BoJamesDuke

Daisy looked up as the Doc entered and smiled wanly at him before looking back down to the floor, wrapping her arms around her middle. The doc was here now and even though she knew he couldn't work miricles, she knew he could help at least a little. Jesse couldn't help but smile slightly at Luke's eagerness to get Bo better again. Jesse could tell this was hitting his oldest hard, having to sit by and not do anything because he couldn't. Luke was always the one to get the whole family out of any trouble, he had the cunning and knowledgable mind to come up with plans that others would deem crazy, but always seemed to work the best. But now he was stuck here, helpless to do anything for his younger brother, and Jesse knew exactly how that felt. He reached out and wrapped a comforting arm around Luke's shoulders, pulling him close and enveloping him in a hug as Bo stiffened on the bed and arched.

Bo's whole body shook in Luke's hold, a thick sheen of sweat glinting in the dim light of the room. He eyes remained wide, unfocused on the wall and his breathing getting quicker and quicker.

Daisy shook her head and hugged B.L more. "Why's this happening B.L? Why is this happening to him?" After a couple of moments, Bo's mouth started to open and close and his eyes squeezed shut before he finally managed to make the sounds. "I didn't hear nothin'....didn't hear nothin'....please don't....please.....didn't hear nothin'...please...please...." His left hand curled into a fist and he tried vainly to move his arm away from something, twisting against bonds that weren't even there.

Daisy looked up worridly at her Uncle as he called Doc Appleby and clung tighter to B.L as he rattled off the things that were happening to Bo. SHe couldn't believe this was happening. Bo was a strong young man, someone who never let anyone or anything kick him down. He was not one to stay down and relent to anyone, so why was this happening? Why didn't he seem to have the will to live anymore.... Bo's breathing remained quick and was getting shallower. His eyes darted from left to right and the muscles in his left arm twitched and tried to move away from something, although the imaginary bonds on his wrists kept them pinned to the bed.

Daisy wrapped her arms round B.L and held her tightly, not crying, she had nothing left in her to cry, just being held, being comforted by someone. Bo made no sign that he knew anybody was with him or what they were doing to him. HIs eyes remained glazed and his body rigid. HIs breathing was quick but not weak and raspy.

As Daisy hears the groan all she can do is bury her head in her hands and shake her head. This can't be happening all over again, it just cant be. Not so soon after they just pulled bo from death's door he's heading straight back for it again. If they needed her she would help, but she didn't want to see Bo like this again....not again.... Bo had rolled onto his back and was laying like he was strapped to the bed, eyes open but oddly glazed over and cold sweat dripping from his burning forehead. He was looking wildly around him with his eyes but made no move with his head.

Daisy sipped the warm liquid slowly, feeling it warm her up and calm her a little bit. She still couldn't believe this was happening to her baby cousin, she kept expecting him to laep out the bedroom and tell them this was all one big joke....but he never did. All that remained in the house was a tense worry filled silence....that was soon broken by a low groan....

Daisy smiled at B.L as she swiftly took charge and told everyone what shifts were going to who. She would have liked it that she go last considering that Uncle Jesse was probably going to need to sleep more than the rest of them with the worry and pressure on his shoulders, but she knew better than tto say so. She watched B.L for a moment and smiled gently as she watched B.L pour a little shine into Luke's mug. While Luke was exceptionally good at dodging sleep, there was nothing he could do to avoid the calming sensation you felt when you've drunk some of Jesse's finest. He was gonna be mad and irrate when he discovered that was what had happened....but it was worth it to get Luke sleeping.....she couldn't stand it if she lost her older cousin to some illness too. She rose from her seat and sat next to Luke, wrapping her arm round his waist and leaning her head onhis shoulder, nuzzling into him with a sigh, knowing how worried he was for his younger cousin, even more so than she herself was. Bo and Luke were the double trouble dukes, the good ol' boys who helped anyone at any time for any reason. Luke was the plan maker, Bo was the getaway driver...what would happen if Bo never did recover from this....what would happen if he....reached the pearly gates.... Daisy shuddered slightly and tried to force that thought out of her mind.

Daisy nodded at B.L's suggestion, looking wistfully back at the doctor's, wondering why on earth Luke didn't ask the doctor to come out that night. If it concerned Bo, Luke didn't usually care whether or not it inconvinienced somebody. She watched as the farm got closer and closer, noticing sadly the lack of her younger cousin out on the porch. He loved the sunsets and the way the birds chirped in the cool evening breeze, and he often pulled one of them into sitting with him so they could enjoy it too until eventually the whole family was sat with him. Bo was never really selfish at all....if there was something he enjoyed he would try and make sure everyone else enjoyed it too, more than once Bo had tried to get Daisy to take an interest in working on the General because he had deemed it so much fun and thought she should take an interest too. In fact it had been Bo who was the most eager to teach her the things he loved, hunting with bows and arrows, driving Bo style....saying she missed all that now was indeed a drastic understatement. She sighed gently as the General skidded to a halt into the yard and slid gently out the window, looking over the house and barn, waiting for Luke and B.L.

Daisy nodded and smiled thankfully, wishing that actually he could actually come over now and put at least a little worry to rest. But she didn't say so, only turned with Luke and B.L to head back outside to the General.

Daisy nodded and squeezed Luke's hand before quietly blurting out. "Doc he's got real bad again....please could you come over and take a look at him....he's suddenly become so weak again and he has headaches....please....just so we know what to do...."

Daisy was thankful for her friends support, she didn't know if she would have been able to go through with what she had promised Luke she would do for him if she hadn't. She walked into the Doc's office, one hand reaching for Luke's as they walked inside, half smiling back at the doctor as he looked up and smiled back at them.

She sighed as they quickly found themselves outside Doc Appleby's, not entirly sure that she wanted to do this anymore. What if Bo really was so sick he was dying?

As Daisy watched the scenery go by, her thoughts were mainly on the two guys now sitting in Atlanta Penitentairy. How could they have done this to Bo? How could anyone do this to anybody else? Bo swallowed the pills and the soothing water, sinking gratefully back in between the sheets to the position he was in before Jesse had woken him up. He smiled slightly as Jesse pressed a kiss to his aching temple and whispered back " I love you too" Before slipping into a darkness that he wasn't entirly sure was sleep, more than unconciousness. All he knew was that it was inviting.

Daisy rides shotgun next to Luke, noticing how tense he was in the seat, which was unusual when he was driving the General. She sighed and bit her lip nervously looking out the window at the scenery wooshing by. Bo groaned and bearily opened his eyes, blinking a couple of times before pushing himself into sitting, leaning against the headboard, waiting his eyes dropping back closed for the pills and water.

Daisy bit her bottom lip, after seeing Bo like this, she wasn't sure what to believe anymore. "Luke lets just get to Doc Appleby's and get that syringe sent off....please...."

Bo looked up at Jesse and nodded gently at his gently issued command, breathing in as he pushed himself to his feet, using the chair and table for support and stumbling back down the hallway to his room, weakly flopping onto his bed, stripping slowly down to his boxers and crawling beneath the sheets, turning onto his front and laying his head across folded arms, vaguly remembering he should really take his antibiotics but now he didnt really see the point as he drifted off to sleep.

Eventually bo put down his utensils and sat back in his chair, gently rubbing his temple as he felt a headache starting to come on again. He laid the other arm across his stomach and closed his eyes. Daisy looked over, seeing that Bo had really hardly eaten anything, which was so very unusual for him.

Bo gave a small smile of thanks to Luke as he came and helped him to his place, bowing his head along with everyone else as they said grace, feeling kind of low seeing as he didnt really see a whole lot of point praying to someone he didnt really believe was there anymore. He picked up his utensils and slowly began eating, not really having much of an appitite but not wanting to get a whole lecture from any of them for not eating enough. Daisy watched from the corner of her eye, a little concerned at the change in Bo and the fact that he doesn't really seem to be eating either. She doesn't let him see this though, only looks slightly to Luke and Jesse as she eats.

Daisy nodded and sat at her space, waiting for the boys to come join them. Bo rolled onto his side and slowly pushed himself to sitting, grabbing the bedside table and using it to hoist him to his feet, swaying slightly on the spot before using wall and bed to help him out the room and down the corridor to the table.

Daisy dished out the food and set it on the table,noticing how wierd it felt to not have Bo under her feet, taking little scraps of food and begging her for little tastes of everything. She looked up to Jesse and B.L "Alright foods ready....which one of us is goin' ta tell the boys?"

Bo didn't lift his head from the pillow, but nodded in response. He wasn't used to giving up so eaisly either, but he just couldn't continue putting up such a hard fight against everything. He'd just start having to accept this was how his life was going to be. Who knows, it may even get so bad that he couldn't do anything but lay in bed, constantly drained of energy until everntually he just shut down. He had heard of illnesses like that before, and it scared him to death to think that that was how it was going to be....but there was nothing he could do to stop it...

Daisy smiled and looked up at B.L "Could you set the table? Its almost done now..." Bo shook his head "No I ain't."

Jesse returned the small hug, patting him on the back. "Good Boy....B.L's in there with him too..." Daisy smiled, Luke hadn't really needed her there at all although it was nice to think that he trusted her enough to think he did. She gently winked at him then turned back to the cooking. It appeared that Bo had fallen asleep in the silence that had filled the bedroom, but in fact, no matter how much he wanted to, he wouldn't let himself, thinking that whenever he closed his eyes, he would wind up seeing Luke and his family dead again....

Jesse nodded gently and patted Luke's knee, standing up and ruffling his hair a little. "The good lord has reasons for doing as he does. Sometimes they aint always clear, but reasons there are Luke. Just be prepared for whatever the outcome is of these tests....alright?"