They were only waiting on Joe and George when Frank's and Nancy's phone
rang at the same time. "You two don't die to easily do you?"
They both had turned pale at that greeting. "You have thirty minutes to go to where it all began or your friends will be the first to die." They only received a dial tone after that.
George and Joe pulled up as they got in the cars. Joe followed them figuring of they were all leaving that it was rather important.
- - - - DamselX- If it helps you any every time I use it I have to look it up. I'm not a scientist. I'm a writer, a clothes designer, and a home maker. ( I have no children and no husband. I just have to work on cleaning my house. I do a terrible job at keeping it clean.) You have to be when you work all the time and come home and have a million other projects.
Lord Dreadnault- That better be a promise. If not then you'll receive lots of friendly emails from me, especially when I start on the Courier of Marseilles. I'm still waiting to see what happens next!
Fairytale princess- Welcome to my world of creation. You can enjoy them all you want. I hope you like what I do with this chapter. I'm not sure if it will be the last chapter or if it will be the next one.
Catherine Wells 2371- Hey! Thanks for the compliment. I hope you like the chapter. I have another story forming in my head that I haven't started on yet. I have been just a little busy here lately. I try not to get this busy but it seems I do a lousy job of that as well. \
Lady Emily- I guess we'll all find out where this chapter is going.
Babmidnight- Well I guess we'll find out where it all started. Maybe it didn't start at either place?
Katie- I'm glad you liked the good cop bad cop thing. I actually think that I intended to do othat to a certain extent and partially didn't. I think that line is cliché. It just seemed an appropriate line at the time.
Okay I think that I've babbled enough. I'm doing horrible at keeping up with updating my stories so forgive. I will have to remind you that I'm not a chemist and that even I have to look up that name. I'm too lazy to do it right now.
Disclaimer: I don't own them! Simon and Schuster and Stratmeyer Syndicate do!
Chapter 14
"Where it all began?" Nancy went over all of the mental notes that she had.
"It all began at Chet's house." Frank said.
"Does he still live with his parents?"
"No he bought his own house a couple of years ago."
"I hope that it's not populated." Nancy muttered undr her breath.
"It's a little quieter than it was at his parents house." Frank answered.
Nancy looked in her rearview mirror. "George and Joe are with us. I don't think that Ned is too far behind."
"Ned in case you get lost we're headed toward Chet's house. I'm going to put you on speaker phone so that you can talk to Frank." Nancy plugged the phone into the car radio.
Nancy laid her head on the head rest as the two men talk. The tension between them was still there and very tangible. It didn't seem that it would ever go away. There were times that she wanted to walk out, slam the door and let them duke their differences. That wouldn't happen anytime soon. They had to finish this one way or another. If they didn't too many people would get hurt-or killed.
"Nancy!" Frank exclaimed her name. Evidently it wasn't the first time that he had called her name.
"I'm sorry I wasn't listening." Nancy unhooked the phone.
"I said that we're going to be there in five minutes by car. We're going to pull over so that we can plan." Joe and George followed suit.
Ned arrived a few minutes after they did. "What did you do break the speed limit?" Joe grinned.
"I did."
"I bet that the cops had the time of their life chasing you.
"Sorry Joe I wasn't being chased by anyone." Ned squinted as the sun glared in his eyes.
"Alright that's enough guys!" Nancy took command. "We need to work on this plan. Joe and Frank know more about Chet's layout." With that she handed everything to them.
They drew the layout of the house. "There are three entrances to the house. There is one in the front to a living room. There is one at the side of the house and it leads to his lab. The last one is on the back. It's a glass sliding door that he keeps locked. It leads to the dining room/ den...." A few minutes later the plan was drawn.
-Ned-
'Why did I have to get stuck with Frank? Why couldn't I have been partnered with Nancy?'
"Hey, earth to Ned." Frank had stopped and waved his hand in front of the pother man.
"Why couldn't I have been partnered with her?" He didn't realize that he had spoken aloud. Ned really muttered the question where if Frank hadn't been listening he wouldn't have heard it. Ned's eyes flashed all the anger that he had been feeling toward himself and all of the jealousy toward Frank.
"Why so you can kiss her again and piss her off more?" Frank's eyes held sorrow, pity and a lot of anger.
"Well why not?! She was originally mine!"
"She stopped being yours when you pushed her away." Frank hissed.
"Oh and she's yours now?"
"No she isn't. She belongs to no one."
"You wouldn't think that the way you two have kissing during this case!" Ned played all of the scenes that he had seen them kissing. He had seen them kiss at Bess's wedding reception. He thought that they had been having way too much fun with that cake.
His mind went to when he had brought Frank home from the hospital. Frank was being his usually obstinate self. Nancy had been a lot more seductive than he had ever seen. In fact, she had never gotten that way with him.
He remembered her yelling at him with steam almost coming out of her ears. Frank was the next one to get. He had managed to get her on the floor and kissed when she was fighting mad. Ned could almost see her again writhing underneath him before she began to respond to that kiss.
Ned hit a tree that was just past Frank. Frank barely had tome to step aside.
"That doesn't make her mine Ned!" Frank paused. "We don't even know what is going on between us."
"Don't know!" Ned wasn't keeping his voice down. "Are so blindly in love with each other that you don't see it?"
"What do you mean Ned?" Frank was surprised.
"I see it. I see it when you look at her and she doesn't know that you're watching. Let's add the face that you have as much as admitted it." Ned's voice dropped to barely above a whisper. "I see it when she looks at you. I see the fear she hides for being in love again. She never looked at me like that. She's never kissed me the way she has kissed you. Ned's voice as well as his eyes held a certain sadness and loss that was acutely felt every time that he saw them together. "All because I was tired of coming in second." He murmured before their watches beep.
"Are you two in position?" It was Nancy.
Frank looked around them. "Give us three minutes. WE got a little lost."
"Lost? Huh?"
"I don't think that she would like it very much if she knew that we were lost in conversation, especially when we are supposed to be working." Frank answered. He had automatically gone back to business at hand.
"You better not hurt her." Ned whispered.
"I won't." Frnak grineed before he told Nancy that they were in place.
-George and Joe-
Everything started just as Frank told them that they were set. "Nan there are two at he glass sliding door and at the corners of the back of the house. There are probably more at the front."
"Alright, Joe. Don't move in I'm going to see if I can create a distraction."
-Nancy-
Nancy looked down at her clothes seeing all of the dirt smudges on her. "Perfect." She took off her sweater and set it in a tree to reveal a green halter top. Her hair was shaken loose from her ponytail and she used her bleeding leg as an excuse. It wasn't really bleeding anymore. It had stopped a little while ago but it still hurt.
She walked out of the trees over doing the limp. "Hey boys I was wondering if you could help me out a little bit." She gave them a pained toss of her hair and batted her eyes at them almost effortlessly. They were immediately there by her side helping her to sit down imploring her to tell them what happened.
She used the excuse that her car had run out of gas some time ago and that she had been walking around in circles for hours in the woods. The men were then calling for their fellow guards to help them out. There was only one that growled at her suspiciously but she gave him a weak smile.
They helped her back up while one of them pulled the car in front so that they could be the ever so helpful gentleman that they were to put gas in he car. Another produced a candy bar which she thanked him. She didn't have to pretend to be hungry. She hadn't eaten since breakfast.
"Go guard the lab door. We don't ant the boss to get mad because we're all fawning over this...." He looked her up and down, "...this treat. I think I'll start first."
That was his first and last mistake that he would make for a long time. When he tried to touch her shoulder to push her hair away she tossed him over her shoulder. She took on the rest of the guys while everyone else was supposed to do their job.
-Frank and Ned-
"Guys she has created quite a distraction. I think that it is safe for you to enter the house." The two men grinned as the strawberry blond woman seemed to be enjoying herself a little too much.
"So you want to help her or shall I?" Frank wondered out loud.
They flipped for it. Ned got heads giving him the chance to help her for once. "Okay have fun." Frank stated.
-George and Joe-
"Okay we're in." Joe whispered.
-Frank-
Frank waited at the lab door. The guy would be wondering why his men weren't answering in a minute.
- - - -
Okay guys tell me if it's horrible. It's obviously not ending this chapter. I'm tired. It's one in the morning and my cat wants to play too. Anyways you know the drill. Read and review. I'll be working on the next chapter tomorrow. I just won't put it up yet.
They both had turned pale at that greeting. "You have thirty minutes to go to where it all began or your friends will be the first to die." They only received a dial tone after that.
George and Joe pulled up as they got in the cars. Joe followed them figuring of they were all leaving that it was rather important.
- - - - DamselX- If it helps you any every time I use it I have to look it up. I'm not a scientist. I'm a writer, a clothes designer, and a home maker. ( I have no children and no husband. I just have to work on cleaning my house. I do a terrible job at keeping it clean.) You have to be when you work all the time and come home and have a million other projects.
Lord Dreadnault- That better be a promise. If not then you'll receive lots of friendly emails from me, especially when I start on the Courier of Marseilles. I'm still waiting to see what happens next!
Fairytale princess- Welcome to my world of creation. You can enjoy them all you want. I hope you like what I do with this chapter. I'm not sure if it will be the last chapter or if it will be the next one.
Catherine Wells 2371- Hey! Thanks for the compliment. I hope you like the chapter. I have another story forming in my head that I haven't started on yet. I have been just a little busy here lately. I try not to get this busy but it seems I do a lousy job of that as well. \
Lady Emily- I guess we'll all find out where this chapter is going.
Babmidnight- Well I guess we'll find out where it all started. Maybe it didn't start at either place?
Katie- I'm glad you liked the good cop bad cop thing. I actually think that I intended to do othat to a certain extent and partially didn't. I think that line is cliché. It just seemed an appropriate line at the time.
Okay I think that I've babbled enough. I'm doing horrible at keeping up with updating my stories so forgive. I will have to remind you that I'm not a chemist and that even I have to look up that name. I'm too lazy to do it right now.
Disclaimer: I don't own them! Simon and Schuster and Stratmeyer Syndicate do!
Chapter 14
"Where it all began?" Nancy went over all of the mental notes that she had.
"It all began at Chet's house." Frank said.
"Does he still live with his parents?"
"No he bought his own house a couple of years ago."
"I hope that it's not populated." Nancy muttered undr her breath.
"It's a little quieter than it was at his parents house." Frank answered.
Nancy looked in her rearview mirror. "George and Joe are with us. I don't think that Ned is too far behind."
"Ned in case you get lost we're headed toward Chet's house. I'm going to put you on speaker phone so that you can talk to Frank." Nancy plugged the phone into the car radio.
Nancy laid her head on the head rest as the two men talk. The tension between them was still there and very tangible. It didn't seem that it would ever go away. There were times that she wanted to walk out, slam the door and let them duke their differences. That wouldn't happen anytime soon. They had to finish this one way or another. If they didn't too many people would get hurt-or killed.
"Nancy!" Frank exclaimed her name. Evidently it wasn't the first time that he had called her name.
"I'm sorry I wasn't listening." Nancy unhooked the phone.
"I said that we're going to be there in five minutes by car. We're going to pull over so that we can plan." Joe and George followed suit.
Ned arrived a few minutes after they did. "What did you do break the speed limit?" Joe grinned.
"I did."
"I bet that the cops had the time of their life chasing you.
"Sorry Joe I wasn't being chased by anyone." Ned squinted as the sun glared in his eyes.
"Alright that's enough guys!" Nancy took command. "We need to work on this plan. Joe and Frank know more about Chet's layout." With that she handed everything to them.
They drew the layout of the house. "There are three entrances to the house. There is one in the front to a living room. There is one at the side of the house and it leads to his lab. The last one is on the back. It's a glass sliding door that he keeps locked. It leads to the dining room/ den...." A few minutes later the plan was drawn.
-Ned-
'Why did I have to get stuck with Frank? Why couldn't I have been partnered with Nancy?'
"Hey, earth to Ned." Frank had stopped and waved his hand in front of the pother man.
"Why couldn't I have been partnered with her?" He didn't realize that he had spoken aloud. Ned really muttered the question where if Frank hadn't been listening he wouldn't have heard it. Ned's eyes flashed all the anger that he had been feeling toward himself and all of the jealousy toward Frank.
"Why so you can kiss her again and piss her off more?" Frank's eyes held sorrow, pity and a lot of anger.
"Well why not?! She was originally mine!"
"She stopped being yours when you pushed her away." Frank hissed.
"Oh and she's yours now?"
"No she isn't. She belongs to no one."
"You wouldn't think that the way you two have kissing during this case!" Ned played all of the scenes that he had seen them kissing. He had seen them kiss at Bess's wedding reception. He thought that they had been having way too much fun with that cake.
His mind went to when he had brought Frank home from the hospital. Frank was being his usually obstinate self. Nancy had been a lot more seductive than he had ever seen. In fact, she had never gotten that way with him.
He remembered her yelling at him with steam almost coming out of her ears. Frank was the next one to get. He had managed to get her on the floor and kissed when she was fighting mad. Ned could almost see her again writhing underneath him before she began to respond to that kiss.
Ned hit a tree that was just past Frank. Frank barely had tome to step aside.
"That doesn't make her mine Ned!" Frank paused. "We don't even know what is going on between us."
"Don't know!" Ned wasn't keeping his voice down. "Are so blindly in love with each other that you don't see it?"
"What do you mean Ned?" Frank was surprised.
"I see it. I see it when you look at her and she doesn't know that you're watching. Let's add the face that you have as much as admitted it." Ned's voice dropped to barely above a whisper. "I see it when she looks at you. I see the fear she hides for being in love again. She never looked at me like that. She's never kissed me the way she has kissed you. Ned's voice as well as his eyes held a certain sadness and loss that was acutely felt every time that he saw them together. "All because I was tired of coming in second." He murmured before their watches beep.
"Are you two in position?" It was Nancy.
Frank looked around them. "Give us three minutes. WE got a little lost."
"Lost? Huh?"
"I don't think that she would like it very much if she knew that we were lost in conversation, especially when we are supposed to be working." Frank answered. He had automatically gone back to business at hand.
"You better not hurt her." Ned whispered.
"I won't." Frnak grineed before he told Nancy that they were in place.
-George and Joe-
Everything started just as Frank told them that they were set. "Nan there are two at he glass sliding door and at the corners of the back of the house. There are probably more at the front."
"Alright, Joe. Don't move in I'm going to see if I can create a distraction."
-Nancy-
Nancy looked down at her clothes seeing all of the dirt smudges on her. "Perfect." She took off her sweater and set it in a tree to reveal a green halter top. Her hair was shaken loose from her ponytail and she used her bleeding leg as an excuse. It wasn't really bleeding anymore. It had stopped a little while ago but it still hurt.
She walked out of the trees over doing the limp. "Hey boys I was wondering if you could help me out a little bit." She gave them a pained toss of her hair and batted her eyes at them almost effortlessly. They were immediately there by her side helping her to sit down imploring her to tell them what happened.
She used the excuse that her car had run out of gas some time ago and that she had been walking around in circles for hours in the woods. The men were then calling for their fellow guards to help them out. There was only one that growled at her suspiciously but she gave him a weak smile.
They helped her back up while one of them pulled the car in front so that they could be the ever so helpful gentleman that they were to put gas in he car. Another produced a candy bar which she thanked him. She didn't have to pretend to be hungry. She hadn't eaten since breakfast.
"Go guard the lab door. We don't ant the boss to get mad because we're all fawning over this...." He looked her up and down, "...this treat. I think I'll start first."
That was his first and last mistake that he would make for a long time. When he tried to touch her shoulder to push her hair away she tossed him over her shoulder. She took on the rest of the guys while everyone else was supposed to do their job.
-Frank and Ned-
"Guys she has created quite a distraction. I think that it is safe for you to enter the house." The two men grinned as the strawberry blond woman seemed to be enjoying herself a little too much.
"So you want to help her or shall I?" Frank wondered out loud.
They flipped for it. Ned got heads giving him the chance to help her for once. "Okay have fun." Frank stated.
-George and Joe-
"Okay we're in." Joe whispered.
-Frank-
Frank waited at the lab door. The guy would be wondering why his men weren't answering in a minute.
- - - -
Okay guys tell me if it's horrible. It's obviously not ending this chapter. I'm tired. It's one in the morning and my cat wants to play too. Anyways you know the drill. Read and review. I'll be working on the next chapter tomorrow. I just won't put it up yet.