Twelve Days of Christmas

Tuesday, December 26th

(One day after Christmas)

"So it was you?" Tucker gaped at Danny from across the table.

Sam chuckled as Danny shrugged, ducking his face into his hands. It wasn't enough that they'd walked into the Nasty Burger with her firmly under his arm, or that he refused to let her anywhere without him. Danny had stood in line, carried her tray, and made sure to plant a good smoldering kiss on her before she say down across from Tucker. And now Tucker had practically screeched the answer to the mystery with half of the senior class in residence (the rest of the consumers a variety of lower classmen).

"God, Tucker," Sam moaned halfheartedly. "You realize we're going to be stalked till school starts now, right?"

"It was you?" She rolled her eyes at his repeated question. Then Tucker was shaking his finger at Danny, his burger ignored with only a single bite missing. "Dude! I never pegged you! How the hell did you pull that off?"

Danny scowled as Sam looked at him. "Is it question and answer time now?" she asked. "Cause I'm kind of wondering how you pulled it off, too."

The scowl deepened. "How do you think I'd have reacted if it had really been someone else?" Sam didn't answer and his eyes flashed brilliant green for a moment.

"Jealousy rears its ugly green head!" Tucker chortled. "But you got her, so no need. Still, you could have told me!"

It was Danny's turn to snort, his fingers flicking at Tucker dismissively. "Tucker? No offense, but you suck at keeping secrets."

Sam laughed as Danny's arm went around her again, and she leaned into it. "Still," she said, her head on his shoulder. "How did you manage it all? Cause that was really what made me think it wasn't you."

"Oh. Remember when Mom and Dad made me start working for them sometimes?" Sam nodded and his blue eyes twinkled. "Well, I neglected to mention that they paid me."

"And the game?" demanded Tucker. Sam bit back a laugh because she knew Tucker was only angling to get his hands on a copy as soon as possible.

"Pen pal in Japan? It's already been released over there."

Sam arched her brow. "You have a pen pal?"

Danny coughed, looking away. "Well, sort of."

"He's a ghost, isn't he?"

"Yeah."

Sam bit back a laugh. "Alright, so the tickets. How did you pull that one off?"

Danny chuckled self consciously, his free hand rubbing the back of his neck. "Well, Danny Phantom might have sort of promised to give an exclusive interview to a radio station with advance tickets just before the concert in exchange for four." He coughed again, his face and neck flushing red.

"You did all of that for me?" Sam asked, again feeling the thrill of knowing that he really had.

In a single moment Tucker disappeared from her world as Danny leaned close to press a gentle kiss to her lips. "You know I love you, Sam. I'd do anything for you."

Gagging noises from across the table had Sam burying her face in Danny's shirt in embarrassment. It would take time to get used to him touching her and kissing her in front of people, and a little at all. Of course, with Tucker to help them over their fear of PDA's (and how had she never noticed the disturbing pun there?) they'd be able to grope each other in class before school started.

"Ow, Tuck, don't hit me! I've got a bruise from where she hit me," Danny admitted with a sheepish chuckle as he rubbed his shoulder and Sam reached for her tray. "I'll be doing penance for years."

Sam sniffed superiorly as she chewed on a fry. "After all of the drama you put me through? God, you're so lucky I love you."

The fry was gone in a heartbeat as his lips covered hers, Tucker's mocking kissy sounds faint in the background. "Yes, I am."

xXx

All hail Decode, by Paramore from the Twilight soundtrack. The last seven chapters were cranked out to it. Nonstop. It was a good thing. :D However, thank you for all the faces and reviews; this is now (percentage wise) my most popular fic. And that takes guts considering how I jerked all of your chains for most of the way. So no, it's not Paulina or Star or Vlad (*shudder*). It's Danny. Just like the summary said it was. :P