Bo was upset that Xandor had been murdered by Thompson, but was downright worried about how Luke would react. No one had a chance to get his reaction about his wife's death and maybe it was just about to come back and bite him in the butt along with his son's death. "Uncle Jesse, he might go into depression! I am going to go talk to him to make sure he is alright. We don't need a recap of what happened after the accident."
"That's a smart idea Bo, go check on him as soon as possible." Bo took off, almost at a run and saw a teary eyed Luke sitting beside his dead son's bed. "Xandor, I promised myself I wouldn't let you die. I promised that I'd die instead of your mother; look where it got me, you are both dead!" Luke was full out bawling and couldn't stop.
"Luke; are you alright? Do you want a hug cousin?" Luke got up with red eyes and took off in a run "I don't need your help Bo; I need to get out of here!" "Luke! Be careful" Luke had ran out the door and jumped into the General Lee and took off. Once he reached the house he ran inside, ran to his room dug through his closest and grabbed his hidden shine, and then ran to the barn. He had to escape this before everyone in his family smothered him; he wasn't going to hurt them this time, so he only would drink and hopefully keep up to a regular basis.
Bo walked back to the waiting room and talked to Jesse and everyone returned home. Once at home Jesse called Xandor's grandparents and told them of his death and they promised to return within the next month.
"Hey sugar, where'd Luke go?" Daisy was curious, but Bo was the only one to see Luke before he took off. "Daisy, he was crying when I found him; something he never does. As soon as I asked him what was wrong he just took off, and I am assuming he went back to the house; I don't want a recap of last time, he is getting one day to think then we need to have a family discussion to help him out." "Great idea Bo; we should all head home and try to talk to him about this." "Daisy he needs time to think; plus Uncle Jesse and I need to head out to the back forty and get some work done. We will all talk together after supper."
The rest of the Dukes took off towards the farm. Upon arrival they found that all the afternoon chores were finished; and Luke was nowhere in sight, but they knew he was on the farm unless he walked down to the bridge again. Daisy said she'd check and call them if she found him or not; while they went out to do their work.
After checking the bridge to find no Luke she went back to the house and searched, but didn't find him there either, "he must be in the barn" she whispered to herself. Sure enough Luke was in the barn like she had thought. "Luke what the heck do you think you are doing? You worried us all sick again!" She then looked at what he had in his hand; a half empty jug of shine. "Not this again; are you really going to do like last time. I mean seriously haven't you been through enough already? This isn't like you, ya sure you usually sulk over things but you don't drink your problems away, it only complicates things. That is something you should've learned the first time!" Luke let her rant on and on about how different he was. Drunk or not he needed to hear it.
Luke was just going to let it all sink in and convince himself to talk to the others when something came over him; he stood up and started yelling back at his younger cousin. "Daisy I can handle myself! I am older than you and do not need you to be taking care of me, I don't need anyone's help! Didn't Bo tell you not to confront me and give me some time to think; I'll have to thank him for that and let him know you didn't listen; you never do!"
"Stop thinking about yourself for once Luke!" Daisy yelled as she slapped Luke; then took off towards Bo and Jesse before she headed off to work. Luke ran into the house a few minutes after Daisy left and fell asleep on the couch.
"Didn't I tell you Luke? Didn't I tell you he would die? You would've too if I'd had it my way; but your cousin saved you and I was sent to jail. I was only trying to help you be with the two people you love the most, but knew the least. The family you have doesn't even want to trust you anymore, the way they yell at you now; especially Daisy, it was like she was mad at you for not having died as well, why don't you do the world a favor and join Aydan and Xandor in their new home. Bye Duke"
Luke woke up screaming, "No, no, not these dreams again! I thought I'd gotten rid of them the first time; they only told bad things, and so did this one. Best get out of everyone's way… just like it said." Luke ran to his room and stopped where he had wrapped his pocket knife up when Aydan was killed by it, he swore he'd never use it again; but he had better ideas now. Luke grabbed a piece of paper and sat down at the kitchen table "Dear Uncle Jesse, Bo and Daisy…" Once Luke finished he put the note in an envelope and left it on the kitchen table and ran outside to the barn; his new home awaited him, and nothing could stop him from getting there.