A/N So I decided to take my own addvise to Cairisrin. This will be my attempt at trying to write every night to get the juices flowing. The goal here is to write everyday and post what ever it is. I will try to at least get to natural scene breaks. MY plot is alot more simple than Cairisrin's but I am still enjoying it. This experiment seems to be working already. I even wrote a little today in my HB/Supernatural cross :)
HIDE-A-WAY
"Dad, we'll be fine!" an exasperated Joe Hardy said into the phone, sounding like it had not been the first time he had said that statement. "Its just a little vacation. Frank and I will be fine."
"Yeah dad. We've done this many times before." Franks voice came through the line, making Joe smile. Surveying his room, Joe made sure he wasn't missing anything from his pack.
He and Frank were getting ready to meet in the middle of the continent to have spring break together. While they talked with each other constantly, and even saw each other on holidays, it was getting increasingly harder for the brothers to spend time alone together. With Frank Pre Law at Stanford, and Joe at New York State, it was hard to even get coinciding vacations.
The sound of his father voice brought Joe back to the conversation on the phone. "I know you boys can handle your selves, but every time you go off on your own something happens."
Frank cut in, "Dad, that was years ago, and neither Joe nor I have been working on any cases for quite sometime. We'll be fine. I think we have dropped off many radars."
Joe had to hold in his snort. He knew for a fact that Frank had worked a few low level cases while at Stanford. He had called for Joe's opinion on a few, not that Joe hadn't done the same. They both just thought it best to keep it away from their worried parents. Mom was grateful that they seemed to have turned away from following in their father's footsteps, and Dad was glad that they were out finding themselves.
"Seriously dad, we are going to be out in the middle of nowhere. No one but you and mom know we are going. There is a CB in the cabin and we are only 20 miles from the nearest ranger station." Sometimes Joe surprised himself when the sensible comments came out. The separation between him and Frank had caused a noticable maturity in him. He was both proud and ashamed at this change in his personality, even though he knew it was for the better.
"That's what scares me most boys. Just please be careful. And please take the satellite phone with you. Call Mom every night, or at least send her a picture or something. It would make her feel better."
There dad went again, using the guilt trip of 'mom.' Which always worked. And with dad overseas on a case, mom was left home with aunt Gertrude, and they would be racking themselves with worry over all the Hardy men.
"Fine, I will swing by tonight, on my way to the airport."
"You better swing by a little earlier. Aunt Gertrude is going to want to feed you." Frank joked with him.
"Yum, Free food. That I won't complain about. But if that's the case, then I better leave now to make it to Bayport and back in time."
"I'm glad you boys are getting this time together. And I'm really glad that you are taking the phone. Be safe. Call often. I love you boys."
"We love you too, dad." They said together. "I'll see you in a week." Joe added just before he heard the click of his father hanging up.
"Well, I guess I'll see you in about ten hours. Send my love to aunt Gertrude and mom for me."
"Okay, Frank. Safe drive to the airport."
Joe sat down on his bed and took off the earpiece. He took a deep breath and looked around his dorm room. "Well, I guess I should get this show on the road." Joe hefted his bags onto his shoulders and headed out of the room.