B.L. Davenport

B.L. and Cooter gave their reassurances that if anything should change good or bad they would call immediately. B.L. giving Daisy a quick hug and Uncle Jesse a peck on the cheek before they all left leaving the two Davneport cousin's watching over the youngest Duke.

Luke nodded and let Jesse help him to his feet. He still thought it would be better if he was with Bo but knowing Cooter and B.L. were gonna be there when the family wasn't helped a little.

Luke nods begrudgingly he didn't want to go home but he knew better than to argue with Jesse too. "Ok I'll go home for a while but I don't have to like it" He said somewhat irritably he was worried, tired and his hand hurt all of it put together made him irritable.

Luke sits up shaking his head winces instantly regretting it "No! I ain't leavin' till Bo can go home. If he wakes up and I ain't around he's gonna want to know why. I can rest just fine here till he's ready to go home which shouldn't be more than a coupla days." His jaw set stubbornly as he spoke.

"Yeah...I'm glad I was able ta help him that much even if I couldn't totally protect him" He said leaning his head on Jesse's shoulder not usually one for public displays of affection especially never instigating them but this felt good and he didn't care who saw.

Luke pulls back looking Jesse in the eye. "I guess ya right....and that woulda been so much worse for Bo ta see me bein' hurt and not able ta do nothin about it. I'm not sure that kinda hurt would heal at least physical hurts will." He agreed having not thought of things in that prospective. Relieved that it hadn't come to that for either of them because he didn't know if he himself could have recovered from the mental hurt caused by watching Bo be hurt anymore than Bo could if it'd happened the other way around.

"I guess....but Uncle Jesse he's hurt so much worse now than when I left and it's cos I left that he was hurt more." Luke said despondantly he just couldn't completely dismiss that he could have done something to spare Bo all that pain.

Propping his now pounding head in his hands Luke shook it before explaining. "There was only one between the two of us we could have easily over powered him. I'd already got loose when he came to check on us and was hidin' behind the door. That's when I made my escape. He shot at me but I kept goin' and then I could hear him screamin' at me I'd better come back or Bo was a dead man. All the while Bo tellin' me ta keep going, get help so I lay low in the woods till it was safe ta move. Walked home and saw Daisy, an' B.L. goin' down the road they saw me and stopped,then they's both came runnin' across the field ta meet me half way told 'em what happened we's waited for Cooter then took off to find Bo. The guy was movin' him when we got there but we managed to keep up and stop him but he'd already beat Bo up pretty bad." Luke finished leaning his head back against the wall and closing his eyes.

Luke sighed a part of him knew it wasn't but another part of him still blamed himself for leaving Bo alone with the guy. "I know I guess, but he wouldn't have got beat up so bad if I hadn't left him alone. I shoulda tried to free him and take him with me."

"Yeah they told us the same thing. It's just gonna take some time and he'd be sore for a while." Luke smiled fondly without even pulling away from the gesture of affection.

Luke looks down at his hand flexing his fingers looking back at Jesse. "yes sir, it's ok though just a few stitches, some bruises and a bump on the head." *smiles slightly* "I got the Duke hard head so there's no major damage"

Luke runs a hand over his head and down the back of his neck wearily. "well no real trouble to speak of...he got a bit restless but Daisy soon discovered that he was tied ta the bed. She took off the restraints and he settled back down ta sleep."

Cooter and B.L. follow Uncle Jesse into the room going over to the bed looking at Bo. B.L. asking "How is he?" Luke shook his head still angry about the restraints "he woke up for a few minutes and was panicking, Daisy found out why they had him restrained to the bed." Cooter frowns deeply he saw no reason they should have done that to Bo. Luke leaves the two with Bo and steps over to where Uncle Jesse and Daisy are.

Pulls her close with his good arm as they watched Bo sleep. He was more glad than he could say that they had gotten back to Bo in time to keep Jerry from doing any worse to him than what had already been done. Now if Uncle Jesse was just there things would be really good at least as much as they could be till Bo got well.

"I don't rightly know Daisy, guess he just had 'em used on him one too many times or somethin'." He said wondering himself now that Daisy had brought it up. "Uncle Jesse probably knows what caused it."

Luke nods and puts Bo's hand under the cover frowning as the lines could still be seen snaking out from under the cover. "That'll have to do there's no real way to hide them I just hope he's too dazed to notice."

"I know.......he's probably just waiting to snap the trap shut too." Sighing as he sat down in the chair by Bo's bed now that he was sound asleep.

"That's it Bo just rest" Looks over at Daisy "I wished Cooter and B.L. would hurry up and get back with Uncle Jesse."

"your ok now Bo.....Daisy took off the restraints it's ok shhhh" Luke spoke soothingly as he squeezed one of Bo's hands.

Luke looks at the restraints his face clouding with anger "Daisy get them things off him I can't with this hand like it is" Goes back to speaking softly to Bo while Daisy freed him from the restraints. He'd like to know who's idea the restraints had been so he could give them a piece of his mind, and he planned to talk to the doctor about it next time he came around.

Luke continues to speak to Bo in a soothing low voice glad to see it was settling him down again. Luke just hoped that Cooter and B.L. got back with Uncle Jesse soon that's who Bo really needed right now more than even himself.

"Shhh no, no Bo noone's going to hurt me. We're in the hospital and your hurt real bad. But it's all going to be fine now everything's ok your safe, Daisy's here too and Uncle Jesse's will be here soon so you just relax and calm down I'm not going to let anyone hurt you again." Luke spoke in a low calming voice hoping to calm Bo even though he didn't seem to hear the words but hopefully the quiet soothing tone was enough to do the trick.

Luke pulled away as Bo woke, moving closer to the bed brushing the hair off Bo's forehead. "Just take it easy Bo yer in the hospital ya got a bad concussion and some other injuries the Doc wants ta keep ya for a few days but he says ya gonna be fine."

Luke turns his head to look Daisy in the eye kissing the tip of her nose as her head rested on his shoulder. "I'll tell 'im just as soon as he gets back, but I doubt I've got anything near as bad as Bo I got a hard head ya know." *smiled teasingly as the doctor came back in* "Well now let's get that hand seen to shall we?" The doctor took Lukes hand cleaning it with alchohol causing Luke to hiss in pain when the liquid burned the cut. That finished the doctor injected something into the hand around the cut looking up at the cousin's questioning looks he told them. "It's novicane to deaden the area so it won't be painful while I'm stitching it up." Luke nodded looking at Daisy as the doctor began to stitch the cut, he wasn't squimish but he didn't really want to watch either. After a couple of minutes go by Luke responds. "Uh I forgot to mention I got hit in the head also, pretty hard it knocked me out." Doctor Sanchez nodded continuing to make fine neat stitches in the cut. "Ok I'll check that out in just a second almost finished here...there all done." He then checked Lukes head not surprised to find a small lump there but smiled at the worried look on the girl's face. "Nothing serious maybe a very mild concussion but that's it. Now let's get you that tetanus shot and we're all done." He picked up another syringe filled with some clear liquid and injected it into Luke's arm, before instructing Luke not to get the stitches wet or do anything that would pull them. Finished he left the room and Luke once more looked at Daisy smiling. "See nothing serious"

The doctor examined Luke's wrist frowning at the deep rope burns, he then spotted the cut on Luke's hand the frown going deeper. "Well Mr. Uh Sorry I didn't catch your name" Luke replied "Duke, Luke Duke sir" "Mr. Duke you have some nasty rope burns but they should heal fine, that cut on your hand however needs stitches. Just how did that happen?" Looks at his hand before looking back at the doctor. "I cut it on a piece of metal." Doctor Sanchez nodded making a note on the pad of paper in his pocket. "Then you'll need a tetanus shot as well. I'll get the shot and bandages." Leaves the room.