Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or any character from the series.
Disclaimer 2: This fic is based on FlowerPrincess11's Stranded fic series.
Stranded Side Story: Golden
Chapter 1: Found Out
Sam's parents took her to another meeting with Eleanor Wellington at the Country Club. There, they chanced upon someone they liked for the same reason Sam hated: Jean-Luc Bevier. "Fancy seeing you here, Mr. Bevier." Jeremy Manson commented.
"Don't get used to it." Jean-Luc replied. "I'm thinking about moving back to Paris so my daughter will finally forget that peasant."
"Understandable, Mr. Bevier." Pamela Manson agreed. "I don't understand what our daughters see in that Fenton boy."
"And Paris has a wealthy fashion mogul who has a son around Colette's age." Jean-Luc commented.
"Before you leave, could you and Stella please talk to Eleanor Wellington into letting us into the Golden Guild or at least restoring our previous membership?" Pamela asked.
"Isn't your daughter into Eleanor's good graces?" Jean-Luc asked in confusion. "I've heard she's even talking about giving Samantha full membership once she's an adult."
"The only good that does us is that until then we can use our parental rights to be there when Sam and Eleanor meet, Mr. Bevier." Jeremy explained.
"My wife doesn't get involved with that and Eleanor doesn't like me any more than she likes you, Mr. and Mrs. Manson." Jean-Luc replied. "Mr. Manson, you'd have better chances asking for your mother's help since she's a Golden Guild member."
"Okay, then." Jeremy replied and then it clicked in what he heard. "She's WHAT?"
"She's a Golden Guild member, Jeremy." Jean-Luc answered, surprised that he didn't know.
"You must be mistaken, Mr. Bevier." Pamela said, not believing her mother-in-law would keep this a secret.
"I'm pretty sure I saw her entering the Golden room during that occasion my beloved mother-in-law was in town and that ghost boy somehow managed to turn practically the whole Country Club against her." Jean-Luc commented. "I've heard that even her own husband turned on her and somehow managed to block her access to the Traville fortune like magic."
"I thought she was there as your wife's guest." Jeremy commented.
"No, she wasn't." Jean-Luc stated.
"I'm gonna talk to her about that." Jeremy said and walked away with his wife following him.
"Did you need to tell them, Jean-Puke?" Sam asked while frowning at Jean-Luc.
"I thought they already knew." Jean-Luc explained. "Not that I care."
"Whatever." Sam replied and went after her parents. Jean-Luc then went home.
"Welcome home, dear." Stella said. "How was your day at the Country Club?"
"Something funny happened there, Stella." Jean-Luc answered.
"Did mon amour finally come to his senses and decide to dump Estelle for me?" Colette asked with a creepy smile that scared her father and her stepmother.
"I said funny, not unlikely." Jean-Luc scolded his daughter. "It turns out Mr. and Mrs. Manson didn't know his mother is a Golden Guild member."
"Estelle told me her friend's grandmother didn't want them to know." Stella explained. "I must warn her."
"Star. Star." Pierre said.
"Why do you like Estelle and not me?" Colette asked her baby brother.
Meanwhile, Danny and Star were at the park. "Would you like some ice cream, Star?" Danny asked upon seeing an ice cream cart.
"Yes, Danny-boo." Star answered and told her which flavor she wanted. After Danny left to buy the ice cream, Star's cell phone rang. "Mom, what happened?" "Jean-Puke said what?" "How could he?" "True, he didn't know." "I still believe he'd have told them sooner had he already known."
"What happened, Star?" Danny asked as he returned.
"My Mom called, Danny-boo." Star answered as she picked up the ice cream she asked him to bring. "Thank you, Danny. Mom said Jean-Puke told Sam's parents about her grandmother being in the Golden Guild."
"Why would he do that?" Danny asked. He knew Star's stepfather was a scoundrel but he couldn't help but wonder what Jean-Luc Bevier expected to get from meddling with Sam's family.
"Jean-Puke didn't know it was a secret." Star answered. "But that doesn't matter. The problem is that Sam's parents know her grandmother is a Golden Guild member. We must help her."
"What could they do besides annoying Ida Manson?" Danny asked.
Meanwhile, at the Manson Mansion, the 'annoyance' started. "Mother, why did you never tell me you're part of the Golden Guild?" Jeremy Manson asked.
"Because I didn't want you pestering me about joining a guild you'd never be charitable enough to join, son." Ida Manson answered. "So don't waste both of our times trying."
"In that case, mother, if we can never join the Golden Guild's travels, I guess Pamela and I will have to visit Paris on our own money and take Sam with us and hope we can introduce her to that fashion mogul's son Jean-Luc Bevier mentioned."
"You play dirty, Jeremy Manson." Ida commented with a frown. "But you win. I'll take you and Pamela as my guests to the Golden Guild room for one day and I'll hold the both of you responsible for whatever Eleanor Wellington does to me as punishment for it and you will no longer try to use me to join the Golden Guild."
"Deal, Mom." Jeremy replied.
"I want to hear agreement from the both of you." Ida insisted while glaring at Pamela.
Pamela hesitated before answering. "Agreed, Ida." She begrudgingly said.
'Where did I go wrong with Jeremy?' Ida sadly thought.
"I wonder if the fashion mogul's son is better than Donovan Loadman." Sam muttered but not low enough to prevent her parents from hearing her.
"Don't worry, Sammykins." Pamela reassured her daughter. "Even if Reginald Donovan didn't cut his son off, the fashion mogul's son would still be the richer boy."
Sam and Ida rolled their eyes and Sam's cell phone rang. "If it's the Fenton boy, turn him down."
"Jeremy!" Pamela scolded her husband. "Don't you remember Eleanor Wellington likes the Fentons?"
"Only because they never hunted ghosts inside her home or broke her car." Jeremy commented and then started paying attention to his daughter's conversation.
"Yes, Star." Sam said. "I was there when your stepfather told my parents."
"Star?" Jeremy asked in confusion.
"Stella's daughter Estelle." Pamela reminded her husband.
"At least she's making better friends than Fenton and Foley." Jeremy commented and Pamela nodded.
"It's going to be a very long day." Ida said.
After the phone call ended, Star told Danny about it. "Sam already knows her parents know. At least her grandmother managed to appease Mr. and Mrs. Manson by offering them a day at the Golden Guild."
"Knowing Sam's parents, they'll make a spectacle." Danny said.
"Should we go there to help Sam?" Star asked. "She told me the day."
"I don't exactly have good memories of being at the Country Club and, would I even be welcome there?" Danny asked.
"I already can as a member's daughter and I can ask Mom to let you in as our guest, Danny-boo." Star answered.
"Well, it's for Sam." Danny sighed, deciding a friend is worth the hassle of returning there.
"Well, it's not like we'd run into trouble there this time." Star said. "Vlad is still stuck with whatever punishment Puck set for him, Beatrice literally can't afford to cause trouble where she is, Donovan is still cut from his father's fortune, Colette is still recovering from whatever happened to her, and her father, even if for a wrong reason, wouldn't help her take you from me. What could go wrong?"
"Since somebody asked, I'm sure something will, Starlight." Danny answered.
"We meet again, Mr. and Mrs. Fenturd." Dash Baxter said and Star and Danny noticed him and his dog Pooky. "So, Mrs. Fenturd, did Colette already recover her good looks? Or at least stop smelling like Penelope Pussycat after a date with Pepe Le Pew?"
"You could go there and see for yourself, Dash." Star replied, having some hope he'll make Colette give up on Danny.
"Great idea!" Dash commented. "We can get even close by setting up a date between our dogs."
"Ugh." Star replied with disgust and whispered to Danny. "Fifi would be better off dating Cujo."
"What was that?" Dash asked.
"I was commenting on how dogs aren't allowed here." Star lied.
"My thoughts exactly." A cop said and approached Dash. "Get your dog out of here and don't you try to use that story about a shapeshifter ghost impersonating Pooky again."
"I guess there are cops during times we need them." Danny commented and he and Star laughed.
Later on, Colette overheard her stepmother talking about Danny and Star having a date at the country club. "Mama, are mon amour and Estelle going to the country club?" Colette asked.
"Colette, Danny's not your amour." Stella pointed out. "He's Estelle's."
"Mama." Colette moaned.
"How many times must Danny Fenton say "no" before you move on?" Stella asked her stepdaughter.
"Never!" Colette shouted. "I want to go to the country club as well."
"Not until you're well enough to go to school and even then only when I'm sure it's not part of a plan to take that peasant from your stepsister." Colette's father intervened.
"Papa!" Colette protested.
"Colette Anastasie Marie Bevier, your unhealthy obsession with that peasant boy went too far." Jean-Luc Bevier firmly said. "If you ever dare to set foot outside home without permission from Stella or me, you will go back to school even if you still have visible signs of your allergies."
"And I'll tell Eleanor to keep an eye just in case you sneak out and somehow makes it to the country club." Stella added.
"Good idea, Stella." Jean-Luc agreed with his wife. "I don't know where Colette got it from. Had I been that obsessed with a girl who said "no" to me as many times as Danny Fenton told her, I'd be in jail or some mental institution."
"Papa, do you think I'm crazy?" Colette asked with a hurt tone.
"Yes." Jean-Luc bluntly answered. "I should send you back to Paris so you'd forget that Fenton boy."
"Jean-Luc, as much as I admire that you're trying to correct Colette's behavior, I won't move back to France and leave Star." Stella replied.
"Merci, Mama." Colette thanked her stepmother.
"We can always stay here and send her to a boarding school, Stella." Jean-Luc suggested.
"Good idea, Jean-Luc!" Stella sincerely exclaimed.
"Don't listen to her, Papa." Colette demanded. "Mama must be the one who planned that and tricked you into think boarding school was your idea." She accused her stepmother.
"Be careful with your words or I'll send you to a boarding school in London instead." Jean-Luc threatened his daughter.
"Why would it bother me?" Colette asked, not understanding the meaning of her father's threat.
"Because, the last time I've checked, they're allowed to use the paddle thanks to a Prime Minister who received this kind of discipline as a child." Jean-Luc answered.
Meanwhile, Danny and Star were discussing details of their upcoming "date". "So, do they serve peanuts at the country club?" Danny asked.
"I don't know but I'm sure they at least have peanut butter, Danny-boo." Star answered.
"For as long as that makes no difference to Colette's allergies..." Danny commented and Star giggled.
End chapter
Special thanks to Flowerprincess11 for allowing me to write a side story for her Stranded series; and to NeoMark for writing the side story "Bonding", which inspired me to write this one.