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Chapter 54

Luke had let Bo drive his Torino since Jesse would have the pick-up to haul supplies up to the other site. When they cut off road Luke warned, "It will go up here but it's not a truck so just make sure we have an oil pan in tack to get back home in the morning."

"Would you relax. I've driven up here before." Bo said as he attempted to straddle a rock on a washed out section on the trail. The scraping sound of the rock on the under carriage of the car hushed it's driver.

"Good job, Bo." Luke said.

Bo frowned, "Cute, Luke, just hush and let me drive."

"If that's what you call it." Luke grumbled.

"Real cute!" Bo said as he got the car parked up on top of a hill in a clearing on a flat that never should have had a vehicle on, let alone a sports car.

The boys went to the trunk for the fishing & camping gear, sleeping bags and shotgun. Jebb had been to the stills plenty but mostly Jesse was with them. It seemed odd when Luke reached for the shotgun. As far as he could remember he'd never seen either of his cousin's with a gun before. Seeing the shotgun in Jesse's hand was as normal as his red cap on his head. "Does Uncle Jesse know you have that?"

Luke gave his younger cousin a smile, "He's the one who handed it to me."

After the rather long walk to get to the still from where they parked the car, the boys set up camp and got a fire going. The fire was both to cook supper by and to cook off the batch of 'shine. Others were now using modern hi-tech propane cookers, but not the Dukes. Jesse Duke firmly believed that the old ways were best and what you put into the shine is what you got out - both in ingredients, work and time. The Dukes used good hard dry woods like oak to minimize the smoke and maximize the heat of the fire. Luke watched the smoke from the fire as it rose and dissipated. He smiled. That was what he wanted it to do.

The boys dropped a couple lines into the nearby stream hoping to catch a nice mess of fish for supper while they tended the fire at the still. By dark the still was cooking, the mess of fish were fried up crispy. The boys ate and talked about girls, cars, motorcycles, races and more girls!

Jebb had told of several races he'd been in already, both official with rules and unofficial anything goes races. Even though he didn't have a bike of his own, yet, a couple of friends had helped arrange him rides and as he told it, he was pretty good.

Luke poked the fire a bit and reminded, "You do know if you get hurt your Momma will tan what's left of your hide?"

"I know that, that's why she don't have to know everything." Jebb replied.

Luke grimaced at those words. He'd been in those shoes before and his back-side was sore for a week when Jesse found out what Luke had tried and failed to keep from him.

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John woke up silently cursing the last cup of coffee that he'd drunk just before heading off to bed and slipped out of bed to head off toward the bathroom. He hated getting up in the middle of the night since farm hours started very early but sometimes it just couldn't be help. John figured that while he was up he might as well as check on the twins. They were both still asleep but he could tell that they needed diaper changes so he carefully replaced their wet diapers with dry ones, never waking the twins up. He figured that the diaper exchange just might make it where they'd be able to sleep through the night. He hoped so at least.

Walking out of the nursery, John headed back to his and his wife's room and passed Karen's room on the way. He figured that while he was checking on the young infants it wouldn't hurt to check on his oldest as well. After all, he knew that she'd been worried about the upcoming court date. When John went to open the door, his brow furled at the fact that the door was now locked. In all of Karen's eighteen years John couldn't remember her ever sleeping with the door locked. Concerned, John retrieved the key to the bedroom doors and again tried Karen's door. This time it was obvious that Karen had blocked the door. John put his shoulder into the door and as quietly as he could forced the door open. Once he stepped inside John found what he'd suspected he would once he'd encountered the locked door. The room was empty, Karen was no where to be found. The open window told John how she'd left the room after putting the nail file in the door facing.

"John David Duke, do you know what time it is?" Pauline said sleepily. She'd woke up to the sound of John forcing the door open. Right now, Pauline was just glad that the twins seem to still be blissfully asleep.

"I do. Apparently, though, someone ELSE doesn't." John said gruffly.

Pauline scanned the room and saw that her oldest daughter was no where to be seen. "John, Karen! She's...She's..."

"I know." John said as he turned to leave the room and headed into his and his wife's room. "I'll go see if I can find her." John dug out a set of clothes and started to change quickly out of his pajama bottoms.

"At this time of night, where could she have gone?" Pauline asked as she started to get really mad that her GROUNDED daughter had defied them and left out in the middle of the night. She'd never done such a foolish thing before. In fact it seemed that since she'd graduated from High School she'd been doing a lot of things that she'd never done before.

"I have a few places in mind. I'll start off up at the lake where she and her friends were caught at the last time she was out." John said as he pulled his boots on. "I'll be back as soon as I find her or radio me on the CB if she gets home before I do."

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After slipping away from the house and meeting the others at Roy's truck, the group drove to another hidden place on the lake. Danny had been surprised by his unlikely second chance to deflower the seemingly innocent Duke female though he didn't plan to complain. He'd wanted to try his luck with her for years but hadn't since he figured that if he did it'd make playing ball with the girl's younger brother a bit awkward. Now Danny was no longer in school and Jebb was out of the county so those reasons no longer meant much to him.

Much like the last time that the friends had all been down to the lake together, each couple seemed all to willing to split off from the rest of the group. Remembering just how willing Karen had been after a few drinks Danny had made sure to bring plenty of beer with him. He hoped that this time he'd be able to fully appreciate that willingness to please him.

Karen grabbed the blanket that was sitting beside the case of beer and carried it toward the spot in the woods that Danny had already staked out earlier in the day. He knew that even if the law showed up again he and Karen should be able to hide out just far enough away from the others to avoid detection.

Once in the little nitch in the woods, Danny helped Karen spread the blanket near the bank and then settled on it with her. He popped a beer open for both of them and handed Karen's to her. She took it willingly and took a sip expecting the odd flavor from before. This time the taste of the beer did not seem so offensive to her so she took a bigger sip to help ease her nerves. She'd never snuck out of the house before.

"Relax, Babe." Danny said as he took a swig of his own beer. "What all can your folks do anyway? You're an adult now. They can't touch you." Danny then put his beer down and watched Karen down a good bit of her's before putting her can back down.

"You don't know my parents." Karen said as she again began to have second thoughts about having snuck out. Those thoughts had her finishing her beer much faster than she'd thought possible. She'd actually gulped the beverage. "They'll still look at me as a kid when I'm thirty." Karen bemoaned only to have Danny pull her closer to him.

"Only if you let them see you as a kid." Danny muttered as he found Karen's neck with his lips and began to nuzzle her and leave kisses along the length of her throat. "All I see tonight is beautiful woman that is driving me crazy."

Karen tipped her head back and moaned as he then felt Danny's hands begin to roam her body much in the same way he had the last time they'd been in a similar situation. Karen moved her head so that she could return Danny's kisses. Danny grinned into the kiss and shifted his weight so that Karen leaned back onto the blanket. Karen moved her hands against Danny's chest as she felt that her bra become loosened beneath her shirt. Karen gasped as she felt her bra replaced with warm flesh. She then felt Danny pull back to pull his shirt off which Karen then replied by removing her own shirt. Much to Danny's delight. Finally, he was going to get into the Duke's pants and he only had to get one beer into her tonight to do it.

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John had been looking for his errant daughter for hours and he was ready to chew nails. He'd decided to look just one more place before going home to wait for his daughter to come home on her own. He'd checked the lake first and had found nothing.

John had looked all around the lake and being that he was a man, he'd also checked several other well known make-out areas. He found nothing. That really didn't surprise him if people really didn't want to be found then they would find a place either in this county or one of the others. Karen may be his daughter, but she was eighteen. He only hoped that she was making better choices than she had before, if not he'd get a call in a few hours from one of the jails.

Whatever was going on with his daughter, he couldn't stop. He knew that and wished his wife would figure it out. They had raised their kids right and all he could do was hope the information sunk in. John Duke would not stand for his children of any ages to get hurt, but if he couldn't find her then he couldn't handle the situation. There was only one thing left to do, go home, and WAIT!

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By the time that the moon signaled midnight, Luke had the fire under the still going and some of the purest moonshine in these parts was now making it's way toward the jugs at the other end. Bo and Jeb were filling and corking the filled jugs while Luke kept the smokeless fire burning hot.

After all the shine was in corked jugs and they had moved the jugs to a hidden location away from the still, then went to their camp site a short distance away.

Luke only now broke out a pint of shine took a drink then passed it to Bo. The work was done for the night so they would kick back at their camp site near the creek and for the most part relax, but all three knew that you never relaxed too much this close to the a still. That fact was made clear by the shotgun that Luke had against the old oak beside him.

Jeb kicked off tonights conversation as he took his own swig of shine, "Where do you think this load will be going?"

Bo replied, "It's been awhile since we been up to Tubby's Place Luke. You heard anything about going back up there?"

"You know Jesse don't tell me nothing like that until it's time to go." Luke replied. He knew exactly why Bo was asking about Tubby's though.

Jebb could tell by the tone of Bo's voice. "What is so special about Tubby's?"

Luke replied, "Let's just say that Tubby's girls are real nice to the drivers if the load is on time."

Bo added, "Trust me that is one load you don't want to be late with."

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Danny was close, very close to getting what he came for, Duke's sister was hot and bothered something furious. From all indications, the girl was supposed to be a 'good girl' but Danny figured that it really hadn't taken him long to change her if she was as innocent as she claimed. He had waited long enough and was about to find out just how innocent as he deepened the kiss.

Karen liked the feelings running wildly through her body as Danny's hands traveled over her. As he deepen the kiss she wanted more. She wanted him closer to her. Karen automatically wrapped her legs around him.

That was Danny's sign of point of no return. He deepen the kiss more and held on tight for the ride as he tried not to hurt her.

Karen felt Danny move closer as she whimpered in pain.

Danny heard the slight whimper as Karen's fingernails dug into his back. He smile widely, she had been as innocent as she said, "Shhhh, the worse part is over. Now let's see if I can make you enjoy it."

And enjoy it Karen did!

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Back at the farm, John parked his truck in it's usual place. He saw Pauline had every light in the house on. As John went inside he began flipping lights off. Finally going in his bedroom with his boots still on Pauline asked, "Did you find her?"

"No." John replied.

Pauline's eyes went wide, "Well, then what are you going to do?"

John reached up on the bedroom wall and took down his shot gun. Opening the chambers he tossed out one of the regular shells, then replaced it with one loaded with buck shot. He filled two of his pockets one each of each of the shells. "Leave as many lights off as you can. Make the house look still and normal, and don't come outside, NO matter what, Pauline, stay IN the house."

Pauline Duke did not like orders from anyone and that was what John was giving her, but years of marriage told her not to buck him on this tonight. "Alright."

"When Karen gets home, I'll deal with it. She'll come in first, while I handle the friends, then I'll deal with her. Understood?" John said more than firmly.

It had been awhile since Pauline had seen John so focused. Again, she didn't like his tone, but she would handle him later, "Understood." She knew John had a temper but these days he mostly controled it unless he was drinking. Tonight he was stone cold sober.

John went outside. One thing about being a Duke and a moonshiner, John Duke was a patient man. He found the place out front where the vehicle that picked Karen up had parked. Figuring that these teens would park back in the same place, he found him a hidden spot right close by and he waited...

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