Hardy Detective Agency featuring Hardy Boys Fan Fiction

It wasn’t until Joe took a closer look that he realised something that made his blood run cold. Bolting off the couch he yelled up the stairs and picked Todd up, checking for a pulse as he did. “KAYLEY, TODDS NOT BREATHING!!”

He found a pulse and he heard Kayley frantically calling an ambulance. Joe tilted Todd’s head back and blew two gentle breaths into his son’s mouth, and then gently he pressed his finger down on his chest thirty times, to expel the air. Joe had never performed CPR on a child…and he’d never thought he would on his own child!

Kayley came running into the room, hysterical, and trying to talk at the same time, but Joe blocked out everything around him, and focused on breathing for his son.

The ambulance arrived moments later and took over Todd’s breathing. The paramedics carried the baby to the ambulance and then told frightened parents that they could come as long as they stayed out the way. Agreeing, Joe and Kayley boarded the ambulance and it took off, siren blaring.

A few hours later Joe and Kayley were seated in the doctor’s office. Doctor Mikhail Anis was a kindly man, about 40 years old, with silvery black hair and kind green eyes.

“There is no easy way to say what is wrong with your son. Todd has a hole in his heart; it’s in the left ventricle so the blood is not getting the oxygen to the organs. There is only one form of treatment, and that’s to stitch up the hole. The doctor sighed heavily. “He’s quite young but bypass and heart transplants might be considered. But only if this first operation doesn’t work.”

“When you say hole…you mean like a cut or a puncture?” Joe asked.

“Well, more like a deep cut, than anything,” Doctor Anis replied. “We can have Todd in surgery tonight.”

“How long is the surgery?” Kayley asked .

“Well…it can last anywhere from four to nine hours”

“Oh my God, that long?” Kayley looked ready to cry again.

“I’ll take you to see Todd, before we take him in.”

“Okay.” Sombrely, the two young parents followed the doctor to see their son, attached to various wires, tubes and machines.

****

It felt stifling in the small surgery waiting room. Finally Kayley left to go to the restroom and Joe was at the water machine. When he looked up, he saw the same two couples he had seen when he had been in the cafeteria just seven days ago.

The man with blond hair slowly walked towards him and tapped his shoulder. “Excuse me…but you’ve been starring at the machine for about ten minutes. Are you okay?”

Joe looked at the man and then his nerves shattered and he broke down crying. God knows, he’d tried to be strong.

Startled, the young man looked to one of the girls behind him, and one came forward. She placed an arm around Joe’s shoulders and let him cry himself dry.

They were all startled when a young women came running up. She knelt in front of Joe and nudged his head up, “Joe, what’s happened? Is Todd all right?”

Joe just nodded, “I’m sorry Kayley,” he murmured. “S’all my fault” because Joe was crying, his voice sounded slurred.

“No, Joe, not your fault.” Looking up, she could see the concerned eyes of the four people with them; complete strangers but she felt the need to explain.

“Our son’s a week old, and has been rushed in for heart surgery,” she said, trying not to freak out about the tiny baby being in surgery. Sudden understanding lit in the four strangers’ eyes and the brown haired man knelt down next to them.

Joe, had composed himself some what and apologised to the blond man. “Joe Hardy,” he said as he offered his hand. “I’m terribly sorry about that.”

“No problem,” the blonde haired man replied. “I’m Jack Ryder, and this, is my girlfriend Samantha Greene.”

“I’m Kayley Knight.” Kayley smiled as she and Joe stood up, facing the rest of the group.

“Joe Hardy and Kayley Knight? The teenagers who were kidnapped from Bayport?” Jack gaped in shock.

“Kidnapped?” Joe asked stunned.

“Yeah, that what your disappearance was reported as, a kidnapping.” Jack asked

Joe looked at Kayley and both swallowed hard. “We ran away,” Kayley said finally, looking at the two couples. “Sorry, but who are you two?” Kayley asked the brown haired man.

“Oh sorry, I’m Tim Thompson and this is my girlfriend Louise Carter.”

Oh, you know some thing?” Joe said suddenly, completely out of the blue.

“What?” Kayley asked.

“He’s not a Todd,” Joe replied.

Kayley thought about it and nodded slowly. “I know…but I mean, what do we call him?”

“Well, something special…he just isn’t a ‘Todd,’” Joe smiled slightly, not sure if he was even making sense.

“Well, is there anyone that you both respect?” Jack asked.

“Only Joe’s family…and…” Kayley’s voice trailed off.

“Kay?” Joe asked.

“My brother Liam…he doesn’t know…he…he was very special to me…he serves in the navy, five years older than I am, I haven’t seen him in 2 years,” Kayley shrugged, unsure if Joe would like the name.

“I like it,” Joe smiled. ”Liam Fenton Hardy…it actually suits him better. Not Todd,” Joe smiled. “Liam."

It wasn’t until Jack noticed a doctor walking towards them that Kayley and Joe realised that the other two couples were still with them…and from that time on Joe knew that the six of them would be close no matter what the doctor had to say about Liam or how that might completely change their world.

“I’m glad to say that Todd is going to be fine, the surgery was a success and he’s breathing on his own again.”

Kayley and Joe broke down, sobbing entirely from relief, and Jack, Tim, Louise and Sammy became their rocks.

“Thank you.” Joe choked out “And his name is Liam”

Doctor Anis smiled and nodded., “I’ll change it on the paper work, as for know, Liam's in the Intensive Care Children’s Unit, you can go and see him now.”

Nodding the small group of six, headed up to the ward.

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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.