Bo, Daisy, Jesse, Cooter, Judd, Boss Hogg, Rosco, Enos and some state police sat in the waiting room of the Tri Country hospital. Most of them were waiting to hear about Luke`s condition while the others were waiting to take Benson to state prison for the rest of his life.
Three hours passed and Benson had been released to the state police and they had left, leaving only one person behind to do questioning when Luke woke up. Bo had been shaking the whole time he was in the waiting room. First he was pacing then started getting dizzy so sat down near the window, where he then got cold and now he was sitting beside Daisy who was trying to comfort him. Daisy, Jesse and Bo were all over tired, that much was obvious, but Bo was shaking in fear; fear of losing his cousin.
The nurse walked over to Bo, and she started speaking softly to him "Excuse me Mr. Duke; let me check your temperature. You don't look like you are feeling very well." Bo let the nurse do as she pleased; in truth he hadn't felt very good as it was, he was worrying about Luke too much and kept replaying about how close Luke had been to dying.
"Family of Lukas Keith Duke?" The doctor spoke in the middle of the waiting room, he almost jumped when everyone in the waiting room stood up and asked how he was doing. Jesse told them to all sit back down and he went with doctor and had a private conversation with him.
"Mr. Duke your son…" "He is my nephew" "Your nephew seems to be doing alright. He has one broken rib, and the rest were cracked. We wrapped his ribs up and he is allowed to go home. He was lucky though, if he had done any more fighting out there he could've punctured his lungs. Now let me sign this release form and I'll take you to his room." "Thanks… uh?" "Oh right, I am Dr. Landen Jones. Call me Dr. Jones and please follow me." As Bo got up he, so did Daisy and Judd. The three Dukes and Dr. Jones walked down the hall to room 31, and walked in to a dressed Luke. "LUKE!" Bo shouted and ran to his older cousin; Bo had started crying. "Luke… I- I thought they killed you" "Bo I am alright; Uncle Jesse can we head home now?"
Jesse agreed and his family left the hospital. Within minutes the waiting room was empty yet again, and the hospital was quiet. Everyone went home and got some well-deserved sleep; and all was silent throughout the county of Hazzard.
Balladeer: Ain't that a happy ending? I just love myself a happy ending, and a family being together is about as happy as Hazzard County, Georgia can get.