BoJamesDuke

Bo shook his head with a smirk, leading her through to where Luke was sleeping.

Bo laughed a little and hugged her back, shaking his head. "Nope he aint showed his ugly mug round here yet..."

Bo shook his head at her yelled greeting, stepping out onto the porch with a grin. "M'right here...but shhh or you'll wake yer surprise up!"

"Bye Dais..." He said with a smile, hanging up the phone before starting to tidy up again.

Bo chuckled and nodded "That'd be great Daisy..."

Bo smiled more at that, seeming like he was getting his family back all at once....except for that one person they all missed most. "Course ya can Daisy...you dont ever gotta ask..."

"Nu uh...if you wanna know you have t'come ho...come back to the farm..." Bo faltered a little at the word home...not knowing if Daisy considered the farm as home anymore.

"Tell you what....you can come see for yourself. I've got a surprise here at the farm...come see what it is...otherwise you'll never know..." Bo tempted with a grin,

Bo smirked, leaning against the wall. "Wouldn't you like to know..."

Bo smiled a little, hearing his other older cousin's voice. "Well hey there stranger...not too bad you?"

Bo near jumped a mile as it did, sighing a little before drying his hands and picking up the phone. "Yello Bo Duke..."

Bo quietly left the room and headed out to the kitchen to tidy away the things from breakfast. With Daisy gone most of the time now, he had learnt how to cook pretty decently for himself using Lavinia's old cookbooks. As long as he followed them he was pretty good...well he hadn't poisoned himself yet anyway.

Smiling with a final pat on the shoulder, Bo got up from the bed and started heading out the room. "You get some rest cousin..."

"Your not a baby cousin...you've had a hard time...everyone needs t'be taken care of sometime in their lives...you've looked after me all my life, now its my turn to return the favour just a little. I'll help you through this...cause its what Uncle Jesse would have wanted us to do, to stick together as a family, and because your my brother and I love you..." Bo said softly, squeezeing Luke's shoulder supportivly.

Bo shrugged. "I's used t'it then aint I...you need t'settle inta a routine Luke, you cant just jump straight back inta everythin...that's what Sara told me..."

Bo smiled a little as he yawned. "Look, why not just take some time to settle back into a routine...you got one for when you were at the hospital..just stick to that for a bit then gradually change it.."

Bo shook his head a little. "They dont need doin' till t'night...got them all done this mornin 'fore I came t'see you..."

Bo glanced out the doorway to the bedroom too as Luke did, nodding a little. "Its ok, I understand...hit me hard when I first saw it too..."

"We'll figure it out together...we always do...Daisy's managed t'find that place already...the place where she can enjoy Uncle Jesse's memory instead of weep over him..she's doing what he would have wanted her to do. She's out enjoying herself...having fun...looking to the future to see what she can make of it...you know she wants to go to college?" Bo said with a small smile, admiring Daisy much more than he had ever done before. Out of all of them, she had worked through her grief in a sensible manner and come out on top rather than in the rutt Bo and especially Luke seemed to be in. Bo didn't understand how that was possible either...he hadn't expected Daisy to take this so well, but then again her and Uncle Jesse had always talked...Bo and Luke had usually been too busy running around to go into the depth of conversation that Daisy and Jesse often had done. In a way, Daisy had more of her Uncle's words to remember, more conversations to go by that would help her through. Bo had the farm, while Luke was gone he took it over and felt connected with his Uncle that way which helped a little ways...but Luke had gone off the deep end and as a result had nothing really...

"We can't go back t'how things used t'be Luke...its not possible and besides...Uncle Jesse wouldn't want that. He left us wanting us to create a future for ourselves...no matter where that took us within reason o'course...he raised us and guided us down the paths we're on...but he always said that eventually we'd have t'walk the paths without him...he wouldn't want us to sit and miss him all the time...he wants us to keep on keepin on...somehow..." Bo said softly, not really thinking about what he was saying, just saying what came to his heart.

Bo kept a comforting arm around his older cousins shoulders, not missing how the two had seemed to have swapped places. When the time came that Jesse passed on, as was inevitable in life...Bo had always imagined that it would be he who had the emotional breakdown, who missed him so much he couldn't stop crying...not Luke. He knew Luke would grieve eventually but never had Bo imagine that this would have happened. Of course Bo hadn't really grieved yet at all...he hadn't had the time. Daisy had, and Bo had been there to comfort her, Luke was now and had been probably with Sara and Bo had been there for him...as for himself, he did what Luke always had...got on with the work that needed doing and distanced himself from his emotions that once used to show so freely. It was like some kind of clash had happened where suddenly Bo and Luke's personalities had been reversed and everything had turned upside down. Rubbing Luke's arm gently, he just quietly soothed his older cousin as much as he could.