance as well as the father of her child." Sam looked at the halfa in shock as the other man released her hand to shake Danny's hand. The halfa looked down at the hand before him like it was a snake, his blue eyes distrustful. He knew what was expected of him almost didn't until Sam spoke up again.
"This is Danny and he just can't help being a little paranoid as he is a superhero." The green eyed male's eyes widened in amazement. "Ever hear of Danny Phantom?" The man nodded adamantly. "Yeah, this is him."
"Nice to meet you, Danny. You probably don't know how much we adore you for all that you have done. My wife follows your stories and tells everyone about what good you have done. We were quite surprised when Amity called you all those horrible names. Oh, goodness me. My name is Evan. Would you like to see my wife and our babies?" Sam nodded as Danny stood there in shock. This man and his wife followed him? He had just been feeling so possessive of the raven haired beauty at his side that he hadn't even thought of what he was doing. The man was married for goodness sake. Looking at the pictures as the bus started up, the trio sitting down as Evan showed them the pictures of his wedding and the child that he had claimed had been born at the best time, his wife's labor so easy. "Yeah, the only thing that she had the brute of was morning sickness," he said as he turned to Danny. "I saw Sam here turning a little green and when she went into the bathroom I grabbed what I knew had helped my wife."
"How did you know that she was pregnant?" the halfa inquired. He was curious as he hadn't been able to see the signs that must have been right in front of him. The man chuckled as if he were almost embarrassed.
"Well, strange as it may sound she glowed like my wife did." The couple just stared at him, Sam smiling while Danny just looked confused. "I know that it sounds silly, but that was what always comes to me when I think about my wife's pregnancy. Sure, the morning sickness was really bad and the sympathy pains were the worse, but the one thing that I will remember is the glow she had about her."
"Sympathy pains?" both raven haired adults inquired. Evan chuckled as he looked to the halfa before him.
"Trust me, those are the worse. Basically, you get-" he was cut off as his phone rang, the tune Best Friends playing and judging by the look on his face he was happy to hear the tone. "Hold on," he said as he got up, his back turned to them as he headed off. "Hey, sexy stuff!" he said as he walked behind the curtain. Sam looked to Danny and the halfa before her looked just as confused.
"What was that? I have never heard that." Sam shrugged before pulling her phone out, her black colored nails clicking away as she researched. Sometimes the Goth reminded him of their friend Tucker with the way she was able to type like a maniac on any device, her fingers working like mad to find her answer quickly. Suddenly the small woman began to giggle as she scrolled making the halfa next to her curious. He leaned close and she hid the phone.
"You don't want to see those," she stated with a giggle. "I can tell you right now that you are not going to like them if you feel them." Pulling the phone away from her chest she began to scroll some more, her face become serious. "Doesn't seem too often that it happens so you should be fine." Truth be told the pains happened frequently enough but only in couples who were relatively close and even though they were close on one level it wasn't like they were emotionally attached. "In fact you don't fall into the percentile that has that issue so you don't have to worry." Danny studied the woman before him, her tone telling him that she was unhappy about something, but before he could ask her Evan came back.
"Sorry, what were we talking about?" he inquired as he looked at the couple before him, the bus making a sharp turn forcing Danny to fall into Sam, the Goth flinching as she fell back. Danny struggled to get off his friend and having a better idea went intangible so he fell through her before becoming tangible again for her to lean into him. The raven haired woman blushed as Evan watched the pair. He thought they made a cute couple, but something was bothering him about them. They seemed like they knew each other relatively well, but the feelings between them seemed rather stiff and unresolved for a couple that were about to get married. Danny helped Sam sit back up as the bus continued straight down the street. "Oh, we were talking about sympathy pains."
"We looked it up," Sam said as she held up her phone.
"Well, then Danny should know what to expect " The halfa shook his head. "Okay, well I had the sickness for her during the first part of the pregnancy and then I felt so tired all the time. You might experience those kinds of things during her pregnancy. I never had any of the really bad symptoms like the swelling of the ankles or," he paused with a small cough. "the other more serious things." Danny was confused as Sam blushed, her hair falling over her face as she thought of what she had seen in those pictures. As the drive went on Sam found that she was growing tired and as she closed her eyes Danny next to her yawned. Apologizing he told Evan he had had a long night the other day and had found that he couldn't sleep last night.
Sam found this interesting as she too hadn't been able to sleep, but hers had to do with nerves over the fact that Danny had found out about her pregnancy so shrugging it off she stretched, her small body arching as she grabbed a pillow.
"Could you sit over there?" she inquired of the male next to her. He looked at her to find that she looked like she was about to pass out, her gaze a little dazed. Nodding he allowed her to lay down as he sat next to Evan, the green eyed male smiling at him.
"This is just the beginning," the male stated as Danny looked over at the already passed out Sam, her raven locks falling around her head. He smiled. That would be okay if this was just the beginning because he wanted to find out more about the woman that was having his baby. Sure, they had known each other for forever, but there was so many things that he felt he was in the dark about and he planned on spending his life finding out. His eyes grew wide as he realized what he was thinking. Was he saying he wanted to marry his best friend?
It took hours to get back to Amity and in that time Sam slept. Danny felt tired too, but he forced himself to stay awake because he needed to be watchful of her. Was it because of what she was to him because she would always be special to him or was it the fact that she was pregnant with his child? He didn't want to analyze that too much because either way the answer would bother him. Sam was his friend and then the thought from earlier entered his mind. Did he want to marry her? Would she marry him? She didn't seem to want to be with him like that, but the words "me thinks the lady does protest to much" entered his mind. Damn Lancer for his English class. They had worked more on old fashion literature then English so he was unsure why they called it that, but maybe it was right. Maybe there was more to Sam's feelings than she was letting on and he aimed to find out, but first he really needed to sort his feelings.