Chapter One--Poison In Hazzard
Bo Duke groaned and rolled over in his sleep and heard Luke coughing from the bed next to him and wondered what was going on. Luke was never ever restless unless he knew that something was gonna happen and as far as Bo knew nothing along that line was gonna occur.
Luke coughed and sat up in bed sensing his cousin moving in the bed next to him. He coughed again and then sneezed loudly, causing Bo to jump and then sit up in bed and stare at his cousin just as the door opened and Uncle Jesse stood in the doorway with Daisy and Daisy's best friend, pretty dark-haired Lana, who also happened to be Bo's girlfriend.
"Everything okay here boys?" Uncle Jesse asked, as the girl's sleepily rubbed their eyes. Luke shook his head. "Uncle Jesse...I...ahhh...ahhh...chooo." He said and then looked at his Uncle. "I think I got a cold." He said, and then looked over at the two girl's in the doorway. Uncle Jesse looked too and then gently guided the girl's back out. "Why don't you gals go git some Coffee." He said, and then looked at Bo.
"You go with em." He said. Bo got to his feet and followed the two sleepy eyed girl's down the hall to the kitchen where Daisy went to work making a pot of Coffee and Bo and Lana settled themselves at the table, staring into each other's eyes and smiling stupidly. Daisy sighed and watched them for a moment. Bo and Lana were crazy about each other and didn't waste any time letting the other one know about it either.
Another loud sneeze from Luke and Bo's room startled them and they all looked that direction. Uncle Jesse appeared from the bedroom and looked at Bo and Lana a moment before saying anything. "He's runnin' a fever and it looks like he's caught himself a cold, I'm gonna need y'all to help with the chores so's Luke can rest." He said.
"Sure, Uncle Jesse." Daisy said and then laughed a little when she realized that Bo and Lana were sleeping at the table with Lana's head resting on Bo's shoulder. Uncle Jesse started to laugh too and reached out shaking Bo's shoulder and gently touching Lana's face careful not to startle her.
Bo looked up at his Uncle. "If you's two are gonna sleep you's might as well move to the couch and git some good rest." He said. Bo nodded and he and Lana got to their feet and went into the living room and sprawled on the couch and went back to sleep.
The following morning Luke woke up and went into the kitchen to see if he could get some juice or water and looked around noticing that there was no one inside. He saw a blanket on the couch and wondered who had slept there. He knew Bo had never returned to the room after Uncle Jesse had chased him and the girl's out.
He walked outside and saw Bo and Lana sitting on the driver's side door of The General Lee, the big orange stock car that he shared part ownership of with his younger cousin. Lana's long dark hair shone in the sunlight as she tossed her head, laughing at something Bo said to her.
Luke remembered he had promised to take Daisy to work that day so Bo could use the jeep to go get some stuff for Uncle Jesse and Lana was going along with him so that left Luke with The General. He sneezed loudly and they whirled to face him. "Luke, you should be in bed." Bo told his cousin and hopped off the door, going to his side.
Luke shook his head and sneezed again. "Gotta take Daisy to work." He said. Lana followed Bo over to Luke's side, looking at him in concern. Luke brushed them off and went to find Daisy who was hanging up clothes. "You ready to go?" He asked. Daisy eyed him suspiciously and then finally nodded. "All right as long as you come back and get in bed and let Bo or Lana come and get me." She said, placing her hands on her hips.
Luke nodded and they headed over to The General and got inside heading to The Boar's Nest.
When they got there before Daisy climbed out she reminded Luke to go home and go back to bed, which didn't set well with him, though he did promise to try to get some rest.
On the way back Luke was feeling kinda lousy but enjoying the drive when a car came from out of nowhere and hit the General causing Luke to go off the road and hit a tree. Before Luke could get out a canister sailed through the air and came in through the window filling the inside of The General with Smoke.
Balladeer: Uh-oh folks...this don't look good, now who do you suppose would do something like that? Stick around now.
