Depths

42. Hush

Wow, what's this??? 3 chapters in 2 days??? It's almost like this story will be finished soon, and then I can HIT THAT COMPLETED BUTTON.

Fun Fact: Phantom is bisexual, which is why Samantha was able to hypnotize him with her pheromones of seduction.

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Danny could feel every inch of that blade as Freakshow shoved him up against a wall with it, and the raven teen squealed as the dagger was shoved in deeper. His knees began to wobble and the feel of blood dripping down to his pants tickled against the numbing pain as the ringmaster yanked the knife out. Danny whimpered in pain but before the attacker could stab him again as he intended, he was tackled to the ground by Phantom who immediately started ripping him apart, similar to how he did to Vlad, only angrier.

The raven looked down at himself, his hands coming up to cover the bloody spot just below his core, the wet redness only continued to grow as he lost more and more blood.

"Danny!" Sam ran over to him just as he lost balance and dropped to the ground. She didn't need to be a doctor to know that the spot that he was stabbed in would lead to not only internal and external bleeding, but he would bleed out in just a couple short minutes if they didn't get him to a hospital as soon as possible.

Sam caught him just before he could hit the floor, and as Tucker crawled over to them on his injured leg and Phantom murdered Freakshow in the most aggressive way possible, Sam put her hands over the wound and applied pressure. "Danny- oh god, Danny. You're gonna be okay."

Her voice was more scared than he remembered her being, and the tears that started falling from her eyes made Danny realize that she was lying. Lying right to his face, whether she knew it herself or not. They all knew that even they did call an ambulance, it wouldn't get there in time.

"Just keep breathing," Sam said as Tucker dialed 911, "focus on me and keep breathing," her voice started to sound further and further away the more blood that he lost, and Danny fought to keep himself awake. It was so cold though, and he was so tired. "No!" Sam started smacking his face, "Don't you go to sleep Danny, wake up. You gotta stay awake." Her best friend wasn't about to die. She didn't form a 15 year strong bond with him just so that he could die now, she wasn't going to lose him. Not now, not for a long time.

The blood that warmed and painted her fingers red said otherwise. Danny choked a little.

Phantom was there in the blink of an eye, covered in Freakshow's blood and looking incredibly in denial as he lifted Danny's head onto his lap. It didn't appear like he knew he was shaking his head frantically, "Danny, you better not be dying right now, you fucking brat."

Danny looked up at Phantom with glassy eyes, breaking out in small broken giggles. Phantom was so funny.

Phantom stared, holding Danny's head in his hands, smelling the amount of blood he was loosing and hearing as his heart began to stop. He kept shaking his head, not realizing when a tear fell from his eye onto the raven's cheek. Danny was pale, his eyes watery as he reached a weakening hand up to grab one of the merman's where it rested on his face.

The last thing he did before his hand lost its grip and his eyes shut was kiss Phantom's thumb, and the merman could hear the second that Danny stopped breathing.

"Danny?" Phantom called, "Danny don't you die, don't you dare die!"

He listened for the pitter-patter that he had grown to love and look for every night before going to sleep, and it wasn't there anymore.

That beautiful noise was gone, and Phantom started to shake.

"Such a sad ending."

Phantom's head shot up as his eyes glowed a fierce red at the god of the underworld, who was currently leaning against the wall with his face resting on his hand. The merman started growling wordlessly until he saw something glowing to his right, and he looked over and froze when Danny's soul stood there, wordlessly staring down at his own body. His spirit looked just like his physical form, only paler, with little to no color as his body reflected a bluish tint and glowed like a flickering flashlight about to run out of battery.