“Just how is Jebb planning on keeping everyone chasin’ him instead of them figurin’ out that we ain’t in The General and comin’ after the truck?” Luke asked as he and Bo climbed into the truck.

“He never did explain the whole plan out to me. I just know that he swung by the flats and recruited some help from the high-schoolers down there and he said to pay attention to the CB.”

The two Duke Boys in the truck looked at one another as they both wondered just what Jebb had planned. Meanwhile, Kira headed the truck back out to loop around to bring the truck back into Hazzard from the east instead of the west. It wasn’t the shortest way back to the farm, but it was what Jebb had suggested so that’s what she was doing.

“This is ROS-CO P. Coltrane. I’ve spotted The General Lee going west on Junction Road. Did everyone get that? Come Back.” Instead of the others responding to Rosco, though, the CB chatter was replaced by the sound of music blasting over the airways. Luke turned it to another channel and found the same thing. Then another, and another, and another.

“It’s the same on all of the channels.” Bo exchanged another look with his cousin before they both busted out laughing. “Jebb had the kids to jam the CB!”

“Well that explains how he planned to keep everyone from filling the others in on the fact that he’s the one out for a joy ride in The General.” The three laughed at the unique way of keeping the law from the two counties deaf and to keep them all running blind. When the three were nearly back to the farms, Enos’s patrol car came in behind the truck with the lights and sirens blaring.

“You can’t tell me that Enos has figured it all out,” Luke groaned as he looked behind the truck.

“I’ll take care of him. Stay in the truck and he’ll never know you’re here since the windows are tinted.”

“How?” Both the men asked at the same time.

“Trust me.” With that Kira got out of truck and made her way towards the patrol car as the deputy got out of his own vehicle. “What did I do Enos? I wasn’t speeding.”

“No you weren’t but I have to check to see if you’re hidin’ Bo and Luke in your truck. You see they escaped…”

“You pulled me over FOR THIS! I ain’t even been in the county for three days. How would I have gotten around to hidin’ them? As far as searchin’ my my truck, I should demand that you get a warrant first cause I AIN’T in the practice of havin’ my civil liberties violated!” Kira’s voice heightened like she’d been told that it did when the pregnancy hormones took over as she spoke scaring the poor deputy.

“I’m sorry Miss Kira but it won’t take long. I’ll just need to...”

“It’ll take longer than I have. I’m kind of in a hurry to get home. In case you ain’t noticed, I’m pregnant and this kid is usin’ my bladder for a trampoline. So if you INSIST on searchin’ my truck, you can do it out at the farm.” Kira stormed back to the truck and slammed the door behind her after she got in leaving a slightly jarred Enos behind. Looking over at the guys, she laughed at their expressions.

“What? I figured that I might as well as use my pregnancy to my advantage. Plus Enos is too timid to question that kind of an excuse.”

“What about the fact that he’s followin’ us to the farm though?”

“I got that covered, too.”

Kira filled the guys in on her idea and drove on to her house with a certain deputy following behind her. When she got to her house, she pulled around back where the guys hopped out of the truck and headed into the house and Kira continued on to the barn with the truck. She usually didn’t park the truck in the barn but Enos didn’t know that. Once she had the truck parked, Enos came over and peered into the truck as Kira got out.

“Was all of this REALLY necessary? This is some welcome home after being away from Hazzard for three days. Now while you’re looking under the seats, I’m goin’ inside.”

“Well, I can see they ain’t in the truck now, though I suppose I should check inside while I’m here.”

Enos jumped back when Kira turned back toward him giving him a hard look. “Is there some law that says that my brother and cousin can’t come to my house anytime they want?”

“Well, no.” Enos moved to keep up with Kira as she hurried towards the house. After all, she was supposed to be in a hurry to get to the bathroom. “But I still need to find them. Boss is set to have them arrested for leaving the county today.”

“Well I’d like to tell you just what BOSS can do with himself,” Kira mumbled as she opened the door.

“I understand that, but I still have to check to see if Bo and Luke are here.”

“Of course we’re here Enos,” Bo came down the stairs carrying some pails and brushes. “Kira, weren’t you suppose to stay in Placid until tomorrow?”

“Yeh, well, do you blame me for wanting to get away from Pauline as fast as possible?”

“I reckon not. HEY LUKE! KIRA’S BACK!” Bo hollered up the stairs as he came the rest of the way down. “We were hoping to be done before you got back.”

“Bo, have you been here all day?”

“What’s it look like?”

“But Boss said that you guys left the county with some stolen documents.”

Luke started down the stairs as Enos tried to figure out how the fellas could be here and over in Chickasaw at the same time. “Well, I don’t know nothin’ about any stolen documents but once we realized that Boss wasn’t goin’ to let us go to the Derby, we ended up here instead.” After a few hours of hiding out, but there was no reason to mention that. “Kira, your nursery’s floor is freshly varnished.”

Enos figured that if he was going to tell Boss Hogg that the guys had been working over here in the nursery all day, he’d better go up and confirm that the floors had been redone. “Well, I’ll just go up and see for myself then I can tell Boss that he must have had everything all wrong.”

“ENOS STRATE! IF YOU SCUFF MY FLOORS YOU’LL BE UP THERE ALL NIGHT RE-DOING THEM!” Luke thought that Kira must have been taking lessons from Daisy. All she needs is a fryin’ pan in her hand and she’d look just like their cousin when he and Bo track mud in through the kitchen.

Bo came over to Enos and slung an arm across his shoulders and eased him away from the stairs. “Enos, I wouldn’t cross her right now while the hormones are at full strength. I’d give her a WIDE berth if I were you.”

Enos eyed Kira then just nodded. “Well, I guess it can wait until the floor’s dry. After all, I can smell the varnish from here anyway.” Of course he can, the cans that Bo was carrying were opened. Enos turned toward the door before he turned back to the three Dukes standing behind him. “Wait a minute, if you’re here, then who’s drivin’ The General around?”

“Jebb,” All three said matter of factly.

“Why?”

Luke shrugged, “Why not?”

“Well, I guess I need to use your phone so I can call Boss and tell him that he’d been wrong about you fellas today.”

Kira motioned toward the phone on the table beside the couch, “Be my guest.” She said as she headed down the hall. When she’d gotten back to the living room, Enos was gone and the guys had been reduced to waiting for Jebb to come back with their car.

“Kira, was this your way of making it where Bo and I will have to do those floors upstairs, now?”

“Nah, Jebb varnished the nursery floor before we left. Figured that it would have plenty of time to dry while we were gone. That’s what gave me the idea in the first place. Jesse wants to get some of the old baby stuff out of the attic and bring it over and get it ready but the room needed some work first. I think he was ready to haul all that stuff over here weeks ago. But don’t worry, I’m sure I can find some way to put y’all to work if you two are feeling guilty about letting Enos think that y’all have busted you’re hides over here all day.”

“Great.”

Kira laughed as her wheels began to turn about just how she could put her brother and cousin to work.




“This is ridiculous! I was just here less than a week ago.”

“Doc Greenwood said for you to check in with Doc Appleby when we got back to Hazzard so that’s what we’re doing. He needs to know what happened Friday anyway.”

Kira rolled her eyes but dropped it. She would have been more surprised if her pressure HADN’T gone up while up in Placid with Pauline. But if being here would stop Jebb from worrying so much, she might as well as just suck it up and deal with being poked and prodded once more. So here she was, again, sitting in the doctor’s office. A place it seems that she’d been in way too often as of late.

When the doctor came in, Jebb explained what had happened in Placid and how they’d been told to check back in with him once they’d gotten back in to Hazzard. Doc Appleby explained that it was not unheard of for pregnant women to experience bouts of dizziness (which would explained passing out on the street) but was concerned about the pressure and the protein. He’d be keeping an eye on it to see if the episode was a one-time deal or not. Appleby then took a listen to the baby to check on him. He paid extra attention to the heartbeat because the last time he’d checked, it had sounded a little off to him. If it hadn’t been for not one but TWO ultrasounds he’d swear that Kira was having twins. But both of them only showed ONE baby. Listening through the stethoscope, he once again heard a slight echo. He must have made some sort of face because Jebb instantly became alarmed.

“What’s wrong?”

“I wouldn’t say anything is wrong. There’s just something a little out of the ordinary is all. I’m gonna get Tammy back in here and we’ll take another look see.” So once again, for the third time so far, Kira was given an ultrasound to check on the baby. Once the picture was up on the screen, Doc Appleby once again saw the shadowed image from the previous two screenings. This time, he had Tammy zero in on the shadow. After a couple of minutes, the doc started to laugh to himself, causing both parents in the room to give him strange looks.

“Well?”

“Well, it seems that what we have here is truly an oddity. A shy Duke. It appears that this little one likes to hide behind its brother.” Both Kira and Jebb looked hard at the screen as they tried to understand what they were being told.

“Are you telling us that I’m carrying TWINS?” Kira looked at the doctor for confirmation. “How come you didn’t tell us before?”

“Well, their heartbeats have been nearly totally ‘synced together. So it was fairly hard to distinguish them apart. And in both previous ultrasounds, this little one seems to have gotten stage fright. Stayed out of the lime light.”

“Great, one of our kids has already learned how to be sneaky.” Kira smirked before continuing, “Like their father.” Jebb gave her a look as he tried to decide if she was trying to get a rise out of him or was giving him an under-handed compliment instead.

“But is everything okay?” Jebb asked as he remembered why they were here in the first place. “I mean, I don’t remember everything being so complicated when Mom had Emma and Emily. Kira’s pregnancy seems different.”

“Everything is going just fine. No two pregnancies are the exact same. Though to be honest, how old were you when they were born? You were what, a freshman in high school?” Jebb nodded. “I really doubt that you paid much attention to your mom at the time. Plus it IS different when it’s your own wife that’s pregnant. Kira’s doin’ everything she should, though. And as far as the incident from Friday, well, we’ll keep an eye on things but I don’t think there’s anything to worry about for right now.” Doc Appleby eyed the two and thought that he’d better add one more thing. “I would suggest that you both do one thing though. Try to find some way to cut loose and have fun. Stop worryin’ so much. Especially you Jebb.”

“Me? Why me?”

“Because you seem to be working over-time when it comes to fretting over every little detail. I’ve seen it before. First time fathers don’t know how to help their wives and they just feel like they have to do something. Take my advice; try not to worry so much.”

Kira tried to hide her smile since the doctor was telling Jebb the same thing that she’d been saying for a while now.




“Well, how about the race in Atlanta? I know you’d have fun gettin’ back out on the track. Plus, another certain blond Duke has been dying for a chance to borrow my bike to challenge you to see which Duke is the best on two wheels.” Kira and Jebb stopped off in the diner for lunch before heading back home. While they were waiting for their food, they had started to discuss the visit to the doctor and the advice he gave them (Well Jebb actually). Kira was hoping that Doc’s suggestion will help convince Jebb that he really was worrying too much.

Jebb smirked at that. “It’s not enough that he’s got the title for being the best on four wheels, now he has to push his luck to try to claim mine too, huh?”

“You know Bo; he can’t stand to be second in anything.”

“Yeh, well, I ain’t plannin’ to hand over my title to him just yet. Isn’t that the same weekend that there is an amateur stock car race too?”

“Uh-huh. I think so, why?”

“Well, I know that the others were plannin’ to use the prize money from the derby over in Chickasaw for grub money to last them until the end of harvestin’ season.”

“And since they hadn’t been able to enter that particular race thanks to Hogg’s antics this weekend...”

“They still need to fill that gap in the finances. Maybe I’ll suggest to Luke that maybe it’d be a good race to enter instead. Bo can’t enter since he drove in NASCAR, but Luke still could.”

“That’d be a good idea. We can make a weekend of it. Plus, Blake and the others will be there. They haven’t been at the smaller tracks around here this year, but they’ll be sure to be in Atlanta. If the doc says to cut loose, they seem to be a good place to start.”

“Sounds like a plan, I’ll run it by the others and we’ll see if we can call ahead for some reservations before the hotels get all booked up.” Jebb stopped when the waitress brought their lunch out to them. After a few minutes, he looked back up from his food and got Kira’s attention. “Kira, you know how you were sayin’ how I’m sneaky?”

“Yes,” Kira said as she wondered just what he was up to, since after one glance at him, it was very obvious that he was definitely up to something. “Why?” Kira eyed him trying to figure out just where Jebb was going with this.

“I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be a big surprise when the babies are born if the others are only expecting ONE baby instead of the TWO that we know are comin’.”

Kira looked at him for a minute before responding to his odd suggestion. “It’d never work.”

“Why not?”

“Because I don’t think you could make it that long before you open your big mouth and end up telling them anyway.” Kira grinned as her husband tried to look offended.

“You want to bet?” Jebb grinned back.




The weeks leading up to the races in Atlanta passed uneventfully and finally the day came where Bo and Luke planned to ask J.D. for his permission to go to Atlanta. With all of the stunts that he’d pulled this year anytime the fellas decided to leave Hazzard for one reason or another, Kira figured that she’d not leave anything to chance. She drew up the paperwork for herself and tagged along when the men went to meet with Hogg in his office over at the courthouse.

“Hey Boss, we need to see you for something.”

“You do? Do you? Well what is? I don’t have all day. The air in here suddenly became very unpleasant.” Boss was sitting at his desk eating raw liver for which Kira was certain that they’d better hurry is she didn’t want to get sick by the mere sight of.

“Well, good news Boss. You get to get rid of us for a whole weekend. We just need you to give your permission so we can go to the races in Atlanta in a couple of days.” Bo figured that if it meant that he’d have no Duke Boys for a whole weekend, he might go for it. Imagine all the schemes he can put in place over the course of a couple of days without them to get in his way.

“Just why should I give it?”

“Because Boss, you kept us out of the last race in Chickasaw. You owe us.” Luke crossed his arms as he leaned up against the door frame.

“It’ll take me a while to get the paperwork together,” Boss sighed as he knew that Luke was right. “You’ll have to come back.”

“That won’t be necessary. I figured I’d save you the trouble and draw them up myself. Here they are, all nice and legal. All they need is your signature.” Kira put a legal envelope down on Hogg’s desk as she spoke. “After all, I want to make sure that there is no question about whether they are abiding by their probation.”

“You did huh?” Boss opened the envelope and glanced at the document. “Well I’ll have to take some time to read over this here paper. You can’t expect me to just sign it just like that can you?”

“I’ll wait.” Kira sat down in the chair across from the commissioner and made herself comfortable. Making it clear that she really didn’t intend to leave without the paperwork signed.

Boss sighed in resignation as he grabbed an ink pen. Looking up, he saw Jebb standing in the door way behind Luke. “And what do you want?”

“I’m just with her,” Jebb smirked as he pointed to his wife.

Boss signed the sheet of paper and moved it across the desk in the direction of the Dukes. Kira grabbed it as Bo went to help her back up out of the chair. How come the most comfortable chairs were the hardest to get out of when you’re pregnant?

“Alright, there, now get out of here.”

“Glad to. Try to stay out of trouble while the guys aren’t around to bail you out.” Kira loved the look that crossed Boss’s face as she reminded the ornery man that he owed a lot more than a weekend away to the boys for all that they done over the years.

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