I do not own "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine, or the characters Batman and Danny Phantom.

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"WAKE UP!" Danny Fenton jolted awake as the singer screamed the wake-up call into his ears. His best friend Sam Manson was standing next to the bed with a grin on her face and holding a CD player which was blasting the rock music into Danny's ears. He quickly removed the phones from his ears and sat up.

Sam grinned again and held up the CD player. "'Wake Up' by Rage Against The Machine. A personal favorite for getting up in the morning, which you should be doing right now, Sleeping Beauty."

Danny grinned sleepily and replied, "What, no kiss to break the spell?" and with that, he puckered up. Sam responded with a smack in the face with a pillow. "C'mon, Danny, get up. We have to leave now if we're going to beat the crowds for Six Flags."

Danny yawned and set his feet on the floor. "Alright." Puzzled, he then asked, "Wait, how'd you get in here?"

"Your mom let me in, she said it was time for you to get up anyway," she answered matter-of-factly while opening his closet door and browsing through his t-shirts.

"But wait, what if I was naked or something?" Danny complained.

Sam poked her head out from the closet and joked in a flirtatious voice, "Well, that was just a risk I was willing to take." She resumed her search and her tone of voice became normal again. "Yeah, well, I say the same thing whenever you phase through my window, but you never seem to care too much. Ah, here it is." She came back out holding a shirt that she'd given Danny for Christmas, a shirt that was much like the one she was wearing now. It was black except for a red, worn Batman emblem on the chest.

"Why the Batman shirt?"

"Because, we're riding the Batman ride together, remember?"

"Oh, that's right. Wait, where's Tucker? I thought you'd dragged him into this, too."

Sam hung the shirt on Danny's closet door. "I dunno. He said something suddenly came up, a baby-sitting job of some kind, something he couldn't get out of. And then he said for us two lovebirds to have a good time together."

Danny rolled his eyes. "Ugh, I'm sick of that guy playing matchmaker. I thought we'd made it clear, we're just friends."

Sam gave him a glance as he was finishing setting his bed that spoke of disappointment. She remembered calling him clueless when he'd foolishly flirted with disaster by asking out Valerie, and yet even now he was still clueless. Would he ever realize the truth, about how she really felt for him? She could sense, by looking back at memories, that he probably felt the same for her. She still secretly relished the jealousy that had blazed in his eyes for the few days that she dated "Gregor". Her glance became a spell as she began to get lost in his dazzling blue eyes...

"Hey, uh, Sam, would you mind waiting downstairs while I change?" The suddenness of his voice snapped her back to reality. She blinked her eyes. "Uh, yeah. Sure. Just hurry up, will you? We need a head start on the traffic." Sam finally shut the door to his bedroom, but not before catching a peek of his somewhat muscular back as he was pulling off his night shirt. Sam allowed a school girl grin to form on her face. Apparently, an entire year of ghost fighting had done some good for him.