Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ You Can't Escape My Love ❯ Chapter 12

Danny stood before one of the walls, the black walls almost done while Sam stood before the opposite wall painting a portal on the wall clear of clutter. Sam had stated that she wanted that side to have the changing tables so that the cribs would be on the other wall where he was painting. They were listening to music, Why Should I Worry? playing softly in the background as they worked. Neither said a word, the atmosphere strangely awkward and yet not at the same time. It had only been a day since the halfa had bought the cribs for the house, the Goth pleasantly surprised to see the other new addition that same day, the table for the babies amazing as she had worried about working around four high chairs. They were working in harmony, no tension and yet there was a strange buzz in the air, the pair of them yearning to be closer in a more primal way and yet unable to get past their own fears and unease.

It was a strange scene and when the doorbell rang the halfa left the Goth to finish her painting, his eyes wide when his parents were the ones he opened the door to. They were loaded down with several items, his curiosity peaked on how they had known where he was until he recalled that the RV had a theft device on it to allow them to track it. "Hi, son," his father said with a quick look behind him. "Is she doing better?" The halfa nodded, worried as to how the woman upstairs would react to knowing that his parents were there and the fact that they knew, but he didn't have to worry long as the raven haired woman appeared at the top of the stairs, her eyes shuttered while a smile was pasted on her face. She didn't seem too upset, but her gaze wasn't revealing anything so he couldn't be sure.

"Hi, Mrs. and Mr. Fenton," she said while walking down the stairs, her eyes never faltering as she joined Danny at the door, her amethyst gaze flickering to him before returning back to them. "I don't think I have to guess how you came to find us here since I know that there is a tracking device on the RV," she said as she looked over their shoulder to the very vehicle. "Not that I'm upset or anything, but I was kind of hoping for a little bit of time before this." She stepped aside, moving the halfa back from the door to allow his parents to enter with their packages, Maddie claiming they had more in the speeder parked next to the RV. After assisting them in getting the rest of the presents from the large trunk of the ghost fighters' vehicle the four of them sat down in the living room, Danny and Sam with Maddie on the couch while Jack sat on a lone chair to the side. Before them was a large fireplace, the dark brick surrounding it rather beautiful against the deep blue coloring of the room.

"Sorry to barge in on you like this," the red headed stated looking rather concerned when she noted that her son was looking rather uneasy while the Goth at his side looked neutral. This was a sign that everything was still on the fence, that neither had come to terms with what was happening, their feelings still on the rocks. "But we were a little... rocked over what happened, with the pregnancy and then well, with all the tip toeing." She looked at Danny first. "We have been talking after the last talk with you and feel that maybe there needs to be an intervention with the fact that it isn't just the two of you involved in this. There are four unborn babies that are about to be brought into this world." Sam was shocked. She knew that what the older woman was saying was true, but she had never known the Fentons to step in unless they were really concerned and when it came to their own children they usually allowed them to run free with little interference so this had to be bothering them. "As not only the parents to the father of said children and soon to be grandparents we wanted to make sure that we put our two cents in." She now looked to Sam, her husband nodding at his wife's assessment.

"We want to start with the fact that while you two have been so oblivious to each other's feelings that everyone and I mean everyone has been waiting for the pair of you to make a move." He looked at his son. "Hell, son, I have been asking for years and there was a few times that you even admitted that there was something there, but that you were unsure. How much time has to pass before you realize that you and Sam are perfect for each other?" He looked to Sam now, his hand reaching into his pocket to pull out something that neither could see, but his wife seemed to know what it was as she smiled sadly. "And you, young lady are not any better. You and Danny made a decision and that decision is about to bring about life, four lives that you both have to help learn the right from the wrong, to use those powers of deduction on what they want to be and what they want to do. Neither one of you are really thinking of them and what would be best for them."

"While I am overjoyed to find out that I am about to be a grandmother, and mind you these are my first grandbabies, I am so disappointed in the pair of you for different things." She looked at Sam, the Goth still silent, her eyes leaking out her emotions even as she kept a straight face. "You and Danny have been thru so much and while I applaud you keeping your mouth shut when he was dating that bimbo of a female, I would have rather you had told him your feelings once the opportunity presented itself and yes," she said cutting off what Sam wanted to say, the raven haired female's mouth open to rebut the words coming from the mother of her friend. "He messed up, but you know Danny. He is like his father in so many ways that I would swear they were one and the same, but like his father he does know the difference between doing the right thing and making the right move. He loves you and that is so plain to see." She turned to her son now. "And you, Danny, you messed up and to top it off you went back to Paulina. You made a choice to take back the one that you knew deep in your heart was wrong and to do that after you slept with Sam was wrong. You should have taken a moment, stepped back and looked at what you had and what you really wanted. Both of you ignored your heart and what has it left you with?" Jack took this moment to stand, his hulking figure blocking some of the light from the afternoon sun gleaming in from the window next to the fireplace. "It left you with broken hearts and distrust."

"This is how much we knew that you belonged together," the raven haired ghost fighter said as he handed Danny the ring, the class ring a bright green with a ghost etched into it. It was nothing special, but when the halfa turned it slightly Sam noticed something, her small fingers reaching out to take it as her own eyes widened when she saw the inscription. Her emotions forced tears from her eyes, the one word... the three letters of her name gleaming back at her. Her gaze open she looked up at the pair with confusion and astonishment, Maddie now standing with her husband as they looked down at the pair of soon to be parents. "We knew for so long and yet we didn't want to push you since you were both so young and still figuring things out, but now that you are about to be parents you need to think about those babies and what you want them to grow up seeing."

"Do you want them to see their parents, the obvious love between them even as they stay on different sides of a canyon or do you want them to see two people so in love that they can't help but cuddle and show that love as they raise them together?" She smiled at them now, the sadness still there but in that sadness was hope. Danny turned to Sam, his eyes open with the love that he felt for the woman next to him. "If you can't open your hearts to that love then why would you show that fear to your children?"

"What we are saying, Sam," Jack said looking to the Goth and then to his son, "Danny. If you can't work thru what happened and the feelings involved then maybe it's best that you separate before you bring those innocent babies into the world. It will hurt, but do they deserve to be in the middle of that?" It was true. They only had a few months before their children would be there and what would they do then? Would they be able to be around each other with all that unresolved emotion making them bitter and unhappy? Did their children deserve to be in the middle of that bitterness and unhappiness that they had been dealing with? Sure, they were doing a bit better but how long would that last? The tension was still there and while it was a different tension they still were walking on eggshells with each other, though he was trying to show that he could do it, that he could be around her without letting the lust rule him... but was it really just lust? To want to be complete with the one that made you happy and feel so whole... was that really just lust? He didn't think so. He loved Sam and she loved him even if she was fighting it.

"We are heading out, but we hope that you can work it out because like we said, we know that you are soulmates and deserve to be together, but..." she faded off letting them know that it was up to them. Bidding them farewell they couple they left them alone, the Goth the first one to speak.

"I never really thought of that," she said, musing about what his parents had just laid out before them. Sure, she had thought of the fact that their kids needed both of them but had never thought of the lasting impression they as parents would leave on their children. She had thought they could co-parent and everything would be okay with just that... not that their own emotions could be felt by those children and that they would emulate that. "I mean, it makes sense since the babies did that little scary thing recently, but not that it would be... you know, something that would have a lasting impression, but then again we were both raised in two different households." She sighed. "I guess I let my own parent's marriage scare me. I was afraid that our relationship would be the same way if I allowed us to be together, but Danny you have to understand that my parents were forced together because my mother got pregnant before they were married." Damn! Well, that explained why she had reacted so strongly against them. Add that to the fact that he had indeed gone back to Paulina after they had slept together. It was all starting to add up.

"Sam, I made a mistake, many of them, but how was I supposed to know that? I shouldn't have reacted to realizing what I did, but I was afraid that I had burned a bridge that I couldn't take back even after you allowed me t-" She leaned forward and kissed him, her lips silencing his but before he could react she pulled back.

"Danny, I know that you didn't know that, but I was so confused. You had said all those things, but I was just enjoying what we were doing that I was willing to forgo the pain and then when it happened, the look in your eyes and your words..." she faded off looking so lost. "I just reacted." She looked ashamed at that moment, as if she were holding something back. "I did lie about having planned to be away for just the summer. It was a two year venture and then after what happened, well, I planned to stay away for longer."

"Were you going to tell me when you found out you were having my babies?" She wasn't surprised by his question, her cheeks turning red, the shame even stronger in her eyes and yet there was another emotion.

"Honestly I did think about keeping it to myself, but I knew that I would never be able to keep that from you and then Dan said something that made me worried. I didn't know what I would do with a child that had your powers." He was surprised at her admission. "I knew before that, but it had never even entered my mind that our child would have your powers and then there it was... I knew I needed to contact you before I gave birth. While I was going to call you, well, I can see that Dan was worried enough or maybe he was angry, to tell you about it, but I was going to tell you when I got the guts to talk to you." He believed her especially since he had seen how she here without her knowledge. She had been broken and for Sam, that was a hard task to do to her. Her parents hadn't been able to break her and to know that he had done such a thing was telling in more ways than one. The Goth before him had stood by him, helping him whenever he needed it, but he hadn't even seen that when he had been after Paulina, never even stopping to thank her for all that she had done and then on top of that failing to keep their friendship strong while dating the woman who had really tormented the Goth. He had seen it, now that he had a chance to step back and look and he was ashamed of himself.

"I failed to ever tell you how much you meant to me, and Dan, though my enemy at one point, stepped in when it should have been me." She could feel those damned hormones working overtime as the tears blurred her vision. "I even let my," he blushed. "The head in my pants lead me when I should have allowed my heart more say in who I was with. It was never right, you know... I never really loved Paulina and that was a big misstep." He grabbed her hands. "I know that we said we would take it slow and I am still willing to do that, but Sam I knew that it was more than a crush that moment that we took that next step. It never felt that way with Paulina, not just the intimacy, but the whole relationship was about her wants and never about us as a couple. You never thought about yourself when we fought ghosts and when we were together. You were all about me and nothing else." She smiled at him, her eyes glowing as her eyes overflowed, the tears shimmering in her amethyst orbs before spilling over. "I never meant to hurt you, but I felt that I had taken advantage of you."

"I thought that you, well, you know what I thought and then you said those hurtful words and I just couldn't get past that. I really want to try, but I need you to understand where I am at this point. I am scared and I don't want to lose you because of that, but I also don't want to get hurt." He nodded, leaning forward to place a chaste kiss on her lavender lips.

"We can keep going slow," he said. "I want to take it slow, but Sam, I do want to be more than just two people about to be parents. I want to marry you and while it might take us some time to get there I am willing to be patient." She leaned forward now, her lips touching his softly before applying more pressure, the pair sitting in their semi-lit home on a couch, his hands releasing hers to pull her close as he kissed her with all the pent up passion while trying to keep it light. It was a hard task to sit there and only kiss, no tongue and no intimate touches, but he did and then pulled back, their foreheads touching as they smiled at each other, their breathing slightly harsh as they sucked in breaths.

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The next few weeks were spent on dates, movies and dinners at night while during the day the pair took the time to complete their home, the babies growing more everyday and with every day that passed the bulge on the Goth grew to the point that the pair was slightly concerned that she would topple over, but Danny didn't see her growing bigger as a bad thing. No, he saw her glowing, her eyes full of love and less of fear as they took their time, day by day. The house was coming together beautifully, the nursery finished within a week while the rest of the house was painted and wallpapered by the halfa while Sam was forced to sit and watch. She was a little upset by that, but she was still happy to see how the little home transformed into a family home. The room that she had designated as his was turned into a guest room, the halfa allowed to sleep in her room as the time drew closer and closer before they would really become parents. Her room was a good combination of them. The walls were black with a white trim while the bed was her old bedspread, the red covers with spiderwebs accenting the room beautifully. The main room with the fireplace was left alone, the blue a dark enough tone that it worked with the dark brick of the fireplace that neither wanted to tamper with it.

The halls were painted a light green that stood out with the dark wood of the original floors. The kitchen was left alone as well, the tones why the halfa had bought the little table for the babies. Danny had gone out and had gotten more for the backyard, setting up a playground for the children for when they got older, a swing set, sandbox and a few other items to make the area children friendly. Sam went with him to get more toys and clothing for the four babies, the Goth opting to pick neutral colors for all of them with no pinks for their unborn daughter. Danny had to laugh at her, knowing that she wasn't going to force their daughter to be a girly girl. After all that the pair sat in the living room, the curtains drawn as they spent some time watching a show that the halfa wasn't even paying attention to as he cuddled the raven haired woman, his hand resting on her stomach while the other one was around her shoulder.

Sam was into the show, a movie about a couple that had moved out into the middle of nowhere, their house haunted by a several ghosts that seemed to trying to help the couple protect the unborn child in the woman's womb. Sam's eyes were sliding closed though, her body having very little in the way of energy these days as one month was left before she would give birth. He rubbed her stomach, a soothing motion that seemed to aid both mother and children into sleep as the babies had stopped moving under his ministrations just hours before while Sam tried to fight the feeling. She had told the halfa of how she had wanted to see this movie in the theaters just months ago, but with all that had been going on had been unable to do it. Unfortunately her body was winning the fight as she became heavy, her head resting on his shoulder as her body sagged. He couldn't help the feelings that swelled in his heart as he looked down at her, her cheeks flushed from the warmth of sitting with him as her breathing evened out. She looked so content, so happy to be there and with all that had gone down for the last several months it was heartening to see her so comfortable and happy.

He wished that it hadn't all happened the way it had, but they were together and with each day their happiness seemed to bloom as they reacquainted themselves with each other. The friendship was definitely back on track and stronger than ever while their romantic relationship was almost at a point where he felt he could could consider them boyfriend and girlfriend, but not where he wanted it so he could propose to her. While she was happier the Goth was still keeping him on his toes with only kisses allowed and those kisses were chaste at best. He wanted more from her, his hand stopping its movement as he watched her sleep, the movie still playing the background.

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The next morning the Goth awoke to a twinge of pain in her stomach, the skitter a minor ache that she thought at that moment was nothing more than bad sleep posture. The male behind her, his warmth curled around her body and his hand still on her rounded stomach, had bought her a body pillow just for pregnant women so she wasn't uncomfortable anymore... though she felt that having him laying behind her was the real reason she slept so well. Danny had been patient with her, allowing her to set the pace, but even she was feeling like they had stalled with their relationship. She figured the title of boyfriend fit the male at her side, but she wanted him to be more and while it was more than just wanting to be married to the raven haired ghost fighter she also wanted a more intimate relationship with him, her body recalling how that one moment in time had felt, but how would she broach that subject? How awkward would it be to just walk up to him and tell him that she wanted to make love with him? Moving to stretch she felt another twinge, confirming that she had indeed slept wrong. Detangling the male behind her from her the Goth headed for the shower, knowing that a good steam would help relieve those aches.

While she was in the shower, the door opened slightly so that the halfa would know where she was she failed to notice the gush of water, though she had felt the slight trickle of water it was hard to tell what was water from the showerhead and what could possibly be just pee. It was embarrassing, but with the weight of all her children on her bladder the Goth had found herself running to the bathroom more frequently, so again she dismissed it. It wasn't until a rather strong arch of pain twisted thru her body, a chill accompanying it. The raven haired woman nearly fell into the tub as she clung to the wall on one side and the glass door of the bath with the other as her body shuddered. 'What?' she asked herself. Was she in labor? Another contraction ripped thru her, answering her question, but with how much pain she was in in that split second of time the Goth found that she could do nothing but hold on. She needed to get out and yet she couldn't seem to make her legs move as they shook. She was at least a few weeks early, not too bad considering that she was having four babies, but this wasn't how she wanted it to happen. 'Danny!' She felt the fear grip her heart, her eyes welling with tears and then it was as if the heavens opened up as the door on the other side of the glass opened up, Danny calling out for her.

"Sam, are you okay?" She wondered at how he knew she needed him, but she could also hear the worry in his tone. He must have heard her hit the glass or something.

"D-Da-anny," she managed as another contraction hit her, her words slurring slightly at the pain. The halfa threw open the glass and upon seeing the pain in her amethyst orbs, the fear just as strong he wasted no time in shutting off the water and wrapping her up in his large black robe before rushing out of the house via the ceiling. Sam clung to him, little whimpers escaping as she cried openly. She didn't care if she was crying though, a fear that something was wrong with her babies, their bodies chilling her stomach like they had all that time ago.

"It's okay," he said, his voice slightly breathless with his own worry though he tried to sound unafraid. He too was worried as she was, but he was a different fear. His was about the fact that he too could feel the chill coming off of her while hers was about the fact that her water had broke earlier than it should. It was something called pre-labor rupture of membranes. She couldn't recall if she had started contracting before or after the breaking of her water. She hadn't even realized that her water had broken though, thinking it nothing but an accident with her squished bladder. "I promise that everything will be okay." She nodded, trying to be brave, but failing as her fears swirled around her with the question of which had come first. His words seemed to be working for the babies though, as if they could understand them when his voice was cracking slightly. Sam tensed in his arms as another contraction hit, this one coming quicker than the last one and all the more powerful at that.

"P-Please hur-ry," she whispered as she tightened her grip on his arms, her body beginning to shake slightly. A new worry entered both of their minds as she shook, but the female in his arms knew that while it could be what she feared, preeclampsia a possible reason for her shaking, she didn't feel like she wasn't alert, her eyes closing tightly as another contraction came over her body. I could be because of the chill of her babies in her womb, but until they got to the hospital there was no telling. It was at that moment that the large structure appeared below them, the halfa floating quickly down to enter the space, the pair of them falling thru several rooms as patients and doctors with no of them seeing them. When they became tangible and visible again they managed to scare the nurse behind the counter and several people in the waiting room behind them. The ER wasn't very busy, the small amount people there to witness their hero and his pregnant girlfriend relaxing as they realized that it was just Danny.

"Oh," the brunette said behind the counter as she too relaxed, but upon seeing the female in his arms wince again, another whimper escaping her lavender tinted lips the woman stood up, her phone in hand. "I need a doctor to the front ASAP!" Several people appeared just as Danny sat Sam down in a wheelchair, the Goth reaching out to grasp his hand, her fingers biting into his own hand.

"Don't leave," she pleaded. The halfa leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips, his promise to not go anywhere that she wasn't. The pair were lead off into a room several yards away, the space open and large with only one bed on the left wall of the room. The Goth was helped into the bed while another nurse handed the raven haired female a blanket as she lay down, her body still shaking. Danny sat down beside her as the nurses began to hook her up, their own worry when they touched her belly evident since the chill, while not as strong, was still there. None of them had ever, well no one had ever, delivered a baby whose father was a half ghost. Sam never released his hand, his own hand holding tightly to her own as another contraction ripped thru her. She was ready to deliver her children and it seemed that those same babies were just as ready, the nurse lifting up the blankets to find herself looking at the raven haired head trying to come out.

"Get the doctor now!" the nurse hissed to another one that seemed to be in shock at what she had seen over her shoulder. Sam looked to Danny in concern. Was there something wrong? The halfa didn't know, his own heart beating so fast that he was surprised he hadn't killed over, the pair waiting for this doctor as Sam felt the sudden urge to push, her body bearing down and the nurse between her legs letting out a sound of surprise just as cries filled the room.