Scooby Doo MI AU
By: Sayaalv
(A/N: see last chapter.)
It was a few weeks later and the entire gang, plus Angel, were at Freds house just lounging around as it rained outside.
"I'm so bored." Shaggy complained plopping down in a couch and steadily looking anywhere but at Velma or Daphne. Anytime he came within three feet of Velma Scooby would growl at him for some reason and Angel would glare at him something fierce.
"Fred I think I've read every magazine in your house." Daphne complained next as she idly shifted through some magazines while Fred was working on some kind of trap near his front door. Daphne suddenly caught glimpse of a magazine shoved into the middle of the couch, between the two cushions, and reached for it curiously.
"What's this?" Daphne asked causing Fred's head to shoot up only to see the magazine already in Daphnes hands. Angel snickered and whispered something in Velmas ear that had her snickering when Fred flew over the couch as he tried to take the magazine from Daphne.
"Trap Weekly? Freddie!" Daphne said sounding as if Fred had been reading a dirty magazine.
"I-I read it for the articles. In fact. It's where I got the idea for this beauty!" Fred said taking the magazine from Daphne sheepishly and pointing towards the trap he had set outside his front door.
"Can I look through your eyes for a minute Angel?" Velma asked her mate curiously, wondering what Fred had set up near his front door.
"Sure thang Babypop." Angel said smiling at her mate, a few days ago they had learned that if Velma concentrated then she would be able to see through someone else's eyes but she never did so without permission. A green glow entered Angel's eyes showing that Velma was looking through them towards the front door where Fred's trap was set.
"Who do you expect to trap outside your front door?" Velma asked smirking slightly when she felt the mind of some guy walking towards the front door just as she finished talking.
"Let's find out." Fred said putting down the magazine and rushing to his front door to see who he had caught.
"Err. I've got a package for a 'Fred Jones'." The poor delivery man said causing Angel and Velma to laugh slightly.
"You trapped the delivery man. Nice Fred." Velma said laughing as Fred took the package from the man and shut the door.
"That's gotta hurt." Angel said trying her best to hide her snickers when Fred released the trapping mechanism which made the poor delivery man to fall with a loud 'oomph'.
"What is it?" Velma asked curiously since she had stopped looking through Angel's eyes once she had seen the trap.
"Like, I think it's a box." Shaggy said trying to be funny as lightning flashed outside causing the others to give him deadpanned looks.
"It's from Mr. E. Saved this for a rainy day. Enjoy." Daphne said taking the small pink envelope on top of the Styrofoam packaging and gasping when she opened it, revealing the stamp with the E on it.
"Mr. E gives me the creeps." Velma said rubbing her shoulders slightly to get rid of the goosebumps she always got whenever Mr. E was mentioned. Angel immediately wrapped an arm around Velmas shoulder to try and sooth the teens goosebumps and no one even glanced at them. The others knew that Velma had been closest with Angel even before the accident and now she was nearly inseparable from the radio DJ.
"Ooh cute purse." Daphne said reaching to grab the green scale patterned purse that Fred had pulled out of the box, Fred quickly holding it out of her zone of reach and causing Angel to grab it with a slight roll of her eyes.
"Focus Baby." Angel said causing Daphne to settle down somewhat while Fred saw the label on the back of the purse.
"Check it out. 100% pure alligator made in Gatorsburg." Fred read off of the label causing Angel's eyebrows to shoot up, Gatorsburg was a ghost town when she was a kid and she doubted that it had changed at all over the year.
"Gatorsburg?" Shaggy asked gulping slightly in fear although the other ignored him.
"But that's impossible. Gatorsburg hasn't manufactured gator products in years." Daphne said being the fashion knowledgeable one of the group and therefor she would have known if Gatorsburg had started manufacturing gator products again.
"Not since the Gator Mines dried up." Velma agreed, having looked it up a few months ago for an essay that had to do in history class when covering gator related history.
"Gator mines?" Shaggy gulped again as the lightning flashed outside, causing him to jump while Scooby was sniffing the purse as Velma gave him a brief history on Gatorsburg history.
"Ohhh. Smells new." Scooby said causing Fred to smile and rub his hands together.
"Gang. Looks like we have ourselves a mystery." Fred said causing all but Shaggy and Scooby to smile. Scooby may have gotten over most of his fear since he had to help Velma now but he was still getting used to liking the fear and mysteries, he was nowhere near as bad as he used to be though.
"Oh sweet Christmas finally!" Velma cried playfully causing Angel to laugh as the gang rushed towards the door, Angel and Scooby guiding Velma towards it a little ways behind the other three who were caught in Freds trap.
A few minutes later and the Mystery Machine was roaring towards Gatorsburg after Angel had stopped snickering at Shaggy's plight long enough to get him, Fred, and Daphne down from Freds trap. Although Velma hadn't helped when she practically begged to see the gang caught in the trap through Angels eyes and then proceeded to laugh like hell when Angel agreed.
"I'm only sensing three people in the town besides us." Velma commented in confusion when the gang arrived in Gatorsburg and got out to search for clues. Scooby had, reluctantly and only after confirming with Velma that it was alright, gone after Shaggy to 'investigate' Gatorburger while Fred and Daphne were searching near a gas station a ways away. That had left Angel and Velma to investigate wherever it is they wanted to search for clues.
"Hey Babypop? Mind if I ask ya a question?" Angel asked smiling as she lead her mate towards where Velma had sensed someone at but they found nothing, other than a nice secluded spot where they could talk without anyone overhearing them.
"What is it Angel?" Velma asked tilting her head towards her mate's general direction curiously and causing Angel to tweak her nose playfully.
"Why do you keep calling me 'Angel' when we're alone instead of 'Cassidy'?" Angel asked curiously, wondering about that ever since she had told Velma about her real name.
"Because to me you are an Angel. You're my Angel." Velma said blushing slightly as she turned her unseeing eyes away from Angel who grinned at this. Angel was about to kiss the top of Velmas forehead when Velma tilted her head up to ask Angel something causing their lips to accidently meet. Angel and Velma both froze as they felt their lips connect but they didn't pull away, it felt nice to both of them.
"C'mon gang! There's nothing to trap here!" Fred yelled for his friends, breaking Angel and Velma from their stupors and causing them both to blush lightly before Angel led Velma back towards the van and the rest of the gang.
"We can talk 'bout that later baby." Angel whispered into Velmas ear as she helped the exotic looking girl into the van, causing Velma to nod ever so slightly in agreement.
"Huh. That's strange." Fred said as he turned the key in the ignition only for them to hear a click sound instead of the engine starting. Fred got out and popped the hood before looking into it with a flashlight as Daphne climbed out to stand next to him with Angel and Velma not to far behind.
"Can you tell what the problem is?" Daphne asked without even glancing underneath the open hood to see what it might be herself.
"See that hole there? That should be an engine." Fred said bluntly to Daphne while Velma, through Angel's eyes, looked towards where the engine should be only to see nothing.
