Frank was dodging bullets right and left. He wished he was in the training
grounds and not in the field itself. "You can come out now Hardy. Where is
your charming brother?"
"He's busy."
"Well I guess you'll have to do." He raised his gun to Frank's face. -
jnp- Thank you for the review. What I meant by not in the time period that you want is that everyone is begging me to get them married and I can't yet. There are too many unsolved issues here. You'll have to wait to see what they are but maybe if you think back to the first one you can catch what some of them are.
Lord Dreadnault
Anonymous
Mo- Don't worry everything will work out.
Katie- Who says he didn't? Bess didn't say she had all of them.
Disclaimer: As you know I don't own them. Stratmeyer Syndicate and Simon and Schuster own them to our great sorrow.
Chapter 2
Joe heard the shot from outside of the building that he was casing. "FRANK!" The younger Hardy dashed into the building.
Frank lay crumpled on the floor unconscious. "You..." he didn't finish the statement when he couldn't find who did it.
The ambulance arrived then. Joe was pulled off of his brother and led to the vehicle. Frank was on the pulley looking so lifeless. Joe didn't know what to tell them. They weren't on a network case so they couldn't call in NEST. NEST was a doctor team that promised the best of care to each of its members.
Joe was made to wait in the waiting room. He paced the floor for ten minutes before he decided to call Nan to tell her what was going on.
He waited for the phone to stop ringing. "Nan?" He asked when the phone was picked up.
"What's up Joe?" She asked.
"Frank is in the hospital. He's been shot." Joe heard silence on the line.
"What did you say?"
"Frank has been shot." Joe told her again.
"Where are you Joe?"
"I'm at Baylor Memorial. Get here as fast as you can." He hung up the phone when the doctor came put to talk to him.
"Your brother is strong but we don't know if he is going to make it." Doctor Helm informed the young man that was standing in front of him.
"Did you get the bullet pulled out of him? Where exactly did it hit?" Joe asked.
"Yes we did get the bullet out of him. It was located in the left lung a little above his heart. Your brother is a lucky man.
Several hours later Nancy arrived with Bess in tow. "Is he alright Joe? Have they pulled the bullet?" She was thinking about forensics. A tired looking silver haired man came out about that time.
Joe looked at Nancy before the doctor said, "You can go in and see him now."
Nancy began walking to the doors. "Miss who are you?"
"I'm his girlfriend." She answered.
Joe followed her not knowing what to do. Joe looked at the strawberry redhead that was walking in front of him. He waited for Bess to catch up with him.
"What happened Joe?"
"Frank was shot on a case. We weren't working on anything that was top secret. He answered glumly.
"Joe I want to help. I know that we can find who did this." Bess offered her services. She knew about the job they did.
"Bess it's dangerous and you just got married. Your husband would kill us if something were to happen to you. Nancy would kill me if I told you yes." He looked at their friend that had just entered a room where he assumed Frank was.
"You guys are way too protective of me and George. Don't you think that we know how dangerous this job is!" She kept her voice down.
"You used to complain that it was too much work to this at times. Other times you were flirting with some guy." Joe commented outside the door.
"You spend half of your time flirting with a different girl for each case anyways so you have no room to talk. Besides I have been doing a little detective work of my own." She muttered under her breath.
At that Joe looked inside to see Nancy talking to Frank even though Frank wouldn't be talking back to her so she wouldn't know that Bess and Joe hadn't entered the room yet. He pulled Bess to another wing of the hall that was relatively quiet. "You have been doing detective work on your own. You know how dangerous that is!" He reprimanded her.
"I know but when Nancy wouldn't allow me to help anymore after I was engaged I became bored because I couldn't find anything with a challenge." Bess answered. "One day a mystery found me when I was at work and I told them that I could look into it. I chaven't told Nancy about it yet." She looked down to the floor suddenly becoming very interested in the white tiles. After that the people that I worked with would ask me to investigate little things for them. I haven't' done anything major."
Joe listened to her without interrupting. "It's obvious that you haven't told Nan yet because she wouldn't have allowed you too come today." He had seen Nancy when they were talking about the last time that Bess and George had been allowed to help her in a case. She had been bound and determined to keep her friends safe. If that meant that they weren't' allowed to help her out then that was it.
"I know. Let's go see your brother and please don't' tell her." Bess begged.
"I won't but you're going to have to tell her sometime soon." Joe promised.
"Yeah." She agreed and led the way to the room that they needed to be in.
Nancy had lain her head down on the bed and fallen asleep. Joe looked at his watch. "She must not have gotten any sleep."
"Nope." She drove all the way over here as fast as she could without being ticketed by the police. Even though she is the police." Bess commented.
'You don't know the half of it Bess.' Joe thought. He rested his hand on his brother's arm muttering quietly about what was going on. "Bess. You can help as long as she doesn't say anything." He knew that she would help whether Nancy let her or not. It would be better if she did allow her to help.
"I will be very happy to." She nodded her head.
The nurse walked into the room only to look absolutely horrified at the three people in the room. "What are you three doing in here? Mr. Hardy is supposed to be resting. The nurse kept her voice low.
Joe was about to say something when Bess pulled her out of the room. "That is his wife and his brother in there and they are both extremely worried about him. He was shot and it isn't that east to have someone shot that you know and love. Van you let them stay in there for another hour. I don't' think that he is going to bed waking anytime soon. I don't believe that they will disturb him." She reasoned.
The woman that was standing in front of her hung her head. "You have thirty minutes. I want all of you out of there in that time." The nurse walked away.
"I bought us thirty minutes Joe. We may need to wake her up and get her to a bed to sleep." That was unnecessary though because Nancy was waking up.
The thirty minutes passed with the nurse returning. She looked like she meant business this time. Bess didn't try to reason with her. She had gotten some extra time for her friends. She had a feeling that they were really going to need her help.
Nancy strode off to talk to the doctor. She was still tired but she had work to do now.
-Nancy-
Nancy headed toward the doctor's office. She was going to get that bullet. She needed to get it to forensics to get it checked. "Doctor?" She knocked on the door. He was bending over his work. "Dr. Helm?" She tried again to get his attention.
"Yes Miss Drew." He answered.
"I was wondering if it would be possible for me to get that bullet so I could get it analyzed. She didn't say that she had an analyzing kit with her. However she probably wouldn't use it due to the fact that the police had a much better forensics lab.
"I can't release that to you." He responded to her request.
She pulled out her detective badge. "Yes you can." She placed her wallet on his paper work.
He sighed in resignation. He led her out of the room to the room where they kept all the extra things that cops liked to get a hold of for their investigations. (I don't know what they are called or even if they have them in a hospital but it would almost stand to reason that they would have this information.) "You'll have to sign a release form for this." He handed her the requested item.
"I know. Just show me where the release form is." This was nothing new to her. She was used to this by now. Between the network and the department she managed to find ways to get around.
Thanking the doctor she went to the waiting room where she found Fenton Hardy waiting on them. "How you holding up Nancy?"
"I'm holding." - - - - Hey guys sorry that I'm late in getting out the next chapter. I've been a little busy getting ready to cook Thanksgiving dinner and working on my other stories that I'm writing as well. Give me a good and honest review! Happy Thanksgiving!
"He's busy."
"Well I guess you'll have to do." He raised his gun to Frank's face. -
jnp- Thank you for the review. What I meant by not in the time period that you want is that everyone is begging me to get them married and I can't yet. There are too many unsolved issues here. You'll have to wait to see what they are but maybe if you think back to the first one you can catch what some of them are.
Lord Dreadnault
Anonymous
Mo- Don't worry everything will work out.
Katie- Who says he didn't? Bess didn't say she had all of them.
Disclaimer: As you know I don't own them. Stratmeyer Syndicate and Simon and Schuster own them to our great sorrow.
Chapter 2
Joe heard the shot from outside of the building that he was casing. "FRANK!" The younger Hardy dashed into the building.
Frank lay crumpled on the floor unconscious. "You..." he didn't finish the statement when he couldn't find who did it.
The ambulance arrived then. Joe was pulled off of his brother and led to the vehicle. Frank was on the pulley looking so lifeless. Joe didn't know what to tell them. They weren't on a network case so they couldn't call in NEST. NEST was a doctor team that promised the best of care to each of its members.
Joe was made to wait in the waiting room. He paced the floor for ten minutes before he decided to call Nan to tell her what was going on.
He waited for the phone to stop ringing. "Nan?" He asked when the phone was picked up.
"What's up Joe?" She asked.
"Frank is in the hospital. He's been shot." Joe heard silence on the line.
"What did you say?"
"Frank has been shot." Joe told her again.
"Where are you Joe?"
"I'm at Baylor Memorial. Get here as fast as you can." He hung up the phone when the doctor came put to talk to him.
"Your brother is strong but we don't know if he is going to make it." Doctor Helm informed the young man that was standing in front of him.
"Did you get the bullet pulled out of him? Where exactly did it hit?" Joe asked.
"Yes we did get the bullet out of him. It was located in the left lung a little above his heart. Your brother is a lucky man.
Several hours later Nancy arrived with Bess in tow. "Is he alright Joe? Have they pulled the bullet?" She was thinking about forensics. A tired looking silver haired man came out about that time.
Joe looked at Nancy before the doctor said, "You can go in and see him now."
Nancy began walking to the doors. "Miss who are you?"
"I'm his girlfriend." She answered.
Joe followed her not knowing what to do. Joe looked at the strawberry redhead that was walking in front of him. He waited for Bess to catch up with him.
"What happened Joe?"
"Frank was shot on a case. We weren't working on anything that was top secret. He answered glumly.
"Joe I want to help. I know that we can find who did this." Bess offered her services. She knew about the job they did.
"Bess it's dangerous and you just got married. Your husband would kill us if something were to happen to you. Nancy would kill me if I told you yes." He looked at their friend that had just entered a room where he assumed Frank was.
"You guys are way too protective of me and George. Don't you think that we know how dangerous this job is!" She kept her voice down.
"You used to complain that it was too much work to this at times. Other times you were flirting with some guy." Joe commented outside the door.
"You spend half of your time flirting with a different girl for each case anyways so you have no room to talk. Besides I have been doing a little detective work of my own." She muttered under her breath.
At that Joe looked inside to see Nancy talking to Frank even though Frank wouldn't be talking back to her so she wouldn't know that Bess and Joe hadn't entered the room yet. He pulled Bess to another wing of the hall that was relatively quiet. "You have been doing detective work on your own. You know how dangerous that is!" He reprimanded her.
"I know but when Nancy wouldn't allow me to help anymore after I was engaged I became bored because I couldn't find anything with a challenge." Bess answered. "One day a mystery found me when I was at work and I told them that I could look into it. I chaven't told Nancy about it yet." She looked down to the floor suddenly becoming very interested in the white tiles. After that the people that I worked with would ask me to investigate little things for them. I haven't' done anything major."
Joe listened to her without interrupting. "It's obvious that you haven't told Nan yet because she wouldn't have allowed you too come today." He had seen Nancy when they were talking about the last time that Bess and George had been allowed to help her in a case. She had been bound and determined to keep her friends safe. If that meant that they weren't' allowed to help her out then that was it.
"I know. Let's go see your brother and please don't' tell her." Bess begged.
"I won't but you're going to have to tell her sometime soon." Joe promised.
"Yeah." She agreed and led the way to the room that they needed to be in.
Nancy had lain her head down on the bed and fallen asleep. Joe looked at his watch. "She must not have gotten any sleep."
"Nope." She drove all the way over here as fast as she could without being ticketed by the police. Even though she is the police." Bess commented.
'You don't know the half of it Bess.' Joe thought. He rested his hand on his brother's arm muttering quietly about what was going on. "Bess. You can help as long as she doesn't say anything." He knew that she would help whether Nancy let her or not. It would be better if she did allow her to help.
"I will be very happy to." She nodded her head.
The nurse walked into the room only to look absolutely horrified at the three people in the room. "What are you three doing in here? Mr. Hardy is supposed to be resting. The nurse kept her voice low.
Joe was about to say something when Bess pulled her out of the room. "That is his wife and his brother in there and they are both extremely worried about him. He was shot and it isn't that east to have someone shot that you know and love. Van you let them stay in there for another hour. I don't' think that he is going to bed waking anytime soon. I don't believe that they will disturb him." She reasoned.
The woman that was standing in front of her hung her head. "You have thirty minutes. I want all of you out of there in that time." The nurse walked away.
"I bought us thirty minutes Joe. We may need to wake her up and get her to a bed to sleep." That was unnecessary though because Nancy was waking up.
The thirty minutes passed with the nurse returning. She looked like she meant business this time. Bess didn't try to reason with her. She had gotten some extra time for her friends. She had a feeling that they were really going to need her help.
Nancy strode off to talk to the doctor. She was still tired but she had work to do now.
-Nancy-
Nancy headed toward the doctor's office. She was going to get that bullet. She needed to get it to forensics to get it checked. "Doctor?" She knocked on the door. He was bending over his work. "Dr. Helm?" She tried again to get his attention.
"Yes Miss Drew." He answered.
"I was wondering if it would be possible for me to get that bullet so I could get it analyzed. She didn't say that she had an analyzing kit with her. However she probably wouldn't use it due to the fact that the police had a much better forensics lab.
"I can't release that to you." He responded to her request.
She pulled out her detective badge. "Yes you can." She placed her wallet on his paper work.
He sighed in resignation. He led her out of the room to the room where they kept all the extra things that cops liked to get a hold of for their investigations. (I don't know what they are called or even if they have them in a hospital but it would almost stand to reason that they would have this information.) "You'll have to sign a release form for this." He handed her the requested item.
"I know. Just show me where the release form is." This was nothing new to her. She was used to this by now. Between the network and the department she managed to find ways to get around.
Thanking the doctor she went to the waiting room where she found Fenton Hardy waiting on them. "How you holding up Nancy?"
"I'm holding." - - - - Hey guys sorry that I'm late in getting out the next chapter. I've been a little busy getting ready to cook Thanksgiving dinner and working on my other stories that I'm writing as well. Give me a good and honest review! Happy Thanksgiving!