BoJamesDuke

Bo grinned and shook his head. "Oh no cuz....I got a much better idea." He yanked on the wheel and spun the General round 180 degrees again, gunning the engine forward, getting closer and closer to Rosco until Rosco finally swerved off down the embankment. He stopped at the edge and looked down laughing as Rosco stepped unharmed out of his wrecked police cruiser.

Bo grinned and nodded, skidding expertly round the corners as if he's never even left the General's driver's seat, always keeping the speed at 50.

Cooter laughed and stepped away from the General, patting its roof and whooping. Bo grinned and threw the General into reverse, spinning him 180 degrees to face the correct way they needed to go, burning out the back wheels as he took off down the road and across the back roads instinctivly to the farm.

Cooter whoops with joy as Bo gestures for the keys and pats him on the back, returning the hand shake with Luke. "Will do buddy roe....how soon can I expect the call from Rosco to come pick him up?" Bo grinned as Cooter whooped and he (Bo) caught the keys, looking at the for a moment before sliding deftly into the driver's seat, catching the pat on the back Cooter gave him. He put the keys in the ignition and revved up the engine, feeling the adrenaline and rush of driving surge through him as he waited for Luke to slide in.

Cooter stood back and watched with bated breath. This would be one of the tests....to see if Bo was really back with them....the Bo they knew and loved.. Bo looked over at Luke as he dangled the keys to the General, the smile slipping from his face, biting gently on his bottom lip as he looked at them glinting in the sun. He looked from the keys to his cousin's confident face and the smile slowly crept back....he held up his hand for Luke to toss the keys to him.

Eventually Bo manages to get back under control, chuckling every so often, leaning against the General as he realizes he's now slid to the ground right next to Luke. He looked around and saw many of the citizens of Hazzard just looking over, smiling, not at all bemused by the scene...they were too used to something weird going on with the Duke Boys to care. Cooter eventually got back to his feet, offering a hand to both Bo and Luke. "Ain't you better be gettin' back to Jesse? He's gonna be wonderin' where ya are..." Bo took his hand and Cooter helped him stand up.

By this time Cooter was laughing too. Not at Luke, but because Bo's laughter was indeed so contagious. It had been missoing from everyone's lives for so long, and just to hear those first few chuckles escape his throat was like music to his own ears. He had missed the old Bo and Luke and now he was starting to get them back. "Sorry Buddyroe...." Bo just continued laughing, every so often pointing at him as he looked up, trying to say something, but would only collapse back into hysterical laughter. He always loved getting the one up on Luke, because his face as he realised that his younger cousin had outsmarted him was hilarious. It was a mix of complete surprise and humiliation and it tickled him every time. Eventually however he had to calm down as his chest finally decided it was time to give way and he fell down into a coughing/choking fit, still slightly laughing but now they came out more wheezy than anything else.

Cooter laughed and held up his hands. "I know you think I ain't got the good sense the lord promised a turkey Luke but I know when there's a fight between y'all just to stay with the winner...which means you may want to watch out fer...." But it came too late as Bo slipped his foot behind Luke's and gave him a fair shove, sending him falling backwards straight on his butt. Bo doubled up laughing, leaning against the General Lee.

Bo laughed and grinned at Cooter. "You think that's Luke talk fer 'Bo I quit, you's better than me, please just lemme go?' Cooter laughed at the look on Luke's face and nodded "Sounds like it ta me..."

Bo laughed and playfully grabbed his cousin's finger and twisted so that Luke's arm ended up wrenched gently behind his back. "And I swear I ain't gonna let him anywhere near the driving seat once I can get in it again so you have more buisness than usual." Cooter laughed and had to sit in the open passenger side of the car he had been working on. "Yeah I guess that'd work." Bo nodded still laughing. "Yeah...Luke's a little too tidy when gettin' rid o'Rosco and Enos."

Cooter laughed. "You better do or I's gonna be out of this garage quicker than Boss Hogg can eat lunch." Bo laughed and put his hand over the heart "As soon as I can drive again I swear I'll wreck Rosco's car three times over." Daisy smiled over at B.L, getting ready to close up the bar by doing the last rounds. She could tell her friend had had fun and that she hadn't faired too badly from the tips either.

Cooter grinned at the boys, leaning against the car he had been working on. "Well how do ya think buisness is? You's two are the only ones I know that can wreck enough cars in one day to put a mechanic to work for a week." Daisy sighed and leant on the bar, not tires being used to all this work, but glad that B.L seemed to be enjoying herself. She loved working here, loved seeing all the folks of HAzzard and nearly always was the information gatherer for Bo and Luke's plans from here.

Cooter apologetically released Bo from the bear hug. Boi just grinned and, while quickly recovering his breath, slapped Cooter gently on the back, showing no hard feelings. Cooter grinned and nodded at Luke's question "Well o'course ya didn't think I'd let them just go ta anyone else now did ya? They're right out back, i'll go grab 'em fer ya." With that he hurried to the back, searching around in the numerous boxes he had aqquired.

Bo slid happily out the General and called out to the mechanic too. EVentually his head popped out from underneath a car hood in the garage. "That you buddyroe's?" He moved out from under the bonnet and grinned widly letting out a whoop of joy as he saw both the boys looking as good as ever. Bo couldnt help but laugh a little and embrace his enthusiastic friend, gently slapping him as his arms squashed his still healing chest a little. "HEy cooter, lemme go....can't breathe when ya do that..."

Bo barley even recognized that they were in General Lee as Luke powered up the engine. Leaving the hut without his hands bound, without the feel of warm blood trickling down the side of his face, without the horrible sick feeling running through him really hit him hard. He really wasn't a prisoner anymore, the two guys who had held him really weren't anywhere near him. As Luke sent the General over the jump again, Bo felt all his worries, all his cares, all his fears soar away with the General except they didnt come back down with him. He grinned wildly as he felt the weight life of his shoulders and never return.

Bo nodded in silent agreement getting gingerly to his feet after hugging Luke in thanks, waiting for Luke before he headed out the door and to the General.

He swallowed and fought back more tears as he saw the promise shining in Luke's eyes. Bo nodded his head and smiled gratefully at his older cousin. If Luke had given him his word as a Duke, then it was enough to make Bo believe for now when he needed it the most that Luke could keep him safe from anything and that he really would be alright.

Bo held onto Luke like he would disappear if he dared to let him go, burying his head into his shoulder and nuzzling there for saftey, fighting back the fast flowing tears he knew was going to come if he let them. "They ain't gonna get me no more..."

Bo closed his eyes and looked down to the floor, silent tears dripping onto the dirt ground. He nodded and squeezed Luke's hand. "It's all over ain't it....it really is all over..."

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At the sharper pull on his hand and the mention of a member of his family, Bo jolted and blinked like he'd been stung. He looked over at Luke finally, his eyes swimming with new tears as he realised that it was indeed all over. There was no one in the cabin except him and Luke, no one tying him up, no one drugging him to make him ill....no one except the one person who was always beside him through everything, who would always keep him safe... "Luke....."

As Luke took his hand he quickly clamped his own round it, needing the support although his look was still blank. He wanted nothing more than t run from that place, nothing more than to run the General through the small shack and destroy every single memory that would always reside here. But his body felt like it had been filled with lead. He couldn't move, rooted to the spot through fear and an inexpleciable feeling of sorrow. And yet, something inisde of him was telling him to force himself to stay, telling him that by running away he was letting them win, he was letting them take a fear supported grip around his life again. He never wanted to feel like that again...

The blank look in Bo's eyes however remained. He didn't respond to Luke's touch, only blinked slowly as he saw everything happening in front of him again. He could see the men walking around, discussing what they were planning to do thinking Bo couldn't hear in the sick state they had put him in....but he could hear everythin. Everything was so clear that was why they had made the threats when they had realised that he could.

Bo let Luke just lean over and take it from his hand. He was numb inside at seeing this all again, at watching the whole scene that he could remember happening through a concussion and being drugged. He didn't actually know how long he had been held here for....everything had just passes in a haze of blackness and semi-conciousness. He looked over to the bed in the other corner....that was where he had been laid down and tied to when he first started feeling ill and could no longer sit up on his own....that was when they had started with the threats....

He closed his eyes briefly, squeezing the ropes in his hand before releasing them and hesitantly opening the door to the stove....reaching in and pulling out a syringe...