hardy boys fan fiction

MY BROTHER'S GIFT

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CQB

Chapter 9

hardy boys fan fiction

THE CHAPTERS

INTRO

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

“Getting Away”  

After the man colored my hair brown, he’d told me we were leaving.  He explained that some nice people were paying him lots of money for a little boy, just like me.  

I knew if he took me away, Dad, Mom and Frank would never find me.  I was so scared that I got sick again on the floor.  

“You better not puke again, kid,” the man said as he grabbed my arm and headed for the door.  I tried to pull away, but I was too sick and too weak.  

He put out the light and picked up a flashlight, but didn’t turn it on.  “I won’t need this until we slip into the sewer,” he muttered to himself.  

As soon as we were outside the room, the loud rumbling sound could be heard.  I thought for sure a monster was waiting in the darkness to eat us.  I screamed.  

“The m-m-monster!  W-we gotta run!” I tried to convince him.  

I struggled against the man, wanting to get away from him, but also wanting to get away from the monster.  

“Stop! Stop it!” He said, jerking me around.  He sat me down on a tile floor.  He sighed, but then spoke more softly.  “It’s a subway train.  That’s what makes the noise, okay?”  

I was shaking with fear, and maybe from fever, too.  “S-subway?” I asked quietly.  

“Yeah, kid.  There’s an old sewer passage nearby.  It leads to the new subway station on the other side of this wall.  We’ll go through, and then catch a train to your new home.”  

“D-don’t w-want to g-go,” I said, and I felt tears running down my cheeks again.  

“Too bad,” he answered and started to pull me to my feet.  He stopped suddenly.  

“Who’s there?” he called into the darkness.  He flipped on his flashlight and shined the light around the big space.  I’d never seen a subway station except in pictures, but that’s what the big room was.  

It was old and dirty, like no one had been there for a really long time.  

I decided right then that if I was going to get away, now was my only chance.  I could see the platform in the flashlight beam, and there were lots of dark places to hide. I stood up behind him and tried to slip away.  

I had barely gotten a few feet when he realized what I was doing.  He jumped around and tried to grab me with a growl in his throat.  

“No!” I yelled.  

 He musta dropped the flashlight ‘cause the light went out.  

“Come back here you little brat!” the man shouted.  

Everything happened so fast after that.  I started to run and I think the man was looking for his flashlight.  I heard him start to come after me and I waited for his flashlight beam to find me, but it stayed dark.  

Then I heard Frank.  I thought I was dreaming, but I turned toward my brother’s voice anyway.  When I crashed, I thought I’d hit the man and he would grab me again.  I tried to push away.  

“Joe!  It’s me!” Frank’s voice; my big brother was there.  

Everything got a little fuzzy after that.  I remember seeing the flash of light on Frank’s face and knowing we’d been caught.  Then Frank pushed me to the floor.  

Next thing I remember, I was opening my eyes and seeing Daddy.  

* * *

When I woke up again, I was in a bed, but I wasn’t at home.  It was all bright and the air smelled like the stuff Mom cleaned the bathroom with.  

I looked around.  Dad was asleep in a big chair in the corner and Frank was sleeping on Dad’s lap.  That made me smile.  ‘Frank might be ten now,’ I thought, ‘but he looks really little on Dad’s lap.’  

“Hi Sweetie,” I turned and saw Mom leaning over to kiss my forehead. “How do you  feel?” 

I thought a minute, and then said, “I’m pretty tired and kinda sore all over, but my stomach doesn’t hurt any more.  I don’t feel hot anymore either.”  

“Joe,” Mom spoke in a soft voice that wasn’t quite a whisper, “you should have told us from the beginning that you weren’t feeling well.  We would have postponed Frank’s trip.”  

“I ruined everything,” I started crying again.  “Frank’ll hate me for making his birthday trip so bad.”  

“Joe, it wasn’t your fault that the evil man took you away.  You didn’t ruin anything, Sweetheart,” Mom stoked my hair as she talked to me.  It made me feel warm and very loved.  “By not telling us you were sick, that was just like lying and lying is never a good thing to do.  But the man who tried to take you away from us, Edward Gallo, he was very bad.  If anyone ruined Frank’s trip, it was him.”  

“You didn’t ruin my trip, Joe.”  

I turned and saw both Frank and Dad awake.  Frank walked over to the side of the hospital bed.  

“I lost my trip ‘cause I disobeyed,” Frank said, “but it doesn’t matter.  Having you back is better than any trip, anywhere.”  

“Even Disney World?” I asked him.  That was where I wanted to go for my tenth birthday.  

Frank laughed. “Yeah, even Disney World.”  

* * *

I had to stay in the hospital overnight.  Mom stayed with me while Dad and Frank went back to the hotel.   

In the morning, Dad picked us up and we went straight to the airport.  Jack Wayne was waiting for us and he helped Dad get me tucked into a seat with a blanket wrapped around me.  

The doctor that had come into my hospital room in the morning said that I had the flu.  He gave Mom some medicine for me (it tastes like bubblegum) and told her to put me right to bed when we got home.  

As the plane took off, I kept thinking about Frank.  I felt bad that his birthday hadn’t turned out very well.  I looked over at Frank and he smiled at me.  He was the best big brother in the world.

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