The next morning, Nick was the first one awake. As he poured himself a bowl of cereal, he heard his cell phone ringing. The caller was unknown.

"Hello?" Nick asked.

"Nick, its Lindsay. I'm here," Lindsay Vonn said over the phone.

"You're here already!? We weren't expecting you to be here for a few more days, when Apolo is coming," Nick said.

"Apolo Ohno? Oh my gosh, we were the best of friends during the Olympics. In can't wait to see him again. Anyway, I can stay at a hotel here In town undercover for a few days. Tell Apolo to stay here if he gets here before you guys are ready and then you can call us," Lindsay suggested.

"Lindsay, that is great! I'm so sorry for the inconvenience," Nick apologized.

"No problem. I can't wait to meet you and your friends. See you soon, again," Lindsay laughed. She hung up and Nick let out a sigh. Would they ever capture Lori and her fiancée`? He figured they would go skiing today to make Jody happy and then when Apolo and Lindsay came, the girls could go their separate ways. As he sat lost in thought, he heard a voice yelling his name. He looked up and saw Emily.

"Nick, your bowl is overflowing!" she cried. Confused, Nick looked down. He had been pouring milk onto his cereal and didn't realize it was overflowing. He quickly set the carton upright and wiped up the mess. "Who were you on the phone with?" Emily asked him. Nick stopped in his tracks. He couldn't tell Emily that Lindsay was here.

"Um, it was my…grandmother," Nick blurted out. "Yeah, she wanted to ask me how Colorado was and if we were having fun."

"Oh," Emily said. The others had come out by now and Jody was looking smug.

"We're going skiing," she announced. Melissa and Stella looked crestfallen, but had their skis in hand. Everyone was already dressed, so Nick quickly got dressed too. He sat with Joe in the ski lift and told him what had happened.

"Everything's okay now, right?" Joe asked.

"Yeah. Here are some things I learned about Apolo, though. He's pretty cool," Nick went over his list and finished just as they got off the lift. Melissa, Jody, Stella, and Emily agreed to race down the mountain. Nick would go ahead to judge and Joe and Kevin would follow. They had a fun day before heading back to the hotel. They had decided to go to bed early and get rest for the trek up to the mine the next day.

Joe was dreaming when, all of a sudden, a hand was clapped over his mouth and he was dragged out of his bed. He was shoved roughly onto the floor and tied up, then he was dragged down to the lodge basement. He was shoved into a chair and tied tightly to it. He was gagged as well.

"We have ways to get information," the man said as Joe looked at him angrily. "I'll be back in half an hour. I hope you come to your senses by then," the man said as he left the basement. As Joe sat there, he figured it must have been the heiress's fiancée.

Meanwhile, Nick and Kevin had been woken up by the struggle. They found that Joe was no where to be seen and began searching the lodge.

Later, when the man came back, Joe saw two huge men with him. The man roughly ripped off the gag and asked

"What are your plans for tomorrow?" Joe was silent. "Say good-bye to your pretty face then," the man said evilly. The two men advanced toward Joe. He shrank back in the chair, closed his eyes, and thought about how Stella would be safe. The men were about to attack, when a voice yelled

"Stop!" It was Kevin. Nick was with him.

"Joe, man, just tell them. It's not worth getting hurt," Nick pleaded. He didn't want to see his older brother get hurt. The man yelled

"Get them!" In a matter of seconds, Nick and Kevin were pinned against the wall.

"Smooth move guys. This is exactly what happens when you try to get dates," Joe joked, trying to make his brothers laugh.

"Silence!" the man yelled as he signaled to his partners. Joe quickly shut his mouth. Kevin was bound to a chair and gagged. Nick was bound and gagged and taken to a small closet in the cellar. "If you ever want to see your brother again, tell me what I want to know," the man growled.

"Bring Nick back out here and I'll tell you," Joe bargained. He winced as Nick was thrown to the ground in front of him.

"Alright, talk!" the man barked.

"We're all going to the old mine," Joe said.

"Now was that so hard?" the man asked in a sugar-coated voice. Then he said in his regular voice "I'm done with him." Joe was gagged again and the men walked out of the basement and the boys were left in darkness.

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