Author's Note: In "Me and You and, Well, We Have Bo Here," I mentioned a bit about Luke telling Bo to get lost, only to have him go literally lost. Sine so many asked me about it, I have written that story, and since it was requested to be a chapter story, it is. I am sorry for the chapters being so short though.
Big thanks to Earendil Eldar for beta work.
Disclaimer: The Duke Boys are not mine, I made up the names of the other drivers, but I don't own the Duke boys, not the General Lee. I promise that once I'm through with them, there will be nothing broken that a trip to Cooter's garage can't fix….
Chapter 2, What If He Does Not Come Back?
Luke smiled proudly as he entered the kitchen, he had two small fishes with them, and he couldn't wait to show them to Aunt Martha. She would cook them for dinner, and then his Uncle Jesse would say it was good work of him to catch them.
"Aunt Martha, look what I got." He held up the fishes for her to inspect.
"That's good Luke." She smiled. "Is Bo outside chasing the chickens again?"
"I don't know." Luke told her, "I just got back."
Martha frowned. "But he was with you Luke. I saw the two of you leave together."
"No, he went back to the farm just as we left." Luke shook his head. "I bet he's with Uncle Jesse."
Now it was Martha's turn to shake her head. "No Luke, we haven't seen him here since the two of you left. Did you leave him somewhere?" She asked.
"I told him to go back, but we hadn't gone that far then." Luke said uneasily. "He just went back."
Martha sighed. "Luke, Bo isn't old enough that you can tell him to go back, and be sure he does it, he isn't big enough to be wandering around all alone. Now where did you leave him?"
Luke shifted uneasily on his feet, he could tell she was disappointed in him. "By the old oak tree, the one that split in the storm." He admitted.
"Luke, that's much too far away to leave him." She exclaimed. "You know how he can just walk off if he sees something, now, run and fetch your Uncle Jesse, we have to find him."
Luke did as he was told, seeing the same disappointed look on his face as he was told. Then he was told to stay home and look after Daisy while they went looking for Bo. Daisy wasn't so small she needed someone to look after her, but Luke got a feeling they didn't really want him along. They were really disappointed in him, but Luke didn't really care about that. It had been annoying with Bo tagging along, but now he was just as worried about him as they were. He had thought Bo had gone straight back, but then he would have been on the farm, and he wasn't.
So Luke watched over Daisy, tried to keep her from worrying too much, it wasn't easy. They sat on the couch in the living room, side by side, and tried to comfort each others.
"Luke," Daisy turned big eyes up to him, gripping his arm. "What if Bo doesn't come back?"
"He'll come back." Luke assured her. "He's just hiding for a bit, but they'll find him really quick like." He knew that as soon as they found Bo, then Jesse would take him into the wood shed, and he deserved it. Even as he assured Daisy he thought about all the things that could happen to a three year old boy in the forest.
Bo was too curious, he didn't understand that things could be dangerous, he was always chasing the chickens around, and he didn't realize that some animals was dangerous.
Three hours later their Uncle Jesse and Aunt Martha came back, but Bo wasn't with them. Martha made Luke and Daisy a small meal while Jesse called all their neighbors to ask them to come and help search.
This time Martha stayed at home since they couldn't leave the children alone during the night, and someone had to stay by the phone.
TBC
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