B.L. Davenport

B.L had decided to come see Luke herself and to check on Dixie she just missed Lori in the hall but had stepped off the elevator and was coming toward Luke's room just in time to hear Bo's outburst. She couldn't agree with him more.

I'm gonna take a guess here because I have no idea on the last two lol Hector Farley Hogg's Friendly Fertilizer Company Plainville Road

Dixie heard Luke and woke up and got out of his bed going back to hers. She turned on her side facing away from Luke she had thought maybe she'd got somewhere last night but now she wasn't sure. He was still trying to hold onto both her and Lori. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lori went on to her appointment...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A few minutes later a nurse with a wheelchair came to take Dixie for her tests. "Mrs. Duke I'm here to take you for your tests." Dixie nodded and got up getting in the wheelchair and the nurse wheeled her out Luke watching.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back in hazzard the rest of the Dukes and Davenports........ "Mrs. Duke, I'm here to take you for your tests.

Dixie arrived in the hospital and went in Luke's room, sitting Jesse down he ran over to the bed smiling "DADDY!!" Luke smiled and ruffled his hair "Hi son."

Luke didn't exactly believe it but guessed why she looked so sick. He reached beside him stroking little Luke's brunette curls away from his face.

Suddenly B.L jumped up and headed for the restroom. This would be the end to her peaceful day. Making it just in time she leaned over the toilet upchucking, her abdominal muscles were starting to get sore from all this throwing up she couldn't remember ever being this sick in her life and it had so far been every day with no relief in sight. She didn't remember Dixie being this sick with Jesse or Beth with her five kids, they had both had good days and bad so far all of B.L's had been bad. After a few minutes when she hadn't come back Konrad followed her holding back her hair and rubbing her back. "Ya gonna be alright B?" B.L shook her head wiping her mouth and mumbled "Morning sickness is god's cruel joke on expectant mothers. I will never laugh at Dixie and Beth again." Konrad wet a wash cloth giving it to her and helped her sit on the edge of the bathtub. Leaning forward with her head in her hands B.L closed her eyes hoping the neausa would pass sooner today instead of lasting all day again. As another wave of sickness caused her to throw up again she knew that her hopes were dashed she'd be sick most of the day........

When the nurse came back out of Luke's room Bo and Cooter went in. Bo could see the pain etched in Luke's face and asked "You alright cousin?" Luke nodded 'yes' that he was ok trying to ignore the pain and get it to ease off. "Hey Lucas" Cooter said, he was glad that Luke wasn't hurt more seriously than he was. What he wasn't too happy about though was the way Luke kept dangling both Lori and Dixie on a chain like a couple of toys. So when he got through playing with one he could play with the other. Cooter spoke again breaking the akward silence. "Dixie said ya was gonna be alright, that's good ta hear." Luke nodded and said quietly "Yeah.....sure don't feel like it right now though." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back at the farm Jesse and Dixie had arrived and while Jesse was doing some things outside Dixie went back in the house to do the things she had to do before Little Jesse got home from school. Dixie sat down on the couch after a while for a breather she felt tired today more tired than she could remember feeling when she'd been pregnant with little Jesse......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over at the Davenport farm B.L. and Konrad were just spending some quality time together. Usually Konrad would be at the garage helping Cooter but B.L had told both him and Cooter in no uncertain terms that while Lori was hanging around there Konrad would not be there without her tagging along. Maybe she was being silly she thought but fact was she wasn't sure she trusted Lori around her husband. "Ya think Luke,Dixie and Lori will ever get this mess worked out?" she asked Konrad leaning back against his chest as they sat in the recliner together. Konrad kissed the side of her head and said.... "I don't know, but it ain't our problem." B.L snorted and said "Is too our problem it's everybody in both families problem, they're our cousins."

In the waitingroom the others waited for word on Luke. After Dixie had got her cry out and had composed herself she and Bo joined the others in the waitingroom. Jesse looked to them seeing that Dixie had been crying and asked. "Isi it bad?" Dixie shook her head and said "His right leg is broke and they're doing surgery to set it but he should be ok in about 8 weeks the doctor said."......

Everyone smiled to her keeping their comments to themselves. Jesse hugged BL and Konrad both.... "Congradulations you two, so when's the little bundle of joy due?" BL thought and calculated in her mind just when the baby might be due and told them. Daisy moved over by BL and Konrad and gave BL a hug... "Congradulations honey" next she hugged Konrad and whispered to him "Congradulations bro." Konrad returned the hug kissing Daisy's cheek lightly "Thanks sis." Letting go of Daisy he wrapped his arm around B.L.'s shoulders.

Everyone at the hospital was waiting for word on Luke. It was one of the worst kind of waits not knowing anything except that he was hurt that's all Dixie had said on her way out the door. BL and Konrad look at everyone in the waiting room and BL says... "Well we were gonna tell ya'll our news after dinner." Jesse looked at them... "Hope it's good news we could all sure use some right now." Konrad smiled and took BL's hand they looked at the family gathered in the waitingroom and said in unison. "We're gonna have a baby!" Jesse and everyone............

A short while later a car could be heard pulling up and a minute later B.L and Konrad came in the door going straight to the kitchen where Jesse,Daisy and Dixie were preparing dinner, BL wading in and helping told Jesse...... "Uncle Jesse why don't you go on in the livingroom with Konrad I'll help the girls in here." Uncle Jesse nodded and left the kitchen leaving it to the women. Alot of chattering could be heard going on as they prepared the meal, sunday's after church was always like this the kids running around screaming and the adults chattering making the decible level in the old farm house a dull roar. About 45 minutes later they were putting the food on the table and setting it. Today they were having fried chicken with all the trimmings. BL went to call the kids, Jesse and Konrad to the table. Just as they were about to sit down another vehicle pulled up with one behind that it was..........

BL put her arm around Dixie guessing how her morning had went much the same as BL's had gone. She whispered. "Don't feel bad Dix, Konrad almost had to get the pliers to zip me up this morning." Dixie giggled she could just see B.L's dress not fitting and Konrad trying to zip it with a pair of pliers. B.L grinned seeing that her admission had helped Dixie's feeling a little, she continued. "I still can't breathe deep if I do the whole thing's gonna bust wide open." Konrad kissed the side of B.L's head with an amused snort it had been funny watching her struggle with the zipper before throwing her hands up in the air in defeat before he'd helped her. Just then Lulu spotted B.L and Konrad and came back over to congradulate them on their news. "congradulations you two I heard you were expecting also." B.L nodded putting a hand on her stomach wishing she could unzip this blasted dress and take a deep breath. "Thank you, found out just the other day." Lulu smiled and congradulated them again walking away as soon as she was gone B.L. and Konrad being the last of the Dukes there got in the car to head home and change out of their sunday best. B.L. sighed thinking about the sermon. "Poor Lori." Konrad looked at her with a raised eyebrow only to get a mean look back "Don't give me that look, I do have a heart ya know, she's my cousin even if we do fight like cats and dogs most of the time." Konrad chuckled softly leaned over and kissed her cheek before starting the car heading home. "Let's go home your starting to turn a nice shade of purple from lack of a deep breath." B.L. just rolled her eyes at him as they headed out of town she looked at the Garage seeing Lori's managers car and Midnight and the wrecker she wondered if Lori had killed her manager and Cooter was disposing of the body.

Luke went over to Lori putting his hands on her arms rubbing up and down slowly. "Lori I......." Lori jerked away from his touch still peeved "DON'T TOUCH ME!" Cooter came back in the garage to get something and heard Lori still sounding like she was in a rant. He went up the inside stairs and found them. "Hey Lucas why doncha come on down here and help me out fer a while let her cool off." Luke sighed and nodded following Cooter back down to the garage below.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back at the farm BL and Konrad were just leaving to go over to the Duke farm to tell Uncle Jesse the news of their impending little arrival.....

Luke bit his lip he hadn't exactly figured out how much he was going to say but in that moment when Lori told him if he loved her he'd tell blew it all. "I called Dixie last night we met out at still site 6 to talk. All we did was talk honest! I just wanted to talk to her and see her that's all and when I told her you was pregnant again she got mad and left." Luke looked down sadly he had hoped the meeting would go better than it had. He loved Dixie with everything in him and Little Jesse too but then there was Lori and Little Luke too....

The next morning BL came into the kitchen getting herself a soda and some saltines looking like something the cat dragged in she'd been up sick off and on all night. Cooter watched her get the soda and crackers then slump down at the table. He knew she'd went to see Doc yesterday about not feeling good lately. "You alright cuz?" he asked as she opened the soda taking a sip. Nodding BL smiled a little and looked at Cooter saying. "Yeah I'm ok, just pregnant." Cooter went slack jawed, shell shocked his mind racing all three Davenport women pregnant at one time, heaven help Hazzard he thought.

Lori nodded a little and said quietly "yeah" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dixie dialed the number and it rang and rang before it was answered by BL as she passed on her way to apologize to Konrad for being so mean to him because Lori had took a dig at her in the Doctor's office when she found out BL was pregnant. "Hello" Dixie could tell BL had been crying about something and sounded a little down. "What's the matter honey? she asked concerned BL sighed thinking to herself here it came.....

B.L meanwhile was still in hers and Konrad's room cussing a blue streak an occasional crash heard as she threw whatever was handy at the wall. After a while Konrad peeked in to check on her because things had gotten quiet he'd been able to hear the crashes from the front porch. The minute he cracked the door a shoe came his way..... "ARGH!!! MEN!" BL screeched as she threw the shoe which narrowly missed Konrad's head as he closed the door back before it hit him. "B calm down please" came Konrad's muffled reply through the door he wasn't going to chance opening it again and getting beamed upside the head with a lamp or something. "GO AWAY" another object hit the door......he turned and went back into the livingroom and sank down on the couch to wait for her temper to cool.

BL stomped out of the doctor's office getting back in the car Konrad following her at a safe distance he didn't want to get to close in case she decided to let him have it. The ride home was silent BL cussing under her breath the whole way. Dixie would just love this as soon as she found out after what BL had said to her the other day she wouldn't let BL hear the end of it. Once back at the farm BL still hadn't said a word just got out of the car and stomped toward the house. It wasn't that she didn't want the baby she did but it had ruffled her feathers to know that Lori had been there to rub it in her face. Konrad followed her in the house and asked. "Are you alright sweetheart?" BL turned to him her eyes blazing and said through gritted teeth stressing every single syllable. "No I am not alright and it's your fault!" Konrad looked at her his mouth falling open then he chuckled and said "Now sweetheart it takes two to tango and you were willing." that made B.L. even madder she couldn't see straight she was so mad, stomping to their room and slamming the bedroom door shouting "DON'T GO TO SLEEP KONRAD YOU MIGHT WAKE UP A GELDING!!!" With those words Konrad slunk out of the house thinking it best to leave her be for a while. Cooter raised up from under the car's hood that he was working on and said. "Will do Lucas." He had heard Lori's threat he was just glad it wasn't him she'd been threatening because she just might go through with it. Cooter was sure glad he didn't have to live with a pregnant woman unknown to him that BL had been to see Doc and she was pregnant too.

Cooter looked at Konrad with raised eyebrows as BL fled to the bathroom. Wondering if she was coming down with something. Konrad shook his head and followed BL to make sure she was ok he could hear her being violently sick before he ever reached the bathroom door. Going in he held her hair back until she managed to get stomach under control then helped her up so she could rinse out her mouth. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next morning Dixie was sure glad that Luke (or anyone) had the boys. She wasn't sure she could face a breakfast table. Jumping up she ran to the bathroom getting sick. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was then that Little Luke and Jesse woke up and ready for the DAY! They came bounding down into the garage and asked Luke excitedly.....

Luke didn't answer Lori however except for a soft snore he'd fallen asleep from the long hard day he'd had with it's early start this morning with the wrecker call for Sheriff Little. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BL was not having a good morning she felt terrible after peeing she had started to throw up and hadn't stopped for the last five minutes. Konrad wandered into the bathroom hearing her throw up and knelt down beside her holding back her hair. "You alright darlin?" he asked tenderly. BL shook her head and then threw up again from the motion. The room swam and tilted crazily. "I don't feel so good think I'll go back to bed." Standing up BL's legs wobbled as the room spun, Konrad catching her before she fell picked her up and carried her back to the bed bringing her a cold wash cloth to put on her forehead. Once she was settled he went to the kitchen to find her something to settle her stomach. Back at the Duke farm............

BL smirked "are you sure it's not partly psychological?" Bo was doubled over laughing by now, BL threw a pillow at Bo hitting him in the head. "Shut up Bo." Bo stood up and kept the pillow out of BL's reach! "Beth could ya hurry and get those things before she kills me with a flying missle."

Luke sighed feeling bad that he wasn't there with her while she wasn't feeling well. Bo heard the sigh and said "You alright cousin?" Luke thought about it before answering "Yeah, just tell Dix i said hope she feels better."

Luke went to work on Elmer Matlock's car that needed an oil change he would be by to pick it up in a little while. The garage was relatively quiet except for the clanking of tools as the two Davenport cousins and Luke worked on the cars that was there. Little Luke in the meantime had woke up again and was sitting in his bedroom floor playing with his toys glad his Mama hadn't made him go to school today. He really didn't like that place one bit. He would have been down in the garage pestering the adults to let him help them work on cars if he'd known his Daddy was down there.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth stopped him in mid sentence "It IS working just give it time." BL feeling a little irritable and like she was coming down with something muttered. "If it is working then how come Luke still ain't here with is wife."

At the garage the alarm had been going off for nearly and hour now. Luke hadn't made it back from the wrecker call for Sheriff Little so wasn't there to wake them. Cooter walked in the garage humming "Camptown Races" when he heard the alarm and shouted up the stairs. "Lori get up Little Luke's gonna be late for school!" Lori however was in no mood to get up this morning either and groaned rolling over pulling the cover over her head until it registered the alarm was going off and then she jumped out of bed running to get Little Luke up. "little Luke wake up ya gonna be late for school." Little Luke....... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dixie however didn't make it to inside the house and the bathroom before she threw up. Beth went over to her friend holding her hair back from her face while she was sick. BL pulled up at the farm seeing Dixie bent over in the yard with Beth holding her hair and she got out going to see what was going wrinkling her nose saying. "Now see this is why I'm not pregnant I don't enjoy tossing my cookies that well to do it everyday." Beth............

Lori said "i don't usually have time to wait on him to dilly dally picking them up so I do it." Luke sighed frustrated and answered back "Well how is he ever gonna learn responsibility if you do it for him? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dixie told them about school and little Jesse wanting Luke and how he'd left anyway with a promise to come visit little Jesse. This made all of them a little perturbed that Luke could just leave and go with Lori leaving little Jesse crying for his Daddy. BL had dropped by to ask Dixie how her plan was going and to hear about little Jesse's first day of school she nearly came unglued hearing about school and little Jesse wanting Luke but Luke still left to her that was about the lowest thing he could have done to leave his child crying for him to go with another woman and his other child he barely knew.