AUTHORS NOTE: I am so sorry for the long wait! I honestly don't have a valid excuse for this. I've been procrastinating and it's all my fault and I am really sorry. This chapter isn't going to be very good, just a fair warning, but I hope that the next chapters will be better. I promise I'll try to get chapters out quicker. Also, I'm struggling to make things more interesting and I need more ideas for this story! If you have anything you would like to recommend, please let me know. (A/N continues at the end of chapter)

CHAPTER 4

FRIDAY

12:25 PM

CASPER HIGH

Lunch time was a time where anything could happen, anything but enjoying a nice calm meal with your friends. Sam wished she could have peace, but like most days, she wasn't going to have her way. Person after person came up to her, asking where Danny was and it really was pissing her off. But she knew the worst was yet to come.

Since Danny wasn't at school and the supply closet was quite lonely, she decided to sit in the cafeteria for once. She sat alone, quietly eating her lunch when someone placed their hand in front of her. Sam jumped a bit and looked up to see Tucker smiling at her. "May I sit here?"

"Tucker! What are you doing here?" Sam asked him in surprise. "Is that a yes or a no?" He replied and Sam rolled her eyes. "Just sit down and answer my question."

"Well, I was headed for the supply closet, but I saw you walk in here, so I came in here instead." He explained

Sam nodded. "I didn't see you yesterday. I thought you were coming over to Danny's."

"I did. But for only an hour. I had to leave early because there was some stuff I had to take care of." Tucker took a sip from his water bottle. "Being mayor sounds hard." Sam sighed, picking at her salad. Tucker shook his head. "Nah. I just have to get settled in. They had this weird training thing I had to do. But after It's all done I can do normal stuff again."

"But you've been mayor for months!" The goth pointed out. "Yeah, it's taking a long time. If they wanted me to be mayor, why would they put me through all of this?" Tucker shrugged. "All the other mayors never had to do this."

"So, what happened when you saw Danny?" Sam brought the original subject back. "It went great. Danny was happy to see me, but he didn't look too good." Tucker's face fell. "Do you know what happened?"

Sam looked down. "He always comes up with some random b.s. every time someone asks, so no one really knows."

Tucker frowned. "What has he been saying?"

The goth gave off a sigh, trying to think. "Well, for starters, he said that he was doing target practice in his room and hit his mirror with an ecto-ray. When he did, the ray bounced back and his him, flinging him outside his room. It's probably one of the dumbest ones he's made."

"And he thinks you believe it?"

"No. He knows we don't but he's just trying to stall."

"Well, what do you think happened?"

Sam bit her lip. "I don't know. I thought it might have been a ghost, but Danny's never been hurt in a ghost battle like this before." Tucker squinted, pulling a burger out of his box. "It has to be a ghost. Who else would have beef on Danny?"

Sam sighed. "I don't know."

3:30 PM

FENTON WORKS

"Okay Danny, I'm gonna need you to pull harder. Can you do that?" Jazz bent down in front of her brother from the chair he was sitting in. Danny grunted as he tried to pull his wrists apart from each other with an exercise band. He let out a yelp in pain once he pulled too hard and Jazz was quick to help him relax.

"That's enough for today, little bro." She spoke calmly, helping him lay his hands down on his lap. "Jazz, this is pointless." Danny looked down at the bandages that adorned his body, causing Jazz to frown. "This is helping you heal. It's not pointless. If we didn't do this, your body can't heal properly and-"

"I know, I know. You tell me this every time I get hurt, but there's no use. As far as I know, I might never get better!"

Jazz rolled her eyes and ruffled her brother's hair. "You're such a drama queen. You and I both know you need this and we'll keep doing it until you're better."

Danny groaned and looked back down in sadness. He hated being weak and vulnerable. He felt like a tiny balloon surrounded by thousands of needles. Something could bad could happen at any moment and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Jazz sighed and lifted her brother chin up to look him in the eye. "What happened that night, little brother?" The boy flinched and avoided eye contact with his sister as his eyes darted across the room. He wanted to tell her. He wanted to tell everyone but then he remembered why he couldn't.

Jazz's face softened and she sighed, lifting her brothers chin up to look him in the eye. "What happened that night, little brother?" The boy flinched and avoided eye contact with his sister as his eyes darted across the room. He wanted to tell her. He wanted to tell everyone but then he remembered why he couldn't.

FLASHBACK

DANNY'S DREAMS

"Hush. Hush. Hush." a familiar voice chanted

"Hush. Hush. Hush." The words swirled around Danny as he stood in the center of darkness. The words got louder and louder each second and it made Danny's ears pound. "Stop!" He cried covering his ears, but it provided no help since the voice was still loud and clear.

"Hush! Hush! Hush!" The voice yelled. A puff of smoke appeared from it was the she-ghost. Danny gasped in horror quickly backing away before he stumbled over his own feet and fell. He half expected the ghost to laugh, but this time she was dead serious, which made her only 10 times more frightening than she was before.

"What do you want." The boy rasped. The ghost rushed in front of him and picked him up by the throat, just like she had done before. "I want you to listen to me, got it?" She hissed. Danny tried his best to nod and the ghost let out a sigh. "As far as I'm concerned, nothing happened. You tell no one what happened."

"If I do then what happens?"

"Look into my eyes." She pulled the boy closer. Danny gazed into her eyes as the most horrific images were displayed before him. He tightly shut his eyes closed as he begged for her to stop. "Okay! Okay! I won't tell a soul."

The ghost nodded and dropped him. "Very well then." And with that, she was gone.

PRESENT TIME

"Danny? Danny! Don't do this again! You know you can tell me right?" Jazz waved her hand back and forth in front of her little brothers face. Danny shook his head, snapping back to reality. "I already told you. Target practice." He tried to sound as calm as possible.

His sister gave a sigh in defeat. "Alright then. I guess I'll just-"

"Jazz? Danny?" Jack Fenton cut his daughter off as he rushed into the room. Jazz whipped her head around. "Hey, Dad."

"Dad!" Danny smiled. "Hey, how's it going son! I haven't seen you awake in days." Jack kneeled down before the boy. "I'm alright. Just tired." Danny sighed and looked down. Jack nodded. "Your sister's work-out program?"

"Actually Dad, it's physical therapy." Jazz corrected. Her father looked up at her and pretended to understand. "Right…" The red haired girl rolled her eyes and walked towards the stairs. "Danny hasn't eaten yet so I'll go get him some lunch." Jack nodded at his daughter and looked back to Danny. "Danielle told me you have a couple more friends coming over today.."

Danny raised an eyebrow. "She did? Who?"

" She said something about that Valody girl or something. She said Sam told her."

"Valerie!" Danny gave a sharp inhale, provoking a coughing fit. "Easy there!" Jack tried to calm his son down as the boy continued to hack. When Danny recovered, Jack asked, "What's all the fuss about Val...erie about?"

"It's nothing, Dad." Danny tried to explain. "I'm just a bit surprised. I wasn't expecting her to come over." Jack nodded. "All right then. I need to run to get some more stuff for your room, so it's just gonna be you and Jazz."

"Where's Mom and Dani?"

"They both went to the store ran to the store to get something but I'm not sure what. I kinda zoned out when your mother read me her shopping list."

"Ah, okay. See you later Dad."

"Sam, wait up!" Valerie called as she ran after the goth. Sam took a sharp inhale and spun around. Valerie gave a smiled and panted once she finally stopped. "I thought I'd never catch up to you!"

Sam rolled her eyes. "That's what I was hoping." She muttered under her breath. Valerie raised an eyebrow. "What was that?" Sam shook her head. "Let's just go."

The two girls walked in silence from Casper High. It wasn't a long walk to Fenton Works, but it felt like one to Sam. Finally, after about 5 minutes of quiet, Valerie decided to break it. "Look, Sam, I know you hate me." She started. "And you have good reason to, but just give me a chance to clear it up."

Sam gave off a low hum in response and the girl next to her sighed.

Silence soon returned and it stayed for a while before the honk of a car came from behind. The girls spun around and noticed Maddie Fenton driving down the street in her brand new white convertible.

The woman stopped next to them and rolled down her window, revealing Dani in the seat next to her. "Hey girls!" Maddie greeted in a sing-song voice. Valerie gave a little wave to Dani and Sam gave Maddie a smile. "Hi, Mrs. Fenton. We were just on our way to Fenton Works." She explained.

"Well, you girls can ride with me! Go ahead and hop in the back." The woman responded. Sam nodded and without hesitation, she jumped into the car with Valerie following her. "So," Maddie began as she started the car. "How's school been?"

Sam, who was sitting right behind the driver's seat, gave a heavy sigh. "Not too great. All of Danny's 'fangirls' have been pestering me about him." Maddie frowned and glanced at Sam through the rear-view mirror. "I'm sorry, sweetie. I know how his fans can be a bother at times."

"Yeah!" Dani chimed in. "At the store, a few people came up to us and kept asking us questions about Danny!"

Maddie nodded and agreement. "It's never going to end. If it was it would have ended months ago."

"You're awfully quiet back there, Valerie." Dani turned around in her seat to face the girl behind her. Valerie looked up from her lap awkwardly to look at the youngest Fenton. "I just don't have anything to say, that's all." She replied in a low whisper.

Dani noticed that Valerie wanted to be left alone so she just nodded and turned back around. Suddenly, a shadow flashed over the car and Dani's ghost sense went off. "What was that?" Maddie asked, looking around the street. "A ghost." Dani rolled out her window and peered out of it.

"Ghosts probably realized that Danny isn't around. Maybe they're here to take advantage of that."Sam suggested. Dani shook her head, whipped her head around and looked at the goth. "I think you're looking too far into this, Sam. Whoever it was, they're gone now so they probably didn't want any harm."

Sam squinted a bit, before relaxing again. "We shouldn't be ignoring this…" She inaudibly whispered.

AUTHORS NOTE: This is not gonna be the full chapter four only because I wanted to get some stuff out quicker. I'll try to have the rest of it out by next week! Thank you for reading!