Author's Note: This story was thought out while me and a friend was having our movie night, and she requested a story that would hold all the Dukes in it. It took some doing, but here they are, every single Duke that I know off, and a bunch of Davenports as well. I hope you all will enjoy it.

Warning: The warning is placed here for vinsmouse, who wanted a spew warning here, claiming it might be a bad idea to drink while reading the funnier parts. So please keep in mind that drinking any kind of beverage while reading this, might be hazzard'ous to the health of your screen.

Disclaimer: The Duke Boys are not mine, I don't own the Duke boys, nor the General Lee. I promise that once I'm through with them, there will be nothing broken that a trip to Cooter's garage can't fix….

A Fine Mess of Dukes

Chapter 1: And So They Gather

"Boss, how come yer so happy?" Rosco asked cautiously as he saw the grin on Boss Hogg's face.

"Because Rosco, the lovely and gracious Loretta Lynn is out on a tour, and I just found out she is going to stop by here." Boss grinned. "I reckon she remembers how I saved her from them kidnappers and wants to show her gratitude."

"Oh, I bet she does," Rosco cooed happily.

"And if that's the case, we can use that," Boss grinned as he could hear the cash box clinking in his head. "Rosco, we are going to make some money here."

"How?" Rosco wanted to know.

"She's a country girl ain't she, always wanting to help everyone else," Boss stated. "So while she's here, were gonna ask her to play to raise money to the Hazzard county orphanage, girls like her always wanna do things like that."

"But how's that gonna make us money?" Rosco asked unable to make the connection.

"Because, the money we raise are gonna be stolen," Boss stated with his eyes gleaming.

"Oh, I love that," Rosco grinned. "Stolen by whom?"

Boss refused to get side tracked, he had a money raising opportunity and was going to make certain he raised money for himself.

"Anything good in the mail?" Bo asked as he came in through the kitchen door and dipped his hand into the jar on the counter, fishing out a chocolate chip cookie.

"Checking, anything good in the cookie jar?" Luke didn't even bother to look at his cousin as he went through the few envelopes. There was the usual number of bills, a couple of letters for Daisy, car magazine for Bo, and a letter for him. Passing the magazine over his shoulder he opened the letter.

"Hey, it's from Jud," he grinned as soon as he saw who it was that was writing him.

"What's he say?" Bo dropped his magazine to read over Luke's shoulder as he read through the letter. "He's coming here?" Luke's little brother Jud had only been to the farm twice so far, both times it had been surprise visits as he had found himself close by. Now it seemed he had planned in a visit and was letting them know in advance.

"Yeah," Luke didn't bother to scold him for reading his letter. It wasn't as if Bo would care, and it wasn't like he cared that he did it either.

The rest of the family was just as excited to hear that Jud was coming by, and that wasn't just Jesse, Daisy and Cooter. Once Daisy had let Coy and Vance know, they declared that they were gonna come for a visit as well, and Jeb-Stuart with them since neither of them had met Jud before but were all eager to. After all, Jud Kane, as ironic as it might sound, was a Duke just the same as them. Cooter in turn leaked that news out to his own cousins, L.B and B.B and they quickly decided that it might be a good time to drop by as well. Grinning Cooter figured it was the perfect time for a complete family reunion and invited his own daughter. As he told the others, that way, everyone would be able to meet everyone else, and then everyone would know each others and that should make things a lot easier in the future.

It was hard to say who was the most excited, but it might just have been about everyone because no one arrived when they had said they would. Jeb-Stuart showed up about three days early with Coy and Vance in tow. In spite of Jeb using his old motorbike the boys just wasn't able to pass him on the narrow road. By that time, B.B and L.B was already in town and helping out with the garage. The not to large establishment was quite crowded, thought it did seem to mean that no car stayed there long as there was plenty of people who could work on each car.

Nancy-Lou hadn't been sure exactly which day she would come, but Daisy was ready for her. They had decided that with Cooter's two cousins there, the Davenport farm was going to be a bit too much of a bachelor's paradise for her, and so Daisy had offered to share her room with the young girl.

The last one to get there was Jud, but when he did the farm was quickly crowding over. Luke was the first one out to greet his brother, he and Bo had purposely kept to the farm rather than tear up the roads in their free time, just to make sure that they would be there when he finally arrived. Bo had enjoyed the waiting time as it gave him an opportunity to tease his cousin for being impatient.

Sleeping arrangements was simple, boys in the boys room, and with Nancy-Lou with Daisy, that was it. Jesse had sent the boys out boar hunting and Jud was greeted by a real Duke style barbeque, to which the Davenports had contributed beer and plates. Knowing from some of Jesse's complaints that only six plates had survived the Duke boys childhood years.

"Is it just me, or are there more of ya this time?" Jud asked as Luke released him from the first welcome hug and he looked around.

"There's a few here you ain't met yet," Luke admitted. "But it's all family. Them two over there's Coy an' Vance, they're yer cousins."

"They kinda remind me of someone else," Jud grinned as he noticed a few similarities between his older brother, Bo, and now the second pair of teamed up cousins.

"The fella over there is Jeb-Stuart Duke," Luke went on as Coy and Vance had moved in to great him. "He's a bit strange, don't really take to cars, I think they's got more wheels than he can handle so he keeps to his bike instead." He laughed as Jeb shook hands with Jud before pulling him in for a hug, then tackled Luke to the ground as a revenge for the insult.

Nancy-Lou who had just arrived with the Davenport cousins looked a bit worried by the rough housing. They had quickly learnt that she wasn't used to anything like that, but she was adapting quite well and had realized that things in Hazzard just wasn't like most other places.

"He's our favorite boy cousin," Luke grinned as he and Jeb climbed back to their feet.

"I already know that greasy one," Jud grinned at Cooter. "Sure has got one pretty little lady with him."

"Nice to see ya again Jud, the little lady's Nancy-Lou an' she's my daughter so ya had better watch yerself."

"Yer serious?" Jud teased. "She's way to pretty to be yer daughter." He grinned as he shook her hand. "Pleasure to meet ya Nancy-Lou."

"It's fun to meet Daddy's friends," Nancy-Lou told him. "He's a good man, even if he is a bit dirty," she added just to tease her father.

B.B and L.B introduced themselves and by then Jesse was calling them all to eat. The wooden table outside the house was covered in food, but there was no place there to sit and eat, so everyone just found a spot on the ground to sit.

"Here Nancy-Lou," Cooter smiled as he spread a blanket out on the ground for her and Daisy. "So ya won't have to get that purty dress dirty."

"Thanks Daddy," she kissed him on the cheek before dropping down on the blanket where Jesse joined the two girls, claiming the right of age to a comfortable spot.

"I had no idea I was from such a big family," Jud confided in Luke as they found their own spot to enjoy their dinner in.

"Don't get like this very often," Luke explained to him. "Most off the time, it's kinda dull, but all the others wanted to meet ya, so when they heard ya were coming, they dropped by as well."

"I used to think that I didn't have any family except my mother," Jud admitted. "It wasn't too bad, but I kinda like this."

Luke darkened a bit at the mentioning of Jud's mother. True, the woman had never meant no harm, and she had raised Jud well and treated him good. She had never really done any harm except when she took him from the hospital during the fire, and Luke knew that if she hadn't done that, his little brother would have died in the fire as he was believed to have done. Yet it was hard for him to have any kinder thoughts for the woman who had taken his baby brother.

"I'm here now Luke," Jud whispered and Luke nodded. Yeah, Jud was there with them now, and he was happy for it.

"Best thing with a big family is ya always know that someone will be there for ya," Bo offered up as he stole a chicken club from Luke's plate. It might look like an act of greed and hunger, but it was really a well calculated act for Luke's sake. No one knew Luke as well as Bo did, and he made use of it whenever he got into one of the darker moods he was sometimes prone to. Bo was convinced his cousin was just too serious sometimes.

"Give that back!" Luke demanded in mock anger. The rest of the family was in festive mood leaning towards slightly rowdy, and he let that feeling come over him as Bo made a big affair out of eating the piece of chicken. Jesse let them go on and fool around as Luke started chasing after Bo.

Nancy-Lou gave a startled yelp as they ran almost on top of her, and Cooter simply stuck out his foot and tripped them. Bo crashed to the ground, and Luke was unable to stop, coming down on top of him while Cooter calmly kept laughing as if he had no idea what had happened.

"Better watch yourself there," Jeb called out as he refilled his plate.

"Might be better to watch Cooter," Bo grinned as he brushed the dirt from his jeans. "Uncle Jesse, are we having any desert?"

"What makes ya think we would?" Jesse asked smiling to himself.

"The fact that there're two chocolate cakes on the counter in the kitchen," Vance pointed out. "They sure do look like desert."

"Chocolate cake?" Jud shone up. He remembered his uncle's cooking from his previous visits, but he had not yet gotten his chocolate cake, and he was sure looking forward to it.

Daisy followed Coy and Vance inside to bring out everything and soon they were all seated with the desert. The two cakes had looked awful big when they were brought out, but since most of the people gathered were hungry boys with a seemingly endless appetite it didn't take long before only crumbs remained.

"Looks like the dishes are left for us," Daisy giggled to Nancy-Lou as she regarded the boys. None of them looked quite ready to wash dishes as they were all stretched out and half asleep in the yard.

Bo and Jeb had made an attempt to be the young and cute ones and picked a cousin each to use as a pillow, which meant that Coy and Vance was effectively pinned down, especially since Coy had Jeb's head pillowed on his belly and was leaning against Vance, using his shoulder for the same purpose. Luke and Jud had their heads together on the ground and were talking quietly with each other, making up for lost time no doubt.

Cooter and his two cousins was sitting and tossing various small twigs and pebbles towards the boys under the oak tree to see if they could disturb them enough to get up. Bo, Coy and Jeb were all three too used to similar things that their older cousins might do, and Vance was too pinned down to bother about it.

Later that evening Jesse made them mugs of hot chocolate before they went to bed, and then the boys spread out. Cooter took L.B and B.B with him home, but Nancy-Lou stayed at the Duke farm to share Daisy's room. The rest of the boys bunked in Bo and Luke's room and Jesse didn't bother to wonder how they determined who'd get a bed and who'd have to settle for sleeping bags on the floor. He simply told them that he wanted quiet in ten minutes and then closed the door as they were preparing to bed down.

"I'll flip ya for it," Bo offered Vance as he stood beside his so far not taken bed. Jud had taken Luke's after Luke pressed him to do it, and Coy was already in his sleeping bag.

"Don't think I'll bother to," Vance grinned.

"Don't mind if I take it then?" Bo grinned, not having looked forward to sleeping on the floor.

"I don't, Luke might," Vance chuckled and headed for his sleeping bag.

"What?" Bo frowned as he turned around and saw Luke in his bed.

"Night cousin, get the light will ya?" Luke grinned.

"Yer not gonna pull that again," Bo warned, he hadn't noticed Luke claiming the bed, but Luke could move really quiet when he wanted. It was easier to sleep on the floor than to fight him for it, so he turned off the light, stumbled on Jeb, stepped on Coy, managed to hit Luke and then find his sleeping bag over in the far corner, grinning to himself over the muttered insults his cousins uttered in the darkness.

TBC

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