1The Meeting

Chapter 11

The End

Frank closed his eyes as Alison prepared to fire the shots. "Bang Bang Bang!" he heard. That was it. He had to be dead. But somehow, he wasn't. How could that be? He was less than two feet away from her. There was no move he could have made to stop her and there was no way she could have missed. He opened his eyes and saw that it wasn't Alison firing the shots, it was the police banging on the doors. They were swarming in now, with their guns pointed at Alison, prepared to fire if she made one wrong move.

"Drop the gun!" a stern voice commanded. Alison, who was surrounded by the cops on all sides, dropped the gun and put her hands in the air. One officer went up to her right away to put her in cuffs while another went over to Daniel with smelling salts to revive him.

"Don't go anywhere," a third officer said, walking over to them. "We need to get your statements first."

"Okay," Nancy agreed and the three of them went to stand right outside the door, out of the way. "Thanks for calling the police," she said to Frank and Joe.

"But we didn't," Joe protested. "We probably should have, but we didn't."

"Then who did?" Nancy asked.

"Hey," Frank said, stopping the officer who had arrested Alison. "Who called you guys?"

"We got a tip from an anonymous caller saying he had seen a girl with red hair dragged into this building. We figured that it was probably Nancy, with all the trouble she had been getting into, and came here to check it out. He hung up before we could get his name," the officer explained.

"Thanks. And can I speak to Daniel real quick?" Nancy asked.

"Well, I really shouldn't let you, but I guess I can bend the rules."

"Thanks," Nancy said, walking over to the police car where Daniel now sat, with an officer outside of the door. "Daniel," she said, once the officer opened the window so she could talk to him. "I know why you were stalking me, but how did you think of all those things, and learn how to do them?"

Daniel laughed. "I did all of the same things Cliff did to your mom. Except the car explosion really was supposed to kill you, just like the one for your mom was supposed to kill her. Somehow, Cliff put the bomb in the wrong car, so he had to kill her a different way. I thought it was kind of fitting that the car would kill you, even though it didn't kill your mom, but it didn't work, so I just had to kill you the way he did her."

Nancy just shook her head in anger at him before walking away.

"Oh, ma'am?" the officer guarding the car stopped her.

"Yes?"

"We'll be getting in touch with the police department in River Heights to tell them to be on the lookout for Cliff as soon as we're through here."

"Thank you," Nancy smiled as she walked back over to Frank and Joe.

"I talked to Alison," Joe said. "She was supposed to be keeping watch at the door where me and Frank came in through, but her phone started ringing, so she had to step away for a couple of minutes. When she heard us fighting with Daniel, she hung up and came down just in time to grab the gun."

Nancy related what Daniel had told her.

"Hey Nancy, I was thinking," Frank said. "Who could the anonymous tipper have been? This isn't a very busy road. Was there anyone on the street with you."

"You know," Nancy said. "Now that I think of it, there was a man on the sidewalk across the street from me, right around the time Daniel grabbed me."

"Why wouldn't he have come to help you, though?" Joe mused.

"Well you know Joe, not everyone is brave enough to go confront kidnappers, like you and Frank. He probably would have been captured anyway, and then he couldn't have called the police, they wouldn't have come, and we would all probably be dead right now." Just then, she looked over and saw her uncle Jamie and Mrs. Hardy pull up.

"Uncle Jamie?" she cried. "What are you doing here?" she asked, running over to hug him.

"Laura called your dad after the explosion. He called me and asked me to come up here to check on you. He would've come himself, but he told me that he had made you some kind of promise. As soon as I landed, I went to the Hardy's house. Laura had just gotten a phone call from Frank saying that Nancy's stalker had been arrested. Laura told me about it, so we decided to come up to where Frank had said he was. Luckily, this place was only a few minutes away."

Nancy was about to say something, but just then, one of the officers came out and said that they could take their statements. Joe went first, which gave Nancy and Frank a few minutes to talk. "You called your mom?" Nancy asked him.

Frank grinned sheepishly. "Well you and Joe were off talking to Alison and Daniel, so I thought I would call Mom and let her know she could stop worrying. Hey Nancy," he said, his voice taking on a more serious note. "I'm sorry about our fight this morning. You're a really great detective, and I shouldn't have questioned your abilities."

"I'm sorry, too," Nancy said. "I shouldn't have gotten so mad. But hey, we're all human, so let's just forget about it. We've still got a little less than two months to hang out in Bayport, so let's make the most of it."

"Gotcha," Frank agreed."

"You know, I'm glad this case is over. I was getting a little tired of having my life threatened all the time," Nancy laughed.

"Yeah, it must have been scary," Frank agreed."

"I only wish we knew who that man was. He saved our lives."

"Me too, but I guess we'll never know."

THE END

A/N: Well there we go. The end of my first fanfic. I know the ending dialogue is a little weird, about the anonymous tipper, but it kind of leads into the next story, where he shows up again. My next story will hopefully be going up before the new year!