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Chapter 4: Truth?
"Like yummy! We've died and gone to heaven man!" Shaggy said, drolling over the buffet of food.
"Reahhhh!" Scooby agreed.
"Hey guys!" Fred said jumping in front of their heavenly view of the never ending buffet.
"Heaven just ended." Shaggy sighed to Scooby.
"Shaggy, have you seen the girls?"
"Like dude, I see heavenly girls everywhere, as in...right in front of my face." Shaggy said, staring down the dounuts.
"Thanks..." Fred sighed. Then catching a glimps of the two Mystery Incorporated girls walking into the area of welcoming vacation.
"Girls, there you are!" Fred said. "I've been looking all over the place for ya."
"Sorry, Velma & I we're finishing unpacking." Daphne said.
"Well, if you two don't mind, I'm going to settle down & read my book." Velma said, walking over to a table for three off the party site. A moan came from Daphne's empty stomach as she held it embarssed.
"Oh man, Daph. You haven't eaten a bite all day." Fred said, noticing her looking hungry and rather tired. "Let's get you some food. Don't want to be out of energy on vacation!" Daphne smiled, following Fred to the buffet tables.
"Oh gosh, everything looks so tasty!" Daphne said, almost sounding like Shaggy. Fred laughed.
"Sorry you had to go this long, you should have mentioned you were hungry, I would've pulled over & got you a bite."
"Thanks Freddie. But, really. I go with out food more than you know. "
"That isn't healthy." Fred said playfully as he put dessert on his plate.
"Oh Freddie, you worry about me too much." Daphne said.
"Maybe not enough." He said, as the two walked toward the table Velma was reading at.
"Velma! Mind if we take a seat beside you?" Shaggy said, with his hands full of overflowing plates. Velma peeped out from her book.
"Um...sure, take a seat." Velma said, putting her book in her lap.
"Well sitting with Velma is out of the question.." Fred said.
"Oh." Daphne said, seeing the table full.
"That's alright, I'll make the whole sea food thing up to you, follow me" Fred said, leading Daphne to a special area. The table was set for two, the candles were lit as the the sun was setting on the lake. The sky was orange, Daphne was surprised at Fred's little get away surprise to make up one little mistake to her. She felt special. Maybe he was trying to tell her something? Should she mention the volt of strange information she found in the Mystery Machine? Fred pulled out a chair, & offered her to take a seat. Daphne wondered if this was like a "date" to him or just an "I'm sorry friends" sort of thing.
"This is so sweet of you Freddie." Daphne said. Smiling brighter than before. "You shouldn't have gone through all this trouble just for me."
"Oh, this was a special little place I found earlier, before you girls came down. Though it was a pefect place for us to talk." Fred said, taking his eyes off Daphne & looking down at the lite candle.
"Talk?" Daphne asked, hopeful it was the "girlfriend" talk.
"Yeah, I haven't gotten a chance to catch up with my favorite member of Mystery Inc" Fred said, letting the "favorite" part accidently slip from his mouth. Daphne saw a little pink show on his cheeks.
"You're my favorite too." She giggled.
"Listen Daph, what do you think about me being the leader? " Fred asked, shifting in his uncomfortably.
"What do you mean?" Daphne asked, puzzled, he suddenly seemed sad & unsure of himself.
"I don't know. I think I might step down & let someone else take over." He said.
"Freddie!" Daphne gasped. "Why would you do something like that!"
"Well, it's complicated Daphne.." Fred said.
"If you leave..then who will rescue me from all the bad guys in masks!" Daphne said, with a scared lonely sound in her voice.
"Gee..you don't need me in the gang. You can handle yourself." Fred said, feeling a pain in his heart.
"Maybe...but I don't want you to leave Freddie. We need you! You make us a team! Look at what you've done! You have Shaggy, Velma & Scooby getting along & Shaggy crushing on Velma all over again! We're here together talking, happy, mystery free! Isn't it wonderful! If it weren't for you we wouldn't be this happy right now, if you leave...Mystery Inc, it ends...and that means the bad guys win." Daphne said, placing her hand on Fred's. Fred looked at Daphne's hand. She really needed him. He was her friend, he couldn't back out from the gang.
"Thanks Daphne. I'll keep my role as leader. Just don't tell anyone we had this talk..if you don't mind."
"Freddie, is something else bothering you?" Daphne asked, thinking of the box once again.
"Me? No, no, I'm great." Fred said smiling.
"Uh, Freddie I need to talk to you now.." Daphne said.
"What is it?"
"Well I found this bo-"
"There you are!" Shaggy shouted, waving at the two.
"We'll talk later." Daphne said, smiling.
"Sorry didn't mean to crash the date, dudes." Shaggy said.
"We weren't on a date Shag, the tables were filled so we came over here to eat." Fred replied.
"Oh okay, well anyways, Velma & I are going for a night boat ride on the lake with Scoob & were wondering if you two wanted to join us?" Shaggy asked.
"Sure!" Fred said, getting up from the table.
"Ahhh, isn't it nice! No monsters!" Daphne said, relaxing on the small boat, admiring the moon beeming down on the lake.
"I'll say, this little get away is exactly what we needed!" Velma said, flipping the pages of her book with her book light shining on her pages.
"Like, yeah." Shaggy said taking a seat beside of Velma, using the yawning move, placing his arm around her. Velma looked up from her book, looking at Shaggy with a smile.
"What are you doing?" Velma asked, making sure the others didn't hear them.
"I just thought I'd sit beside you." Shaggy said innocently.
"Thanks Shaggy." Velma said sweetly.
"The stars are so pretty tonight." Daphne said, admiring the dancing lights.
"Yeah, you sure are.." Fred said in daze.
"Excuse me?" Daphne asked, smiling at Fred.
"I mean they're pretty, yeah they..they sure are..ha.." Fred said quickly changing the words in his sentence. Daphne just giggled as the blond blushed in embarsment.
"I see a very hansom star shining in front of me..." Daphne said. Fred looked around.
"Where?" He asked, clearly lost. Daphne sighed.
"By the way, what were you saying before, at dinner?" Fred asked.
"Oh." Daphne remembered. "Uh, yeah. Well, when I was in the Mystery Machine earlier today, I found this box of things sent to you. I was just curious of what they were.." Daphne said. Fred's face went pale and he look like he'd seen a ghost.
"Oh! That box. Yeah just bussiness stuff from a few jobs a applied for back in the day! I like to keep the memories..." Fred answered.
"A-are you sure?" Daphne asked.
"Of course! "
"I believe you. Besides if there were anything going on I'm sure you'd tell me about it, wouldn't you?" Daphne said. Hoping he was really telling her the honest truth.
"Sure, well some things are left being in private Daph, for good reasons..the box isn't one of them! Be..cause...I told you what it is."
"Sure did." Daphne said. For some reason Fred was hiding the truth behind that box, & Daphne was going to give up at nothing to find out what was in it.
TBC
Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Been so busy. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you want to give me a Christmas present, REVIEW :D That's all I want:) Have a Merry Christmas scooby-doo fans!
