Hey y'all…I promised an update sooner…with a longer chappie so here ya go. This chapter is dedicated to my little buddy Aiden (aka mini Spiderman) who with his blond hair and big dimpled grin is the spittin image of what I imagine young Bo to be…right on down to the way he talks. Thanks for the inspiration Aiden (I hope he doesn't "web" me for this!)

Luke stood dumbfounded. "Do you know…?! Bo..it's me…Luke…"

Bo swallowed a little. "Luke… Luke…" He repeated the name trying to remember. "I know you?" he asked again when his mind drew a blank.

Luke bit his lip before answering with a slight nod. "I'm your cousin."

"Cousin? I don't… remember any cousin…in fact…I don't remember…. much at all…'cept heat…was I out in the sun too long?" It was then he noticed the bandages and felt the pain in his neck and head as he struggled to look at himself. "This ain't no sunsickness is it…what's wrong with me?! What's wrong with me?!" He was starting to panic.

"Easy Bo… ya had…an accident is all…you're gonna be fine," answered Luke leery of telling Bo the truth, afraid it would hurt him more. "You remember your name…anything?" asked Luke worriedly yet skillfully changing the subject..

"Just what you said…my name's Bo?"

Luke nodded. "It's a nickname…for Beauregard."

"Beauregard…" Bo scowled as the name rolled over his tongue.

Luke couldn't help smiling. "That's why ya call yaself Bo."

Bo gave a small nod, but inside his heart was pounding. This so called "cousin" seemed like a nice enough fellow, but Bo didn't know him from Adam, and to have a stranger telling you who you are was more than unnerving. It was down-right scary.

Luke thought a moment and then snapped his fingers digging through his wallet and pulling out a small picture, holding it up for Bo to see.

"That's you…who's that with you?" asked Bo staring at the picture.

Luke swallowed hard. "That's Uncle Jesse…he raised us…an' the girl is Daisy…she's our cousin."

Bo stared at the picture a long time. "Who's that fella?" he asked pointing.

Luke looked at where his finger was, his heart sinking. "That's you Bo."

Bo swallowed hard. "I want a mirror…"

"I don't think…"

"I want a mirror…now!"

Luke swallowed and, finding one, held it up to Bo.

He stared a long time between the picture and the mirror, tears starting to cascade down his red cheeks. "That's me?"

Luke nodded. "That's you."

"You're Luke?" asked Bo looking hard at his cousin.

"I'm Luke…"

"I'm sorry…I just don't remember you…I don't remember how I got here…I don't remember anything!" cried Bo, getting very upset.

Luke swallowed the lump in his throat. "Give it time brother…you will…"

Bo frowned. "I thought…ya said we's cousins…"

"We are."

"Then why'd …ya call me ….your brother?"

"Few reasons…first…we was raised t'gether…like brothers…"

Bo nodded a little.

"Second reason…is we're blood brothers."

"We are?"

Luke nodded. "You was only six….

"Bo… Bo you up there?" asked ten year old Luke as he looked up at the tree house, the only light around being from the moonlight dancing on the leaves.

A small sob was heard from within, barely audible with the noise from the crickets and frogs singing outside.

Luke quickly made his way up.

Bo sat huddled in the corner of the tree house his knees to his chest and crying.

"Bo…what's a matter…you hardly touched your dinner an' then I go to our room thinking ya went to bed an' yer gone…"

Bo sniffed. "Wanted …to' get 'way."

"How come?" asked Luke gently sitting beside him cross legged and looking at him.

Bo's lips trembled. "No one… wikes me…"

Luke couldn't help smile a little. Bo had never quite mastered his "L" or "R" sounds.

"Course they do…everyone likes you…"

"Nu-uh…Hughie said so…"

Luke laughed. "Hughie Hogg?! Bo why would ya listen t' him?"

"Cuz he's wight."

"Right about what?"

Bo started crying again. "He said… my mama an' daddy…didn't weawy die…that..they wefted me…cuz they didn't wove me…"

Luke's jaw set tight. Hughie Hogg had gone too far, and Luke vowed that by this time tomorrow he would regret it. "He lied Bo. Your mama an' daddy loved you…an Uncle Jesse loves you…an' Daisy loves you…even Maudine loves you….an the chickens'd love ya too if ya didn't chase 'em so much." Bo smiled a little at that, as Luke knew he would. "An' I love ya Bo…"

"You do?"

Luke nodded. "You're my little brother. 'Course I do…"

Bo crawled over and sat on Luke's lap, not being one to ever wait to be cuddled. Luke took the hint and wrapped his arms around his cousin.

"I wish… we was weal bwothers Wuke…" sniffed Bo.

"We can be."

"How?"

Luke took out his pocket knife that he had received for his birthday. "We can be blood brothers."

Bo paled. "Bwood bwothers?"

Luke nodded. "I saw it on TV last week. We each cut ourselves a little bit, an' say something fancy an' then we's brothers forever."

"Bwood?" Bo held his hands clenched together.

"Yeah…I'd hafta cut ya…"

"Bwothers foweva?" asked Bo debating.

Luke nodded. "Forever an' ever."

Bo nodded. "OK."

Luke nodded and made a small cut on his palm, hissing a little as he did. "You ready Bo?"

Bo nodded and held his small trembling hand out. Luke took it…"One…two…wow Bo look at that spider on the wall!"

Bo looked eagerly. "A spidy?!"

Luke quickly made the cut while Bo was in search of the spider. "All done."

Bo looked down surprised t find a small trickle of blood. "Whe…what happened to the spidy?"

Luke smiled. "I think he saw the blood an' ran off…he's not brave like you."

Bo grinned with boyish pride. "Now what?"

"We put our palms together." He took Bo's hand so that their palms were touching, the blood mixing. "An say something." He grinned. "This here makes us blood brothers…forever an' ever…" He thought a moment and, wanting it to sound official thought back to the words the preacher had spoken at the end of Mabel Hodges' wedding last week. Smiling he looked at Bo. "God has joined us together. Let no man put us under."

Ol' Luke might not get the words right...but they're kinda fittin', dontcha think?

Bo grinned wide. "We's bwothers now?"

Luke smiled and nodded. "Forever."

Bo wrapped his arms around Luke's neck. "I wove you, Wuke."

Luke hugged him back. "I love you too…now let's get back."

Bo looked at him hopefully. "Piggy back wide?"

Luke laughed. "Okay… c'mon."

Bo looked at him sadly. "I don't remember that."

Luke sighed nodding a little. "It's ok….you will…you will…"

Uhu…you know what to do…