B.L. Davenport

Luke stands stretching his muscles "I'd better get started on the chores." Patting Bo on the knee he walks over to the barn B.L. stretches her long legs out glancing at Bo his yawn having not escaped her. The tiredness she'd felt earlier creeping back into her bones as she leans back against the table eyes turned toward the sky and closed. Sighing but she doesn't move "Guess I should go help Uncle Jesse and Daisy with supper"

Luke laughs again as he remembers the look on Rosco's face as he crawled from the wrecked cuiser. "He was somemore mad" B.L. giggles at the picture in her head "Sorry we missed it huh Daisy"

Luke wrinkles his nose at Bo "Funny Bo" B.L. laughs as she digs $5 tip money from her pocket handing it over to Daisy "This is one time I don't mind payin up on a bet.....I shoulda known only Bo'd a been behind that one."

B.L. gives Bo a quick kiss on the cheek before sitting down beside him hoping he's not still upset with her about nagging him before. "Hey yourself,ya lookin chipper this afternoon" Turning toward the door Uncle Jesse announces "I'm gonna go start supper" As if on cue Luke's stomach grumbles "Sounds good"

B.L. laughs looking at the two cousins again,Luke looking slightly perturbed about something,nodding "Yeah he looks like a new man.....whatever Luke did it's gotta be the best medicine in the world." Climbing from the passenger side of the Jeep her tiredness from not being used to the work at the Boars Nest forgotten as she literally bounces to the boys and Uncle Jesse,excited about telling them about her new job. Luke gently whacks Bo in the back of the head before a grin of his own appears on his face. It'd been a long day but in his mind a very productive one. Bo'd left his fears behind at the old abandoned shack being the biggest thing to happen that day.

Luke dodges away from Bo's hand giving him a menacing look. "Quit Bo...Uncle Jesse's been doin' ok on his own all my life" Jesse laughs as the two banter his irritation forgotten as the girls come around the corner,waving in greeting. B.L. waves back at the men at the picnic table grinning at the mirade of expressions on their faces. Inclining her head in the direction of the boys she glances at Daisy "Those two look like walking trouble"

Luke climbs the rest of the way out of the car joining Bo at the picnic table eyeing the look on Jesse's face warily not sure Bo ain't right about the whipping. "Gee your just all kinds of help today" Jesse continues to reguard the two miscreants with a hard stare but the pure joy on Bo's face and the wary look on Luke's face makes him grin to know they both still have enough respect to know he'd do it if necessary. "You two's give me all this grey hair but ya keep it up and I'll be as bald as J.D" Luke chuckles at this then turns his head toward the road as Daisy's jeep can be heard coming around the corner.

Luke shoots a dirty look at the roof of the car as Jesse turns a glare on him "Thanks alot Bo"

Jesse looks skeptically at Bo the puppy eyes not fazing him as he grumbles gruffly "I just bet they were" Luke slides out the passenger window to sit on it's ledge mimicking Bo's posture on top of the roof. Giving their Uncle a half grin. "sorry my fault"

Jesse rolls his eyes then it hits him Bo's behind the wheel. "What in tarnation are you doin drivin? Ya ain't even been outta the hospital a week." Luke groans as Uncle Jesse asked the inevitable question "Here it comes......"

Luke takes the keys slumping in the passenger seat and putting them in his pocket. Just sitting there in no hurry to get out and end their fun himself. "We can go out again tomorrow maybe." Jesse bangs out the back door as he hears he Dixie horn thinking it's Luke needing his help but reaching the yard discovers with a frown it's Bo behind the wheel. His usual reprimand when Bo does that leaping to his lips. "Bo how many times I gotta tell ya not to scare the chickens with that blamed horn they won't lay fer a week."

Luke laughs hanging up the CB mic,settling in his seat once again as they head for home. Jesse had begun to pace,worried something had happened and the boys had been detained. He knew in his Bo wasn't ready to be out he just knew it but it was hard to deny those big blue eyes. Grumbling to himself. "They shoulda been back by now,shoulda never let 'em go"

Luke shuts his eyes as Bo turns 180 degrees and Rosco's police car loomed closer and closer. As Bo stops to look down at Rosco,Luke slides out on the window ledge looking down at Rosco before sliding back into the seat. "He looks alright nothin hurt but his pride let's get on home." Picking up the cb Luke calls Cooter informing him that Rosco needed a tow.

Hearing the distinct sound of a siren Luke turns in his seat to look out the back window. "Shoot it's Rosco wonder where he was hidin'. Cut up across the south 40 he can't ticket us on our own land."

Luke propped his elbow on the window ledge,gripping the roof of the General as they go speeding down the back roads. Grinning widelyas they go ripping up the roads and he slides slightly in the seat and the wind blows his dark curls. "Watch out for Rosco I don't know where he's hidin' out today"

Although I leaned toward Bo more as a kid I truly appreciated Tom/Luke even then. Now that I'm older it just wouldn't be the same if Tom/Luke was missing. I really started to appreciate Luke more when the show was airing on TNN in the late 90'e, so it's been somewhere around 20years for me since I first saw that dark haired Duke boy on my tv screen. B.L.

Luke shrugs as he slides into the passenger seat with a chuckle. Leaning down slightly to peer into the car as Bo revs the engine thinking 'always the impatient one' befor looking back up at Cooter. "Depends on how soon Bo here can talk Uncle Jesse inta cuttin the apron strings and lettin him behind the wheel. Just cos I give 'im the keys ta drive home don't mean Jesse's gonna give in so easy." Luke knows though that if their Uncle protests he'll be fighting for Bo's freedom right along side of him. Looking over at Bo nodding "Well are ya waitin on an invitation let's go, hit it!"

Luke watches Bo's reaction holding his breath,whether or not Bo took the keys would be the biggest sign of whether or not the old Bo was coming back to them. As the smile slips from his younger cousin's face Luke feels a pang of saddness he'd been so sure Bo was coming back to them full force. As the smile reappears though Luke just about busts at the seams with happiness Bo was coming back. Returning the smile, he tosses the keys watches as Bo catches them deftly. Sliding in the passenger window to sit on the ledge,Luke clasps Cooter's hand as if they were going to arm wrestle grinning he'd never thought something as simple as Bo being behind the wheel could make him so happy. "We'll catcha later Cooter"

Luke takes hold of Cooter's offered hand pulling himself to his feet,not caring in the least that they'd been being watched by some of the other citizens. "Yeah we'd better B.L. and Daisy'll be home directly I spect." On the spur of the moment Luke looks at Bo dangling the keys to the General one eyebrow raised but, not saying a word,knowing it's probably more temptation than Bo can stand not to take them. It isn't far back to the farm so Luke is confident as long as he's riding shotgun it'll be alright for Bo to drive that short distance if he wants.

Luke just rolled his eyes at the other two laughing like hyenas but eventually his own mirth came bubbling out in hysterics. It really felt great to hear Bo laugh again and it felt just as good to laugh himself. Glancing back at Cooter gasping out sarcastically through his own fit of laughter "Ya sure are sorry Cooter" Luke shakes a mocking fist at Bo as he points and laughs before collapsing on the ground at the General's door to weak from laughing to stand anymore. As Bo's laughs turn into coughs and wheezes Luke gets a concerned look on his face and starts to rise to his feet. Realizing that Bo's ok though he sits back down panting trying to get his own breath back after so much hard laughing.

Luke's eyes open wide in surprise as he feels himself falling. Hitting the ground on his butt with a thud he glares at Cooter and the laughing Bo. Sarcastically he tells Cooter "Thanks fer the warnin Coot" Folding his arms across his chest as he sits there on the pavement for a brief minute before realizing anybody walking by would see him. Luke rolls to his knees and pushes himself to his feet giving Bo the evil eye while biting the inside of his own cheek Bo's laugh is contagious. "Bo you got a real mean streak all the sudden."

Luke laughs wrenching his arm from Bo's grasp and grabbing him into a headlock. "That was not what it was...it was let me go or I'll whup your butt like when we was kids" Still holding Bo in a headlock Luke looks over at Cooter with a scowl although his eyes are laughing. "Cooter who's side you on?"

Luke halfway tries to break Bo's hold on him as he protests laughingly knowing the minute Bo says he's ready to drive again there will be no questions asked Luke will just climb in the passenger seat as usual. "Heeey.....the General's half mine....buddy... so you can't keep me out of the driver's seat" There's no scolding though as he reminds Bo of being sick his breathing had been normal now for quite a while so the exertion wasn't going to cause any ill effects. It's now become his trump card to get Bo to do things his way much like when they were kids and one would keep a secret from Uncle Jeses for the other. Insurance that the one hiding the secret would do anything to have that secret kept quiet. "who gave you a license ta play rough yur sick remember"

Luke laughs at both his friend and Bo. He almost believes Bo will wreck Rosco three times over. Putting his own hand over his heart like Bo he grins at Cooter while pointing at Bo with the opposite hand "On my word as a Duke Bo'll wreck both Rosco and Enos three times over" B.L. pushes away from the bar smiling back at Daisy as she starts to do the last rounds. Coming out from behind the bar now that everyone was gone she starts to help Daisy clean up.

I recently bought the 1:18 scale RC with every intention of 'playing' with it lol still haven't yet my best friend's 2yr old daughter discovered the car was within her reach and turned the car on and when I started to give it a test drive the battery was dead and I haven't replaced it yet. My older cousin is getting her nephew the smaller scale for his birthday I think. He was fascinated with my bigger one but only got to drive inside the house and hasn't been able to find one for himself. The poor kid is deprived cos he don't own an RC General Lee hopefully we can correct that soon. B.L.