Next chapter! Thanks so much for your reviews. I hope everybody likes where this story is going. Once I figure out where that is. Let me know what you think, good, bad or otherwise. (Save me from making a mistake!) And still not mine (pout).

The Charger's engine roared, the bright orange car eager for open road as Bo pulled out of the parking lot. Bo and Luke didn't feel much differently. The new day had brought a new perspective for the boys. After experiencing Lulu Hogg's gratitude first-hand, they were feeling somewhat better about being involved in her charity auction. Despite being at odds with Boss Hogg most of the time, the Dukes truly liked Lulu and considered her a friend, with Daisy being especially close to the woman. Anything they could do to help her event succeed, well, they were happy to do it. And it didn't exactly hurt that Boss wasn't thrilled by their involvement, either.

"Well, Luke," Bo said as he guided General Lee around a sharp turn in the road, "Looks like you and me got our weekend all planned out for us next week, thanks to Daisy and Miss Lulu." He looked over at Luke and grinned. "And I'm sure some of them girls will even take pity on you, seein's how this auction's for charity," he teased his older cousin.

"Me?" Luke laughed in disbelief. "Cousin, the only reason they'd be biddin' on you is outta charity! And I bet them bids probably wouldn't amount to nothin' either!" He leaned back in his seat and stared ahead, arms crossed. "They'd probably be lucky to get a dollar outta your hide."

"Oh, yeah?" The competitive streak that fueled the Duke boys began to assert itself. "What do you want to bet I get higher bids than you do?" Bo issued the challenge.

Luke thought for a moment. "How about, loser pays for both of us at the Boars Nest for a month?" he suggested finally.

"You're on!" Bo freed up one hand long enough to shake on it, and the bet was official.

What do y'all wanna bet it's Uncle Jesse that wins?

The song of Rosco's siren sounded behind them, drowning out the rest of what they were saying. "Hey, Bo neither one of us is gonna win your little wager if Rosco tosses us in jail," Luke pointed out, debate temporarily dropped.

"You got a point there, cousin. Hang on!"

Now ol' Sheriff Rosco wasn't having too good of a day. Finding out his deputy was abandoning him for a couple afternoons for the charity auction, even if it was being run by Rosco's sister, just kinda rubbed him the wrong way, since that meant he couldn't get no time off. He also shared in Boss' irritation that the Dukes was gettin' involved. The man was havin' the sort of fit that only arresting somebody could fix, and he figured catchin' the Duke boys on a phony charge could be just the thing to turn his day around. Kinda looks like Lulu's sign-up paper ain't the only list Bo and Luke's names are high up on, don't it.

"I tell you what, Flash, I'm gonna nail 'em this time! Them Duke boys is as good as in the slammer!" he giggled, watching with glee as the boys made another desperate-looking turn. "I don't need no deputy dipstick messin' up catchin' them Dukes!"

Rosco does just fine messin' that up his own self.

Rosco hugged his dog as best he could with one arm while turning the wheel crazily with the other. "Let him go waste his afternoons. You're as good as ten deputies anyways, Flash. If you could only drive a car, I'd make you deputy, an' you could have your own patrol car, and shiny badge, and I wouldn't have to rely on deputies I can't rely on…Ooh, I love it, I love it!" Rosco grinned and giggled again at the thought of Flash behind the wheel, helping him chase down the Dukes.

Man, I hope Flash don't take him up on all that. Then them boys'd really be up a creek.

"Bo, the creek!"

Instead of jumpin' the creek, like they are right now.

"Hang on, cousin!" Bo exclaimed again, hitting the accelerator as the creek's bank loomed ahead. The ground fell away and the car grew airborne…

You know what, I'm glad I ain't in Luke's shoes at the moment. All he's got to hang onto is either Bo or the General, and they's both busy right now. Me, I'm gonna find somethin' a little more solid to grab onto, and be right back with ya. Hope y'all do the same.

(And R and R, of course, please!)