The Third Duke Boy

     The sun shone down brightly over Hazzard. A lone figure stood up and the ridge that over looked the Duke farm. Bo and Luke emerged from the farm house. Bo was leaning on Luke's shoulder and they were laughing about something. The figure watched as they then jumped into their orange stock car, General Lee. Bo drove off towards Hazzard.
     "So where are you two off to this time? You'd better enjoy your peace now because your world is about to coming crashing down." he said then laughed. "Actually it has already started to crash hasn't Luke?"
The man brushed back his long brown bangs out of his blue eyes, then got into his car and left the ridge.
      Bo pulled to a stop in front of Cooter's garage, then him and Luke got out the car. Their friend Cooter Davenport came out to greet them.
     "Hey Bo, what's hey Luke." he greeted them cheerfully.
     "Hey Cooter." Bo said.
Luke didn't reply, he appeared to be lost deep in thought.
     "What's up with Luke?" Cooter asked Bo.
     "I don't know he's been like that for the past couple of days, but don't talk about what his problem is." Bo said.
     "Hey Luke you in there?" Cooter asked jokingly.
     "What?" Luke asked coming out of thought.
     "I said are you in there?" Cooter said.
     "Oh yeah, I was just thinking is all." Luke replied.
     "So you got them parts for the General in?" Bo asked.
     "Yeah. They's top of line stuff." Cooter said.
     "Better be at the price." Bo said jokingly.
Luke still remained silent, still remembering back to an event that happened when him and Bo were just children. Something he tried hard to get over, he had until just recently. When it all came back to haunt him.
      Bo and Cooter then installed the new parts into the General. Then Bo and Luke left the garage, taking the back roads home to test out the new parts. Luke sat staring out the side window, not really paying any attention to how the new parts were working.
     "Hey Luke . . ." Bo said.
     "Yeah what?" Luke asked.
     "What's up with you lately?"
     "What do you mean?"
     "Well lately you just keep like spacing out and all . . . So what is it that bothering you?"
     "It's nothing."
     "Yeah right cousin, I can tell something is up. So why . . ." Bo started to say but Luke cut his sentence off.
     "It is nothing Bo." Luke said turning to look at Bo. "Nothing is wrong. So just don't worry about, okay?"
     "Yeah, okay." Bo said glancing at Luke then back at the road. He could tell Luke wasn't being truthful and that something was wrong. However he decided not to keep pushing the subject, he figured when and if Luke wanted to talk he'd talk. He figured it was something major with the way Luke was acting. He could tell Luke was lying just to keep him from worry. There was something else about it to that he couldn't quite place a finger on and it puzzled him.
 Luke turned and stared back out the window. He didn't want to lie to Bo but didn't want him to know about what was wrong either. He thought it was best that way to protect Bo if he knew what was wrong it would only upset him, and it had taken both them so long to get over what had happened.
     Rosco had been sitting at one of his favourite speed traps, he smiled as the General raced past.
     "Hot pursuit I love it I love it, coo coo." Rosco said happily, glancing down at his basset hound, Flash, who was sitting on the front seat beside him.
Rosco turned on the siren and speed off after the General.
 Bo glanced into the rear view mirror. "Dang it, it's Rosco."
Luke looked out the back window and saw the patrol car fastly approaching them. "Well we ain't got time to mess with him we told Uncle Jesse that we'd be home by six for dinner. So just lose him."
     "Yes sir. Bye bye Rosco." Bo said, as he accelerated the General.
Luke looked back and noticed that Rosco was still behind them. "You ain't doin' to good at losing him, he's still hangin' in back there."
Bo glanced into the rear view mirror and saw that Rosco was keeping up with the General. "Dang it, ol' Rosco is getting better at this." he said then laughed.
     "Yeah, better, not good, but better." Luke agreed. "Just try to lose him."
     "I told ya that I'd lose him and I'm gonna lose him." Bo said.
Up ahead the road had a barricade across it, with a sign reading: BRIDGE OUT.
     "And here is where we are gonna lose Rosco." Bo said. "Hold on cousin."
Bo accelerated more and then the General soared gracefully across the sky, over the river.
     "YEE-HAW!" Bo yelled as the General flew through the air.
Then they landed on the other side, Bo stopped a few feet down the road and him and Luke turned to watch Rosco's attempt at jumping the river.
Rosco's patrol car became airborne, then splashed down into the middle of the river. Bo and Luke laughed as they saw Rosco's climb out the window holding Flash.
     "Looks like he's okay." Luke said.
     "Yeah ain't nothing hurtin' but his pride." Bo said.
Then they sped off towards the farm.
     After they finished eating dinner and had cleaned up the dishes, they went to sit down in the front room. Luke stood by the end of couch not sitting down.
     "I got a headache so I think that I am gonna turn in early tonight." Luke said, rubbing at his temples.
It wasn't a real lie he did have a little bit of a headache, but he just felt more like being alone.
     "Okay, good night." Jesse said.
     "Night, hope your headache goes away." Daisy said.
     "Night." Bo said.
    Luke turned and went to the bedroom that he and Bo shared. He turned on the small lamp between the two beds. He took out the letter that he had received two days ago and started to read it again.

 Luke,

 So you think you can make choices so easily and just forget about the consequences of the choice? You don't care how the choices you make effect anyone else. Well Luke now one of them choices is going to come back to haunt you again. This time you won't have a choice to make, the choice will be made for you.

Be seeing you.

Luke slid the letter back into the envelope, and hid the letter under the edge of his bed. He sighed and rolled over and stared out the window. The letter worried him, he feared what was meant by this time he'd have no choice. Ever since he got that letter he couldn't stop thinking about the one choice he had made that haunted him. The one choice that had the highest consequences.
 Luke fell into a deep sleep then he started to have a dream, much like the one that had haunted him all those years ago.

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     He was standing before one of abandoned mines, the ground had shifted and the mine started to cave in. Luke rushed into the mine and looked around to try to find Trevor  and Bo, who were in the mine. They were both an equal distance from him. He could hear Trevor yelling for him to help him. Bo wasn't moving at all. Luke rushed over to Bo. Bo was unconscious, he had struck his head on a rock when he had fallen. Some debris from the ceiling had fallen on top of him. He could hear Trevor yelling at him to forget Bo and save him first. Luke refused to listen he couldn't leave Bo, not when he was hurt so badly. He got Bo out of the mine then before he could get back to help Trevor, there was a loud rumbling that shook the ground and the whole mine collapsed. Then Luke saw Trevor's ghost.
     "I'll get you for letting me die. Do you hear me Luke? I'LL GET YOU FOR LETTING ME DIE!"
Then the ghost lunged at him and pinned him to the ground.
     "I didn't mean to . . .I didn't mean for you to die."
Luke felt himself losing consciousness. He could hear Trevor yelling that he get him for letting him die.
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     Luke woke up and sat up. His whole body was trembling. He looked over at Bo who was peacefully sleeping. Luke quietly got out of bed and got dressed then went to the front room and sat down on the couch. He started to think about Trevor.
     Trevor Duke was their cousin he had came to live at the farm at the same time that Bo and Luke had. Trevor was Luke's age. Even though he was Luke's age, Bo and Luke had still been closer, despite the two years age difference, they just seemed to have more interests in common and there had just always been some kind of connection between them. Most the time they got along with Trevor but he could sometimes be mean. Especially to Bo, because he was younger. They thought to that sometimes Trevor's meanness was because he wasn't as close as they were. Trevor wasn't at all like them, he wasn't into cars or anything of the things that Bo and Luke were into. Trevor also thought that life should be lived on the edge and took a lot of chances that he shouldn't have. Bo and Luke shared a room and Trevor had the extra room. Daisy hadn't came to live at the farm till three months after the accident at the mine, two weeks before her seventh birthday. Trevor was only eight when he had been killed. For years after Luke blamed himself for Trevor's death. He realized he had to make a choice of who to help first, and he had chosen to save Bo first. Bo had been hurt worse, he often wondered if that was the truth or if he had saved Bo first because he was so much closer to him then Trevor. Luke knew that if he had to make the choice again that he would do it exactly the same. On occasion Trevor's death still haunted him. He felt responsible for what had happened. It was one of the reasons why he had joined the Marines, to help himself get over the feeling of guilt surrounding Trevor's death.
     Just after dawn Jesse came out to the front room, he saw Luke sitting quietly on the couch.
     "Good morning Luke, your up early."
     "Morning Uncle Jesse. I couldn't sleep."
     "Is there something wrong?" Jesse asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
     "No, nothing is wrong I just couldn't sleep."
     After breakfast Bo and Luke went  to pick up a couple tractor parts from Greenville. As they headed towards Greenville, Luke sat thinking more about the accident at the mine.
     It was a cloudy, and cold day in Hazzard. Trevor, Luke and Bo were out playing. Trevor went over near one of the old abandoned mines.
     "Come on let's go down there and explore." Trevor said.
     "No. Uncle Jesse told us to stay away from the mines and never go down in them ‘cause they are dangerous." Luke said.
     "What are you chicken?" Trevor said meanly.
     "No, it's just not safe."
     "You're a fraidy cat, to afraid to go down there afraid the bogey man is gonna get you."
 While Luke and Trevor were fighting Bo, went into the mine. Bo had just turned six, five months ago. He was always tried prove that he was just as much a big kid as Luke and Trevor. He wanted to prove that he wasn't afraid to go into the mine.
 Trevor saw Bo going into the mine, and started to follow him.
     "Stay out of there." Luke said. "Bo, get out of there now!" Luke yelled.
However Bo couldn't hear Luke. Trevor just laughed and started to walk further into the mine.
     "I am gonna go down there, I am not afraid, not like you. Heck even little Bo is not afraid."Trevor said and laughed. "Not yet. I am gonna go down there and scare him. Hope you like sleeping with the lights on ‘cause when I am down Bo ain't never gonna want to be in he dark again." Trevor said nastily.
     "Leave Bo alone." Luke said.
Trevor just laughed and went into the mine. Luke stayed by the mine entrance not wanting to go in because it was too dangerous, but he thought he should go in to keep Trevor from doing anything to Bo.
 Just as he was going to enter the mine it started to collapse. There was a loud rumbling and dust rolled out the entrance. Once it stopped, Luke went in to find Bo and Trevor. He looked around the mine there was just barely enough light from the entrance to see anything. He became filled with worry that they were not alright and that he wouldn't find him. Then he heard Trevor calling out.
     "LUKE! Help you gotta get me out of here!" Trevor yelled.
Luke followed the sound of Trevor's voice. Finally he found both Trevor and Bo. Trevor was trying to get out from underneath a beam. Bo was laying, unmoving on the ground, pinned beneath some debris. Bo appeared to be hurt very badly and Luke filled with worry. He rushed over to where Bo was.
     "Forget about him. The little brat is properly already dead. Help me." Trevor demanded.
Luke ignored Trevor. "Hey Bo."
Bo didn't respond, he wasn't moving at all. Luke noticed a cut on Bo's forehead, that was bleeding, The blood was flowing down the side of his face and matting in his blonde hair.
     "Come on Bo wake up." Luke said, placing a hand on Bo's shoulder, Bo's body was cold. This worried Luke even more.
     "I said forget him Luke HELP ME!" Trevor said. "He's properly already dead, so just help me."
Luke tried to block out what Trevor was saying, he didn't want to believe that Bo could be dead. He remembered about checking for a pulse so quickly checked for Bo's. There was a pulse,  it was faint and weak. Luke noticed to that Bo's breathing was very slow. He knew that he had to quickly get Bo out and to a doctor or he could die. He tried to pull Bo out of the debris but couldn't. He started to franticly dig Bo out of the debris. Finally he was able to pull Bo up. He carefully picked him and carried him out of the mine. He gently laid him down on the ground, a safe distance from the entrance. He also remembered about hearing something about keeping an injured person warm. He took off his jacket and laid it over Bo.
 Luke turned to go back into the mine to get Trevor, when the mine started to cave in more. The mine completely collapsed. The entrance to the mine was blocked by debris. Luke stood stunned for a moment as he realized Trevor was gone. He dropped down by Bo and held Bo's unconscious body in his arms.
     "Wake up Bo. You have to wake up. You can't die . . . you can't die." Luke said.
Luke started to fill with dread that Bo was gonna die. He had no idea what to do to keep Bo safe. They were two miles from home and a mile from the nearest phone. He knew he couldn't leave Bo alone for the amount of time it would take him to reach either one. He didn't want to leave Bo alone for any length of time in his condition. His breathing seemed to be getting slower as did his pulse. Luke franticly tried to think of what he should do but couldn't think of anything. Luke heard a car approaching and looked up, it was Jesse's pick-up truck. Jesse stopped and got out.
     "What happened here?" Jesse asked.
Luke told him what happened. Jesse knew that they had to get Bo to the hospital quickly, his injures were quite severe. Luke sat on the front seat of the truck carefully holding Bo's head on his lap.
     "Please don't die Bo. Please, you can't die." Luke pleaded softly.
He was only vaguely aware of Jesse talking on the CB telling them about the accident and to dig out the debris to find Trevor. Luke couldn't really hear what he was saying he was too fraught with worry about Bo. They reached the hospital and the doctor's came out and took Bo away on the stretcher. Luke tried to follow, but Jesse held him back.
     "I want to go with Bo, I am no gonna leave him, I want to help." Luke said as he struggled to get away from Jesse.
     "There is nothing we can do now but wait Luke." Jesse said, his voice was filled with sadness and concern. He was trying to hold back his tears to keep Luke from getting even more upset then he already was.
     Luke was pulled out of his thoughts as the General came to a stop. They went and got the tractor parts. Then headed back to Hazzard. As they were headed back to Hazzard Luke started to think about what had happened next.
     Luke sat quietly next to Jesse waiting for word on Bo's condition. There hours later a doctor came over to where they were sitting. Jesse stood up as the doctor approached.
     "How is he?" Jesse asked.
     "He is in stable condition. However, he has not regained consciousness yet." Dr. Summers said.
     "What does that mean? He will be okay, won't he?" Jesse asked.
     "It is too soon to tell yet. He took quite a massive blow to the head, and with head injures  like that it is really hard to tell. He has four broken ribs and his left arm is also broken. He has quite a few cuts and bruises. Fortunately there was no massive internal damage. It is really only the head injury that could cause a problem. However he stands quite a good chance of pulling through without a problem because he is young and strong."
     "Can we see him?" Jesse questioned.
     "Yes. He is in room 412."
 They went into Bo's room. Luke felt tears burn his eyes when he saw Bo's condition, but he held them back.
 Bo was laying, so still on the bed. He had a bandage wrapped around his head. His left arm was in a cast. An IV was steadily dripping into his right arm. Bo was hooked up to oxygen and a heart monitor. Luke thought that Bo looked so small and frail laying in the hospital bed like that.
 The next five days passed like a blur, and Luke couldn't remember much of anything except sitting by Bo's bed side waiting for him to wake up. It was the night of the fifth day and Luke overheard Jesse talking to somebody just outside the door of the hospital room. He walked over to the door and listened. He didn't recognize the voice of the person that Jesse was talking to.
     "We tried to search the mine, but it kept caving in more. Sorry, we didn't find Trevor."
Then he heard Jesse start to cry, it was the first time he ever remembered hearing him cry and it scared him.
     "It's okay I know you did the best you could. Thank you for your help." Jesse said.
     "I hope that Bo pulls through this, he is in all our prayers."
     "Thank you."
Luke thought that Jesse was gonna come back into the room so he went and sat back down beside Bo. However Jesse didn't in to the room. Luke wondered where he had gone, then about ten minutes later Jesse came into the room.
     "What's wrong Uncle Jesse?" Luke asked.
     "What's wrong? How can you ask that? I think what is wrong is obvious, Trevor is dead and Bo is laying in that bed fighting for his life."
Luke sat staring at Jesse.
     "You should've kept Bo out of that mine." Jesse said sternly.
     "I didn't see him go in, I told you that, I wouldn't have just let him go in there, I knew it wasn't safe." Luke said. He felt hurt by Jesse's words.
     "You should've been looking out for Bo. It is your responsibility to take care of Bo. He is your younger cousin, it's your responsibility when you are out playing around to look out for him and make sure that he don't get hurt. You didn't do that, now Trevor is dead and Bo could die as well." Jesse said
Luke felt tears swell up in his eyes, he tried hard to hold them back, but still a couple tears streaked his cheeks. "I am sorry . . . I am so sorry."
Jesse realized what he had just said to Luke, he hadn't meant to say it. He didn't feel that way at all. He was consumed by grief and worry. He hadn't slept the past few days and it all just finally started to take it's toll on him. He walked over to Luke and hugged him.
     "I am sorry. I didn't mean to say it was your fault, it is not, you did all you could. You did get Bo out of the mine, and I am so proud of you for that. I didn't mean to say what I said. I just need to get some sleep, perhaps we should go home for a while." Jesse said.
     "No. I don't want to leave Bo. I am not gonna leave Bo alone." Luke said.
     "Okay. Just stay here, I'll be back in a couple hours." Jesse said.
     "Okay." Luke said.
Jesse then left the room to go get some sleep. Luke went over to Bo's bed and sat on the bed, on Bo's right side. Bo's condition hadn't changed at all over the five days. Luke sat and looked down at Bo.
     "Uncle Jesse is right you are my younger cousin so it is my responsibility to be sure that you don't get hurt. My responsibility to keep you safe. I know I let you down it is my fault for not protecting you. I promise to never let you down again, never to let you get hurt, to always protect you. Please  wake up. I don't want to lose you to. It is my fault that Trevor is dead . . . all my fault. I don't want to lose you to. I couldn't stand to lose you. Please don't die, please wake up." Luke said softly.
Luke also hadn't slept much the past days either. He laid down beside Bo and fell asleep.
 Luke wasn't sure how long he had been asleep, we woke up when he felt movement from beside him. He sat straight up in the bed and looked down at Bo. Bo was starting to wake up.
     "Come on wake up Bo." Luke said.
Bo slowly opened his eyes and looked at Luke. "Luke . . .where am I?"
     "In the hospital." Luke said.
Bo looked puzzled. "Why?"
     "Don't you remember the accident at the mine?" Luke asked.
     "No, not really, I remember being there then this rumbling kinda noise and that's it." Bo said then tried to sit up. He flinched in pain and laid back down. Tears of pain swelled up in his eyes.
     "Don't move I'll go get a doctor." Luke said, then rushed out the door to get a doctor.
     The flashback slowly faded away as they approached the farm. Luke started to feel  guilt consume him again, over Trevor's death.
     "What's wrong?" Bo asked as the got the tractor parts out of the trunk.
     "Nothing." Luke said.
     "Yeah right." Bo said. "You been acting strange the past couple days, something is up so why don't you just say what it is."
     "I told you nothing is wrong." Luke said defensively. Luke sighed. "Look it's nothing, don't worry about it, okay?"
     "Fine. Whatever." Bo said.
Luke watched as Bo walked into the house. "Nothing you should to have to deal with again." he thought to himself, then followed Bo into the house.
     A dark blue Sedan pulled to a stop in front of the gas pumps at Cooter's garage. Cooter walked over to the car.
     "Can I help you?" Cooter asked.
     "Ten dollars of gas." the driver said.
     "Will that be everything?"
     "Actually," the driver said the brushed back his long brown bangs out of his eyes. "Would you happen to know Bo and Luke Duke?"
     "Yeah their good friends, why?" Cooter asked.
     "I'm an old friend of theirs, haven't seen them in years and I was wondering where I could find them."
     "Well if they ain't at the farm doing chores or at the Boar's Nest, their under a cloud of dust somewhere." Cooter said. "They should be here around three this afternoon, if you don't find them before then."
     "Much obliged for your help." he said and paid for the gas. "If they are out racing around I'll never find them so maybe I'll be seeing you this afternoon."
     Bo and Luke left the farm and headed into town to pick up some supplies and to meet Cooter, like they were said they were going to. Bo went to the general store to get the supplies that they needed and Luke to the mail. There was only one letter, it was address to Luke, just as the last letter had been. Luke walked out of the post office. As he walked towards Cooter's garage to meet Bo, he thought he saw Trevor walking on the other side of the street. Luke turned to look again but didn't see him.
     "You're over reacting it can't be Trevor. Trevor is dead. It was just someone who looked a lot like Trevor, or what he would've looked like if hadn't died." Luke thought to himself.
He decided to read the letter. He was gonna wait, until he saw the person that so reminded him of Trevor. He opened the letter.

Luke,

 You think you never have to face the consequences of the choice you made. You made the wrong choice. So your choice has been revoked.

Be seeing you

Luke slid the letter back in the envelope, then put it in the pocket of his jean jacket. This letter bothered him even more then the last letter had. This letter gave him a feeling of dread, but he wasn't sure why.  The words seemed harsher and colder and some how just seemed more threatening in some way. He wasn't sure why he felt this way, it was just something about the line ‘your choice has been revoked.' Luke wondered what these letters meant and who was sending them.  Luke just tried to ignore the bad feeling and headed towards Cooter's.
     Meanwhile, the general store didn't have the supplies they needed so Bo headed towards Cooter's. As he walked past one of the alleys, someone grabbed him from behind and pulled him into the alley. Before he had time to react the person slipped a chloroform soaked cloth over his mouth and nose. Bo struggled to get away but the fumes were already starting to over take him. He tried to remain awake but could feel darkness starting to cloak his mind. He tried to fight it but his attempts were in vain. His mind was consumed by the darkness and he slumped forward limply.
     The person who grabbed Bo smiled darkly when he felt Bo's body go limp. He carried Bo over to his blue Sedan and put him in the back seat, and covered Bo's unconscious body with a blanket. He brushed back his long brown bangs, and headed towards the General Lee to leave a note for Luke.
     Luke reached Cooter's garage, he tried to hide how upset the letter had made him.
     "Hey Cooter."
     "Hey Lukas. Where's Bo?"
     "Ain't he here already? He was just stopping at the store." Luke said.
     "Maybe he is still there." Cooter said.
     "Yeah maybe."
They went to check. The clerk at the store said Bo left about five minutes ago. Luke and Cooter headed back towards Cooter's garage.
     "Maybe he ran into that old friend of y'alls that was at the garage this morning looking for ya'll." Cooter said.
     "What friend?" Luke asked, there was a note of concern in his voice.
     "Come to think of it I never got his name. But he was driving an blue Sedan. He had long brown hair, blue eyes. He said he was a friend and ain't seen y'all in years."
     "Trevor . . ." Luke said, his voice just barely audible.
     "Who's Trevor?" Cooter asked.
     "A cousin." Luke replied.
Cooter looked confused. "I never knew y'all had a cousin named Trevor. Where's he been hiding all these years?"
     "It's a long story. I don't have time to explain it all right now. I have to go find Bo." Luke said then rushed to where they had parked the General.
Cooter just shook his head wondering what it was about Trevor that had Luke so worked up, he headed back towards the garage.
     Luke got into the General then noticed a envelope sitting on the dashboard. He sat for a moment staring at the envelope with dread, fearing what the letter inside would say. He finally picked up the envelope. His hands were shaking as he took out the letter.

Luke,

 Your choice has been revoked. If I were you would start to make funeral arrangements for your cousin because the next time you see him he will be dead. There is no need to rush really to be honest his death won't be anytime soon, first off I am going to put him through hell and then he can a slow death. This is the consequence of your choice.

So long

Luke dropped the letter. His whole body was slightly trembling. He took a deep breath, he realized he had to keep it together. There was still time to find and save Bo. He figured the best lead he had was to find that blue Sedan, if he could find Trevor he would be able to find Bo. He couldn't believe that Trevor was alive and that he was going to kill Bo for what had happened so many years ago, something that wasn't even Bo's fault.
     Trevor pulled the Sedan to a stop next to a bush. He got out then uncovered another car, a red Roadrunner. He went back to the Sedan and drug Bo's unconscious body out of the back seat and put him in the backseat of the other car. He taped a note for Luke to the windshield of the Sedan. Then got into the other car and drove off.
     Luke didn't really know where to look first to try to find Bo. He then spotted a blue Sedan along the side of the road. He pulled the General to a stop in front of the car and got out. He noticed a note tapped to the window with his name on it. He took the note and read it:

Luke,

 Was this car your big lead in trying to find me and Bo? Looks like your choice to follow this lead wasn't such a good choice. You just can't make choices,  can you? What a shame of course you know this choice contributes to Bo's death. I am sure by now you know who I am, don't you, cousin. It was your choice all those years ago that means Bo's death now. You should've saved me then, not him, he should've died so I am correcting that mistake.

So long

Luke dropped to ground and leaned against the car, clutching the note tight in his hand. He tried to think of what to do to find and save Bo, but couldn't think of anything. He sat staring at the note, trying to think of what to do.
     Meanwhile, Cooter was worried about Bo and was wondering why Luke acted so strange when he said about Trevor. He tried to reach the Dukes' on the CB, but with no luck so he drove out to the farm. Jesse was just coming in from the field an Daisy was just finishing hanging the laundry. Cooter told them about what happened.
     "Who is Trevor anyway?" Cooter asked.
     "Are you sure Luke said Trevor?" Daisy asked. "Trevor was killed three months before I even came here to live."
     "I am sure he said Trevor."
They went inside and sat down at the kitchen table.
     "Trevor was Luke's age. He was killed when he was eight." Jesse said.
Then he told Cooter the whole story about what had happened.
     "I never knew about Trevor." Cooter said.
     "The boys don't ever talk about him, it took them both quite a bit of time to get over his death, even though they weren't that close, his death still haunted both them." Jesse said.
     "That is too bad. So why would Luke think this whole thing now has to do with Trevor?"
 Just as Cooter asked that question Luke came in through the door.
     "I'll tell you why." Luke said and tossed the notes he had just got on to the table. Then he told them about the other letter and about thinking he saw Trevor earlier.
     "The last note I got that I found on that car proves that it is Trevor." Luke said.
     "How can he be alive . . . why would he be doing this?" Jesse said unable to believe what he was hearing.
     "I don't know how he is alive but I think he is doing all this for revenge, because I didn't get him out of that mine first. I chose to save Bo." Luke said.
     "What are we gonna do? We have to find Bo. If we don't . . ." Daisy started to say but her voice trailed off, she was unable to say the words to finish the sentence.
     "We just have to split up and turn the county inside out till we find him." Luke said.
     "Maybe we should get Rosco to help." Jesse said.
     "What help would he be?" Daisy said.
     "Uncle Jesse is right we need all the help the we can get." Luke said.
Then they left to head for Hazzard to tell Rosco about what had happened.
     Bo slowly started to wake up, his head was throbbing he tried to move but found himself unable to. He was tied by his hands and suspended about two feet from the ground. There was a bright light which burned his eyes as he tired to adjust to the light. His whole body was dully aching. He became dimly aware of someone else with him. Though he wasn't sure who it was. He didn't know where he was, the air was damp and musty smelling. His eyes were finally adjusting the light. He looked around the best he could and found that he was in a mine shaft.
 Trevor saw Bo starting to move and walked over and stood in front of him.
     "Well look who woke up, about time." he said.
Bo stared at Trevor unable to believe what he was seeing. "Trevor? But you . . ."
     "Died. I know that is what all you think, but I am very much alive."
     "But how? That mine completely collapsed." Bo said.
     "Yes but I fell into an unground river and was swept away. Some people found me and raised me. Though not as a son but as a servant." Trevor said.
Bo didn't know what to say he was shocked that Trevor was still alive. "What do you want? Why are you doing this?" Bo finally managed to ask.
     "Revenge." Trevor said.
     "Revenge for what?" Bo asked.
     "Revenge because Luke chose to save you and not me. My life was hell when you had a perfect life." Trevor said angrily.
     "Sorry you had such a harsh life but it isn't my fault or Luke's" Bo said.
     "Yes it is. Luke chose to save you. Why should you have been allowed to live and have a perfect life and not me. What makes you so special?"
Bo didn't know how to answer, it was something he had often wondered himself, why he got to live and Trevor died.
     "You can't answer that can you cause you know you had no more right then me to live. Why did Luke chose you over me?"
     "I don't know." Bo said.
     "You two always got a long better and excluded me from everything." Trevor said.
     "That is not true. You always chose to be by yourself."
     "Uncle Jesse always loved you two more then me."
     "That ain't true." Bo said.
     "I didn't ask for your opinion." Trevor side and hit Bo across the face.
Bo flinched at the pain.
     "Do you think Luke ever regrets his choice?" Trevor asked.
     "What do you mean?" Bo asked.
     "I mean regrets choosing to save you and not me, choosing your life over mine. Do you think he ever wishes that I were alive instead?"
Bo didn't reply. Trevor hit him hard in the stomach. Bo flinched and gasped for breath.
     "I asked you question. When I ask you something you better damn well answer it." Trevor said crossly.
     "I don't know." Bo said.
Bo started to wonder if Trevor was right and if Luke ever did regret saving his life over Trevor's.
Trevor walked away leaving Bo just hanging there.
      Bo started to think back to about the accident. He still couldn't really remember what had happened. The doctor's said that was from the head injury they figured he hit his head as the mine had started to caved in on him. After the accident he blamed himself for what had happened since he had gone in, even though Luke was saying they shouldn't. He wanted to prove that he was brave by going into the mine. He often wondered if Luke regretted saving his life and wished he had saved Trevor instead, but he never could ask Luke.
     Trevor walked back over and stood in front of Bo. He smiled evilly as he slid on a pair of brass knuckles. Bo tried to struggle to free himself from the ropes around his wrists, the ropes cut deeper into his wrists. He could feel blood starting to slowly drip down his wrists from the cuts caused by the ropes. Bo stopped struggling, he realized the more he struggled the tighter the ropes got.
     "You may as well not bother to try to get away, because there is no chance that you will escape me. And if you are think that  Luke is going to come save you, you may as well forget that to, he isn't going to come save you. He don't care, he knows this is right, that it is the right decision, the life he should've chosen all those years ago." Trevor said nastily.
     "That is not true." Bo said.
Trevor punched Bo hard in the stomach. "Don't speak unless I ask for you to speak."
Bo gasped to catch his breath and just stared at Trevor. He couldn't believe that Trevor was alive or what was happening. He had never gotten along with Trevor, Trevor had always been nasty, but never this nasty.
     "What's the matter poor baby, can't handle a little pain?" Trevor said then hit Bo across the face.
Bo flinched at the pain.
     "You haven't even begun to know what pain really is yet. I promise you will suffer true pain before you die. You will suffer for your life having been chosen. You will suffer for my pain." Trevor said then hit Bo in the head, then twice in the ribs.
Bo flinched at the pain and gasped to try to catch his breath. He tried to fight off the darkness that he could feel once again trying to over take his mind. Trevor grabbed the back of Bo's hair and jerked his head up, and stared coldly at him. Bo glared back at him.
     "You ain't gonna get away with this." Bo said.
     "Oh really? And who is going stop me? You think that Luke is going come and save you again is that it? Well let me tell you he won't. He knows he should've let you die all those years ago." Trevor said then hit Bo across the head twice.
Darkness once again consumed Bo's mind, his body went limp as he drifted in unconsciousness again.
     The Dukes and Cooter walked into the Sheriff's office. Rosco was sitting at his desk brushing Flash. He looked up as the Dukes walked.
     "Oh what do you Dukes want?" he asked.
     "Bo is in danger." Jesse said.
     "Oh, oh that is terrible." Rosco said sincerely. "What happened?"
Boss J.D. Hogg  heard the Dukes and came out of his office. "What's goin on in here? What do you Dukes want?"
     "Bo is in danger and we want Rosco's help in finding him, before . . ." Jesse's voice trailed off. He found himself unable to sat what the consequences to Bo would be if they failed to find him in time.
     "Before what?" Boss asked.
     "Before it is too late and he is dead." Luke said.
     "Oh." Boss said. He never lost no love for the Duke boys, but he didn't want any harm to come to them either. "What happened?"
     "It is kind of a long story. But do you remember Trevor?" Jesse asked.
     "Oh yes, that poor boy such a shame what happened." Boss said.
     "Well somehow he survived all that and he is back." Jesse said.
     "Oh that's great. We all thought he was dead when that mine caved in." Rosco said.
     "No it is not great. He is back and looking for revenge, he is going to kill Bo." Jesse said.
     "Cause of my choice." Luke added softly.
     "Now Luke it ain't your fault. You made the choice you had to. If it wasn't for you Bo would've died." Jesse said.
     "Might now." Luke said, his voice just barely audible.
     "Are you sure it is Trevor?" Rosco asked.
     "Yeah he sent some letters to Luke, he has made sure that Luke knows." Jesse said.
     "Look we are wasting time, we should be out looking for Bo." Luke said impatiently. "So are you gonna help us find Bo or not?"
     "Of course I'm gonna help. I'll call Enos and have him start looking to." Rosco said.
     "I'll help as well don't want nothing to happen to that poor boy." Boss said.
     "Thank you J.D., Rosco." Jesse said.
Then the Dukes and Cooter left to split up to search for Bo.
     "I sure hope that nothing happens to Bo." Rosco said.
     "Yeah that would be a shame. I can't believe though that little Trevor is alive and now has came back to kill Bo. I mean a Duke wanting to kill a Duke." Boss said.
     "Yeah that is sure strange." Rosco said.  "I sure hope that we find him. I remember he almost died to when that mine caved in."
     "Yeah poor boy was in a comma for almost a week."
Rosco picked up the CB. "Enos you got your ears on?"
     "This heres Enos." Enos said.
     "Enos I want you to get out and help the Dukes look for Bo." Rosco said.
     "Why is he missing?" Enos asked.
     "Of course you dipstick that is why I want you to help them find him before it is too late." Rosco said.
     "Too late for what?" Enos questioned.
     "Too late for Bo." Rosco replied, starting to become annoyed with Enos's constant questions.
     "Why would it be too late for Bo?" Enos asked.
     "Cause you dumb dipstick if we don't find him soon Trevor Duke is gonna kill him."
     "That's terrible." Enos said becoming alarmed about Bo's safety. "Who is Trevor Duke?"
     "He is their cousin, he's Luke's age." Rosco said.
     "I never knew that they had a cousin named Trevor." Enos said.
     "Oh Enos just forget about it, it's a long story. Just get out there and start searching for Bo." Rosco said.
     "Yes sir, I'm gone." Enos said.
Boss and Rosco then left the Sheriff's department to aid in the search for Bo.
     A couple hours later it started to grow dark, so the search was called off until morning. Since it would be too dark soon to see anything and they could easily miss a clue to where Trevor was holding Bo. The Dukes sat around the kitchen table looking at a map of Hazzard and marking off everywhere that had been searched.
     "I still say that we should still be out there looking for Bo. We don't have time to waste, we have to find him soon or he'll be dead." Luke said.
     "Luke it is too dark we could over look clues to help us find Bo and we all need some rest. We'll start to search again first thing in the morning." Jesse said.
     "What if Bo don't have that long?" Luke questioned.
Jesse and Daisy just looked at him not responding. They both knew that this was all very hard on Luke.
Finally Jesse spoke. "We just have to keep the faith that Bo will be okay. We will start to search more tomorrow. This is all the places we have searched," he said motioning to the map on the table. "There isn't too many more places that Trevor could be hiding."
     "That is if he stayed in Hazzard." Luke said.
Daisy got up and went to bed. Then Jesse stood up and started to walk out of the kitchen. Then he stopped in the doorway and turned back to face Luke.
     "Don't worry Luke, we will find Bo and he will be okay." he said then turned and left the kitchen.
     Luke stood up from the table and went to his and Bo's bedroom. He laid down, on his bed and stared over at Bo's empty bed. He started to miss Bo even more and became even more concerned for his safety, he didn't know what he'd do if anything happened to Bo. He realized there was no way that he'd get any sleep so he went back to the kitchen. He sat at the table drinking coffee and staring at the map trying to think of where Trevor was hiding.
     Bo started to wake up. He for a moment couldn't think of where he was, then remember where he was and what was happening.
     "Well look who woke up again." Trevor said walking over and standing in front of Bo.
     "You ain't gonna get away with this." Bo said.
Trevor hit Bo across the face. "You were not asked to speak. I will get away with this because nobody cares that you are missing. Nobody is looking for you." Trevor said.
     "I don't believe you."
Trevor hit Bo across the face again. "You are just too stupid to accept the truth aren't you? Nobody is looking for you they don't care that you will die, especially Luke. Luke hates you. He resents you for the choice you forced him to make all those years ago."
Bo just glared at Trevor.
     "It is the truth. Don't you think Luke ever wishes he chose my life instead. Don't you think Luke ever regrets his choice? Don't you think that he regrets choosing to save you and not me, choosing your life over mine."
Bo didn't respond.
     "Well I'll tell you the answer. Luke don't care about you he is going to let you die this time, because he wishes that is what he did all those years ago. He regrets having saved your life over mine."
Bo tried to ignore what Trevor was saying, but he was so tired and weak that his mind was slowly starting to believe what Trevor was saying.
     "It's truth cousin. Luke hates you think about it, you know it is the truth. He hates you because of the choice you forced him to make. You are the one that snuck into that mine, it is your fault we were in their when it crashed. Luke got you cause you couldn't keep yourself out of trouble and you were younger, still can't.  Uncle Jesse always told us we had to look out for you because you were so much younger. Luke resents having to take responsibility for a little brat who couldn't keep himself out trouble if his life depended on it. You have always been an annoyance to him he wishes that he let you die, which is why he'll let you die now."
     That night slowly passed, Trevor kept Bo awake all night telling him the same stuff over and over again. Bo tired to ignore what he was saying and try to hold on to what he believed to be the truth. However as the hours slowly passed a combination of exhaustion and pain weakened Bo's mind and Trevor's brainwashing slowly started to take it's effect on his mind. By the crack of dawn Bo believed everything that Trevor was telling him. Bo hung limply staring at the ground. Trevor laughed and walked off. He could tell that he had destroyed Bo's spirit and determination and figured it wouldn't take long to finish crushing Bo.
     Jesse woke up shortly after the crack of dawn, he walked out to the kitchen, he saw Luke sitting at the table staring at the map of Hazzard
     "Good morning Luke." Jesse said.
     "What's so good about it?" Luke mumbled.
     "How long have you been up?" Jesse asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
     "All night." Luke replied.
     "Oh." Jesse said.
     "I couldn't exactly sleep, not with Bo missing." Luke said.
     "Luke, we are going to find Bo." Jesse said.
     "How can you be so sure? For all we know Bo could already be dead." Luke said.
     "Don't be talking like that Luke." Jesse said.
     "Why not? It is the truth, Bo could be dead already."
     "Luke just calm down."
     "Calm down. Bo is missing and could be dead. Trevor wasn't killed in that mine all those years ago and now he has came back wanting revenge and he is gonna kill Bo. It is my fault, I should have seen what was coming and been able to keep Bo safe. And you are telling me to calm down, don't you even care?"
     "Of course I care Luke, but getting all upset won't help. We just have to find Bo. You should try to get some sleep before going out and looking for Bo." Jesse said.
     "There is no time to sleep. Bo's life is in danger." Luke said.
     "Luke just get some sleep then you can go out and look for Bo." Jesse said sternly.
     "Don't tell me what to do." Luke said, then throw his coffee cup against the wall. It shattered, and tiny shards of glass fell to the floor. "I should've been  looking out for Bo. It is my responsibility to take care of Bo. He is my younger cousin, it's my resposnsibilty to look out for him and make sure that he don't get hurt. I didn't do that, now Bo could die."
Before Jesse could respond to what Luke said, Luke stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind himself. Jesse heard the General's engine start up and then heard the car speeding away from the farm.
     Daisy had woke up when she heard Luke yelling. She stood in the doorway to the kitchen. "What was all that about?"
     "Luke is just upset. He just worried about Bo. He blames himself for what has happened. Just like he blamed himself for the accident all those years ago." Jesse said, trying hard to hold his tears.
Jesse started to clean up the broken glass.
     "I'll get that Uncle Jesse." Daisy said.
Jesse sat down at the kitchen table and Daisy cleaned up the broken glass..
     "Why was Luke so determined about Bo being his responsibly?" Daisy asked as she sat down at the table.
     "It is much the same thing that I told him after the accident at the mine. I was exhausted and so upset by everything that had happened and I lost my temper. I told Luke that it was his responsibility to take care of Bo. I kind of blamed him for not doing that and causing the accident. I never meant it, I regretted saying it after. Luke has always taken what I said then seriously and has always felt responsibility for taking care of Bo."
     "Oh. This must all be so hard on Luke. I mean with Trevor coming back and being so mean and all." Daisy said.
     "Trevor was always mean. The boys didn't always get along that well with him. They weren't that close to him. He was often nasty, especially to Bo mainly because he was younger."
     "So he was nothing like Bo and Luke?" Daisy asked.
     "He wasn't like them at all. He was very different. Not just in that way, He didn't like any the same things really. The boys were always into cars since the day they were born, Trevor never cared about cars at all." Jesse said.
     "I never knew that before. Trevor hardly even sounds like a Duke." Daisy said.
     "I think he just had more difficulty dealing with the fact his parents were dead, and took that flustration out on everyone else." Jesse said.
     "Oh. We should get out and start looking for Bo." Daisy said.
     "Don't you want some breakfast?" Jesse asked.
     "I am not really hungry. I don't think I could eat anything, not with everything that is happening." Daisy responded.
Jesse nodded with agreement. Then they both got up and left the house. Daisy got into her jeep, Dixie, and sped away from the farm. Jesse got into his old, white pickup truck.
     "Please let us find Bo soon, and let him be okay. Please don't let anything happen to Bo, and help Luke deal with all this for he is having such a hard time. And help Trevor see the error of his ways." Jesse silently prayed, then started the truck and sped away from the farm.
     Luke drove around the back roads, not really paying too close attention to where he was going, he was consumed by thoughts of everything that was happening. He was having trouble believing that Trevor was alive. For so many years he had blamed himself for Trevor's death, not being able to save him. He had felt so responsible for what had happened. Though he had never regretted the choice that he had made, to save Bo's life, he couldn't imagine his life without Bo around. He didn't know what he'd do if he lost Bo now. Bo was his best friend and more like a brother then a cousin. Luke pulled the General to a stop by Sunset Pond. He sat starring out across the water. The early morning sun glistened on the waters surface, the water gently rippled from the breeze. As Luke sat staring out at the pond his mind started to drift back in time to a memory that happened before the accident at the mine. He was only six and Bo was four. A memory of what Trevor was like most the time, one of the reason neither him or Bo were ever close to Trevor.

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     It was a hot summer's day, him and Bo were playing with toy cars under the shade of the large, old oak tree in front of the farmhouse. Trevor was off playing somewhere else. The two of them were having fun playing with their toys cars and wishing that some day that they could race on the NASCAR circuit. Trevor then came along and walked over to where they were playing, and purposely stepped on, and broke one of Bo's cars.
     "Hey." Bo said standing up.
Trevor was about five inches taller then Bo, he just looked at Bo and laughed. "Oh gee oops did I break one of your cars." Trevor said. "You actually think that you are race real cars someday you'd still be on the first lap by the time the race is over." he added nastily.
     "That ain't true. Gonna race on the NASCAR circuit and gonna win." Bo said.
Trevor laughed. "Yeah right." he said, then pushed Bo.
Bo stumbled back a couple steps. Trevor grabbed Bo by the wrist and pulled him forward, twisting Bo's wrist.
     "OW! Let go." Bo said trying to struggle to get out of Trevor's hold.
     "No." Trevor said, twisting Bo's wrist even more.
     "Just leave Bo alone." Luke said walking towards Trevor.
     "Make me." Trevor said.
Luke tackled Trevor knocking him to the ground, causing him to lose his hold on Bo's wrist. They were fighting for a couple moments when Jesse came and broke their fight up.
     "Stop fighting." Jesse said demandingly.
     "Yes sir." Luke said stepping away from Trevor, and stood over by Bo.
Trevor said nothing He stood there glaring at Bo and Luke.
     "Why were the two of you fighting?" Jesse asked.
     "He started it, Uncle Jesse." Bo said pointing at Trevor.
     "Is that true?" Jesse asked Trevor.
Trevor just smiled, and didn't say anything.
     "He broke my car." Bo said.
     "Yeah and then he was being nasty and tried to break Bo's wrist. I told him to stop he said to make him, so I did." Luke said.
     "Is that what happened?" Jesse asked Trevor.
     "Yeah that sounds about the way it happened." Trevor said.
     "Go to your room Trevor." Jesse said sternly.
Trevor said nothing he just walked into the house.
Jesse turned to look at Luke. "Luke I know you were just looking out for Bo but you shouldn't have been fighting with Trevor."
     "Yes sir." Luke said though he didn't agree. He knew it was the only way to get Trevor to leave Bo alone.
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     Luke came out of the flashback. "Where is Trevor hiding?" he thought to himself. Then he suddenly had an idea. "The mines." he said.
He didn't want to CB anyone to go there because he wasn't sure it was only an idea and he wanted to check it out on his own. He started the General and sped of towards the mines.
     Trevor walked over and stood in front of Bo. Bo stared expressionlessly at Trevor, he gave up the will to fight and listened and believed everything that Trevor was saying.
Trevor smiled. "So you finally believe what I am telling you to be the truth. You know that your death will be soon, and I will crush you. You know you should've been the one left for dead all those years ago, don't you?" Trevor asked.
Bo didn't respond, he looked away from Trevor and stared at the ground, trying to hid the deep emotional pain in his eyes.
Trevor hit Bo across the face. "I asked you a question."
     "Yeah that's right." Bo responded, still not looking up at Trevor.
Trevor took a out small test tube, from his pocket, that contained a clear, liquid substance. He took of the cork, then roughly, grabbed Bo by the chin and pulled his head up to face him. Trevor held the tube to Bo's lips. Bo tried to jerk his head away but couldn't break free from Trevor's hold.
     "What is that stuff?" Bo asked.
     "This is Trichlorolethanol." Trevor replied.
     "It's what?"
     "Trichlorolethanol." Trevor said.
     "Yeah well what is it do?" Bo questioned.
     "It is a sedative. Too much of it is deadly, but in small amounts it is a very interesting drug." Trevor said.
     "How so?" Bo asked.
     "In small amounts it merely weakens the human body, weakening you to the point you can't move at all. Leaving you defenceless. However it still leaves you well aware of everything that is happening. You can see and hear everything that is happening but are to weak to do anything to prevent it from happening." Trevor said.
     Trevor then tightened his grip on Bo and poured the contents of the tube into Bo's mouth and then forced him to sallow it. About thirty seconds later Bo could feel the Trichlorolethanol start to take full effect on him.
Trevor then cut the ropes from around Bo's hands and feet,  Bo dropped limply to the ground and lay unmoving. Trevor laughed darkly.
     Luke pulled the General to a stop this was the last mine to check. He prayed that this time he would find Bo. He slid out the window and walked towards the entrance to the mine. He looked into the mine and thought he could see a distant light in the mine, so he proceeded to walk into the mine. As he walked deeper into the mine, he found it was indeed a light that he had seen. He came to a large open area in the mine and saw Trevor, knelt down on the ground. He moved to get a better view and saw that he was knelt down beside Bo, with a knife to Bo's throat. Bo was laying unmoving on the ground. He could see where Bo had been tied. Fear that it was too late and Bo was already dead filled his mind. He thought the way that Bo was laying so still and not restrained that he was dead. Luke walked into the room.
     "Leave Bo alone, Trevor." Luke said demandingly.
Bo heard Luke's voice and tried to call out to him, but he found that he couldn't talk, and couldn't move at all.
     "Well, look who showed up, if it isn't my other cousin, Luke. I didn't think that you would bother coming around." Trevor said.
     "Why wouldn't I?" Luke asked.
     "Oh yes of course you want to save Bo's life just like before, is that it?" Trevor asked standing up. "Well guess what Luke this ain't just like last time and you are already a little too late."
Luke glared at Trevor. "You are gonna pay." He said walking towards Trevor. "I won't let you get away with this."
Trevor  walked towards Luke. "What are you gonna do about it?"
Luke punched Trevor in the ribs. "I am gonna make sure you pay for Bo's pain."
Trevor stumbled and dropped the knife, then he laughed. "Yeah right you aren't capable of that you are too much a weakling." he said then punched Luke.
The two of then fought for a few minutes exchanges punches, neither really winning nor losing. Luke's anger towards Trevor started to build as he looked at Bo's still body, thinking that he had lost Bo forever. He hit Trevor as hard as he could in the ribs. Trevor flinched at the pain and feel backwards to the ground gasping for air.
     Luke went over and knelt down beside Bo. He nervously checked for a pulse fearing what he was gonna find. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that Bo still had a pulse. It was weak, but it was at least steady, and most of all it was there. He looked back over at Trevor who had started to get up. He glared coldly at Trevor and stood up and walked towards him.
     The two of them then started to fight again. Then suddenly the mine began to shake and the ceiling started to cave in. Trevor and Luke were knocked from their feet to the ground. Luke avoid being trapped by the falling the debris, he stood up and saw that Trevor was trapped beneath some fallen debris.
     "Luke, come on get me outta here. Get this stuff off me." Trevor said.
Luke didn't respond, He turned to check on Bo, and saw that he too was trapped by fallen debris. The mine started to shake again and more of ceiling started to cave in. Luke knew that the whole place was going to collapse soon.
     "Luke, help me. Get this stuff off me before this place collapses." Trevor said
Luke ignored what Trevor said and walked towards Bo.
     "Forget him save me. He is probably already dead. It is a waste of time to try to save him. Save me." Trevor said.
Luke still ignored what Trevor said. He bent down by Bo and dug him out of the debris. Bo was totally unconscious. Luke carefully picked him up and started to walk out the mine.
     "LUKE SAVE ME, NOT HIM!" Trevor yelled.
Luke ignored him and continued to walk from the mine. As he exited the mine he could still hear Trevor yelling after him, his voice echoing of the crumbling walls of the mine. Once he felt they were a safe distance from the mine, Luke gently laid Bo down on the ground. He turned to go back into the cave, when a loud rumbling started and the whole mine caved in.
Luke stared at the debris that blocked the mine entrance. "Just like before." he thought to himself. He knelt down by Bo, his pulse was still weak and he was still unconscious. Luke rushed over to the General and grabbed the CB.
     "Lost sheep to Shepard, Lost sheep to Shepard, come back." Luke said frantically.
There was a couple a moments of radio silence. Luke started to get even more worried, he knew that he shouldn't try to get Bo in through the window of the General cause it could cause him more injury in his present condition.
     "Lost sheep to Shepard, you out there Shepard?" Luke asked, his voice frantic sounding.
     "This is Shepard. What's wrong Luke?" Jesse asked.
     "It's long story, but I found Bo I am at the Rainbow Mine entrance on Dry Creek road. We have to get Bo to the hospital. You gotta get here quick and . . ." Luke said, but Jesse cut his sentence off.
     "Okay Luke just calm down. I'll be there in a couple minutes."
     "Yes sir." Luke said.
 Luke went and sat back down beside Bo, and gently held his head in his lap. "Come on Bo wake up. You can't die. You can't leave me. You have to wake up." Luke felt tears burning his eyes but he held them back.
     The next couple minutes seemed to take an eternity to pass, but finally Jesse came pulling up in his truck.
 Jesse got out of his truck and rushed over to where Bo and Luke where.
     "Is he okay?" Jesse asked concernedly.
     "He's out cold, we have to get him to the hospital." Luke responded, not looking up at Jesse.
     "What happened?" Jesse asked, as he helped Luke carry Bo over to the pick up truck.
Luke told Jesse everything that had happened after he had got to the mine, and how when he was confronting Trevor the mine had started to collapse, and then caved completely in.
     "So where is Trevor?" Jesse asked, as He got behind the wheel of the truck.
     "He was still in there." Luke said glancing back at the mine. "Though this time he deserved it." Luke added looking down at Bo. Luke was carefully holding Bo's head on his lap.
     "Luke . . ." Jesse started to say.
     "It is true Uncle Jesse. This time Trevor deserved what he got. With what he did to Bo and all, he deserved it." Luke said.
Jesse sighed. "Yes as much as I hate to admit it you are right Luke. Trevor did deserve what he got. He was filled with hate and vengefulness, he would never change. I always thought he would change and become a better person. I always wanted to see the best in him. But after this, after he hurt Bo so badly, I realize now he could never change. As much as it pains me to say he did deserve what he got."
They drove the rest of the way to the hospital in silence.
     When they arrived at the hospital the doctor's immediately took Bo to the operating room. Jesse called Daisy and told her they found Bo and for her to come to the hospital. Daisy rushed to the hospital. She saw Luke and Jesse sitting in the waiting room, and went over to where they were and sat down by them.
     "How is he?" Daisy asked concernedly.
     "Don't know yet." Jesse answered.
     "What happened?" Daisy asked.
Luke told Daisy about everything that happened at the mine.
     "Well at least Trevor got what he deserved. I mean he hurt Bo bad so he deserved what happened." Daisy said.
The doctor came over to where they were sitting.
     "How is he doc?" Jesse asked.
     "Well he was really fortunate, there is no real internal damage, just cuts and bruises. He has a mild concussion though, and the problem is he still hasn't woken up."Doctor Cayman said.
     "Maybe if one of us went in to talk to him." Daisy said.
     "That could work but only one at a time." Doctor Cayman replied.
     "I'm going in first."Luke said getting up from his seat.
Neither Daisy nor Jesse argued about that. Luke followed the doctor to the room Bo was in. He sat down beside Bo's bed.
     "Come on Bo you have to wake up." Luke said softly.
He pleaded softly for a couple minutes for Bo to wake up, but Bo didn't seem to be responding at all.
     "Please wake up Bo." Luke said. He could feel tears burning his eyes, but he refused to cry and held them back. Though as hard as he tried to keep from crying a couple tears streaked his cheeks. He was consumed with fear that Bo would never wake up.
 Bo started to wake slowly wake up. He opened his eyes and looked at Luke.
     "Bo, you're awake." Luke said happily.
     "Yeah." Bo said sitting up.
     "How ya feeling?" Luke asked concernedly.
     "I feel like I got hit by a truck." Bo said, and rubbed the back of his neck.
     "I am glad you are awake, I thought that we were gonna lose you." Luke said.
Bo smiled. "Luke?"
     "Yeah what?" Luke asked.
     "Thank you." Bo said sincerely.
     "For what?"
     "Saving my life and everything. I mean just like before I know you had to make a choice and all that." Bo said.
     "There really was no choice to make. I did the only thing I could do. The only thing I wanted to do. I would save your life over some like Trevor any day. It wasn't like it was no big hard choice. I wouldn't do anything else." Luke said.
     "Still thank you." Bo said.
     "Anytime cousin. I would never do it any other way. I couldn't stand to lose you. You are my best friend and are like a brother to me." Luke said. "Besides I know you'd do the same thing for me."
     "Yeah for sure." Bo said.
Luke gave Bo a brotherly hug then went out to tell Jesse and Daisy the good news.
 Bo stayed overnight in the hospital for observation just to be sure that he was really alright. The next day Bo was released from the hospital. The mine was searched and Trevor's remains where found. Two days later they had a funeral service for him. His loss was not greatly mourned. Jesse, Daisy and Luke were all too happy that Bo was alive and well after what Trevor had done to him to morn Trevor's lose, they all agreed that Trevor got what he deserved. So did Bo who was glad to be alive after everything that had happened. After Trevor's funeral things returned to normal in Hazzard.