A/N: ok let me first laugh and apologize to everyone for leaving you at such an awful cliffhanger. After several death threats I decided it would be safer for my health, and my email inbox if I updated quicker so here you go.

Sorry about the shortness of last chapter. I needed a small filler more than anything else and I wanted something dramatic in there, and I realised that I had left Enos out so I thought you would all want to know why he wasnt helping everyone get Bo out. Anywho, here's the next chapter, keep on R&R, you all make me so happy when you do. :-)

WARNING: Tissue's may be needed, as said by my beta reader.

Luke paced the waiting room of Tri County Hospital, biting his lip furiously. Uncle Jesse and Daisy were sitting, looking blankly into space, each trying to collect their nerves for the update on Bo's condition.

Luke had managed to get Bo breathing again after 2 long minutes of CPR, but was shaken and fearful when his youngest cousin's eyes didn't flicker back open. They got him to the hospital without any further event nearly four hours ago, and since Bo had been wheeled off into emergency surgery, they hadn't heard a word.

He sighed and crossed over to the window, looking out over the early morning hills. The sun wouldn't rise for another couple of hours yet, he knew, but he wished it would rise earlier today. Whenever he was troubled, he always watched the early morning sunrises, it made him feel peaceful and calm and it wasn't usually too long before Bo followed him out.

Bo was a light sleeper when it came to Luke; he could sense when Luke had gotten out of bed mere seconds after him leaving the room, and always knew to look for him in the hay loft where they would usually just sit in silence, playing with the hay and watching the sunrise illuminate the farm. It was very rare that Luke ever really spoke to Bo about what was troubling him, but Bo was always content to just make Luke feel better by being there with him.

"I'm looking for a Mr. Jesse Duke?"

Luke spun round to see a blonde nurse standing at the doorway to the waiting room, and stepped forward with Daisy and Jesse as they stood, grim-faced and concerned.

"That'd be me. This is my niece and nephew, Luke and Daisy Duke. How is Bo doin'?"

"Well we just got done with the operations, we're so sorry it took us this long to give you an update but his injuries were serious and we had to act quickly. He broke his left leg in two places, his left arm in one just below the elbow, sustained a couple of broken ribs and bruised lungs as a result of the impact, a relatively minor head wound and an internal bleed, though we managed to catch that pretty early on so no damage was done. He's suffering from a mild concussion, and we'll have to wait until he's conscious again until we can do any x-rays on his back to check for any signs of damage there."

Daisy huddled into Luke as the nurse reeled off Bo's injuries, and he wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulders, sighing. The injuries meant Bo wouldn't be back on his feet for a good couple of months, meaning he was going to miss the big race for his Hazzard County Championship, as well as the trip to the NASCAR races that he and Luke had been planning for a while now. Putting it all into perspective though, Luke was just glad that Bo was even alive.

The nurse finished talking with Uncle Jesse and left the family alone to talk, something which they all knew would be needed before they could go and see their stricken family member.

"Luke…Daisy…y'all alright?"

Daisy just nodded, wiping away her tears and pulling out of Luke's strong embrace, steeling herself up. Luke sighed and his hands went to his hips.

"I just can't believe this Uncle Jesse. Somthin' this major has never happened to anyone in Hazzard 'afore, not even in the rallies. And when the time comes for someone for it to happen to…it just had to be Bo."

"I understand that, and its got me a bit shaken up too. But the last thing we need is to have Bo find that out. Now he's still alive and we should be thankful that the good lord ain't decided to take him away from us yet, so we's goin' to have to pull ourselves together, and be there for him while he's healin'."

"I know…did the nurse say when we could see him?"

"They're just settin' him up in ICU; she'll come down and get us when he's ready."

Luke nodded and sat in one of the soft seats, trying to shake the images of Bo helplessly trapped in the General out of his head. He had never before heard Bo sound so frightened or seen the gut wrenching look of pain shine behind his eyes, not even when Luke was drafted out to Vietnam.

He just couldn't get his head around why anyone, even Boss, would want to do this to Bo. Sure they both had enemies that had threatened to hurt them before, and sometimes they did too. But not one had crossed that line and gone as far as to actually nearly kill them.

Jesse and Daisy watched Luke from the other side of the room, knowing what he was thinking about, and concerned to how he might react seeing Bo so banged up. As he had rightly said, no one had ever been so seriously hurt in Hazzard Country before, the only time he had really seen someone worse off than Bo may be was when he was in the Marines.

They got the feeling, that it may not just be Bo that they would have to worry about.

Ya see, them two is so close that what happens to one affects the other in some shape or form. Alls I know is, Luke's gonna need someone to help him to help Bo…now don't that make sense?

Eventually, the young nurse returned, a comforting smile on her face. Luke was on his feet in an instant and out the door following the nurse before anyone even realized what had happened. Uncle Jesse and Daisy followed somberly behind, allowing Luke to be the one to see Bo first, understanding his need to do so.

But as the nurse stopped outside the room, Luke hesitated, pausing just a few steps away. He had been telling himself that he had seen far worse than this before, that just because it was Bo it shouldn't make much difference. But as he got further and further there, he realized that it did make a difference, it made a world of difference. Bo was his best friend, Bo was his cousin, Bo was his brother…Bo was everything that ever mattered to Luke, and to see that on the verge of slipping away from him…

He jumped when he felt a warm hand touch his shoulder and turned to see Uncle Jesse's encouraging, supportive face meet his sights.

"You's goin' to be alright Luke?"

"I…I don't know Uncle Jesse…"

"If you don't want to go in there, then we's all understand Luke."

Luke nodded, turning his attention back to the door, before softly replying.

"I may not want to…but what I want don't matter now. What matters is what Bo wants, and he would want me to be with him."

He gingerly reached out and turned the handle to the room, stepping gently inside and continued his walk, stopping just short of the bed that his youngest cousin was laid in. He fought back the lump that had risen in his throat as he noticed how small and fragile Bo looked, even though Bo had by far surpassed Luke's height.

Bo just looked so…helpless. He was surrounded by machine's, some beeping some silent, IV drips were steadily dripping a clear liquid into his veins as well as a blood drip which at least helped to explain why Bo looked so deathly pale. His handsome face was covered by cuts, bruises and an oxygen mask which rested gently over his nose and mouth, and a stitched up gash just above his right eye.The rest of Bo was hard to see, due to the fact that he was covered practically everywhere with either plaster or bandages. All hints of his youthful vibrancy had disappeared, all traces of the confident young man that Luke had grown up with, seemingly wiped from this broken shell.

He heard Daisy take a shaky breath, and braced himself as he crossed to the right side of the bed, taking a seat beside Bo and holding gently onto his hand, careful to avoid the IV needles taped to the back.

"I...Bo I'm...oh god Bo I'm so sorry...I never should've left ya...god look what they done to ya..."

Daisy watched as Luke looked over his cousin, biting her lip to try and halt the tears that never seemed to stop flowing down her cheeks. Luke looked so worried; despite the fact she could tell he was trying to hide it. She quickly took a seat next to him when he saw his head hang as he got no response to his unecesary apology and wrapped comforting arms around his shuddering shoulders, as he silently wept.

Jesse watched his niece and nephews. The day that each of them had come to live in Hazzard, although not for the best of reasons, were three of the happiest days of his life. Luke, Daisy and Bo had gotten used to each other's company so quickly and each had found something in the other that they could connect with. Of course, Luke and Bo had bonded so deeply that they were practically inseparable, but they always made sure that Daisy was never left out when they could help it.

To have one of them so seriously hurt was to Jesse, and probably to Luke and Daisy too, like having a part of each of them lay stricken in that bed and it tore at their hearts. Jesse crossed silently over to the pair, taking a seat behind them and gently slipped his arms around them both.

Don't it just break your heart to see them all like that?