BoJamesDuke

Sara looked straight back at him, directly into his eyes. There was nothing but confidence and support there as she spoke to him directly. "You've got no reason to be panicking Luke...you dont have to make this decision right here, right now. You need time to think about it...In all honesty, you dont need me anymore...you question yourself and what moves your going to take next yourself...you had that thinking capability before you came in here, and it isn't lost just because you haven't used it in a while...its in you, the guy you were before is still there...let him come forward and take charge of what's best for you now...he's the only guy you need to listen to.."

Sara stayed where she was and just watched him a minute, seeing the panic starting to rise. Still though she stayed where she was, sitting opposite him. Quietly though, she said in her ever patient and gentle manner. "Luke...look at me...stop panicking..."

Bo nodded and with another friendly pat to Luke's shoulder, quietly left the room to go and get a drink and to give Luke some space and thinking time. At least this time he was thinking about coming back, that if anything reignited Bo's hope that it wouldn't be long before he was back with him.

Bo could sense that Luke was getting more agitated trying to make a decision. Coughing a little, he rubbed his throat. "I'm gonna be right back ok...I need to go get a drink,..you want anything?"

"I know...I miss you too cousin..." He replied back gently.

Bo didn't say a word, he wasn't gonna stand there and try and influence Luke's decision to come home. It truly was case of Bo just wanting Luke to be happy in what he was doing...if Luke had said he needed to travel over the other side of the world and stay there to be happy Bo would have let him...he's miss him, pine for him a little...but as long as Luke was happy it didn't matter.

"You dont have to do anything you dont wanna Luke...its ok..." She reassured softly.

Sara smiled softly. "Well...i'd keep checkin up on ya for the first few weeks, make sure the transaction back home is smooth and things...but apart from that you'd basically be free t'get back t'yer life...you'd always have my number in case you needed anything...but yeah.."

Sara looked to him with a small nod. "Yeah?"

Bo nodded to him gently, smiling a little more.

Bo nodded, stepping forward and putting a hand on Luke's shoulder, giving him a supportive squeeze. "I'd rather have my Luke back than half of him..."

"Luke...please...it's fine. Sure I miss ya, sure I wish you could come back...but what good is it gonna do if you come back before your ready ta? I wont really have you back will I?" He said gently.

Bo nodded softly. "I miss you too Luke..."

Bo continued to just hold onto Luke, missing this closeness with the cousin who had grown to be more like a brother to him. Now there Uncle was gone, Luke was the only one he had to look up to really, and he felt slightly lost without him around. Daisy had helped him work out a schedule for the farm, what needed doing when...but it just wasn't the same without someone there to do it with him.

Bo swallowed gently, nodding softly. "You take as much time as you need cousin...I dont want ya comin home fore ya think yer ready...when yer ready you do it because ya are, not because you think its the right thing t'do..." He replied, rubbing Luke's back a little.

Bo was a little suprised at the public display of affection but readily returned the hug, smiling a little. "Same here brother..." Sara watched the two with a smile from where she had been sitting next to Luke. She knew it wouldn't be long before Luke would be going home. He may still have his doubts, may still be scared but there wasn't much more she could do to help him...Luke was answering his own doubts and fears now, Sara really just sat there and listened to him reasoning himself out. Luke may think that he needed her, but he didn't...and in all honesty she would be sad to see him go when the time came. She had never really connected with a patient as much as she had Luke before, and while she knew it was kind of unprofessional to get emotionally involved, she couldn't help it. That was the kind of person that Luke had needed her to be, and so she had been.

"Hey its alright...like I said all the way through...we all got burdens t'bear and the like...sometimes you just need t'unload and your unloadin's been comin for a long time..." Bo reasoned back gently, he didnt blame Luke at all and that was obvious.

"Ah well, it'll all come together..." Bo said with a smile when Luke have no verbal response to what he was saying. Just that let him know that again he would be leaving alone, and so he could move past the subject. Sara smiled sympathetically, but out of sight of Luke, at Bo. She could tell what Bo was asking without actually asking and knew how lonley it must be getting for him.

"We aint the only ones that miss havin' ya around the farm though...Maudine's goin' plumb crazy waitin fer ya t'come out and feed her...looks downright disappointed when she sees me come out." Bo retorted, sounding kind of miffed that the family mule who had been there since they were both kids to a greater shine to Luke than she did to him. Though it could have been because with his blonde hair, he looked more like food than a person. "And everyone in Hazzard keeps askin bout ya...Cooter sends his regards...says hurry up an' get yer butt back inta Hazzard cause he's runnin outta buisness...General ain't soundin right neither without yer tunin..." He continued to muse, more talking to himself than taking to anyone particular in the room. Every time he came, he had a small hope that maybe Luke would finally be ready to come home, and while he never asked cause he didn't wanna push the subject, the result was always the same. He left alone, went to an empty farm house alone because Daisy was usually out playing tonsil tennis with her boyfriend someplace or working and slept in the big double room alone...

Urmm...okay...to do a Dukes Jump... 1/ Make sure for one your not in a car you love. 2/ Gut out completly the inside of your car, no seats or anything. 3/ Fit a roll cage 4/ Inside the car where the drivers seat would be, and attatch a harness that keeps you completly suspended from the floor but so you can reach the steering wheel and pedals 5/ Wear a crash helmet 6/ Do the jump and watch the car get destroyed. In other words, dont do it. The guys that jumped those cars are professionals. Search on Youtube.com for Dukesfest 08 jump and watch how the General got completly destroyed and you'll see what I mean. I was there, its not pretty and even stuntmen get hurt.

Bo shrugged with a laugh. "I have no idea...she refuses to bring him home...cant for the life of me think why..."

"She's doin' great....found herself a boyfriend..." He said with a chuckle...he rarely saw much of Daisy anymore as she was out so often with this guy.

Bo shook his head. "Not really...the hard farm work's been all done for the year now...s;just the normal feeding and the like..."

"Yup, feelin' fine an' dandy. Farm's runnin' smooth as anythin." He replied, loving the way Sara and Luke interacted like they were a couple but were completly oblivious to the fact.