Chapter 5: Assuming and Analyzing

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Danny found Phoebe looking at samples of slime as she looked incredibly sad. Danny realized that everyone was right and he remembered when he first started crushing on Sam. Danny walked over to Phoebe and sat down next to her.

"Hey Phoebe. Are you ok?" Danny asked and Phoebe avoided eye contact as she continued to look at the samples.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be ok, and furthermore, how would you even know if something was wrong? We just met and know nothing about each other so there should logically be no feelings towards one another." Phoebe responded and Danny nodded in understanding.

"Yeah. But sometimes our hearts don't follow logic and there's nothing wrong with that, especially when your learning how to handle new things your hearts never felt before...like....i don't know, a first crush." Danny said this and Phoebe looked to him sadly.

"How did you know?" Phoebe asked unsurely and Danny smirked.

"I didn't. Your brother caught onto it and he told me that I should come and talk to you and he was right." Danny spoke the honest truth and Phoebe looked slightly surprised.

"I didn't realize he knew me so well." Phoebe sighed.

"Look, I'm sorry that I'm already taken." Danny addressed the situation at hand as Sam walked into the room and started listening from the doorway as she had been slightly crying. Phoebe and Danny were busy talking and didn't notice her. "The truth is that, I was in your situation once too. My first crush's name was Paulina. She was a few years older than me." Danny explained and Phoebe looked surprised.

"I thought her name was Sam." Phoebe pointed out.

"She wasn't my first crush." Danny replied.

"Well, shouldn't your first crush be the one your supposed to be with forever?" Phoebe asked.

"I'm sure there are people out there where that's the case but for me, it never would have happened with Paulina the way I imagined it." Danny said this and Sam looked crushed.

"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked in confusion.

"Well, the only reason I crushed on Paulina is because she was one of the prettiest girls in the school according to everybody. I'm sure I was 1 out of 100 who had a crush on her, and while attraction is a part of a relationship, it's only the tip of the iceberg. My REAL genuine first crush in my opinion was Sam. But for technical purposes, I didn't want to get you confused. I crushed on Paulina first, but the first time I ever fell for someone when it was more than their looks was with Sam. I only started dating Valerie before Sam because I thought Sam wasn't into me even though I'm pretty sure she was. Valerie and Paulina were awesome and I'm sure there's the perfect guy for them somewhere, but the only girl I've ever met that's had it all was Sam. She's beautiful, smart, courageous, and she doesn't get googly eyed simply because I save people's lives for a living. She's always been there for me even when everybody hated me for a while. Every time I truly needed her, she was always there. I genuinely couldn't have done any of this without her." Danny explained and Phoebe still looked unsure, but Sam was on the verge of crying for a whole different reason now. She had never heard him talk so highly of her before. He always defended her, but never like this.

"I get why she likes you so much, your smart and your really handsome." Phoebe sighed and Danny smirked.

"There's a good chunk of people that would disagree with you about that but to be honest, sometimes our best friends tend to be the ones we love the most. I don't know if you've noticed but your friend in there looks like he has a bit of a thing for you too." Danny pointed out and Phoebe looked like he was being ridiculous.

"Podcast? What? No. There's no way. He's my best friend. He would have told me already." Phoebe discounted it and Danny let out a laugh.

"Well if Sam and I had genuinely told each other everything, we probably would have been boyfriend and girlfriend a long time ago, because even when we pretended to kiss forever ago, I knew we had something different. Sam was my first kiss even if it wasn't meant to be real. We've always had the most incredible chemistry and eventually we stopped assuming it was because we were best friends. You might be surprised if you ever decide that your ready to ask Podcast if he feels that way." Danny explained and Phoebe thought about it for a second. "Just make sure you feel the same way before you ask."

"I mean....I don't make friends very often, but with him it was easier. He's the only one who finds my jokes funny too. He's the only one who's ever made me happy other than my family, but with him I feel like I'm not as weird as everybody says I am. I'm not sure I wanna ruin that for something as illogical as dating." Phoebe explained as she weighed the reality in front of her. "He does make me smile though and there's not a lot of people who can do that."

"You sound like my inner thoughts for the first three years of high school. I will warn you, if you debate about it too long, you're gonna regret it. I didn't fully realize how in love with Sam I was until someone else started dating her. Just be weary because if you don't ask, someone will." Danny warned Phoebe and Phoebe nodded. "And yes, dating has zero logic behind it, but that's because your heart is what is being used during that time. Don't discount it because it's not your brain making the choices. Sometimes the heart knows better and sometimes logic doesn't matter. One more piece of advice. If you're sure that you love him and have feelings for him, your not going to ruin your relationship with him. Don't waste your time questioning why you're sure either. That's the one thing I've learned to be true over my years. When it comes to love, there is no logic, when you know, you know. Don't doubt it, because we only get so much time on this earth. Don't waste it, like I did with Paulina and Valerie." Phoebe smiled and nodded.

"Thanks for the advice. I'll think about it." Phoebe said. "And thanks for talking to me instead of letting me waste my time being upset and questioning something that I shouldn't be." Phoebe finished talking and then she went back to looking at the samples.

Danny turned and saw Sam and he saw that she had been crying.

"Oh god, what did I do now?" Danny sighed and Sam rushed over and hugged him.

"Tucker said you only dated me because you couldn't get Paulina and you blew it with Valerie." Sam tattle tailed on their friend and Danny gently pushed her in front of him.

"You don't believe him do you?" Danny asked.

"I did at first, but then after everything you just said that worry went away." Sam responded and Danny nodded.

"I'll go talk to Tucker." Danny sighed and then Phoebe spoke up.

"Hey Danny, does ghost ectoplasm typically show reflections in your world?" Phoebe asked and Danny looked confused.

"Not really. It looks a little shiny but nothing major. It's actually not common for ectoplasm to occur all that often here to be honest but the few times it has showed up it's not been very shiny." Danny explained and Phoebe nodded in understanding.

"It's not extremely reflective in my world either but with Bloody Mary's ectoplasm, I can see the reflection of my eye in the sample and it reflects about 100 times which means that it's refractive as well. It's like my eyes is multiplying. Considering she was able to get around to millions of mirrors in seconds, I'm assuming she can travel through reflections and now there are no barriers containing her." Phoebe explained. "Which means that if she's really after kids, she could have already attacked hundreds of kids in the last 20 minutes."

Venkman walked over to her with Slimer by his side and he was holding a bag of chips and he offered her some.

"I'm not hungry knowing I just released something that's going to go and wipe out my entire generation of people." Phoebe stated and Venkman shrugged.

"I said it was bad." Venkman pointed out and then Danny shook his head and turned to Sam.

"Ok, I'll talk to Tucker later. Right now we need to go figure out a plan." Danny sighed and Sam nodded.

"Obviously that's more important right now." Sam agreed and Danny looked unsure.

"Was that......sarcasm?" Danny asked and Sam frowned.

"No. We have more important things to handle than the fact that Tucker said something that needs to be corrected." Sam snapped and Danny nodded.

"Just wanted to be sure." Danny replied and then they all went upstairs to talk to everybody.

Venkman walked over and grabbed the papers.

"Why do you get to lead the talk?" Danny and Ray asked at the same time.

" I did the research, you're not taking credit for my paper." Venkman stated and Ray rolled his eyes. "Ok so let's begin shall we. So Ray told me to look up Mary Tudor who was Queen Mary the 1st of England, and while I was able to find the story of Bloody Mary from that, it's technically not the person we were looking to research. Mary Tudor is the one who everyone assumes was the Bloody Mary Ghost, but she actually wasn't. The true Bloody Mary ghost is the one and only Mary Worth who despite her appearance in comics is actually quite terrifying. Long story short she would kidnap children, put them under a spell Hocus Pocus style and murder them and very much like in Hocus Pocus, the longer the children were missing the more beautiful the witch would become, because apparently the witch was ugly." Venkman explained.

"So basically, we're on a time limit. The longer we allow her to roam free, the more energy she will draw from these kids and eventually she will become powerful enough to resurrect her human form and at that point both of our worlds are in peril." Ray agreed as he explained further and everybody grew silent.

"So....what do we do? How are we supposed to find her?" Danny asked and Ray shrugged.

"I've been watching the news and I don't even know where to start because two dimensions have collided into one, so part of our world exists and part of your world exists now. All I know is that she is definitely attacking what still exists of New York. She hasn't gone far. She could but she hasn't, so I'm thinking that she may be stuck in a certain area until she gains a certain level of power. So we need to act now. What did she say when she was breaking out of the glass? Anything in particular?" Ray asked and Phoebe thought about it.

"She just said she was FINALLY free." Phoebe sighed.

"I mean I doubted about doing it myself, and then I thought I heard myself say, do it, and so I did it." Danny explained as he didn't want to get blamed to heavily. " I really need to start trusting my gut and not my brain sometimes."

"Wait a minute, the same thing happened to me. I doubted it and I thought I thought the words, do it, as well, and so I did it." Phoebe realized that something was wrong and they might not have thought anything at all.

"It's possible she used her magic to make you guys go through with it." Lucky joked and then Ray stood up.

"I've got a theory and I'm gonna test it out." Ray said and he turned to Slimer. "Slimer, speak." Slimer nodded and looked at Ray as he shrugged.

"Bleh she bes me dra gooola mu?" Slimer said and Phoebe looked to Ray and Ray just stared at her for a minute.

"He asked you a question Ray." Phoebe pointed out and Ray smirked.

"You understood Slimer?" Ray asked and Phoebe nodded. "What did he say?"

"He asked, what do you want me to say? Didn't you hear him?" Phoebe asked and Ray smiled.

"No. Did anybody understand Slimer?" Ray asked and Danny nodded.

"Yeah, you didn't?" Danny asked and Ray shook his head.

"Sounded like complete gibberish to me." Ray replied and then Danny looked to Sam.

"Maybe it's just the way things are in your world." Danny sighed and then he looked to Sam.

"It sounded like gibberish to me too Danny." Sam agreed with Ray and Danny looked confused.

"Are you telling me that nobody but Phoebe and I understood what that ghost was asking?" Danny asked and everybody nodded.

"I bet their both sensitive to spirits and their chant happening at the same time must have busted straight through that barrier and contacted Bloody Mary and broke her out." Podcast theorized.

"I would also bet a million dollars that she can't go far from you two. You two are formed the portal that released her, and if you two stray too far from her or if she goes too far away her power will weaken which means that we need to find her because eventually she'll grow strong enough to not need the portal and once that happens you two are the first ones she'll come for." Ray stated.

"Why would she come for me? I'm technically an adult." Danny pointed out.

"You and Phoebe formed the portal, which means you and Phoebe can put her right back where she belongs. She has to get rid of you two to know that her reign will continue." Ray explained and Winston looked mildly frustrated.

"We promised this baby's momma that she wouldn't be in any danger and now she's in so much danger that she could outright be killed? Is that what I'm hearin?" Winston asked and Ray nodded.

"Sadly, yes." Ray replied and everybody grew quiet.

"Well....this just got interestingly messed up." Tucker sighed and everybody agreed.

"But how do we find her and stop her?" Danny reiterated.

"We set up a trap, with live bait, the only kind she'll take." Ray explained and everybody looked confused.

"Sam, Tucker, and I are all adults legally, and technically so is Phoebe's brother, and Phoebe's brothers girlfriend." Danny pointed out and Ray nodded.

"Yup." Ray huffed.

"And she's not powerful enough to come after Phoebe yet or Phoebe would already be taken down." Danny added and Ray nodded.

"Exactly, which leaves what option?" Ray asked and then Ray and Danny slowly looked to Podcast and Podcast let out a sigh.

"Oh boy." Podcast sighed and Phoebe felt her heart stop and wasn't sure why.

"You.....you can't...." Phoebe felt the words slip out of her mouth. "What if we can't stop her from hurting him?"

"We will." Ray replied simply and Phoebe looked to Podcast sadly.

"You don't have to do this Podcast." Phoebe stated and Podcast took a deep breath in and let it out as he crossed his arms.

"But I'm a ghostbuster, and if I'm the only chance we have at catching her, then so be it." Podcast said and Phoebe shook her head as she didn't know what to say.

"Great. It's a plan then." Ray stated surely and everybody was happy with it except for Phoebe. Danny looked at her sympathetically.

"We'll have his back Phoebe. I promise." Danny assured her and Phoebe still didn't speak. 


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