Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ Samantha and Sunshine ❯ Chapter 4

Danny sat glumly at the Nasty Burger, his hamburger untouched before him while Tucker sat across from him downing his food as if it were going to disappear before him. Around them the sounds were deafening, but the halfa failed to hear them as he spaced out on his food before him. Paulina walked by at that point, her arm linked with Dash as the couple headed for a table in the distance. Danny had yet to tell his peers his secret, though his family knew, and he wasn't sure he would ever tell them. At one point he had wanted to tell the Ice Queen, sure that if she found out his identity that she would want to date him, but when he really thought about it he knew it was wrong. All those times that she had claimed to want to be with him had always been about the Phantom side of him.

"Dude, what's wrong?" the dark skinned male inquired as he took another bite of his burger. Though Tucker could be a good friend when it suited him, he was a pretty rotten listener. Sam had always been that person to sit by him and really listen to what he had to say. Hard to talk to Sam about something that had to do with her more and more lately.

"Nothing, just not hungry," he said pushing the tray away. Instead of pushing the point his friend just shrugged and tackled Danny's uneaten food. The halfa sighed inwardly. He missed his friend, but it seemed that she was in good company or that she maybe preferred the older male. Dand? That was such a strange name and yet, he felt that there was more to the story. Sam had said that the male had saved her from a ghost, but the Goth had never had any issues taking a ghost down before so what had changed this time? He thought back to that moment in her room. He had been more concerned with the half naked male in the raven haired beauty's bed than he had in looking at the situation. The male, Dand, had been injured, the bandage across his torso visible, but the halfa couldn't remember a ghost being that violent...

"Hey, look, isn't that Sam's sister?" Tucker inquired pointing the blond out. Danny's blue eyes grew wide. That's what had been off to him. The Goth hated her sister, the pair of them like oil and water. They would never hang out so why had the blond been in the raven haired woman's room?

"Sunshine!" Danny called out, his hand flying up as he motioned to the blond haired female. She looked around and spotting him, amazingly enough came over. Tucker's jaw dropped at the same time as his food. Both watched as she sauntered over, the leggy woman taking a seat next to Danny. "Um, Sunshine, what's up with you and Sam?" At first it looked like she was going to cuss him out and then it was like she got struck, her frown turning into a soft smile.

"What do you mean, Danny?" The techno geek across from him almost fell out of his seat, his teal eyes still as wide as saucers. "We are as we always have been." He shook his head as Tucker leaned forward now, his hands on the table as if to hold him up. "What do you mean?"

"Well, you were in Sam's room and I have never known you to be allowed in there." Sunshine laughed, her voice twinkling as she took a bite of her food. "Seriously, you are normally a..." he faded off only to fall back as Tucker finished the sentence.

"A bitch." The blond looked at him in shock, but didn't get mad, no, she only smiled broader.

"That was before I met him," she whispered as though it were a secret. "He told me that I should be nicer, that being as bitchy as I was to Sam and everyone else, would get me nowhere." She leaned back, a blush on her pale face. "For some reason his words got me to thinking. If a hot guy like that tells me that I can do more in this way, well, I guess I can do it." It was strange to see the normally really mean woman being nice. Tucker looked at Danny and the halfa returned the look.

"So, that's all he said?" Danny inquired. She nodded. Before he could ask her anymore she got up, her eyes fixed on this guy across the room. Smiling at him she bid the two males goodbye before joining the other guy. "That's weird. I have to wonder about this Dand guy..." The halfa looked over to Tucker. "I think there is definitely more to this guy then we thought." Now the techno geek seemed interested as he stood up, ready for action, and threw his trash away. Danny opened his mouth, but Tucker just grabbed his collar and rushed out the door with the halfa in tow. What they didn't notice was the guy with Sunshine was watching them leave, his lime green eyes watching them as they exited. Sunshine was oblivious as she leaned forward, her large eyes watching him intently.

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Sam sighed as she reentered her room, the raven haired male in the bathroom fussing about her disgust with his scent. She could still hear him grumbling, but she was past that now, her mind was still on the fact that he had gotten completely naked in one second with his intangibility, and that he hadn't waited for her to leave the room. She could feel the heat still on her cheeks and knew that she must be the darkest shade of red ever!

"Stupid man," she hissed as she slammed the door only to receive a yell from the occupant. "Whatever." She needed to find out why the Observant had come after Dan and what it all had to do with Danny. There should be no issue between the two, no connection since Dan had no timeline and the younger halfa was past the point where he could become Dan. Or were they looking at it wrong? Danny could only have become Dan if the halfa had lost his loved ones, but if that was the case then why were the Observants after the older halfa and the younger one? It made no sense! "There is something missing!" the Goth muttered as she yanked in frustration at her hair.

"Yeah, you," came a voice. The Goth turned to find a pair of eyes in the corner of her room. The pair of green eyes narrowed at her. "You are the missing piece to securing a Danny Phantom free future." The raven haired woman blinked in confusion. The shadow moved, climbing the walls as it moved toward the bathroom door. Sam took a step back. What was going on here? "Just stay quiet and I promise it will be painless." Amethyst eyes grew wide as she took a step back, the door to the bathroom the only barrier between the ghostly male on the other side and Sam. She didn't know if screaming for help would benefit her when it appeared that her visitor was a ghost himself. He would be faster.

"But if you hurt her, then I would be forced to destroy the world again," came Dan's voice as he grabbed the shadow before them, the green eyes on the creature growing wide before becoming one big green eye. It hit her then that the creature before them was one of the Observants and that it had been planning to kill her. The green thing began to squirm as Dan's fingers grew tighter on his large head. "I knew you would come looking for me, but what I don't understand is why?" The thing clamped it's mouth shut and Sam took a step toward it. She looked rather bemused at it's attitude when only moments ago it had been all bravo like it was a badass.

"Hmm... Dan," she said, her tone mischief. The ghostly male's dark brows rose at her sudden change. Sam smirked as she leaned close to the green eyed ghost. "I don't think he wants to talk, but I know what we could do to make it talk." She walked over to her bed, the older halfa watching her with interest. This was a side that he didn't remember from the times he had been with her, but then again this was a grown up Sam, her small body filled out with the right curves and her once short raven hair falling past her waist. She reached under her bed, her body hiding behind the large bed before she came out with something Dan knew immediately. The Specter Deflector looked the same, the metal belt reflecting in the light that entered the room.

Dan could feel the tingle on his skin from the last time it had been applied to his own flesh, but the Goth had this gleam as she approached the creature who knew nothing about the invention. The Observant just looked at her, his big eye questioning.

"I think that could work," the raven haired male said moving the green creature closer to her. The thing looked at Dan and then at her, his eye telling them all as he tried to figure out if it was going to be bad or not. "Though me having once been human and him, well, I don't know what he was... Would it do worse to him?" She looked to him and he could see that she knew what he was doing.

"I don't know," she said looking thoughtful. They both watched as the creature looked worried, his eye going wider as he thought it over, but before either of them could do anything the time stopped around them and when it resumed Dan and Sam were standing in her room alone. "What the hell?"

"He wasn't the one with the staff," the halfa stated, his ice blue eyes looking down at her. He could read her eyes, the question that lurked in them. "I thought it was just one, but it seems that there might be more and we have yet to figure out what happened to Clockwork." She nodded, her amethyst eyes turning from his ice blue ones. They had no idea what was happening or why... All they had was more questions.