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Tucker, Sam and Danny were hanging out in the park. It was a chilly Friday in early October. The trio sat at the base of a huge oak tree.

"Hey Danny, so Halloween is coming up and it is the last school Halloween before graduation. Wanna do a prank with me?" Sam smirked as she flipped through an old book she had been gifted.

"Sam if this is another plea to save some kind of animal or trying to hook Dash and Paulina up, no. But I am listening." Danny said he stared at the sunset.

"Ew gross that was you guys, I was hoping those two hooked up normally. Why you gotta be playing ghostly matchmaker." Tucker gaged while playing with his new iPhone.

"Hey, I was just as grossed out as you are now. But I was practicing overshadowing multiple people at once. Sam's idea." Danny chuckled. He leaned back and closed his eyes.

"Yeah about that. I was thinking what if you make a duplicate and partially overshadow me." Sam grinned cheekily. Danny starts to protest but Sam just keeps talking. "Then while at school we use powers and convince everyone I am a ghost. I more so wanna play with powers but still. I think it'll be fun." Sam leans into Danny and turns up the charm.

"Sam that sounds like a bad idea. But I think it would be funny. I think Imma have to think about this one." Danny cuddles her back.

"Gross! Dude. Also, honestly what's the worst that can happen. I think Imma just leaving..." Tucker says as he attempted to make a hasty escape before Sam and Danny kiss or something.

"Well now that he is gone. Wanna see what we can do?" Sam says in a way overly flirty way. Danny goes red as a tomato. (🍅)

"Uh. Sam, you mean overshadowing right?... Right?!" Danny says nervously. He nearly turns invisible.

"Yep. That is what I meant." Sam smirks leaning into him. She ran her hand over his chest.

"If you're sure. Also Sam... Never mind you'll hear that thought regardless once we are in the same body. Fuck that's still weird." He shudders and turns ghost. He makes a duplicate and settles on both sides of her. "Let me know when you're ready." He pauses.

Sam holds both his hands. A devilish little smirk over her face. "Yea. I am as ready as ever. I kinda never protest to you being inside me." She winks at him.

Even though she is his girlfriend everything in him screamed nope! Not right now! Not in public. Now he was blushing a bright glowing green. "Uhhhhhh." He just starts to panic. (She broke him. XD poor Danny)

"Oh damn it, Danny," Sam says as she slaps both of his faces. Then she kisses his replica. He panics more as she predicted and phases into her. She thinks for a second. 'Where is a better place to hide than the person making you flustered. Oh Danny you are too easy.'

"Wait I heard that?! Sam? Sorry, my brain is a mess since you got me flustered." He snaps out of it from hearing her thoughts.

"Yeah don't worry I am fine. Just fuzzy can you tone it back a bit. I was hoping to just have you let me use your powers. Brain fog and fighting to control me I could do without." Sam says while she seems to be fighting against Danny's consciousness.

It sounds like a weird echo when she talks to him. 'Gonna be hard to get used, too.' He thinks. He relaxes and relaxes the duplicate, letting himself settle into her but not trying to push her around.

"Wait, did I just hear your thoughts? Woah, is this how you see all the time. It's like daylight but I know it's night." She says as she visually relaxes.

They both sit quietly for a long while looking up at the night sky. Sam can feel the satisfaction radiating from deep inside her. No him. She felt how powerful a ghostly obsession could be and got gratifying it was when he got to indulge in it. "Danny, why hadn't you told us how this was on you?" She doesn't look away from the sky. He doesn't answer for a long moment. " You don't have to, I got that you were thinking and strangely enough I understand." She says as she leans into his side letting herself melt into his cool side.

"Sam, I had no idea how to explain it without making myself sound crazy." He says as he runs a gloved hand softly over her head. Her hair almost floating between his fingers.

They both fell asleep under the oak tree in the park.

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"OH MY GOD!! I knew you two are dating!" Wes shouted as he snapped a photo. Danny and Sam were both startled awake. Danny notices he is still in his ghost form and panics. Both Sam and Danny turn invisible.

Wes just laughs. "Don't worry, I already accepted no one believes me. But I am gonna still add this to the scrapbook." He laughs so hard he found himself with hands on his knees almost wheezing at their reaction. (I was thinking of the dying laughing meme)

They turn back. "Wes I swear if anyone at school sees that I will personally make you a ghost," Sam growls as her eyes glow green.

"Well, I gotta run! Seeya!" Wes says as he darts away.

Danny looks at Sam with mild concern in his eyes. "Sam, you with ghost powers is actually a disturbing thought. Maybe this was a bad idea." He thinks about pulling his clone back.

"No I wanna have fun with this, I promise I won't hurt anyone or myself. Besides I never said I was gonna let you take this chance from me." She pulls up the old book she has and opens it to a bookmarked page and begins to read. "Potenca spirito fariĝu unu kun via gastiganto. Vi ne povas foriri ĝis vi estas eksigita aŭ ĝis la rikolta luno estos pasinta...Una mecum esto." Her eyes glow and the temperature drops significantly and the wind picks up.

"What are you doing?! Sam?! I... Can you stop?" Danny panics as she starts a spell. He tries to recall his duplicate but fails. He's stuck. Well, kinda his main consciousness is still outside of her but he also cannot take control of her.

Once she finishes her spell everything stops and it is dead quiet. The air warms up again and the wind dies. It's still, too still. "Sorry Danny but, this is gonna happen now whether you want it to or not. Also now you should be able to turn human and not worry about too much power drain." She says in a grim but cheery voice.

"You could have asked first... It feels weird though. I can still hear, feel, smell and I guess taste what my duplicate does but I can't control it. Sam what did you do exactly? Honesty I feel like I would be more bothered but I kinda expected something like this from you." Danny says as he turns back into his human form. Slumping back against the old tree, he checks his phone. "It's getting really late we should head home."

"Yeah, it is almost 2am... Ida must be worried sick. Also, what I did is I bound the ghost part of you that's possessing me to me and trapped it until I dismiss it or Halloween passes." She calmly explained as she stood up and offered him a hand.

He takes it and stands up with her. After he gets up he turns into his ghost form once again and makes them float. "Wanna fly with me?" He smiles as a green glow floods his face.

"Of course, I will. But let me lead this time." Sam grins as she drags them into the air.

Forgetting she can control his powers Danny panics for a second. Then melts into the strength she is carrying with her. Even if it is just his own.

Flying over the town's sky they slow as they glide above the clouds. The stars being more present than ever to Sam.

Eventually, they make it to Sam's house and Danny says goodnight before leaving for his house. Was that mint he could taste? Oh, she's brushing her teeth.

Making it home he feels tired and the night's events hit him. Holy shit what did I agree to?! Then a voice answers back "Letting me use a duplicate for powers. Clueless I swear." It was Sam's.

He turns human flopping onto his bed and screams into his pillow. This was going to be a long month. Eventually, he falls asleep again.

The next morning he is woken up on time by the taste of strong coffee and toast. 'Sam? Good morning. I guess.'

'Oh morning, sleep well?' she thinks in response.

'well enough. Seeya at school.' he responds as he gets up and ready for school. They both leave around the same time for school.

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Walking into the school we both realized we were at school but not in sight of each other. 'Danny, did you come in the south side again?' Sam questioned.

'Yea... I had wanna meet at my locker?' I think hoping she can still hear my thoughts. I feel a sense of acknowledgment that's not a thought or verbalized.

"Fenturd!" A familiar yell comes from behind.

I turn around. "Dash, can we not do this today?" I glared at him.

"Why Fentina you have a date or something?" He says walking into my personal space.

I start backing up. "NO. I just want to get to class on time for once." I feel the lockers hit my back. 'Great.'

Dash slams his open hand against the locker right beside my ear. 'ouch "Listen you are not getting out of a wailing with that." He says as he goes to grab my shirt.

I see Sam pop into visibility behind Dash. "Why don't you just leave him alone." She grabs the collar of his jacket and jerks him back. He grabs my shirt and I intangibility let him slide through it.

He lands on his ass. "Oh, you two are so going to pay for that!" He growls.

"Oh, will we now?" Sam says leaning in over him she grins with far too many sharp teeth and her eyes glow a soft purple.

"Get your freaky goth girlfriend away from me!" Dash says as he basically starts crawling back from the two of us.

"Go pick on someone else Dash. We don't have time for this!" I growl my eyes flaring unintentionally.

'Danny eyes.' I hear her nag. 'Like your one to talk.' I retort.

"Anyways, wanna get a coffee from the cafeteria then head to Mr. Lancer's class?" Sam smiles, now normal looking and a soft glow in her eyes.

"Yeah sure. But your buying." I laugh as we turn walking down the hall.

We walk down the hall together. I notice Sam bouncing every now and then into an almost float. 'Sam, are you trying to float?' I mull over the thought of helping her a bit. Too risky.

'I got this. Actually, I think people are staring at us. Oop.' she places her feet firmly on the ground.

We enter the cafeteria it's mostly quiet other than the lunch lady working on cookies for the afternoon. Also, Tucker was making up his morning coffee.

"Hey, Tuck. How's it going?" I smiled happily as I join him in making up our coffee. Sam followed suit.

"I managed to avoid Dash and Kwan so, so far so good. Ready for English class. I got my essay about "To Kill A Mockingbird" done. I think I am going to ace it this time." Tucker warmly said as he paid for his coffee.

"That's good. I got it written but not typed so I am definitely going to lose marks but it's done." I wait for Sam to finish making her coffee and come pay for our coffees.

"I'm coming, just be patient," Sam said rolling her eyes.

"Dude, I am just happy we actually got our projects done for a change. Weirdly, there haven't been any ghostly interruptions in a few days." Tucker leans on the cash counter sipping on his coffee.

The lunch lady coughs and points at the clock. 'Shit we have 2 minutes till class. Good thing I already got our coffees.' Sam thinks grabbing my arm.

"Tuck we should really get to class," I say as I walk out of the cafeteria.

Sam grabs both Tucker's and my arms once we are out of the cafe and phases us through the halls as she flies us to class with her. 'Don't worry Danny we can make it. Besides this always did look like fun.' I hear her chuckle.

"Sam?! How?" Tucker shouts startled.

We all land in front of the class, first bell had rung so no one was in the halls. Sam let's go of both of us. "Well, I can explain after class for now let's try not to be late."

I pull a small vile out of my bag and pour it into my coffee. "Long story short, we are trying out a possibly stupid idea." I laugh as I am the first into the classroom.

Surprisingly there weren't any empty seats in class today everyone was there and no one was late. Well actually Mr.Lancer was three minutes late but I decided not to count that. Not long after taking our seats and pulling out our binders the teacher spoke. "Okay class, before we get into today's lesson plan. I would like to collect your essays on To Kill A Mockingbird." Lancer said as he pulled out some papers from his desk and pulled up the smart board at the front of the class.

After handing in our projects and me getting a questioning look from lancer when I handed in my crumpled handwritten piece, we all sat down and listened to Lancer talk about the up-and-coming test on the book and something about resilience. For once I was actually paying attention. Kind of anyways. Sam posted me every now and then to keep me awake. She must have felt I was tired.

I kept glancing at the clock going time had gone by but it was going slowly and droning on. But ten minutes till the end of class I found myself drifting towards a mid-day nap.

I woke up to a violent full-body shiver and a powerful gasp of winter-like air escaping my mouth. I sat straight up and raised my hand shouting to be excused. Turns out Sam and Valerie had done the same at the same time.

"Jiminy crickets! There are two minutes left in this class could you three wait!" Lancer says slamming his hands on his desk and now standing up.

'Wow new level of ticked off from Lancer.' I think. Sam holds back a laugh.

Well, whatever was coming was too late since it felt like it was just outside the classroom door.

The school ghost alarms went off.