Scooby Doo One Shot

"You don't know where you're going do you?" Velma tried her best to argue with you. She pointed vaguely around an antique looking map before eventually agreeing that yes, you were in fact lost in the middle of a forest possibly miles from civilization and with nothing more than the map, some water and a broken radio.

"I've studied the map, read up on the area. I can tell you when humans first settled around the area. I'm just not that good when it comes to the actual... directions part." Her clumsy feet tripped over roots and rocks, often she would almost tumble but instead you would catch her and help her stay standing.

"What do you think that we should do then?" She pushed her glasses up her nose and held tightly to her local area tour book, for what could possibly be the first time since you had met her, she didn't have an answer to something.

"I don't know." She replied, slowly clutching onto the book tighter and tighter. "But it won't be long before the sun's down and I don't fancy sticking around here for the local wildlife to find us.

"Come on..." You took her hand and lifted her chin when it dropped towards the dirt. "We'll be out of here before dark. We've got what? Three hours-"

"Two hours and approximately forty-five minutes."

"Okay, two hours and forty-five minutes before were in trouble. There might be miles and miles of trees between us and safety, but we've got the smartest person in the world."

"I don't know about that." Velma blushed and jokingly pushed you away.

"I wasn't talking about you." Her laugh turned into an eye roll but slowly the corners of her lips furled into that wonderful rosy smile that let you know that everything was going to be okay.

"Plan time." She crouched down on the floor, laying the map out flat and pointing out a route that she thought may be possible.

"If we can find this river we can follow it downstream and fingers crossed, we'll get to the bridge and move on to the village."

An air of proudness surrounded her until you reminded her that you had no idea where the river was.

"Maybe we should just try and fix the radio, we can send an SOS out to Fred."

You could feel the scorn from under her furrowed brows.

"I don't need Fred to come and rescue me, he may style it out but I'm the one that helps him. Come on, how hard can it be to find a river."~*~

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Written by Aaron.