The next year passed rather slowly in Hazzard County. It  was hard to get through, and at times everyone thought that we weren't gonna make it. Everyone thought it best this time to not deny what happened. They didn't talk about it very much, but this time they didn't make a rule against talking about They all struggled to keep their sanity, the evil still haunted them every day. They constantly thought about what had happened all the evil, all the destruction and all the death. Even though they could talk about it no one hardly ever talked about it, they couldn't bring themselves to actually discuss it. For the first few months everyone was plagued by nightmares. The nightmares slowly ceased for the most part, except for occasional dreams it. The whole experience had changed everyone. Some in just little ones for other ones it was major changes.
     Daisy grew to be very withdrawn from the rest of the family, she for the most part kept to herself. Luke didn't change to much he became a little quieter and grew even more protective of his family, as well as Kris and Lexie. He had feelings for Lexie though he never told her, the only other person that knew how he felt about Lexie was Bo. The boys had remained very close and were still the best of friends. Bo changed the least. He matured quite a bit, but he didn't become withdrawn at all. Bo had feelings for Kris and everyone knew it, the two of them started to grow quite close. Kris became really quiet and kept to herself a lot. She grew quite depressed and verged on manic depressive at times. She would've if it hadn't been for Bo who stayed by her side and helped her through her depression. She was deeply in love with Bo. Lexie changed the most she was quite and rarely talked to anyone. She was deeply depressed, at times she felt that she was going insane she couldn't forget what happened. She still had dreams every night about the evil. Cooter didn't change at all. He still remained a very close friend of the Dukes and Lexie and Kris. He still ran the Hazzard County garage. Rosco didn't change much. He was still both Boss and Sheriff of Hazzard. He didn't try to run any scams or bring false charges on to the Dukes as he had at one time. He didn't have the heart to, he knew everything they went through had been extremely hard on them. Rosco still occasionally chased the boys for speeding, just for it to be like old times, and cause he still loved hot pursuit. However he didn't really chase them to catch them, it was just for the sake of hot pursuit. He hadn't given them a single speeding ticket. The boys knew that Rosco chasing them was all for fun, and it actually helped them to deal with what happened. It reminded them of the good ole days when they use to outrun Rosco to avoid getting phoney citations from him or to get away from some trumped up charge that had been thought up against them to have thrown in jail. It also helped to ease their troubled minds. Bo and Luke didn't actually race the General in any races, they just raced along the back roads of Hazzard. They thought about maybe in a few years they could bring themselves to enter a race or two but they couldn't just yet, the past still haunted them to much.
     The next year was a lot better. Things were more like normal in Hazzard. They had all became very good friends. Bo and Kris had confessed their love to each other and at the start of the year had gotten married. They built an expansion on to the farm house and Bo and Kris lived there, as did Luke and Daisy. Lexie lived at the boarding house in town, she lived in Enos old place. At times that haunted Luke and he hated to even go there. Lexie was still having trouble moving on from what happened, she was still plagued with nightmares. Luke tried to comfort her the best he could, but it had little effect.
     Daisy met a guy named Jareth, she started to fall madly in love with him. She became even more withdrawn from everyone. Bo and Luke both distrusted Jareth, though neither knew quite why they didn't like him. They thought it was best to just keep their mouths shut and not tell Daisy until they knew what it is about Jareth that seemed wrong. They thought if they told her and had no reason or proof for their distrust that she would never talk to them again.
     Kris had almost completely got over her depression, there was still the occasion that she was depressed but it wasn't as often as it had been before. It helped that she had Bo to help her get through the hard times.
     Luke had trouble expressing his feelings towards Lexie he wanted to tell her how much he cared for her, but he found when he tried he couldn't. He wasn't sure if it was just cause he thought that she might reject him or just some inability to really show his emotions after all that happen. He had never really been one to express his emotions but after all that happened he found it all harder. He had started to forgive himself for things he had done and the pain he caused people.  Finally, after talking to Bo about what he really thought about Lexie, Bo convinced him to just propose to Lexie. He convinced him that it was worth the chance to ask. Luke went over to see Lexie one day. He asked her and she happily excepted the offer.
     When Luke had proposed to her Lexie felt happier then she had ever felt ever since the whole incident on Eagle Point. The joy slowly started to lift the dark cloud that had consumed her. She started to have fewer dreams about the evil and her psychological state started improve greatly. They were going to marry in mid-autumn.
     It was a hot and humid summer day. It was hot even for being July 13. It was very humid and the meteorologist had predicted that this hot spell would last for a few more weeks.  Bo, Luke and Cooter had gone to Atlanta to see a NASCAR race. Lexie and Kris sat in the cafe, talking and eating ice cream and drinking iced tea. They were sitting near the window looking out at the street. The street was practically deserted everyone was staying indoors and trying to hide from the heat. Both Lexie and Kris were smiling and laughing as they talked.
Lexie played with the engagement ring that Luke had given her, then smiled. "I am so happy that Luke finally asked to me marry him. It seemed to lift some darl cloud off my soul, it was the happy moment in my life in such a long time."
Kris smiled. "Yeah I know that is much the way I felt when Bo proposed to me. Our wedding day was just like a dream. I never thought that after what happened that I could ever find true happiness, but I was wrong. Bo filled that void and brought me out of my depression."
     "I can not wait to marry Luke. What is it about them two that makes them just so perfect?"
     "They just got some kinda karma, I think the sweetness just runs in their family cause they are both sweet talkers. And just so . . ." Kris said.
     "Perfect." Both Kris and Lexie said at the same time, then they both started to laugh.
Rosco came into the cafe and walked over to the table that they were sitting at.
     "Hey Rosco, how ya doing?" Kris asked.
     "I'm doin fine as wine. How you girls doin'?"Rosco questioned.
     "Doing just fine." Kris said.
     "I'm doing just great." Lexie said.
     "I heard about your engagement to Luke. What a goody goody for you." Rosco said with a big genuine smile of happiness for her.
     "Thanks." Lexie said.
     "Well I gotta get back to work duty calls. Police work is my life." Rosco said, then picked up his order from the counter and left the cafe.
     Daisy got to be very close to Jareth, though she didn't know he wasn't actually human. He was actually a demon sent by the evil that consumed Hazzard and held Bo and Luke in it's grasp. The evil was using Daisy as a pawn to get to Bo and Luke. Jareth slowly was infecting Daisy's mind with the power of the evil. Once he felt that her mind was infected with enough evil power he left. He left her to finish the job of bringing Bo and Luke back to Hazzard. Jareth gave Daisy a small dark stone, with had only a fraction of the power that the amulets had. Daisy started to use the power against Lexie, to get to Luke. Knowing Lexie's fragile, unstable state of mind she begin to increase her nightmares.
     Lexie hadn't had a good nights sleep in about five days. She was starting to suffer from sleep depravation. Every time she even drifted into a light sleep she was haunted by nightmares of stuff that had happened when the evil had consumed her mind, and some nightmares were just about the evil in general.
     Lexie tried to get sleep she wanted to be well rested for tomorrow because she was going out on a date with Luke to Capitol City. It didn't take long for her to fall into a deep sleep.
     She dreamt that she was walking along a beach, the waves breaking around her bare feet. The sun beat down warmly upon her. Then the sky darkened with crimson clouds, and distant thunder filled the air. The water turned to blood, and the waves started to grow bigger. She tried to get off the beach but the waves pulled her out in to ocean. She struggled to keep her head above the surface but her attempts were futile in the churning waves. She felt hands grabbing her around her legs and arms trying pull her under. She tried to swim back to shore, she could feel the hands clawing at her. Eventually she reached the beach. A cold rain started to fall, Lexie stood up and started to walk away from the ocean, when she heard someone behind her. She turned around and saw Luke standing there his face was pale, and his body was covered with blood.
     "Hello Lexie." Luke said coldly.
     "Luke . . . what?" Lexie asked unable to find the words that she wanted to say.
     "The evil is not dead cause evil never dies. It has returned and it is your fault . . ." Luke started to say, then Bo and Kris appeared behind him.
They looked in about the same condition as Luke, they were pale and covered in blood.
     "You killed us Lexie, it is your fault we died." Luke said then attacked Lexie. He knocked to the ground and pinned against the sand.
The sand felt as though it was fire, and was burning her skin.
     "NO! That is true. The evil is dead, it is gone. I would never hurt . . . or kill you, any of you . . ."Lexie said, her voice slightly trembling.
     "The evil is not dead, it has returned, it is not dead." Luke said darkly.
     Lexie awoke from the dream. Her whole body was slightly trembling. She looked around the bedroom that was cloaked in darkness. No light from the moon even shone through the window. She slowly got out bed and walked into the kitchen to get a drink of water. As she walked her legs shook and she felt that she was going to collapse. She hadn't had a good nights sleep in at least five days. She turned on the kitchen light, it took a moment for her eyes to adjust. She took a glass out of the cupboard and turn on the faucet. She stared in horror as the faucet ran blood not water. She tried to scream but couldn't. She dropped the glass it shattered into tiny shards all over the floor. She ran for the bathroom. The broken glass cut her bare feet, but she ignored the pain. She turned the water on in the sink it to ran blood, not water, as did the bathtub faucet. She stood watching the blood flow her whole body trembling. The walls started to bleed. She could hear a distant voice calling out her name. She looked into the mirror, her reflection barely looked like her. It was ghastly white and covered in blood. Blood was pooling on the floor around her feet. She could insane laughter surround her it took a moment to realize it was her own laughter. She ran from the bathroom and went out to the front room. She sat down on the couch she tried to ignore the dream and what just happened. She repeated over and over to herself: "This can't be real. This can't be happening."
 Lexie became aware of someone in the room with her. "Whose there?"
    There was no response, Lexie could feel fear started to clench around her heart. Then someone stepped out from with the dark shadows of the far corner. As the figure stepped into the light of the moon Lexie saw that it was Daisy.
     "Daisy what are you doing here?" Lexie asked.
Daisy didn't reply she smiled darkly at Lexie then Jareth stepped out from the shadows and walked over to Lexie.
     "Are you ready to return?" Jareth asked.
     "What are talking about?" Lexie asked nervously knowing what the answer was.
Jareth laughed. "Why return to the to allow it back inside you. You can't deny it, you belong to it."
Lexie stared blankly at Jareth she didn't have the will power to fight and in her weakened state of mind she merely gave in.     "Yes, I am ready."
Jareth smiled evilly. "Good." he said then placed his hand on her shoulder.
A gold light consumed Lexie. Once the light faded her flashed to black for a couple seconds before fading back to their normal colour. She smiled darkly.
     "You can convince Luke the best to return, make him see it is where he belongs. Take him to Eagle Point, the temple has risen once more." Jareth said.
Lexie smiled evilly. I will bring him back tomorrow."
Lexie glanced down at the clock it read: 4:50.
     Kris lay sleeping when the same dream that had plagued her the past nights started once again.
 She was walking along one of the back roads in Hazzard, there was nobody anywhere around. She continued to walk along the road, then she heard someone behind her. She felt that she was moving in slow motion as she turned around. The temptature dropped quickly and dark clouds rolled in blocking the sun's light. She saw Bo standing there, and smiled.
     "Bo... you startled me. Kris said.
Then her expression changed when she saw he was dressed in pure black.
     "Bo what's going on?" she asked worriedly.
In a flash Bo was standing inches away from her. "Nothing is going on Kris."
She noticed his eyes were dark. "But..." she started to say.
Bo laughed, but the laugh was evil. "Okay let's see if you can guess."
     "It's the evil, ain't it?"
Bo smiled a dark, evil smile. "You got that right Kristina. The evil never dies. It still lives. It won't die, it can't die."
Kris felt tears in her eyes. "No." she said her voice shaking.
     "It is true." Bo said then smiled, "Gee now why does this seem so familiar... oh yes it is a lot like something you once told me."
     "Bo..." Kris started to say, but found she didn't know what to say.
     "Evil never dies. On the other hand you can... and will. You are gonna be my first sacrifice to it."
Kris tried to scream, but couldn't make a sound. Bo laughed evilly and then pinned her to the ground. Kris saw the amulet around his neck, her eyes filled with tears of fear.
Bo just started to repeat the same words over and over as he shook her. "Evil never dies... evil NEVER dies.:
Kris started to cry. "NOOO!" she screamed.
     This scream pulled her out of her sleep. She sat straight up her whole body shaking. Her scream had wakened Bo, he sat up beside her.
     "Kris." he said gently and reached to put a hand on her shoulder.
     "DON'T TOUCH ME!" Kris yelled and pulled away from Bo.
     "Kris it was just a dream." Bo said softly.
     "No." Kris cried.
     "Oh Kris, it's okay it was only a dream." Bo said and hugged her softly against him.
     "Bo..." Kris said softly and buried her head against Bo's bare chest and cried.
     "It's okay Kris . . . it's okay." Bo said softly as he hugged her and gently stroked her hair.
Kris was still crying. Bo just sat there quietly hushing her as he hugged her. After about thirty minutes she finally fell back asleep. Bo sat awake a few minutes longer before going back to sleep himself, still holding her in his arms.
     The next morning when Bo woke up, Kris was still asleep. He decided to just let her sleep since she hadn't got much sleep the past few days. He started to prepare breakfast. A few minutes later Kris came out to the kitchen. Kris walked over to the cupboard to get a mug for coffee. She took a mug but it slipped from her fingers and crashed to the floor. Kris started to cry.
Bo walked over and out his arms around her. "It's okay baby." he whispered softly to her.
Kris stopped crying and sat down quietly at the table. Drying tears stained her face. Bo made Kris a cup of coffee, then gave it to her.
     "Thank-you." Kris said her voice barely above a whisper.
Bo then cleaned up the shattered glass and threw it out, and finished preparing breakfast. Kris hardly even ate a bite of food.
Bo walked over and stood behind Kris and put his arms around her. "Do you want to talk about the dreams you've been having?"
Kris shook her head.
     "I'm just . . . worried about you Kris. You've been having these dreams for the past few days."
     "I'm fine Bo. Don't worry about it."
     "Okay." Bo said and kissed the top of her head. "I'm not gonna stop worrying. I know something is wrong. There is something you are not telling me." he thought to himself.
Kris sat looking at the end of her coffee. "Why am I having these dreams? It's been so many years. It is dead it can't come back." she thought to herself.
     Bo went outside to work on the tractor. He stopped by the door and turned to look at Kris. She looked so sad, her eyes were still red from crying. "Why do things have to be this way? Can't we all just find true happiness without something happening to destroy the joy we have found?" Bo thought to himself, then turned and left the house.
     Luke arrived at Lexie's to pick her up to go to Capitol City. Lexie answered the door.
     "Hey Luke." she said cheerfully.
     "Hey Lexie. You ready to go?"
     "Actually I was thinking we could go somewhere else." Lexie responded.
     "Like where?" Luke asked.
     "It's a surprise." Lexie said.
     "Oh, okay."
     "I ain't quite ready so why don't you just come on in." Lexie said holding the door open for Luke to enter.
     Luke sat down on the couch and waited for Lexie to finish getting ready. It made him nervous to be in this place as it had been were Enos had lived. He started to think back to what had happened to Enos and a wave of guilt swept over him. He tried to push the bad memories from his mind. The memories hadn't haunted him so bad since after it had all ended last time. He sat staring at the curtain that gently billowed in the breeze. Fear clenched his heart when he thought he saw the beast that had been Enos that haunted him before. He clenched his eye shut and thought to himself. "Don't be stupid there is nothing there it is over." He feared to open his eyes sure that he would see the beast. He slowly opened his eyes to see that nothing was there.
Lexie walked over to Luke. "I'm ready."
 They walked out to the car. Lexie got in behind the wheel, then turned to Luke and handed him a blindfold.
     "Put  this on so it don't wreck the surprise." Lexie said she figured it would be easier if Luke didn't see where they were going so he couldn't stop the car.
     A few minutes later they arrived at Eagle Point. They got out of the car, and Lexie led Luke to the steps of the temple. Then she took off the blindfold. Luke stared in horror at the temple. He couldn't think of what to say. He didn't want to believe that the evil had returned.
     "We are here." Lexie said cheerfully smiling at Luke.
     "Is this suppose to be some kind of joke?" Luke questioned.
     "Oh it is no joke, it has risen again. Accept that this is where you belong it is who you are." Lexie said.
     "Not a chance." Luke said backing away from the steps.
     "Come on let's go into the temple." Lexie said.
    Luke didn't want to enter the temple, but something pulled him into the temple. They walked through the dark corridors, that were lit only by a few sparsely spaced candle. Luke felt a shudder go through him, as he slowly walked through the corridors. He kept getting flashes of images of things that had happened in the temple. He could also hear dark voices taunting him with things he had done under the evil's power. Luke stopped and leaned against the wall.
     "Come on Luke, don't be a slow poke." Lexie said and laughed darkly.
Luke started to continue through the corridors, which seemed longer then he remembered them to be. He then started to recall what had happened to Enos and a wave of guilt swept over him, but he continued walking. Then he remembered the scene from Jesse's room, what had been said and the beast that was Enos. Luke felt as though he was gonna pass out, with all these memories flooding back at once. Luke stopped walking and closed his eyes and waited for the feeling to pass.
     "Hurry it up." Lexie said impatiently.
Luke opened his eyes, he still felt like he was gonna pass out, but he started walking forward once again. He remember how he thought he had lost Bo.
     They were almost to the main room of the temple. He started to think of the time he had tried to kill Bo. It started to play out in his mind. Luke tried to block the memory but couldn't. Then the memory changed, ending differently. It seemed to go in slow motion as he watched himself kill Bo.
 Luke couldn't block the image, he was sure that he could see Bo's blood staining his hands.
     "NO! That is not what happened. I did not kill Bo . . . I wouldn't kill Bo." Luke said his voice trembling. Luke leaned against the wall and slide to the floor.
Lexie walked over and knelt down in front of Luke, placing a hand on his shoulder. Luke looked at her.
     "It didn't happen that way I didn't kill Bo."
     "No. It didn't happen that way, but it is the way you really wanted it to happen." Lexie said softly.
     "That is not true, I wouldn't want that . . ." Luke's voice trailed off.
     "It is true. It is what you really wanted to do. You wanted to kill Bo, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to kill him."
     "The evil made me I didn't . . . I wouldn't want to hurt him."
Lexie shook her head. "You didn't care that he was missing you abandoned him. You left him to die."
     "NO! THAT IS NOT TRUE!" Luke yelled at Lexie.
     "Maybe it is maybe it isn't." Lexie said. "Come on get up." she said pulling Luke to his feet.
Luke didn't want to continue he wanted to turn and run but found he couldn't hee allowed Lexie to lead him deeper into the temple to the main room.
     They  reached the temple's main room. Luke's eyes rested upon the alter. He felt  the strongest urge to turn and run from the temple, but he suppressed it.
Lexie was standing by the alter. "Come here." she said her voice low and demanding.
Luke slowly walked over and stood by her.
     "Touch the alter." Lexie said in the same tone as before.
Luke obeyed. The alter felt as though it were on fire. He tried to pull his hand away but found he couldn't. Luke felt the evil slowly seeping into his mind. He tried with all his might to fight it, but his efforts were futile. His mind became consumed by the evil. Lexie slid half the amulet around Luke's neck. Luke's eyes flashed dark and he smiled evilly. Luke walked over to the book, which sat on the pillar by the alter, and he started to chant a spell from it.
Outside dark clouds quickly gathered over Hazzard. Bright lightening flashed and thunder rolled.
     Back at the Duke farm, Bo was working on the tractor when the storm started. Kris was inside, she looked out the window and saw the storm approaching. She went to the door.
     "Bo..." Kris called, nervously.
Bo got out from under the tractor, he looked at Kris, he had a small smudge of grease on his forehead. A strong wind started bending the trees. The clouds seemed to start to glow red. Bo started towards the house. He was just about there when a piece of flying debris, flew across the yard and struck him in the head. Bo fell to the ground.
     "BO!" Kris yelled and rushed out to Bo's side.
     "I'm fine." Bo said sitting up. A small trail of crimson blood slowly trickled down his temple.
Kris helped Bo to his feet, and they went inside the house. Outside the storm raged on. It started to pour rain. The rain beat steadily against the window. Kris got a cloth and antiseptic and cleaned the cut on his forehead, and held the cloth against the cut. She wiped off the smudge of grease. Bo could sense Kris's anxiety.
     "It's gonna be okay . . . it's just a storm." Bo said.
Bo's head was throbbing, he closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the couch. He felt darkness slowly starting to evade his mind. He tried to stay awake but his efforts were futile, he drifted into unconsciousness. He started to dream.