Author's Note: Hey, so it was mother's day back on Sunday, which was when I wrote this! It was also Maddie + Kids day on the Phanniemay calender, so doing something like this made perfect sense! A cute little Fenton family Crimebusters fic.

Danny Phantom does not belong to me.


The Case of Mother's Day

Characters: Maddie Fenton, Danny Fenton, Jazz Fenton, Jack Fenton, Cujo

Summary: She knew that her son was working on something, and she was very eager to find out what.


Maddie didn't need to be a genius to be able to tell that her son was making something for her. With Mother's Day coming up, Danny had begun collecting spare odds and ends from around the house, and had been talking in hushed whispers with his father, who would only give his wife a small smile whenever she asked him about it. The six year old boy had band aids wrapped around just about every finger, and a big one on his hand where he had scraped it and given himself a large, but thankfully shallow, cut.

Whenever Maddie tried to peek into his room and see what he was doing, Danny would shut her out. "Noooo~!" He would whine, trying to push against the door to keep her from coming in. "Momma, it's not done yet! You can't come in!"

So Maddie had resigned herself to waiting, and helping Danny bandage up his fingers and clean his cuts and scrapes when he needed her to. Her clumsy little son, never very coordinated with his hands, was putting all this effort into making something for her, so she couldn't exactly discourage him from doing it.

When the day finally arrived, Maddie was greeted by Jazz and Danny, ready to present her with breakfast in bed. Pancakes, made by Jazz, Fenton Toast, from her husband, and a messy mush of scrambled eggs from Danny which he said he had made 'totally on his own with only a little help from Jazz!'.

After she had eaten, she had been escorted downstairs by a very excited Danny, who held her hand in his tiny one, still covered with band aids. "Just you wait momma!" He said, grinning from ear to ear. "You're going to be so surprised!"

"I'm sure I will." Maddie said, ruffling her son's hair, who giggled, sparking a little with excitement.

"Ah, here's the lovely lady this day is all about!" Jack declared, grinning from ear to ear as he spotted his wife. He had managed to remember mother's day this time, thanks to Jazz and Danny, so for once, he had a present for her. Embarrassingly enough though, he had nearly forgotten his own mother, and had to scramble to send her a fruit basket at the last minute.

Maddie flushed a little in spite of herself, letting Danny lead her to sit down on the couch, where there was an array of presents waiting for her on the table. Once seated, she felt a slight weight on her legs, and a hint of a chill in the air, and seconds later, felt the sensation of a big, wet kiss being given to her face.

"Cujo, no!" Danny whined, picking up the ghost puppy and putting him back on the floor, pausing to scratch the dog's ears. "Momma can't open presents if you're in her lap. You gotta wait in line, just like everyone else!"

"Well, I have to say this is all very nice." Maddie said, smiling a little as her son jumped on the couch next to her, scooching up close. He kicked his bare feet against the sofa in excitement, eager no doubt, to see his mother get to the present that he had worked so hard on.

"I bought you this, Maddie." Jack said, picking up a rather large box and handing it over to her. "I saw you looking at it in the store the other day, and I thought you might like it."

"Oh?" Maddie asked, unwrapping the present. "Oh, this is the new cookware set I was looking at! I thought we didn't have it in our budget to replace the old pots and pans until next year, Jack!"

"I shifted some money around." Jack told her with a grin. "Used some of the cash I had saved up for my rainy day fudge reserve." He said. "I know how frustrated you're getting with that old cookware of ours, so I thought I would get you something better." Maddie had never really been one for frivolous gifts, after all, his wife liked the practical things better.

"That's so sweet of you honey." Maddie smiled at him, giving him a kiss on the cheek. She could hear Danny make a 'meep!' next to her, reaching down to possibly cover Cujo's eyes.

"Here's mine." Jazz spoke up, handing Maddie a slender package. "I bought it using some of my tutoring money."

"Thank you honey." Maddie smiled at her, carefully unwrapping the package. Her daughter's wrapping was always very neat, but she had a tendency to use far too much tape. It took some doing, but eventually she opened it up, finding a case with a very nice fountain pen inside of it, in aquamarine, the same color as her hazmat suit, in fact. "Oh this is very nice. Where did you get this?" She asked her, picking it up and holding it in her hands. "It has a nice feel to it."

"At the office supply store." Jazz told her. "I thought it was nice because it matched your jumpsuit."

"Well thank you, honey. It's very thoughtful. I'll make sure to put it to good use." She said, putting the pen away, someplace safe. As she did, she heard the sound of a squeaky toy, and shortly afterwards, a tiny pink bear dropped in her lap, and she could feel the weight of two tiny paws on her knee.

"And this is from Cujo, I take it?" Maddie asked, lifting up the squeaky toy, giving it a small squeak. "Well that's very thoughtful of you, Cujo." She told him, and could feel the dog's weight leaving her knees, and heard her son shriek a little as the dog jumped back in his lap. She would hold onto to it and put it on a shelf for awhile, and then give it back to the ghost dog a few weeks later, when he forgot about it.

"Me next, momma!" Danny grinned, scratching the ghost dog underneath the ears. "I made it special!"

"Oh you did, did you?" Maddie asked, picking up the last of the unwrapped presents. Danny had no doubt wrapped it himself too, given the rather disjointed job and the heaps and heaps of tape attached to it. Still, she managed to get it open, smiling a little when she saw what was in her hands.

It was a handmade picture frame, put together from wood, that had been painted more or less the color of her jumpsuit. There was a mixture of little stickers attached to the frame, glow in the dark ghosts and planets. The frame itself was a bit oddly shaped, and looked a little disjointed, but it held within it a family photo that she remembered, from their trip to the beach.

There was Jack, looking rather grumpy and sunburned without his jumpsuit, which he had quickly grown attached to since they had started wearing them for work. And then there she was, smiling and holding Danny in her arms, who was holding up a big sand dollar that he had found, a huge grin on his face and a hint of sunburn across his nose. Jazz stood off to the left of her, smiling beneath a pair of sunglasses. There was a faint blur around Danny's head, which Maddie recalled was Cujo, the dog having a fondness for lying on top of there at times.

"Oh Danny, it's wonderful." Maddie said, leaning down to kiss her son on the forehead. "Thank you."

But really, perhaps the best gift she had gotten all day was the beaming smile on her son's face, and the way his eyes lit up when she complimented him on his work. She really did love her family.