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Chapter 12

Joe walked in late that night to find Frank and Nancy sleeping peacefully. 'At least they are getting some sleep'. He went to bed with that peaceful knowledge.

The morning arrived with the sun streaming into the room. Frank awoke with a start wondering why he was in the bed that Nancy had been sleeping in. As he began wondering about it he remembered what happened the night before. Nancy came out of the shower looking all rested for once. "Hey, we have work to do so go get that shower."

"Where's Joe?" Nancy chuckled. "He's on the patio trying to get Melissa to talk to him. I think that Melissa was set up on that date."

Frank went to take his shower. Nancy made the bed where she and Frank had fallen asleep. Joe walked into the room as Nancy called Bess. "Hello." A sleepy voice answered the phone.

"Good morning. How is the wedding coming together?" Nancy asked as she sat down.

"Nan, you called me at 9 in the morning just to ask me that?" Bess was sitting up on the bed it sounded like.

Joe had to smile at Nan. "Yep. You're supposed to be married in two days and I didn't want you to think that I forgot all about the wedding."

Joe turned on the speaker phone. "I hope not." Bess's voice filled the room. "You're the maid of honor!"

Nancy laughed at her friend. "I see Frank has been doing a good job breaking the ice." Joe laughed as Nancy turned beet red.

"I thought you had put me on speaker Joe! What are you doing up this early?"

Nancy saw an opportunity to embarrass him really good. "He's calling a girl that he took out last night. I have sneaky suspicion that she was set up." Nancy informed her friend with a hint mischievousness in her voice.

"Joe, don't you know that you have to give the girl some breathing room." Bess chastised. "Nan, I have to meet this girl that has been able to resist the charm of Joe Hardy." Frank could be heard as he laughed in the doorway to the bathroom.

"Frank you promised to get Nancy back in time for my wedding." She reminded him.

"I know. I promise she will be there in time." He sat down by Nancy.

"Good. If you don't mind I'm going to try to get some more sleep before my fiancée shows up with some more last minute emergencies." She mumbled something about people keeping unearthly hours.

Joe laughed at the last comment that she made. "Let's eat." He threw a meaningful glance at Frank and Nancy.

"I'm not hungry Joe." Nancy wanted to stay back and work on the case. Besides she needed to think.

Joe looked at his friend. "Listen Nancy. You're nothing but skin and bones now. Yesterday after that fight is the first time that I have actually seen you eat since we met up. You're going to eat." Nancy looked to Frank for help. "Frank isn't helping you this time. He is going to eat as well. You're both to thin for your own good."

Frank was surprised at the abruptness in his brother. "Joe I'm not really hungry myself."

"You both want to argue about this. Incredible! Look we have to get this case solved and fast. If you don't eat you won't have any energy." Joe had made his point.

"Alright." They consented at the same time.

During breakfast they went over what they had for the case. They divided into three different groups afterwards and agreed to meet in an hour.

Nancy was supposed to go and talk to the FBI, while Frank covered the CIA, and Joe called Mr. Fairchild to see what came up with the books that he had found in the warehouse.

-Nancy-

"Listen I want information on this right now!" She was talking to the head of the FBI.

"Miss Drew I'm afraid that I can not get that information to you. I have to talk to your superior." Nancy scowled at him.

"Fine if you need to talk to my superior here are two numbers for you." She made herself comfortable in the chair that was behind her.

First he called Frank and verified who she was but she could tell that Frank wasn't very happy about the lack of information that she had managed to get. Then he called Mr. Fairchild. "What is it?"

"I have a young woman here by the name of Agent Nancy Drew that claims that she is here to get information on the terrorist activities that had been going on."

"You have a problem giving her the information that she needs? She is FBI and she is doing a case for us and if you can't give her the case then I can find someone else to replace you." The authority in his voice was shaking the chief of this bureau headquarters.

"Yes sir." Nancy had a deadly chilling smile on her face. "I'm sorry Agent Drew."

He apologized and went to get the required information. "Thank you." She smiled sweetly.

-Frank-

"Special Agent Frank Hardy. I've been expecting you." The man said as he shook hands with him.

"Can we go to your office please?" Frank asked as they left hall.

"Not a problem." He was led to the inner office. "So you want information on all the terrorist attacks that have been going around."

"Yes. We have been working on this assignment for a few days but we can't seem to find out anything more on the second but we have to get this case solved because something big is about to go down." Frank explained.

"Who is the second?" Frank was asked.

"N.N. Chauven." Frank answered with all seriousness. The man's face paled when he heard that. "There have been stories of sightings of him in the city. This confirms what we thought were rumors."

"I assure that these are not rumors." Frank wanted to get out of here now.

The files that he was looking for were pulled from the vault that was obviously in the back filled withal kinds of information.

"This is everything that I have. I hope that this helps you." Frank thanked him and left the room.

-Joe-

"What did you find Mr. Fairchild?" Joe asked as he paced the hotel room.

"Well it was exactly what we expected. Someone has been selling our countries secrets and codes. We are sending you to new York that seems to be where this thing might end."

"What about Nancy and Frank?" Joe stopped pacing the floor.

Mr. Fairchild was thinking. "Only part of the deal is going down in New York. From the looks of it the rest if going down in Chicago."

'Please tell me that you won't be separating us.' "Does that mean what I think that it means?" Joe asked hoping that his thoughts were wrong.

"Yes, I'm sorry Joe." Just as Joe was about to hang up the phone he heard the door open to his boss's office.

"Daddy?" Elayne wanted something as always.

"I'm going to have to let you go." That was the end of that conversation.

It was time to meet Nancy and Frank and see what they had found. He hoped that everything would turn out alright. He wasn't worried about Nancy and Frank taking care of themselves. He knew that they could do that. He was going to have to get them to talk tonight.

-At the meeting place-

"Well what did you find bro?" Frank asked as he sat down with all of the drinks.

The books that I found are definitely what we feared they would be." Joe told the other two.

"Nancy pulled out her purse and looked at the note that she had forgotten. "ESACFFOEHTYATS."

"I know this says." Her words got their attention.

"What Nan?" Joe asked.

"Stay off the case." She paused with her head in her hands.

"What's wrong?" Frank asked. He wanted to take her hands away from her face.

"I know that code. It was something that Ned and I worked out when we were together. Ned wrote that note." Nancy was sad and angry now. Ned knows that a threatening note isn't going to scare me off the case. Why only a note and beating?

She was broken out of her thoughts by Joe when he told her what Mr. Fairchild wanted them to do and what he had said earlier that day.

"Okay, Joe, we'll get packed tonight. New York is way off the road of Chicago. We're going to assume that he will have you a partner ready over there seeing that it is against company policy to go on a mission alone. They were getting up to leave when Nancy thought of something. "I'll be right back. I'll meet you at the car."

Frank looked at her in an odd way. She's up to something. I wonder if it is one of the things that I can get hr to tell me tonight or if I have to wait.

Nancy joined them at the car. She didn't want to think that her instincts were correct because then she would have been wrong for all these years. She would soon find out though.

-In another part of the city-

"What do you mean?" He asked dangerously.

"Just what I said."

"Fine we can do that."

"Oh another thing your former fiancée is getting a little too close to this." His boss ordered evilly. "It's time to put her out of commission.

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