Luke rushed over to Bo, who was lying on the ground, his arms, and legs flailing violently.
"Cooter! Cooter call an ambulance!" Luke shouted not caring who heard him. Cooter rushed outside to see what was wrong.
"What's wrong Luke?" Cooter asked.
"It's Bo. Something's wrong with him. I need you to call an ambulance and fast!"
"Right buddyroo." Cooter said as he ran back inside. A couple of minutes later, Cooter came back out. By that time, Bo stopped having the convulsion; however he was lying on the ground next to the General, unconscious. It was at least ten minutes before the ambulance arrived. Once there, the paramedics took over and began taking care of Bo. It didn't take them long to get him ready for transport to the hospital. Once ready, the ambulance drove off, leaving Luke and Cooter behind. Noticing the distressed look on his friend's face, Cooter put a reassuring hand on Luke's shoulder.
"Don't worry buddyroo, he'll be alright, you'll see."
"I just don't understand, he was fine yesterday."
"I don't know Luke, I just don't know. But don't worry, the doctor's will find out what's wrong with him and they'll fix it." Cooter said reassuringly.
Luke nodded before answering, "Yeah, yer right. I better go call Uncle Jesse and let him know."
"You can use my phone if ya want too." Luke nodded his thanks and went inside the garage to use the phone. Cooter followed Luke inside, neither of them aware of someone, with a nasty grin on their face, watching them from the distance.
At the farm, Jesse was sitting in his favorite chair, reading the Hazzard gazette, when the phone rang. Sitting his paper down, Jesse got up and walked over to the phone, answering it on the fourth ring. Clearing his throat, he spoke into the receiver.
"Hello, Duke Farm, Jesse Duke speaking." He said.
"Uncle Jesse, I'm so glad yer there." Luke said the distress clear in his voice. Jesse got a bad feeling when he heard the tone of his oldest nephew's voice.
"Luke, what's the matter? Is everything alright?" Jesse asked, knowing that from the tone of Luke's voice he and Bo wasn't in jail again, but what could be wrong, he didn't have the slightest clue.
"No everything's not alright. Listen, I can't tell you over the phone, get to Tri County Emergency, and please hurry."
"Alright, I'll get Daisy, and we'll be there soon."
"Alright, see ya in a bit." Luke said as he hung up. Turning around, Luke ran out of the garage and jumped in the General. Cooter jogged out of the garage and closed the doors and quickly locked them before running over to the General and getting in the passenger seat. Not wasting any time, Luke put the General in gear and tore away from the garage heading for the hospital.
It hadn't taken Jesse long to find Daisy since she was outside hanging laundry. Hearing her uncle come rushing out of the house, Daisy looked up instantly noticing the worried look on Jesse's face. Sitting down the shirt she was about to hang up, Daisy went over to Jesse.
"Uncle Jesse? What's the matter?" Daisy asked.
"I'm not sure, but Luke called and said we gotta get over to Tri County Emergency. He didn't say why though." Jesse replied. Daisy nodded and followed her uncle over to the pickup and got in the passenger's seat while Jesse got in the driver's seat. Not wasting any time, Jesse took off towards the hospital, still wondering what had happened.
By the time Jesse and Daisy arrived at the hospital, Luke and Cooter were already there, still waiting for word on Bo. Seeing the Duke Patriarch come in and Daisy close behind, Luke stood up and walked over to them.
"Luke, what happened? Are you alright?" Jesse asked, not noticing that Bo wasn't with them.
"It's not me, it's Bo." Luke said. "C'mon, let's sit down and I'll tell ya what happened." Luke said as he led Daisy and Jesse over to a couple of empty chairs. After they were all seated, Luke began to tell them what happened. By the time he was done, Daisy was in tears and Jesse was in shock. Jesse put his arm around Daisy's shoulders and hugged her in an attempt to comfort not only her, but himself as well.
Nothing else was said between the three Dukes and Cooter, at least not until a doctor came out.
It had been nearly four and a half hours after arriving at the hospital before a doctor finally came out with news on Bo. Luke was the first one standing, followed closely by Cooter, Jesse, and Daisy.
"How is he? How's my cousin?" Luke asked before the doctor could say anything.
"I take it your all here for Beauregard Duke?" The doctor asked, making sure he had the right family.
"Yes sir. He's my nephew." Jesse said before Luke could say anything. The doctor nodded and motioned for the Dukes and Cooter to follow him. They followed the elderly doctor down a few different hallways before stopping in front of a closed door. After opening the door to the small office room, the doctor allowed the Dukes and Cooter to go inside first before following them and closing the door behind himself.
"If you'll all have a seat, I'll begin." The doctor said, motioning to the four chairs behind the group. After everyone was seated, the doctor cleared his throat and began speaking. "My name is Dr. John Richardson. The reason I wanted you all to come back here was so I could tell you what we found out, or rather in this case didn't find out."
"What do you mean?" Jesse asked, not liking what the doctor had said.
"What I mean Mr. Duke, is that we're not sure why Beauregard had the convulsion. Can you tell me if he's been acting different or showing signs that he hasn't been feeling well?"
"I can't think of anything right off the bat." Jesse said. The doctor was about to say something when Luke interrupted him.
"Actually, he was complaining of a headache this morning, and the past couple of days he's been unusually tired, he was also kinda confused this morning, but I didn't think anything of it since I was waking him up. I figured he was just like that 'cause he was still half asleep." Luke explained. The doctor nodded his head and wrote what Luke had told him, down on a piece of paper in a folder Luke figured to be Bo's hospital records.
"Alright thank you. We're going to be running some more tests in a few minutes to see if we can figure out what is wrong with him. And from what you just told me, I think I have one possibility of what could be wrong, but he'd have to show more of the symptoms for me to know for certain. In the mean time, we'll monitor him and inform you if there are any improvements or not."
"What is the one possibility that could be wrong with him?" Luke asked.
"From what I can see right now, a good possibility would be poisoning. But what kind of poisoning it maybe is still unclear. But keep in mind that there is a chance that it's not poisoning, but it's something else." The Dukes and Cooter nodded, letting the doctor know they understood what he had told them.
"Thank you Dr. Richardson." Jesse said shaking the other man's hand. Luke, Daisy, and Cooter also shook the doctor's hand before standing up.
"You're welcome. If you'd like to visit Beauregard, he's in room 60. Just down the hall and to the right. First door on the left." Nodding, the Dukes and Cooter headed down the hall, looking for Bo's room.
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