Chapter four: Heat up

Kate sat in the chair, bound and tied, like she periodically was throughout the last eight or more years. This time however she struggled against the rope. It burned her skin but she fought none the less. She couldn't do anything while her captive called Nancy, played the recordings of her and threatened.

"Please, leave her out of this!" Kate cried.

"Shut up." Her captor said.

They shut off the light as they left, leaving Kate in the darkness, her head low as tears dripped to her lap.

"Now to see if the little brat carried out my instructions." The voice, unmodified, behind the call said.

Nancy meanwhile had closed a fist around her phone. She put her phone in her bag, grabbed the two coins she needed and opened the locker 49. She took the black envelope and looked inside. A simple "save the date" thing. She shoved it in her back, kind of angrily, and went to the Giffnock train.

While she was on the train she had managed to calm herself down.

"This isn't like me." She messaged Ned after telling him everything.

"How many cases how hit home like this?" He replied.

She thought about that while she de- boarded at the pub. She saw the red mail box and put the letter in it. She turned away, convincing herself it was for a wedding. It was as she backed away that she got the call.

"You've passed. You deserve phrase. And a reward. Listen." The voice was impossible to even tell if it was the same person.

Unmistakable though Kate's voice came through. "I'm doing everything I can to stay under the radar. I'll call in when I can but you won't be able to reach me. Revenate had pulled out but the remaining operatives are still following me. Pay attention to where I'm calling from, there's a pattern. Figure it out and find me! I've left a trail. Card is for Cathedral, the rest is for back home. Figure it out!"

"Why do they keep sending me these old recordings of mom?" Nancy asked herself.

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Kate was by the microphone. Still tied and alone she had managed to mix the messages and send a live message to Nancy. Even if she didn't realize it was her long lost mother, still alive. Kate just had to do it, but she was unable to get away from the controls fast enough before her captor came back in.

"What do you think you're doing!?" He demanded yanking her back. She fell painfully on her side and shoulder.

She still looked up furiously, even thought scars new and old from the past eight years.

"Fighting back," she said. "You brought my daughter into this, it's my advantage now."

He grabbed her roughly, pulling her up to look him in the face holding her off the ground. Her bounds loosened slightly. He angrily smacked her around, finding nothing to say back to her and threw her into her "cage". It was just chain link fencing that covered from the ground to ceiling with a gate, a really good lock on it so she couldn't escape. She couldn't move after he threw her in there, locking the gate. She closed her eyes and thought.

This was what she needed, her daughter had to be here, she had her opportunity to escape, she just had to take it, at the right moment...

Nancy had found a few tools lying around, knowing what she knew from years experience she took them before going back to the station. Alec was standing back by the wall. He waved her over.

"I think I found your friend." He said.

"Great where?" She asked feeling better already.

"Fair warning, she's a hitter," he shrugged. "She hit me."

"Did you provoke her?" Nancy rolled her eyes.

"Just a little." He said. "Why is she so important?"

Nancy thought quickly. "She wrote an article I thought was pretty interesting."

"About hitting people no dough." He gave her the place.

Nancy proceeded with a few questions. Seaming to make his suspicious. Then he raised her suspicion by asking if anyone was threading her and that he needed to know. She tried to show suspicion and finally asked.

"I need to know. Are you really who you say you are?" She pressed.

He tries the, I'm a friend and I 'saved your life' by getting her suitcase. He seamed to get defensive when she disagreed. He wanted her to tell him about her first, he did however push her away.

Before going to find Moria she went back to Bridget. Bridget wasn't there yet so Nancy decided to read the paper, reading up on the attack. When Bridget came back she gave Nancy a traveler's guide on Scotland. Nancy then proceeded to see Moira.

She knocked on the door, a little hesitant to see her mother's old friend. Moira seamed to think Nancy was still Alec. Even when Nancy spoke. Moira sent her on a food hunt. Which Nancy had no choice but to do it. On her way to the food place though her phone rang.

"You're in Scotland!" Her father yelled into the phone.

"How did you know?" Nancy asked, already knowing that Hannah had to give that news.

"Nevermind how I know! That's not the point. You're deflecting."

Nancy silently cursed his lawyer skills. "Guilty." she sighed.

"You don't have my permission to be in Scotland. Come home now." He demanded.

"Your permission? I think I'm a little too old for that." Nancy argued.

"What you're too old for is running head first into a dangerous situation and leaving the rest of us to clean up after you." He didn't sound like he used to, he sounded crude, demanding, not like himself.

"What is with you now? Calm down." Nancy said usually standing up to him.

"Nancy you don't get it, I'm not mad at you."

Nancy scoffed. "Could've fooled me."

"I'm scared. Please just come home." He really did seem scared.

"Why are you being so difficult?" She asked.

"Nancy, if I help you I'm pushing you right into whoever had lured you there." He explained.

"I can handle myself." She tried to stay confident.

"Your mother said the same thing." He said a bit painfully.

Nancy felt that sentence hit her in the face. Her mother never came home. She knew were her father was coming from but she had to figure all this out.

She asked about Moria, was told to stay away. Asked about her moms notes, found out they were shredded. He was trying to protect her, but making it difficult. She hung up, not any closer than she was, got the food and headed back to Bearsden for Moira.

Nancy told Moria her business. "I need to talk to you about my mother. Her name was Kate Drew."

"Nancy! I had no idea!" Moira shocked Nancy with this. "I would have never have-" The door opened, causing Nancy to take a step back. An older women, about her dads age maybe, was in the door way. "Please come in."

Nancy was confused a bit, not sure what to make of this, but she went inside. The two women sat on the couch taking. The more they talked the more relaxed Nancy began to feel. She felt like she was just catching up with an old friend, enjoying learning about the past of her mother and Moira. The two only jumped and tensed when someone knocked on the door.

AN: Nag Nag Nag myself. I have up to Chapter 5 now written on paper! Why I haven't typed and posted yet I really don't know. I'll keep writing, keep typing, keep posting. I'm just happy I could do this (Both typing, edit and post) on a holiday.