It was a quiet night in St Gabriel's Hospital, between ward rounds a group of nurses were hanging round the nurses' station idly gossiping, mostly about a blond, broad-shouldered male nurse who had recently joined, security guards were patrolling, the occasional doctor was walking about. A tall gangly porter was pushing a sleeping red-headed patient between wards.

Two doctors were walking through the hospital, both were of similar height, nearly 6 feet tall one had slightly longer hair than the other. They walked passed wards and laboratories' showing no interest in what was happening within. They were heading towards the administrative area of the hospital and both were keeping a low profile. Following a discrete distance was a third doctor. This doctor wasn't much over 5 feet tall; she had short auburn hair and thick rectangular glasses. She moved carefully and quietly so as not to draw attention to herself.

The first two paused near a junction of two corridors, they spoke to each other in hushed tones.

"Are you off to the common room?"

"No, I have some work to do in the records room first. Check on me in a while to make sure I haven't been surprised, you know how it is in there."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I don't want any 'ghosts' creeping up on me."

"I'll make sure no ghost gets you."

With that the figures parted, the taller figure headed to the record room, the other carries on along the corridor

The third doctor observed the proceedings from the shadows, they noted that one of the figures had departed, so quietly moved to the edge of the corridor, they quickly glanced down the corridor; it was long with only one door down its entire length. They smiled when the other doctor went through the door; after a minute they followed the first figure quietly into the room. Nobody saw another figure walk down the corridor shortly after the small doctor had entered the room. A minute later the porter wheeling the red-headed patient entered the same corridor, he paused to speak to the blond male nurse and a couple of security guards who had walked down from the other end just in front of the door. The sign above said Medical Records Room. No Unauthorised Access.

The records room, a maze of filing cabinets and floor-to-ceiling shelves, was mostly dark the only light coming from a couple of desk-lamps illuminating a table deep within the bowels of the room. On that table the first doctor laid out a number of files, a short distance away the smaller doctor hidden in the darkness watched their activity with interest, the light from the lamps dimly reflecting off her thick rectangular glasses. "Dr Rubert, just as I suspected" whispered the small doctor looking at the other figure hunched over the table photographing the records as she silently took her own photographs. Satisfied she prepared to leave as quietly as she had arrived, just then the person at the table looked up and spoke.

"I hope you are as satisfied with your photographs as I am with mine?" They turned round and approached her "happy now you ruined me?" he snarled

The smaller doctor spoke as she backed away "the games up Dr Rubert, you had better come quietly..."

"You'll be the one going quietly meddling Dr Dinkley" snarled Dr Rubert, the surprise at her cover being blown was evident in Velma's face. Her hand shot to the pager on her waist just as she felt a sharp jab in her arm and a wave of cold wash over her. As the sensation of cold faded Velma felt her muscle tone and strength vanish, her body collapsed from under her and the world began to blur. Her last meaningful memory was someone kneeling over and reaching for her head.

Outside in the corridor a pager began to sound.

"Panic alarm! Velma's in trouble!" shouted Daphne throwing back the sheets and leaping from the trolley while Scooby darted out from underneath it.

Fred, Shaggy and the security guards were already at the door to the medical records room, it was locked, from the inside. A couple of desperate minutes later they were able to force the door open and raced inside, peace returning to the corridor. It was broken a short while later by the hospital PA system Code Blue Medical Records Room, Code Blue Medical Records Room...

(A/N Code Blue is a call sign used in some hospitals to summon medics to a patient who needs immediate resuscitation)