James Duke

Having been completely worn out from the day before and from his injury, Bo remained sound asleep, not even aware anyone was awake. Even the sun shining on him, didn't wake him.

During his journey, Bo had ended up hitting his head when he fell down an embankment, causing him to get amnesia. Walking up to the house, Bo looked around, then sat on the porch, curling up and going to sleep.

Cooter took up residence on the couch, soon sound asleep. Luke went to his own room, but took a little longer to go to sleep.

"Be sure you kids don't stay up to late." Jesse said. "I'm going on to bed now."

Jesse wasn't all that hungry himself, but knew if he let the kids see exactly how worried he was, they would worry even more. Besides that, he knew they needed to keep up their strength for finding Bo.

When the kids were all seated, Jesse said grace, adding in a bit extra, hoping to find Bo soon. Afterwards, he sat down and started to put food on the kids plates.

Luke watched her go, then got up and followed. He waited his turn outside the bathroom door, going inside when Daisy came out. After he was cleaned up, Luke headed to the kitchen and sat at the table.

Jesse shook his head at the two, then headed inside to start setting the table.

"Well, get inside. After dinner, you two can sleep here tonight. I'll call your dad to let him know, Cooter." Jesse said.

Jesse watched the two, an eyebrow raised. "What in tarnation are you two doing?"

"Kids, go get washed up for dinner." Jesse said, stepping out onto the porch.

Hanging up the phone, Jesse went to get the kids ready for dinner, knowing there wasn't anything else they could do at the moment.

"Thank you Rosco...you don't know how thankful I am." Jesse said.

"My little nephew...Bo." Jesse replied.

"Rosco, this is Jesse Duke...I need to file a missing person's report..." Jesse said, the worry and concern clear in his voice.

Luke hugged her back, fighting his own tears. Jesse watched the kids sadly.

Jesse nodded some. "I'm calling Rosco." He said, heading inside.

Luke hated to admit it, but Cooter was right. A short time later, Jesse walked out, looking more worried.

Luke followed after him, Jesse following Luke. Halfway in, Jesse split up from the boys to resume searching.

"Lori, we need to find Bo." Jesse said firmly.

The boys and Jesse watched the skunk go, then shook their heads. "Your revenge will have to wait." Jesse said. "We need to find Bo."

"That is so sad!" Luke laughed.

"Lets go check it out. They might be in trouble." Luke said, taking off running in the direction the screams came from.

"Hey! Watch it!" Luke said, frowning some. "We can't find Bo if we're killing each other with branches."

"Might be crazy, but I ain't dumb." Luke smirked.