A/n, Hey I'm sorry for the long wait, just couldn't find the time to write for a while but I hope you'll accept my apologies, here we go next chapter!

Rain can make some feel lost or depressed sometimes, dephending how hard it was raining, in Coolsville, it was not showing any signs of letting up.

Shaggy looked at a pacing Fred, who looked as though he was lost and couldn't find what he was looking for. They had tried to keep up with the Leaper, but he had eluded them for weeks so far and it was growing dim.

"Hey Fred, the leaper's been pretty quiet for the past few weeks, do you think he flew the coop?" Shaggy asked, trying to be helpful, the gang had spent countless hours trying to find clues and await his next strike, but there had been none.

"Well, Shagg, it's a good chance but I want to think he's still here, that we have a chance to get him still." Shaggy looked at his friend who had become kind of a zombie from lack of sleep.

"Man, I think you should take a rest, get some fresh air for a bit." he suggested to Fred, when this appeared to have no effect, he thought of something that would.

"Or go take Daphne to a nice restraunt downtown." Fred slightly jumped up at this sudden mention of her. He seemed to shake off the dragging feeling of hoplessness that had been clutching on to him for the past few days.

"You know Shaggy, you're right, I need to get out for a bit and I think she would like to also, thanks shagg." Shaggy waved his friend off as watched him go in the direction of Daphne's room.He looked to the far corner of the room, Scooby was sleeping on his favorite dog bed next to the fireplace, the glow of the flames creating shadows over the snoozing hound. Shaggy was a bit bored, he thought of making himself something to eat, but that at the same time didn't really appeal to him either. The sound of footsteps down the stairs caused him to look behind the chair he was sitting in.

"Hi shaggy" Velma said as she walked into the livingroom.

"Hey Velma, what's up?" He said, she appeared to have caught the boredom bug as well as she plopped down on the couch and sighed. There was a brief moment of silence in the room, that awkward kind of silence where niether knew what to say. Finally after a strenous minute and a half which felt like two hours, Shaggy finally broke the silence,

"haha, It is really boring in here right now isn't it?" Velma chuckeled a bit and smiled, "Yes these rainy days do make people feel slower than usual." Shaggy then thought to himself, hey if Daphne and Fred get to get out of the house, whay can't we?

"You know Velma, It's kind of lame to waste time just sitting here, would you like to go grab something to eat or go to a movie or something?" Velma became a bit confused for a second, was Shaggy Rogers asking her out? The nerdy chick who had sold her soul to mysteries and the unkown? Raising her eyebrow, she thought for a second at what could go wrong, but then pushed all caution away.

"yeah sure, um, let me gocheck what's playing at the MeridianCinema, I'll be right back." She walked to the counter where the newspaper lay and began flipping through it. After selecting something they'd both enjoy, she went and grabbed herraincoat.

"Hey is Scooby coming with us?" She askedShaggy, who was about halfway out the doorin his brown treanchcoat. Shaggy looked at the sleeping pooch,

"mm Naw, he'll be fine here, probobly be sleeping still when we come back. I'll bring him back some food later."Shaggy said.

Scooby watched them with one eye open as theywalked out,as the door closed behind them, he smiled and went backto sleep.

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A/N, Yeah sorry about the cshort chapter, I was so focused on John and Derek that I didn't get much time to work on the gang, hope you like it still so far.