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Joe had not been able to go see Vanessa yet, as his doctor wanted him to stay in bed and rest for at least a few more hours before he was allowed to be up and about. His parents had gone to speak with the police who were currently swarming the hospital investigating the various crimes that had occurred that night.

He was not, however, alone, Phil had been able to get cleared to come to Joe's room.

"We need to figure out what happened to Frank and Nancy." Joe repeated, he and Phil had been having the same conversation in different ways for the past several minutes in an attempt to try to think up an answer.

"Why don't we piece together what we know of each of our attacks, maybe that will give us a clue?" Phil suggested.

"It seems to me," Joe remarked. "That all these flowers have to be some kind of hint, you said that when you were attacked an orange mock was on the floor by you."

"What we really need is an expert on flower meanings." Phil remarked.

"Or a laptop, speaking of which, Frank's bag is over there, and his laptop is inside it." Joe said nodding toward a dark bag in the corner. "My parents brought his stuff in here after they found his room empty."

Phil managed to get the computer somewhat awkwardly out of the bag given that he could only use one arm and brought it over to the bed. Joe took it from him and powered it up. He soon found a flower meaning website and checked the alphabetical index for 'mock, orange.'

"An orange mock is reputed to symbolize deceit." Joe read off.

"What flower was left with you?" Phil asked thoughtfully.

"An orange poppy was on the tray I got in the cafeteria." Joe answered. "Which according to this website symbolizes eternal sleep."

"Fitting given that they poisoned you with a drug put you into a coma." Phil mused. "But I don't understand with attempting to bash my head in with a computer has to do with deceit."

"Neither do I, but we'll figure it out." Joe replied. "Have you been to see any of the others?"

"I've stopped in on everyone." Phil replied. "And, I managed to find out that an yellow forsythia was left with Vanessa, a pink geranium with Callie, a monkshood with Tony, a begonia with Biff, and an oleander with Chet."

"Okay, an yellow forsythia is meant to symbolize anticipation." Joe recited.

"Anticipation of what?"

"So, we have anticipation, deceit, and eternal sleep so far…" Joe continued. "A geranium stands for stupidity or folly, monkshood means 'beware, a deadly foe is near,' begonias mean beware, and oleanders stand for caution."

"So we have anticipation, deceit, eternal sleep, stupidity and/or folly, a deadly foe, beware, and caution." Phil murmured.

"And mourning." Joe added. "Frank had dark crimson roses in his room; they're reputed to be mourning flowers."

"So, what does all this tell us?"

Joe was silent for a few moments before speaking. "I think we can safely conclude that someone has targeted Frank, and they wanted all of us out of the way, which is why they sent him mourning flowers because they had planned to dispose of everyone close to him."

"So, that explains the mourning flowers, and we understand the poppy, but what about the others?"

"Well, whoever has Frank is 'the deadly foe,' and they're warning anyone investigating to take caution against chasing after them, basically saying that they'll end up like the rest of us if they do."

"That leaves stupidity, deceit, and anticipation." Phil listed off.

"Whoever is doing this seems to have something big planned, some major event, which is probably the meaning of 'anticipation.'" Joe replied. "Stupidity could be a challenge to us, saying that we're not smart enough to catch them."

"I still don't understand what they mean by deceit…"

"Deceit is like a lie, or a betrayal, so maybe we know or Frank knows the person behind this."

"Who could it be though?" Phil wondered.

"It needs to be someone who could get close enough to get to know Frank, but not too close." Joe answered. "Why flowers though? What's the point?"

"Besides sending a message?" Phil remarked. "Maybe whoever is behind this is environmentally oriented or something, I mean it's not hard to look up flower meanings online, but really why would you choose that method of sending a message if it weren't the reason."

"True." Joe agreed. "That could definitely be it. The only problem is that even if all our musings are correct we're still no closer to finding Frank or Nancy then we were before, we could know exactly what they're planning but that still doesn't tell us where they are."

"Have you tried searching through Frank's stuff for any clues?" Phil asked.

"No, not yet." Joe replied. "But let's try that."

Phil brought Frank's belongings over to the bed, and Joe searched through them for any likely looking clue that could be present, he finally found a letter and scanned through it before shoving it at Phil.

Dear Chosen One,

We've been watching you. And we know you haven't taken the warnings seriously. Soon the time for redemption will be upon us and you will right the sins that have been committed on this sacred Earth. But first the spares must be eliminated from your inner circle. You do not take us seriously, Mr. Hardy. This is fine, after tonight you will know better. Tonight we rid the world of those who seek to keep you from your fate. First and foremost we shall eliminate young Joseph for he seeks to protect you from destiny; he will be sent to an eternal sleep, do not worry it will be painful. Your beloved, Callie will die a horrible death her bones crunching against the pain that comes knocking at her door. But these will not be the only lost tonight, gone will be; Anthony lost to the lead that will tear through him, Chester lost to the warmth of the flames, Vanessa lost to cold steel, Biff lost to a slow and terrible deprivation of the Earth's sweet air, and lost will be Phil killed by the very technology you yourself love. None shall remain when the night is through other then perhaps your dear Nancy Drew. But do not rejoice yet for she too will be gone but not yet. We have other uses for Miss Drew. So it has been foretold so it shall be done. Look to the flowers, Franklin, look to the flowers. We're watching you…

Wishing you all the best,

The Union

"It looks like the crazy environmentalist theory is correct." Phil said when he finished reading.

"Whoever did this is some organization called the union, maybe we can google search them." Joe said hopefully. "If they have some sort of crackpot prophecy and whatever there has got to be a good chance that they have some kind of website or something."

"It's worth a shot." Phil agreed.

"At this point anything is."

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