A Daphne and Fred Story

Rewritten

By: Daphne Van Stevenson

A/N: My first story ever on Fan Fiction was called a Daphne and Fred Story, since writing and reading more fanfics over time, I have decided that I could write a much better, longer story with the same general idea. So that is what I am up to right now, I am posting this story as I do with my others chapter by chapter. I hope all you Daphne/Fred and some Shaggy/Velma people out there enjoy! Please Read and Review! Thanks! –daphne vs.

Snow was falling heavily outside in Upstate New York. It was Christmas morning and the gang and their families were spending the vacation at one of the Blake's many summer homes in the Adirondack region of the state. It was quite beautiful there, there were places to ski and camp and many other things, but that's not the point and besides it was snowing way too hard to do any outdoor activities.

Fred woke up at about 8:30 he crawled out of bed; put some socks and a shirt on with his pajama pants and made his way down the stairs to the parlor. About halfway down the stairs he realized that he forgot something very important. Turning around he ran back up the stairs and into his room. He shut the door so no one would see as he unzipped a small part of his bag and pulled out a velvet ring case, he opened it to make sure the ring was still there and it was the 14K white gold 1 carat ring with three diamonds on it, he had purchased it at Kay Jewelers before Christmas, secretly and it hadn't been cheap. No defiantly anything but cheap. Sure it wasn't the most expensive but his savings account didn't have that much left especially after school. All in all the ring cost about $1500. Not that Daphne wasn't worth that because she definitely was, well to Fred she was worth much more but he didn't have much more. Hoping that Daphne would say yes he pocketed the ring box and walked back down the stairs to join the families.

In the parlor everyone was up, except Daphne. Shaggy and Scooby were running around the Christmas tree in circles then seeing who could drink hot cocoa the fastest. Velma was cheering them on and occasionally pouring more cocoa when they ran out. Shaggy's little sisters 9 year old Kelly and 15 year old Natalie sat on a loveseat by the window, while his other 18 year old sister Stacey sat on the couch by Velma's sister Vanessa who was 16. Bill and Nina Jones and George and Elizabeth Blake sat on one couch while Harold and Marilyn Dinkley took the end of the loveseat and Lisa and Sam Rogers took the couch by Velma. Fred found a vacant armchair and sat down.

"Like when do we open presents?" Shaggy asked eagerly, sounding more like a five year old than a 25 year old.

"Norville dear please be patient." His mother said eying Scooby who was about to tear open a box.

"Daphne should be up soon," her mother said. "She was always a late sleeper…" No sooner than Mrs. Blake had spoken Daphne came into the room.

"Hey Guys!" she said tying her robe shut. "Merry Christmas!"

"Rerry Ristras Raphre!" Scooby called picking up a box with his name on it. (Merry Christmas Daphne)

"Well alright kids, you may open your gifts now." Mrs. Rogers exclaimed. This resulted in a race to the tree which was won by Shaggy who was by far the most enthusiastic present opener in the room. An hour and a half later all the gifts were opened and wrapping paper was strewn everywhere Scooby had even found a way to get wrapping paper wrapped around him!

Daphne received many lovely gifts but she had noticed that she hadn't received anything from the person she wanted something from the most…you guessed it…Fred.

"Hey Daph, look what Shaggy bought me!" Velma exclaimed holding up her wrist, on it was a gold bracelet. "Look on the inside!" Velma took it off and handed it to her friend. It said 'To Velms the grooviest girl I know, love shag'

"Aw that was awful sweet of him…" Daphne tried to smile and look happy.

"So um what did Fred get you???" Velma asked eagerly.

Daphne's face fell "Nothing." she murmured.

Velma was shocked "I'm sure he got you something, um maybe he wanted to give it to you in private, or maybe it didn't get here on time, or may"

Daphne cut her off "He doesn't love me after all." she wiped her eyes.

"Now Daph I am sure he does." Velma consoled her best friend.

Then at just that moment Fred stood up, his face was pale and he looked nervous.

"I would appreciate it if everyone was quiet, it seems as if someone didn't get a gift yet…" he announced.