Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ You Can't Escape My Love ❯ Chapter 8

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Sam had had time to think about the fact that her child might have ghost powers and after setting up the appointment to see the doctor went to call Danny when a knock sounded at the door. She had wanted to call the halfa and check on the older one in her bed, but when the knock sounded again she heaved a sigh before heading to the door, unaware that Dan was awake in the bedroom. Opening the door she found the last person she wanted to deal with standing before her, a frown on their face when their eyes fell upon the pregnant belly of the Goth.

"So, you did go and get knocked up," the female stated, her teal eyes eyeing the proof of her impending motherhood. "And to think that Danny believed you were having his baby..." she faded off as she entered the room without consent from the raven haired woman before her. Sam frowned at her, ready to put the woman in her place when it occurred to her that the only way that the Latina could be aware of her location would be if someone had told her and with Danny and Dan being the only ones aware of where she lived, and Dan not being all that close to the woman who had tormented her... That just left Danny.

"So, you decided to come down here and check out the competition?" the Goth asked, her hand resting on her hip as she eyed the other female. "Well, I should let you know that there is nothing there for you to worry about. I told him that I am going to be a single mother raising my children." Dan stood behind the door listening to the two women talk, his eyes narrowing at the fact that Danny was going to be thrown off harder with this woman coming to interfere, but he couldn't figure out how she had found their residence, save for from Danny himself. That didn't make sense either because he had broken up with the female, but then who was to say that she hadn't contacted him and he had spilt it? He didn't know much about the relationship with the Latina and his younger self. They had been together for a while, even leaving Sam and Tucker on the outside with how much they had spent together. Could the halfa had revealed why he had left town? Did he break up with the Latina when he had found out that Sam was pregnant?

There was no telling since Danny had only said he had broken up with the former cheerleader, and not about when it had happened. "If that were true then why would you lure him here to begin with?" the Ice Queen asked, her brows knitted. "One moment he's fine and happy in our relationship and then suddenly he tells me to get lost!" Paulina's voice was rising, her anger flickering like a fire in her teal eyes. "I mean, I knew that you wanted him and all, but to lie about having his baby! That's real low!" Sam's own anger was rising, but she knew that if she let it go that the woman before her would win, so she forced herself to calm down. Not only would getting worked up be a point for the other woman, but Sam knew that it was bad for her and her unborn child.

"I never called him about the baby," she said, her words spoken soft enough to give the illusion of calmness. "I never called him at all, ready to start my own life away from Amity, at least for a few years, but then," she said, her hand coming to rest on her stomach. "The moment that conceived my baby happened." Her eyes flashed at the other woman, a chill coming over the room. "It was a mistake, something that I would never regret, but a mistake and even knowing that it would hurt I left never to return."

"You're such a liar! You couldn't bear that we were so happy that you ha-"

"I wasn't even going to tell him about him being a father!" the Goth spat, angry with having to deal with the Latina at all when she had left Amity to get away from her and her only love. "I was just going to raise my child alone! I had it all planned out the moment that-" she stopped, shaking her head as she realized that she was revealing too much to her enemy. "I already told him to leave me alone, and now to deal with you... I have had enough! Leave my fucking house!" Her voice echoed around the pair, but before Paulina could rant again, the Goth shoved her towards the open door as Dan appeared from the bedroom. The Latina's teal eyes widened at the appearance of the older male, her eyes flickering between the pair before she rushed off, a smirk on her face. She thought that she had new information to feed Danny, to ensure that he would come back to her, but going to him was the worst mistake she could make at this point.

As soon as she was gone the Goth slammed the door, her eyes glistening with unshed tears as her heart pounded loudly in her chest. "You know that he didn't tell her." She frowned at Dan, unaware of how much he had heard. "I don't know how she found you, but I know that he wouldn't do that." She said nothing, walking past him toward their room. The older halfa sighed, his body weary and still barely holding on. There was nothing more he could do, not to aid the halfa when everything was working against him. Sam had been pushing both of them away as soon as the younger male had come on the scene, but with the added "help" of the Latina he knew that unless Danny nipped it in the bud that Sam was going to run. She might not want to abandon her contract with Marie, but her other career choice was a more mobile adventure and would make it easy to disappear.

"Come on, Dan," she called from their room. "Stop worrying about it and just come lay down." He sighed again, upset with both parties, but also upset with the whole situation. This was not how it should have been! In his time he had been just as lost as the halfa was about his feelings for his friend, but he hadn't really progressed in a relationship with Paulina, the Latina being the last person on his mind when he was laying down on the ground as the Nasty Burger blew up. Sam had been his last thought as she had tried not to cry, something that she could control, but her words had stuck with him. Heading into the room he found her sitting on the edge of the large bed. He was almost gone, his body starting to fade with every second that passed, but getting up to stop the fight between the pair had taken out more than he had expected. Sitting on the bed he allowed the Goth to get him comfortable before she joined him, her small bump nestled between them as she spooned him. His eyes closed, her words almost the same as the Sam from his time. "I will always love you." He nodded as his blue eyes closed, his breathing already shaky becoming more faint.

Sam could feel him leaving her, his body growing colder than it usually was. "I love you too, Sam, and Danny does too." She shushed him, promising that she would do as he wanted as long as they just lay there quietly in what both knew was their last moments together. He could feel her body shake, silent tears falling down her cheeks as she shut her own eyes.

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The next day found the younger halfa looking down at his ex, the Latina so excited with what she wanted to share with him, but he wasn't open to listening as he glared at her. She had called him, and when he wanted to just click 'decline' on his phone, he had gotten a text from her about the fact that she was in California. That rattled him, but not because he was afraid of her, no, he was pissed off knowing that she had come here and he knew that it was for one reason and one reason only. Inviting her out to a small eatery next to his hotel, the halfa stood now, waiting for her to spit out what she wanted to say.

"Why are you here?" he asked, even though he knew the answer. "Besides st-"

"She told me about your relationship," the Latina stated with glee, something that rose a dark brow on the male before her. Paulina sat at the table in the courtyard in the back of the small restaurant, sure that she had just opened a present that would bring him back to her side.

"And?" He was curious to the fact that the Goth had even spoken to the former cheerleader, but then again he was curious about a few things concerning the woman before him. How had she found him? Hell, how had she found out where Sam was living when he hadn't even been able to find that out? While he was pissed off about it all, he needed to know what had transpired between the mother of his unborn child and the woman he had dated for far too long.

"She doesn't want you," the Ice Queen stated with a smile. "She has a man."

"Dan is his name and he's not her man," the halfa stated with a smirk as the woman before him frowned at his response. It hadn't been what she had wanted, no, he seemed okay with the male living in Sam's house.

"How do you know that the baby is yours?" she asked, acting as if she was more concerned with him being hooked by a lie then about the fact that she was worried about losing him. "Not that I believe that she is a wh-" The Latina was cut off by the low growl coming from the halfa before her.

"That is exactly what you are implying," he spat. "First off, you don't know shit about Sam and second, Sam and I slept together right before she left so that baby in her belly is my child!" She didn't even flinch at his words, her eyes becoming cold.

"Just because you slept with her doesn't mean you were her first or her last," the Latina stated. Danny blinked. He didn't know how to answer that since when they had been in Sex Ed. he had heard of there being a barrier that proved if a female was a virgin and while he didn't recall if he had felt one at that time... he couldn't see Sam as having been sexually active before their time. He had slept with Paulina and she had been experienced, not a thing that he had felt all that strongly about at the time, but for Sam she hadn't really known what to do... had been so timid. If he could compare it to his moments with Paulina one could tell that she had been new to the touches.

"I was her first and I will be her last!" he spat, angry with his ex's statement.

"You were the reason she wasn't coming back," Paulina said, hoping that if she said the words that the Goth had spoken to her, that she would turn him from the woman he was intent on. "She claimed that the moment she conceive that she wasn't coming back and that she was going to go it alone, never telling you about the child!" She watched him, her teal eyes watching the pain flicker in his blue eyes as he thought about the words she was telling him. "She said that it was a mistake and that it was the reason that she wasn't going to return to Amity. She didn't care enough to tell you about your child, but you can't seem to leave her alone!"

"Because I love her!" the halfa spat, his own emotions rising at the pain of knowing that Sam would have never called him, never told him of his child. He needed to talk to her, to clear the air all over again after what Paulina had done. Like Dan, he knew that with the appearance of the Latina that the Goth was going to be harder to woo, that Sam was going to fight him harder than before. "I don't want anyone but Sam and even if she wasn't pregnant with my child I still would have broken up with you to be with her!" Paulina's teal eyes flashed, her eyes narrowing at his confession. "I should have been with her instead of wasting my time with you!" He paused at that realization because he knew it was true. He should have not been dating the woman before him, the one that had only wanted his ghost half and until the moment it had been revealed that he was that ghost boy, had wanted nothing to do with him. Sam had been by his side, just like everyone was slamming upside his head now. Then he seemed to remember what his mother had told him, his eyes flashing green at the memory. "And you knew this! You knew that she loved me and you tried to take her out of the picture!"

The Latina seemed surprised at his accusation, but she didn't respond to it either. "You shoved her into the street, hoping that she would be hurt!" She smirked, her eyes twinkling even as she shrugged. "What the fuck is wrong with you?!"

His parents had seen it and so had Tucker and Star! Hell, everyone in school had always implied it, even Paulina had said it on more than one occasion. "It doesn't matter anyway," the woman before him stated. "She doesn't want you and when she and I talked, she told me that like she had told you, that she wanted us to leave her alone!" He wasn't listening to her and changing quickly to his ghost half he headed off to talk to the Goth because in the end it didn't matter what Paulina wanted. It mattered what he and Sam wanted and even with the Goth fighting him on this he knew that she really loved him. She was just hurt, and it was his fault, but he would fix it, no matter what it took to get them there. He would leave Amity if he needed to, just to prove to her that he wasn't going to walk away and that she wasn't a rebound, not now and not before.

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Sam was currently laying in her bed, the sun long gone as she lay there alone, thinking about what she should do now. She had promised the older halfa that she would do as he asked her, but another part of her was screaming that this was the chance to leave. She was free to take her unborn child and leave the younger male behind and yet, as another tear made a trail down her cheek, she couldn't do it. She hadn't been lying about not wanting to hurt either halfa, but her own health was important, maybe more so at this point, with her being pregnant. Though she loved Danny and Dan had been another love for her, neither were helpless like her own babies in her womb so with that thought she forced herself to crawl out of bed, to leave the spot where Dan had faded away.

She opened her laptop and began a long night of cancelling her contract with Marie, the older woman understanding when she explained all that had been happening with the father of her unborn baby, before making plans to leave the state and head back toward her own hometown. While she wasn't going back she figured that she could move close enough that Danny could see the baby when they were born, and for the year that they would be staying together, not that it would be needed now with her cutting off her contract, but she would give him that. That way she would be far enough away that after that year of living together that Danny couldn't visit her all the time, unless to see their child, but that he could have no complaint about her being so far from him with said child. She knew that he wanted more from her, that he felt the need to marry her so that he could do the right thing, and while it was all honorable and stuff, that she couldn't trust him with her heart, not right now at least.

"What are you doing?" came a voice from behind her. Sam spun around to find Danny floating behind her, his blue eyes on the screen before him, her conversation with Marie still on the screen while the one for her plans was hidden below it. She shut the laptop before standing up to face him. "You're not leaving again are you?" She nodded.

"I am moving closer to Amity so that we can do what Dan asked of us," was her response, the surprise in his eyes lighting up the blue orbs. "I will give you a year, but only after the baby is born. After that I would like for you to adhere to my wishes." That surprise was gone, replaced with frustration. "I know that's not what you want, but you're not the only one in this situation, now are you?"

"Sam, I don't know what she told you," the halfa said, frustration thick in his tone. "But I knew that I wanted to be with you, I was just stupid." She shook her head.

"Danny, you have been pining for Paulina since you met her, hell, every chance that you could you asked her to wrap her head around Paulina Fenton." Now she chuckled, but it wasn't a happy sound. "It was your password to your computer for fuck's sake!" Throwing up her hands she let out an exasperated breath. "I'm not in the mood to fight." She looked toward her bed, her lips turning down at the empty space. "I-I just can't today with you after dealing with Paulina... and then..." That's when the halfa realized that Dan was gone, his presence gone from the room. He wanted to ask her about the missing male, but judging by her emotions and the empty spot where the older male had been, he could tell that the older halfa was gone.

"I'm sorry," he murmured, moving to pull her into a hug. At first the raven haired woman fought him, shoving at his chest with protests about him holding her. "I know that he wasn't the enemy to yo-" She broke down, tears escaping from her now closed eyes as she clung to him. They stood like that for several minutes as the Goth mourned the loss of a friend, a lover, and her rock during the several trying months after she had left Amity. He had been willing to aide her in her endeavor, seeing that she was hurt by the male now holding her close, but he was also pushing her to make up with that same male. When it could have been them for those few several months doing nothing but enjoy their time together, he had been helping her get past what Danny had done, the mistake that they had both done.

"He wasn't the enemy," she muttered. "He was the ally I needed when I would have just been alone." He laid his chin on her head, listening to her talk about the male that had gone with her, helped her to run away, but at the same time had tried to assist in getting them back together and while Danny and Dan had never gotten along (especially after trying to kill his friend and family) the older male had been mature with his view on their relationship and had attempted to help him. "He knew about stuff that should have never come to light and yet, he didn't pity me." She sniffled now, a mirthless giggle escaping her lavender lips. "It was for both of us, ya know, being able to spend the last of this time together." She pulled away from him, his arms falling to his side. "He gave me what I needed and I helped to fulfill his lost chance, but it was never the same as what we both wished it to be."

"Jazz said that that was the reason you two were together, but I just couldn't see that," the halfa admitted.

"Well, she was right, but she was wrong," the Goth stated, moving to sit on the bed. "For him, his Sam is gone." She touched the spot where he had been laying with her as his last breath escaped his lungs. "While my love is alive, it is dead." He wanted to ask her about that, but she shook her head at his unspoken question. "We can never be that way, Danny. Can't you see that? You made your choice a long time ago, and while I was willing to stick by you as a ghost fighting partner, I should not have allowed the line in the sand to be crossed."

"I wanted to do that with you, to be with you as more than a friend," the halfa said as he stood over her. "I don't regret it, bu-"

"You DID regret it, bastard!" she hissed, her hand going to her stomach as if to protect her child. "You said it was a mistake! And even if you hadn't said it, the look in your eyes spoke volumes for you!"

"I just didn't want you to think that I was using you!" he cried back in frustration. "I loved you, but couldn't bring myself to put our relationship at odds if it didn't work out!" That was an eye opener for both of them, his emotions revealing that he had indeed loved her with that statement, but she was having none of it.

"Danny, if that was the case then why did you do it?" He blinked at her question. "If you didn't want to mess up our friendship, then why would you do it anyway? In the worst way possible?" He couldn't answer that question.

"I-I don't know," he said, his gaze on her as he continued, "We were having fun, like we hadn't in a long time and suddenly I just knew that I wanted to kiss you..." He faded off, unable to explain the feelings that had swamped him that day.

"We didn't hang out because you were too busy with the woman that you love," she stated. "You should go back to her. She wants you back and you can have babies with her because I am not getting into a relationship with anyone, not even you." She took a deep breath, rubbing her stomach as if to calm the unborn life in her stomach. "I will work at the gallery until I hit my six month, which apparently isn't that far from now, and then I will move to the new place. I will contact you when the baby is born, but other than that I am not looking for a relationship other than as the father to my child."

"Sam, I should have more a say in this," Danny stated, reaching out to grab her hands as he crouched before her. "Even Dan said that you needed to compromise and you aren't doing that! You are pushing me away, not even willing to listen to what I have to say."

"I did com-" He leaned over, his face just inches from hers, the close contact forcing her to shut her mouth in surprise.

"He said that you needed to listen to me, that you and I need each other," the halfa stated, feeling as if he were getting her to listen to him by using the older halfa's own words. "He said that in front of me because he and I both know how you are when you are really hurt! You won't listen to anything said, but you promised him that you would compromise and that is not a one time thing. You will have to work with me because of our child, but I don't just want you to do that because of him or because of our child. I want you to work with me, to see that I do love you, because you love me too."

"I told you that that love died, Danny!" she spat back, trying to pull away from him.

"It didn't die," was his response. "It's weaker than it was before because of the hurt I inflicted on you with my words, but I didn't mean them that way! I wanted you to know that I was considerate of your own feelings for us. If you didn't want to be with me as more than a friend then I wanted you to stop me." She blinked at that confession. "After that, well, I felt like you would regret it, that you would think that just because Paulina had broken up with me that I had used you as a replacement."

"And you did! You had just been broken up for less than a week," she pointed out. "How could you know the difference between love and a rebound, Danny? You had been with her for years!" For a moment there was silence, the time for the words to sink in for both parties. "Danny, I don't think you understand."

"That you love me and yet you're pushing me away," he said with a frustrated growl. "I don't understand that."

"Danny, the world saw us together, but even as we were always together, that is understandable," she replied. "The problem was that we weren't meant to be together." His jaw clenched at her words. "Sure, there were times that I thought we could be together, but Danny, even those times were marred by others proving that we couldn't be more than friends. Think about it."

"I don't get what you're speaking of," he stated. "We are perfect for each other, our feelings are strong and our connection is just as powerful." She shook her head at him, again pulling on his hands to get him to release her.

"Danny, all we are are each other's weakness. Think about all the times that I was used to draw you to your potential death."

"It's not because we are each other's weakness," the halfa spat, frustration in his tone. "We are each other's strengths! You aren't making any sense." She sighed.

"Danny, you wouldn't have found yourself in such dire straights, living the life that you had to live if I hadn't pushed you into the portal, twice I might add." She knew from what Dan had told her that she was lying and while she knew that he was right about his logical look on that one, she was sure that Danny hadn't yet figured it out and so she could use it to push him back. "Because of me you were forced to fight against ghosts while your parents hunted you down!" He shook his head now.

"Sam, you know that's not true," he whispered, seeing the fear in her eyes mixing with surprise at his words. "I wasn't the first halfa to be born." He could see it in her gaze, her shock at his understanding of his Fate. It had been meant to be and he knew it. "It's like us," he whispered, his face moving closer to hers and she knew what he was going to do. He was going to kiss her and she couldn't make herself move from that spot. "We are meant to be, even if we lost our way for a moment. It is our Fate, my wish and yours, to be together." His lips touched hers, the chill from his body mixing with the heat from hers. She didn't fight him as the halfa before her moved over her body, pushing her back onto the bed as his lips moved over hers.

Sam was lost the moment he whispered those words, his kiss seeming to shut down her brain while her heart beat quicker, happy that he was there with her. She couldn't fight the feelings that overwhelmed her in that moment, the feeling of being whole... of coming home. It was the right place to be and yet her brain was trying to come back online with the negative aspects of what she was doing. It reminded her that the halfa on her hadn't answer her question about how he could know the difference of a rebound and the love he claimed to feel for her. He had said he loved the Latina as well, and even though she had been spouting nonsense to force him away from her, that was still true. He loved Paulina! Finding the strength to push him off of her she moved away from him. His eyes were glazed and while she could see something in those stormy depths she couldn't place it. Maybe it was lust, but at that moment she just knew that she needed to keep him away from her.

"No," she whispered. "You need to leave." When he opened his mouth to refuse she said the words she never hoped to say to him when this all began. "If you don't give me space then I will fight you for custody of my child." His eyes narrowed, the threat of her words ringing in his mind and while he didn't believe she would do it, the idea was enough to get him to step back from her. He could see all the emotions whirling in her amethyst orbs and he knew that she hadn't wanted to threaten him so with a nod he was gone, the Goth left alone in her room to ponder what she would do now that it was out there, that Danny knew she loved him even though she had done all she could to push him away. She had three months to find a place to stay, but before that she would assist Marie in finding a replacement to run the gallery. Sighing she sat down at her desk, ready to search for the rest of the night for both things.