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Invasion

Lou watched Bo and Luke run for "their lives" back out the front door and Uncle Jesse stand, steaming with ire as he watched his nephews.

"Now, Mr. Duke," Lou said to him, rising, "if you kill them, you have to kill me and Jo too. It's as much our fault as it is theirs."

All fire faded from Jesse Duke's face as he calmed down and sat again. "But you're not the ones I raised, Betty-Lou. I have no say in what you do." He gestured. "Please, sit back down."

Gently, Lou complied. So you're gonna hurt your nephews for what they've done, but tell us you don't care what we did? Lou thought at him. Hypocrite.

"Now, Mr. Duke," she said aloud, "I know that I've put a lot on your plate now, but I do have a favor to ask of you. Well, besides the whole getting your nephews to marry up with us thing." She paused and took a deep breath. "We'd like to stay here."

Jesse frowned slightly, silently asking for clarification.

Lou wasn't going to give him the full story—that was for her and Jo to know, and nobody in Hazzard to ever find out—but she would give him the current conditions. "Well, you see, Mr. Duke, we're currently staying at the Hazzard Hotel, and it's not terribly comfortable. Frankly, Jo and I have to pay more than we'd like for daily accommodations there, and we'd like to fix things by staying elsewhere." She shrugged. "Our soon-to-be-in-laws' house seems as good a place as any."

"Sure, you can stay here," he said with a smile. "We wouldn't dare turn you down. And please, call me Uncle Jesse."

Lou returned the smile. "Well, thank you, Uncle Jesse. We're much obliged."

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It was early morning, with the sun dawning over Georgia when the Duke boys returned home. They'd been too scared of Uncle Jesse's wrath to return during the night, and had instead spent the night tossing and turning in the General—parked out near Hazzard Pond—in attempts to sleep.

Now they were irritable as they snuck back in the door, very foolishly on their parts.

Bo was first through the door to their room, groggily pulling his shirt off and fully intending to collapse on his bed in just a few moments.

"Well, sugar, as much I appreciate the show, please do me a favor and put your shirt back on," a voice said from behind him.

Startled, Bo jumped and quickly turned around.

Lying there, in his bed, swathed in his blankets and sheets, was none other than Lou, sleepily staring at him. She looked so comfortable and at place, curled on her side with an arm hooked around the pillow on which she rested her head.

A quick glance confirmed that Jo was asleep in the other bed—Luke's.

A scowl leapt to his face. "What are you doing here?" he growled.

"What's it look like?" she snapped in return. "I was trying to sleep before you monkeys interrupted. Jo and me are staying here too. By the way, Bo, you need to clean some stuff out of your drawers. There's no room for my stuff."

That's when Luke came in the door, and equally scowled at the sight of an intruder in his bed. "What're they doing here?" he grumbled.

"It seems they've moved in now," Bo retorted angrily, hurriedly jerking his shirt back on.

Lou rolled her eyes. "Could you guys get out of my room now? I'm trying to sleep."

"Your room!" exclaimed Bo. "Well, I—"

"Bo, Luke!" a familiar voice said from the doorway. Both boys turned to see their Uncle Jesse standing there. "You boys get on out of here and let the woman sleep."

Grumbling, they obeyed.

Once they were outside and the door to their room shut, Bo was the first to voice grievances.

"Uncle Jesse, why are those two in our room?" he asked angrily. "Lou said they're staying here. Is that true?"

"Yes, it is," Jesse confirmed. "They're gonna be here for a while."

"How long is 'a while'?" Luke asked.

"Until after the wedding and you get your own houses."

"After the wedding?" Bo asked as fear of what he was about to hear gripped him.

"Yes," Uncle Jesse confirmed again. "You two are gonna marry them, and take care of your wives and children like model men. I'm not gonna letcha get away with leaving them behind. This is the right thing to do, and you're both gonna do it."

"Uncle Jesse—" both boys started to protest.

"I don't want to hear it!" he cut them off. "I know you two don't want to, but you're gonna. We'll start planning the wedding as soon as possible, and hopefully we get to it before the girls have their babies."

Neither Bo nor Luke could believe what they were hearing. They'd at least expected Uncle Jesse to feel partially for their predicament. But apparently, that wasn't the case.

Daisy was coming out of her room now to see what the commotion was about, and the boys quickly tried to get her on their side.

"Daisy, do you think we should be forced into marriages we don't want?" Luke smoothly asked.

"Uh-uh, don't you try that mess on me," Daisy was quick to retort. "I think you fellas have to marry them, even if you don't want to."

"What!" they both cried.

Zero for two, Bo thought irately.

"How could both of you do this to us?" Luke shouted.

"You did it to yourselves," Uncle Jesse returned. "It was you two that went spreading yourselves about, and you two that got these girls pregnant. Now you have to face the consequences, even if you don't want to. It's part of being responsible."

Both boys groaned quietly. "Luke, I think we've lost this battle to the Generals Johnson," Bo told his cousin. "Great tacticians, those two, going in for our home turf."

Luke nodded. "Very persuasive ladies… and we lost the first battle to them and their brilliant plot."

"No," Uncle Jesse said, "you two didn't lose the battle, you lost the war."

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Lying still awake on Bo's bed, Lou heard the whole conversation, and somewhere halfway through, Jo awoke and began listening too. For a moment after the Duke family shouting match ended, both sisters sat in silence.

"So, you hear that?" Lou asked after a moment. "It seems we're great tacticians now and very persuasive ladies with a brilliant plot."

Jo nodded quietly. "They think we planned to do this to them."

"Didn't we sorta, though?" Lou replied. "We knew when we came to Uncle Jesse and Daisy that we'd have some allies. Very powerful ones. And so we've now decided that soon, you and me are both gonna become a Mrs. Duke."

TBC shortly!

No one expect a wedding chapter for a while... They master tacticians and thereluctant playboyshave a lot more arguments and such to go through before then. :)