Chapter five: Questions
Moria jumped up quickly, blocking Nancy's way to the door as she got up. Oviously whoever was on the other side wasn't welcome.
"Was anyone fallowing' you?" Moria asked hastily.
"Not that I know of." Nancy shruged.
"Hide. Now." Moria commanded.
"What's going on?" she hushed.
"Now!" Moria pushed Nancy into hiding in the closet and giving instructions before the door opened.
Nancy covered her mouth to muffle her breath and gasp as Moria was kidnapped. She thought over what Moria told her. The safe, teapot, a code of some sort in the breaker. Everything jumbled as she began to panic. She took a deep breath, this wasn't like her, but maybe it was just the way this case struck her.
"Ok." She thought out loud. "Safe behind the breaker, follow the teapot to the safe house..." Nancy shook her head, that sounded so strange. She looked at the teapot Moria pointed out earlier, she picked it up, looked no different, until she felt a paper on the bottom.
A code! She suddenly realized.
Going back to the breaker in the closet behind the coats were she had hidden. Messing with the fuses she found a pattern. After a bit of trial and err the safe opened, revealing a few contents.
A wooden box with interget carvings on the lid, the seven A-G buttons on the side with three light looking things. A folder with informal letters to and from Moria and Kate. Nancy read threw the notes, finding that they were more like notes to classmates during a lecture then letters in the mail. Nancy really slowed her reading, sitting down on the couch to read the letter that her mom wrote. It seamed that Kate didn't want to get involved, but did any way. She wanted to know more, so much more, so many questions, but the letters ended, but not without an obvious clue. Maybe gibberish to anyone else, but Nancy knew it was a clue to something later.
Nancy bagged the notes, grabbed the key and went to leave. Then remembering everything else she had ever learned she grabbed the book off the table, and clips out of the small closet. She was just walking out of the house when Bridget messaged her.
"Great." She mumbled and she bored the train, "Bridget has my number."
As Nancy rode the train back to the hotel she looked at were she needed to go. Loch Lomond. She sighed as the day her mother decided she was leaving came back, the big fight between her parents that was never resolved between them before Kate left.
Nancy had been on the phone with Bess, who was complaining about her grounding for who knows what. She tuned out her friend when the yelling managed to go from unheard to louder. They had moved out of their room downstairs and into the hallway so Nancy could hear everything, obviously someone was about to storm out.
"Do you have any idea how selfish you're being right now?" Carson said. Anyone could picture his arms up in frustration.
"Nancy is everything ok?" Bess asked, making it known how loud the yelling was.
"Bess somethings wrong, it's bad." Nancy sighed.
"Sneak down to listen."
Nancy sat at the top of the steps, her favorite place to sit and over look the living room to listen to her mother playing, right now she was just trying to be unseen and she was feeling a bit scared.
"No, you're not doing this." Carson continued.
"Keep it down." Kate said knowing Nancy liked to listen to things.
"You made me a promise!" He ignored her and seamed to even get louder.
"This is more important." Kate tried to stay softer.
Carson, not so much as a care to volume. "What do you want me to tell Nancy, huh? That- That her mother doesn't care enough about her to stay?"
Kate walked into Nancy's view now, obviously distressed.
"Fine then, run off to Scotland!" Carson called after her as she walked out.
"Oh grow up Carson. " Kate threw back before leaving.