"Mornin', son. Didn't expect to see you here today."

"Jackie was at the hospital, told me he would keep an eye on Bo."

"That's good. Well, lets get situated." The Duke family took their spot in church. They always sat in the backrow, just in case the younger kids acted up. About an hour later they made their way out of the church.

"Martha! You-ho! Martha!" Martha turned around to see an older lady waving at her as she made her way to where Martha was. Jesse glanced at Martha and noticed her rolling her eyes.

"Jesse." Martha whispered. "I got to see Bo."

"I'll take care of her."

"Miss Mason. How are you?"

"Just fine, Jesse."

"Listen, Joan. Something's come up. We really need to get going."

"But Jesse. I need to talk to you two about the path you are taking your family down."

"What are you talking about, woman?"

"The path of immorality. You making that whiskey and selling that poison is wrong." Jesse held up his hand.

"Now, you listen to me. We got the permits and the license to sell it, all legal like. No one is forced to buy it let alone drink it." Luke walked up to Jesse and was about to say something. "Hold on, Lukas. Now I'm sorry on what happened to your husband but no one is to blame but him."

"How dare you!"

"How dare him?" Martha walked up to Joan. "We had nothing to do with what happened to Frank. It was his own dang fault. Getting caught up with those hooligans. Now, if you will excuse us. We have a farm to run." Joan stood there shocked that Martha talked to her that way.

"Good day!" Joan turned around and walked towards the church enterance.

"Come on, Jesse. Let's go see to Bo." They went to their vehicles. Luke drove with Martha as Jesse followed them to the hospital in Sweet Tily. When they got there she decided to go visit Bo by herself. She didn't want to overwelm him with all the visitors so the kids waited in the cars with Jesse and Luke.

"Hi, honey." Bo looked up and saw Martha.

"Hi, ma."

"How you feeling, honey?"

"Sore. Hurts if I take deep breaths."

"What were you thinking going after Hughie?"

"Heck, I don't know. Didn't expect him to shoot me. He ran Luke off the road, just wanted to scare him so he'd leave us be. Didn't work out the way I thought it would."

"I reckon not. Are you going to be okay?" Bo looked at her and noticed the concern in her eyes.

"Yeah, ma."

"I'm just worried that you'll have nightmares again." He noticed that she was looking at his right side where he was shot.

"I'll be fine. If I have a nightmare, Luke knows what to do."

"I'm sure he does."

"Where's the little ones?"

"Waiting in the car with Luke and Jesse. We all went to church this morning." Bo nodded.

"I may be released tomorrow. They want to run some tests on my lungs first." Several minutes later, Martha noticed that Bo was drifting off.

"Hon, I'll let you rest. Luke will be over here later tonight."

"Why's that?"

"Doc wanted him to stay with you at night, just in case."

"Fair enough. See ya later. Love ya."

"Love ya, too." She gave Bo a kiss on the cheek and left. Bo closed his eyes and quickly fell back to sleep. Later in the day Jake, Vincent and Joey walked into the hospital room. Bo looked over to the door when he heard it open. Jake was the first to speak.

"Hey, Bo." Bo smiled when he saw the boys walk in. "Joey wanted to see you. Ma was busy with the babies." Joey climbed up onto the bed and hugged Bo.

"Careful, hon. Bo has a boo-boo."

"Are you okay?" Vincent asked.

"I'll be fine in a couple weeks. They may let me go home tomorrow." Jake looked around and saw a television.

"Anything on?"

"Not really." Joey laid down next to Bo on his left side while Jake switched through the three channels. Jake gave up on finding a show to watch and he sat down on a chair. They made small talk for awhile until Jake noticed that Bo was falling asleep. Jake nudged Vincent's foot and when he got his attention Jake pointed towards Bo.

"Hey Joey. We should let Bo sleep." Joey frowned at Jake but nodded. "Bo." Jake waited until Bo looked at him. "We're going to head out."

"Okay. I'll see ya later." Joey gave Bo a kiss on the cheek when Bo hugged him.

"Night, Bo-Bo. Love you."

"Night, Joey. Love you too." Jake helped Joey off the bed and whispered in Bo's ear. "Love ya, Bo." Bo whispered back the same words. As Vincent walked towards the door he mouthed the words, 'love you' to Bo as Bo did the same back to Vincent. When they left, Bo looked around the room and decided to get comfortable to go back to sleep. Around nine pm Luke walked in and saw that Bo was awake.

"Hey, Bo. How you feelin'?"

"Sore. The nurse took me for a small walk to see if I had a hard time breathing."

"Did you?" Bo just shrugged.

"Yeah. Damn near passed out." Bo grinned at Luke who was shaking his head.