BoJamesDuke

**PRESENT** Bo shook his head, putting an arm round Luke's shoulders. "I remember you came home all worried...took Uncle Jesse all night t'drive it outta ya..."

Somehow, Hughie managed to avoid most of the blows that Luke tried to rain down on him, blocking them as best he could. He eventually managed to throw Luke off him, scrambling to his feet with a grin on his face. "Jus' you wait Lukas! I'm gonna get my Uncle on you an' he's gonna put you in prison an' take away your farm!"

"Aww look at the baby cry.." Hughie mocked in delight, having gotten the thing he wanted to see most out of Luke.

"NAh you didn't, you just think ya did. No one can remember stuff properly when yer that small..." Hughie said in a matter of fact tone.

Hughie rolled his eyes, shaking his head. "Aw get over it ya big cry baby. S'not like ya really knew em anyhow. I think its just cause you like the attention."

Hughie only smirked back at him in that annoying fashion that years later he would perfect to hit even more irritating heights. "Awww is ickle Lukie gonna cwy?"

"Nu uh, cause you can't get yer own way an' if you try an' make me i'm gonna tell my Uncle who can kick ya outta your home so fast it wont be there when you get home from school one day...but that's the story of yer life ain't it...jus' like yer parents..." Hughie said in a sing song voice.

"Awww what's the matter Lukas Doofus...you all in a tantrum because you aint gettin' yer own way again...or is it because that dump you live in has finally fallen down cause the termites ran away..." Eleven year old Hughie Hogg taunted back as he walked along behind Luke with a big grin on his face.

Bo chuckled a little, shaking his head. "You remember that time you really went after him...I mean REALLY REALLY went after him..."

Bo laughed, shaking his head...he didn't mind Hughie so much, he liked to annoy the little Hogg and embarass him, it was one of his most favourite past-times. But there was a deep rivalry between Luke and Hughie, almost as deep as he one between Luke and Ernie Leadbetter...

"That's just because he never could pull it off like we could....he still can't..." Bo said with a grin.

Bo grinned, looking to him. "Gave us a great advantage point over Hughie with my water balloons huh?"

Bo snorted, shaking his head. "It could barely hold us when we were younger..."

Bo smiled, leaning against the fence post again and looking back over the farm again.

Bo chuckled, ruffling Luke's hair. "Least mine's still growin' it instead o'losin it..."

Bo nodded with a smile. "See, bein' less smart means I don't complicate things like you do...I am dumb for a reason..." He said with a wink

"Its like an overload of information...like trying to fit too much grain into a grain silo..." Bo reasoned with his usual simple logic.

"It all gets too much right?" Bo asked softly, knowing what Luke was feeling but not wanting to admit.

"S'alright cousin..." Bo said softly, rubbing his older cousins back gently.

Bo sighed softly, pulling Luke into a brotherly hug gently with a small smile.

Bo smiled a little, punching Luke gently in the arm. "Aww c'mon now don't cry on me...you know i'll start an' I know you hate it when I start..."

Bo frowned a little. "Well yeah o'course...I never needed any o'those comic book heroes all the other kids idolized...I had my own livin' with me on the farm. You always knew what to do, knew how to get me out of things...you seemed invincible t'me...still are..."

To say Bo was stunned by the sudden outburst was an understatement...he was downright speechless. He knew the relationship between him and his cousin was special, they were closer than brothers...but he had never really explored why Luke kept Bo close when he pushed so many others away before. Luke wasn't even this open with Jesse at the best of times. When he managed to find his voice again, he said softly. "I...I never thought that I didn't matter Luke..but...its hard to hear you changed someone's life...when the person you hear it from is your own hero..."

*PRESENT* Bo smiled a little as he listened to Luke, not having realized before what an impact he had made on Luke's life, wondering what it would have been like if his parents had lived. He didn't dwell on it though, preferring to think back on the memories he and Luke had. "Wow...never knew I was that important..."

Bo shifted a little as he was moved and his hand softly uncurled as he felt Luke's thumb stroking it. He stilled again a little, as if even that movement was an effort, before closing his hand again around Luke's thumb. Lavinia smiled softly as she watched the pair, wrapping her arms around Jesse's waist. nodding genly. "They're gonna be quite a pair when they're older.."