Hi guys! I apologize for the short chapters, it's kind of crazy to start a new story right before you leave for a trip. I won't be able to update anything for the next two-three weeks so I am trying to cram a lot in at the last minute, literally, I'm leaving in maybe an hour! Thank you for reading and please don't forget to review!
Vi raced through the busy halls until she reached a room full of computers.
"Hey Jessie." She greeted a girl at the desk.
"Hello Vi." Jessie said. Vi nodded to a sliding glass door to her right.
"Is he ready?" She asked. Jessie nodded.
"You're to go right in." She answered. Vi grinned.
""Got to find out what this is all about." She said.
Violet walked into the briefing room. Screens filled one wall and a large window took up much of the room on another. Several men and a couple women sat around a large conference table in the middle of the room. Vi was the youngest person in there. Her eyes were drawn to the gray haired man she had met with earlier.
"What's up?" She asked him, ignoring all the looks she got from the other people in the room. He motioned to an empty chair to his right.
"You'll find out soon enough." He answered. I sat down and began checking the notification on her cell phone. The sliding glass door banged open and everyone looked up in complete surprise. A older reddish blonde haired woman stood in the doorway, hands on her hips.
"What do you plan on doing about him Michael?" She asked the gray haired man. He stood and walked over to her.
"Maybe we could talk about this later?" He suggested. The woman shook her head.
"What are you planning to do, Michael?" She asked again. He sighed and looked at her with an unreadable expression.
"That's what we're doing here, Nancy." He said. He said consolingly. Michael touched Nancy's arm in an attempt to comfort her. Nancy jerked away from him.
"He is going to come back, alive." She added. "Who are you sending in?" The gray haired man, Michael, turned to Vi and motioned for her to join them.
"This is Harding, she is our best agent, besides you and your husband of course." He introduced. "Violet, the is Nancy Hardy, previously Nancy Drew." Vi stepped forward.
"Hello Mrs. Hardy." Vi said, sticking out her hand. Nancy shook it and turned back to Michael.
"Where's the folder?" She asked. He sighed.
"Nancy, you aren't assigned to this mission, and even if you were you shouldn't be, too much personal involvement." Michael explained. "I can't." Nancy stepped closer to him and lowered her voice so that Violet and Michael were the only people that could hear her.
"You know, Michael." She began. "I don't like to use this method, but if you don't let me join this mission your wife is going to get a nice little friendly, anonymous, untraceable, phone call telling her where you really went during that business trip last month." Nancy finished with a friendly smile that didn't reach her eyes.
"You wouldn't!" He exclaimed in surprise, forgetting to lower his voice. A woman sitting at the table looked up at them. Michael lowered his voice.
"That would ruin my career and my marriage." He protested. "We've known each other too long, you couldn't do that to me, no matter how bad you want to be in on this mission." Vi watched the interaction with raised eyebrows. She had heard of Nancy Hardy, but she never imagined she would be quite like this!
"Are you certain?" Nancy asked Michael quietly, so that no one else could hear the conversation. Michael sighed, shoulders drooping.
"Nancy," He said. "I'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement."
"We can." Nancy said, putting a hand on her hip. "You put me on this mission and I'll conveniently misplace the pictures I snapped." Michael ran a hand over his face.
"Alright, alright!" He gave in. "But only on one condition." Nancy arched an eyebrow.
"It doesn't seem to me that you are in much of a position to be making conditions." She answered, walking past him and taking a seat in the chair to the left of where Vi was sitting. Violet and Michael returned to their places, one looking beaten and slightly exasperated, the other with laughing eyes and amusement at what she'd just witnessed. Michael picked up a pile of folders marked Top Secret and handed one to each person. Vi flipped the front of her folder open and was met by the face of a handsome older man. She glanced over at Nancy in time to see the agent close her eyes, take a deep breath, and turn past the picture. Vi ran her eyes over the personal information page and confirmed her hunch. The man she was assigned to rescue was Nancy's husband, Agent Frank Hardy. Her boss's voice interrupted her reading.
"Frank Hardy was kidnapped by Middle Eastern terrorists late last week." He explained.
Thanks for reading! Please don't hate me for finishing to chapters in slight cliffhangers but i have to do something to make you want to read more. As I said, I won't be updating for somewhere around two weeks, my dad and i are going to Nashville TN for a while. Love you guys! Reviews are always greatly appreciated.