By the time that Kim got to the junkyard where the other Dukes had found Kira not only had the ambulance arrived but so had a deputy from Riverdale County. Kim let the men deal with the deputy, she went over to help the emergency medical technicians with her sister-in-law. They had put on the cervical collar and were gingerly removing her from the trunk. Once they had her on the gurney Kim told the Dukes that she'd be riding with the injured woman to the hospital.

"I'm comin' too," Bo said as he started to head to the ambulance without waiting for anyone else's opinion on the matter. Kim started to tell him that it wasn't a good idea but Luke stopped her. His cousin needed to feel like he was doing something now that they finally had Kira back.

"Cooter, you got the General?" Luke asked.

"Sure do. You head on in behind them. I'll head back to Hazzard and tell the others that we found Kira as soon as I can."

"Thanks, Cooter!"

Kim climbed into the ambulance and directed her husband to try to stay out of the way as much as possible in the cramped working area of the vehicle. Bo then watched as the EMT and his wife worked together to try to get an IV started. Each working on opposite arms. Neither was having much luck. After several moments of attempting to start in IV in Kira's severely dehydrated arms as well as her jugular vein Kim asked Bo to carefully remove her shoes and socks. Kim didn't want to but it looked like she'd need to start an IV in one of her lower limbs. There would be a higher risk for infection but at the moment Kim didn't have any other choice.

Bo carefully, but hurriedly, did what he was told then watched as his wife finally got an IV to take hold. He then watched as the slow drip of much needed fluids started to seep into his sister's system while the two medical professionals continued to try to pull Kira back from the very edge of death itself. Meanwhile, the driver in the front was doing his best to get the ambulance to the hospital in two counties away as quickly as possible. Bo was torn between wanting to stay at his sister's side and going up to the front and taking over the wheel and driving this rig as fast as it could go because he just didn't feel like the ambulance was moving anywhere near fast enough.

Bo settled for bowing his head in prayer. He didn't want to watch what life Kira still had in her slip from her before they could get to the hospital.

Jo sat with Crystal reading her a story out of a story book that was packed for the children to distract her from the reason behind the impromptu camping trip. The boys were playing a board game together on the other side of the cave. They hadn't spoken much since the small group had hurriedly come to the old Indian cave. Jo wondered if she should try to get them to talk to her about all that they've been through in the last twenty-four hours. But considering that she didn't have any answers to the questions that they would likely ask she figured she'd leave them to their game for now. As Jo finished a page and turned to the next she heard the distinct sound of tin cans rattling just east of their small encampment. The sound also got the boys' attention.

"Stay here," Jo told the three children as she put the book aside and got up, drawing her weapon to be at the ready. As she got to the entrance to the cave she briefly reiterated to the boys since they were Duke boys and sometimes needed to be told twice, "Stay with Crystal."

Jo then slipped out and quietly headed toward the direction that she had heard the tin cans. With another sound of the cans Jo then heard a voice that she'd know anywhere and instantly relaxed. Faith called out to her cousin, Jimmy to wait for her and Daisy. It'd been the boy who had sounded the alarm without meaning to.

"Daisy?" Jo called out to help her find the right cave. "You and the kids are a little early, aren't you?"

Daisy carefully made her way toward the other woman's voice after she had regained control over her son as he traipsed through the underbrush, an natural in the woods and eager to explore without his mother holding his hand as he did it. Faith was at her side and the moment she saw her mother the little girl who would be seven years old in under two weeks she hastened to get a hug. She loved adventures and her Aunt Daisy had said that they'd be camping out in the caves for some fun. She even was told that they wouldn't have to go to school the next day, even for the rest of the week. Faith figured that the adults were trying to make her cousins feel better after their house caught fire the night before.

"Luke told me to go ahead and pick the kids up," Daisy said while eyeing Jo to let her know that he was concerned about the kid's safety without letting on to the kids that this was anything other than a fun camping trip. "I went ahead and told the kids' teachers that they'll be out for the rest of the week just to be safe. I have a few assignments to keep them from getting behind but I assured the teachers that we'll make sure that we'll be able to get them back on track when they get back to class."

Jo raised a brow, knowing that her husband would have only suggested that the kids should join the other children in hiding if he had a reason to suspect that they could be in danger as well. "Well, Crystal and I were reading a story and the boys were playing a board game. Though I suppose I should start thinking about what to get together for lunch."

"I'll help!" Faith volunteered since she always loved helping her mother when they went on picnics and this was just like a picnic, just in a cool cave.

"Alright. Let's go see what we have in the baskets, shall we?" Jo guided her daughter toward where the supplies had been left while Daisy led Jimmy over to where Crystal was at and picked the story up where Jo had left off for her. All the while wondering what was happening with her cousin, Kira, as well as the men.

Jebb looked up from his place on the ground and saw another man standing over him. Shawn. Jebb didn't know how but he knew that this was the man who had been responsible for Kira's disappearance. He was standing over Jebb, raising a tire iron over his head in preparation to bring it down hard on Jebb. Thinking fast, Jebb used his legs to knock the assailant off of his feet. Jebb knew that he wasn't going to be able to stand and fight on his feet. His only chance would be to even the odds and keep them both down on the ground. Jebb then got onto his knees to give himself some leverage.

Shawn held tightly onto the tire iron and swung on the man who had married the street urchin who had ruined his life. The other man grabbed it and the two began to wrestle for control over the weapon. When Jebb ripped the tire iron out of Shawn's grip he slung it out of reach. The only weapon he'd need would be his own two hands. Shawn pulled back to prepare to punch Jebb but was knocked off of his balance. The two men tussled on the ground, each exchanging punches as they went. After what felt like an eternity Jebb finally got the upper hand, straddled Shawn, and got a good clean punch right between his eyes. Jebb pulled Shawn back up by his shirt and paused when he realized that he was out cold. With just another moment of consideration Jebb dropped the man back down onto the ground before looking around to see where his crutches ended up at. He then crawled over to them and awkwardly got to his feet so he could hobble over to the truck.

Jebb sat in the driver's seat and reached for the CB mic. "Breaker, Breaker. This is Jebb Duke callin' Sheriff Strate. Enos, you got your ears on?"

"This here's Enos. What's on your mind, Jebb?"

"I need you or Cletus to come out to the house, or what's left of it. Shawn Kyle showed up. He's unconscious for now. When he comes to, maybe you can get him to tell where he stashed Kira."

"I'm just about twenty minutes out from your place. I'm on my way."

"This here's Jesse. I'll bring over some good, stout rope to keep the man from getting away until you get there, Sheriff."

"Understood." Jebb spend the next several moments while waiting for his uncle watching to make sure that Shawn didn't wake up. In the meantime he was flooded with memories centered around the man and Kira and his dislike, no his hatred, for her.

Bo sat in Kim's office next to Luke while waiting for Kim to come back to talk to them. He couldn't handle sitting out in the waiting room. Sitting in Kim's office was less nerve-wracking. Finally after what felt like forever Kim joined the men in her office. She knew that they both had questions and did her best to answer them before they could ask.

"She's been taken into exploratory surgery. We had to wait to get her stabilized but with the types of injuries she has it is highly likely that she has internal bleeding. We have to address that before we can think about how to proceed with treating the rest of her injuries. She'll need multiple surgeries. Her face, alone, will require at least two reconstructive surgeries when she's able handle them."

"But she'll be okay, right?" Bo asked anxiously.

"I can't answer that, Bo. She's been through a lot." Kim knew that the odds weren't in her sister-in-law's favor. She wanted to prepare Bo for all of the possibilities without completely taking away his hope. "She sustained most of her injuries on her right side. Likely from rolling onto her left side when the attack began, which protected that side from most of the injuries that she got on her right side. When she is out of surgery, I'll have to warn you that she won't be waking up anytime soon. She'll actually be placed into a medically induced coma. That way her body will be given a better chance to heal itself. If she was to wake up the pain would be very difficult to manage. This is going to be a long process."

Luke listened to what his cousin's wife was telling them and grieved. They may have gotten Kira to the hospital but she was still not promised to survive her harrowing ordeal with the man who had once been her adopted brother. Thinking of whom, Luke wondered where he was. Until he was found and locked up the kids wouldn't be safe.

Luke listened as Kim continued to give the men a rundown of what to expect, both in the short-term and long-term regarding Kira's road to recovery. Damn, can't this family ever get a break? They were still rocking from the repercussions of Jebb's car accident back at the end of July. Now this? He especially felt for the kids. Their lives haven't been the same since that wreck, either, and now on top of their mother's disappearance and all that has gone with it, their own home has been taken from them. Not to mention that they'd very nearly lost their own lives last night. The children were going to need some help with being able to feel safe and stable again after all of this.

Jesse had finished tying the wanted man only moments before he started to wake up. He then stood back with his shotgun at the ready and eyed the man who had brought so much pain to the family in the last twenty-four hours. Thankfully, Cooter had let them know over the CB on his way from one farm to another that the boys had found Kira. So Jesse was grateful for the fact that her disappearance was no longer a looming mystery. It was likely that bit of knowledge alone that kept Jesse from losing his patience with the man while waiting to turn him over to the law. He did his best to ignore the man's ranting and raving once he realized that he couldn't free himself. He did have to ask him one question, though, before Enos or Cletus showed up.

"Why? Why try to kill the children? Why set that fire?"

Shawn sneered as the old man stood over him with the shotgun that he doubted that the man would use on him, even if he got free. "It was only fair. I lost my family because of that bitch. No reason why hers should remain perfect and untouched."

Jebb ground his teeth from his place sitting on the truck's tailgate and balled his fists. He didn't care to hear Shawn's cock-and-bull story as to why he was perfectly within his right to do what he did in his mind. Instead, as the man ranted he thought over the fact that Kira had known that the man was set free yet never mentioned it to anyone else. He briefly wondered if it had anything to do with that business trip to Atlanta that she went on just a few weeks after his accident. He kind of understood why she may not have told him; he'd been kind of useless lately after all. But why didn't she tell the others? Would she have told him if he hadn't had his accident? If he hadn't been so willing to escape the situation and go to his parents' home for that last several weeks? If he had stayed, would the flashes of his former life eventually come to him? Would they have been able to work together to be prepared for Shawn's release?