Author's Note: IMPORTANT! This is a new experiment of mine, and this time you will have to follow the instructions as they are given. There had been a lot of readers claiming that they loves my experiments, and it made me wonder if maybe I could take it one step further, I did, and here is the result. This is a pretty big experiment, and I really hope y'all will like it. In spite of being several chapters, this is a one-shot.
Big thanks to Earendil Eldar
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….
Each Time A Different Turn
Turn C
The two boys kept arguing all the way out into the kitchen; went without a break to the barn to fetch the milk and the eggs, and kept it up all the way back to the kitchen table. He wasn't sure what they argued about, and to be honest he doubted they even knew either. It had started out about how indecent it was of old men to be so incredible jovial and generally in a good mood so early in the day. Yet as they returned, it was anyone's guess if they even knew what it was about. Jesse put the plates on the table, and then they were suddenly to busy eating to keep it up.
"Are ya gonna be needing us fer anything special today Uncle Jesse?" Bo asked with a hopefully as he looked up at his Uncle.
"I take it that ya has something planned today?" Jesse grinned as he looked at his youngest knowingly.
"Well kinda, unless ya got something I need ta do." Bo gave him the hopeful puppy dog look he had so perfected over the years. It sometimes got him what it wanted, and it always let Jesse know that he did want something. It was like a heads up warning, and it never worked with Jesse unless he had been thinking of giving him what he wanted from the starts. Maybe he had been perfecting it for years, and he was good at it but Jesse had been practicing his resistance to it for just as many years.
"Well, I need ya ta do all of ya chores, but that shouldn't be news to ya." Jesse grinned.
"Nah, I'm gonna do them." Bo grinned, then he turned a half glare to Luke. "Well I am gonna."
"I didn't say anything." Luke objected raising his hands defensively.
"Well, ya was going ta."
"I was not."
"Ya were, I know ya Luke, ya's gonna say something about me always sneaking out o' doing me chores."
"Hey, ya's the one said it, not me." Luke grinned as he sipped his coffee.
"What's ya big plans then Bo?" Jesse asked, figuring it was time to interrupt the friendly argument while it remained friendly.
"Well see, Kerry-Marie kinda asked me ta drop by." Bo admitted with a guilty grin.
"An what was the two of ya going ta be doing?" Luke asked grinning at him.
"Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I reckon we could think of something." Bo beamed at him.
Luke had to laugh at his younger cousin, that was so very typical of Bo.
"Well, soon as ya finish up ya chores, ya can go." Jesse smiled at him. It was a nice enough girl, and he really didn't need him for anything.
"Thanks Uncle Jesse." Bo beamed happily.
If nothing else Jesse had to admit that telling him that he could go off and see a nice girls as soon as his chores were done made Bo make them fast. Then as soon as he was done he rushed to the General, leaping inside while Luke got in on the passenger side no slower himself.
"Are ya going to?" Jesse asked him.
Luke shrugged while Bo fired up the engine. "I reckon so, Kerry-Marie's got a sister."
It was late at night when they returned, and Jesse was almost surprised that they were even back while he was still awake. He would not have put it past them to be back on the other side of midnight with only a few hours to sleep, but maybe Luke had been doing some thinking. That kind of prudent thinking was usually him more than Bo. It was also possible that the girls had parents that didn't appreciate visits after sunset. The boys didn't stay on if the parents made it clear that it wasn't appreciated, even if there had been occasions when it had been pointed out to them by a round of buck shoots.
He had found the discussion interesting one night at the Boars Nest when they had been talking about it. Farmer Wilkinson had wanted to make sure there was no hard feelings between him and Jesse the day after he had chased Bo off with a round. Saying that he knew well that it was a good lad, but that didn't mean he wanted him hanging around his daughter in the darkest night.
It was old Patrick who had grinned and claimed that Bo was just young, and didn't he remember what it was like to be that young.
Wilkinson had grinned slowly, and spoken with a twinkle in his eye. 'Oh, I remember perfectly, an' that's exactly why I chased that there boy away.'
He could tell that they had been having a good time though, they were laughing and joking with each others as they headed into their room, and the sounds didn't disappear fully but only muffled slightly as they closed the door.
A last loud laugh and chuckle, and he knew that one of them was throwing a pillow at the other…
Then there was the request to get the pillow back, and it was no big surprise to find out that it was Luke who had thrown it. Two muffled goodnights and he smiled to himself as he knew the next sounds he heard would be two matching set of soft snores.
He smiled to himself as he felt his heart swell with pride over them, a lot of things could be said about them kids he had raised. Most of it good things at that. They were hard working and down to earth, knowing what was not important, and even more, they knew what really mattered.
"Here's the tricky part, or actually it's kinda easy, all ya's gotta do now is go back and read the first chapter one more time, and once ya've done that, then ya read either 3 or 4, that's up to ya, I ain't gonna tell ya which one this time around. Now, if this is the second one that ya read, and ya's already been following the end instruction once, then all ya's got ta do is go and read the only one that ya haven't already read, but be sure ta go back and read the first chapter one more time before ya do it. If ya's on ya finishing turn I'd recommend that ya'd be going back for the first chapter one more time, but I ain't gonna force ya to. I couldn't and I've been telling ya what ta do enough fer now. I just hope that y'all liked it"