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Ok, so chapter 3. Nothin really super special happens here. It's not one of my best works, but I think it works alright with were I'm going.

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"So are ya back for good?" Asked Bo

"Yeah I guess so." Replied Katie.

She sat on the up side down oil bucket with her elbows resting on her knees, hands clasped together. She was looking up at the three men that were leaning against the orange car.

"So… Why are ya back? They kick ya out?" Bo asked, still nosy and shameless.

She smiled at him, "Well, they didn't kick me out," she replied, "I ran out of money. So, yeah, I guess you can say they did kicked me out." She winked at him.

"Ya ran outta money?" That was Luke, he looked up from where he was staring blankly at the ground.

"Yeah, I did. Not very many jobs in the city for a dumb country kid like me." She replied, a crooked smile on her face.

"You ain't dumb." Luke retorted, "Hell, you know just as much if not more bout cars than any professional city mechanic!"

"You know that, I know that, Cooter knows that, cause he taught me every-dang-thing I know, but try and convince some big talkin', city slicker drivin' a Cadillac, and wearin' a three-piece suit of that." She told him and pressed her lips together, "Besides," she kept talking, getting up from her bucket, "Who says I'm goin' back?" Luke shrugged and went back to looking at the ground, not metting her eyes. That bothered her. What was wrong with the guy? She walked over to the debilitated General Lee and leaned on the frame, looking under the hood. She turned to Cooter and Bo who were standing beside her. "What's wrong with the General?" She asked, pointing with her chin towards the supped-up everything that took up residence under the bright orange hood.

"Well, you see," Bo started, using his hands to illustrate the series of events, "Luke and me was testin' him out for the big race on Saturday. He was doin' fine, 'til we jumped him over Hazzard creek. Then he started sputterin' and makin' all sorts of unhealthy noises."

"You made it over the creek?" She asked, kinda surprised, "Where'd you jump it?" Bo smiled, Cooter laughed, Luke was trying to act like he wasn't interested.

"You've been gone off to college awhile." Cooter replied with a laugh.

"We jumped it west of where Old Ridge Road crosses it, a pretty standard jump." He smiled like it was just so obvious that she know that.

"Well in my defense," She retorted, "When I left, you boys just built the General, couldn't have had him for more than six months. You guys were drivin' fast, but not flyin'."

"Yeah I guess so eh," Bo said, "It's been awhile."

"Yes, yes it has." she replied, looking down at the orange paint under her hands. Then looking back to Bo she asked, "He lets you drive it?" she motioned to Luke with her head. Bo smiled.

"Yep. And I can out drive him any day of the week." Bo said with a smug smile on his face looking at his older cousin.

"You wish cousin." Luke told Bo, there sure musta been something of great interest on the ground over there.

Katie shook her head and took up where they left off from her little side track. "So, you jumped the creek, and the General started acting up." She looked up to Bo, who confirmed her summary with a nod. "Well then with my knowledge of gravity and of stuff falling from the sky, I'd say that something has got knocked loose."

"Well we figured that much," Cooter told her, "But everything looks good up here." He waved his hands over the engine as to show there was nothing wrong.

"Did you check in underneath him?" She asked, looking at her big cousin.

"Umm, nope. I didn't, any of you two check?" Luke shook his head and Bo didn't look like he understood the question, meaning he didn't either. Katie smiled and lowered herself down to the ground and shimmied under the car.

A drop of engine oil hit her between the eyes. "Well I think I found your problem boys." She looked up so see one of the main lines coming off of the oil pump had half-way fallen off, leaking oil. "You knocked off an oil line going up to the crankcase. You're going to need a new half-inch hose clamp and probably a few cans of oil." She heard the sound of cowboy boots walking into the garage to get the parts she requested. She reached up to take the hose all the way off so they could replace the broken hose clamp. "Good thing Hazzard creek ain't far from here or ya woulda run your engine outta oil." She twisted the line and popped it off.

"I told you that was too hard a landin'." She heard Luke talking from somewhere above her.

"Well I figured that much out Luke." Bo replied in a bit of a sarcastic tone. She heard the cowboy boots walking back towards the car just as the boys began giving each other tips on driving and flying and landing.

Then Cooter was under the car with her, hose clamp in one hand and a screwdriver in the other. She took the clamp from him and slipped it on over the hose and began twisting the hose back in where it belonged. Then she took the screwdriver and tightened the clamp up. Cooter checked her work, making sure it was done up to standards and disappeared from under the car. She pushed her self out from under the car and stood up, dusting off her jeans.

Luke was now topping off the oil level, (it was down nearly a quart) and still giving Bo driving advice and how if it ever happened again he was gonna kill him.

When the boys were done their little squabble and Katie and Cooter had approved the car road worthy once again, it was nearly 5 o'clock.

"What y'all doin' for supper tonight?" Luke asked Cooter and Katie.

"Hopefully eating. Why, you want to invite us over for some of Daisy's fine cookin?" Cooter replied.

"Sure!" Bo answered Cooter's question, "Besides, I'm sure Daisy and Uncle Jesse would like to see Katie again." He grinned that goofy Bo Duke grin, happy as can be now that the General was all healthy again.

"Okay, sounds like a plan, that it unless Katie here's got something different she wants to do." Cooter looked down to his little cousin that was right beside him leaning on a stack of old tires.

"No, I ain't got no plans," She replied, "And I'd love to go and see Uncle Jesse and Daisy, and catch up on all that's been going on round here during my absence." She smiled.

"Alright then, let's go!" Bo clapped his hands together. Luke jumped in the passenger's side window of the General. Bo climbed over the hood and slipped in through the driver's window. Katie and Cooter turned around and got in Cooter's wrecker and followed the boys out to the Duke farm.