A/N: Hey ya'll back for another chapter! So far, at any story I've written, after 4 chapters, this story holds my personal review record by one review! Let's make it more now, come on people, if I can come up with enough for this whole chapter, than you can all certainly come up with a few words to say about what you liked and/or didn't like about my story! I'm open to critism.
Chapter 5
After a few minutes, Boss and Rosco came out of the Boar's Nest, Flash in tow. Slowly, they made their way over to Daisy and Luke.
"Uh, Daisy, Luke," Boss started. "I, uh, we, just wanted ta set things straight with you Dukes. We's real sorry about what happened ta Bo. An' we wanna make things right an' admit ta you we did set ya up fer that robbery."
"Oh, so that was you," Luke said cynically.
"We hid the money in the backseat of the General Lee," Rosco confessed. Boss nodded.
"What!" Luke shouted. "The money we coulda used ta save Bo's life was in the General the whole time!"
"Luke, calm down," Daisy advised.
"No Daisy, I don't think so." He turned back to Boss and Rosco. "I want ya'll ta come with me an' show me that money."
The way Luke was lookin' an' talkin', I'd be afraid not ta go with him. Wouldn't you?
Boss did a double take at Luke's sharpness. "Well, alright. Come on, Rosco."
The two climbed into the backseat of Dixie. Flash sat on Rosco's lap.
Jesse and Cooter entered Chickasaw County, neither having said a word since they left the still site. Until they came upon a lonely little shack in the middle of nowhere.
"Uncle Jesse," Cooter said, "don't ya think a shack just sittin' there like 'at is a little strange?"
Jesse didn't have the heart to say his usual line about his not being Cooter's Uncle Jesse. So instead, he said, "Ya think we should check it out?"
Cooter nodded. "I got me a feelin' I just can't shake." They pulled down the dirt lane leading to the old shack.
Don't that shack look familiar?
Luke drove Dixie down Old Hickory Lane. "There he is," Luke said, pointing at the General Lee. He pulled up behind the orange car.
They all got out. Boss made his way to the backseat window. Luke and Daisy couldn't even look at the General without getting choked up. Rosco stood solemnly to the side, holding Flash.
"I got it!" Boss announced. "Here it is!" He held out a large cardboard box filled with money.
"Oh," Rosco cooed, grinning that shiny-cheeked grin. "Nice job, lil' fat buddy!"
"Yeah," Boss agreed. "We'll even tell them crooks ya didn't steal the money."
"Gotta find 'em, first," Daisy pointed out. Boss and Rosco and Luke all nodded.
Though the shock of thinking Bo was dead prevented Luke and Daisy from thinking Boss and Rosco had an ulterior motive, Luke still wondered why they were being so nice. "Why are you helpin' us now?"
"Ya've just been through a terrible loss," he said with that phoney-baloney sympathetic smile. "It's the least we could do, ain't it Rosco?"
Rosco nodded. "Oh, yeah."
That was enough for the remaining Duke cousins. They didn't question any further. Silently, they all got back into Dixie and pulled away, leaving poor General Lee behind once more.
Y'know, that car's havin' a bad day, too. Everyone keeps leavin' 'im. Maybe sometime somebody'll have the good sense ta tow that poor car away.
As they pulled onto the main road, another voice came cackling over the CB. "Breaker one, breaker one. I may be crazy but I ain't dumb. Craaaaaaaaaazaaay Cooter comin' atcha. Lost Sheep an' Bo Peep, ya out there?"
Daisy answered. "Hey there, Crazy C, what's yer twenty?"
"Ya'll head on over ta Chickasaw County on Route 16. 'Bout five mils in, ya'll see a shack sittin' on the right-hand side. That's where me an' the Shepard are."
"Ten-four," Daisy said. "Over 'n' out."
Within half an hour, Daisy, Luke, Boss Hogg, and Rosco arrived at the shack, where Cooter, Jesse, Enos, and Becky Lynn were. Boss had given Luke a signed piece of paper saying he was allowed by his probation officer to be out of Hazzard County, in case he got pulled over by Sheriff Little.
"I don' know if ya'll noticed on yer way in," Cooter said once everyone was situated, "but there was some blood on the dirt. Looks like there was a fight. We think it coulda been Bo an' one a the baddies."
"An' see them two ropes up there on them support poles?" Jesse asked. "Bo coulda been tied up there. Not ta mention this here bandana's wet. Coulda been gagged with it. That could be Bo's slobber on there."
"That all ain't no proof," Daisy said, once more on the verge of tears. "That all could mean anythin'."
"I figgered ya'd say that," Cooter said softly. "I saved the real smokin' gun fer last." He held up a pocketknife.
"That's Bo's pocketknife!" Luke exclaimed Cooter nodded to confirm. "Okay, I'm convinced." Daisy nodded in agreement.
"Maybe now we can git some clue as to where the bad guys are now," Becky Lynn noted.
"Yeah," Enos said. "Maybe Becky Lynn 'n' me should go look out in them woods 'n' see whats there." When everyone agreed, they started to head out the door.
Rosco stopped them. "Would ya'll mind takin' Flash with ya?" She needs the exercise; she's startin' ta look like the Boss! Khew, khew!"
Boss Hogg gave Rosco an evil look. "s better 'n' lookin' like you."
Now, Boss, I ain't so sure 'bout that.
So Enos, Flash, and Becky Lynn left. They trudged along in silence for a few minutes.
"Enos," Becky Lynn said, breaking the silence, "do you think there's any chance Bo's still alive an' the kidnapper's are lyin' ta make us stop lookin' fer 'im?"
"I ain't given up on that thought just yet," Enos admitted as he began kicking around a small rock. "But we'd still have ta find 'im."
Becky Lynn nodded. "I just can't believe Bo could be—well ya know." She couldn't manage to say it.
"Hazzard County sure wouldn't be the same ever again," Enos commented. "Prob'ly ain't gonna see the General Lee 'round much no more."
"I can't even imagine not seein' the General Lee tearin' up the back roads, mostly bein' chased by you or Rosco." She tucked back a stray lock of long dark hair behind her ear.
"I can't imagine never chasin' 'em either."
Becky Lynn was near tears by now. "Bo's death is gonna affect dang near everyone in Hazzard. I mean, even Boss Hogg seems a little less harsh. He's actually helping us."
"Ya rally liked Bo, didn't ya?" Enos inquired.
Becky Lynn nodded and smiled a sad smile. "Yeah, I really did. But I knew I never had a chance ta date 'im."
"I feel the same with Daisy. I been wantin' ta date her since the 7th grade."
"Well, you still have a chance," Becky Lynn sobbed. "Daisy's right back there in the shack, alive an' healthy. But Bo, I'll never have a chance with him, cause he ain't alive an' healthy."
Enos was about to respond when he realized Flash wasn't around. "Becky Lynn, where's Flash?"
"I don't know." She looked around for the dog. "Flash! Come here Flash! Here girl!" Nothing.
"Let's split up," Enos suggested. "You go that way, I'll go this way." Becky Lynn nodded in agreement, and they headed off in separate directions, each calling for the missing Basset hound.
Ol' Rosco'll have a cow if he don't git his beloved police dog back. An' ya'll remember what's in the woods, don'tcha?
After a few minutes of walking, Becky Lynn heard a noise, like a dog barking. "Flash!" She called out once more. "Where are ya, girl!" The barking took a moment to pause before starting up again. Becky Lynn stopped in her tracks and stood completely still and silent. Her ears were met with a cold, eerie silence that freaked her out. "Flash!" she called, prompting the noise to continue. When it did, she could hear it was somewhere off to her right. Slowly, she began trudging along in the direction of the barking. For quite a few minutes this went on; Becky Lynn feeling as if she were wandering around in a dream, no, a nightmare. She used to have nightmares like this as a kid, like some evil woods monster would come out at any moment and engulf her forever. She could remember being out in the woods near her house when she was a kid with her brother Joshua, but she never thought they were this creepy.
The barking was steadily growing louder and louder, as her heartbeat was growing faster and faster. She looked at her watch. Three thirty. It had been quarter to one when they had received the life-altering news of Bo's death. She noted how slowly time had crept along in the last two hours, forty-five minutes.
Just then, the distinctive shape of a short, stout Basset hound came floating across Becky Lynn's line of vision. "Flash!" she cried out before running toward the dog. I'm really glad I—" She stopped short when she saw the real reason for Flash's incessant barking.
"Enos!" she screamed, praying the deputy could hear. "Enos! I need some help here!"
Ya'll git one guess fer what Flash showed Becky Lynn. Come back ta see if yer right, ya hear?
A/N: Another one bites the dust! Please leave a review! I think I got enough answers for my question about how we know Bo's the youngest, but now I got another one. Did Bo really have asthma as a child or did we make that up? If so, what eppy did they say that in? Again, I haven't seen all eppys, just through the first one in season 5, so I'm really not as dumb as I look. ) Have a nice day, ya'll, and PLEASE REVIEW!
