The next day, the Dukes all loaded up in their vehicles and started a caravan back to Hazzard. Daisy rode in the truck with Kira and the guys all rode in their own cars. Bo and Luke in The General, Jebb in the blue Charger. Just as Daisy had predicted, the guys all seemed to use the drive back home as an opportunity to have a mock race just for the fun of it. They stayed somewhat within the speed limits until they got out on the interstate. Of course Daisy wasn’t doing too badly keeping up in the truck. As they neared the next rest area, the truck developed a bit of a whine.

“Uh, fellas. We may need to pull in up ahead. The truck don’t sound right,” Daisy CB’d the men. The blue Charger didn’t have a CB in it yet but Jebb had worked it out with the other men to use old ‘shiner’s signals to keep him in the know so he knew that they were pulling off at the next rest stop. Once they pulled in, the men all zoned out as they all looked to see what was wrong with the truck.

“Here’s the problem,” Luke declared from under the hood. “Just some of the belts need to be fixed.”

“Daisy, how about you and Kira take the car and we’ll catch up to you once we get done here.” Jebb suggested since there was no reason why they needed to just be sitting and waiting for the belts to be fixed when they could just as easily catch up to them later if the girls took the car instead.

“What makes you think that you could catch me if you hand over the keys to your car?” Daisy asked mischievously.

“Because no matter how fast you drive, you’ll have to stop for Kira.” Jebb grinned as he tilted his head to where Kira was coming out of the bathroom having had used the stop to go ahead and take care of some business for right now. “Not to mention, you can’t drive too wildly with her as a passenger anyway.”

“Alright, you got me there. I’ll see y’all down the road.”




Dan watched as the vehicles pulled off the interstate. He opted to drive on and find a location for the next stage of his plan. He couldn’t go back to his boss without finishing this job once and for all. This time, if there happens to be witnesses, so be it. Hopefully, any around will be too concerned for the mark to chase him down as he makes his getaway. Now, just to find an appropriate location to lie in wait.

Shortly after he’d gotten into position, one of the vehicles that he’d been following behind all morning drove by without the other two. Good. That means that they are all splitting up. He’ll at least have one less car to worry about when he makes his move. It won’t be long now.

So caught up in his tracking the mark, Dan failed to notice that he himself was being tailed.




Jebb watched as Bo sent The General on ahead as he slipped back out into traffic. It was almost as if there was an unspoken agreement that as soon as the cars thinned out, they’d be racing to catch up to the girls. Unfortunately for Jebb, he ended up pulling out behind both Grandma Moses and Father Time. They were keeping pace with one another and there just wasn’t any way to get around them. So Jebb was reduced to driving fifteen miles below the speed limit until Father Time took the next exit several miles down the road. Gunning the engine, the HEMI in the truck roared as it set to catching up to the orange stock car.

Driving down the road, Jebb paid little attention to the other vehicles passing by and those behind him. That is until traffic had thinned out to the point that it was only the green pick-up and a white van on the road right behind him. Just as Jebb was barely able to catch an orange glimmer up ahead, the van pulled up on the right side of the truck. He didn’t really pay much attention to the van until his eye caught the sun glint off of what appeared to be a barrel of a gun. He jerked the wheel as a shot rang out. Figuring that out running the van wasn’t that great of an idea, since the truck can’t outrun bullets, Jebb sent the wheel back to the right and rammed the van. He didn’t know just why this guy was shooting at him but he figured that he’d get the answer to that question just as soon as he ran this joker off the road for taking pot shots at him.

Dan hadn’t expected for the mark to react so quickly, or to use the truck as a battering ram. After firing off a couple more shots, he had to give up on the gun for now and use both hands to control the wheel. Dan sent the van to the left in a hard jerk and was met by the truck meeting his actions, ram for ram.

Up ahead, that blasted orange car seemed to take notice of the road battle and had begun to make its way back to them. In fact, it looked like they were planning to play chicken since they were coming straight at him. With the truck to the left and the stock car directly in front of him coming in fast, Dan decided that he’d better get a couple more shots off while he still could.

With one last jerk of the wheel, Jebb nudged the car off of the road. Once the car left the black top, it was soon blocked in by the Dukes as they moved in to find out just what had possessed the driver to randomly take shots at Jebb. Jebb had more than a couple of questions running through his head. Unfortunately, before any of the Dukes got out of their vehicles, the car exploded before their eyes. Moving quickly, the fellas put their cars back in gear to move themselves away from the flaming car.




Up on a nearby hill, Evan watched as his colleague went up in flames. Putting the remote to the detonator away, he headed in towards the next out of the way town to report in. Dan won’t be traced back to the boss now.




The fellas had radioed into the police and waited as they came out and investigated the incident. Once they’d finished, Jebb headed back over to the truck and saw where the bullets had riddled the right side of the truck and by the looks of it, they hadn’t been too shy to include the engine under the hood. It was clear that their work from earlier was now wasted. The truck wasn’t going anywhere on it’s on today. It would have to be towed. The cop told Jebb where it would be taken until he could get Cooter to come and get it to take it to Hazzard. He and Luke unloaded the bikes since they’d now have to be ridden back home.

“I guess I’d better let the girls know what happened,” Bo said as the wrecker arrived to haul the truck off.

“Wait a minute Bo. Just pass on that the truck’ll need a tow. No need to worry them about what’s happened until we get to Hazzard.”

Bo gave Jebb a look before answering, “Kira’s gonna kill me if I don’t tell her the truth.”

“You’ll not be lying Bo. You’ll just be editing just what you’re telling her.”

Jebb didn’t want Kira and Daisy to get upset when there really wasn’t anything to be done. They’d spent a whole weekend relaxing and having fun. He didn’t want to stress Kira out if he didn’t have to. He’s not stupid. He found out just how dangerous the blood pressure issue could be. Even though Doc Appleby seemed to try to downplay it a bit to cause less worry, Jebb had written Doc Greenwood to explain just why he’d been so concerned when he and Kira were in Placid.

“That’s the exact same kind of thinking that you’d get mad at her for having,” Bo pointed out. He didn’t really relish the thought of telling his sister that her husband had been shot at and was nearly ran off the road, but Dukes are supposed to be truthful to one another. “I got the feelin’ that things could get a little interesting at your house tonight when you tell her what really happened today.” Bo thought for a second before adding, “I’ll be hiding out at still site number three if you need to escape.”

Luke smirked at the two blonds before he remembered that still left him to deal with Daisy. “I guess I’ll round it out to make it three then because y’all ain’t leavin’ me to handle Daisy alone if y’all are gonna run for cover.”




Daisy had figured that the fellas would have caught up to them by now. They were only fifty miles from Hazzard now and yet, still no Duke Boys. She didn’t really realize just how much she depended on the CB to keep in contact with her family until now. Since this car didn’t have one yet. Looking over at Kira, she was starting to wake back up. She’d drifted off shortly after their last stop for gas.

“Sleep well?”

“Sorry, Daisy. Didn’t mean to conk out on you like that. I didn’t get much sleep last night.”

“REALLY?” Daisy grinned over at her cousin.

“It wasn’t like THAT Daisy. Get your mind out of the gutter. At least not LAST night,” Kira grinned back. “Little man had the hiccups last night and it just made it hard for anyone to get to sleep. But at least Jebb finally got to feel the baby move. Though speaking of getting to sleep late, how late did you get in last night?”

“I’ll have you know that I got in well before the fellas did.” Daisy did her best to look offended before she continued, “Though Blake didn’t get back to his room until sometime this morning.”

“DAISY!” Kira couldn’t help but join her in giggling. “No wonder Jebb calls you ‘Little Hussy’!”

“What? Like the guys can go around like that but I can’t?”

“So does this mean that we can expect to see Blake around Hazzard?”

Daisy shrugged, “Maybe.” She didn’t really sound like she cared one way or the other. “We’ll see.”

“Daisy, do you even know what you’re looking for in a guy?” Kira asked her cousin in response to her nonchalance.

“What do ya mean?”

“I MEAN Daisy, that you seem to be tying Bo for the Duke that falls in and out of love the most. You keep a steady date with Darcy, you’ve had Enos on the hook since you were NINE, and you test the waters with every new guy that comes to town.”

“No harm in shopping around. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. Come on, how did you know that Jebb was the one?”

Kira took a moment before really answering, “I guess at first I didn’t. He had a reputation just like Bo and Luke have. I didn’t really take him seriously. After all, he had, still has, the habit of flirting with any female that walked by. I enjoyed racing against him, but I had no intention of dating him.” Kira stopped as she thought back to her first few racing seasons and when she’d first met Jebb.

“Then what changed your mind?” Daisy prodded.

“Truth?” Daisy nodded. “It was when he took the time to find out why I stopped racing in the middle of the season during my third year on the circuit.”

“Why did you?”

“The cancer had come back and the doctors were using some expensive experimental treatments to fight it. I was pretty much bed ridden at the time so racing was out. I was more than mildly surprised when I ended up with a visitor on the weekend that the Motor Cross was in town.”

“So he’d tracked you down to find out why you’d stopped racing?”

Kira nodded slightly, “He even bailed on the race to keep me company. I guess it was the first time that we’d really talked without it being racing related. I got a chance to see that he was more than just a fast talkin’, skirt chasin’, playboy.” Kira smiled since she now knew that the description that she’d given could easily be used to describe any of the Duke Boys. “After I went back into remission, I finally agreed to go out with him, though it was still a while before we did anything more than just go out on the occasional date during racin’ season.”

Daisy absorbed what she was told like a sponge. It wasn’t often that Kira was open with either her emotions or her past. Mostly what she knew of Kira’s past had come from either Bo or Jebb. “So he came in like a Knight in shining armor, huh?”

“I’d never cared for finding a Knight, I didn’t really believe that they existed. Though I guess Jebb proved that a good ‘ole country boy was even better than a Knight in armor. I wasn’t really looking to get involved with anyone. Maybe that’s why it happened the way it did.”

“And now here you two are, married with a baby on the way. See. Happy endings do come true. Which means that my happy ending is out there too. I just have to keep lookin’.”

‘Hey, Kira? You there?’ Why does Bo have to ask that? It’s not like she can walk away from their link. Or that she could have an answering machine pick up instead.

‘What’cha need Bo-Bear? Where are you fellas at? Daisy and I figured that y’all would’ve caught up to us long before now.’

‘Yeh, well, we got held up a bit. I’m just lettin’ you know that we’re gonna send Cooter back to get the truck and Luke and Jebb are ridin’ the bikes back instead.’

‘Let me guess, it’s not as simple to fix as y’all thought huh?’

There was a pause before her brother answered her. ‘You could say it will take a bit of repair work before it’ll be back on the road. Jebb will explain it to you when we get to Hazzard.’

“Bo says that the truck’ll need to be towed instead. Luke and Jebb are racin’ the bikes back to Hazzard.”

“I wonder what they did to it after we left to make it where the truck won’t run.”

“Who knows? Bo just said that Jebb would explain it to me when we all get home.”

“Well, it looks like it won’t be long until we get there at least. We get to show off the new car to Uncle Jesse while we’re waiting.”

“Humm, why don’t we let him take it for a run? It might be fun to watch him testing it out. Giving it the old ‘shiners test for a good runner.”

“Jesse will have a ball. He always acts thirty years younger when he’s racin’ around.”




“Paul... It’s really me. Listen, I have a question. Has anyone on my fan-mail list gotten out recently?” Jebb walked up to the door and listened as Kira called her old boss. ‘Fan-mail list’? “Well, some odd things have happened so I was just checking... Word about what happened way back in June found its way back there huh?” Again a pause. “Well, yesterday, someone took a shot at my truck with my husband in it. Then he was almost ran off the road...Uh-huh...Thanks. I just figured that it’d be best to be on the safe side. What with both of those incidents...Thanks again Paul.” With that Kira hung up and turned to find Jebb standing with his arms crossed in the doorway to her office. “What? You can’t tell me that the thought hadn’t crossed your mind that yesterday and June could be linked together. After all, there was no way for anyone to know that it was you and NOT me in the truck.”

Jebb sighed since there really wasn’t anything else to say. He was grateful though that Kira didn’t know just how close the bullets had gotten to him. One was even found lodged in the driver’s side headrest. “Want to explain the fan-mail thing?”

Kira shrugged, “Well, everyone knows that defense attorneys aren’t exactly everyone’s favorite kind of people. Getting letters from upset clients or victim’s families was the norm. Though we each kept a list of those that we felt could escalate to doing more than just writing threatening letters.” Somehow, he’d never thought that what Kira had done in the courtroom could have ever been dangerous. “Paul’s gonna check to see if any of my fans are out, if they are, check to see what they’ve been up to.”

“Well, instead of waiting for him to call, let’s go upstairs and look through all of the baby stuff that Jesse found in the attic. See what we’ll still need to get.”

“Or need to get another of,” Kira added since there were some things that they have to get for the simple fact that there were two babies coming instead of one. “I already know we’ll have to get a couple of swings. I saw the kind I like over in Springville when Daisy and I were over there last. They’d match the house, made out of oak and all.”

“We can call later and see if they deliver.” Jebb would have never of bothered to spend extra to have something delivered before he and Kira got married. But considering that it’d be a while before the truck was fixed, and if he borrowed Jesse’s truck the secret of the two babies might get out, he may as well have them delivered instead.

Once upstairs, Jebb took note that the crib and cradle needed to have the old paint scraped off and repainted. He figured that he could use the left over varnish from when he’d redone the floors so that they’d match the nursery floor. It seemed that Uncle Jesse had kept nearly everything from when Bo was a baby. The others had nearly been in school by the time they had come to live with him and Lavinia, but Bo had only been a baby of six months when his and Kira’s parents had died so there were more of his things among the baby gear than anyone else’s. It seemed to bring everything full circle now that Kira would be using the same stuff that should have been hers as well had she not been stolen away as an infant.

Soon, as they sorted through all of the stuff that Jesse had saved all these years, Kira and Jebb began to relax and put aside the wild driver from the day before and laughed at some of the various stuff that had been tucked away among baby clothes and furniture. Some of which were some cutesy looking outfits that Lavinia had made for Bo. Most of which, Jebb was pretty sure that his cousin would be embarrassed at the thought that he’d once been forced to wear. He’ll make sure that those outfits wouldn’t be used for his son. They were kept aside though just in case they had a girl as well. Most of the stuff was moved on up into their attic since it wouldn’t be needed for a while yet.

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