A/N: I know that I said I would continue this story after I finished my other one but I'm going to continue it now. I was just reading my reviews and I realized I couldn't wait anymore because you guys liked my story( I really didn't think anybody would read them but I love to right). So here you go, I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Hardy Boy's.

A/N: Thank you so much The Silent Rumble for your ideas. I am working them into my story. Thanks so much again!

Laura looked out the window in the kitchen just as the black van pulled up. She knew something was wrong when Fenton and Frank didn't get out of the car immediately. As they climbed out of the car she could make out, but just barely, the tear streaks on their faces.

All of the composer she had built up over the years with her sons and husbands disappearances broke this was just one time too many. And most of all Joe always got hurt, kidnapped, and god knows what else more because he was the baby and used for leverage more than his older brother Frank.

As Frank and Fenton slowly walked up to the house, she tried to wipe the tear streaks off of her face, but as she wiped more and more streaks away more tears just kept coming. Just as the door opened Laura got her tears under control.

"What did the police say Fenton?" Laura asked.

Fenton took a deep breath as he and Frank sat down at the table. "Well are you sure you want to know?" Laura vigorously shook her head yes and in her eyes you could she both fear and determination.

"Okay, well you know the guy that I killed in the last case I had when I found Frank and Joe?" Laura nodded. Frank sat heavily in a chair next to his mom and put his hand on top of hers in a show of comfort for both of them. "We found his fingerprints on the syringe that we found in Joe's room last night. Honey, we have 48 hours to turn in myself and he will return Joe at the cost of my own life. He wants Frank and Joe to feel how he felt when he lost his father. Riley got the ransom note this morning." Fenton ended with a loud sigh. He plopped down heavily in the other chair next to Laura and grabbed her other hand in a comforting gesture.

Laura was speechless for a couple of minutes. All three Hardy's stared into space not really seeing anything

Laura was the first to snap out of her daze. Inch-by-inch her head slowly moved to face the boys in her kitchen, 'No men,' she corrected her self, 'Everything that they've made Frank enough of a man than anybody I know. Fenton has always been my man although when the boys were little he acted just like them, but that was okay with her.

She looked at Fenton then at Frank for about two minutes then looked back at Fenton and asked very sincerely, "What does that mean will he die for sure this time? Do you have any recollection of where he's at? Why haven't you started? Is Frank in any danger? Where's the safe…" Fenton finally stopped her in her rant knowing Joe would be dead if he let her carry on. He got up and walked around to behind Laura with her still in her chair. He very gently squeezed her shoulders to show that he was there and in the same mental predicament as her.

Frank had released his mothers hand in her rant and now again reached across the table to give it another reassuring squeeze. They all stayed that way for a few stressful minutes. Many people would think that a billion thoughts would be going through each of there minds in no order what so ever. But only one thought was going through each of their minds… how were they going to get Joe back safe and sound with out losing Fenton in the process?

A/N: I hate cliffhangers but I thought this was a really good place to stop.

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