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This is an AU story based on the movie WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING. In my story, Daphne is waiting tables at Café' Nervosa. She witnesses Frasier being mugged. Marty and Niles invited her to live with Frasier to help him recover. Everyone thinks that Daphne is Frasier's fiancée . At the same time, Niles and Daphne are growing closer by the day.
"Yes, Mum. I'd love to go home and take care of your bunions."
Daphne sighed, praying that her calling card would run out of minutes. "
It's just that…well, I have a very important job here in Seattle."
" Of course I do, and I wish you'd stop laughing at me. Why is it that every time I try to give you some good news you think I'm lying?"
Of course, Daphne was lying. She was working at the local café house, waiting tables. In fact, her shift was about to start. But she was desperate to say anything to get her mother to bugger off.
"All right. I'm lying. I'm sorry. The truth is, I've met a man."
A dramatic pause followed by her mother's hysterical laughter only ticked Daphne off that much more. With a disgusted look on her face, she held out the phone so that any passer by could hear what she had to put up with. At that very moment, Daphne's very favorite customer happened to walk by. He was a very handsome man, a doctor at that from what she gathered. He would have to be- he ordered coffee every single day. Daphne could never understand the need for shelling out eight dollars for a cup of coffee. A beer, perhaps, but certainly not a coffee.
For such a well dress man, he seemed to Daphne to be a very sad individual.
"Sorry, I've got to go, Mum." She whispered. "I have to talk to me finacee."
Another lie.
At that very moment, a man mugged the man. The doctor fell to the ground so hard that his head started to bleed.
"What's the matter with all of you?" Daphne cried out. "Somebody call the emergency services!"
Immediately, Daphne began to start CPR on Dr. Crane. Little did she know that her life was about to change in ways that she could never imagine.
Daphne Moon, being the compassionate type, rode along in the ambulance. Fortunately a stranger had managed to stop the mugger and had handed her the doctor's briefcase. Café' Nervosa could wait. This poor man was hurt and all alone. No one deserved to be in a situation like this and be alone. She'd worked at the café for over six months now and had never seen him with anyone at all. Actually, truth be told, she'd developed a bit of a crush on him. But she was just a working class girl from Mancester and he was a well to do doctor. There was no way that someone like him would ever consider her to be the woman of his dreams.
There would be time enough for all of that day dreaming later. All Daphne knew was a lonely man was in trouble, and she would do anything possible to help. After all, she held back tears, she, too, knew all too well what it was like to be lonely. For all she knew, this man didn't have any family. You could be the only girl out of nine children and still be rather lonely.
Curiousity got the best of her. She opened his briefcase. "Frasier. Dr. Frasier Crane." She whispered. So he did have a name. And it suited him just fine.
"Maam." The paramedic asked. "What is your finacee's name?"
"Dr. Frasier Crane." She blurted out.
Fiancee? Where in the world would they come up with that…oh yes…someone must have overheard my conversation with my mother. Now's not the time to deny it. This poor man is barely breathing and needs me right now.
Daphne held Frasier's hand. "You just take it easy, Frasier. Everything will be just fine. I promise."
