It doesn't get much better than this.

Summary: Bo is six years old and life just doesn't get much better than that. A collection of stories from the childhood of Bo and Luke featuring the sentence, It doesn't get much better than this.

Disclaimer: I don't own either The Dukes of Hazzard or Calvin and Hobbes, if I where enough of a genius to invent either of these things, I wouldn't be writing stories which use other people's characters and ideas, now would I? And just so you know, no I'm not making any money out of this, and I don't intend to start doing it either.

Author's note: these are stories from the childhood of Bo and Luke which are loosely based on the wonderful Calvin and Hobbes cartoons by Bill Watterson from the Calvin and Hobbes album 'It doesn't get much better than this'. Starring Bo as the six year old Calvin and Luke taking on the parts of either Hobbes the tiger or one of Calvin's parents.

My first language is actually not English so be kind to any mistakes I might have made. Don't hesitate to correct them, I live to learn.

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Monsters under the Bed

"Bo! Wake up, time to get up." Bo heard Luke say on the edge of his dream.

"Wha time is it?" He mumbled sleepily.

"Come on jump out o' bed Bo." There was something odd about Luke's voice it sounded kind of slimy.

"Come on time to get up." And it was coming from under his bed...

Bo opened his eyes and sat up straight in bed. It was pitch dark, it wasn't morning yet, and Luke was asleep in the other bed... "Nice try, but I'm not that easy to fool!" Bo yelled at the dark space under his bed.

Luke turned sleepy eyes on his cousin. "There ain't no monsters under ya bed Bo, go back to sleep." And that was exactly what Luke did, go back to sleep.

The next morning.

Bo stumbled sleepily into the kitchen.

"Bo you look tired, sugar" His cousin Daisy said when she saw him.

"The monsters under my bed kept me up all night." Bo answered.

Uncle Jesse looked at him surprised. "But Bo I looked under ya bed when I tucked ya in last night, and there was nothing there."

Bo nodded. "I know."

"And Luke said he looked under there again when he went to bed and there was nothing there then either." Uncle Jesse continued.

Bo nodded again. "I know."

Uncle Jesse sighed. "Well the how could the monsters have gotten there after that?"

"I don't know, you want me to crawl under there and ask 'em?" Bo asked exasperated.

That evening

Bo sat on his bed shaking and casting glances at the underside of the bed. "I don't wanna go to sleep, I'm not sleepy." He stated.

Luke merely chuckled at that. "Look Bo, I want you to try something tonight, I want you to think happy thoughts before you go to sleep. These monsters don't exist unless you think they do, so if you don't think about 'em they'll go away. You think ya can do that?"

Bo nodded then sat on the edge of the bed and yelled down: "Listen monsters, I'm not gonna think about ya, so ya can just go away."

Luke laughed and tucked him in, soon Bo was fast asleep.

There was a noise somewhere on the edge of his dream. "Admit it, you lied to us, you still think of us."

Bo opened his eyes and there was a huge monster leaning over him. "LUKE!" Bo screamed. A light was switched on and the monster was gone.

Luke tried to clear the fog from his head and saw Bo sobbing on his bed. "What's wrong?" Luke couldn't quite muster up all his sympathy on this ungodly hour.

"The monsters." Bo sobbed.

Luke sighed got up out of bed and padded over to Bo's bed. He lifted the little blond boy into his arms and carried him over to his bed staggering slightly under the weight of the six year old.

"Ya can sleep with me tonight Bo, and tomorrow I'm boarding up the underside o' ya bed to get rid of them monsters once and for all."

"Your bed too Luke, or they'll get you." Bo insisted.

Luke crawled into bed and put his arms around Bo who snuggled into the safety of his big cousins embrace.

"Yes Bo, my bed too."

Bo snuggled just a little closer. "It doesn't get much better that this."

Fourteen years later.

"Luke why are the undersides of our beds boarded up?"

"Huh? Oh I did that against the monsters under 'em."

Bo stared at his cousin as if he'd gone insane. "Monsters?"

"Yeah you don't remember the monsters under ya bed?" Luke asked.

Bo kept staring. "I believed in monsters under the bed?"

Luke, uncle Jesse and Daisy glanced at one another. "Oh yeah!"

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