Double Duke Trouble

[BoJamesDuke]

Bo didn't lift his head from the pillow, but nodded in response. He wasn't used to giving up so eaisly either, but he just couldn't continue putting up such a hard fight against everything. He'd just start having to accept this was how his life was going to be. Who knows, it may even get so bad that he couldn't do anything but lay in bed, constantly drained of energy until everntually he just shut down.

He had heard of illnesses like that before, and it scared him to death to think that that was how it was going to be....but there was nothing he could do to stop it...

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke sighed silently at Bo's nod he seemed to be truly giving up. Like someone just waiting to die and that scared Luke more than he wanted to admit to himself or anyone else. He just wanted to shake Bo and tell him to get his butt out of that bed and start living again the best he could,but remembering what Uncle Jesse said about just being there and letting Bo decide whether to fight or not and if so when Luke gets up and lays down on his own bed rolling on his side to face the door his back to Bo he'd help Bo anyway he could but he wasn't going to watch him die that was just too much.

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy dished out the food and set it on the table,noticing how wierd it felt to not have Bo under her feet, taking little scraps of food and begging her for little tastes of everything.

She looked up to Jesse and B.L

"Alright foods ready....which one of us is goin' ta tell the boys?"

[B.L. Davenport]

Jesse puts the newspaper down on the table beside his chair

"I'll get 'em"

Knocking on the door Jesse then sticks his head inside seeing both boys seemingly asleep he almost backs out of the room but on the off chance they are awake he sticks his head back around the door frame

"Daisy says supper's ready"

With that he goes back down the hall to join Daisy and B.L. in the kitchen

"They's looked asleep but I don't know for sure if they weren't they'll be here in a second."

Luke swings his legs off the bed standing not really hungry but knowing Uncle Jesse doesn't let them skip meals unless they are sick because mealtime is family time. Lightly slapping Bo's leg knowing he's not asleep just not moving.

"C'mon Bo let's eat"

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy nodded and sat at her space, waiting for the boys to come join them.

Bo rolled onto his side and slowly pushed himself to sitting, grabbing the bedside table and using it to hoist him to his feet, swaying slightly on the spot before using wall and bed to help him out the room and down the corridor to the table.

[B.L. Davenport]

B.L. sits across from Daisy waiting for the boys as Jesse takes his place at the head of the table.

Luke's insides knot up even more as he watches Bo. He's just totally given up in the last few hours and is getting weaker by the minute. Walking quickly to catch up to Bo Luke takes his arm as they go down the hall together before he ends up falling again. In the kitchen he makes sure Bo is settled in his place, before taking his own seat beside Daisy.

They all bow their heads as Jesse gives thanks for the food and prays for Bo's continued recovery the change not having been missed by him either.

[BoJamesDuke]

Bo gave a small smile of thanks to Luke as he came and helped him to his place, bowing his head along with everyone else as they said grace, feeling kind of low seeing as he didnt really see a whole lot of point praying to someone he didnt really believe was there anymore.

He picked up his utensils and slowly began eating, not really having much of an appitite but not wanting to get a whole lecture from any of them for not eating enough.

Daisy watched from the corner of her eye, a little concerned at the change in Bo and the fact that he doesn't really seem to be eating either. She doesn't let him see this though, only looks slightly to Luke and Jesse as she eats.

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke shakes his head slightly he still don't have a clue what brought on the sudden change he truly thought after the visit to the cabin and Bo came to terms that it was really all over that things had been so much better but ever since doing chores and falling he'd been uncaring.

Jesse smiles reassuringly at both of them he's sure Bo will pull out of it and start to fight again it's been a long hard battle for his youngest nephew and Bo's tired is all Jesse believes is wrong.

B.L. looks at Uncle Jesse then Daisy and Luke as they all eat in silence meals are usually filled with good natured teasing and laughter at the Duke farm this silence is eerie. Watching Bo out of the corner of her eye for a minute she frowns as she notices he's more or less pushing the food around on his plate to make it look like he's actually eating more than he is.

[BoJamesDuke]

Eventually bo put down his utensils and sat back in his chair, gently rubbing his temple as he felt a headache starting to come on again. He laid the other arm across his stomach and closed his eyes.

Daisy looked over, seeing that Bo had really hardly eaten anything, which was so very unusual for him.

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke looks up as Bo's utensils bump his plate with a soft ping. A worried frown crosses his face as he watches Bo rub his temple and the other arm go across his stomach, looking at Uncle Jesse.

B.L. too watches Bo from the corner of her eye starting to really get worried about him he's quiet and withdrawn along with not eating.

Jesse too looks over at Bo concerned instantly thinking with his weak immune system he'd caught something by the way he was holding his stomach and rubbing his temple.

"Bo son why don't you go lay back down and rest a while ok"

[BoJamesDuke]

Bo looked up at Jesse and nodded gently at his gently issued command, breathing in as he pushed himself to his feet, using the chair and table for support and stumbling back down the hallway to his room, weakly flopping onto his bed, stripping slowly down to his boxers and crawling beneath the sheets, turning onto his front and laying his head across folded arms, vaguly remembering he should really take his antibiotics but now he didnt really see the point as he drifted off to sleep.

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke watches Bo leave the room before turning back to look at Uncle Jesse venting his inner most thoughts

"See he's getting worse again it's as if he's waiting to die"

B.L. gasps sharply at Luke's comment

"Lucas Duke!!!!"

Luke looks over at her sadly

"I'm sorry sweetheart but tha truth is tha truth"

B.L. just glares at him but in the back of her mind she knows he might be right

Uncle Jesse looks at the three remaining young people at the table doing his best to give them all a reassuring look.

"I think Bo's just tired he may be coming down with a bug ya know his immune system ain't upto par right now either"

Luke wishes he could believe Uncle Jesse but he just don't think he can.

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy bit her bottom lip, after seeing Bo like this, she wasn't sure what to believe anymore.

"Luke lets just get to Doc Appleby's and get that syringe sent off....please...."

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke stands heading for the door with Daisy hot on his heels

"Good idea"

B.L. is quick to leave her own chair catching up with the two cousins

"Wait for me I'm comin too"

Jesse follows them out to the yard watching with a worried frown as the three tear away from the farm in the General Lee. Going back inside he notices Bo's antibiotics on the counter and remembers that the young man didn't take them at supper. Getting a glass of water and the pills Jesse walks down the wearily. Seeing Bo asleep Jesse hates to wake him but he needs the medication,sitting the items on the bedside table he sits down on the edge of Bo's bed gently trying to coax him awake.

"Bo c'mon wake up for me ya fergot to take your antibiotics,then ya can go back to sleep."

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy rides shotgun next to Luke, noticing how tense he was in the seat, which was unusual when he was driving the General. She sighed and bit her lip nervously looking out the window at the scenery wooshing by.

Bo groaned and bearily opened his eyes, blinking a couple of times before pushing himself into sitting, leaning against the headboard, waiting his eyes dropping back closed for the pills and water.

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke is so busy concentrating on getting the syringe to Doc Appleby that he doesn't take the usual pleasure in his surrounding or even that there are two more occupants in the car his only thoughts are getting to town so they can find out what's wrong with Bo.

B.L. sits in the back seat looking out the back glass lost in her own thoughts not yet understanding how Bo went from doing so good to being so sick again.

Jesse shakes Bo's shoulder gently as he notices Bo drifting back to sleep placing the pill in his hand Jesse holds the water to Bo's lips as he finishes washing down the pills Jesse sits the glass back on the table helping Bo to settle once more in the bed kissing his temple whispering before creeping from the room silently

"Sleep tight Bo...I love you"

[BoJamesDuke]

As Daisy watched the scenery go by, her thoughts were mainly on the two guys now sitting in Atlanta Penitentairy. How could they have done this to Bo? How could anyone do this to anybody else?

Bo swallowed the pills and the soothing water, sinking gratefully back in between the sheets to the position he was in before Jesse had woken him up. He smiled slightly as Jesse pressed a kiss to his aching temple and whispered back

" I love you too"

Before slipping into a darkness that he wasn't entirly sure was sleep, more than unconciousness. All he knew was that it was inviting.

[B.L. Davenport]

B.L. tires of watching the scenery they pass out the back glass so turns back to the front. Slumping in the seat she leans her head back to rest on the seat closing her eyes. It makes B.L.'s blood boil to think of all the pain the men in the Atlanta Penetintery have caused her friends.

Jesse slips from the room leaving Bo to sleep. As soon as he's returned the glass and pills to the kitchen he goes back to reading the newspaper wiating for Luke and the two girls to get home.

[BoJamesDuke]

She sighed as they quickly found themselves outside Doc Appleby's, not entirly sure that she wanted to do this anymore. What if Bo really was so sick he was dying?

[B.L. Davenport]

Luke climbs out the driver's side window his feet hitting the pavement outside Doc Appleby's with a soft thump. Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly stilling his nerves for the things ahead.

B.L. climbs out the driver's window behind Luke putting her arm around Luke's waist giving him as much moral support as she can as they wait for Daisy. When she joins them B.L. puts her other arm around Daisy walking between her two friends as they make their way to the door.

Inside Luke asks the receptionist if Doc Appleby's busy when told no they three of them go into the doctor's office.

"Doc can we talk to ya a minute?"

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy was thankful for her friends support, she didn't know if she would have been able to go through with what she had promised Luke she would do for him if she hadn't.

She walked into the Doc's office, one hand reaching for Luke's as they walked inside, half smiling back at the doctor as he looked up and smiled back at them.

[B.L. Davenport]

Doc Appleby stands behind his desk hands clasped behind his back as the three young people enter the office.

"Sure Luke what can I do for ya? How's Bo?

Luke grasps Daisy's hand behind B.L.'s back as they enter the doctor's private office. B.L. wraps an arm around each of her friends as she stands between them. Digging the syringe out of his pocket he puts it on the deks unwrapping it.

"Bo ain't doing so hot he's gettin bad again...."

Handing the syringe to Doc Appleby Luke continues

"Can ya send this to Hotlanta ta be analyzed ta see what was in it? I think it might tell us what was injected into Bo that's made him so sick."

Doc examines the syringe for a moment then looks back at the two Dukes and B.L.

"Sure I'd be happy to and I sure hope it works out and we can get Bo back ta bein Bo."

Luke nods as he squeezes Daisy's hand thankful for her support he still isn't sure he could go through this alone.

"Thanks Doc"

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy nodded and squeezed Luke's hand before quietly blurting out.

"Doc he's got real bad again....please could you come over and take a look at him....he's suddenly become so weak again and he has headaches....please....just so we know what to do...."

[B.L. Davenport]

Doc Appleby smiles at Daisy kindly

"I'll come over first thing in the morning ok. Don't worry we'll get this all figured out."

Luke's glad Daisy asked the Doc to come out he'll feel alot better himself after Bo's checked over even if there's nothing much can be done right now.

"Thanks Doc,we'll see ya first thing in the mornin."

The doctor shakes all of their hands giving them each an encouraging smile but his heart isn't in it. He doesn't know what it'll do to this family if he can't find out what's wrong with Bo and get him well.

[BoJamesDuke]

Daisy nodded and smiled thankfully, wishing that actually he could actually come over now and put at least a little worry to rest. But she didn't say so, only turned with Luke and B.L to head back outside to the General.