Hey guys! How are you doing? I hope that I didn't keep you waiting too long
for the next chapter of this story. I'm still working on it by chapter and
you never know what will happen in these chapters. I don't even know what
will happen! Anyways you know the drill after you get finished reading. I
want a good and honest review from anyone who reads this story.
Katie I know how much you would love to kill Ned right now but I think you're right. I believe that would ruin the whole story. Anyways thanks for the review. Keep writing your stories and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I would love to but Stratmeyer Syndicate and Simon and Schuster own them.
-Previous chapter-
Frank looked at Nancy only to see her staring at somebody that was walking down the street. "What is it Nan?" he was getting really worried because she was very pale.
"Ned." It only took the one word.
CHAPTER 10
Joe looked at the direction that Nancy had been looking in and didn't see him. "I don't see him Nan." He commented still looking through the crowd for her ex-fiancée.
She started walking carefully through the weaving crowd. 'I can't lose him. I have to keep an eye on him. Oh please let me be able to get this case solved.' Nancy thought as she finally caught sight of him going into a music store. She smiled to herself. He hadn't changed as much as she thought he had.
Frank came up behind her waiting for her to say something. When she didn't say anything he asked, "Why is he going into a music store?"
"Ned has always been a Mozart fan from the time before he was in college. Used to drive Burt and Dave nuts with the sound of the classical music. I can't listen to the music anymore. She waited for him to come out.
Joe had been behind them when he made the comment that it had been thirty minutes since they had last seen the man. "You're right Joe. Go look in the back. There should be a door that would lead out to the alley way." Frank ordered. They didn't dare go in because if they did and Ned was still there then he would recognize him and really make a run for it.
-In the back-
Joe looked around and didn't see anyone but one of the employees taking out the trash. "Excuse me?" He paused as he waited for an answer. As he didn't receive one he tried talking to the person again. "Excuse me. I was wondering if you have seen this person in the music shop?" Joe then got a good look at his face.
That was when Joe saw the face of the person he was asking. "Ned?" The eyes were a different color instead of the brown that they used to be. That could be accounted for by contacts in his eyes. His skin had a slightly darker tone than it had at one time and his hair was now black. It was definitely Ned though. 'How did she recognize him?'
"Well if it isn't Joe Hardy?" There was an evil glint in his eyes. "Where are the other two musketeers?" He smirked trying to throw a punch at the younger Hardy.
"We're right here." Ned turned around to see a very cold and thin Nancy. He wasn't completely shocked at the state of what his former fiancée was in but he was shocked. She didn't look like she had gotten any sleep in a long time and that she wasn't eating.
Ned stepped put of fighting stance and was trying to walk toward her when he felt Joe kick him in the back. "Come off it hardy." He ordered.
Frank wasn't sure what Ned was up to but he wasn't about to let him hurt her anymore than he had. "Stay back Ned." Her gaze warned him as much as the coldness of her words.
Somewhere deep inside him a voice that he hadn't heard for a long time was commenting in his head, 'See what you did to her. You deserve everything that she and the Hardy's throw at you and more.' Another voice, the voice that was now all too familiar to him was saying, 'Oh shut up. Why should you care what she's going through? She only cared about her mystery solving.'
Nancy could see some of the old Ned showing up in his eyes. As suddenly as it was there it was gone again and there was the cold menacing Ned that she had been fighting for the last three years now. Almost unconscientiously she was in a fighting position and she didn't have to look at Frank to know that he was as well.
Ned saw this and commented with some harshness in his voice. "What's wrong, Nancy can't fight me on your own?" He knew that she was a good fighter mostly because of her job.
She slightly turned her head and gave him a look that said, "Let me do this."
He stood straight up as he gave her another look that said, "Okay but if he hurts you then he's going to be in lot of trouble."
Ned saw the silent communication that was going on between them. "What you talk to each other telepathically now?"
That earned him a hard cold stare from all of them. Nancy was waiting for his attack when he did a roundhouse kick in the air that she managed to dodge. She allowed him to attack time after time only dodging his attacks before he commented, "You've become a lot better." Neither he nor she was even breaking out a sweat yet.
She waited until he was open and sent a kick to side that made contact. It didn't cause him to double over as it would have one time but she didn't figure that it would and personally she didn't want it too. She wanted to fight him.
He still kept throwing punches and missing as she dodged them. "You're the second in a terrorist group and this is all you can do?" She taunted. "Goodness sakes don't go easy on me." She more or less ordered and all of a sudden the fight became a lot tenser.
Frank looked on not at all surprised at what Nancy could do. He could tell that she hadn't been sitting down for the last three years. She had probably put herself through extra fighting training at the network agency and through the Tae Kwan Do classes that she used to take on an everyday bases.
Joe looked at the angry young woman that was fighting before him. He could see that she had completely transformed and if she hadn't been able to hold her own before he knew that she could now. He was standing by his brother when he made the comment, "Remind me not to get on her bad side."
"I don't think that you will need reminding." Frank looked on worried. He knew that she hadn't eaten that morning and this fight had already been going on for an hour. He was surprised that the police hadn't been called.
The police came just as he was thinking that. Ned heard them and before he started running he said, "Until we meet again."
Nancy was about to pass out but she wasn't about to let the other people that were around know that. "We will have to take you in for questioning, Ma'am." Nancy wasn't in the mood to talk into anybody. She looked like he was ready to bite the officer's head off.
Joe could see that she had withdrawn into herself as much as Frank had when everyone arrived. 'This isn't going to work. They need to talk.' His brother had been more open when he had been around Nancy. That meant that Nancy had been doing what he wanted her to do and he hadn't even talked to her but they still weren't talking about anything of crucial importance.
Joe had to play mediator today. "Sir, we'll be happy to talk to you but could we go and eat lunch before we do. My comrades and I haven't eaten much today."
Joe received a nod when the other officers returned. "We lost him sir."
Nancy was led by Frank and Joe to the same restaurant that they had been eating at the day before. At the sight of Melissa Joe grinned. Nancy was just starting to come around when she noticed that he had switched to Romeo state. "Hey, Romeo, why don't you get her number?"
Frank chuckled a little at this and got them a table while Joe put on every Hardy charm there was. After they were seated they decided not to wait for Joe as he was still flirting and they were hungry. "We should spar sometime Nancy. You've become quite good." Frank was still withdrawn but he was trying to lighten the mood.
Joe came over and asked, "Did you order for me?"
"No Joe we didn't know what you wanted." Frank answered tartly. "Did you finally get that girl's phone number?"
"No, Nancy you're a woman what am I doing wrong?" He was earnest.
"You're being a pessimistic customer and she probably gets this kind of thing all the time." Nancy responded. "Bess could probably tell you better than I could." Nancy was looking out the window toward where they parked the car.
Dinner was a quiet affair today. No one said much of anything, except for Joe and his constant flirting with the impossible waitress. Frank took care of the bill and left with Nancy out the front door while Romeo was still going at it.
Joe had a grin on his face when he came out of the restaurant. "Joe you must have got something." Nancy commented annoyed at the Cheshire smile that he had on his face.
"Yeah a date for a concert at 7p.m. tonight."
"With Melissa?" Frank questioned not quite believing that she had willingly given into the date.
Joe nodded his head affirmative. "Well I suppose that we'd better get some work done so you can get ready for your date." Nancy climbed into the car.
They finished talking to the police officer that had wanted to talk to them earlier who did still not quite believe that these people were FBI. "Thank you. Can we go home now?"
Nancy was tired and needed to try to get some sleep. She wasn't sure that she would though.
Joe left for his date. He still couldn't quite believe that he had gotten that. If it hadn't been for her friend having these tickets he wouldn't be able to have one up on the phone number.
Joe left Frank and Nancy at the hotel. He hoped that they would talk or get some sleep. They needed to do both.
Nancy sat down on the bed so tired that she couldn't do anything. "You did well out there today Nan." He sat on the bed along side her turning her around so that he could massage her shoulders.
"I wanted to hurt him." She said.
"I know you did." He smoothed her angry words as he pushed her hair over her shoulder brushing her cheek with his finger tips as he did so. The electrical currents that had always been there seemed to be stronger than it had been in a long time.
As they sat there her tense shoulders began to relax more. Frank lay her down on the bed making sure that she had a pillow under her head. He began to do her back. It was incredible how tense she was. She slowly began to relax some when she turned to face him. "Frank.." She stopped when she looked into his intense brown eyes. He was so close to her she could smell the after shave that he had used earlier.
He didn't respond in words anyways. He closed the distance between them and kissed her. The kiss sent more shivers down Nancy's back than she would care to count. It was long and sensuous making her want to give herself completely to the kiss. She did exactly as she wanted.
Frank looked at her blue eyes staring straight into his brown ones and he couldn't resist kissing her anymore. She was soft as she responded to his kiss almost automatically. He knew that he had kissed her before on cases but it had never been like this before. They broke off the kiss sooner than either of them liked but they were both tired and needed to sleep. She was snuggled safely in his arms and before long they were both safely asleep. - - -
That's the end of this chapter. Anyone who wants to take anything beyond kissing in my stories is going to have to use their imaginations because I don' believe that anything other than that belongs in stories. Anyways you know the drill you have to give me an honest review after you finish reading this. Ja ne!
Katie I know how much you would love to kill Ned right now but I think you're right. I believe that would ruin the whole story. Anyways thanks for the review. Keep writing your stories and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I would love to but Stratmeyer Syndicate and Simon and Schuster own them.
-Previous chapter-
Frank looked at Nancy only to see her staring at somebody that was walking down the street. "What is it Nan?" he was getting really worried because she was very pale.
"Ned." It only took the one word.
CHAPTER 10
Joe looked at the direction that Nancy had been looking in and didn't see him. "I don't see him Nan." He commented still looking through the crowd for her ex-fiancée.
She started walking carefully through the weaving crowd. 'I can't lose him. I have to keep an eye on him. Oh please let me be able to get this case solved.' Nancy thought as she finally caught sight of him going into a music store. She smiled to herself. He hadn't changed as much as she thought he had.
Frank came up behind her waiting for her to say something. When she didn't say anything he asked, "Why is he going into a music store?"
"Ned has always been a Mozart fan from the time before he was in college. Used to drive Burt and Dave nuts with the sound of the classical music. I can't listen to the music anymore. She waited for him to come out.
Joe had been behind them when he made the comment that it had been thirty minutes since they had last seen the man. "You're right Joe. Go look in the back. There should be a door that would lead out to the alley way." Frank ordered. They didn't dare go in because if they did and Ned was still there then he would recognize him and really make a run for it.
-In the back-
Joe looked around and didn't see anyone but one of the employees taking out the trash. "Excuse me?" He paused as he waited for an answer. As he didn't receive one he tried talking to the person again. "Excuse me. I was wondering if you have seen this person in the music shop?" Joe then got a good look at his face.
That was when Joe saw the face of the person he was asking. "Ned?" The eyes were a different color instead of the brown that they used to be. That could be accounted for by contacts in his eyes. His skin had a slightly darker tone than it had at one time and his hair was now black. It was definitely Ned though. 'How did she recognize him?'
"Well if it isn't Joe Hardy?" There was an evil glint in his eyes. "Where are the other two musketeers?" He smirked trying to throw a punch at the younger Hardy.
"We're right here." Ned turned around to see a very cold and thin Nancy. He wasn't completely shocked at the state of what his former fiancée was in but he was shocked. She didn't look like she had gotten any sleep in a long time and that she wasn't eating.
Ned stepped put of fighting stance and was trying to walk toward her when he felt Joe kick him in the back. "Come off it hardy." He ordered.
Frank wasn't sure what Ned was up to but he wasn't about to let him hurt her anymore than he had. "Stay back Ned." Her gaze warned him as much as the coldness of her words.
Somewhere deep inside him a voice that he hadn't heard for a long time was commenting in his head, 'See what you did to her. You deserve everything that she and the Hardy's throw at you and more.' Another voice, the voice that was now all too familiar to him was saying, 'Oh shut up. Why should you care what she's going through? She only cared about her mystery solving.'
Nancy could see some of the old Ned showing up in his eyes. As suddenly as it was there it was gone again and there was the cold menacing Ned that she had been fighting for the last three years now. Almost unconscientiously she was in a fighting position and she didn't have to look at Frank to know that he was as well.
Ned saw this and commented with some harshness in his voice. "What's wrong, Nancy can't fight me on your own?" He knew that she was a good fighter mostly because of her job.
She slightly turned her head and gave him a look that said, "Let me do this."
He stood straight up as he gave her another look that said, "Okay but if he hurts you then he's going to be in lot of trouble."
Ned saw the silent communication that was going on between them. "What you talk to each other telepathically now?"
That earned him a hard cold stare from all of them. Nancy was waiting for his attack when he did a roundhouse kick in the air that she managed to dodge. She allowed him to attack time after time only dodging his attacks before he commented, "You've become a lot better." Neither he nor she was even breaking out a sweat yet.
She waited until he was open and sent a kick to side that made contact. It didn't cause him to double over as it would have one time but she didn't figure that it would and personally she didn't want it too. She wanted to fight him.
He still kept throwing punches and missing as she dodged them. "You're the second in a terrorist group and this is all you can do?" She taunted. "Goodness sakes don't go easy on me." She more or less ordered and all of a sudden the fight became a lot tenser.
Frank looked on not at all surprised at what Nancy could do. He could tell that she hadn't been sitting down for the last three years. She had probably put herself through extra fighting training at the network agency and through the Tae Kwan Do classes that she used to take on an everyday bases.
Joe looked at the angry young woman that was fighting before him. He could see that she had completely transformed and if she hadn't been able to hold her own before he knew that she could now. He was standing by his brother when he made the comment, "Remind me not to get on her bad side."
"I don't think that you will need reminding." Frank looked on worried. He knew that she hadn't eaten that morning and this fight had already been going on for an hour. He was surprised that the police hadn't been called.
The police came just as he was thinking that. Ned heard them and before he started running he said, "Until we meet again."
Nancy was about to pass out but she wasn't about to let the other people that were around know that. "We will have to take you in for questioning, Ma'am." Nancy wasn't in the mood to talk into anybody. She looked like he was ready to bite the officer's head off.
Joe could see that she had withdrawn into herself as much as Frank had when everyone arrived. 'This isn't going to work. They need to talk.' His brother had been more open when he had been around Nancy. That meant that Nancy had been doing what he wanted her to do and he hadn't even talked to her but they still weren't talking about anything of crucial importance.
Joe had to play mediator today. "Sir, we'll be happy to talk to you but could we go and eat lunch before we do. My comrades and I haven't eaten much today."
Joe received a nod when the other officers returned. "We lost him sir."
Nancy was led by Frank and Joe to the same restaurant that they had been eating at the day before. At the sight of Melissa Joe grinned. Nancy was just starting to come around when she noticed that he had switched to Romeo state. "Hey, Romeo, why don't you get her number?"
Frank chuckled a little at this and got them a table while Joe put on every Hardy charm there was. After they were seated they decided not to wait for Joe as he was still flirting and they were hungry. "We should spar sometime Nancy. You've become quite good." Frank was still withdrawn but he was trying to lighten the mood.
Joe came over and asked, "Did you order for me?"
"No Joe we didn't know what you wanted." Frank answered tartly. "Did you finally get that girl's phone number?"
"No, Nancy you're a woman what am I doing wrong?" He was earnest.
"You're being a pessimistic customer and she probably gets this kind of thing all the time." Nancy responded. "Bess could probably tell you better than I could." Nancy was looking out the window toward where they parked the car.
Dinner was a quiet affair today. No one said much of anything, except for Joe and his constant flirting with the impossible waitress. Frank took care of the bill and left with Nancy out the front door while Romeo was still going at it.
Joe had a grin on his face when he came out of the restaurant. "Joe you must have got something." Nancy commented annoyed at the Cheshire smile that he had on his face.
"Yeah a date for a concert at 7p.m. tonight."
"With Melissa?" Frank questioned not quite believing that she had willingly given into the date.
Joe nodded his head affirmative. "Well I suppose that we'd better get some work done so you can get ready for your date." Nancy climbed into the car.
They finished talking to the police officer that had wanted to talk to them earlier who did still not quite believe that these people were FBI. "Thank you. Can we go home now?"
Nancy was tired and needed to try to get some sleep. She wasn't sure that she would though.
Joe left for his date. He still couldn't quite believe that he had gotten that. If it hadn't been for her friend having these tickets he wouldn't be able to have one up on the phone number.
Joe left Frank and Nancy at the hotel. He hoped that they would talk or get some sleep. They needed to do both.
Nancy sat down on the bed so tired that she couldn't do anything. "You did well out there today Nan." He sat on the bed along side her turning her around so that he could massage her shoulders.
"I wanted to hurt him." She said.
"I know you did." He smoothed her angry words as he pushed her hair over her shoulder brushing her cheek with his finger tips as he did so. The electrical currents that had always been there seemed to be stronger than it had been in a long time.
As they sat there her tense shoulders began to relax more. Frank lay her down on the bed making sure that she had a pillow under her head. He began to do her back. It was incredible how tense she was. She slowly began to relax some when she turned to face him. "Frank.." She stopped when she looked into his intense brown eyes. He was so close to her she could smell the after shave that he had used earlier.
He didn't respond in words anyways. He closed the distance between them and kissed her. The kiss sent more shivers down Nancy's back than she would care to count. It was long and sensuous making her want to give herself completely to the kiss. She did exactly as she wanted.
Frank looked at her blue eyes staring straight into his brown ones and he couldn't resist kissing her anymore. She was soft as she responded to his kiss almost automatically. He knew that he had kissed her before on cases but it had never been like this before. They broke off the kiss sooner than either of them liked but they were both tired and needed to sleep. She was snuggled safely in his arms and before long they were both safely asleep. - - -
That's the end of this chapter. Anyone who wants to take anything beyond kissing in my stories is going to have to use their imaginations because I don' believe that anything other than that belongs in stories. Anyways you know the drill you have to give me an honest review after you finish reading this. Ja ne!