Hey everyone!

Sorry about the massive wait. (Like 2 years.. My bad!) I was going through files on my computer and found some un-posted chapters! *Hooray*

Once again, I apologize for the massive wait and cliffhanger. :(

I don`t own the Dukes, (unfourtunatley)


Jumping into the General Lee, Annabelle saw all the money that Bo was talking about. Rosco must've stuffed a couple thousand dollars into the General's glove box. Why Enos didn't take the money with him when he arrested Bo was beyond her. No wonder Boss Hogg had hired her to take care of the Duke Boys.

"Now Anna, this here car can be a little bit tricky," Cooter interrupted her assessment of the Hazzard County deputy's sloppy work, pointing to different gauges and knobs.

"Don't worry Cooter," Annabelle interrupted, "I've built and driven my fair share of cars like this in my time." With that, she started the General and took off down Old Mill Road, leaving Cooter in her dust. While she may be here on false pretences, what she had told Luke that first night at the Boars Nest about living with her aunt and uncle was true. The whole deal with Jamie Southwell was how she had gotten into this business. Revenge is a terrible master, but it did give her the skills she lives by now.

Pushing the gas all the way to the floor, Annabelle was surprised at exactly how much power this car really had. It had been so long since she had been behind the wheel of a car like this. Not since she left Texas. Watching the country fly past her, Annabelle let herself go back to her teenage years, riding pastures with her Uncle Norm, barrel racing on her black horse Bandit, and moments like this, flying way too fast down some back road in a homemade race car. She briefly thought how her life would have been different if Norm and Lil never passed. She could have been a rodeo star, running a big time ranch in Texas.

Shaking her head, Annabelle refocused on the task at hand. She had half of a stack of 100 hundred dollar bills stashed away in the hidden zipper of the bag stowed in Daisy's closet back at the Duke farm telling her she had a job to do. She had Luke wrapped around her finger, but Bo was being belligerent. Praying her plan would work, Annabelle pulled the General up to the curb outside of the courthouse. Looking around her to see if anyone was watching, she quickly ran over to the barred window at the bottom corner of the jailhouse.

"Hey boys." She greeted the two stubborn looking Duke boys with a smile.

"Anna!" Luke jumped from where he was leaning against his bars to the window. "What are you doing here?" Bo stayed where he was sitting in the corner of the cell.

"I'm here to bust you two outta jail." Anna replied with a coy smile.

"Luke and me's busted outta this place more times than not." Bo levelled her a look from across the cell. "I think we can handle ourselves."

Anna felt her eyebrows furrow together as she looked from Bo to Luke's nodding head. "He's right Anna, Rosco and Enos ain't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed." Luke reached through the bars to grab Anna's hand, "Don't risk getting yourself in the cell next to us here. We'll figure our way out of here."

Anna looked one more time from Luke to Bo's surly face and back. "Well if that's how y'all feel, I'll leave y'all here then." Taking her hand back from Luke she stood up from where she was crouching. "The General's out here on the curb for when y'all escape. I'll be at Cooter's waiting for sirens." With that she turned on her heel and headed back to Cooters.

Two and a half hours later, Anna and Cooter were closing up the garage for the night. The General Lee still sat right where Anna left him on the side of the street. "I'd go and try to bust 'em boys outta there right now but them damn boys get so stubborn once they got an idea through their heads." Cooter complained as he turned around from locking the front door of the garage. "You need a ride out to the farm Anna?" Cooter asked, a slight hint of defeat in his voice.

"Thanks Cooter, but I may as well take the General back before Rosco impounds it or something. I'll go ask the boys." Anna replied. Her and Cooter said their goodbyes and once Cooter's wrecker was out of sight, Anna walked over to the courthouse.

Striding with purpose into the booking room, Annabelle saw Rosco playing with a smelly basset hound like an idiot and Boss chowing down on a pile of food in his office. Striding right past Rosco into Boss' office, Annabelle crossed her arms and gave Boss the stare down. Blubbering around the piece of chicken in his mouth Boss managed, "Now Annabelle, I'm just doin' what you told me to do. You can't go and get mad at me now!" Uncrossing her arms and sighing loudly, Annabelle took a seat in one of the chairs facing Boss' desk.

"I know what you're doing Boss and I appreciate it. I'm just here to inform you that I am about to bust those two boys out of jail." The look on Boss' face reminded her of when she collected the money that was rightfully hers from Jamie Southwell.

"B-but - but-" Boss stammered as Annabelle stood quickly and strode with purpose out of his office, across the booking room to where Rosco was still fiddling with his dog.

"Come here Boss," Annabelle motioned to him with her hand as she reached for the handcuffs on Rosco's utility belt. Rosco began to put up a fuss until Annabelle silenced him with a finger over his mouth. "Don't talk sheriff, or you'll tip off them boys downstairs." A quizzical look crossed his face, matching the expression on the fat commissioner's face. Grabbing one of each man's wrists, Annabelle slapped a cuff first on Rosco then threaded the other cuff through the banister separating the sheriff's desk from the rest of the booking room and slapped the other cuff around Boss' wrist. "Now get this straight boys." Annabelle began looking them both straight in the eye, "I am still on your side, but we can't let them boys downstairs know that. Understand?" When both men nodded their agreement, Annabelle turned and disappeared down the stairs to the jail cells.

"Anna! What the hell are you doing here?" Luke hissed at her through the bars when she appeared at the bottom of the stairs. Bo perked up from where he was now laying on the small dingy cot.

"You two were taking too long." Anna replied as she grabbed the cell keys hanging on the wall and began sorting through the keys on the metal loop.

"The middle one." Luke said helpfully. Picking out the middle key, Anna stuck it in the cell door and gave it a twist. Once the door was open, both boys were on full-out escape mode.

"They upstairs?" Bo asked peeking up the stairs.

"Yup." Anna answered.

"They just let you down here?" Luke asked unbelievingly.

"Not exactly." Anna replied shyly. Luke studied her expression but not for long. Bo was half way up the stairs by the time Luke and Anna took the first step.

"Hey Anna, you do this?" Bo asked amused when he reached the top step. When Anna and Luke joined him they found Boss and Rosco battling to see who was going to pull who through the banister.

"Yeah Bo, I guess I did." Anna replied with a smile. Bo laughed and took off running again. Luke gave her a quizzical look before running after his cousin. "Here, you guys may want this." Anna said as she pulled the key to the handcuffs out of her pocket and dropped it on the floor by the door as she ran after the boys out of the courthouse and into the General.