Unwanted and special

Note: Scooby-doo and any other character from the Scooby-doo series/movies rightfully belong to Hanna-Barbara (which personally, I think they are the best) I am although, a huge fan of Scooby-doo and this story came to me literally in a dream.

Recap: Ace disappears for a month after her sex with Shaggy. She goes into the trapdoor willingly into a hellish place of solitude and lonliness. She comes back and no one really cares. She notices that Shaggy and Velma are now together, making their sex meaningless. She's slightly devastated. She's tells them a short story of her and Shaggy's friendship. Once she gets that done, she heads to the hallway to return to her room and notices that the wall is cracking. She yells for everyone, no one listens so Scooby gets them. She side kicks the wall and it crumbles and everyone leaves. Everyone but Ace.

Ace had been in that place for three months now, still all alone; her only companion was the stone relic she snatched from Shaggy before retreating into the darkness of Hell's Pit. These day's she had been getting sicker and sicker; she couldn't keep much of her food down and it was starting to show. She knew what was wrong with her but she couldn't let it stop her now, she had come too far. She was really close to what she needed to do and there was no way anyone or anything was going to stop her. It was a daily routine now, Spaduzzi would come in with Antonio and check on her. She was now sitting on the couch when Spaduzzi came in by himself.

"Why hello my little buttercup..."

"Do NOT call me that. My name is Ace." She said with her teeth clenched. He toussled her hair and smiled that evil smile he normally did when he tried time and time again to seduce her. Today seemed different, she felt that burning sense of danger and he leaned it close to her. Just as he moved some hair out of her face, the doors flew open and the reporter was there with police officers. They had caught Spaduzzi's attention which gave Ace time to react. She grabbed his hand and twisted his arm behind him making him stand. He grabbed her by the hair and flipped her over him, landing on her back. As he went to pick her up she backhanded him and took his legs out with a single kick; quickly getting up as he fell to his knees. Once he hit the floor, Ace grabbed him by the head and kneed him in the face breaking his nose and few teeth. She looked like she was about to do something else but then simply walked over to the reporter. They looked at each and Ace smiled weakly.

"Kartazyna..."

"It's Ace, Maria."

"Well, Ace.. Do you mind telling me the story behind your choice to stay behind for two months in this hell hole?"

Ace just smiled and hugged Maria tightly, placing a kiss on her cheek. Maria looked shocked as Ace kept on smiling at absolutely nothing. Maria took out her tape recorder as Ace started telling her about the last two extra months under the church, and her life story up until that point.

"One more question Ace. Why, why stay behind? You look sickly and healthy at the same time."

Ace just looked at Maria. "Off the record?" Maria turned off her tape recorder as Ace stood in the door way, back to everyone else.

"I had to. In some sick and twisted manor, Spaduzzi cared for me..."

"Well, how do you explain your appearance if he took such good care of you? and why did you stop kicking his ass?"

Ace frowned then started walking, she paused and looked over her shoulder at Maria.

"I don't want to endanger my baby..." When Ace saw Maria's face she shrugged, "I'm three months pregnant.. And i want to keep it that way..."

With that Ace turned and walked out into the sanctuary with her backpack, through the double wide doors and for the first time in three months, into freedom.

----------------------------------two days later-----------------------------------------------

Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma were at the park; Shaggy and Velma hand in hand, Scooby, running circles around them. Velma looked up at Shaggy and smiled, before placing a small kiss on his cheek. Scooby stopped and nearly knocked them over before running over and jumping up on Freddy who simply laughed.

"Alright Scooby, we're glad to see you too!"

"rehehehehe."

Daphne simply smiled and shook her head, she ran over to Velma and gave her quite a big hug.

"Daphne, chill... its only been a week since we all hung out... But gang, we have a mystery to solve."

Fred and Daphne looked at them confused, then smiled.

"Like, Velma's right.."

Everyone looked at Shaggy shocked. This was the same Norville "Shaggy" Rogers that hated mysteries unless they involved trying to figure out what spices where in the food he was eating. Shaggy looked at them all and shrugged.

"Like, the relic that was in my famiy for years... It like, went poof man."

"Reah, roof!" Scooby chimed in.

"Well, gang.. It does look like we have a mystery to solve."

Everyone started walking back to Shaggy's house when Velma accidently bumped into Ace, who had finally gotten home after months of hell. Velma's glasses fell and Ace dropped her books; keeping her face hidden behind her hair. She dropped to her knees and gathered up everything, including Velma's glasses. They all looked like they were about to say something to Ace, but she quickly handed Velma her glasses.

"I'm sorry.. I should've been watching where I was going..." Ace readjusted the books away from her stomach and onto her hip. Then she hurried off; Scooby looked at everyone else and then shrugged. Daphne, for the firsttime, had a strange feeling about Ace and decided right then and there that she was going to get to the bottom of it.