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Blackmailed
Chapter 4: Schemers will scheme
It was lunch time and Star and Danny were in the middle of being cutesy right now.
"For you, my sweet?..."Danny said, as he offered her a fry.
"Thank you, Danny-Boo..."Star said as he fed her the fry.
She then picked up a piece of chocolate from her dessert.
"Want a taste of something sweet that isn't my lips?..."She offered.
"Yes, I do..."Danny said, as she fed him this.
Both of them laughed together, as they continued to feed each other in a cutesy manner.
Their friends saw this and shared the same level of displeasure.
"Ugh! It's like you two are getting grosser on purpose. It's making me almost want to lose my lunch..."Sam snarked, as she got up and stormed away to nearby empty table, mostly so she didn't have to directly look at the lovey dovey display.
"Yeah, and it's Sloppy Joe day. So I'm gonna follow Sam's lead, cause so I don't want to lose my lunch either..."Tucker said, as he followed Sam.
Danny and Star didn't seem to pay attention as they kept acting lovey dovey with each other.
"They'll be back..."Danny said.
"Until then...guess it's just us..."Star said.
"Cool..."Danny said, grinning.
"Which is why we should enjoy this as much as we can, Boo..."Star said, while smiling.
"Oh, I plan to..."Danny said, making her giggle again.
The couple did a little eskimo kiss, taking their time. After a good 5 minutes, the two returned.
"Take a breather you two...I've seen jackals with more restraint..."Sam muttered.
"Oh please, we're not the only couple who's this close..."Star said, not caring.
"You are to us..."Tucker said.
That's when Jazz ran to them.
"Guys! Guess wh- Aww... you two are doing eskimo kisses?..." Jazz gushed.
"They are... please don't point it out..." Sam said with a scowl, much to Star's annoyance.
"Anyway, you guys will never believe what just happened..."Jazz said, looking excised.
"What is it?..."Danny asked.
"I just had a meeting with Principal Ishiyama and she said that I have a chance for a scholarship to Yale..."Jazz said, more excited than when Genius Magazine agreed to interview Maddie.
"Jazz, that's awesome!..."Danny said, as they shared a quick hug.
"Yeah, congratulations!..."Star said, happy for her.
"Thanks..."Jazz said, excited for her achievements.
"Nothing's set in stone yet, though. I still need to meet with a representative from Yale on Thursday and nothing is guaranteed until then, but Lancer and Ishiyama say that it's pretty much a formality at this point..."Jazz said, giddy as a kid in a candy factory.
"I haven't seen you this happy since you got your first A in High School..." Danny commented.
"Good luck, Jazz. You deserve it..."Star said kindly.
"Thanks...a lot is happening. Your birthday and your half-anniversary with my brother is this weekend...and I may be getting a scholarship to Yale..."Jazz said, wanting to say it as many times as she could find an excuse to.
"Remember to breathe..." Danny joked, as they all began to talk and make plans to celebrate.
Unknown to them, Colette was spying on them again and she was still trying to find a way to take Danny from her stepsister.
"Hmph... at least she'll be away from Danny. Now... to get Estelle away too. I must time it right..." She thought.
As Colette chewed on her food, she kept her eyes on the group, glancing briefly at Sam and Tucker.
"Those two idiot friends of his are why he can never get anywhere..." Colette grumbled.
"Finally, something we agree on..." Paulina said.
"I'll just have to... divide and conquer..." Colette said in a sinister sounding way.
"You're gonna use math? He hates math..." Dash said.
Colette slammed her fist into the table, making all of them flinch.
"It's a war strategy, you idiot!..." She shouted. "Honestly, how have you even managed to make it this far in high school?..."She snapped.
"Hey, I'm not an idiot!..."Dash shouted, but Colette ignored him.
"To clarify to some of the more feeble-minded members of our group..."Colette began, glaring at Dash. "I'm going to get rid of his friends and that mouthy sister of his... With them gone, I'll take out Estelle much easier... then, no one can keep us apart anymore..."She added, with a sinister smile.
The rest of A-list inched away from her, either disturbed or annoyed at this point.
"Uh... I think I'll... eat outside today..." Kwan said, getting up and leaving before anyone else could say something.
"Wait..."Colette said, as Dash started to get up.
"No way, I already said I wouldn't help you for free since you're going too far with your obsession..."Dash said, rejecting her.
"My mama ended my grounding and returned my allowance after I recovered from the hospital. The only silver lining to that torturous experience..."Colette said, as she even pulled out a hundred dollar bill to prove it.
"Now you're talking!..." Dash replied with a smile, as he sat back down since cash was involved.
The crisp bill crumbled in the jock's hands, soothing the boy's concerns. But soon his joy stilted as he recalled previous collaborations with Colette. Including one involving a country club and he recalled why he didn't go through with it last time.
"Well?..." Colette impatiently asked.
"On second thought…"Dash said slowly, as he gave the money back. "I think I'll still pass. Don't wanna get in trouble this time…"He added.
"If the money is not enough, then perhaps —..."Colette tried, but the jock cut her off.
"Uh... I kind of... can't risk getting in trouble anymore since that whole thing with the play... so... sorry..." Dash said, as he got up and left.
Colette glanced at Paulina, who also started to leave. However, the spoiled fake red head wasn't done with her yet. With the jocks too spineless to help her, the fake redhead was desperate for help from any potential lackey.
"Wait, Paulina! Don't tell me that you are abandoning me at my hour of need too!?..."Colette said.
"No way, as if I need any reason to not want to get involved with super weird obsession for Fenton. If you want him so bad, then go after him yourself. I shouldn't even have helped you when you went after him and his traitorous girlfriend at New York. That was already crazy enough without you coming back looking like a mummy-mutant hybrid!..."Paulina said, turning her down.
"Traîtresse!..."Colette snapped.
Her so called friend rolled her eyes.
"Colette, I hope no other rich person in the world is that crazy about someone who already rejected them..." Paulina commented.
With them gone, Colette shook her head in disapproval. However, her hand was currently gripping a work that she was unknowingly bending due to how much she was gripping it right now.
"If you want something done right!..." She muttered, as she decided she was on her own.
Colette wasn't too let down about it, since she knew some people from high places that could be of much greater help to her the those peasant A-listers.
Meanwhile
In Colorado
Alicia was still in the chalet, bored out of her mind right now.
However, the sight of some of Vlad's furniture caught her attention. She decided to indulge herself with the luxuries and started to feel better.
"This is the life..."Alicia said, as she decided to enjoy one of Vlad's massage chairs.
"Oh baby...no wonder Vladdy loves those fancy chairs so much. 20 years of stiffness just melted like ice on a June weekend..."Alicia said, distracted and relaxed and oblivious to the world around her.
Unknown to her, Vlad was spying on her from his lair in Amity Park.
"Note to self, burn that chair after I get rid of Alicia..."He muttered, before focusing on his mission.
As the vultures went outside to prepare, Vlad spied on his target, who was snoring and drooling now. She apparently fell asleep in the massage chair and was already dreaming.
"Oh, Vladdy...you make me so happy..."Alicia said in her sleep.
Vlad shuddered.
"And I thought surviving digestion by the Behemoth was the worst experience in my life..."Vlad said, trying not to vomit again.
"Want us to blast her with this?..." The lead vulture asked, holding up a gun-like weapon.
"No, I want you to bring her my chocolate cake..." Vlad said in sarcasm.
"Oh... that was for her? Sorry boss, I ate it..." The vulture with glasses said.
"You ate m- Y'know what? Doesn't matter... Just get rid of her!..." Vlad ordered.
The three nodded as they phased upward and into the room, where Alicia was still there.
Alicia was so relaxed, that she even fell asleep in the massage chair...snoring loudly and even drooling.
"Zzzzzzzzzzzz..."Alicia let out, still asleep.
"She's asleep... Kill her already..."Vlad ordered.
"On it, boss..."The lead vulture said.
The three aimed the blaster at Alicia and pulled the trigger. However, the beam bounced off the shield spell Puck used, causing it hit the ceiling.
"Huh... try again..." The sunglasses vulture suggested.
Upon firing a few more times, the dome started redirecting the blasts in different locations. The vultures resumed until they overheard their master.
"STOP IT, YOU FEATHERED IDIOTS! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!..."He shouted, enraged that thousands of dollars worth of his property was just ruined.
They stopped, seeing that the shots ended up hitting almost everything else. The windows, the floorboards, the ceiling, the walls, the paintings and the other furniture. They even hit the door and blasted it off it's hinges by mistake. Everything but the chair and its occupant were harmed.
"Oops... but on the bright side... you know how far Puck's protection spell works... right?..." The lead vulture asked with a sheepish smile.
This did nothing to calm his boss down, who looked ready to fry someone just now.
"Leave... before I decided to start plucking your feathers and feed you to her in hopes she dies from food poisoning!..." Vlad ordered, with a snarl in his voice.
"Yes sir!..." All three went, as they left via intangibility.
Just then, Alicia got up and yawned.
However, she noticed the damage.
"What in Sam Hill just happened?!..."Alicia screamed, as she looked around.
She got angry, as she noticed a door was broken and open, and came to her own conclusion.
"A bear must have come in her and trashed the place while I was a sleep! That coward, no one makes a mess of my new place and gets to crawl away! I better go call someone to fix up this place before Vladdy comes home...then I'm goin' bear hunting!..."She said, now in a bad mood as she went to find the one "responsible" for this mess.
In Amity Park
Vlad was throwing a tantrum right now.
Seeing that his plan failed, his room was destroyed and his unwanted wife was still alive and breathing, Vlad could only say the following.
"OH, FUDGE BUCKETS!..."He yelled, frustrated at another failure.
He incinerated a nearby dummy that he taped Alicia's picture to, but it did little to bring him satisfaction.
"Okay...if ghostly means don't work...I guess that I will have to think of something much more earthly..."He thought, scratching his chin.
Then an idea sprang.
"Hmm... I did suggest giving her food poisoning...though...maybe I should try something quicker..." He said with a wicked smile.
He now contemplated what kind of new method that he can use to get rid of her for good.
Back at Casper High
After Lunch
Colette's crusade wasn't over yet as she plotted.
She was almost halfway done with her plotting and was still waiting to her cellphone get a reply from the text she sent to her friends in high places to respond.
However, something else had quickly caught her attention.
"May I be excused...?" Danny asked, suddenly raising his hand.
Colette's curiosity got worse in the next period as Danny had to be excused to the bathroom AGAIN.
"Again? This is the 5th time today...then again...Danny does seem to go to the bathroom often every day. Does Mon Amore have some sort of medical condition?..."Colette couldn't help but wonder.
It got worse since after about 2 minutes, Estelle also excused herself and soon left. Colette started to get more suspicious now.
"Estelle better NOT be using this chance to make out with him in between class time..."She thought, gripping her desk.
However, she got more curious and confused since almost 2 minutes later, Manson also excused herself. Foley wasn't in this period, so she didn't know or care about him.
Still, she was confused.
"All three of them going to the bathroom at this time?..."She thought.
It only got weirded since nearly 15 minutes later, they returned to class roughly the same time...tired and sweaty looking too.
They each said nothing as they went to their respective desks and ignored their peers. Colette, on the other hand, was more curious.
"Odd...but I guess I can scratch them making out off the list...hopefully..."She thought, growing more suspicious.
However, her eyes widen when she saw something on Danny's neck. It was small and faint, but she could see it from where she sat.
"Is zhat a bruise?..."Colette thought, surprised and almost concerned.
"Odd, Dash is right here and so are the rest of his brutes...did Danny have some kind of accident?..."Colette thought, getting more curious.
However, she then got an idea and was furious as she recalled that her step sister had been gone too and she just came back.
She then jumped to conclusions.
"WAIT, IS THAT A HICKEY?! HOW DARE THAT LITTLE CLOCHARDE, ESTELLE! I'M SUPPOSE TO BE THE ONE TO BE THAT CLOSE TO HIM..."Colette thought, enraged as she got the wrong idea.
The spoiled rotten French girl clenched her bleached teeth as she was leaving indents on her desk with her fingernails, wishing that it was her instead of her stepsister who did that.
"Why isn't that me instead!?..."The fake redhead thought angrily to herself.
"Miss Bevier, stop damaging your desk!..."Mr. Lancer yelled, getting her attention.
"Pardon de moi, Monsieur Lancer..."Colette said, as she kept glaring at her step-sister in an accusing manner.
When the bell rang, she saw Danny and Star head to their lockers and the angry fake red haired girl glared at them.
"How dare she leave a mark on Danny like that? That should be MOI who does that?!..."She thought, enraged.
She was going to pick a fight with her step-sister about it.
Before anything else was done or thought of, a sudden and random ghost attack just occurred.
The Box Ghost showed up in front of Colette.
"Beware!..."The box ghost said, making a loud and overly dramatic entrance.
Colette was instantly spooked.
"UGH! I HATE GHOSTS!..."She shouted, before running away.
Colette and her father became Boxy's go to victims for whenever he wanted to feel better about himself.
Which happens more recently after Danny asked him to do so without worrying about the heroic half ghost interfering or stopping the box ghost's scarring those particular people
Box Ghost took great pleasure in the only two people Danny isn't so protective of and terrifying them.
He then went to spook Colette again. However, a certain ghost boy saw him and sighed.
"He's back again..."Danny said, rolling his eyes.
"Should be stop him?..."Star asked.
Danny thought about it.
"It's Colette who he's scaring right now. I guess this can wait until after school..."Danny said.
"Right...she's not worth getting a tardy over and the worst Box Ghost does is annoy people to death..."Star said, as they went to class.
Later
School was over now and Team Phantom was getting ready to leave. Danny had already caught the Box Ghost and was ready to leave.
"So, any plans for after school?..."Danny asked.
"Well, Val and I are planning on hanging out later today..."Tucker said.
"I see you two are getting pretty close with each other. Do I suspect another couple in Casper High about to from?..."Star said, with a playful look on her face.
"Well, I think. She and I have been spending a lot of time together after school and some of her days off. We still haven't gone on an official date yet, but I do plan on asking her to go on one soon. So, fingers cross that she says yes..."Tucker said, hopeful that Star's weekend birthday party will be his chance for he and Valerie to be something.
Both Danny and Star crossed their respective fingers, cheering on for a hopeful outcome between Valerie and Tucker.
Tucker had a crush on her that went away for a while. But now, especially since Valerie was in on what they do, they've grown closer.
"Hey Tucker. I got someone to cover my shift today, so I'm totally free all day now. If you're free, that is..."Val waved, looking like she genuinely wanted to spend time with them.
"Gotta go. See ya, guys..."Tucker said as he left with her.
His friends saw this and couldn't help themselves from smiling at the two potential future lovebirds.
"He's so into her..."Danny said.
"And unlike his interest with me, I think it's actually sincere..."Star said, seeing some real potential in her two friends hooking up.
Danny was really that Tucker and Valerie were hitting it so well, that he might even be expecting to witness the two of them become a couple.
"What about you, Sam? Any plans?..."Star asked.
"Funny you should ask, I'm actually gonna hangout with somebody..."Sam said, speaking in a tone that wasn't all that serious.
"Really? With who?..."Danny asked, as they walked out of the school.
That's when someone approached them and caught the teens a bit off guard.
"Hey, Sam..."Was heard.
Team Phantom turned and saw who it was.
"Christopher?..."Star went, surprised to see her relative.
The blonde teenage girl wasn't expecting to see her second cousin today, much less at her high school either.
"Sup." He went upon seeing the two.
"We've been hanging out a lot recently..."Sam said, unusually smiling.
"You have? Why didn't you say anything?..."Danny asked.
"I don't need to tell you two everything. I don't go asking what you two whenever you guys are alone. And I especially don't plan on asking in future either..."Sam said, making it clear that she has her own life outside the Team.
"Sorry. It's just... we spent like 90% of our time together..." Danny said.
"Fair enough..." Sam said with a shrug.
"Anyway, it's nice seeing you all again..."The blonde vegan said to be polite.
"Yeah, it's nice to see you too..."Star said, smiling.
"Anyway Sam, I'm gonna get some water. Be back in a second..."Christopher said, as he went to a nearby vending machine.
"Actually, I'm gonna go get a snack from the vending machine before we go, Starlight..."Danny said, as he left to do just that.
Leaving the two girls alone.
However, Star's thoughts were on something else that has peaked her attention. Namely, what the two are doing.
"Are you guys...dating?..."Star whispered, almost pleasantly surprised since she knew about her relative's crush on the goth girl.
Sam flinched and responded immediately.
"W-What? No...We're just hanging out..."Sam said, not knowing that her reaction was so easy for Star to read.
Star saw this reaction and instantly knew that Sam wasn't being completely honest about her feelings, especially after hearing the goth stuttering her words earlier.
"You so like him, don't you?..."Star asked.
"He's just a friend..."Sam said, still denying everything.
The blonde girl heard this and giggled, finding her reaction oddly adorable.
"Whatever...still...I think I could be become to the idea of you and I becoming In-laws in the future..."Star said, teasing the goth girl a bit.
Sam blushed deeply at that. Just as Christopher came back.
"I'm back...So Sam-..."
"We should go..."Sam said, almost urgently.
"Huh...Okay..."Christopher said, before turning to his relative.
"Well, see ya around, Star..."He said.
"See ya..."Star said, smiling slightly.
As the two vegans left, Star giggled as her boyfriend came back with his snack.
"It reminds me of another potential couple..."She said, giggling happily.
Danny looked confused.
"What are you talking about?..."Danny asked, and Star sighed.
"Boo, I love you...but you really can be clueless sometimes..."Star said, remembering how Danny and Sam were clueless about each other.
"I guess some old habits really are hard to break. Oh well, that's a problem for the future..." Star thought, as she focused on enjoying the present and explaining what's going on with Sam and her cousin to her Danny-boo.
"Why do people still call me clueless?..." Danny asked, not getting it.
Star didn't answer him, just kissing him on the cheek before pulling him along. Danny smiled, deciding it wasn't worth it.
The couple soon left the school, tightly holding hands and entangled their fingers within each other's grasps.
All the while, Colette spotted the two leaving together, enraging her greatly.
Meanwhile
Colette stormed away from Casper High, in a bad mood.
That's nothing new, but now it's worse.
She was still peeved off that her so-called friends refused to help her, no matter how much she offered to bribe them.
It was infuriating to say the least.
"Ugh! Such idiots. What's the point of even hanging out with those fools if they won't help me in my plans?!..."She grumbled, regretting spending money on them.
She shook her head.
"Whatever, they are just idiots who would have just messed everything up either way..."She said, unsure of how low her opinion of those A-listers could get at this point.
She pondered as she walked alone, realizing something. All of her methods prior have done nothing, which means she cannot repeat them.
"I need to change my strategies if I wanna succeed in my vengeance on Estelle and claim my rightful place at Danny's side..."She said, as she decided to use her last resort.
She was about to contact someone in her life that would never deny her of anything.
Ever!
This was a person she called behind her father's back whenever he was out of the home. Someone Stella doesn't know about. Someone who she had an easier method of manipulating than anyone else.
Colette pulled out her phone and dialed a number.
After a few moments of dialing, there was an answer.
"Bonjour..."Was heard on the other end.
Colette smirked, and immediately shifted her tone to sweet and innocent.
"Bonjour...Mama..."She said, as she spoke to her mother over the phone.
Sewing her new plans of revenge with a simple phone cell.
Now... things have taken a change.
-To be continued-
Next time on Blackmailed
Schemers will scheme II
A/N(1): I dedicate this chapter to my family, my friends and my love for God :)
A/N(2): Special thanks to NeoMark, Luiz4200, BCW and Jay The Average Fanboy or all his help. You guys rock :)
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3) I'll think about it. Thanks for the suggestion.
4) She likes her birthday, she just doesn't like how overboard her mother tends to get or how her parents argue.
5) A little of column A, mostly of column B.
6) Probably.
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Here are my responses to your questions:
1) No.
2) I prefer them as a couple, not as siblings.
3) She'd most likely ask Danny for help, and he'd probably get his parents to help take the child in.
4) Paulina.
5) Not really.
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