Author's Name:   Mellon    

Title of Story:   The Longest Sleep

Type of Story:  AU

Rating of Story:  PG15

Characters in Story:  F, J, OC and the Gang

Warnings:   Innuendo, adult situations

Plot Blurb:  A horrific event leaves one Hardy boy in a coma while the other has been changed forever. Six years later, Frank Hardy has finally been able to put behind him what happened that horrible day… but for Joe it happened only yesterday. And as Joe tries to uncover the truth, he is unprepared for the wall of silence that has fallen around Frank… and that day.  

That day that he was living only seconds before he awoke from the longest sleep.  

Splash Page:   Frank stood there shaking, as possible scenarios flashed across his mind; the basis for them all being that something had happened to Joe. And then the older boy was shocked by his thought, finally… now maybe we’ll all be able to move on….  

Frank Hardy would have never thought, in a million years… well until this exact moment, that he’d ever hope his brother might finally be dead. But now he did. He was tired of watching a corpse for the last six years.  

Shaken by this sudden personal revelation, the dark haired boy turned off the light in Joe’s room and headed downstairs. He needed a coffee.  

Special Notes:  This Story has nothing to do with Sweet William. And once again…thanks Phx J

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.