1985. LUKE IS 29, DAISY 28, AND BO 27. Thanks to StarrySkies2019 for the idea for this chapter.

The Dukes had caught a virus, and Luke had been the last one to get sick. Everyone was pretty much all better accept for him.

It was late at night, Luke was having a heck of a nightmare: *nightmare in italics*

"Come on, Boss, he needs me!" Luke wrestled against the fat man and his sheriff.

"Tiddly tuddly!" Rosco giggled.

"You're just trying to break him out of jail!" Boss snapped.

"Lu..ke..." Bo wheezed, lying on the floor of the jail cell.

"Boss, come on!" Luke yelled.

"I'm sorry, Luke, if you Dukes weren't so tricky all the time, maybe I'd believe you!" Boss snickered.

"Bo, listen to me," Luke knelt next to the bars. "You need to sit up and tilt your head back a little."

"Can'..t..." Bo gasped.

"I can't reach you, move your arm closer to me!" Luke reached in the bars and tried to reach Bo's arm, but he was about an inch shy. Bo managed to move his arm an inch closer, and Luke grabbed it, dragging Bo closer to the bars.

"Alright, I think I can reach you now." Luke pulled an inhaler from his pocket. He was about to reach it through the bars, when Boss Hogg snapped it from him and ate it.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Boss cackled. "Yummy!" He patted his round belly and jutted his head out as he belched loudly.

"Boss!" Luke shouted.

"Delicious!" Boss laughed.

"Bo, look at me..." Luke turned Bo's head towards him, but Bo wouldn't open his eyes.

"Luke, help..." Bo wheezed.

"I know I know, I gotta find you an inhaler." Luke started franticly searching his pockets.

"What in the heck, Luke?" Bo jumped out of bed and turned the lights on. He ran over to Luke's bed, where Luke was thrashing about like a madman.

"Luke, look at me!" Bo grabbed him by the shoulders and held him down to the bed.

"What's wrong, are you alright?" Bo asked.

"I gotta find one..." Luke struggled against Bo.

"Find one what?" Bo asked.

"Inhaler for Bo, he's dying..." Luke continued fighting against Bo. Bo did his best to restrain him, but Luke's fist connected with his jaw and he was sent backwards. He knew Luke didn't mean it so, he didn't bother yell at him. Luke had thought Bo was Rosco.

"Luke, I ain't dying, I'm right here." Bo touched his face.

"Bo, don't fight me on this, you're dying!" Luke tried to sit up again.

"Luke, you have a fever. I ain't dying. I ain't even having an asthma attack." Bo took his face in his hands.

"Boss ate your inhaler..." Luke mumbled.

"He what?" Bo couldn't help but laugh at the picture of Boss Hogg chewing on a plastic inhaler.

"He ate your dang inhaler and he's gonna let you die! Bo don't die!" Luke started crying as he struggled to get up again.

"Luke it's okay, cuz, I'm alright. I ain't dying." Bo pulled him into his arms and hugged him close.

"Don't die Bo..." Luke mumbled.

"I ain't dying." Bo rubbed Luke's back. Once Luke had calmed down a little bit, Bo laid him down and grabbed the thermometer.

"Bo...Boss let me get another inhaler and help him..." Luke mumbled. Bo put the thermometer in his mouth an managed to keep him still long enough to get a reading: 103.9

"Hey, Luke?" Bo asked quietly, he got no response because Luke was asleep again. Bo hauled Luke up over his shoulders and carried him into the bathroom. He removed his pants and started the cold water.

"Rosco come on, let me help him..." Luke mumbled.

"Luke, I'm alright. I ain't in no trouble. Your the one who's got a fever." Bo grabbed him and eased him down into the bathtub, receiving much resistance.

"Bo, knock this off, you need to-"

"Sssshhhhhhhh. Close your eyes and relax." Bo put a hand over Luke's eyes briefly before returning it to under his arms so he could hold him up.

"Bo, I-"

"Go to sleep." Bo rubbed Luke's shoulders with his thumbs. Luke couldn't help but sleep.

When Luke woke up, Bo was carrying him back to bed.

"Bo, what the?" Luke looked around.

"Are you alright?" Bo laid him down on the bed.

"Yeah, but... what happened?" Luke asked.

"Your fever got really high and you had a nightmare so, I dunked you." Bo tucked him in.

"Did I hit ya?" Luke asked. Bo and Luke had both hit each other on separate occasions when they were delirious with fever.

"Yeah, you belted me but good." Bo chuckled.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, you couldn't help it." Bo patted his shoulder. "You want anything?"

"Just sleep." Luke rolled over and Bo went back to his own bed.

A few hours later, Bo woke up struggling to breathe. He knew the drill and he could literally do it in his sleep. Bo went into autopilot. His hand reached out and opened the dresser drawer, fishing around until it found an inhaler. Thankfully it was there, otherwise he'd of been in big trouble.

He used it for several minutes, and then he went back to sleep.

Luke, however, was dreaming again:

"I can't reach, Bo." Luke shouted

"You have to..." Bo wheezed.

"I'll keep trying..." Luke reached his arms out as far as he could to try to reach his cousin.

"Gon' die..." Bo gasped.

"I'm trying Bo, I'm trying." Luke continued inching closer and closer to Bo, until the ground seemed to drop out from under him.

"Luke, wake up." Bo had caught Luke just before he fell off the bed.

"Bo?" Luke shook his head.

"Yeah, what's the matter?"

"You're alright?" Luke asked.

"Of course I am, you're the one who's sick, remember?" Bo laid him back down.

"Oh, yeah..." Luke closed his eyes and went back to sleep. Bo took his temperature: 102.4 He blotted Luke's face with a cold rag for a while before he returned to his own bed.

Bo went to go to sleep again, but he became nauseous. Dang that inhaler. Bo snuck off to the bathroom and threw up for about 10 minutes, until Daisy heard the noises and went to see who it was. She knocked on the door.

"Bo, Luke?" She asked.

"Daisy, quick...help..." Bo urged.

Daisy opened the door and knelt next to Bo, who was sprawled on the floor wheezing and trying not to throw up.

"Your asthma?" She asked.

"Yeah, dang it." Bo panted.

"Alright, here you go." Daisy found an inhaler in a drawer and put it in his mouth.

Meanwhile, in the boys room, Luke was having another nightmare. Luke could sense when Bo was in trouble, even if he was asleep.

"Luke, I can't breathe..."

"Alright, here you go." Luke put an inhaler in his mouth and after a few minutes all was fine, until Bo started throwing up.

"Easy, easy..." Luke rubbed his back until Bo was finished.

Bo coughed for a while and then the scene faded away, back into a deeper more peaceful sleep.

Back in the bathroom...

"You alright now, sugar?" Daisy helped Bo to stand up.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Bo gave her a hug.

"I don't mind, honey." Daisy kissed his cheek and they both went back to bed.

Bo stared at Luke for a while until he fell asleep again. He always knew that Luke cared about him, but it was good to know that he even cared about him in his dreams.

Dukes can always tell when there's something wrong with another Duke, especially Luke.

ANYWAY SO THAT IS THE END OF THE CHAPTER. THX AGAIN TO StarrySkies2019 FOR THE IDEA.