1980, exactly after the last chapter. I DON'T OWN THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. I'M NOT GONNA TRY TO MAKE THAT FUNNY ANYMORE. IT GOT OLD.
Bo had been sleeping for about two hours so, Luke woke him up to eat lunch.
"Time to get up, Bo." Luke ripped the blankets off of him and playfully swatted him with a pillow.
"Alright, I'm coming." Bo rolled over.
"I ain't leaving this room until you get out of the bed." Luke laughed. Bo sighed and got out of bed.
"Alright, come eat lunch, Bo." Luke walked out of the room and into the kitchen. Bo dressed and followed him.
After they'd eaten, Bo and Luke went into town to pay some tickets.
"Cover your dang nose when you, sneeze, Bo!" Luke swatted at the air, fending off what Bo had sneezed all over their car.
"I was drivin'." Bo wiped his nose and rubbed his hand on the seat.
"Don't wipe it all over the General!" Luke took Bo's handkerchief and wiped the seat.
Bo just laughed and rolled his eyes. Next time I'm doing it all over him!
A few minutes later, Luke was looking out the window so, Bo sneezed all over the back of his head.
"Bo, you're disgusting!" Luke grabbed Bo's shirt and rubbed his head on it.
"Ha, ha!" Bo pulled his shirt away from Luke.
"I swear, Bo, you are not to be believed!" Luke spit out the window, as if some of it had gotten in his mouth.
"Don't get spit on the General Lee, Luke." Bo laughed.
"I'm sorry I got mad at you for sneezing." Luke huffed.
"I wasn't mad! I was jus' making a joke out of it!" Bo clapped Luke on the back and sped up.
"Your jokes just ain't funny, cuz." Luke held back his laughing as best as he could.
"I hear ya laughin'." Bo chuckled.
"So what if it's funny, it's still disgusting!" Luke laughed.
"Next time I sneeze, I'll cover my nose, alright? And you can drive back to the farm once we get into town, hows that?" Bo chuckled.
"Deal." Luke rubbed his hands on his jeans.
Bo kept his word and sneezed into his elbow for the rest of the drive.
They got into town, paid their tickets and headed back to the farm.
"Could you pull over, Luke?" Bo asked about 10 minutes down the road.
"Why?" Luke asked, keeping his eyes on the road. If he'd of looked at his cousin, he'd of known why.
"I-I can't breathe, I..." Bo wheezed. Luke pulled the car over.
"You alright?"
"No..." Bo leaned forward and put his hands on the dash.
Not bothering to ask Bo if he had one, because he probably didn't, Luke pulled an inhaler from his own pocket.
"Here ya go." Luke put it in his mouth, as his hands were shaking violently and he couldn't do it himself.
"I can't..." Bo stuttered.
"You have to, Bo. One breath, it'll get better." Luke put a hand on Bo's back.
"Help me." Bo leaned back in the seat and gasped for air.
"You're making it worse, Bo. C'mon and take this." Luke put the inhaler back in his mouth.
"Try." Bo finally agreed.
"Alright, here we go." Luke released the medicine and Bo inhaled as best as he could.
"There, now one more." Luke continued. Bo did his best and before long he was breathing, quick and choppy, but it was breathing.
"Calm down." Luke put a hand on Bo's shaking arm. Bo coughed into his arm several times before taking one long, deep, and raspy breath.
"That's it, you're alright now." Luke assured him. After a few minutes, Bo stopped shaking and started to breathe more normally. With a blow of his nose and one final cough, Bo was ready to roll again.
"I'm all set." Bo looked forward at the road.
"Alright, let's get on home." Luke got back on the road and they headed back to the farm.
When they arrived, Bo stopped Luke before he climbed out of the General.
"Don't tell Daisy or Uncle Jesse." Bo requested.
"I will if I need to." Luke replied.
"Why would you need to?" Bo asked.
"If you have another one, or if you go to throwing up, which, I'm sorry to say, you probably will." Luke climbed out of the car.
"Alright, but don't tell them for no reason." Bo climbed out and followed Luke to the house.
"Howdy, fellas." Daisy greeted as they walked in.
"Howdy, Daisy. Where's Uncle Jesse?" Bo asked.
"Out in the back 40, waiting for you two to come back and relieve him." Daisy replied.
"Alright, lets get on out there." Bo started for the door, but Luke looked at him sternly.
"What?" Bo stopped.
"Let's go to our room and get that thing, Bo." Luke winked at him and tugged him off to their bedroom.
"What is it, Luke?" Bo asked when Luke had shut the door.
"If you think that I'm gonna let you work after having had two asthma attacks one day, you're quite mistaken." Luke told him.
"I'm alright, now!" Bo complained.
"It's real hot out there and you just got over an attack. 'Sides you'll probably be throwing up pretty soon." Luke replied.
"Uncle Jesse is gonna wonder why I ain't helping you." Bo sighed.
"I'll tell him what's the matter. If you wanna help you can do the General Lee's oil change by the house." Luke suggested.
"Fine." Bo started to leave the room, but Luke grabbed his arm.
"You know I only do this 'cause I love you." Luke looked him in the eyes.
"I know. Thanks." Bo one arm hugged him. "Love you, too." He whispered.
So, Luke went out in the field, explained everything to Jesse, and Bo started work on the General Lee's oil change.
Jesse returned to the house to take a break and help Daisy with the cleaning. Daisy had called into the Boar's nest and canceled for the day since Bo had to go to doc's earlier.
"Whys' Bo always waits until it's unbearable to tell us he's hurt or somethin'?" Jesse asked as he and Daisy were working.
"I think he feels bad about needing help all the time. And there's also the fact that Dukes are very pain tolerant." Daisy replied.
"I was when I was your age." Jesse chuckled.
"Oh, come on, you ain't over the hill yet, Uncle Jesse!" Daisy laughed.
"I don't know, girl, I'm pretty old..." Jesse smiled.
"But you're wise and responsible, too. That's a good thing that comes with age." Daisy mentioned.
"I reckon you're right." Jesse smiled.
Out in the back 40, Luke was cursing himself for leaving Bo alone in his condition. Maybe I oughta go check on him. Nah, he'd kill me for it. Luke concluded.
Meanwhile, Bo was about half way through the oil change. Wiping his eyes and nose every thirty seconds was starting to get old so, Bo pushed the General Lee into the barn where there was no pollen. Bo knew that driving the car would be a bad idea when it had no oil in it. Exhausted from pushing, Bo leaned against the car and caught his breath, then resumed his work.
By the time Bo was done with the oil change, Luke wasn't done out in the back 40 so, Bo cleaned Maudine's stall, fed the chickens and stacked wood so that Luke could rest at the end of the day after doing his and Bo's work.
All of the Dukes met at the end of the day at the dinner table. Jesse started to set the table.
"Whoever cleaned Maudine's stall today didn't put the pitchfork away." Luke stated as he washed his hands.
"That'd be me. Sorry." Bo admitted.
"It was my turn, why'd you do it?" Luke asked him.
"Never look a gift horse in the teeth, Luke." Bo chuckled.
"Did you do all my chores, Bo?" Luke asked.
"Maybe." Bo smiled.
"Thanks, cousin." Luke clapped him on the back and sat down.
After dinner was done, Bo and Luke went to go drop off some eggs for a widow who had just called and said she had none for breakfast tomorrow.
"Now, if you boys break even one of them eggs..." Jesse waved his finger.
"We'll drive real careful, Uncle Jesse." Bo promised.
Once they were out on the road, Luke started talking.
"I appreciate ya doin' my chores, Bo, but why did you?" Luke asked.
"Because you had to do all of my work." Bo replied.
"You didn't have to do that, Bo. I did your work because you weren't up to it. I don't need no pay back for that." Luke smiled.
"Just because I weren't up to it don't mean you should have to do it."
"Bo, we're a family. Families do that for one another. If we didn't have each other we wouldn't have no one to help us when we couldn't help ourselves." Luke explained.
"Seems like you and Daisy and Uncle Jesse are always doin' for me and I ain't never giving nothin' back." Bo put his head down.
"How many times have we been over this, Bo?"
"I'm sorry, I reckon I sound like a broken record." Bo sighed.
"You help us out just as much as we help you. It's just in different ways." Luke put a hand on Bo's shoulder. "I know for a fact that you try your dang best to contribute to this family. Remember when you and Daisy were caught in a storm and she twisted her ankle? You carried her for five miles when you yourself had four broken ribs and a sprained ankle. You do a heck of a lot more that you realize."
"You think?"
"I think? I know."
When they pulled up at the widow's house they unloaded the eggs and told her not to apologize for not having anything to give to them, and headed home.
"Let's have a little fun!" Bo stamped the pedal.
"Don't scratch Uncle Jesse's truck!" Luke laughed.
They got back to the farm and went in the house.
"We didn't break one single egg." Bo smiled.
"Yeah, but you should see the front end of your truck, Uncle Jesse." Luke said. Bo shot a confused look at Luke.
"What did you boys do to my truck!" Jesse ran outside.
"That's real funny, Luke." Jesse sighed and came back in the house after seeing no damage to his truck.
"Oh, he got you, Uncle Jesse!" Bo laughed.
"I got you, too." Luke chuckled.
"Your jokes just ain't funny, cuz." Bo laughed, hoping Luke would remember the incident in the car earlier that day, which he did.
"Oh, knock it off!" Luke laughed.
All of the Dukes went to bed early that night. It had been a long day.
