Author's Note: This is Bo and Luke's life together, from the first year Bo was with them, until when Luke leaves for the Marines, and one year after he gets back. It is all different events, but they all begin with more or less the same phrase. I thought it might be fun to tell their lives together by something that keeps happening. This follows on the same line as 'It's Cold,' and some of the events are even similar with the ages. There is also an Easter egg in there, if you can spot the movie line from the newest Dukes of Hazzard show, but I ain't telling which part it is in...

Big thanks to Earendil Eldar for beta work.

Warning: The warning is placed here for vinsmouse, who wanted a spew warning here, claiming it might be a bad idea to drink while reading the funnier parts. So please keep in mind that drinking any kind of beverage while reading this, might be hazzard'ous to the health of your screen.

Disclaimer: The Duke Boys are not mine, I don't own the Duke boys, nor 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….

It's Hot, Part Two

"Luke, it's hot." Four year old Bo complained to his cousin.

"What do ya except me to do about it?" Luke asked him, a bit annoyed, it was really warm, and it made his temper a bit short with his cousin.

"I dunno." Bo answered. "Something."

"Well I can't." Luke snapped at him. "Why would ya think I could anyway?"

He glared at Bo who was now scuffing the toe of his small boot in the dirt as he looked up with an embarrassed smile. "Well, ya always is so good at everything." He mumbled.

Praise wasn't what Luke had expected just after having snapped at the boy. Bo looked up to him, they had told him that often enough, and when Bo said things like that, Luke could tell as well.

In a way it was flattering to know that Bo thought he could even do something about the heat.

"I've got an idea." He said. "Let's go ask Uncle Jesse if he can't take us to go swimming."

"Yeah." Bo's whole face lit up with a big smile. "Please can we do that?"

"Well, we can go ask him." Luke decided. Bo took of eagerly and Luke hurried along after him.

"Luke, it's hot. I can't sleep" Bo's voice cut through the night.

"I can't sleep either." Luke groaned, his voice still a bit sleepy since he had just woken up.

"Yeah, cause it's too hot."

"No, because ya woke me up." Luke glared at his younger cousin, who's face was just a few inches from his own. Five year old Bo had gone from his own bed and claimed up on Luke's.

"Had to," Bo defended himself. "Couldn't sleep cause it was to hot."

"And ya had to wake me up because of it as well?" Luke muttered.

"I can't open the window on me own." Bo tilted his head to the side. "I tried to."

"Go back to sleep." Luke urged, thinking that maybe Bo would be easily convinced for once.

"Please help me." Bo urged, pulling up his feet to sit fully on Luke's bed.

"Why can't ya just ignore it and go back to sleep?" Luke shook his head.

"Cause it's to hot in here." Bo insisted. "Please help me Luke."

"All right, if it'll shut ya up." Luke got up and heaved the window open. "An' don't ya wake me up anymore tonight, got it?"

"Okay, thank you Luke." Bo gave him a quick hug, and then ran over to his own bed.

Luke shook his head, but the breeze coming in through the window was nice, he had to admit that.

"Luke, I'm hot, can't we go skinny dipping?" Bo asked, the six year old boy looking to his older cousin for an answer.

"No, we have to finish up the chores." Luke shook his head. They both had been put to help out, and Luke had been asked to make sure that Bo really did his share. Not because Bo would try and get away from it, but because he was so young he easily got distracted from the responsibility.

"But it's so hot." The boy insisted, wiping sweat from his face.

"Take off ya shirt then." Luke told him, he himself had done that long ago.

"I'm not allowed to." Bo said sulkily, and Luke recalled how he had done it he day before, and now had a stinging sun burn. They had told him to keep his shirt on so his back didn't get any worse. Knowing how much sun burn stung Luke could sympathize with him.

"I'll tell ya what, go and get us both some cold water to drink." He told Bo, "and then when ya get back, we'll hurry up and finish this, and then we'll ask if we can go skinny dipping. But we have to finish first."

"Okay." Bo ran off to get the water for them, once he had the possibility of a nice could swim to look forward to, it wasn't as hard to work in the heat.

"Luke, I'm hot." Bo told his cousin as he tried to fan himself with his hand.

"Uhu." Luke wasn't really paying any attention to his seven year old cousin at the moment.

"Really hot." Bo went on.

"Yeah." Luke grunted an reply that he supposed would work. He was thinking, and not really bothering about what Bo was doing.

"Ain't ya hot as well?" Bo asked curiously, wondering if Luke was ignoring him or not.

"Uhu." Luke murmured in something that sounded like an acknowledgement.

Bo was getting his suspicions that Luke wasn't really listening to him. "Are ya ignoring me?" He asked.

"Yeah," Luke grunted, still more intent on his own thoughts than on his cousin.

That did it for Bo, being ignored was bad enough, but having Luke outright say he was ignoring him, that really wasn't fair.

"Don't ya want me around anymore?" Bo demanded, pouting.

"Guess not." Still not really listening Luke murmured an answer, aware that it had been a question that sounded negative.

"Fine, then I won't bother ya anymore. I'll just go off an disappear." Bo claimed as he got to his feet angrily.

"Uhu."

"An' I'll tell Uncle Jesse that ya was mean to me, cause ya know, ya are mean right now."

Two things got through to Luke, the fact that Bo now sounded furious, and had mentioned the name of their uncle. He snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at the same time as Bo stalked away.

"Bo, wait, what's going on?" He asked.

Bo spun around and glared at him. "First ya go an' ignore me, an' even tell me ya do, and then ya say ya don't want me around no more, an' then ya ask me what's going on. I'll tell ya what's going on, I ain't staying round ya another minute when ya don't even want me."

Luke sighed as he watched Bo stalk off, he had a feeling that their uncle would be quite unhappy with him when Bo had told him about what had happened, whatever that was, and seeing as how he didn't even know that, he thought that maybe he did deserve it, kind off, but not really, just a little.

TBC

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