The Other Halfa Danny Phantom: The series

Fanning the Flames: Part 4

"New love triangle? What the heck is she talking about?" Sam pondered out loud as she noticed Danny start to make his way over. 

"What is he doing?" I ask, watching from the sky as he starts crawling to Sam when his face catches my attention.

 Isn't that the face he makes when he sees Paulina? 

"Uh, Danny now would be a really good time to go ghost and fly me out of here. Danny wait! What are you doing?!" Sam asked in a panic as Danny continued crawling over to her.

"Wow, I just never realized how really pretty you are when you're about to fall off a building."

"Danny? Get back! Danny!" Sam shouted as the cut-out began to topple. 

I was frozen in shock and I couldn't snap out of it as I watched the situation unfold, my heart beating fast as I tried to process what I was watching, a certain panic starting to cloud my head.

Does he...?

"Danny stop, don't come any closer," Sam tried to tell Danny and he paused.

"But you're over there and I'm over here, I wanna be over there." 

Studying him closely Sam thought out loud, "Wait I know that look, that's that same longing puppy-dog stare you give Paulina." 

Danny had started to make his way over again as he asked, "Who's Paulina?" 

"That's a pleasant side effect," Sam muttered when she slid off the cut-out screaming.

Sam's screams finally bring me out of the hurtful realization that Danny had a crush on Sam and I rushed to save her when the swat team grabbed her. I weakly smile to see her ok and I fly into an alleyway to de-transform, holding back tears as my heart broke, the realization just how much I liked Danny making it all hurt more. When I walked out the swat team appeared by my side and took me to their trucks as I heard Mr. Lancer begin to shout. 

"Attention students, by the authority of the Emergency Mass Grounding Act, you are all under house arrest! You all will now be returned to your homes to await parental punishment...As for your precious Ember, she's going down!" As he said that the cut-out finally began to fall and he jumped out of the way as it crashed onto the bus he was standing on and the kids began to shout their love for Ember. 

We're dragged back to our homes and Danny, Jazz, and I are tossed into Fenton Works and look up to see our parents glaring down at us.

"What is the matter with you kids?!" Jack asked crossing his arms as Maddie started lecturing us.

"You need to be preparing for the Northwestern nine testing tomorrow." 

With a sigh, Danny asks, "How can I study? All I can think about is Sam." 

Hearing this I felt the tears start to break through and I look away with a shaky breath. Noticing this Mom gives me a worried glance before leading me away to talk in privacy. The last thing I heard before the door was shut was Jazz asking why Danny wasn't thinking of Ember.

The muffled voices of Jack and Maddie arguing are heard as Mom asks, "Sweetie you look like someone just killed your loved ones, what's wrong?" 

Tears were still threatening to fall as I explained what happened. "It's Danny, Mom. I realized I like him and he broke my heart tonight." 

Mom pulled me into a tight hug as she said, "Oh sweetie, if he's just going to hurt you then he's not worth a single tear from you and it's his loss." 

Suddenly we heard Dad call for us, we went into the lab to hear Maddie arguing about not putting us in a medieval containment device. 

"Oh alright, we'll just ground them like every other parent," Jack said with an exasperated sigh.

"I'm going to Ember McClain's midnight concert tonight and there's nothing you can do about it!" Jazz stated as she grabbed me and Danny and started to walk away until Maddie grabbed us.

"You, your brother, and (y/n) are not leaving this house, young lady!"

Trying one more time with the medieval torture device Jack said in a sing-song voice, "Fenton Stockades~" 

This was Maddie's last straw as she glared at her husband and shoved him into the stockade, slamming the door in his face while he shouted to be let out.

Danny, Jazz, and I are forced to our rooms as punishment for skipping school to go to the Ember concert. I tried to do anything to take my mind off of Danny liking Sam when I began to hear music coming from outside. Poking my head out my window I see Jazz sneaking out and joining the crowd of teenagers following the tour bus.

"Shoot," I sigh, knowing I had to at least snap Danny out of it long enough to deal with Ember.

Sneaking into Fenton Works with my ghost powers I enter Danny's room to see an unnerving sight. Danny was meditating on his bed with pictures of Sam, a tube of her lipstick, a choker, a note, a few locks of her hair, and there was even a wad of gum. I felt a shiver roll up my spine when there was a knock at the window. We both turn our heads to see Sam and Danny instantly goes to the window with a bright smile. 

"Sam! You snuck out to see me, aw this is just like Romeo and Juliet, except I'm the one on the balcony and I can understand everything we're saying."

"Danny open up!" Sam demanded and he opened the window and then he started to blabber on about how he used to want a puppy. 

Getting fed up I ask, "Will you knock it off?!" 

"Seriously! We have to stop Ember's concert before she takes over the world!" Sam agreed with me when she noticed everything on the bed. "Okay...Even the part of me that kind of likes the attention is really freaked out by this," Sam muttered as she looked at me with a freaked out what the heck look. 

I give her the same look when Danny swoops in and starts holding Sam's hand stating, "It doesn't matter, so long as we have each other." 

I let out a shaky breath, not sure how to react until Sam started to shout at him. "Snap out of it! You don't really feel that way about me, and I don't feel that way about you!"

Last Edit - August 17th, 2020

Revised - July 8th, 2024