Dukes of Hazzard Chapter 7
Luke was finally going home, Bo returned with the doctor who checked Luke up and discharged him from the hospital and high recommendations for resting; Luke need exactly four hours of extra rest every day for an entire week if not two weeks, and was not allowed to do any strenuous work, in other words, no chores except for the easy ones.
Luke decided he could live with that, not very many chores and extra rest; his only problem was he wasn't allowed to do any driving either, which meant he couldn't go after his brother or Edd. Bo noticed that Luke was having a little bit of trouble getting through with all his extra time, not being allowed to drive yet made it so he couldn't leave the farm.
"Sugar, what's the matter?" Daisy asked Luke cautiously. "Daisy, nothin' is wrong right now except my plan isn't coming together properly. Why with all my extra time I ought to be able to figure out a safe way to deal with Benson; but every time I get a solution worked up to get 'em out alive, it always leaves a chance of someone getting injured or killed. I need more ideas cousin!" Luke replied getting himself worked up too much.
Jesses heard what was going on and didn't like the sound of Luke's voice, he knew Luke had a bad temper as he was growing up, and that's usually what it sounded like. Luke was worrying himself mad and was going to injure himself more if he kept it up.
Bo knew what had been eatin' his cousin up inside, four days had passed and nothing changed; Bo and Luke were having late night conversations about how things could work out. Luke was healing quite fine and Doc Applebee came to the Duke Farm for regular visits and said Luke could be up and driving around and doing chores within three days.
"Cousin, one full week of no driving and then we can head out and put our plan into action." Bo spoke brightly; he couldn't wait to make Benson and Lee choke on their words about messing with a Duke, and also messing with the Marines. Benson learned his lesson about messing with a Duke twice, and it was going to be his third, but this time he'd be messing with the Marines for a third time as well.
The night before Luke was allowed to do what he would normally do; Bo and Luke went over the plan with the rest of the family. Once they were done explaining, Bo, Daisy and Luke all headed off to bed, while Jesse stayed up in the living room. Jesse prayed for half an hour, he was hoping that his prayer could keep Bo, Luke, Judd, and Edd all safe from harm. Not to mention Boss, Rosco, Enos and Cletus as well; he didn't want them hurt either.
Luke slept restlessly throughout the night and got up early the next day and did all the chores before Bo got up. Everyone was sitting at the table when Luke finished the chores, even Bo was up; guess that meant it was time for a family meeting. Luke slowly walked inside and sat down at the table.
"Son, you just finished healing, why were you out doing chores risking injury to prevent you from helping us save Edd and Judd." Jesse questioned Luke, trying to hint on for him to tell everyone what his plan really was "Uncle Jesse I…" He was cut off when Bo spoke up. "Uncle Jesse I think Luke was just testing to see if his body would be able to handle what we planned last night on how to get everyone away from Benson and Lee alive." Once Bo finished there was an awkward silence until Jesse spoke yet again.
"Luke you know that was very dangerous, but I am glad you did that before we put this plan into action. We will leave after dinner, go get some rest both of ya, while Daisy and I get some rest then make us dinner. I'll wake everyone up when the time comes." Jesse told everyone to get some rest, as he finished talking everyone did exactly that.