Here is the next chapter. I am going to adjust the rating to this story to T. I originally rated it at M to be safe. I have completed the story. Maybe if I get a couple of good reviews. No flames please I will post the next few chapters. :)

Chapter 14:

Frank and Callie were sitting in front of the television in the Shaw's suite; they were eating pizza and salad. Fenton was going to fly to Langley Virginia where he was going to be working with a team of experts to hack into the computer found in the home. Nancy had returned to the house briefly stating that she had forgotten her wallet and turned the computer on so that the hackers could work. Frank hoped the computer would shed some light on the case. They had just signed up for their first semester classes. Since they were all general studies their classes were identical. English Composition 1, US History 1, College Algebra, and Visual Arts. Frank did not want Callie to walk around campus alone until she felt like she was ready. Callie was playing with her salad. She hadn't eaten much of it at all. Frank squeezed her hand.

"You seem nervous."

Callie smiled. "I am...but I think it is a good nervous."

He leaned over and whispered, "How so?"

Callie gave him a chaste kiss. "Well...I feel almost normal for once. Not scared...just anxious." She lifted her head slightly.

Frank took her silent invitation and kissed her softly. "Well...that is good."

Fenton walked by and raised an eyebrow. "You two had better behave."

Callie smacked at Fenton playfully and rebutted. "We always do Mr. Hardy." Her eyes never leaving Frank's face.

Frank could feel the heat creep up to his face. He took a bite of pizza hopefully to hide the colour to his face.

It didn't go unnoticed by Fenton one bit. "Getting a bit warm Frank? Your face is all red?"

He walked off. Frank shot Callie a mock glare. "I am SO going to get you for that later."

She whispered in his ear. "I have to keep you on your toes."

"This is an NBC special report from Chicago IL."

Frank and Callie turned to the TV and George Shaw turned up the volume.

"Details at this hour are sketchy but we have confirmed that the body of renowned Attorney Carson Drew, his daughter Nancy, his housekeeper Hannah Guern, and family friend Ned Nickerson were found murdered in his home in River Heights. Although the police have released few details they strongly believe that larceny was the motive."

Callie gasped and looked at her mother. Her mother was already hunched in her chair sobbing. Then the reality of it hit her like a freight train.

"Oh my god." She flung herself in Frank's arms. Hannah was her grandmother in every sense. Nancy and Carson were good friends of the Hardy's. She could feel Frank's embrace around her tighten and she returned it. "Frank...I'm so sorry."

Frank pulled away from her and looked at her sadly. "So am I, baby."

The phone ringing cut made them all jump. Fenton pounced on it. "JOE! Are you alright?"

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Joe was surprised to hear the panic in his father's voice. "Of course I'm alright. I'm just checking in." He looked over at his girlfriend. She was wearing one of his football jerseys and a pair of jeans. They had just come back from a camping trip and she was washing her cloths. They had just put them in the dryer. "Dad...what is it?"

"Where are you right at this moment?"

"In the basement with Van...why?"

"Get in the van, go get Andrea Bender, and go to the airport. I will have a flight booked for you to come to Boston within the hour. From here we are going to Chicago."

Joe was very confused. "Why?"

"Carson, Nancy, Hannah, and Ned were killed tonight. Robbery turned homicide."

Joe sat down hard on the floor. Nancy was dead? Then he narrowed his eyes. "Yeah right...how about assassins at work?"

Fenton did not reply. "Get to the airport."

"Dad...Andrea is in LA."

"I'll call her don't worry. Just you and Van get out of there. I'll call Sam too."

Vanessa was watching Joe nervously. "What's wrong?"

Joe pulled on her hand. "We have to go...NOW."

They reached the top of the basement steps. They ran out the door and to the van. He put the key in the ignition and then a barrel of a gun on the back of his forehead. "Don't move Hardy."

Joe cursed himself for not being more careful. He should have known that something was wrong by the sound of his father's voice. He snuck a glance over at Vanessa she had slipped her cell phone down under her seat. Her eyes were full of terror.

"What do you punks want?" Joe asked.

The man smiled evilly at him and put a cloth over Joe's mouth. It smelled sweet. 'Oh crap chloroform.'

"I'm not leaving with you two in that blue car!" Vanessa shrieked. "Your guns are scaring me! Help!"

"Shut up little lady."

Joe realized at that moment that Vanessa had managed to call the police and was trying to give them details. That was his last thought as his world went black.

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Sam Radley didn't know what to think. Nor did he know how he was going to explain to Fenton that his son and girlfriend never boarded the plane. He barely was able to get off the damn plane himself. He sped up to the Hardy residence and saw the van in the drive way. Police were putting up crime scene tape. Both the front and passenger doors were ajar. Sam also noticed that Joe's wallet was on the floor on the ground. He went into the house and found it crawling with Network agents and the police.

"What the fuck has happened?"

Con Riley looked up and saw the man. "Sam Radley...it's been a while."

"What happened?"

"Well Miss. Bender called 911 on her cell phone. We heard a struggle on the 911 tape but by the time we got here... Do you know where Frank, Laura, and Fenton are?"

He narrowed his eyes. "I do." He wheeled around on his heel and dialled the number he had been dreading.

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Fenton Hardy was getting ready to leave for the airport with his son Frank. His cell phone rang. "Sam...I thought you were on the plane. It couldn't have already landed?"

"What?"

Frank stopped at the door and looked at his father. He looked up at his mother, Callie, and her parents. They all looked worried.

"What did Gray say?"

Fenton's eyes widened in shock. "When did they do that? Never mind I don't care where is the signal?"

"Reno Nevada?" Fenton's eyes narrowed into slits. "Put Mr. Gray on."

Frank got goose bumps and the hairs on the back of his neck began to stand up. His father was furious. "What do you know?"

Fenton listened for a minute. "Don't give me that crap Gray...you are talking about my son's well being...now what do you know?"

He listened for several minutes. "I take it you were able to hack into the computer at the Key West house then?"

"When is it supposed to go down? Christmas this year?"

"Why did they take Joe and Van?"

Laura was trembling. Fenton pulled her into his arms. "Frank and I will fly out to Reno. We will have back up. If not I'm calling my buddy the police chief and this is going to be on the Evening news." Fenton smiled coyly. "I knew you would see it that way." He snapped his phone shut. "Joe and Van have been kidnapped. They're in Reno."

Frank pulled Callie closer to him. He took Callie and her parents followed them into the next suite. Fenton did what he could to sooth Laura. "Honey, listen. We'll get them back...I promise. Just stay here with the Shaw's."

"Fenton...I'm afraid...what have you stumbled into this time?"

"Something a lot bigger then I could have ever imagined."

Laura sniffed and pulled her husband close to her and kissed him. When they broke apart she looked him straight in the eye. "I love you."

He kissed her again. "I know."

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Frank took Callie out on the balcony he pulled her into his arms. "Frank...please...be careful. I don't know what I will do if I lose you after I lost..."

"You won't...I promise...but I can't sit here and do nothing Cal...especially since I know where Joe is."

She kissed him. Her kiss was filled with love and hope and Frank could feel it in his soul. He pulled her closer to him. Callie responded by putting her arms around his neck. They broke apart breathing rapidly. He put his forehead against hers and whispered. "It will be alright."

The door to the balcony slid open and Frank didn't have to look over to know that it was his father. He kissed Callie again softly. She looked up at him through tearful eyes. He squeezed her tightly for a moment then followed his father from the balcony. She watched him go towards the door and as he put on his coat their eyes met.

"I love you Callie...It's going to be okay."

A tear escaped her and she kissed him goodbye.