Chapter 3: "Who am I?"
Luke slowly awoke with a severe pounding in his head. Luke tried to open his eyes, but when he did so, the brightness of the room nearly blinded him. After waiting a couple of minutes, Luke slowly started to open his eyes, this time giving them time to adjust to the light. Once Luke's eyes were open, he began looking around trying to figure out where he was and why his entire body hurt like nothing he had ever felt before. While Luke was turning his head slowly to look around better, an elderly woman came into the room.
"Oh, good yer awake. We were beginning to wonder if you'd ever wake up." The woman said kindly. Luke didn't know who she was, but for some reason, something told him that he could trust her.
"Wh-where am I?" Luke asked his voice raspy. The woman walked over to him and sat down in an old wooden folding chair.
"Yer in Hazzard. My husband found you in our backyard, you've been unconscious for the past six hours. We would've taken you to the hospital, but our car is under a tree limb, and all our means of communication are gone right now," The lady said as she carefully wiped Luke's face with a cool damp washcloth. "I'm Mary Hannover by the way."
"It's nice to meet you Mrs. Hannover, my name is…I'm sorry, I can't seem to remember my name."
"Oh, it's alright dear. Don't strain yerself, it'll come to you after you've gotten some rest."
"Alright, but I can't help but feel as though I've got something important to remember. Like someone I know is in trouble." Luke said groggily as he started to drift off to sleep. Mary started to get up to leave, but was stopped by a gentle grip on her lower arm. Mary turned around and saw Luke looking up at her, his crystal blue eyes showing just how confused and frightened he was.
"What is it dear?" Mary asked in a soothing voice.
"Please stay until I go to sleep." Luke waited until he was certain that Mary was going to stay before letting go of her arm.
"Alright." Mary replied with a warm smile.
"Thanks." Luke said as he let out a yawn that sent a shot of pain through his chest causing him to wince. Luke knew he probably had a couple of busted ribs, and judging from the fiery pain in his left leg, that he ad probably broken his leg. What other injuries he had, he could only guess. It wasn't long before Luke drifted off into a restless sleep.
Meanwhile at Tri-County Emergency, Boss Hogg, Alex, and an unconscious Bo were just arriving at the hospital.
"Alex, go get a doctor and a stretcher." Boss ordered. Without saying a word, Alex hurried inside to fetch a doctor. A minute or so later, Alex, along with a younger looking doctor, and several nurses came out with a stretcher. The doctor, along with the help of the nurses carefully lifter Bo out of the car and onto the stretcher. Boss knowing he wouldn't be able to leave the hospital until Bo was settled in, went inside to wait in the emergency room lobby. What seemed like forever to the impatient commissioner, but in reality had only been about five hours. The young doctor who had taken Bo back, came out and stood in front of the doors looking at papers on a clipboard. Boss recognized him, and stood up and walked over to greet the doctor.
"Hello Doctor, um…" Boss began realizing he didn't know the doctor's name.
"Hello, my name is Doctor Scott Toole. Are you here for the young man brought in earlier?"
"My name is Jefferson Davis Hogg, but you can call me J.D., now which young man would that be that was brought in here earlier?"
"The young man with blond hair, who, excuse my French, looked like he'd been through hell and back."
"Oh, that young man. How is he doc?"
"Well, to be perfectly honest, he ain't doing very well. The type of injuries he sustained are only possible from a high altitude fall, in fact I'm quite amazed your son's even alive right now. He had internal bleeding, but we managed to get that under control, he has a hairline fracture in his upper arm and several broken ribs, one of which came close to puncturing one of his lungs. He also had his left knee severely dislocated. What worries me though is the fact that he's still unresponsive."
"Is it alright if I see him?" Boss asked with genuine concern. Sure he disliked the Dukes, but when one of them was injured as bad as Bo was, then he grew extremely concerned.
"Yes, but only for a little while. Try talking to him, to get him to wake up. The sooner he wakes up, the better."
"Alright, um, what room is he in?"
"Room 143."
"Alright, thank you doc." Boss said as he started looking for Bo's room. Boss found the room without any problems. Not sure if he should go inside or not, Boss thought about it for a minute before deciding to go in. slowly turning the door knob, Boss took several slow steps inside before closing the door quietly behind him.
Meanwhile in Hazzard, Jesse, Daisy, and Cooter still hadn't had any luck finding the boys. With the phone lines down, and almost all of the CBs in town out, all they could do was ask people if they'd seen them and ask them to keep their eyes open.
"I just don't know where they could be, it's almost as if they'd been knocked off the face of the planet." Jesse said sadly.
"It'll be alright Uncle Jesse. We'll find them, and when we do, we'll throw the biggest party for them in the history of Hazzard County." Daisy said as she put her arm around her uncle's shoulders.
"Yeah, them boys are tougher then nails. We've just gotta keep lookin'. It's possible that they're still hiding somewhere too." Cooter said trying to reassure his friends.
"Yeah, I hope yer right Cooter. We just gotta keep lookin' and prayin' that we find them." Jesse said as they continued their search.
Meanwhile at the Hannover's residence, George was just coming back in from having been outside cleaning up the yard.
"Mary dear, how's the young man doing?"
"He woke up for a few minutes earlier, but when he went to tell me his name, he said he couldn't remember. I think he may have gotten a head injury."
"I got the limb off the car, and I managed to get it started, but it died after a minute. I'll have to work on it before we can get him to the hospital."
"Alright, I got dinner almost done. I'm going to try to get him to eat something, so he can keep his strength up."
"Alright, I'll go wash up and come help you set the table." George said as he headed towards the bathroom.
Poor Luke, he can't remember who he is, and poor Bo, he still hasn't rejoined the land of the living yet. Jesse, Daisy, and Cooter are all worried about them boys, not knowing they're closer then they seem to be.
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