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"You know what I think?" Bo Duke asked his older cousin Luke, who was sitting beside him in the passengers seat of their car.
"Bet you're gonna tell me." Luke replied, running a big, calloused hand through his dark hair. Squinting his eyes against the bright afternoon sun, his head began pounding again reminding him of the night before, most of which he couldn't remember.
"I think you got your bell rung pretty hard last night." Bo looked over at him and giggled at Luke's feeble attempt to kill him with just a look. "That was, after Kim left with that dude and during your single handed attempt at drinking the Boars Nest dry." Smug little smile on that blonde head now. Yeah, so last night sucked. But he really wasn't in the mood to hear his cousin's exaggerated version of it either.
"Let's just get to Cooter's and see what we can do about fixin' this alternator for Uncle Jesse's tractor." Pointing towards the road so his cousin remembered where it was, Luke slid down in his seat and rested his head against the General's roll bar. Last night wasn't that bad, well the first part wasn't that bad. Him and Kim Johnson were having a pretty good time, drinking a few beer and talking. Then her nine and a half foot, 800 pound boyfriend she forgot to mention came in and, as Bo so handily put it, rung Luke's bell. Then the whiskey started pouring and next thing he knew he woke up on his bed, wearing everything he was last night minus the boots. He guessed he really ought to be thankful for his little cousin and whoever helped him get his drunk ass home last night, but he really wasn't in the mood for talking… Or getting up at six to do chores, or standing on his head to get the dang alternator out of the tractor, or having to go to town to fix it when Bo was perfectly capable of doing the task on his own…
When Bo slowed the General down as they entered Hazzard, Luke sat himself upright in his seat, checking out the courthouse and the bank and was pleased to see no strange cars. Boss hadn't bothered them in a whole two days and it would be a shame to have that record broken.
Bo pulled the General up in front of Cooter's and shut it down. Luke shut his eyes and slowly pulled himself through the window to sit on the door. Cooter stepped out of the garage and laughed. "Hey ya'll! Still a little sore eh Lukas?" He should've known Cooter would've helped Bo pack him home last night. "You gotta lay off Daisy's cookin' man, you're heavy!" Cooter walked up to where Luke was sitting on the door frame and slapped his back.
"I would but it's too dang good." Luke laughed and pulled himself the rest of the way out of the car.
"We brought that alternator in. Wanna have a look at it?" Bo asked, motioning toward the trunk.
"Yeah we'll get to that, but I got somebody I want ya'll to meet." Bo and Luke exchanged glances over the General's roof and shrugged. Following the mechanic into the garage they saw a pair of feet sticking out from under the black sedan in the middle of the shop. Cooter knocked on the hood of the car, "How them brakes comin'?"
"Just fine Cooter," came the female voice in reply. "Finally got them rusty bolts outta there an' now I just need them new pads." Cooter raised his eyebrows at the boys who were kind of dumbfounded.
"Well why don't ya take a break from that Anna," Cooter suggested, "'Sides, remember them friends of mine I was tellin' ya about that like to wreck cop cars? Well they's here. Come on out and I'll introduce ya'll."
Bo and Luke stepped back to allow the girl room to slide out from under the car. She hopped up off the floor and dusted off her jeans. Straightening up she smiled a cute little crooked smile and extended a hand out to Luke and then Bo. "Mornin'." She drawled, slight twang to her voice, from out west somewheres. "You must be the Duke boys." Luke extended his hand to hers and shook her hand, surprised at the strong grip of the little hand.
"That would be us," he replied, "I'm Luke and this here's my cousin Bo." He watched as his cousin also extended his hand. He knew Bo's stance on the issue, it was clearly written all over his face. Bo didn't like her. Bo tended to like women who cooked for him and wore tight little outfits. Luke was a little less picky, and now that he looked, this Anna girl wasn't too bad actually. She wasn't overly tall, at least a half a foot shorter than he was. Her oversized attire hid her figure, but he guessed she couldn't weigh much. Her hair was pulled up in a messy ponytail underneath a greasy ball cap. Big brown eyes sparkled underneath the light dusting of dirt on her face from working under the car. The way she carried her self exuded confidence and pride.
"Well pleased to meet ya'll." she smiled at them, "I'm Anna, Anna Berkley. Cooter here was so kind enough to give me a job here for the next few weeks."
"So you're just passin' through then right?" Bo asked, hoping for a confirmation.
"Yeah, on my way to Louisiana." she explained, "Why, ya sick of my already." she asked sarcastically.
"No, I just don't think this is necessarily the kind a thing that a woman ought to be doin' is all." he replied smugly. Seeing the flash of fire in Anna's eyes, Luke chuckled under his breath and went to stand by Cooter to enjoy the showdown.
"Well now plowboy," Anna said slowly, looking straight into Bo's eyes. "Just cause I know my way around an engine ain't reason to go wishin' I just hurry up an' leave. You do your thing and I'll do mine." With that Anna turned away from Bo and walked over to the shelf that the new brake pads were sitting on and came back to the car and got back to work.
"Sure told you." Luke smiled as his younger cousin walked towards where he and Cooter stood, barely containing laughter.
"Yeah whatever," Bo replied.
"You know Bo, Anna is one heck of a mechanic." Cooter informed, looking over towards the car that she was now under. "If I had more business, I'd probably hire her on full time."
"I still don't think its right." Bo pouted.
"Just cause she's a better grease monkey than you." Luke goaded, he'd been putting up with Bo's digs at him all morning, and he figured it was his little cousin's turn to be on the receiving end. "Heck, you get one speck of dirt on ya and you're runnin' headlong for the shower." Luke looked at his cousin, who was turning a rather bright shade of angry red, and smiled.
"Well now, before we go startin' a fight or somethin', hows about we go get that alternator and have us a look. Shall we?" Cooter asked, seeing the anger on Bo's face and the dare on Luke's.
A little while later, the three men were working together on tearing apart the seized-up alternator. Luke felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Anna standing right behind him smiling. "Hey," he said returned the smile.
"How's it goin'?" she asked, motioning to the now apart alternator.
Luke glanced back at the bench and shrugged his shoulders. "Pretty good. Got it apart and turns out we just need a new bearing."
"Well that's easy to fix." she commented.
"Yeah, Jesse figured it would be worse." he turned back to her and smiled again. "Once we get it fixed it'll be about quittin' time. Wanna come out to the Boar's Nest with us an' Cooter for a few beers?" He wiped his hands on a rag and looked down at her, searching her bright brown eyes as she considered his offer.
"Sure, why not." She replied with that crooked little smile that Luke found himself liking. A lot.
"It's a date then." Luke looked at her one last time before turning around to help Bo and Cooter put the alternator back together.
