Ok for the thingie whatever it called I don't own Nancy, Joe, or Frank and later on Fenton Hardy. I only own the other characters well I let you read this chappie ok ok I hope you like it. It is longer than the other one, but I didn't want to leave it on a boring part so here you go!!!!!!

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As she walked in the door of the restaurant she saw Joe sitting at a table talking to a blonde haired waitress and went to join him. "What's up?" Joe asked as the waitress left. Where were you girls anyway me and Frank have been waiting for you forever. Hey, where's Nancy and Frank?" "Nancy took off when Frank told her about Callie because it just so happens that Callie is on this very ship right now," Jamie replied while looking at the order menu. "Frank ran into her on deck and they had a big blow out, me and Nancy just arrived on deck to see her walk off.

And that is when he let something slip that Nancy had not yet found out about. I don't see what the big deal is anyway?" "Uh, oh, that's not good, not good at all," said Joe. He digested this new information. "Why's that not good?" asked Jamie. Joe waited to answer her question after the waitress came and took their order. "Well, as you probably know Nancy and Frank like each other a lot--,"he started to say, but Jamie cut him off "Wait back up did you say Nancy liked Frank a lot?" "Yeah why?" Joe asked with a puzzled expression. Nan never told me that and I thought that she had a boyfriend already," Jamie said trying to hide the hurt in her voice.

She does, but Nancy also likes Frank that's why she's upset that Callie and Frank had broken up and she didn't know about it. "So why did they break up?" Jamie asked with a hint of curiosity in her voice. "Who knows I couldn't get Frank to tell me so I didn't push the subject," replied Joe as the waitress came and set their food in front of them. They ate in silence and then they started a walk around the ship.

They were enjoying the cool ocean breeze and each other's company. The two stopped to watch the sunset. The orange and pinkish colors were wonderful and Joe was very curious about what was going through Jamie's mind. He asked her what she was thinking. Her reply was that she wished that the moment would last forever because she had never seen a sunset that was so beautiful. They talked for a while about their favorite things to do, what music they liked, basically about anything and everything. The time was getting late and Jamie started to get tired, Joe walked her back to the cabin and said goodnight.

Jamie slipped the key into the lock and pushed the door open with a gasp of horror. The room had been ransacked drawers pulled out clothes thrown in every direction make-up scattered over the dresser, apparently whoever made the mess had not bothered to clean it up. Pillows were ripped open. Sheets were stripped off the bed, and the table was turned over in extreme chaos. Apparently whoever did this was looking for something very important. Jamie ran to Joe's cabin and knocked loud enough to get his attention. "My room has been ransacked!" Jamie cried. "What?" Joe said in utter disbelief.

Go find Nancy and Frank I'll call the captain of the ship." Okay, I'll be back in a jiffy." Jamie sprinted down the hall trying to figure out where Frank and Nancy could be at 12:00 clock midnight. "Maybe they went back to the restaurant?" Jamie wondered "or the pool, Damn, I didn't think it would take me this long to search for Frank and Nancy," Jamie said to herself a half hour later, "so much for a good nights sleep. Gosh this boat is so huge it probably would take me a whole day to look in every single place there's to hide.

Hhhhmmmm..........I wonder what that is?" A glittering object was shining in the moonlight. She stooped down and picked it up. It looked like a pair of keys welded together. She decided to examine it after she had a light to use. As she slipped the object into her jeans pocket, she heard soft footsteps approaching her from behind and then they stopped a few feet away. She whipped around, but didn't see anyone, so she decided that she should go back to the cabin it was getting late and Joe would get worried. "So much for getting back in a jiffy," Jamie thought to herself.

She started to walk back to the cabin; suddenly a figure came at her from nowhere. She dashed around the figure as he lunged for her. She managed to take a few steps before her pursuer grab her arm and twisted it behind her back. She tried to scream, but her breath caught in her throat as she saw her attacker reach in his pocket and pull out a knife that gleamed in the darkness, there was no doubt in her mind that it could have been anything else.

Meanwhile, Joe sprinted to the phone and dialed the captains' cabin. The captain of the ship arrived within 10 minutes. "What seems to be the problem?" he asked. "Hi, I'm Joe Hardy this is my friends cabin someone broke in and tore the place apart. My friend Jamie Parker and Nancy Drew are staying in this room." "Hello, I'm Captain Bangle as you probably already know, I assure you that we will find the culprit that did this to your friends room. Is anything missing I must ask?" "I don't know Jamie went to go find Nancy because she was not in the room, but she didn't check to see if anything was missing. She left like 30 minutes ago. I wonder if she found Nancy yet?"

"They'll be back soon I'm sure," the Captain said while he picked up the phone "I'll call one of the men on my crew who used to work for the FBI he'll look into the room incident for me, since I'm such a busy man these days." "That would be great" Joe replied with a yawn. "Hey, why is this door open," called a voice from the hall. The door opened and in walked Nancy and Frank. "Why is my stuff all over the floor and where's Jamie?" Nancy said in complete shock as she scanned her eyes over the entire room. "Where have you guys been and you didn't run into Jamie, she went to look for you guys like a half hour ago and has not been back since." Joe said worriedly.

"Maybe she got lost," Frank, suggested, "This is a big ship you know." "Yeah, I know. What have you guys been up to lately I heard Callie is on board this cruise is it true," Joe said curiously" and Nancy flipped out." "Well, she did, but I followed her and we found some place quiet to talk and worked out all our differences without anyone bothering us. "Frank said. "I think we should go find Jamie now guys I have a feeling that she may be in trouble at this very moment, "Nancy said seriously looking at Frank and then at Joe.

They rushed on to the deck as quickly as they could, unaware that Captain Bangle had heard every word that they said back in the cabin. He ran up the stairs after the three of them. Frank and I will look for Jamie on this side of the boat while you and Captain Bangle search the other side, but do not yell out Jamie's name if she is in trouble we don't want to scare the person with her. While Nancy and Captain Bangle searched the other side of the boat Frank and Joe slowly made their way to the other end of the boat. Keeping their senses alert they sneaked through the darkness.

Suddenly they heard a quivering voice say, "You'll never get away with kidnapping me my friends will find me." "Shut up before I slit your throat open," the other voice threatened jerking the girl along. With one hand twisted behind her back and a knife to her throat it seemed useless to try and escape. "Oh, if only Frank and Joe would only come looking for me," Jamie thought desperately. "Come on," Joe whispered ", its Jamie lets go save her." Frank put his hand on his arm to restrain him from standing up. "He has a knife Joe, if we surprise him now he might kill her and we can't take that chance, we don't want to take that chance."

"Then what do we do wait for an opening shot and take it?" Joe asked in a whisper. "That's all we can do," Frank replied quietly looking at his brother who appeared to be awfully worried about Jamie's safety. While the man pushed Jamie toward the railing the man said in a deadly whisper, "Are you ready to go for a swim?" With fear in her eyes she looked down at the deep blue sea churning below her that would soon be her watery grave. "No!" yelled a voice from the other side of the deck.

The Hardy's saw their chance and ran full speed toward Jamie and the man, but weren't fast enough the man grabbed Jamie and shoved her head first into the sea below. Nancy and the Captain took off after the man who was running up the stairs with Frank close behind. Joe ran towards the railing and looked into the cold sea below. "Jamie!" Joe gasped as he looked down into the dark water below.

********************************************* Interesting, interesting What going to happen only I know Does she drown wahhhhaaaahhhhaaaa we will see, we will see does Joe jump in after her hhhmmmm Sorry I can't tell you!!!!! Read and review please!!!!!!!! I will post the next chapter in a day or 2. maybe I'll let you suffer we will see I like that quote........