A/N Y'all know this little mathproblem? Time + Inspiration: One exciting chapter!
I sure hope y'all like this chapter, cause I wrote it in record time, and I don't say this a lot, but I really like it... I'll leave a little note at the end, cause goshdarnit I couldn't help it... Enjoy!

14

The next day Bo was to be released from the hospital, although he still had a nagging headache, and throbbing ribs. And even though he hated hospitals, all Dukes were surprised to hear him say he wanted to stay. The reason however, was clear to all of them… Luke.

After talking to his doctor, they decided he could stay for one more night, to get his strength back a bit. But getting his strength back, was the last thing on Bo's mind that day. When uncle Jesse and Daisy had returned to the farm, which had been neglected for the past few days and the chores still had to be done, Bo was allowed to visit Luke a little longer, and more often.

Those visits were both uplifting and depressing, cause Luke still looked the same, still and pale. But seeing him alive was also a source of hope.

At the end of that afternoon Bo was sitting in the chair next to Luke's bed, doing what he had done the entire day, talking. With some pauses in between, that was his task that day. Luke always told him he talked to much, but now he tried to use that to get Luke to come back to them. Telling him how pretty the nurses were, but also talking about feelings he didn't always share with his cousin.

"Ya know I was jealous of you when ya got ta learn how ta drive in that old truck uncle Jesse had bought 10 years ago. As a matter of fact, I used ta be jealous of ya a lot when we was younger. You always seemed ta be good at everything you did, while I…" he chuckled a little as he remembered those times, "well I used ta need a little time to find out I wasn't good at everything I tried. And when ya went to war, I almost thought you would be invincible. Cause you always were invincible ta me… "

Looking at the pale face with the dark circles underneath the eyes, he realized how wrong he had been. Luke was nowhere near invincible. But he already knew that, he just wished he wasn't confronted with it this way.

"But when ya got back from 'Nam, I saw how you'd changed. I didn't know how, but somehow you were different. The first few days I was afraid that I'd changed too much, but somehow, we both was changed. I'd grown up; I had learned how ta drive, I graduated, I was old enough ta drink, an' I even had my first girlfriends…

An' when ya came back, I was so happy and so relieved, but… To be honest, I was also a little scared. Scared that my great life was gonna change again. That I would feel inferior ta you again. An' I was so ashamed that I felt that way. I mean, you were back, and I was real happy, but somehow that nagging feeling stayed with me for a few weeks.

But when I saw how you'd changed, how you was afraid of the dark, how you were so silent, I found out that we didn't have ta be the same. I could live my life, an' still be close ta you, without feeling that resentment…" trailing off, Bo let the silence fill the room again, before stepping over to a lighter subject.

"The storm really managed ta wreck a lot in town. Roscoe told us how the Boars nest had all its windows blown out. An' ya know what? In town only the sheriffs station was really damaged. I guess Boss' is havin a full-blown meltdown right about now," chuckling softly Bo thought about the farm, and all the work that was waiting for them.

"I'm a guessin I can't be here a whole lot in the next few days, but I sure as heck am gonna try cuz. It's jus that uncle Jesse needs all the help he can get right now, 'specially since we kinda spilled a lot of the crops when we crashed the Learson truck," Bo finished with a small sigh, "if ya'd jus wake up, it'd be a whole lot easier. We wouldn't have ta worry that much anymore an' you 'd be able ta heal, and finally go home… " Bo finished, letting the silence rule the room again.

Bo didn't know how much time had elapsed until the door opened and the nurse signalled that it was time ta leave again. Squeezing Luke's hand one more time, Bo carefully stood up, giving his cousin one last look-over when he saw the small twitch in Luke's finger. The moment he looked up expectantly a more alarming sound reached his ears. The once steadily beeping machine was now started to beep faster and faster, until all he heard was one long steady beep…

"Sir you have ta move, now," one of the nurses hurriedly said as she ushered him out. Bo turned frightened eyes towards the doctors who were frantically pushing on Luke's ribcage while grabbing paddles to shock his cousin back to life.

His eyes stayed glued to the scene, even when they had shut the door. Through the window, he could see everything. He saw how they injected syringes in his IV's, but the most disturbing thing was the shocks. Luke's body jerked up, every time they sent a jolt through his already battered body. And Bo flinched every time his cousin shot up.
It all seemed to go on for just a minute, while it was in fact almost half an hour. After those 20 minutes all activity suddenly ceased inside the small room. Holding his breath Bo could hear his heart beat wildly in his chest as he saw the doctors put the paddles back. He couldn't hear a thing through the closed door, so he didn't know why they stopped. Did they bring him back, or…

Bo's eyes franticly followed all the movement in the room, his head following his eyes in small movements. The movements ceased however, when he saw it…

The doctor pulling the sheet up, higher and higher, over Luke's bandaged chest, over his shoulders, and finally, over his face.

"Oh Lord no," Bo murmured as his legs started to sway, feeling like someone had put jelly into them.

As the doctor opened the door, facing him with a great sadness in his brown eyes, Bo only saw the body of his cousin, sprawled on the bed, underneath the sheet.

"I'm so sorry, his injuries were just too severe…" doctor Ramirez told him, his own sadness making his voice sound rough.

"Do you eh, do you want me ta call yur family, son?" he asked, taking the slight nod Bo gave him as a sign to leave the young man with his grief. Putting one comforting hand briefly on the boy's shoulder, he felt the waves of grief rolling off of him, and he had to step back. Giving the blonde one last sympathetic look, he turned to find the phone. He had one difficult phone call to make…

Staring through the opened door, Bo's eyes were still glued on the still form lying on the bed. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he had heard the doctor, but it didn't get through all the way.

Making his way into the now cold and empty room, the tears blinding his vision into a swirl of colours and shapes, Bo managed to find the only bed standing in the room.

The bed which held the lifeless body of his older cousin. Letting his tall frame fall into the empty seat where he had sat that entire afternoon, he kept looking at the form on the bed. One pale hand was hanging over the edge of the bed, giving the scene an aerie look.

As the first tear escaped Bo's eye, others followed. He ran one hand through his curly blonde hair, while his other grasped the icy cold hand coming from underneath the snow-white sheet.

Huge sobs broke his body as the reality of the situation hit him full force, and he put the cold hand against his warm cheek, hoping to get a small movement out of the stiffening limb.
A feeling of rage started to fill him however, after several minutes of sobbing in that position…

"How could you?" He yelled, looking up at the ceiling, as if he could see through it. "How could ya take him away!"

With the white hot rage going through him at that moment, Bo couldn't think rational anymore. Ripping the sheet from the dead body of his cousin, Bo saw the destruction. The breathing tube hanging next to Luke's face, the dark bruises, sticking out in comparison to the unnatural white skin, and the unruly black hair, now hanging slack against his head.

The sight turned his stomach around, and he turned away, for the first time in his life unable to look at his cousin. This flared his anger more, and the only way he knew how to vent is was with brutal force.

Grabbing the tray of food he had gotten an hour earlier, he threw it across the room, letting it land against the once white wall. The curtain was ripped from the rail it was hanging on, as he trampled it underneath his booted foot. After 5 minutes of rampage the room looked like a hurricane had went through it.
Exhaustion started to take over, and he sagged against the far end of the wall, facing the bed which held his dead cousin.

His stomach revolted against the movements, and grabbing the dented trashcan he vomited, emptying himself of the contents which hadn't been in his stomach for long.

After dry-retching for about an hour, he let himself fall back against the wall further and further.
The wall became soft as Bo kept sagging further, feeling the softness dissolve around him. At one point however the feeling of softness behind his back disappeared and he fell backwards. And he kept falling, deeper and deeper as darkness claimed his mind…

# 01010101 #

A loud crash resounded through the hospital room as Bo fell backwards, tumbling out of his chair.

Lying on the ground next to the hospital bed, his eyes flew open as one distinctive sound reached his ears. Shaking his head to clear it from all the cotton which seemed to fill it, he slowly sat up, seeing the room was still in one piece.

Beep… Beep… Beep…

Whirling around, he saw the machine making the beeping sound, still going strong.

"What… How?" he murmured, still not grasping what was going on.

Are y'all thinkin what I'm a thinkin? I think yur right, poor Bo was probably more tired then he thought…

He turned towards the bed, expecting to see the dead body he had seen just minutes earlier. But instead he saw something different. He saw blue eyes, gazing up in confusion at him. He saw his cousin, alive and… Awake!

Not quite able to comprehend everything he only murmured one thing, still trying to loose the cobwebs filling his head,

"A dream… It was only a dream…"

Now did ya see this one coming? I really fooled y'all, didn't I? Sorry, but I jus couldn't help myself... Thanks for readin, and I'll try ta update as soon as possible. Y'all come back now, ya hear?