Hardy Detective Agency featuring Hardy Boys Fan Fiction

She looked at Luke. “I’m really sorry about this, Luke,” she said. She walked to the door and opened it to find Frank sitting at the very end of the porch looking out into the woods. He looked up at her when she sat down on the swing.

“You want to tell me what that was all about?” She asked, quietly.

Frank sighed.” I’m not so sure about it myself.” He stood up and sat next to her on the swing.

“Well, if I didn’t know any better, I would say that you’re trying to start a fight where there shouldn’t be one.” Nancy said.

Frank nodded. “I know.”

“You shouldn’t have acted like that, Frank. You know it was stupid. You were being stupid.” Nancy said.

“I know it was stupid. I just...snapped, I guess.” Frank said.

Nancy gave him a small smile. “You did more than snap.”

“Okay, I overreacted.” Frank said.

“Better.” Nancy said. “If I didn’t think Luke was a good person and he really wanted to help me, I would have found a way out already. He’s a good guy, Frank. And you know me. I would hope that you would at least trust my decisions that I make.”

“I do, Nan . I think that’s what makes this so hard for me.” Frank said.

“So, are you going to apologize to Luke?” Nancy asked.

“Yeah, I guess I better.” Frank said, grudgingly.

“Good.” Nancy said.

“And then we can get out of here.” Frank said.

Nancy hesitated. “Not exactly.”

“What do you mean? I thought you wanted to leave.” Frank said.

“I do.” Nancy said. “But something else happened last night.”

“You want to tell me what it was or do I have to guess?” Frank asked.

“I witnessed a murder last night.” Nancy quickly said.

“What?!” Frank exploded.

“I saw a man kill a woman last night right outside my window.” Nancy explained. She proceeded to tell him everything that had happened. “And I think he saw me, too.”

“Even more reason for us to leave, Nancy .” Frank said.

“If I run, the police will never find this guy. They’re having a hard enough time believing me, as it is.” Nancy said.

“Do they know you’re a detective?” Frank asked.

Nancy nodded. “I told the sheriff when she came by earlier. They’re taking this as seriously as they can, but I’m the only one who saw anything.”

“Luke didn’t see anything?” Frank asked, suspicious.

“Don’t, Frank.” Nancy warned.

“Don’t what?” Frank asked.

“Do not look for another reason to attack Luke.” Frank was about to say something else but Nancy continued. “Now, no one here knows that you and Joe are detectives and I plan on it staying that way. When we go back inside, act like we’ve discussed nothing about this out here. There’s a little motel right outside of town where you and Joe can stay.”

“I don’t want to leave you here alone, Nan .” Frank said.

“I’ll be fine, Frank. I’ll have my cell on me at all times, in case I need you.” She looked at her watch. “We’ve been out here long enough. We better get inside or they’ll start to think I killed you.”

Frank helped Nancy up and they went back into the house to see Luke and Joe watching the baseball game. Nancy sat down on the sofa and shot Frank a look.

“Hey, Luke,” Frank began. “I want to apologize to you for my behavior. I don’t know why I got crazy like that.”

“I do. You care about Nancy . It’s enough to make any man crazy.” Luke said.

He and Frank shook hands. “Is there a motel around here?” Frank asked. “ Nancy told me she’s still not up to a road trip.”

“You could stay here.” Luke said. “I have plenty of room.”

“We better not.” Frank said. “I don’t want to have another blow-out tonight.”

“Okay.” Luke said. “Well, there’s the Woodland Motel right past town. About ten miles up the road.”

“Great.” Frank said. “We’ll call you later, Nancy.”

Joe looked confused as he stood up, but followed his brother out the door anyway. “You want to tell me what that’s all about?”

“Let’s get to the motel first.” Frank said and started the car.

*****

“So, let me get this straight.” Joe said. “She witnessed a murder, the guy may have seen her, and she wants to stay here as bait, so to speak, because she believes is she leaves, the police will never find this guy.”

Frank looked at Joe, impressed. He had just told him what he and Nancy were talking about earlier.

“I think you have it pretty covered.” Frank said. He reached into his duffel and pulled out his laptop.

“Did you try to talk her out of it?” Joe asked.

“No, I actually offered to make the sign that would tell this guy everything that he would ever want to know about her.” Frank said, sarcastically.”Of course I tried to talk her out of it. Do you think I’m stupid?”

“Well...” Joe began.

“Don’t answer that unless you really want me to punch you.” Frank said. He booted up his laptop and plugged the phone line in.

“So what do we do? We can’t let her do this by herself.” Joe said, sitting on his bed.

“She doesn’t want anyone in town to know that we’re detectives in case this guy is a local. She already told the sheriff that she was and I think she regrets it.” Frank said.

“She doesn’t trust the police?” Joe asked.

“She does. But it’s a small town and they’ll always believe in their residents. They don’t want some outsider coming in and saying that one of them is a murderer.” Frank explained.

“So, what are we going to do?” Joe asked again.

“I’m getting on-line to see if there are any missing persons. The police are doing it right now, but with the connections that we have, I’m hoping that we can come up with something a little quicker.” Frank said.

“Are we sure it’s safe to leave her alone with Luke? Joe asked.

“She seems to really trust him. So, until I have a reason not to trust him myself, I’m going to have to go with her judgement.” Frank said.

“Still, it couldn’t hurt to Google his name and see if anything pops up about him. You can find out anything about a person on the Internet these days.” Joe said. He stood up and grabbed the keys to the car. “I’m going to go grab us something to eat.”

Joe left Frank to his search. He remained on the start page, thinking about Joe’s words. Nancy was one of the few people that he actually trusted and he had to trust her judgement. But Joe’s idea to search Luke’s name made him wonder.

Frank closed his eyes and sighed. When he finally started to type, he looked on the screen to see that he was searching Luke Medina.

*****

“Frank is certainly pleasant.” Luke said after Frank and Joe had left.

“Yeah, I’m sorry about that.” Nancy said. “He tends to get that way sometimes.”

“I know not to try to test him.” Luke said.

“He really is a great person if you get to know him.” Nancy said.

“Except for when it comes to you.” Luke said.

Nancy looked down and gave a small smile.

Luke could see he was making her uncomfortable. “Let’s change the subject.”

“Gladly.” Nancy said.

“Would you like to go out and get something to eat? We have a great little diner in town.” Luke said.

“Sure. Sounds great.” Nancy said.

“Let me get my keys and we’ll be on our way.” Luke said. He found his keys to his Ford Ranger and then helped Nancy out to the truck. He took a couple of back roads and ten minutes later they were pulling into Macy’s Diner.

When they walked in a few people greeted Luke. He smiled and said hello to them and then led Nancy to a corner booth in the back.

“You seem to be popular around here.” Nancy said, smiling.

“Small town. You’re nice to everyone or it gets around.” Luke said.

Nancy looked up as a thin, short woman with wavy red hair walked up to the booth, order pad in hand.

“Hey, Luke.” she said.

“Hey, Macy. This is Nancy.” Luke said pointing to her.

“Hi. Nice to meet you.” Nancy smiled.

“You too.” Macy said. She turned to Luke and Nancy could have sworn that she saw Macy wink at Luke, as if in approval of her. Nancy just looked down at her menu and smiled to herself.

“So, you’re usual, Luke?” Macy asked.

“You know it.” Luke said. He looked at Nancy. “The hamburger steak is the best you’ll ever have.”

“Then I’ll have that.” Nancy said.

Macy left to put their orders in and quickly returned with their iced teas.

“So, what was that wink that she gave you?” Nancy asked.

Luke started to blush. “Oh. Macy just likes to look after me. She approves of you, by the way.”

It was ten minutes before Macy returned with their food. While they ate, Luke told Nancy about all of the people that were in the diner.

When Nancy got finished, she sat back against the wall and spread her leg out on the booth. While Luke finished eating Nancy watched as people come and go out of the diner. Nancy did a double take and sat straight up when she saw a dark haired man enter the diner. She quickly averted her gaze and looked away. Luke looked at her, concerned.

“Are you okay, Nancy?” Luke asked.

“Yeah.” Nancy said.

“Are you sure?” He asked. “You look awfully pale.”

“It’s just–“ Nancy began.

“Just what?” Luke asked.

“Luke, that’s him.” Nancy said, nodding at the guy standing at the counter. “That’s the guy I saw murder Maddie.”

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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.