BoJamesDuke

Yeah I agree, it would be interesting to explore that relationship. In fact there are people who have paired the two together for stories :-)

Lavinia nodded. "Uh huh...i'm gonna need help lookin' after Bo, makin' sure he's happy...an' yer Uncle's gonna need lots of help around the farm...do uh..." Lavinia smiled a little, looking to Luke. "Do you know anyone who could do that? They's gotta have dark hair...be about 4 years old...live on the farm of course..."

Lavinia looked to Luke as she heard the small whisper, nodding a little. "ME an' yer Uncle are gonna need a lot of help to look after him...we need a helper..."

lol that's a great one! That's the kind of small ideas that we're looking for but also bigger ones! This is what we like people! C'mon get involved and lets get some ideas flowing!

Lavinia sighed softly and shrugged a little. "Well the doctors seem to think so...but we know he's a Duke and with the right love and care...well anything's possible..."

Lavinia bit her lip softly, knowing what the doctors had told her. They didn't expect Bo to live past his 5th birthday...if he ever did get that far. "The doctors dont think so sweetie..."

Lavinia sighed gently. "He was born very early Luke...plus he's got a condition called asthma where he can't breathe properly sometimes...because he was born early he's quite weak..."

Bo was sleeping comfortably in between the blankets, his tiny hands that were clenched into fists resting by the sides of his face. His little mouth was moving as the baby sucked on his tongue for comfort. Lavinia smiled softly as she watched the two boys.

Lavinia sighed softly, patting the couch beside her. "Why don't ya come sit with me an' take a look?"

"The little baby we went to the hospital to visit...his proper name's Beauregard..." Aunt Lavinia tried to remind Luke gently, knowing it had been a while since Luke had seen Bo

Lavinia bit her lip softly, settling back more on the couch. "You remember your cousin Bo don't ya?"

Lavinia looked up as she heard tiny footsteps and smiled softly as she sat back down on the couch with the baby, whispering softly now the baby had settled back down. "Hey there Luke..."

Lavinia nodded softly, knowing already how sick Bo really was, even at such a tender young age. Gently, she removed the baby from the worker's arms and held him close, rocking him gently as he stirred and whimpered a little.

The social worker smiled softly to Jesse as she entered the house, carrying a small bundle in her arms. Lavinia instantly rose from her chair and crossed over to the lady, pulling back the soft, warm cloth to see the tiny little baby behind. ""Oh Jesse..."

*FLASHBACK* Lavinia looked up from her anxious knitting as there was a knock on the door...they day was here...the one that she and Jesse had been looking forward to but at the same time dreading...the day their little nephew Bo was coming to live with them after his parents too died in a car accident.

Bo finally tore his eyes away from the landscape and looked to his older cousin, one of the few faces that had always been constant in his life. The one person he could confide absoutly everything with, the one person who had supported him through absolutly everything even when others doubted him. "Been a long time ain't it.."

Bo nodded a little, finishing off Luke's unfinished sentence in his head as was a usual occurance between the boys. He too wished that some things could have stayed the same, like Luke never having gone to Vietnam for example...but then again he was glad some things had changed. Without change they would all be stuck in a rutt.

Bo glanced to Luke as he felt the familiar hand on his shoulder, smiling a little as Luke silently joined in his silent tribute to the farm and everything it meant to the family. For a long while, they just stood there together in silence as many many thoughts ran through their heads, it was of course Bo who broke the silence first. "No matter how many times I see this landscape somethin's always changed..."

lol or for us who have that movie on DVD...its on every night till the end of december lmao. It is such a great movie, shame John and Tom never really talk about it

OKay people, This is where you come into the story. When we were little is going to be a flashback story but what we need is ideas for flashbacks from you. Have you heard something in the show you would like to be explored - Luke's swinging of a baseball bat at Bo's head for instance. We need you to post them here so we can put them into the story, so come up with some good ones!!

(Okay everyone, i'm back and hopefully some co-writers will come back with me too. The ones I'd like to request to join in are DaisyMaeDuke and B.L Davenport, no one else please ;-) ) Bo whistled as he tossed his work gloves in the space they belonged in the barn, walking back outside to the yard. On the way past, he gave Maudine an affectionate pat before plucking his shirt off the fence post he had just got done mending. He shrugged it onto his shoulders and leant on the now sturdy fixed fence with a smile, looking around the farm yard that had been his home when he had been only 6 months old. He didn't know any other life, any other people who had been his family and he was happy with that. He was content to accept things the way they were, and look back on all the happy memories he had with those people over the years. The farm alone brought back so many, as long as the little reminders around the farm that sparked even more.

lol why you read some of my stuff?

Hey, my name is Anakin's Girl 4eva

OKay I am determined to find out now...i'm gonna mail John lol

Yeah...just thinking that if its not on his own discography on his website its probably not one he actually brought out.