A/N: Oh Boy...am I so sorry I fell behind with this one. I know you have all been waiting so long for me to update and I am so so so sorry...things just kinda fell apart with school work and fan fic writing and my writing's kinda had to take a back seat. Hopefully i'm back on track now though and it shouldn't be too long before my next update...hopefully...

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A few hours had passed since the boys had left the church, and despite the many layers they were still feeling the chill of the blistering winds and the snow that clung to their eyelashes, the only thing exposed on either of them. What should have been an hour's walk was made even longer by the conditions and Bo knew, somehow, that they were only three-quarters of the way there.

To some people, that would have been a good thing, they only had a quarter of their journey to go now on what seemed to most to be an impossible one. Well, Bo had begun thinking that he could make it with Scott's help and they had gotten real far until Bo got a sinking feeling in his stomach. Now he didn't have a clue where he was in the county and didn't have the gut feeling that he was going in the right direction anymore.

Everywhere he looked there were just sheets of white falling in front of him and the snow was now coming over the top of his boots, making his feet numb inside his many layers of socks. There were no familiar markings or road bends for Bo to go by otherwise he wouldn't have gotten lost. He already knew most of the roads of Hazzard like the back of his hand after going bike riding many times with his friend Pete and exploring all the places where they thought no one else might have ever been.

Scott was good at navigating, and had gotten Bo to the places where he said they needed to go even though he didn't know Hazzard at all and was just looking for the lame descriptions of certain roads or tree patterns that Bo described. Bo just wished that he hadn't gotten so lost in the first place.

The marine looked down to the boy, ensuring that Bo was kept at his side at all times with an arm around his shoulder; the last thing he needed was to lose Bo. But as he did, he could just make out the fear that Bo had in his eyes and the despondent look that maybe his plan to get back to his cousin wasn't going to work out so great after all, and that hit Scott harder than anything. In just a few hours Bo had lost his fire to carry on, let himself believe he had failed and therefore had lost his confidence in where he had been going. Scott needed to get that confidence back and fast before they both became lost.

Looking around he spotted a small break in the woods and directed a surprised Bo into there, where they were more sheltered from the wind as the trees kept a large amount of the snow out where the branches joined at the top and created a canopy. Not a heavy one, but enough to keep them covered. Scott raised his voice so Bo could hear him.

"Bo, what's the matter. Why're ya lookin' so glum?"

"We're never gonna get there…never….I got us lost, I don't have a clue where I am…."

Scott sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes before gripping Bo's shoulders, shaking his head and making the boy look at him.

"Bo…listen. Just because you don't know where we are right now, does not mean we're lost…it just means we misplaced ourselves and need to find something that will tell us where we are."

Bo frowned a little and swallows, shaking his head.

"Don't that mean the same thing?"

Scott chuckled gently and shrugged.

"Depends on the way you look at it….to me, being lost means being in a place that you don't know at all without a map and without any help. Now we may not have a map, but you know this place like the back of your hand and you got my help….do you recon that's the same as being lost?"

Bo thought it over carefully, he had never really looked at it that way before…when he really thought about it, he supposed Scott was right. How could he be lost in his home county that as Scott thought, he knew like the back of his hand and had done for some time. Sure he was still learning the back roads an' everything, but her hadn't taken them down any back roads he didn't know as far as he could tell. Sighing a little, he looked back to the man in front of him and shook his head, smiling a little.

"Guess not…"

Scott grinned, seeing Bo's posture lighten, looking less like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and more like the determined young man he had set off on this mission with.

"Good….now…lets get back on the road and see if you can find anything that may tell us where we are."

With a grin to each other and a nod, the pair stepped from the safety of their shelter and back onto the road, adjusting once more to the blinding, biting winds and snow. Frowning, Bo looked around, squinting as he walked forwards…or what he hoped was forwards…to see what he could find.

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Luke swallowed as he hurriedly prepared the sheets and checked the water and shine, rolling up his sleeves and washing his hands quickly with some pure shine before bringing everything over to Grace and kneeling carefully between her legs, closing his eyes for a moment, taking a deep breathe before smiling gently and looking to her.

"Alright….on the next contraction you need to push….you's done so well, just a few more minutes an' it'll all be over an' you'll have little one in yer arms…."

Grace lay back, panting gently in pain and tiredness, clutching the blanket underneath her as she nodded and tried to focus on what Luke was saying instead of the pain that was now constantly rippling through her. He had been so good through all of this, so clam but even she could not mistake the fear in his eyes, see the tenseness of his jaw line as he worried about what he was about to do. Despite the fact that he was a novice though, she had this weird sense that she should trust him. Something had told her that from the moment she had laid eyes on him, that she and her baby would be safe in his hands as she once would have thought with Scott.

She was rapidly jerked from her memories by another wave of pain and Luke's gentle encouragement to push, always talking to her as she sat forward, gritting her teeth and pushing down as hard as she could with a gentle cross between a moan and slight scream. Luke nodded and counted to 10 slowly, looking to her every so often as he continually spoke encouragement, squeezing her knee supportively with one hand until she fell back.

"Your doin' great Grace, you really are…"

Grace could do nothing but nod as she felt the change inside her, the baby's shifted position was uncomfortable and everything in her body screamed for her to push the intrusion out, even though she couldn't. She took her direction from Luke, trusting him more than she had ever really trusted anyone before, panting as she lay back in time with what he was telling her.

Luke swallowed gently as she cried out and started to push again, blinking a little and faltering in his encouragement as the baby started crowning. Sure he had seen this with animal's on the farm…but seeing this on a human….seeing a little baby crowning….it was like himself being the father, the emotion welling inside him quickly, only to be quashed as he realised rapidly he still had a job to do. He gently smiled up at her.

"It's crowning Grace….really just one more big push and you'll have baby…c'mon Grace you can do it…"

Grace however had had enough, shaking her head as she panted out, crying.

"I can't….I can't I'm too tired…so tired…Luke please…I can't…."

Luke bit his lip gently, knowing that he couldn't let her stay like this for long, leaning forward and gripping one of her hands.

"Grace….you have to…for me…for Scott…think of Scott….this is his baby…think how proud he would be…do it for him Grace…for your whole family…"

Grace swallowed, looking to him with watery eyes as she nodded, gathering what little strength she could muster as she rested in the small gap in between her contractions. Luke smiled softly and returned to his original position, pulling the towels nearer and taking them in his hands, spreading it out and holding it close as he watched her reactions until she had to push again.

Grace's scream was the loudest, most heartbreaking sound Luke had heard in such a long time and it very nearly made him drop the towel he was holding in fright. Luke Duke had never properly been so scared outside of the 'Nam battlefields…but now he would gladly take on the whole Vietcong Army if it meant Grace could have a proper doctor. So many things could be wrong and he wouldn't even know, she could die and there would be nothing he could do about it. Lists of things started to run through his head about what could be wrong….until there was weight pressing into his hands and nothing but silence….before it was broken with a baby's wail.

Stunned he looked down and stared at the tiny, wailing bundle in his hands for just a moment, before wrapping it quickly in the towel and holding it up carefully for Grace.

"Grace…you did it…its here….your baby's here…"

The exhausted young woman looked up and smiled, swallowing hard and nodding, crying gently.

"Th…Thank you….thank you…so much…so much…"

Luke nodded softly and gently held the baby in one arm as he took the sterilized scissors and gently cut the cord, tying it off as Uncle Jesse had shown him before, cleaning the baby in the mix of shine and water before wrapping it in a clean towel and handing it to her.

"There…your beautiful baby boy…"

Grace took the baby in her arms, head resting against the hay bale behind her as Luke went back to clean her up gently Luke had been right, all the pain and exhaustion just seemed to have faded as she held her son in her arms…the feeling of the small infant wailing in her arms after being removed from its safe heaven was like nothing she had ever felt before.

She smiled gratefully as she tried to shush her baby, seeing already that he had Scott's eyes, as Luke covered her gently with a spare blanket and brought the lamps closer to keep them all warm. Suddenly however, a great gust of wind caused them all to shudder and Luke looked up to the door, instantly protective of the pair sat beside him, frowning. He was about to tell the pair that had stumbled through just what he thought…until they pulled back their hoods and everybody talked at once in their amazement.

"Bo?!"

"Luke!"

"Grace?!"

"S..Scott?!"