"Well I received a note the other day saying that one of my extra science
experiments had been taken. I've been working on this one for about two
years trying to get it to work. I've finally figured out the formulation of
the chemicals and was getting ready to submit it to the CAC (chemistry
alignment center)."
"What was the substance that you were supposed to break down?" Bess inquisitioned.
Chet shook his head. "Why am I telling you all of this? You're not a detective." He questioned himself.
"I do some detective work on the side that Nancy doesn't know about yet. You can't tell her. Will you answer my question?" She tried again.
"Xenophonic lyglceridis phelia." He answered. (I just made it up. I don't think that there is such thing but then again I am not a chem. major.)
"What does this stuff do?" Bess kept on. She had never heard of it but that didn't mean that it didn't exist.
"It ..."
Bess's phone interrupted him. "Just a minute. That is my husband."
Erincamille- Thank you for the review. The information is greatly appreciated about Chet I wouldn't mind some more though.
Vivian 1- I know that it needs more suspense. I was just getting the story established. Don't worry there should be more suspense as well as the triangle beginning here. I was planning on it happening in this chapter anyways.
Katie- I know what you mean. Don't worry they will learn to respect her by the end of the story.
Damsel-of-Distress- I hope that you enjoyed your vacation. Yes I know that it sounds like some weird food that you might eat but after I get a good explanation as to what it is none of us will want to have anything to do with it. (I still haven't quite figured out what to do with it! I guess we'll find out in this chapter won't we!)
Catherine Wells 2371- I have to thank you for all of your support as well and request the same thing that I requested with Erincamille. Will you please help me with his character? I know that he will be used quite a bit in this story. I want to get his character right.
Chapter 5
It was strange. Even though she was at the police station talking to the people that had chased her and her friends down she still felt connected to him. "Frank you have to come to." Nancy whispered. She didn't know quite what to do. Her best friend was in the hospital. She had never felt so helpless. "I promise that I will find the people who did this to you." She vowed.
Chet Morton was in the waiting with Bess who was hanging up her phone. "Your husband?" Nancy questioned before she sat down.
"Yeah." Bess nodded.
"Chet it's been awhile." Nancy greeted before she went on. "I haven't had the chance to talk to Joe. Can you please tell me what is going on?"
"Well I've been working on a project at the CAC, that is the Chemical Alignment Center. There is a chemical called Xenophonic lyglyceridis phelia. It is a very deadly chemical that is we don't get the separate chemicals separated would mean that the people who have it could destroy us and everyone else along with it. Including them. It has to be kept at freezing cold temperatures to keep from being activated." Chet paused.
"What does it do? I've never heard of it." Bess asked.
"Well it eats through anything that it touches. If were to touch this floor it would be gone in a matter of minutes even seconds perhaps. Skin contact will kill you." Chet didn't feel the need to go in to detail on that comment.
"Have you received any notes or anything of that sort from whoever stole the chemical?" Nancy kept the inquiries coming.
"Yes." Chet nodded. "Joe has the note."
"What about the surveillance tapes?" Nancy thought about as she went through everything that she was being told.
"That was the funny thing. The police couldn't get in and the brothers were able to get in by doing the same thing. They showed a badge." Chet shook his head.
"Did Frank and Joe take the tapes anywhere?" Nancy was ready to do something other than question people now.
"They did but I don't know where they took them." Chet answered.
"Thank you Chet." Nancy walked toward Joe who had just left one of the interrogation rooms.
Joe watched her come toward him with sadness. If something were to happen to Frank she would lose just as much as his family. "Hey Nancy did you find anything?"
She nodded her head but wouldn't answer. "Joe what did you do with those tapes that I sent you a week ago?"
Joe bent his head down and whispered something in her ear. She nodded her head in understanding what he had said. She felt some keys pressed into her hand. "Thank you." She whispered back to him.
Someone cleared his throat behind them. "Is playing one hardy not enough for you Nan?"
Nancy glared at the owner of the voice. "Ned what are you doing here?" You could see her masked anger sparking at the insinuation that he just gave her.
"I'm her to help."
"I don't need help. I haven't accepted help from you in three years and I'm not going to start now." She strode out of the room quickly.
Ned glanced at Joe. "What's going on here?" Joe's glare was just as cold as Nancy's.
"What are you doing here?" Joe shot at him. 'You still ought to pay for what you have done to Nancy. Too bad she won't do anything to you.'
"I'm just here to help." Ned raised his hands as if trying to defend himself against Joe's bristles.
"We don't want your help." Joe pointed out.
"Wait Joe, maybe we can use it. Whether we want it or not." Bess held his arm to keep him from doing anything.
"Doing what Bess?" Joe questioned.
"He can keep an eye on Frank." Bess's eyes told more than she was letting on and he understood what she was saying.
Joe nodded in agreement over the idea. "You're right he can."
Ned understood what was being said. He was to be given duty over watching his arch rival. He had originally come here to start trying to make amends with her so that maybe she could see him as she once had. "Bess I came to help."
"Don't make me pull rank on you." Joe threatened.
Ned nodded. "Yes sir." Ned couldn't believe the injustice of it. Joe was younger than he was and yet he held rank over him.
"Here's our numbers. You are to contact us is here is any change in his condition. Bess was so impersonal. It was almost as if nobody in the group that he hung out with at one time would recognize him as one of theirs. 'How can Bess be so impersonal with me? She just gave me an order that should have been given by my superior. She seems to have changed though. I don't think that it was because she got married.'
"Well I guess I better get to the hospital." He muttered under his breath.
-Nancy-
While Nancy had seen to Chet getting back to work she looked at the layout of the grounds of CAC. It wasn't that complicated. There was none of the wiring that you would expect to find at a facility like this. She was used tall fences with the barbed wires. It would be too easy for a person to bread in here. The ground was really hilly as well. That would make it easy to hide for them. In the camouflage of night dressed in the right outfit anyone could get away with anything. 'I'll have to ask Chet about security around here.' Nancy knew that hey had some because she had to be cleared before they would allow her car through.
"Okay now that I have some idea of what is going on here. Let me see what I can find on those tapes that you have Joe. The key that he had given her was to a room that evidently Aunt Gertrude and his mother didn't know about. She wasn't sure about his father though. Mr. Hardy didn't know about them working for the Network either.
She arrived before long to the Hardy house and pulled her car in. "Oh great! It looks like Aunt Gertrude is here." Aunt Gertrude she could understand a little bit anyways. Her brother and her two nephews were detectives. Albeit her brother was a retired detective now it still seemed that he would solve just as many mysteries as his boys did. He even helped her dad on some of the cases that she was too busy too help on.
She opened the door to find the woman in the kitchen making lunch. "Nancy what are you doing in town?"
"I'm here visiting Frank and Joe at the moment." Nancy made sure that she didn't lie about it. The woman seemed to have a built in lie detector. Nancy could only account that to the fact there were three detectives living in the house and she felt that she had to know what they were up to at least.
"Are you helping them to solve a case?"
"Yes I am." She was ready to get upstairs to Frank's office.
"You know what I think about women working on these dangerous cases."
Nancy smiled whimsically at the lady. "I know. You're a dear but you have to remember that I chose to do this." She kissed the lady on the cheek. "If you don't mind I have some work to do upstairs. She picked up the bags and went to the room that she usually stayed in when she was over here.
She looked around the upstairs. She knew where Frank's office looked like bus she liked to look around the whole upstairs. The air in the rooms just seemed so different from what she was used to. She stepped into Frank's room. Nancy had a sad smile on her face. "Oh Frank you have to make it. I know you can." She spoke in the lifeless room that seemed to be alive and vibrant. She had to resist going to his bed and cuddling up on the sheets. Nancy knew that the strongest smell would be on the bed where he slept.
She wandered into the study that was Mr. Hardy's. She was surprised to his father in the office. "Nancy! I was wondering when I would see you again." He smiled but it didn't reach his eyes.
"Hello sir. How are you doing?" Nancy sat down for a minute.
"I'm going to make it given the circumstances. Don't worry my son is very strong." He encouraged the red haired beauty before him. He had to admit that his son knew how to pick them.
"I know Mr. Hardy. Does Aunt Gertrude know? I didn't say anything to her about it." Nancy kept her voice low.
"No she doesn't and I thank you for your discretion. Did you want something?" He inquired with his pen in his mouth.
"No I was just looking around the upstairs area before I sat down in Frank's office." Nancy answered.
"So you're here to work on the case."
"Yes sir." Nancy got up to leave the room.
"Be careful out there Nancy. Whoever shot him is watching." Fenton hardy warned the young woman. He watched her leave. 'I hope that nothing does happen to you. I don't even know how he will react if something does happen to you. I don't think that Joe will even be able to stop him.'
Nancy pulled out the chair in the office after she made sure that he door was shut and locked. "Okay all I have to do is to type in the codes that she had been given." She muttered as she began. After she finished that there was door from behind her that had opened from the paneling in the wall. "Well this is interesting." Nancy took the keys that Joe had pressed into her hand earlier.
The key opened a panel that had another code to be typed into it. "Boy Frank you have either became paranoid in your years working for the network or just extremely cautious. She typed in the fourth password that she had been given. The code opened the rest of the panel door to reveal a little room of carefully labeled tapes and DVD's. Inside the room if she were to bend down she would find another surprise. She didn't though since she had found the tapes that she had wanted. They were obviously some of the top ones because that was the case they had been working on. "Well here goes." She popped open the laptop cod player.
-Bess and Joe-
"Joe what about the warehouse that you were checking out?"
"That's where we are headed. I called in a few favors. It's being guarded. We should be able to get in without a problem." Joe assured her.
"Wouldn't the place have been cleaned out by now?" Bess was stating what Joe already knew.
"Yes it would but they usually leave something behind. That is what Frank was looking for before he..." Joe didn't finish the sentence.
"I'm sorry Joe." Bess didn't know what to feel. She didn't know whether to feel empathetic or to feel anger toward the person that had done all of this. "I've got to call George after we finish here." Bess commented.
"It's alright we both know the risk of the work we do. In fact we all do." Joe tried to sound logical but he really didn't. Joe pulled into the parking lot across from the warehouse. 'I hope I know what I am doing. I know I trust Nancy but I've never had to rely in Bess alone.'
Bess knew what he was thinking. 'I promise you Joe that you do know what you are doing. I will help to find who did this but I have to tell Nancy what I have been doing. I hope that she will understand.'
"Is the lady with you sir?" A man gave Bess a flirtatious smile.
"Yes she is." Joe gave a business like answer with no emotion to it whatsoever.
Joe assigned her an area to look where he could keep an eye on her as well as do some investigating of his own. "Joe, Chet told us that he had received a note saying something about the chemical that he had been working with. Did you check it for the any water markings?" Bess inquired.
"Yeah. It was just regular typing paper. There was nothing of significance with the piece except fro the note that was on it."
"That doesn't help any." She thought out loud. "Is there anyway to find a tracer on the printer that did it?"
"No there isn't. Computers are a home commodity now. When that happened printers were the next thing to be demanded. It would be highly unlikely to find a clue in that direction. It's good thinking though." He encouraged. Maybe Bess would make a good detective after all.
"Joe come and look at this." She had found a tiny pin with a Greek symbol on it.
"Ever study ancient languages?" Joe asked her.
"No, should I have."
"No it just would have helped with this symbol." They searched the rest of the warehouse to find nothing.
"Well at least it's something." Bess was a little encouraged at this thought.
Bess climbed into the seat of the car as Joe dismissed he officers that had been waiting there as they had been ordered.
-Ned-
Ned watched over Frank wishing that he had something to do other than replay in his mind what had happened over the last few years. "Why'd she have to go and fall in love with you? I was almost finished with that case and I could have gone and won her heart back. I wanted to help out with this case but she doesn't want me to. I think that I have hurt her far more than I thought. I wish I knew what was going on so that I at least could try to help out whether the help was wanted or not." The truth was that he had no leads and no clue as to where the rest of the group had gone. He wouldn't be able to tell what they were doing. The only reason he knew about this was because Joe had called in some favors asking for guards to watch some warehouse. That was when the idea hit him. He did have a lead. He would prove t o Nancy that he was worthy to be loved.
-Frank-
'I hear somebody talking to me or him like he was really troubled. I didn't understand that the voice is what was making my head hurt because of the harsher beat of my heart against my chest. Why does this voice make me want to kill him? It was very familiar. I know it isn't Nancy. Her voice is sweet and melodic. Just as the voice continued talking I realized who it was I knew what it was that made me angry. I had to wake up. He was going to try to win my Nancy back by solving this case! I can't have him hurt her once again. He hurt her really bad for a long time. I wonder how she is.'
-Ned-
Ned watched as the Frank about his age began to stir. "Nancy?" Frank whispered to the air around him. - - - -
I'm so sorry for such a late update on this story. I was having trouble trying to keep up with everything that I was doing for the holidays and then when I began to work on this last week I had such a bad case of writer's block for this story it wasn't even close to funny. I think I gave up trying to do this chapter after I erased it about three times.
I made the chapter longer in hopes that you won't throw tomatoes at me.
Katie Janeway and Lord Dreadnault I want to thank you for the reviews that you gave me on A Christmas Story. I would have tried to continue that except there was nothing left to tell. I had completed what it was that I had wanted in the story. I was trying to tell the birth of Jesus and still make it where the kids would be the ones solving the mystery.
Don't worry though because they will be back before long. This next time they will be solving a real mystery. Bess's child will be old enough to help as well on the next one. I have few other Nancy Drew stories to do before that though. In O' of all the luck left a lot of stories open to work and play with.
If anyone gets any ideas that you want to give me that will be alright. I'm not out of ideas at the moment but this story might need some more. I promised you the triangle would start to show up in this chapter. So it begins. What do you do when you have two guys in love with you? (I know that she isn't thinking about it right now but she will definitely be doing that in the following one as well as trying to solve this case.
Anyways sorry again for not updating for so long. You know the drill. Be sure to give me a good and honest report! Happy New Years!
"What was the substance that you were supposed to break down?" Bess inquisitioned.
Chet shook his head. "Why am I telling you all of this? You're not a detective." He questioned himself.
"I do some detective work on the side that Nancy doesn't know about yet. You can't tell her. Will you answer my question?" She tried again.
"Xenophonic lyglceridis phelia." He answered. (I just made it up. I don't think that there is such thing but then again I am not a chem. major.)
"What does this stuff do?" Bess kept on. She had never heard of it but that didn't mean that it didn't exist.
"It ..."
Bess's phone interrupted him. "Just a minute. That is my husband."
Erincamille- Thank you for the review. The information is greatly appreciated about Chet I wouldn't mind some more though.
Vivian 1- I know that it needs more suspense. I was just getting the story established. Don't worry there should be more suspense as well as the triangle beginning here. I was planning on it happening in this chapter anyways.
Katie- I know what you mean. Don't worry they will learn to respect her by the end of the story.
Damsel-of-Distress- I hope that you enjoyed your vacation. Yes I know that it sounds like some weird food that you might eat but after I get a good explanation as to what it is none of us will want to have anything to do with it. (I still haven't quite figured out what to do with it! I guess we'll find out in this chapter won't we!)
Catherine Wells 2371- I have to thank you for all of your support as well and request the same thing that I requested with Erincamille. Will you please help me with his character? I know that he will be used quite a bit in this story. I want to get his character right.
Chapter 5
It was strange. Even though she was at the police station talking to the people that had chased her and her friends down she still felt connected to him. "Frank you have to come to." Nancy whispered. She didn't know quite what to do. Her best friend was in the hospital. She had never felt so helpless. "I promise that I will find the people who did this to you." She vowed.
Chet Morton was in the waiting with Bess who was hanging up her phone. "Your husband?" Nancy questioned before she sat down.
"Yeah." Bess nodded.
"Chet it's been awhile." Nancy greeted before she went on. "I haven't had the chance to talk to Joe. Can you please tell me what is going on?"
"Well I've been working on a project at the CAC, that is the Chemical Alignment Center. There is a chemical called Xenophonic lyglyceridis phelia. It is a very deadly chemical that is we don't get the separate chemicals separated would mean that the people who have it could destroy us and everyone else along with it. Including them. It has to be kept at freezing cold temperatures to keep from being activated." Chet paused.
"What does it do? I've never heard of it." Bess asked.
"Well it eats through anything that it touches. If were to touch this floor it would be gone in a matter of minutes even seconds perhaps. Skin contact will kill you." Chet didn't feel the need to go in to detail on that comment.
"Have you received any notes or anything of that sort from whoever stole the chemical?" Nancy kept the inquiries coming.
"Yes." Chet nodded. "Joe has the note."
"What about the surveillance tapes?" Nancy thought about as she went through everything that she was being told.
"That was the funny thing. The police couldn't get in and the brothers were able to get in by doing the same thing. They showed a badge." Chet shook his head.
"Did Frank and Joe take the tapes anywhere?" Nancy was ready to do something other than question people now.
"They did but I don't know where they took them." Chet answered.
"Thank you Chet." Nancy walked toward Joe who had just left one of the interrogation rooms.
Joe watched her come toward him with sadness. If something were to happen to Frank she would lose just as much as his family. "Hey Nancy did you find anything?"
She nodded her head but wouldn't answer. "Joe what did you do with those tapes that I sent you a week ago?"
Joe bent his head down and whispered something in her ear. She nodded her head in understanding what he had said. She felt some keys pressed into her hand. "Thank you." She whispered back to him.
Someone cleared his throat behind them. "Is playing one hardy not enough for you Nan?"
Nancy glared at the owner of the voice. "Ned what are you doing here?" You could see her masked anger sparking at the insinuation that he just gave her.
"I'm her to help."
"I don't need help. I haven't accepted help from you in three years and I'm not going to start now." She strode out of the room quickly.
Ned glanced at Joe. "What's going on here?" Joe's glare was just as cold as Nancy's.
"What are you doing here?" Joe shot at him. 'You still ought to pay for what you have done to Nancy. Too bad she won't do anything to you.'
"I'm just here to help." Ned raised his hands as if trying to defend himself against Joe's bristles.
"We don't want your help." Joe pointed out.
"Wait Joe, maybe we can use it. Whether we want it or not." Bess held his arm to keep him from doing anything.
"Doing what Bess?" Joe questioned.
"He can keep an eye on Frank." Bess's eyes told more than she was letting on and he understood what she was saying.
Joe nodded in agreement over the idea. "You're right he can."
Ned understood what was being said. He was to be given duty over watching his arch rival. He had originally come here to start trying to make amends with her so that maybe she could see him as she once had. "Bess I came to help."
"Don't make me pull rank on you." Joe threatened.
Ned nodded. "Yes sir." Ned couldn't believe the injustice of it. Joe was younger than he was and yet he held rank over him.
"Here's our numbers. You are to contact us is here is any change in his condition. Bess was so impersonal. It was almost as if nobody in the group that he hung out with at one time would recognize him as one of theirs. 'How can Bess be so impersonal with me? She just gave me an order that should have been given by my superior. She seems to have changed though. I don't think that it was because she got married.'
"Well I guess I better get to the hospital." He muttered under his breath.
-Nancy-
While Nancy had seen to Chet getting back to work she looked at the layout of the grounds of CAC. It wasn't that complicated. There was none of the wiring that you would expect to find at a facility like this. She was used tall fences with the barbed wires. It would be too easy for a person to bread in here. The ground was really hilly as well. That would make it easy to hide for them. In the camouflage of night dressed in the right outfit anyone could get away with anything. 'I'll have to ask Chet about security around here.' Nancy knew that hey had some because she had to be cleared before they would allow her car through.
"Okay now that I have some idea of what is going on here. Let me see what I can find on those tapes that you have Joe. The key that he had given her was to a room that evidently Aunt Gertrude and his mother didn't know about. She wasn't sure about his father though. Mr. Hardy didn't know about them working for the Network either.
She arrived before long to the Hardy house and pulled her car in. "Oh great! It looks like Aunt Gertrude is here." Aunt Gertrude she could understand a little bit anyways. Her brother and her two nephews were detectives. Albeit her brother was a retired detective now it still seemed that he would solve just as many mysteries as his boys did. He even helped her dad on some of the cases that she was too busy too help on.
She opened the door to find the woman in the kitchen making lunch. "Nancy what are you doing in town?"
"I'm here visiting Frank and Joe at the moment." Nancy made sure that she didn't lie about it. The woman seemed to have a built in lie detector. Nancy could only account that to the fact there were three detectives living in the house and she felt that she had to know what they were up to at least.
"Are you helping them to solve a case?"
"Yes I am." She was ready to get upstairs to Frank's office.
"You know what I think about women working on these dangerous cases."
Nancy smiled whimsically at the lady. "I know. You're a dear but you have to remember that I chose to do this." She kissed the lady on the cheek. "If you don't mind I have some work to do upstairs. She picked up the bags and went to the room that she usually stayed in when she was over here.
She looked around the upstairs. She knew where Frank's office looked like bus she liked to look around the whole upstairs. The air in the rooms just seemed so different from what she was used to. She stepped into Frank's room. Nancy had a sad smile on her face. "Oh Frank you have to make it. I know you can." She spoke in the lifeless room that seemed to be alive and vibrant. She had to resist going to his bed and cuddling up on the sheets. Nancy knew that the strongest smell would be on the bed where he slept.
She wandered into the study that was Mr. Hardy's. She was surprised to his father in the office. "Nancy! I was wondering when I would see you again." He smiled but it didn't reach his eyes.
"Hello sir. How are you doing?" Nancy sat down for a minute.
"I'm going to make it given the circumstances. Don't worry my son is very strong." He encouraged the red haired beauty before him. He had to admit that his son knew how to pick them.
"I know Mr. Hardy. Does Aunt Gertrude know? I didn't say anything to her about it." Nancy kept her voice low.
"No she doesn't and I thank you for your discretion. Did you want something?" He inquired with his pen in his mouth.
"No I was just looking around the upstairs area before I sat down in Frank's office." Nancy answered.
"So you're here to work on the case."
"Yes sir." Nancy got up to leave the room.
"Be careful out there Nancy. Whoever shot him is watching." Fenton hardy warned the young woman. He watched her leave. 'I hope that nothing does happen to you. I don't even know how he will react if something does happen to you. I don't think that Joe will even be able to stop him.'
Nancy pulled out the chair in the office after she made sure that he door was shut and locked. "Okay all I have to do is to type in the codes that she had been given." She muttered as she began. After she finished that there was door from behind her that had opened from the paneling in the wall. "Well this is interesting." Nancy took the keys that Joe had pressed into her hand earlier.
The key opened a panel that had another code to be typed into it. "Boy Frank you have either became paranoid in your years working for the network or just extremely cautious. She typed in the fourth password that she had been given. The code opened the rest of the panel door to reveal a little room of carefully labeled tapes and DVD's. Inside the room if she were to bend down she would find another surprise. She didn't though since she had found the tapes that she had wanted. They were obviously some of the top ones because that was the case they had been working on. "Well here goes." She popped open the laptop cod player.
-Bess and Joe-
"Joe what about the warehouse that you were checking out?"
"That's where we are headed. I called in a few favors. It's being guarded. We should be able to get in without a problem." Joe assured her.
"Wouldn't the place have been cleaned out by now?" Bess was stating what Joe already knew.
"Yes it would but they usually leave something behind. That is what Frank was looking for before he..." Joe didn't finish the sentence.
"I'm sorry Joe." Bess didn't know what to feel. She didn't know whether to feel empathetic or to feel anger toward the person that had done all of this. "I've got to call George after we finish here." Bess commented.
"It's alright we both know the risk of the work we do. In fact we all do." Joe tried to sound logical but he really didn't. Joe pulled into the parking lot across from the warehouse. 'I hope I know what I am doing. I know I trust Nancy but I've never had to rely in Bess alone.'
Bess knew what he was thinking. 'I promise you Joe that you do know what you are doing. I will help to find who did this but I have to tell Nancy what I have been doing. I hope that she will understand.'
"Is the lady with you sir?" A man gave Bess a flirtatious smile.
"Yes she is." Joe gave a business like answer with no emotion to it whatsoever.
Joe assigned her an area to look where he could keep an eye on her as well as do some investigating of his own. "Joe, Chet told us that he had received a note saying something about the chemical that he had been working with. Did you check it for the any water markings?" Bess inquired.
"Yeah. It was just regular typing paper. There was nothing of significance with the piece except fro the note that was on it."
"That doesn't help any." She thought out loud. "Is there anyway to find a tracer on the printer that did it?"
"No there isn't. Computers are a home commodity now. When that happened printers were the next thing to be demanded. It would be highly unlikely to find a clue in that direction. It's good thinking though." He encouraged. Maybe Bess would make a good detective after all.
"Joe come and look at this." She had found a tiny pin with a Greek symbol on it.
"Ever study ancient languages?" Joe asked her.
"No, should I have."
"No it just would have helped with this symbol." They searched the rest of the warehouse to find nothing.
"Well at least it's something." Bess was a little encouraged at this thought.
Bess climbed into the seat of the car as Joe dismissed he officers that had been waiting there as they had been ordered.
-Ned-
Ned watched over Frank wishing that he had something to do other than replay in his mind what had happened over the last few years. "Why'd she have to go and fall in love with you? I was almost finished with that case and I could have gone and won her heart back. I wanted to help out with this case but she doesn't want me to. I think that I have hurt her far more than I thought. I wish I knew what was going on so that I at least could try to help out whether the help was wanted or not." The truth was that he had no leads and no clue as to where the rest of the group had gone. He wouldn't be able to tell what they were doing. The only reason he knew about this was because Joe had called in some favors asking for guards to watch some warehouse. That was when the idea hit him. He did have a lead. He would prove t o Nancy that he was worthy to be loved.
-Frank-
'I hear somebody talking to me or him like he was really troubled. I didn't understand that the voice is what was making my head hurt because of the harsher beat of my heart against my chest. Why does this voice make me want to kill him? It was very familiar. I know it isn't Nancy. Her voice is sweet and melodic. Just as the voice continued talking I realized who it was I knew what it was that made me angry. I had to wake up. He was going to try to win my Nancy back by solving this case! I can't have him hurt her once again. He hurt her really bad for a long time. I wonder how she is.'
-Ned-
Ned watched as the Frank about his age began to stir. "Nancy?" Frank whispered to the air around him. - - - -
I'm so sorry for such a late update on this story. I was having trouble trying to keep up with everything that I was doing for the holidays and then when I began to work on this last week I had such a bad case of writer's block for this story it wasn't even close to funny. I think I gave up trying to do this chapter after I erased it about three times.
I made the chapter longer in hopes that you won't throw tomatoes at me.
Katie Janeway and Lord Dreadnault I want to thank you for the reviews that you gave me on A Christmas Story. I would have tried to continue that except there was nothing left to tell. I had completed what it was that I had wanted in the story. I was trying to tell the birth of Jesus and still make it where the kids would be the ones solving the mystery.
Don't worry though because they will be back before long. This next time they will be solving a real mystery. Bess's child will be old enough to help as well on the next one. I have few other Nancy Drew stories to do before that though. In O' of all the luck left a lot of stories open to work and play with.
If anyone gets any ideas that you want to give me that will be alright. I'm not out of ideas at the moment but this story might need some more. I promised you the triangle would start to show up in this chapter. So it begins. What do you do when you have two guys in love with you? (I know that she isn't thinking about it right now but she will definitely be doing that in the following one as well as trying to solve this case.
Anyways sorry again for not updating for so long. You know the drill. Be sure to give me a good and honest report! Happy New Years!