I AM SO SORRY!!!! IT TOOK ME LIKE PROBABLY TWO MONTHS TO UPDATE!!!! IM SO SORRY!!! I got so busy with ending school and work and i was scrambling to find time to do stuff, and i was in writers block for half that period, but i got the complete first season of Dark Angel for Christmas so after i watched that i got inspiration and thus i finished this chapter tonight. i hope you like it and find it in your hearts to forgive me for my horrible tardiness. i dont know how much longer this is gonna be, maybe a few more chapters...five more at the most. that should give me enough time to resolve the plot or whatever.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, cause if i did it wouldnt have been cancelled after season three.
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Chapter Twelve
I woke up to the touch of a hard chest. I groggily looked up to see Danny's bright blue eyes. "Danny?" I mumbled.
"Yeah, its me Sam." Danny smiled softly as he lifted me up from the couch.
"what happened?" I asked.
"Tucker's little emergency turned out to be a big emergency, some things we weren't planning happened. No big deal, we're back now." Danny assured me.
"what time is it?" I asked.
"Hm," Danny stuttered looking for a clock. "It's 9:00."
"What?!?!" I practically yelled, trying to sit up in his arms.
"Shhh, Sam, Tucker's trying to sleep, he practically passed out. What's wrong with it being 9:00?" Danny whispered.
"You've been gone seven hours Danny, seven hours." I whispered harshly.
"Like I told you, stuff came up. We're both fine, but I really wanna go to bed, so I can take you to your room or not?" Danny smiled.
"On normal occasions I would make you drop me, I am capable of walking to my room on my own, but I'm using this as your apology for worrying me. You have to tuck me in and everything…and you might have to bring me breakfast in bed tomorrow morning." I smirked.
"Um, not a good idea, I can't cook worth anything…the most you'll get is a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice." Danny smiled sheepishly.
"Oh, that might work, but just tuck me in and I'll count you forgiven." I smiled, his little sheepish grin was really adorable.
"Fine." Danny huffed in mock annoyance.
I snuggled into his embrace, knowing this was probably the only time I would allow him to carry me anywhere. He held me strongly, I hadn't a thought in my mind that he'd drop me, my faith was in him and I knew he'd never hurt me. His embrace was actually reassuring, I knew he was there, I knew I wasn't dreaming. I knew I wasn't still asleep on the couch and I loved every minute of Danny's swaying walk and his wonderful smell. Oh…it was…a mix of spice, clean laundry and sweat, whatever the emergency was had him break a sweat, but his deodorant held up, and the result was almost highly seducing, almost.
I snuggled closer to him and inhaled as inconspicuously as I could while he walked us into my room. He laid my gently on my bed, pulling my covers back and gently placing me below them. I pouted and he smiled softly, confused, at me.
"What?" he whispered.
"Stay for a bit? We never got to finish talking." I replied.
"Ok, but if I fall asleep please don't push me off your bed." Danny smiled, with a bit of pleading in his voice.
"Don't worry, I wont push you off my bed, I'll just hit you really hard with my pillow." I smirked mischievously.
"Is that a threat?" Danny replied going with my look.
"No, it's a promise." I smiled menacing as I snuck my hand around my back to grab my pillow. I kept smiling as Danny adjusted himself to a sitting position at the foot of my bed. I waited till right after he got situated then smacked him hard across the back of the head with my pillow.
He dramatically fell down face first onto my bed as I laughed. "That hurt." he pouted, looking up from his rather awkward looking position on my bed. Butt up in the air, back turned in an uncomfortable looking contortion, and face turned slightly toward me from its smashed position on my bed.
I chuckled darkly, "Serves ya right."
He set up, getting into a more comfortable sitting position and looked at me confused. "Serves me right for what?" he asked.
"For being gone so long doing what you said was a small emergency…what exactly happened?" I asked, I was gonna get the truth outta him, no matter how long we had sit here.
"I told you, Tucker came across a problem." Danny insisted.
"I know that, but that's not what happened. Tell me Danny, please."
"I don't know what your talking about. Tucker called cause he…uh, he had to go….do something…and I had to uh…" Danny stumbled, looking for a reliable excuse.
"You had to fight a ghost didn't you?" I whispered. At first I thought Danny didn't hear me, but then he stopped suddenly.
"What did you say?" he asked shocked.
"I said you had to a fight a ghost didn't you?"
"How did you know?"
"I overheard you talking to Tucker the other night, then your injury and every other unexplained thing clicked into place. Your Phantom, the ghost…man…um, halfa, that saved me that night." I spoke softly.
"Yes, I'm Phantom, and yes I saved you that night. I was fighting a ghost named Plamus…or Vlad as I call him, tonight and the other night. He is being rather persistent lately, trying to take over the city and ruin my life." Danny admitted.
"Well then I am going to propose something, you might not like it, but just hear me out." I began.
"Ok."
"If this Vlad fella is trying to take over the city and ruin your life, I think I can help. I know Tucker is your sidekick of sorts but I think I can be too. Instead of Tucker out in the field with you, I can be there, leaving Tucker to monitor our 'mission' of sorts from here, from his computers in his room. We'll be able to stage a better attack if Tucker watches from here and tells us what to do, where to go." I stopped here to see if he was with me.
"I think it's a good idea, but Tucker might not like it so much, but after I talk to him a bit I'm sure I can get him to go along with it. That it?"
"Um…no, I like you a whole lot Danny, more so than I've ever liked anyone, but I think we should halt our relationship until this Vlad fella has been taken care of. I don't want you're head in another place while you're trying to fight a ghost that almost broke every rib you have, I want you to focus on the task at hand, and I'll do the same. If you want to defeat Vlad the next time you fight him you need to be prepared, I'm not going to be your downfall, I'm not going to get in your way. I'll train and focus my way, and you'll train and focus your way. You understand right?" I ended sadly but seriously.
"I…understand. I know where you're coming from and even though I don't like it I will do what you ask me to." Danny replied softly.
"Danny." I sighed softly, sadly.
"Shhh." he comforted as he scooted toward me on the bed, taking me in his arms, a sad hug full of confusion as to what the hug meant. "Let's start this 'halt our relationship' tomorrow." He whispered softly in my ear, kissing me gently on the top of my head. I snuggled into his embrace not knowing the next time I would be able to and slowly fell asleep, his body close to mine, his head on top of mine.
next morning
"I knew you'd two in denial love birds would finally get together." I awoke to Tucker's voice.
"Tucker, we didn't do anything." Danny mumbled sleepily yet strongly.
"Sure it didn't." Tucker chimed.
"Tucker." Danny replied in a warning tone, letting go of my torso, which he'd been holding rather tightly, and set up, staring at his best friend.
"Fine, you didn't have to get snappy." Tucker whined.
"I didn't. Look, Tucker, after you eat I need to talk to ya," I coughed here, "both me and Sam."
Tucker got a look of terror on his face. "You're not kicking me out are you? I swear whatever I did to make Sam made, I swear I'll stop…I mean come one man, we're best friends, you just can't leave a brother out in the streets…" Tucker mumbled quickly, trying to save himself.
"No, we're not kicking you out, we need to talk about a certain ghost problem." Danny replied, calming his friend with his words.
"Um…what are you talking about Danny? We don't have a ghost problem." Tucker stuttered.
"It's ok, Tucker I know." I spoke from my position on the bed, not opening my eyes, content on falling back to sleep.
"WHAT!!!???!!! You told her? You weren't supposed to tell her yet!!!" Tucker practically yelled.
"Calm down Tuck, he didn't tell me, I figured it out. And we have a proposition for you, so go eat, let me sleep and we'll tell ya after you get done, ok?" I replied, still not moving or opening my eyes.
"Whatever, I'm hungry. You coming Danny?" Tucker asked.
"No, I wanna sleep in too." Danny replied, yawing for effect.
"Mhmm. You just wanna stay in here and cuddle with your new girlfriend." Tucker chimed as he left the room, I suspected he was shacking his head.
"You know he's not gonna leave us alone about this whole girlfriend/boyfriend thing." Danny stated, laying back down and putting his arms back around my body.
"We'll explain it to him later, and if he gives any lip I'll just have to threaten him." I mumbled, snuggling back into Danny's embrace, knowing when I got up, our relationship would go from lovers to only professional for an amount of time I was afraid to think about.
The time to get up came faster than I had hoped it would, but I knew we couldn't lay around all day, postponing what was going to happen no matter what we did. Tucker came and knocked on the door frame letting us know he'd be in his room till we needed him. Danny sighed then kissed my exposed neck softly.
"Time to get up Sam."
"I know."
We set up at the same time as I turned to look at his face. He was smiling sadly, but I could see the hope of what was to come in his eyes and it made me stronger in what I had to do. I hugged him hard and he hugged me back, both afraid to let go. After what seemed like hours, we let go and Danny left for his room. I set and watched him go, mentally preparing myself to forget my emotions for the time being. I got up slowly after he left and made my way to my dresser. I grabbed a fresh pair of dark wash jeans, a black t-shirt, underwear and my favorite black motorcycle jacket.
Fifteen minutes later I emerged into the den pressed and dressed, ready to get down to business. Danny and Tucker were already in a heated discussion. I coughed letting them know I was there.
Tucker looked up at me, a smile on his face, but seriousness in his eyes and spoke, "Come sit Sam, Danny's already told me how you found out, but he refused to tell me what exactly you want to do."
"I'm just gonna stand if you don't mind." I replied, going and standing an equal distance between Tucker and Danny.
"Ok, this is what I want to propose to you Tucker." I started, "I know you're really good with computers and that will come in handy, it will help us a lot with the whole ghost hunting thing. Listen to everything I say before you speak. I know you've become used to being Danny's sidekick in the field, but I think you'll do a much better job here, in your room at your computer, commanding our 'mission', I know no other word for it. You'll be able to watch by hacking into security camera's around the city and you can get us information through microphones in our ears. I'll help Danny in the field using whatever ghost hunting weapons you have, and if anything happens to Danny or me I'm from a rich family I can get into any hospital in this city, and I know the ones who can be paid to keep silent. So I'll need you to look up all the information you can find on this Vlad Plamus and try to develop a way to defeat without Danny getting slammed into the ground again. While you're doing that I'm going to get our earcoms and anything else we'll need. Danny I want you to gather all your parent's ghost hunting equipment that you have here, then help Tucker with out 'plan'. I'll be back later." I ended.
"Um, Sam?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah?"
"I've never seen you act like this before…" Tucker said confused.
"Oh, I went to military school all my high school years…I excelled in Mission Ops." I replied, looking down sheepishly. That was something hardly anyone knew about me. It was kind of a past I wanted to forget. But I learned a lot that will help right now, including the whole me and Danny shouldn't be dating right now thing.
"Oh, that explains the tough attitude." Tucker replied.
"Nope, had the tough attitude first, that's why I was sent to military school. My mother hated the idea, but my father assured her it was the right thing to do, the only way to get me to act like a proper young lady. Only it didn't change me, made me more tough. So instead of an empty threat, I could really do some damage. But I really enjoyed the Mission Ops stuff, it was fun to make up solutions to the problems they gave us. It was fun to plan, command and run missions. I was top of my class in that department, but everything else was a complete bore to me." I admitted.
"Cool, well it makes sense I guess." Tucker replied smiling up at me from his seat. "I'll get on it, we already know everything there is that's possibly out there about Vlad and some stuff he doesn't know we know. It's all in my computer, I'll bring it up and let you run through it when you get back. I'll start on planning our best way to defeat him, I guess." Tucker finished rising from the sofa and heading to his room. And I never thought all those computers we had to carry up so many flights of stairs would actually come in handy.
"All the equipment I have is in that box in my closet, I'll get it out and make a list of what everything does and what's its called. I don't have much, but I do have the most powerful of my parent's crazed inventions, so we aughta be good." Danny informed me as he too rose from his chair and headed to his room.
"I'll be back in a few hours I hope, complete with everything we'll need. Thanks for being so corporative." I said smiling thankfully at Danny.
"No prob." he replied, lop sided smile gracing his lips. I turned quickly to avoid the feelings I knew I'd feel if I stared at his smile for too long and made my way to the door. I slipped on my motorcycle boots and grabbed a lone key on the key ring. As I was slipping out the door I noticed Danny was looking at me confused.
"What?" I asked.
"Don't tell me you have a motorcycle?" Danny stated.
"Yep, it was the only way they could get me to go to military school, I finally bargained it out of Daddy about two days before classes started, I was going to make sure I got my motorcycle before I was shipped off." I smiled. Danny just shook his head, a small smile on his lips as he turned toward his room.
I slipped out the front door and down the stairs. Once on the ground floor I went out the back double doors used to take out the trash and help movers with larger loads, to where my motorcycle was hidden. I slipped the plastic motorcycle cover off my beauty, placed the jet black helmet with a red bat painted on it over my head, straddled the machine putting the key in the ignition and starting the wonderfully clean V-6 motor.
I put it in gear and speed out from behind the apartment building, making a right at the nearest street, heading into town and to an old military school buddy's shop.
Author's Note: Again i am sorry, and i even left you with a cliff hanger on the previous chapter, that makes me feel even more horrible. well, i hope you liked it. review and you'll hopefully get the next chapter really quick