Hardy Detective Agency featuring Hardy Boys Fan Fiction

Joe couldn’t believe this was happening to him. He had only wanted to help Alice. When Joe had seen the devastated look on Alice’s face, he felt sorry for her. His heart had been pounding with fear when Joe saw Alice standing at the edge of the cliff. He had been elated when Alice let him take her hand. Now here he was, hanging onto a tree root or some kind of root, with one hand. The other was holding onto Alice, praying that he wouldn’t loose his grip. And what the heck was taking Frank so long to come help him!

Joe looked down at Alice, who seemed to be very calm at the moment. He wondered if he could get Alice to grab hold of his belt, Joe thought he could help Alice climb up and over him. She would then be safely on the ground.

“Alice….Alice….Alice please listen to me.” Joe called, but Alice wasn’t paying attention to him. She was staring down at the water as it crashed into the rocks down below.

Frank stood paralyzed with shock; his baby brother had just fallen over. Joe and Alice could very well be dead. Frank heard someone screaming it took him a minute to realize it was Callie. He saw Callie down on all fours, looking over the edge.

“FRANK! Hurry Frank, Joe needs your help!”

Frank hurried over to Callie, dropping down to the ground, not wanting to but needing to; Frank looked down. He saw a pair of vivid blue eyes staring up at him. Joe smiled up at Frank.

“You took long enough to get over here. You need to hurry big brother. Alice isn’t responding to me and I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”

“Okay Joe, just try and hold on a little longer. Callie I need you to back my car over here. There should be some rope in the trunk, I want to use the car as an anchor.”

Frank handed Callie his keys, scrambling up as fast as she could, Callie ran over to his car. Once she reached the car, Callie let out a sob of relief when she saw Con Riley getting out of his police cruiser.

Sergeant Con Riley normally didn’t patrol the Shore Road area but the department was a little short handed that day. Con heard the call come in for Frank Hardy. Recalling that he had seen Frank’s car, Con made a U-turn. Spotting Frank’s car parked at the old Pollitt house, Con radioed his finding in. As he was stepping out of his car, Callie Shaw came running up.

“Hurry…..Frank…..Joe fell over cliff…..Alice is with him…..need rope!”

Con wasn’t sure who Alice was, but that didn’t matter right now. Callie explained what Frank was going to do.

“I’ll be the anchor, show me where they are.” Con said as he grabbed the rope.

“Con, am I glad to see you!” Frank told his friend as Con ran over to him.

Con was tying one end of the rope to his waist; he handed the remaining rope to Frank.

“I’m going to be your anchor, think you can go over and get Joe and this Alice person.”

“Yeah, if she’ll let me.”

Joe was still trying to get Alice to look at him.

“Alice, I’m going to try and lift you up, I want you to grab hold of my belt loops. Can you do that Alice?”

“No.”

Well, Joe thought, at least she’s responding to me.

“Sure you can Alice, I know you can do it.”

Alice lifted her face to look at Joe. “No, I have to go down there. They said I have to go in the water.”

“Who said Alice? Who told you to go in the water?”

“The voices….I don’t know who they are….but they talk to me….tell me things. I…I have to go now.”

Joe felt Alice loosen her grip on his hand.

“NO!” Joe yelled.

Tightening his hold, using all the strength he could muster, Joe lifted Alice up. He then wrapped his legs around her waist.

“Let me go! Let me go!”

“NO! I’m not going to let you die Alice!”

Alice stared into Joe’s deep blue eyes. She saw compassion and…..caring in those blue orbs.

“Why, why can’t you?”

“I just can’t.”

Joe knew he was going to loose his grip on the root or whatever he was holding onto soon. To his surprise he felt Alice wrap her arms around his body, allowing him to hold onto the root with both hands.

It didn’t take Frank long to get Alice and Joe back up on the ground. Afraid that he would have trouble with Alice. Frank was pleasantly surprised when she went willingly with him. By the time Frank got Joe up, Fenton and Chief Collig were waiting. Joanna Walker was there also, holding her sister in her arms. Joanna was leading Alice over to the ambulance; the EMT’s walking silently beside them.

“You okay Joe?”

“Thanks to you big brother, I’m great. Thanks.”

Frank grabbed Joe into a hug, holding his brother tight. Understanding how Frank was feeling, Joe returned the hug.

****

A month had gone by since Alice had been taken away. Joanna had apologized for the reign of terror Alice had caused for the Hardys. Joanna told them that Alice had been committed back to the mental hospital. Dr. Lewis wasn’t sure how long that Alice would remain there. Joe and Frank were just glad that Alice was getting help.

Joe and Frank were at home that Saturday, enjoying a lazy afternoon. There was a knock at the door.

“I’ll get it.” Joe said.

Joe opened the door to find a deliver man standing on the porch.

“Joe Hardy?”

“That’s me.”

“Sign here please.”

Joe signed the clipboard; the deliveryman gave him a medium sized package. Joe examined the package, not finding a return label. Going back into the family room, Joe sat down on the sofa.

“Who was at the door?” Frank asked.

“I got a special delivery, there’s no return label though. Think I should open it?”

“It’s not ticking is it?”

“No, it’s not.” Joe shook the box just in case.

“Joe! That wasn’t very smart.”

Joe just smiled as he opened the package; his eyes went wide when he saw what was inside.

“Well, now I know who sent this to me.”

“Was there a note inside?”

“No, no note but it doesn’t need one.”

Joe lifted the framed picture out and showed it to Frank.

The Hardy brothers stared at the life portrait of Joe, at the bottom was Alice Walker’s signature.

The End

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The Hardy Boys belong to Simon and Schuster and the Stratemeyer Foundation. The Hardy Boys Fan Fiction authors of the Hardy Detective Agency have just borrowed them for an adventure or two. The authors promise to put the boys back when they are done with them. The authors do claim copyright to the original characters in this story. Please do not borrow original characters without express permission of the authors.