B.L. Davenport

Luke went into the bathroom where Lori stood naked as a jay bird fixing to get into the shower. "Want some company?" he asked even though he'd already had one shower. Lori looked at him and smiled coyly getting in the shower crooking her finger in a come hither motion as her answer. It took Luke all of 3.5 seconds to strip and join her in the shower.......

Mrs. Smith was thouroughly confused by now and just nodded at Luke's statement about where to reach all of them. The adults talked a few more minutes and then it was time to go Lori went over to little Luke and told him. "C'mon sweetie we're going home now." At the same time Dixie went to Little Jesse to tell him was time to go.....

Lori sighed "I'll be there" and then hung up the phone turning to Cooter saying. "I've got to go to the school 30 minutes early to pick up little Luke he's been in trouble already and it's only the first day!" Cooter laughed at this "Yup he's yours and Luke's son alright"

The rest of the Duke house was quiet as everyone had been asleep for a while all except Bo that is. He was wide awake wondering what was going to happen next. He just hoped that things turned out the way Dixie wanted them to with her plan he didn't want to see her hurt anymore and he wanted to still believe Luke had meant what he said about loving Dixie with all his heart. At least Bo thought everyone in the house was asleep but there was at least one other person awake and that was Jesse he to was pondering over all this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Things were just as quiet at the Davenport house Cooter had come home and just relaxed enjoying his night off, the first he'd had in a while. BL and Konrad had went out to a movie but they had been back for a couple hours and had went to bed BL layed snuggling next to Konrad her head on his shoulder his arm around her but she wasn't sleeping either her mind kept going to Dixie's plan and she had to stifle the giggles everytime she thought of what the look on Luke's face must have been like when he got that $53 check to live on for two weeks.......

BL was nearly dying with laughter as she listened to Dixie on the phone talking to Luke. She couldn't believe he wasn't screaming his head off after what Dixie had done only sending him $53 to base camp that wasn't much to live on for two weeks life was going to be harder than hard with that little piddly amount. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lori was dressed in a black tanktop with a low cut neckline and spagetti straps. She was dressed fit to kill any man that looked at her his tongue would be hanging out to his knees. Luke's practically was as she came down the steps and strutted over to him wrapping her arms around his waist. Luke...........

Dixie and BL waisted little time getting to the garage BL nearly giddy at the idea the plan had worked so easily for once Lori was gonna get her comeuppance. BL looked at Dixie and said "This is gonna be soo good to watch" Dixie frowned at her slightly and said "BL if ya don't cool it yer gonna blow the whole thing being so dang happy about it." BL tried to put on a suitable expression just as they got to the garage....

Dixie wanted to believe Bo but she was still hurting from what Luke had done to her. She wanted Luke back home where he belonged but she wasn't going to make it easy on him to get forgiveness. BL had come back to check on Dixie to see how she was holding up and was still there when Bo came back and told them what Luke had said she wasn't convinced not in the least and muttered darkly. "Sure has a funny way of showin' her he loves her"

Lori saw red hearing that she'd been booked at the Boar's Nest every friday and saturday night for the next month. All she wanted to do was lay low until she could get out of this county and go back to Nashville. She ranted "YOU BOOKED ME AT THE BOAR'S NEST?!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bo didn't know if Cooter knew yet what was going on or not but he couldn't lie to their long time friend and anyway this concerned his family too. "I just wanted to talk to him about things, seems him and Lori were 'together' again and Dixie's back at the farm really upset I can't believe he'd do this to her." Bo was not exactly happy with Luke but trying to keep his temper in check at the moment it wasn't Cooter he was mad at anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BL had went home after her rant and almost murdering Luke she knew if she ran across Lori anywhere she WOULD kill her. So she sat on the porch swing absently scratching behind Konrad's german shepard Shadow's ears. She wanted to beam Luke with that hammer everytime she thought of what he'd done to Dixie. She knew it wasn't totally his fault though Lori was a conniving little hussy when she wanted to be but this time she'd gone too far.

The headlights came closer to the house as Lori looked at them wondering who it could be and what they wanted. She hoped it wasn't anymore of her family she'd been yelled at enough for one day. The vehicle finally came to a stop in front of the house but Lori didn't recognize the vehicle but alot changed in five years so she wouldn't know every vehicle anymore. The person got out of the car and it was clear who it was at that point and Lori.....

Unknown to the two men in the Garage BL had pulled up needing to borrow something but when she had heard what was being said inside she had stayed outside listening. Now that Luke was on the phone though she stomped inside her eyes blazing,picking up the nearest tool which happened to be a hammer. "Lucas Duke you two timing low down dirty son of a gun I'll bash your brains in for doing this to Dixie. Then I'm gonna kill that snake of a cousin!" BL screeched as Luke hung up the phone making her way toward him the hammer raised ready to knock him for a loop only she never made it to him. Cooter grabbed his enraged cousin around the waist to stop her advance on Luke. "Now BL this ain't our fight so ya just stay out of it. And ya best leave Lori alone!" BL struggled trying to get loose from Cooter all but hitting HIM with the hammer she was kicking and biting though as she fought. "BL STOP IT THIS INSTANT" Cooter said loudly as wrenched the hammer from BL's hand. "BL I....." Luke started to say but was cut of by BL yelling at him. "SAVE IT LUCAS I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING YOU'VE GOT TO SAY!!!!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back at the farm Dixie was still in hers and Luke's room......

Luke covered his face dragging his hands down it slowly. With a deep sigh he sat on the bed he didn't know what to say to that everything Dixie was saying was true and he deserved all he was getting and more. Out in the yard Jesse was waiting for the 'strom' to be over inside the house while BL paced around trying to cool her temper. Bo didn't quite know what to do on one hand he wanted to try and help Luke out of this mess but on the other he was mad at Luke for doing this to Dixie.

Luke just stood there listening to Dixie he knew he'd messed up but there was no turning back he couldn't change it all he could do now was repent for his sins. "I'm sorry Dix you'll never know how sorry I am." BL had chased Midnight Rider to the end of the driveway throwing rocks and screaming cuss words at the top of her lungs. Then she turned walking back to where Bo and Uncle Jesse were. "BL that's enough." Jesse spoke gently but firmly when Lori was gone.

Bo thought and thought but he couldn't think of a suitable explanation for Uncle Jesse because he didn't feel like it was his place to explain. He stuttered...."Uh..uh" In the meantime BL was heading for Luke's truck face as red as a fire engine brown eyes like Dixie's had changed to orange the way Dixie's did when she was really mad. Yanking open the passenger side door BL grabbed Lori by the arm and yanked her out non to gently. "LORI HOW COULD YOU?! TO YOUR OWN COUSIN NONE THE LESS, ALL YOU EVER DO IS CAUSE TROUBLE WHEN YOU COME HOME I WISHED YOU'D JUST STAY AWAY!" Lori saw BL raise her fist and tried to pull from her cousin's grip, BL was madder than she'd ever seen her before. Before Lori could get loose though BL's fist slammed into her face knocking Lori out cold. BL didn't stop there she straddled Lori and continued to pummel Lori.

BL muttered quietly so neither one heard "Yeah your coming down with guiltitis." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lori shrugged a little giving Luke a look "Wishful thinking?" Luke just rolled his eyes again and went back over to his pickup getting in and when Lori had gotten into the passenger side he drove back across the back 40 toward the farm. "We might as well face the music together 'cause Dixie's gonna kill us both." Dixie was still on the porch looking at Bo who was looking sicker by the minute.

BL just stood there watching Bo sweat bullets, if Dixie's marriage wasn't on the line it might be amusing. She hoped Dixie didn't ask anymore questions though it was getting harder to keep her own mouth shut about where Luke and Lori were. Bo looked sideways at BL silently begging for her big mouthed intervention with a look. All he got though was a look of her own at him there was no way she was getting in the middle of this, Bo was on his own because when Dixie found out her conclusions were wrong it was basically the same thing as if Bo had outright lied to her. Bo started to turn green as Dixie stayed where she was his mind all but screaming what he knew. Dixie.......

Bo was out on the porch pacing like a caged animal he knew what Luke and Lori were upto and it was starting to get to him that's why he was avoiding Dixie at all cost he was afraid he'd tell her and that would only hurt her he didn't want to do that what Luke and Lori were doing would hurt her bad enough when she found out in time. BL stepped out onto the porch seeing Bo pacing back and forth...back and forth "Yer gonna wear a hole in Uncle Jesse's porch." she teased halfheartedly Bo had told her and only her that Luke had left with Lori and Little Luke. Bo looked up at her his eyes showing his distress and then shook his head. "They still ain't back and it couldn't have taken this long to explain things to Little Luke, besides I heard Lori call Cooter to pick him up several hours ago." BL clenching and unclenching her fists looked to Bo and said through gritted teeth. "When I get my hands on that cousin of mine I'm gonna slap her silly, I know Lori's alotta things but I never thought she'd stoop this low." Dixie came out just then...........

Luke caught upto Lori and called out to her...."Lori wait what the hell was all that back there? Do you always throw hissy fits in front of our son like that?" BL in the meantime had driven back to the Duke farm to see what she could find out about what was going on from impartial parties plus she wanted to hear Dixie's side of things too. "Boy howdy this is turnin' out to be an excitin' mornin' this story's gonna be good."

BL almost laughed at the look on Lori's face when Rosco told her it'd be a month before court. She may not have laughed but she was smirking at her cousin but then her attention was caught by the little boy that looked exactly like a miniture Luke and could have been Jesse Luke's twin, squatting down in front of the child she stuck out her hand. "Hi I'm BL your Mommy's and Dixie's cousin." Little Luke looked at Lori and then back at BL and back at Lori he was amazed at the size of his family.

Picking up the phone BL answered "BL it's Lori can ya come get me at the jail I need a ride." BL groaned rubbing a hand down her face it was too early in the morning to fight with Lori and that would probably happen but she couldn't just leave her at the jail either. BL sighed before saying "Sure Lor I'll be there in two shakes of a lambs tail" Going out to the Judge BL got in the silver GTO and headed for town once she arrived she saw Luke's truck there too and wondered why Lori had called Cooter's if Luke was there she knew Luke would give Lori a ride without question. Climbing out of the car she walked up the courthouse steps and into the courthouse to see just exactly what was going on......

After Luke and Dixie came in it wasn't long till BL and Konrad came into the kitchen BL practically bouncing there had been some moans,giggles and other sounds coming from their room which was right next to Lori's last night after they got home from the boar's nest. "Mornin" B.L. chirped and poured herself and Konrad a cup of coffee handing him one before taking a sip of hers.

Lori nodded in acceptance to Dixie's apology. "Apology accepted...I don't want to fight either just want to have a good time with my family." Next it was BL's turn somewhat reluctantly she approached Lori apologies weren't always easy for her. "I'm sorry" mumbled through the hankerchief still on her nose. Just as the girls were burying the hatchet a dark yellow mustang with a black hood came pulling upto the garage. A man with dark brown hair that came almost to his chin and dark brown eyes to match stepped out. Seeing the three women one of them with a cloth on her nose he rushed over and put his arm around her waist and asked in a loving concerned tone. "B you alright?" BL nodded and took the cloth away from her nose as he turned her head up by her chin to have a look. "I'm fine Konrad cousin Lori decided to reach out and touch someone with her fist and it was me she touched." Konrad raised an eyebrow at his wife then looked at the other two women. BL sighed and then looked at her husband then the rest of the family that had congregated around the four young adults. "Time ta meet the family....that's Dixie,Lori,BB,Uncle Luther,Uncle and Uncle Bobbie Lee you know Cooter and LB." Konrad looked at all of them as BL pointed to each one in turn and then said "Hi I'm Konrad Duke, Luke's cousin." BL chuckled at him and said "Better watch it dear being kin to Luke around here could still get ya lynched." Konrad chuckled and headed back for his car BL getting in hers following him heading for the boar's nest for their usual drinks and singing it was sort of a Davenport tradition.

LB still had BL who had her arms folded and about the meanest look any of them had ever seen thrown over his shoulder. "LB put me down and I'll go get Lori" she said calmly but her face said she was anything but calm as she wiped the blood dripping from her nose. "OH NO you defenitly ain't gonna be the one to go after her" Luther put his foot down he'd had enough of this bickering between the two girls. LB put his sister down but he didn't move his arm out from around her waist he intended to keep her from going anywhere. He took out his hankerchief and moved her hand from her bleeding nose cupping the cloth over it and pinching to lessen the bloodflow.

LB had dropped his hands from BL's mouth as they all waited for a reaction which was a biiig mistake it gave BL and opportunity and she couldn't help but take it. "HER condition...Ya make it sound like she's gonna die Cooter she's just gonna get fat!" BB's mouth at this point fell open along with Luther's BL was really asking for a fight if she kept this sort of thing up.

LB put a hand on BL's back as Lori and Mylinda drove by hearing what Lori yelled out the window "Sis you'd better stay away from her or watch yer back she's after a piece of yer hide." BL looked at him confidently and boasted. "She can just bring it on I ain't afraid of her one iota!"

BB,LB and Cooter looked up from under the car they were working on hearing the commotion coming from the courthouse. "Lori's at it again" BB said with a distressed sigh he just wished his female cousins would all calm down. BL went to the garage door leaning against it so she could hear Lori better and when she heard the comment about her ranting on Lori she grinned wickedly and nodded slightly. "you can count on it cousin dear you can count on it" she said quietly to herself. Rosco looked up the stairs listening to Lori screaming her head off then looked back at Luke and shook his head. "N...no that's ok Luke I'll do it let Little handle her." Upstairs Little folded his arms feet shoulder width apart as he looked at Lori ranting in the holding cell. "DAVENPORT! IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP I'M GONNA HAVE COLTRANE THROW YOU UNDER THE JAIL!" he bellowed above Lori's rants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~