"How ya feelin,' Meg?" Bo asked, a concerned look on his face. tears were streaming down his sister's face and she clutched the picture of their mother and father tightly to her chest.
Megan wiped her nose with the sleeve of her blue pajama top and tried to wipe at the tears falling down her cheeks. "Fine," Megan said in a shaky voice.
Bo sat down in the chair across from megan and wiped her hand gently with a handkerchief before holding it tightly. "Megan, are you still upset about Mrs. Griffin hitting you?" Bo questioned, letting go of her hand and touching her wet face.
"No. Bo, them hitting me isn't much of a problem. They've done it before. I just wish our parents were here," Megan said, fresh tears falling down her face again.
Bo wiped the tears away with his rough thumb. His mother and father had died in a fire shortly after Megan was kidnapped. He wished that he could stop this pain for her like he had tried to stop the cancer from spreading by getting her treatment. But there were things even he couldn't do.
"It's all right, Megan. I wish they were here too. But if wishes were horses then beggars would ride," Bo said, gently stroking her face.
"How do you make the pain go away, Bo?" Megan asked.
"You never stop missing them or loving them, but the grief over losing them heals. You just have to allow yourself to grieve and have God help you like Uncle Jesse always says," Bo said, pushing her blonde hair behind her ears.
"Bo, would they have liked me?" Megan asked timidly.
"That's a silly question. I think they would have loved you and would have been proud of you since you managed to find your way back here. Would you like some hot chocolate to help you go to sleep?" Bo asked, changing the subject. It was his way of getting her mind off of her pain.
"Okay. Can I come with you to the kitchen while you make it?" Megan asked, throwing a robe on over her pajamas after getting out of bed.
"Sure and then it's back to bed for you, Missy," Bo said, in a mock-stern tone.
Bo and Megan went downstairs where everyone sat around the kitchen table. From the conversation luke and Daisy were telling Uncle Jesse what happened. It also confirmed that when Uncle Jesse looked up at his newest niece, stricken.
"Are you all right, Megan?" Uncle Jesse asked, walking over to her and Bo and hugging her tightly.
"I'm fine now, Uncle Jesse. They didn't hurt me that bad," Megan said, wrapping her arms around Uncle Jesse's neck tightly.
"Megan, you nearly crashed into a table!" Luke protested, apparently in shock that his cousin could act like it was nothing.
"Luke, leave her alone!" Bo said sharply, causing everyone to look at him in surprise.
Everyone in Hazzard, and in the family, knew that Bo was overprotective of his sister. This was just the first time he had snapped at someone in his own family over it.
"I'm sorry, Bo. It just scared me when I saw that red-haired witch strike my baby cousin," Luke apologized.
"I know. It frightened me too. That's why they are never gonna have her," Bo said.
"I know that, Boy. It's not even legal like you said. I was there the day Megan was kidnapped," Uncle Jesse said, expressions of shock crossing everyone's faces.