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˗ˏˋ closed starter » fred jones with daphne blake. @fadingmadness. ˎˊ˗

"i really wish you remembered how much i love you." it wasn't something that he was expecting to say. but, sitting across from her, multiple times over, it was something that slipped.

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there's a bit of a laugh that leaves his lips. "well, i always used to get pretty caught up in the middle of mysteries. especially with my gang," he explained. "guess it was my best bet to continue to do that, by trying to piece together things to figure out more mysteries through my podcast," fred said, giving a small, firm nod. "how's that going?"

"a crime podcast?" daphne questioned. "so are you the type of person who is really obsessed with true crime stories, or are you the one who winds up getting stuck in the middle of them yourself?" she let out a small laugh at the joke, hoping it wasn't the latter but you never knew with this town because it probably could be at the rate things were going lately. "i've been running the shops in town for my parents, trying to learn the family business from the ground up here and there."

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˗ˏˋ closed starter » fred jones with velma dinkley. @theirdiaries. ˎˊ˗

"velma dinkley, is that you?" fred asked, looking up from his laptop. "please tell me you remember..." he couldn't deal with anymore not remembering.

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[ mason gooding ] i just saw that FRED JONES arrived in mystic, ct ! they're TWENTY-FOUR and a CANON character from SCOOBY-DOO. however, you might want to check first because while they've been here ONE YEAR they DO NOT BELIEVE they have been here their whole lives. make sure to make them feel right at home.

˗ˏˋ tag » fred jones. ˎˊ˗

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he couldn't help but to let a chuckle leave his lips, before nodding his head. "alright, all the dessert pizza, coming right up." he says. "should we take the mystery machine?" he asked, before coming up next to it.

shaggy smiled sheepishly, hardly looking embarrassed though. " that was my stomach. i haven't really ate much today. " he responded around a laugh. for shaggy rogers, he really hadn't ate much at all. just a burrito and some chips earlier. he followed after fred, giddy in the way he did so as if this was christmas morning and he was about to receive the best present.

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"that's just how it is, isn't it? you move onto the next holiday this time of year, when the other one passes," he says with a firm nod. "i don't think we get enough holiday cheer by waiting so long to decorate. especially with thanksgiving being so late."

◟ ⋆ ❛ thorn  squinted  in  his  direction  ,  head  shaking  in  disagreement  .  “  it  hasn't  been  that  long  since  halloween  passed  ,  ”  she  argued  .  halloween  had  always  been  her  own  ,  personal  favorite  holiday  .  “  i  mean  ,  kind  of  .  i  at  least  wait  until  the  week  of  thanksgiving  .  ”  thorn  hadn't  always  been  the  most  fond  of  christmas  ,  really  .  “  i've  seen  people  who  were  decorating  before  halloween  .  ”

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"oh," he starts. "i have a crime podcast. i really like deep diving into things and trying to figure them out. but, also being respectful if it contains anything really dark," he states, a firm nod. sometimes, fred was a bit dumb in everyday life. but, he was always quite good at things like that. "what about you?"

daphne was almost about to walk away, but she felt like she needed to stay standing there. she didn't exactly know why, but she felt compelled to continue talking to this guy standing before her. "so, what do you do, fred?" she asked, hesitantly. he seemed to know a lot about her. but she didn't know anything about him. and she didn't want to come off rude or anything by asking something so simple.

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it's something that just didn't sound real; he knows that. though, it's real and it only sounds real if you're the person that's actually living through it, at the end of the day. he, at least, is getting daphne back, in some capacity. he nodded his head, "okay," he says. "you'll know soon," he says. "anyways, what do you want to do next? my treat."

the strange thing was, daphne almost wanted to believe fred. but that felt like an insane notion to her. she liked the thoughts that she was hearing. that he loved her. that she might have loved him. and, in truth, she could even see them becoming true. but the problem was, she didn't yet know him. not in the way that he was saying. "i don't know what you're talking about, my memories aren't lost fred." she shook her head. "i have all of them in tact. my life is here. my family, my sisters. it's all here. it's always been here."

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"it's no problem. happy i could help," he says with a firm nod. he wasn't entirely sure what else he was supposed to say, truth be told. he was still confused by the whole memories thing and how exactly he was supposed to get someone to remember him. a mystery that fred had yet to crack. "yeah, fred."

daphne felt bad for not remembering the guy standing before her. but she didn't know how she was supposed to know him either. except, like she had said, maybe if he'd been into one of the blake boutiques. that would make sense. "well, thanks for grabbing my coffee..." she paused, thinking for a moment. the guy had said his name. "fred, right?"

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"i know you don't believe me yet," he says. "but, to only you have we just met," he says. "but, i've known you for essentially my entire life," he says. he probably always sounds like a crazy person when saying these things, but he almost hopes that it jogs something. "i'm going to do my best to have you become aware of all of your memories. your memories of somewhere else... and most importantly, of us." he says. even though he has others that remember, he still felt lonely without daphne, and with the holidays coming up; he almost felt it more.

so, apparently daphne had heard him correct. she didn't know if her heart was flipping inside of her chest because she was nervous or because she didn't know what he meant by those words. "what do you mean?" daphne asked. "remembered?" she looked at fred. she wished she understood what he meant. but he was as confounding as the day she met him. which was still so recent and fresh in her memories. "we only just met."

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fred couldn't quite help the look upon his face at shaggy's reaction. he looks upon the other, "uh... what was that noise?" he asked, his eyebrow slightly raised. he nodded his head, before leading the way. "dessert pizza will be around here somewhere."

the sound shaggy released at fred's words was inhumane and maybe even a bit too sexually charged when it came to food. stomach grumbled rather loudly to display his evident ( and endless ) hunger, immediately scrambling to get up at his friend's words. " well there is no time to waste! let's get mobile! "

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"i swear i saw it at a pizza place or something!" he says, giving a bit of a nod. "right, i got a bit scared that you meant tomato and cheese..." he says, before shrugging his shoulders. he gets to his feet, "well, it looks like we've got ourselves a mystery," he says. "shall we find this pizza?"

" do they?? where?! " shaggy asked with eyes wide as saucers, completely animated as he leaned forward with pure excitement. head shook wildly at fred, " not the tomato and cheese! i was thinking like a buttercream frosting and sweet bread... marshmellow fluff mixed in the frosting. god... " shaggy might as well be drooling.

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maybe it was ridiculous of him to stay out loud. but, fred's heart ached, something he hadn't seemingly felt before. but, it was hard, after all; to not have daphne remember him. "i wish you remembered how much i love you," he reiterates.

daphne's eyes widened at fred's words. she'd been getting to know him. especially due to this aching feeling in her gut, in the back of her mind, and in her chest that she knew him, but she hadn't expected those words to come tumbling out of his mouth. she was flabbergasted. "what did you just say?" daphne asked softly.

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"don't they already make those?" he said, before shrugging his shoulders. "but wait... even with the tomato sauce and the cheese? come on, shaggy, you can't possibly mean that..."

" like i said, i think the new best thing would be like s'mores dessert pizza. marshmellow, chocolate, graham crackers, kisses. like.... doesn't that sound so good? " shaggy was definitely stoned and definitely hungry. when wasn't he? / @believingmagic.