1The Meeting

Chapter 2

An Explanation and Lots of Phone Calls

A/N: Hey! I actually don't have anything to say this time before the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except my Nancy Drew collection. And some of that isn't even mine, its my parents, cause I'm still owe them money for some of the stuff. I also own the characters I made up for this story. They are NOT The Drew family, the Hardy family, Callie, Iola, Chet, Hannah, Bess, George, Ned, etc. I believe you get the drift.

Everyone's attention turned to Nancy.

"What's this all about," Joe asked.

Nancy sighed. "I may as well tell you all the truth. First off, your parents knew about this. But I'll explain that later. Two months ago, I started getting death threats. My dad and Hannah decided it was best for me to get out of town, so we decided to enroll in the exchange program. Unfortunately, you had to give two months notice, so I've been going through this for two whole months now. The longest you can stay is two months, so we decided to take that option. We picked Bayport because one of my dad's very good friends- your dad- lives here, and he thought he could be of some help. We also thought that maybe the stalker wouldn't find me here. It could give my police station and myself time to crack the case. My dad isn't really in Europe, and Hannah isn't really on a cruise. I just can't believe he's found me already." Nancy ran her fingers through her hair in an exasperated manner.

"You knew about this," Frank asked his parents.

Fenton nodded. "Nancy's father and I met about twenty years ago. I had just solved a case, and Carson was an attorney when it went to trial. We got to talking, and we became good friends. I lost touch with him about thirteen years ago, though."

"Why was that," Joe asked.

"Well, Nancy's mom had been getting death threats, much like the kind Nancy's been getting. Carson called me and told me about them. Not much later, he called me and told me Elizabeth had been found dead. She was murdered. I flew in to River Heights and helped them find the murderer. We found him, I went to Elizabeth's funeral, and then came back home. Carson called me once, to tell me thanks, and I never heard from him again."

Nancy interrupted. "After Mom died, Dad didn't call anyone for a while. He didn't go back to work until it came time for the trial of Mom's funeral. He told me he hadn't called because then he thought of Mom, and that hurt. He's over that now though."

Fenton smiled at her. "Well, when you two came home and told us about the exchange student, I remembered that Carson and Elizabeth had a daughter named Nancy. I called him and asked him about it, and he explained the whole thing to me. Talking to him sure did bring back some memories though."

Flashback

Fenton Hardy walked up to Carson Drew. They shook hands and Fenton said, "We caught him Carson."

Carson watched as a policeman walked a man towards the car. The murderer looked at Carson and yelled, "She deserved to die! She ripped my family apart!" Carson just stared at the man.

"Thanks, Fenton," was all he said. They were quiet a moment as the police cars drove away. "What about my daughter," he finally said. "She still doesn't know about her mother. For the past two days, I've been telling her Mommy's on vacation. How am I supposed to tell her Mommy's not coming back?"

"Carson," Fenton said. "That is one thing that I can't help you with. "But you should stop telling her Elizabeth's on vacation. Then she'll just be waiting for her to come back."

"I think Nancy and I should go away for a little while. I don't want to face the town, and all the memories just yet. I'll need to hire someone to help around the house and help take care of Nancy. I don't know how I'm going to do it all." He shook hands with Fenton one more time before walking to his car to go pick his daughter up from the Marvin home.

End Flashback

"You didn't even let on that you knew Nancy, either today or yesterday," Frank commented.

"Well," Fenton said. "First off, I was a detective with NYPD for a long time, and I know how to hide what I know. Second, I don't really know Nancy- I knew her parents, but the last time I saw Nancy, she was three years old, and people change a lot from the time they were three years old."

"Well," Laura said. "Now that we all know, I think we should do something about it. Frank and Joe, you two will help Nancy out, won't you?" She looked at the two of them in a way that said "you are whether you say yes or no, so just say yes."

"Sure, we'd be happy to help," Frank offered.

"Me, too," Joe agreed.

"Thanks- all of you," Nancy said. "It means a lot to me that I can still do this- even if this guy's already found me. Now I should go call Dad and let him know what's going on," she told them as she walked to her room to make the call.

When she got to her room, she dialed his office phone number first. Her dad picked up at home though, on the second ring. "Hey, Dad. It's me."

"Hi, Nancy. It's great to hear from you so soon."

"Dad, I told everyone else about it."

"What for? I thought we agreed that just Fenton and Laura would know."

"Well, we did. But a note came today, and they were all there when I got it, so I felt obligated to tell them."

"You got a note already? He found you that quick? What did it say?"

"'I still know where you are Nancy. You can't hide.' Frank and Joe are also detectives, you know, and they've offered to help me out."

"That's a relief. I know its a Saturday, but I have to get to court. Oh, you need to call Ned, Bess and George. George is at Bess' house."

"Thanks, Dad. See you. Bye."

"I love you Nancy."

"You too Dad," Nancy said, and hung up. Next, she called Ned at Emerson College, at his frat house, Omega Chi Epsilon. "Ned Nickerson, please," she said when the house's operator answered.

"Sure," he said. "And who's calling?"

"Nancy Drew."

"K. I'll go get him."

"Hey, Nan," Ned said when he picked up the phone.

"Hey, Ned, my dad said you called?"

"Yeah, I don't have the number, so I called your Dad and asked him to have you call me. So how's Bayport?"

"Great. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy and his sister, she told me to call her Aunt Gertrude, are really nice. Frank and Joe, and their girlfriends, Iola and Callie, are great, too."

"So how's your...problem," Ned knew all about the problem. He knew that Mr. Drew and Mr. Hardy knew each other. He knew all that. He just wanted to know how Nancy was holding up.

Nancy sighed over the phone. "I got another note this morning. It said 'I still know where you are Nancy. You can't hide.' I can't believe this guy's already found me."

"I don't like this Nan," Ned said, worry rising in his voice. "I'm worried about you. If you need me, call, and I'll be on the next flight there."

"Thanks, Ned. I'll call you if I think I need you."

"Good. Listen, I've got to run to class now, but give me the number and I'll call you tonight."

Nancy called to Joe, whose room was across the hall from her's for the number and then told Ned. "I may not be home when you call, we're going sightseeing, but leave a message and I'll call you back."

"K. Bye Nancy. I love you."

"Love you too. Bye."

Next she called Bess and George at the Marvin house. Bess answered on the first ring. "Hi Nancy!"

"Hey Bess! Put me on speaker for George, will you?"

"Sure," Bess said, and switched to speaker.

"Hey Nancy," George said.

"Hey George," Nancy replied.

"Bess just got home from the mall. George explained. "And I was out running- something useful"

"Hey, shopping takes plenty of exercise," Bess retorted. "Walking to each store!"

Nancy couldn't help but laughing. The two of them did this all the time, but they still loved each other to death. Their bickering continued awhile, and then Nancy told them about Bayport, and Bess and George told her the latest with River Heights- break-ups, new couples, things like that. "Laila is going out with Jamie Michaels on tonight," Bess informed her.

"Really? Listen guys, something's happened," she said, and told them about the note. Bess and George expressed their concern, and then told her they had to go, their families were going out to dinner tonight. Nancy had just hung up when the lights went off and someone grabbed her.

A/N: In chapter 1, I do believe it wrote Monday, January 5th. I'm not sure, because I deleted the files with the first two chapters already, and I'm not online at the time I'm writing this, and I can't get online again today to check, and I'm not in the mood to mess with the recycle bin to find out, so if I did say Monday, scratch that. And in chapter 2, I wrote 'they made plans for the next day, Saturday.' Change the mistake in ch 1 to Thursday, the one in ch 2 to Friday, and this ch is Friday. I hadn't realized that when I originally wrote ch 1, it was a Monday, and when I wrote ch 2, I made the next day Saturday, and when I wrote this ch, is was still Saturday, but Ned was going to classes. I didn't remember to change it either before I posted them, so sorry. I don't know where my mind was when I was typing them up.

Do any of you mind if I have two different stories going on at once? I want to post another of my stories, because I write them all a while before I post them, and even though this is the only one I have all written, I want to get another one up, or it will take me a long time just to get the stories that I already have partially written up. It might take a year or two even (yes, that's how many stories I've got running around in my mind and on my notebook.) The only reason I'm asking is because I don't want anyone to get the stories confuzzled. Also, I accept anonymous reviews now. I must have forgotten to switch that after I posted ch 1.

Lillie's quote of the day 8/20/05: Topic: Acquaintances

"Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

-Colton

Well, g2g. ttyl. I wuz here. Love Ya Lots, Bye