319, thank you for adding the story to your alerts. DARKLOVEFORFANFICTION123, thanks. *Munches on Cookie* I feel bad for her too, but I feel for Danny because he is so confused and with all her pregnancy hormones kicking in it is only going to cause more confusion for the couple to muddle through. sam-u-knw, yeah I hope that she can see past the outside of the situation enough to know that the love was always there.

A few moments later after Sam had calmed down, her tears drying up and embarrassment setting in as the pair stood there with Danny still holding her, his hands rubbing her back in calming circles.

"Sorry," she mumbled into his shirt as she felt her cheeks go red. She pulled back, a sniffle escaping. "Pregnancy hormones just kind of make me weepy and homicidal at times." Danny nodded even as he didn't really understand. He had thought that she was being very forthright and truthful. "I don't like that side of the pregnancy as it makes a conversation into a battle of emotions."

"Is that how you feel about us?" Sam looked up at him, her gaze steady as she studied his cerulean orbs. "Do you really feel sorry and regret all that we have been through?"

"No, I regret my decisions like the menu and the portal and- and just all the shit that you had to endure because of-" Danny pulled the Goth woman close before kissing her into silence. At first she fought him, but within seconds she gave into her feelings for the male holding her. Just as she relaxed her mind flashed with images of her and him that night she had given him her virginity.

We'll always be together because I love you, Sam.

Sam blinked as she shoved Danny away from her, the look in her eyes unreadable to the raven haired halfa before her. Moving back from him she headed toward her bathroom.

"I, um, you know what? You should probably stop doing that because only couples do that and we were not and never will be a couple." Danny moved toward her and suddenly the Goth before him became rather skittish. "I really want you to step back, okay? I really need my space at this moment because you just are not doing what I want you to do."

"Sam, I don't plan on stepping back from this and yes, we will be a couple. No matter how many times you say we won't I believe differently." Sam glowered at him, but with every step that he took toward her she moved two back.

"Danny, you only feel that way because of the situation and I don't want that."

"What do you want?" Sam blinked at his question. "What do you want?"

"I want a lot of things Danny and nothing at all," she said after a pause, her back now against the wall as he continued to advance. "I want you to understand that we can't be a couple because of one night and that as much as I love you that I will not settle." That seemed to stop him in his tracks. She was saying that with him she would settle? She was calling him not worthy? "Trust me," she whispered. "You are settling for less than what you deserve because one day you would realize that I wasn't what you wanted and that would-" she stopped as he looked up at her and she knew that he was thinking about all that she was talking about.

She had said too much, that she was sure of because she was nervous. She loved him too much to have him realize that he had made a bad choice based on one night of passion and while she believed what he had told her that night she was also unsure as to what he wanted. Alcohol could make you tell the truth, but depending on the interpretation of that truth, well that was all on who was talking and who was listening.

Danny was also feeling a little unsure of what was going on. He knew that the woman standing before him with her large amethyst eyes loved him, but here they were like they had been as teens growing up. Both were nervous and unsure of the feelings of the other. Was that what was going on all over again because he wasn't sure how he was supposed to go about this. Did she not love him like he loved her? Was that the problem? Was the only love between the pair of them friendship and not more? He listened to what she had to say and the words just echoed in his head. I want a lot of things and nothing at all. What did that mean? Did she want more and yet didn't want more from him? Was that what she was trying to say? You are settling... you deserve more...I wasn't what you wanted... Did she think that he hadn't wanted her?

Flash Back

Sam smiled at him from the rain, her raven locks sticking to her face as they danced in the rain like they had as children. That was why he liked being with her, his Gothic friend. She was herself no matter how crazy or how dark she acted. She never backed down from her beliefs and then here she was dancing in the rain without a worry in the world.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked as she stopped to look at him, thunder shaking the skies as the rain grew heavier, but neither of them noticed. He shook his head.

"About you," he said honestly. Sam's eyes grew wide as she looked confused.

"What about me?" Before he could answer the skies thundered again as the pair of them covered their ears when the lightening ripped through the skies making Danny reach out to grasp her hand. Tugging her with him they headed to the car, Sam's beautiful black Mustang with the green ecto ooze down the bottom of the car. She had also had the Danny Phantom emblem put on the front, but unlike his it was also done in ecto. Pulling open the passenger side he forced her in before climbing in the driver side. As the rain pounded the car Sam looked at him and he realized that she was still waiting for an answer. Danny didn't know what to say at that moment, his mind going blank as water ran down the pale skin of Sam's face.

She blinked at him as her tongue snaked out to moisten her lips, the lavender tinted gloss pulling him closer and leaning toward her he kissed her. It was nothing like their fake out make outs and yet so much like them. The tingle, the shock and the pleasure of kissing her that he found every time with their fake outs. He wasn't sure that those times hadn't been real on some level, but right now he was kissing her for no other reason then because he wanted to. A slight moan escaped from Sam as he pulled her closer, the feel of her heat and his making every sense kick in and Danny wanted more. Sam pulled back at that moment though.

"What are we doing?" They had been drinking and though his mind was groggy he said, "We will always be together because I love you, Sam."

End of Flash Back

Danny blinked as he looked at the female in front of him.

"I told you that I loved you," he stated. Sam's face changed at that moment and he knew that he had just regained some of his memories, but what had she said when he had said that? Had that led to it all or had they just done it? What had happened because now it was eating at him to find out what the Gothic woman before him had said and what had happened that night that had conceived their child. "I told you that we would be together always."

"Danny, that is how we always have been and yes, you said you loved me but that is as a friend because friends are forever." Something about what she was saying was throwing his mind into a spin because he had a feeling that she had said that before, that she had used those words before, but as he tried to think about what had happened he found that his head began to hurt, the throbbing coming on stronger. "Are you okay?" the Goth woman inquired, worry clouding her eyes. He said nothing as he moved away from her, his head pounding like someone was using his head for a rock band's drum set. "Danny?"

"Stay away," he muttered as he left her alone again, her amethyst eyes glittering with anger, sadness, and confusion. What was going on?