Hey guys! I'm back! Sorry for the long absence there... I promise to try not to let it happen again. :)

So Chapter 4! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Dukes, but one can dream...


Morning dawned on Hazzard square. As the birds sang and people made their merry way to their jobs, Annabelle Shelton fumed on the front steps of the courthouse. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she pushed open the door and made her way to Boss Hogg's office. Without bothering to knock Annabelle barged into the fat man's office where he sat eating a stack of pancakes.

Boss jumped at the intrusion and immediately threw a protective arm around his breakfast. "I say, doesn't anyone have the common courtesy to knock anymore?" he complained relaxing back into his desk chair. "What can I do for you this morning Miss Annabelle dear?"

"I want you to keep your fat little nose out of my business." she struggled to keep her voice below a shout as she made her way across the office. "You almost blew it all for me last night at the Boars Nest." She stated as she leaned both hands on Boss's desk, her blond hair falling freely to frame her face. Her brown eyes sparked like fire, threatening to burn him up right then and there.

"Well now honey, how do you mean?" Boss asked sweetly trying to calm the raging female down a bit.

"I mean that little stunt you pulled last night on the dance floor. I told y'all, I work alone. I told you to carry on like you normally would."

"I ain't doing anything out of the usual." Boss defended, sitting back in his chair lighting a cigar.

"Not according to Luke Duke." Annabelle shot back, snatching the lighter out of Boss's sweaty paw. "He's getting mighty suspicious of you and your sheriff. He's got it figured that y'all are gonna come down hard on him and his cousin here in the near future. Now I don't need him getting the idea that you hired me."

"So what do you suggest I do about it?" Boss bursted out.

"Easy, do like I told you and carry on with business as usual. Luke said it's been awhile since they've been set up for a bank robbing, so do something easy like that. I don't care what you do, just do something." Annabelle turned to leave Boss's office and get back to Cooter's.

"Annabelle honey," she let out an impatient huff and spun on her heel to look at the fat man who was now standing. "How long do you think you will need to get them Dukes in jail for me?"

"Depends, Bo doesn't really like me but I think I got Luke pretty much believing everything. I'm going to have to gain the trust of all the Dukes before I can go through with my plan. I told 'em I'd be around for a few weeks, so have something planned to keep them busy for at least two, maybe three weeks." she hurriedly explained.

Boss nodded his head and squinted his eyes. "Gonna take that long huh?"

"Yep." She nodded her head once and closed her eyes as she quickly pulled her hair back as she explained. "That's why I have a hundred percent success rate and yours is next to none. I take my time and do things right and creatively." She finished wrapping the elastic around her hair and looked Boss in the eye. "Whereas you do things quickly and repetitively. The Duke's know all your moves and that's why you can never nail them."

"How would you know that?" Boss stammered.

Annabelle shrugged, "Luke told me all about it last night on their back porch." She turned and headed out the door. Turning to look over her shoulder at Boss she reminded him, "Just keep them boy's suspicion off of me, and I guarantee you'll have 'em in your jail." With that, she slammed the door and headed back across the street to Cooter's garage.

***** Meanwhile *****

Luke pulled the General Lee up in front of the barn and pulled himself out the driver's side window. Walking into the barn, he was happy to see that Bo had most of the morning chores done already. Grabbing the egg bucket he pointed himself in the direction of the chicken coop only to run right into Bo. Judging by the furrow those blond eyebrows were plowing in his cousin's forehead, Bo wasn't too happy. "What's up?" Luke asked, innocent enough question, or so he thought.

"What's up?" Bo mocked, "Well lets see," he started counting off on his fingers, "You get drunk, and me and Cooter gotta haul your ass home. Then as soon as you sober-up some you're going crazy over some hot-shot girl mechanic and take her side rather than mine. Last night at the Boars Nest you were so absorbed in her you totally missed a big fight out in the parking lot, which I was apart of!"

"Well are ya hurt?" Luke asked. This was the first he'd heard of the fight and was now looking for bruises, none of which he could find.

"No, I dropped that city slicker like a dirty shirt." Bo snapped before continuing "Then you invite the girl out here for the night, and for every night that she's gonna be here—"

"Bo, she has nowhere to stay. Wasn't gonna let her sleep on the floor of the garage." Luke calmly argued.

"Whatever," Bo shook him off. "Then you skip chores and take her and the General and disappear for an hour!" Bo put his hands on his hips and let out a huff of breath.

Luke shook his head as he stepped around his cousin. They walked in silence for the few seconds it took it get to the chicken coop and open the door. Then another five minutes as Bo watched Luke gather the eggs. Luke would've made him help, but he decided against it since he missed doing all the other chores.

"I don't like her." Bo said as Luke clambered out of the small coop and set the egg bucket on the ground.

"Never woulda guessed." Luke said sarcastically, tracking down the chicken feed.

"The feed's over by that barrel." Bo pointed from his position leaning against the small structure.

"What have ya got against Anna?" Luke asked as he spotted the chicken feed.

"I don't like her." Bo repeated as if that held all the explanation he needed.

"Yeah, Bo, I realize that." Luke said exasperated as he got enough feed to do the chickens the day and straightened up. "But why don't you like her?"

Bo shrugged his shoulders. "I just think she's bad news."

It was Luke's turn to frown now. "Bad news?"

"Yes bad news." Bo said pushing himself off the wall to stand at his full height, as if his height made him somehow superior.

Luke sighed, "How can she possibly be bad news?"

"I wouldn't date her." Bo shot back like that was all the justification he needed.

"Like you got such a great taste in women." Luke rolled his eyes as he turned his attention to the chickens.

"I think that a man would be pretty foolish to be getting all wrapped up in some girl he knew was going to leave right away." Luke bristled at that one.

"Talkin' from experience huh?" he asked as he calmly scattered chicken feed on the ground.

Bo rolled his eyes. "I mean not only is Anna going to be leaving, but she's broke too. So she'll probably snooker ya too."

"Just like Diane did to you?" Luke leveled a look at his cousin. That was dirty, but it needed to be said so his cousin could realize how much of an ass he was being right now.

"That was different Luke." Bo defended, standing up straighter and taller.

"Not much. She sweeps into town, broke looking for some knight to come to her rescue. Turns out she was just a manipulative little plotter who did whatever it took to get what she wanted." Luke summarized.

"Well you called me a dang fool for fallin' for her, so what makes you different fallin' for this Anna girl?" Bo hollered, losing his temper.

Luke shrugged, "Can't say. But I do know that I've been putting up with the consequences of your stupid decisions for the last twenty-some years and you owe me." With that, Luke picked up his pail of eggs and headed for the house, followed by a dumbfounded Bo.