1972. i don't own the dukes of hazzard. continuing the story of the last chapter.

The next day, Luke let Bo sleep in. He was sore and tired from yesterdays events.

"You best get Bo up now." Jesse suggested.

"Alright." Luke sighed and walked into his and Bo's room.

"Time to get up, Bo." Luke shook him gently. "We gotta get to school."

"Don't touch me..." Bo jerked away from him.

"Bo-"

"And I ain't about to let ya hurt Luke, neither!" Bo shouted.

"Bo, I am Luke, I'm right here." Luke pulled Bo's blankets down and restrained him by his shoulders.

"Luke?" Bo opened his eyes.

"You was havin' a little nightmare."

"Oh." Bo sat up.

"Anyways, ya gotta come eat breakfast so's we can get to school. Me an' Daisy did yer chores for ya." Luke patted his shoulder.

"Thanks." Bo followed him into the kitchen.

After they'd eaten, Jesse drove them to school since Luke's bike had been flattened by Cooter's truck.

During lunch, Alex approached Daisy.

"Hey Daisy." He sat next to her.

"What do you want?" She sighed, scooting father away from him. She was getting sick of being so hot: all the boys, even the ones she didn't like always wanted to date her.

"I just wanted to let you know that your cousins Bo and Luke had better not come after Ezra." He grinned.

"Just why not, after what they did to them yesterday?" Daisy snapped.

"He has a secret weapon." Alex chuckled, then stood up and left.

Daisy looked around the lunch room until she found Luke, sitting at a table with some of his friends.

"Luke, I need to tell ya something." She interrupted.

"Hi, Daisy." Luke's friends chorused, pleasingly.

"What's up?" Luke asked.

"Alex says that Ezra's got a secret weapon and for you and Bo not come after him." Daisy replied.

"What kind of secret weapon?" Luke asked.

"I don't know that's all he said." Daisy shrugged.

"Hey, we'll back y'all up." Some of Luke's friends offered.

"That'd be great, thanks y'all! Daisy, you go tell Bo and have him get some of his friends." Luke suggested.

"Alright, what time should the fight be?" Daisy asked.

"I'll set that up soon." Luke grinned.

Daisy went off and told Bo, who got some of his friends to agree to help him. After school, Bo and his friends and Luke and his friends all met in an alley behind the school.

"Let's call Ezra and have him bring his gang down here right now!" Luke suggested once they were all there. There was a total of 8 of them, including Bo and Luke.

Ezra accepted the challenge, and brought 10 of his own goons with him to the alley. It was 11 on 8, but Luke and his friends were two years older than Ezra and his. On the other hand, Bo and his friends were a year younger than Ezra's so, it was all around a pretty evenly matched fight.

"Where's your secret weapon?" Luke asked.

"I have it." Ezra smiled.

"You gotta show us now." Luke pressed.

"I'll show y'all when I use it!" Ezra laughed.

"Alright, we ain't afraid of ya." Bo crossed his arms.

"Didn't I beat you until you were blue in the face and bleeding yesterday?" Ezra got in Bo's face, noting the bruises that he left there yesterday.

"It was four on one, and y'all are bigger 'an me. And it seems I do remember that just the day before that, I beat you up when you was beatin' on Sam." Bo grinned.

Ezra was silent.

"Let's get on with it already!" Luke piped up.

"Okay, okay." Ezra lined his goons up.

"Alright, three, two, one, start!" Luke shouted and the fighting began. All you could hear was pounding and smacking.

Soon a few from everyone's teams went down. The fight continued on until all that was left was Luke, Bo, Ezra, Ethan, Alex, James (Bo's friend) and Seth and Ed (Luke's friends).

Then Bo felt something cold touching his ribs. He froze.

"This is my secret weapon." Ezra laughed, and everyone stopped fighting when they saw.

"What is it?" Bo demanded to know what was pressed against his side.

"Don't move, Bo." Luke cautioned, seeing the knife that Ezra had trained on his cousin's side.

"Don't you even think about-" Luke stepped towards Ezra.

"Running him through?" Ezra laughed.

"Ezra, don't." Ethan didn't want to get in any more trouble than they already were.

"Ezra, you're unwell." Luke stated.

"Luke?" Bo looked to his older cousin for help.

"You should take your cousin's advice and stay put." Ezra growled.

"Get away from him." Luke gritted his teeth.

Bo started slowly moving his hand to where Ezra held the knife on him. He was waiting for the perfect time to take it.

"It's time you Dukes learned to stop messing with me and my gang." Ezra chuckled.

Then, Bo made his move, he grabbed for the knife, but in landed on the ground. He elbow jabbed Ezra in the gut before he could pick it up. Bo picked up the knife and folded up the blade.

"You okay?" Luke asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Bo grinned. Then the fight resumed, now that the knife was gone.

By the end of the fight Bo, Luke, and Seth came out on top. Bo and Luke helped their friends get cleaned up before they had to go home to their folks.

"Now that we was playing fair, we won." Bo smiled at Ezra, who was dripping blood from his mouth, like Bo'd been yesterday.

Jesse pulled up soon after and all three Duke cousins got in the truck.

"I see you boys have been fighting. You take care of them no goods?" Jesse asked.

"Yes sir, we double damn took care of them!" Bo laughed.

"Good fer y'all!" Jesse chuckled, ignoring his nephew's 'dirty' language just this once.


That night...

"Luke, you awake?' Bo rasped.

"I am now." Luke mumbled.

"Can ya please help me?" Bo wheezed.

"What's the matter?" Luke woke up the rest of the way and headed over to Bo's bed.

"The usual..." Bo leaned on Luke's arm.

"Sit up, I'll get an inhaler." Luke pulled on Bo's arm with one hand and looked through the drawer with the other.

"Here ya go." Luke put it in his mouth. After a while, and quite a lot of the inhaler, Bo leaned back and caught his breath, still wheezing harshly.

"Bo, you need more." Luke put the inhaler back in his mouth and gave him a good bit more.

Bo leaned over and coughed into his arm for a few seconds, before leaning his head back and taking in one deep wheezy breathe.

"You alright?" Luke asked.

Bo didn't respond.

"Bo, look at me!" Luke lifted his head up and looked at his closed eyes, waiting for them to open.

Bo slowly opened his eyes and tried to take a breathe, but it wasn't of much use.

"Let me help." Luke put the inhaler back in his mouth and helped him with it for a while.

"I think I'm gonna be sick." Bo pushed the inhaler away, and Luke grabbed him and trotted into the bathroom, almost dropping Bo on the floor and supporting him over the bathtub.

"Help me..." Bo moaned after the first few horrible heaves.

"It hurts, I know." Luke gripped him firmer.

"Help me, Luke, help me..." Bo coughed, before heaving a few more times.

"I'm here." Luke rubbed his back gently. All he could do was be there.

Eventually, Bo fell back on Luke and let him wipe his mouth.

"You okay in there?" Luke brushed the hair from Bo's eyes.

"Maybe..." Bo mumbled.

"You're gonna be okay." Luke held him close. Bo fell asleep in Luke arms so, he took him back to bed.

"Poor little baby Bo..." Luke cleared the sweaty hair from Bo's sleeping eyes. "I love ya, little cuz."

Bo was obviously neither 'little' nor a 'baby', but Luke was getting kind of sentimental. And, Bo was the baby of the family, even though it was only by two years.

man this is too true around my house. when I was a small kid, i had one older brother and one younger brother. My older brother is like only 18 months older than me, but the way everyone treats it is like he's 7 years older than me. It was the same way with my little brother, who's about two years younger than me, and it felt like he was 3-4 years younger than me. Nowadays we're all three teens and there's a new generation of babys, (who are very annoying, but I still love them). It still feels like my older brother at least 4 years older than me, and like I'm 4 years older than my little brother.

ANYWAY, THAT WAS RANDOM, BUT I HOPE U LIKED THIS CHAPTER. SEE Y'ALL NEXT CHAPTER!

btw, u should watch Dukes of Hazzard season 1 episode 4: Repo Men. I recently re-watched it with my dad and little bros. We had a rippin' good time LOLZ!***...and Bo is so cute in that one ;)***