Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ Samantha and Sunshine ❯ Chapter 7

Thirty minutes later found Sam looking at the screen in frustration. Danny had changed the password! She slammed her head on the desk before her in frustration. How could he have changed it?! The halfa was obsessed with the Hispanic chick! Dan stood behind her, another distraction for the Goth as she was still imagining his hard body against hers.

Damn! She had to stop thinking about that! She really was messed up for thinking of the man behind her in that way! Hell, he was a freaking monster, though his body didn't look like something a monster would have. She felt another shudder, but she knew it wasn't in disgust, unless it was in herself with how she was eyeing the male behind her. "We've hit a snag." Dan suddenly moved her out of the way, quick to make her advert her eyes as he typed something in. Within seconds they were in. Danny's screensaver making the Goth blush as it was her at the beach last year.

She had done something different that year, though she had still worn the cape. She had worn a black bikini that year. He hadn't seemed that interested, but maybe Tucker had been messing with the computer. The male before her made sure his face wasn't showing as he ogled the photo, his red eyes taking in all the skin on the Goth. She was too embarrassed to notice so he took his time taking it all in. He knew he would never see her that naked again.

'What the fuck am I thinking?!' He couldn't believe the thoughts going through his mind at that moment. Sam didn't want him like that and he shouldn't even be thinking dirty thoughts like that! Forcing his eyes to look for a folder, one that he remembered making himself, while moving the mouse around. The only thing was the image wasn't just before him now, no it was in his mind's eye. It haunted him and taunted him with the untouchable image. The Goth behind him seemed to have calmed down, though the heat from her body had gotten closer or maybe she was just warmer? He couldn't tell and he was afraid to ask her for fear of her knowing he could feel that. Sam wasn't one to talk about herself, well, her feelings. She kept that to herself while screaming her ideals. She was an enigma and that was one thing he really liked about her and at the same time made him so frustrated. Sam was one of those people who needed to be shown love, she didn't believe in idle words or phrases as she had heard those a million times over.

"Do you see who it was in that?" she questioned. He looked at the image before him, the mechanical ghost before him the first one to pop up. Shaking his head he changed the image, again a negative. They went through most of them, that taking several hours with all the ghosts that the trio had seen growing up.

"It looked like that," Dan said suddenly, his eyes focusing on the last ghost in the folder. It was Shadow, the creature of Johnny's. "But it looked, more evil, somehow..." he faded off as he looked to her. So, he had seen something after someone in the mirror, but he couldn't remember all of it or he could and he didn't want to tell her. That made sense, right? "It was definitely him, but this guy in the picture wasn't with him. He was alone."

"Strange since I haven't ever seen either without the other..." This was confusing. First the Observant and now Shadow. What was going on with these ghosts!? She shouldn't just be questioning the ghosts, but the fact that Dan was telling her this and yet she couldn't help but believe him. Something just wasn't right! "I wonder how this is all tied together since Shadow is a rogue ghost and the Observants are against those kinds of ghosts...Unless they are after someone, someone they see as a threat." She looked to him now, but it made no sense since the ghost that had attacked him had been after Dan, not Danny. That would be the key to taking Dan out of the picture, but at the same time the pair weren't related since Dan had no timeline.

It was just getting more confusing by the second. She didn't even know where to start- "What if they were trying to make you a reality?" The older halfa looked at her in confusion.

"What?" He couldn't believe that an Observant would want him to become real, no, that seemed so far fetched. "Why though? It makes no sense." Sam nodded. It didn't, but who said it had to make sense. Ghosts could overshadow other ghosts so who's to say that the Observant hadn't been overshadowed.

"Actually it makes a little sense when you think about the fact that they were trying to take you out, but then the other ghost was attacking someone in the mirror. They didn't want you to see that because whoever the other ghost is after would entice you. I don't know which family member they were going after, but for you to react like you did it had to be someone impor-"

"What makes you think that it was one of the Fentons?" The question raised a brow on the Gothic woman's pale face. "I care about my friends too." Sam shook her head.

"You care about us, and I believe that Danny would fight for us, but at the same time I don't believe he could feel the love that he feels for his family in the same way. No, I think that you saw a family member, maybe Jazz, under attack and the Observant didn't want you to see it." Dan didn't want to tell Sam that he had remembered who he had seen, the one person that would make his blood burn in anger if they were ever hurt, but he knew that if he did then that would put her in even more danger. It had been one of the reasons that he had decided to keep her close. He couldn't bear if she were hurt because of him and he knew Danny would freak if he found out that his closest friend was under fire because of a mistake he almost made.

He knew the guy was kicking himself for her almost dying, just as he had when she had been killed in his time. Dan looked up at the woman before him. This Gothic beauty before him didn't realize yet that she had been his undoing, the final straw that had broken his spirit. She had stuck with him over the ghost thing. Bandaging him up at night when she should have been asleep, helping to keep the secret from his parents. She hadn't walked away and he had watched her in this time, through all that she had been through with Danny. The clueless one who had had his powers removed because he had thought they were putting his loved ones in danger. No, it hadn't been his powers. Those ghosts were coming and even if his father's portal hadn't worked, then Vlad would have eventually made one that would.

"Sam, just know this that no matter what happens I won't let you get hurt," the halfa stated. Sam looked into his ice blue eyes, the ones that reflected both her shock and pleasure at his words and knew that Dan would keep that promise, just as Danny would. They stood there in the silence of the room, the only sound their breathing. Neither knew who leaned forward first, but they knew as soon as their lips touched it was meant to happen. They weren't soul mates in the sense that most were, but they were meant to love each other even if they never got to go that extra step, the one that she wanted with one man. As the kiss deepened, the man before her tugged her closer, his hands pulling her into his lap and she came, sliding down just as the sound of a door opening behind them echoed in the room, but it was the voice that had them pulling apart.

"What the fuck?!" Sam looked over her shoulder, her face beet red, her eyes glazed over in pleasure as she looked into another pair of ice blue eyes that flashed bright green for a split second. Dan stiffened, his own ice blue eyes looking at the other male in dislike. He had wanted to do that, had wanted to hold the one woman who had meant more to him than a friend, someone who had been gone too soon.

"Danny!" Sam whispered, her voice husky to her own ears. Dan smirked now, the sound making him feel pride. The halfa before them glared at the other male, his eyes taking in their flushed appearances and the fact that he had seen them in that fucking embrace! "We were looking for th-"

"I don't want to know what you two were looking for! Get out of my house mother fucker!" He was obviously talking to Dan, but Sam took a step toward Dan, her hand falling on his shoulder. Before she could defend the older male Danny was at their side, his hand grasping Sam's slender fingers tightly. "Sam and I need to talk." Dan opened his mouth now, ready to argue that the Goth didn't seem too keen on staying, but the Goth in question nodded, the message in her eyes letting him know it would be alright. Though he didn't want to go he did leaving the pair alone. Danny turned to Sam, his eyes still green.

"Danny, I a-"

"How could he do that?!" the halfa fumed. "He's at least several years older than you!" Sam's eyes grew wide as she realized what her friend was saying. Eyes narrowed she yanked her hand free of his.

"Danny, in case you haven't noticed I am a fucking female and I am free! I like him and he likes me!" Her hands began to fly as she grew more angry. "You're not my damn father, nor are you my brother! I don't see us dating! You are my friend and as a friend you should be more supportive of the fact that I may have found the one that I want to spend my life with!" She almost regretted the words because she and Dan weren't going to be together forever. They couldn't. Sam loved him, but not as much as she loved the man before her, but he wouldn't be hers and she had to live with that. That didn't mean she couldn't have some memories to keep her warm in her elder years. "I'm going to date him and there is nothing you can do to change that!"

Before he could answer she was gone, his own response a mere whisper in the quiet room, one that she failed to hear and he failed to say quick enough.