It Never Gets Any Easier by Emachinescat

A Hardy Boys Fan-Fiction

SUMMARY: A lifetime of chasing criminals and the sight - and smell - of death still affects him more than he could ever say. Drabble.

A/N: This is really a paragraph-drabble depicting something that could have been going on in Fenton's mind when he and the boys are about to investigate the scene of the crime and they knew they were going to find someone dead. I think that even as a seasoned investigator, death would still affecct him in some way. This stemmed from a prompt from one of my classes where we had to write a paragraph that led up to the discovery of a body. :) Please read and review! :)

It Never Gets Any Easier

The air was thick with the tepid stench of foreboding. Silence hung heavily in the air surrounding father and sons as they silently approached the site where the killer was last believed to be. The leader, the father, Fenton Hardy gripped his gun tightly, his heart rate climbing at a startling pace. Another reeking smell melted into the air, mingling with the sense of terror and stinging his nostrils. His nose twitched in disgust, for this was the scent of death – the grisly smell of rotting flesh, of decaying sinew and stagnant blood pooling uselessly inside of a lifeless carcass. He struggled to keep his repulsion suppressed until a later time, when he knew this very moment would come back and haunt his dreams, twisting them into ruthless nightmares. Over twenty years of stalking criminals and watching the innocent suffer at the bloodthirsty hands of deluded maniacs, and seeing the devastation wrought upon these poor victims never got any easier – he wondered if his sons really knew what they were getting themselves into by following in his footsteps. He took a deep breath, ignoring for the moment the horrific stench of death and decay, and motioned his sons forward. Later, he would grieve. But for now, there was a stinking, lifeless body just waiting to be discovered, God rest their unfortunate soul.

A/N: Short? Yes. Worth it? You tell me. Please review, I'd love to get some feedback on this drabble! ;o)

~Emachinescat ^..^