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He shook his head gently.
"S'alright, I ain't hungry. Right now I get the feelin' i'll just throw it all back up later on if I did eat somethin'...."
His voice suddenly trailed off as he recalled Bo throwing up at the lake, and then snapped his fingers, a look fo realisation dawning over his face.
"B.L....that's it! It's gotta be! When I found Bo at the lake, I found a bug on the back of his belt, ya know the listening devices! I bet ya that has somethin' to do with Bo bein' all hett up."
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Luke sighs frustratedly, pushing himself off the wall.
"That's just the point. I don't know if Bo is ever goin' to be ready to talk about it! He is so scared over somethin' and it's got him so hett up he can't even tell me somethin' without lookin' over his shoulder! He's never been like this with me, never. If I pleaded with him to tell me somethin', usually he'd tell me in a heartbeat, but now....I don't know what's happened to him to change him like this. I wanna know why it is hes so afraid of talking!"
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Luke sighed as he listened, knowing there wa truth behind what she was saying. If he did carry on with no sleep, then it could very well be him that ended up here next. But he just couldn't bring himself to do it, not when Bo was lying only a few feet away with a team of doctors and nurses surrounding him, trying to make him well again.
As he conintued to listen, he heard his own worries reflected in B.L's words and voice. He gently wrapped an arm around her shoulder, comfortingly, and spoke.
"Bo ain't never been that still, not even when he was asleep and ill. He always used to toss and turn...I dont ever remember seein' him that pale neither. Whatever or whoever has got to him is eatin' him up...I just wish he could tell me about it so I can get it straightened out."
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Bo is immature at times, but as you watch the series from beginning to end, you see him grow up a little more as time goes on and things happen that makes him realize just how much growing up he has to do. Instances of that are when Luke or Jesse or Daisy gets hurt and you see him begging them to wake up or if he has a fight with Luke and he comes to realize just how stupid he was being.
He was cute and he knew it, and he used to to his advantage in any situation which did get him into a lot of trouble. He definatly looks up to Luke a lot, always eager to please him and make him proud. I think it hurts Bo a lot when they fight, even if he is the one to start it.
But he is definatly a family guy, who doesn't shy away from responsibilty and is always hell bent on making sure those he loves are protected and safe. I think at first glance, a parent would be worried yes about their daughter dating him, but as they got to know him and see the ideals and priorities he has, I think they would feel more comfortable.
Just my opinion of course.
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Luke jerked a little when B.L's hand found its way softly onto his arm, but he sighed and chuckles slightly with her as she commented on the brisk pacing he had been doing of the waiting room. But it wasn't too long before his face fell back into the serious, downcast expression it had been wearing and he leant against the wall, looking down at his feet.
"I can't sleep B.L, not when Bo is like this. I never have been able ta..."
He looked up at the cieling, smiling fondly.
"When he was younger and used ta get ill, I would never leave his side, not for nothin'. Uncle Jesse used to try and make me but, I just couldn't do it. I need ta know he's safe....like I always promise him he will be."
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Yeah I read somewhere it was Bo James Duke too. I cant remember where but I swear I once heard it in an epsiode too. Uncle Jesse was telling him off or something and he went Beaureguard James Duke, you tell me what's happenin' or.... I swear it was in an epsiode but I just know from somewhere that it is James
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In fact, I have loads more quotes from Dukes, all stored in a word document. There are 12 pages and growing. :-) Keeps me entertained on a rainy day
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After another hour of waiting, Luke finally pulled himself away from the window to look over Jesse and Daisy, who had both managed to fall asleep, and then to B.L. He couldn't really tell if she was awake or not as her face was covered by her hands.
Sighing he stood up and stretched his cramped muscles, unable to sleep through the worry and fear for Bo. It hurt him to think of Bo so ill over something that he couldn't tell Luke about, and he could see from the reactions he got at the lake that Bo was so deeply hurt and scared by that same fact.
But what could have happened to Bo to make him end up like this? Luke paced the room as he raked his thoughts, trying to think back to when this had all started...
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To Luke and Daisy, it felt like a lifetime before they finally reached Tri County Emergancy Hospital. Before Daisy, B.L and Uncles Jesse had even gotton out of the truck, Luke was over the side of the bed and helping the on standby medical team that was waiting for them load Bo quickly onto a gurney, explaining all that had been going on and his symptoms.
The team took off, striding quickly down the corridors, all shouting things to one another that neither Luke nor Daisy understood. The Dukes were trying to keep up as best they could, reluctant to let their youngest out of their site. However, as the procession reached a set of swinging double doors, several nurses stepped in front of the group, blocking their way.
"We're sorry but no one excpet staff are allowed in the treatment room. If you'd take a seat, someone should be with you soon."
Daisy nodded, hugging Jesse, while Luke also nodded, murmmering his thanks before crossing over to the waiting room window and sitting gently on the windowsill, leaning his head against the cool glass.
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Daisy nodded, squeezing B.Ls hand softly for more support, gradually bringing herself back together. She reached over for the CB and radioed ahead to Tri County Hospital to let them know they were on their way. After a while she half turned to look out the back window onto her two cousins.
Luke was cradaling Bo's head gently in his lap, smoothing the golden curls like he used to do for a 12 year old Bo during bouts of flu or colds. He had never minded staying up with his cousin during those nights because he never wanted Bo to feel alone, never wanted him to suffer alone. He had promised him before he had gone away to the Marines, that despite the distance between them, he would always be close by as long as Bo kept him in his heart.
And now, as he looked over his youngest cousin for about the 100th time, he found that that promise could never be truer. Although Bo had drifted from Luke's company and strong friendship they had, the love that they held for each other was as strong as ever, and Luke would never ever let that go, no matter what Bp said or did, that love would never be lost.
"You listen here Bo Duke and you listen good. You can't leave me like this cousin. When we get to that hospital I want you to fight like you never fought before. I need you here with me lil' cousin, I don't know what I'd do if I lost ya....please Bo....please fight for me..."
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As Luke gently helped Uncle Jesse place Bo in the back of the truck, he had to bite his lip to stop the tears that threatened to fall cascading down his cheeks. The way Bo's head rolled with every movement, the way his body felt so weak and limp in his arms made him realize just how serious he had let this situation become.
Usually he would have picked up on Bo's change of temperment the day it had begun, but he had been so distracted with getting the farm work done and making sure the General was in good shape for the race Bo was meant to be racing in this saturday, that he had thought nothing of Bo's unusually close to the surface temper and had overlooked the small tell tale signs that Bo needed help that he had known were there since Bo was a youngster.
He reached over the side of the pickup where his youngest cousin now lay, deathly pale and silent, inbetween the pillows and covers of the make-shift bed, even though sweat covered his brow and trickled down the side of his face. He sweapt the blonde locks away from the young man's forehead and pressed a small kiss to it gently.
"I'm so sorry cousin...I'm gonna make sure you get all the help you need and then once your better, we'll get this whole thing straightened out. The people who did this to ya are gonna pay Bo...I promise ya."
He looked over as Daisy and B.L finally stepped out the front door, both with tear tracks staining their beautiful cheeks. He walked over and wrapped his arms around them both, before helping them into the cabin of the truck. He was riding in the back with Bo and there was nothing anyone could say or do to convince him otherwise.
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Daisy cried softly as she gathered up the pillows and blankets from the spare room, watching as Luke and B.L moved the matress from there out to the pickup now stood waiting by the door.
She wanted her baby cousin to be alright, she wanted him to return to the normal, cheerful young man she had remembered. She had been forced to watch as over the past week, Bo fell deeper and deeper into himself, hiding away from the rest of the world, spending copious amounts of time on his own, skipping meals and shirting his chores.
She had never seen him so weak and vulnerable as he appeared over the course of the week, and it scared her. Everyone knew as soon as Luke had bought him back this afternoon that something was seriously wrong...Daisy just hoped that they were in time to catch it before she lost one half of the team that made her feel safe, secured and loved.
She sank onto the floor, clutching the soft pillows and sheets, letting the tears fall for Bo, praying softly that he would be ok.
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Daisy watched as Luke paced up and down the living room floor. Since Bo had been brought in nearly an hour ago, no one had heard anything from him. Uncle Jesse was in there checking on him, and they knew already that the news they were going to get from him was not going to be good. If it was, Uncle Jesse would have been out long ago.
This was going to be Bo's last chance. If Uncle Jesse couldn't see any visable signs of improvement, Bo would be taken to Tri County. Daisy couldn't understand why no one wanted to take him earlier, he looked absolutly terrible and she was sure that what he needed more than anything was proper medical care, although Luke strongly disagreed with her.
She smiled gratefully as B.L gripped her hand a little for reassurance. Eventually, Uncle Jesse stepped out of the boy's bedroom wearing a grim look, and a tear slipping down his cheek.
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Daisy leapt from her chair as the familiar sound of the General Lee pulling up greeted her ears. She was the first one to bolt out the door and rush to hug Luke as he clamboured wearily out the window. Instantly she saw the fear shining in his eyes however and gasped as Luke pulled a very pale, trembling, unconcious little cousin gently from the General's back seat.
She turned and hugged Jesse tightly as he finally caught up to her along with B.L, burying her face worridly in his shoulder as Luke walked past them solmnly.
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Bo watched as the electronic bug was hurled into the lake and watched as Luke turned around to smile gently at him. But that was the last that he saw.
The raging fever that coursed through his body got the better of him, pushing the welcoming, cool darkness further into his mind, a darkness that cease the ever steady beat of the headache that remained, a darkness that sweapt all his troubles away because he would have no dreams.
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"I....all sorts of things Luke....I's gonna get worse as I go along....things failin' and.....all sorts...."
Knows Luke is doing his best to calm him but he just can't calm his trembling limbs, he can't control the painful pound that vibrated though his head. He wanted nothing more than to go and run off a cliff or a long pier at that moment.
He felt unconciousness inviting him in again and tried once more to slip into it, still mumbling to Luke,
"Pain....Doctor said....pain and I....don't want you to be in pain....don't need it..."
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Bo felt himself be jerked out of the comforting darkness that had seemed to inviting by the sharp tone in Luke's voice. He instantly tensed up again as the pain pounded through his head and the horrible ill feeling swept through him again.
A little while after though, a peice of paper was slid down by his face. He took it gently in his hand and looked at it for a moment before understanding what the note had said. He gasped and tensed furhter, suddenly finding it difficult to breath...he had to make up something....
"Luke....the reason...."
It hurt his throat to talk, his whole body burned with fever that made him tremble with cold or sweat with heat.
"I can't tell you....I went to the doctor's....I'm real ill Luke.....real ill...."
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As he felt Luke's strong arms wrap around him, Bo cried harder. He didn't deserve this, he didnt deserve Luke comforting him like this. He wanted Luke to yell at him, to hit him, to scream at him and tell him what a stupid little boy he was acting like. By comforting him, it made him feel worse because he couldn't comfort Luke back, he couldn't give him the words of reassurance that Luke needed.
He tried desperatly to pull away from Luke's strong embrace, tried to stop Luke comforting him but it just seemed to make his older cousin hang onto him more firmly and Bo just didnt have the energy or the will to fight him. He felt weak, his head pounding with pain and the torment that marched through it. He felt unconciousness prick at the edge of his vision, and felt his head go swimmy and light.
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Bo saw that Luke was crying, and it made him feel even worse to know that he had caused it. He hated this situation so much, he wanted nothing more than to just be shot of it completly. But the same old images, same old screams and same old feelings of complete and utter weakness and illness plagued him more.
As Luke forced him to look at him, Bo couldn't keep it in any longer. He cried and cried, clinging onto Luke's shirt, still shaking his head, still apologising for having to keep everything hidden from him. He couldn't tell Luke, he couldn't bring himself to put his family in that kind of danger....he's die before he ever did that
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Daisy nodded silently at B.L and Jesse's words, but was inwardly worried. She didn't know if Luke was going to be able to bring the Bo they all knew back this time. He had changed so much over the past few weeks, she didnt know if the Bo they knew was even there anymore.
The only thoughts that ran through Bo's head as Luke talked to him was 'If only you could...'. Were this any other situation then yes, Bo would have believed him and told him straight away...but he had tried telling someone before. He had tried to tell Rosco what was going on, but as soon as he did, a gun shot had shot across the street and the nest thing he saw was Daisy clutching her arm. When he had reached her, he found the bullet had only just grazed her arm, but it was enough to scare him silent.
He leant over away from Luke as he retched and threw up what little contents he had in his stomach on the ground, still shaking his head, still wishing Luke would just stop and leave him alone.
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Daisy nodded, sighing with relief.
"Uncle Jesse, we're real sorry but we just had to do it to get Bo back. PLease dont be to hard on Luke. he loves Bo like a little brother you know that and he'll do anything to help him."
Bo just shook his head as Luke pleaded with him. He wanted to tell Luke, oh how he wanted to get this off of his mind, how he wanted to tell Luke everything and hear his calming words reassure him and hear the plans that always worked one way or another flow from his mind.
But no matter how much he wanted it, he couldn't, for the image of Luke's dead body, Luke's screams and pleas for help kept ringing through his head and pounding his mind. He couldn't do it, he couldn't let Luke die because of his inability to keep a secret.
He shook his head desparingly at Luke, his eyes begging for forgiveness and his stomach clenching as he felt more and more queasy and ill.
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Daisy sighed, knowing Jesse would hate to be lied to.
"Uncle Jesse, we all agreed that Luke should go after Bo. Now before you yell hear us out. Ever since they were little ya know that Luke was the one Bo always talked to and Luke was the only one who could bring him out of his shell even when he was really really upset. If Bo wont talk to any of us now, then Luke is the only chance he's got left before Bo does somethin' really stupid. Please Uncle Jesse, we're all so worried and we know we went against ya, but its for the best...."
She trailed off, studying her Uncle's reaction, not being able to tell how he was feeling.
Bo jerked as Luke's iron grip clamped around his arm and instincivly tried to fight his way away, even though he felt weak and dizzy. As soon as Luke's voice met his ears though, he calmed a little, although still really tense.
"Luke.....dont make me do this....I can't tell you, I can't you have to understand..."
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Daisy sighed and grasped B.L's hand.
"Come on, lets go and get it over with.*
She linked arms with her friend and marched inside.
"Uncle Jesse...."
After a couple of hours of being outside and screaming things, it was fair to say that Bo felt like death warmed up. He was cold, shaking, weak, tired and hungry all at the same time, but everytime he thought about what would happen if he told, everytime he saw his dreams that haunted him every night his hunger vanished and he felt sick and the cold grew stronger.
Cue B.L Davenport
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Daisy nodded hurridly, tossing him the keys.
"Of course Luke, go get him and dont bring him back till you find out what's the matter, we'll deal with Uncle Jesse right B.L?"
Bo stayed on his knees as all the muddling thoughts ran through his head. He wanted to tell someone, he wanted their help so badly, but he couldn't tell anyone. They had said the bugs were everywhere, they had said that they would know if he told someone and would instantly kill every member of his family until there was only him left.
But this was killing him too, it was making him ill. He hadn't eaten a lot since the incident and was feeling weak and tired, with a pounding headache. But nothing he could do could ever stop the torrent of confusing, battaling debates in his head over what his actions should be. Nothing would stop them, and that's what he kept yelling at the sky.
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Smiling slightly, he stumbled as B.L threw herself at him, yelling loudly in his ear. He grinned as she turned to the two sleeping people in the chairs sheepishly, before giving her a small squeeze and a shhh gesture. He whispered.
"Listen, don't tell those two about this yet. I wanna get it confirmed though Bo first before we get their hopes up."