Saving Mrs. Jones

A Scooby Fan-Fic

By: Daphne Van Stevenson

A/N: Hey!!! Alright so those of you who have read my other stories, know that Fred's mother was supposedly killed in Navy training in Vietnam when he was about twelve, or was she?? In this story evidence turns up that she might be still alive and so the gang is off to Hawaii to try and solve the case. I am not putting this under romance cause even though there are romantic parts it's not really the full theme. I found adventure and family more appropriate. So to clear up any lose ends in this story Shaggy is 21, Fred and Daphne are 20, and Velma is 19. Scooby is just whatever age, I don't know!

Disclaimer: I do not own Scooby-Doo, but if you would like to buy it for me I would not object…

Bang! Thunder clapped and rain fell hard on the roof of the Jones house in Coolsville California. Fred Jones sat up in bed, he couldn't sleep, he decided to see if any one else could. He got up and walked toward the living room, where the rest of the gang was. The group of friends who liked to call themselves Mystery Inc. had gone on a weekend camping trip and had just returned that night. They had all been so tired they decided to crash at Fred's house.

Daphne Blake lay on the couch, pretending to be asleep; it was raining way too hard to get any real sleep. She thought of the weekend when she had awoken in her sleeping bag to find her hand in Fred's. Man she wished they had more time together, then as if by some freaky dream chance she heard his soft whisper, "Daphne, hey Daph, you awake?" Daphne opened her eyes to see Fred's blue ones staring down at her.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep, you?" Daphne sat up and motioned for the blonde to sit down next to her.

"Me neither, not at all, but then again this is just like the night…" Fred trailed off.

"Like the night what, Freddie?" Daphne asked scooting closer.

"Er never mind." he said looking nervous.

"Freddie, come on, no one else is awake!" Daphne smiled pointing at the floor. There lay Shaggy and Scooby both of which were in deep sleeps and snoring lightly. Velma lay on the other couch with her back turned, but she was awake and listening to every single word!

"Daph, well as much as I care about you, er I really don't want to discuss this." he said as a thunder clap echoed through the house. Daphne shivered and scooted closer to the blonde man. He put his arm around her shoulder.

"Why Freddie?" she asked looking at him with her clear blue eyes. Then it hit her and she kept quiet for a while. Eventually she laid her head on his shoulder and whispered to him. "Your mother right Fred? Oh I'm so sorry…"

Velma couldn't take it anymore she rolled over and mumbled. "Hey, why are you up?" pretending she hadn't heard what was going on.

"We couldn't sleep Velma, what about you?" Fred asked somehow sensing that Velma heard everything.

"Er well yeah, me neither." The petite brunette grabbed her glasses and put them on.

A loud boom echoed through the house again and it caused Scooby and Shaggy to jump out of their makeshift bed on the floor and onto the couch next to Velma. Well in Scooby's case on top of Velma.

After a while of sitting in the quiet darkness Velma broke the silence. "Fred, um well I couldn't help hearing you earlier, what was this night just like?" she asked not knowing what kind of sore spot she had just hit.

Fred winced and Daphne sat up straighter. "Velma!' she said in a low almost menacing whisper.

"Oh so you can tell her but not us, come on Fred, Mystery Inc. is a team, and if we keep secrets from each other than well we'll never win a game." Velma pointed out.

"It's not that at all Velma" Fred said sounding sorry and shocked. "It's just well, um I have to use the restroom." he got up and walked off down the hallway.

Velma looked at the redhead for an answer; if Fred told anyone anything that someone was sure to be Daphne. "Vel," Daphne said. "Velma listen, even though its been a while Fred has had a hard time with the loss of his mother, and I think it pains him more to get emotional about it then talk about it, he's the leader, Vel, and well he likes to feel brave and tough, but you know inside, he's well, still human."

Velma sat there thinking and listening, she knew it had been hard on Fred, but that was eight years ago, no Velma thought a bit deeper and finally came to a conclusion.

When Fred came back into the room he sat down next to Daphne, well more like right up against Daphne but whatever and she looked at him. "Freddie, we've been talking and we think, that there's something more, than you've told us about your mom." she said her voice kind of shaking. When Fred had been gone Velma, Shaggy and Scooby elected Daphne to bring this question up, because Fred rarely got mad at her. She didn't really want to, but this was one of her best friends, well ok maybe more than a friend, and she didn't want him to hate her.

Fred stared at her wondering if he should tell them his theory. Then he decided to, I mean after all these were not strangers off the street these were people he had known since Junior High, his best friends in the whole world, and the girl he loved more than anything, he took a deep breath and said the one sentence the once sentence that all these years he had been yearning to tell his dad but was afraid he wouldn't listen. "I have the strangest feeling, that she's still alive." he said.

Then they heard a beeping sound coming from the kitchen. "That's my dad's cell phone." Fred said getting off the couch and running toward the kitchen. When he got there he turned ghostly pale.

"Freddie are you ok?" Daphne asked coming up behind him.

"Daph, that number, that's the number of my mom's old phone…" he managed to get out before picking up the phone. "Hello?"

Cliffhanger, er kinda! please tell me what you think about this story!!!