There will probably be 3-4 chapters in total, this first one will be the longest since I can't help but write a ton of background stuff and such. So hopefully you folks enjoy it despite the length, or if you want you can just stick to the tie-up scene itself, either way! I like to at least try to establish a background story of sorts (or in the case of a Nancy Drew story, an actual mystery she's trying to solve), so even it is an obviously thin and transparent storyline designed to get Nancy wrapped up, it's better than nothing!
Hopefully you're all familiar with Ms. Nancy Drew (being on this site you'd better be

Right, enough rambling (told you I write a lot of words, didn't I). I just want to say that I'm glad to contribute something here, any responses or comments are greatly, greatly appreciated, and if you're interested, I'm also looking to take requests to write a couple stories for people here. Just check the topic in the requests section, and either reply there or PM me.
Thanks again, hope you enjoy! Prologue and first chapter below:
PROLOGUE (aka getting all the background stuff out of the way, heh)
As he always seemed to be doing, Nancy Drew's father, attorney and businessman Carson Drew, told her he would be away on business for several weeks, this time traveling to the coastal town of Rocky Shores. With summer vacation in swing and the mystery situation at home looking dismal right now, Nancy had begged her father to let her come along, since if you can't find a good mystery in an old coastal town named Rocky Shores, you probably just aren't looking long enough. Her father had eventually agreed, letting Nancy come along on the condition that she watch over his client's two children over the several-day period they would be spending in a nearby city working on the case.
Nancy happily agreed, and once they arrived in Rocky Shores she met with her father's client, Mr. Kilpatrick, and his 11-year-old twins, Ryan and Jessica. Nancy then spent several days sleuthing independently. It didn't take her long to find out that there had been many mysterious happenings centered around the local lighthouse. (Sadly the writer was not creative enough to decide WHAT specifically they were, but he assures you that they were indeed mysterious). Even better, according to local legends, the large Kilpatrick estate had been built by a eccentric genius many years ago, who had fitted the house with several trap doors and hidden rooms, and even possibly a series of underground tunnels leading to the lighthouse! Her babysitting job would give her the perfect cover to look through the house and see if the legends were true...
CHAPTER 1 (aka the really really long one that goes on and on to establish what's going on before FINALLY Nancy gets tied up)
Nancy Drew walked through one of the old estate's many hallways, trying to make note of anything out of the ordinary. Nancy had searched through many mysterious old houses in the past, although this one was a bit different. One one hand, she'd never been able to stroll through the house in her pyjamas without worrying about tresspassing, but on the other hand, she couldn't let the lack of urgency cause her to miss a clue. The house was enormous indeed, and although her father and Mr. Kilpatrick would be away for four more days, she still needed to balance her sleuthing with her actual babysitting duties. Besides that, Mr. Kilpatrick had told both her and the twins that he'd prefer them to stay out of the basement, and she didn't want to let the kids find her there and tell their father later.
That was why nighttime was ideal. She'd sent Ryan and Jessica to bed an hour ago, and had checked in to make sure they were asleep before sneaking on down to the lower level of the house and beginning her search. She thought her first night babysitting had gone well. She'd gotten to know Ryan and Jessica a bit and both twins had seemed like nice enough kids, although she didn't think they'd opened up to her quite yet. Nancy had suggested some activities at dinner, but they'd just said "maybe later" and she would just check in on them from time to time during the evening. She'd handed out some goodnatured threats a couple times when she thought they had been getting a bit too rowdy and mischievous, just to remind them who was in charge. The second time, Nancy had told them that if they got much louder they might find themselves bound and gagged to their beds that night, and from the way the twins laughed at that Nancy hoped that she'd broken the ice between them.
Now that they were asleep though, Nancy had the place to herself, and she did not intend to waste it. She'd gone through several of the rooms at the far end of the estate, marveling at how big this place was and how she'd need a couple days to make a thorough search, when while exploring a small storage room, the lights clicked off and she was suddenly plunged into darkness.
"What?" Nancy said, whirling around and seeing nothing. "Who's there?"
She didn't get an answer, but she did hear the door closing, possibly leaving her trapped! Had she been on an ordinary mission, Nancy would of course have had a flashlight on her, and she silently cursed herself for going snooping while pyjama-clad and barefoot.
Still, this was no time to panic. She just needed to feel her way towards the door, keeping her ears open. She reached the doorknob and then, just before grasping it, the door opened again, hitting Nancy square in the nose.
"OW!" Nancy said. Started, she fell back, mostly in surprise as she hadn't been hit too hard, and then the lights turned on again.
"Gotcha!" she heard, and saw Ryan and Jessica standing in the doorway, giggling.
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"What were you two doing out of bed?!" Nancy demanded a few minutes later. "You should both be sleeping at this hour?" After first feeling embarrassed by the situation and then making sure her nose was fine, Nancy had marched the twins into the kitchen. Ryan and Jessica were both tall for their age and still scrawny, with mousy brown hair and a smattering of freckles on their noses.
The two of them looked at each other mischievously, then back to Nancy. "We heard noises downstairs," Jessica finally said. She was the quieter of the two, and kept her hair in a ponytail just past her shoulders.
"Yeah," Ryan added. He had messy hair falling down around his eyes and ears, and was clearly the dominant one of the duo. "What were YOU doing down there, huh Nancy? Huh?" He was clearly enjoying having caught the babysitter red-handed. "Dad totally told you not to go down there, same as us!"
Nancy thought quickly. "I was just checking down there, to make sure everything was safe. Now it's time for the two of you to get back to bed, NOW."
The twins looked at each other and grinned again. "We're gonna tell!"
"No!" Nancy burst out. The two brats had her, all right. Their smiles told her that much. She just needed to figure out what the cost of their silence would be.
"Alright, kids, you win. I'm sure we can work out something to just keep this between us, can't we?"
Nancy let Ryan and Jessica whisper to each other for a minute, their smiles just going wider, before Ryan turned.
"OK, Nancy. We won't tell, but you've gotta let us tie you up!"
"What?!" Nancy said. That had been the LAST answer she'd expected. She could deal with later bedtimes or something, but she didn't know about this one. "Look kids, that's silly. How'd you like something like unlimited video game time?"
Jessica spoke up. "Well you threatened to tie us up when WE broke the rules."
"Yeah," Ryan added. "So that's totally fair. What, are you scared you couldn't escape?"
Hah, Nancy thought at that remark. She'd been tied up enough times that she didn't fear a couple of kids. "Believe me, I could Ryan, no. Let's work something else out, OK?"
With Nancy's boast, the kids took another look at each other and then whispered to each other again. "Alright babysitter," Ryan said. "If we tied you up and you get out, we'll also tell you what we know about the secret rooms!"
Nancy's eyes widened in shock. "What do you mean, secret rooms?"
"Well, what else would be looking for down there?" Ryan shrugged. "We've heard all the old legends and stuff. So whaddaya think? We don't tell dad AND you get to look around as much as you want!"
Nancy ran the plan over in her head. With Ryan and Jessica knowing nothing about her experience with ropes, she was certain she could get out of any knots an 11-year-old could tie, and with the total freedom to search the house and the clues they could give her....
"Alright, you win." she finally said, smiling slyly at the twins. "Hurry up and let's get this done with, because once I get free the two of you are heading straight back to bed!"
The twins beamed at each other and Nancy. "Alright," Ryan said. "Let's go back down to where we caught you downstairs, Jessica, grab some rope from dad's work room."
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Once they were back downstairs and Jessica had arrived with two lengths of white rope, Nancy grinned at the twins, thinking that she might have some fun herself showing these kids who was in charge. Maybe she'd even repeat the favor tomorrow. "OK kids, do your worst!"
They both giggled at that. "You bet!" Ryan said, taking the shorter length of rope. "Alright, uh, turn around and hands behind you!"
Nancy did as instructed, and soon felt the rope wrapping around and around her wrists several times, pressing them together. The kid definitely knew a thing or two, but his ropework felt clumsy and hurried to Nancy, and she was fairly certain she could work herself free. Not his first time doing this for sure she thought.
After he finished winding, Ryan wrapped the last bit of rope over the rest in a rudimentary cinch, then knotted it off and stood back, clearly pleased with himself. Nancy shuffled a bit, trying to play up her helplessness.
Ryan took the longer rope from Jessica, then told Nancy to lie down on her stomach. She smiled and complied, and he began winding it around her ankles to tie her bare feet together. It was pretty much the same situation as her wrists, although Nancy was privately glad that he'd tied the ropes over her pajama pants to give her skin an extra layer of cushioning. Once knotted, he stepped away and confidently asked "Still think you can escape, Nancy?"
Nancy rolled onto her side, twisting her body to put on a bit of a show. "Well I dunno, Ryan, we'll see. Remember, I've got half an hour to get out. Where's Jessica?" She couldn't see the other twin from her position on the floor.
"Oh, she just went to get a couple things." Ryan said. Just then, Jessica did arrive, passing a shapeless bundle to Ryan that Nancy didn't recognize as a bedsheet until he'd shaken it out and laid it down on the floor.
"What is THAT for?" Nancy asked, perplexed.
Jessica giggled. "Did she think that the ropes were it?" she asked her brother.
Ryan just smiled in response, as he maneuvered the sheet to lie next to Nancy on the floor. "Come on Nancy, I mean even Jessica could get out from that! It has to be a bit of a challenge!" He folded one of the edges over so the sheet would match the length of Nancy's body from shoulders down to ankles. "The sheet's like our secret ultimate weapon, once you're tied up in it that'll be it."
Have I ever been wrapped up in a sheet before? Nancy quickly thought. It was hard to keep track, but she thought it might have happened once. It would make it harder to maneuver around, but as long as she still got her hands free she'd be fine. "Alright kids. Let's see the secret ultimate weapon."
The twins clapped at that, and then Jessica helped Ryan make sure the sheet was spread out just right. Once it was, Ryan instructed Jessica to hold Nancy by the feet, while he would take her upper half. Nancy found herself lying on her back by the far end of the sheet, while each twins grabbed it at one end and lifted it to rest on top of her.
"Now remember Jessica," Ryan said. "Just follow my lead, and make sure you keep the sheet tight after each roll, OK?"
"Sure thing!" Jessica said, "One... two..."
On the count of three, Nancy felt herself being grabbed at the shoulders and feet and rolled over, wrapping the sheet around her as she went. Ryan and Jessica took a few seconds to make sure the sheet was pressed tight, then continued, rolling the teenage sleuth over several times until she was feeling dizzy. She could still wriggle her wrists around a bit and that would probably be enough to escape, but this was definitely more than she'd expected when she agreed to this.
When the rolling stopped, Nancy found herself once again on her back. She looked down her body and saw that the white sheet smoothly wrapped all the way down her body, with just her feet sticking out from the bottom. Whatever these kids know about this house had better be worth it, she thought, shuffling a bit from side to side.
"Not bad," Nancy admitted to the kids, still feeling mostly confident. Alright then, so it's a half-hour and... what are THOSE for?! You said the sheet was supposed to be it!"
Ryan and Jessica had each grabbed a couple leather belts and were again kneeling next to her. Ryan shrugged, looking confused. "Well, we need something to tie the sheet down, don't we?"
Nancy didn't like that, but she just grumbled as the twins tied the four belts around her, one each around her shoulders, elbows, thighs, and ankles. Each belt was pulled snugly and Nancy could feel her arms pressing even closer to her body, which would make it even harder to work free from the ropes around her wrists. Once I DO get out, these two are getting a taste of their own medicine. she thought. That helped cheer her up a bit. "OK, NOW that's definitely it?"
"Yup, that's it!" Ryan nodded. "Now we just need to gag you!"
They needed to gag her too? Nancy rolled her eyes at that and just stared up at the ceiling, but at this point she just wanted to get on with her escape. She could already feel herself sweating a bit under the sheet. She heard the sound of duct tape and prepared for it to be pressed over her lips, but instead, it was followed by the sounds of a SECOND roll of tape, and when looked back down she saw Jessica lifting up her legs and winding the tape around her ankles!
"What the-" Nancy started, but she suddenly felt Ryan's hands grabbing her by the shoulders, lifting her into a sitting position and wrapping his own roll of tape around the top of the bedsheet, covering the belt he'd used to secure it. "Hey! You never said anything about this! What are you doing?"
Jessica couldn't help but grin as she stopped her work for a second. "Ummm, we're, uh, now we've gotta tie you up with the tape, you know, like a mummy. Yeah, we're gonna mummify you really tight!"
Nancy swiveled her head to look at Ryan, who looked and looked sheepish for a second before letting out a quick burst of childish laughter. "Uh yeah Nancy, sorry about that I sorta lied about that last part. Don't worry, you still get the chance to escape." He looked down at Jessica, who had began winding the tape further up Nancy's legs. "Hey Jessica remember, don't just wrap it once and then move all the way up. Take your time and go around a couple times, we've got plenty of tape." Jessica nodded and he resumed his own wrapping, trying to maintain a grip on Nancy as she started to thrash around as best she could. She had most definitely NOT signed up for this!
Unfortunately, already being wrapped up in the sheet, Nancy knew her struggles wouldn't be close to enough. "Alright kids," she said angrily. "You had your fun, this is enough. You need to stop this RIGHT now and let me out, I am warning you as your babysitter that I WILL tell your father about this and... are you two listening? You are in BIG TROUBLE!"
She could see that they weren't listening. Jessica was still wrapping around her legs, and Nancy angrily put as much effort as she could into one kicking motion, catching Jessica by surprise and causing her to fall back. "Hey!" she shouted. "Let me out, n--- mmmph!"
Her words were cut off as she could feel Ryan pressing a white rag of some sort into her mouth. Now ever madder, Nancy tried to spit it back out, but Ryan had quickly pressed the tape over top, winding it around the back of her head several times (though at least he was courteous enough to lift up her hair before doing so). Nancy may have been the most proper girl around, but at this point even she was shouting muffled curses at the two demonspawn children she'd gotten stuck with. Not that any of them were intelligible through the gag, of course.
Ryan tore off the tape and stood back for a second, and Nancy immediately seized the opportunity to thrash and fight as much as she could, desperately trying to work her wrists from from the ropes tying them together under the bedsheet. She knew this would be her last chance, because once they taped around there there'd be no way she'd have enough slack. She just needed a few minutes....
"You OK, sis?" Ryan asked as Jessica quickly got back up.
"I'm fine," she said, looking at Nancy's energetic struggles. "Boy, she's mad."
"Oh, she'll be fine," Ryan replied. "We've gotta hurry up and finish, though. I think Nancy's better at this escaping stuff than she let on." He smiled down. "Let's get going, I'm thinking we should give her one extra layer of tape just to be sure."
Jessica giggled and grabbed Nancy's thrashing legs. "Yeah, gotta make sure we don't miss a spot!"
Despite Nancy's best efforts, there was nothing she could do to free wrists from behind her back before the tape started winding around them. With the sheet limiting their movements, there just wasn't enough time. By this point, she'd mostly exhausted her struggling and could only stare daggers at the twins as they wrapped the tape around and around her body, moving slowly upwards and downwards until she was totally immobilized in a cocoon of tape running from shoulder to ankle. And even then, Ryan and Jessica made good on their promise of a second layer, wrapping her one more time just in case the first layer of tape wasn't excessive enough.
"Wow," Jessica said, once they'd finished. She looked down at the bound form of one angry teenage babysitter. "So is she officially mummified now?"
Ryan just laughed. "Officially, sis. Good job!"
"Think she's gonna escape that?"
"We'll see," Ryan shrugged.
Nancy at this point was mumbling sullenly into her gag. "Half an hour." Nancy thought. "These little monsters had BETTER be here after half an hour. She saw Jessica looking at her again, glancing over each part of her body as if ensuring it was secured enough.
"She can still wiggle around a bit," Jessica said. ""Like, her feet are free and stuff." Indeed, Nancy's bare feet were by far the most active part of her at the moment. "Maybe we can like, tie her toes all together or something, or we could use---"
Nancy groaned into her gag. "And here I thought she was the nicer one!" she thought. Thankfully, Ryan just said "I think we've done enough, sis. OK, Nancy, we'll be back. Uh, good luck!"
With that, the twins left the room, closing the door behind them and leaving their babysitter to herself. Still lying on the floor, completely and snugly mummified in both the sheet and the layers of duct tape, all Nancy Drew could do was wriggle a few inches in either direction and silently curse both the twins and her own stupidity for getting her into this situation in the first place. "Just great" she bitterly thought. How is it that I've been tied up dozens of times by master thieves and smugglers and who knows who else, but when I let a couple 11-year-olds tie me up, THIS is what happens? What is wrong with these kids?
Of course, in Nancy's current situation, that was about all she could do. Still, they couldn't keep her tied up forever, could they? And even though she could feel herself getting hotter, at least she wasn't having any circulation problems or anything.
Oh yeah, this is just PEACHY.
Well, half an hour. She just needed to wait, and hope that Ryan was telling the truth when he said he'd return in half an hour. Because if he didn't, their fathers wouldn't be coming back for another four days, and THEN she might be in serious trouble indeed.
All she could do now was wait...
CHAPTER 2 - COMING SOON!
Will Nancy be freed by the twin terrors? (Well, they aren't going to let her die of thirst or anything. I SAID this would be mostly lighthearted, didn't I?)
Will Nancy enact a terrible revenge on Ryan and Jessica if she does?
Or will it be Nancy getting tied up again?
And will Nancy ever actually solve the vague mystery thing that she's investigating in the first place? You might find out!