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No notes beside a few notes on the chapter's references. Fanning The Flames, Reign Storm, Shades Of Gray, Double Cross My Heart, Control Freaks, Memory Blank, Lucky In Love, The Ultimate Enemy, & Flirting With Disaster. Hint hint, mainly D/S romance episodes.
I can understand why you all seem to think that I've turned Danny into a dog, and with my track record of doing nearly everything in hell to Danny, I'm not surprised. But…you gotta notice one thing…If you read chapter one over again…why was there two dogs if it's Danny?
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Chapter Five
Confession
An hour later, Sam collapsed on her bed, burying her face in the velvety comforter, and suddenly broke down. She'd kept herself from crying all that time while she'd been in the Fenton house. Now…all of the emotion she felt seemed to crash down at once. Fear, concern, loneliness, uncertainty…that she'd ever see Danny again.
The tears came without stop and she let them come, crying out into the soft cloth beneath her. She'd never felt so horrible before…
Whimpering softly, Pyro jumped up beside her and nudged her shoulder. She turned lightly and he laid out next to her, his large blue eyes staring almost…in understanding at her tears, right into her own eyes.
She burst into tears again. "Danny," she cried into the soft sheets. She stroked the dog's fur and he nestled in beside her, licking at her wrist. She didn't shove him away, tears falling continually down her cheeks.
"If only he knew how much…how much I love him…He's been my best friend for years and…I can't handle…knowing that I could lose him again…" She sniffled and stared blankly around her room. "The first time, we stood up there on that roof…I thought, this was it. This was how it would all end…I would lose my best friend…because he was trying to save me…And everyone else…I was so terrified…I really thought…it would be the last time I would ever see him. And then…he asked me if there was anything I needed to say to him…"
She wiped a tear from her eye. "And to think I almost told him…I was so desperate. I wanted him to stay, yet he was going off to fight. And…he could have died…I couldn't say goodbye like that and…then there was an interruption. I never said it. As he left to go…he gave me…the most hopeful smile…And then I knew…He would be back. Everything would be fine. All he needed was a little…encouragement. So, I wrangled up his old enemies and threatened to never let them out of the Fenton Thermos and we forced them to help…They were slightly willing anyway, I just kind of tipped the scale…" She laughed and brushed a tear from her cheek.
"And just like that…I was right. He came back…Looked horrible, but he came back…alive. I did everything I could after that to not try and tell him. He had enough going on and…it was probably wouldn't have mattered anyway…There are so many times that I've feared for his life. That he'd…get in some fight with a ghost and never come back from it… Or worse…And then it did…It did happen. For the first time…I was scared that I was going to die…Right there. Fourteen years old…barely got to do anything I'd wanted. But then he showed up…and he kept his promise…And I watched him fight and I knew he'd do anything to keep it. I was so terrified that night…And for a moment, I actually felt nothing. I remember…seeing that horrified look in his eye…And then nothing. But then…I was suddenly back in school like nothing had happened at all. It hadn't. I thought it was all a dream at first. Like I'd fallen asleep right in the middle of the CAT. But it wasn't a dream either. Danny told me the whole story about what really happened…It takes a lot of courage to tell that to someone…that you could have killed your own family and friends…with a simple decision. I fell even more in love with him after that…Not only had he made the right decision after that, but he'd corrected even more." She laughed. "Now he doesn't even look off my homework to get a few answers…"
"It wouldn't be the only decision he'd made that had saved my life either…That night on the train…He could have just let me fall...But then I was in his arms…I had never doubted him. Okay, maybe a little, but that was because he was under Freakshow's control. Still…he was so…freaky those couple of days… He's so strong…He fought that spell…I could see it in his eyes. And he saved me…"
Sam paused for a minute. "But it wasn't all so dramatic…Sometimes, we had the best times. Like…Finding out that Paulina wasn't really Paulina when she claimed to be dating Danny…Oh, that was the best. I wanted to punch that girl so much…Only to find out it was Kitty all along. Ah, that made my day… Of course, Danny wasn't too thrilled and I wouldn't have been either, but as long as it wasn't Paulina who was really there, I couldn't care."
The dog tilted his head curiously, moving his front paw towards her and she rubbed the top of his foot with her fingers. "He had this crush on Paulina for the longest time…And surprisingly, I'm kind of glad that I think he's getting over it and kind of glad he's not…Because he's into Valerie now…" She trailed off at first.
"Sitting there in that park that day and watching how vicious she already seemed to be…I did the first thing I could do and kicked him somewhere he wouldn't like. He was so surprised he changed back after I tackled him in the bush…and then I just kissed him. Right in time too…The look on his face…Oh, I could have died. For a moment, I swear he looked like he actually enjoyed it. So cute… And then…after the incident with the Ghost King…he started to like her a lot. And I know…a little bit of it was Technus, you're not going to convince me it wasn't…but most of it was just his feelings towards her. I couldn't believe him. He was being completely…brain dead to the real situation that could have really happened. I knew he would get hurt. I knew both of them would get hurt. And I didn't want to see that…but I did anyway. I felt so angry at Valerie after that…Me. I wanted to scream at her for doing that to him. Now every time he sees her, even now…he just has that look in his eye…"
"But…like I said, there were a few things that I'll never forget. Ember's spell on him for one…Oh, man, that boy was messed up. Would not stop talking about me and telling me how beautiful I was or some other compliment that he knew would torment me…" She laughed. "I thought about teasing him and telling him all the things he said to me since he only partly remembered it…But I figured it would be a lot funnier if I just blackmailed him in the future…Really pretty when you're about to fall off a building…yeah right…"
She laughed again, leaning up against her pillow and brushing his fur with her hand. "He drove me nuts…Several times. We've only really fought twice…I got so angry at him…He was blaming me for something that I swore I had no part in…But in reality, I really did. I had to rewrite our whole friendship because I'd had the nerve to say that wish. I had really lost him…completely. And what's worse is that if I hadn't set everything back to normal…how would he still feel? I doubt he'd still want to be my friend after what I'd put him through. Yet he still kept his promise after that…He's pretty good with the promises thing…"
Sam smiled at last, thinking about the memory. "You know…the first time I actually had a boyfriend…" She made a disgusted noise and then sighed.
"Every time I was with Gregor…You know who I kept thinking about? Danny…he was always on my mind. And whether I was angry with him for spying on me or not, he was telling the truth in the end. Gregor…or should I say, Eliott…was a jerk and for a moment, I actually thought the only way I would ever get a boyfriend was if he were to be some stupid player or a ghost hunter or ghost or something. And then for a moment, Danny almost convinced me that it wasn't true."
"There is something I would have said each time after that…All this time I've felt something for him…I really saw him for who he truly was…Not just a hero, but as a real…good person who would do so much for so little…Most of the city is against him and yet he's still out there fighting to protect it. No matter what happens…He's always come back…and now…"
A single tear fell from her eye. "I cannot…handle losing him. He has to come back this time…I love him too much to lose him…But if he doesn't, he'll never know that…He has to come back…"
Pyro nudged into her softly, sighing quietly. She laughed. "And yet I'm still talking to you as if you'd talk back…" She closed her eyes, leaning back into the pillow. "But that's okay…I can talk to you easier than the only one I've ever loved…How sad is that…" Her voice trailed off as she drifted into an uneasy sleep, the dog soundly snoozing beside her.
Hee hee…Well, that didn't turn out to be as long as I would have liked, but I think it meant a lot more than length, so I'm not that concerned anymore.
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Chapter Six: Sense
Sam groaned as the dog whimpered in her ear, pawing at the pillow, but didn't open her eyes. "What?" she grumbled, her voice hoarse. She scratched Pyro's ears softly. "Lay down baby…"
He didn't. Instead she felt him nudging into her several times, clearly trying to wake her up. She opened one eye warily, feeling like she hadn't slept at all. "What…"
Pyro whined again and then barked once, making her open both eyes, defeated. "What's wrong?" she asked. "Do you want out?" She had hoped that it hadn't been the only reason he'd woken her up, but in the back of her mind, she was at least relieved he hadn't gone somewhere in the house.
He made a sad noise again, barking and now that she was more awake, Sam saw that his fur was sticking up over his back, his whole body tensed. Something else was wrong.
Lateraina Wolf