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Hope you enjoy this chapter.
Is it weird that I am also excited to see what happens to the boys even though I know what going to happen to them cuz I am writing the story?
You should be glad I don't own the Hardy Boys.
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Laura knew that her boys had only been missing for about a day, but seemed longer. Like weeks even. When she and Fenton had gotten married, they had known right away that they had wanted kids. When she had Frank they were overjoyed. He was a little replica of his father. Brown hair, big brown doe eyes. He had a sweet personality but still had a fire that most kids didn't have. Joe came along one year later. He resembled Laura more than Fenton, with blonde hair, and big blue saucers for eyes, but his personality was something that they had never seen before. He was stubborn, they knew that from the start. He always was so curious, well, so was Frank, but Joe's curiousness always got him into trouble. Laura thought of the time where Joe had discovered the knife drawer, and since Frank was taller than him, had convinced Frank to get him one of these so called "Dangerous Knives". He wanted to see what all the danger was about. Frank, being the mature one of the two, was skeptical, but then got curious too, so got a knife from the drawer. Joe had grabbed it, then accidentally dropped it on his foot. Laura still remembered Frank rushing into her room, saying that Joe had dropped a knife on his foot, and Laura thinking of the worst possible things that could have happened to him, rushed into the room where she found Joe staring at his foot fascinated. He had just nicked the side of his foot, but it was deep enough that he would have a scar, and blood was coming out. Joe was just staring at his foot. Laura asked worriedly,
"Sweetie Pie, are you okay?" Joe had just smiled and asked,
"Mommy why is their ketchup coming out of my foot?" Frank had then looked at me, confused and asked,
"Wait! That's ketchup?" Laura had tried to hide her laugh. Later, when Joe's foot was all bandaged, she talked to them about what blood was, and why they should not play with knives.
Laura laughed a little at the memory. That was the second time she had laughed since the kidnapping.
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Frank watched as Joe was carried up the street toward him and Ryan. He gulped as Ryan said to Charlie,
"Hold our little actor here, back, so I can teach him that I can do whatever I want." Charlie set Joe down on the cement, then went over to Frank and put him in a headlock. Ryan smiled then started to walk slowly over to Joe. He was halfway there when the sound of a vehicle was heard.
"Crud! Get inside!" Charlie said grabbing Frank and running into the house. Ryan roughly yanked Joe to his feet and ran into the house too. All four of them watched as a random pick-up truck drove by. Charlie and Ryan looked relived that it hadn't been a police cruiser or something. Ryan suddenly spun around and slapped Joe so hard that he fell down. Frank tried to run at him, but was held back by Charlie. He remembered screaming Joe's name as Ryan hit him time and time again, and Joe's cries of pain being so loud. Something wacked Frank on the back of the head and that was the last thing he remembered until his world went pitch-black.
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Fenton woke up and stretched, happy. That was until he remembered what had happened in the last day. It seemed so much longer that one day that Joe and Frank had been taken. He looked down and saw the note that Laura had left him. Of course! He should have thought to look at the patterns of the kidnappings. He shot out of his seat and drove to the police station. They must have more information about this than just the internet. Fenton thought to himself on the ride there. He walked into the police station and immediately found Chief Collig's office. He walked in without knocking and told him what his wife had found. He and Collig got to work.
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Laura drove silently, thinking over if she had missed anything from the zoo, when suddenly a red pick-up truck appeared to her left. She thought nothing of it until it started coming closer to the side of her car. She stepped on the gas. The truck followed her. Laura was panicked. What should she do? There really was nothing to do. She took a hard left and willed her mini-van to go faster. Of course, the pick-up truck caught up to her and rammed her side. Laura's car tumbled over into the ditch, rolling over and over again until it finally laid still.
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Joe awoke to pain. It was like nothing he had ever felt before. He had gotten hurt countless times, but this time topped them all. It was like his body was on fire, lava coursing through his veins. He opened his eyes and looked around to where he was. He had been chained to the wall, his arms above his head. Frank's arm and leg had been chained to the bed. Mommy where are you? Joe wondered before he drifted off into unconsciousness.
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Charlie looked outside to where the red pick-up was being parked by a happy looking Nicki. She jumped out of the truck and locked it. She walked to Charlie and said,
"It's done. I still don't know why you wanted me to kill a random civilian. Where's Ryan?"
Charlie responded with,
"She was the mom of the two boys we just got yesterday. Ryan is tending to them now. He's in the basement."
"Ahh, that makes sense. Yay, let's go meet the kiddies! What do ya want to me to do to them?"
Charlie smiled then told her,
"Be the good guy."
"Umm, what?" asked a confused Nicki.
"Be nice to them. Get them to trust you. Give them hope. Make it seem like you're going to help them." Nicki waggled her eyebrows.
"I can do this. Does Ryan know about your plan?"
"Yep."
"Cool."
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Ryan was just checking on the two boys and had found that only Frank was awake when Nicki walked in. Ryan knew what Nicki was going to do so wasn't worried when she started yelling at him for hurting the two kids. She screamed at him to get out. He complied. She was actually pretty scary when she fake angry.
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Frank watched as a girl who looked about 20 yelled at Ryan, who ran from the room. She squatted down by Frank, and in a soft voice said,
"Hi. My name's Nicki. I'm Charlie's sister." Frank's eyes widened in fear.
"No, no worry I won't hurt you. I hate my brother and his profession. He is an evil man. Speaking of Charlie, did he hurt you?" Frank shook his head then said,
"No, he didn't hurt me, but the other guy, Ryan, hurt my brother. If you hate your brother so much then why are you here?" Nicki went over to Joe and looked at his injuries, then answered Frank with,
"Your brother's injuries won't be permanent but will leave a bruise. I am here because I work for him, but against my will. He threatened to kill my mum if I didn't help him." Frank nodded in understanding then said,
"So, will you help us get out of here?" Nicki looked at the floor, clearly sad.
"No, I can't I….I'm sorry, if I do he'll kill my mum. I'm sorry I wish I could. I can get you some food though. Do you want anything?" Frank nodded again and said,
"Could I have a sandwich or something? But get one for Joe too, please."
Nicki nodded, biting her lip, then asked,
"Well I now know your brother's name is Joe and you know my name is Nicki, so what is your name?"
"Frank."
"Well Frank, I will be right back with that sandwich." She stood up to leave, and as she was halfway out the door, Frank said,
"You shouldn't be controlled by these mean men." Nicki stopped. She looked back and gave a small smile to Frank, then walked out, shutting the door behind her.
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Ryan watched Nicki as she came up the stairs, he face changing from sadness and remorse to happiness and pleasure in a second. She was such a good actor. He asked her,
"So what did you tell them?"
"That I am Charlie's sister, and he is threatening to kill my mum if I don't work for him."
Ryan laughed then asked her,
"Did they buy it?"
"Of course they did! Little kids are so gullible. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go make Frank and his little brother a sandwich."
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Another Chapter DONE!
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I tried to make this chapter longer. I think I succeeded.
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~LittleMonkeyHands