This was the first fanfic I ever wrote (circa 1999), and thus far the only non-anime fanfic I've completed.
And actually, when I wrote this, "fanfic" hadn't entered my vocabulary yet. I defined this as a parody.
By the way, I assure you that I intend no offense to librarians with this story, and especially not to catalogers. I'm in cataloging myself. I've worked in the same library for the better part of a decade, having started out in shelving, then moved on to circulation, then reference, and finally monographs cataloging. Along the way, I've cross-trained and staff-shared in acquisitions, serials processing, network systems, and government documents. I like cataloging best. Although, perhaps you could blame that on the fact that early in my library career I got whumped on the head by two volumes of the National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints, which fell off a top shelf. (Knocked me down and and left me rather dazed for the rest of the day.)
Now, who is Cherry?
Well, from the 1940s through the 1960s, there was this series of books for adolescent girls, featuring the character Cherry Ames. She was a nurse who had adventures and solved mysteries and stuff. (Think of the Nancy Drew books, only less popular and less interesting.) I've only read one of these books, Cherry Ames, Mountaineer Nurse (c1951), which I found in my mother's attic some years ago. (She swears she doesn't remember ever owning or reading this book.) It was terrible, yet strangely appealing.
Now, in the 1990s, there was a series of three parody books written by Mabel Maney: The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend, and A Ghost in the Closet. The first two of these books were billed as Nancy Clue Mysteries, and the last as Nancy Clue and the Hardly Boys. But lets be honest, the real main character of all three books was Cherry Aimless.
By the way, these three parody books are absofreakin' hilarious. If you haven't read them, GET THEE TO A BOOKSTORE! (A library would be acceptable, too.) Every year or so I go back and re-read the set. It's like comfort food for my brain or something.
Anyway, the medical student in my Scooby story bears very little resemblance to either Cherry Ames or Cherry Aimless. I just needed another female character, and since I had just finished my first reading of Maney's books, I used the name Cherry as a tribute.