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*~*Deadly Scripts*~*
A STFD AE



~I hung up the phone. What was Lillian talking about?! Ever since I had that one run-in with Lillian, she practically despised me, why was she asking for my help now? I called to Mattie that I was leaving, and left for WWB studios. Sneaking in the back way, obviously wasn't that difficult. I held my breath with each punch of the buttons, and waited for the familiar beep. Sure enough, it did and I quietly entered. I snuck down to the set, and swiped my card, prepared for whatever I might find behind these cold metal doors. I stepped in, looking around. "Lillian?" I whispered. No answer. "Guess no ones here." Suddenly, I felt a strong hand on my shoulder. I whipped around. "NED?!" I practically screamed. Ned stood there, looking as handsome as ever. We embraced for quite along time, until I heard a sudden, "Ahem..." I looked up, and was slightly embarrassed to find Mattie and Rick, standing there watching. Mattie of course, looking all lovey-dovey with pleasure, and Rick just looking quite angered. I looked back up at Ned, "But how did you..." I was cut off, "SURPRISE!!!!" shouted Mattie and Ned at the same time. Mattie gave me a huge hug. "I know you and Ned were missing each other, and I thought it would be a good idea to have a nice strong man here to protect you while on the case..." I quickly peeked a look at Rick, he was looking angrier by the moment. I chuckled at the thought of him being jealous. Mattie continued, "So, I called up Ned and sent him an airplane ticket to come stay for the week. Isn't that great?!" I nodded, "Thank you Mattie, I am very pleased!" I gave her another hug, and then turned my attention back to Rick, "Thank you also Rick." Rick scoffed, "Don't thank me!" he turned and stormed out of the set, the doors shutting with a strong swoof. I shrugged and looked back at Ned, throwing myself into his arms again. "It feels so great to be back with you again, I missed you ya know." Ned whispered in my ear. "Me too." I replied. I heard foot steps, and figured Mattie had left to leave us some privacy, and just as Ned and I started to kiss, I heard an ear piercing scream! We pulled away and looked around the room. No one was there. Another scream was heard coming from the hall. Me and Ned ran down the hall waiting for another scream. "Its coming from that way!" I told Ned, pointing to Ricks dressing room. When we reached his door, I yanked on the door knob, it was locked!~
~There was silence. No more screams came from Ricks dressing room. I shook the handle again. Ned pushed me out of the way, and slammed his body into the door. The latches broke and the door flew open. There, crumpled in the corner under the dressing table, was an unconscious Matti. Standing over her, was.... Millie Stratthorn?!?!?! "Millie?!?!?!" me and Ned screamed practically at the same time. Millie turned around, and in one swift motion, grabbed a bottle of Ricks calone, and splashed it in our faces. I screamed, and Ned tackled me to the ground, pushing me out if the way of the sudden splash. Footsteps. We leaped up, and I saw a quick flash of the end of Millie’s, grannyish dresses. Ned took off down the hall. Obviously after to catch Millie. I turned my attention back to Matti. I approached her, and smoothed her brown mane away from her face. Her eyes were rolled back into her head. Not good. "NED!!!!" I screamed. No answer. I violently shook Matti. "Matti, are you ok?" No answer from her either. I could hear my heart beating with panic. I grabbed one of Ricks undershirts of the couch, and quickly ripped a corner of it. I crawled over to the bottle of spilled calone laying by the doorway, and drip a drop of it onto my homemade rag. I rushed back to Matti, and waved it in front of her nose. If she was still breathing, the smell should shock her nose. No response. I leaned over her, worried to the max. "NED!!!! Come quick!!!" No answer. I ran to the doorway and cupped my hands around my mouth and yelled till my lungs were burning. "NED!!!!!!!" I heard heavy footsteps and around the corner came my panting Ned. "Ned, I don't think she's breathing!" Ned rushed over to Matti. He checked her pulse. "No, its beating pretty fast. I'm going to call an ambulance." And off he ran. I leaned over Matti. Praying with every breath I myself had that she'd survive. I grabbed the rest of Ricks torn up shirt, and wet it under the water faucet. I rung it out, and draped it over her forehead. Then, I heard ambulance sirens. "There here!" called Ned. And I watched helplessly as the paramedics lifted the unconscious Matti onto a stretcher, and wheeled her into an ambulance.~
~I unlocked Mattie’s apartment front door. I had been at the hospital all night, and I was exhausted! I plopped down onto the armchair. I closed my eyes for a minute, but as soon as I closed them, they popped back open with an idea. "I never checked the studio!" I needed to look for evidence, and nothing could possible stop me. Ned was still at the hospital, we decided to do shifts. And it was his turn. So I called a taxi, and took off to WWB studios. After entering my code, I crept in. Hmmm..... Just as I was about to round the corner to do to Mattie’s dressing room, I heard footsteps. A shadow drifted by one the other wall. 'Thank God for the lights.' I thought drearily. I spoke too soon. A flicker, and then nothing. It was dark. And I could hear someone. Wait, is someone behind me?! Next thing I knew, I was grabbed around my waist. "Let me go!" I was wrestled to the ground, kicking and screaming. Suddenly, I felt someone grab my hand and push it into the ground. It stopped. It felt my hand. "Nancy?!?!?!" cried a voice. "NED?!?!" We both erupted in giggles. Ned was who I saw creeping around the studio! "But Ned, what ARE you doing here?" I asked confused. "Well, the doctors told me to go home, and that she'd be okay for now. And in the morning they'd run extra tests, but on my way back, I thought I should look at the studio, knowing you, I figured you go look for clues there, and I didn't want you to be alone. It could be dangerous Nancy..." he said. "Neeeeeeeeed..............." I sighed. And we went back into the 'Mysteries are dangerous' junk over again.~
~After a few moments of pursuing the topic, we stopped. "Did you hear something?" I whispered. He nodded his head. That's when I remembered the lights were off. Chills flew up my spine in hot pursuit.
I looked around. I could see nothing. I held my eyes closed for a few seconds, opened them, and was happy to see the change of my eyes adjusting to the darkness. I heard it again, a creaking noise. Almost like new squeaky leather shoes. Millie's shoes. Me and Ned looked at each other, thinking the same thing. I jumped up, but Ned pulled me back down. "Stay here." he whispered. So I waited as he crept off around the corner, following the creaking noise. I could hear it echoing in the dark halls, along with my heart pounding nervously in my chest. One minute passed, then another. The creaking stopped. "Where is he?" I said to myself. It was so quiet in there, I would have heard if Ned had found someone. Right? Finally, i couldn't stand it any longer. I crawled from my spot, and peered my head around the corner where Ned had first left. Nothing. I took a deep breath, and walked the same path I supposed Ned had walked. "Ned???" I whispered. Still nothing. I reached the dead end of the prop room door. 'Wait a minute..... the knobs there!!!' I thought excitedly. But why??? I heard a clink, and slowly the knob turned, as if someone was opening it from the inside. I needed to hide, quick! I half tiptoed and half ran to get to the corner, I slowly peeked my head out and watched. A bony pale hand came out, with long purple fingernails. Millie's hand! I watched as 2 pale blue eyes and a head of bouffant gray hair peeked out. A laughter. But wait, that didn't sound like Millie's laugh. It was more, manly. 'What?!?!' But it defiantly looked like Millie. She shut the door, and dashed out the side exit. "What to do, what to do?!?!" I said to myself. I could go after her, but what would I do once I got there, I needed Ned to help me. And then again, where WAS Ned?!? Knowing that the scene was probably clear, I yelled, "NED????? Where are you?!?!" What was I going to do now...~
~I looked around, it was still pitch black. 'Could this get ANY more worse??!?!' I thought angrily. My heart pounded more fiercely. It was dark, it was dark!!!!! Although accustom to the darkness by now, it was still a little creepy. "Ned?" I half yelled, feeling a scared sob creep out my throat. "Stop it Nancy Drew!" I yelled at myself, "You can do this alone! Buck up!" I took a deep breath, determined to stop acting like a child and find my boyfriend. "Hey beautiful..." came a deep yep conceited voice. A scream formed in my throat, and tried to push it's way out of my mouth. I slowly turned my head. As I felt a finger drag across my neck. I came face to face with..... "Rick Arlen?!?!" I immediately tired to back up. Surprised, and then mad. How dare he sneak up on me!!!! And where was Ned? I was about to ask him what the heck he was doing, when suddenly I felt my head pressed into his, and smooth, silky lips sucked into mine. At first, I immediately was so shocked, i gave in. 'What an excellent kisser...' I sighed to myself, 'Wait.... what am I doing???????!?!?!?!?!' I practically shouted. I yanked my head away. He reeled me back in. I pushed him away. *Gasp* I gasped for a breath of air, a dizzy spell on it's way. I his eyes flickered in amusement. I slapped him. HARD. He staggered back, in shock. I ran out the exit door as fast as possible.~
I ran, and leaned myself against the shadow of the brick WWB studios exterior walls. I took in big breaths. 'That was SO.... freaky.' I thought. Immediately, gilt bubbled up in my soul. 'I KISSED Rick Arlen.' I shamefully bowed my head. Then consoled myself, 'Well, it's not exactly MY idea, he took me by surprise!' My thoughts lingered back to my inward thoughts. I felt like throwing up. "NED!" I cried. I forgot about Ned! I stood for a moment. The cell phone! DUH! Why on earth did I not think about that before! I pulled out my cell phone from the pocket of my pink Areopostale hooded jacket. I flipped open the my hot pink razor, and dialed Ned's cell number. It rang... and rang.... and rang........ "Hey Nance!" came Ned's voice. I furrowed my brow. 'Why did he sound so cheerful, and where was he?!' "Ned? Where are you?" Silence. "Uh.... baby, I got to tell you something..." I cringed. This didn't sound like the Ned I knew. "We're over!" he shouted. I gasped. "WHAT?!" "This just isn't working out, it's not you....its me." I heard a click. I sunk myself down into the cold dirty street. I sobbed. What happened to just a few moments ago, when he was worried about me???? I picked myself up, and called a taxi, realizing the danger of me being out in the street alone at midnight. I trudged into the apartment, and took myself to bed.~
~Woke up and rubbed my eyes. I sighed happily. Ned.... NED. I remembered last night. A whole new burst of fireworks came out. Tears. I hated crying. I wiped angrily at my tears. "Stop it!" I yelled at myself. I was gonna put up a fight. No guy dumps me without hearing it. No One. I quickly dressed into my favorite white washed glitter jeans, and my favorite hot pink off the shoulder long shirt with the large glittery butterfly in the middle. I took my long mass of golden hair, and styled it in large, flowy curls. I did my makeup, and slid on my big movie star glasses. I laced up my hot pink strappy high hilled sandals, slipped on the diamond ring my Dad gave me for my 16th birthday, and opened the door with a bang. "You better watch out Ned Nickerson, cause here I come!"~
~As soon as I was on the curb, waiting for a taxi, I yanked out my cell phone. I dialed Ned's number. It rang... and rang... and rang......... I heard a click.... A message came up, but it wasn't in Ned's voice. The strange voice sounded like the one on Ricks threat tape! "Hello.... you've reach Ned's answering service. He can't be reached right now! Mwhahaaa!!!! He's held hostage, oh and Miss Drew... I'm, watching you. Have a great day!" I gasped and flipped my phone shut. 'I should have known!' I yelled at myself. I was MAD. Of course NED didn't break up with me, it was whoever was trying to stop me from solving this case! Someone must have disguised their voice to sound like Ned, get me upset, distract me, and also hurt Ned! I had to do something! I taxi pulled up. I told him to take me to the hospital. I got in, and as he drove, I wrote a list of things I could do:

1. Go to hospital, check on Matti and ask her what happened last night.
2. Go to WWB studios, question Rick (Ugh...), Lillian, and Millie.
3. Go talk to Dwayne.
4. FIND NED!!!!!

The taxi stopped and I got out and paid the driver. After climbing tons of stairs, I finally reached Mattie’s hospital room. She was sitting up in bed, reading some scripts, and drinking peppermint tea. She looked up, "Oh, hi Nancy! I'm sooo glad you're here! I hope I didn't keep you and Ned up too late!" I came to the bedside, "No, were ok." 'Should I tell her???? No, she could still possibly be a suspect. I doubt it though.' I thought. "Wow Nancy! You look really great today! I bet Ned's just eating you up!" she giggled girlishly, the contained herself, "Hey, where IS Ned?" "Oh, um..... he's uh... he is meeting me at the coffee bean cafe in an hour, I just thought I'd come check on you first." Matti grinned, "How sweet... well, I guess I'll let you get..." We were interrupted, by the doctor. "Nancy, could I see you for a moment?" I looked up surprised. "Oh. Sure!" I followed him to the lounge. He cleared his throat. "Well, about your friend Matti, It appears that nothing is wrong with her. When she first got here, she was in sorta bad condition when she got here, but we ran some tests...." I sighed, exasperated by his slow talking, "AND???" I asked impatiently. "And, nothing appeared to be wrong, accept a bad case of shock." I thanked him for the information, and went back into Mattie’s hospital room. "Well, Matti... do you remember anything that happened last night?" Her eyes widened. "Yes, yes Nancy I do! Come back later this evening, and I'll tell you, but I don't feel like telling you now." I nodded, understanding. I left, called a taxi, and went to WWB Studios.~
~After checking in at the counter with Ralph, I speed walked to Rick Arlen's dressing room. Don't get me wrong, I was SO not exited to be there, but I needed to get info, fast. I knocked on his door and took a deep breath. Prepared for whatever torture I might have to survive. "AntreVou." he said. I opened the door, and strutted up to him. Although I loved looking nice, I hoped he wouldn't notice, just so I could save time.... and the embarrassment of his cheesy one liners. "Hey, gorgeous!" he drawled out in his sickly sweet rico swave voice. "You look AH-MAYZING today! I see you just can't get enough of me..." I cut him off, annoyed, "Yeah, sure whatever. Anyway, what were you doing last night?!?!" I said. Trying keep my voice calm, even though I wanted to scream and strangle him! He smirked, "I was coming to see YOU love." he stood up, and took hold of my hand, he pulled me forward. I quickly pushed him away. "Rick, I have a boyfriend! You know that!" He looked away. I was satisfied, but too soon. "Ma sheri, he is a loser! Babe, you'd be so much happier with me..." ARG! He is SO irritating! "Rick, get over it! Anyway, I need to know, have you seen Ned?" He looked thoughtful for a moment. He sat up straight as if he had just thought of an idea. "I remember...." he muttered quietly to himself. "What Rick, what do you remember? Please tell me!" I felt annoyed at having to grovel like this, but I really needed to know in order to have my Ned back and safe. "Hmm...." he said, "I don't know if I should tell you.... how would that benefit me???" I rolled my eyes, trying to stay calm. "Fine. Rick, what do you want?!" A smiled stretched across his face. Taking my hand once again, he pulled me into him, and kissed me. I let him for a minute, but then I had had enough! I pushed him away. "There! You got what you wanted! What do you know?" He smirked. "Nothing." I was SO angry. I stomped out of there, and slammed the door behind me. "The Nerve!"~

~I stomped out, my heels clicking with every stomp. ‘What a jerk!’ I thought. How DARE he! Oh, how I wanted to go back in there and punch his lights out! A sudden thought came to mind, ‘He never actually told me WHAT he was doing there….. besides coming to see me. Wait. How did he know I was there????’ I put off the thought for a moment, and knocked on the prop room door. She didn’t answer. I slowly opened the door myself. There, slumped over the table was Millie, snoring ever so peacefully. I snuck out, and quietly shut the door. I went to Lillian’s, and knocked on her door. She swung it open with vigor, “Yes?” she said rather unpleasantly. “Hi, I was wondering, do you know where Millie is?” Lillian looked at me as if I had a thousand eye balls flying around my head. Then, she burst out laughing! Then she stopped, “Listen, your wasting my time kid, work doesn’t get done by just sitting around listening to jokes.” And she slammed the door in my face. I stood there, that didn’t make sense. I wasn’t joking! It was time to search for clues! I flipped out my cell and decided to call Ned, just one more time. After a few rings, it went to his answering service. I listened again, hoping to find a clue. ‘Wait…. Someone changed the message!’ I thought. Instead, the voice was saying, “Hello, Miss Drew. I see you’re not gonna give up! Well, maybe I’ll tell Ned that you and Rick were having a smooch in his dressing room…. Or maybe I wont. But you have till tonight to get what I want from you, and meet me in the studio. Bring me Mattie, or else.” There was a click. I sighed and laid my head in my hands. I couldn’t dare put Mattie in danger, but then again, I wanted my boyfriend back. I decided to keep searching and worry about it later. I needed to find more info on Millie. I looked out, it wasn’t exactly the evening, but I really needed to know. NOW. I took a taxi to the hospital, and ran to Mattie’s room. I ran to the bedside where Mattie was snoozing. I brushed the hair off her face, and gently woke her up. “Mattie? Mattie?” She stirred and then her eye’s popped open. “Leave me alone. Don’t Kill Me!!!! NOOOOO!!!” she yelled. “Mattie, it’s me, Nancy! Your ok….” She sat up, breathing heavily. “Oh, Nancy. I was remembering last night. I was so scared…” I nodded, and rubbed her arm. “It’s ok Mattie. But, I need to know what exactly happened last night. She blinked hard, and stared at me. “I saw Millie.” Something wasn’t right. Why was everyone all stirred up about Millie? “What do you mean?” I said. “Is she okay?” Millie looked at me confused. “Nancy, don’t you know? She’s dead.” I gasped. “Dead?!?!” Mattie nodded sadly. “Yes Nancy! She’s been dead for 5 years! But last night, I SAW her! I know I did! It was her ghost…” she shook her head as if the memory of it was too much. I stood up. “Mattie, that was no ghost! Someone is faking to be her. I too have seen her. I’ve even talked to her! I can’t tell you everything right now, but all’s going to be ok.” It was time to search the prop room.~

~I checked in at the counter, and then stopped at the picture of the real Millie hanging by the doors. She looked like a nice lady. ‘Come to think of it, that lady doesn’t look that much alike the one I saw….’ I opened the prop room door. It opened. There was Millie, still slumped over the table, snoring. SNORRING! What was I going to do. “Now, THAT’S creepy.” I said to myself. I walked up. I slowly took hold of a hand and lifted it. She fell off the table. “It’s a body suit!” I shouted. I heard a thunk. A recorder fell on the floor besides Millie…uh, the body suit. I push stop, and the snoring stopped too. I looked back to the day when Rick was impersonating Millie telling him he was no good and stuff. “He sounded identical!” So I rushed off to go get Rick.~
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