DAISY'S POV: It would be almost a miracle meeting again...


MEETING… AGAIN

Daisy wakes up in hospital.

Her head is hurting. She looks around and she realizes that her bag isn't there.

She feels tears in her eyes, "And now, what should I do? I'm alone in a city like Los Angeles, without money, without my clothes ... What should I do? I'm ashamed to call home and ask for help. After what I've done to my family, now I'm in trouble again" she thinks, holding back tears.

"Where is Enos?" she wonders, "While I was unconscious I heard his voice ... and his scent ... Head's trauma has a strange effect", she tries to smile.

Daisy is still absorbed in her thoughts when a nurse enters the room.

"Finally you are awake, Miss Duke. Don't worry, examinations don't show anything serious. You need to go home with your friend and rest a bit. Someone snatched your bag, and you should ask police 'bout it, but ... given that your friend ... .. ".

Daisy looks the nurse, a bit confused, "Friend? Police? Home? I don't understand what you're saying", she feels again tears in her eyes, "I have no friends here. I was alone when it happened".

The nurse pats her on the back, "Well, now you're not alone anymore. Unless the guy who's waiting for your awakening is a ghost"

Daisy feels her heart beating fast in her chest, "Is it possible? That voice ... ... That scent… Wasn't it a dream?".

"Miss Duke?", the nurse keeps on talking, "Do you want to see him?"

Daisy nods, holding her breath.

It was him.

Enos enters the room, and he looks at her, worried, "Daisy, how do you feel?"

Daisy wraps her arms around his neck and she starts to cry.

Enos hugs her gently, more and more worried, "Why are you here? Did something happen to Bo, Luke or Uncle Jesse?"

Keeping her face buried in Enos's chest, Daisy shakes her head, "They're fine, or at least they're fine physically. I'm here because ... for you ... I missed you. You shouldn't left Hazzard in that way"

Enos sighs, "Come on Daisy. You're going to stay at my place tonight. Then we're going to call uncle Jesse and your cousins to let them know you're fine"

Daisy nods.


ENOS'S POV: I never thought to meet her in Los Angeles. I prayed every day to meet her again, but I hadn't the courage to return to Hazzard. She's braver than me.


It's night when the phone rings at Duke's farm.

The three Duke men are still awake, everyone tossing and turning in his own bed.

At the third phone's ring Bo and Luke are already in the living room, but Uncle Jesse has already the handset in his hand.

"A phone call in the middle of the night is never a good thing", Luke thinks with apprehension.
Bo and Luke are standing in silence, listening in amazement to Uncle Jesse.

"Hello, this is Jesse Duke speaking"

Silence. Bo and Luke feel their hearts tightened with fear in their chests.

"Enos?"

After uncle Jesse's astonished voice, the farm is again wrapped in silence and fear.

"Is Daisy OK?", uncle Jesse's trembling voice asks.

An expression of concern appears on Duke patriarch's face, and it tightens even more his nephews hearts, then finally a smile appears on uncle Jesse's face, and his smile reflects on Bo's and Luke's face.

"I'm glad everything's OK"

Silence. Uncle Jesse nods.

"OK Enos. We'll wait Daisy finds the courage to call us. Please, take care of her".

More silence, then Uncle Jesse hangs up, sighing, and he stops his nephews questions, "Daisy's fine. She's with Enos. They're taking care each other. And now, it's time to go to sleep. I don't want to hear a word. We'll talk tomorrow"


DAISY'S POV: And now, after a year, we are still together. But there are too many ghosts between us. What to do by now?


After a quick shower and a dinner prepared by Enos, Daisy is in Enos's bedroom while he's sleeping on the sofa in the living room. So typical of Enos.

But she can't sleep. She wants to talk to him but she doesn't know what to say.

She gets up and she goes in the living room.

He's deeply asleep, like in that tragic day.

Daisy wonders if she has to wake him up or not. He's sleeping deeply as he's making up for a very long lost sleep.

Moonlight enters the room.

The apartment is small but very clean and neat. It seems that nobody's living there: there is no personal sign, not a painting or a picture on walls, not a newspaper or his usual comics, not his usual books. Nothing.

Only a sign of him: Daisy's pictures on his dresser's mirror in his bedroom.

Daisy's heart tightens in pain "This year I've suffered very much, and yet I was surrounded by my family, I was in Hazzard, in my house. But what 'bout him? ... How is he facing it?"

Daisy gets next to him and she hugs him.


ENOS'S POV: When she hugs me, I wake up. I don't realize immediately where I am, what's happening, and because she's here. I finally do what I should have done before but I haven't yet managed to do ... ... ... I cry.